posted June 02, 2008 01:54 PM
Centaurs:Chiron:
Transition through awareness. Bringing shadow to the light. Standing out, not fitting any known category, doing things one's own way, and solving the problem oneself. The gift of responding to life's challenges, injuries, difficulties and moments of change through gradually focusing awareness, growth and learning.
Powerful healing energy, overcoming disabilities and set backs. Developing great compassion for self and others. Seeking knowledge and truth, wisdom and teachings. Relates to those dedicated to the healing fields.
* A common consense appears to be that Chiron is connected with topics like wounding, illness, healing, shamanism and holism. To my understanding Chiron seems especially connected to turning points in life through the experience of illness, pain, accidents and woundings of any kind, be it physical or psychological. During this events and crises Chiron appears to "investigate" or even "x-ray" our soul and personality to reveal its basic structure with all its deficiencies. Often this marks the beginning of a transformation process, where we cannot get rid of the fatigue but can learn to live with it and develop a higher level of consciousness. In contrary to Saturn, which normally is more connected with patient enduring of "fortune" and "fate" and with the tenacious working towards healing, Chiron tries to give us more inner freedom and understanding for our suffering with the help of a new consciousness and worldview. Chironic therapies are more directed to find the "inner key" for the healing process, which finally helps us to understand the deeper meaning and psychological roots of the painful symptoms and which also help us to rid ourselves from frustration, which often accompanies crises and illnesses. With this we gain an inner relief and relaxation, which accelerates the healing process without deny (which is often the case with Uranus) or fatalistic resignation and depression (Saturn).
* Chironic humour: tendency to sarkasm (first pointed out by the German astrologer Hans-Jürgen Walter in an article about Monty Python). Opens us for the curiosities, unusual point of views, hidden truths and new horizons and dimensions, which are often very paradox and hard to understand for our intellect and ratio by the way. Chiron appears to give us a new level of awareness above earthly and material matters. So it prepares us in some way for Uranus and the outer trans-Saturnian realm in common. Chiron gives us the first glimpse what could be beyond the Saturnian boundaries although we feel often perplexed and disturbed, sometimes also amused.
* Some problematic Chiron: resignated indifference, apathy, agony, emptiness, absence of any humour. Liz Greene's experience is that Chiron is often connected with bitterness: we feel responsible for things we cannot be responsible, similar to the endless world-weariness of Pisces.
* Chiron opens us a door or floodgate through which uncontrollable energies, emotions, invades and overwhelm us (also in synastry, Zane Stein wrote about it)
* Chironic transformations: to find a balance between physical vulnerability and the independence and superiority of the spiritual higher self.
* Confrontation with paradoxes: the "Koan"-effect. Chiron is referring to trans-Saturnian realms, which are confusing us. For example: the effect of synchronicity (as C.G. Jung described so profoundly) of different levels and times (e.g. relativity theory). Time is just another dimension, nothing absolute, like it is for Saturn. A different but also important topic is Chiros versus Chronos.
* Two sides of the same coin: the healing arts and the arts of war. Everything, which can heal can also kill, it just depends on the dosis, so again we have a connection to the balance-theme (Libra).
* Chiron as a teacher: real and deep mediation of knowledge and experience is only possible from person to person, like a Kabbala, in an intimate and loving relationship between teacher and pupil. The chironic relationship is initiating us into something. It is located exactly in the middle between respect, authority, tradition, high esteem (Saturn) and parity, openess, equality, unconventionality (Uranus) and is often vulnerable and fragile. Real learning is to gain a new consciousness in the moment when we are touched and when something resonates in us.
Music, culture and the arts: healing is often possible only through creative doing, for example in the arts, painting therapy, music therapy ... To free oneself from reality's boundaries through unusual angles, to find access to hidden dimensions and deeper knowledge. The arts on the other hand often give us a feeling for the eternity and holistic point of view of mankind, nature and life.
* To encounter and meet people who are key person for our life, but still can be difficult and imperfect personalities.
* There is a question as to whether Chiron has a deeper connection to Libra: the balance theme and to be in the domicile there, where Saturn is only in its exaltation, Capricorn, which is the domicile of Saturn, has a square to Libra, which could reflect the problematic relationship between the mythological Chiron and its father, Chronos.
* Darrelyn Gunzburg: "... The Chironic person has a hard time letting go of old beliefs and, hence, may try to reason away grief.
This griefs needs the help of another to be healed."
Pholus:
The ending of an old life and the beginning of a new, higher life.
Catalyst. Absolute divine potential. Visionary.
Small cause, big effect. Pholus has the property of release from situations, opening to possibilities, and emerging into new states of existence. It is the Centaur of fast-moving changes, or rapid transformations, typically initiated by one's own action, minor though it may seem. Catalyst. A person with a prominent natal Pholus is in his actions guided by impulses whose motivation he is not really aware of. Actually, he is confronted with energies or parts of his nature that are not incarnated, i.e. that hang over life. They hang over or about him like a cloud (Neptune, the aphelion of Pholus) and urge towards incarnation (Saturn, Pholus´ perihelion) within the material world. In other words: Pholus stands for parts of our nature from which we are still cut off and with which we try to get into contact. The parts in question may be those which cannot be soundly unfolded, or on the other hand a domain where the person intently strives for and with time even reaches great progresses. Pholic impulses are blind in a sense. They press on being realized even if they do not "know", what could be their appropriate place in the actual order of life. On the contrary, they are in conflict with the established conditions. The person in question may feel impelled to actions, motions or gestures that give rise to disastrous life situations. So, Pholus finds himself in a strain between self-destruction and enlargement of his own character by additional energies or horizons of experience. The pholic person walks on the narrow path of great and seemingly easy success, with the risk of catastrophic slips. Whatever happens, afterwards the person is altered. He has broken with his past, has stripped off an old skin, has got over a rocky edge and unexpectedly attained a wonderful tableland, or else is stumbled over it into a precipice.
Pholus in the natal chart is indicative of issues relating to both Saturn and Neptune, i.e. feelings, emotions, sacrifice, dreams, chaos, all Neptunian stuff and the Saturnine influence of order, duty, restriction and control. In aspect to a natal planet Pholus could indicate something we’re not yet fully aware of, something that is waiting to manifest. Perhaps something from our past is restraining us, is keeping it under control. It may become a pressing issue that we blindly and impulsively act upon only to find it has disastrous results. On the other hand, it may lead us to achieve great things. Pholus also has a mediumistic quality, a connection to ‘the other world’ and the ability to get in touch with it.
Aspects from Pholus indicate matters (as identified by the aspected planets) from which the consciousness remains disconnected, although there is potential for such a connection being developed. Impulses governed by the aspected planets may therefore be blind, hasty and disastrous in outcome. But with regard to more intangible realms, Pholus confers a visionary and mediumistic capability.
* During transits: a blizard-like surprising "kick" or decision, a spontaneous urge for a fast and radical transformation of oneself often accompanied with euphoria and blind venturesomeness.
* Spontanous and in most cases an easy "shaping of skin" and transformation/change and completely ignoration of any risks.
* To eliminate and to make permeable limits and boundaries in an Uranian style so that alien energies can penetrate them, we experience these alien energies often as "chaotic" and unordered.
* To be cast or to be catapult through the "door" into absolute newland and new dimensions, in which you often feel overtaxed and there is no return to the previous state so you have to develop new abilities and cope with the new situation.
the sudden, unpredictable dissolver and bringer of chaos
* the vabanque-player
* to bring something into flow with the help of an initial ignition, to initiate a chain reaction
* "small cause, big effect"
* the catalyst
* a faux pax or mishap, which causes a chain reaction of tragic events
* the comic of a misfortune even if it's tragic
* the bone of contention or the stumbling-stone
* disturbations or detours turn out to be important tasks and lessons and bring you totally new perspective and point of view/awareness (in Greek mythology this is called a parergon, a sideway-story)
* genius and madness are close together with a strong Pholus in the chart
* the catalyst and provider for a landslide-like change (in history for example) and turning points.
* Pholus exaggerates energies in their raw state, Pholus is an amplifier, especially during transits when he passes his perihelion
* vague precognitions, which later turn out to be true, but were too unclear to grasp them clearly before, but there is always a tension
* slip of tongues, accidents due to mishaps, which are often funny (for others) besides of their tragic
* the danger of self-sabotage because the unconsciousness often takes over control
* transits: confrontation with deficits, undeveloped/un-incarnated energies, to feel spured on something or driven to do something although the reason is not clear, a tendency to self-punishment
* Darrelyn Gunzburg: "In dealing with grief when Pholus is strong in a chart, there are always two options: blindness to the issue or visionary power; naivety and deception or access to sacred imaginal knowledge."
7066 Nessus:
The awareness of our vulnerability against darkness, abuse, and emotional death. The return of karma; situations that travel circular paths, or extend with unforeseen consequences. Conspiracy with a point of origin. The healing of abuse, including insidious kind that doesn't seem like much, until one looks closely; and the kind that was obviously so, but potentially overlooked. Nessus talks about abuse patterns in the family of origin, and how they manifest psychologically in adults.
* A connection with strong and powerful emotions, affects, passions and jealousy reveal a relation between Nessus and Pluto
* Nessus is probably the strongest Centaur among the first three, and often a "nasty" guy
* the feeling to do something "rightous" even if it's cruel (assassins or intruders often think so) and in the worst case an absolute unhuman, blind fanatism
* to be forced to deep and sudden (this is non-Plutonian!) transformation by intense and sudden shock and pain
* the boomerang-effect: bad actions done in the past, catch us up (some karma-circle)
* a clear tendency to over-react, to crack up, to have hysterics, to run amok, to explode emotionally, because someone hits/hurts you at the very nerve. For a moment you feel hot and not like yourself.
* Panic attacks (as a result of anxiety against deep affects)
* the theme-complex of intrigue and conspiracy: treachery, trick, to take advantage of other's weakness. Revenge, lie and falsehood
* Nessus joins us with occult primordial forces and energies, which go far beyond our mental, conscious and intellectual capacity for understanding. Therefore we first experience fear until we understand it later.
* the border(-line) to madness. See for example movies like "Mad Max", "Lethal Weapon", "Die Hard", where brute force in combination to super-natural self-control with madness is shown (there is also a relation to Asbolus I think).
* to overcome anxiety and force with the mean of nearly super-natural will, strength and braveness
* there seem to be some relation between Nessus and longterm skin deseases: nettle rash, strong itching, pain, burning of the skin, high sensitivity against sunrays, pustules, growth (often connected with troubles in relationships) and allergies
* Nessus opens us the gate into Hades, the death and Pluto's underworld, towards the shadow-world of ghosts and lost souls.
But it also reveals the other, light and good side of the so-called "evil". It's only a denied and repressed, undissolved, "dark" shadow-like energy of the soul, which needs to be re-integrated into our personality to be complete and healthy/authentic (this shows us the closeness of Nessus to Pluto).
* There is an obvious parallel between Nessus and the fairy man Charon. Therefore I think Nessus is a leader and guide to hidden and deep energies of regeneration and rebirth and therefore Pluto's helper or preparer in this way and process.
* Nessus in a chart brings up old issues of grief and loss thought to be buried long ago,
which erupt in a monstrous or poisonous way... Nessus is the pitchblack face of Pluto made manifest through Saturn. The final outcome is gaining immortality."
8405 Asbolus:
Intuition, protection, gift of psychic sight.
Asbolus was a seer. Asbolus indicates development of and use of full intuitive faculties. It talks about how we handle extremes of adversity and danger as children. Survival and the recognition of having survived. Deep contact with something organic and essential -- the ability to endure and even thrive despite it all. Protection from victimhood. The blessing of protection even when it seems like none is there.
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Eris:
Competition. Discord. Striving.
Eris creates a disrupting commotion, but which leads to a new clarity of understanding with a new order to follow--sort of shaking up what is stagnant in consciousness which subsequently allows a greater clarity to emerge and a reorganization or new expression of what we are doing in our lives.
Quaoar:
The Creator God, the Absolute which bursts forth a rush of manifestation which is to be ordered into a coherent material plane.
While as incarnate humans none of us is God, we do have our inner connection to Source, and it is Quaoar which points us to that connection and asks us what we wish to do with it. We each, ultimately, are here for the purpose of dharma, that is finding our right path. That means shedding our karma (ie, since karma is just an unlearned lesson, this requires learning our lessons, as in cheerfully not repeating our mistakes) so that the karma no longer impedes our real reason for being here.
Quaoar is that glorious metaphysical point/process wherein the All creates chaos for the purpose of shaping it into material form. Quaoar is where we have the potential to take that Cosmic chaos and bring it into form.
Naturally, this presents some interesting free choice for us. In shaping this chaos into form, will it be my will or Thy Will which guides the shaping process? Ah, yes, once again we are back to all the old ego issues here. Quaoar, like all the transpersonal planets (Chiron, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto), isn't likely to work well at all if the ego's will tries to control the process of shaping divine manifestation.
Like the other outer planets, it will take us time to understand the personal growth process required so that we might shed our ego-based attempts to hijack Cosmic Intention and yield (or surrender) to the Higher Will which Quaoar will no doubt require. Then we may see that The All manifests through us rather than from us, and we might be at peace with that.
Anyone involved in the creative arts, for example knows that creativity involves going into a timeless state and allowing the inspiration to "spring forth". It can't be forced, and for the truly creative, it cannot be denied, either. For instance, I once remember an English professor in university telling our class in one simple sentence why it is novelists write their books: "They have to."
So where does that inspiration "spring forth" from? A cosmic point of chaos, for chaos is creative. Chaos is creativity. There cannot be creativity without chaos. Quaoar rules that. Scientists tell us that the Big Bang, which created our universe some 15 billion years ago, started as singular point of cosmic chaos. And out of that extraordinary singularity of chaos, viola! A very nice little universe, thank you very much. Chaos is the divine precondition to creativity.
Like the other outer planets, Quaoar will be definable at a personal level by its house position in the natal chart. Since each of the 12 houses represents a different range of human activity, there will be distinct differences (in some case vast differences) in where individuals bring forth this new energy depending on the house position. I expect that the astrological interpretation of Quaoar will show where (house position) and how (aspects to Quaoar) chaos, as a sacred energy, may be grounded into physical manifestation by and for an individual. That's best option.
Worst option will be to show where and how ego can bungle chaos and snarl an individual up in one collosal mess (think soap opera, for openers). Look for squares and oppositions to be warning flags for misusing the Quaoar energy. Individual levels of spiritual evolution will be key to understanding whether a person will use this energy for better or for worse.
Because Quaoar represents a high vibration, higher even than Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Given the exactness of the circular orbit, a form of mathmatical perfection even the astronomers have commented upon, in the astrological chart I would expect there to be a commensurate drive to make the resultant manifestation congruent to that same high perfect vibrational level, in other words a seeking to make the manifestation as pure as the energy which motivated it. Again that would be how the spiritual seeker might use the energy. By contrast, a dense energy type would try to take the energy and mould it into the will of the ego, which of course is a recipe for various sorts of disaster.
By transit, the astrological interpretation of Quaoar likely will be another "Big Picture" planet in that because Quaoar's transits are often take as much as two years rather than a few months, it will point to times when an individual makes those major (and sometimes challenging) adjustments in life direction which entail leaving behind the desires of the ego and moving forward in touch with a desire to manifest Higher Will.
This could involve chaos manifesting in a person's life. The intervention of chaos into a person's life during those transits, rather than being a curse, may come to be realized as the most compelling opportunities in a lifetime to seize upon one's Higher Destiny and dharma, assuming the ego is prepared to allow that to happen. Failure of the ego to let go could present very difficult times when the chaos strikes.
Yet this is not the chaos of Uranus transits, which often enough tips over apple carts and rudely rubs one's nose in obsolete ways of doing things. Where Uranus by transit grabs an individual by the scruff of the neck to shake the ego-based karma out of person, Quaoar is without karma. It is the Absolute, and the Absolute is beyond karma. Quaoar will introduce change not to rock the boat, but to offer the new path.
If there is upheaval with a Quaoar transit, I would expect it to be less in the earthquake category (Uranus) and more in the "darn-this-is-a-mess-and-I'm-going-clean-it-up-once-and-for-all category", or in the "I've-never-done-this-but-I-have-to-do-this" category.
Sedna:
Deep unconcious pain. Wounds from abuse, anger and betrayal. When victimization moves to the goddess-level as it does with Sedna, (it) signals us that there's an extra depth of compassion for the abused. It also tells us that this goddess-archetype has the wherewithal to make a difference and empower that person whose (planets) are resonating with Sedna’s sphere of power.
Sedna may come to represent an extreme terrain of the unconscious, one where issues of power, authority and respect for life do not separate from a respect for oneself. The Inuit are animistic, seeing divinity in all things. Sedna may ask us to account for previously unconsidered forms of negligence towards ourselves and our living planet.
The encounter with what has been lost, drowned out, or frozen long ago, which can be taken most fruitfully on the inner levels. In other words, our own 'Ice Age': the wounds in the soul caused by the impatience, condemnation, dismissal or anger of the father; the living hell of unresolved outrage; the violence of hardship where we cut off from what is desperate and vulnerable in ourselves or others in order to survive. And how this harshness is internalized.
"Even in the face of unrelenting trauma and suffering, we can, indeed must, beat our drum and sing to life. This is not a plea for escapism, but rather an acknowledgement that the Work is about keeping our heart open in hell. Sedna's story is about acknowledging just how bad things really feel, and starting from there. Radical acceptance is demanded. Allowing love and harmony into our lives may mean opening to the frozen places inside where we are conflicted and feel unloving. To try and manufacture joy is to metaphorically cut off our own fingers."
20000 Varuna:
Vast power, immortality through fame, noteriety.
Supreme cosmic deity; god of natural and moral law; ancient sky god. Vedic deity of vast power, particularly the waters. Noteriety and immortality in the sense of renown; immortality through fame. The Great equalizer. Impersonal laws of nature (as opposed to human nature) and the incomprehensible cosmic order (as opposed to the order of society).
Positive - sovereign, competent, regulating without force, mastery of all tasks accepted.
Negative - incompetent and blaming, laments losses, holds resentment.
Mundane - appointments or elected positions, delegation of authority, promotions, demotions, court martial, public humiliation.
Ceremonial - ceremonies to confirm positions, spiritual coronations, “induced” journeys as in shamanically led vision quests.
Orcus:
Mythological Orcus, being similar to the Greek underworld god Hyades, would seem to have a Pluto like character; and in addition, being associated with water. The Roman Orcus is said to be the god of oaths and the punisher of perjurers, apparently an extremist, being either terribly harsh or extremely gentle. I tend to take "punisher of perjurers" as referring to those who are not living or honoring their soul oaths--in essence living a lie. Orcus is a revealer, challenging or coercing us to get in touch with our deeper soul essence and purpose.
"Orcus is working with the theme of exploration, of uncovering a blueprint or map that leads to a new picture, a new reality; to emerge from the belief structures and constructs of mind that are merely based upon the convenience of our collective consensus. In doing so, Orcus may force us to confront the fear and loneliness encountered when leaving the apparent safety of our past consensus of reality. Orcus may be helping us to uncover secret paths obscured by the sands of time, perhaps even oaths we made long ago to enter into the depths of unexplored territory, into new realms of consciousness, that lead us to a new law of life - eventually to a law or orientation that is in integrity to Heart. Orcus, although Pluto like, seems to express a quiet profundity, almost unnoticed as it serves us to get in touch with our deeper soul essence and purpose - the oath of the soul"
Orcus can symbolize "a person of one's word, who challenges broken promises, is aligned with a spiritual creed, and is accountable for personal thought, word and deed." On the more difficult side, he suggests, "hypocritical, fault finding in the ways of others, blame assigning, ducks responsibility for word and actions, unable to keep promises."
Francesco Sciavinotto suggests that this planet is involved in the fight for survival. I would add that there is a feeling of the ethics that one would apply or adopt when faced with such a fight, and the psychological and emotional steps toward getting there.
Ixion:
Ixion embodies themes of the inner struggle between the tamed and civilized vs. the wild and natural. Ixion may bring to surface issues and experiences reflecting this inner conflict - to do that which is considered civilized (dictated by man's laws) or that which is more natural to the wild and free (renegade). In either case the paradox may arise for the civilized patriarch, now quite at odds with the wilder natural world, to take responsibility for doing that which is natural (whether for good or bad) especially when matters of fatality are involved.
Ixion brings the theme of dark, abusive and most of all unrepentant behavior. It is the 'unredeemable' aspect of human nature and 'that which we are all capable of'.
26 Proserprina:
Wife of Pluto. Deity of life, death, and rebirth.
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Lindaland
posted June 02, 2008 04:38 AM
posted June 18, 2008 03:01 AM