posted April 28, 2013 08:30 AM              

"Ovid, Metamorphoses 4. 565 ff :
"Cadmus . . . overcome by sorrow and his train of troubles and so many warning signs, he left the city, Thebae (Thebes), that he had founded, as if that city's fortune, not his own, were crushing him, and with his pilgrim wife [Harmonia], after long wanderings reached Illyria. And now, worn by their woes and weight of years, the two were talking of their early times, the fortune of their house and their said toils, and Cadmus said ‘Was that a sacred Snake my spear transfixed when I had made my way from Sidon's walls and scattered on the soil the Serpent's teeth, those seeds of magic power? If it is he the jealous gods avenge with wrath so surely aimed, I pray that I may be a Snake and stretch along the ground.’
Even as he spoke he was a snake that stretched along the ground. Over his coarsened skin he felt scales form and bluish markings spot his blackened body. Prone upon his breast he fell; his legs were joined, and gradually they tapered to a long smooth pointed tail. He still had arms; the arms he had he stretched, and, as his tears poured down still human cheeks, ‘Come, darling wife [Harmonia]!’ he cried, ‘my poor, poor wife! Touch me, while something still is left of me, and take my hand while there's a hand to take, before the whole of me becomes a snake.’
More he had meant to say, but suddenly his tongue was split in tow; words failed his will; and every time he struggled to protest, he hissed; that was the voice that nature left. Beating her naked breast, his wife cried out ‘Stay, Cadmus, stay! Throw off that monstrous shape! Cadmus, what now? Your feet, your shoulders, hands where are they? And your colour and your shape, and, while I'm speaking, everything? Ye Gods, why don't you turn me too into a snake?’
He licked his poor wife's cheeks, and glided down to her dear breasts, as if familiar there, and coiled, embracing, round the neck he knew. All who were there--and courtiers were there--were terrified; but she caressed and stroked her crested dragon's long neck, and then suddenly there were two, their coils entwined. They crawled for cover to a copse nearby; and still, what they once were, they keeping in mind, quiet snakes, that neither shun nor harm mankind. But ample solace for their altered shape they both found in their grandson [Dionysos], conqueror of India, worshipped in the new-built shrines of Greece."
http://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Harmonia.html

Cadmus: 7092
Harmonia: 40
Hermione: 121

My Cadmus: 3 Pisces
my Harmonia: 19 Leo
my Hermione: 6 Sag (on my ASC)

Strangely at the time of the exam (my pupils had to do) Tr Cadmus was on my natal Dionysos and opposite my Harmonia on my natal Cupido. LOL

The things that struck me here were:

posted April 28, 2013 10:54 AM            

and my harmonia is opp his PNE on his Taylor.

posted August 27, 2017 01:36 PM            

Venus and Mars are Harmonia's parents.
She married Cadmus. These pair of serpents they become are very much the same as Ida
and Pingala (I have a strong Ida connection in my charts) our Caduceus.(CADmus is in part of CADueces, Idk if this is correct, I plan to look further there) This is why Cadmus and "Harmonia" are what bring balance (harmony) within both humam bodies but the Earth as well. I have a future post I'm going to share, which expands upon some cultural parallels.
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My aspects:

-Harmonia is 0' .22 conj my Sun in my natal.

-Venus 20' 19 Aq
-Cadmus 24' 52 Aq
Albeit no close orb there.
-Venus opposes 1' Vesta @ 19' 27 Leo
In a comparison Dr/Natal
-Dr Cadmus is 1' my Natal True Node