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Astrology, God & Humanity : Reassessing Our Notions of God by Ed Augusts
In his 30th book the author delves into the rewards of using Astrology for a variety of daily success and survival strategies, and poses the strange origins and suspicious practices of the three major monotheistic religions in an astringent, no-holds-barred comparison with the greater success rate and intellectual integrity achieved through the use of professional astrological analysis of birth-charts. He notes how the only partial success and more likely failure of the major religions, unable to answer important day-to-day questions, and unable to offer substance rather than demanding belief while being unable to provide proof, is easily surpassed and eclipsed by what a good Astrologer can do for a person or a family or a company, including immediate results. Augusts uses examples of two different room-mate situations, two different lady friends, a buddy with perennial parent problems, to shock us into seeing how adept and accurate Astrology can be.
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Augusts Astrological Archive by Ed Augusts
This 279-page database is a wise and refreshing selection of posted essays, comments and replies on well over 100 different topics. It consists of the BEST Astrological insights, essays, musings and comments, from mysticism and cosmology to current events, drawn from more than 1,200 posted messages in the author’s very own ‘Yahoo’ ASTRO_PSYCHIC Group from 2003-2008. The prolific author is no stranger to philosophy or religion, nor does he hesitate to criticize established but outmoded beliefs. Augusts has been doing astrological analysis and counseling for more than 30 years. This is his 29th book.
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Changes in Human Species by Ed Augusts
Is Humanity developing into one or more NEW SPECIES? Are we developing upward –or rapidly descending into crime and chaos? Where ARE we going? The End of History? ASTROLOGY holds a key to answer this puzzle. This AMAZING book “came” to Ed, “out of the blue”. The information seemed to come from a channeled source and was completed in a 5-day period.
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Chinese Western Astrology by Ed Augusts
What do ELVIS, BILL CLINTON, GEORGE W. BUSH, MADONNA, DONALD TRUMP, and MICHAEL JACKSON all have in common? Yep, they’re DOGS!! According to Chinese Astrology. But THAT’s just the sign for the YEAR they were born. Astrologer Ed Augusts, with more than 30 years of experience, discovered that we also have MONTH, DAY, and HOUR Chinese Zodiac animals, as well! Easy-to-Read TABLE OF CHINESE ZODIAC ANIMAL YEARS and TABLE OF ELEMENTS & POLARITIES will show YIN-YANG Balance as well! Taken together with one’s Western Zodiac Signs, this tends to show the MALE-FEMALE Energy & Mental Balance in a person. Potential violence and danger appear to be related to the astro-factors in this 128-pg breakthrough book. 112 famous or notorious people are examined to see THEIR Secret Chinese + Western astrological components! This includes Barack Obama, John McCain, Hillary, Bill, and manhy others In & Out of the News! You’ll LOVE “Chinese Western Astrology”.
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Exile & Double Exile by Ed Augusts
The “re-exiled exile” is an “outsider,” a visionary guru of his own strange cult. That’s what an exile, born in a distant land, can become when his adopted land, America, proves a difficult place to grow up in when it means being isolated and haunted, then tempted, overwhelmed, seduced and damaged…all while still a child! Yet a depth of learning and wisdom grows, despite the isolation and the darkness that grows out of the damage. The exploration of a mind that feels permanently exiled occurs when studying the short stories of Ed Augusts. Born in Germany after WWII to exiled Latvian parents in a Displaced Persons Camp, despite the best opportunities for success in the new family home –California– he never quite fit in. These stories explore the American West Coast through various combinations of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Time Travel, and memoir.
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Fairies at Work and at Play by Geoffrey Hodson
Geoffrey Hodson, Theosophist and Catholic mystic and clairvoyant, truly believed he could see gnomes, fairies, elves, and many other kinds of leaping and dancing figures as he surveyed the quaint green landscapes of England. He published his visions in 1925. It is now reprinted in an inexpensive version that is a faithful copy of the original text. With one of the famous 1917 Cottingley ‘Fairy’ photos and four line drawings by Ed Augusts, who also re-set this new edition.
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Get Rich Buying at Yard Sales by Ed Augusts
This guide to making the most profit by buying at the lowest prices at all kinds of weekend sales, is chock-full of anecdotes and personal experiences, such as buying a booklet for 10 cents on the 3rd day of an Estate Sale which was later sold for $850.00. If you like true stories about how ANYONE can make money, you’ll love this book! This book goes into detail about old books, records, knick-knacks, postcards, stamps, coins, comics, and various other trinkets and treasures! The status of the economy is not as important as one might think for collectibles to be profitable, because there are ALWAYS collectors for good items, but during economic crises, the sub-wholesale prices go down, making them even more potentially profitable for the careful shopper. Fortunes have been made by the clever purchase of valuable items at cheap prices. The author made a whole fortune this way!
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The Magic Wands Book by Ed Augusts
MAGIC WANDS, fun for kids, (Harry Potter, etc), have been used since the most ancient times for serious purposes in Northern Europe & in the Middle East at least since Biblical times, as any reading of the Book of Exodus will show! What look like broken wands, of no practical obvious purpose other than what they look like — Magic wands! — have been found in Neolithic graves more than 20,000 years old.
Their use in magic may be related to DOWSING RODS which are used for finding water, ore deposits, & lost treasure. Ancients worshiped amid groves of trees & were more aware of “earth energies” than we are in our urban, modern world. These ancient forebears learned the amazing power of wood for “magical” purposes.
The author has had several experiences with Magic Wands, including a strange meeting with a woman who influenced reality through her magic-charged wand, and a later experience with an unexpected, sudden, raising of the Dead.
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Meditations On Real Estate by Ed Augusts
A body floating down the Ganges… A semi-conscious prostitute (or is it a homemaker?) laying in bed nearly naked during an OPEN HOUSE… A garage with 2 coffins in it! From cursed properties… to WEALTH strategies! This series of “Meditations” covers a wide range of topics all around the general subject of REAL ESTATE and the spectacular recent REAL ESTATE BUBBLE. There is probably more MUCH-NEEDED humor and adventure squeezed out of the improbable subject of the ‘ups and downs’ of real estate here than in a peck of humor books, yet, there are important strategies that can be used to achieve optimum success in real estate as well… as revealed by a man who started with nothing and bought and renovated S.F. Bay Area properties that are now worth about $9 million dollars.
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Semi-Mesozoic Pizza with Primordial Anchovies by Ed Augusts
This volume contains TWO BOOKS: “Semi-Mesozoic Pizza with Primordial Anchovies” , rampant humor and sick poetry from Pliny the Elder to Geraldo Rivera about earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis, many of which appeared on the Internet from 1999 to 2001, as well as: “Seismological Moments, Tales of the Great West Coast Disaster”, based on a 20-part series on the USENET in 2003, the mystic author’s attempt to discharge fears and forebodings about huge earthquakes, asteroid impacts, and tsunamis, by injecting some WELL-NEEDED HUMOR into the subject of the San Andreas Fault, Seismologists, Californians, and other good targets for his humor. Sadly, the comic relief of this book was marred a year later by the great Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which this nearly apocalyptic book may well have been trying to prophesy.
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The Spirit World by Daisy G. Buettner
D.G.Buettner was a Spiritualist Church leader and author in 1930’s San Francisco. I have done everything I could think of to find out more about her and her Church, to have a memoir about her and her activities in the 1930’s. Unfortunately, any material about her has mysteriously disappeared from all teh databases I’ve been able to access. Ms. Buettner was a clairvoyant who had intense, incredible visions of the Spirit World and Afterlife. She presented them in this book, which has not been available for 70 years. Typed & Re-Set by Ed Augusts
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Strange & Unusual World : Correspondence On The Occult and Bizarre by Ed Augusts
The author, a life-long devotee of the paranormal and occult, had a series of unusual messages, queries, and comments on mystic and bizarre subjects from 1997 to 2000 from the mysterious “Chris T”. Together they talked about VAMPIRES, WITCHES, OCCULT CALIFORNIA, TIME TRAVEL, SATANISM, THE HOLY FAMILY, THUGEES, ELVIS, THE NECRONOMICON, URBAN LEGENDS, SEXUAL SLOVAKIANS, ASTROLOGY, THEORIES OF HISTORY, GNOSTICISM, GHOSTS and POLTERGEISTS, and much more. The book that resulted has never before been published in any format, and the author has updated it with ‘2008′ comments and additions.
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Hey, Astrology fans! I found an on-line Ephemeris of Eris, the so-called 10th Planet, sometimes called a dwarf planet. Over the last 6 years it’s been called both 2003 UB313 as well as Xena, after both the old T.V. heroine and X = the unknown. That’s the name the team that discovered Eris visualized calling the planet, but this was somehow later over-ruled in favor of a mythological name, to make it consistent with the origins, in ancient myths, of the names of the other planets. It was re-named Eris within a year of its discovery.
Eris, formerly Xena
I’m going to work backwards on this one, like a crab. First, we try to determine the astrological nature, if any, of Planet Eris. Then, we go back in history to see if the nature, deeds and personality of the relevant Goddess plausibly matches what we see in the Eris that’s in the heavens.
The first thing one may notice when looking in the Eris Ephemeris, is that everyone since 1923 has Eris in Aries so its influence seems, especially on the surface, to be generational. But further study confirms both the generational aspect, and also the personal ‘face’ of the planet and how it works in a chart. The chart I know the best is my own, so I have to start there to see about Eris.
Curiously, both of my wives & one almost-wife and one live-in lover, all had Eris closely square my Mercury and more widely square my Venus, & trine my Moon. MOON attracted, MOON brought about the simulation of family love and potential motherhood… all the warm and cuddly feelings. But Mercury (and to some extent Venus) changeableness, flamboyance, gossip, chatter, idleness, impractical hobbies, etc., was an even more powerful separative element. In two friendships that have persisted through a couple of decades, the Mercury square Eris portion of the comparative aspect does not exist. Eris is closer to the more benevolent trine to my Moon.
Eris was not just ‘closely’ square to my Mercury, it was 3 minutes of longitude from exact. That’s amazing! That gives my Mercury a whole new personality, with new, tremendous 11th House influences. The tight aspect also makes it the closest in my chart between any two planets or luminaries. And to think, I have just discovered this fact after 30+ years of being an astrologer. Well, new things are discovered all the time, and this is proof!
So, already I have a suspicion there may be something very important here, in Eris.
I’ve just taken a good look at my chart. There has always been a huge void stretching from Capricorn all the way to Taurus (NNode) and all the way to the latter part of Gemini to find another planet. Now I find ERIS is my highest elevated planet & looks down over the entire chart. It sits there like a damned spider, or maybe archangel .
It opposes my natal Neptune from the 11th House to the 5th. Eris opposing Neptune, both squaring my Mercury-Venus conjunction. That’s even more amazing and very revealing about certain aspects of my nature. Here’s just ONE thing… I am drawn to believe this explains why the women in my life haven’t been blessed with any live births despite a number of successful “starts” to their pregnancies, with me the prospective dad. That hurts, but it is true! Unrealistic expectations in love (Neptune in 5th), opposed by the Arian beams of Eris, shows I could not trust my friends and associates, and that’s true, too. But the influence on denying parenthood is amazingly accurate. Jeepers, ERIS is “Sire” spelled backwards, just noticed that! Serendipity & then some.
ERIS’s orbit, a long, elliptical one , circles round the Sun every 560 years. If we study famous charts, we might determine its influence Or, not even famous charts! Just accurate charts that reveal important specifics. Unfortunately, I don’t have enough time right at the moment to delve into important or notorious charts…
But history itself is a good teacher. History buffs agree the start of WWI was mysterious, why did all the Europeans go nuts? One country after another plunged into a WAR hysteria. In 1914-1923 Eris was in the last 3 degrees of Pisces, a sign which is ruled by Neptune. Neptune often does bring confusion, illness & delusion, Eris doesn’t do well in Pisces. The dread killer, Spanish Flu appeared in 1918, during this climax of Eris’ transit of Pisces.
As a planet transits the last few degrees of a sign it often leaves a signature impact. The post war hyper-inflation in Germany was Neptunian, also, and occurred as Eris was in the last degree of Pisces.
Now let’s look what happened when Eris entered bold, masculine Aries. The boys born those few years, ended up serving in W.W.II. Mars ruled at that time, & for “our side” it was a GOOD cause, people say, THAT war was a good one to fight & win.
Now, for the girls… Girls born under ERIS in ARIES had an extra MARS component in all their charts. You can think of this as girls born in the mid-1920’s who grew up and married in the 1940’s, during the war. Meanwhile, the girls born in the 1940’s and 1950’s grew up in the 1960’s and 1970’s, in those years that girls were in the Free Speech movement, the sexual revolution, burning their bras and running away from home, often living in co-ed dorms or out in the communes. This was unprecedented, heady behavior. Aries rules the head. These females were using their heads more than previous generations, albeit not always successfully. But Eris in Aries explains (1) Women’s Liberation, (2) the rise of Lesbianism. Both of these, formal & informal societal/sexual changes of emphasis, happened as Eris entered the 2nd Decanate of Aries, i.e., 10, 11 deg.
This also coincided w/ the “Hippy” & anti-war movement of the mid- to late 1960’s. Eris moves SO slowly, it may influence specific degrees. I know I am looking at history through my particular memories of colleges in California in the United States; if I’d lived in some other part of the country, or in any other part of the world, no doubt my experiences and those of the people around me would have been very different.
When I was talking about women.. Obviously, men, also, were influenced by presence of Eris in the Mars-ruled sign Aries from 1923– present. It is just a terrific Mars-influence, in both Aries advancements for our society, as well as military & warfare issues &.”Balance of Power”. The harnessing of the atom for military purposes, and its use for those purposes, killing hundreds of thousands of individuals, occurred in the 1940’s while Eris was in the first decan (0–10 degrees) of the First Sign of the Zodiac, Aries. I see that as potentially significant, since it is possible that no other planet is as indicative of major events and major historical events and changes as Eris.
There are certainly indications that specific degrees as well as decans (decanates) may be significant. For example, the Wall Street crash, 10/29,1929, occurred with Eris in 1.06 Aries. A great wave of confidence in the economy, with soaring stock market prices, ended in a crash, all while Eris was hovering — advancing and retrograding again — in the first few degrees of Aries. When another sudden and crucial event, John F. Kennedy shooting occurred, Eris was in 10.03 Aries, just nosing into the 2nd decan of Aries, and on the terrorist attack on 9/11, Eris was in 19.53 Aries, just finishing the 2nd decan, about to go into the 3rd. From surprising sudden flare-ups like this, it appears the 10-degree decanates may be more significant for Eris than they are for other, much faster, planets.
Eris will enter Venus-ruled Taurus in 2044, a bit too late for some of us to enjoy. But implying that if we’re still here, times may improve. That information won’t help very much to those people wondering about paying the rent next month.
Let’s look at Eris in history. Here’s an Ephemeris of Eris’ position going back 1,400 years into the past: http://www.thegreenduck.com/ka/eph/Eris.602-2103.short-eph.txt
Let’s see what I can spot by using this ephemeris. This one goes back to 601 A.D. I wish it went farther, I’d love to see Eris’ position during the great, well-marked events of Classical Antiquity and the birth of Christianity.
In 630 A.D., Mohammad and 10,000 warriors conquered Mecca and soon took over all of Arabia. Eris was in 23 Scorpio that year. Scorpio is a sign related to both Pluto and Mars. Pluto means control and Mars means battle and conquest. Let me look back at the life of Mohammad. It was in the year 610 that Mohammad reports the Angel Gabriel appeared to him and ordered him to recite various verses, which was the beginning of The Koran. Before this moment, Eris was in Libra, ruled by Venus, a more ‘balanced’ energy. Eris was in 1 degree Scorpio at this time. It was the sharp break in the energy flow from Eris, at the very dividing line between the balanced energy of Libra, ruled by Venus, and the Martian and Plutonian energy of Scorpio, when the Birth of Islam occurred.
So. I have just discovered what astrological event was responsible for the birth of Islam.
The Eris Ephemeris only goes back to 601 A.D. But if we figure 560 years for a complete cycle, and subtract from 610, the year Eris was in 1 degree Scorpio when Gabriel supposedly began dictating the Koran to Mohammad, we get the year of 50 A.D., when Jesus’ teachings were beginning to spread, but repression was also occurring. According to this schema, in 70 A.D., when Jerusalem and its Temple were leveled and sacrificial Judaism came to an end, Eris would have been about 23 Scorpio, the same exact degree that it was in when Mohammad conquered Mecca, 560 years later. Now that’s interesting! Let’s subtract 560 years from 70 A.D., the Destruction of Jerusalem — what do we get ? 490 B.C., which was THE year that King Darius the First launched his invasion of Greece (goal: Athens), thus setting off the first of several nasty Persian Wars.
Now let’s jump up to the next time Eris is in 23 degrees Scorpio. What do we see? That in 1181, Japanese and Chinese astronomers observed what we now know was a supernova, one of very few that has ever happened in the Milky Way Galaxy, and similar to the Crab Nebula of 1054. The 1181 blast was visible 185 days in the heavens. Of course, nobody can claim Eris in 23 degrees Scorpio has anything to do with a supernova!
Here’s another Eris phenomenon. In 1095, Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade, which called for the re-capture of the Holy Land, specifically Jerusalem, from the Muslims. This was accomplished 4 years later. Eris was in 9 to 15 degrees of Cancer at this time. Cancer is deeply related to home and therefore the homeland. This energy seems to have helped generate the Crusade and hundreds of years of crusades that followed. More than 500 years later, Eris entered Cancer again, 1642. That were exactly the year the English Civil War, in which Royalists battled the Parliament. What is a civil war except a battle for “home” and home = 4th house = Cancer? The uprising by Parliament was successful; the King was beheaded in 1649.
In 1453, the ancient and holy city of Constantinople fell to the Islamic Turk invaders and the oldest existing link to the ancient world was broken. This happened when Eris was traveling very slowly, in 14 degrees of Aries. Aries, remember, is Mars-powered, and Mars often equals war and strife and conquest.
In 1492, when Columbus discovered the New World, Eris was in 23 Aries. Aries = new discoveries. Aries = adventurous conquest. Eris is TODAY, 2009, in 21 Aries, so it seems we may be on the verge of a new discovery, as well. Is there a “New World” out there that we don’t know about, or know about and haven’t visited yet? When Eris hits 23 degrees, will we learn that extraterrestrial civilizations really exist?
In 1521, Cortes entered Tenochtitlan and conquered the Aztec Empire, annexing Mexico and beginning the destruction of millions of native Americans through illness, and reducing the rest of them to slavery or serfdom. Eris was is the last degree of Aries in that crucial year of conquest, tending to indicate that Eris on a cusp, (or on a decan, as I mentioned earlier) really does have a powerful effect. The Aztec Empire collapsed as Eris entered Taurus, Venus’ sign, and possibly not fit for much battle.
In 1588, the Spanish Armada, King Phillip’s wacky idea that he could conquer England with 131 ships, was blown by gales up and around England and Scotland and many on-board perished. Eris was about 21.40 Taurus at this time. Eris in Lady Venus’ comparatively peaceful sign of Taurus was obviously a BAD year to mount an invasion! Most of the invaders were killed for spoils by the locals in Scotland and Ireland as they tried to scramble to shore.
In 1692, hysteria about the idea that “witches” might be casting spells in Massachusetts led to the Salem Witch Trials. When you think about witch-hunting you see it is a persnickety, censorious, symptom of religious and social “uptightness” that is consistent with Puritanism and is the culmination of Virgo energy. ( Eris was in 28 and 29 degrees Virgo that year.) When Governor Phips pardoned the remaining defendants who had been accused of witchcraft, it was May, 1693, and Eris was a third of the way through the first degree of Libra and the Virgoan Puritanism had been overruled by more balanced (Libra in Eris) thinking.
1799–1815 were the years of the Napoleonic era. A new energy ruled France and threatened the rest of Europe, including all the existing and ancient monarchies. It is interesting to see that Eris was between about 29.25 Capricorn and 0.15 Aquarius in 1799. So Napoleon came to power, putting a definite end to the chances of monarchy in France, just as Eris was entering the sign of the Uranian individualist, Aquarius. Again, we see Eris on a cusp at decisive times in history.
The U.S.–Mexican War, during which Mexico lost California and much of the rest of the Southwest, Eris was in zero degrees of Pisces, another major ‘energy change’.
The Terrorist Atacks on 9/11 occurred when Eris was in 19 degrees Aries, continuing the same Martian energy that had given us the Second World War. the Atom Bomb, and the Cold War earlier during the Eris-Aries cycle, and repeating the Arian energy seen in the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and also the Discovery of America energy of 1492… foreign invaders crossing the ocean, (or the Bosporus), bent upon conquest!
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After looking at a chart of Eris’ size & orbit, which cuts into the outer planets, it seemed just crying out to be investigated. I notice Pluto cuts into Neptune’s orbit along one long stretch in which the two planets are practically parallel, but Eris cuts into Pluto’s much more sharply at two points. Wow, what if they ever met? VELIKOVSKY-ville, man! (He authored: “Ages in Chaos” and “Worlds in Collision” among others!) Nobody knew about Eris until very recently… except Eris & Pluto! They must have coasted pretty close to each other a few times. So, you’ve got planets measuring a little smaller than our Moon, on gigantic swings around the Sun. Chances of a crash? Well, really… almost — but not quite — zero point zero.
Let’s say they WERE to crash! Maybe two planets DID crash at some point in our distant past, thus explaining the existence of the Asteroid Belt. Would ANY debris be drawn toward the inner Solar System? Noble Jupiter, like you’d expect the Roman King of the Gods to do, might scoop it up like it did the 1994 Shoemaker-Levy comet chunks. But not if Jupiter’s orbit took it to the other side of the Solar System at such time as the Eris-Pluto debris was heading inbound! I know that’s SUCH a remote possibility… I’d say “things like that don’t happen!” But we saw the Shoemaker-Levy comet break up into 21 or 22 pieces which then followed each other like hornets, crashing into Jupiter’s pliable, cloud-covered surface.
But really, the question is, what is the chance of 2 smaller-than-Moon-sized planets crashing into each other? Eris, orbiting every 560 years…?
I just divided 4.5 billion years by the 560 year orbit of Eris. Eris has orbited maybe 8,035,000 times around the Sun. No known crashes! Not even a brush with fate! Not even a fly-by! Lucky Pluto! Lucky Eris!
Actually, you’d think there’d be some CLOSE CALLS, though wouldn’t you, astrology buffs? Seems to be dangerous out there, eh? Here’s a good ERIS link. I suggest option #1, no download necessary, click the underscored words, it pops right up. http://cli.gs/3sNSaV
………………….. 2..The Mythology of Eris
........Eris, aka Discordia
It seems unfortunate that the name Eris was used, because even though several of the Outer Planets have a ‘bad reputation’ when it comes to both astrology and ancient mythology, Eris is perhaps the worst. Well, maybe it is tied with Pluto and Saturn, since Pluto was, after all, the God of the Underworld. That can’t be good! And Saturn, the baleful world of ice, has been identified in some ways with the Grim Reaper, and with aging, infirmity, and poverty. Saturn is no picnic in the park. But listen to Eris’ pedigree! Eris was traditionally a daughter of Nox or Nyx (night) and the wife of Chronos, aka Kronos or Saturn. Eris, like a good daughter, begat many children, but unfortunately , the names of these Gods are : Sorrow, Forgetfulness, Combat, Hunger, Disease, Murder, and Lies. These are like the sorrows mankind is afflicted with which turned many to Buddhism. The Buddha could have learned this at the altar of Eris. if there had been such a thing in India. Probably not, since Astronomy and Astrology came to India via Alexander, who lived 200 years after The Buddha.
On a wonderful site, “Portable Planetariums”, which I don’t quite understand the purpose of, www.planetarios.com/mythology-troy-1.htm there is a great description of Eris (Discordia to the Romans), as given in Hesiod’s Theogony: “But abhorred Eris (‘Strife’) bare painful Ponos (‘Toil/Labor’), Lethe (‘Forgetfulness’) and Limos (‘Famine’) and tearful Algea (Pains/Sorrows), Hysminai (‘Fightings/Combats’) also, Malchai (‘Battles’), Phonoi (‘Murders/Slaughterings’), Androctasiai (‘Manslaughters’), Neikea (‘Quarrels’), Pseudea (‘Lies/Falsehoods’), Amphillogiai (‘Disputes’), Dysnomia (‘Lawlessness’) and Ate (‘Ruin/Folly’), all of one nature, and Horkos (‘Oath’) who most troubles men upon earth when anyone wilfully swears a false oath.”
What a crowd of kids in THAT family, eh? Eris also was blamed for directly causing the Trojan War. Snubbed rather than invited to a party of the Gods on Olympus, Eris contrived to toss in a golden apple, marked ‘To the Most Beautiful’ which caused a major disagreement among the Goddesses as to whom should get the apple. This sparked the Judgment of Paris which caused the kidnapping of Helen and the Trojan War.
If there was any kind of discord or upset, the ancient Greeks attributed it to Eris. Tje belief in Eris was passed on to the Romans like so many of the other Greek Gods were. In ancient Rome, the troublesome Eris was known as Discordia. It was paired with another goddess, Concordia, or Concord. Finally, Eris passed from the scene with the passing of the ancients and their world. It’s amazing, therefore, that it has come back to life in the first decade of the 21st Century, and almost a shame that she’s been dug-up again, but then again, what better time, when one considers the strife and afflictions and uncertainties in the world today? Eris is no doubt an adequate mirror of the times of her re-discovery, in the form of the Planet by that same name. These things don’t happen by accident, you know. Or maybe they do — but they’re not really accidents!
I had to raid the Wikipedia to find my information about both Eris and Discordianism, which is a modern religion centered on the idea that chaos is all that there is. Disorder and order are actually part of chaos. It was founded in 1959 and may be more of a joke than a true religion. As Wikipedia says: “Discordianism recognizes chaos, discord, and dissent as valid and desirable qualities, in contrast with most religions, which idealize harmony and order.” Eris has also become the goddess (aka ‘matron deity’), of the Discordian religion.
So, what’s the matter with the astronomers? They have given us the name of a horrible goddess for this important newly discovered planet. Don’t they know that words are dangerous, and that reality can come to resemble myth? Why can’t they name any of the newly-found planets after good and bountiful goddesses? Does their obsession with cruel and evil goddesses reflect a view they have of women? I would have preferred we call this new planet after a comic book character such as “Xena” rather than Eris, the mother of so much mythological suffering. But since the overriding idea was to name the newly-discovered planets after gods and goddesses drawn exclusively from Greek mythology, then I propose that the next 3 planets discovered be named after the Graces. These were (or are) the three goddesses of joy, beauty, charm, feasting and happiness. Hesiod named them : Thalia (Good Cheer), and Aglaia (Splendor), and Euphrosyne (Mirth). The Graces were quite charming and beautiful, joyous and health-giving. The Graces often danced with the Muses and acted as messengers for Aphrodite and her wimged son, Eros.
Hopefully, the next set of Outer Planets discovered by the astronomers will be named more pleasant names. Thalia, Aglaia, or Euphrosyne. Well, okay. Thalia, anyway. That’s the only one that’s pronounced the way it looks! Best, —–Ed
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I have revised and re-revised this article over the past 24 hours and am done with it for now. —e.a.
Nibbling at fame, or competence, whichever comes first and offers me a prize, I pushed myself relentlessly onward, swimming across the channel of an ocean of creative juices yesterday. I wrote FIVE SONGS “from scratch“ in less than 24 hours and recorded them on my Keyboard… then posted them to YouTube. So, this admittedly wasn’t much time to polish everything like I’d like to. But for me, the sheer act of creation is always what counts!
The first song is all about my well-known inamorata, my desert valley friend, she who helps bring Balalaika music from Central Asia to the Sonoran Desert on the other side of the world. We actually do play at midnight. She always picks up an exotic stringed instrument, perhaps her Turkish Banjo-lin (referred to in the song), and lures me into playing the keyboard.
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Midnight Mandolin Lady
Midnight Mandolin Lady I’m charmed by the sound of your Banjo-lin, baby, the best sound around
I love everything about you — because that’s what makes Suzanne — you!
How could I be judgmental — when that’s what makes you be you?
Midnight Mandolin Lady I’m charmed by the sound of your Banjo-lin, baby, ain’t it the best sound around?
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This second song is about a seeker after perfection who believes in the world of Anime and video games to the point that she wants to find a costumed superhero to be her lover, and no-0ne else will do.
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Midnight’s Cavalcade of Stars
She’s masked and she’s stealthy
She’s sleek and she’s wealthy…
Not someone you’d ever see in bars…
She’s chasing midnight’s cavalcade of stars!
She’s alone and she’s noble!
Her eyes as misty as an opal!
She stares like the headlights of her fancy cars…
while chasing midnight’s cavalcade of stars!
She’s looking for men that can fly!
For men that are too tough to die!
It’s those men she’d like to ‘try’…
Even if they’re from Mars…
She’s chasing midnight’s cavalcade of stars!
The men she wants aren’t of these earth!
Women haven’t given them birth…
They’re Costumed Action-Figures from afar!
She’s chasing midnight’s cavalcade of stars!
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The third song began with a memory of a woman laying in a patch of moonlight. At the time she seemed a thousand light yards long as she lay there, surely a suitable reason for song!
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Your Curves are in the Moonlight Below!
I look down from my old world
at you sleeping there — unfurled –
a thousand light years all spread-out below…
You are a mystery, like a woman risen from the sea,
a woman care and trouble cannot bow…
And, darling… this much I do know: that:
Your curves are in the moonlight…
as warm and sweet as June-light…
Your curves are in the moonlight — below!
So much is mere conjecture!
empty space in each prefecture!
And men search for ancient tombs to open
while women’s fresh young wombs are hopin’
for pleasures before the snow…
And, darling… yes, this much I know: that:
Your curves are in the moonlight…
as warm and sweet as June-light…
Your curves are in the moonlight — below!
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This is a memory of a lady who lives on the very top of the San Andreas fault in California, and must live her everyday life with the knowledge that at any time, she might get swallowed up by the earth. But then again, everyone is in more or less that same predicament at every moment of their lives anyway, so why is her predicament so special? In fact, it helps deal with such a lifestyle by laughing at it. Sure, laugh at the crack in the earth, it may go away.
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My Love on the San Andreas
My love on the San Andrea — not many faults….
She goes ’subterranean’ — prefers to live in vaults.
My love on the San Andreas gives me that ’sinking feeling’,
Once, when I kissed her, the whole place started reeling.
Oh, love! Oh, love! Please don’t stay!
Oh, love! Sweet love! Let’s move away!
Don’t you feel like you’re under ‘psychic attack’
When you realize your house is on top of a crack?
A hole in the yard is larger in dio-meter,
It just swallowed-up Pasadena’s 2nd seismometer.
One time she played a version of ‘Shake, Rattle & Roll’,
I went to visit her — next day — there was just a hole!
Oh, love! Oh, love! Please don’t stay
Oh, love! Sweet love! Let’s move away!
Don’t you feel like you’re under ‘psychic attack’
When you realize your house is on top of a crack?
My love on the San Andreas — took many a turn!
The pipes would break — the house would burn!
If you are near there, please do what is wise…
It’s a place that can’t be “exorcised”
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Finally for this issue, well, what finer part of a woman’s anatomy should I be writing about here than her lips? Think of all the good experiences one has had of the opposite sex that involve the lips, and you will see it was fine time for someone to write a song!
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What Is It About Your Lips?
What is it about your lips? Aren’t they — just a pair of …lips?
Yet of your person — they’re the very “tips”… Mmmm! such a pair.. of lips!
Why do they look — why do they feel — why do they taste — so good?
They look so good because they’re YOURS
They feel so good because YOU feel good, too!
They taste so good, ’cause YOU are “Good Tasted!”
So give me a kiss before they’re “wasted!”
What IS it About Your Lips?
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Here are links to the YouTube videos where I just uploaded all the performances of these songs, just as I was writing them (so can you be sure there’s some rough edges!:)
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