THE PERSEID meteors streak across the heavens from mid-July to mid-August. Go outside on a clear night and you will see dozens of meteors.
They appear to originate in the Constellation of Antinous right in the middle of the July and August night sky — as though Antinous is shooting arrows at you.
The CONSTELLATION OF ANTINOUS
is directly right overhead in mid-heaven at this time of year. Go
outside about 10 p.m. when it is good and dark and look up. You will see
the Milky Way bisecting the sky from north to south. Look for the
"Summer Triangle" formed by the stars Vega, Deneb and Altair — they
seem to straddle the brightest part of the Milky
Way.
Altair is the head of Aquila the Eagle — and Antinous is directly under the Eagle.
The
PERSEIDS are a great opportunity for ANTINOUS STAR MAGIC.
How
you cast the wish is up to you. If you re a Druid, Wiccan or even just a
lapsed Catholic, you know some simple rituals. You can write a wish on a
piece of paper and then go outside and look up and, as you repeat the
wish aloud while tearing up the piece of paper, a shooting star will
catch your eye — and you hold the palm of your hand in front of your
mouth and blow away the bits of paper.
The Shooting Star does the rest.
There are many, many other ways of working ANTINOUS STAR MAGIC.
As always with such things, the "magic" is within your heart and soul.
So there are no firm-and-fast rules ... it all depends on you.
If you are an ARIES, you probably don't believe in such foolishness as "wishing on a star" — but
you love to gamble, and so you'll make a wish. And when it comes true, you'll be all the happier.
If you are a TAURUS,
you know precisely what you want to wish for, something you've wanted
for a long, long time. A leatherette recliner, for example. You love the
romance and beauty of a summer evening. You've brought along a lawn
chair and a hamper full of food and drink.
If you are a GEMINI,
you
will be out with friends and you will be talking, laughing or else
texting and twittering so much that you may forget to look up and make a
wish.
If you are a CANCER you will be overwhelmed by the sheer romantic beauty of it all. You love the cosy setting and being with close friends or family. When you look up, you will make a special wish upon a star in hopes of finding that certain someone. You may stop pouting about how that other special someone broke your heart.
If you are a LEO,
you will be convinced that Antinous is indeed sooting these love
arrows your way — just for your own personal benefit, of course! And
you will make a very grand wish, and you can't wait to show off and brag
when it comes true.
If you are a
VIRGO, you don't believe in luck, only in thankless hard work,
and so you doubt that any wishes ever come true. You are wary of lying
back on the grass because you are worried that a tick might bite you and
you would contract Lyme Disease. It would be just your luck — Besides,
you know it's selfish to wish for things for yourself. And anyway, you
think you don't deserve to have a wish come true. But you DO deserve it!
If you are a LIBRAN,
you can't decide on just one wish. So you make two wishes (at least).
You secretly know you deserve to have your wishes come true more than
anybody else, but you are far too diplomatic and tactful ever to say so
openly. Your wishes
involve matters of love and grace and beauty. You publicly wish good
luck to all the others and they all thank you and think you're so nice.
Everyone thinks you're their friend and you encourage them in that. Of
course, secretly you think they're all morons, and if their lame wishes
come true and your lovely wish doesn't come true — then there's no
justice in this world.
If you are a SCORPIO,
then you will also wish for love — but skip the grace and beauty and
get down to the hot and heavy. Something with gleaming black leather and
chrome steel chains. That wish better come true, too. You demand
obedience.
If you are a SAGITTARIUS,
your wish comes true instantaneously — or perhaps has already come
true before you actually made the wish. Sagittarians have a direct
hotline to the stars, so you always get your wishes -- and don't mind
letting others know about it, either.
If you are a CAPRICORN,
you don't believe in such frivolous nonsense as wishing on a star. But
you have a list of very practical things you would like to wish for.
Good dividends on
investments, for example. So there's no harm in making a wish. If it
comes true, it was "coincidence".
If you are an AQUARIUS,
you will be counting the shooting stars ("Wow, 60 in just one hour,
that's one a minute!") and you will be estimating what speed they must
be traveling to reach the burn-out temperature. You're indoors, of
course, watching the spectacle on NASA's streaming video website. You
wrote down a wish for a new iPhone on a slip of paper, but you forgot
where you put it, maybe it's stuck to the cheese under the Domino's
Pizza next to your keyboard. Who cares? There are so many shooting stars
to count.
If you are a PISCES,
you have made elaborate plans to position yourself on a hilltop where
your friends the UFO space aliens will be sure to spot you in your
glow-in-the-dark jump suit. Your wish is for the aliens to abduct you
... again.
Make a wish!
Hernestus
The sexual union of Poseidon and Nerites produced Anteros, god of requited love.
