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maira
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posted August 10, 2011 07:54 PM
  
Also, a painting that for me is depicting Lilith in Scorpio. Le: I looked it up, it's Circe Invidiosa by John William Waterhouse. In another one of his paintings, Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses, she uses a potion to bewitch, seduce and trick him. I was right, how very Scorpio of her 
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maira
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posted August 10, 2011 08:05 PM
And here is the story of the potion she uses in the above painting. "Going closer, I see the title is Circe Invidiosa: Jealous Circe. I know who Circe is - the sorceress who turned Odysseus men in to swine - but I don't know this particular story. So I do some detective work. Ovid. Metamorphoses. Of course. In Metamorphoses Book 14, Ovid tells of a fisherman named Glaucus who comes to Circe with a problem. He loves a girl named Scylla. She lives on the island of Sicily and although he has courted her in every manner, she has rejected him. Circe looks Glaucus up and down and says 'Forget love potions. Become my lover. Spurn the one who spurns you and reward she who admires you, and in that one act be twice revenged.' 'Seaweed will grow on the hills,' says Glaucus, 'before I love anybody but her.' The sorceress is furious and decides to take revenge, not on Glaucus, whom she decides she loves, but on the innocent Scylla. Circe Invidiosa (jealous Circe) prepares a terrible potion and pours it in the grotto where Scylla goes to bathe. As soon as Scylla steps into the pool, the 'water around her groin erupts with yelping monsters'. Seven dogs' heads rise snarling out of the sea. Scylla screams and tries to slap them away. But every blow causes her pain because they are part of her. Her lower limbs have become horrible man-eating dogs. Revolted and traumatized by this metamorphosis, the once-beautiful Scylla takes shelter in a grotto near the straits of Messina, the place where Sicily almost touches the toe of Italy. And when sailors pass by, her monstrous dog-heads dart out and gulp them down still living. Poor Odysseus loses six men this way. Nowhere does Ovid say Glaucus is good looking, so why does Circe want his love? I think Circe is like one of those beautiful girls who wants every man to desire her, and always pursues the one man who doesn't. Ovid describes her as passing through a crowd of fawning animals. These are enchanted men who have drunk the potion of Circe's beauty and have been made bestial by their desire for her. Although she has a crowd of admirers, she wants Glaucus, the one man who seems resistent to her beauty. But you know that if ever he was ensnared by her and professed his love, she would soon grow bored with him." http://flavias.blogspot.com/2009/07/circe-invidiosa.html IP: Logged |
Benedict Moon*
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posted August 10, 2011 08:19 PM
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How Aries of me, I  my thread and I you beautiful people! Thank you!!
WE HEART YOU TOO FOR STARTING THIS THREAD THAT IZ MADE OF AWESOME.
On the subject, has anyone seen this photo on Mystic Medusa? Its suppose to be of Lilith and I ADORE it. It also reminds me that its time to get my eyebrows done.  http://mysticmedusa.com/2011/08/mars-ghosts-the-upside-of-mercury-retrograde/#comments
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Stawr
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posted August 10, 2011 10:16 PM
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WE HEART YOU TOO FOR STARTING THIS THREAD THAT IZ MADE OF AWESOME.
On the subject, has anyone seen this photo on Mystic Medusa? Its suppose to be of Lilith and I ADORE it. It also reminds me that its time to get my eyebrows done. [URL=http://mysticmedusa.com/2011/08/mars-ghosts-the-upside-of-mercury-retrograde/#comments]http://mysticmedusa.com/2011/08/mars-ghosts-the-upside-of-mercury-retrograde/#comments[/ URL]
yes I love it! I commented on her blog today. IP: Logged |
maira
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posted August 11, 2011 06:46 AM
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WE HEART YOU TOO FOR STARTING THIS THREAD THAT IZ MADE OF AWESOME.
On the subject, has anyone seen this photo on Mystic Medusa? Its suppose to be of Lilith and I ADORE it. It also reminds me that its time to get my eyebrows done. [URL=http://mysticmedusa.com/2011/08/mars-ghosts-the-upside-of-mercury-retrograde/#comments]http://mysticmedusa.com/2011/08/mars-ghosts-the-upside-of-mercury-retrograde/#comments[/ URL]
I cannot believe that I didn't know about this blog, I'm an astrology blog addict! The picture is beautiful, did you see the small hand grasping from Hades's underworld?
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Benedict Moon*
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posted August 11, 2011 07:26 AM
Ah yes, I see the hand now. I just Surreal art. And yeah, that blog is effin' awesome. Its fun (I think she has an Aries Mercury) but with lots of insight (she's Pisces).
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yes I love it! I commented on her blog today.
Cool, I did too! 
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VenusDiSirius
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posted August 11, 2011 09:41 AM
Oh,THE thread is back! I'll post about DiChirico as soon as I find time!Ok... MysticMedusa is starting to grow on me... It's fun My guilty pleasure!
Like,when said that Merc Rx in Leo is great for revisiting one's childhood books!
She is glorifying Virgos,Leos,Scorpios and Cappies IP: Logged |
maira
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posted August 27, 2011 04:22 PM
Venus - Pluto synastry  Knut Ekwall - Fisherman and The Siren IP: Logged |
sand
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posted August 27, 2011 06:14 PM
I LOVE THAT!IP: Logged |
Stawr
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posted September 04, 2011 05:44 PM
Anne Stokes  This one is my fave IP: Logged |
tuxedoMask
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posted September 04, 2011 06:24 PM
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SmilingHeart
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posted September 04, 2011 07:35 PM
Love the Renaissance!
Albrecht Dürer (Sun Gemini - Moon Gemini - Asc Virgo)
  and Leonardo Da Vinci (my favourite!) (Sun Taurus - Moon Pisces - Asc Sagittarius   IP: Logged |
britterfly
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posted September 04, 2011 07:54 PM
How weird. Venus di Sirius posted a piece by Leonardo DaVinci that looks, to me, startlingly like a picture I drew. Granted, it's not anywhere nearly as beautiful as DaVinci's, but the completely unintentional similarities really have me curious! I feel like I am channeling universal energy when I draw or make art. Was I channeling DaVinci???
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Nicole401
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posted September 30, 2011 08:21 PM
I just had to share this picture with you guys Pisces  IP: Logged |
freebrainstorms
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posted September 30, 2011 09:28 PM
Can I just say how much I love this thread! I never know what to contribute but I absolutely love looking through it.IP: Logged |
Nicole401
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posted October 16, 2011 06:55 PM
One more Aquarius
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VenusDiSirius
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posted October 16, 2011 07:33 PM
Dürer,Mercury's child; Only as such he could draw rhinocerous without even seeing the animal.  IP: Logged |
BelligerentPygmy
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posted October 17, 2011 12:23 AM
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Dürer,Mercury's child; Only as such he could draw rhinocerous without even seeing the animal.
That looks more like Earth/Taurus to me than Mercury. Keep in mind the Mercury mythology; the messenger,speed, wings, flight, air. Something more ethereal, not something weighty slow and stuck on the earth.
Some work from Alphonse Mucha. Looks pretty leonine and libran to me; interestingly enough Mucha was a Leo sun with a Libra Moon...  IP: Logged |
Lonake
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posted October 17, 2011 12:39 AM
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One more Aquarius
I have p.Moon/Venus in Aquarius and I like this one IP: Logged |
Stawr
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posted October 17, 2011 12:52 AM
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One more Aquarius
I have Mars Aqua and all I gotta say is "ohhyea!" IP: Logged |
maira
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posted February 16, 2012 08:47 PM
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athenegoddess
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posted February 16, 2012 09:49 PM
I like this type of art. Think it has something to do with my Moon/Neptune conjunction.  
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tautomer4314
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posted February 16, 2012 10:27 PM
JW Waterhouse is one of my favorites. This painting being my favorite by him:  To me this just screams the 8th house. I love it. ------------------
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ariesdragon
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posted February 16, 2012 10:33 PM
Wow a lot of these are beautiful IP: Logged |
Moonfish
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posted February 16, 2012 10:39 PM
this to me looks like Sun conjunct Neptune or Neptune in the 12H/Pisces. Lost in fantasy/illusion.  IP: Logged |
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