Goya; the Dark Paintings
Pedantus
Integral Individuality:
Variations enabled by Emphasis:
Goya; the Dark Paintings:
Illustrations:
Fig. 1.)
(point and click to step closer to this painting)
http://www.artchive.com/galleries/goya/great_he-goat_zoom1.html
Chart and overlay:
http://pedantus.free.fr/Goya_01b.gif
Fig. 2.)
Painting:
http://www.artchive.com/galleries/goya/saturn_zoom1.html
Chart comparison:
http://pedantus.free.fr/Goya_02a.gif
The Essential Commentary:
If we ignore Saturn's obvious dominance here for a moment. We can see
different kinds of Uranus projections here as the result of the variations
of expressive emphasis performed by the Integral Individuality, (II), the
pattern-driven, natal chart "psychical being" of the painter, Francisco
Goya. The context of one painting spurs the expression of Uranus in the
form of a noun, as an object; and in the other, Uranus is expressed like
verb--the action of the subject matter. In case you missed it, Uranus it
that concertina object on the right of Fig. 1.). There is no object in
Fig.2) which is typical of a Uranus noun and similarly suggestive of the
clock face natal position of Uranus.
The various expressive modes of a natal planet's range of symbolisms are
dictated by the articulated planet's contextual role. This is not an either
or situation, apparently a planet can be (unfortunately, tritely) likened to
a packet of a particular type of psychical "energy" which can be seen as
divided and distributed as needed; but limited in its respective quantity.
Thus the Uranus' potential can be seen at different times as predominantly a
shaper of objects (nouns) , and at other times mainly projected as the
action(s) (verb, or verbs) we associate with the artists chosen subject
material. (And here I caution any assumption that compares the "language" of
the II with rules with its English language counterparts....the rules are
probably different.)
Now in Fig.2) the "he-goat" is the mix of Saturn and Neptune. The
prominence of Neptune in this image is like the idea of astrological
dispositor in that the Saturn energy is subordinated by the Neptune in this
particular potion of the projection--this particular joint effort which
serves the contextual aims of the image as a whole.
The Hopeless Attempt at a Conclusion:
So, we see a Uranus object in one painting and not in the other. When we
see a Uranus object, it probably means that Uranus' energy was not
completely spent on the expression of (the meaning of) the subjects
actions. Uranus' outrageous-ness of Fig.2) is almost all in the form of a
verb. Though out all of the artist's painting we shall either find the
soul-print pattern of the Integral Individuality projected in the raw
abstract ideal form, many time "pointing" to natal positions, or subtlety
present by virtue of being deeply immersed, and thus obscured, in the
personality-harnessed "realistic" forms of more photographic depictions.
Fig.3.) http://pedantus.free.fr/Goya_Leocadia.gif
Thanks,
Pedantus Pontificus
("Clouds in my coffee, clouds in my coffee...."?)
The Optional, Caffeine-Induced, Incoherent Screed:
Astrologers *talk* about integrating the hypothetically separate
features of natal charts, but too often fail to illustrate the concept in
ways which seem, to me, sufficiently concrete. Demonstrating astrology is a
lot easier when we apply to specific images, rather than flimsy mental one's
we too often perceive as being unclear, out of focus, or somehow just
outside our personal experience, etc.. We fail to see the significance of
what most astrobabble attempts; and, fortunately, we do perceive how it
justifiably fails most of the time. There is a huge egoistic leap from one's
mere perception of astrology to any belief in astrological analyses and the
subsequent "predictions" based on that wholly self-serving
application/perversion of the more idealistic and theoretical psychological
concept; which , thankfully, has remained almost immune to the toxic waste
of time by the fortune telling astrologers of the millennia.
Astrology is an art with a fragile but enduring objective potential. We
divide Education into Arts and Sciences, not because we want to, but because
we have to, in order to establish some objectivity from the dubious
ego-inflating traditions of self-serving subjectivity. However the Arts do
have a level of objectivity. We can move towards objective Astrology by,
quite simply, showing the psychical "logic" of expressed astrological
artifacts (the projected planet/aspect symbolisms as observable objects in
the arts). Our human creativity produces astrological artifacts for us to
find, catalog, and eventually analyze: surely it does so more incidentally,
rather than by way of our conscious purposes. Our own astrological
behavior is as autonomic as our pulse and respiration rate: patterns already
"in us" emerge that are, in essence, as completely beyond our willed
intentions as the characteristics of our own individual genetic patterns.
Astrological artifacts are the creative products of our Spirit, of our James
Hillman "Acorn", of our Integral Individuality, rather than the mere
byproduct of social life--our personality with all its interpersonal,
eco-political facets, and the desires or infatuations which may serve to
eventually enable out individual projections. For the most part, we all are
a pile of fractured and discarded astrological artifacts waiting to be
discovered, that is, if and when we acquire the motivation and the ability
to become our own psychological archeologists. But how can be objective in
this most subjective, mysterious, and archaically ancient-seeming realm of
the living self? Well, for better or worse, we are what we create!
Employing astrology, we may scour the scant traces of our own separate
existence. Like an archeologist of the self, we can seek to find the
Integral Individuality, which like a pyramid in ancient Egypt, has retained
its own structure over the seeming eons of this our epic and opus, our one
brief but hopefully meaningful, personal, and possibly individual, lifetime.