Male spirits of profane nature; followers of the nature gods Silvanus, Faunus, Pan, Dionysus/Bacchus.
They represent untamed nature, licence and lust, and have human heads with horns and goat beard, human hands and arms, but goats’ bodies from the waist downwards.
They may wear the crowns of ivy of Dionysus and can carry his thyros; other attributes are bunches of grapes, baskets of fruit, pitchers of wine, the cornucopia and the snake; their female counterparts in the Bacchanalia were the Maenads.
“O Bacchanals, come, Oh, come! Sing Dionysus, Sing to the trimbel, The deep-voiced trimbel! Joyfully praise him, Him who brings joy! Holy, all holy Music is calling! To the hills, to the hills, Fly, O Bacchanal Swift of foot! On, O joyful, be fleet!”
[Source: Mythology, Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton]
Art of the Day: Sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysus
The triumphal march of Dionysus (or Bacchus, as he was generally known in Rome) through the lands of India was equated in Roman thought with the triumph of the deceased over death. At the left, Dionysus rides in a chariot pulled by panthers. Preceding him is a procession of his followers and exotic animals, including lions, elephants, and even a giraffe. A bird’s nest is concealed in the tree at the far right; on the same tree a snake is pursuing a lizard. Many of the animals depicted had special significance in the mystery cult of Dionysus Sabazius. On the lid is the birth of Dionysus and his reception by nymphs, shown between satyr heads (on the ends), one smiling and one frowning. The enormous attention to detail on this sarcophagus exemplifies the talents of the best Roman relief carvers. Learn more about this object in our art site: http://bit.ly/2Cebfif
La creación es el acto libre de tu divina bondad, Señor Dionisio Fanes. Cuando nada era, sólo tú vivías en tu sublime autosuficiencia. Tú eres el padre de los Sátiros y Ménades, y los humanos son tuyos.
Tú has revestido de luz los reinos celestiales y has creado la tierra, las aguas, las plantas, los animales y los hombres. Tú determinaste el curso del sol, la luna, las estrellas, y las estaciones. Tú sostienes la tierra y el firmamento para evitar el caos. Tú haces que la luna fluctúe en su brillo, y que las mareas fluyan y se desplacen. Tú haces que el viento y las nubes se arremolinen. Tú has creado el mundo corpóreo y el espiritual, oh Creador de todo lo que respira y no respira.
Tú creaste al hombre e insuflaste vida en su cuerpo por tu sacrificio, ¡Oh Zagreo! Le has dotado el poder de pensar y la libertad de la voluntad. El hombre, has dicho, es el más grande y el mejor de tu creación. Eres el redentor del mundo y de los hombres, con tu guía y tu ayuda, ellos buscan la unión íntima y definitiva contigo.
¡Que los pueblos de la tierra te rindan homenaje! ¡Que las lenguas te alaben con todas sus palabras! ¡Que te bendigan los despreciados que acuden a ti! ¡Que los homosexuales hallen consuelo en el Dios de la Gloria!
Tú eres el Padre, el Hermano, el Amante, y el Señor de la creación y, con un cuidado y una protección infalibles e indivisibles, te ocupas del bienestar de todos nosotros con el tierno cuidado de un creador amoroso. El homenaje y la adoración, la alabanza y la glorificación sean para ti, oh Bromios Arretos.
Here are some of the more popular (and less popular) asteroids connected to love, romance, romantic feelings, sex, attraction, etc. The numbers listed next to them are their numbers on astro.com. Some of them are included in my Synastry Readings and Love/Partnership Readings. Enjoy!
Juno (3)
It represents long-term relationships and marriage. The kind of person you want to marry. It shows what you need to have in the relationship in order to commit. It can show legal ties, contracts that bond you together. The relationship with the Juno person in synastry may protect you in some way. Transits may show the timing of marriage (Transit Juno in 5th – commitment in a relationship, Transit Juno in 7/10th may represent marriage). Good sexual connection that lasts. Juno is also willing to make compromise and forgive betrayals. It can show problems with jealousy, especially in square aspects.
Ceres (1)
In general, Ceres is connected to pregnancy and the mother-child relationship. In a romantic relationship, it represents how you fulfill your partner’s needs, how you provide them with nourishment, nurture, how you care for them. It can feel very loving and caring, but at times it may repress the romance and feel overbearing, codependent, overprotective. It is also associated with jealousy and the sense of possession over the other person.
Eros (433)
What turns you on, your sexual drive, how you show your passion and desire for something. How your sexuality or sexual relationship with someone transforms you. Merging together with someone, turning into one - combined with Psyche in synastry it represents yin/yan. In the chart, it can represent your desirability. It can also show sexual objectification. Also connected with creativity, inspiration, creative passions.
Amor (1221)
Soulmate. Ideal love, compassion, nonsexual love. Otherwordly love. The type of love you give to someone without expecting anything in return. Selfless love, can sometimes be sacrificial. There might be deep-rooted attachment. In the natal chart, it can also represent how you deal with rejection.
Psyche (16)
How you can learn to love yourself with the help of another, the path you take that leads you to appreciate your beauty and your love for yourself or another, love that may not feel easy. Romantic obstacles, betrayals, jealousy. Rising like a phoenix after romantic hardships.
Anteros (1943)
Your response to your lover’s longing. Reciprocated love, how you give back love or how others give it to you. Romantic revenge.
Innanen (3497)
Fertility, sexuality and the positive expression of it. It can show a strong-mind, someone who knows what they want and expect.
Lilith (1181)
Can show any form of repression in ourselves, including sexual or the place in our chart where we have the most power. Boldly expresseed sexuality or fear of expressing sexuality. The wild person inside all of us. It can represent misogyny in men (in many cases, if aspected to Juno - the Madonna-Whore complex). It represents the type of women both men and women may fear. It can show power struggles in relationships, need for control over the other person while maintaining our own independence. It can represent the dark sexuality, attraction to the things we aren’t supposed to have, secret relationships/forbidden affairs.
Vesta (4)
On one side and depending on how it’s aspected, Vesta can represent fear of intimacy, chastity, celibacy, alienation or avoidance of relationships and focus on self. Fear of commitment. On the other side, it can show devotion to a partner or a relationship, making them a priority of one’s life, sacrificing personal wishes for the other person. A true giver. It can also represent practitioners of tantric sex and sexuality as a form of connection to something greater, ritualistic sex.
Bella (695)
Represents physical beauty, superficial attraction, what we find beautiful in others and what others find beautiful in us - aesthetically, it isn’t always an indicator of a romantic attraction.
Aphrodite (1388)
Beauty (not necessarily physical), magnetism, Venusian in nature. Feminine beauty. Romantic impulsivity. Ability to make others do things for us, drawing people in, having that sweetness of character that is likeable.
Sappho (80)
Sexual attraction that can be deeply emotional and inspiring. Can represent desire for same-sex partnership, particularly for women. Close-bonded relationships between women. What you bring into these relationships. It is also connected to arts, artistic inspiration, poetry. Negatively, it can show inability to form close relationships, create boundaries or separate romance from friendship.
Bride (19029) and Groom (5129)
In synastry, the link between the two can be a sign of marriage or a long-term relationship. In the natal chart, these two can represent the masculine and feminine traits of a long-term partner/spouse.
Hera (103)
The meaning of Hera in astrology in similar to that of Juno. It represents the spouse, marriage, but compared to Juno, Hera can be more reactive, more jealous, especially in times of crisis within the relationship. Can represent beauty of a goddess.
Bacchus (2063)
Polygamy, group sex/orgies, sexual overindulgence, free love, excess.
Tantalus (2102)
The forbidden fruit in our life, the temptation. What we want, but we can’t have, is out of our reach, etc. Wanting something so much, but it just feels unattainable.
Adonis (2101)
Strong masculine charisma snd beauty. “Alpha” males (lol). For people attracted to men, it can represent the type of man/male energy you are attracted to, the physical or personality characteristics of your ideal man. For men, it can be the type of man you aspire to be.
Lust (4386)
Sexual appetite, desire, how you express your desire, the people you are attracted to on a primal/physical level. Enthusiam for a person or a relationship.
Casanova (7328)
The way you conquer romantically, how you seduce. It can be egotistical, amoral. Similarly to Cupido, it can also show seducation without further intention. Focus on physical pleasure but lack of emotional depth. Love and sex as something that satisfy the pride, rather than the heart.
Cupido (763)
Cupido is the asteroid that draws you in to the other person, it represents instant attraction, one that might be highly sexual and one that can be quite vain. It can show enjoying the idea of someone, what they represent on surface or physical level. So infatuation. It also shows how you may initiate love. Blind love, childish love, showing someone love or interest without further intention.
Valentine (447)
True love, romantic love. It may represent sacrifices you make for love, love without conditions. Love that makes you offer to take a bullet for someone.
I will add more or make a second post if I think of anything else :)
If you want to find out more about your romantic life or relationship, I do synastry chart and composite chart readings, as well as a Love/Partnership reading which is a personal romantic horoscope. If interested, message me here or by email ([email protected]).
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Διονυσος (dee-OH-nee-sohs) - Dionysos AKA Dionysus God of wine, chaos, reincarnation, rebirth, pleasure, madness, mental illness, fertility, the grape harvest, androgyny, and the transgender/nonbinary Ouranic Olympian with Chthonic aspects
Symbols: Thyrsus, grapevine, ivy, chalice, pine cone, wine Animals: Goat, panther, leopard, bull, serpent, tiger Colors: Red, green, black, purple Plants/Herbs: Grapevine, ivy, bindweed, white pine Stones/Crystals: Amethyst, purple crystals
Retinue: Maenads, Satyrs Relations: Ariadne (wife), Zeus (father), Semele (mother), Persephone (sometimes mother), Priapos (son), Methe (daughter), Thysa (daughter), Telete (daughter), Iakkhos (son), Pasithea (daughter), Kharites (sometimes daughters), half sibling to all children of Zeus Identified with: Liber (Roman), Bacchus (Roman), Osiris (Kemetic), Haides (Hellenic), Iakkhos (Hellenic)
Giovan Battista di Jacopo, known as Rosso Fiorentino, Venus and Bacchus, 1535-1539. Oil on canvas, 209 x 162 cm. Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg.
Toys, photos, art or any other depictions of big cats, bulls, or snakes
Amethyst, grape agate, sugilite
Hymns
Art of him or his sacred animals/plants
Art and/or pictures of the Comedy & Tragedy masks
21+ Offerings:
Wine
Mead
Intoxicants
NSFW offerings:
Sex toys (he was often worshipped as a giant phallus)
Orgasms
Devotional Acts:
Watch theatre, musicals, & even movies (especially comedies & dramas)
Write a play
Learn how wine is made
Do fun things
Have a party or attend one
Donate to help his sacred animals experiencing extinction
Research him, read his myths, hymns, poems, etc
Write songs, poems, hymns, letters, etc for him
Make art for him
Embrace your more wild side
Do thing’s solely for pleasure
Make a playlist for him
Throw a feast in his honor
Take care of your mental health
Be a part of the theatre
If youre trans you can dedicate your HRT routine to him & pray for help when feeling dysphoric, Dionysus himself is described as transgender in some myths️⚧️
Go to pride️⚧️️, or just be proud of yourself in general if your not in the lgbtia+ community
Wear wreathes of ivy
Wear faux leopard or tiger print
Wear the color purple
Pray to him for protection especially when drunk or high, and for relaxation, improving mental health, fertility, ecstasy, and for everything to go well in theatre
HonorZeus, his father
HonorAphrodite, the two were lovers at some points, and their children: Peitho,The Graces,Priapus
HonorSilenus, the rustic god of drunkenness & winemaking who raised him
Honor the Maenads, nymphs that always accompany him
Honor the Satyrs,other nature spirits that can be found accompanying him
Donate to organizations that help trans rights activism & lgbt rights in general
Support trans & other lgbt owned businesses
Support sex workers
Support small liquor businesses & vineyards
Support local theater groups
21+ Devotional acts
Drink wine
Smoke weed
Attend a wine tasting
Go on wine tours
NSFW Devotional acts
*As with all of these only do these if your comfortable doing so don’t feel obligated:)
Masturbate in his honor
Partake in sexual acts for him
If you have an onlyfans or are a sex worker in general you can dedicate your work to him & pray for greater success
Digital Devotions:
Make an E-shrine
Make a mood board
Write blogs about wine making, trans activism & topics, theatre, musicals, etc
Altar/Shrine ideas
Sacred spaces to Dionysus should incorporate his sacred color of purple, like having a purple altar cloth, purple candle, or purple crystals like amethyst, have some fake grapes to use as decoration as well, fake vineyard vines can really bring together an aesthetic appeal as well, you can also use faux leopard, tiger, bull, or snake skin on the sacred space as well. Goblets and wine glasses are good too, whether to be used as decoration (i saw one person put fake grapes in a goblet for him), or for libations(whether it be wine or grape juice etc), pine cones are another great sacred object to incorporate, if you are old enough & comfortable to you can also incorporate sex toys or phallic objects and statues, pride merch can also be incorporated, artwork or statues of his sacred animals, himself, vineyards, or the comedy & tragedy masks are great too! You can also place wine bottles on his altar, ive seen some people put flowers in them! Corks are amazing too, and really anything that’s associated with him.
