The Second Half of 2010: Who's Chiron Now?
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
- John F. Kennedy (Chiron at the 28th degree of Aquarius)
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
- Barack Obama (South Node at the 28th degree of Aquarius)
To get right to it, here's what the universe seems to be expecting of us in the last six months of 2010:
- an appreciation of the utility of science and technology in enhancing man's symbiotic relationship with the natural world
- very conscientious stewardship of that technology, including the embrace of long-term foresight in its application
- in light of the preceding, a simultaneous gentle mellowing of our super-charged technological infatuation via the subtle embrace of the delicate beauty of the natural world
- a belief that personal and collective consciousness can be altered for the better by paying ecological attention to the most basic habits and patterns of everyday living
- the pursuit of the concept of a universal brotherhood of spirit, in which self-transcendence leads to willing participation in a collective higher form of existence
"This has never been achieved," admits Rudhyar, " and only very rarely attempted."
In the second half of 2010, these last degrees of Aquarius are being activated by the simultaneous passage of Neptune and Chiron. This hardly promises that the precepts envisioned by Rudhyar are about to be achieved, and perhaps rather the contrary. Still, if you can get into this astrology stuff at all, it is helpful to appreciate the nature of the current human dilemma as astrologically indicated.
Now it should certainly be pointed out that there is much heavier stuff going on in the heavens right now than the passage of Neptune and Chiron through late Aquarius. Astrologers are rightfully compelled to consider the frankly threatening aspects of Pluto, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter in the earliest degrees of cardinal signs. Such activity, as has been widely reported in astrological circles, has its historical parallels in the periods of the American Revolution and the Great Depression...so holding on to one's hat---very tightly--- is prudent advice in the near term.
And yet it's hard to avert one's gaze from the embrace of Neptune and Chiron in late Aquarius. Neptune, as has been discussed in earlier blog entries here, is a planet of the purest metaphysical significance...representing the reality of manifest dream worlds and the power for good or evil of all that is beyond our ability to rationally control or comprehend. Neptune is occupying a place of increased importance in the planetary hierarchy as it completes its first orbit of the sun in human consciousness (Neptune was 'discovered' in 1846 located in the 26th degree of Aquarius, conjunct Saturn in the same degree) and moves towards its 2012 'ascension' into its own sign of Pisces.
Right now it's well worth pointing out that two of the associations made by mundane astrologers with Neptune are anything to do with deep water and anything to do with the the commodity of oil. Reading the list of Rudhyar's precepts above with an eye to the Gulf oil crisis is both instructive and poignant. Say what you will about humanity's commitment or lack thereof to the success of its own collective future, Neptune in the last degrees of Aquarius sure as heck frames the issue at its greatest depths.
So what's with this Chiron fellow tracking along so closely with Neptune right now? Astronomically, Chiron is a solar system object discovered in 1977 that appears to be part asteroid (size) and part comet (tail). Orbiting eccentrically between Saturn and Uranus, it is the primary example of a class of astronomical objects called Centaurs, differentiated from asteroids primarily by their locations among the other planets rather than within the so-called Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Mythologically, Chiron's story---mother raped and impregnated by Kronos (Saturn) after turning into a horse / adopted and taught by Apollo / almost fatally wounded by a poisoned arrow shot by Hercules / self-sacrificed for Prometheus--- is a bit rangy and complex. Suffice it here to list some of the attributes with which he is associated: ancient wisdom; mentoring; medicine; human progress; and personal sacrifice. Known widely in astrology as "the wounded healer," Chiron is ultimately a potent shamanic sage, counselor and physician who can cure anyone's wounds except his own.
Astrology might have reasonably relegated Chiron to a minor role in interpretation, but he has in fact had steadily increasing influence in modern astrology since his discovery. Part of the appeal to Chiron is his nature (transformational) juxtaposed against that of his father, Saturn (traditional). In a neat happenstance of astronomy, Chiron spent the entire second decade after its discovery in exact orbital opposition to Saturn...a cosmic tidbit way too juicy for astrologers to resist.
It's significant that Chiron, like Saturn, has come to represent achievement in the wake of pain. Unlike Saturn, however, whose success is based in adherence to the codes of vested authority and in enduring the the trials associated with established cultural principles, Chiron's triumphs are directed towards recapturing the 'lost' wisdom of the past, when mankind was perhaps more partisan to practical magic than practical management. In astrological chart interpretation, Chiron has come to represent the force of deep and ancient knowledge that one is capable of conveying to mankind, but that one most often wields ineffectively in service to oneself.
So through the rest of the year we have this wounded, wise, transformational, and ultimately tragic hero/demi-god (Chiron) traveling along with the lord of the endlessly inconceivable (Neptune) in a portion of the zodiac concerned with collective human progress (the last degrees of Aquarius). The presence of Neptune here makes hard and fast predictions rather naive, but it impossible to avoid a few impressions. Keeping in mind Rudhyar's observation that mankind has no great track record in this sort of thing, one can surmise that we are in for some inconceivable and disappointing surprises (Neptune), and that if by fate or chance there is a hero in this story he or she is most likely to end up as a pin cushion (Chiron).
Fascinatingly from an astrological perspective, the south node position referenced in the Barack Obama quote at the top of this article would seem to indicate that not only that he is a key player at this moment but also that in another incarnation he has been here before. I sure hope it works out for him this time. Our best hope may be that he is still here...as so far are the rest of us.
Oh, and one last thing by the way, Barack Obama's natal Chiron is located very close to his south node at the 6th degree of Pisces (a degree that Rudhyar says has to do with "army officers" and "sacrificing oneself for the nation or the group"). Starting in June of next year, Chiron will be moving back and forth over Obama's Chiron for the rest of this presidential term. Now doesn't that sound interesting?
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Posted by Steve at 7/6/2010 1:31 PM 
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