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The Goddess in The Handmaid’s Tale
In 2017, MGM and Hulu produced a television series adapted from Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. Unbeknownst to Oberon Zell, they used Morning Glory’s personal sigil named the “Astra, Star Goddess” in the set and costume design as the symbol for the oppressive Red Center where kidnapped women are indoctrinated to sexual and reproductive slavery for use by the male elite of the intensely patriarchal regime of Gilead. This contorted subversion of Morning Glory’s design caused considerable distress to the pagan community, as her symbol was created to express the power and beauty of women’s sexual and spiritual empowerment, the opposite of the fictional Red Center.