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Hermaphroditus dances within the egg formed by the golden serpent that is eating its own tail. One head wears a crown while the other wears a laurel wreath. Each hand holds a golden staff. Each of the four suit elements appear around the egg shape.
World Snake/Ouroboros
Written in my workbook on 14 Aug 91:
My key color was cobalt (coolness, serenity, happiness, permanence).
Rodney
World Snake/Ouroboros
- wholeness, self-realization, the eternal, a divine self-sufficiency
- said to be both male and female, self-impregnating, self-feeding, immortal and complete
- image of both God and nature, embodied in one symbol
- suggests that in every end there is a new beginning
- potential, the beginning, the womb, creation, resurrection
- something whole or complete unto itself
- connected to Hermes’ magic wand since the reborn personality has the potential to create more in the realms of feeling, imagination, mind and matter
- untapped and limitless potential
- that which can accomplish anything
- having all that is required within one’s own hands
- symbol of magical transformation
- potentials which await development in the new personality – Aphrodite’s cup of love, Zeus’ wand of creative imagination, Athene’s sword of intellect and Poseidon’s pentacle of physical reality
- son of Hermes and Aphrodite
- The nymph Salmacis desired him, but he wasn’t interested in her. When he was bathing in a pool, she embraced him tightly and called to the gods to never let them be parted. They were then fused into one being with both male and female characteristics
- the experience of being whole
- symbol of the potential integration of the opposites within one’s personality
- this wholeness is an ideal that is out of reach of imperfect humans; but it can see glimpsed whenever there is a state of inner healing because warring parts of oneself have at last come together and some inner resolution has brought peace
Written in my workbook on 14 Aug 91:
My key color was cobalt (coolness, serenity, happiness, permanence).
Rodney
