Astrology Explored

July 12, 2008
Trans-plutonian bodies, Eris, Varuna, Quoaor, and Sedna are a real trip, reminiscent of the sidewinder energy of the cosmic visitor Chiron, who picks us up and dusts us off with stunning revelations about ourselves, but only after he’s knocked off our feet with something that seemingly comes out of nowhere.

In this dimension, time is linear. We are used to thinking that point C follows point B that follows point A. In astrology, the traditional planets, the Sun through Saturn fits very neatly into this parochial view of the Universe. We even were able to expand our consciousness to include the “new� planets from Uranus through Pluto when we realized these planets were about personal and spiritual growth. Since it was all about us, we could get down with that. But when we are confronted with energies that do not follow this convenient path we tend to get confused. The trans-plutonian bodies are scarcely parsed, though this may be in part from these solar inhabitants’ own extra dimensional nature.

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May 17, 2008

Eris, our newly discovered dwarf planet of the solar system demands a voice. As the ancient daughter of Night, and having no male provenance in her lineage, Eris was an outsider in the patriarchal pantheon of Olympian gods that dominated Greek culture that spawned our own. She is an ancient goddess whose meaning became subverted when the patriarchal northern tribes of Greece conquered the southern matriarchal tribes and broke and diminished the roles of all goddesses.

In a stunning moment, Eris, crashed a wedding party to which she should have been invited and displayed the weakness of the female Olympian goddesses by tossing a golden apple maked “To the fairest” in the center of the party. All the goddesses, each representing a different aspect of female power, fought over the prize. Note that if each goddess was actually sure of her own power and place, they wouldn’t have fought over this “prize” no matter how valuable. It demonstrated how females fall for outer trappings of beauty and wealth to validate themselves within society.

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The newest dwarf planet discoved is the goddess of Discord, Eris. Her mythology is complex. Looked upon primarily as the genesis of discord, she is looked at another way as well.

“The Goddess of Discord is just one way of looking at Eris. But the other [side of Eris] [is that] . . .She stirs up even the shiftless to toil; for a man grows eager to work when he considers his neighbor, a rich man who hastens to plough and plant and put his house in good order; and neighbor vies with his neighbor as he hurries after wealth. This Strife is wholesome for men.�
 
In other words, another form of the word strife is “striving.� Competition creates conditions where individuals . . . strive to improve their life.�

The parthogenically produced daughter of the goddess Night, who, in turn, was created in primodial Chaos, she has no male heritage. Eris had the ability to produce children without the aid of a consort and she did so many times. She was whole unto herself, not needing the male principle to complete her. Except for the God of War, Ares, whose (non-sexual) company she kept, she was excluded from the company of the patriarchal Olympian gods. Called the Queen of Battle, supposedly delighting in the bloodletting of war, was this the reason she was excluded from the company of other gods?

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