Revelation 12:7 Meaning There Was War in the Sky

This is the old sky-myth carried into Scripture. Michael is Venus, the planet of love, and the war in heaven is Venus casting Saturn out, the same story the Greeks told of Kronos overthrown. Saturn is the dragon: the heavy conditioning of society, family, and religion that has ruled the inner heaven since childhood, the old serpent coiled at the base of a person and pulling the life-force downward.

So the battle is astronomical before it is anything else, and inside a person it is the rising force of love unseating the old ruling weight. What has governed by fear and inherited law is thrown down so a higher order can take the throne.

Michael: Venus, the force of love rising in the inner heaven Dragon and old serpent: Saturn, the conditioning of society, family, and religion coiled at the base of a person Heaven: the inner sky where these forces contend for rule

The war is not somewhere else. It runs through the deepest architecture of every mind, the permanent conflict between the spirit that orders and the spirit that devours. The dragon is the proximal predator that once stalked our ancestors, raised now to cosmic scale, the ancient enemy coiled at the root of chaos itself. Against it stands the principle of courageous order, and the battle between them never fully ends. Each person fights it again, deciding daily which side he arms.

Pride is what turns a man toward the dragon. The prideful overreach that grasps at power it has not earned goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. You are conscripted whether you wished to be or not. What matters is which angels you fight beside.