Tag: Psyche

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

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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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Jupiter in Scorpio: Underworlds

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Within the earth, beneath the mountain, through the dark lake, there is another world. Sunlight does not penetrate. You must bring your own light. This is the realm of the dead, a place of ghosts and shades, a place of buried wealth, secrets, hidden desires. Gilgamesh, Inanna, Psyche, Demeter, Balder the Beautiful, Dionysus and Orpheus; the Japanese creator Izanagi, Gesar the King of the Mongols and the Mayan Hero Twins — these gods and heroes visited the underworld and returned. This dangerous, dark otherworld is found in the myth or folklore of all continents — so is the story of a […]

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Asteroid Psyche

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Asteroid Psyche was discovered by Annibale de Gasparis on March 17th, 1852 in Naples. Whilst Psyche followed the same established pattern of being allocated a symbol (a butterfly’s wing and a star), she was the first asteroid to become known &#82…

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