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Part III: The Astrological Ages & Their Avatars:

Taurus, Aries, and Pisces

The story of Humanity: Recorded in developed revolved around fertility, and
stone and dirt; the bovine became a dominant motif
Transformed by fire and blood; in the art and spiritual practices of the
Made whole through adaptation and day. The Egyptian cow-headed Goddess

compassion Hathor and Her Sumerian counterpart,
Inanna, were primary Avatars of the
Last month we looked at how the age. Although male and female deities
astrological ages of Virgo, Leo, Cancer and shared the throne by the end of this

Gemini informed Human consciousness, age, matriarchal principles, such as
each adding to the evolution of Humanity matrilineal inheritance of land and
in specific ways proscribed by that sign. property, dominated for the most part.

The saga continues this month as we Artistic expression flourished during
explore our more recent history, the ages this age, and we have many surviving
of Taurus, Aries and Pisces, from around archaeological examples of the exquisite
4000 BC to today. work created by the artisans of the age.
Writing, the literal “setting in stone”

The Age of Taurus (app. 4000 – 2000 of information, began in the latter half
BC) is dominated by images of the of the Taurean Age. The storytelling
Bovine/Bull and the emergence of many gift of the Age of Gemini was first

fertility cults, dedicated to the Goddess in immortalized in stone and clay tablets
her various Venusian forms. It is marked with the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh,
by the rise of vast and well-established a collection of myths and stories, the
civilizations and city-states, such as motifs of which later found their way
the Sumerians, the Egyptians, and the into the writings of The Hebrews,

Minoans, and the building of huge stone Classical Greece, and The Bible. Writing
structures, symbolizing the need for served to further immortalize the
stability, longevity, and permanence in traditions, laws, and belief systems of

keeping with the Taurean worldview. The a culture, providing concrete evidence
major religions and ritual practices that of it existence. A fascination with

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