Astroworld

Chiron is at 20 degrees of Aries and Neptune is at 22 degrees of Virgo, making their association an inconjunct, an aspect deemed by a 150 degree orb. An inconjunct demonstrates the need to find harmony between the two planets, signs and houses involved, since an inconjunct speaks of two entities being at odds with one another, with a sense of frustration, dissonance and irritation between the two signs.

Chiron’s placement in a chart shows where our sense of woundedness is the most intense and where we have the most work to do; the sign placement shows where and how and what qualities need to be worked out in our healing process. Aries is the sign involved and the 4th house is the house involved.

The U.S. was born having to defend itself forcefully and militarily against the British Empire. Aries is the war sign. The 4th is home and family. America fought its’ birth battle on its’ own shores, with the British occupiers billeted in colonial homes across the Northeast. With a 4th house Aries in Chiron, the U.S. has maintained that posture throughout its’ history, often fighting to protect its’ own interests at home and abroad, and sitting out fights that don’t directly concern those interests, i.e. (genocide in Rwanda).

Neptune, the planet of illusion and delusion in the religious and philosophical 9th house shows how highly unrealistic the U.S. is as a whole regarding our actions in foreign countries and regarding our commonly held religious beliefs.

Being delusional regarding a commonly held religious belief would involve believing we are a country singularly blessed by God and always operate from a high minded moralistic stance. The abuse the U.S. inflicted on the people brought here in chains to serve as slaves, the abuse suffered by the Native American population at our hands in the name of Manifest Destiny, and the abuse suffered by the people in the Latin American countries whose governments we overthrew for our own interests (Chile to name one) are just some of the abuses the U.S. has inflicted that surely were not blessed by anyone’s God.

A religious delusion is one whereby an individual takes up a gun and shoots a medical professional for performing a legal abortion. A religiously intolerant person is one who believes that it is okay to demonstrate against a woman’s right to choose and to make rules for another’s life and well being, since God speaks to them and they of course are in the forefront of His directives and plans. It is the holier than thou platitudes that enable some very unhappy and arrogant people to tell others what to do, since they can then feel superior to others. These religious intolerants paint their lives with a broad based ‘God says its so, so I can tell you what to do’ paint brush.

Pluto is transiting the U.S. Neptune, and has been since January, using a one degree orb. Pluto is the planet that shows all our ugly truths to ourselves and to the world at large. Pluto works much in the way of Oscar Wilde’s story ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray‘. Dorian Gray, a beautiful, narcissistic, unfeeling and amoral young man, kept the picture of his true self hidden upstairs in his attic. While Dorian stayed young and beautiful, the picture rotted and grew ugly with each crime he committed, both legally and morally. Finally when the picture was uncovered Dorian was shown as the person he really was to the outside world. That is Pluto transiting Neptune.

Mercury has been retrograde in Aries recently, going back and forth over the U.S. Chiron. The mental energies of the world are now focused on us, the United States, and our Chironic wounds are being exposed.

Soldiers are returning home and killing their wives, soldiers are returning home wounded in their minds and bodies, and soldiers are returning home after being told to behave as cold blooded killers and torturers and murderers. Chiron in Aries transited by Mercury going retrograde, then direct again. Does the mental woundedness the soldiers experience at being soldiers cause them to behave psychotically? How could it not, especially when those are the orders they are given to follow?

One last word. With Saturn due to conjunct the U.S. Sun shortly, the echo of the Watergate hearings was just seen on the world’s television screens via the Rumsfeld hearings, and the 9/11 commission hearings. Where it will take us is anybody’s guess, but a look at the stars tells us that resignations of authority figures (Saturn again) cannot be far behind.

P.S. All good thoughts to Morgana, hope you are mending quickly.