Shakespeare Is Particularly Interested In The Processes Of Growth And Decay, As He Express It In The

Shakespeare is particularly interested in the processes of growth and decay, as he express it in the fifteenth sonnet; ‘When I consider everything that grows’, in the likeness between men and plants in coming painfully and with many struggles and checks to perfection, to stay there but for a moment and then begin to decay.

I just read an article on the decline of Deep Reading - it describes how our reduction in deep, non digital reading has left us less able to connect with humanity:

The digital realm may foster more reading than ever in history, but it also offers many temptations to read in a superficial and scattered manner — or even not to read at all. This increasingly endangers higher-level reading.” That’s ominous, because “higher-level reading” has been essential to civilization. It enabled the Enlightenment, democracy and an international rise in empathy for people who aren’t like us.

Without a basis of the dreadful, there is no perfect rapture. It is in part through the sorrow of life, growing out of dark events, that this basis of awe and solemn darkness slowly accumulates.

The Imagery of Thomas De Quincy's Impassioned Prose - Dwyer (1965)

The real revelation of the writer (as of the artist) comes in a far subtler way than by autobiography; and comes despite all effort to elude it; ... For what the writer does communicate is his temperament, his organic personality, with its preferences and aversions, its pace and rhythm and impact and balance, its swiftness or languor ... and this he does equally whether he be rehearsing veraciously his own concerns or inventing someone else’s.

Shakespeares Imagery And What It Tells Us (1923)

by Spurgeon, Caroline. F.

      Each of the Major arcana reflect a level of awareness that we achieve through life. The numerological values express a progression of spiritual states rather than a sequential process. 

      In order to work with the Planets in your chart, or even begin to understand the universal laws, you have to receive the multitude of your own spiritual potential.

      If you don’t know which cards these descriptions are for, I made a PDF to help you out.

------”This 20 minute film is very transient of its own context, opening itself to exploration beyond cultural nuance. There was a moment where the film really allowed me to indulge in it’s meditative quality. I could almost say that I participated my emotion and attention more than the character itself.”