Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.