Chang'e
Chang'e drinks the elixir of immortality meant for her husband and floats to the moon, where she lives in a cold palace with a rabbit who pounds medicine. Once a year he can visit her. She is immortality as separation rather than as triumph.
Correspondences
- Planetary Correspondence
- Moon
Offerings
- Offerings
- MooncakesFruitIncenseWater
Sacred timing
- Sacred Timing
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- Chang'e the Moon GoddessHeng'e
- Gender Expression
- Feminine
- Titles
- Lady of the MoonThe Dweller in the Palace of ColdKeeper of the Elixir
- Symbols
- WaterCup
Practice
- Invocation Approach
- ToneCool longingAddressChang'eLady of the MoonDweller in the Cold PalaceRelationshipThe woman who drank the elixir and lives alone with itWarningImmortality is a distance not a giftResonanceThose who long for someone those who keep the mid-autumn feast
- Modern Practice
Chang'e is honoured at the Mid-Autumn Festival with mooncakes, incense and looking up. Her practice is the offering made at a distance to someone you cannot reach.
Nature and meaning
- Domain
- The moonImmortalityThe elixirThe rabbitLongingThe autumnDistance
- Mythology Summary
Chang'e drinks the elixir of immortality meant for her husband and floats to the moon, where she lives in a cold palace with a rabbit who pounds medicine. Once a year he can visit her. She is immortality as separation rather than as triumph.
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