On Sept 1, 1969, Muammar Gadaffi and the Free Officers took over the government of Libya in a swift and efficient coup that ousted the monarchy and put Gadaffi in power for year and years and years. Tonight, forty-two years later, he’s out.Yes, dear re…
Author: Christina
Slow Down: A Mercury Retrograde Story
This Merc Ret has taken place in my 12th house, the house of confinement. So guess what…Schloss Astrology has been a house of sickness for the past week and looks set to be a house of convalescence for several days more. My little Mercury-ruled daugh…
The (Kind of Creepy) Birth of Venus
Alexandre Cabanel’s Birth of Venus (1875). You can see why Napoleon III wanted it for himself. |
In the second post of her three-part series on the myth of Saturn, guest blogger Isy, takes a look at what can happen to a flying penis when it hits the ocean waves.
In my first guest post, we saw Saturn, the youngest Titan, with extraordinary self-management and merciless timing, cut his criminal father away from his furious mother and win dominion over the gods. Let’s look a little more closely at what else happened, and how it relates to Saturn’s distinctive energy.
Saturn attacked his father Uranus for transgressing against nature on three counts.
- First, his father’s rape of his mother was an abuse of sexuality, a core part of being.
- Second, Uranus had trapped and imprisoned his youngest children, a negation of his own seed, his stake in the future.
- Third and most importantly, Uranus had taken Earth’s fecundity – in her children – and buried it away from any chance of growth, flourishing and further procreation.
We left the story right after Saturn thought, planned, waited, then slashed open the gap between Earth and Sky, sending his father’s wedding tackle flying just at the critical moment. The blood that spattered onto the Earth became giants, furies, ash-tree nymphs, and other mythical beings.
When Uranus’s (let’s not beat about the bush) falling penis, anointed by Earth’s body and full of sperm, fell into the sea – realm of Saturn’s older siblings Oceanus and Tethys – it caused a great foaming, agitation, and froth. Aphrodite, later romanized to Venus Urania, was born from the froth and the waves, midwifed by fishes who swept her safely to shore. (This is one of the Pisces origin myths and Venus is exalted in Pisces.)
Thus, Venus Urania has roughly five parents, and was born as a result of punishment/sacrifice for multiple transgressions against love, duty and care. And she could have been born in no other way.
Venus’ very existence depended on Saturn doing everything exactly right, although that’s not why he did it.
The least deviation from his course would not only have meant disaster for himself, it would have meant that the Venus of heartfelt love, cherished children, and rational comfort could never have come into being… She was a natural outcome, as it were.So, on a personal level,
Saturn requires the correct course, regardless of whether you relish the task or fear failure. But, when you do exactly what he calls for, the doors that seem to bar your way simply disappear. Moreover, the fertile opportunities this creates can provide the most unexpected, but perfectly logical, additional benefits.In my next and last in this series, I’ll look at the dark side of Saturn, and what happens when he, too, transgresses against himself and his family.
For more of Isy’s writing on health, adaptation, science, and sailing…
* Health and Life with CRPS-1: http://livinganyway.blogspot.com
* Cauterizing the Bleeding Edge: http://biowizardry.blogspot.com
Astrology of Now: Dream of Your Self
Shiva, god of tranformation, dances his cosmic dance within a ring of fire. Image courtesy Wikemedia Commons. Art by Arumugam Manivelu. Copyright Himalayan Academy Publications.
As I start to write this, the Sun, Venus and Mercury are clustered at th…
6 Things to Do with Mercury Retrograde in Leo
6. Give an abandoned cat a home. This one is called Bean and he’s staying with me.
Mercury the messenger shimmies backwards in Leo until the 27th, so you still have time to redo all those leonine things. Here are some suggestions.1. Go see a revival …
Castration, Rape and a Sharp Blade: Saturn’s Tricky Childhood
Saturn is the master of time and death |
The Mutilation of Uranus by Giorgio Vasari |
adaptation, science, and sailing…
The UK Riots: Mummy I’m Hungry
Ah the Sex Pistols… England’s finest
Rioting is an English tradition…that’s why a Riot Act was passed in 1715. But what we riot about changes to reflect the spirit of the times.The theme of these 2011 riots? Extreme shopping. Extreme shopping wit…
Why I’m Not Surprised by the Riots
Brixton 1981
Well, what a welcome home.Back in October last year, I said we might get a royal wedding and riots in the coming months.Have a look at what I wrote here.I came to this conclusion by using some simple but highly effective astrology….
Monthly Horoscopes: August 2011
Claude Monet – AntibesAh August – is this really a month in which to do … anything at all? Surely we should all be getting out our tents and heading off to the sea or the mountains for four weeks of … nothing much.Even if you aren’t on h…
Beaches Beckon
My family is wresting this computer from my sweaty grasp and taking me to the beach until the end of the month. Blogging is verboten.Do please comment: I’ll publish when I get back at the beginning of August.