Gemini author and academic Jack Zipes maintains, “Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.”National Tell a Fairytale Day on February 26 celebrates our grand tradition of subjugating horrors into happily ever after.Many of the tales we know and venerate today are credited to Aesop, a Greek slave and storyteller who used oral tradition to create ethical guidelines for his fellow man.
OG fairy tales were decidedly darker than their Disney versions would have you believe; full of allegory and cannibalism, gruesome death and unheeded warnings.
Rife with symbolism and archetypes, fairy tales share much common ground and stardust with astrology. In honor of National Tell a Fairy Tale Day, we bring you a list of the zodiac signs as fairy tales.
In the Major Arcana of the tarot, Aries is associated with the Tower card and in terms of the physical form, it is the sign that rules the head and hair.
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