Sagittarius

Portal sculpture of Sagittarius on the facade of Chartres cathedral by genibee

Sagittarius (November 22-December 20)

The 9th and a fall sign of the zodiac, symbolized by the archer and associated with the planetary ruler of Jupiter.

Its earth element is fire.

In myth the sign is traced to the legendary battle between the centaurs and the Lapiths.

Persons born under this sign are said to be level-headed, optimistic, lucky and adventurous.

The negative aspect of Saggitarius is over-ambition and destructiveness.

Woody Allen, Walt Disney, Mark Twain and Sinead O’Connor fall under this sign. » Astrology

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Apollinarius

Apollinarius (310-390 CE) Early Christian teacher whose views on Christ were condemned as heresy.

He argued that Christ and God were one and that this doctrine should be taught.

For Apollinarius, Christ’s human spirit was replaced by the divine Logos. As such, Christ couldn’t morally develop during his life because he was already perfect.

This view denied Christ’s human side and was rejected by an orthodoxy which believed that all of humanity could not be saved unless God was partly human.

Appollinarianism could only redeem the spiritual but not the natural aspects of humanity.

This distinction between spirit and nature is one that carries through today, with far-reaching implications for those who do and do not believe that the matter/energy dynamic is identical to spirit.

Although Apollinarius became Bishop of Laodicea (360 CE), he was condemned by the synod at Rome (374-380 CE) and the council of Constantinople (381 CE).

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• “Early Christian Gravestone, Jesus the Shepherd” by Walter Parenteau at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwparenteau/451967950/, Creative Commons License

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Aquarius

Aquarius (Latin aquarius = water-carrier, January 21-February 19)

A large zodiacal constellation located between Pisces and Capricorn.

Aquarius is the 11th and a winter sign symbolized by the water bearer and associated with the planetary rulers of Uranus and Saturn. Its element is air.

In popular astrology the Aquarius personality is said to be creative, joyful, intuitive and intelligent.

From Uranus, a Roman sky god, Aquarians are said to acquire spiritual lightness, whereas Saturn provides joy and peace.

The composer Mozart and Boris Yeltsin were both under this sign. » Astrology, Saturnalia

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• Cropped from “Aquarius” by gorgeoux at http://www.flickr.com/photos/gorgeoux/427021865/, Creative Commons License

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Arius

Arius (c.250-c.336) Libyan Christian theologian responsible for the heresy of Arianism.

Around 319 CE he created controversy by saying that Christ is ‘divinized’ but remains subordinate to God.

For Arius, God is absolutely transcendent and cannot be present in a human being.

Although he gained some support, Arius was excommunicated in 321 by a synod of bishops at Alexandria, mostly because his idea countered the central belief of the Trinity, in which the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are co-equal and co-eternal.

Although well-understood within Christian communities, the dogma of the Trinity had not been firmly defined at the time of the controversy.

In 325 the Council of Nicea formulated the Trinity as three equal, eternal persons.

While often criticized as a historical fabrication, for Catholic believers this tenet of their faith is not arbitrarily manufactured within history; rather, it regarded as the reception and conceptual articulation of an eternal truth within the course of history.

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Christology

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Christology is the theological study of Jesus Christ as a human and Divine being.

Various Christian sects in early Christianity emphasized either Christ’s humanity at the expense of his Divinity or, conversely, his Divinity at the expense of his humanity.

The Christian Church took great pains to officially resolve these as heresies.

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Capricorn

Capricorn by verseguru via Flickr

In astrological belief Capricorn (December 22-January 21) [Latin caper: goat + cornu: horn] is the 10th sign of the zodiac. It’s symbolized by the Goat and associated with the planetary ruler of Saturn.

Capricorn’s astrological element is Earth. Believers maintain that Capricorn is the organizational person. Practical, regular, and at times doggedly stubborn, Capricorn’s apparently get things done and do them well. They achieve whatever they see as important, be it in battle, business or public service.

Notable Capricorns are Joan of Arc, Martin Luther King, Jr., Elvis Presley and the American radio host and actor Howard Stern.

In astronomy Capricornus is the Sea Goat, a large but faint constellation located between Sagittarius and Aquarius. Wikipedia outlines some of Capricorn’s ancient mythological associations:

Despite its faintness, Capricornus has one of the oldest mythological associations, having been consistently represented as a hybrid of a goat and a fish since the Middle Bronze Age. First attested in depictions on a cylinder-seal from around the 21st century BC,^[4] it was explicitly recorded in the Babylonian star catalogues as ^MULSUḪUR.MAŠ “The Goat-Fish” before 1000 BC. The constellation was a symbol of the god Ea and in the Early Bronze Age marked the winter solstice...^[5]

In Greek mythology, the constellation is sometimes identified as Amalthea, the goat that suckled the infant Zeus after his mother Rhea saved him from being devoured by his father Cronos (in Greek mythology). The goat’s broken horn was transformed into the cornucopia or horn of plenty.^{[citation needed]} Capricornus is also sometimes identified as Pan, the god with a goat’s head, who saved himself from the monster Typhon by giving himself a fish’s tail and diving into a river.^{[2] †}

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† http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricornus

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The Great Schism

Patriarch Michael Keroularios sitting on a throne with clergymen from the Chronicle of John Skylitzes via Wikipedia

The first Great Schism was the separation of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. Antagonisms over various issues had been brewing since the 9^th century but the break formally took place in 1054.

Relations between East and West had long been embittered by political and ecclesiastical differences and theological disputes.^[2] Prominent among these were the issues of “filioque“, whether leavened or unleavened bread should be used in the Eucharist,^[3] the Pope’s claim to universal jurisdiction, and the place of Constantinople in relation to the Pentarchy.¹

The antimony between East and West was brought to a head in 1053 by an attack on the Pope by Michael Cerularius, the patriarch of Constantinople. This resulted in the excommunication of Cerularius and his Eastern followers by Western papal authorities.

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¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Schism

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Gabriel

The Annunciation by Anton Raphael Mengs (1728 – 1779) - Gabriel appears to the Virgin Mary via Wikipedia

Gabriel is one of the four Catholic Archangels (also Michael, Raphael and Uriel). Along with Michael, Gabriel is found in Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

A lot of New Age writers and alleged channelers talk about or, perhaps, dispense supposed “messages” from Gabriel, along with other angels. While this kind of stuff can be compelling, especially if someone is searching for a higher purpose in life, we really have no way of telling if it’s real, imagined¹ or purposely made up by scammers.

The same charge, of course, has been made against organized religions. Their discourses about angels are often said to be divinely inspired. But… who’s to say for sure?

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¹ It would be relatively easy for someone to fool themselves into thinking they were divine prophets for some angel or higher being. All they’d have to do is get in a comfy chair, relax a bit, slip into a slightly meditative consciousness, and then let their imaginations or subconscious run wild. Most likely, this is what Jane Roberts did, who claimed to channel the entity Seth. Another possibility, usually dismissed by contemporary psychiatry but a possibility nonetheless, is that a malevolent spiritual being influences the channeler. So the person is channeling. But not what they think they are.

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Holy Spirit

Child Jesus with the virgin Mary, with the Holy Spirit (represented as a dove) and God the Father, with child john the Baptist and saint Elizabeth on the right, 1665-1670 Bartolomeo Esteban Murillo via Wikipedia

In Christian theology, The Holy Spirit is one of the three “persons” constituting the Holy Trinity of The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit.

Each person is said to be eternal, equal, distinct and yet of the same substance. The term Holy Ghost is an old English version of the Latin Spiritus.

In the New Testament Jesus promises his disciples that the Paraclete or Spirit of Truth will return. However, the worldly and evil people of this world cannot and will not see it unless they repent (John 14:16-17).

Around 360 CE the early Christian Church opposed as heretical the idea of the pneumatomachi–-the teaching that Jesus Christ but not the Spirit is Divine.

In 381 the Council of Constantinople repudiated these heretics by declaring the dogma of the Holy Spirit. This was further elaborated in 589 by the Council of Toledo’s dogma of double procession, or the filioque, which stipulates that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son.

This teaching became popular as the Nicene Creed spread throughout the empire of the Franks from the 9^th-century onward. But due to an apparent temporal paradox (How can the Holy Spirit proceed from the Father and the Son if the Holy Trinity is co-eternal?), the filioque has been controversial and, indeed, openly attacked by the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Many Christians tend to describe the Holy Spirit as an indwelling of the divine. That is, God is wholly-other but also immanent as a numinous experience. On the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, Karl Gross cites Evelyn Underhill:

As they know themselves to dwell in the world of time and yet to be capable of transcending it, so the Ultimate Reality, they think, inhabits yet inconceivably exceeds all that they know to be — as the soul of the musician controls and exceeds not merely each note of the flowing melody, but also the whole of the symphony in which these cadences must play their part. » Source

However, a philosophical problem arises with the idea of indwelling. It’s obvious that many religious groups (and individuals) claim to be guided by the Holy Spirit while promoting drastically different agendas. Perhaps a partial solution to this problem could be to say that some of these groups and individuals are closer to enacting God’s will than others.

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Jupiter

Fresco from Pompeii - Jupiter enthroned with Mars and Venus via Wikipedia

Mythology:

In classical Roman mythology Jupiter is the master deity, often depicted with flowing hair, beard, thunder and a thunderbolt.

He was worshipped by the Roman elite at his sacred temple on the Capitoline Hill in Rome.

Also known as Jovis, Jupiter was regarded as the upholder of justice who protected the state and its rulers. He also presided over the Roman games.

Jupiter is likely related to the Vedic Dyas Pitar and has probable origins as a sky and weather god. However, he clearly evolved into a bellicose deity, and is also seen, among his other attributes, as a god of war.

His Greek counterpart is Zeus. In Britain he was called Jove—hence the phrase by Jove! And mention of Jove appears quite often in Shakespeare.

At lovers’ perjuries,
They say Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,
If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. ¹

Image Courtesy NASA

Astronomy:

In astronomy, Jupiter is the 5^th planet from the sun, with 16 natural satellites, taking 11.9 years to complete a full orbit that travels between the paths of Mars and Saturn.

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system with 63 natural satellites.

Culture:

In the films 2001: A Space Odyssey and its sequel, 2010, Jupiter figures prominently as the location for a fictional hyperspace portal to the stars.

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¹ http://www.enotes.com/romeo-and-juliet-text/act-ii-scene-ii

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