Melek Taus and the Path of Venus

Melek Taus is the Peacock Angel of the Yeziddi, a sect of heretical Jews. S/He is the Lord/Lady (for all angels are ultimately androgynous or gynanders) of Matter, and thus is beseeched for anything regarding the material world, Jehovah being considered too remote to be concerned with the physical plane and the affairs of mortals. His name is also Shaitan, and to the Orthodox Jews He is Satan, the Opposer. However the Yezzidi view of Him is significantly different, for they do not see the physical plane as something ugly or unimportant to be transcended, rather they celebrate the beauty of form.
Melek Taus is also associated with the Serpent -here seen as both the tail-biting Oroboros of cyclicity and the procreative force- and the Goat (whose Baphometic head is implicit in the apple’s pentagrammatic seed-pods), and like Lucifer with the Morning Star, the planet Venus.

Here S/He is depicted with the thus-associated Goddess Venus/Aphrodite, Her form in the shape of Her planet’s orbit. Over an eight -year period Venus creates the pattern of a pentagram in the sky. That this shape also exists within the core of an apple links the planet further with the Adversary to religious orthodoxy.

Thus the great perversion of mainstream religion is symbolically explicit: the apple, considered by Judaism and Christianity the fruit of original sin- contains not just the man Adam as Da Vinci depicted, but the feminine form, of the Goddess of Love. For these patriarchal orthodoxies have always feared the power of female sexuality and thus denigrated it as the origin of sin and temptation.
Abolishing these patriarchal deviations, Truly this is sacred geometry at its most magical: the perfect dimensions of the human form bridging the microcosm of the apple seeds on earth and the orbit of the planet Venus above.
‘Every man and woman is a star’ (AC)

-Text from ‘Distillatio’, the culminating volume of the Tela Quadrivium bookweb (publ.Fulgur Limited 2015).