Revisiting the Aeon of Horus

 

                                                                                                     Alice Zilberberg.

                                                                                                    Gaia Giving Birth to Uranus 

Have you ever wondered why this “age of Aquarius” is called the “Aeon of Heru” (Age of Horus)?

Well, the truth is, I have always wondered… and an answer came to me some days ago.

Astrologically it is generally accepted that after the crossing of the galactic equator in December 2012, we officially entered the age of Aquarius. So, what does Aquarius have to do with Horus?

Each astrological house has a ruling planet, and the ruling planet of Aquarius is Uranus. 

What is the connection between Uranus and Horus?

Ouranos, is the name of the primordial Greek god of the sky. He was an emanation before the Titans, being a father of the Titans, who was an emanation before the Olympians. This guy is as ancient as we can go! According the the Greeks, he is older than time itself (Chronos)  

And his consort was… the Earth (Gaia), and according to Hesiod's Theogony, also the son of Gaia ("At first, Gaia the earth, does not need males to help her give birth to the rest of her domain, namely the mountains, the sea, and the sky").   

I found, the myth of the struggle between Ouranos and his children with the Mother Earth a fascinating read, but the bit that caught my attention was the part where Chronos (Saturn) cut off the testacies of Ouranos.

Where have we heard this before?

Of course! If we overlay the Osirian myth over this one, we can see that Seth (Sutek) represents Chronos (Saturn / Satan) and Ouranos has to represent Osirus (Asur).

And the reconstruction / resurrection of Osirus is Heru. And there we have the final piece of the puzzle in place: Ouranos == Asur  == Heru

What does not make sense is that Gaia supported the Titans in their struggle against Ouranos, where Isis (Aset) supported the struggle of Heru against Sutek.

The only explanation I have in this synthesis of mine is that the Earth Mother either changed Her alliances over time, or that She was following a larger plan of Her own, which is either not contained in the myths, or lost, or deliberately deleted from history.  

Anyway, we know that Gaia is the primordial Goddess, and Isis had been given the same title as Creatrix of this universe. So the Mother and son relationship between Gaia and Ouranos is thereby established - as Hesiod also mentioned.

So. Where does this leave us?

I would say, astrologically speaking, at an interesting juncture. What we know of Ouranos is that he did not like what was occurring on the Earth in terms of what the Titans were up to.

We also know that he was on one occasion called the "prince of philosophers" (lovers of Sophia):

Pausanias - book 1 [Attica], 30.3 - Not far from the Academy is the monument of Plato, to whom Ouranos [Heavens] foretold that he would be the prince of philosophers. The manner of the foretelling was this. On the night before Plato was to become his pupil Socrates in a dream saw a swan fly into his bosom. Now the swan is a bird with a reputation for music, because, they say, a musician of the name of Swan became king of the Ligyes on the other side of the Eridanus beyond the Celtic territory, and after his death by the will of Apollon he was changed into the bird. I am ready to believe that a musician became king of the Ligyes, but I cannot believe that a bird grew out of a man.

And we know that Ouranos represented “sky”…

Could there be a connection between Ouranos and the original guardians who seeded life on Earth?

Are these original guardians incarnating (as Heru’s) now, and restoring the reign of their higher emanation as Ouranos / Asur?

Chronos will tell… :)