Name that symbol?

I was out walking home the other night in Portland, OR (where I live) and saw a bunch of stickers all over with this symbol. Anyone know what it is? Looks kinda like someone took the male and female symbols, turned them upside down, combined them, then added a couple crescent moons. There was no text, just this symbol.

Satanic magazines and why they fail

For all that many Satanists like to make fun of neopagans, at least neopagans can make magazines about neopaganism that last for years, even decades; but every Satanism magazine I've ever seen or heard of has died fairly quickly. And the reason for this is that Satanists tend to be full of the same kind of close-minded, self-righteous fanatacism they supposedly left behind with Christianity. Every branch thinks they're the end all be all of Satanism. So much for "forgetfulness of past orthodoxies." Which reminds me, most of that shitty attitude can be blamed on LaVey, who claimed to be the first actual Satanist, and on his Church of Satan.

Another problem with such magazines is that while paganism is a HUGE umbrella term, with lots of material to talk about and lots of different people with their own perspectives, LaVey did such a number on Satanism that the CoS was the only Satanic group any normies knew about until the Temple of Set, and even the ToS is obscure, especially when compared to the newly rising (morning) star The Satanic Temple.

Thus, Satanism is very limited by comparison to paganism, not as much to talk about, especially if you're not willing to question LaVey's dogma. But I for one would love to have open discourse with other Satanists about philosophy, etc.

I know of at least one topic that could be pursued in a Satanist magazine: discussing the Satanic Sins, the Satanic Rules, and the What Satan Represents. Because while a lot of it is good, there's a lot more that could be added (which I have added to in my own writings), and much that needs editing. Like, I don't think I'll ever get over the fact that what LaVey called Solipsism is actually called Projection, and that's a shame because Solipsism - which is completely different from Projection - should be its own Satanic Sin.

Shifting growth

Been reading "Right Where You Are Sitting Now" by Robert Anton Wilson. In one article/chapter, he talks about how the Real Knowledge of the world has been doubling, how that affects civilization, and the rate it's been doing it at. And of course there are hubs of growth, where this Real Knowledge creates Real Capital, and where the warring elites are most localized. What's more, there's a pattern to the growth; it started in and around India, and started moving west and sometimes north, but mostly it moved west. It moved from India and China to Babylon, from Babylon to Phoenicia and Egypt, from there to Greece, from Greece to Rome, from Rome to the rest of Europe, and from Europe to the UK. The British Empire did well for a while, under the trade the "New World" opened up and then industrialism, but then the growth shifted over to the northeast coast of the US. And at the time he was writing the book, the growth was in the process of shifting to the west coast, with the east coast and west coast elites fighting for control. (I think that's still true.)

I bring this all up because he then said that he thought the growth, having nowhere left on the planet to go, would head up into outer space, into orbiting habitats; and that if it didn't go up there, it would just stay where it was. But that was in the 80's, and I've noticed that the westward pattern continued, if you keep in mind that "west" is a relative direction; the US empire is failing, and the growth is shifting over to China and Japan. With this in mind, I guess as long as civilization doesn't utterly collapse, the growth will continue going west again, unless we do something to shift it into space, or work to even out the growth so everyone on the planet can be comfortable, which Wilson keeps pointing out we have the technology to do.