Neptune was one of the six children born to Cronus and Rhea. Like his siblings, he was swallowed at birth by his father. When Cronus was overthrown by Zeus, Neptune claimed the sea as his realm, ruling from a golden palace beneath the waves.

At the dawn of everything, there was Chaos – the vast dark, void. From Chaos came the first beings: Gaia, the Earth, Tartarus, the shadowed abyss beneath all things, and Eros, the force that stirs life and draws us all together.

Cronus was one of the Titans—powerful divine beings who embodied the forces of the natural world—born from the union of Gaia (Mother Earth) and Uranus (Father Sky).

Jupiter, known to the Greeks as Zeus, was born to Rhea and Cronus (Saturn). Yet long before his birth, Gaia—Mother Earth—and Uranus—Father Sky—foretold that Cronus, just as he had once overthrown his own father, would in turn be overthrown by one of his children.

After the great war when Zeus overthrew his father Cronus and claimed the sky, his brother Hades was given dominion over the underworld—a vast realm beneath the earth, home to the souls of the dead. The underworld held five great rivers, and all souls crossed the river Styx, ferried by Charon, who demanded a coin for passage.

Once, when gods still walked among mortals and the world was strung with song, there was one whose radiance made even the stars blink.

Long ago, before time was measured by clocks or calendars, it was counted in moon drops and tides, in cycles and silence, in the rhythms of breath, sea, and womb.

Long ago, when the Earth was still cradled in the arms of the divine, there rose from the sea a goddess of shimmering foam.

Mercury is the ruling planet of both Gemini and Virgo. In mythology, he is associated with the Greek god Hermes—Mercury being his Roman name.

Long ago, there lived a god whose fire could not be tamed. His name was Ares to the Greeks, Mars to the Romans, son of mighty Zeus and fierce Hera, and he was born for the battlefield. He was passion. He was fury. He was the raw cry of “I am!