posted October 09, 2009 08:40 AM
I find this Asteroid interesting:Icarus/ Ίκαρος and his father Daedalus/ Δαίδαλος the famous Greek [Athenian] architect and inventor were invited by King Minos of Crete in order to prepare a prison for the son of Minos' wife Μινώταυρος and guarantee that would not be able to escape and place at risk the Minos reign.
Daedalus delivered the Labyrinth/ Λαβύρινθος that even Daedalus could not escape from it.
King Minos feared that Daedalus could reveal his secret and instead of letting them free kept them under his surveillance and custody.
Daedalus prepared two pairs of wings for their escape consisted of bird's feathers and wax. He instructed Icarus to avoid flying too close to the sun or too close to the sea for a safe flight.
Unfortunately Icarus did not fly as instructed and when he was too close to the sun he lost the feathers of his wings and as result he went down to the sea near by an island that bears his name ever since.
The island's name is Icaria/ Ικαρία and the sea is called Icarian sea/ Ικάριον Πέλαγος.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_meaning_of_the_story_of_Icarus
These are the interpretations I found from the same website:
The flight of Icarus could be interpreted as a lesson in the value of moderation. The danger in flying "too high" (i.e. melting of the wax wings) or in flying "too low" (i.e. weighting down the wings by sea-water spray) were advocations for one to respect one's limits and to act accordingly.
The myth has at least three levels of reading:
1. from the simple one of disobeying to instructions of those who know better is dangerous.
2. Is that someone may not be careless about powers/ dangers not evaluated properly.
3. Is the ways of an initiated person have a great risk of failure that sometimes the result is death.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_meaning_of_the_story_of_Icarus
This is significant in my Chart. Icarus is at 15 Pisces, conjunct Osiris 12 Pisces, and My Family name 14 Pisces, and my South Node at 16 Pisces, and loosely Ptah 18 Pisces. It Opposes Valentine/Angel at 12/11 Virgo, and is very loosely conjunct my DC 6 Pisces.
"the ways of an initiated person have a great risk of failure that sometimes the result is death"
I am quite certain that in past lifelines I have taken great risks of failure that have ended in death associated with the ways of the occult. There is no way I could have learned about the occult to the extent that I know and am comfortable with, without many lifelines dabbling in it. The Asteroids Osiris, Ptah, the family name, and my SN are where I intuit that from.
I had to get "burned" a couple of times". God knows how many lifelines I trapped in Astral fooling around with that stuff. But I guess its my style in general, "balls to the wall baby" lol and it is goes nicely with my Moon/Nept/Merlin/Reiki, all conjunct in Sag in the 4th House, opposing Karma/Destin. Crossing my MC/IC axis.
Whats funny is lately I keep having dreams of flying, with white wings. And I am half human and half bird.
Anywho, what is your Icarus, and does it relate at all.
Do we even have this Asteroid listed Tameem/DD/Tigerlily/Peri/PA?
Side note:
Icarus just tranisted my Pluto/DNA conjunction and is right at 22 Libra, getting ready to oppose my Sun, and is exactly inconjunct my Venus. Gotta love Astrology!