Libra (Southern Hemisphere)

In the Southern Hemisphere, Libra is the seventh month of Our Zodiacal Hellenistic Mystery Calendar. In ancient Greece, this month was named according to the chart below.

The seventh month is the third Energizing month, which represents the natural law of Interaction and is under the rule of Athena. The Soul, the Universe, and the Year, leaving the previous sphere of Jupiter and the law of Progress, are bound together into Interaction due to a Energizing by Athena. The seventh level of ascension is the sphere of Saturn.

The Seventh Labor of Herakles is to capture the Cretan Bull. The Cretan Bull is the father of the Minotaur, and is a stand-in for the Soul's untamed lust and generative passions. It is the first Labor to take place outside the Peloponnesian peninsula, and Herakles asks King Minos for help in capturing it, which Minos refuses. This suggests that these were subconscious or foreign passions, similar to the Stymphalian Birds, and that the only way to confront them is alone and head-on. Herakles captures the bull alive, suggesting again that one should not eradicate these feelings completely but tame them and turn them toward the Good.

Festivals in Libra

References

Pytho

Dioscuria, Megalartia

Paian

Months Across City-States

Kallímakhos

Hellenic Zodiacal Calendar, Natural Laws of the Olympians