Extractions: American astrologer Robert Couteau lives in Paris where he paints, writes, and contemplates the mysteries of under-aspected planets. Referring to astrocartographpy maps as examples of "intelligent images," he was immediately drawn to their visual as well as conceptual dimension when he first started researching the biographies of notable personalities. Couteau has published essays, fiction, poetry and reviews in such publications as Astrolore; The Bloomsbury Review; Chrysalis; The European; The Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy; and James Hillman's annual collection, Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture. The full text of his book, The Role of the Least-Aspected Planet in Astrocartography," is available on-line at: Couteau In the chart of Israel, a state which has always suffered from economic inflation (Secondary Leader, Jupiter) we have a rather amazing portrayal of the entire recent history of this nation: The seemingly unending "spiritual yearning" (the nature of the Transcendental Planet in general) for "a homeland"; for "peace / with security" (Secondary Transcendental Moon / Primary Transcendental Venus / Tertiary Transcendental Saturn). In its Leading or most-aspected planets, we have: "The obsession with war, secret intelligence and terrorism" (Leading Pluto); as well as what might be termed an obsession with "religious / and ethical matters" on a state level (Tertiary Leader, Neptune / Secondary Leader, Jupiter).
Rob Couteau - Artist Portfolio At Absolutearts.com Fine Art rob couteau contemporary arti - Painting at absolutearts.com and World Wide Arts Resources. Return to rob couteau s Main Portfolio Page http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/c/couteau/artist_statement.html
Extractions: The most unusual portrait I have ever studied is that of a tiny lithograph entitled, "Lost in Thought," a self-portrait created by the artist Paul Klee in 1919. It is unlike any other self-portrait in that, with eyes more sealed than shut, with mouth not just closed but pensively clamped, it is a visage which looks completely inward. This powerful rendition is not simply the image of a man withdrawn from the world. It is, rather, the only portrayal of man, seen from the exterior, wholly experiencing the inner world. The emphasis is so much on the world within that the outer facial facade has begun to transform into those odd forms of inner anatomy: symbol, suggestion, nuance. The overall feel of this bust resembles that of a well-shined bell: one poised grandly and immobile yet about to swing into clamorous revolt. In outer appearance the face is highly symmetrical, reflecting the contents of a psyche precariously balanced in the center of the world. This inner psychic symmetry is fixed between two opposites: one seeking calm, the other about to explode
Love In The Time Of Cholera By Garcia Marquez: Review By Rob Couteau Gabriel Garcia Marquez 'Love in the Time of Cholera' book review links to Marquez sites and books, complete bibliography, interviews, etexts, ebooks, by robert couteau Book review by robert couteau. Published in Arete Magazine between the fanciful flights of uncaring youth and the irrevocable termination of death. Visit rob couteau's fine arts http://more_couteau.tripod.com/marquez.htm
Extractions: As its title implies, Gabriel Garcia Marquezs widely acclaimed Love in the Time of Cholera is a creative amalgam of two starkly contrasting elements: the sacredness of love and loves embodiment in often horrific, everyday experience. Ultimately, the transcendental power of spiritual love emerges as the beautifully rendered theme of this evocative, paradoxical masterwork. Marquez has always displayed great fortitude in his willingness to experiment and expand his stylistic repertoire. While Love in the Time of Cholera has formal similarities to his two other great fictional works - One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Autumn of the Patriarch - it avoids an exclusive reliance on either the stunning hallucinatory quality of the former or the lush density of the latter. Instead, maintaining an almost folktale quality grounded with the feel of everyday gossip, it incorporates images of love that hover midway between otherworldly beauty and netherworld terror.
The Female Nude: Contemporary Fine-Art By Rob Couteau The Female Nude Oil Painting, Drawing, Digital Arts, and Literary Publications by rob couteau. rob couteau Finearts Publications. http://www.tygersofwrath.com/art.htm
Astrocartography Of Helena Blavatsky's Least-aspected Neptune Biography of Madame Helena Blavatsky, focus on how the planetary metaphor of Neptune was reflected in her life and work, by astrocartographer rob couteau. http://www.dominantstar.com/b_blav.htm
Extractions: [Least-aspected Neptune] I was in search of the unknown. If I began to speak to you of alchemy, of union or marriage of the red Virgin with the astral mineral, of the philosophers stone (union of the soul and the spirit), would you send me to the devil? Yet, when I expound a subject, surely I must use the appropriate terms befitting that subject? Madame Blavatsky, in a letter to Prince Dondoukov-Korsakov. He then recalled that in the early days of his lifetime of discipline in the Himalayas, a lady had found the high teachers and received the Ancient Wisdom. Going back through his memory, he ultimately recalled that she was not British, but Russian, and he finally remembered her name Blavatsky. He had not himself met her, but had heard her achievement spoken of by fellow ascetics. Margaret Cousins, describing her conversation with a prominent
A Conversation With Hubert Selby, Jr. Hubert Selby, Jr., author of 'Requiem for a Dream', interviewed in Paris in September 1999. Tell me when this page is updated. rob couteau. Interviews, Poetry, Fiction, Reviews Interviewed by http://hubert_selby.tripod.com/hubert_selby.htm
Extractions: Selby: Oh, gee, I dont know if there were any highlights, to tell you the truth. It was all very exciting. I enjoyed all of it. And after the people down in the breakfast room at the hotel saw me on television, I got extra croissants in the morning. So that was kind of nice. Well, the people were all so wonderful, the reception was so enthusiastic, that I cant think of anything that stands out more than anything else. Other than some of the scenery. Berlin was incredible, there are forests and lakes all over that city; it was just amazing. Couteau: In that film you were asked about your belief in God, and you said that it all depends upon ones definition of God: that you didnt believe in most of the conventional definitions, the way that most people define God. Now, my question is, do you have any spiritual beliefs? Im not going to ask, Do you believe in God; thats not really how I would phrase it, perhaps. But do you have any specific spiritual beliefs and, if so, what is your definition of the sacred?
Extractions: American astrologer Robert Couteau lives in Paris where he paints, writes, and contemplates the mysteries of under-aspected planets. Referring to astrocartographpy maps as examples of "intelligent images," he was immediately drawn to their visual as well as conceptual dimension when he first started researching the biographies of notable personalities. Couteau has published essays, fiction, poetry and reviews in such publications as Astrolore; The Bloomsbury Review; Chrysalis; The European; The Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy; and James Hillman's annual collection, Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture. The full text of his book, The Role of the Least-Aspected Planet in Astrocartography," is available on-line at: Couteau In the chart of Israel, a state which has always suffered from economic inflation (Secondary Leader, Jupiter) we have a rather amazing portrayal of the entire recent history of this nation: The seemingly unending "spiritual yearning" (the nature of the Transcendental Planet in general) for "a homeland"; for "peace / with security" (Secondary Transcendental Moon / Primary Transcendental Venus / Tertiary Transcendental Saturn). In its Leading or most-aspected planets, we have: "The obsession with war, secret intelligence and terrorism" (Leading Pluto); as well as what might be termed an obsession with "religious / and ethical matters" on a state level (Tertiary Leader, Neptune / Secondary Leader, Jupiter).
Extractions: She [de Beauvoir] presupposes that a writer can actually convey pure facts without a viewpoint. Melinda Camber Porter, Through Parisian Eyes Of all French writers, she alone ... noted the passing years with such insistence, ever conscious of the ticking clock, of lifes running out and slipping away. Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier, Simone de Beauvoir Always the same faces, the same surroundings, the same conversations, the same problems. The more it changes, the more it repeats itself. In the end, you feel as if youre dying alive. Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins Simone de Beauvoir Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris, west of her Primary Saturn, which runs over the eastern border of France in a vertical midnight position. Along with her lifelong companion and fellow philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, de Beauvoir promulgated the Existentialist / philosophy (Primary Saturn / Secondary Jupiter) in works of fiction, philosophy, essays, and autobiography. Evolving out of the sense of the hopelessness, alienation, meaninglessness, and despair (Primary Saturn) that characterized the intellectual spirit of the World War II era, Existentialism conceived of humanity as existing in a soulless universe (Primary Saturn): one bereft of any absolute value or meaning. Faced with such cosmic emptiness, we are left only with the choice of creating our own sense of personal responsibility (Primary Saturn).
Starcats Astrology 2002: Anima Mundi Magazine Watergate by Claudia Dikinis. The Royal Family. Princess Diana by Claudia Dikinis; Prince William by Claudia Dikinis; Princess Diana by rob couteau. The Kennedys. http://starcats.com/anima2.html
Astrocartography Of Claude Debussy's Least-aspected Pluto Biography of Claude Debussy, focus on how the planetary metaphor of Pluto was reflected in his life and work. By renowned astrocartographer rob couteau. http://www.dominantstar.com/b_deb.htm
Extractions: Moon = 232 [Least-aspected Pluto] Claude Debussy French composer Claude Debussy was born in St. Germain-en-Laye, just east of his Primary Pluto, which runs in a vertical Midheaven position along the western border of France. Debussys Primary Pluto is also involved in a narrowly focused Transcendental Midpoint-Field over Europe: both his Secondary Sun and Tertiary Mercury rise over western Italy and central Germany. When Debussy was only seventeen years old he commenced his travels through Europe as the musical companion of Mme von Meck, the latter a friend of Tchaikovsky (1879). After returning to Paris and continuing his studies in musical education at the Paris Conservatoire (1873-1884), he won the Prix de Rome (1884) for his cantata, LEnfant Paradise . This permitted him additional travel through Europe and granted him a residence in Italy, at the very heart of and completely framed by his Transcendental Midpoint-Field. While there, he composed
Astrocartography Of James Dean's Least-aspected Sun Biography of James Dean, focus on how the planetary metaphors of the Sun and Uranus were reflected in his life and work, by astrocartographer rob couteau. http://www.dominantstar.com/b_dean.htm
Extractions: Jimmy was completely unprepared for success and its by-product fame. Fame, of course, was exactly what he wanted; considering all the photographs he had taken of himself, he had always acted like he already was world famous, but now he truly was.... At parties, people would follow him from room to room. The attention he received was overwhelming, and he wasnt equipped to handle it. If nothing else, he had no real family, no real love for anyone else, and thus no strong backup support he could not withdraw anywhere to be himself. Joe Hyams, with Jay Hyams, from Little Boy Lost
Astrocartography Of Emily Dickinson's Least-aspected Saturn Biography of Emily Dickinson, focus on how the planetary metaphor of Saturn was reflected in the poet's life and work, by astrocartographer rob couteau. http://www.dominantstar.com/b_dickin.htm
Extractions: Moon = 321 [Least-aspected Saturn] She never ceased to hope one day her cage door would open, her prison door unlock, her coffin lid rise. Professor Ruth Miller, on Emily Dickinson. I do not cross my fathers ground to any house or town. Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson was born almost precisely under the vertical Midheaven line of her Primary Saturn, in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she lived for most of her reclusive and solitary (Primary Saturn) life. One of the most important poets of modern times, she is renowned for the unusually constricted, self-imposed lifestyle of exile, deprivation, and severity (Saturn) that characterizes both her poetry and her life. Emily was the daughter of Edward Dickinson, a lawyer known for his austere and remote nature (Primary Saturn), who was said to have laughed only once in his life and whose heart Emily called pure and terrible. Her mother, Emily Norcross Dickinson, was also characterized as emotionally distant (Saturn). In addition, Emily had to contend with her familys strict, post-Calvinist Puritanism1 (Saturn): influences that she reacts to and addresses directly in her verse.
Astrocartography Biography of Karl Marx with a special focus on how the planetary symbols of Mercury and Neptune were reflected in his life and work, by renowned astrocartographer rob couteau http://www.dominantstar.com/b_marx.htm
Role Of The Least Aspected Planet In Astrocartography Awardwinning site by astrocartographer rob couteau, includes over 350 charts and astrocartography maps with extensive biographical analysis of historical http://www.dominantstar.com/astro02.htm
A Sort Of Visitor In Life rob couteau's biographical essay on the author, published in West Hills Review, 1985, explores the poet as an American ideal, focusing on his spirituality and politics. http://members.tripod.com/more_couteau/whitman1.htm
Extractions: archetypal poems. Democratic Vistas Reading Whitman prompts the question: How could he have been an American? For he emerges from Americas history as her most anomalous character, and yet, with the sole exception of Thomas Paine, he alone embodies all that is American in the ideal and original sense of the word. Without these two figures, everything delineated in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and later on in the Bill of Rights remains an abstraction, a mere potentiality. I invoke Paine at the inception of an essay on Whitman not because of any direct influence of Paine on the poet but rather because of the direct link in spirit these two share. However, that Whitman was more than just aware of Paines historical significance is revealed in his speech In Memory of Thomas Paine, delivered in Philadelphia on Paines 140th birthday: I dare not say how much of what our Union is owning and enjoying today... is owing to Thomas Paine. The confessionalist Frank Harris attended the event in the role of a reporter and wrote in his
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Astrocartography Of Eleanor Roosevelt's Least-aspected Saturn Brief biography of the First Lady, with special focus on how the planetary symbol of Saturn was reflected in her life and work, by renowned astrocartographer rob couteau. http://www.dominantstar.com/b_e_roo.htm
Extractions: Evenings were the only moments away from war pressures, but whenever Eleanor was around, she pressed Franklin with unceasing demands. Mother, Anna curtly told her at one dinner, cant you see you are giving Father indigestion. As Roosevelt aide Rexford Tugwell recalled, Really serious talk at table was avoided if Roosevelt could manage it. Eleanor, so humorless and so weighed down with responsibility, made this difficult.
