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The Scented Salamander

November 24, 2009 in Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 45 comments

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Opium was MASSIVE in the 80s. To me, it’s practically like the scent of the Eighties. Every sophisticated but slightly batso older woman i knew in that decade seemed to favour it. It’s distinct.

So now, here we go with the relaunch & it is a la the D & G Tarot Fragrances in that Y.S.L. is giving the juice an Occult spin.  I mean, the “scented salamander?” Would love to know the thinking behind this. Is it is emphasise the mystical, Oriental style as opposed to something linked to smack?

Mythologically, the Salamander is fabulous, in the real sense of the word. Reputedly a powerful poisonous creature, it’s colder than ice and thus immune to fire. So it’s a bit like a less noble Phoenix and most often depicted as perfectly happy, basking amidst flames. Some ancient pics of Adam and Eve have a Salamander,  not the Snake/Lilith tempting Eve with the apple.

So a Scented Salamander translated into being a woman would be cold & icy of persona but happiest in dramatic surroundings, poisonous and cool…? Okay, she’s a redhead so there is another Fire reference and what is she doing with the bottle. It looks like she’s about to chuck it at someone.

See Also: Matthew McConaughey’s perfume ad.

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Full Moon Eclipse in Aquarius

August 4, 2009 in Moons by Mystic Medusa | 30 comments

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William Degouve de Nuncques

Now that the Moon is near Full, sextiling Uranus and close to the destiny-reeking North Node, there is a higher-than-usual chance of sudden breakthroughs, emo insights re the past-present-future continuum & releases. Totally have a big pad by your bed to note down the ideas/dreams upon awakening.

The novelist Jeanette Winterson has got this gorgeous essay about the Moon;

“…In 1955 Walt Disney showed a private screening of his new film Man and the Moon to President Eisenhower and his generals at the Pentagon. Three months later the USA announced that they would be sending a satellite into space….

…The earliest written moon story is by Lucian, the Greek, in the second century AD, where he describes the moon, not as a barren rock, but as ‘a great country in the air, like to a shining island.’ Thomas Moore had this text in mind when he wrote his philosophical tract, Utopia, in 1515 – ‘the island of Utopia is shaped like a new moon…’

Most writers thought of the moon as colonised by a race morally superior to our own. When Cyrano de Bergerac – he of the long nose and passion for Roxanne – went to the moon in 1656, he found that Adam and Eve and St John the Evangelist had set up camp there. Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, wrote a political novel, The Consolidator, in 1705, in which it is possible to travel from China to the moon, where his hero learns lessons in good government….”

The rest is here.

Lilith Conjunct The Full Moon Eclipse!

July 7, 2009 in Full Moons, Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 47 comments

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You know, i have been so busy that i only just now  noticed that Lilith is conjunct the Full Moon Eclipse in Capricorn. OR maybe i did  notice but got distracted. Or repressed the info. This is awesome though as it backs my vibe about this particular Eclipse being bitchy & not in a bad way.

I don’t mean go out there & be angry or mean-spirited. I mean getta grip & apply some positive, bitched up discrimination to areas of your life where maybe you HAVE been a bit slack, sentimental or generous with the benefit of the doubt.

Lilith is fascinating. You can check her our in your chart via the Extended Chart Options on Astrodienst & what is instructive is to compare her to your Venus & Moon. Is there a relationship? Lilith is the darker feminine, the pre-patriarchal Eve, first wife of Adam, one-time Snake Goddess relegated to demoness in the Christian pantheon.

She’s whom you call upon or the archetype that is active when one needs to survive ordeals such as abuse, sans help. She’s the original Bitch-Goddess & being activated right now. How to channel her productively?

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Return Of The Bitch-Goddess

February 2, 2009 in Astro-Fiends, Astro-Passages, Astro-Women, Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 70 comments

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Lilith, 1892, by John Collier

Venus squares Pluto this Friday, but building now – already a perfectly sexy & heated troublesome little power-trippy sexual politiking of an aspect, no? But it’s complicated by Dark Moon Lilith also being conjunct Pluto this week. The mythological Lilith was demonised (literally) by the Christians. Yonks ago she was a Babylonian Snake Goddess & then she winds up as Adam’s First Wife & then the Snake in the Garden of Eden. Etc.

The astrological Lilith is interpreted differently by various peeps. I love this quote – in Astrodienst’s Astro-Wiki – from a Kocku Von Struckard:

” Lilith embodies the presence of an archaic form of feminine strength that ignores any patriarchal discourse of power and dominance and allies itself with those forces that affirm life itself.”

People used to say Lilith in your chart was where you were a difficult ‘bitch’ who had probs aligning herself to societal standards. Others say it’s where you’re fabulous & wild, women running with the wolves et al. I have phases where I track & analyze Lilith a lot. Usually when I’m on a Wiccan sort of a jag. I do think Lilith is fascinating in synastry: If your Lilith is strongly placed on someone’s Moon/Venus, he/she projects an awful lot onto you. You could look at a man (heterosexual) and his Moon-Venus-Lilith placements & be able to neatly delineate any Madonna-Whore complexes. Maybe not over dinner out or even to his face.

Anyway, with Lilith/Pluto being squared by Venus this week, there is a lot of sexual power undertow to all relationships. Covert or  not. And feminine anger too. I mean, Venus is in Aries…remember.