05/12/2026
π The Eye of the Demon Star β¨ and the power of transformation.
This Friday, May 15th, something remarkable happens in the heavens β and it is no coincidence that we will gather beneath the Dark Moon on this very night.
The Sun aligns with Algol, the infamous fixed star sitting at 26Β° Ta**us, positioned in the forehead of Medusa within the constellation of Perseus β what some modern astrologers call her third eye.
Feared across cultures and throughout all of recorded history, the Hebrews called it RΕsh ha SΔαΉΔn β Satan's Head β while the Chinese named it Tseih She β the Piled-up Corpses. Its dark reputation was born from its strange, unsettling behavior: Algol is an eclipsing binary system whose brightness regularly dims every 2.86 days β a blinking, dying, and reborn star that ancient skywatchers found deeply ominous. The star appears to die. And then it returns.
In Greek mythology, the Gorgons β Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa β were said to be daughters of the primordial sea god Phorcys and the sea monster Ceto, able to turn anyone who looked upon them to stone. Medusa alone among her sisters was mortal β the only one who could be killed β which marks her as something singular even among monsters. She was not simply a creature of destruction. Gorgon blood was said to have both the power to heal and to harm. According to the mythographer Apollodorus, the blood from her left side brought instant death, while the blood from her right side carried the power to resurrect and heal β a paradox of poison and cure held within one being.
But there is a deeper story still.
Medusa did not begin as a monster. She was transformed into a Gorgon by a jealous Athena, decapitated, and then weaponized in battle. Yet through every transformation, she only became stronger, never truly losing her power. The serpents in Medusa's hair connect her to the ancient roots of medicine itself β the word medicine shares its origin with Medusa β and she became a symbol of the paradox at the heart of all healing - that the same force which destroys also restores.
Modern practitioners are reclaiming Algol's symbolism through a psychological and alchemical lens β recognizing it not as a harbinger of darkness, but as a powerful catalyst for shadow work and self-transformation. When Algol's energy is used consciously, it can build strength, raise confidence, heighten psychic abilities, and be used to clear negativity from the energy field.
Now here is where the ancient threads become extraordinary.
The most widely accepted version of the Gorgons' parentage, found in Hesiod's Theogony, states that their mother was the primordial sea goddess Ceto. But in ancient Greek literature, Ceto carried other names β and one of them was Crataeis. Ceto was occasionally conflated by ancient scholars with the goddess Hekate, for whom Crataeis is also an epithet.
This is not modern speculation. The ancient poet Apollonius of Rhodes, writing in the third century BC, described Scylla as "the wicked monster borne to Phorcys by night-wandering Hekate, whom men call Crataeis." In this ancient text, Hekate and Ceto are one. The same night-wandering goddess. The same primordial dark mother of monsters and mysteries.
If Ceto and Hekate are one β and ancient texts suggest they can be β then the Gorgons themselves are Her daughters. Medusa, with her serpent crown, her healing blood, her terrible and sovereign gaze, is Her child.
This is perhaps less surprising when we remember that in ancient Greece the serpent is found wherever we find the Dark Goddess β snakes were among the sacred animals of Hekate, Goddess of the Crossroads and the Underworld. Both Medusa and Hekate are serpent-crowned guardians of the deepest mysteries. Both were feared by those who could not understand them. Both were demonized by a world that mistook sovereign feminine power for something monstrous. And both, in the hands of those who truly know them, are among the most protective and transformative forces in the cosmos.
On this Dark Moon, as the Sun aligns with the Eye of Medusa and the ancient threads weave themselves together across centuries of myth, magic, and starlight β we do not turn away from the Demon Star.
We look directly into it.
And we find the face of the Goddess looking back. πππ
