Discovery of New Bodies
I have presented some interesting observation regarding two new bodies that have been discovered recently i.e. Chiron (1977) and Eris (2005) and it seems that they denote practically the beast and the beauty.
CHIRON-THE FEMALE ASPECTS
The world has changed fast and a notable change has also occurred in the “affection” that comes with adulthood as it has developed much. Astrology, if it does relate to the matters of human-kind, had to keep up with the pace in human emotions. Some Planet had to comply to this pace but the only important heavenly body discovered in recent times was not a Planet but a Planetoid (rather a comet) named Chiron. Astrology had always kept its validity by presenting the planets that were related to matters immediately at hand at the time denoting some major change in the life style of mankind and it was only a rightful expectation from it to do so at this time too. Although I am sure that it is totally useless to try to predict future in any way by Astrology yet I have always appreciated it as a great tool for the Psychological Study of Human Beings, a study in which I have been interested since my childhood. Note that Uranus (1781) was discovered when big revolutions on some prejudiced criterion were taking shape by violent means, Neptune (1846) was found when a better understanding of the natural link that everyone has to everyone among the human-kind was getting common and Pluto (1930) was finally pointed out in the sky when revolutionary ideas, high understanding of Human Psyche and deadly weapons were coming into existence. So Astrology had to conform to the present situation where our children are getting more knowledgeable earlier in things that we used to understand at our adulthood or near it and the recent astrological research that I made in this regard does prove that Astrology (without the factor of Prediction) has not failed even this time. Chiron (1977), the only important heavenly body discovered in recent times, is the body that denotes the height in emotions that may turn to become lust or to become a cause for it knowingly or unknowingly.
Before presenting my conclusion on Chiron, I would ask you to note a few points that are related to this study. First of all, I have been inclined to find out what are the indications in the Natal Charts that tell an inclination towards commiting wrongs, specially deliberate cruelty and crimes of passion. I think that if those men that have physical strength (literally in the times gone and metaphorically in the present times, i.e. the men who hold powerful official places) use their strength negatively, cruelty takes place while if those women that have been given much physical beauty apply their beauty negatively revealing themselves indecently, they may become a cause of Lust and such Passion that leads to wrongs indeed. If we could only understand such people and more than that if such people could get an idea of their own inner positions well, they might combat such temptations that lead to wrongs as the Inner Self always leans towards rightness. My religion Islam points out that “Murder”, the greatest cruelty, is the second big sin while “Adultery”, the greatest shameful act, is the third big sin (the first big sin according to Islam, is to take anyone equal to Allah and a Muslim is one who believes that Allah is the One True Source of all Power and He Only, The One True Lord, causes people and any thing in the Universe to help or create trouble for men and any other creation). Here I presented this point as I wanted you to know the initiative that asked for this study.
The second point to note is that the data I took up for study, that has 207 Natal Charts in total, comprises totally of the Natal Charts of the glamorous females only (many of whom noted for revealing much) who were and are in the show-biz, most of them but not whole of them related to Hollywood, born between the years 1901-1987. The third point to note is that though the data has been collected studiously caring much that the collection remains acceptable yet as it has been collected and managed individually so there remains a small chance of error in birth-dates of one or two entries (though I would not present any name or date in this writing of course). The fourth thing to note here is that Astrology is not an exact science so the natal indications only point out the inclinations very natural to the Native yet the Native is always able to counter the negative indications by his/her good efforts (also it was not possible for me to maintain any control group in this study so I would ask my readers to try to verify the result by their own much good efforts). With these comments, let us come to the study and deductions therefrom.
For quite a time, it had struck me that many of the females in the field of glamour had Chiron near to their Moon or Venus. Quite a few had a T-square between these three and sometimes Moon and Venus had a conjunction, with Chiron at a much prominent place in the Natal Chart. At first, I thought it may have something to do with artistic qualities but as I went on with my study, I got convinced that even if it refines the artistic qualities though I find this very doubtful now, it does show a leaning in the Female Natives towards challenging accepted morals for some personal motives. I have reasons for this stance yet I find it difficult to be specific due to the delicate nature of this study and most frankly, my study on Chiron seems to say that there is a link of Chiron to much filth and even to pornography. It is not that I have not found the Planetoid prominent in some of those that are related to medicine or in many of those who are much wounded psychologically but it is not its main theme. Its presence at specific points in regards to Moon or Venus does have a negative effect as written and that position seems to present its true self as I understand. The figure that is presented for Chiron is a body of an animal below and a body of a man above (is it so?). No, not at all. In fact, Chiron represents either animal desires or angelic beauty in the character and with its prominence, one either finds easy to live in the style of an animal or in the manner of an angel (though I have noted this phenomenon about the angelic beauty too with this same position of female planets to Chiron yet practically I have yet to conform this second part by more Natal Charts). Actually, we have wrongly taken an angel for a man and it seems that there is no middle path for those who have Chiron near to Moon or Venus in their Natal Charts or if it is much prominent in them. It is a point to note that technically Chiron is not only a planetoid but also a comet and it is known well that comets are mostly taken as denoting something negative.
Although Chiron was first photographed on April 24, 1895 yet it was Nov 1, 1977 when it was finally discovered. That was the time when our living style had to face such attitude from some factions of the society that were never ever considered to be decent or conforming to the prevailing morals. But leaving the detail of change that challenged much of the concept of the accepted good morals to the good judgment of readers here, I would present here the criterion I took for my study and that is “When one planet from Moon & Venus is within 30 degrees to Chiron’s placement any side in the Natal Chart of a female, it denotes attitudes based on adopted morals that are not complementary or/and conforming to the normally appreciated morals prevailing in a given society”. Allow me to share with you the result of the study I took to prove this criterion that had 207 Natal Charts of the females prominent in the field of glamour. These Natal Charts presented 97 charts that had either Moon or Venus near to them (where both Moon and Venus were near to Chiron though such charts were not even in double figure, I omitted the overlap, taking either Moon or Venus counting it once only). The result was 97 charts positive to this criterion and this is an amazingly high figure considering its probability of occurrence. From this data of 207 Natal Charts that I took for study, the presence of 97 positive charts mean that 46.86% were positive. Being such a high figure it does not need any comment for its favor. Still I would ask my readers to verify the result by their own good efforts studying such type of Natal Charts by their ownselves, keeping the same criterion that has been taken here in this writing.
Another interesting thing that I noted among these charts in study was the aspects that presented to Moon or Venus from Uranus. I observed the aspects to the planet other than the one (Moon or Venus) near to Chiron in the 97 positive Natal Charts and found that there were 55 charts among them that presented one of the major aspects leaving opposition (0, 60, 90, 120) from Uranus to it by normally accepted orbs in Astrology. In the charts that had both the female planets near to Chiron, I took any planet from them as the other planet for convenience. There were 20 charts among other than these 97 Positive Charts that presented Venus in opposition to Chiron and they had 11 charts that presented a major aspect leaving opposition between Uranus and the Moon. It seems that Uranus also has a role here yet as it does not present its major aspects to all the positive charts so I have omitted its inclusion as an essential factor for the inclination in study to be positive. There is an interesting point to note in the entire Universe around us that everything has been created in complementary pairs (the clearest example of this is Male and Female in Human Beings) and this rule applies to the Solar System too. The complementary pairs here consist of Sun & Moon, Mars & Venus, Mercury & Jupiter, Pluto & Venus, Moon & Neptune, Mercury & Uranus etc. So there is a possibility that Chiron has an affinity with Uranus, to better some of its qualities or to combat some of its qualities as its second of the pair. This may be the cause of the aspects of Uranus found in so many positive charts in the study.
Though it needs conformation yet I do feel that the women who find Chiron at such placement that is with Female Planets near to it might combat it well if, with this indication, Pluto is strong in their Natal Charts. Chiron, being a body that denotes a deviation from the normal attitude regarding delicate matters of life, could only be challenged well by the Planet that denotes a normal attitude to those very matters so it is only reasonable to assume that when Pluto is in a challenging aspect to Chiron and with positive aspects from Jupiter or/and Venus, it has the ability to combat the Chironic effect well. The power of Pluto may increase at the Ascendant or at the Midheaven in such a combat, keeping the Native to the set morals of the society in the long run.
As Chiron seems to put a negative effect on Morals, I observed a number of Natal Charts of men too to see if any specific meaning is evident in their Natal Charts. I thought that “cruelty” may be the denoted factor here but instead I found out that many of those who had Moon near to their Chiron (within 30 degrees any side) in Natal Charts, are “Blunt” in speech. You can call this “Being Rude” very often or “Being Proud”. These attitudes also are much against the morals respected all over the world and are negative to Human Respect. This may even be termed as a form of cruelty indeed as sensitive persons may become hurt inside by such manners. However, I would again ask my readers for conformation of this observation as most of these Natal Charts were gathered from personal acquaintance (though as a teacher of Advanced Math and Statistics, I did get a number of charts of my students and few others known to me well, plus a few famous persons yet as I did not study them as thoroughly as the Natal Charts of the females in the field of glamour, this observation does need verification). In this regard, I would say that pride, leaving aside its positive meaning of “self respect”, is such a negative trait that eats up all the good deeds of a person (and perhaps it stems up from some inferiority feeling in the man) so even if he is an intelligent or a wealthy person doing much good in the name of Humanity, he puts a bad name on himself in the long run. We all are Human Beings only and there is always someone better than the other among us so pride must be avoided totally.
Studying Chiron in the Natal Charts of men, I also observed this interesting thing that those who were responsible for asking people to commit suicide paving way for mass suicide, had this placement of Moon near to their Chiron. David Koresh and Applewhite both had conjunction of Moon to Chiron in their Natal Charts while Jim Jones had Venus within 30 degrees to Chiron (though even Moon is not far away as it is within 30 degrees to Venus and by the dates I have got Jim Jones and Applewhite were born in the same month i.e. May 1931) and Chiron was at a fixed sign in all three, being in Conjunction to Sun in a couple and in opposition to Sun in the other one (the Sun also is in a fixed sign in all three and I have pointed out in my astrological writing on Suicide that fixed signs are found in prominence in such cases). I think that this may be one of the factors that contribute to such deadly act as it does not conform to the normal set of morals in any way. This is also a notable point that even at the time of Heaven’s Gate incident Moon was within 30 degrees to Chiron.
In the last, I would like to say that there is an intense observation at the back of whatever I have written here about Chiron and I have never intended to hurt anyone so I must be excused if anyone does feel hurt without my intention as such. I would like to point out again in regards to female charts that most probably the same position of female planets to Chiron gives the ability to live with an angelic character too and one has the choice to better oneself or to let the tide of events take its toll. Please note that I am individually and fully responsible for whatever is written here about the meaning of Chiron in regards to female planets though I would ask for an extensive research on this by those qualified persons whose astrological knowledge and power of observation is higly developed and who understand the value of Astrology in the study of Human Psyche. This study may become an initiative to better ourselves as human beings and even to achieve or to understand the ways to achieve an angelic character. If that is done, my purpose of presenting this paper would be fully justified.
By
MUHAMMAD SALEEM DADA
e-mail: saleemdada@yahoo.com
Completed this writing on:
Friday, August 06, 2004
12:30 PM, Karachi
Astrological Meaning of Eris
In the last of July 2005, the discovery of a planet that was said to be larger than Pluto was announced. This caused a stir in the astronomical circle as they had to deal with the definition of “Planet” to accommodate for the discoveries that are made at this moment of time and they finally designated it (with Pluto and Ceres) as a dwarf planet in the last of August 2006. Astrologically, the finding of UB313 that is now officially named Eris (a Female Character) was very interesting as for one thing, it was taken as a planet from the beginning and for another, it was larger than Pluto establishing itself quite well as a planet in the astrological community. Please note that astrology deals with how the psyche of a person is affected to make for his development by his acceptance or rejection of options presented to him in life without relating to his future, and these options are denoted by the actual positions of the bodies in the heavens at his birth (without considering whether those bodies are planets, dwarf planets, planetoids, asteroids or SSSB and also without considering which signs those bodies occupy) as seen from the Earth, regardless of the impression these bodies may possess or may not possess by the laws of Physics. It does not question the free-will of a person though some are born with more opportunities, astrologically speaking, while others are not (yet this is true in other ways too as speaking with regards to economics, it happens that a persons is born with a silver spoon in his mouth while another has to struggle hard even for the necessities of life). Although, astrology does not provide for an insight into the future events for sure as is wrongly assumed generally yet it does denote much of the character traits by the time of birth that could be verified by anyone studying it well. With this ability, there is also a very interesting point about it that whenever a new planet was found, it provided some insight into the collective matters of the world at that time and actually that is the reason to write this article as I intend to convey the meaning of the Lovely Planet UB313 or Eris as it is named now, with reference to the collective matters currently in focus.
At present, the matters that are in focus all over the world are related to the introduction of amazing scientific gadgets making the world a global village, introduction of a strong media and introduction of using power for political achievements. I could not find much of its relationship to any of these matters by the charts I studied to conform (though the third one seems to be connected in the sense that the meaning of the Lovely Planet seems to collide headstrong with it), seeing by the works of the Natives that had the lovely planet prominent in some way in their natal charts. It is interesting to note that there is a story related to Eris where Eris proves to be a figure creating discord among a group of people. Yes, it can be an apple of discord among family members yet by what I have gathered, I consider that this is the lower or the negative meaning that comes into play only when it is totally deprived of attention and its due share of material things denoted by much adverse aspects from Uranus or/and Mars like Conjunction or Opposition with any third body in play to form a square or a T-square. So this position comes into play as an exception though it does have its say here when Mars or/and Uranus touch her yet as a rule the Lovely Planet Eris actually denotes such positive female character that stands firm against injustice even when not much capable physically to combat it fully yet trying for its end by a great patience thus registering a protest with a passive attitude that does put its mark in the long run. It is a dissenting voice of the weak against all wrongs of the powerful that goes on gaining momentum as people realize the True Love that always has turned things better in the history of mankind. So, it seems to denote a beautiful character that does not conform to injustice even when it finds it easy due to its surroundings to go hand to hand with all cruel attitude. Time would tell that the Lovely Planet Eris has this beautiful character as of the Sleeping Beauty, totally oblivious of the conspiracies that take place around her and needs only the appreciation of her beauty (of good attributes) to stand consciously with all that is right and based on total justice. I have seen this and ask you to wait and see for yourself trying to verify this meaning by the natal charts where you find the Lovely Planet prominent. With Pluto (and Ceres) being rediscovered at this moment of time (getting a placement into the Psyche of Man by another designation), I hope that now is the time when much of Pluto’s positive traits would come into play as the time when it was discovered the first time, there was much of its negative traits that manifested themselves in the current events of that time. Rise of Fascism, introduction of terrifying and very deadly weapons in the warfare and spread of hunger and famine are the events much related to that time. However, Pluto when prominent in the natal chart, has the capability to provide for the heroic attitude of doing good works it takes upon itself even at the expense of a great amount of wealth. This heroic attitude might manifest itself now to give to all the people of the world whatever it needs for its pleasure and protection even if that asks to bear some personal pain in some way. The initials of Pluto, Eris and Ceres do point towards an attitude of PEaCe that is much needed now in the present situation of the world. Coming back to the topic of what might be denoted by the Lovely Planet Eris, I am totally sure that it denotes a matter that has asked attention of many a people of the world nowadays and that is to counter cruelty and terrorism. As such, it seems to be an answer from the above to the animal philosophy of “might is right”. The point to note is that when a new important body was discovered at the sky, there was much focus to some matter yet the planet could have been connected in favor to it or against it. Its meaning could have been satisfied by both the situation as it deals with the matter in focus but with what attitude is a moot point until the events take a clear shape regarding the matter at focus. The Lovely Planet seems to me related with combating the wrongs of terrorism. Note that terrorism has two faces; one is where it targets innocent persons without any alarm so as to make them weak, totally oblivious of the grave danger they face and the other is where it targets people already weaker in physical power than itself even by information for whatever reason it deems fit just to better their matters by its own viewpoint by force. May Allah curse both these faces of terrorism that we find today around us. I am sure that very soon, use of power for personal motives would be abandoned (and I do hope that this is not just wishful thinking) as I have seen this new lovely planet to work for a compromise and a balance in attitude in natal charts. By what I have seen and concluded is that it is the ruler of Taurus and in other words, we have found another Venus in the shape of the lovely planet Eris UB313, that is even more caring in its attitude and quite humble. In Numerology, Neptune is assigned the number 11 and Pluto is assigned the number 22 (and also Zero) so in this sequence, the number assigned to Eris UB313 would be the number 33. This makes 6 in short and that is the number of Venus in Numerology. Its relation to Taurus could be understood with the consideration of how the ancient people gave rulership to the planets they used to see at the sky.
Astronomically, Mercury is the nearest planet to the Sun, then comes Venus, then Earth, then Mars, then comes the strip of small bodies where Ceres is placed and then Jupiter and after it, Saturn. In the ancient times when Ceres was not known, Sun and Moon both were countered by Saturn, Mercury was countered by Jupiter and Venus by Mars. With the discovery of Uranus, it was put in opposition to Sun while Neptune was placed opposite to Mercury. In this sequence, Pluto was placed against Venus. However, while Uranus was assigned to Aquarius (sign opposite to Leo ruled by the Sun) and Neptune to Pisces (sign opposite to Virgo ruled by Mercury), Pluto was not given the rulership of Aries in this sequence due to the simple reason that the roles of the Male and the Female can not be changed that are well secured from centuries while astrologically, Aries and Libra denote the Male and the Female respectively. Any attitude of change in this matter could only be taken as an aberration that the Natural Laws would not support. So Pluto was assigned the rulership of Scorpio that was opposite to Taurus, the other sign of Venus. This set the criteria in astrology that anything larger than Pluto if could be accommodated must be given a rulership due to the simple fact in astrology that Pluto was given a rulership. However, if there is no space left then even such bodies would have to do without rulerships. By this, we can understand that Eris has to be placed in opposition to Mars that is next in line leaving Earth and this automatically gives it the rulership of Taurus as Libra can not be assigned to any planet other than Venus. Moreover, its discovery beyond Pluto conforms the fact always known to us that death (denoted by Scorpio) is not the end thus putting it at the opposite of death. It is said to have an orbital period of some 560 years yet knowing Taurus, its rulership to it would not be any surprise. This would leave space for only one more planet to be assigned to a sign and that would be Gemini yet the ruler for it could not be taken from the TNO’s as they are very slow in their progress while Gemini needs some reasonably fast moving planet (so the very slow moving Sedna would not do while Ceres has a meaning “to nurture” that does not conform to Gemini and likewise, Chiron that is technically a comet too, does not seem suitable). So for the time being, Mercury would be the only planet that would be ruling two signs until some other body tipped it off clearly for Gemini. I would point out some of the matters that the conjunctions of UB313 might denote by what I have reasoned and would ask my readers to verify by their own good observation. When the Lovely Planet UB313 is in conjunction with the Sun or very near to it in a Male Nativity, it might denote a Native who is compromising and who tries his best to live with peace with all his fellow beings. He might get a good chance to work for Peace, Harmony and True Love while in a Female Nativity, such a conjunction might lead the Native to come in contact with such people who care about Peace. The conjunction or nearing of UB313 with the Moon also seems to be wonderful in both Male and Female Nativities as that might denote a character that always values Peace and Harmony and might denote a very Sweet Nature. With Mercury, its conjunction might present a Native who is interested in some foul talk with young ladies without intending any harm to them (or without intending to degrade them), while with Venus, its conjunctions might give a very compromising nature who for the sake of peace might sacrifice some of his pleasures easily though it does seem to show much laziness at times too. It might also denote a great attraction towards the Female in the nativity of male persons. If the native is female with such conjunction in her Natal Chart or where Venus is very near to UB313, she might develop a wonderful character for caring about humanity though for male persons too, this is wonderful even if Venus is 15 to 20 degrees apart though such male persons must try to control their high attraction towards the Female and they all, whether male or female, must try consciously to avoid laziness as much as possible. With Jupiter, its conjunction might denote a character that asks for much luxury yet without making any harm to anyone whatsoever. With Saturn, the Lovely Planet UB313 might show development of some reservation in its attitude of taking everyone as a nice person and check the extent upto where a balance could be gained without much loss to the Native’s own good character. Though its conjunctions with outermost planets have not taken place for quite a time yet it seems that with Uranus, its compromising trait might be badly affected while with Neptune, it might be highly established due to the meaning of these two outermost planets respectively. Its other aspects of interest might be where it is a part of Grand Trine or a T-square yet at present it would be too early to comment on these.
It is interesting to note that as soon as the Lovely Planet UB313 (and even when Sedna) was found, it was taken as a Female Character even by the astronomical circle. Now it is officially given a name (Eris) that is female in character and though it is taken as a symbol of discord yet astrologically, it denotes the end of discord by the power of tolerance passively and a challenge to all chaos and terrorism. Time would tell so and we just have to wait and see. The naming of the planet seems to tell that there would be a Female Character in play to better the situation that a Male Character has so very adamantly worsened, speaking with regards to Humanity. This Character has to be developed by male persons too though its easier for female persons to get to it, due to its affinity with Venus. We now have some 15 bodies to see at the Charts (as I see them) and upto UB313 or Eris (leaving Ceres & Chiron), these are 11 including the Sun and the Moon, while other four are Ceres, Chiron, Sedna and the Moon Nodes. This needs good knowledge plus good judgment in Astrology yet to study and try to gain an insight through it in the matters of Human Beings, does seem an attitude that is very promising in regards to providing a good guidance to all the peoples of the world. With the good discovery of UB313, it seems that Astrology has again proved itself as always, a social study that does care about Morals, True Love and Humanity.
Completed this writing on
6th October 2006
(12th Ramazan, 1427)
By
Muhammad Saleem Dada
saleemdada@yahoo.com
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