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Signs: GEMINI/ JUNE. THE SPIDER’S WEB ON THE TREE OF LIFE

AQUARIUS - FEBRUARY. Heaven help us!

CAPRICORN - JANUARY. The Crown and the Golden Fleece

SAGITTARIUS/DECEMBER - I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth I know not where.

SCORPIO/NOVEMBER - The Devil Made Me Do it! - The Die is Cast!

LIBRA/OCTOBER: Bridge of Sighs - Will I Won’t I? -The Comparison of Opposites.

VIRGO: The Discreet Extractor of the Harvest

LEO/AUGUST - The Heart of the Matter

CANCER/JULY : Mother of Creation - Bag of Tricks. The Container

GEMINI/ JUNE. THE SPIDER’S WEB ON THE TREE OF LIFE

TAURUS /MAY - ROD AND ORBS

APRIL /ARIES - THE ARK OF THE STONE! ARCANUM - ALPHA AND OMEGA

PISCES/MARCH MADNESS. THE RABBIT ENTERS THE HOLE!

 

Before we start, I once again want to remind you that everything originates from the
All That Is and that at manifestation, it becomes a duality. The duality is represented by male and female energy in its various personalities, characteristics moods, activities, guises and ruler ships. All the ancient myths were describing aspects and functions of creation. I am personalizing them to your physical state for better understanding of Spirit. As you begin to understand and integrate these energies you will begin your eventual wonderful journey back to the cosmic realms and the All That Is.

Sometime back in the past there was another sign inserted here of Arachne the Spider, the spinner of magic and fate and earthly appearances. She was also known as Clotho (clothes.) Later, probably because of a calendrical change, the spider was moved to the center of the Zodiac. Symbolically she spun her magic through the fates and destinies of all creation. No doubt today, in the physics world, the interpretation can be likened to the String Theory,

Physically it is the nerve network of the body and the fibrous thread. The patterns of the Taurus’ Arachne’s labyrinth of the brain started the web and Ariadne’s thread. Ariadne was a consort of Dionysus. She gave Theseus the golden thread out of the Minotaur’s (brain) labyrinth. Notice the A’s again coming from Arcadia, the inner brain.

Gemini’s cell salt is Kali muriaticum (potassium chloride) and it forms fibrin (web) in the blood distributing it throughout the tissues. If it gets too thick, one develops conditions of catarrh and pneumonia. It can create little lumps and balls of fibrin when the balance is off. On the other hand a lack of it would be indicated by wounds that do not heal. Green and Yellow/Green are the colors of the energies now. Greens are builders of fibrin, but if they stay in the vegetative state they thicken and block, creating embolus in the heart. This would be-


Love (light-energy) denied due to stagnation (green, stale vegetation.)
The lover’s attention (energy) being elsewhere and the female lies waiting, jealous!

The putrid and slimy green colors indicate the stagnant nature of the energy. It must continue to move. The energy vibration now drops lower to the Green/Yellow.

Potassium Chloride is necessary to weave our flesh into our character lines
and create the chrysalis for our personality and ego
.

These are the colors of the early year and new life. Green is a stable color, wealthy and beautiful. All energy that is necessary for creation is available. Now that the energy has a way of moving through the nervous system, curiosity takes over. Curiosity is green/yellow and it has a nervous, interested and youthful state. In the murkier tones it represents suspicion, betrayal and lying. The nervous system must continue to grow a network and split for evolution and the gaining of knowledge (light.)

Yellow in Hebrew is yarek which means to split!

It is now that the ego is a competitor to God if decisions are not made carefully!
Geminis can be nervous, inconsistent, flighty, unreliable and changeable. This can be too much nitrogen. Spirit is feeling irritated at it’s rigid manifestation. Now Light (Lucifer) in the turban with the green stone that fell to earth, sets himself up as an equal or challenger to the All That Is.

May/June represents a time where energy is polarized. Gemini’s symbol is the two poles, hence we get polarity. The budding has taken place and a separation, branching, splitting and doubling happens. Life develops the faculty of reacting. Here we make a comparison of opposites. We have two lungs - inspire and expire for the intake of spirit, two arms, legs, hands and anything that is doubled. On another level, we have shape and shade, matter and antimatter, self and a secret mirror image (twin.) Gemini is a dualistic sign, a split personality, interior and exterior, mortal and immortal.
Mercury or Thoth, Gemini’s ruler was the God who transported souls from heaven and hell.

June, Gemini’s month, in Latin is from the verb jungo and means joining or joint. Juno was sister of Jupiter and Jupiter resides in the kingdom of Sagittarius in December - Gemini’s opposite sign. June was Juno’s month. The word Juno, meaning genius, was dropped from our language however juno is the female equivalent of genius. Just as Psyche is the female Eros.

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The Reprise!
(I feel a little Shakespearean here! Like Bottom in Mid-summer’s Nights Dream.)

I want you to remember the thread of the story from the past chapters archived. From the neutral, All That Is, the creative esse is impregnated by fire. It manifests in the human body as a generation of electrical energy (Aries /male). Then by the addition of receptive brain substance the physical body forms (female) and a budding takes place. Now in Gemini the spinning and branching starts. The plants reach out their limbs and branches. We grow arms, lungs and fingers. The two nervous systems now constitute the living tree. These are threads, fibers and filaments - our offshoots! Gemini is known as a neutral, neuter sign.

In Arabian astrology the twins were known as Al Tau’aman. Al or El is God; Tau, meaning cross; and Amen or Aman signifying hidden. The nervous system is now our hidden cross and every thought, feeling action is registered through it. Does this mean we think we are Godlike?

Gemini is the Lovers card in the Tarot. It represents conscious and subconscious thought. It must be childlike in purity and must ignore the arguments of reason and sense - its magic is silence! Hermes magic was of the god within. His internal love affair with his feminine side and self-contemplation, gave us the term herm-et (hermit.) Of course I know this seems an impossible task, but remember in the Aries posting, that it is important to be -

of one mind.

Without the mental balance we become too erotic or too psychotic. (Eros and Psyche, both poles)

The ruler of Gemini is Mercury the Magician in the Tarot. It is an Air sign and now we have all four elements combined. Fire, Water, Earth and now Air. The biblical statement that man has free will, is a fact. You are either a co-creator with God - a Magus, or a competitor of God.

The whole manifest world is now your playpen; you have everything you need to create your Fate. You are the Magician. You can now spin your tales, explore your environment, play your prankster jokes. You can read, write, talk, and use your hands in creation. You can see, hear, taste whatever you decide to sample. You are a child of the Universe. You are a salesman, a traveler, a carrier of messages, true or false. Morality has not developed, just survival and curiosity. Mercury’s energy is amoral.

What is a stone that is not a stone and water which is not water?

The Alchemists say it is mercury or quicksilver. I promised you magic and Gemini is the master of tricks. For instance mercury is extraordinary as it transforms from a metal (mineral) a fluid (water) and a vapor (gas). These are aspects of functions in the body. Mercury the God, Gemini’s ruler, was also guardian of travelers and in ancient days a traveler or merchant would place a (s)tone at a crossroads. (Think of nerve synapses.) In fact these stones were often shaped like phalluses as earth and sky met. Some stone piles were called herms after Hermes. The twins were also symbolized as two balls with a phallus between. (The Green Robin Hood?) Refer back to the last chapter and the testicles. Stones were lucky for Jupiter (Jove - Love) Is this why we give a diamond (stone) when engaged, two hearts becoming one?

Mercury had a favorite domestic animal - the cock! Now you must be saying......... huh? Remember in the last posting of Taurus, the cock was related to the penis and pineal gland! The golden cock sat on the top of the tree of life, the wings shown on Mercury’s hat. The cock announced the dawn through the throat sound discovered in the Taurus chapter. The cock represents evolving humanity and you will see him in all his glory in Scorpio as the Phoenix! Mercury carried a caduceus (Dionysus’ thrysus) twined with two snakes, vine or ivy leaves (the spine with the two nervous systems.) On the top was a pine cone (pineal) representing the magic center in the Arcade of the head. The secret Arcana in Arcadia!. It was written that the caduceus was able to charm men’s eyes to sleep and you will remember from the Taurus posting about the pineal governing sleep.

Caduceus comes from the Latin cadus meaning vessel or jar and the verb cado means to fall. We also get the word cadaver. The body is a vessel (torso) containing life, but when it is lifeless it is a cadaver. The caduceus symbol is still the magic sign of the medical profession. Either twin or dual aspects of our selves must be in perfect balance as messages are carried from above to below. Seen and unseen.

This leads us to Mercury’s winged golden hat of invisibility and winged feet. As humans we see only manifestation that is below ultraviolet and above infra red. Because we do not physically see things does not mean they are not there. Light waves can be refracted so that it appears an object is invisible. This is perfect camouflage. Infrared can pick up an object that we can’t. Some people have a sensitivity to light so they are able to see things others can’t.

 

Mercury was the later version of Hermes and Thoth. We talked about the strokes that became alphabets, words and the spoken language. Look at the word - Alphabet - meaning beginning. The voice sounds became symbols written by the hands (Gemini’s ruler ship!)

Notice the horns on Hermes that I mentioned in the Aries posting!

The invisible aspect of creation that Thoth understood was the Arithmetic underlying all. The doubling, multiplication (X) and divisions were unseen, but known as the basis of all Architecture, Art, Alchemy and now Arithmetic. The number 4 was sacred to Zeus and it represented fire. It is also the sacred 4 for the four directions etc. In Mexican four was can and caan meant heaven. Kan was the being responsible for the pillar that supported the sky. Kan means yellow; the color of the flame.

Hermes was also responsible for the division of days - the calendar. Hermes is said to have authored 36,525 books on the Hermetic arts, though no volumes have been found. A modern day Hermes would be Francis Bacon who is said to have introduced over 5,000 new English words. It was his desire that all magic could be understood in English. As mercury is used in gauges, we can now understand the measurement of temperature, volume, gases etc. Mercury gauged the wind of Jupiter, his father and the weather as Maia his Mother, goddess of clouds. He is also ruler of hurricanes, tornados and gales. Mercury controls our physical temperature, the blood pressure the gases and the communication between all these things.

Physically we know this invisible suit as our meridians and acupuncture points. It is also the nerve network from top to toe - hence the wings on Hermes ankles. Nothing moves without the messages sent along these meridians and nerve pathways and it is all invisible. This creates instant knowing. It allows us our reason and imagination.

The geometry of growth is a form of propulsion and sets up interference patterns that please or repulse. It gave us math as the basis of music (Taurus) which is the freest expression of Spirit, unencumbered by materiality. Architecture is called frozen music because of its mathematical basis. The golden number is all important and is known as the Golden Proportion and Fibonacci scale. Remember Io in Taurus? She was the daughter of the King of Argos, Inachus, and she is linked to the 10 inch foot. Inarchus is inch and inch gave birth to foot! This was the metric system of old.

What you think into existence is your merchandise and wealth to barter with. The thought power of essence from your brain constitutes the true merchandise. It must be perfect to attract the highest form of ether (Akasha) into the body. It is so easy to rob and steal from your own bank for worldly pleasures. If your temple, your real estate (body), cannot hold a good charge, the lights go out and Spirit will have to vacate!

The wiring must be well connected and hum along nicely for your bodily bank to contain and protect your assets.

Your living quicksilver must flow to make the cerebro-spinal substance. This is your secret key to access your gold wealth, arcana, heaven!

Mercury and Venus had a child we call Cupid. The Greeks called him Eros and the Hindu - Kama. As Venus was Aphrodite and Mercury was Hermes, we have a union that gave us hermaphrodites!
The hermaphrodite is one who has both male and female sexual organs. Hermes had to contain the female within him to be able to perform the miracles.
In another story Zeus (the handsome prince) disguised himself as a swan and made love to Leda (Cinderella, mentioned in the last chapter). She gave birth to the twins, boy and girl, later called the Dioscuri. They are our dual natures born of Mother from the cosmic realms. Remember the letter H in the earlier chapter represented Spirit - breath? Now we see the twin pillars of Gemini joined.

These twins were never to be separated! Our dual functions in the body are the twins. One represents the male intellect, science and understanding and the other feminine is love, religion or will.

So cupid represents an erotic sensation that flows through the vascular (Venus ruler ship) with the help of Mercury’s nerve system; The loving hormonal response to outer stimulation through the senses. This indicates that love (light energy) can stimulate us to higher states of consciousness or with the dart of cupid, to foolish pursuits. Cupid’s darts were sometimes perverse! The immature darts of Cupid became the Archer’s arrows in Sagittarius, Gemini’s opposite sign. Cupid is also Pan who we discussed in Taurus. He is also Puck in “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” a tricky little devil.

Mercury is often greater than Zeus (Jupiter) ruler of the opposite sign Sagittarius, but we are talking about inner and outer energies, mature and immature. Once again the myths are describing a function or cranky nature of the mythical gods depicted. The realm of Gemini is ruled over by Mercury, Thoth, Anubis,. Michael, Buddha, Woden, Ardhanarisvara and Arthur. The god was always accompanied by a bird, cock, crane, geese, stork, phoenix, duck and swan. Mercury carried a crane bag, a bag of tricks and mystery, which we will reveal in Cancer and Leo.

As the fool carries his swag, a traveler a suitcase and the stork a beautiful bundle, we are about to be delighted further as the ‘hermetic’ mysteries unfold, chapter after chapter, month after month.
We will continue to follow ‘the yellow brick road’ - the golden thread of Arachne to..............See July!

Bibliography:-
Human Anatomy - Barnes & Noble - College series.
The Brain - The Diagram Group
The Tarot
Sacred Geometry - Robert Lawlor
The Beautiful Necessity - Claude Bragdon
The Lost Language of Symbolism - Bayley
Salts of Salvation - Perry