Astro-Mythology: Origins of the Zodiac
I’ve always needed to see the bigger picture. And understand the hidden threads that make it.
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I think back to times when I would go into personal retreat at the beginning of each year. I would head to the ocean where I feel most inspired. With quiet excitement and a fluttering heart at all of the possibilities, I would spend time inscribing by hand symbols of planets and moons into the best regular planner I could find. Slowly seeing the energy of the year unfold, and delighting at the possibilities of what that all might mean.
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This newness felt deeply sacred, like I was laying the foundations that I needed for the entire year ahead that would hold me and ground me during the ebbs and flows of life.
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One of my teachers said to me a long while ago “You need to know what’s going on in the sky Kerry, as a sensitive person if you don’t it will be challenging for you.” Hearing that was strange, but confirmation this new body of knowledge I was studying was what I was searching for, the expanded eagle-eye vision I desired in my life, and the understanding of subtle shifts and changes that I deeply felt. The language of astrology just made sense to me. It was a translation of the hidden. The layers I was already aware of but could not yet put into words.
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I would then write a huge list of all of the things I wanted to do, change, heal, work on, create, and explore for the year ahead and arrange them into categories, eager to not miss anything. I had goals. I was hungry for life, but was often taken out by my sensitivity. I needed to honor them by creating a sacred space for them to grow, and understand what was going on.
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Born from a desire to consciously honor the spark of my deep inner world, clarity and organization for my mind and expansive understanding and peace for my heart, it was kind of inevitable that I would eventually create a planner of my own.
When I say it is infused with magic, it truly is, from my heart, fulfilling a desire to bring order to the chaos of feelings, being connected to the invisible energy of the living sky.
I’m thrilled to share this labour of love with you all. Thank you thank you.
Kerry - Magic of I.
INTRODUCING THE 2025 THEME
ASTRO-MYTHOLOGY: ORIGINS OF THE ZODIAC
2025 is set to be a year of great cosmic shifts, precipitated by the outer planets moving into new signs. After completing its final retrograde in Capricorn this fall/spring, Pluto enters Aquarius for the long haul. Plus, Neptune will make its first foray into trailblazing Aries since 1860 and Uranus will enter data-driven Gemini – terrain it last exited in 1949. Not to be outdone, the social planets Saturn and Jupiter, will make ingresses into Aries and Cancer.
In this moment of change and emergence, new questions are arising about what we want our future to look like. Discussions are presently taking place on a global scale that are recontextualizing what it means to be alive on the planet. Although we might look to the past for guidance, meaning is something that we construct in the now. We are mythology in motion. Our ideals, beliefs and actions reflect the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and who we wish to become, as individuals and as a people.
The constellations have always served as fodder for meaning-making. Stargazers wove mythology into the heavens, connecting astral movements to lived experiences and ecological, political, and societal fluctuations, narrating a dance of fate and fortune. Archaic tales provide the basis for our current understanding of the zodiac and its corresponding archetypes. You might be well-versed in its symbolism or you might only know threads of this lore.
Myths are born out of unique relationships to place, space and time. They introduce us to foreign customs and often beckon us to walk through foreign landscapes and gaze through foreign eyes. Myth grants us insight into bygone cultures, illuminating their desires and priorities.
But good mythology is not experienced in a vacuum – it invites us into a dialogue. We may no longer live in an era of titans and heroes, of quests for golden fleeces or journeys into the underworld. Yet uncertainty, adventure, loss and victory are eternal features of the human condition. Just as we can time-travel through myth, we also awaken myths through engagement, making them relevant to our contemporary vision of life, love and selfhood.
To acclimate us to these themes, ones which are both eternal and evolving, the 2025 Magic of I. Astrological Planner will include a new section – Astro-Mythology: Origins of the Zodiac. This eight-page spread dives into the origins and development of the mythology surrounding each zodiacal constellation, highlighting the Greek legends that animate the signs.
As the year unfolds, each sign will be expanded upon in its sun season, tracking the zodiac’s mythological roots back through ancient Mesopotamia and offering a deeper dive through articles on our blog and via our mailing list. Sign up to the mailing list here to come on this journey and make meaning with us throughout 2025.
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