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Egyptian Tarot: Mercury's series
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Virgo's myths: Demeter and Hephaestus
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From 08.22 to 09.22, the Sun transits every year on Virgo. The sign is ruled by Mercury, the smallest planet in the solar system although the closest one to the Sun. Virgo is related to 9 cards of the Egyptian Tarot deck (Kier Ed.), and the group points to the bases or foundations to be used for later experiences, constructive activities and production. In the same way, Greek deities Demeter and Hephaestus are connected to the sign and show the role of knowledge and expertise: how to produce, and the functionality those products acquire once delivered to the world.
This time is also the previous month to the Equinox, and we can now appreciate the season coming to an end, with relations going progressively more balanced. Even though I Ching is a lunar book, it also provides signs for a seasonal solar calendar. In hexagrams, the sunlight finds softer areas and harder areas, according to the type of karma the Moon impresses on life.
Referring to classic and esoteric Astrologies, Virgo counts on several rulers: Mercury, Vulcan, Jupiter and Saturn, key masses for the development of mutable signs (Gemini, the very Virgo, Sagittarius & Pisces). And, according to karmic Astrology, Earth signs (Taurus, Virgo & Capricorn) grow up thanks to the air, are set in motion and flow, and sometimes, they even develop wings.
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Mercury in Virgo is related to 2 major cards and 7 minor ones: The Hierarch 5, The Tower 16, The Farmer Worker 23, Magnificence 32, Dispair 41, Affinity 50, Revelation 59, Speculation 68, and Disorientation 77.
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Cards of Mercury in VirgoThey provide a pathway, or show instability if it's not set up. Mercury also rules Gemini, although the latter has not been included here but only the sign of the wheat spike and science. In general terms, Egyptian references about Virgo are mostly formal, provide mental schemes and thoughts we can consider at the time of finding a more definite road.The word characterizing Mercury the better is knowledge, whereas the logic and critic parameters of Virgo show the perfect mechanism and detailed techniques, for both life and death. These cards become effective forces when finding a place to make an entrance: they get a chance after a shaking or disturbing circumstance, which means a space must be created to be possible to enter into the situation. Later, great and many are the possibilities coming along with Mercury, since its presence catches our attention, makes a connection, and even creates strings, taking with it the entire life circumstances and states.There are high and low emotional states when meeting the fast Mercury. The cards' path is for going through all of them although not getting stuck on any. They remind the sense of knowing, of being amazed, of matching in tune, and provide a new horizon when it seems an ending point had been reached.In this specific Tarot series, Mercury is not a superficial planet, not even when it plays games in the air, and is quite involved in vital situations, of great depth and importance for the future. If getting these cards on a spread, the classic references to the Greek Hermes or the Roman Mercury have nothing to do with the rooted situations deriving into openness, interests and relations now emerging in the life of the person, and involving the entire experience.index
Northern Hemisphere
TUN Withdrawal
33. Earth produces wealth (productive cycle).
The month of Virgo is a time to be cautious and avoid becoming other people's target. Without staying too much time on a same place, withouth establishing long-term relationships but eventual, ephemeral ones, focused on short-term goals, the chances to stay unnoticed increase. It wouldn't be convenient to be openly exposed and reveal the own presence. It would be better to take care of resources, manage distribution in a good way, and put them out of other people's eyes. Frugality is an adequate way to make moves during a month for hiding and retiring, without giving the chance to undermine the own relationships when it is noticed they last over time.
Southern Hemisphere
LIN Approach
19. Metals make decrease what is fixated (reductive cycle).
The month of Virgo is for leaving aside shyness and daring to jump, moving forwards and taking several steps ahead on a pathway that is just starting to be cleared out. Emotional states might had been relegated since before, not being expressed as people would like to. Now, the month is like a chance to go out on stage, with no subtle or soft ways. Minimal chances could be taken and amplified, for reaching the own aims eagerly. The end of the season is like a door's slit enlarging its contour at the slightest ray of light coming from the other side.
Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces are all mutable signs, always present during times of final transformation or transitions from one state to another one. They're the ones who fit in the most current circumstances and, when the Sun is in Virgo, the four mutable signs are developed in a very particular way.
To GEMINI, Virgo provides an unknown way to be developed: by going through a moulding work, linking, making groups, setting private connections, getting internally involved, not excluding. Both signs display similar results although they also count on basic differences: Gemini moves alone and is only focused on its own interests, whereas Virgo usually becomes part of groups (of people or ideas), and its vision is always an integrative one.VIRGO, during its own season, is for renewing youth spirit. Mercury is the planet revolving most times around the Sun, completing more cycles. It's born again every 88 days, a metaphor about freshness and renewal, new starts and a new type of knowledge to be unfold. With Mercury staying so close to the Sun's fire, there's nothing left to be repeated, although the planet keeps on turning!To SAGITTARIUS, Virgo provides laws, doctrines, duties. The sign of the archer is quite known for getting internally obsessed and becoming fanatic or dogmatic. It's also famous because of achieving mindfull insights and displaying contagious moods. Virgo provides an ordering when it gets excited, and may strengthen the archer's norms and obligations.To PISCES, the month of Virgo is a chance to connect one more time with people, come back to interests and places, or pursue aims from the past. If leaving behind a path or a relatioship, there might be a return. Decisions made during the month will be definitive and true (Pisces will hardly cheat on itself). Approaches and distances will be deep and taken in true convincement. On the contrary, returns will be a second chance, a real one. Or they won't be at all.index
Among Olympian deities, Virgo is related to Demeter and Hephaestus: skills, works and outshining products. About the goddess, read the previous newsletter delivery, since Greek deities rule two signs of the Zodiac: Demeter rules both Leo and Virgo.
Hephaestus, god of smithySon of Zeus and Hera brothers, he was Demeter's nephew. When he was born, his mother disliked his appearance and threw him down a ravine, such as it was the tradition when new born babies had imperfections. But the kid fell on the ocean and was nursed by goddesses Tethis and Eurynome during nine years, inside of an underwater grotto. It was there where Hephaestus arranged his first smithy: when metals have been forged skillfully, they reflect sunlight, the shining removes ugly visions and hides defects, in the same way lunar eclipses do (a kind of representation of his mother's disliking when she had his pityful vision after childbirth, and the later act of getting rid of him for not seeing her own product).But Hephaestus was thankful to the sea goddesses, and made for them all types of adornings and useful objects. Later, his mother admired the perfection achieved in one of Tethis' adornments, which had been forged by her son, so she took Hephaestus to the Olympus. But a critic to Zeus caused him to be thrown down again from there, and the god fell in Lemnos island (a volcanic place where his sons rule). Although the god returned to Olympus later, he's known as "the lame one" of strong arms since then.Being the god of fire, artisans and smithy, he created several products of different kind and usage: wine jars, jewels, weapons, charriots, thrones, palaces, temples, and even living statues. The latter ones worked by automatic mechanisms, shaped in both human and animal forms: they were assistants, singers, guard dogs, bronze bulls, and even the metallic eagle that ate Prometeus' liver.Hephaestus was involved in several childbirths. The god had forged a bronze axe and used it to split his father's head into two pieces, from where the goddess Athenea emerged out, completely built in arms and playing her war clarion. He also created Pandora, after Prometeus had formed clay men and had stolen the Olympus' fire to give it to mankind. So Zeus did the same, and asked Hephaestus to forge a maid of immortal face, from earth and water. The Olympic gods called her Pandora and, as every one of them gave her a gift, a punishment was set for the robbery: anyone who eats bread, would be in pain (from -Pan- prefix, a product made with wheat). Finally, Zeus chained Prometeus on a mount, and gave life to Hephaestus' automatic eagle.Hephaestus also forged an adamantine throne, and sent it to his mother. But when Hera seated on it, she got trapped among unbreakable ties. Finally, Hephaestus set her free under the condition of getting married with the morning star, Aphrodite, the goddess of pleasure and beauty. Unfortunately, Aphrodite cheated on him with Ares, to whom she gave a daughter, Harmony. Hephaestus took revenge, and gave her daughter a beautiful necklace as a wedding gift. But the jewel was cursed, and the curse fell upon her as well as all her descendants.There was also a time when Athenea was looking for the smith's weapons, and the god wanted to take her sexually, but she refused to. From his semen fallen on earth, Erikhthonios was born (Apollo, the motherless god). Among Roman myths, Hephaestus is identified with Vulcan, who married Maia (the eldest one among the Pleiades, also assigned to May in the calendar, like Aphrodite). In Greek myths, the name "Maia" means "little mother", she was Hermes' mother and also took care of Bootes the giant. It seems the union Vulcan - Maia in Roman myths combines two roles, mother - wife, what the Greek god didn't have had. Hephaestus had been thrown away by his own mother at birth, the marriage with Aphrodite had not been a fertile union, and he became Apollo's father without inseminating a woman (which means without being inside of her, again another representation of his mother's rejection): his product came from Gaia, from the Earth. Anyway, he later married one of The Graces, Aglaea (whose name means brilliant or shining), and was also involved with several nymphs and mortals, with whom he had more children.
Those born between 08.22 and 09.22.24 will experience a strong relational karma, although it will be progressively cleared out after they reach 29-30 years-old. Setting definitions won't be their main characteristic, even if they actually remain attached or sentimentally committed to something or someone. Those born between September 10 and 16 will be a brief exception (they might have a better luck although not specially for getting involved in deep relationships). But those born since September 15 will really not care about their karmic luck: they'll be focused beyond all of that, on other horizons!
Northern HemisphereMoon's rising sign: Libra. Ruler: Venus.Origins, traditions, legacies and first attractions will be quite important in their lives. They'll tend to remain attached to all of them as time passes by. They may even reject those relations and ties seeming to be too different or unusual to their own ways.But the birth tendency will be reversed, especially after the first Saturn's return (around 29-30 years-old, approx.). Then, they'll feel new attractions, especially for people and situations they used to keep away before. Past times will acquire another color, and will be understood in another way, since history won't be taken as a basic reference to find a way to be and behave.This is how future karma will become present karma, and evolutional times will be speed it up. Sentimental relationships, business partnerships, legal environments and exchanges, social life and the arts will be areas to make room and find the own road, while opening themselves to the outer world, taking ahead activities and becoming aware of many things, both in private and shared experiences.
Southern HemisphereMoon's rising sign: Aries. Ruler: Mars.They'll be true Virgo's natives as will emphasize the signs's basic characteristics, a way to be and stay in the world: analyzing, understanding and linking, putting order into their lives and into other people's lives, trying to fixate schemes and thoughts.In karmic terms, they won't be in the past or in the future. The present time will be "the" place to be at, so they'll remain sticked even more to Virgo, to the Sun. Anyway, they won't carry on rigid schemes or too strict thoughts, since birth karma won't let them concentrate vital energy for too long.However, there might be a time when they feel attracted to relationships from the past (even ancient legal orderings). Time will erase barriers, hardness, separations, and they'll experience a warm revival of familiar situations: their own karmic past, to be met once again.index
Lunar months last approximately 29 days, and are very useful to consider short-term purposes. The beginning of the month is for setting tendencies, and the effects can be fully observed 15 days later. The rest of the month is for decreasing the initial tendency and freeing space for the new cycle to come.NEW MOON. The lunar month starts on September 03 with Moon and Sun at 11º Virgo. For visualizing the product or the result by starting from row materials or seeds. Just take care of developmental paths: there might be problematic demandings (because of excesses or lacks), and in just a few days an eclipse may cancel any ongoing tendency started during this lunar phase.FULL MOON. The phase will begin on September 18 at 25º Pisces, when the Sun ends transiting Virgo, at 25º too. From the sky, everything could be opposed to and contrasted with the New Moon's intention. At the same time, there will be a LUNAR ECLIPSE on America, Africa, Europe and the Western half of Asia. Consider days 17 to 19 as special days to forget, erase memory traces, and radically discard whatever happened since New Moon. Advice: do not focus on thoughts or feelings during eclipses, even since one day before until one day after the event.
Northern HemisphereHarvest MoonThe results might not be the expected ones. The month won't bring too many affinity at first sight or during first encounters. Beings and things will need time to get along, and when that time comes the month might have ended by then... The product derived from work, the results after efforts, will be "put away" or kept away, and they won't be recognized or accepted. Considering the forecast, New Moon's basic thinking should be reviewed. As a way to face it when be more sensed, a more flexible perception might reduce the hardness of misunderstanding and the lack of receptiveness.
Southern HemisphereWorm MoonExcept days 17 to 19, the month will be a quite good time to go out and implement what is in mind or has been planned. Just don't forget the starting impulse, and keep it well-definite and alive. It won't be easy since the primary flame might be lost, as veiled, blurred somewhere across time. Even if counting on pre-conceived ideas and a mental scheme, it will be hard to clear out the road and start the engines in motion. Anyway, that would be the best thing to do during this Moon time: a month to meet the world outside and announce what has been conceived, which may be ideas as well as concrete and objective actions.
Xul Solar: esoteric paintings
Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari (1887 - 1963) was an Argentinian artist who designed several paintings and a Tarot deck full of mystic symbols and esoteric references. His artworks, throughout the years, are to be appreciated in detail and also as a whole single piece. Of eclectic forms and strict logic, he also transformed the Western Zodiacal representation and Tarot cards, by gathering elements from different sources and creating single compositions, integrated inside of a quite definite order to be desciphered. His paintings are a whole language.
Luo Pan compass & I Ching
Feng Shui is considered as one of the tradicional Chinese arts, along with meridian Medicine, I Ching fortune-telling, Jupiter's Astrology and martial arts. The compass locates the magnetic direction for buildings, rooms and objects, and relates them to trigrams and I Ching's hexagrams. Based on the measurements provided by the Luo Pan, a scheme of the energetic reflection is constructed, which is the starting point to design buildings and place decorative ornaments, plan activities and suggest reforms, all according to good circulation principles and the conservation of energy.
Native-American Zodiac
The month of Virgo in the Northern Hemisphere is related to the Bear, the most level-headed animal, always offering reasoning and taking into consideration various opinions. Despite how they seem in nature, they're shy creatures who love very deeply. They're patient and generous, which makes them good for parenting.
The month of Virgo in the Southern Hemisphere is related to the Wolf, an animal that feels very deeply. This is an unparalleled lover with a talent for passion. What's hard is that wolves are also independent –they need time away for themselves. If a Wolf finds a mate that understands that type of need, the person provides gentility and compassion for a lifetime.
Source: Native American Zodiac Astrology.
Trees of Celtic tradition
Tree spirits are assigned according to lunar months, which begin at different dates than solar months do. When the Sun is in Virgo, Coll and Grape Vine spirits flourish. Coll spirit raises until 09.01 although has been present since before, when the Sun was in Leo. About this spirit, come back to the previous newsletter delivery dedicated to the sign.
People born between 09.02 and 09.29 are related to the Vine spirit (also called Muin in the Ogham alphabet). The plant is associated to M character, which belongs to the thumb's second phalanx (reason). It represents introspection, relax, depth, and indicates a cycle of birth, life and death (as fruits change colors).
The plant shows plasticity since it grows at different locations, both in dark shadows and at full sunlight. Although there are many different types, it's usually recommended a deep although unfrequent irrigation.
According to development processes, vines can be categorized in at least four types. A) Intertwined: they turn in spirals, over themselves or around any other plant they find nearby, following the structure as a guide to expand. B) Tendrils: they get sticked to whatever they found since they're very sensitive to contacts. They usually grow on woods and trees, until reaching the surface of branches and trees cups. C) Clinging: they climb high and don't need a support to do it, since the count on "sucker discs" for staying attached to any small relief on plain surfaces. D) Tied: they count on no support and have to be tied to grids.
Source: El Ogham.
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