Author Archives: Symbol Reader

The Secrets of the Odyssey (2): Elements of Time (the Muse and the Moon)

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Symbol Reader

“Homer, the astronomer, considered wisest of all Greeks.” Heraclitus I am about to begin my reading of the Odyssey having already selected the English translation I am going to use. It is going to be the one by Robert Fitzgerald … Continue reading →

Posted in The Odyssey | Tagged astronomy, calendars, epic poetry, Florence and Kenneth Wood, Greek myth, Homer, Homer’s Secret Odyssey, lunar cycles, lunation types, memory, Mnemosyne, Moon, muses, Odyssey, phases of the moon, Robert Fitzgerald translation, Rudhyar, sun | 18 Comments

Images of the Zodiac: Contemplating Aquarius

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Symbol Reader

Johfra Bosschart, Aquarius 1.“And the pool was filled with water out of sunlight, And the lotus rose, quietly, quietly, The surface glittered out of heart of light.” T.S.Eliot, “Burnt Norton” 2.“Praise to the jewel in the lotus.” (Om mani padme … Continue reading →

Posted in Johfra Bosschart | Tagged Aquarius, archetypes, astrology, C.G. Jung, Celestial Sea, enlightenment, implicate order, Johfra, Johfra Bosschart, Krishnamurti, lotus, prana, Ram in Thicket, Saturn, symbolism, symbols, truth, unus mundus, Uranus, waterbearer David Bohm, Zodiac | 33 Comments

The Secrets of the Odyssey (1)

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Symbol Reader

Timanthes, “The Sacrifice of Iphigenia” (detail: Odysseus) Homer’s Odyssey has always held an extreme fascination with me. All the characters and what happens to them have been coming back to me recently, perhaps in connection with Mercury retrograde with Neptune. … Continue reading →

Posted in The Odyssey | Tagged archetypes, astrology, Florence and Kenneth Wood, Homer, Homer’s Secret Odyssey, Mercury, Mercury retrograde, Neptune, Odysseus, Pisces, symbolism, symbols, The Odyssey, Thoth, trickster | 26 Comments

Will We Be Saved Each One Alone?

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Symbol Reader

Mara, Lord of Death and Desire holding a Wheel of Reincarnation I have written before how much I love the TV show “Lost.” I have just finished watching it all over again and I must say the final episode of … Continue reading →

Posted in Lost | Tagged astrology, At the Gate of the Valley, death, Jack Shephard, Jupiter Pluto opposition, Lost, Master DK, past lives, rebirth, reincarnation, Roger Woolger, Zbigniew Herbert | 31 Comments

Uncovering Inner Knowledge

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Symbol Reader

1.“Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.” Plotinus, The Fifth Ennead; Fifth Tractate: Section 12 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/plotenn/enn464.htm 2. “There is a sacred science, and for thousands of years inquisitive people have sought in vain to penetrate its secrets. It is … Continue reading →

Posted in Quotations | Tagged cerebral intelligence, Esoterism and Symbol, inner knowledge, knowledge, Plotinus, Schwaller Lubicz, spirit | 20 Comments

Iris: the Goddess of the Rainbow as the Harbinger of a New Era

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Symbol Reader

There is a well-known saying that the rainbow comes only after the storm. In the Bible, after the Deluge, God places a rainbow in the sky and pledges solemnly not to send another flood upon the earth: “I have set … Continue reading →

Posted in Iris | Tagged Aquarius, archetypes, asteroid, astrology, covenant, deluge, depth pychology, Electra, flood, goddess, Greek mythology, Iris, James Hillman, mythology, Pleiades, pothos, Rainbow, seven, symbolism, symbolism of number seven, symbols | 42 Comments

Energy and Action in the Year of the Horse

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Symbol Reader

Originally posted on Mommy Mystic:
“When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.”…

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged year of the horse | 6 Comments

Poetic Genesis

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Symbol Reader

The poetry of Dylan Thomas is deep, passionate, sensual, musical, forceful and simply magical to me. I remember I was awe-struck when I first read “The Force That Through the Green Fuse” at an English literature class. This year we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged archetypes, Dylan Thomas, In the Beginning, poetry, symbolism, symbols | 12 Comments

Symbolism of the Island

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Symbol Reader

1.“Theseus is cruel because he leaves Ariadne on the island of Naxos. … Just a beach lashed by thundering waves, an abstract place where only the seaweed moves. It is the island where no one lives, the place where obsession … Continue reading →