posted June 14, 2011 05:37 PM            

Pholus, von Heeren adds, is "the catalyst and provider for a landslide-like change (in history for example) and turning points," adding, "Pholus exaggerates energies in their raw state. Pholus is an emphasizer." In some cases, Pholus activity represents or instigates situations in which something gets out and you cannot get it back in, such as when riots begin and the government cannot stop them, or you make one change and it cascades into a series of other developments. This same quality also gives Phlous experiences the quality of a leap to a new level

posted June 14, 2011 05:40 PM            

The centaur himself can be understood as a symbol for the hybrid position of human beings between the animal kingdom and the gods, or between animal impulse and reason. The death of a centaur, then, represent the release from this tension, and the transformation of what is subconscious and impulsive into understanding and consciousness. Hercules is the hero who kills the centaurs, half intentionally and half unintentionally. He symbolizes individuality striving for consciousness.....

....Pholus on the other hand, moves to and from Saturn and Neptune, and his average solar distance lies near Uranus. He dies suddenly. It is not a lengthy process and is relatively painless. Afterwwards, his situation is a completely different one. Either he had found a new perspective or he finds himself in a catastrophe. As for the third centaur, 1993 HA2, who will perhaps be named Nessus, and is the "Pluto key", death does not come so easily. He is stabbed in the heart, experiencing tremendous pain, and is left with feelings of bitterness and revenge......

In other words, Pholus symbolizes parts of our nature from which we are still cut off and with which we try to make contact. The parts in question may be areas that connot be unfolded without problems, or, on the other hand, they may concern an area where we try to, an in time do, make great progress. A combination of Pholus and Mercury, for example, can indicat high precision and almost magical power in a person's mercurial abilities, or, to the contrary, dyslexia and dyscalculia.....

....So Pholus is in a state of tension between self-destruction and the deepening of his own character by additional experiences. The pholic person treads the narrow path of great and seemingly easy success with the risk of catastrophic slips. Whatever actually happens, the person alters. She or he has left the past behind, has cast off an old skin (the Greek word pholis means "scale"), has passed a rocky ledge, and has either quite unexpectedly found a wonderful plateau or stumbled over the edge into the precipice.....

posted June 14, 2011 05:42 PM            

It has to do with addictions,the effects of addictions on family members and the past generations which may have had addictions.

posted June 14, 2011 05:45 PM            

Pholus was discovered in 1992 [v], and its process seems to be one where a small event sets off a chain reaction, either inwardly or externally, in terms of consequences. In the Greek mythology, Pholus was the keeper of the sacred jar of wine of Dionysus, god of ecstasy, whose rites were often characterised drunkenness and chaos, and which sometimes culminated in violence. So a Pholus process can feel like things getting out of control. Ultimately this is a healing, but the process can be taxing until things settle down. Which they always do! In the meantime, it is wise to take only essential actions and to let the flood tide subside. The jar of Pholus was not supposed to be opened for four generations, and so the astrological Pholus often highlights ancestral processes, whether known or unknown to us, which are releasing. This is why bearing witness is important: we are called to clarify our own ancestral lineage by our healing attitude to it. With Pholus, however, actions may precipitate quickly and then the consequences take a while to resolve. Sometimes there are specific things to do, like forgiveness work, or putting flowers on a grave. But often it is simply to inwardly acknowledge the suffering of those who went before us, and to recognise ‘the pity of it’ [vi]. Thus we step out of the loop. Pholus will move from Scorpio to Sagittarius during 2005, and release held emotion into the process of discovering meaning in our experience.