Disintegration.
Preservation of life through manifesting feelings of disgust and revulsion concerning evil, sinister or disagreeable influences, thereby prompting the individual to remove himself from those influences or to remedy the cause thereof.
Shows therefore the need for purification.
The distant past. Antiquity. Secrecy. The seamy side of life.
Ruins. Slums. Garbage, junk, filth, refuse, excrement, sewers, drains, city dump. Stagnant pools, swamps, bogs, quicksand. Manifestations underground, under the earth (contrast Saturn and Admetos). Organic, fertilizer, compost heap.
Worms, grubs, moles, scavengers, insect pests and the like. Helpful bacteria found in the intestines. Lower intestines. Regurgitation mechanism. Decomposition of effete matter. Repulsion. Necessary completion of the life cycle.
Connection with the mental process of analysis whereby phenomena are "broken down" into component parts for study. Service.
Impoverishment, degradation, distress, neglect, defect, disfigurement, danger, evil, sorrow, breakdown, loss,
predatory behavior.
Comment: Earlier materials of the Hamburg School also give the attribution of "widows" and "lonely women" to Hades. This (to present day students) somewhat bizarre attribution must be understood in light of the times when these earlier astrological materials were written. Hades was discovered by Witte shortly
after the onset of World War I, when the sorrow that Hades often indicates (as, for example, in the German national horoscope or in world charts for those years) took the form of large scale killing off of significant portions of the European male population on the battlefield. It was also true then (and evidently more so than now) that the lot of widows, and older unmarried women generally who were without families of their own was not a fortunate one.
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Preservation of life through manifesting feelings of disgust and revulsion concerning evil, sinister or disagreeable influences, thereby prompting the individual to remove himself from those influences or to remedy the cause thereof.
Shows therefore the need for purification.
The distant past. Antiquity. Secrecy. The seamy side of life.
Ruins. Slums. Garbage, junk, filth, refuse, excrement, sewers, drains, city dump. Stagnant pools, swamps, bogs, quicksand. Manifestations underground, under the earth (contrast Saturn and Admetos). Organic, fertilizer, compost heap.
Worms, grubs, moles, scavengers, insect pests and the like. Helpful bacteria found in the intestines. Lower intestines. Regurgitation mechanism. Decomposition of effete matter. Repulsion. Necessary completion of the life cycle.
Connection with the mental process of analysis whereby phenomena are "broken down" into component parts for study. Service.
Impoverishment, degradation, distress, neglect, defect, disfigurement, danger, evil, sorrow, breakdown, loss,
predatory behavior.
Comment: Earlier materials of the Hamburg School also give the attribution of "widows" and "lonely women" to Hades. This (to present day students) somewhat bizarre attribution must be understood in light of the times when these earlier astrological materials were written. Hades was discovered by Witte shortly
after the onset of World War I, when the sorrow that Hades often indicates (as, for example, in the German national horoscope or in world charts for those years) took the form of large scale killing off of significant portions of the European male population on the battlefield. It was also true then (and evidently more so than now) that the lot of widows, and older unmarried women generally who were without families of their own was not a fortunate one.
The Language of Uranian Astrolog