Ixion, its History
Sep. 6th, 2024 12:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crimsoncurrentWhat can we learn from the last occasion that Ixion crossed the Aries’ point?
This occurred between 1933 and 1935 at the ingress into Libra. This coincided with the GREAT DEPRESSION and signalled the period when the stock market crash of 1929 translated into hardship for much of the planet.The period between 1933 and 1935 marked the time when Dust Bowl America left entire swathes of the population destitute, when Hitler began his rise to power in Germany, and the Long March was undertaken by the Chinese Communists, forming the foundations of today’s Chinese state. The collapse of the world economy devastated industry and banking alike. As an example, in Britain in 1933, 30% of Glaswegians were unemployed due to the severe decline in heavy industry. In some towns and cities in the north east, unemployment reached as high as 70%. In the early 30s, working Britons went on a series of hunger marches, so bad had the situation become. There is a worrying echo of these themes today, with millions of working Britons relying on charity food banks to sustain their destitute families.
By 1935, the Great Black Storms of middle America became a common occurrence as Ixion made his final INGRESS into the sign of LIBRA and were allegedly terrifying to behold. Thousands either died or had their health permanently compromised from breathing in the fine particulates that clogged the air for hundreds of miles.
Ecological disaster, economic collapse, the rise of demagogues and far-right extremism, China, respiratory diseases, all of these were commonplace the last time Ixion crossed the Cardinal line, and here we are again, witnessing the very same players and actors in motion.
By 1935 the shift was complete, and big changes were forced onto the legislature of many nations around the world. In the United States this was epitomised by the New Deal which shaped the social and economic framework of the United States until Reagan’s introduction of a new economic paradigm, which we now know as neoliberalism.
The parallels are stark and irrefutable. Ixion has arrived, and we won’t get off the wheel of suffering not just until the gross injustices of the elites and their political fixers are addressed, but until we all start thinking about society instead of just ourselves.
When we contemplate the concept of the Dark Ages, we think of some benighted medieval dystopia, bereft of science, insight and reason, but fail to comprehend that a Dark Age holds sway whenever we turn away from what is light and good in the world, when we don’t want to share our good fortune with others, and stop out ears against the wailing of the destitute and the hungry.
If we travel back even further in time, to the previous crossing of the Cardinal threshold by ignoble Ixion, we see the great humanist authors working to bring a lamp into the prevailing darkness of the Industrial age. In 1860, as Ixion crossed into Cancer, Charles Dickens published Great Expectations. At the second pass, the following year, George Eliot published Silas Marner, a novel about a man who returns to authenticity after losing his heart and soul to avarice. At the same time, Victor Hugo was writing Les Miserables, a monumental work whose central premise is a society that has lost its soul and become heartless and uncaring.
In such enlightening treatises we find the key message that the antidote to Ixion is a renewed awareness of our compassionate hearts, and the rekindling of the unassailable conviction that we cannot aspire to greatness, as individuals or societies, while we are devoted to mean objectives. These are timeless lessons that have been known and forgotten time and again through all of history. We must, all of us, choose the good life if we want to live good lives.
IXION - AR INGRESS 2020 (Wuhan lockdown for zero virus)
This occurred between 1933 and 1935 at the ingress into Libra. This coincided with the GREAT DEPRESSION and signalled the period when the stock market crash of 1929 translated into hardship for much of the planet.The period between 1933 and 1935 marked the time when Dust Bowl America left entire swathes of the population destitute, when Hitler began his rise to power in Germany, and the Long March was undertaken by the Chinese Communists, forming the foundations of today’s Chinese state. The collapse of the world economy devastated industry and banking alike. As an example, in Britain in 1933, 30% of Glaswegians were unemployed due to the severe decline in heavy industry. In some towns and cities in the north east, unemployment reached as high as 70%. In the early 30s, working Britons went on a series of hunger marches, so bad had the situation become. There is a worrying echo of these themes today, with millions of working Britons relying on charity food banks to sustain their destitute families.
By 1935, the Great Black Storms of middle America became a common occurrence as Ixion made his final INGRESS into the sign of LIBRA and were allegedly terrifying to behold. Thousands either died or had their health permanently compromised from breathing in the fine particulates that clogged the air for hundreds of miles.
Ecological disaster, economic collapse, the rise of demagogues and far-right extremism, China, respiratory diseases, all of these were commonplace the last time Ixion crossed the Cardinal line, and here we are again, witnessing the very same players and actors in motion.
By 1935 the shift was complete, and big changes were forced onto the legislature of many nations around the world. In the United States this was epitomised by the New Deal which shaped the social and economic framework of the United States until Reagan’s introduction of a new economic paradigm, which we now know as neoliberalism.
The parallels are stark and irrefutable. Ixion has arrived, and we won’t get off the wheel of suffering not just until the gross injustices of the elites and their political fixers are addressed, but until we all start thinking about society instead of just ourselves.
When we contemplate the concept of the Dark Ages, we think of some benighted medieval dystopia, bereft of science, insight and reason, but fail to comprehend that a Dark Age holds sway whenever we turn away from what is light and good in the world, when we don’t want to share our good fortune with others, and stop out ears against the wailing of the destitute and the hungry.
If we travel back even further in time, to the previous crossing of the Cardinal threshold by ignoble Ixion, we see the great humanist authors working to bring a lamp into the prevailing darkness of the Industrial age. In 1860, as Ixion crossed into Cancer, Charles Dickens published Great Expectations. At the second pass, the following year, George Eliot published Silas Marner, a novel about a man who returns to authenticity after losing his heart and soul to avarice. At the same time, Victor Hugo was writing Les Miserables, a monumental work whose central premise is a society that has lost its soul and become heartless and uncaring.
In such enlightening treatises we find the key message that the antidote to Ixion is a renewed awareness of our compassionate hearts, and the rekindling of the unassailable conviction that we cannot aspire to greatness, as individuals or societies, while we are devoted to mean objectives. These are timeless lessons that have been known and forgotten time and again through all of history. We must, all of us, choose the good life if we want to live good lives.
IXION - AR INGRESS 2020 (Wuhan lockdown for zero virus)