Cassandra from the Black Room of Pompei
I just recorded this podcast about the Mercury/Uranus conjunction tonight- with both of them cojoining the asteroid Kassandra!
Modernly we are told Apollo is the god of the Oracle of Delphi and that Kassandra promised to have sex with Apollo if he gave her the gift of prophecy. The modern myth is she got the gift and reneged on her side of the deal- so Apollo got mad and cursed her saying ‘you have the gift of prophecy- but no one will believe you’.
Hmm… Why is a god in a superior power dynamic trying to trade sexual favors for prophetic gifts? What might have been there before this modern story?
Tune in to learn about the matriarchal origins of the Oracle of Delphi and stories of what was there before the Sun God (warrior/ego consciousness) came in to conquer, slay and take over the oracle.
I also talk about Pythagorus and his female teacher Themistoclea!
The Kassandra Portal is today May 17th through the 22nd. Use it wisely!
~Harmony
ART in Podcast Player- Allegory of Geometry by Laurent de la Hyre (said to be Themistoclea)
Pythagorus and Themistoclea
by Raphael “The School of Athens”
SABIAN SYMBOLS
by Dane Rudhyar
PHASE 62 (GEMINI 2°): SANTA CLAUS FURTIVELY FILLING STOCKINGS HANGING IN FRONT OF THE FIREPLACE.
KEYNOTE: A rewarded faith in spiritual blessings.
The popular allegory refers to the spiritual blessings which come to the “pure in heart,” whose consciousness is likened to that of a little child. Polarized by eager expectation and faith in the existence of celestial Powers, the pure consciousness as yet un-solidified by ego and rationalistic arguments experiences the concrete manifestation of what it had imagined. In this symbol, Santa Claus acts “furtively.” The gifts from an imagined and intensely believed in spiritual world must not be examined closely or at length by the reasoning intellect. The would-be clairvoyant is told not to look straight and intently at what he begins to “see”; instead he should cast sideways glances at it, since the sharply focused mind would make the apparition vanish.
At this second stage of the thirteenth five-fold sequence we have once more a symbol in contrast to the one for the first stage. In order to discover the wonders of the normally unconscious depths of the collective psyche, the individual has to build the proper kind of vehicle (a glass-bottomed boat); but the reception of new blessings from the spiritual realm above (the superconscious) requires mostly faith and purity of heart, and a common type of understanding (stockings) — thus a state of INNOCENCE.
STAR SPARKS
By Ellias Lonsdale
Gemini 2
A collection of large dried leaves, each one bearing an inscription
We remember what happened to us, and all the colors and tones of those times. We relive, passing through our reflective consciousness, the overt drama and its interior reverberations. We think about these things. We dream our lives in the now the same way. All is passing, transient. What can we grab a hold of, what is really ours?
We must go through every stage of the process. At first, we are culturally bound. So the images are so archetypal, the memories so familiar and easy. We can just be one of those characters who repeats the same lives, who comes forth through the same gestures year after year. We are common, we are part of everybody, we have the same stock of images to show for our history in this life.
Yet even solid allegiances wear thin when we start to be aware at a different level. The pictures change. What we key on now is what stands out, what has our name written on it, what is trying to show us a way through. And we become engrossed in the process of awakening. We seek to come to ourselves, to recognize who we can be amidst the reflections of who we have been and what we have learned along the way. Perhaps we even knock on the door of the third stage in our own development.
As we remember ourselves and realize why we are here, we are drawn to offer this gift to many others. And if the momentum is right, we can bring a universal resonance to what we have come to within ourselves. It seems like at every stage of the journey, we are twins of other, friends of the world. We just go from subconscious to conscious, to perhaps a super-conscious attunement to what this really means.
