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A Blessing Of Unicorns

June 16, 2009 in Metaphysical Quirks, Moons by Mystic Medusa | 18 comments

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Beloved in Pagan & Christian mythology alike, the Unicorn classically is a beautiful & mysterious loner. The collective noun for a group of Unicorns is “a blessing.” A blessing of Unicorns sounds absolutely divine, especially when you compare it to – say – the collective noun for a group of Cranes or Herons: A “skulk.”

It is one of the four Sacred Creatures of the Ancient Chinese, along with the Dragon, Phoenix and Tortoise. Unicorns are sometimes linked to the Moon and thus to the Moon-Huntress Goddesses Artemis & Diana. They are said to be particularly protective of young girls and to only be able to be “tamed” by the pure of heart. Their horns were often attributed with the power of being able to antidote any poison in the whole world.

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Venus In Furs; for the Scorp Moon

April 11, 2009 in Astro In Books, Metaphysical Quirks, Moons by Mystic Medusa | 25 comments

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“And yet a restless, always unsatisfied craving for the nudity of paganism,” she interrupted, “but that love, which is the highest joy, which is divine simplicity itself, is not for you moderns, you children of reflection. It works only evil in you. As soon as you wish to be natural, you become common. To you nature seems something hostile; you have made devils out of the smiling gods of Greece, and out of me a demon. You can only exorcise and curse me, or slay yourselves in bacchantic madness before my altar. And if ever one of you has had the courage to kiss my red mouth, he makes a barefoot pilgrimage to Rome in penitential robes and expects flowers to grow from his withered staff, while under my feet roses, violets, and myrtles spring up every hour, but their fragrance does not agree with you. Stay among your northern fogs and Christian incense; let us pagans remain under the debris, beneath the lava; do not disinter us. Pompeii was not built for you, nor our villas, our baths, our temples. You do not require gods. We are chilled in your world.”
Wanda in Venus In Furs by Leopold Von Sacher Masoch…he was an Aquarian, btw.

Goth Weekend: Moon In The Scorpio…

April 10, 2009 in Astro-Fiends, Metaphysical Quirks, Moons by Mystic Medusa | 66 comments

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Happy Moonwane in Scorpio!  La Luna appropriately salutes a newly retrograde Pluto – ruler of Scorp  – and then squares jolly Jupiter in avant-garde Aqua. It’s a Goth weekend! Hilarious too that it is Good Friday – the one time fertility fest turned oh-don’t-start-one but really, any official festival SET to be on a Full Moon or closely around it has gotta be trouble.

That creature at the end of the path, above, is whom…exactly?  Your Jungian ‘Shadow’ figure, longing to bond more closely with you as it’s the Moonwane in Scorp et al? Oh and b.t.w the mystical Goth significance of this weekend is even more O.T.T. as the Moon is in the Via Combusta a.k.a the Fiery Way -  a part of the skies quite notorious in ancient days and Horary astrology… I never make much of it as my natal Moon is smack bang in the middle of it.

Or could the above figure just be a newly more austere acquaintance? Your own deepening awareness???

A suitable poem for ANY Moonwane in Scorp…

“…In a dark time, the eye begins to see,
I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;
I hear my echo in the echoing wood–
A lord of nature weeping to a tree,
I live between the heron and the wren,
Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den…”

In A Dark Time by Theodore Roethke - the rest is here.

Goth Easter Sunday Outfit Suggestion;

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It’s Goth, could be passed off as Christian & yet the Stag horns beneath the veil powerfully evoke Pagan origins, Oestre, the Goddess of the Dawn & Fertility from whence Easter actually got its name. There, I managed a rant in only one sentence this year. No eggistential crisis.