#decans of the zodiac
Sun in Gemini II — Cybele
Sun enters Gemini III at 7:12am EDT on 31 May 2022 — the realm of Cybele. Power & gender anxiety have mingled and held back from each other for centuries; what if you could not win, without accepting that the stranger must be welcomed?
The Sun enters the second decan of Gemini On May 31, 2022 at 7:12 am EDT. Austin Coppock called this decan The Hermaphrodite, after the Greek deity of the same name, the son of Aphrodite and Hermes who was united in one flesh with their spouse the nymph Salmacis thus combining the best qualities of male and female. Alexandria’s Greek-speaking population gave these ten days to Cybele the great…
Sun in Gemini I — Tethys
The Sun enters Gemini I at 9:23 pm EDT tonight (20 May 2022), the realm of Tethys— mythology’s evolving Darwin to Okeanos’ Newtonian firmament. What is assured for all time? What must change? What is too abstract, and what must be concretized?
Tethys, goddess of the sea, was the ancient ruler of Gemini I — which the Sun enters on May 20, 2022 at 9:23 pm EDT. Called “The Apple of Eden” by Austin Coppock, it was associated in the days of the magician Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa with the liberal arts and sciences — The seven Liberal Arts are well known of course: grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. Yet the…
Sun in Taurus III: the Litai
Sun enters Taurus III at 12:25 pm EDT - the Saturnian administration of Venus’s realm brings asceticism & minimalism as aesthetic choices. Is it spiritual… or is it abusive control?
On 10 May 2022 at 12:25 pm EDT, the Sun enters Taurus III, the third decan of Taurus called The Prayer Beads (by Austin Coppock in his book 36 Faces). Although ruled by Venus as the overall sign ruler, Taurus III is administered by Saturn from the square at 24° Aquarius 44′, preparing us for a showdown with authorities and running us through the wringer: what duties do we owe others? What rights…
Sun in Taurus II: Horae
At 4:47 am EDT on April 30 2022, the Sun enters Taurus II, the realm of the Horae — the spirits of seasonality and timeliness. Where are you working with the natural order of the seasons? Where are you fighting that order?
The Sun enters Taurus II, the realm of the Horae, on 30 April 2022 at 4:47 am EDT — just a few days out from his annual conjunction with Uranus the revolutionary. And yet the chart itself is a night chart, with the Sun below the horizon just about twelve hours out from an eclipse and the dark of the Moon. Austin Coppock called this decan The Lingam-Yoni, correctly in my mind identifying it with…
Sun in Taurus I: Charis
Charis, goddess of the kinds of intimacy that cooks dinner or babysits the kids after a hard day, rules the next ten days. Easier times are coming for some. Some… need the extra support you can give them.
Taurus season begins tonight with the Sun’s entry to the sign of the bull at 10:24 pm EDT. Austin Coppock called this first decan of Taurus The Plough, perhaps in reference to Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s description of the image of this part of the Zodiac: a naked man, perhaps an archer, husbandman, or farmer, going forth to plough the earth and manage it according to the rules of geometry.
One…
Sun in Aries III: Eros
Who or what do you desire? Where does that longing hurt, and where does it help? Do you trust it, or is that yearning suspect?
The Sun enters Aries III on April 9, 2022 at 5:18 pm EDT, kicking off the third of three Decans where the Sun is exalted and keeps company with Mercury in close proximity. We’ve passed the Saturn-Mars conjunction and we’re churning the sky a bit, as we see a chart in which some public action, itself a reaction to larger forces, begins to have some effect on the home front. With the exception of…
