18 October (Luna) Liber VII, 6:14-19
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14. There are deep secrets in these songs. It is not enough to hear the bird; to enjoy song he must be the bird.
15. I am the bird, and Thou art my song, O my glorious galloping God!
16. Thou reinest in the stars; thou drivest the constellations seven abreast through the circus of Nothingness.
17. Thou Gladiator God!
18. I play upon mine harp; Thou fightest the beasts and the flames.
19. Thou takest Thy joy in the music, and I in the fighting. -
**14. There are deep secrets in these songs. It is not enough to hear the bird; to enjoy song he must be the bird.
**I am aware of my inadequacies in terms of some of the sections of the book; in all the sections actually. But I am especially aware that I have more affinity with some chapters than with others—it's the others that bother me.
And still, something wakes up inside me, and by the end, after seven days of looking at the words, repeating them to myself and wondering how the notion of a given planet relates to the text, I feel I start to get it. In LXV I was warned about the elemental attributions, but it's hard not see and relate to the subject heading each time I browse the daily meditation. It's a place to start from, and so the planets have been a diving platform of sorts.
By holding onto the notion of Luna I bore a hole into the images, and sometimes something in me shifts. It would be nice to deal with these chapters out of context—to do something with them that was only about the chapter itself, just work on Luna for a month, for example.
Out of necessity we never go as deep as we should, trusting that this depth will happen piecemeal over a longer arc of practical work and meditation—see, here is my greater affinity for Saturn making muddy the watery depths of Luna...
Love and Will