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    5: The Venus Pentagram
    5: The Venus Pentagram
    5: The Venus Pentagram
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    5: The Venus Pentagram

    By Laura Perkins

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    The number 5 is embodied in the heavens by the Pentagram that Venus draws over time. Hidden within the Pentagram is the Golden Ratio, thought to confer beauty on everything that exists in its harmonious proportion. Correspondences to the divine mathematics of the Venus Pentagram are found throughout nature, art, architecture, and even the human body.

    Mythic symbolism corresponding to the cycle of the planet Venus is found in stories from around the world, and these stories connect with astrological insight. This booklet provides a fascinating overview of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, in mathematics, nature, mythology, and astrology.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLaura Perkins
    Release dateAug 1, 2011
    ISBN9781465915733
    5: The Venus Pentagram
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    Laura Perkins

    Laura Perkins is an entrepreneur and writer. She has a vintage jewelry business, and other assorted projects. She loves to travel. She dreams of living in an egalitarian, just, and sustainable world. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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      5 - Laura Perkins

      5: The Venus Pentagram

      Published by Laura Perkins at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011 Laura Perkins

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      ISBN 978-1-4659-1573-3

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Dedication

      A Cosmic Order

      A Sense of Proportion

      Venus in World Mythology

      Birth of Venus

      Aphrodite and Adonis

      Mesoamerica

      Gawain and the Green Knight

      Tannhauser

      Integrating the Venus Pentagram

      The Venus Pentagram in the Signs of the Zodiac

      In the Houses

      Acknowledgements

      Illustrations

      Bibliography

      About the Author

      "Goddess! To thee my soul hath vowed her duty.

      Thy praise alone be henceforth sung by me!

      Thou art the only fount of love and beauty;

      All gifts of grace and favour flow from thee.

      Who thee in passion’s rapture hath embraced

      Hath learned the joys of love none else can know.

      Poor fools, who love have never dared to taste,

      Go – seek it in the Hill of Venus – Go!"

      - Tannhauser, Richard Wagner

      This essay is dedicated in reverence to the Goddess, and to seekers of the Grail.

      A Cosmic Order

      One of the most convincing proofs I have ever encountered that there is a divine order to the universe, and that astrology is one of many ways it is revealed to the seeker, can be stated in simplest form in a single prime number. That number is 5.

      5 petals of the apple blossom, the cherry blossom, the columbine, the buttercup, or the wild rose. 5 points of the human body, as illustrated by Leonardo Da Vinci in his Vitruvian Man. 5 fingers. 5 toes. 5 senses. The fifth element. 5 elements in Chinese tradition. The Pentagram that the planet Venus, working with our Sun, draws in the heavens over time.

      What? Never heard of that last cosmic fivefold? Hidden within it is the heavenly expression of the Pythagorean mathematical concepts of the golden ratio, the divine proportion, known to mathematicians as the number PHI (1.618), which is found throughout nature and in turn has inspired some of humanity’s greatest artists and architects.

      The Venus Pentagram excites me every time I think about it. I’ve been known to leap in the air with joy when describing this natural phenomenon to others. It proves to me something extraordinary is happening outside the bounds of our everyday consciousness. It fills me with awe and wonder. Here’s how it works:

      Approximately every ten months, Venus conjuncts the Sun. A conjunction is when two heavenly bodies align at the same degree along the ecliptic, an imaginary line that circles the earth along the zodiacal constellations. All of the planets in our solar system, as well as our Sun and our Moon, appear to travel along this line

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