http://www.skyscript.co.uk/ficino.html
Citing Plato, who says in Phaedrus that without madness one knocks at the doors of poetry in vain, Ficino explains that even though Plato perhaps intends divine madness to be understood, according to the physicians madness of this kind is never incited in anyone else but melancholics.
Nice timing.
Melancholics?
Paradoxically, Ficino saw great potential in Saturn. While he attempted to avoid the harmful influences of the planet, he also saw that it was only by confronting Saturn and overcoming these harmful influences that he would be able to reach the power that Saturn has to offer.
I think alcohol is exaggerating certain melancholy tonight.
saturn
Saturn.
Black, lead, melancholy.
Saturn sounds like super-ego in many respects.
Obscene, demanding.
Never satisfied, happy to eat you whole.
yeah
so true
I don't know how one confronts that.
Successfully at least.
longanimis
"long suffering"?
yes....literal large soul....
In a letter to Bernado Rucellai, Ficino declares that it is best to make peace with Fortune (ruler of fate) and adapt his will to hers so that she will not violently drag him in some unpleasant direction. Although he found the life of a melancholic essentially difficult, he felt it was better to go with it rather than fight against it.
...great.
Although every star contains a diversity of different, even paradoxical, possibilities it leaves the final choice open to the will. Saturn, for example, is not only the demon of inertia and of unproductive self-indulgent melancholy; he is also the genius of scholarly observation and consideration, of intelligence and contemplation.
Libra. October.
Throughout his life, Ficino attempted to counteract the negative effects of Saturn and melancholy in himself and in others by means of medicine and Neoplatonic astral magic.
We have to be ready by October for his time on the scales...
Neoplatonic astral magic?
How does this relate to the equipment you pulled out today?
by a certain understanding of the non linear nature of time...this helps ease the pressure that will take place in the series or sequences f "present" moments that we will encounter
your Saturn return will feel like forever...but it will abate in time
"Time flees."
Temporal displacement.
to organize it...to perhaps use the "present" moments to capitalize on future events... especially if the tension and stress can be used as an engine
"The genius of scholarly observation and consideration, of intelligence and contemplation."