Online Webinar with Mercury Internet School for Psychological Astrology
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The Sun is the one astrological body we cannot look at directly, yet the one which most conspicuously orders our lived experience of both space and time. In this webinar we will develop a deeper understanding of the astrological Sun through the myths of four storied solar gods in the cultures most influential on western astrology: Shamash from Mesopotamia; Ra from Egypt; and from Greece the Titan Helios and the Olympian Apollo.
Each of these solar gods represents a distinct aspect of the Sun’s character: Shamash, the justice-bringer and revealer of truth; Ra, the creator and cosmic orderer, whose daily journey mirrors the cycle of life, death, and rebirth; Helios, the watchful observer of human deeds, ever-present as the light that illuminates the world; and Apollo, the radiant god of intellect, prophecy, and healing, whose connection to the Sun carries both a philosophical and healing impulse.
Through consideration of the ancient stories and imagery, as well as the life stories and horoscopes of contemporary figures, we will develop a complex and nuanced understanding of the Sun in the horoscope and in life, through language as well as somatic, felt-sense, and imagistic ways of knowing as well.
We will bring to bear a diachronic approach to myth which considers how symbols are experienced in different places and times, and how study of these differences can provide a complex understanding and felt sense of the underlying archetype, as well as various developmental arcs that can occur in the psyche relative to the archetype.