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Five of Cups ~ Ophiuchus ~
Astrologic harmonic/mode -Quntile
Constellation - Asclepius (Ophiuchus)
Decanate - 2nd Scorpio
Ruler of decan - Neptune
Ascelpius son of Apollo and Coronis, was snatched from the burning pyre on which his mother's body had just been consumed and carried away to Mount Pelion when he was confided to the care of the Centaur Chiron. Chiron taught him to hunt and instructed him in the science of medicine. With his miraculous cures he soon earned immense renown. He even succeeded in restoring the dead to life, thanks either to the Gorgon's blood which Athene gave him or to the properties of a plant which a serpent had told him about. Hades thought that he was being wronged. He went to Zeus to complain, and Zeus agreed the mortals must follow their destiny. Thus, Asclepius was guilty of thwarting the order of nature and Zeus struck him dead with a thunderbolt. Asclepius was sometimes represented as a serpent, but frequently as a man of middle age with an expression of benevolence, and his cult was at the same time a religion and a system of therapeutics. In the Asclepia special rites were observed. After much purification preparation, baths, fasting, sacrifices, the patient was permitted to spend the night in the temple of Asclepius where he slept either on the skin of the sacrificed animal or on a couch placed near the statue of the god. During the night Asclepius would appear to the patient in a dream and give him advice.
Astrologic harmonic/mode -Quntile
Constellation - Asclepius (Ophiuchus)
Decanate - 2nd Scorpio
Ruler of decan - Neptune
Ascelpius son of Apollo and Coronis, was snatched from the burning pyre on which his mother's body had just been consumed and carried away to Mount Pelion when he was confided to the care of the Centaur Chiron. Chiron taught him to hunt and instructed him in the science of medicine. With his miraculous cures he soon earned immense renown. He even succeeded in restoring the dead to life, thanks either to the Gorgon's blood which Athene gave him or to the properties of a plant which a serpent had told him about. Hades thought that he was being wronged. He went to Zeus to complain, and Zeus agreed the mortals must follow their destiny. Thus, Asclepius was guilty of thwarting the order of nature and Zeus struck him dead with a thunderbolt. Asclepius was sometimes represented as a serpent, but frequently as a man of middle age with an expression of benevolence, and his cult was at the same time a religion and a system of therapeutics. In the Asclepia special rites were observed. After much purification preparation, baths, fasting, sacrifices, the patient was permitted to spend the night in the temple of Asclepius where he slept either on the skin of the sacrificed animal or on a couch placed near the statue of the god. During the night Asclepius would appear to the patient in a dream and give him advice.
