Fixed Stars
The horror-scope of Algol
 (1 vote)"In 750 BC, the full-bodied image of Medusa in Greece is a central piece on their oldest surviving temple, that of Artemis, one of their oldest gods. She is the Lady of the Beasts who carries with her memories of Crete and Angolia ... Soon the holy image of the gorgon Medusa as an ancient symbol of female power and wisdom became totally unacceptable. By the 6th c. BC her rites were disrupted, her sanctuaries invaded, the sacred groves cut down, her priestesses were violated and her image defiled. Her images, (as well as women) are mastered and domesticated. Her mask was used on elaborate Etruscan lantern fixtures and stoves, probably for her relation to alchemical fire. Although the mask was widely used by country folk, her female wisdom, natural forces, powers of creativity, destruction and regeneration were demonised and made evil. She was made into a horrid, ugly monster (most monsters were female or born of the Earth). " |
Shelley: A Tragic Romantic - Study in the Fixed Stars
 (1 vote)"Born in August 1792, Shelley was the eldest son of a Member of Parliament and grew up in a family with strong political ties. He was educated at Eton and then at University College, Oxford. During his late teens he developed a tendency to stand against authority and, though frail and sensitive of disposition, aired his controversial views with the utmost of confidence. His interests were wide and varied, including philosophy, astronomy, alchemy and the occult, while his independence of thought led to an intense dislike for the rigours of Christianity. In 1811 he published a provocative pamphlet, The Necessity of Atheism, for which he was expelled from University. His first major poem, Queen Mab was written in 1813, a prelude to an illustrious career that came to full bloom just four years later. Famous works include The Cloud, Ode to the West Wind, and To a Skylark. " |
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Fixed Stars, why bother?
(1 vote) "With the stars in my focus I therefore notice that for the first time in 4,500 years we have a bright and visible pole star, Polaris. The last time was Thuban in 2,700 - 2500 bce which was the 4th Dynasty in Egypt and the period of the pyramid builders. So before last night (if your local sky was clear and you are in the northern hemisphere) the last time we humans could look up at the night sky and see the moving celestial sphere paying court to a star-of-stillness was in the time of the building of the pyramids. Now if you really are star-dreaming then you would have also noted that the winter solstice, the position of the sun for the winter solstice sunrise or sunset[1], has now precessed to the centre of the Milky Way[2] - the ancient and sacred place of Egyptian sky goddess Nut. So now in this 100 year period the Sun is annually reborn from the body of Nut - an event which only repeats once every 12,900 years.[3]" |
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Using the fixed stars
(1 vote) "If a fixed star conjuncts a natal planet, there is a life-long melding of the influence of the fixed star on that planet. When an arc, progression or transit, activates this conjunction; it will express the nature of the fixed star in its essence. " |
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Introduction to the fixed stars
"The Fixed Stars represent an important and exciting ancient resource of knowledge for astrology on which much solid work has been done in the past and into our own times. But this is not currently a widely known field of astrology and the present work aims to popularize it for the general reader and at the same time to provide its data the greater clarity and organization that can be of assistance to the ongoing research of professionals. Up until the Renaissance, the fixed stars used to be a standard part of the astrological art. But from the Renaissance onwards the marked fatalism associated with their interpretations fell into disfavor with two modern trends; the new knowledge emerging in the Renaissance that developed into the full blown rationalism of the Enlightenment, and which gave a greater complexity to causation and the Protestant Reformation with its stress on free will. " |
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