<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri">Some great questions in regards to astronomy and
astrology! I concur with Renate's suggestion: "Aquarius gives us cause
to embrace lore, legend, myth, the unknowable inspired by logic, science, and
invention,” Astrology is a pseudo science and as per se and Indian or </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Vedic
astrology engages the Sidereal methodology that is connected to constellations,
while western astrology alludes to </span><span style="font-family:LyonText-Regular,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">the 30
degrees path of the sun which manifests as a zodiac sign.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Through Aquarius I wanted to unpack various streams
of thought as well delve into the collective unconscious resting on intuitive
that include tarot, séances and <span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Ayahuasca
as well… yes trying to engage the creative mind space and stay opened. </span>I
wondered if Rithika might like to add to this discussion and perhaps share her interest in the psychic and tarot and how they play out in your work? </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"></span></p></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 12:02 AM Renate Ferro <<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu" target="_blank">rferro@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
Dear Kat and all, <br>
What a wonderful story, "The Fog Horn," by Ray Bradbury. <br>
Here is a link that I found online. <br>
<a href="http://www.grammarpunk.com/lit/gp/THE_FOG_HORN.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.grammarpunk.com/lit/gp/THE_FOG_HORN.pdf</a> <br>
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Kat you wrote:<br>
<snip> Looking backward, it's easy to feel patronizing toward the mysteries of past generations, assuming we've chased away the shrouds of myth and lore with logic, science and invention. But I'm happy to be reminded of what's unknowable. In my recent work, I've been making solar-powered messages to be worn on the body. It's the beginning of a series of pieces that will be self-sufficient in their power needs, and an opportunity to think about making technologies/traces/signs that might be received by an unknowable audience.<snip> <br>
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Astrology for me opens up cultural questions that I am assuming might be misinformed. Would love to hear what Arshiya or others think about this and perhaps there is a researcher out there that would chime in? Could there be a significant difference between the understanding of the astrology and the signs of the zodiac in the western part of the hemisphere where the horoscopes and the like are posted in popular culture sources that always emphasize the individual? In India and eastern cultures astrology appears to me to lend itself for a pathway to sense the world in a more global sense, less individualistic.<br>
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Kat perhaps Aquarius gives us cause to embrace lore, legend, myth, the unknowable inspired by logic, science and invention. Your incredible piece uses technology to make the link between. Technology becomes like Aquarius a way to make connections. Would love to know your thoughts? <br>
Weary today after a very long few days of teaching. <br>
Best. Renate<br>
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