Nude Girl Painting - by Veronique
Radelet
The major civilizing force in the
world is not religion, it is sex -
Hefner
Hugh
Hefner, founder of the international adult magazine Playboy, has died at the
age of 91. Playboy Enterprises Inc said he passed away peacefully at home, from
natural causes. Hefner began publishing Playboy in his kitchen at home in 1953.
It became the largest-selling men's magazine in the world, shifting seven
million copies a month at its peak. The silk pyjama-clad mogul became famous
for his hedonism, dating and marrying Playboy models. In his later years he
threw decadent parties at his luxurious mansions in Chicago and Los Angeles. Hefner's
trailblazing magazine helped make nudity respectable in mainstream
publications, despite emerging at a time when US states could legally ban
contraceptives. Sept.28 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41423845
Hugh Hefner’s horoscope as provided by Astro-databank [1] is
reproduced here. Our immediate attention is drawn to the 10th house
Pluto. While career,status and reputation are linked to the 10th house,
there is more at stake here. Doing something for the human community, publicly
representing some principle or ideal are also 10th house concerns.
With Pluto in his 10th house, Hefner public image was distinctly
Plutonian.
Pluto governs the instincts and the forces of nature. It represents
the underground and underworld in all senses. It is the dark mysterious, taboo and
often terrifying reality that lurks beneath the surface of things, beneath
social conventions and the veneer of civilization as also beneath the surface
of the earth , that is periodically unleashed with destructive and
transformative force. It is the Dionysian energy of life which compels,
empowers, overwhelms, transforms; it destroys and resurrects.
Truth avoidance is a popular pastime for communities and
nations. It requires a courageous man or woman to speak out clearly about
popular lies and their costs – and to define a better way that is more honest.
The high destiny of such people involves touching society in a Plutonian way:
representing some fierce truth and
fighting for its communal realization.
Going further, we notice that Pluto is square Sun in the 8th
house, re-emphasizing the theme of sex and taboos and the need to confront
them. In addition, we find that the Sun [19ar] is conjunct the asteroid
Industria [18ar] square Eros [18cp]. Martha Wescott [2] provides the following
definitions:
EROS: Sexuality; reproductive
organs; the heart & cardiac system; the history, experience and behavioral
repertoire of eroticism; joie de vivre; what “turns you on;” the Will to Live
(the “passion” for life.)
INDUSTRIA: Facilitates
identification of career and work interests, abilities, and matters.
From the Eros-Industria combination aspecting his Sun-Pluto
we can clearly why his career was focused on sexuality as a theme. Pluto is
also the 3rd lord in aspect to Saturn also in the 3rd so
that it is not at all surprising that his career was involved the publishing
Playboy since the 3rd house rules journals, magazines or newspapers.
So finally how is death shown in his chart? Notice that Sun
in the 8th house of death has been a receiving a square aspect from transit Pluto in
the past few months. On September 28, Pluto has stationed direct [16cp51]
square his radix Sun [19ar] and the asteroid Lacrimosa [16li] (death). Stations
of outer planets are always critical times and especially when they aspect
luminaries that rule life itself. And now comes the strangest part of the
analysis. As if to honour the man, the Sabian symbol [3] for Pluto’s station
degree describes the man’s work of life!
16-17 deg Capricorn :
A Repressed Woman Finds A Psychological Release In Nudism
Under the pressure of
religions that have created a sharp and unwholesome division between soul and
body, society has produced strict codes of values regarding the play of natural
instincts and has glorified them under the name of “decency” and “modesty”. The
growing trend towards nudism is awelcome protest against the depressing and
neurosis-generating Puritanism of the past – Dane Rudhyar.
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