There are maybe no phrases extra enchanting, whimsical, and promising than “Once upon a time.”
As Gemini creator and educational Jack Zipes maintains, “Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.”
Nationwide Storytelling Week, spinning yarns and wagging tongues from January 30 to February 7, celebrates our grand custom of subjugating horrors into fortunately ever after by means of the world-making energy of the written and spoken phrase.
Most of the tales we all know and venerate in the present day are credited to Aesop, an enslaved Greek who leveraged language to create moral tips for his fellow man.
OG fairy tales have been decidedly darker than their Disney variations would have you ever imagine, filled with allegory and cannibalism, ugly loss of life, and unheeded warnings. Rife with symbolism and archetypes, fairy tales share a lot frequent floor and stardust with astrology. In honor of Nationwide Storytelling Week, we convey you a listing of the zodiac indicators as fairy tales.
Rapunzel
Within the Main Arcana of the tarot, Aries is related to the Tower card, and when it comes to the bodily type, it’s the signal that guidelines the pinnacle and hair.
In-kind, within the story of Rapunzel, a phenomenal woman is condemned to a tower with little greater than her hair for firm.
Aries is dominated by Mars and, at their greatest, embody the archetype of the fearless hero and reckless romantic; thusly, the prince that rescues Rapunzel is undaunted by heights and witches and, like most Aries folks I do know, is greater than snug with a bit hair pulling.
Magnificence and the Beast
Taurus is dominated by Venus, planet of affection, magnificence and valuables. Hedonists at coronary heart, Taurus folks are constructed to indulge and run the chance of equating beauty with robust character and ugliness with deficiency. In-kind, and in curse, the hex that befalls the Beast is punishment for his superficiality and libertine nature, the cardinal sins of a low vibrating bull.
Taurus lords over the second home of values and possessions. The hex-dealing witch conflates this that means when she transforms the prince’s servants into family objects and symbols of aristocracy.
Taurus is loyal AF, a high quality made manifest in stated servants who go onerous for the prince in spite and, due to his troublesome personlaity, see the fisticuff stance of the candelabra and the scalding tea-spitting teapot.
The hex that befalls the Beast is punishment for his superficiality and libertine nature, the dual sins of a low vibrating bull.
Taurus is a sensual homebody who lives to curate a cocktail party, and likes to get all dressed as much as not depart the home, an actual “be our guest” vibe.
When it comes to natural world, Taurus is represented by the rose, a bloom that serves because the curse countdown on this story. The teachings of self-love and treating individuals not as possessions however as autonomous entities are important to the Taurus trajectory and ones that the Beast and Bell embody of their gradual love story.
Rumpelstiltskin
Intelligent, curious, aces at wordplay, good sufficient to get another person to do their work, susceptible to exaggeration and breaking plans and guarantees, a lot aligns between the story of Rumpelstiltskin and this mutable air signal.
Gemini, symbolized by the mortal and immortal twins Castor and Pollux, represents the twin nature of all issues and all individuals. On this means, we are able to learn Rumpelstiltskin and our heroine, the miller’s daughter, as two sides of the identical coin and an entire illustration of Gemini power, which at its most base is the trickster thief and at its highest expression is the crafty, intelligent messenger.
Cinderella
Most cancers guidelines the fourth home of roots, dwelling and ancestry and is ruled by the moon, the luminary that represents the divine female and the archetype of the mom. In variety, variants of the Cinderella story, which is among the many oldest and most common of all fairy tales, embrace each a depraved stepmother and a magical mom.
As a precursor to the fairy godmother character, some variations see Cinderella aided by an animal incarnation of her lifeless mother and/or an enchanted tree that grows from her grave. In all of those tellings, the frequent thread is a matrilineal legacy and a reverence for the magic born from it.
The Frog Prince
Dominated by the solar, the ability colour of Leo is gold and this story begins when a princess loses her gilded ball in a woodland pond.
Leo is definitely essentially the most regal signal within the zodiac and the one which expects to be acknowledged as such. In-kind, our frog protagonist, regardless of his humble type, calls for royal therapy, pillows, and a spot on the desk in the event you please.
To cite my incredulous Leo sister, “Don’t you know who I am?!”
Leos are masters of PR, and within the OG telling of the story, the prince was returned to human type not by a kiss or a pillow nap however by the princess hurling his sentient amphibian physique towards a wall.
The narrative glow/pucker-up is consistent with the leonine model of romantic rebranding.
Leo guidelines the center, and within the Grimm’s fairy story model of the story, the frog prince is attended to by a loyal servant with three iron bands mounted round his coronary heart to stop it from breaking beneath the insufferable unhappiness of his prince’s plight. When the frog prince returns to his mortal coil, the servant’s pleasure causes the bands to interrupt and the servant’s coronary heart to be free.
Leos really feel the same pleasure after they hear applause or a praise.
Little Pink Using Hood
When it comes to the bodily physique, Virgo guidelines the bowels, and in some variations of this fairy story, our truthful Little Pink is swallowed complete by and later reduce free from the stomach of the hungry wolf.
Within the main arcana of the tarot, Virgo is related to the Hermit card, which encompasses a hooded determine that holds the lantern of enlightenment.
If we view the story of Little Pink Using Hood as one in all retreat, initiation, and consciousness by means of trial, she is the hooded female hermit and a pressure for awakening.
The Princess and the Pea
Libra is the signal of scales and balances and represents the seventh home of partnerships. Glorious at mirroring others and sustaining enviable pores and skin, natives are usually diplomatic, nice, terminally indecisive, and extremely adaptable to shifting social dynamics and private expectations.
“The Princess and the Pea” is a story of a momma’s boy prince who searches the world over, unable to discover a appropriate spouse. One wet eve, an alleged princess comes rapping on the fortress door, searching for shelter from the storm.
Dominated by Venus, Libra is a pure host, prepared to open the door and prepared the visitor room even when there’s a robust risk they’re being gifted.
Dominated by Venus, Libra is a pure host, prepared to open the door and prepared the visitor room even when there’s a robust risk they’re being gifted.
The princess’s capacity to sense the pea amidst a fats stack of mattresses speaks to the Libran capacity to intuit when issues are out of alignment. After all, there’s the very actual risk that the princess was by no means actually a princess in any respect and, as an alternative, a extremely expert social climber who used allure, sensitivity, worldly wiles, and a capability to fulfill expectations to get forward.
Apropos of this, Libras are aces at velvet handed, or mattress stacked manipulation, so easy you barely discover it’s taking place.
Sleeping Magnificence
Scorpio guidelines the eighth home of intercourse, loss of life, and regeneration, and Sleeping Magnificence is a fairy story that invokes all three of those themes.
A curse is placed on a new child babe, set to enact itself when she crosses the teenage threshold of sexual maturity. By fairy mud, loss of life turns into a century of sleep that may solely be cured by a mouth kiss from the best suitor.
A Scorpio’s favourite sin is wrath, and their most popular modality is transformation, making Maleficent’s hex and Aurora’s awakening properly suited to the tides of this mounted water signal.
Jack and the Beanstalk
Sagittarius is the great time rolling, cube throwing/dicey choices, I’ll be again on high even once I’m bottoming out, put ten on the ponies, gambler of the zodiac.
Enter good-looking Jack, able to guess the household cow on a sketchy handful of magic beans.
Buoyed by dumb luck and aggressive optimism, the wager pays off because it usually does for the archers amongst us who depend the plentiful planet Jupiter as their governing luminary.
Three Little Pigs
Capricorn is a cardinal earth signal dominated by stern Saturn, planet of classes and legacies, the onerous means and the best means.
In-kind, The Three Little Pigs is a parable concerning the significance of diligence, onerous work, and constructing a robust and lasting basis whereas illustrating the dire consequence of the shortcut.
Capricorn is symbolized by the ocean goat, a creature who, too, has hairs on their chinny chin chins. Capricorn is a crafty and vengeful signal, so it tracks that this holy trinity of piglets would boil and eat the wolf that had sought to make them his supper.
Come at me.
The Ugly Duckling
Aquarius is an indication that isn’t just like the others.
Dominated by Uranus, the Aquarius archetype is that of the outsider and the opposite who should overcome doubt to meet their weirdo water bearer future. This trajectory can simply be seen in “The Ugly Duckling,” whereby a fledgling swan, surrounded by geese, believes himself inferior.
The power of Uranus encourages radical individualism in service of the collective and the ethical of the story, and this mounted air signal is that becoming in is futile and belonging to your self is the one joyful ending.
Add to this that each swans and Aquarians are different worldly and troublesome to handle.
The Little Mermaid
Pisces is dominated by Neptune, named for the god of the ocean and represented in look and lording over by straight-up zaddy King Triton in “The Little Mermaid.”
Pisces is the zodiac signal that’s prepared to go to the best depths and rockiest shores within the title of affection.
Sacrificial AF, it tracks that Ariel can be the kind to commerce her superior fishtail and operatic voice for mute bipedalism. Sigh.
Pisces sees the sweetness in all issues, even trash people and dumpster treasures, beckoning each damaged individuals and bent forks.
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Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reviews on planetary configurations and their impact on every zodiac signal. Her horoscopes combine historical past, poetry, popular culture, and private expertise. To ebook a studying, go to her web site.
