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I first came across
some pamphlets by the Matriarchal Study Group
whilst an undergraduate at Warwick University. I
was deeply involved with Astrology then, but got
badly spooked by a book written by one Dane
Rudhyar. Rudhyar was greatly repected within the
astrological community as a guru for the times. He
was a pioneer of ideas about our abilities to
transcend our charts and our karma....but he is
saturated by the writings of Bailey and
Blavatsky....something in me just did not like the
idea that we had to kill off our lunar, lower
selves in the name of this Great Work, in oder to
realise our 'true' Higher Selves!!!!!!!!
I met Monica
personaly at a New Age camp in the late 80's and
one thing I regret is that somehow, we failed to
communicate. I do think that her Luddite hatred of
computers does little to promote the importance of
her message and I think she tooka dislike to me
bacause - nerd that I am - I was so proud of my
Casio pocket computer!
I am an artist
myself, but I suspect the Marxist in Sjöö would
disappove of my abstract leanings, calling it all
bourgeois indulgence. So I cannot pretend to be
totally devoid of criticism of where she eas
coming from, yet in other ways, what she has to
say certain more than articulates those first
concerns I discerned in many astrologers, who see
part sof our being and psyche - and this is
without looking at the larger political
perspective - as being somehow expendable.
and I quote Sjöö
from her book on Armageddon within it.
Have to say, I
do not have the temperament to be an Earth Mother
type, caught somewhere unfomfortably between the
Gnostic and Pagan currents of thought aroundt, but
I certainly found that Sjöö articulated
very deep concernes of mine on this one - I
will not have Blavatsky or Bailey in the house.
Other than that,
all I can say is that it is good to see Sjöö's
work accessible online. See - computers are not
all bad.
Blessed Be from
a geeky Anti New Ager
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