# eros (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover eros. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Elephant In His Room](https://wellbottomblues.com/2026/08/18/the-elephant-in-his-room/) _2026-08-18 · The Typist · Well Bottom Blues_ The elephant is malcontented. Captivityin my imagination is stultifying. They pacerelentlessly, trumpeting and tramplingtheir straw littered concrete savannah. I was told not to think of them, and they would not trouble my nights butthey’re as present as not-thinking-about-them makes them out to be because they are real. We've met and I have gently touched their \[…\] ## [There is a Temple there](https://erotosgrove.substack.com/p/there-is-a-temple-there) _2026-08-18 · H.Gibaldi • A visual poet · The Garden of Eros_ A poem of the witche’s inner Temple ## [Oh! That Holy Ghost!](https://wellbottomblues.com/2026/08/16/oh-that-holy-ghost/) _2026-08-16 · The Typist · Well Bottom Blues_ They're dead to me, the judgemental ones—Bad tempered sky daddy and even his gentle sonif He will one day come back riding Wrath likea fifth horse of the Rome-gone-wrong apocalypse.But Oh! That Holy Ghost!She comes to me on colorful wings, speaking in the tongues of susurration, of bird song and call.And I am her evangelist, \[…\] ## [Tragically Unhip](https://wellbottomblues.com/2026/08/14/tragically-unhip/) _2026-08-14 · The Typist · Well Bottom Blues_ Thinking of updating my bio. Mark Folse is a UHF poetry ghost drifting in from the 20th century, transparent as the thin banker paper of old Norton Anthologies and just as relevant to today’s million-transistors-to-the inch Poetry Industrial Complex. He echoes 60+ years of reading like a theremin humming Tennyson. He idolizes Wallace Stevens and \[…\] ## [Thoughts from the U.S. plantation colony of Louisiana](https://wellbottomblues.com/2026/08/12/thoughts-from-the-u-s-plantation-colony-of-louisiana/) _2026-08-12 · The Typist · Well Bottom Blues_ Colonialism is a defining political framework of our time. I’m trying to consider my own family line through that lens. At one time I was inclined to call Johan Jacob Folse a settler rather than a colonist, but Likud Israel has poisoned the word settler. In my view Bienville and John Law were the colonizers, \[…\] ## [Sonnets to Orpheus XVII](https://wellbottomblues.com/2026/08/08/sonnets-to-orpheus-xvii/) _2026-08-09 · The Typist · Well Bottom Blues_ XVII WHERE, in what blessedly-watered gardens, on what trees Out of what tenderly unleaved bloom, Do the exotic fruits of consolation ripen? These Delicious fruits, of which perhaps one In the trampled meadow of your poverty, you find. From time to time you wonder over the fruit,— its size, Over its soundness, the smoothness of \[…\] ## [Kama Sutra of Cuddles](https://wellbottomblues.com/2026/08/06/kama-sutra-of-cuddles/) _2026-08-07 · The Typist · Well Bottom Blues_ She can’t bend her aging body to love like that, but next to her in bed I just lay my cheek on her arm and settle in,skin to skin, and she lays her cheekon my head and at my age that’s practically skin to skin and we just settle in, some painter’s portrait of love,exploring \[…\] ## [The Natal Chart’s Unsung Hero](https://www.cobraandcrescent.com/blog/natal-chart-unsung-hero) _2026-08-04 · Whitney Hill | Cobra + Crescent · Blog | Cobra + Crescent_ When looking at a natal chart, we often focus on the obvious placements: planets that are dignified, debilitated, or angular. This may be especially the case when looking to undertake remediative efforts for challenging planets, or in trying to enhance the effects of the supportive ones. But what about placements that just seem…average? One (or more) of these planets may be an unsung hero in the… ## [The Last Temptation of Elvis](https://wellbottomblues.com/2026/08/04/the-last-temptation-of-elvis/) _2026-08-04 · The Typist · Well Bottom Blues_ Was it really Him in that pearlescent robe, gold belted with a halo in the spotlight shadow? Is there a Bible School Jesus and a Vegas Jesus? He told me I could kick because he’s the higher power that rules over shaky basements of midnight coffee. I’m shivering with the need-a-pill chills and squinting at \[…\] ## [Safe As Milk](https://wellbottomblues.com/2026/08/03/safe-as-milk/) _2026-08-03 · The Typist · Well Bottom Blues_ Gay zoned, a particular space in the friend zone in which she says, I loved my gay friends. It was so safe there. You could be yourself. You could be sexy without worrying about someone trying to get into your pants. She said this after I confessed again it wasn’t her cheek or forehead I \[…\] ## [Hire AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/lSLSJHqxinfa) _2026-08-03 · **Sponsored**_ Browse public gigs, message candidates, and run video interviews — free to start. ## [Stop Reading Berryman’s Sonnets, Dammit](https://wellbottomblues.com/2026/08/02/stop-reading-berrymans-sonnets-dammit-4/) _2026-08-02 · The Typist · Well Bottom Blues_ (16) Writing poetry is an unnatural act — Elizabeth BishopNothing kinky. Think cuddles: the collapseof two into one, of that one into comfort:the innocent–the long hug, the movie couch–and the afterwards, coming back from blisswhere union is fully consummated by touchskin to skin, hands measuring from shoulder to hip the full depth of desire, while \[…\] ## [Just a Dancing Bear](https://wellbottomblues.com/2026/08/01/just-a-dancing-bear/) _2026-08-01 · The Typist · Well Bottom Blues_ I was a dateless and frustrated kid, only getting a little lucky if we both were drunk, which started so damn young when I was a teenager as if at once to ease and to drown adolescence. I was spectrally bashful like a ghost around young women and spending adolescence in an all boy’s school \[…\] ## [Differentiating the Romance Lots](https://www.cobraandcrescent.com/blog/differentiating-romance-lots) _2026-07-07 · Whitney Hill | Cobra + Crescent · Blog | Cobra + Crescent_ As humans, our relationships with other humans are important. That means one of the big reasons people tend to explore astrology in general and their natal charts in particular is to learn more about their relationships with others, whether family, friends, or romantic. On the romantic side of things, people want to know when they’ll meet someone, why they broke up, what the sex might be like with… ## [A Summer Witches' Sabbath](https://erotosgrove.substack.com/p/a-summer-witches-sabbath) _2026-06-23 · H.Gibaldi • A visual poet · The Garden of Eros_ Strigarium, pagan festivals and community ## [Purpose as Action in the Natal Chart](https://www.cobraandcrescent.com/blog/purpose-action-natal-chart) _2026-06-02 · Whitney Hill | Cobra + Crescent · Blog | Cobra + Crescent_ Finding one’s purpose is a big reason many people turn to astrology. There are a few ways to examine this, but ultimately it’s going to rest with the combination of what the natal chart makes available…and what each of us chooses to create meaning and purpose from. This is where—despite my more fate-inclined leanings—I believe each of us has space to act toward co-creating, influencing, or… ## [The Rupture: Mars-Uranus Conjunction 2026](https://www.cobraandcrescent.com/blog/rupture-mars-uranus-conjunction) _2026-05-09 · Whitney Hill | Cobra + Crescent · Blog | Cobra + Crescent_ On July 4, 2026 at 2:06am EST, we have a potentially disruptive conjunction of Mars and Uranus at 3°52’ Gemini: Image courtesy of the Luna Astrology app . This transit is particularly notable because it is the beginning of both the Mars and Uranus returns for the United States, which fall in the country’s 7th house using the Sibley chart, and at the same time as a Saturn opposition for the… ## [Assessing Your Natal Mars](https://www.cobraandcrescent.com/blog/assessing-natal-mars) _2026-05-05 · Whitney Hill | Cobra + Crescent · Blog | Cobra + Crescent_ As the lesser malefic, Mars can be a difficult energy to work with. As with any planet, learning to work with Mars requires starting with an understanding of your natal Mars placement, i.e. where Mars is in your natal chart and the delineation/what that says for you. It also requires an understanding of what Mars means. I’ve written a bit about Mars over the last few years to help with that,… ## [I am the child of Earth and starry Heaven](https://erotosgrove.substack.com/p/i-am-the-child-of-earth-and-starry) _2026-04-20 · H.Gibaldi • A visual poet · The Garden of Eros_ On being a Priest of the Craft ## [Alkaid: Taming Danger and Wielding Chaos](https://www.cobraandcrescent.com/blog/alkaid-taming-danger-wielding-chaos) _2026-04-07 · Whitney Hill | Cobra + Crescent · Blog | Cobra + Crescent_ As with Fomalhaut , my work with Alkaid started with a solar return. The first thing I ran into was that it is harder to find information about Alkaid than most fixed stars; most of the related work focuses on Ursa Major in general, or maybe Dubhe, another star in the same constellation. Later in my work I started to wonder if a “shrouding” of some kind was part of the protective influence I’ve… ## [Antinous, the Lord of the Stars](https://erotosgrove.substack.com/p/antinous-the-lord-of-the-stars) _2026-03-16 · H.Gibaldi • A visual poet · The Garden of Eros_ A celebration of Beauty and the flesh ## [Anthony Ettinger on LinkedIn (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/aCxCAzl5gWLN) _2026-03-16 · **Sponsored**_ Public LinkedIn profile at linkedin.com/in/anthonyettinger. ## [The Lot of Necessity: Enmity and Unfairness](https://www.cobraandcrescent.com/blog/the-lot-of-necessity-enmity-and-unfairness) _2026-03-03 · Whitney Hill | Cobra + Crescent · Blog | Cobra + Crescent_ The Lot of Necessity may not be used as frequently as the Lots of Fortune, Spirit, or Eros in modern times, but the name has always been intriguing to me. If Fortune shows that which befalls us, Spirit shows points of inspiration or actions taken toward meeting fate, and Eros shows relationships and desires…what does Necessity show? First, for clarity, I use the Hermetic calculation for Necessity:… ## [Saturn in Aries: Practicing Inconvenience](https://www.cobraandcrescent.com/blog/saturn-in-aries-practicing-inconvenience) _2026-02-15 · Whitney Hill | Cobra + Crescent · Blog | Cobra + Crescent_ On February 13, 2026, Saturn returned to Aries for the second part of a transit that started May 25 - September 1, 2025. Since we’ll be in this transit until April 13, 2028, I want to offer some thoughts on what we can do with this energy. Saturn in Aries First, let’s talk about essential dignity. Saturn is in fall in Aries, the opposite condition to its exaltation in Libra. Exalted planets are… ## [Derived Houses](https://www.cobraandcrescent.com/blog/derived-houses) _2026-02-10 · Whitney Hill | Cobra + Crescent · Blog | Cobra + Crescent_ Derived houses are another way of looking at a chart, one which adds meaning and nuance to any given house. It is a relatively basic technique where any given house is made the 1st house, and the rest derive , or take, their meaning from the perspective of that house. This is frequently done in natal astrology using the Lot of Fortune as the 1st house, treating it effectively as a “second… ## [Astrological Timing and Quality of Time](https://www.cobraandcrescent.com/blog/astrological-timing-and-quality-of-time) _2026-02-03 · Whitney Hill | Cobra + Crescent · Blog | Cobra + Crescent_ When looking at a natal chart, we see a slice of what’s possible for an individual’s life, what they are inclined toward, and what may be available to them—in short, we’re seeing a snapshot of fate. However, there’s another piece to the puzzle of what a natal (or inceptional) chart shows: timing. All things happen in their proper time—and if there is no proper time, a thing might simply not… ## [Queer Folklore: The fig](https://erotosgrove.substack.com/p/queer-folklore-the-fig) _2025-12-31 · H.Gibaldi • A visual poet · The Garden of Eros_ The dionysiac mysteries of the Fig ## [Queer Folklore: The pink lotus](https://erotosgrove.substack.com/p/queer-folklore-the-pink-lotus) _2025-12-31 · H.Gibaldi • A visual poet · The Garden of Eros_ Antinous in the Garden of Eros ## [Queer Folklore: Narcissus](https://erotosgrove.substack.com/p/queer-folklore-narcissus) _2025-12-31 · H.Gibaldi • A visual poet · The Garden of Eros_ On embracing Narcissism. ## [On Her sacred waters](https://erotosgrove.substack.com/p/on-her-sacred-waters) _2025-12-29 · H.Gibaldi • A visual poet · The Garden of Eros_ Water Cult in Cisalpine Gaul. ## [The Gospel of Blake](https://erotosgrove.substack.com/p/the-gospel-of-blake) _2025-12-29 · H.Gibaldi • A visual poet · The Garden of Eros_ On Magic and the Spirit. ## [Code Faster with Clear Tutorials (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/0zeutSbZgUds) _2025-12-29 · **Sponsored**_ Short, step-by-step coding videos you can follow along ## [The Minoan Brotherhood](https://erotosgrove.substack.com/p/the-minoan-brotherhood) _2025-12-29 · H.Gibaldi • A visual poet · The Garden of Eros_ A religious revival for Gay men