Tag: mythology

The Quickening

You can feel the change in the northern hemisphere at this turn in the year — St Brigid’s Day, Candlemas, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin. From the Philippines to Poland, 1-2 February are celebrated with candlelight. It is Imbolc, one of the four corners of the year on a Gaelic calendar. The […]

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George Washington ‘s Cosmic Ascension – and Donald’s?

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

The famous fresco painted by Constantino Brumidi, The Apotheosis of George Washington, was completed in the eye of the dome of the Capitol Building rotunda on Jupiterian Capitol Hill in 1865. Now, with the ongoing attempt to morph Trump into "The Chosen One" by his nibs himself and by reckless religious types whose goals are power, control, and

George Washington ‘s Cosmic Ascension – and Donald’s?

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

The famous fresco painted by Constantino Brumidi, The Apotheosis of George Washington, was completed in the eye of the dome of the Capitol Building rotunda on Jupiterian Capitol Hill in 1865. Now, with the ongoing attempt to morph Trump into "The Chosen One" by his nibs himself and by reckless religious types whose goals are power, control, and

Democracy For Who? Do The Poor Have A Say? – Thom Hartmann (plus Ceres!)

Here’s a June 16, 2020 clip from Thom Hartmann concerning a timely societal topic which contains within it many thorny and related issues:
~:~In Mundane Astrology I tend to use asteroid Ceres as a marker for democracy, aka, Democracy. However, these days, America’s fabled streak of Plutocracy has grown wider than ever and we find that on July 4, 1776 our Ceres Rx @8Pisces41 conjoined the 1776

The Angel of Death, Adonis and Anemones

Fresh green ripples across the land; the garden is filled with bird song. Yet Easter is a festival of death. Christ’s Last Supper was Seder, the annual dinner party at which Jewish people all over the world commemorate the Exodus. Jews remember the Angel of Death passing over their houses before they followed Moses into […]

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The Asteroid of Love Stories, Fairy Tales and the Soul’s Journey

Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, in a country far away, a girl of breath-taking beauty lived with her family. Her two older sisters were “successfully’ married, to wealthy, middle-aged men, but her father was perplexed. Who was good enough to marry his darling youngest, Psyche? He went to the oracle which told him something which broke his heart. “On mountain peak, O King, expose the maid For funeral wedlock ritually arrayed. No human son-in-law (hope not) is thine, But something cruel and fierce and serpentine; That plagues the world as, borne aloft on wings, With fire […]

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