Tethy has been and returned from
adventures around the Black Sea. She was looking for and found the ‘Golden
Fleece’ of Argonaut fame and that was once held in the Greek Colony of Colchis.
As legend has it, the hero Jason
and his comrades set sail from Greece on a journey around the Black Sea looking
for the ‘Golden Fleece’, symbol of transmuted energies. In alchemy gold is the
end product when we have changed our leaden vices into golden virtues.
Rumour has it that Jason found
this very fleece at the spot where now stands the beautiful city of Batumi in
Georgia on the Black Sea. So the locals raised a statue of the goddess/priestess Medea
holding the fleece aloft in victory. Medea had given Jason wise counsel and
guided him on his adventures.
If you are looking for the
Argonauts ship in the sky, it is the very large constellation called the Argo –
this ship of the Argonauts stretches between the tropical zodiac signs of
Cancer and Libra – that is one quarter of the zodiac circle, approximately from
the star Sirius to the star Arcturus along the Ecliptic belt.
The lamb/ram that the argonauts are
searching for is the symbol of the sign Aries – the first sign of the zodiac,
which represents a new impulse of life and the virility of the generative force
in nature and human. The ram/lamb is also a sacrificial animal hinting that
something must be given up in return for the gift of this renewed energy or
renewed life.
Interestingly, at the time of
our journey the planets made an unusual formation. It is a line up of Venus,
Mercury, Sun, Jupiter and Mars with the sky Unicorn.
Compliments of ‘Star Walk’
