IVIV. p.40 Coy's not dead?

[Mark Kohut]

Great associational finds...

Thanks,

mark

--- On Sun, 9/6/09, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:

> From: Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>
> Subject: IVIV. p.40 Coy's not dead?
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Sunday, September 6, 2009, 12:04 AM
> Uranus square Neptune / Neptune
> square Uranus - astrological aspect
> 
> Astrology aspects - Uranus square Neptune / Neptune square
> Uranus The
> last square aspect happened during the period 1952-56, and
> influenced
> the people born during that phase. This was the second
> phase of
> post-war children, born into a time of relative stability
> and
> reconstruction, when the memories of the war were ebbing
> away into
> past history, even though the Korean War was rekindling
> some of them.
> 
> This group received a psychic impression from the
> collective, which
> embodies a form of social confusion then prevalent which
> was
> reflective of the collective mind. Social direction was the
> issue. The
> defear of Churchill's government after the ending of the
> war, a
> government which seemed to represent the past, and the
> introduction of
> the post-war Labour reformist policies such as the Welfare
> State
> seemed to herald a new vision and direction. But the
> collevtive was
> torn between dreams and fears of a new world, and a
> rejection of
> painful memories of man's inhumanity; a clash between the
> future and
> the past, the unknown and the known.
> 
> Reflecting this collective conflict, the individuals born
> at the time
> received a pattern of rebellion (Uranus) which was mixed
> with
> confusion (Neptune) over what to do, which direction to
> travel in, how
> to achieve objectives, even what these objectives actually
> were. The
> only model that could be absorbed was that of their parents
> and peers,
> which offered conflicting and confusing social messages.
> 
> The problem in later life would become ambivalence; they
> would be torn
> between a need to revolt against authority and the
> establishment, and
> a need to feel socially secure. Purity of ideals would
> become a
> challenge, especially when confronted with the pragmatic
> demands of
> economic and family life.
> 
> With this aspect there is an aversion to leaders, who, it
> is felt,
> lead people into blind obedience and conformity, which to
> the Uranian
> spirit is anathema and opposed to the Uranian principle of
> freedom.
> Peronsal freedoms are paramount, and their repression may
> lead to a
> struggle to assert them. Yet this group eventually
> fragmented into
> various types. Some were reluctant revolutionaries,
> eventually being
> reabsorbed into the social 'mainstream'; some were 'rebels
> without a
> cause', social misfits with no direction except that of
> aggressive
> reaction. Members of this aspect group were attracted to
> the existing
> hippie and drug couter-culture, in the later phase after
> 1968; others
> became early leaders of the mid-seventies' punk movement,
> an anarchic
> reactionary youth revolt against conformity; and perhaps
> most
> significant of all became part of the spreading of the New
> Age
> movement which incorporates the ecological Green political
> groups.
> 
> In fact, many of those who were early adherents of the
> hippie ideals
> have become part of the New Age culture, which is expanding
> throughout
> society through alternative health therapies, mind
> training, healthy
> foods, and an ideology of individual and collective
> wholeness. It is
> in this way that the core group of those born during the
> period 1952-6
> is active in taking control of their own lives and
> influencing
> society.
> 
> http://www.astrologyweekly.com/astrological-aspects/uranus-square-neptune.php
> 
> 2009/9/5 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
> > 90 degree aspect, the unluckiest of all:
> >
> > Identifying Planetary Triggers: Astrological
> Techniques for Prediction - Google Books Resultby Celeste
> Teal - 2000 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 364 pages
> > Then, it must form a 0-degree aspect for the
> conjunction; a 60-degree aspect for the sextile; a 90-degree
> aspect for the square;
> >
> > Yea, squares are one of the very unlucky---4 right
> angles---signs in TRPs work.
> >
> > The Doc gives a riff about perilous times for dopers,
> particularly high school ones, who never want to believe
> that someone they loved---or even took a class with---could
> be dead. Reminds me of TRP in Slow Learner about
> > certain kind of immature youth, even writers, who have
> not internalized death yet. ...."disconnected denial" doc
> calls it here.
> >
> > More seemingly authorial intent out of the mouth of
> Doc, yes?
> >
> >
> >
> >
>