22 July 2008

bibliomancy for the sun in leo


self, again. d sinclair '06


"How are we to take these references to the gods of Greece or Rome? Or, how are we to interpret his quaint and occasionally downright insane remedies? He advices a person lacking in the spirit of Jupiter, for example, to add peppermint to his diet. Is this legend, folklore, precocious pharmacology, or pure metaphor?"

(Thomas Moore; The Planets Within, on Marcilio Ficino)

"... Soul - psyche - and psychology, these are not merely personal things; they're about the whole world.." (me, from my paper journal)


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