Category: Myth
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Egyptian Star Magic – Part I
According to the Sacred Book of Hermes to Ascelpius, we each must create a talisman to wear or carry that is uniquely inscribed for us based on a specific point in our natal charts.
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Finding Balance with the Cancer/Capricorn Polarity
Do not underestimate the tension inherent in confronting that which we are not (i.e. the ‘other’).
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The Poison Garden
Nothing could get in; nothing could get out. Voila, more or less instant immortalisation.
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A Feminist Reading of Jason & his Heroic Argonauts
Haynes also reminds us that there were few things that alarmed Greek men more than a clever woman and arguably, Medea is cleverest of all.
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A Simpler Life – ancient Greek style
Nonetheless, aspiring to αγαθός, I would never be in doubt as to what I should do.
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The Hermeneutics of Allegory – Homer’s Odyssey in Context
Naturally, it’s important to understand what a piece of literature or poetry or art might mean (symbolically) – but then comes the next question – what am I meant to do with that?
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Man’s Relationship with his Gods
It’s interesting that our familiarity with our humanity increased as our familiarity with the gods decreased.
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Gateway to the Stars & the Winter Solstice
Least you think that this does not affect our everyday lives on earth, think again. When one of the slower moving planets such as Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto crosses this point, even the stock or share markets react as Christen Skinner reminds us in her excellent book, The Beginners Guide to the Financial Universe: An Introduction to the Role of the Sun, Moon, and Planets in Financial Markets.
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The Daemon of Carl Jung
In Plato’s Republic(The Myth of Ur), souls cue up to choose their next life and are assigned a daemon – an overseer for that life. In classic astrology, daemon could be determined using one’s natal chart and as the result, it was incumbent upon the individual to establish contact with (or invoke) his or her […]
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Jung’s Astrological Moon
Whilst discussing Jung’s Red Book (Liber Novus), Liz Greene reminds us that when interpreting the Moon in an astrological chart, we should keep in mind Jung’s vision of the Moon as a fluid, living principle, always in flux. To assume the astrological Moon corresponds solely to Jung’s Anima is a mistake. Equally, it is a mistake to assume that […]