Andromeda, Perseus,
and The Royal Family
Nick Anthony Fiorenza
Copyright © 2001 Nick Anthony Fiorenza, All Rights Reserved
Perseus and Andromeda by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) Oil on Slate. On display at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. Some critics think this work to be cluttered by other people in the water, confusing the theme of the chained princess. I however think it nicely depicts Andromeda's almost fatal entrapment in Cetus--the technobureaucratic monster of collective human consciousness, as indicated by many people flocking around the changed princess in the Piscian waters, unconscious of the danger of becoming devoured. Vasari is known for his bibliographical book, "Lives of the Artists."
Beautiful Andromeda is chained to rocks by the sea about to be devoured by Cetus the Sea Monster, the Kraken. Her mother, Queen Cassiopeia, had boasted of her daughter's beauty to be greater than the Nereids, the nymphs of the sea. Upon hearing such arrogance, the gods became angry, and to punish Cassiopeia, they sentence princess Andromeda to her death. King Cepheus, preoccupied with more important evolutionary matters, and disgusted with the perpetual pettiness of the whole affair, turns his head in apparent denial. The king knows there is far more complexity to the issue at hand--including the issues and required growth of all involved.
Perseus, Andromeda's radiant and gallant Twin Flame, in the initiatory process of his own self mastery, had just slain Medusa, having been advised this to be the only way possible to gain the hand of his beloved. From the blood of Medusa sprang the Magical Flying Horse, Pegasus. Perseus, claiming the Magical Pegasus as his ally, sets his sight on Triangulum, the Holy Trinity, and flies above the Kraken. As the monster takes sight of the head of Medusa, the Kraken turns to stone and shatters into the sea. Perseus frees Andromeda. Triumphant, Perseus and Andromeda claim their true soul destiny, uniting forever in their Divine Love.
This mythical story articulates the human struggle and initiatory process of attaining our Divine Destiny.
Andromeda, the essence of Divine Love, represents the exquisite beauty destined for human unfoldment, but which is held in bondage by the very judgment of that humanness. Andromeda has a destiny on Earth with her true soul partner Perseus, but finds herself desperately entrapped in both the emotional genetic confusions of her incarnate family and in the psychic manipulations of outside meddling forces due to her own naivete about Earthian ways.
Cassiopeia is queen of arrogance, and Cepheus, king of denial--key facets of our undoing that manifest in duality's frustrating paradox. Cassiopeia can also have a benevolent hand however, and Cepheus the ability to offer aid before all is lost--their more evolved aspects.
Perseus represents the initiatory process itself--the way, the challenges to overcome and milestones to achieve in the human world to evolve into our destined unity.
Cetus the Sea Monster is the techno-bureaucratic monster of collective human consciousness; the human genetic condition spiraled downward into a raging, fear instilling, consuming beast--diverting us from our evolutionary path to Light.
Perseus first slays Medusa, the Gorgon with seven snakes for hair. Medusa is the embodiment of fear, as it is fear that turns us to stone, freezing us in our tracks. Conquering Medusa is Perseus confronting and slaying his own fear, claiming his personal power.
Perseus then claims the magical Pegasus, and learns to fly upon this magical horse. Pegasus represents the evolved genetic vehicle, the mental emotional and physical body purified and refined to become able to rise above human genetic patterns of weaknesses. Pegasus brings Perseus the ability to fly over the Kraken. Pegasus represents grounding Soul Essence fully into the physical body--activating one's body of light / soul awareness. Only then does one's resonance transcend the fear based mortal world. Only then can one rise above the psychic emotional manipulations and the diversions of the mortal world.
For Perseus to fly over the Kraken and to free Andromeda, he not only completes his initiatory rite, refines his being, and integrates his Soul Essence, he also sets his vision on Triangulum, the Holy Trinity. Triangulum's message is "let thine eye become single"--seeing the oneness through duality; surrendering all judgment of opposing forces. It is non-judgment that keeps Perseus from falling into the psycho-emotional entrapment of the Kraken, from being consumed in the fear-based Human drama. Demonstrating his self-mastery, Perseus frees Andromeda and they unite forever in their Divine Love.
This divinely intended union is one occurring on the inner and is one expressing in the outer world as well. On the inner, this is the unification of the conflicts of duality found within ourselves, the integration of the masculine and feminine principles within ourselves. In its highest sense, this is the illumination of the double helix of the Human DNA, the Urn of the Soul, into one radiant spiral of light. This inner illumination allows us to shift from living in the bio-logical mode of mentally comparing opposites (judgment) to unified awareness of wholeness (Love), where we realize Truth beyond the apparent paradoxes of life. This awareness creates an inner peace and magnificence that radiates outward into our experiential world as true compassion. In the outer world, this union expresses as divinely intended soul partnerships--radiant beings unified in Divine Light and Love--relationships of beauty, harmony, and fulfillment. From here, a creative journey beyond all human comprehension awaits--a journey for unified souls through galaxies of light, and beyond.
Copyright © 2001 Nick Anthony Fiorenza, All Rights Reserved