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Kanye West 2020: Jesus is King

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***The following is an exert from my longer analysis of the Jupiter-Neptune square of 2019  in which I related the archetypal themes of the Jupiter-Neptune complex to the life and art of Kanye West. I am re-posting it now because Kanye West has recently announced that he is running for the US presidency , and this announcement has coincided with a sextile alignment of Jupiter and Neptune, the first major alignment since the square of 2019 (which is now approaching its second exact aspect). This somewhat surreal bid for the presidency is entirely consistent with the themes of the Jupiter-Neptune cycle, but it is also noteworthy for coinciding with a personal transit that West is currently undergoing. As an individual, West is currently experiencing the personal transit of Uranus opposite Uranus, a once-in-a-lifetime transit that tends to coincide with sudden breakthroughs amidst strong impulses towards rebellion and radical change. This confluence of factors (the personal Uranus tr...
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Promethean Fire: The Axial Alignments of the Mars-Uranus Cycle

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The Prometheus of Greek myth was a "cosmic trickster"; a champion of humankind who was known for his intelligence and originality; the progenitor of art, science, and civilisation. According to myth, the cunning Prometheus stole fire from the heavens in order to liberate humans from their bondage to the gods, and through this brave and brilliant act of defiance, Prometheus overturned the established structure of the cosmos, enraging the Olympian pantheon. Prometheus Brings Fire by Heinrich Friedrich Füger Fire is a potent symbol for human civilisation and its centrality to the myth of Prometheus is no coincidence. Intrinsic to this myth is a recognition of the liberating power of fire; of the affinity between fire and innovation; and of the emancipating effects of technology upon humankind. The powerful dynamism which underlies this myth is of an archetypal nature, it reveals a perennial truth which has expressed itself in many different forms throughout human his...
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The Recent Jupiter-Neptune Square (November 2018 - November 2019): A Panoptic

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***The following article is informed by the tradition of archetypal astrology. More specifically, I have relied on the methodology and theoretical framework outlined by Richard Tarnas in his masterful book 'Cosmos and Psyche'. A brief introduction to the fundamental concepts of archetypal astrology is available on Richard Tarnas's website:  https://cosmosandpsyche.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/introductiontoastrology1.pd *** ***It is my opinion that the intricate patterns of meaning that astrology reveals are best understood within the metaphysical view of monistic idealism, which posits that mind is the essence of reality. For those who are interested in a rigorous and empirically grounded formulation of the idealist worldview, I thoroughly recommend the work of Bernardo Kastrup. His essay titled 'Not Its Own Meaning: A Hermeneutic of the World' is especially relevant with respect to the question of astrology, and can be read freely on this link:  https://www.mdpi....
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