A great many centuries before Jewish and Christian ideas surrounding heaven and hell appeared, the progressive and sometimes outrageous poets, playwrights, historians, and philosophers of classical and pre-Socratic Greece had already bequeathed to the Mediterranean world a pantheistic religion and a literary tradition surrounding majestic gods and goddesses whose behaviours imitated outright those
DATE OF RULERSHIP: 22nd September-23rd October; POLARITY: Positive, male; QUALITY: Cardinal; RULING PLANET: Venus; ELEMENT: Air; BODY PART: Back, kidneys, and ovaries; COLOUR: All shades of blue; GEMSTONE: Sapphire, jade; METAL: Copper or bronze.
Date of Rulership: 23rd August-22nd September; Polarity: Negative, female; Quality: Mutable; Ruling planet: Mercury; Element: Earth; Body part: Solar plexus and bowels; Colour: Dark brown, green; Gemstone: Sardonyx; Metal: Mercury or nickel.
Orpheus was the progeny of a Thracian prince and one of the Muses. He appears twice in the annals of classical literature; as a guardian for Jason and the Argonauts on the Argo, and in a short-lived romance involving his chosen life partner, Eurydice. The first is transcribed by a third-century Hellenic poet, Apollonius of Rhodes, and the second by two Roman literary greats, Virgil and Ovid.
In the first two zodiacal signs, we saw raw formative powers associated with the beginnings of complex life. Like all rudimentary organisms, Aries set the wheel of heaven into motion with a Big Bang of pure spontaneity and creative activity.
“A voice from heaven then said to me: “You shall see and hear”. So I departed into the spirit world and saw before me an opening, which I approached and examined: and behold!, there was a ladder, and by this I descended.” – The True Christian Religion, paragraph 332.
The myths associated with Narcissus appear in an early eighth-century Homeric Hymn and in Ovid’s narrative poem “Metamorphoses”; the latter unravels as a story of a beautiful youth who falls in love with his own likeness reflected on the surface of a pond and perishes whilst trying to get up close and personal with it. Here, it has been contemporized and retold by Dr. Paul Kiritsis.
"Ruminations of a Pocket Watch” by Paul Kiritsis was named a prize-winner in the poetry contest held for Issue 50, “Titanic” (Final Issue), of the award-winning Sensations Magazine based in New Jersey. The full list of winners can be seen by visiting the official website of Sensations Magazine.
Asclepius, the Greek god of healing and medicine, was a son of the god Apollo and Coronis, a Thessalian princess, and was highly revered in all of Greece proper. His name denotes the condition of cutting something open and he is best known for his wand called the Rod of Asclepius.
Maria the Jewess, a legendary alchemist of the first centuries CE, reputedly quoted that “One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth.” While the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) localized the axiom to the sphere of analytical psychology as symbolic recognition of the lifelong process of individuation or self-actualization, most esoterici
The myth of Pygmalion and Galatea appears in Ovid’s narrative poem “Metamorphoses” as a story of a sculptor who becomes enamoured of his own creation, an ivory statue of a woman. Here, it has been contemporized and retold by Dr.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
