It’s been fifteen years since a soak in a tub, which nags lately and tonight becomes a goal: one real bath with tea light candles and lavender herbs in a beautiful locale before the month is over. An official birthday wish. And this year is ten since a frivolous astrology reading as gift transfigured into a decade (and counting) of continued study and interest.
Demetra George’s Astrology for Yourself was a first book of instruction. She has changed since she wrote it (1987), and this year published volume one of her life’s work, Ancient Astrology in Theory and Practice, which in preface tells about Greek as her first language learned from immigrant grandparents who took her to liturgies by day (“immersed for hours at a time in the chanting”), then held her “spellbound with the myths of Greek gods and goddesses in lieu of other bedtime stories” by night — a rich foundation (assuming in Chicago, her birthplace) from which after age five she lost daily contact, learned English instead, studied math, physics, and philosophy in college, and stumbled into an Oregon metaphysical scene in the 1970s where the first leg of her journey, that of a modern feminist goddess astrologer, took hold.
Twenty or so years later she inadvertently became first subscriber to Archive for the Retrieval of Historical Texts (ARHAT), a mission to translate the corpus of Greek and Latin texts, and began of her slow transformation from modern to traditional astrology including, as an empty-nester adult, returning for a master’s in Classics, winding full circle to the traditional Greek-in-America childhood root.
Our synastry:
Sun and Saturn same degree Cancer
Neptune and Vesta same degree Libra
Sunday, July 7, 2019, local, 13:42 CDT:
Saturn 17° 22′ Rx conjunct South Node 17° 38′ Capricorn
Saturn Rx opposite natal Venus exact
Edits: syntax on last paragraph