Hercules 8th Labour (Scorpio)...

STORY: Hecrule's 8th labour was to destroy a strange creature which terrified people and brought diseases and filth in a lake called Lerni. The beast was called Lernaian Hydra and it was something like a snake. Only this snake didn't have 1 head but 9! One of these heads was immortal and Hercules had to find it and cut it off of Hydra's body if Hydra was to be defeated. But if Hercules cut another had by mistake TWO heads grew up in the place of the old one. This task was very difficult and Hercules had to gather all his powers to destroy this beast. The battle betwwen Hydra and Hercules kept on going for days. Noone could defeat the other and Hercules couldn't find a way to kill Hydra. At first he tried to cut off all of Hydra's heads to find out which one was the immortal one, but Hydra was not only strong, it was also clever and kept avoiding him. He had only managed to cut off two of it's heads and to see that four heads had grown in their places. Hercules was full of filth as he was struggling inside the mud and filth of the swap which ironically was called a lake. For the first time in his life he faced a situation which didn't challenge his cleverness or his strength or his will or his perstince. It challeng his clearness of thinking. For the first time he didn't know what to do. Suddenly his mind silenced. After all this time he had been struggling he saw a picture in his mind which gave him the solution to his problem. Having achieved inner peace cause now he knew he was calm and not in a harry. He threw himslef inside the swamp again and grasped Hydra. Avoiding all her moves (he knew now they were tricks to keep him fighting) he pulles her out slowly but steady. Hydra was fighting to keep him distracted to make him loosen the grasp and defend himself, but Hercules didn't answer these provocations. He knew they were just tactic moves by the cleverest of enemies he had ever faced. He finally pulled Hudra out of the swamp and he stood by on the side watching. Hydra was drying... Outside the swamp its skin was drying and the mortal heads began trembling one after the other. Soon they were all exhausted and out of life. The immortal head stood there watching Hercules full of hate. Hercules cut off the immortal head and looked at it in the eye as it was still alive. Hydra kept looking for a while but soon realised Hercules was not the same anymore. He couldn't be fooled or hypnotised. So it lowered its eyes and surrendered.

SYMBOLS: This very important story describes the tragedy of the sign of Scorpio. This sign's tragedy lays in the fact that it is fooled by every day live's events to thing that life and meaning are hidden in these events. Scorpio's duty is to finally become free of illusion, of attraction, of slavery in what is evident but not true. If man wishes to free himself one day from the rules and restrictions of mortal living Scorpio is the gate through which he should walk. This gate is the one where we leave our life worries behind cause we know the questions we kept asking all this time are not the REAL questios. A transformation happens to the people passing the Scorpio gate. The mortal part of man is left behind, the soul is cleared from filth and taken out from the poisonoud swamp of every day distractions. The immortal head of the soul is separated from its worries and recognises the master who appears in the form of clear thought. Energy is not scattered anymore in order to defend from little problems and hits from every day life's "enemies". Energy is saved for the bigger goal to save the soul. Man becomes patient, indures hits from others, cause he knows, if he answers, he'll waste his energy. Other hits will come. He waits like a warrior for the time his mind will clear and the picture of how he will win will shine brightly. He knows only if he "medidates" and focuses his energy he will master the "beast" of illusion, the beast of "Maya" as it is called in India... If a man wants to become really independent he has to get through the Scoprio gate and from a Scorpio inside the filth of desert become and Eagle...

Regards
Vas

PS: The eagle was the initial symbol of Scorpio in the ancient years...

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