#DylanThomas

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Dark is a way and light is a place

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Embers at First Light:  A Child’s Rage

Inspired by Dylan Thomas’ “Do not go gentle into that good night”Personal adaptation of Dembe Zuma’s Final Monologue

A shared destiny. With silent certainty, death awaits us all. Death’s significance is inherently dissolved by the inevitability of fate’s call. What truly matters? Our relentless search; what we pursue, what we discover. how to heal, how to love, how to grow.   How we Live. We cherish these children, more than anyone will ever know. Their remarkable refusal to go quietly into that good night. Their  fight  for  life. A  fight  in  spite. Imposed by dusk in countless ways, yet fiercely committed to the day’s embrace. When confronted by the silence of twilight, they defy in rage.  The  rage  of  life, To rage against the dying of the light. A blaze to capture moments of peace, play, and joy. Their journey—an innocent and curious endeavour to explore life with an unwavering passion—is perhaps the most profound path one can take. Inconceivable that their spark would fade—freed of wake, into that good night. Our time with them, our time together, is never about an ending. It is always about the odyssey, about discovery, about a child’s everlasting reminder—showing us, imploring us; to rage. Do  not  play  gentle  in  this  fight. Rage. Tend  the  embers  of  their  bright  light. Rage,  rage  and  ignite—

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[manmetaphysical]

7: Scorpio Mavericks and Poets

It should be evident by now that Scorpio is a sign that has penetrating insight and they may make good pyschologists, forensic scientists, criminal invesigtators and surgeons. Mars, the ancient ruler of Scorpio, is the knife cutting into the skin.

One of the great mavericks of history, a self-taught Renaissance man was Paracelsus (10/11/1493). His name is shortened from Philipus Aureolis Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim. His contribution to medicine was groundbreaking and not fully understood at the time. He researched deeply and observed what he saw and became known for it- Mercury conjunct Pluto in Scorpio in the 10th house of reputation. He was even  known as the 'Martin Luther of Medicine'. He was not only a scientist, but also a scholar, doctor, astrologer, magician, healer and alchemist and he loved shaking things up- he has a few planets in Sagittarius so could be a firebrand as well.

Paracelsus made many enemies as he didn't care what people thought of him. Though born a Catholic, he was was ultra anti Catholic and took every opportunity to challenge the power of Rome. He debunked the practice of blood letting as a cure and the notion of the Four Humours (Blood, Phelgm, Yellow Bile and Black Bile) as established by Galen, whose book he burned, preferring to say that the body was controlled by chemicals- Salt, Sulphur and Mercury, hinting at today's understanding of hormones and neuropeptides. He did retain the traditional notion of the four elements -Fire, Air, Water and Earth- however.   

He stated that the mind can influence the body as in the Placebo effect, so was way ahead of his time on this one too, suggesting he understood psycho-somatics long before that term was ever coined. He was also a toxicologist and knew that there's no real difference between a poison and a medicine; that it's all about the dosage- anything can be toxic, even water. This makes him the quintessential Scorpio. His legacy today is in varying fields as he seemed to be able to contain these contradictions under the same umbrella.

The continued testing only dug him in deeper into his research, and he was able to make the studies repeatable and obtained similar same results in Belgium Germany and Italy. But he was  heavily critiqued from all sides both non-astrologers and astrologers who didn't like the findings as they conflicted with 'tradition' and deeper archetypal symbolism is always resistant to quantitative statistical methods. He was accused of bias and felt under attack from all sides (Chiron conjunct Jupiter in Taurus so troubled self esteem, opposite his Juno/Mercury). After the divorce from Francoise, it was very unfortunate that he took his own life in 1991. 

Sylvia Plath (27/10/1932) is another character, a kind of maverick. Whatever you may think of her status as a woman in the shadow of her husband Ted Hughes, her poems are sharp and sardonic, and memorably worded as would be expected from a Scorpio with a stellium in Virgo. She is among the 'great' poets of the 20th century without a doubt. She did have Pluto in Cancer opposite Saturn in Capricorn and a complex mix of planets in Virgo involving Neptune (she put her head in a gas stove) the South Node, Jupiter, asteroid Eros and Venus making her role as a woman and her sexuality a clear focus for her work. There is also the Juno factor. Her Juno was conjunct the Moon in Libra which can oscillate wildly there. Remember that Juno represents equality in relationships and marriage contracts, but Juno was in fact not just wife, but also 'sister' to Jupiter, so this points to a more karmic entanglement where relationship issues burrow deep into the psyche. 

Her reasoning was not always clear, perhaps to the detriment of a full and fair evaluation of her life and talent. She decided to take her life which further obscured her intentions by a slew of other issues. The blame game goes on, but I think her work is strong enough to survive all the controversy over who did what to whom.

Understanding the symbols helps enormously to understand the sign. A scorpion is an odd little creature scuttling about under rocks, but it is much less scary than it looks. Its venom is rarely enough to kill a human, but it is something about the way it looks so ready to attack with their pointed pincer that frightens people. In the astronomical positioning the Scorpio contstellation it is the opposite of Orion the giant as in the myth, Gaia asked a lone scorpion to help her defeat Orion who was a giant on the rampage. The scorpion achieved this by sheer focus and dodging all attacks. But the associations don't stop with little creatures on the earth, they  elevate to the eagle, also an alchemical symbol,  and then to the phoenix rising from the ashes which makes sense when you think the crossover point of Scorpio and Sagittarius subsumes the so-called '13th sign' Ophiucus (the serpent bearer)- again pointing to a deeper wisdom around medical issues of the body and knowledge of healing modalities- and only then it heralds the much brighter, lighter more forward-thinking sign of Sagittarius.

It's is good to end with the feisty but memorable words of or the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (27/10/1914) who had a Saturn/Pluto conjunction in Cancer and a serious alcholol problem. But he too was a Scorpio sun sign and he gave us the line 'And death shall have no dominion' - the Death Tarot card is the one associated with Scorpio- but also these words offer a suggestion of Martial energy being the potent magic to counter the darkening days, of ageing. It's the feeling that just being alive makes you feel angry and vulnerable so you want to strike out with poisonous venom at your enemies.

But the phoenix rising from the ashes would suggest that a rebirth brings about higher potential to behave in ways that ultimately transcend all the difficulties. 

"Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light."  

[anielmcg]

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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night #dylanthomas #dylanthomaspoetry #donotgogentle #donotgogentleintothatgoodnight

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“To begin at the beginning of a sketch of Richard Burton, and not get to the end.” #unfinished #richardburton #sketch #undermilkwood #drawing #art #artistsoninstagram #poetry #poetrycommunity #dylanthomas #unfinishedart #actor #acting https://www.instagram.com/p/CpLPERXoqlk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[endardo]

I’m So Worried That I’m Not So Worried

I’m So Worried That I’m Not So Worried

The other day I found myself giving not much of a damn when some political fella was saying something on the radio that I objected to. Just the kind of fella spouting the kind of guff that would have got me fairly worked up before. Oh, I gave out to him right enough. But I was only going through the emotions, and I didn’t care, not really. Yeah, he was a clown, but so what? I just stopped…

[readleafbooks2022]

【素敵な洋書絵本の紹介】 ディラン・トマスはイギリス、ウェールズ南部の海沿いの街スウォンジーで生まれました。 彼は数々のアーティストに影響を与えていま す。ノーベル文学賞を受賞したボブ・ディランは彼の名前からとられているそうです。 この本は、絵本ではありますが、それは詩でもなく、散文と言っていいかもしれません。 たくさんの懐かしい思い出が重なり合いながら、ゆっくりと広がっていく子ども時代のクリスマスの風景が、エドワード・アーディゾー二の挿絵と ともに浮かび上がってきます。 ディラン・トマスのその感性は、クリスマスの時期のあの独特の空気感をうまく表現しています。 日本でも長く読み継がれている「ウェールズのクリスマスの想い出」です。アーディゾーニの挿絵が味わい深くて良いですよ。 A Child's Christmas in Wales (Godine Storyteller) Contributor(s): Thomas, Dylan (Author) , Ardizzone, Edward (Illustrator) EAN: 9780879233396 Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Binding: Hardcover Copyright Date: 1980 Pub Date: December 01, 2014 Target Age Group: 08 to 11 Physical Info: 1.07 cms H x 24.69 cms L x 19.51 cms W (0.34 kgs) 43 pages Annotation: Of all the modern holiday classics, this is perhaps the best known and best loved. In humorous, sonorous, nostalgic prose, Dylan Thomas recalls the church-going, the tree-trimming, the food, the carols and games, not of one childhood Christmas but of them all: he distills here the Perfect Dream of Christmas. For this edition, the immortal Edward Ardizzone produced 30 delightful watercolors and drawings (and if you're clever you can recognize Cardiff as the Welsh town in which the story is set) as a perfect counterpoint to Thomas's lilting words. #dylanthomas #edwardardizzone #readleafbooks #art #本 #本棚 #絵本 #児童書 #絵本屋 #洋書絵本 #絵本が好き #絵本が好きな人と繋がりたい #絵本のある暮らし #芸術 #英語 #イラスト #base #baseec　#クリスマス @readleafbooks Webショップで紹介中。プロフィールからぜひどうぞ！ https://www.instagram.com/p/CmEOmO7P5Ug/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Love you

Oh the strange things we find within the pages of secondhand books…. Here is a letter and a shocking newspaper clipping I found in this copy of Adventures in the Skin Trade that @drummingonthecover sent me. The article is from 1965 and is about how according to one doctor chastity would “remove the fears of mixed marriages resulting in children of mixed blood that are becoming an increasing problem."😱 😡 I can’t make out the word in quotes in the letter but I like to think it means something like "trash” and that it’s from a woman in an interracial relationship writing to her lover. . . . . . #bookstagram #bookworm #bibliophile #igreads #libri #instalibri #lettura #adventuresintheskintrade #dylanthomas #secondhandbooks #foundinabook

[bwthornton]

A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London by Dylan Thomas

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A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London by Dylan Thomas

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[literarylondonhq]

When in Wales…

Guess where we are! #DylanThomas @blacklionnewquay To begin at the beginning…

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Listen to #AChildsChritmasInWales by #DylanThomas read by Mark Redfield. Incidental music by Colleen McTeague.

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Join Mike O'Brien, Ivor Daniel, Paul Dyson and I for #Nanowrimo2023 featuring theirs and your stories and poems inspired by extracts from #DylanThomas #UnderMilkWood which comes out of copyright this month. I will DM you my email if you wish to join us. Day Twenty-five: