GR translation: her affliction was more direct

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sun Apr 6 09:29:18 UTC 2025


She lived on another planet, so to speak.

On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V463.31-34, P471.17-20   “ . . .her Neptune is afflicted. Whose isn’t? some
> will ask. Ah. But as residents on this planet, usually. Greta lived, most
> of the time, on Neptune—her affliction was more direct, purer, clearer than
> we know it here.
>
> The word "afflicted" in "her Neptune is afflicted" is obviously used in the
> astrological sense. In what sense is the word "affliction" used later in
> the paragraph?
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