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Our Alignment With the Planets

Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)

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Our solar system.
Created from gas and dust.
How did it arise?
The planets aligned with us.
An alchemical wonder.

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We live, breathe, grow, multiply, become old, and eventually die in tandem with the universe and the planets of the solar system. That is the wonderful mystery of creation.

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Written on August 24, 2022

Submitted by karlcfolkes on August 24, 2022

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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s “Dear Mili” Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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  • teril
    teril
    I love that you say, "the planets aligned with us." Connected.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • rnadc
    rnadc
    Alchemical....great word.
    LikeReply1 year ago

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