fire cat pickles Posted April 4 Posted April 4 3 hours ago, Rose Lalonde said: Cards on my desk for the decan walk... It makes my heart happy to see a TdM deck included with the decans 🙂
Nemia Posted April 4 Posted April 4 Oracle of the Radiant Sun - yes, I love that deck, I'll try to integrate it. I used Caroline Smith's Moon Oracle for the Moon Phases for a while. About the Sun and its mythology. In the Chaldean order, and if we watch the skies like a naive, pre-Copernican observer, the Sun is between Mars and Venus. Its movements appear faster than Mars's but slower than Venus's. In reality, of course, it's our Earth that's moving between Mars and Venus. Interestingly, the Sun has both masculine and feminine attributes in our culture. Mars is seen universally as male energy, and Venus as female, but the Sun and Moon can appear as either gender. Only Aries' and Scorpio's three decans have the Mars - Sun - Venus pattern where the solar middle decan seems to smile to both directions and unite the old dichotomy in ambiguity. In Greek and Roman mythology, the Sun is male energy and the Moon female - Sol and Luna, Helios and Selene, the Titans. In later myths, the Olympian brother and sister team, Apollo and Artemis, take their places. Alexander the Great was often seen as Apollo-like figure. Early Christianity adopted the iconography of Sol Invictus for Jesus Christ, as in the famous mosaic from the Tomb of the Iulii, and we can see echos of this myth in Christian iconography through the ages. In Rembrandt's painting depicting the Supper at Emmaus, Christ turns into a source of light - a metaphor found in many other paintings. But in Norse and Germanic myth, and also in Tolkien's universe, the Sun is female and the Moon masculine (in my native German, it's DIE Sonne and DER Mond, i.e., even the grammatical genders of the words reflect these ancient beliefs - in French, it's of course the other way around, LE soleil and LA lune). Norse goddess Sunna/Sol keeps her horses under control. In some versions of the myth, her carriage is chased by wolves. In my old book, Tolkien's Bestiary, Arien (Sun) and Tilion (Moon) are shown as female and male, respectively: In Hebrew, interestingly, we call the Sun Shemesh, and it's a word with a feminine gender as well, while the Moon, Yare'ach, is masculine. The poetic names for both (Chama, the Hot One, and Levanah, the White One, are both feminine). There are traces of the Canaanite goddess Shamshu/Shapshu in in the word Shemesh. (Sorry for being lazy enough to use Wikipedia, but it's always a good collection of sources you can continue your own research from). Looking at a list of solar deities, you can see that most of them are male, but there are many females as well. Celestial deities transcend gender, isn't that nice? In German children's books, the Sun is predominantly depicted as a female, Frau Sonne, Mrs. Sun. And that's what I grew up with. Little Häwelmann is helped and encouraged by the Moon, but Mrs. Sun decides she has had enough of his antics and kicks him out of her realm as soon as it's morning: Another bossy Lady Sun appears in the very old (and crumbling) book Sternenfritzchen, where she slaps the rooster for telling lies. The Sun as stern German Hausfrau, complete with apron - now there's something to start the day with.
FindYourSovereignty Posted April 4 Posted April 4 @Nemia, thank you. Tjis was a joy to read as the sun was rising this morning.
Rose Lalonde Posted April 4 Author Posted April 4 A very enjoyable read with my morning coffee just now. Thank you for taking the time to add this with the images! And I had not thought of this before: 14 hours ago, Nemia said: Only Aries' and Scorpio's three decans have the Mars - Sun - Venus pattern where the solar middle decan seems to smile to both directions and unite the old dichotomy in ambiguity. 🙂
JoyousGirl Posted April 4 Posted April 4 (edited) Thanks Nemia. It doesn't matter how old we get, we always like images to support our learning journeys. 17 hours ago, Nemia said: Only Aries' and Scorpio's three decans have the Mars - Sun - Venus pattern where the solar middle decan seems to smile to both directions and unite the old dichotomy in ambiguity My own musings have revolved on this central 'smiling' and illuminating force (uniting - or integrating). The gravity of the sun is holding the masculine and feminine (along with the other planetary bodies and associations we'll experience) in place, in different modes, to give us an environment to explore the energy we're holding as individual molecules/souls - discordant and harmonious. So our self (Aries) realisation and karmic lessons (reviewed in Scorpio). I am seeing this Decan Mars / Sun as an opportunity to move things around on the canvas - "I'll put that thing here, and that thing there - no, no, I'll move that back over here and this one up there." As we live our life within cycles, there's the introduction to the book, revisions to the book, and reading the book. Aries/Mars is our self, we are the book. Yet our book is woven into others' stories too (the Sun is the self and Venus includes others). The Venus/Mars affair and myth is probably relevant. We've got an opportunity to see ourselves which Mars doesn't always like or spend time doing. 17 hours ago, Nemia said: where she slaps the rooster for telling lies. In this case the Sun is illuminating, and Vulcan is slapping. This probably is way off track - I'm not looking at the card, just thinking of concepts in space 😄 Edited April 4 by JoyousGirl
Rose Lalonde Posted April 7 Author Posted April 7 (edited) Sun art I made today, inspired by Meleen's mention of Persephone and Anubis in the Aries 2 post. (Also inspired a bit by the 2 doors on VI The Lovers card in Ballast) Pen and markers, scanned and colorized in Photoshop. About 4 days left in this decan. Edited April 7 by Rose Lalonde
FindYourSovereignty Posted April 9 Posted April 9 (edited) At 11⁰ of this decan I have Mars in Libra. This second decan 3 of Wands, being influenced by the Sun and further influenced by the Emperor all feels like I am creating a new relationship with myself with others. In otherwords, who am I to myself when I am with others. Evolving and protecting my self-love, I face myself, acknowledge my feelings, and become more aware. Grounded in my awareness, I discover what I believe. My beliefs reveal where I belong. Knowing where I belong, my thoughts align and open to receive. Being open, my intuition guides me. Trusting my intuition I can now commit. Taking action on my commitments manifests my beliefs. I had an unexpected opportunity to spend three days at the ocean. Timing was not coincidental, imo. Edited April 10 by FindYourSovereignty Add beach photos
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