ASTRON∴

needle and ink stick ‘n poke. 

‎”Heavenly powers:

Horses have been deified in many parts of the world. In the Japanese Shinto temples, a sacred horse was maintained. Roman historian Tacitus records that in some parts of Northern Europe snow-white horses were reared at a sacred grove and never used for riding. When the king, or the priest, yoked them to the sacred chariot, their neighing and snorting were carefully observed and the will of God inferred from it.

Many cultures believed that white horses knew the plans of the heavenly powers. The druids, as also the Persian magi, were said to practice divination by means of white horses.

Horses have been a part of literature, history, mythology, fairy tales and legends of the world. The Katha Sarit Sagar [An Ocean of Stories] compiled in 1070 AD by a Kashmiri Pandit, Somdeva, has a king addressing his faithful horse and praying for his help. The horse is described as being “White as the Moon; the sound of its neighing as musical as that of a clear counch, or other sweet-sounding instrument. It looked like the waves of the sea of milk surging on high, marked with curls on the neck and adorned with the crest-jewel, the bracelet and other signs, which it seemed as if it had acquired by being born in the race of the gandharvas.”

The Song Of Solomon says, “I have compared Thee, O my love to a company of horses [to my mare].” A Slav fairy tale has a Prince called Slugobyl trying to win the hand of a princess by saving her father from enemies with the help of a magic horse. Likewise, you have mice, turned into graceful white horses to be able to drive Cinderella’s couch to the king’s palace.

However, a horse, like our mind, is wild and moves around errantly, unless it is reined in. In Babylon, the horse was described as the God Zu; in gypsy language, ‘zi’ means mind. For Plato, a horse signified “Reason and opinion coursing about through natural things” and also “a confused fantasy.””

alicali:

supersonicelectronic:

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Aura Australis

cosmicpower:

”From a vantage point about 350 kilometers above the southern Indian Ocean, astronauts onboard the International Space Station watched this enormous, green ribbon shimmering below. Known as aurora australis or southern lights, the shifting, luminous bands are commonly seen at high northern latitudes as well, there known as the aurora borealis or northern lights.North or south their cause is the same though, as energetic charged particles from the magnetosphere pile into the atmosphere near the Earth’s poles. To produce the characteristic greenish glow, the energetic particles excite oxygen atoms at altitudes of 100 kilometers or more. Aurora on May 29 were likely triggered by the interaction of the magnetosphere with a coronal mass ejection erupting from the Sun on May 24.”

cosmicpower:

“Thrilled astronomers are checking out a new picture of the entire sky viewed in a whole new light. The stunning image, built up by a European space telescope, reveals vast swathes of dust filling our home galaxy, the Milky Way.”

(via witchtower)

artandthemind:

vedocay:

ppsychicchasms:grimoires:ectoplasmspasm:(via cosmic-dust)