On the Reincarnation of Nathaniel Hawthorne Part III: The Scarlet Letter

The letter “A” was originally an Egyptian hieroglyph for “bull” that got turned on its side in Phoenician and then completely upside down in the Greek alphabet (indeed aleph means “ox” in West Semitic). In astrology it is the sign of Taurus, an earth sign, which signifies one’s possessions. Venus, moreover, is the planet that rules over Taurus and since…