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Amor Fati. Amor Fati is a Latin phrase that may be loosely translated as “Love of Fate” or “Love of One’s Fate”. It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one’s Life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary, in that they are among the facts of one’s Life and Existence, so they are always necessarily there whether one likes them or not. Moreover, Amor Fati is characterized by an Acceptance of the events or situations that occur in one’s Life. This Acceptance does not necessarily preclude an attempt at Change or Improvement, but rather, it can be seen to be along the lines of what Nietzsche means by the concept of “Eternal Recurrence”: a sense of Contentment with one’s Life and an Acceptance of it, such that one could live exactly the same Life, in all its minute details, over and over for all Eternity.

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me AJ Abualrub & Steffen Weng by Markus Pritzi

Microcosmus Melothesia. The Homo Signorum, or Man of Signs, is a curious figure which appears in medieval astrological manuscripts.  Known as the Melothesic Man or Moon’s Man in astrological medicine, it shows the Signs of the Zodiac on the specific parts of the body over which tradition has given them rulership. In practice, the Melothesia was consulted in order to know which part of the body to avoid “touching with iron” or applying medicine thereunto when the Moon was in that specific Sign. Such figures were depicted in Almanacks intended for astrological, agricultural, and meteorological prognostications. One such Almanack, printed for Daniel Brown in 1628, translates the original Latin of Manilius’ poem about the Melothesia into Hexameters, the verses indicating the proper placement of the Signs on the human frame: Head and face Aries, necke and throate Taurus upholdeth, To Gemini th’ armes, to Cancer brest stomach and lunges: As Leo rules the backe and heart, so Virgo delighteth In guts and belly: reignes and loynes Libra retaineth. Scorpio the secrets and bladder challengeth: of thighes Only Sagitarius the governour is: Capricornus The knees as subjects doth guid, but Aquarius holdeth The legs: and Pisces maintaine the feet to be their right. Microcosmus Melothesia demonstrates the Hermetic ‘As Above, So Below’ motif wherein the Microcosm has correspondence with the Macrocosm. The emblem further reflects this with the Serpent biting its Tail, bringing to mind the Ouroboros in the Codex Marcianus, which is accompanied by the Greek phrase “En To Pan”, or “All in All”. Finally, we see here the graphic manifestation of the sentiment behind the saying ‘from head to toe’, wherein we arrive at the whole matter of a subject by travelling across the length of the Melothesia‘s form.

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Too soon to debut, but here’s my modest collection of vintage minotaurs.

Wherever you are / 5 Seconds of summer

Wherever you are / 5 Seconds of summer

L'été / Summer (1968) dir. Marcel Hanoun

Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), ''Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes'', 1913 "There was an old woman called Nothing- at-all, Who rejoiced in a dwelling exceedingly small; A man stretched his mouth to its utmost extent, And down at one gulp house and old woman went."

Here’s my collection of vintage fauns, satyrs, and other woodland deities.

Bizarre money imagery? Here’s an entire vault’s worth.