Virgo/Pisces in 2016

Jason Holley

The Hermes-Hestia Center

www.hermeshestia.com

Pisces

ChaosNon-form

Out-of-ControlPotentiality

SymbolicGeneral

Right BrainWave

SynthesisPleasure

WildernessThe Fertile VoidUndifferentiated

Virgo

OrderForm

ControlActuality

LiteralSpecific

Left BrainParticleAnalysis

WorkGarden

The Filled WorldDifferentiated

Typhon Hydria, Unknown, c. 530 BCPhotograph by Bibi Saint-Pol, 2007

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Mount Etna Erupting 2013.Photograph by Angela Platania, 2013

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Aphrodite et Eros, William Adolphe Bougereau, c. 1875Accessed from Caperton Classic Art, troycap.com

"Once Aphrodite, in flight from terrible Typhon, reached the Euphrates with tiny Cupidos in tow and sat by the hem of the stream . . .

“She pales with fear, and believes a hostile band approaches. As she clutched son to breast, she cries: ‘To the rescue, Nymphae, and bring help to two divinities.’ No delay; she leapt. Twin fish went underneath them."

Ovid, Fasti

Typhon Hydria, Unknown, c. 530 BCPhotograph by Bibi Saint-Pol, 2007

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Three Ways To Bear the Unbearable

Chaos / Flooding

Typhonic Romantic Astraean

Merge Escape Control

Attic Red Figure (detail of Horai), Sosias Painter, ca. 500 BCPhotograph by Antikenmuseen Berlin

"The Horai, as they are called, to each of them, according as her name indicates, was given the ordering and adornment of life."

Diodoros Siculus

"I [Helios the Sun] carry the measures of time, surrounded by the four Horai, about the same centre, until I have passed through a whole house [of the Zodiac] and fulfilled one complete month as usual . . .

Against Mene the moon I move my rolling ball, the sparkling nourisher of sheaf-producing growth, and pass on my endless circuit about the turning-point of the Zodiakos, creating the measures of time."

Nonnus, Dionysiaca

The Dialectic of Order and Chaos

Mercury/Virgo

Forming TendingCrafting

Neptune/Pisces

DissolvingFlooding

Doing, Undoing, Redoing

An existing order is tended and maintained

Neptune dissolves the ordering structures (‘undoing’)

Psychic contents adrift and afloat, relative internal chaos as new possibilities are intuited

Elements are experienced in bite-size bits – patterns are discerned and linkages are drawn across the worlds, new forms and orders arise (‘doing’)

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Virgo/Mercury/Hermes

Builds the vesselFaces the real in small bitesDiscerns the natural orderLinks the worldsCoaxes the connections

Pisces/Neptune

Keeps the heart openDraws from the infiniteRemembers the dismemberedHolds space for the emergenceAllows and accepts

Khnum and the Ends and Beginnings of Worlds