While I'm making astrological associations, maybe for fun let's tie Sallustius' view of the Olympians to the zodiac and see what we end up with?
Zodiac
Quality
Element
Olympian
Aries
Cardinal
Fire
Zeus
Taurus
Fixed
Earth
Athena
Gemini
Mutable
Air
Artemis
Cancer
Cardinal
Water
Apollo
Leo
Fixed
Fire
Poseidon
Virgo
Mutable
Earth
Ares
Libra
Cardinal
Air
Demeter
Scorpio
Fixed
Water
Aphrodite
Sagittarius
Mutable
Fire
Hephaistos
Capricorn
Cardinal
Earth
Hestia
Aquarius
Fixed
Air
Hera
Pisces
Mutable
Water
Hermes
Some of these are very traditional: for example, Manilius also assigns Hestia to Capricorn and Hera to Aquarius. Some of them make sense if you turn your head and squint: for example, Zeus to Aries certainly fits his mythos and Demeter opposite him is logical enough. Most of the rest are pretty strange to me at first blush, and I'll need to think about it.
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Date: 2021-12-08 02:01 pm (UTC)While I'm making astrological associations, maybe for fun let's tie Sallustius' view of the Olympians to the zodiac and see what we end up with?
Some of these are very traditional: for example, Manilius also assigns Hestia to Capricorn and Hera to Aquarius. Some of them make sense if you turn your head and squint: for example, Zeus to Aries certainly fits his mythos and Demeter opposite him is logical enough. Most of the rest are pretty strange to me at first blush, and I'll need to think about it.