Tehuti

Also Mercury in Libra is forming a trine to Chiron and the North Lunar Node in Aquarius in the twelfth house of the Gondola. At the same time it forms a T-Square together with Jupiter in Capricorn in the eleventh house and the Moon in Cancer in the fifth house.

Mercury – Hermes of the Hellenes and Tehuti of the Egyptians – not only rules the Imum Coeli and the fourth house in Gemini but also the Descendant and the seventh house in the quiet sign of Virgo. The very ground from which the Gondola has sprung forth is of course a wish and a need to communicate.

Finally in the horoscope of the Gondola there is fittingly formed a grand water trine between Uranus in Pisces, Mars in Scorpio, and the Moon in Cancer.

Such is the wavy voyage of the remarkable and mysterious Galactic Gondola in its likewise remarkable and mysterious Galactic Venice while the glittering stars of the night are mirrored in the dark deep waters...

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A Quiet Symphony

Let our gondola tour continue. High in the sky is standing distant Pluto, the god of death - Hades of the Hellenes - in the sign of Sagittarius. The goal of the journey is the discovery of the deeper or higher meaning of life.

Pluto is forming a sextile to the Sun at the stern in the sign of Libra in the seventh house of the Gondola. At the same time it is squaring Chiron and the North Lunar Node in Aquarius right ahead.

There is something powerful in this pattern, a quiet and friendly yet forceful power, emphasizing the essentials of life and a willingness to go deep into things.

Pluto rules the eighth house in the sign of Scorpio, where Venus – Aphrodite of the Hellenes – is silently reflecting her beautiful light. From Venus there is a trine to the Ascendant and a quintile to Chiron and the North Lunar Node in Aquarius in the twelfth house of the Gondola.

It is as if the planetary energies in quiet silence both surround and fill the Gondola with harmoniously colored lights in a sort of quiet symphony, where the only sound that can be heard is the slow oar strokes of the gondolier in the pitch black water through the starlit canals of Galactic Venice...

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Half Man Half Horse

Astrology is based on a correspondence between the planets of heaven and the inner world of man, a correspondence where one mirrors the other. The Discovery of a new heavenly body then means that some new awareness is added to man´s collective consciousness.

The discovery of Chiron inspired the awareness of an inner path of healing along with the development of man´s higher consciousness. Chiron of the myths was half horse and half man. Being abandoned by his parents - Saturn (or Chronos) in the shape of a horse and the sea nymph Philyra - he was taken care of by Apollo, the Sun god with the seven stringed lyre, who became his mentor, teaching him all kinds of arts.

A central theme in the mythology of Chiron is reunion. Man´s reunion both with heaven and earth.

Chiron as both man and horse is telling us that we need to renew our inner contact with the Earth, with our living Earth Cosmos, with our animal instincts and our feelings and also with darker sides of our subconcious. Overemphasis on rational thinking otherwise tend to alienate us more and more from life´s wholeness.

But we have not only lost our inner contact with the Earth and our instincts and feelings. Like Chiron, who was abandoned by his parents, we have also been cut off from our own divine origin. We feel "abandoned" and cut off from our own inner being, our own inner divinity. In this vulnerable state, Chiron, the wounded healer, extends a helping hand until we are able to take full responsibility for our own healing and thus regain our inner contact with both heaven and earth.

Chiron conjunct the North Lunar Node in the sign of Aquarius in the twelfth house in the birth (or launch) chart of the Gondola, hints at the deeply painful theme of humanity´s collective internal wound and the importance and necessity of balance and completeness...

Your Galactic Gondolier