Hello everyone!
Just in time for Mars stationing direct…the video of the first Mysteria Mundi Live Chat! It was such a delicious start to the new year, and one that we’ll repeat in the months to come (as soon as I work out a good, sustainable schedule).
A Table of Contents with Time stamps below, and links to articles/items discussed in each of these portions of our conversation.
We opened w intros & then…
5:00 How we Chant/Sing the Orphic Hymns & “The Practice” in/as Daily Life
9:45 Bear Ryver talks about life as meditation (thanks, Bear!)
11:30 Justin shares a podcast recommendation (re: Hermes) for “Let’s Talk about Myths, Baby” episode that aired Dec 27, 2022
16:00 How practice changes over time
17:00 A funny story about Mars and coffee
18:48 The Moon & Paleolithic Cave Art
25:16 How the Paleolithic discoveries relate to archaeoastronomy and archaeoastrology (that is, the study of ancient astronomical and astrological practices)
Articles referenced by Kristin:
BBC short news article https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64162799
Original Cambridge University Study https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/an-upper-palaeolithic-protowriting-system-and-phenological-calendar/6F2AD8A705888F2226FE857840B4FE19
29:03 How the Moon’s position in various astrological charts connects to the Paleolithic discoveries
29:03 The Moon’s Domicile in Cancer
31:07 The Moon’s Joy in the Third House
33:16 The Moon’s Exultation in Cancer
34:16 The Moon and the Kalodaimon, or “Guardian Angel”
35:32 The Orphic Hymns are the Cosmology underlying Hellenistic Astrology
37:32 The Horoscope Board as a Wheel of Initiation. Bear references a talk by Art Jones (we’re still working on figuring out which one it was…so drop a comment if you happen to know, and I’ll put in a link)
41:35 Adonis & Venus in the Orphic Hymns
42:35 Aphrodite as both female (eveningstar) & male (morningstar), as inherited from Mesopotamian and Levantine astrology
44:45 Grief as a Face of Aphrodite
46:10 Aphrodite as Mother of Necessity (Greek: Ananke)
48:10 Climate Grief and Aphrodite, and the Moon’s role in helping us move through that Grief
50:21 Dogs & the Moon
54:09 Ancient Cosmology as a Fractal of Scale
56:22 More on Aphrodite, this time in Her role in Orphic Cosmology
57:04 Comparing Aphrodite’s “Bindings” with those of Saturn
59:10 Greek Philosophy and Cosmology as it relates to Fate/Necessity/Ananke
1:02:07 A proposal for an experiment with the Orphic Hymns for the Planetary Nights
A huge shout-out to everyone who attended—those you will see onscreen and those who participated in the chat!
Here’s to a wonderful year of many more chats together.
Yours in the stars,
Kristin
Recording of the Live Chat 1/7/23