Date of Rulership: 21st December-19th January; Polarity: Negative, female; Quality: Cardinal; Ruling planet: Saturn; Element: Earth; Body part: Knees, joints, bones; Colour: Black, dark grey, and brown; Gemstone: Turquoise, amethyst; Metal: Lead. Following on from Sagittarius, Capricorn is a sign that is immensely focused on how developments made in various disciplines like science, economy, [...]
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Down this rabbit hole you will find opalescent mythic pearls, golden specks of historical dust and a body of long-forgotten occult treasures...
Welcome
Down this rabbit hole you will find opalescent mythic pearls, golden specks of historical dust and a body of long-forgotten occult treasures...
Welcome
Down this rabbit hole you will find opalescent mythic pearls, golden specks of historical dust and a body of long-forgotten occult treasures...
The Zodiac: Sagittarius the Archer
May 9th, 2012 
Paul Date of Rulership: 21st November-21st December; Polarity: Positive, male; Quality: Mutable; Ruling planet: Jupiter; Element: Fire; Body part: Thighs and hips; Colour: Dark blue, purple; Gemstone: Topaz; Metal: Tin. In my mind Sagittarius is proof of the Aristotelian teleology concerning God as the instigator, primal mover and consummator of a hierarchy of purposes; as [...]
Classical Hades: A Chapter in the History of Hell
May 6th, 2012 Paul A great many centuries before Jewish and Christian ideas surrounding heaven and hell appeared, the progressive and sometimes outrageous poets, playwrights, historians, and philosophers of classical and pre-Socratic Greece had already bequeathed to the Mediterranean world a pantheistic religion and a literary tradition surrounding majestic gods and goddesses whose behaviours imitated outright those of their [...]
The Zodiac: Scorpio the Scorpion
May 2nd, 2012 Paul Date of Rulership: 23rd October-21st November; Polarity: Negative, female; Quality: Fixed; Ruling planet: Mars/Pluto; Element: Water; Body part: Reproductive organs; Colour: Deep red; Gemstone: Opal; Metal: Steel or iron. Attempting to make sense out of the eighth sign of the zodiac can sometimes mimic the insurmountable task of trying to answer a cosmological question [...]
Oral History, Myth, and Egyptian Folklore
April 26th, 2012 Paul PART 1: ORAL HISTORY AND MYTH History in the written form has only been around for about five thousand years, since the evolution of a Sumerian script known as cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphic picture writing. History as we know it has also been recorded only by those who can write, mostly educated men until [...]
The Zodiac: Libra the Scales
April 25th, 2012 Paul Date of Rulership: 22nd September-23rd October; Polarity: Positive, male; Quality: Cardinal; Ruling Planet: Venus; Element: Air; Body part: Back, kidneys, and ovaries; Colour: All shades of blue; Gemstone: Sapphire, jade; Metal: Copper or bronze. Libra is probably the first sign in which we see a comprehensive exploration of the concept of duality and [...]
The Zodiac: Virgo the Virgin
April 19th, 2012 Paul Date of Rulership: 23rd August-22nd September; Polarity: Negative, female; Quality: Mutable; Ruling planet: Mercury; Element: Earth; Body part: Solar plexus and bowels; Colour: Dark brown, green; Gemstone: Sardonyx; Metal: Mercury or nickel. Up until now, the formative forces expressed by the zodiac under the signs of Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, and Leo [...]
The Zodiac: Leo the Lion
April 5th, 2012 Paul Date of Rulership: 24th July-23rd August; Polarity: Positive, male; Quality: Fixed; Ruling Planet: Sun; Element: Fire; Body Part: Heart and back; Colour: Gold; Gemstone: Ruby; Metal: Gold. We have thus far discerned that the dissimilar archetypes stretching from Aries to Cancer contribute vital components to the anatomy of one’s Self. These lay the foundations [...]
The Zodiac: Cancer the Crab
March 29th, 2012 Paul Date of Rulership: 22nd June-23rd July; Polarity: Negative, female; Quality: Cardinal; Ruling Planet: Moon; Element: Water; Body Part: Heart, lungs, and stomach; Colour: Silvery grey; Gemstone: Pearl; Metal: Silver. In the signs thus far examined, we have seen the formative energies of life achieve expression through different mediums: initially through the spontaneity and impulsive carnal [...]
The Therapist: Psychologizing the Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice
March 25th, 2012 Paul Orpheus was the progeny of a Thracian prince and one of the Muses. He appears twice in the annals of classical literature; as a guardian for Jason and the Argonauts on the Argo, and in a short-lived romance involving his chosen life partner, Eurydice. The first is transcribed by a third-century Hellenic poet, Apollonius [...]
