Florence Farr and the Magical Imagination

This astro-biography is about Florence Farr who was an actress on the West End stage and leader of the Golden Dawn at the turn of the 19th-20th Century. She's not as well known as she might be, but more people are coming to know that there was a lot more to her. It covers everything about her why she was a great muse who inspired poets and playwrights while working out her own way in life. It delves into her chart but also uses asteroids in some detail.

It is divided into six parts. Please use the timestamps of the six parts to navigate to where you want, or enjoy the whole piece.

Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
01: 43 Florence Farr and the Magical Imagination
06:07 Farr as the Bohemian Muse of the Era
16:22 Mistress of the Isis-Urania Temple
23:56 The Four Asteroid Archetypes of the Golden Dawn
30:10 Farr's Personal Asteroids: Florence, Vesta, Urania, Polyhymnia and Isis
45:13 Final Years in Ceylon

She multi-talented with a striking presence and voice and people called her the Bohemian's Bohemian. She eventually left London to teach in a girls' school in Ceylon. On July 8th 2023 her play ' The Shrine of the Golden Hawk' was recited once again so she is back in the minds of many.

It is timed to celebrate all people with sun in Cancer, as she was Cancerian but Leos will understand her too as she had many Leonine qualities too.

© Kieron Devlin, Proteus Astrology, July 8th, 2023, All Rights Reserved.

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References

Greer, M. K. (1996) Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses, Rochester: Park Street Press.

Pécastaing-Boissière, M. (2014) 'Wisdom is a gift given to the Wise: Florence Farr (1860-1917): New Woman, Actress and Pagan Priestess.' Neo-Paganism in Victorian England. Autumn 80 (Online) https://doi.org/10.4000/cve.1542

Image Credits
Images drawn from Wikimedia Commons all in the Public Domain and/or Getty Images.

Paintings& Illustrations include

The Wave (1903) Pamela Colman-Smith
The New Woman (1895) by Aubrey Beardsley
The Golden Stairs (1876); Laus Veneris (1861); and The Love Song (1868) - by Edward Burne-Jones.
Between Art and Nature (1890) by Puvis de Chavannes
The God-Man (1901) by Jean Delville
In the Temple of Vesta (1901) by Constantin Holscher.
Love and the Maiden (1877) by John Spencer Stanhope
A Masque of the Four Seasons (1909) by Walter Crane
Dedication of a New Vestal Virgin (1710) Alessandro Marchesini
Urania: Muse of Astronomy and Philosophy (2011) Emily Balivet
Polyhymnia (1869) by Guiseppe Fagnani
Picture of Dorian Gray (1943) Ivan Albright
Upstairs to the Locked Room (1925) Harry Keen Illustration for Dorian Gray
Moonlight (1895) Edvard Munch

Music Credit
Clips from Neptune by Gustav Holst The Planets Suite (1914-17)