This all subject of depression can seem… huh… depressing…, and I sure would advice most of the people to read about a more cheerful matter, but, actually, I suppose everybody, sooner or later, experience some of those symptoms in a more light or more heavy way, and at the same time I wonder if it’s not somewhat experienced as a hidden and even a “shameful” ailment. Especially when it’s not experienced under its most pathological aspects, most people will think that it’s a weakness, a phase, something that “will go away by itself”, and one must try to stay active, forget about it, go along, etc. But the astrological experience will tell us that when something is “locked in the closet”, that thing will sooner or later come out of it, and then it will be more difficult to understand what’s happening and why.

Anyway, being such a world-wide feature, I am curious if one can relates it to a myth. For now I just can think about Demeter after Persephone was abducted and I suppose we can say that she went in depression. What was her reaction? She forbade the Earth to bear fruit. We know how depressed people have their energy sort of “stolen”. This just came up to my mind, so I am running to read again Demeter myth and see what comes up of it….