I've been playing Hadestown for three days straight -- this writing of yours jumped out at me because I had been mulling over a resonant refrain there in that music:
"This has all happened before, says Saturn, whose memory is long. He pats Moon’s arm, which is tucked into his. But it doesn’t mean it has to end the same."
It also resonates with my favorite Isabel Allende quote: "At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously."
I've been playing Hadestown for three days straight -- this writing of yours jumped out at me because I had been mulling over a resonant refrain there in that music:
"This has all happened before, says Saturn, whose memory is long. He pats Moon’s arm, which is tucked into his. But it doesn’t mean it has to end the same."
It also resonates with my favorite Isabel Allende quote: "At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously."
Gorgeous piece of writing. I'm feeling every layer of it so deeply. Thank you.
Turning points everywhere for me lately, thank you for this and love the imagery!
This is great! As a queer, witchy astrologer this post definitely resonates ❤️