ecosophia | Magic Monday

It's getting on for midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Let's start things out with a bit of alchemical text from the Splendor Solis, the most gorgeously illustrated of all the old alchemical texts:

"They further saw the King of the Earth sink, and heard him cry out in an eager voice, 'Whoever saves me shall live and reign with me forever in my brightness on my royal throne,' and night enveloped all things. [...] Meaning, in this masterly art: 'Deprive the thing of its destructive moisture, and renew it with its own essential one which will become its perfection and life.'"

The image is the seventh illustration from Splendor Solis. It shows, in the distance, an old king in the water, struggling and crying out to be saved. In the foreground stands a young king in a golden robe bathed in the light of the sun and a brilliant star.

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JMG

Do you know where I could read Charles Carter's reading of the 1939 ingress chart? I googled it but no luck.

I was wondering why mundane astrology has fallen by the wayside and I think it's because of people like Carter who can't see the obvious due to their own biases. I am reminded of all the astrologers who predicted that Hillary Clinton would win in 2016. Why can't astrologers put their mundane opinions aside? - it would seem only 1% of them are capable of it.

It's very, very hard to find out about the conference where Carter made a fool of himself; astrologers have been trying to pretend that it never happened, as it was a body blow to the art. (Carter was arguably the most respected astrologer in Britain at that time.) I'll be trying to track down the details in the months ahead.

From one of the website's moderators named Mark @
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3305&sid=6f2ec2336f4fc9a28abde20b99a775d1

"I was reading Charles Carter's Introduction to Political Astrology again recently. There is really no need to dig up the the records of the Harrowgate Conference ( assuming they are still available which seems unlikely). Carter summarises his analysis offered at the Conference for his readers.

Its a long quote and I have no access to the book today but I will post up his full commentary next week. I think if people are going to criticise his analysis its only fair to do so through his own words. Its also worth remembering Carter was also looking at the Berlin Ingress too."

I've got Carter's book, so thanks for this! I want if possible to chase down as much as possible of what Carter himself said at the time, so I can analyze where he messed up and why he got things so obviously wrong. When I look at the 1939 Aries ingress chart it screams "crisis" to me -- but then he may have been ignoring the mutual reception between Mars and Saturn, which is a huge part of that.

(Historian of the occult here, who's studied the conference in question)

The absolutely hilarious part is that if the critics of astrology pointed to things like this more often, I'd respect them a lot more. As it is, the fact that next to none of the critics have even heard of the conference, where one of the biggest names of the field made a complete fool of himself, does not speak well to their collective knowledge of the topic...

One of the things I find most droll about critics of astrology is that so few of them know anything about the subject. It's really quite embarrassing.

Can you point me to some good resources, online or otherwise, about the Harrogate Conference of 1939? I plan on doing a chapter on Carter's failed prediction for a forthcoming book on mundane astrology; analyzing why he thought what he did, and why he was wrong, strikes me as a good way to help students of the art avoid making similar mistakes. Having Carter's specific statements and arguments at that time on hand would be very helpful.

I'll email you what I have: I did the research a number of years ago, and sadly the university library I used is still shutdown until at least February....

(Which is one of the many reasons I bailed and started on a new career back in March. A university can't function sans library; the fact that our administrators can't grasp that tells me it's time to flee).

Thank you!

(Definitely flee. Some new framework for scholarship needs to be born, but it won't start to emerge until the current higher education industry crashes into ruin.)

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