The Astrology Fairy Tale ☾°☆ . • ° ☾°☆
Stories and fairy tales have an ancient origin. Many stories are timeless, and involve characters we see repeatedly, we become enraptured in their journey and vision, they are characters we both aspire to be and to avoid becoming. Variants of these fairy tales have emerged from different cultures all around the world. These centre on the same human qualities, mythic elements and experience. These are dramatized through Disney and plays and fiction novels and movies. They are also resonant in astrology, another rich form of storytelling and magic, and involves each of us as individuals. The characters that we meet again and again represent archetypes within ourselves and those we meet throughout life. We are familiar with all of these characters, in the same way we are intimate with each archetype that expresses from within, sculpted through years of mythology and astrological infusion.
We meet sooty Cinderella in Capricorn, a devotee to labor against fierce obstruction, the signature Saturn loss of the father, the dark Moon and Cancer in her evil stepmother. And finally we experience the crown of glory that awaits with patience, the fairy godmother we also meet in Cancer, that which is the enchanted guardian. We meet Peter Pan in Gemini, a reunion of everlasting youth and imagination, and a shadow that follows hauntingly, a reminder of duality. We long for Prince Charming in Libra, a valiant combatant who comes to the rescue and promises true love. This is our tendency to become swept away in ideals, it also symbolizes the moment we experience true love’s kiss, in all its magnificence. And there is the mirror mirror of beauty and vanity in Venus, Taurus, and Libra. We are faced with the Aries inside us when Hansel and Gretel are forced to leave home. Abandoned and alone, two children are thrust into a battle of survival, lured in by naivety and innocence. We meet Scorpio and Pluto in Beauty and the Beast, Scorpio exemplifying both, the ravishing beauty and the monster inside all of us we are forced to love and find love with and eventually transform. In The Little Mermaid, we meet Pisces, a longing for escape to be a part of a brand new world. Contained in a body that seems foreign. We find Aquarius in Robin Hood, the social reformist, the rebel who stole from the rich to give to the poor. Jupiter and the fortune of Sagittarius appear in a genie lamp with grandiose generosity. in Virgo, we find the wise helper inside, like the voice of conscience in Pinocchio. In Leo, there is the child that knows very well that while these stories may be unreal they are not untrue. It reunites us to the part of ourselves that holds onto magic and goodness.
And these emerge again and again, the same intrinsic character expressing in different forms across different cultures. There is always the hero, the villain, the heroine, and the joker, the oracle, and so on. These are emanations of our different expressions of consciousness, the same way as in astrology we identify with our inner hero in our Mars sign, our masked hero through Pluto, our heroine through Venus, our joker through Mercury, our rogue hero in Aquarius and Uranus, the evil stepmother and the fairy godmother in the Moon and Saturn, our prophesier in Neptune, our lucky star in Jupiter, and we can make our whole world Disneyland with the Sun.
