November Vibes EP. 2

Sun in 43.6 | Progression

11.15.24

Happy Birthday Vega!

He chose chocolate chip cookies and Yoohoos for his class party. We are taking the boys to jump on trampolines tonight to celebrate!

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BLOG | ‘Circuit-Breaker’ by Ang Stoic – *The Taurus Super Moon November 15th, 2024*

‘When the triptych’s wings are closed, the design of the outer panels becomes visible. These panels lack color, probably because most Netherlandish triptychs were thus painted, but possibly indicating that the painting reflects a time before the creation of the sun and moon, which were formed, according to Christian theology, to “give light to the earth”. The typical grisaille blandness of Netherlandish altarpieces served to highlight the splendid color inside.

The outer panels are generally thought to depict the creation of the world, showing greenery beginning to clothe the still-pristine Earth. God, wearing a crown similar to a papal tiara (a common convention in Netherlandish painting), is visible as a tiny figure at the upper left.

Bosch shows God as the father sitting with a Bible on his lap, creating the Earth in a passive manner by divine fiat. Above him is inscribed a quote from Psalm 33:9 reading “Ipse dīxit, et facta sunt: ipse mandāvit, et creāta sunt”—For he spoke and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

There is a firmament around the Earth, in reference to Genesis 1:7. It hangs suspended in the cosmos, which is shown as an impermeable darkness, whose only other inhabitant is God himself.

Despite the presence of vegetation, the earth does not yet contain human or animal life, indicating that the scene represents the events of the biblical Third Day.

Bosch renders the plant life in an unusual fashion, using uniformly gray tints, which make it difficult to determine whether the subjects are purely vegetal or perhaps include some mineral formations. Surrounding the interior of the globe is the sea, partially illuminated by beams of light shining through clouds.

The exterior wings have a clear position within the sequential narrative of the work as a whole. They show an unpopulated earth composed solely of rock and plants, contrasting sharply with the inner central panel, which contains an Earth teeming with lustful humanity.’

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Bosch may have intended the outer panels to establish a Biblical setting for the inner elements of the work, and the exterior image is generally interpreted as set in an earlier time than those in the interior. As with Bosch’s Haywain Triptych, the inner centerpiece is flanked by heavenly and hellish imagery. The scenes depicted in the triptych are thought to follow a chronological order: flowing from left to right, they represent Eden, the garden of earthly delights, and Hell. God appears as the creator of humanity in the left-hand wing, while the consequences of humanity’s failure to follow his will are shown in the right.

In contrast to Bosch’s two other exant triptychs, The Last Judgment (around 1482) and The Haywain (after 1510), God is absent from the central panel. Instead, this panel shows humanity acting with apparent free will as naked men and women engage in various pleasure-seeking activities. According to some interpretations, the right-hand panel is believed to show God’s penalties in a hellscape.

Art historian Charles de Tolnay believed that, through the seductive gaze of Adam, the left panel already shows God’s waning influence upon the newly created earth. This view is reinforced by the rendering of God in the outer panels as a tiny figure in comparison to the immensity of the earth. According to Hans Belting, the three inner panels seek to broadly convey the Old Testament notion that, before the Fall, there was no defined boundary between good and evil; humanity in its innocence was unaware of consequence.

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Who is Neferneferuaten?

Neferneferuaten is suggested to have been either Smenkhkare’s wife, Meritaten or, his predecessor’s widow, Nefertiti. If this person is Nefertiti ruling as sole king, it has been theorized by Egyptologist and archaeologist Zahi Hawass that her reign was marked by the fall of Amarna and relocation of the capital back to the traditional city of Thebes. She and her successor (possibly her son) re-established the worship of gods other than Aten.

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The 2014 publication of an inscription for Nefertiti as Great Royal Wife in Regnal Year 16 of Akhenaten makes it clear Nefertiti was still alive and still Great Royal Wife in Akhenaten’s second last year, which could be seen as supporting her candidacy as the female king Neferneferuaten and the direct successor to Akhenaten. In this situation, Akhenaten had chosen Smenkhkare as his successor in his Year 12 but Smenkhkare predeceased Akhenaten, which forced Akhenaten to elevate Nefetiti to the throne as Neferneferuaten to secure his legacy. Nozomu Kawai writes:

…it can be suggested that Akhenaten appointed Nefertiti as his coregent after the demise of his male coregent, Smenkhkare. Smenkhkare’s widowed queen, Meritaten, seems to have kept her title as his great royal wife. Simultaneously, Neferneferuaten obtained another epithet, Axt-n-H(j)=s, “One Who is Beneficial for Her Husband”, which Gabolde used to prove this king’s female identity beyond doubt… However, it is worth noting that this coregency does not seem to have lasted a long time. After Akhenaten’s death, Neferneferuaten continued in power as sole ruler for approximately three years. During her sole reign, Neferneferuaten also obtained new epithets. She replaced the name of Akhenaten with references to the Aten in her prenomen and nomen. The epithet of her prenomen was then mry-Itn, “Beloved of Aten”, while the epithet of her nomen became HoA-mAat, “Ruler of Truth”.

The fact that most of Tutankhamun’s funerary equipment was originally made or inscribed for the female king Neferneferuaten strongly suggests that Tutankhamun, in fact, directly succeeded Neferneferuaten on the throne after the female king died. This rather suggests this revised Eighteenth Dynasty chronology table below is closer to the truth since it agrees with the historical facts.

Regardless of the order of succession, Neferneferuaten’s successor seems to have denied her a king’s burial based on items originally inscribed with her name, but used for the burial of Tutankhamun. In the reign of Horemheb, the reigns of the Amarna Period kings from Akhenaten to Ay were expunged from history as these kings’ total regnal years were assigned to Horemheb. The result is that 3,300 years later, scholars would have to piece together events and even resurrect the players bit by bit with the evidence sometimes limited to palimpsest.

The most definitive inscription attesting to Neferneferuaten is a long hieratic inscription or graffito in the tomb of Pairi (TT139) written by a scribe named Pawah:

Regnal year 3, third month of Inundation, day 10. The King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Lord of the Two Lands Ankhkheperure Beloved of Aten, the Son of Re Neferneferuaten Beloved of Waenre. Giving worship to Amun, kissing the ground to Wenennefer by the lay priest, scribe of the divine offerings of Amun in the Mansion [temple] of Ankhkheperure in Thebes, Pawah, born to Yotefseneb. He says:

“My wish is to see you, O lord of persea trees! May your throat take the north wind, that you may give satiety without eating and drunkenness without drinking. My wish is to look at you, that my heart might rejoice, O Amun, protector of the poor man: you are the father of the one who has no mother and the husband of the widow. Pleasant is the utterance of your name: it is like the taste of life… [etc.]

“Come back to us, O lord of continuity. You were here before anything had come into being, and you will be here when they are gone. As you caused me to see the darkness that is yours to give, make light for me so that I can see you…

“O Amun, O great lord who can be found by seeking him, may you drive off fear! Set rejoicing in people’s heart(s). Joyful is the one who sees you, O Amun: he is in festival every day!”
For the Ka of the lay priest and scribe of the temple of Amun in the Mansion of Ankhkheperure, Pawah, born to Yotefseneb: “For your Ka! Spend a nice day amongst your townsmen.” His brother, the outline draftsman Batchay of the Mansion of Ankhkheperure.

Nicholas Reeves sees this graffito as a sign of a “new phase” of the Amarna revolution, with Ankhkheperure Neferneferuaten “taking a decidedly softer line” toward the Amun priesthood.

Therefore, Neferneferuaten might have been the Amarna-era ruler who first reached an accommodation with the Amun priests and reinstated the cult of Amun—rather than Tutankhamun as previously thought—since her own mortuary temple was located in Thebes, the religious capital of the Amun priesthood and Amun priests were now working within it. However, Egypt’s political administration was still situated at Amarna rather than Thebes under Neferneferuaten’s reign.

According to Nicholas Reeves, almost 80% of Tutankhamun’s burial equipment was derived from Neferneferuaten’s original funerary goods, including the famous gold mask, middle coffin, canopic coffinettes, several of the gilded shrine panels, the shabti-figures, the boxes and chests, the royal jewelry, etc., and adapted for use after his unexpected early death. In 2015, Reeves published evidence showing that an earlier cartouche on Tutankhamun’s famous gold mask reads, “Ankheperure mery-Neferkheperure” or (Ankheperure beloved of Akhenaten); therefore, the mask originally was made for Nefertiti, Akhenaten’s great royal wife, who used the royal name Ankheperure when she assumed the throne after her husband’s death.

This development implies that either Neferneferuaten was deposed in a struggle for power, possibly deprived of a royal burial as a king—or that she was buried with a different set of king’s funerary equipment—possibly Akhenaten’s own funerary equipment—by Tutankhamun’s officials since Tutankhamun succeeded her as king, and that possibly following Tutankhamun’s death, officials under his successor, Ay, did not follow traditional burial practices for the burial that, as successor, he had to oversee.

That Ay refused to follow many traditions is well documented. One researcher notes that Tutankhamun’s tomb follows a traditional architectural design feature that suggests to him that the tomb had been built for a female king, and that with other evidence supports that the tomb was adapted for a burial of Tutankhamun along with the reuse of her artifacts. The traditional feature he considers as significant when discussing possible reuse is that tombs for male kings have a left turn from the entrance that leads to the burial chamber, those of female kings turn to the right. As these issues continue to be researched, interpretations also are evolving.

Sun in 43.5 | Progression

11.14.24

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Balloonsinbold | De Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son

Details about the original

Saturn Devouring His Son is a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. It is traditionally considered a depiction of the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus, whom the Romans called Saturn, eating one of his children out of fear of a prophecy by Gaea that one of his children would overthrow him. The work is one of the 14 so-called Black Paintings that Goya painted directly on the walls of his house sometime between 1820 and 1823. It was transferred to canvas after Goya’s death and is now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

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The **Nefertiti Bust** is a painted stucco-coated limestone bust of Nefertiti, the Great Royal Wife of Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten. It is on display in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin.
The work is believed to have been crafted in 1345 BC by Thutmose because it was found in his workshop in Tell-el Amarna, Egypt.

Sun in 43.4 | One-Track Mind

11.13.24

Human Design mandala displaying the positions of the planets

Pluto in 60.4 | Resourcefulness

Accepting your limitations is the first step to transcending them.
Quote from The Line Companion by Ra Uru Hu

‘Mercury exalted. The reasoned and intelligent maximization of potential within limitations. In other words, while you are waiting for that limitation to end, it does not mean that your whole life gets focused on that. The moment that your whole life gets focused on waiting for the limitation to end, you will be melancholic and depressed. These people have a very sad look on their face. Rather than waiting for the mutation to come, this is simply about: there are other things to do. Let’s do other things within this limitation because deep inside of us we know that mutation is always possible. In the white book: The maximization of potential within limitation.’

‘Venus in detriment. A tendency in times of limitation to seek the inner meaning of the restriction rather than using its gifts to find a harmonic application within the limitation. The former leads to withdrawal and the latter to transcendence.

In other words, transcendence is always possible in being fixed in accepting the limitation. The detriment in this case is always going to have difficulties with that and as the line says: The energy to know rather than accept limitation at the expense of possible mutation, leading to depression.

Remember that individuals do not like being limited. But the limitation always has to be there for them before transcendence can be possible. By the way, in the vast majority of cases, people who have Venus in this line are going to suffer from a lot of depression. Depression is also going to be evidenced in the way in which they look at the world in which, for them, there are all kinds of bad people and good people. They have a deep moralistic twinge with Venus being the force behind that. Very important for these people to know how mutation works and the fact that it is always something that is possible for them.’

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**WIKI** | Beelzebub from the Dictionnaire Infernal

The name Beelzebub is associated with the Canaanite god Baal. In one understanding, Baʿal zəvuv is translated literally as “lord of (the) flies”.

Alternatively, the deity’s actual name could have been Baʿal zəvul, “lord of the (heavenly) dwelling”, and Baʿal zəvuv could have been a derogatory pun used by the Israelites.

Zeboul might derive from a slurred pronunciation of zebûb; from zebel, a word used to mean “dung” in the Targums; or from Hebrew zebûl found in 1 Kings 8:13 in the phrase bêt-zebûl, “lofty house”.

The dung beetle is also associated with Ra and the sun cycle, rolling his ball to completion.

Beelzebub is also identified in the New Testament as the Devil, “the prince of demons”. Biblical scholar Thomas Kelly Cheyne suggested that it might be a derogatory corruption of Ba’al-zəbûl, “Lord of the High Place” (i.e., Heaven) or “High Lord”.

November 12th, 2024

*Mercury in Sagittarius square Saturn Rx in Pisces (12 deg)

Open-minded discussion and optimistic thoughts are curtailed. You’re confronted by fears, judgements or a sacrifice that dampens enthusiasm and narrows your vision. There are things you cannot say.

With Saturn, the rules must be obeyed. So you won’t have total freedom, but that doesn’t mean you need to shut down completely. The positives include increased focus: Mercury in Sag can be sweeping and forward-looking with zero proof to back anything up. At this juncture, you’ll have to provide proof. You’ll have to face down your fears. Or, you’ll be confronted with doubts about the promise so you’ll be encouraged to demand proof.

Don’t fight the delays you encounter. Stop and look more closely at the message, at your big idea. Work to make your vision real – potential isn’t good enough.

If thoughts darken and hope is extinguished, know that Saturn is helping you weed out the empty visions. Tests of faith are necessary to strengthen beliefs and ensure you’re on the right path (you may discover that what you’ve been visualizing needs an overhaul).

In some cases this can describe a formal sermon or legal pronouncement that demands obedience because a certain truth is insisted on.

**ART** | Landscapes by Michał Skarbiński

Sun in 43.3 | Expediency

11.12.24

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**LIFE** | My mom’s Christmas Chocolate Punch was sooo delicious. The cocoa and coffee complimented each other perfectly.

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POST | Bertrand Russel | What is a fact?

Philosophically, what is a fact? Russell explains full excerpt Human Knowledge Its Scope and Limits (1948).

“Fact”, as I intend the term, can only be defined ostensively. Everything that there is in the world I call a “fact”. The sun is a fact; Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon was a fact; if I have toothache, my toothache is a fact. If I make a statement, my making it is a fact, and if it is true there is a further fact in virtue of which it is true, but not if it is false. The butcher says: “I’m sold out, and that’s a fact”; immediately afterwards, a favoured customer arrives, and gets a nice piece of lamb from under the counter. So the butcher told two lies, one in saying he was sold out, and the other in saying that his being sold out was a fact.

Facts are what make statements true or false. I should like to confine the word “fact” to the minimum of what must be known in order that the truth or falsehood of any statement may follow analytically from those asserting that minimum. For example, if “Brutus was a Roman” and “Cassius was a Roman” each assert a fact, I should not say that “Brutus and Cassius were Romans” asserted a new fact. We have seen that the questions whether there are negative facts and general facts raise difficulties. These niceties, however, are largely linguistic.

What is a fact? I mean by a “fact” something which is there, whether anybody thinks so or not.

If I look up a railway time-table and find that there is a train to Edinburgh at 10 a.m., then, if the time-table is correct, there is an actual train, which is a “fact”. The statement in the time-table is itself a “fact”, whether true or false, but it only states a fact if it is true, i.e. if there really is a train. Most facts are independent of our volitions; that is why they are called “hard”, “stubborn”, or “ineluctable”. Physical facts, for the most part, are independent, not only of our volitions, but even of our existence.

The whole of our cognitive life is, biologically considered, part of the process of adaptation to facts. This process is one which exists, in a greater or less degree, in all forms of life, but is not commonly called “cognitive” until it reaches a certain level of development. Since there is no sharp frontier anywhere between the lowest animal and the most profound philosopher, it is evident that we cannot say precisely at what point we pass from mere animal behaviour to something deserving to be dignified by the name of “ knowledge”. But at every stage there is adaptation, and that to which the animal adapts itself is the environment of fact.“

— Bertrand Russell, Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948), Ch. XI: Fact, Belief, Truth and Knowledge, pp. 159-60

Its Scope and Limits (1948) by Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. He essentially asks two questions:

1. How do we know what we “know”?

2. How did we –as individuals and as a society – come to accept certain knowledge as fact?

Russell’s ‘Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits’ has never been out of print and is frequently considered essential reading for philosophy students. To this day it is often considered a highly provocative but accessible work for lay men and professional philosophers a like.

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