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PRELIMINARY KEYWORDS
These are some of my tentative "keywords" or images for the centaurs I have studied, so they can be dismissed, confirmed, changed, improved, expanded, ignored, accepted, scorned... For an explanation of how these keywords were produced, please go to the end of this page. --------------------------------------- PHOLUS: Luciferian, the Fall. --------------------------------------- NESSUS: negation, smallness --------------------------------------- ASBOLUS: preacher, magician --------------------------------------- PYLENOR: bleeding, poison, surgery --------------------------------------- HYLONOME: death song, war song, --------------------------------------- CHARIKLO: matriarchate, --------------------------------------- 1999TD10: dissociation, alienation --------------------------------------- 1996TL66: avenger, death, --------------------------------------- VARUNA: social class, caste --------------------------------------- 2002AW197: (*) worldwide forces (*) NOTE: the keywords of 2002AW197 are the work of Francesco Schiavinotto, from Rome. He used the "Plate Tectonics" geological paradigm and orbital symbolism as the model for the metaphor-building process of deriving the meaning. EXPLANATION OF THESE KEYWORDS
The words extracted become a "semantic cell", where all the different possible ideas or meanings are successive approximations to the same abstract concept. The concept itself is not defined in abstraction or a priori; it remains undefined and "free", but the keywords or mental images are tied around the same type of "movement" or "atmosphere" that originates from the text. The texts used are all the interpretative and speculative material found in this site. These "keywords" or mental images are not formulas, like the keywords many astrologers are used to. I am not interested in offering abstract or "easy" formulas for interpretation. The keywords are guidelines for the associative/symbolical process of the mind, so that each astrologer can "tune" to the source from which they come without having to define conceptually what this source is. If one pretends an abstract definition, the many possibilities of meaning according to the many different contexts in which an astrological interpretation is required are blocked, and, from my perspective, the main power of astrology, the power of the disciplined imagination, is hindered or destroyed. Once the main keywords (nouns, verbs, adjectives) are extracted from the text, they are added to the other keywords coming from other texts having the same "condition". The condition is that the position of the centaur in the chart of the writer, actor, musician, event, etc. under scrutiny must be very critical from a technical point of view, it must be highly "dignified" astrologically, it must be very strong relative to other parts of the chart. After the different keywords have been piled-up, they are "processed" or slightly filtered. The ones that seem to be more clear are left in the pile, the others are eliminated. During this process, one begins to "feel" what all the different subjects or cases from which they came have in common, and some other images and keywords often come out strongly in the imagination, like "intuitions" that one knows are part of the same "semantic cell" and illuminate each of the cases. The intuitions --or rather, imaginative pictures-- are therefore added to the pile, being careful not to add any that cannot be strongly related to the original data from which the pile was built. This is how these
keywords came to be. Some people cannot apply them to concrete
cases because they expect that keywords should avoid them having to
create their own conceptual interpretations adapted to the different
contexts
out of the images inherent in them; but this is how they are intended.
They are far from the cook-book formulas that a lot of people expect
from
a set of keywords.
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