'Beauty
and the Beast'
When the Brothers Grimm collected fairy tales in
the 19th century, Wilhelm suggested that many dated back thousands, rather than
the accepted view of just hundreds, of years. Researchers believe they have now
proved him right. While two of the best-known tales, “Beauty and the Beast” and
“Rumplestiltskin”, were written down in the 17th and 18th centuries, new
research using mathematical modelling has traced them back 4,000 years and they
are not even the oldest. Jan.20 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/fairy-tales-could-date-back-thousands-of-years-research-says-a6822021.html
The lead
author of the study is Sara Graca da Silva, a folklorist from the New
University of Lisbon. A chart for the current New Moon at Lisbon is shown here.
The Moon is placed in the 3rd house which rules all forms of
communication including story telling. Nick Fiorenza tells us that the Lyra-Aquila
New Moon is about inspiration for creative expression through the art-sciences
that serve to illumine, awaken and elevate human consciousness and to achieve
our greater aspirations in life [1]. Fairy tales do just that. The problem of
evil in most fairy tales provides us the opportunity to increase consciousness.
When, in the characters of the fairy tales, we are able to see our own greed, jealousy,
spite, hatred and so on, these can be turned to positive account because in
such destructive emotions is stored much life, and when we have this energy at
our disposal, it can be turned to positive ends.
Mercury is
on the 4th house cusp (IC) which among other things is the
foundation or base of the society and its traditions, its folk-soul, so tospeak
[2]. Mercury was the messenger-god of Jupiter, and was the god of story telling
[3]. It is retrograde so that once again it refers to the past.
Eridanus
– River of Time
Resonating
with the theme of the past is the star Acamar, theta Eridanus, on the
descendant. Eridanus was an ancient celestial river. As a symbol, a river
relates to the creative power of nature and time and everything transitory: the
flux of the world and the irreversible passage of time. Unlike earthly rivers, Eridanus is depicted
flowing upstream symbolizing a return to the past.
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