Annie Dieu-Le-Veut

Cetus the Whale has been taking me and a friend on a bit of a wild dive into the watery Underworld, on the trail to discover who this great sea monster is in Celtic myths. When we got there, there was a huge Aha moment when I realised that I’d already told his story in The Grail Mysteries, but had not made the connection to Cetus.

So if you’d like to join us, we have to go back first to an older understanding about reality, that of the garden of stars above fertilising the garden of crops down here below.

We find this same ‘gard’ in the Asgard (Upper World) and Midgard (Middle World) of the Norsemen, in other words, the Norsemen who populated France’s Normandy and whose scribes, after the Norman invasion, rewrote our Welsh myths about Arthur and his knights, so that we would have their version of the narrative about who we are instead of our own.

In one of these reworked myths, entitled Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne, there is a character called Hu Gadarn, who ploughs the fields with his ox. There is also a terrible sea monster called the Afanc, and Hu Gardarn uses his ox to pull the Afanc on to dry land, to suffocate and kill it.

This is reminiscent of the Babylonian Marduk killing and carving up the sea monster Tiamat, and distributing her body parts to form the stars of the heavens, or Isis using the body part of Osiris. It’s also not dis-similar to the Old Norse tale of Ymir, the Frost Giant, who distributes his own body parts in similar fashion and for the same reason. It’s a creation myth, in other words.

Hu is in fact one of the oldest god names across the Middle East. It’s why we’re called human – half god, half man.

So if we change the ox for a bull,  we can re-interpret the story in the night sky with Taurus the Bull, next to Cetus the Whale as the Afanc, swimming in the Underworld river of Eridanus. Orion as Hu Gadarn (the god of the garden) is also right there, and his Plough (Ursa Major) not far away either.

The ancients fully understood that the ability to read the stars in the garden above was key to bringing in a successful harvest from our gardens here below. That’s the macrocosmic reality. And so finding our own microcosmic place in these flower beds as the human, or god-man, is key to fertilising our own gardens within us. That’s why I offer Star Song Oracles, an astrological reading with an astronomical difference.