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Libras, the Twilight of the Ages.

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It is often the beauty less talked about, the one we glide over is what interests me most about this sign. Libra stands at the threshold of my favorite season too, autumn. Libra is the star source from which my mother and my middle sister came from, solar wise. But although they’re related by natural and biological tie as a mother and daughter, they couldn’t be further apart in mind and spirit. Of course, one would argue for the existence of decans or faces, that each sign is equally divided into 10 days cycles that are each in turn governed by different planets, hence the different energies. Or even, that each sign is given an unequal measure of divisions by the terms or bounds, for Libra it’s even more striking that the first bound is correlated with Saturn and the last one with Mars, Mercury having the most governance in temporal capacity, with a swooping 8 days total. There are, of course, other attributes to one’s personality traits and features, that have much more to do with the...
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Morocco's recent protests, my 2 cents

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Despite it sounding contradictory, I can’t help but find the recent uprise of youth against the injustices in my country disheartening and heartening at the same time. As a Moroccan myself, having lived in the country from cradle to early twenties, having studied, celebrated and observed the ongoing progress and regress of a nation that, above all, derived its maintenance of peace through heritage, history, religion and practice of goodwill, both in the mainland and beyond, and having seen firsthand with my other brethren more than one might have hoped for, good and bad, I have full authority to exercise an opinion.  In the wake of such circumstances, I always hold the belief that only a small minority of citizens do tend to seek positive, active change that may or may not see its resolution, and that in essence, the majority of those appearing to join voices for the said changes are but a nuisance to the actual cause. If not, the very reason for its total dissolution. What concern...
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The Mutable Gift of Virgo and the Weight of Change

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                                                                        Photo by Geralt  Virgo season opens with the sun ruled Decan from 23rd August up to 2nd September, then from then on, Venus takes over up to the 11th September, until Mercury, the natural ruler of Virgo takes over the third and last Decan up into 22nd September or so, where the chariot moves on to Libra.  I’ve had always a complicated relationship with this sign, not with people who were sun born under the influence of this constellation. But because Virgo in the whole house system falls in my 8th house. In astrology, this house is infamous of its difficulty and karmic lessons that haunt its native, crippling him with all sorts of demons that if not addressed properly might seriously threaten the ongoing balance of this cosmic...
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Leo Sign's Mortal Flaw

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Image courtesy of Darkmoon Art Leo season has entered, and it will remain the dawn we face up until late August. It is the mane of the sun. Most people associate this particular constellation with strength and resilience. In fact, even in tarot cards, the Major Arcana card of Strength is painted with a woman tending to a large lion.  Although it harbors some hints of truth, but it’s undeniable that it’s simply a tired cliche and a bland archetype deprived of humor, depth or originality.  Lions have long been the kings of their savannah, their kingdom inspired real life kings to adopt their image into their emblem. But to me, observing sun born Leo individuals I encountered personally, and reading of accounts of so many, you can’t help but wonder that there’s somewhat a puzzle piece missing in the picture. Leo constellation has always been believed to have been pictured by the ancient pharaohs in the body of the sphinx at the Giza Plateau in Egypt. Whether the pharaohs of the a...
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Cancer season and the anatomy of a shell

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Cancer season begins today. Tropical zodiac has always been a profound fascination for me, because, unlike what other astrology enthusiasts might have you think, tropical did and still does gauge some liege of effect, powerful as one might strain, not at all obsolete and, in my opinion, valid to this very day. Astrology has always dealt with the interpretation of human kind to the celestial bodies and their apparent movements in the sky.   It is called ‘apparent’ because our peripheral vision is so deeply flawed, limited and unreliable, that when compared to the scientific findings of such observations, we discover a large gap between our understanding of reality and the real reality. Mercury does not actually move backwards, but from our point of view, it reaches a point so close to the sun that it appears that it has begun circling backwards and away before returning to its forward movement.  An expendable eye out in the universe would lead you see that, in truth, mercury a...
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