posted April 10, 2012 02:29 PM            

http://youtu.be/pD8mxge6kek

Cassandra stood on the walls of Troy and watched Paris' ship enter the harbor. Her brother had returned from Sparta
having seduced Helen away from her homeland to bring her to live in Troy as his wife. With the blessings of Aphrodite
Paris and his lover Helen had snuck away from her palace undetected and sailed across the Aegean to Asia Minor. A dark
cloud shrouded the ship as it anchored. When Cassandra watched her brother and Helen disembark and approach the city
gates she was flooded with images of Troy's destruction, filling her with an ominous and terrible feeling. Possessed by this
eerie perception she uttered a warning to the crowd that was gathered at the gates to welcome the couple. From deep
inside she divined the future: Helen's entrance into the city would lead to its destruction. Ignoring Cassandra and her
prophecy the crowds turned away to welcome the new royal couple into their city. Time and time again her message was
rejected and ridiculed. Ten years later a similar scenario would unfold. Cassandra would warn the Trojans not to accept
the wooden horse into their city. Once again no one would heed her accurate predictions. The Greeks, angry at Helen's
abduction, sacked Troy and left the city in ashes.
Cassandra was one of the daughters of the royal family of Troy, a sister to both Paris and Hector and twinned to her
brother, Helenus. When the twins were infants they accompanied their parents to the temple of Apollo to celebrate a
festival in honor of the oracular god. During the ritual the twins fell into a deep sleep. Two temple snakes slithered into
their basket as they slept and bit them on their ears injecting the gift (or poison) of prophecy into them. From that day
both Cassandra and Helenus were known for their prophetic nature.
Having the gift of sight Cassandra entered the temple to serve Apollo being called to her vocation as his Pythia, the voice
of the oracular god. However, Apollo fell in love with her and demanded she reciprocate his desire. But Cassandra refused
to consummate the relationship preferring to worship the god in spirit, not body. Enraged Apollo found a way to avenge
her rejection. Knowing he could not retract the gift of prophecy that he had given her when she was so young he cursed
her so no one would ever believe her prophecies. The god begged her for one kiss and Cassandra consented. As she
opened her mouth to kiss the god Apollo breathed his curse into her insuring others would no longer value her prophetic
vision. He turned his back on her, condemning Cassandra to see the perilous future yet never able to be understood or
believed. Cassandra, cursed by the narcissistic god for rejecting him, was later violently assaulted by Ajax upon the altar
of Athena when the Greeks were ransacking Troy. After the sack of Troy the leader of the Greek fleet Agamemnon took her as his slave back to his palace of Mycenae. As she approached the mammoth walled city her images of destruction
became more and more intense. Racked by the violent visions she screamed a warning for Agamemnon to not enter the
palace foreseeing his brutal murder at the hands of his wife. In her heart she also knew that entering the city with him
would result in her own death.
Cassandra personifies the medial woman whose intuitive faculties and understanding of the unconscious patterns are not
welcomed in an ordered rational society. She sees what others are too fearful to see and exposes the inevitable patterns
that underpin the situation. In an atmosphere of control and denial Cassandra is marginalized and demeaned becoming
the projective reflection of the fear of chaos and uncertainty. Disbelief and ignorance render her wisdom impotent. When
dark feelings, dread or grief are repressed in the atmosphere Cassandra is the medium of their expression. Her curse is
that she is not identified with her feelings leaving her misunderstood and marginalized. Her feelings, identified by others
as autonomous ravings, isolate her. Cassandra is able to sense what is taboo and unlived but unable to remain separate
from it.
Cassandra represents the archetype of medial knowledge. Unlike the ancient world there are no longer sanctuaries or
sacred places to honor her way of knowing. She reflects the need to be aware of our medial skills and intuitive knowledge
and seek training to help strengthen the ability to use this skill and not be overwhelmed by it. When Cassandra appears
prominently she encourages the individual to find a voice for the medium through understanding the symbols, images,
signs and omens of unconscious language. She embodies the ancient ways of knowing in a culture that no longer values
prophecy and divination. Her knowledge is not objective but oracular. To embrace Cassandra we must abandon logic,
separateness and rationality and enter into the irrational world where meaning is revealed through feeling and
connectedness. However, Cassandra reminds us that in a scientific and ordered society our knowing may be rejected.
Cassandra encourages us to have the strength of our convictions and a strong and healthy identity about our beliefs.
Oracular knowing springs out of the collective through an unconscious and unbound participation with everything in the
environment. When boundaries are blurred and the veil between the worlds is lifted we enter into a participation mystique
with the spirits of the world beyond us and may be called to act as a vessel for their message. Cassandra in your
horoscope reveals where you are sensitive to the pattern of the goddess.

Cassandra is in Capricorn
Former US President Abraham Lincoln once asked: 'Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" This is
the wisdom of a stable and powerful leader. You have the ability to follow in this man's footsteps if you don't get too
caught up in vying with your peers for authority. From a young age, you understand the need for hierarchies in society,
but you may try to talk your way to the top of ladder before the time is right. Your urge for supremacy needs to make way
for equality. If you can maintain an egalitarian attitude then you are able to be a wise leader in your field and in your
immediate circle of friends and family. You may enter politics or business, but it is likely that becoming a leader in the
arts or metaphysics also attracts you.
As a youngster other people may have misunderstood your mannerisms and ways of thinking. Hence you may withdraw
into a world of your own or learn to disguise your true thoughts. As you mature, you learn to choose your words wisely and
develop a strong sense of right and wrong. You understand the nature of cause and effect. In other words you understand
that actions have consequences. You develop strength of character. Another, more contemporary politician J C Watts
said: 'Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing
that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.'
The goddess Cassandra in the sign of Capricorn in a woman's chart can indicate that you prefer to rely on your own powers
of discernment rejecting patriarchy. Depending on other aspects of your birth chart you may be a real rebel against
authority, speaking out for women's rights through the arts or politics. On the other hand you may be a conservative and
yet powerful leader. Whichever way this destiny leans your voice is a public cry for respect and equality. Women like
Oprah Winfrey or Amelia Earhart who have this placement have used the voice of the goddess in their unique way.
In a man's chart this placement of the goddess Cassandra can indicate that you form a strong bond with a powerful
woman, one who enables you to achieve a prominent position in society as long as you respect her wise counsel. The voice
of the collective feminine reverberates through your professional life. http://www.cafeastrology.com/samplegoddessreport.pdf [URL=http://tribes.tribe.net/asteroid_astrology/thread/0ff72797-a2c5-4ab5-b08d-2bdb4fd95abe]http://tribes.tribe.net/asteroid_astrology/thread/0ff72797-a2c5-4ab5-b08d-2bdb4fd95abe[/ URL]

posted April 11, 2012 03:53 AM              

Interestingly APOLLO is not that far off KASSANDRA, as he is on 26 Libra exactly conjunct ADONIS and KASSANDRA being exactly trine SUMERIA and URANIA in Aquarius.

IQ once said that most of my astrological knowledge stems from a past life line in Ancient Sumeria. Well, in the light of APOLLO conjunct Adonis and Kassandra trine Urania/Sumeria this definitely makes sense.

posted April 11, 2012 02:51 PM            

I haven't checked my placement yet, but wanted to read the story-I love story telling and learning through the power of mythology.

Thank you putting it down on paper. It's lovely and sad at the same time.

posted April 11, 2012 03:08 PM            

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Originally posted by Linda Jones:
AD,

I haven't checked my placement yet, but wanted to read the story-I love story telling and learning through the power of mythology.

Thank you putting it down on paper. It's lovely and sad at the same time.

And Apollo wasn't very nice, was he? It's interesting that these gods too had issues with their egos.

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posted April 11, 2012 10:41 PM            

114 Kassandra at 26 Can 52'22" (8th house) is conjunct my Jupiter

It also Sextiles:
1862 Apollo at 26 Vir 55'23" (I would have expected this to be a square knowing the mythology...)
North Node at 27 Vir 1'16"
624 Hektor at 27 Vir 21'2"
588 Achilles at 27 Vir 53'27"

(as I recall, Hektor killed Achilles didn't he?)

Those are all in 10th house, along with:
1143 Odysseus at 0 Lib 8'29"
1404 Ajax at 3 Lib 32'5"
(both those are out of orb of the others, but I did want to see where they were in relations to the Trojan War theme).

Kassandra may be just in (or slightly out of orb) of Semisquare:
3317 Paris at 13 Gem 22'29"
617 Patroclus at 13 Gem 35'6" (both 7th house)

And those last two make a roughly 105-degree link with the North Node cluster. Interesting setup I have with the Trojan War bunch.

posted April 27, 2014 07:59 PM            

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Originally posted by Catalina:
Good point, life, though in Kassandra's day the Delphic oracle priestesses were generally believed. She was exceptional for that reason. I think in our charts in modern times it indicates where we have trouble getting people to believe us, and but also where we are prescient?

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I really like your interpretation, that makes a lot of sense. It definitely fits with the Kassandra's story. The asteroid might also indicate that you will become a victim if people don't believe you since Kassandra was raped and enslaved by the Greeks when Troy was sacked.

However, I could be wrong but I don't think Kassandra was an actual oracle of Delphi. She was given foresight by Apollo but when she refused to sleep with him he turned it into a curse by ensuring that no one would believe her.

I also have Apollo conjunct my Sun actually... so maybe people will listen to me someday, because they definitely listened to the oracles of Delphi!

posted April 28, 2014 12:00 AM            

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Originally posted by Catalina:
Funny, yesterday I checked her out on google and came up with a different storywhich I can't find now. You appear to be right but I remember her as psychic from birth and her twin brother was too! Not that the basic story of her as the prophetess no one believed tho she was right on the money is changed. I guess this is detective week for me lol

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posted April 29, 2014 06:30 PM            

My Apollo Conjunt Sun 3°, Trine AS 4° (Too big of an orb?), Trine Jupiter -0°.