Subject: Re: "If Jupiter and Saturn meet..." quote is from Yeats From: alternat@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ann Hodgins) Date: 1991-05-01, 09:08 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <1343@psych.stanford.edu> slab@psych.Stanford.EDU (Stephen LaBerge) writes: > >I don't think anyone has previously identified the source of > >Wily Wyndom's incantation. It's from one of W. B. Yeats's most > >recondite collections of poems, the "Supernatural Songs." > >The complete quote is as follows: > > > > Conjunctions > > > > If Jupiter and Saturn meet, > > What a crop of mummy wheat! > > > > The sword's a cross; thereon He died: > > On breast of Mars the Goddess sighed. > > I love W.B. Yeat's so I'll play with him. Hmmmm. What does he mean? Saturn is often portrayed with a sickle and is sometimes understood as the "grim reaper". Jupiter is the planet meaning fruitful abundance, generosity overflowing and is the patron of Christmas gift giving. So maybe Jupiter is growth and Saturn is harvest, which together is good for humanity. Mummery is role playing (I think) and wheat is many things. Remember the use of wheat in Bergman's films? Anyway, the next two lines have even me stumped. But I will admit to a freudian type-o. I typed "sex" first instead of "next". My unconscious is telling me that those lines are erotic, but my conscious mind is not up to the challenge of interpreting it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ann Hodgins E Uassiuian is the will to continue alternat@watdcs.uwaterloo.ca To laugh, to have fun and to be amazed.