Just as a follow-up to your brilliant analysis of the Middle Conjunction of last week, I'm curious to hear your thoughts as to how this epochal shift might affect higher education generally and the humanities specifically. Since this is my own line of work as a historian of the occult, I was delighted to hear that matters Neptunian and Venereal should boom, and without Mongol-style war and universal plague as catalyst this time around.
With respect to the east coast of the US in particular, however, the ninth house is occupied only by the Sun-Mercury conjunction, with Venus in the late seventh house and Neptune in the late eleventh. What would you say this portends for the survival of some remnant of the university system here? From what I've seen, there is currently a surprising if quiet upsurge of interest even in respectable corners of the academy in the study of consciousness -- and the humanities (particularly history of religion and history of art) are precisely a record of that, magically expressed or otherwise. In other words, do you think going whole hog in this Neptunian-Venereal direction is the best way for American academics to try to weather the decline of empire and the advent of the new age?
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Just as a follow-up to your brilliant analysis of the Middle Conjunction of last week, I'm curious to hear your thoughts as to how this epochal shift might affect higher education generally and the humanities specifically. Since this is my own line of work as a historian of the occult, I was delighted to hear that matters Neptunian and Venereal should boom, and without Mongol-style war and universal plague as catalyst this time around.
With respect to the east coast of the US in particular, however, the ninth house is occupied only by the Sun-Mercury conjunction, with Venus in the late seventh house and Neptune in the late eleventh. What would you say this portends for the survival of some remnant of the university system here? From what I've seen, there is currently a surprising if quiet upsurge of interest even in respectable corners of the academy in the study of consciousness -- and the humanities (particularly history of religion and history of art) are precisely a record of that, magically expressed or otherwise. In other words, do you think going whole hog in this Neptunian-Venereal direction is the best way for American academics to try to weather the decline of empire and the advent of the new age?
Thanks as always for MM, and enjoy the break!