Andromeda and the Sea Monster
Sea monsters are the stuff of legend - lurking not
just in the depths of the oceans, but also the darker corners of our minds.
What is it that draws us to these creatures, asks Mary Colwell.
"This inhuman place makes human
monsters," wrote Stephen King in his novel The Shining. Many academics
agree that monsters lurk in the deepest recesses, they prowl through our
ancestral minds appearing in the half-light, under the bed - or at the bottom
of the sea.
"They don't really exist, but they play a huge
role in our mindscapes, in our dreams, stories, nightmares, myths and so
on," says Matthias Classen, assistant professor of literature and media at
Aarhus University in Denmark, who studies monsters in literature.
"Monsters say something about human psychology, not the world." June
23; http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33226376
This essay
on sea monsters that lurk in our psyche appeared in the BBC magazine on June
23. We will see here how the lunar eclipse of April 4 explains the timing of
the essay. Notice that the eclipse was placed very prominently on the meridian
axis at London. The Sun[14ar] along with
the asteroid Psyche [14ar] (hurts,
wounds, trauma) was conjunct the MC and the stars 46,37 Ceti [14ar], of the Sea
Monster. In the story of the Royal Family, the Sea Monster is sent by Poseidon
to devour Princess Andromeda. Cetus the Sea Monster is the monster of
collective human consciousness; the human genetic condition spiraled downward
into a raging, fear instilling, consuming beast--diverting us from our
evolutionary path to Light [1].
Progressing
the eclipse chart to June 23, brings the eclipse to the horizon axis, thereby
triggering the legend of Andromeda which here appears as an essay on the Sea
Monster.
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