Venus Cazimi in Aries: "Wondrous Strong"
A meditation on Venus' cazimi today leads to thoughts about aliens, terrifying Old Testament angels, NFTs, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the importance of the 'radical alterity' of the other.
“Alterity is in danger. It is a masterpiece in peril, an object lost or missing from our system, from the system of artificial intelligence and the system of communication in general.”
- Jean Baudrillard, Radical Alterity
“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.”
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