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Nov. 29th, 2024 01:30 pmWhen my data showed that Proserpina figured strongly in the charts of the black people in my sample, I asked why this
would be the case. An asteroid doesn’t recognize skin color or geographic region of origin, so what was this all about? As
with masculinity and femininity however, asteroids do highlight interaction-types, styles of exchange, and families of
responses to certain events. The new question became, what set of behaviors was Proserpina displaying which actually
made (US) black people “act black?” But the question was already answered via the data before I even asked it: Asteroid 26
is not about savagery in the chartholder’s wheel. It’s about the people with whom the chartholder interacts displaying their
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own response to a prompt for more basic biological expression. Stated in English, a person’s Proserpina doesn’t show where he “acts black.” It shows where the others he’s interacting with respond as if in the presence of a biological
stimulant. That stimulant could be the excitement of sports, the anger of social “noise-making,” the or lust of various forms
of relationship conquest. Regardless of who you are, you will have Proserpina in your chart. Where it falls shows the area of
life where the people around you are prompted to behave primally. But it doesn’t say much about you. Use Mars or something for that.
Ironically then, I concluded that my being black was less about me personally, and more about how an entire world gets
triggered by certain things that I do. Asteroid 26 and its close relatives Briseis and Etheridgea essentially act like Damocles
in that they get other people riled up around you. But they don’t determine your actual identity nearly as much as say,
Eurynome and Mercury. I also noted from personal experience that underclasses who occupy socially undesirable tiers are
only more likely to fall into undesirable behaviors if you surround them with members of the same tier. Blacks around
blacks are more likely to act black (whatever that means), but will act some other way if you separate them. The same goes
for any underclass. Power-holding class members will also assimilate to fit whatever class you put them in BUT are more
likely to adopt the neutral set of behaviors more natural to a basic human rather than a marginalized one.
In the end, your chart isn’t really about you, but about the state of the world when you were born. For me, the Proserpina findings said, “You don’t have to build your identity upon the fraction of yourself that makes other people antsy. Everybody has this fraction. Your physical appearance simply triggers it more easily than the appearances of others do.” Indeed, Proserpina’s implications for all body identity issues are profound.
The gay asteroid Eduarda, the glare asteroid Lomia, the Armenian asteroid Armenia, the babes asteroid Laura. Throughout these books I have claimed that the physical body is a
viewable manifestation of traits you possess, broadcast to others. But this is only partly true. Instead, your physical body is more like a viewable manifestation of how everyone else is naturally inclined to see the snapshot of the universe which
describes you. When I look at your body, your face, or your dress, I’m not seeing you. I’m reacting to a specific moment in
spacetime. Whether I call you rich, savage, or hilarious, I—along with the rest of the world—am naming the world, not the
apparent carrier.
Where you attract characters driven by their primal, bodily urges (as opposed to citizen-trained urges); a major ethnoculture asteroid like Hispania; strongly associated with black culture and 'foreigners' (Hitler) = Proserpina
Stress, conflict, opposing sides, or things that operate against other things (Hitler is Fuhrer chart) = Proserpina
Lust, passion (Hitler is Fuhrer) = Proserpina
Status (brough pride/respect back to Germany) the Body, Human (Hitler is Fuhrer) = Proserpina
Networks, networked things, exchanges with a system (Hitler is Fuhrer) = Proserpina
Proserpina, lady of transitions, other-worldly realms, and sacrifice
The asteroid Proserpina is named in honor of the goddess of the dead, consort of Pluto, she who was known as Persephone to the Greeks. As a goddess archetype, Proserpina constellates an energy that is often hard to fathom at first, because in the poetic myths. Proserpina/Persephone seems to have little personality of her own. As the innocent maiden, abducted by Pluto/Hades into the underworld, she was scarcely distinguishable from her fertility goddess mother Ceres/Demeter. As Pluto's wife and queen of the underworld, though, she receives the souls of the dead and as such, is also a guide to other realms and levels of being, and the deepest places of the psyche. The asteroid Proserpina seems to manifest as an energy of innocence and ignorance that learns a very great deal by (often hard) experience. She shows where you tend to take the line of least resistance, to be passive or helpless, and teaches you the consequences of such unaware or unassertive responses. She points to what you learn through the various transitions of life, which may or may not be painful, but which always entail a letting go of what has ceased to be viable, and carry therefore some sense of sacrifice. She shows you altered states of being, can help you to open up to all the stimuli of life, assists you to adapt and change in response to your environment, and even helps you to cultivate psychic perception.
Proserpina is a tricky energy to deal with, though, because she is so hard to know in essence. You need to be still, and quietly open, to access Proserpina and work with her successfully. Ignore her altogether and you may find yourself plunging into situations you never expected or wanted; honor her and she will help you to find a way through the dark, a guide for your soul who aids your inner journey and ultimately, as a result, your path to individuation in the outer world.
http://www.treehousemountain.com/
PROSERPINA (26): Separation anxiety; leaving; going away; what you believe will happen if “mother's not there to take care of you;” the conditions you attract as you approach a transition or separation
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PERSEPHONE (399): Attitude toward “leaving” or “being taken or sent away from¼home, family or familiar conditions;” memories of what separated you from mother/family (even emotionally); how you handle transitions and the rites of passage in your life (going to school; the adolescent crisis; separation for marriage or career; mid-life, etc.,). [See also Proserpina]
PROSERPINA = GREG (Mercury)
UK1801 (sq Moon)
Stephen Lawrence stabbing (conj Venus)
would be the case. An asteroid doesn’t recognize skin color or geographic region of origin, so what was this all about? As
with masculinity and femininity however, asteroids do highlight interaction-types, styles of exchange, and families of
responses to certain events. The new question became, what set of behaviors was Proserpina displaying which actually
made (US) black people “act black?” But the question was already answered via the data before I even asked it: Asteroid 26
is not about savagery in the chartholder’s wheel. It’s about the people with whom the chartholder interacts displaying their
154 Laurentia
own response to a prompt for more basic biological expression. Stated in English, a person’s Proserpina doesn’t show where he “acts black.” It shows where the others he’s interacting with respond as if in the presence of a biological
stimulant. That stimulant could be the excitement of sports, the anger of social “noise-making,” the or lust of various forms
of relationship conquest. Regardless of who you are, you will have Proserpina in your chart. Where it falls shows the area of
life where the people around you are prompted to behave primally. But it doesn’t say much about you. Use Mars or something for that.
Ironically then, I concluded that my being black was less about me personally, and more about how an entire world gets
triggered by certain things that I do. Asteroid 26 and its close relatives Briseis and Etheridgea essentially act like Damocles
in that they get other people riled up around you. But they don’t determine your actual identity nearly as much as say,
Eurynome and Mercury. I also noted from personal experience that underclasses who occupy socially undesirable tiers are
only more likely to fall into undesirable behaviors if you surround them with members of the same tier. Blacks around
blacks are more likely to act black (whatever that means), but will act some other way if you separate them. The same goes
for any underclass. Power-holding class members will also assimilate to fit whatever class you put them in BUT are more
likely to adopt the neutral set of behaviors more natural to a basic human rather than a marginalized one.
In the end, your chart isn’t really about you, but about the state of the world when you were born. For me, the Proserpina findings said, “You don’t have to build your identity upon the fraction of yourself that makes other people antsy. Everybody has this fraction. Your physical appearance simply triggers it more easily than the appearances of others do.” Indeed, Proserpina’s implications for all body identity issues are profound.
The gay asteroid Eduarda, the glare asteroid Lomia, the Armenian asteroid Armenia, the babes asteroid Laura. Throughout these books I have claimed that the physical body is a
viewable manifestation of traits you possess, broadcast to others. But this is only partly true. Instead, your physical body is more like a viewable manifestation of how everyone else is naturally inclined to see the snapshot of the universe which
describes you. When I look at your body, your face, or your dress, I’m not seeing you. I’m reacting to a specific moment in
spacetime. Whether I call you rich, savage, or hilarious, I—along with the rest of the world—am naming the world, not the
apparent carrier.
Where you attract characters driven by their primal, bodily urges (as opposed to citizen-trained urges); a major ethnoculture asteroid like Hispania; strongly associated with black culture and 'foreigners' (Hitler) = Proserpina
Stress, conflict, opposing sides, or things that operate against other things (Hitler is Fuhrer chart) = Proserpina
Lust, passion (Hitler is Fuhrer) = Proserpina
Status (brough pride/respect back to Germany) the Body, Human (Hitler is Fuhrer) = Proserpina
Networks, networked things, exchanges with a system (Hitler is Fuhrer) = Proserpina
Proserpina, lady of transitions, other-worldly realms, and sacrifice
The asteroid Proserpina is named in honor of the goddess of the dead, consort of Pluto, she who was known as Persephone to the Greeks. As a goddess archetype, Proserpina constellates an energy that is often hard to fathom at first, because in the poetic myths. Proserpina/Persephone seems to have little personality of her own. As the innocent maiden, abducted by Pluto/Hades into the underworld, she was scarcely distinguishable from her fertility goddess mother Ceres/Demeter. As Pluto's wife and queen of the underworld, though, she receives the souls of the dead and as such, is also a guide to other realms and levels of being, and the deepest places of the psyche. The asteroid Proserpina seems to manifest as an energy of innocence and ignorance that learns a very great deal by (often hard) experience. She shows where you tend to take the line of least resistance, to be passive or helpless, and teaches you the consequences of such unaware or unassertive responses. She points to what you learn through the various transitions of life, which may or may not be painful, but which always entail a letting go of what has ceased to be viable, and carry therefore some sense of sacrifice. She shows you altered states of being, can help you to open up to all the stimuli of life, assists you to adapt and change in response to your environment, and even helps you to cultivate psychic perception.
Proserpina is a tricky energy to deal with, though, because she is so hard to know in essence. You need to be still, and quietly open, to access Proserpina and work with her successfully. Ignore her altogether and you may find yourself plunging into situations you never expected or wanted; honor her and she will help you to find a way through the dark, a guide for your soul who aids your inner journey and ultimately, as a result, your path to individuation in the outer world.
http://www.treehousemountain.com/
PROSERPINA (26): Separation anxiety; leaving; going away; what you believe will happen if “mother's not there to take care of you;” the conditions you attract as you approach a transition or separation
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PERSEPHONE (399): Attitude toward “leaving” or “being taken or sent away from¼home, family or familiar conditions;” memories of what separated you from mother/family (even emotionally); how you handle transitions and the rites of passage in your life (going to school; the adolescent crisis; separation for marriage or career; mid-life, etc.,). [See also Proserpina]
PROSERPINA = GREG (Mercury)
UK1801 (sq Moon)
Stephen Lawrence stabbing (conj Venus)
