The pinnacle of Medusa from Greek mythology is represented by the notorious Algol fastened star at 26º Taurus. The Solar aligns with this star from round Might fifteenth to nineteenth. So in case your birthday falls close to these dates chances are you’ll discover recurring Algol themes in your life.

As a part of constellation Perseus, Algol was regarded by the ancients as essentially the most evil star within the heavens, however is its fame warranted? If Algol was really so malevolent then we might discover it widespread in serial killers. We simply don’t discover it there. Algol is nonetheless current in some dictators and additionally it is true that Algol has a reference to dying and ache.

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The medical time period Algology means the research of ache. “You will be unable to disregard struggling and horror, or brush it apart… The Algol placement on a chart insists upon a confrontation and assimilation of those harsh features of human expertise on this lifetime.….

Algol, like different stars, confers duties upon us which, if comprehended and accepted, provide nice rewards of energy and creativity. These stellar challenges are to not be feared, however understood and utilized in a optimistic method.”  Diana Rosenberg [1].

Algol is located within the constellation Perseus, the place this hero is depicted slaying the gorgon Medusa’s head off. Algol is positioned within the brow of Medusa. I like to consider it as her third eye. The ancients mistrusted Algol’s blinking and inexplicable 8 hour disappearances. But it surely seems it’s a binary star, eclipsing itself each 3 days.

Mysterious certainly and solely provides to its attract. The poor star seems to die, however then it’s reborn. Medusa’s deathly look is impressed by the looks of a corpse, the pores and skin dries and tightens over the bones of the face making the eyes big, huge and staring.

Demon Alcohol

The Arab phrase for alcohol means “the Demon”. Alcohol comes from the phrase Algol. Alcohol disintegrates and dries us out, so it actually petrifies. It turns us into zombies, we free our heads and our sovereignty. It’s straightforward for a dictator to brainwash a nation of drunks. On the identical time crime can be fuelled by alcohol, giving us a false sense of bravado. Morals turn out to be loosened.

“The shaft of the abyss, from which smoke rises like an ideal furnace, reeks of alcohol. That girl of the Apocalypse of Saint John, wearing purple and scarlet and adorned in gold, valuable stones and pearls, drinks alcohol. She holds a golden cup in her arms stuffed with abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. That’s the nice whore whose quantity is 666.” [2]

Algol threads the high quality line between life and dying, insanity and knowledge. Wine could make you heat and sociable at events or flip you right into a lecherous fiend. It may be a fact serum, but it may make you inform the filthiest lies.

When alcohol pierces our aura it may let in these evil spirits, they take possession of us, we’ve been invaded. Within the Greek delusion, being invaded by Poseidon (Neptune) was precisely what occurred to Medusa within the first place.

Neptune is after all additionally related to alcoholics and the blurring of boundaries between worlds. So the God of the ocean raped Medusa, however what’s extra horrifying was Pallas Athena siding with the Gods in condemning her. This necessary a part of the story is commonly passed over.

Medusa Fantasy

Medusa began out as a temple Virgin. She was stunning, charming and admired for her superb, lengthy, shiny hair. Poseidon, overcome by lust, ravished her within the temple. Pallas Athena was not amused so she cursed Medusa for defiling her sacred grounds.

Out of jealousy or perhaps simply to show she was one of many boys, Pallas turned Medusa into the hideous serpent headed gorgon with the petrifying stare she is known for. Courageous Perseus succeeded in decapitating her and returned her head to Pallas Athena to be used as a robust defend in battle, the Aegis.

Medusa turned much more highly effective after her dying (see Diana), collectively along with her rival Pallas Athena she turned invincible. Perhaps there’s a message right here, when former adversaries are united they turn out to be stronger.

Algol can be positively a star of transformation. The blinking binary star goes from gentle to darkish in cycles, like Persephone. So she is one other resurrection Goddess and like Persephone, she was additionally raped by a God…

The serpents in Medusa’s hair join her to the Ophiuchus constellation (the snake charmer) often known as the medication man.

I wrote that “Medication comes from the identical root as Medusa, the identify of the sorceress Medea additionally comes from this root. The blood from Medusa’s left facet was toxic and the correct facet was used to heal.”

So the paradox once more, should you dabble in shamanism it may kill you or enlighten you. Medusa’s blood additionally gave start to Pegasus, the place lies one other story about hubris. Each the Lilith star and the Lilith constellation of Ophiuchus have the darkest fame throughout the fastened stars. And each characteristic…serpents. What is it about serpents?

With Ophuichus the serpent is about linking sexuality to enlightenment, and that appears to fret Christianity. With Algol it’s extra about taking that knowledge and turning into your personal god. Now science is the concern. Nowhere is that this Medusa hubris extra evident than within the medical career, the place we’ve docs enjoying god with genetics.

Algol Key phrases

Creating monsters, Frankenstein, splicing, cosmetic surgery, mutation, genetic manipulation, enjoying god, bizarre heads, uncommon hair, irregular intercourse drive, perversion, warped thoughts, exaggerated manner, deformities, a creation that turns into damaging to it’s maker, regeneration, montaging, efficiency versus impotence, brewers droop, putting, gorgeous, spine-tingling, thoughts blowing, getting out-of-your-head, thoughts over matter, ultra-creative, being your personal god, soothing ache, caring for the struggling, haunting voice, talking for the under-dog, exorcising ones demons, working with the shadow.

Algol guidelines heads of states and beheading, it guidelines treason and changing one ideology with one other. The pinnacle accommodates the mind so it’s about knowledge and naturally snakes within the hair symbolize larger information, even antennae additionally.

Even the product of Medusa, Pegasus signifies far out concepts means forward of their time. I feel Algol can be about data that blows your thoughts. That is the place Algol turns into horrific, when our intelligence evolves faster than our consciousness.

Algol & Artists *

Algol is distinguished amongst those that work in the mass media. Once more we get a reference to Medea, medication, anti-venom, snakes. Media is communications and speaks out. This isn’t stunning since Medusa was recognized for her screaming mouth and protruding tongue. It additionally guidelines the throat.

Algol & Planet Combos

Algol Ascendant

Relationships can be dramatic and intense; there generally is a tendency to sex-addiction.  They’ve a wierd type of attraction regardless of not being classically stunning or good-looking. The looks could even be stunning or disturbing at occasions but nonetheless in some way alluring. Outspoken about taboo topics, they aren’t afraid to be controversial.

Margaret Witlam (03’); Outspoken Australian PM’s spouse, former champion swimmer and social employee. Advocate of womens rights, abortion and conservation. Mae West (08’); Outrageous actress, display screen author and continued to be a intercourse image properly previous center age. Well-known for her sexual innuendos.

Linda Marshall (28’); Main cosmetics entrepreneur. Toni Morrison (30’); Nobel prize profitable novelist. Wilt Chamberlain; Promiscuous basketball participant claimed to have bedded 20 000 ladies. Albert Ayler; avant-garde free jazz musician and suspicious dying ; Princess Louise; Queen Victoria’s creative daughter. Edgar P Jacobs; Comedian e book author and artist. Subterranean (Underworld) themes. Brian Wilson; Lead singer-songwriter of the Beachboys, supremely proficient and revolutionary. Psychological sickness and drug dependancy.

Algol Midheaven

The topic will make their identify with their mystique. There’s something very putting about them. They’re usually are not classically interesting, so those that admire them perhaps drawn to them as a result of in addition they establish with being the misfit or outsider. Even when these folks do occur to be stunning they could nonetheless really feel ugly. They’re usually mistaken for being useless, however actually they’re extremely self-conscious and should really feel persons are continuously looking at them. Medusa’s stare is projected onto others.

Dolores Cannon (02′); Hypnotist who discovered a lot of her topics had lives off planet! Guillaume Apollinaire(08’); Coined the time period “surrealism”. Poet, journalist, artwork critic. Elena Ford (11’) Heiress to Ford Motors fortune. Charged with drunk driving. Marlene Dietrich (16’) Actress/singer remained common as a result of continuously re-inventing herself. Uma Thurman (31’); “She’s greater than a bit of haunted” in accordance with John Malkovich [3]. Thought herself as ugly as a teen and truly performed Medusa within the movie “Percy Jackson & the Olympians”.

Frida Khalo; Surrealist painter suffered polio and a bus accident as a youngster. Her self-portraits had been a curious mix of complicated, dreamlike imagery with an specific and fairly gory depiction of her accidents. Henry Ford; Runs within the household see Elena Ford. Agatha Christie; Homicide thriller author was well-known for her psychological suspense.  Prince Albert. Extravagant and outspoken Donald Trump. Woody Allen; Neurotic misfit.  William Hopper and Pierre/Marie Curie Davison.

Algol Solar

These folks destroy or create, generally so as to create they have to destroy. They are going to connect themselves to a trigger with nice zeal and fervour. Their lust can encourage them to nice artwork or it may generally turn out to be so intense as to be damaging. There could also be a must be worshipped and thought to be an ideal determine“head”. This idolization can turn out to be like a drug to them.

Liberace (10’) with Mars, Born with a caul, a “head helmet”. Beauty cosmetic surgery left him with a spooky monster face.  Hugh Clapperton (17’); 18th Century Explorer. Marshall Applewhite (18’); Founding father of suicide cult “Heavens Gate” and prophet. Debra Winger (19’); Outspoken actress. Pierre Curie (31’); Physicist and pioneer in radioactivity. Ayatollah Khomeini; Extremist, charismatic non secular chief and politician. Efron/Hudgens Davison; Excessive College Musical teen showbiz couple.

Margot Fonteyn; Prima ballerina with Mars. Don Bachardy; Portrait artist, met life associate, author Christopher Isherwood at 18, 30 yr age hole.  Georges Braque; Cubist painter and “Fauvist” (Which means “Beasts”).  David Byrne; Singer with “Speaking heads”! Brian Eno; Experimental musician and artist. Innovator of ambient music. George Lucas; Star Wars Director.  Eric Satie; Vibrant, avant-garde classical composer. Heavy drinker, died of Cirrhosis of the liver. Trent Reznor singer of 9 Inch Nails.

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How To Discover Algol in Your Chart

For those who don’t have a chart, but get a free one right here: FREE HOROSCOPE MAKER. To work out the precise place of Algol, stars transfer ahead by way of the zodiac at one diploma each 72 years. Yow will discover all of the star positions right here: The Fastened Stars in Longitude Order. *Algol positions:

1900 – 24° 46′ Taurus*
1950 – 25° 28′  Taurus
2000 – 26° 10′ Taurus

1. Diana Rosenberg. Medusa’s Head
2. Revelations. The Holy Bible.

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