LADYHAWKE Richard Donner, best known for helming the Lethal Weapon series and original Superman I & II, directed and co-produced Ladyhawke. His wife, Lauren Shuler, the producer, who put the whole 'Ladyhawke' package together, had worked for almost four years to get this movie into flight, after having bought up the option from an original script by Edward Khmara. The origins of Ladyhawke date back to a famous feudal legend, recorded as early as the 13th century. Production Team and Cast.

Synopsis
Matthew Broderick's character, Phillipe, [aka 'the Mouse'] quickly made a reputation for himself as the first and only prisoner to escape the dungeons of Aquilla. He is saved from the soldiers of Aquilla by Etienne Navarre, a knight who was once their Captain. The Mouse enters the life of Navarre and Ladyhawke at a turning point, when all the players are about to be transformed. The seeming unending tragedy of two lovers is the center of the story. Isabeau d'Anjou (Michelle Pfeiffer), is cursed to become a hawk every day at sunrise and Navarre (Rutger Hauer) transforms into a black wolf at sunset. They can only meet one another as humans at dawn and dusk. The curse was cast by an evil sorcerer-bishop (John Wood) who publicly proclaimed, "If I cannot have her, then no man shall." Once Navarre learns of the successful escape from the dungeon everything changes. Navarre reunites with an alienated confidant, the bishop's confessor, Father Imperius (Leo McKern) who was trusted by Isabeau and Navarre in happier days. Navarre, Mouse, and the monk join forces. Together they struggle to conquer the villain, lift the curse, and restore Ladyhawke to her human form.

Binary Solution - several are mentioned in the story

The Eclipse
Hawk and Black Defending Wolf
The reflex relationship between Trump III and Trump IX
Royal Marriage
The Bishop's Staff and Navarre's Sword

Carl Jung wrote about rebirth from an early life perspective; then once he rediscovered alchemy, in his final years. This comment is culled from his first sojourn through the labyrinthine body of material related to the power of self-renewal:

Rebirth: the birth, that is to say, of a “twice born” ego, no longer bound in by its daylight-world horizon. It is now known to be but the reflex of a larger self, its proper function being to carry the energies of an archetypal instinct system into fruitful play in a contemporary space-time daylight situation. One is now no longer afraid of nature; nor of nature’s child, society – which is monstrous too, and in fact cannot be otherwise; it would otherwise not survive. The new ego is in accord with all this, in harmony, at peace; and, as those who have returned from the journey tell, life is then richer, stronger, and more joyous.

The whole problem, it would seem, is somehow to go through it, even time and again, without shipwreck; the answer being not that one should not be permitted to go crazy; but that one should have been taught something already of the scenery to be entered and powers likely to be met, given a formula of some kind by which to recognize, subdue them, and incorporate their energies. Siegfried, when he had slain Fafnir, took a taste of the dragon blood and immediately found, to his own surprise, that he understood the language of nature, both his own nature and nature without. He did not himself become a dragon, though he had derived from the dragon its powers – of which, however, he lost control when he returned to the world of general mankind.
-C. G. Jung, On the Psychology and Pathology of So-called Occult Phenomena 1902

Alchemy and Symbols
Aureole In Sun-Moon Symbolism ~ The golden halos around the heads of pagan gods and Christian saints refer both to their being bathed in the glory of the sun and also to the fact that a spiritual sun within their own natures is radiating its glow-ray and surrounding them with celestial splendor. Whenever the nimbus is composed of straight radiant lines, it is solar in significance; whenever curved lines are used for beams, it partakes of the lunar nature; whenever they are united, it symbolizes an harmonious blending of both principles.

The circular nimbus is solar and masculine, while the lozenge-shaped nimbus, or vesica piscis, lunar and feminine. The same symbolism is preserved in the circular and lozenge-shaped windows of cathedrals...
-Manly P. Hall

Lunar Eclipse Years

Eclipse Calculator ~ long eclipse cycles provided

Note that according to the sources available these dates are held to be reliable:

It is possible to have three total lunar eclipses within one (Western) calendar year. Since the begin of the Christian era, this occurred in 307, 372, 437, 828, 893, 958, 1414, 1479, 1544, 1917 and 1982. The next trio of total lunar eclipses will not occur until 2485.

When partial and penumbral eclipses are included it is possible to have four or even five lunar eclipses within one (Western) calendar year. Since the introduction of the Gregorian Calendar quartets occurred in: 1582, 1593, 1600, 1611, 1615, 1629, 1633, 1637, 1640, 1651, 1658, 1669, 1680, 1684, 1687, 1698, 1702, 1705, 1709, 1712, 1716, 1720, 1723, 1727, 1734, 1738, 1741, 1745, 1752, 1756, 1763, 1767, 1774, 1781, 1785, 1792, 1803, 1806, 1810, 1814, 1821, 1828, 1832, 1839, 1843, 1846, 1850, 1857, 1861, 1864, 1868, 1886, 1890, 1897, 1908, 1915, 1926, 1933, 1944, 1951, 1973 and 1991.

The next quartets will be in 2009, 2020, 2038, 2056, 2085 and 2096.

Quintets are of course much rarer and since the introduction of the Gregorian calendar they have only occurred in 1676, 1694, 1749 and 1879. The next quintet will not occur until 2132.

For eclipses of any kind (but excluding penumbral lunar eclipses) it is even possible to have seven in one (Western) calendar year. Since the introduction of the Gregorian Calendar this occurred in 1591, 1656, 1787, 1805, 1917, 1935 and 1982. The next septet will be in 2094.

N.B. This list is based on Von Oppolzer’s tables and does not include penumbral lunar eclipses.

Homer's Epic Poem

After arguing about the point for hundreds of years, historians, astronomers and classicists can finally agree on a central moment in time based on clues in Homer's writing. A new look at details that pertain to ancient celestial [navigation] maps may help define the dates of two main events in The Iliad and The Odyssey, the sack of Troy and the return of Odysseus to his long suffering wife Penelope. Rockefeller University scientists believe they have found some overlooked passages that, taken together, may shed new light on the timing of an epic journey.

Newswire reports that Marcelo O. Magnasco, head of the Laboratory of Mathematical Physics, and his colleague Constantino Baikouzis of the Proyecto Observatorio at the Observatorio Astronómico in La Plata, Argentina, combed through The Odyssey to find specific astronomical references that could be precisely identified as occurring on specific days throughout Odysseus’s journey. Then they aligned each of those dates with the date of Odysseus’s return, the same day he murders the suitors who had taken advantage of his long absence to court his wife.

The final computer reconstruction of the sky at 12:02 P.M. on April 16, 1178 BCE over the Ionian Islands shows the eclipse, and the five ancient visible planets Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn and Mars all visible. This is extremely significant because ancient patterns that involve alchemy are based on the seven metals associated with the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. On the day of the eclipse there may have been a perfect marriage between the final stage of an historical journey and the last step in the philosophic/alchemical operation known as 'The Great Work.' Carl Jung refers to the dream version of this process [as a series of sequential engagements with each ore] in Psychology and Alchemy.

In research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers describe four celestial events. The day of the slaughter is, as Homer writes more than once, also a new moon (something that’s also a prerequisite for a total eclipse). Six days before the slaughter, Venus is visible and high in the sky. Twenty-nine days before, two constellations — the Pleiades and Boötes — are simultaneously visible at sunset. And 33 days before, Homer may be suggesting that Mercury is high at dawn and near the western end of its trajectory. (Homer actually writes that Hermes — known to the Romans as Mercury — traveled far west only to deliver a message and fly all the way back east again; Magnasco and Baikouzis interpret this as a reference to the planet).

Astronomically, these four phenomena recur at different intervals of time, so together they never recur in exactly the same pattern. Therefore Baikouzis and Magnasco looked to see whether there was any date within a hundred years of the fall of Troy that would fit the pattern of the astronomical timeline. There was only one: April 16, 1178 BCE, the same day that astronomers had calculated the occurrence of a total solar eclipse. "Not only is this corroborative evidence that this date might be something important," Magnasco says, "but if we take it as a given that the death of the suitors happened on this particular eclipse date, then everything else described in The Odyssey happens exactly as is described."

BACK Second Breakfast for more about the solar eclipse that is mentioned in The Odyssey.

Old Farmers Almanac

Michelle Pfeiffer DOB 29 April, Taurus Sun Sign
POB Santa Ana, California

Taurus, the Winged Bull
Planet ruler: Venus, the Social Urge

Within the constellation of Taurus, the great star Aldeberon, the 7 Pleiades, and 5 Hyades
Within the cycle of an entire year: time window from April 20 – May 20, when the bull or ox slowly traces furrows in the soil and prepares for planting; Mother Nature; The Goddess; Venus Genetrix: rest, joy of life, fidelity, might of horsepower

Biochemic Salt: Sodium sulphate, which helps to prevent water retention in the body. Found in fresh spinach, cauliflower [especially in the green parts], beets, radishes, onions, cabbage and pumpkin. Seafood helps [with a possible iodine deficiency].
Herbs: Yarrow [especially as tea]; Colt’s foot for dry cough, Figwort [bruised root] applied to bruises thought to reduce swelling; Thyme will strengthen lungs and settle stomach; Lovage, from medieval times the root used to clear the skin [when boiled down and used as a rinse on the face].

Gemstones: Emerald, Jade, Lapis Lazuli, Turquoise, Hyacinth, Moss Agate Venus Stones may include: Coral, Alabaster, Beryl [check The Stone Gallery]
Metal: Copper

Physical Body: Rules the throat, neck, Eustachian tubes, carotid artery, larynx, tonsils, neck vertebrae of the spine, thyroid gland and lower brain functions. By reflex to Scorpio, Taurus reacts upon the reproductive system.

Bach Flower Remedy: Cherry Plum: to control fear of being out of control
Perfumes: Musk, Rose – Drugs: All anodynes
Affirmation: "My energy is at my disposal."

Movies include: Country, Bagdad Café, Brewster’s Millions, Desk Set, Greed [silent], Intolerable Cruelty, Love Among the Ruins, The Magic Christian, One Fine Day, Passion Flower, Tequila Sunrise, The Turning Point, Wall Street

Recommended Reading: The Adonis Complex, The Chalice and The Blade, In Search of the Beloved

Full story about Taurus, The Winged Bull here

Sun Sign Astrology: The Good and Bad News About Your Sign

Rutger Hauer official home

COLOUR WAVE - The Blue-Violet Wave and Silver Rose
     -The Transparency Wave

The perfect balance of fantasy and adventure.

Notwithstanding uneducated opinions to the contrary, Ladyhawke is the greatest love
    story that has ever been written. Ladyhawke fan review

crazy 4 cinema

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