Minoan Serpent Goddess of Crete
Given the nature and intensity of recent events, that being the rise in global awareness of the Serpent Holder constellation Ophiuchus, it is vital that certain issues be addressed right away.
We cannot all go assuming that because the meaning of the constellation is taken from the Myth of Asclepius that it is energetically masculine gendered as a “house” or “sign”. We must direct your attention at the outset to the name of the constellation. It is Ophiuchus, a generic term meaning “Serpent Holder”; it is not Asclepius. Plenty of other constellations set in the heavens during those times bore the names of Greek and Roman heros and heroines, such as Hercules, Perseus, Cepheus, Cassiopeia and Andromeda. There is a reason for this generic naming, as we shall all shortly see.
So that you won’t have to hold your breath waiting for it, the short story is this.
Somewhere between Ancient Egypt, Babylon, Sumeria and contemporary times there was a catastrophic event in the middle of the Eastern Hemisphere of the planet, which just happened to be the hemisphere housing the lion’s share of the sophisticated repositories for planetary wisdom and knowledge.
This catastrophic event — which some scholars attribute to war and others to natural disaster — nevertheless resulted in the virtual downfall of the Goddess-centered cultures that held the planet and her peoples in energetic balance. With the ascendancy to power of Christianity, the near-death of the Goddess was accomplished by destruction of all of the temples and sanctuaries where the Greek and Roman pantheons of gods and goddesses lived. The temples to Asclepius were among the last to be razed to the ground by Emperor Constantine’s “onward Christian solders marching as to war” in or around the mid-600′s B.C.E.
So when Zeus placed Asclepius in the sky, why did he call the stars “Serpent Holder” instead of “Asclepius?” Ponder on this mystery. This and other questions are discussed in The Quintessential Ophiuchus.
- See in particular 13. Jesus, Mary Magdalene & the Thirteenth Aeon
While we all wait more or less patiently for the Author of The Quintessential Ophiuchus to get her book pages reformatted for the web and uploaded [this post was written June 7, 2011 -- try the link -- maybe there's something there by now - FLASH: it's still a work in progress but essentially it's all posted], here is an important video that we want to share with you shedding light on the gender issues implicit in correctly defining Constellation Ophiuchus at the outset of its unveiling and ascendancy in contemporary human consciousness.
