As a nice reprieve from the toxic modern world here is a nice painting of a wholesome heterosexual duck family.

Notice how the drake (male duck) stands tall and proud as a watchful sentry over his family, ever alert for danger, whilst the mother duck tends to her ducklings, confident that their father will neither became lazy in his duties or abandon his post.

Knight of the Swan

In “The Symposium”, Plato has Aristophanes, a famous Greek theatre and comedy writer, tell the story of the Soulmates.

As Plato puts it:
“According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs & a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”

There were three genders in nature: Man, Woman & the “Androgynous”, which literally means man-woman in Greek. Each gender had two sets of genitalia, the Androgynous having both. The gender of humans had to do with their origin; Men were children of the Sun. Women were children of the Earth. Andorgynous were children of the Moon, born out of the merging of the Sun & the Earth.

There was a time humans were very powerful creatures, fearless & strong, even daring. They threatened to conquer them & rule in their stead, to become new Gods. So the Gods had to answer, how to face the threat & what needed done to restore balance/harmony.

Beneath the Bronze sky
A Horizon in Flame
The Oceans Boil
The Earth heaves & seethes
There is a new Sun rising
That has not Risen for
Thousands of years
Prophets have Written
Songs have been Sung
We have Awoken
A New Age has begun
Spirit The Earth Aflame

Venus and the Pleiades.
The Pleaides during the summer are visible from the position my bed is in, and during those summer nights whenever I'm falling asleep looking at them, I always think of Hermes and His mother ✨

Read the 22 musings on love:

https://hooafury.substack.com/p/22-lullabies-on-love

Admit it. You aren’t like them.
You’re not even close.

You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”

Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence.

Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

- Timothy Leary

Right from the beginning [Apollo] was connected not only with night but with caves and dark places, with the underworld and death. This is why at the town of Hierapolis, Apollo’s temple was right above the cave leading down to the underworld. And it’s why at other famous Oracle centers in Anatolia his temples were built just the same way – above a cave giving access to the underworld that was entered by his priest and by initiates at the dead of night.

In the Dark Places of Wisdom, Peter Kingsley