The
8th House Continued
Ahem...
yep, it would seem that virtually 100% of the folks reading
this section will then attempt to figure out a complicated
scheme by which they might naturally fit into the following
archetypal energy pattern. Nice try, but no cigar...
Sorry, folks... but not all Sun Sign Scorpios,
individuals with a planet or two in the 8th house, or
those having birth aspects with Pluto will have this strong affinity.
THE
SECRET:
" Psst...There's a Keg Party Going On Over at the
House of Dionysos!!!!"
In
a nutshell, those folks having strong and/or repeated
birth chart affinities to
the archetypal energies contained within Scorpio, Pluto,
and the 8th house (barring
other factors in the chart) have the potential to experience
the heights and depths of absolute
ecstasy such
as no one else in their wildest imaginations and dreams
will ever, ever, ever will
be able to know while in this earthly existence. And
I'd say that's a fairly nice consolation gift of Scorpio,
Pluto, and the 8th House, eh?...
But...
why is this so, you might rightly ask?
Secret
Revealed
According
to the esteemed Greek mythologist
Carl Kerenyi, there's a little
known, almost invisible thread
in Greek mythology connecting Hades
(the Greek version of Pluto)
with the ecstatic wine god, Dionysos!
Heraclitus
(late 6th century BC Greek philosopher) proclaimed: "Hades
and Dionysos are one and the same!"
Yep!
Dionysos, the Greek wine god of Ecstasy, is the flip-side
of the Greek god of the Underworld, Hades (Pluto). The
two gods were interchangeable doubles for one another.
Look
carefully at this picture found
on the archaic "Xenokles Cup" housed
at the London, British Museum.
(from left to right): Demeter, Hermes, Persephone and Dionysos.
In
this ancient version of the Greek Eleusian Mysteries
- the
wine god, Dionysos, is identified as
being the Lord of the Underworld and
as the captor of Persephone (as
opposed to Hades or Pluto in the versions we're accustomed
to). Even
more interesting, in another even more hidden strand of
Greek mythology - Dionysos
is sometimes said to be the
child born of the union between
Hades and Persephone. (the
more popular and well-known versions say that Dionysos
was the child of Zeus and Persephone...)
Dionysos
was the
lord of wine, ecstasy, and
unbridled natural instinct. In Dionysian ecstasy (ex-stasis
- "to stand outside of oneself") the
emotions reach a place of such powerful intensity that
they can no longer be contained within
the body and/or mind.
This
emotional Dionysian ecstasy forces one to be literally
catapulted to another realm or "state of being." It's
a realm far beyond our limited three dimensional world
of reality and reason.
As
astrologer Rob Hand pointed out in Horoscope Symbols (see
circle link): "Rather than deny the physical universe
in order to transcend it, Scorpio will immerse itself
in physicality and even drown in it in order to go beyond
it."
And
now you know why you've got that "reputation." And
now you know why people
want so desperately to "experience" you, and
then get frightened away by
the intensity of what
they felt.
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Note
to the many excellent archetypal and/or psychological
astrologers that connect the mythology of Dionysos to
Neptune and Pisces: I humbly suggest that you might want
to check out the mythology of the Greek hero Orpheus...
you might be pleasantly surprised...
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