Evil Eye 🧿 Full Moon x Caput Algol

Hello Stargazer,

On November 19th, the season of Scorpio comes to a climax with a Full Moon at 24 degrees Taurus, conjunct to Uranus and the fixed star Caput Algol.

The final days of Scorpio​ season have arrived. The Sun is now crossing through the darkest tunnels of the underworld where all light is swallowed by fear and despair.

Whatever vague haunted feeling you’ve been trying to avoid since late October is about to start bleeding internally. And as it gushes, a primal feeling of horror will start to surge.

Amplified and electrified by its conjunction to Uranus, the real bitter medicine of this Full Moon will be its conjunction to Caput Algol, aka the head of Medusa.

Ancient star-lore imagines Caput Algol as the head of slain Medusa in the hand of Perseus. And the blinking star is her wrathful gaze, brutal and destructive even in death.

Medusa was said to stand as a guardian at the gates of hell. The myths describe her as a beautiful woman with serpents for hair whose gaze turned men to stone.

Medusa is what you see when the abyss that gazes back.

But she was once beautiful maiden and priestess of Athena.

As the goddess of wisdom, Athena was sought for counsel on affairs of state. As the goddess of warfare, she defended the great cities of Ancient Greece against invasion. And as patron of the city of Athens, Athena is regarded as the paragon of civilization.

Athena had originally bested Poseidon in competition for patronage of Athens by planting the first olive tree. Furious at his loss, Poseidon wanted to flood the city and bury it under the ocean, but it was due to the intervention of Zeus and Hermes that he was held back.

Perhaps it was revenge that motivated Poseidon when he first laid eyes on Medusa in the temple of Athena, and lust that drove him to rape the beautiful maiden and priestess of Athena in that same temple.

But rather than take vengeance on Poseidon for defiling her sanctuary, Athena punished Medusa by transforming the maiden into a gorgon—a hideous beast with snakes for hair whose gaze turned men to stone.

There's a chilling uncanniness to Medusa's myth and her ability to turn men to stone.

Coined in his 1919 essay Das Unheimliche or The Uncanny, Sigmund Freud defines the uncanny or unheimliche in contrast to its inverse: heimliche means “concealed, hidden, in secret,” so that which is unheimliche or uncanny reveals secrets that were buried long ago and in effect makes conscious the unconscious.

But there is a double-meaning to the uncanny, for that which is canny is “cozy,” “familiar,” and “homey.” Therefore, the uncanny is that which is uncomfortable, unfamiliar and un-homey. This is not to be confused with something that is new and different or “other.” It’s that dreadful feeling when the world is turned on its head and familiar objects become a source of terror.

The uncanny is what makes dolls and clowns so fundamentally horrifying. It’s what makes zombies so scary—the categorical impossibility of the dead coming back to life.

It’s the irrational fear that inanimate objects will come to life—not because they could harm you, necessarily, but because it awakens the possibility that living beings can turn to inanimate objects.

It’s that equal feeling of awe and dread that young children experience when gazing at their reflection in the mirror—simultaneously mesmerized by their own self-identification and horrified by the person staring back who looks like them but patently is not them.

It’s the root terror of the doppelgänger or double—the irrational fear that somewhere out there is an exact replica of you who could replace you at any moment.

Freud maintained that the head of the gorgon was a perfect reflection of the castration complex aroused in men at the uncanny sight of female genitalia.

Not only does the sight force man to recall the primal scene of his own birth, but he must effectively turn to stone to return to there and succumb to woman's innate power to castrate his pride by swallowing him whole.

As virgin goddess of wisdom who sprung from Zeus' mind, Athena sanitized female sexuality and masculinized the feminine psyche. She represented nature's consenting to domination by civilization.

This is why Athena was horrified by the return of the repressed, when the unconscious mind (Poseidon) rises up from the depths to dominate and violate the rational mind. But rather than punish a force as vast and formidable as the the ocean itself, Athena banished its object of desire to maintain balance in the rational order of things.

Feminist philosopher Julia Kristeva termed this psychological phenomenon abjection.

A bastard child of the uncanny, abjection is the “the state of being cast off” that occurs during a breakdown between the distinction of Self and Other.

Physically, abjection is experienced as bodily waste like blood, saliva or excrement; but socially, abjection takes on the form of racism, misogyny and genocide—a purging of that which disturbs the rational order.

Abjection is the stuff trauma is made of, but Medusa's myth is the poison that contains the cure.

While ostensibly a tale without mercy, Medusa shows that hidden within trauma is its own antidote. When Perseus decapitates Medusa, the Pegasus is born from her remains.

And by placing the Gorgon's head on Athena's shield, he makes the unconscious conscious, transforming the face of trauma into an apotropaic amulet with the power to ward off its own kind.

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