posted October 04, 2010 11:00 AM         

So where is it in your chart? what aspects does it make?

posted October 04, 2010 11:10 AM         

Just checked Lameia in my chart:

it is on 26.46 SAgittarius in 1st house
conjunct Sun on 26 Sag
conjunct Mercury on 25 Sag
conjunct Circe on 27 SAg.
conjunct Draco Hekate and Draco Lilith, too. lol

posted October 04, 2010 01:27 PM         

In Right Ascension:
Lameia in 19'57 Aquarius
square Venus in 19'22 Scorpio
sextile Eris in 19'32 Aries R
quincunx Haumea in 20'15 Virgo

Raymond

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No..I am not a Virgo.

posted October 04, 2010 01:34 PM         

In ancient Greek mythology, Lamia (Greek: Λάμια was a beautiful queen of Libya who became a child-eating daemon. While the word lamia literally means "large shark" in Greek, [1] Aristophanes claimed her name derived from the Greek word for gullet (λαιμός; laimos), referring to her habit of devouring children.[2]

Some accounts say she has a serpent's tail below the waist.[3] This popular description of her is largely due to Lamia, a poem by John Keats published in 1819.[4] Antoninus Liberalis uses Lamia as an alternate name for the serpentine drakaina Sybaris. However, Diodorus Siculus describes her as having nothing more than a distorted face.[5]

Later traditions referred to many lamiae; folkloric monsters similar to vampires and succubi that seduced young men and then fed on their blood.[6]

ccording to Diodorus Siculus, Lamia was born the beautiful daughter of King Belus of Egypt, making her the granddaughter of Poseidon and Lybie.[7] Upon her father's death she became queen of one of his territories, Libya.[8] However, while visiting Delphi, Pausanias remarks that Lamia was the daughter of Poseidon. He also states that Lamia and Zeus were the parents of Herophile, a noted sibyl.

Diodorus goes on to relate that Lamia had an affair with Zeus and bore him children. When Hera, Zeus's wife, discovered the affair, she became enraged and killed the children. Driven insane with grief, Lamia began devouring other children, and, according to Diodorus, her face became hideously distorted from her grisly deeds.[9]

Zeus then gave her the ability to remove her eyes. In Diodorus the purpose of this is unclear, but other versions state this came with the gift of prophecy. Zeus did this to appease Lamia in her grief over the loss of her children.[10]

Later stories state that Lamia was cursed with the inability to close her eyes so that she would always obsess over the image of her dead children. Some accounts (such as that of Horace, below) say that Hera forced Lamia to devour her own children. Myths variously describe Lamia's monstrous (occasionally serpentine) appearance as a result of either Hera's wrath, the pain of grief, the madness that drove her to murder, or - in some rare versions - a natural result of being Hecate's daughter.[11]

Horace, in Ars Poetica (l.340) imagines the impossibility of retrieving the living children she has eaten:

Neu pranse Lamiae vivum puerum extrabat alvo.

Alexander Pope translates the line:

Shall Lamia in our sight her sons devour,

and give them back alive the self-same hour?

Stesichorus identifies Lamia as the mother of Scylla, by Phorcys.[12] This may be a conflation of Lamia with the sea goddess Ceto, traditionally Phorcys's wife and mother of Scylla. Further passing references to Lamia were made by Strabo (i.II.8) and Aristotle (Ethics vii.5). Other sources cite Triton as having fathered Scylla by Lamia.

Antoninus Liberalis identifies the dragon Sybaris with Lamia, another conflation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamia_%28mythology%29

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No..I am not a Virgo.

posted October 04, 2010 02:30 PM         

yes, that is pretty unfair.
Just because he is the king of Gods.

Ami,

posted October 04, 2010 03:02 PM         

I am at work but want to ask you something, could you e-mail me at nephthys@linda-goodman.com, and I will try and get into my personal e-mail from work?

Thank you

posted October 04, 2010 03:56 PM         

yeah .. but look doing the punishing .. his effing wife :-)
" When Hera, Zeus's wife, discovered the affair, she became enraged and killed the children. "

inserting cartoon for the s'ke of it

posted October 05, 2010 12:38 AM         

Tr Datura conj nat Saturn (1)
Tr Saturn conj nat Lameia (1)

posted October 05, 2010 01:30 AM         

quote:

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A virgin, purest-lipped
but in the lore,
of Love, deep-learned,
to the red heart's core

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My favorite verse from the poem...