Echo and Narcissus by John Waterhouse
Today’s Astro Flash: Venus square Juno is a day for appreciating the intricate beauty in life, especially your one-to-ones. There may be a bit of push and pull, contrast and challenge but underneath there is connection. Honour that! There’s something magnificent in every bond we form, no matter what the shape. Revel, relish, repair.
Juno differs from the other asteroid goddesses in her unwavering desire for marriage: Ceres prefers the company of the earth, her daughter and the occasional lover. A staunch virgin, Pallas Athena seeks the company of men as comrades in arms. Although offered the hand of marriage by Poseidon and Apollo, Vesta prefers to stay sequestered in her temple, content with managing the sacred flame of renewal. She welcomes men only as a consecrated act of divine union.
Yet Juno (Hera to the Greek) wanted Jupiter (Zeus), king of the pantheon of Mt. Olympus, to be her lawfully wedded husband. Originally a virgin sky deity in her own right, Juno’s marriage to Jupiter is thought to represents a merging of two cults that were once conflicting. How ever it came about, the marriage of Jupiter and Juno was a rocky one: Juno was faithful to her marriage vows; Jupiter was not. In spite of their troubles, Jupiter still longed for his wife and they had at least three children together, an indication that something creative came from the union.
In the story of Echo and Narcissus, the inability to form relationship outside of oneself is portrayed. Echo loved the beautiful young Narcissus, but he loved only himself. When Juno is tracking down Jupiter and his latest love interest, Echo’s chatter distracts the queen of the gods and Jupiter gets away. Furious, Juno curses Echo so that the nymph can never speak again but only repeat what she hears others say. This makes for some communication barriers in her own love life, ie, Narcissus.
But it wouldn’t have mattered. Narcissus spends his days staring at his own reflection, thinking it is a wondrous water nymph, the only creature on earth worthy of his love. This story, in full here, represents aspects of loving another, the first being the ability to love oneself. Eventually Echo is merged with the mountains and Narcissus becomes a beautiful flower, not quite the relationship evolution they were after but it’s a start. Like us, they are on the path!
Thoughts anyone? Can you see how all relationships, no matter how ‘disastrous’ or ‘one sided’ are steps in the direction of consciousness, of love?
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Hi Kim,
The problem with any relationship is we always drag ourselves along, so our new and exciting partner over time resembles the parent, sibling or ex who made us so nuts in the first place. What helps us in our charts with fruitful self assessment? Moon/Saturn? Moon/Uranus? Mercury/Moon? Venus might tell our story of where we look for validation and approval?I have been doing The Work of Byron Katie to help uncover my own programming and expectations. It’s sooooo funny and humbling!
Namaste!
Kelly
It’s true that without awareness we keep going for, over, and over, the same relationship ground and if that ground was not resolved with the parents (our first primary relationships) well, over and over, I say!
It’s awareness that can make a difference. Neuropahtways can change in seconds! Seconds! New thoughts create new beliefs and viola, a new kind of relationship appears in the outer life. It has to change inside first though. Always it begins with a thought.
Outer planet transits to Moon, Venus, the 7th, the ruler of the 7th, the Ascendant, ruler of the Asc . . . all can coincide with change, the kind that allows for growth, if we are willing to think new thoughts.
This is a video, a la @jeannettemaw, that shows just how quickly beliefs (thoughts we keep thinking) can change up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmvk3zlyQ2w She says, in Manifesting Made Simple, ) http://kimfalconer.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/manifesting-made-simple )
When you want to think a new thought, you don’t have to release the old one first. You release the old one just by thinking a new one. (If I want pink elephant thoughts, but I keep investigating where my purple pig thoughts came from, all I do is strengthen purple pig thoughts even though my intention was to dial on pink elephants.)
I think The Work is quite effective for this kind of process though because it takes you by the hand and leads you to a whole new way of thinking. Talk about realizations!
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