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Inanna's story shows us a possible positive purpose and outcome of this. Sometimes we need to reclaim our own power in relationships, and sometimes that will lead to discord initially. Sometimes we also need to attend to internal discord, and sometimes that's uncomfortable, but necessary.

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Venus's retrograde could coincide with an experience of Descent, or it may instead indicate a period of reflection. We do not tend to read Venus as a warrior goddess nowadays, though she was in ancient Mesopotamia. But she can be a warrior, in her own way, and particularly when retrograde.

Psyche and Persephone extert agency in less direct ways, as they do not initiate their journeys deliberately. Nonetheless they must navigate tests of an extreme emotional nature, and empathy is, as in Inanna's story, of key importance.

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We might understand Ereshkigal as the disowned part of Inanna, her shadow, who, following a bereavement, must be confronted and heard. She is understandably hostile. Inanna's husband then usurps her power - perhaps indicating the ego needing to be kept in check even while the shadow is integrated.

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Inanna chooses to visit the underworld to attend the funeral rites of her sister's husband. Her sister, Ereshkigal, is the Queen of the underworld while Inanna is Queen of the upper world.

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Inanna's story, and, I suggest, those of Persephone and Psyche in Greek mythology, all contain elements of the same narrative insight. In contrast to the heroic archetype, where we seek out experience and test ourselves, sometimes we must visit a darker place.

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The Descent is an archetype of those times in life when we find ourselves outside of the everyday world. Very often this occurs due to challenging events that we haven't chosen, yet nonetheless we may emerge stronger.

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Shimmer @leafshimmer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have published an article about archetypes of the Descent. It discusses Inanna (Venus) entering the underworld (retrograde) and I also introduce some other mythical & astrological correlates for the Descent. It was republished on Astrodeinst recently: www.astro.com/astrology/fa...

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Hail Inanna! Ishtar Vase, the Louvre.

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Heliodora @heliodora.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nothing like a soothing art process video with a mystical vibe for a Venus station youtu.be/96vWCTY 'Painting deep in the woods' #art #Venus

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Iron scrubber painting technique / Painting deep in the woods / Easy creative art

YouTube video by Jay Lee Painting

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Heliodora @heliodora.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My plan for the winter this year

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#Poetry #Painting #Morning It’s a good day when I see an owl. We watch until she drops— a fall opening to swoop and glide. - Anne Haven McDonell 🎨 Lucy Grossmith

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Heliodora @heliodora.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thanks for sharing Sita. That's deeply upsetting.

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Heliodora @heliodora.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thank you for telling me. Do you know any details about it you could share? I'm not on Fbook, threads, Instagram or x so whatever happened has passed me by completely.

Heliodora @heliodora.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Has there been another controversy surrounding Charles Obert?

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Thea Euryphaessa @theaeuryphaessa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Joseph Campbell on creativity and letting go.

There's a beautiful letter that Schiller wrote to a young author who was having the trouble that's known as writer's block. This young writer had oh, so much to say, but he couldn't write. This is a normal situation. Schiller said simply, "Your problem is that you're bringing the critical factor into play before you have let the lyric factor work".
Look what happens to us in our schools: we learn to criticise Milton and Shakespeare and Goethe and everybody else, and then the teacher says, "Now do some creative work". You sit down and this bit of spilth begins coming out and you think, Oh, my God! That's nothing. Of course you can't write like Shakespeare, but you can write like you, perhaps, if you let yourself go.

— Joseph Campbell, Goddesses

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Greg Morosoff @gregmorosoff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"The black cat watches the sunny rain." Art by Jan L Waldron Good Morning Blue ones #MenWithCats

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Astro-Puppy @astro-puppy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think a major lesson of Saturn in ♈️ is teaching ourselves to develop courage & bravery. This is not a time to allow our fears to dictate our actions. Fear is a teacher, leading us to be more careful & cautious. But too often it paralyzes us. Taking small steps onto new paths is how we get going.

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𝙹*𝚊𝚍𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚎 🍏 @artmyoldfriend.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“The Cobolt Passage” by Canadian Chinese artist Yehan Wang.

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Peter Stockinger - Astrologer & Author @stockinger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Mercury has moved into Libra until 30 September - providing the perfect opportunity to communicate, collaborate, or mediate. We observe, compare, and appreciate what seems to be useful to us. #astrology #Mercury #Libra

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SparklesofGold @sparklesofgold.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#astrology family. Do you know anyone that is wanting to attend the United astrology conference? We are looking for audio visual tech help. Also I might have a few tickets... Pass along a person who doesn't have the resources... I'll try to help them out.

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Thea Euryphaessa @theaeuryphaessa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Roberto Assagioli on self-love.

In the case of self-love, all depends on what we love in ourselves and how we love it. It is truly egotism if we love the egocentric and separative aspects in us, the craving of pleasure, possessions, and domination. But if we love what is higher and best in ourselves, what we are essentially, if we love our potentialities for growth, development, creative ability, and communion with others, then this love, devoid of egotism, urges us to live a life of higher quality. This love is then not only not an obstacle to loving others in the same way but, rather, a powerful means for doing so.

— Roberto Assagioli, The Act of Will: A Guide to Self-Actualisation and Self-Realisation

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is a Roman calendar (a parapegma) that marked the date with three wooden pegs. One peg was placed over one of the seven gods representing the days of the week (starting with Saturn for Saturday). Another peg was placed over a zodiac sign for the month, and the third over the day number.

Ancient Roman peg calendar (parapegma). Found in Rome. 3rd to 4th centuries CE.
Museo della civiltà romana. Rome.

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Heliodora @heliodora.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

And eclipses have for millennia been associated with the downfall of leaders and notables.... in fact Farage is a solar figure in many ways, with Sun exalted and copresent with domicile ruler Mars. He embodies the shadow side: egotistical and self-interested. With Uranus on his MC, you never know.

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Pluto's Child @plutoschildlive.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“I want forgiveness that does not erase responsibility. I want consequences that leave room for transformation. Maybe I am asking too much. But if astrologers cannot hold contradiction, who the hell can? We literally work with squares and oppositions for a living.” Truly thoughtful reflection.

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There Is No Get-Out-of-Pluto-Free Card

Steven Forrest, racial language, cancel culture, selective sinners, elders behaving badly, and what Jesus and Buddha might have to say about the astrology community eating itself alive

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The advantage if Binface should win, as well as sending a message against the populist far right, is hopefully his DOB would be made available. And stranger things have happened, when Uranus is involved... Further info: countbinface.com www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u... edition.cnn.com/2026/07/09/u...

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For comedian Jon Harvey, who plays Count Binface, I only have his month of birth: May 1980. Late May would give him a Gemini Sun, which Uranus would be transiting. May 21st would give him a Leo Moon, thus being impacted by the eclipse also. But unfortunately this is just idle speculation. 😂

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Farage had a comfortable majority and still polls at ~70% locally, although if Binface wins a projected 20% this could still be embarrassing for him. He is having an interesting time: a solar eclipse taking place in his 12th House; Saturn on his Sun; Neptune on his Mars; and Uranus on his MC.

Virgo rising chart of Nigel Farage, with Pluto exactly on his Ascendant and Uranus also widely conjunct in the first Whole Sign House. Sun, Mars and Jupiter are in Aries, the 8th WSH. Moon is in the late degrees of Sagittarius. Saturn and Chiron in 7th House Pisces. Neptune is in the Scorpio 3rd House trining Chiron, while Black Moon Lilith is conjunct the IC in Sagittarius. His North Node is in Cancer.

The transiting Sun, Jupiter, Mercury and Moon are in his Leo 12th House as the Eclipse is building. Saturn is conjunct his Sun, Neptune on his Mars, Mars approaching his NN, and Uranus is applying by retrograde for a second hit to his MC in Gemini.

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Farage called the by-election in a strop at the suggestion that he might answer queries about a £5m donation from a crypto billionaire just before standing as an MP. The major political parties boycotted the process, opening the field to a plethora of even-less-serious candidates.

Elysian @elysianastro.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Loving the proximity of tomorrow's solar eclipse to the Clacton by-election, where far right candidate and incumbent Nigel Farage is facing down satirical character Count Binface, along with 32 others. The eclipse, one day before the by-election, will be 90+% visible in the UK.

Map of eclipse path over Europe and North America, showing the path of 100% passing over East Greenland, West Iceland and Spain, with the 90% visibility band encompassing the UK, France and much of Europe

Satirical candidate Count Binface in 2024, from his Wikipedia entry - a man with a bin-helmet and black space uniform and cloak

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Heliodora @heliodora.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Thank you for telling me. I have found it now. How incredibly disappointing.

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Karen Christino @karenchristino.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My biography of Linda Goodman is out! Goodman inspired generations of astrologers & popularized the subject for millions. Ever wonder how she got started? If she found her twin soul? The answers are in Dazzled by the Light: Linda Goodman, Pop Astrology and the New Age. More: tinyurl.com/2p9rynz6

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Heliodora @heliodora.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Can I ask why? I feel like I've missed something

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Heliodora @heliodora.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I love this passage, from the introduction of Kastrup's Decoding Jung’s Metaphysics - and it resonates powerfully with the fact that birth charts still appear to function, sometimes long after death

As we shall soon find out, for Jung life and world are something very different from what our present mainstream metaphysics - materialism - posits. The conclusions his lifelong studies point to the continuation of psychic life beyond bodily death, a much more intimate and direct relationship between matter and psyche than most would dare magine today, and a living universe pregnant with symbolic meaning. For him life is, quite literally, a kind of dream, and interpretable as such.

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Sarah, CCG Astrology @ccgastrology.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Aquarius Full Moon/Jupiter Cazimi in Leo

Illustration of a person standing in front of a mirror and smiling proudly, with text to the left that reads "be so completely yourself that everyone else feels safe to be themselves too"

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Peter Stockinger - Astrologer & Author @stockinger.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Saturn has turned Retrograde in Aries until 10 December. In Aries, Saturn is essentially debilitated by being in his Fall, making it a great perfect time to review and possibly correct past errors. #Saturn #Aries #Astrology (🎨Aja’ib al-makhluqat [Wonders of Creation] by Qazwini, Harvard Art Museum)

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Heliodora @heliodora.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Speaking as a saturnian eldest daughter, I say you have the credentials!

Heliodora @heliodora.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

OK I got curious - wasn't ready for how dark these are, and thought Taurus Venus would be nicer somehow! But I'll be honest, I really like the deep grey of my rising sign.

Colour chart for astrological placements. Aries Sun is signal flame - a bright orange-red. Scorpio moon is plum depth - indeed a plum colour. Capricorn rising is tailored graphite - a deep grey. Taurus Venus is rose clay - a grey-pink.

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Alina ✨ @livedastrology.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Mercury is at its station degree of 16° Cancer until next Monday. Things are gonna be slow, maybe there‘s another change of direction or something that has felt muddled is finally, after a lot of back and forth, gonna get clarified.

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These are just a few thoughts right now which I'll aim to form into a longer article soon... Sources: data from astro-seek Barbault, A. 2014. Planetary Cycles: Mundane Astrology

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To draw on Barbault once more, for him the current Uranus-Pluto cycle, beginning with the conjunction in 1965-66, is concerned with the decline of the West. And we know that, historically, empires with extreme wealth & power differentials tend to become politically unstable and in some cases fall.

The 'ultimate in tech achievements', as Barbault has it, brings massive wealth inequality and power differentials. When you combine Uranus (unpredictable innovation) and Pluto (the drive for power for self preservation), you may get incredible feats of technology, but there is down side.

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Because transits mark processes, specific, noticeable events related to them may occur on -or around- the dates of exact aspects. For me, this first hit is very close to the pronouncement of the world's first trillionaire - the head of multiple tech companies and known power-seeker - in mid-June.

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The table shows the dance, where one planet or the other is retrograde each time, and they meet at varying degrees across the first decans of Gemini and Aquarius. This is a peak period of technological and social transformation, and this dance likely marks some twists and turns in this journey.

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