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...

Your Galactic Gondolier

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

Chiron - The Key to Balance and Healing

The irregular orbit of Chiron brings together the polarities of Saturn and Uranus, earth and heaven, matter and spirit, rational thought and intuition...

Chiron of the myths was both horse and man. His name is from Greek cheir, meaning hand. Chiron was the teacher. The things he taught combined insight and skill. Perhaps it can be described through the word culture. 

The heavenly body Chiron was suddenly discovered by the astronomer Charles Kowal at 10 AM on the 1st of November in 1977. It is remarkable that the horoscope of the discovery - when Chiron was "born" into human consciousness - has Sagittarius the Centaur rising!

Chiron´s Discovery, November 1, 1977, 10 AM, Pasadena, CA

The small planet was first named "Object Kowal" after its discoverer. The symbol of Chiron shows an O with a K on top. It soon came to be looked upon by the astrologers as a key - a key to man´s evolution of a higher consciousness.

Then occured that remarkable and truly magical thing that always seems to happen when a new heavenly body is discovered. The astronomers gave to the new planet a name from the Greek mythology that in a most remarkable and magical way fits into the astrological pattern. They chose the name Chiron.

The astrologers thankfully recognized the new planet´s role as a bridge between the traditional visible planets and the more newly discovered outer planets - Uranus, Neptune and Pluto - which during the last three centuries have been incorporated into the astrological pattern.

Chiron´s discovery chart has Venus, Pluto, and the North Lunar Node in conjunction with Medium Coeli in the sign of Libra, suggesting the necessity of a renewed balance and harmony of human relations.

Neptune in Sagittarius in the 12th house forms a sextile to Pluto and the Lunar Node in Libra, suggesting the great importance of intuition and a spiritual outlook for man to reach a higher and more expanded and balanced state of mind.

The Sun - the portal between spirit and matter - conjunct Uranus and Mercury in Scorpio points to an impending - or perhaps already begun - deep revolution of the human mind...

Your Galactic Gondolier

Chiron - Centaur and Healer

Chiron, the Centaur, has an important role in the horoscope of the Gondola. Straight ahead, in the East, it travels in the company of Neptune, nautical patron and god of the sea, and the North Lunar Node, the Dragon´s Head - all three in the sign of Aquarius in the twelfth house of the wave-tossed Gondola...

What is it then, Chiron´s role in the play of the planets?

In the mythology he is both horse and man, the son of earth-bound Saturn and the grandson of heavenly Uranus.

- Aha!

Mythic Chiron is the teacher and instructor, the physician and herbalist, the musician, some even say the astrologer, and the archer. He represents insight and skill - the Greek word cheir means hand - and thereby the bringing together of heaven and earth, of intuition and rational thought...

The celestial body named Chiron was discovered late - not until 1977. No one can say with certainty what it is. Is it a minor planet, an asteroid, or perhaps a comet? Chiron´s peculiar orbit agrees in in a marvellous way with the mythology. It orbits between Saturn and Uranus, so that when it is closest to the Sun it circles a bit inside Saturn´s orbit and at its furthest distance from the Sun it is even outside the orbit of Uranus.

Thus, Chiron is the unifyer of heaven (Uranus) and earth (Saturn). The herbalist and astrologer, the musician and archer, the mentor and teacher of heroes...

Your Galactic Gondolier