online: 9 june 2019
modified: 8 june 2019

21 april 2019 2 air


air . . . the air is one element we inhabit from the inside as it were . . . we are less conscious of its presence because we are totally enclosed in it . . . because it is so pervasive . . . the air is very warm for the time of year as if summer has come already . . .

air is my own element astrologically . . . i am said to be an air person much concerned with invisibles . . . such as air itself and electricity and spirit and soul and abstract thought . . . some of these ideas have nothing to do with air but are every where as air is . . .

i like to look at clouds and to infer the presence of air from its movements . . . as well as the magic of electricity and of magnetism . . . (in thunderstorms etc)

i remember the barometer measuring air pressure which hung on the wall of the house where i lived as a child . . . and the many remarks about the temperature, humidity and wind my father would make . . . and i remember reading Goethes account of the weather in Germany of which he was continuously conscious and made many remarks in his recorded conversations . . . this shows his interest in North West German weather and how it comes into being . . .

. . . driven by the wet and warm air from the Atlantic air stream from the Caribbean (or Gulf Stream as it is usually called). . . which is very similar to the conceptual model which we carry in our minds today if we are interested in the weather . . .

. . . being brought up on the Atlantic coast i think i must have that picture in my thoughts much of the time . . . and it no doubt accounts for my liking for mildness and good conditions generally in the north west corner of Europe (seen as a peninsula from Asian land mass) . . .

. . . the substance of air . . . being composed of nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, CO2 etc is to me a constant prevailing thought

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