Iamblichus, 1500 years ago, explicitly telling us that yes it is possible to reconstruct damaged traditions:
"For all these reasons, then, let us call upon the gods as our leaders, entrust both ourselves and our discourse to them, and follow wherever they may lead. We should not be deterred by the fact that this school has long been neglected; that it has been hidden beneath estranged teachings and certain secret symbols; that it has been overshadowed by many false and spurious writings; and that it has been obstructed by many other difficulties of the same kind. The will of the gods is enough for us, and with it one can endure difficulties even more perplexing than these."
- Book 1 of On the Pythagorean Life; Literally the first thing he says in the book that he gave his students to read first of all.
I highly advise you to save this quote for future use when arguing with those guys who say "but your line of transmission is broken bro, just become a sufi bro"
I didn't really have any kind of reaction when learning about it as a kid even including losing people, but once it really clicked for me that I myself would experience it, and specifically experience the intermediate state, I had a period of visceral depersonalization that took a lot of grounding and vitamins to dispel
It was stagnant population growth that made those new lands not worth the price. It's crazy to think that with just a little more of a settler colonial mindset/demography they could have pushed the limes up to the Vistula or Dneiper and had so much less border to defend. They probably could have become as permanent as China in that case and the dark age migrations could have meant just regime change rather than full feudal collapse
it's pretty funny that the early church needed several centuries to convince christians that it's ok to marry and bring children into the fallen world, and now millennia later someone taking the faith seriously must either breed themselves into destitution or never touch their wife again
"The followers of Porphyry and Plotinus say that the soul projects the appropriate powers into each part of the universe. They define any lives that have been projected in this way as released from the soul and no longer existing, much like growths from a seed when the seed withdraws back into itself. Yet one could perhaps propose a newer, not implausible view: that these projected lives also remain in the All and are not destroyed."
- Iamblichus, De Anima. Implying a simultaneous coexistence of all space-time?
New Moon takes place today in 17 degrees Scorpio.
"In the seventeenth degree of Scorpio, a wolf is running on a field. This indicates a robber or raider."
Johannes Angelus in Esoptron Astrologikon (Augsburg, 1488)
Humanity's cockroach-like malleability means we can thrive in incredibly diverse conditions. But it also means we can create cultures and norms that straight up suck ass and harm our souls, and then persist in those shit ass cultures for multiple thousands of years
In many patriarchal societies, loving your wife is stigmatised, because it reveals you are beholden to her, under the thumb, prioritizing her welfare.
Other men may mock those men seen to love their wives, it is shameful.
What's fun about reading all moon permutations as a pair with a sun sign is that each moon sign is necessarily also at a specific phase. Like for example every scorpio with a taurus moon has a full moon and that's very relevant to the reading. I actually think moon signs should only be read within the context of the sun sign and perhaps even of the prenatal syzygy