Is This the Dawning?

“When the moon is in its Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then Peace will guide the planets
And Love will steer the Stars”
– from “Aquarius” by James Rado, Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot, from the 1968 musical Hair

Tomorrow is known to most of the world as (St.) Velentine’s Day, which is either religious or secular, dependant on whether or not you’re an old-style Catholic who still has a feast and shit on important Saint Days. It’s also Hellenion’s date for the Libation to Aphrodite & Eros, and I just read from a member of Hellenion_Chat that the astrological predictions for tomorrow will match that described in the verse quoted above.

I find this an entertaining coincidence, to say the very least. Another domain of Aphrodite’s is sometimes said to be Peace, and that also seems appropriate for Eros, as He’s sometimes said to be a direct contrast to Eris, the Goddess of Discord.

So make some Peace and Love tomorrow with your libations or even just your night in or out with your lover(s).

Seasonally Affected Erotic

Some days, I feel very unworthy to honour the Theoi, especially Eros and Apollon. Does some-one who is regularly lonely and as far from the ideal of male beauty as I am have any right to honour Them?

The SAD aside, my life had been a bit hectic until very recently (as in, this last few days), when I suddenly found myself to be very sick. If you’re at all paying attention to this, please feel free to pray for my health to improve very soon.

I have not forgotten this blog. In fact, I have a lot of backed-up poetry and stuff that I’ve been intending to post, but other things came up and I just couldn’t find the time to sit and transcribe it all.

Take care,

– Ruadhan