Dionysian Mysteries – Ancient Healing Rites through Trance Dance
Join Demetra George for the second installment of her webinar series on the Greek Mystery Religions.
Dionysus/Bacchus is the god of wine, intoxication and religious ecstasy. He is a complex deity with widespread and varied worship. This webinar will focus upon his mystery rites associated with the Maenads and women’s religion.
The initiates, as a group, experienced a direct descent of divine energy into themselves whose purpose was to bring about a catharsis and healing. The healing power of the god was invoked through music and ecstatic dance in wild nature settings. Demetra will also share stories and images from the 2019 tour about a modern-day Dionysian-like ceremony that the tour group witnessed in a small village in northern rural Greece.
You can personalize your connection to these ancient mystery rites by determining the positions of the asteroids Dionysos and Bacchus in your chart. They will suggest where and how in the realm of Dionysos you go to the edges of rational consciousness in order to experience an ecstatic state of being.
For the location of these asteroids in your chart, go to www. astro.com. [Free Horoscopes; Chart drawing, Ascendant – enter birth data; Extended Chart Selection – select astrodienst w asteroids; Additional Objects (at bottom of page) – select asteroid name/number list with 21, 778 names; click on Bacchus #2063 and Dionysos #3671]
Pre-recorded webinar for instant download.
1hr. 31 min. | includes video, audio and slides
Level: Intermediate
Courses Hosted at Astrology University
This beginner’s guide to the basic principles of Hellenistic Astrology will address interpreting charts in terms of modern sensibilities and perspectives.
The focus is on planetary condition (the first steps concerning sect, zodiacal rulerships, solar phase, aspect configurations, and judgment).
Includes 8 lessons, worked examples, reading, homework, and 3 recorded Q&A sessions.
Prior knowledge of planets, signs, houses, and aspect meanings recommended.
This course will better enable you to follow the more advanced techniques on your own.
Asteroids can bring us to the brink of the great mystery when we discover their significations woven into the tapestry of our fate from the moment of birth. They have been linked with spirit guides, daimons, karma, and destiny, providing the specific details of the major life themes indicated by the planets.
In addition to Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta, astrologers now have access to zodiacal positions of more than 20,000 named asteroids. This course will propel you into the study of all those other asteroids. Personal names of important people in your life, geographical places that hold special destiny for you, mythic deities that span world cultures can point to vocational paths and life-altering experiences, historical personages with whose work you are attuned, and broad concepts that contribute to your character.