Jupiter and Saturn were one- from one perspective and a truth experienced by one position and circumstance. There are so many apparently conflicting truths, not the least being that they never even came close to each other as two physical bodies.
We think space has to be absent for intimate connection, yet we can transcend it if we learn how. The physical is so incredibly delicious we get stuck thinking this is it. We feel it so strongly. It takes us beyond to the delight in the juices of cool colors melted and the warmth of erupting volcanoes and all the sky’s beauty before our eyes and under the palm of our hand, feeling softer just for us to know that we are alive. Let us be tender with the knowing because it slips away into the illusion of conjunction.
About the Creator
Victoria Reyes
I was born where the river meets the ocean, and since then, I love connections. I am a lover, a writer, a student who loves to play, to seek to dream. I like to watch for the whispers and subtle gazes, as they give clues to what is real.
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