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asclepios | apollo, sun god and curse breaker | cabala tipereth
Other articles for Leo and Saturn in Leo Introduction Especially if you have Saturn in Leo or a Stellium in Leo or in the fifth house, please study this intuitive rendering of the solar gods throughout time and space. Reading some of these myths will help your subconscious present you with creative solutions to your life path. In essence, you're supposed to act as the Sun in the lives of others. That means, not a renunciation of your own life, or a banishment to living in the shadows of others, but instead to a positive affirmation of life in all creatures and a dedication of your self to promoting others, to inviting them up onto the stage of life. You will also want to be the director and producer of your own life as dramatic art. Notice I didn't say MELOdramatic. If you are unclear about the difference, the best way is to educate your tastes by reading literature and listening to music that those with experience have identified as "great". This usually includes the Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, certain operas. The distinguishing characteristic is that there is a greatness to the characters as well as flaws. Unfortunately on Jerry Spring, there are flaws without greatness, thus little chance for redemption, and that is melodrama. This article is in process and the theme will be developed as time permits, given my other many projects. Nancy R. Fenn The diagram is based on one found in The Luminaries: The Psychology of the Sun and Moon in the Horoscope, by Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas. Both Greene and Sasportas have Saturn in Leo.
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SOLAR GODS AND HEROES DIAGRAM
Intuitive diagrams like this are the "other half" to linear outlines.
The Mask is from Florentine Masks and is used with their permission.
Asclepios Visit the Sanctuary of Aesclepios on Epidaurus Aesclepios was a child of Apollo, the Sun God
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Berkeley Online Medieval and Classical Library: The High History of the Holy Grail (13C AD French, follow Chretien deTroyes) Harvard Classics (free online download) excerpts from Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur describing Sir Gawain's search for the Grail I also discuss the Grail Quest at some length in the Saturn in Leo pages. CLICK HERE.
Bullfinch's Fables, the myth Myth Man's Jason (I like Myth Man)
Learn more about Mithras - The Cosmic Mysteries of Mithras (Oxford University Press)
„Uns ist in alten mæren / wunders vil geseit So beginnt das Nibelungenlied ... and so it begins!
Berkeley Online Medieval and Classical Library: Translation and free download, the major saga of the Nordic people (Middle High German around 1200 AD) Stanford Art Gallery - The Nibelungenlied and related German Culture including photographs of early Wagnerian operas
CLICK HERE to learn more at the Saturn in Leo pages.
Rubedo Alchemy is the early or right-brained version of chemistry. Originally an attempt by early "chemists" to turn lead into gold, it is called the Opus or Great Work and the result is called the Philosopher's Stone. Without getting too technical here in a short space, at a time when there was not such a differentiation between right and left brain pursuits, the chemical Opus became comingled with symbols and subconscious expressions of an individual's process of individuation (enlightenment). This phenomenon has been explored exhaustively by Carl Jung, his disciple Marie Louise von Franz and his close associate Karl Kerenyi. The Opus begins by taking the prima materia, Mercury, the base matter at hand, that which is to be turned to gold and doing things to it. . There are many recipes (take this and add that...), many stages, never in the same order but near the end there must be "blood," or what the alchemists call the rubedo or "redness" of life. A pure white substance becomes united with this red by firing up the alembic and putting upon it a lid. What is dross is burned away as the white and red are merged and bonded. In the typical illustration below, white would be associated with the Queen and red with the King. The royal pair are now risen transformed above the dragon unconscious in coniunctio oppositorum or marriage of opposites. This is also called the 'chymical marriage', or hieros gamos. The final stage is shown below, the lapis philosophorum, the hermaphrodite embodying the united King and Queen. This is the so-called "third thing", the "Rebis", a divine rebirth to consciousness. Knowing the basic alcehmical processes and symbols becomes more important as your knowledge through Jungian psychology and metaphysics progresses. The symbols repeat themselves throughout the history of our western world. Once recognized, you will see them anywhere from Chartres to artists like Kurt Godwin. Here are two good websites about alchemy: THE ALCHEMY LAB and the astounding ALCHEMY WEBSITE.
Also called The Chemical Wedding of Sol and Luna - here are some good images from old alchemical texts A small library of books by Carl (or Karl) Kerenyi, Carl Jung, Marie Louise von Franz on sun god myths, alchemy and other topics pertinent to this page.
Coming near the end of the Major Arcana or Trumps (there are XX!) deck, the Sun card represents rebirth. copyright information Rider-Waite Tarot
READ COMMENTS FROM FREE MINI-SATURN RETURN READINGS NANCY HAS DONE, THEN EMAIL FOR YOURS.
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The Delphic Oracle by John William Godward
(1861-1922)
the lion father
Darth Vader - the dark father 
the lion and the divine child
Kriemhild throws herself on the dead Siegfried by Henry Fuseli 
