The Return of Persephone by Frederick Leighton. Wikimedia Commons.Golden-bright Persephone, Demeter’s beautiful daughter, was picking flowers one day in the wide, scented valley of Enna in Sicily when Hades, the prince of hell, burst out of the ground …
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Michaelmas Term
Saint Michael defeating Lucifer in the guise of a dragon. Jean FouquetFor most of us, September is still imbued with feelings about the academic year. Even if we have no contact with school or university, we remember for ourselves the sharpened pencils…
To Cherish — Ceres Part One
Mother Rose and her baby. Mary Cassatt (Ceres conjunct MC in Scorpio) who became famous for her intensely emotional pictures of the mother-child bondWikimedia Commons.To caress the soft downy scalp of a baby, her head small enough to cradle in the palm…
Virgo New Moon: Time To Get Clarity
God or, more correctly, G-d opened the Book of Life on Wednesday, the first day of Rosh Hoshanah, and will be snapping it shut again next Friday, September 13. During these ten Days of Awe, he’s going to be watching you, taking notes and making a …
Lilith, the Rebel Soul: "Drink Stars And Ask For The Moon"
Mother AyahuascaImage source unknown. If you know who this is by, tell me.”I was looking for the will of the wild. I was looking for how that will expressed itself in elemental vitality, in savage grace. Wildness is resolute for life: it cannot be othe…
September Horoscopes
The goddess Ceres and the four elements. Jan BreughelPlenty’s rich queen, cheerer of fainting souls,Whose altars are adorned with ripened sheaves.Mercury to Ceres in The Cobbler’s ProphecyIt’s September, Virgo’s month, and the harvest is coming in. Thi…
Venus Puts a Leash on the Dogs of War
Beleaguered PM David Cameron was born with Uranus-Pluto conjunct. Under the square, things are falling apart.Hooray! The British Parliament has voted against a military intervention proposed by the Prime Minister – possibly for the first time…
Correction: Edward Snowden’s Chart
Edward Snowden was born in 1983 not 1981. Here is the redrawn chart. It does put more emphasis on the mirroring. I’m noticing the Moon in Scorpio plus Mars-Sun-North Node.Apologies for the earlier version.Thanks to Arwynne for pointing this out.
Tig Notaro: Crying Till You Laugh
Last year, Tig Notaro had quite an interesting four months. To begin with, she contracted pneumonia. The cure almost killer her though. A flesh-eating bacteria invaded her gut and she had to go to hospital where she hovered between life and d…
The Resurrection of a King
The Death of Arthur by John Carrick (1852). Mallory’s Le Morte D’Arthur (the main source for all King Arthur legends) was published a few weeks after Richard III’s death“And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd, old ends stol’n out of holy wr…