Exegesis V07 Issue 011

Exegesis Volume 07 Issue #011

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From: "Roger L. Satterlee"
Subject: [e] Re: exegesis Digest V7 #10

Exegesis Digest Mon, 28 Jan 2002

From: "Roger L. Satterlee"
Subject: [e] Re: exegesis Digest V7 #10
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:41:18 -0500

In as much as great works of art are seldom if ever created by committee, I think there probably was a single individual born about 800 BC who collected what he liked best from his culture's folk literary legacy, and made a work of art concerning the Odyssey. I assume it was a late, mature, work of art which may have been completed by an aging man who might have lost his sight along the way. There are times which just happen be more seminal than others...or so it would seem, but always the times need a human voice...whether or not such a person of antiquity remains pretty much anonymous. For me, any chart of that time which best parallels the Odyssey, in terms of being symbolically equivalent, is a good guess as to the birth time of the plagiarizing "Homer"...whoever he/she may have been...:)

Some parts of the Odyssey seem artistically more cohesive, and have the feel of an individual person expressing his thoughts and feeling in a patterned, characteristic, manner. So when I think about Plato, ( I know Lorenzo is breathless with anticipation here), perhaps it his allegory of the cave which strikes me as a story teller doing his self-indulgent best to paint the outer world with his inner world pattern. I was re-reading this cave business, and jotted down my first impressions of planets in aspect that seem symbolically parallel to the mental images and sentiments. I grabbed a piece of scrap paper and sketched; "Sun conj Pluto and Opposite Juipter...Jupiter at the MC--Sun at the IC...and wrote-- Saturn probably trine Jupiter." Then I went looking for Plato's birth year...of which I had no conscious memory whatsoever...not a history buff, really. This is kinda what I expected to find:

> >exegesis Digest Sun, 27 Jan 2002 Volume: 07 Issue: 010
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> >In This Issue:
> >#1: From: L:Smerillo
> >Subject: [e] Re: exegesis Digest V7 #9
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> >Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 08:28:30 +0100
> >From: L:Smerillo
> >Subject: [e] Re: exegesis Digest V7 #9
> >
> >I would agree that the Derrida joke about the chicken is TRUE. As there
> >is no Homer, there is no intention, no psyche, no astrological statement
> >about such nonentity which can be made, except for one:
> >
> >The non-existent Homer is like the Psyche, Nature, Post-modernism, and
> >cultural Irrelevancy, in that they are all Dead Pink Elephants.
> >
> >feliciter,
> >
> >Lorenzo Smerillo
> >
> >>All I'm saying is that the natal chart of a moment (Homer
> >>~800BC) and a natal chart of a person, have no distinguishing differences in
> >>the eyes of the psyche. This, because the psyche participates in Nature...is
> >>not confined to one's culture. With astrologers, the difference between words
> >>themselves is much more a matter of noting the planet symbols evoked than a
> >>matter of measuring the objectivity of the speaker.
> >>
> >>http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/d2.htm#decom
> >>
> >>http://www.abc.net.au/specials/derrida/josejoke.htm
> >
> >
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