Two stories

Let me tell you a story that goes like this:

I am a Virgo. Maiden daughter of the mother earth. Mercury rules my house. He is my lord but not my master, he who plays dice with the fortunes of the world.

Do you know the story of Astraea? She carried the scales of justice, a maiden pure and strong and when evil was unleashed upon the world, she was the last to leave. She became Virgo when she ascended to the stars.

Tonight I am feeling her influence. Tonight I have risen.

The invisible trickster is home, that wise fool on winged feet.

I am caretaker of the harvest and the sustenance. I provide.

Tells you another story:

There once was a knight named Tam Lin or Tom Line. He was cursed and captured by the fairie and roamed the forests, capturing the maidenhood of passing girls.

It came to pass that one day a maid passed through and found this knight. As the story goes, Janet, for that was her name, picked a rose, thus summoning the wandering knight. He took her and as is want to happen, she fell in love. But it was not to be because he belonged to the Queen of the Fairies.

If she truly loved him, she would save him from this eternal damnation as a plaything of the Fey. At the next full moon (or some other relevant holiday or event) he would passing through the same stretch of forest where this maid met him in the entourage of the Fairy Queen.

She would recognize him for his white horse.

Janet was lost to Tam as much as he was lost to the Fairy, so sure enough she showed up and upon seeing her love, she seized him as instructed. The Fairy in the kind of cruel games that they play, transformed him into all manner of beasts. He became a serpent and a bear and a wolf and a pig and an eagle and a fish.

But Janet's love was fiercer still and no matter what he became, she held on. Eventually he became a burning coal that Janet threw into a nearby well. He emerged a naked man, a mortal once more, and Janet won her knight, much to the displeasure of the Fairy Queen.

And of course they lived happily ever after, immortalized in song.