The series on the houses wouldn't have felt complete without one last fairytale.

In this, the 40th and last episode of the series, we explore the German tale of Dornröschen, which loosely translates to 'the little rose inside the thorns'.

It begins with a talking frog who crawls out of the water to deliver a prophecy to the bathing queen. And it takes us into those places in ourselves that feel dormant. We feel that these parts have such great potential in our lives, but they remain fast asleep.

Until...

Well, that's the thing. The story takes us into the element of timing, of transits, of progressions, of gestation and of waiting until that which slumbers is ready to arouse.

I'm joined in a very synchronous way by Milena Kadziela, a fellow astrologer and psychotherapist. She sends a transmission from London, in the middle of the night, on the Libra Full Moon. The moon was at 12°, which is the 13th degree.

Milena, a listener to the show, felt that the one element that was missing in the series was that of the intercepted house. It happens that she uses this very story, Briar Rose, to speak to those hard to access parts of the chart.

And so, she joined us for a late cameo in the episode to drop her night wisdom on us all.

If you'd like to find out more about Milena's work you can find her here.

You can read the story itself here.

The image for the podcast is again from Artist and Patron, Lucy Dodd. Her work is also featured on episode 124 with Melanie Reinhart.

With an overlaid princess from a 1981 edition of La Belle Au Bois Dormant & Autres Contes Merveilleux (Sleeping Beauty & Other Wonderful Tales), published by Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri and Hachette.

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My guest for this episode is... well... me!

Astrologer Brian Clark interviews me, Chris Skidmore, in this episode as we look back on the journey that was the 12 Houses of Astrology. In no particular order, we move back through the images that captured our attention from the fairy tales, and revisit our 13 guests that helped us along the way.

Thank you to all of you who have come along with me in the sacred role of 'audience'... it's your listening that makes this possible.

Special shout out here to all of my wonderful guests. Find our more about their work by clicking their links:

Brian Clark: www.astrosynthesis.com.au

Cameron Allen: www.cadreamplanet.com

Collette Davis: www.collettedavis.com

Melanie Reinhart: melaniereinhart.com

Vive Oldham: www.viveandco.com

Libby Rose Waite: libbyrosewaite.com

Kira Sutherland: www.astrologyofhealth.com

Ryan Nielsen: www.yourveryownlife.com

Travis Elliott: travisjelliott.com

Amanda Simon: amandasimon.co.uk

Thomas Moore: www.thomasmooresoul.com

Michael Meade: www.mosaicvoices.org

Jason Holley: jasonholley.net

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Melanie Reinhart joins me once more to speak into and from the 12th house of the wheel of houses. The episode itself is a wonderful example of how that which we talk about can sometimes be 'conjured up' by our speech. This is something that Gregory Bateson called a 'metalogue' - a word introduced to me by Melanie many moons ago.

Our metalogue was a disruption from the gods of technology who seemed to think that some of what we shared was best kept in silence. And so we were kicked off the call at a particularly poignant moment in this one.

None-the-less, the essence of the house was thoroughly explored. And we share with you whatever the deities allow us to reveal.

This completes our 'series within a series' on the water houses - those elusive and hard to grasp places of reality. I'm forever grateful to Melanie for her generosity of spirit in sharing her depth of wisdom with us on the podcast.

The image for the podcast cover is from Patron of the show, Lucy Dodd. It's a piece she calls "Sun Moon and Mermaid" made with, in her words, 'Iron oxide and Copper ink, blue spirulina, cochineal and some other stuff.'

She completed it just as our Iron John episodes were released.

REFERENCES

Authors & Thinkers

• Gregory Bateson
  → Concept of metalogue
  → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Bateson
  
  
• Carl Jung
  → Concept of the numinous
  → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numinous
  
  
• Dane Rudhyar
  → The Astrological Houses: The Spectrum of Individual Experience (also published as New Mansions for New Men)
  
  
• David Abram
  → Cultural perception / reality frameworks
  → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Abram
  
  
• C. A. Meier
  → Ancient Incubation and Modern Psychotherapy (republished as Healing Dream and Ritual)
  
  
• Brian Clark
  → Rewilding the psyche (concept referenced)

Mythological Sources & Figures

• Hyginus
  → Fabulae (mythographical fragments)
  
  
• Dionysus
  → Greek god of ecstasy, twice-born myth
  → https://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Dionysos.html
  
  
• Asclepius
  → Greek god of healing and incubation temples
  → https://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Asklepios.html
  
  
• Ariadne
  → Associated with Dionysus, labyrinth, and Corona Borealis
  
  
• River Lethe & Mnemosyne
  → Rivers of forgetfulness and memory in the underworld
  
  
• Chiron & Chariklo
  → Centaur healer and his consort (associated with weaving/spinning)
  
  

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