Authority & Its Forgeries

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Symbol · Divination & Cosmos

Mars

The Planet of War

In astrology, the engine of the ego: the drive to assert, to desire, to break through or over.

What it meansThe planet whose retrograde loop is the most visible to the naked eye — it advances, stops, backs up, and goes on. Read as the drive that asserts, with its own reversal built into the motion: force that must periodically undo its direction to continue.

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Scripture · Psalms

Create in me a clean heart, O God

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me.

— NLT

A plea for profound inner transformation, seeking purity of intention and a steadfast spirit.

The passageThe verb is bara — the word used in Genesis for the making of heaven and earth, and used in the Hebrew Bible with God as its only subject. The penitent is not asking for repair or for cleaning. He is asking for an act of creation, with himself as the material.

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Symbol · The Eight Trigrams

The Creative (Heaven)

Unbroken Strength

The I Ching trigram representing pure Heaven, creative leadership, dynamic initiative, and unyielding persistence.

What it meansThree unbroken lines, the only figure with nothing yielding in it. The Shuogua gives it heaven, the father, the head, the horse — and strength as its one attribute. What it originates it does not shape: everything in the book that has form owes that form to its opposite.

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