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Dec. 5th, 2023
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Dec. 5th, 2023 01:27 pmhello moonie moon
it was a long time ago
I've missed you
newly moved to uttran
you welcome me
here I see you more often
it's just to
open the double door
and look up at night
malmö throw yourself into the wall
I rarely saw you there
all roofs
all clouds
everything in the oasis
which obscures
sight on the fly
it was a long time ago
I've missed you
newly moved to uttran
you welcome me
here I see you more often
it's just to
open the double door
and look up at night
malmö throw yourself into the wall
I rarely saw you there
all roofs
all clouds
everything in the oasis
which obscures
sight on the fly
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Dec. 5th, 2023 03:56 pm
https://discover.hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/TheSnakeGoddess
from facebook, interesting, insightful even.
"Ancient astrology was based on the Moon. Lunar cycles have 13 months of 28
days apiece. All ancient civilizations once used the Lunar calendar. Today, we use
the Solar calendar, but this does not give anyone the right to alter the Zodiac to
a 12 base system. This was done for convenience, not for accuracy. The Roman
Empire decided to change astrology, and in doing so, they ruined it. The reason?
They wanted to destroy the power-base of women as equal members of society,
and used astrology to subjugate them. The Roman astrologer Ptolemy did his
part in this by removing the female goddess Ophiuchus from the Zodiac. The
Greeks had actually previously changed Ophiuchus into a man, but by removing
the eponymous "healer" from the Zodiac altogether, Ptolemy completed the
transformation of it into a weapon against women, also institutionalizing Leo,
Aries and Taurus as animal symbols instead of their original female
representations, who were the equal to men.
The Roman patriarchy used astrology as propaganda against powerful female
tribal chieftains and to subjugate Roman women into the narrow confines of
wives and prostitutes."
Lua Ravengold
"Thirteen is a number long associated with the Moon, women, magic, witches and
Shamans, and is part of a lunar matriarchal society that presaged the Roman
empire. It's no accident that the number 13 has been called evil, unlucky,
demonic, the mark of Lucifer, etc., since the church, established to support the
Holy Roman Empire, was just another means used to suppress women.
By rejecting Ophiuchus, the Romans were able to dehumanize females who
owned land, and kill those who resisted male domination. Ptolemy pumped
astrology up with testosterone and gave the Aries god of war an Imperial stamp
on the world, first in line forever–or so he thought. The war of the sexes was on.
What transpired was 2,000 years of the persecution of women, from bondage to
the bonfire. Religions and cultures evolved around Man's hatred and fear of
witches, cats, snakes, and a woman's sex organs. Even the menstrual period, the basis for the lunar calendar, was regarded as unclean and ungodly. Fertility,
long the realm of female wisdom, was centered not around the womb, but the
penis.
When Ophiuchus is brought back into the Zodiacal table, astrology will be
inclusive of the female perspective, bringing it closer to its origins, and the truth
of women's immense participation in human civilization.
The Romans officiated a brutal, murderous backlash against women that wiped
out the female leadership of the indigenous peoples in Europe. They legitimized
the expulsion of the 13th sign, Ophiuchus, from the Zodiac. They were afraid of
the shaman, the snake-handler, female tribal leaders and land owners,
midwives, herbalists--any woman possessing female wisdom and a higher
consciousness. Shamans were once exclusively females, until men started
disguising themselves as women in order to discretely practice shamanic lore
themselves. However, historically, both men and women were murdered for the
crime of sorcery, which in reality were the practices of the natural healer."
"The rejection of Ophiuchus from Zodiacal calculations and the downfall of the
lunar-based matriarchy occurred at the same time, and for the same reasons:
men wanted to usurp the power of strong women. Men have since killed and
tortured countless women accused of witchery, as they worked assiduously to
suppress Ophiuchus from our Zodiac--and ultimately, from our minds. This is
what you're buying into when you use an astrology based on Roman
imperialism!
Just one look at the Zodiac supports the inclusion of Ophiuchus in the ecliptic."
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Lua Ravengold
"Yet, today's 12 sign astrologers continue to deny that Ophiuchus is part of the
Zodiac. To ignore this powerful female snake goddess and healer is a choice they
make to perpetuate the injustice and brutality of the defunct Roman Empire.
The loss of Ophiuchus, the wrong cusps, the traveling vernal equinox, these are
all factors in the failure of tropical astrologers to answer the basic question,
what is your sign? Rather then question the problems with their system,
tropical astrologers prefer to live in a bubble, rejecting astronomy and
mathematical accuracy.
The 13-sign system is a much-needed correction of Ptolemy’s poorly conceived
12-sign Tropical system. 13-sign charts unite astrology and astronomy again, for
the first time in 2,000 years.
12-sign and 13-sign systems are NOT just different but equal: one is a lie and
the other, the truth. There is only one correct answer: the 13-sign
astronomically true answer."
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Lua Ravengold
"Ptolemy was probably more interested in currying favor with his Roman patrons
than in the truth. The Roman emperors wanted to suppress the lunar calendar
and matriarchal societies, and Ptolemy cooperated with by re-arranging the
Zodiac from 13 to 12 signs and renaming the female deities as men. His
ephemeris deleted the most powerful female archetype of all, the snake charmer
Ophiuchus.
His ephemeris failed to acknowledge the precession--the small anomaly in the
Earth’s rotation, which made all his calculations degrade by an error of one
degree every 72 years. This was insignificant during Ptolemy's lifetime, but has
become HUGE over the centuries, and has caused bogus results in every
calculation 12 sign astrologers make to this very day. Ptolemy pushed astrology
and astronomy apart, which has bastardized "modern" astrology from a science to a farce.
The Romans didn't care about accuracy, they cared about slaves and making
themselves richer. They used astrology to impose their rule and repress women
and African philosophy. They changed astrology, eliminating the female-oriented
lunar calendar. That's a clue as to why tropical, 12 sign astrology actually
supports misogyny and patriarchy, and has enforced a male-supremacist view of
its archetypes. This is why its so tragic that female astrologers participate in its
propagation. It amounts to horizontal violence against women!
Tropical system's inaccuracies lead to more than just bad signs, it creates
IMPOSSIBLE scenarios, and distorts the true nature and gender of the signs.
That's why Tropical charts can't be used even to predict something so basic as
the change of seasons. According to Tropical charts, the first day of spring
occurs in April, as it was in Ptolemy's time, not in March as we know it today.
The Romans are responsible for the simplification of sign division as well. They
sliced the Zodiac into twelve, equal 30 degree segments, rounding off the actual
times of the Sun's travel. This may have been convenient for astrologers before
the advent of computers, but is not applicable today. The actual cusps vary from
sign to sign."
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Lua Ravengold
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Lua Ravengold
"Ophiuchus' are passionate and intense individuals. They may gain attention
through creating dramatic situations. They may also be secretive. These are
all tendencies blamed on Scorpio, for whom they have an intimate
understanding. Scorpio is their mother, the larval pupae that gave them life.
In Ophiuchus the insect has transformed into an dragon. The fledgling has
grown into the Eagle.
They love power, and can be spell binding, but may prefer to perform behind
the scenes, or behind a veil of ambiguity. They are able to make or break a
group with your support and others can come to depend on them. They are
secretive, but curious of other's weaknesses. They want an absolute
oversight on the people near to them for fear of betrayal. Assimilation into
society is difficult; they are a stand-alone, stand-out, often persecuted or
scapegoated as a youth. Or they may have achieved a certain notoriety for
being an anarchist or a prickly pear, a snake with a poisonous bite. The mood
swings can be very intense, depending upon the Moon's position, since
Ophiuchus is ruled by the 13-month lunar calendar.
Ophiuchus is the birth of the new from the old, the emergence of the bird
from the nest or the snake from its lair, the paragon of untested power to
rise from the darkness to the light, from the rubble of war. This is the ego at
its most vulnerable time, a painful, anxious period when one lands on their
feet naked, a stranger in a strange land.
Ophiuchus is the risen, reborn Scorpio, changing herself into the symbol of
the soaring eagle, trading life for death; as snake eats tail, nature in its
mystery is revealed, the place where unprecedented phenomena takes place
to the incredulity of all. Ophiuchus belongs in an ethereal society, where
female visualizations become man's miracles, the impossible happens, we
can seize the power of the gods. Ophiuchus' message must be heard and
acted on, immediately. Ophiuchus is the birth of the new from the old, the
emergence of the bird from the nest or the snake from its lair; the paragon
of untested but unrestricted power to rise from the darkness to the light, as
if from the rubble of war. This is the ego at its most vulnerable time, a
painful, anxious period, when you land on your feet, naked, a stranger in a
strange land.
This ironically marks the Ophiuchus as crazy, uncooperative, even dangerous in modern society. Ophiuchus Sun means the person feels beyond society's
norms, like a sorcerer-herbalist and her potions, a law unto herself, a savior
and protector for those entrusted to her care. Since this is the sign of the
witch, the native Ophiuchus will harbor a natural affinity for secrets, potions,
omens, conspiracies, cats, astrology, psychology, and the midnight hour.
They are alert to intruders and don't like being exposed or uncovered. They
have speed and unerring aim and a snake's poisonous fangs. They can be
political fanatics, and despise organized religions. Both males and females
sometimes establish or join covens, semi-secret affinity groups devoted to
making magic or visions. This sign is like a conspiracy, a shadowy clique that
has withholds secrets from the establishment.
Ophiuchus is an ethereal, mentalist sign; their grasp of physical events and
the mechanics of the material world is very limited; they simply have no
interest in how things work, or what can go wrong in the conventional world.
Ophiuchus often is pushing a vision of reality that does not seem possible in
the real world, as experienced by the rest of humanity. Often the Ophiuchus
is of two minds, even two appearances where one sex can disguise
themselves as the other, or disguise their sexuality completely. As with all of
Ophiuchus traits, this is still only a shield to confuse the gawkers, the
deepest parts remain unknown."
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Lua Ravengold
"Every year between November 22, and December 25, the Sun passes through the constellation of Ophiuchus, from our perspective here on the Earth. Many of us recognize this as the "holiday Season". The Christmas holiday is, on one level, the celebration of the birth of Christ or Christ consciousness. This state of consciousness, also sometimes called galactic consciousness, is represented by the constellation of Ophiuchus, the Serpent Dancer, when achieved within a human body."
"In galactic astrology, the center of the Galaxy is analogous to the Higher Self or the Jungian Self. It is only by transcending the "wheel of twelve" and allowing energy to spiral, resonant with the number thirteen, that we as humans, access and maintain a conscious connection to our Higher Self."
