One ancient Greek myth survives in the story Beauty and the Beast. In the fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast, dutiful and loving daughter Beauty, is sent to live in a beautiful, magical castle where she lived in luxury. The … Continue reading →
Tag: Asteroids
Driven Towards the Sacred: Vesta (Part Two)
Please read Part One of this piece HERE. Vesta’s no-gray-areas approach applies to any planet it touches, but especially when aligned with the relationship planets. Vesta has a habit of cyclical withdrawal; we will pull back in order to meditate on what it is that really matters, what it is that she wants from us. […]
Driven Towards the Sacred: Vesta (Part One)
It’s a funny thing about what we find sexy, as subject matter, and what we don’t. The other day I was complaining that not enough people give much weight to the Sun and the Moon anymore, particularly in transit; I was told point blank that neither of the lights is particularly sexy these days, not […]
Spinning Asteroids Flashing! (and IRS) 4.15.11
A spinning space rock for Tax Day 2011! Well, sort of Tax Day since today is a holiday in the District of Columbia. Therefore, taxes are due by midnight on Monday April 18, 2011. Meanwhile, over our noggins, train your telescope on the "strobe light" twirling above!Space Weather News for April 15, 2011SPINNING ASTEROID FLYBY: A 50-meter asteroid is flying past the Earth-Moon system on April 15th.
Why Pallas Athene is the Astrologer’s Asteroid
Pallas Athene from the Temple of Aphaia c.500 BCOne of the readers of this blog recently pointed out that pattern-recognition was a key component of astrology – and my tiny astrologer’s mind went click and then clickety click click. I got excited.Bec…
New Look, New Classes, New Material
Hi folks, I’m asking for a little more of your patience as I find the time to redesign The Inner Wheel. I’ll be coming back soon with a new look, new organization, and perhaps even a search engine function that actually works. I’ve also got some articles ready to go up. In the near future, […]
The Persephone Myth Part II
Persephone the Goddess in Myth & Astrology, Ceres and Hades, Asteroid Proserpina. There are two listed Asteroids for the Queen of the Underworld. The first main belt asteroid discovered was Roman Proserpina, Asteriod 26 in 1853. Followed by the Greek Persephone, Asteroid 399, discovered in 1895. Because these names were already taken, Eris could not be named Persephone when it was discovered in 2005 despite it being the favourite. But it all worked out for the best I think, which you will see as we continue our journey through the Underworld. Now we will look at both the Greek and the Roman version of the Persephone Myth and see if there is a difference between the two. 9 The Greek Myth Persephone is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, she is also known as Kore in modern English. As Kore she is the vegetation goddess. In Greek art she is often portrayed as carrying a sheaf of grain just like the Virgin in Constellation Virgo. So you see already that Persephone symbolism can very easily become part of Ceres’s attributes. In the myth, Persephone is abducted by Hades while she is out picking flowers. A great chasm opens up in […]
Ceres: The Dark Harvest (Part 1: Introduction)
“But what makes it hard for me is that I don’t know how I could possibly enter that eternal alliance with Mother Earth. I don’t kiss Mother Earth, I don’t plow her soil… Should I, then, become a peasant, a shepherd, or what? I go on and on, and I don’t know where I’ll find […]
16 October 2010: Notes on the Weekend
Just a few things I’ve noticed that I’d like to bring up, along with a plug for Twilight’s Arty Farty Friday http://twilightstarsong.blogspot.com/2010/10/arty-farty-friday-paul-gauguin.html–you’ll love it, especially if yo…