Joyce Looking Back

In the spirit of an expansive Jupiter and visionary Neptune conjoining in Aquarius for the first time since 1843, and poised exactly opposite my natal Mercury in Leo in the ninth house, I will post from time to time exquisite excepts of “poetic illuminations and mystical philosophies” affirming the palpable existence of the infinite wisdom of the Cosmos awakening within a uniquely individual knowing of the Oneness of Life.

“Looking back on my own experiences they all converge towards a kind of insight to which I cannot help ascribe some metaphysical significance. The keynote of it is invariably a reconciliation. It is as if the opposites of the world, whose contradictoriness and conflict make all our difficulties and troubles, were melted into unity. Not only do they, as contrasted species, belong to one and the same genus, but one of the species, the nobler and better one, is itself the genus, and so soaks up and absorbs its opposite into itself. This is a dark saying, I know, when thus expressed in terms of common logic, but I cannot wholly escape from its authority. I feel as if it must mean something……Those who have ears to hear, let them hear.” James Joyce was born at the time of a Jupiter -Neptune conjoining in Taurus trine Uranus in Virgo, and wrote the above passage, an excerpt from Varieties, at the time of a Uranus-Neptune opposition.