To
the Greeks, Epithemia represented part of what
we humans have in common with the other animals. Epithemia
was the instinctive urge for touching, caressing, and procreation.
According
to astrologer, Richard Idemon, Epithemia is that physical,
sensual, sexual urge expressing itself as an inner-tension in the
body which needs to be relieved. And the closest match we've got
for Epithemia in the English language is probably
the word, "horny."
To
the Greeks... there was little, if any, shame attached to these
basic needs and instinctual drives of the body. The Greeks recognized
Epithemia as natural needs that the body had.
Epithemia
was not
- romanticized
- eroticized
- or
moralized.
Primitive
Survival Signs
According
to British astrologer Walter Sampson (early 20th century) in his
book Zodiac - the Epitome.... the first four signs of the
Zodiac (Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer) are primitive, elemental,
childlike survival signs. (i.e. There is only "me" and my survival
at stake.)
Among
these survival signs, Taurus is the Zodiac sign specifically associated
with survival "through an awareness of the senses."
Taurus
Taurus is typically associated with the garden of paradise...
and as such Taurus reflects a childlike innocence and naiveté
concerning the senses and the natural fulfillment of their instinctual
needs.
It's
become a well documented fact that young children can have everything
else they need to survive... but if not touched, held or caressed
by their parents - children may quite literally physically wither
away and die. It's
been discovered that even an innocent enough 30 second hug releases
chemicals in our bodies that provide the hugger and the huggee with
an irrational sense of well-being.
As
adults, we haven't somehow magically outgrow our basic need for
physical contact with another person.
As
adults, we're still
hungry
to be touched
hungry
to be held
and
hungry to be caressed.
Venus,
Ruler of Taurus
And
if Venus (Aphrodite) the goddess of love, who rules the sign of
Taurus, is
not honored in us - she, then, becomes an angry, ugly, uninvited
guest who
inevitably stirs up a whole world of trouble. She
will stir up trouble until she finally receives her rightful invitation
into our individual lives or into the life of our society.
Testimony
of the uglier, angrier nature of archetypal Venus is much in evidence
- right here - on the darker side of the Internet.
Next
on our journey of love through the Zodiac is the romantic, playful
love of the adolescent Leo, as seen in phileo….
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