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Rubedo: June 2006

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The Reddening of the Mixture. Thursday, June 29, 2006. Do Not Attempt Resuscitation. I’m busy so I’ll keep this short. You’re ugly today and in need of an obesity pill. You’ve been gorging on polls and political falls again? Thought so. They really do you no favours,. Stick to your flu jab and diet of big brother murders,. Leave questions of failed intelligence to. Those of us who smile at gay bishops. Or sneer at the sparkling sewage in the veins of planet football. That and a gob full of gold. Indiffer...

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Rubedo: November 2006

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The Reddening of the Mixture. Wednesday, November 29, 2006. Affliction Rules With Vinegar. Jung, C.G., Psychology and Alchemy (Collected Works, Vol. 12), page 256.]. Joy Mills ‘ The Human Journey - Quest for Self-Transformation. The Blavatsky Lecture delivered at the Annual Convention of the Theosophical Society in England, 27 May 1978). Are we all golems, fragile mounds of stardust, which may only be animated by the divine spark which we stoke within us? Joy Mills, Ibid. Did anybody say it would be easy?

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Rubedo: July 2006

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The Reddening of the Mixture. Monday, July 24, 2006. Does the crocodile understand a conversation that doesn't include a weapon? Usama bin Ladin from a speech broadcast on 1/11/2004, translation by Al-Jazeera. The swelling of mistake. Mr Punch beats up Judy. And you cannot negotiate. Without a weapon in your hand. James Piers Taylor, 21/7/2006. IMAGE: Boris Karloff as Dr Fu Manchu in. The Mask of Fu Manchu. Posted by Yourmindfire at Monday, July 24, 2006. I’m telling stories to you out the window. Thursd...

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Rubedo: February 2007

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The Reddening of the Mixture. Wednesday, February 21, 2007. Tredegar ward has many gods, mantled in ancient flesh. Mouths agape, or chewing at invisible threads of fate. Making whoopee with the sandman as if it were 1923. Minds are loosened, clothes shed, and Carnival whirls in awkward. Shuffles across the medicine floor. Looking for contact in a world turned upside down,. Run aground, leaking life-force in tiny defiant winks. And bloodless wounds, haemorrhaging memory. Vast, Empty, Calm. The life can bu...

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Rubedo: May 2006

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The Reddening of the Mixture. Tuesday, May 30, 2006. And Not Need Names. And Not Need Names. The earthship won’t grow from our insolvent sudoku. Its dream is low-slung, driven underground;. The heart that beats red poetry in front of you. Knows silence as a crown yet to be found,. Yet to be released into the drought-lands. To sift and polish the golden sands. Cynic eyes scorn the loss of morning. Turn their Janjaweed bitterness inside. In a smoke-gabled mansion of dis-ease,. In service to heat,. But ther...

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Rubedo: December 2006

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The Reddening of the Mixture. Tuesday, December 12, 2006. A Fire in the Head. Her bloodred halo is like the ancient Roman. The bridal veil flame-colored to induce love in the soul. This. Also points to the belief in the. Residing in the head, the belief in the life-soul or divinity, often referred to as a fire in the head. Alchemically, this reddening is also an epiphany of the rubedo. Noel Cobb, ‘ The Morbid and the Beautiful. In Archetypal Imagination: Glimpses of the Gods in Life and Art. And before t...

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Rubedo: August 2006

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The Reddening of the Mixture. Thursday, August 31, 2006. Come up on the roof. And smoke a cigarette with me. And we’ll swap stories of thieves. And things we have lost. In a reoccupation of space. I conquered previously in time. My mind became a camera. That reframed the photograph. I took when we were there. The sky as it was. The mountain as it was. Sun a little more to the right. Because it’s later in the day). And a displacement of air to the left. The spectre of her. Let me sit in this place. Or all...

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Rubedo: October 2006

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The Reddening of the Mixture. Thursday, October 26, 2006. This Little Piggy Went To Market. Wearing his Ghandi shield, warding off the necrotic waft of the cleaver poised always above. Fit for feeding to hairless gluebags in surplus period. Bayer 'Animal Health Division'. Posted by Keith at Thursday, October 26, 2006. Wednesday, October 25, 2006. Fashions houses from the sand. Reads impermanence in the tide. And lives in the highest dunes. Waiting for the great wave. That will pull up the skirt of the sea.

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Rubedo: January 2007

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The Reddening of the Mixture. Wednesday, January 31, 2007. I want to talk about Vincent Van Gogh, who is described in the title epithet above by his sister, Lies. I want to dwell alongside the images and the works, the emotions and inspirations, as well as the sufferings and denials experienced by a man who on his deathbed, a suicide at 37, is famously. Reported to have said ‘ la tristesse duerra toujours’. The sadness always endures. In. Various ways, on account of his cyclical mental ill health. Mind-w...