Salacia, a Cosmic Mermaid’s Tale
Image: Neptune & Salacia from Planetary Gods & Goddesses Coloring Book. There is a new mermaid in the sky, sweet and salty and strong. She is Salacia, Neptune’s Queen. She is the goddess of the calm, sunlit sea, sparkling as if reflecting the stars in the sky. You see her in the shafts of sunlight that penetrate down into the water, rippling and shimmering. Salacia laughs and sings her sweet, seductive song as she plays with dolphins. Not simply sweet, she is a little salty, too. She feels things deeply, questioning emotional interplay from a place of steady self-honoring....
Read MoreHONEY in the HEART: Venus retrograde
Emotional Alchemy of the Venus Pentangle The orbit of Venus has a highly aesthetic cycle. Every eight years, “she” goes retrograde five times, describing a pentagonal star around the zodiac. During these repeating cycles, the goddess descends below the horizon to commune with the Sun, pulling us deep into a personal process of emotional alchemy. This periodic exercise in heart intelligence works individually and in relationships, developing throughout our lifetimes. Everyone loves Venus. Yet not everyone, not even most astrologers perhaps, understands the depths, complexity and...
Read MoreWhat Best Serves Love: Chariklo’s Story
Chariklo loved to flow in the waters along the banks exploring the streams and smaller brooks and trickles that wandered through the woods and meadows. The leafy branches waved to her in the breeze as she swam by, with a swish of her mermaid tail, dancing in and out of the valleys toward the yonder hills and higher cliffs. There the waters became dark, flickering and more mysterious. Watching the reflections of the rocky crags in the still water pools, she would stir them to make small whirlpools, a game for the small fish. Where the winds bent the grasses she found more fish friends. She had...
Read MoreGoddess Star Talk — HAUMEA
Image: Illustration of HAUMEA in PLANETARY GODS AND GODDESSES COLORING BOOK, by author. [See book section.] HAUMEA, the Hawaiian goddess of fertility and childbirth, has given her name to a distant dwarf planet beyond Pluto, discovered in 2003. It has two moons, named for two of her daughters—sea goddess Namaka, and Hi’iaka, goddess of the hula dance. Another of her daughters is Pele, the volcanic fire goddess. Mother of all creatures, Haumea is ever pregnant, taking time to renew herself after each birth. She reminds us to give pause and honor every creation as it is born, so that it...
Read MoreGoddess Star Talk — ERIS
ERIS is a mythic troublemaker, she who threw a golden apple into a party on Olympus. It had a tag that read, “For the Fairest,” starting a contest between the goddesses that no god was going to touch. They tapped an upright young man named Paris. Juno promised him a kingdom and Athena great wisdom, but, inevitably, Paris awarded the apple to Aphrodite, who offered to bring him the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen of Troy. This famous “Judgment of Paris” led to the Trojan War. Eris is out and about these days in the forefront of any revolution, stirring up...
Read MoreGoddess Star Talk — VIRGO
VIRGO is one of the few female constellations in the sky. She carries a sheaf of wheat, Nature’s bounty—rather like our own Vermont goddess, Ceres, on the Capitol’s golden dome. Often “The Virgin” is pictured with wings, suggesting angelic stature. In former times, “virgin” meant “belonging to herself,” rather than referring to sexual status. It is said that in the distant Golden Age, Goddess Virgo once lived on Earth among us. As humanity became increasing ignorant and corrupt, and pollution spread around the globe, she could no longer...
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