This post is all about your Venus sign – the sign in which your personal Venus falls. A very pleasant re-entry into Pax Mercurius! Venus rules things like beauty, art, joy and pleasure, clothing and jewellery, sex and chastity (yes, both!) and, less happily, corruption in all its forms. She is named for the Roman [...]
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Articles on the Planets and Points used in astrology.
Your Love Sign: Venus in Astrology
Posted by Dion on June 28, 2011
http://paxmercurius.com/2011/06/28/your-love-sign-venus-in-astrology/
Mercury, Part One: The (relatively) Practical Introduction to Mercury
Mercury is, by its nature, quixotic. Hermaphroditic, variable in its influence, with an affiliation for all mixed colours, tastes, meanings and effects, Mercury fills a very important role in astrology and Hermeticism. This small planet, and its significations, influences and effects on magic, culture and science could fill volumes…so this will almost certainly be a [...]
Posted by Dion on January 29, 2010
http://paxmercurius.com/2010/01/29/mercury-part-one/
The Planets – Jupiter
Saturn’s counterbalance and foil is Jupiter, the sixth planet in the Solar System, astronomically speaking, and the fifth body of astrology. I must admit, as a practitioner of astrologer, that Jupiter is my blind spot – this is my hidden planet, antagonistic towards my strongly Melancholic nature. Like Saturn, Jupiter is not wholly good or [...]
Posted by Dion on January 9, 2010
http://paxmercurius.com/2010/01/09/the-planets-jupiter/
The Sun (Sol)
I did not like my Sun sign very much at all for a long time. In fact, up until my late teens, I did not give astrology any credit at all because my sun sign interpretations were typically offensive to me on a basic level. As a Gemini, you are repeatedly told that you most [...]
Posted by Dion on November 26, 2009
http://paxmercurius.com/2009/11/26/the-sun/
The Planets – Saturn
The Planets: Saturn Under the classical planetary scheme, Saturn represents the border of what is known, what is accessible to humans from their stranded position on Earth. It is limitation itself – the gate between Earthly reality and the heavens beyond. It is Metatron, the Guardian at the Gate, and in Gnostic associations, represents Sophia, [...]
Posted by Dion on November 8, 2009
http://paxmercurius.com/2009/11/08/the-planets-saturn/
