cemetery dreams…M3GNMBYBCC24

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I’ve had a number of cemetery dreams lately…
At one point in my life, dreams like this would have completely creeped me out, but after doing Jack Miller’s Phoenix Project (in 1994) and visiting Graceland Cemetery in Chicago as a way of honoring all those dreams with their recurring theme, the creep factor had completely disappeared…

Now it seems to have been replaced by a sense of discomfort that I have difficulty placing… The only thing I have to go on is that I can definitively recognize the graves in last night’s dream as being certain computer files… I really have to hand it to Psyche, the comedian, again… Those silly gray file icons on my Mac look close enough to headstones to qualify, but it was the names on them that made identification so easy…
Something about BBEdit, which is the program I use to work on the various revisions of an introduction to my jungian interpretation of Hansel and Gretel…

So…why in the hell am I meant to equate working on this introduction with death and funerals?? I’m not so sure yet, but this introduction is turning into a real monster of a task as I find myself trying to explain (to myself, of course) just what the interpretation of fairy tales is all about…from a jungian perspective, that is…
I do a lot of looking around on the internet for research material on fairy tales, and I’ve recently run across more academic folklorists like this… something about it feels just a little unpleasant, but this still doesn’t explain the visceral sense of difficulty that a dream cemetery seems to conjure up…

Last night, in particular, I saw a small number of men who had apparently spent the night resting under semi-elaborate headstones…it was as if they were homeless men who had found shelter in the cemetery…but the more disturbing thing was that there had been a huge rainstorm in the night, and much of the cemetery grounds were flooded…
There was even a grave-digger who was knocking on the door of the main office, wondering if he was going to be needed at work that day, considering that flooded grounds weren’t quite fit for digging into…
After I woke up I wondered if those homeless men weren’t actually the dead who had been buried… Sounds creepy, but really just indicates a living presence of some sort…

In any case, this introduction I’m writing seems to require me to explain not just why I think art appreciation is important…but what it actually is…
I guess it’s my funeral…one way or another…

kristo

Horoscope for Muammar Qaddafi…

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Qaddafi horoscope

I’ve just published my horoscope for Muammar Qaddafi on kristo.com
Not knowing his exact time of birth, I’ve done it in the form of a lunarscope, i.e. using the course of the Moon during the 24 hour period of his birth date.
June 7th, 1942 puts him right in the middle of a huge Gemini influence (there are 5 planets in Gemini on that day)…and his Pluto in Leo just naturally makes him a Baby Boomer.
That’s not the only reason I call him the “Baby Boomer Extraordinaire” though…

read my horoscope for Qaddifi here…

horoscope for Michael Hart, inventor of the eBook

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I only learned about Michael S. Hart through a recent, random stop at Project Gutenberg…
and then subsequently read about him in Wired…

I don’t know that he could be called a genius…but he had the same thing going for him that most inventors and visionaries have: the Archetype of Recognition…

so, having just completed my horoscope of Steve Jobs, and recognizing something crucial that Michael was quoted as saying in that Wired article, it seemed only natural to take a look at his horoscope…

You can read my horoscope for Michael Hart here…

kristo

horoscope for Stieg Larsson

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Stieg Larsson’s birthday was on August 15th…
and I decided to do a lunarscope reading based on his place and date of birth…

you’ll notice that I didn’t say time of birth because this reading emphasizes the perinatal period…
i.e. a combination of immediately pre and post-natal influences…

I'm getting the sense that this sort of reading applied to anyone really gets to a facet of character that can’t be accessed by more conventional birthchart readings…

It was interesting for me to see how the 7th and first houses can be so enormous for many people born in Sweden…
makes sense that they’ve had their share of artists and vikings…

You can read Stieg Larsson’s lunarscope on my website, kristo.com…

no shit, Sherlock

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I know that every profession has them…
but these trade-journals of modern medicine have always made me wonder about the sanity of my once-chosen profession…

How can any physician not blush when reading a headline like this:

"Long-acting contraception linked to fewer repeat abortions"
“Women who use long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), especially intrauterine devices (IUDs), are significantly less likely have a repeat abortion, New Zealand researchers report.”

For a gynecologist, this reads like : “study confirms, having intercourse (SEX) causes pregnancy (INTRAUTERINE BABIES or IUBs).”

Of course there’s likely to be some vaguely reasonable explanation for this New Zealand study, but it’s really just priceless comedy material…
I could never read these silly headlines of Contemporary Ob/Gyn without cracking up…
unfortunately though, its NOT The Onion…
these guys mean Business!
pharmaceutical business, that is…

maybe the pharmaceutical advertisers who pay for these headlines think they sound professional…
it’s either that or they consider the intelligence level of the average physician to be in the 3rd grade range…

while it’s probably the former, I have to be honest…reading some of the on-line discussions other physicians have in a professional forum called Physician Connect makes me wonder that perhaps instead of skipping a grade or two, many of them might have skipped out on a few…