Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature – if that word can be used in reference to man, who has 'invented' himself by saying 'no' to nature – consists of his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgic and in search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.
—Octavio Paz, 'The Labyrinth of Solitude'. N.Y.: Grove Press, 1961. p. 195
The Pisces New Moon longing for reflection expressed so eloquently by Octavio Paz only increases with the growing Self-awareness of separation from the past…
The rush to the future is greatly aided by the exuberant Mercury At the crucial Aires Point and speeding headlong to its next connection — with Chiron, eclipsed on April 8.
This super New Moon therefore provides an exciting imagining of the NEW (♈️‼️) replacing the satanic mindset that has suddenly become old hat.
The drastic compression of psychic energy in which Satan reveals his plan to enslave humanity was marked by cultural signs of the death of the DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion).
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/02/university-florida-diversity-equity-inclusion-positions
This Social Justice theory attempts to right the wrongs of colonial hierarchies, yet ends up imprisoned by the oppressed/oppressor binary ruling the old top-down hierarchical colonialist paradigm.
The organic farming movement and eco-communities springing up in Mexico (above is an organic papaya farm in the state of Oaxaca) are replacing the unstructured hippie communes as egalitarian Aquarian experiments employing the holistic principles of cyclic time.
This brought me back to Octavio Paz’s El laberinto de la soledad, required reading for Mexican devotees. In a Q & A with Claudia Fell (2008 edition), the author revisits his classic text, distinguishing between revolución, revuelta (literal translation: scrambled) y rebelión in terms of time:
The revolutionaries are daughters of the concept of linear time and progression, signified by violent change and the consequence of development and defined by one system for the other. The revolutionaries are the consequence of development, as they don’t get tired of Marx and Engels. The rebellions are acts of groups of marginalized individuals: the rebel doesn’t want to change the order, as the revolutionary, without destroying the tyranny. The revueltas are daughters of cyclical time; they are a popular uprising against a reputed injust system and they propose to restore original time, the inaugural moment of the pact between equals.
El movimiento Zapatista was the true revuelta …to return to reverse (time), to return to the beginning.
“Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude,” Q&A with Claudia Fell, Penguin Books, Limited (UK) (1 junio 2008)
This is quite extraordinary, as Paz was speaking about Mexico’s past, but he was actually addressing the future I am experiencing in my present travels through intentional holistic communities in Mexico.
Shifts in time characterizes the magic of Mexico. This onda, peaking last week under the Mercury/Neptune conjunction on my Pisces Moon…
… welcomes stillness as entry point to quantum reality in which, like in Paz, past and future are simultaneous with present.
Paz’s interpretation of the Zapatista’s “un regreso al principio” (return to the beginning) is equivalent to “In illo tempore” (in that time), the term used by Mircea Eliade, the great teacher of comparative religion, to introduce “the eternal return.” This term was used by Plato and Nietzsche to mean cyclical time, beyond the duality limitations of western thought.
All empires eventually come to an end due to their inherent shortcomings. The western reductionist hierarchical concept of time perpetuated by the American Empire and its Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries has been defeated by an invisible enemy — cyclic time.
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