randomactsofkarmasc | My Herakles Quest

I have been on a quest to understand the Labors of Herakles.

My quest started as I studied John Gilbert and John Michael Greer’s The Tree of Life and the Wheel of the Year (available here: http://aoda.org/publications/articles-on-druidry/treeoflife/). I created a document to organize all the correspondences of the Tree and the Wheel (available here: https://randomactsofkarmasc.dreamwidth.org/665.html). I thought aligning the Labors to the Wheel would not be difficult, since they supposedly followed the Zodiac. (Ha! I was so wrong...)

The myths are thousands of years old. They have been told and retold and translated and adapted many many times. I make no claim that I have studied the ‘correct’ or ‘true’ version of the myths, only that I followed my intuition and that led me to many insights. Some of these insights are shared in the documents linked below.

Within the documents, I referenced sources that provided images or specific information. I have created a separate document that lists all the books, articles, blogs, and websites I have read during this quest. I don’t agree with the contents of all these sources, but they all provided valuable meditation topics which influenced my thinking.

As always, I consider this effort to be a work in progress and I welcome comments and suggestions for further research and reading.

1. Herakles and Astronomy
2. Herakles and the Zodiac
3. Herakles and the Path of Initiation
4. Herakles and the Virtues
5. Herakles References