A double headed phoenix (or eagle) has profound esoteric significance.

In medieval alchemical manuscripts a curious androgynous human figure with two heads surmounted by a single crown represents the hermetic adept. In the tests this anodrogyne is referred to as the King-queen the philosophical hermaphrodite.

The word itself is derived from the names of two deities Hermes and Aphrodite divinities associated with fire and water. It never really had to do with a true hermaphrodite but it is the source of the word.

Fire is the master of metals. The word Hermes is from the root herm which means fire. Fire is the Sun principle and in alchemy the Sun is the golden king with his crown of rays.

Aphrodite born out of the sea is a water symbol representing nature and natures life, for all natural creatures originate in water and are nourished by what the Greeks call humid principle. Water is associated with the moon and is the silver Queen, the mother of the generations. Sometimes she is represented with the lunar crescent beneath her feet.

So the double headed eagle a major worship in the wold is once again worshiping the woman and the God or the Morning Stars and their Gods conjoined.

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