WEALTH HAPPINESS PEACE & HARMONY

 

Dove of Peace & Truce 

As the Sun moves towards and enters his domain of the zodiac sign Leo, Venus will meet Jupiter in the sign of Cancer for most of the month of August.  This meeting of two fortunate and friendly planets in the sign of the nurturer and the Moon, can only happen once in 12 years according to the cycle of Jupiter. A time therefore to make the most of moving forward to a better world and circumstances. Venus will kiss Jupiter briefly one last time mid-2026 before this cycle of these two planets moves on and Jupiter leaves the sign of Cancer for another 12 years.

Is this an auspicious time under the dominating cosmic ‘KITE’ formation, which involves all the heavy and transcendental planets?  Can we, under this influence, achieve a modicum of world peace or at least make substantial moves in that direction? Let us all put our minds to the wheel and push it in the right direction. At the very least this can be a time of happiness and healing within the family unit. 

Major Arcana ‘Wheel of Changing Fortune’

Most business enterprise should also get a boost and financial institutions feel better than they have for a while. Will they share their good fortune?

At some level this is a bountiful time. Venus brings love and good relationships based on forgiveness and tolerance. Jupiter brings expansion, growth and benefits to living, and the heart to encourage understanding and generosity.

However, keep it all under control and within sensible limits so that you don’t lose your heartfelt, hard acquired bounty to waste and over-indulgence just because there is so much ease and opportunity. Pay homage to mighty Jupiter also known as Zeus, who wishes us beneficial guidance without over-doing want. Salute lady Venus, the gentle caring Hathor of Egypt, mother goddess that brings life to fruition but keeps the physical senses under control. Bring these two great symbols together in the merry dance of life that sees the energies well channelled into constructive action.

Major Arcana ‘Sun Garden’

Bring joy and a smile to the little ones; nurture their bodies and their souls. Make peace in the family, for without a doubt this is where the pain or contentment of the world originates and drives the political choices and then the world stress. In this way we all contribute to the state of our living.

The simple sunflower of Light, Life 

And Love And endless symbolism. 

AAL’S LABYRINTH HISTORY

 

              Parmenides                   Zeno                          Melissus

c485          PARMENIDES (c515-445 BCE) The most influential of the Pre-Socratic philosophers, a native of the Greek settlement of Elea [Hyele or Velia] in South Italy, Parmenides is founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy.  He is the first philosopher to insist on a distinction between the world of appearances and that of true reality, that is of Being and Non-being. (12) Parmenides postulates a dual principle of life represented by contrasts such as light and darkness, the polarity of male and female or the contrasting elements of fire and water. From two such principles proceeds all things. Parmenides’ philosophies are the antithesis of those of Heraclitus [506 BCE] in that he believed that nothing essentially changed but rather matter just took on new and diverse forms.

                 THE ELEATICS are a trio of philosophers, Parmenides, Melissus and Zeno, from Elea, South Italy. They argued that reality is unbegotten, imperishable, a temporal, indivisible, motionless, and utterly changeless; the world as it appears is a misrepresentation of the truth. (12). Thus the theory of division between what is real and what is apparent to the senses becomes a topic of debate, the rational truth is now separated from sensory perception. The earlier Greek Ionian philosophy of material unity is shattered into the duality of static material substance and a life force. (19) This theory will lead to an exoteric belief in dual trends of naturalism and rationalism but from the esoteric perspective, all being had its counterpart of non-being.

c490            ZENO OF ELEA, born in Elea, Italy, he is a pre-Socratic philosopher of the Eleatic School. Little is known of his life, and little of his writing survives. Zeno attempted to defend his fellow philosopher Parmenides’ contentions that motion is impossible and that more than one thing cannot exist. He did this by devising “paradoxes” designed to show that the positions of his opponents (usually Pythagoreans) led to contradiction; he was the first to use the method of argument termed ‘Dialectic’ by Aristotle.  (102)

Mask for Dionysos

c480 BCE    AESCHYLUS (c525-456 BCE) together with Euripedes and Sophocles (c435 BCE) comprise a group of Greek tragedians.  They employed ancient myth to gain understanding of the human condition through the application of a more critical temperament than the previous pagan thinking. With these Greek tragedians came the growth of mythic and ritualistic drama. (19)

c465             PERICLES (c495-429 BCE) Greek statesman and general represents the age of Athens at its cultural and political peak when Hellenic culture is balanced between ancient mythological tradition and modern secular rationalism. (19)

Pericles son of Xanthippus