As is well known, mythology always refers to a body of myths – stories that society considers to be true and that use the supernatural as a way of explaining the nature of the universe and human nature. In view of this, it seems perhaps remote to make any connection between myths and signs and mythology and astrology in general. But this is not true.
The "MatchPoint"
There is a turning point in the history of civilization.
It is the point at which human reason and the moral code develop rapidly in societies. Human from being a hunter and motivated by emotion is now motivated by reason and practicality towards a new age.
In this new age, the age of reason, emotion, once synonymous with the need for survival, must now somehow survive itself.
This is one of the roles assumed by mythology.
Myths as didactic stories have been, through history, the counterweight to the harsh world of logic. Logic cannot solve questions of the soul.
According to the Swiss psychologist and thinker Carl Young, archetypes are universal psychic manifestations that are innately present in the character of all individuals in a society and form the background from which the basic issues of life emerge.
The pain of death, the anguish of loss, the finality of this world cannot be dealt with, or even approached, by that early logic (or even by the developed logic of the 21st Century).
Man contains within himself both reason and emotion, and mythology also played the role of a balancing weight to achieve balance within the members of society.
Myths are allegorical stories. The hero’s journey is life. In life we set goals and to fulfill them we do what a mythological hero does. We fight, we hurt, we learn, we control and are controlled, we hit and are hit.
Although a supernatural entity, the hero usually has a human form, human characteristics and thinks like a human. The purpose is twofold:
on the one hand, there is the identification of the individual with the hero, on the other hand, the hero must express certain characteristics of the human soul that are passed down from generation to generation to individuals in society.
Simply put, myths express human archetypes.
The Εquilibrator
In Ancient Greek mythology, the personality that brings together all the characteristics of the sign of Libra is the Homeric hero Paris, son of the King of Troy Priam and Hecuba.
The most important myth associated with the sign of Libra is the “Apple of Eris”.
It is said that at the weddings of Thetis and Peleus (Myths of Cancer) Zeus had invited the entire pantheon, except for the deity Eris.
She, despite the insult she felt, made her appearance unchallenged, and without speaking ostentatiously threw a golden apple on the table of the gods with the inscription “Callistis”, meaning “To the fairest”.
Athena, Hera and Aphrodite claimed the apple and asked Zeus to determine which one was the most beautiful.
