Tag: #Libra
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Libra III: The Wanderer
The ass, an animal of patient endurance, carries its rider through a rocky terrain, suggesting that this journey is perhaps morally ambiguous; a passage through the world’s pleasures led by an appetite that knows what it wants and is not particularly interested in the rider’s reservations. The serpent of the older tradition implies the body’s…
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Libra II: The Benefactor
The Benefactor reveals one of grief’s more difficult paradoxes: sorrow and peace can coexist. Healing asks that sorrow be given a durable place within a life large enough to contain it. Here Saturn’s restriction becomes a blessing, for what cannot be changed is accepted, what remains valuable is protected, and what is sufficient is recognised…
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Libra I: The Mediator
The ancient images present twin, upright figures, standing on scorpions, holding water jugs from which fine pipes release their contents in a continous, regulated flow. The justice portrayed here, is an ongoing practice, a steady, measured distribution, maintained against disruptive forces. The scorpions beneath the feet are symbolic of the venomous reactive impulse standing beneath…