THE ESOTERIC LIBRA

New Substack article exploring the esoteric significance of the sign of Libra.

If you don't know anything about astrology, that's ok! This isn't a technical article on interpreting it in a natal chart, but rather a more meta discussion of what it has to tell us about the transcendent solar quest of man. Anyone interested in symbolism and myth can enjoy it.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/philosophicat/p/the-esoteric-libra?r=1bepqq&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Feet fetish is the Buddhist Promethean Aryan urge to sanctify the materialistic. Feet touch the ground, and hence they symbolise the low, the materialistic, the earthly animalistic desires.

That's why in Buddhism, especially in Thai, it is a taboo to show someone the soles of your feet, and Thai boxers incorporate flat kicks to the face, to embarass their opponents.

Feet are the ultimate human symbol of the material. They literally touch the Matrix. Aryans seek to take even this lowest of the low symbols and sanctify them, baptise them, take them out of their mundane impure state and make them holy.

Cumming to feet pictures is a holy act of baptising the materialistic and impure and turning it into something sacred.

Babe wake up, the new "worst esoteric take you've ever heard just dropped".

Comparison of multi-coloured Garuda Thanka and Big Thunder sandpainting. (a) Multi-coloured Garuda Thanka, from the Kalachakra Tantra system. Tibet, nineteenth century.

(a) Courtesy of himalayanart.com under 'Fair Use' terms. https://www.himalayanart.org/items/33568.

(b) Big Thunder: traditional Navajo sandpainting from the Luther Douglas Collection (Sellars 1980, 21). Courtesy of the Blatchley Gallery of Art, College of Idaho.

by Prof. Joseph Wilson.

Comparison of Navajo Four Thunders sandpainting and Tibetan Four Kings mandala.

(a) Four Thunders: traditional Navajo sandpainting. © Drew Stair, www.PuebloDirect.com. Courtesy of Pueblo Direct Inc.

(b) Four Kings Vajrapani mandala from the Sarvadurgati Tantra. Central Tibet, fifteenth century (accession number BMA 81.10). Courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum of Art. https://www.himalayanart.org/items/86926.

by Prof. Joseph Wilson.

Comparison of Tibetan Enemy God and Navajo Big Fly.

(a) Detail of White Bird attendant of Bon Worldly Protector, Wer-ma Nyi-nya (Chang Sen). Ground mineral pigment on cotton. Naxi, China, nineteenth century. Collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin (Item No. 200001). Courtesy of the Rubin Museum of Art. www.himalayanart.org.

(b) Detail of Dontso sandpainting: Hail Chant, Black Dontso (Wheelwright 1946, 175). Courtesy of the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, NM.

by Prof. Joseph Wilson.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into it's secrets; art deserves that, for it and it's knowledge can raise a man to the divine.
- Ludwig van Beethoven
𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕖 𝔸𝕟𝕒𝕣𝕔𝕙𝕪

For anyone in the Brisbane area.