HALLOWEEN

Spooky Halloween Everyone. Time to contact your ancestors.

The Sun is now at approximately 7 degrees of the zodiac sign Scorpio and opposite the star Hamal in the constellation of Aries.

Do you know the difference between the zodiac signs and the constellations that have the same names?

The pathway of the Sun around the Earth [as seen from Earth] is called the Ecliptic. The Ecliptic circle is divided into 12 divisions of 30 degrees each. Each 30 degree section was given the name of a zodiac sign, Aries, Taurus, Gemini etc. This was to assist in the location of planets and how to interpret their influence on the beings and organisms that inhabit the planet Earth.

The constellations are groups of stars that lie closest to this Ecliptic belt. Our ancestors gave the groups of stars mythological characters that hold knowledge to help us on our way to self discovery. Luckily humans cannot yet destroy the outer space that holds the stars. The wisdom of the ancients was deep. It is the constellations that were given zodiac names originally and later these names were transferred to the path of the Sun, the Ecliptic circle.

It is quite possible that ‘Halloween’ is the remnants of the ancient Celtic Festival of Samp'in meaning the fire of peace (of death)- and gave emphasis to the star Hamal located in the head of the constellation of the Ram. In ancient Egypt this constellation was the Goose known as the ‘Great Cackler’.

Hamal is associated with Aloros, the first of the ten mythical kings of Akkad, before the Deluge of history. These king’s reigns coincided with the distances apart of the ten chief ecliptic stars beginning with Hamal followed by Alcyone, Aldebaran, Pollux, Regulus, Spica, Antares, Algedi, Deneb Algedi, and Scheat.

Greek temples at various places between 1580-360 BCE were oriented to the star Hamel c.Aries, those temples of Zeus and Athene being especially favoured.

The mythological Sun hero fled on the back of a Ram with his sister Helle to Colchis in order to escape the wrath of their stepmother.  Helle fell off and was drowned in the sea. At the end of the journey the Ram was sacrificed and the hung fleece turned to gold and became the object of the Argonauts' quest.