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The Mythological Roots and Lore of Gemini the Sign of the Twins

A reading from Liz Greene's book "The Astrology of Fate" Chapter 8: "Myth and the Zodiac" (1984)

With every day seeming to bring us closer to WW-III in Europe and Civil War at home, I thought a reading on mythology, the unconscious, and our shadow-side might be appropriate.

The following is from my article Walz vs Vance, October 1st, in The Big Apple: What Does the Astrological Map Tell Us?

In her book The Astrology of Fate, Liz Greene gives us the mythology of the Gemini twins (9). She relates the stories of Hermes inhabiting his/her various personifications of the Trickster figure while unleashing daimonic forces in response to the repression of our shadow-side that is being aroused by a modern scientific ethos that believes in our ability to solve any problem through logic and acculturation. The mythologies of Greek antiquity and the symbols arising in our own time and unconscious can provide us with an invaluable counter-weight to the expanding forces of technological and bureaucratic control. Jupiter in Gemini started last May and will remain with us until June 2025.

See the full text here.

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