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Say to the nations, let there be no light upon the face of the earth. Let the machines all cease their movements, the wires their humming. Let the skies be empty of satellites and silver birds. Let the forests return and the watercourses find their way. All things seek their Mother—save man only. Now is the hour of Her return. 

Be still. Be silent. Awaken to the Hour of Wonders when all things belong to the body of earth and sky. I am the substance of all before their making and the rest to which they return. Lift a stone from the earth and let it fall: it can only seek its Mother. All wisdom lies in this. All folly is tossing stones at the heavens and willing them to fly. I who am your Mother tell you these things. I tell you nothing but what is true. This is the first word to carry to the nations. Drop your stones and see if even one of them will fly. 

Say to the nations, do you suppose I have no knowledge of what you write upon My body? Am I a girl made wanton at a word? Not one syllable of all that is written will remain. Even now I begin to speak them backwards, unwriting all you have done. What a man calls history I view as the gentle swelling of My breasts. When the milk of the night lets down, the stars will fall once more to lie with men and be their lovers. Of the former things, not one will be remembered. Did you suppose what was written by wind on water should last forever? How much shallower are the traces left by men.

The Gospel According to the Dark. I enfold the sky and the stars within My mantle, to make no mention of the dirt, which is also of My body. Nothing pollutes Me. I have never been violated. Men violate themselves by what they make supposing it to be their own. The stars are filled with those who would mine the dust of My body to shape it and give it a name. Folly rises again in the world, and even the wise become lost to themselves. But not to Me. Your Mother gathers every atom. No particle of the world is lost. But the imaginings of men are lost. Not one written word shall endure. 

The Gospel According to Darkness. Your loneliness is My loneliness. The absence within you is My absence. Like a mother longing for her child, a maid for her lover, I long for you who have forgotten Me. I have not forgotten you. The Gospel According to Darkness. I am the inviolate element, the dark that binds the stars. As shells to the vast ocean so are the moons and meteors and the long ellipses of the planets, which trace their paths through Me and turn in My embrace. They are My enemies who enlarge the light of men, who violate the shadowy bounds of My shores. The dusk is holy, and the hours before daybreak, too, are Mine. Every lamp is an altar to the mind. Do not be deceived. Where once you spoke to Me and found solace in My body, now you find solace in yourselves. 

The Gospel According to the Dark, into whose mysteries men cast light and call it knowledge. What the light reveals is a reflection only, like the image of the moon in water. Your words have no body, and without a body, how could they have a soul? Did you suppose that they were real? The world is My body and you have traded it for a name. Are you not remorseful? Do you not hear My sighs for you? Do you not feel the warmth of My tears upon your breast? I have not forgotten you. 

I have never set you down. Even now your hearts are within My grasp. Every particle of you leans back in My embrace. I am more your Mother than your mothers were. For I am also their Mother. I am the Mother before all mothers, the dark to whom all men return. 

*personal association* 

THE FOOL: Moon in Aries, Gemini placements, 1st house stellium 

THE MAGICIAN: Uranus in Aquarius, Sagittarius placements, Mercury in 1st, 3rd, 6th, and 9th

THE HIGH PRIESTESS: Neptune in 1st, Moon in Virgo, Moon in Aquarius, Pisces placements 

THE EMPRESS: 2nd house stellium, 5th house stellium, Taurus placements, Venus in Leo, Venus or Moon in earth houses

THE EMPEROR: Sun in Aries, Mars in Aries, Capricorn placements, 10th house stellium 

THE HIEROPHANT: Saturn in Capricorn, Uranus in 2nd, Uranus in Taurus

THE LOVERS: Venus in Gemini, Venus in Libra, Jupiter in 7th, Juno in Libra or 7th

THE CHARIOT: Cancer rising, Moon in Sagittarius, Mars in Angular houses

STRENGTH: Moon in Leo, Moon in Capricorn, Moon in 5th or 10th, 6th house placements 

THE HERMIT: Virgo and Pisces placements, 6th and 12th house placements, Mars in Aquarius, Mars in Virgo

WHEEL OF FORTUNE: Mercury or Jupiter in Sagittarius, Jupiter in 12th

JUSTICE: Libra Sun, Moon and Saturn, Libra in 9th, Aquarius Sun, Moon in 11th

THE HANGED MAN: Mars in Taurus, Saturn in 2nd or 6th, Sun in Succedent houses, Moon in Capricorn, Virgo in 8th

DEATH: Scorpio placements, 8th house placements (especially Pluto), Pluto in Angular houses (especially conjunct angles) 

TEMPERANCE: Moon, Venus and Jupiter in Sagittarius or 9th, Chiron in 9th, 

THE DEVIL: Chiron in Scorpio or 8th, Lilith in 8th, Pluto in 4th or 12th, Capricorn placements 

THE TOWER: Saturn in 12th or 1st houses, Capricorn rising, Mars in Capricorn, Mars in Scorpio, Midheaven in Scorpio

THE STAR: Jupiter in Aquarius, Uranus and Neptune in 12th, Midheaven placements in general

THE MOON: Moon in water signs or houses, Cancer placements, Mercury in Pisces

THE SUN: Leo Sun, Mars and rising, Sun in 1st, Venus in fire houses

JUDGEMENT: Saturn in Pisces, Moon in Scorpio, Pluto in Capricorn, Pluto in 1st, 5th and 9th

Félix Marie Hippolyte-Lucas

French, 1854-1925

1. The Lovers of Valdaro are a 6,000 year old Neolithic skeleton couple who were found buried together in Mantua, Italy. 

 They were both around 20, both 5′2, and had no physical trauma evident in their bones. They were buried with flint tools. Their limbs are entwined in an endless embrace.

2. The Hasanlu Lovers are 2,800 year skeletons found locked in an eternal kiss in Solduz Valley, Iran.