This is the Part II update for the Taurus 2 decan which began with the prior post. This decan has been really great so far, and it is only halfway through.

We found this statue above in a pile of composted leaves at the start of the decan. I think it is Joseph holding lilies in one hand and baby Jesus in the other?

The baby seems to be holding a blue globe like the earth! It seems very Six of Disks anyway: found in compost (Earth), holding lilies (Lily is both Venus, ruler of Taurus, and lunar, ruler of the decan), holding a globe (Earth/Disks/Taurus), and Jesus, because all such avatars like Jesus and Buddha are associated with Tiphareth and the Sixes.

So far there have been many markers of the Success associated with the Taurus 2 decan and the Six of Disks:

• The seedlings I started back in Aries 2 are the best seedlings I’ve ever grown so that was a success just realized now. I finally got a lot of things right this year, and they are as healthy or healthier than any I’ve ever purchased. So some money savings there and a feeling of satisfaction.
• All the brassica seedlings got planted in the garden, mulched, and covered. Plus got in some seeds of root crops (Taurus) carrots and beets.
• The weather has co-operated by being overcast and perfect temperature-wise on transplant day, then giving a steady rain at the end of the day. Rain looks to continue for several days here, which is actually perfect for both the transplants settling in and the seeds germinating. Could not ask for a better set up for Success! Also reminds me of the Horae, goddesses of the decan per 36 Airs of the Zodiac, who control timing. The timing for this was perfect!
• Prior to the rain though, the first days of the decan were absolutely glorious! The flower bulbs are up, the trees and beginning to leaf, and the fruit trees are flowering, with no frost in sight so fingers crossed for good fruit production this year.
• Put out some oranges and the same day the orioles arrived.
• Also saw the first hummingbird of the year and put out the hummingbird feeder.
• The bats arrived back to their bat house, right around the start of the decan I saw the first guano pellet and knew they had just arrived! I think it was on Beltane or Beltane eve maybe.
• Attended a birthday party for three Taurus children of various ages. I shopped at a vintage store for them and got some random and strange yet perfect things that were really well received. The party was also fun, with many friends in attendance.
• Also at the vintage store, picked up a garden statue of a gargoyle reading a book – which seems to have hints of both the Hierophant (Taurus) and the Priestess (Moon) as they both often have books.
• The Ptolemaic god per 777 is Helitomenos, possibly associated with Helios (solar sixes), and the bounds of sacred spaces. I put the gargoyle in the yard in an area where I have an outdoor crystal garden, which is on a boundary of the property and is one of my sacred spaces.
• Heard from some good friends at a distance that they are going to be able to travel to visit us this fall, which was happy news.
• Made plans, got tickets for some fun music events in the near future, which isn’t something we do very often but now there seem to be many all at once coming!
• Did shopping for the upcoming Mother’s Day holiday (Moon) and ordered my Mom a generous package of Six large flowering bushes she wanted for her yard.
• Got a pot with six Lithops (living stones plants); like six little disks
• Bought a bunch of edible flower seeds to start.
• Decided to combine Star Wars Day with Cinco de Mayo and after a long day of planting, had an awesome Mexican meal and margaritas served in Star Wars action figure Tiki glasses. It was fun!

Boba Fett Tiki glass: May the Fourth be with you, and Happy Cinco De Mayo to those who celebrate!

Here is a little more about those enigmatic Ptolemaic Egyptian gods in 777, like the Helitomenos of this decan. In a German tome on the decans there are some interesting delineations for each decan, giving the same Ptolemaic gods for the decans as seen in 777. The common source appears to originate from a poem written in the first century AD, that was lost and rediscovered, published in several works in the 1400s. It was also reviewed and published in a work dating to the 1500s, and then the list of gods was also published in Paul Christian’s History and Practice of Magic in 1870.

But I also suspect Crowley could have discovered this information through the work of an English scholar and poet and contemporary of Crowley who published the poem in Crowley’s time, sometime between 1903 and 1930. They shared common connections as poets, both open to homosexuality in conservative times, and through the college where Crowley was educated in the 1890s.

Crowley could also have gotten them from the British Museum’s copies of a text by a Hellenistic Egyptian astrologer, or via one of the works of the 1400s, as mentioned above.

I have more about it in the upcoming book with the names and info for all the related works; it is too much data for here.

Under the section for the Ptolemaic gods of each decan, it gives an image and predictions for those born in each decan. I’m translating these and including them in the book I’m working on because they are very interesting.

In this case, for the Taurus 2 decan and Helitomenos, it says “figure of a rider with a flag in his hand. The child will have luck in war and be elevated by honorary positions.” It sounds very solar – see the RWS Sun card, with the child on horseback carrying a flag.

Going back to work now. More to do on the book, and time to start some edible flower seeds. See you in the next decan, Taurus 3!

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