The Marquis de Sade: The Perversions of Venus | by The Hidden Octave | AstroCommentary


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Oct 14, 2021

It is rather essential to preface that placements can manifest in a wide range of alternative ways. One can’t take significations with no consideration and should develop an interpretive thoughts. One place alone can have many negatives and positives concurrently, and even then, there stays the matter of freewill.

Allow us to mirror on his life, however primarily his most controversial of works, the notorious 120 Days of Sodom. A e book thought-about by some, essentially the most vile and revolting work ever identified to literature.

It tells the story of 4 rich male libertines who resolve to expertise the last word sexual gratification in orgies. To do that, they seal themselves away for 4 months in an inaccessible fort within the coronary heart of the Black Forest, with a harem of 36 victims, principally female and male youngsters, and have interaction 4 feminine brothel keepers to inform the tales of their lives and adventures. The crimes and tortures within the girls’s narratives encourage the libertines to equally abuse and torture their victims, which steadily grows in depth and ends of their slaughter.

Now, from his character, the inspiration for his excessive perversion is somewhat apparent.

Contemplating at the beginning his moon nakshatra of Purva Phalguni. Naturally, essentially the most fundamental signification right here is pleasure, not its blind pursuit, however its research. It’s pleasure as a authentic self-discipline. Within the Marquis de Sade we see this as a need to philosophize his wishes and practices, an endeavor aided, in fact, by his eighth home Jupiter in Rohini. He devoted his life to the exploration of his vices, which have been principally sexual.

His most well-known work, the e book 120 Days of Sodom, isn’t just a e book of BDSM, the 18th centuries’ 50 Shades of Grey, a misplaced blueprint of our trendy works of sexual freedom. Moreover the truth that is … merely unreadable in your common mortal, as a lot of what’s associated within the novel is stomach-turning at finest and traumatic at worse, it isn’t simply incest, within the type of fathers having intercourse with their very own daughters or pedophilia, within the type of the kidnapping of tens of small girls and boys, and their subsequent impaling, not simply with male genitals however with different international objects. It’s also an exploration of the extra unusual, or somewhat, shameful human passions.

Purva Phalguni is basically contemplative. It’s not simply consuming for the sake of consuming or love making for organic satisfaction. It’s understanding the actual nature of enjoyment and pleasurable actions, why we pursue what we do and the way to finest gratify these in a method that heightens the expertise. Being a brahmin nakshatra, it’s basically very scholarly, even when the common native of this nakshatra will not be effectively versed within the scores of philosophical literatures produced over the millennia, they too carry a pondering nature, even when missing the diploma of sensitivity and communicative skill to precise the identical.

The Marquis’ intent is to assist us to essentially inquire as to the character of our personal passions and sexuality. Don’t deal with horniness solely as an itch to be scratched, masturbating at each out there second. No. Actually discover the emotion. Really feel the tingling that pricks you from the loins travelling upwards. Take a look at your lover. Actually take a look at her and let her personal pores and skin burn underneath the flaming scrutiny of your hungry eyes, hungry for her flesh. It’s common for readers of his e book to be each appalled and but sexually stirred by his writings, although this will get extra into Rohini’s affect in his chart, being in fact the nakshatra of provocation. He divides his books into sections: the easy passions, the complicated passions, the felony passions and the murderous passions. He additional describes every and gives an inventory of acts for every class.

The straightforward passions are so referred to as as a result of they don’t embody precise penetration. The gadgets on this listing embody older males having fun with masturbating within the faces of very younger ladies in addition to the consuming of excrements.

The complicated passions contain precise intercourse within the type of rape, pedophilia and incest. These additionally embody extra religiously offensive or sacrilegious acts similar to males having intercourse with nuns with the backdrop of singing and worshipping Catholics performing mass. The Marquis, it should be remembered, hated religions and its followers, and so couldn’t go any alternative to spit within the faces of the pious and desecrating their figures.

The felony passions embody males who sodomise ladies as younger as three, males who prostitute their very own daughters to different perverts and watch the proceedings and others who mutilate girls by tearing off their fingers or burning them with red-hot pokers. Through the month, the 4 libertines start having anal intercourse with the sixteen female and male youngsters who, together with the opposite victims, are handled extra brutally as time goes on, with common beatings and whippings.

The murderous passions, the ultimate 150 anecdotes are these involving homicide. They embody perverts who pores and skin youngsters alive, disembowel pregnant girls, burn total households alive and kill new child infants in entrance of their moms. The ultimate story is the one one because the easy passions of November written intimately. It options the ‘Hell Libertine’ who masturbates whereas watching 15 teenage ladies being concurrently tortured to dying. Throughout this month, the libertines brutally kill three of the 4 daughters they’ve between them, together with 4 of the feminine youngsters and two of the male ones. The homicide of one of many ladies, 15-year-old Augustine, is described in nice element, with the tortures she is subjected to together with having her flesh stripped from her limbs, her vagina being mutilated and her intestines being pulled out of her sliced-open stomach and burned.

Purva Phalguni is personally fascinated with the speculation and follow of need, sexuality and sexual pleasure. Actually, what excites individuals and the way to administer this pleasure. Relying on the placements, a few of their natives could dedicate themselves to studying the sexual arts, understanding how and why this provokes individuals and studying the way to carry out to impress essentially the most quantity of pleasure themselves. Even exterior of intercourse and artwork, this could additionally translate as artists with a fascination for shock worth — creations that won’t have any larger function than to elicit a robust response from its viewers, usually one among disgust, anger, worry, shock or different destructive feelings.

This nakshatra, relying on how it’s supported, can want to discover the utter vastness of human passions, from essentially the most harmless, delicate and refined to the ugliest and most ugly. Doing good might be satisfying, however simply as a lot pleasure is derived from inflicting others ache. Ache is a authentic type of pleasure.

Some extent of sadism is current within the frequent man. You possibly can contemplate, as an example, teasing. It’s common follow for us to make enjoyable of our pals for his or her concepts and behaviors and watch as they wince ever so barely from humiliation. Think about additionally our love for televised violence and cruelty — snakes and tigers tearing one another limb from limb, their tooth drenched in blood and the bottom shaking from cries for mercy, motion film heroes with elaborate strategies hanging down their opponents with single blows. Even when contemplating what number of behave on social media, giving themselves depart to fully antagonize whole strangers with the pretext of their having crossed some ephemeral, moral line however actually the gap and anonymity supplied us function a cloak towards retaliation, the kind that may naturally come up in actual life if one have been to be presumptuous sufficient to insert oneself in issues not regarding oneself and dare react poorly and rudely and violently when such a response is wholly pointless.

The human physique produces this poison, this lust for blood. However well mannered society doesn’t permit for its whole launch, and understandably so, for worry that civilization could shortly devolve into savagery. As a substitute we get our kicks from video video games or sports activities or tough housing, and, if one is very unfortunate, the extra acceptable channels could also be denied them they usually could resort to violence by way of such channels as social media and even worse. Males, in fact, have all the time had their allowed receptacles for this quote unquote “poison”, however girls, known as the “fairer intercourse” have been made to disclaim their innate aggression as this might be at variance with the notion of their passivity and gentleness, forcing them to search for extra underhanded shops, and these, by their very nature, being unregulated, permit for vile and catastrophic expressions of feminine aggression.

His Rohini affect is available in strongly in his whole disregard for legal guidelines and morality, a complete abandon into all issues sensually gratifying as this isn’t a nakshatra of discrimination, guidelines or any of the programming that holds man again from giving himself over to his lust. Essentially, Rohini is the pursuit of enjoyment for its personal sake. Have a crush? Who cares if he’s a convict felon or your center faculty instructor or married? Go after it. Although the research of enjoyment is for the likes of Purva Phalguni, its stirring and uninhibited pursuit is the area of Rohini nakshatra, the ‘ crimson lady’ who’s keen even to rob away the moon itself for its personal whole and egocentric gratification, to the dismay of everybody else that, likewise, craves its nourishing mild, however are simply, truthful and self-controlled sufficient to be keen to share it.

It’s attention-grabbing to watch these Rohini themes at the same time as early as childhood. In Sade’s youth, his father deserted the household; his mom joined a convent. He was raised by servants who indulged “his each whim,” which led to his changing into “often called a rebellious and spoiled youngster with an ever-growing mood.”

The Marquis has his moon in Purva Phalguni and his solar in Rohini, so the idea for his moon can also be Rohini. The Marquis additionally has his Jupiter in Mrigashira, and this being the planet that varieties the framework with which we work together with actuality, additionally explains his common fascination with all that’s perverse and quote-unquote “improper”. He would have had a specific understanding of the ‘traces that aren’t to be crossed’ in life. Such a Jupiter in his chart is just not very effectively positioned for it sits in a chart dominated by Venus, given as his Libra ascendant, and Jupiter itself sits in an indication dominated by Venus, given by its place in Taurus.

The Marquis is extremely Venusian and so such a chart suggests an antagonism in direction of Jupiterian concepts and practices, contemplating the enmity between the planets of Venus and Jupiter. After all, in his life that is proven in some ways from his unimaginable contempt for faith and monks to his purposeful transgressions towards tradition and society. He was identified for being very blasphemous and infrequently depicting the clergy as secret pedophiles and sodomites.

Contemplating solely his D1 lagna chart, his Jupiter is then badly positioned suggesting a problem in actually trying past himself, valuing extra so his personal particular person wishes. Jupiter, at its core, is a receptive planet because it takes in all the things from its environment and considers their true implications, pondering not solely their future, terrestrial affect but in addition the unseen, religious realities at play. Such a Jupiter wouldn’t solely be restricted to contemplate issues terrestrially however, any of its concepts would even be disregarded. The Marquis was not an unintelligent man, he knew what he was doing when he tortured and damage individuals. He was additionally empathetic as empathy is the power to expertise another person’s feelings by way of observing them and contemplating how they really feel or would really feel. In an effort to be sadistic, to derive pleasure from one other’s ache, one should be empathetic to share on this expertise that’s technically international to 1’s personal physique and being.

Jupiter is the counselor, the one who contemplates deeply our actuality and incarnation, this having been digested, Jupiter, our private instructor, guru and information, presents it to the King and Queen, the native’s moon and solar, in order that they could make studied selections primarily based upon this understanding of the world. Mrigashira, in fact, is basically the trail to success, the seek for which means. So Jupiter, sitting on the highest of a mountain, seems far
and broad and presents to us the numerous paths we are able to take that may result in our private success, displaying us the place the holes into which we could fall lie and educating us of the risks of faltering and succumb to our vices, what we all know to be improper, that are the themes of Mrigashira.

His King and Queen and physique, his Purva Phalguni moon, Rohini solar and Libra ascendant, need pleasure and with the information of Jupiter, they select the trail that may result in the best diploma of enjoyment. On this case, the trail supplied by Jupiter that may result in the best diploma of enjoyment is that of crossing the traces of fine and evil, enjoying with temptation and outright committing evil.

His ascendant is somewhat difficult. Occurring on the bridge between Swati and Vishaka nakshatra, with totally different programs suggesting one or the opposite. There are arguments for each.

Allow us to shortly contemplate the potential for his being a Swati ascendant. Escapism is a method of summing up the primary themes of this asterism. It’s signified by individuation, a separation from one’s environment. He was a person so faraway from his environment, and really, completely detached to the lives of the lesser creatures round him. Swati is a butcher nakshatra, and so is expounded to division, the natives themselves can act politely uninterested on the earth about them, within the extremes, this could imply current in a type of bubble actuality, away from the ugliness, harshness and utter boredom of frequent life. The Marquis was in fact a person of excessive rank, a place he embraced in all of its elitist connotations.

He cared little for a way the skin world perceived him and shamelessly pursued his vices, residing in his personal little actuality, fortunately separated from the frequent man and his points. A Swati ascendant, additional exacerbated by an ascendant lord conjunct Saturn, might function an excellent incubator for the pursuit of concepts and practices which might be completely international to the truth about one. Such an ascendant can facilitate eccentricities and idiosyncrasies of all kinds permitting the person to observe paths that may be wholly unconventional with out a lot worry of public notion, although Swati itself is just not one of many extra sexual of nakshatras.

Now, allow us to briefly contemplate Vishaka as a potential ascendant. This nakshatra is initially demonic, not simply by temperament when contemplating the three classes for nakshatras: human, godly and demonic however demonic because it pertains to the origins of its deity, Indragni, who was initially daughter to demons. Although the journey of this nakshatra results in the throne of heaven, it does battle with loads of chaotic tempers, being so energetically considerable, there’s a aspect of it that needs to stay savage and untamed.

The wilder among the many natives might be erratic and completely laborious to regulate, with habits that may appear repulsive to extra frequent sensibilities. Their habits might be excessive and excessive, which falls consistent with the topic of this essay, the Marquis himself partaking in actions which might be completely vile and fully towards the propriety of any trendy time. Vishaka generally is a purposeful rule breaker, feeling itself incapable and unwilling to restrict itself, its urges, its wishes and pursuing every regardless of how horrid. After all, the tiger, referring to Vishaka’s instinctual aspect, is a sexually dominant and lustful animal, which might additional clarify the Marquis’ very sturdy sexual urges. This signification is made worse by his Venus being conjunct Saturn.

In a distinct context, his Vishaka vitality could be manifesting as a need to have the utmost management over his personal self and to forge itself into an idealized determine, however right here, with the final situations of his chart, and once more, the Venus-Saturn conjunction, we discover one who stays into the jungle, so to talk. Saturn, although associated to the gradual development of mankind, begins from the underside and so wouldn’t solely delay the broader themes of Venus, these of compassion and empathy, however would power his exploration of all of her significations of their most carnal sense.

So we’ve got his Rohini affect, incessantly exploding with ever newer wishes, regardless of how licentious, his Vishaka affect, giving him a bent for the wilder and extra obscene expressions of those wishes and his Purva Phalguni moon who’s adamant about exploring each one among these wishes, each intellectually and, in fact, sensually. One can commerce the Vishaka ascendant for a Swati ascendant, wherein case, this ascendant would permit for his unbothered exploration of those wishes, and supply for him an area, faraway from on a regular basis society and its morals and concepts, to discover these wishes additional.

We should transfer on to the particular factors in his charts that lead to his wishes and tendencies.

Venus representing girls conjunct Saturn, the planet of restrictions, punishment and even humiliation, can clarify his notably violent actions in direction of girls. Once more, in his e book 120 Days of Sodom, he speaks of normal occasions the primary characters, 4 males of excessive social class and really rich, would throw. 4 supper events have been held each week. At first, it was an occasion of males.

They’d collect up about 16 males from ages of 20 to 30, chosen for the massive measurement of their members — particularly, their normal was for it to be so massive, no abnormal lady would have been in a position to ‘obtain’ it. The 4 important characters would then costume as girls and carry out, as he himself would name, ‘sodomy’. Some variations of the e book even added that, on common events, songs have been sung praising the male genitals of this younger males.

However, the second night was notably vile. It was referred to as ‘The Eve of Humiliation’ and it was composed of women. However particularly, higher class girls, essentially the most desired breed. The 4 important characters, all males, had them to not gratify sexual urges however actually to inflict ache about them or ‘train them some manners’ as some variations put it. The 4 males would punch them, kick them, knock their heads collectively and do nearly all the things to deliver them down from their pedestal. They have been ‘hoity toity bitches’ that wanted to have their ears pulled.

Sure, his Venus is in Pushya which in a distinct context can translate very positively, suggesting in fact, its highest improvement. However, the lotus of Pushya nakshatra begins from the muds of chaos, and so planets right here can attain their highest potential however will also be caught in extreme underdevelopment, even much less developed than different placements. Saturn being conjunct Rahu and in addition conjunct Venus, and Saturn itself referring to the bottom caste and even ignorance. Saturn in Pushya conjunct Rahu and Venus can severely and negatively affect Venus, taking her into her lowest, crudest kind. Rahu, in fact, exaggerating Saturn’s tendencies for extreme punishment, and with Venus, giving him a love for torture.

Venus, in fact, pertains to our most instinctual aspect. She is, in spite of everything, daughter to the asuras, a race sometimes called demons and that reside within the underworld. When strongly influenced by Jupiter, a planet enemy to the demons, being priest of the gods, Venus is compelled to disconnect herself from her quote-unquote decrease and extra carnal aspect and as an alternative partake of actions which might be much less animalistic. Jupiter forces Venus to look upwards and never downwards. She contemplates, by way of all her senses — these of contact, style, odor, sight, listening to and the psychological senses of the creativeness and instinct — topics which might be extra divine.

Melodies which might be dreamy, ethereal and spatial, not beats that gyrate the loins. Movies that encourage depth of reflection, drawing the feelings on issues far off from one’s instant expertise, like these of wars even when the person himself has by no means lived by way of such a battle or the trials of a distant, center aged village lady, although the person has by no means gone removed from the bounds of his personal metropolis or skilled life in a forest. As a counterpart to films that grip the eyes, ship waves of warmth over the chest and serve no larger function than intense stimulation of the decrease facilities.

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