Page 8 - September2020_1 draft
P. 8
Welcome to the New Age Part III
Star Musings of a Wayward Astrologer
The Astrological Ages & Their Avatars:
Taurus, Aries, and Pisces
The story of Humanity: Recorded in stone Hathor and Her Sumerian counterpart,
and dirt; Inanna, were primary Avatars of the
Transformed by fire and blood; age. Although male and female deities
Made whole through adaptation and shared the throne by the end of this age,
compassion matriarchal principles, such as matrilineal
inheritance of land and property,
Last month we looked at how the astrological dominated for the most part. Artistic
ages of Virgo, Leo, Cancer and Gemini expression flourished during this age, and
informed Human consciousness, each we have many surviving archaeological
adding to the evolution of Humanity in examples of the exquisite work created by
specific ways proscribed by that sign. The the artisans of the age. Writing, the literal
saga continues this month as we explore our “setting in stone” of information, began
more recent history, the ages of Taurus, Aries in the latter half of the Taurean Age. The
and Pisces, from around 4000 BC to today. storytelling gift of the Age of Gemini was
first immortalized in stone and clay tablets
The Age of Taurus (app. 4000 – 2000 BC) with the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, a
is dominated by images of the Bovine/Bull collection of myths and stories, the motifs
and the emergence of many fertility cults, of which later found their way into the
dedicated to the Goddess in her various writings of The Hebrews, Classical Greece,
Venusian forms. It is marked by the rise and The Bible. Writing served to further
of vast and well-established civilizations immortalize the traditions, laws, and belief
and city-states, such as the Sumerians, systems of a culture, providing concrete
the Egyptians, and the Minoans, and evidence of it existence. A fascination with
the building of huge stone structures, death and the afterlife, and the need to
symbolizing the need for stability, longevity, immortalize one’s existence (i.e. Egyptian
and permanence in keeping with the Taurean mummification and complex burial tombs),
worldview. The major religions and ritual female sensuality, and a value system that
practices that developed revolved around determined ownership and wealth as a
fertility, and the bovine became a dominant basis for power, are all symbolic of Scorpio’s
motif in the art and spiritual practices of influence during the Taurean Age.
the day. The Egyptian cow-headed Goddess
8
8 myindigosun.com
