Humania: tutelary deities

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Friday, January 4, 2013

William Blake: Seven Spririts of God. Now he had some really funny ideas. Whenever we receive wisdom that's come down through many cen...

In the Northern Hemisphere, nature is sleeping. The leaves have fallen and the ground is frost-hard. Here at England's navel, dusk is a...

Imagine you are... Classical Lady by John William Godward OK, we are back in Rome, sometime in the 2nd century AD. It's autumn, the grap...

You may have read some of my previous posts on the " tutelary deities " used by Roman astrologers. These came as a surprise to me...

Today is officially the Virgin Mary's birthday, appropriately in Virgo's month. The planet Mercury is the official ruler of Virgo, ...

The priestess of Apollo - the oracle at Delphi - imagined by the Victorian painter JW Waterhouse. Imagine that you are a rich resident of A...

The Virgin at La Salette, France "M AY is Mary’s month, and I Muse at that and wonder why: Her feasts follow reason, Dated due...

Imagine you are trotting down the Appian Way in Rome sometime around 202 BC. It's a hot spring day and you're working up quite a sw...

I've always thought it more than a little ironic that the day of the year designated for lovers is February 14. After all the Sun is in ...

A priestess of the goddess Vesta, "tutelary deity" to Capricorn. Here imagined by 19th century painter Lord Leighton. Capricorns...