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The World as Will , and, Re-Presentation, Schopenhauer.

“Genius is the ability to leave entirely out of sight our own interest, our willing, and our aims, and consequently to discard entirely our own personality for a time, in order to remain pure knowing subject, the clear eye of the world; and this not merely for moments, but with the necessary continuity and conscious thought to enable us to repeat by deliberate art what has been apprehended and "what in wavering apparition gleams fix in its place with thoughts that stand for ever!” 

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

SEEMS LIKE HE KNEW SOMETHING?..MMMM?




BUT YOU KNOW SOMETHING? IT DON'T CUT NO ICE WITH ME,.INTELLECTUAL GOBSHITES, COME FROM ALL, NATIONS..

WE ,ALL, GOTTA EAT...

I, BELIEVE, IN ,GOD. PERIOD.
CREDO.

	Latin version:
Come, Holy Spirit, Creator blest, and in our souls take up Thy rest; come with Thy grace and heavenly aid to fill the hearts which Thou hast made.		Veni, Creator Spiritus, mentes tuorum visita, imple superna gratia quae tu creasti pectora.
O comforter, to Thee we cry, O heavenly gift of God Most High, O fount of life and fire of love, and sweet anointing from above.		Qui diceris Paraclitus, altissimi donum Dei, fons vivus, ignis, caritas, et spiritalis unctio.
Thou in Thy sevenfold gifts are known; Thou, finger of God's hand we own; Thou, promise of the Father, Thou Who dost the tongue with power imbue.		Tu, septiformis munere, digitus paternae dexterae, Tu rite promissum Patris, sermone ditans guttura.
Kindle our sense from above, and make our hearts o'erflow with love; with patience firm and virtue high the weakness of our flesh supply.		Accende lumen sensibus: infunde amorem cordibus: infirma nostri corporis virtute firmans perpeti.
Far from us drive the foe we dread, and grant us Thy peace instead; so shall we not, with Thee for guide, turn from the path of life aside.		Hostem repellas longius, pacemque dones protinus: ductore sic te praevio vitemus omne noxium.
Oh, may Thy grace on us bestow the Father and the Son to know; and Thee, through endless times confessed, of both the eternal Spirit blest.		Per te sciamus da Patrem, noscamus atque Filium; Teque utriusque Spiritum credamus omni tempore.
Now to the Father and the Son, Who rose from death, be glory given, with Thou, O Holy Comforter, henceforth by all in earth and heaven. Amen.		Deo Patri sit gloria, et Filio, qui a mortuis surrexit, ac Paraclito, in saeculorum saecula. Amen.

 WAR IS OVER.

IF ,YOU, WANT, IT...

Whitney Houston - Greatest Love Of All [Lyrics]

Chris Isaak - Blue Moon 1995

Kid Creole And The Coconuts - I'm A Wonderful Thing Baby

Let's dance! ho ho Ho!..[Can You feel it?] Christmas, is, Coming!

Ho ho Ho!hahaha!

Back Together Again - Roberta Flack

Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture (Finale) [Conductor: Zubin Mehta]

WAR IS OVER.

Jingle Bell Rock / Bobby Helms 1957

Can, You, feel it?...9, more, 'sleeps!'...Ho Ho Ho!

Try Not to Tap Your Feet!

 Ho ho ho!

THE WOUNDED HEALER

The Doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded Physician heals. But when the Doctor wears his Personality like a Coat of Armour, he has no effect.

 – Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul.

One of the deeper, underlying archetypal patterns which is being constellated in the human psyche that is playing itself out collectively on the world stage is the archetype of the “wounded healer.” To quote Kerenyi, a colleague of Jung who elucidated this archetype, the wounded healer refers psychologically to the capacity “to be at home in the darkness of suffering and there to find germs of light and recovery with which, as though by enchantment, to bring forth Asclepius, the sun-like healer.” The archetype of the wounded healer reveals to us that it is only by being willing to face, consciously experience and go through our wound do we receive its blessing. To go through our wound is to embrace, assent, and say “yes” to the mysteriously painful new place in ourselves where the wound is leading us. Going through our wound, we can allow ourselves to be re-created by the wound. Our wound is not a static entity, but rather a continually unfolding dynamic process that manifests, reveals and incarnates itself through us, which is to say that our wound is teaching us something about ourselves. Going through our wound means realizing we will never again be the same when we get to the other side of this initiatory process. Going through our wound is a genuine death experience, as our old self “dies” in the process, while a new, more expansive and empowered part of ourselves is potentially born.

Going through and embracing our wound as a part of ourselves is radically different than circumnavigating and going around (avoiding), or getting stuck in and endlessly, obsessively recreating (being taken over by) our wound. The event of our wounding is simultaneously catalysing a deeper (potential) healing process which requires our active engagement, thus “wedding” us to a deeper level of our being. Jung’s closest colleague, Marie Louise Von Franz, said “the wounded healer IS the archetype of the Self [our wholeness, the God within]Öand is at the bottom of all genuine healing procedures.”

An encounter with something greater than our limited ego, what Jung calls the Self, is always a wounding experience for the ego. This is symbolically represented when the mythic Jacob, after making it to daybreak in his fight with the angel of God (who was clearly the more powerful of the two), becomes wounded on the hip by the angel’s touch. The event of our wounding is initiatory, as our wounding originated in and potentially introduces us to “something greater than ourselves.” At the same time that something greater than ourselves wounds us, something greater than ourselves enters us as a result of our wounding, setting in motion a deeper dynamic of psychic re-organization and potential transformation. In the myth, the angel then changes Jacob’s name to “Israel,” “he who has wrestled with God,” which symbolizes that Jacob’s identity has been changed in the process of his encounter with the numinosum. Our wounding is a “numinous” event, in that its source is transpersonal and archetypal, which is to say that our wound is the very way by which the divine is making contact with us. The origin of both our wounding AND the healing that precipitates out of our wound comes from beyond ourselves, as it is beyond our own personal contrivance. Our wounding activates a deeper, transpersonal process of potential healing and illumination that we could not have initiated by ourselves.

It should be noted that Jacob was wrestling with the angel in the first place because he would have been killed otherwise. The more powerful archetypal forces that wound us and become activated in us through our wounding literally challenge us to the core of our being to connect with, become intimately acquainted with, and step into more empowered aspects of ourselves, or else. Talking about his own personal experience of living out this deeper, archetypal pattern, Jung said “I would wrestle with the dark angel until he dislocated my hip. For he is also the light and the blue sky which he withholds from me.” The dark angel who wounds us is at the same time the Luciferian agent who is the bringer of the light. There is a secret tie between the powers that wound us by seemingly obstructing our true nature and the very true nature that they appear to be obstructing.

Through our wound we become introduced to the realization that we are participating and playing a role in what Jung calls “a divine drama of incarnation,” in which we step out of identifying ourselves in a personal way that is separate from others, and we step into, as if stepping into new clothes that are custom tailored just for us, a “novel” role which requires a more all-embracing and expansive identity. We realize we are all sharing in and playing roles for each other in a deeper, mythic, archetypal process that is revealing itself to us as it acts itself out through us. We find ourselves instruments being moved by a greater, invisible hand, as if something vast, with more volume than our previously imagined selves is incarnating through us. To recognize this is to have a more open-ended and expansive sense of who we think we are, and who we imagine others are in relation to us. The wound is not only a personal experience, but rather, it is a doorway, a hyper-dimensional portal into the transpersonal/archetypal realm, which is a higher order (in terms of freedom) of our being.

The wounded healer only becomes able to heal and help others (which is to simultaneously be healing and helping him/herself again and again in the form of seeming “others”), when instead of being resentful, bitter and feeling victimized by their wound, he or she recognizes their wound as a numinous event, an archetypal moment that seeks to make them participants in a divine, eternal happening.

OUR WOUND IS THE WOUND

Just like a dream, the situation in our outer world is reflecting back to us what is happening deep inside of us. There is a non-local correlation between the violence that we see playing out in the outside world and the wound that we feel inside of ourselves. This is a holographic universe in the sense that, just like a hologram, every minute part of the universe – such as ourselves – contains, reflects and expresses the whole. The microcosm and the macrocosm are mirrored reflections of each other, as if they are different dimensional, fractal-like iterations of the same underlying dynamic. What we are suffering from individually within ourselves is the doorway through which we can more deeply relate to and become engaged with the suffering in the outer world in a way that helps alleviate both the suffering in the outer world as well as within ourselves.

There is a transformative and healing effect when we recognize how our individual suffering is a personalized reflection or instantiation of the collective suffering that pervades the entire field of consciousness. Our personal wound is, in condensed and crystallized form, the footprint and signature of the collective wound in which we all share and participate. It is liberating and healing to step out of pathologizing ourselves and re-contextualize our personal conflicts, problems and wounds as part of a wider transpersonal pattern enfolded throughout the global field of human experience. The outer, personalized guise of our wound is the particularized form in which the underlying, eternal mythological motif incarnates itself in linear time and makes itself felt in our personal life. We are like psychic organs who individually “process” the unresolved, unconscious shadow and wound in the collective field. We are each simultaneously reflecting, creating and affected by what is happening in the very universe in which we are embedded and of which we are an expression.

It is important to note that this is not a linear, one-way process, but is circular and reciprocally co-arising. The unconscious in the greater body politic of the seemingly outer world affects us, stimulating a resonant unconscious energy within ourselves, while at the same time, our unconscious is contributing to and being non-locally expressed by events in the seemingly outer world in a mutually reinforcing feedback loop. The point is that we begin to see the true nature of the situation we are in when we recognize that, just like a dream, there is a synchronistic co-respondence and fundamental inseparability between what is going on within our psyche and what is happening in the seemingly outer world, as if they are mirrored reflex-ions of each other. This recognition of what has always been the case is itself the very expansion of consciousness which is required – make that demanded – for us to be effective transformative, bodhisattvic agents of positive change in our world.

To realize that each one of us is uncannily embodying and acting out in our personal process (with all of our problems, symptoms, relationship conflicts, traumas, etc) what is at the same time playing out in the outside world is to step out of identifying ourselves as isolated, discrete entities who are separate from the universe. Contrary to being “alien” to this universe, we find ourselves intimate expressions of it. It should be noted, however, that the way to this realization is not through by-passing the personal dimension of our experience and artificially identifying with the mythic/archetypal level in a contrived and fabricated way, but rather by entering the mythic/archetypal dimension by fully incarnating, in a full-bodied way, our personal process in our life. The deeper, mythic/archetypal dimension “clothes” itself in our personal process, which is to say that our personal process is the doorway which introduces us to the deeper archetypal dimension of our being.

In this expansion of consciousness, we step out of interpreting our experience personally and reductively, based solely on cause and effect and the past, and step into experiencing the myth-like, time-less dimension of our situation. Interpreting our experience through a personal and reductive lens is an expression of a naÔve, un-initiated, and ego-centered consciousness that knows no psychic center other than its own. Being linear and time-bound, it is a limited viewpoint that can only lead to depression, despair, resignation, disillusionment and meaningless and hopeless suffering, as our soul feels seemingly destroyed in the process.

When we expand our consciousness and interpret our experience transpersonally however, we step out of linear time into synchronic time, a dimension of our being in which the past, our wound, the world and ourselves do not literally, concretely, and objectively exist in and over time in the way we had previously imagined. Realizing the impermanence and fluidity of our situation, we do not have to make our wound “real” and grant it an unwarranted solidity or invest it with an apparently substantial, independent existence. We can awaken to the fact that the situation we find ourselves in is malleable, is fundamentally characterized by open-ended potentiality, and is infinitely and effortlessly creative if we simply allow it to be.

Talking about this moment of recognizing that our wound is THE (archetypal) wound, to quote Jung, is to see that our “suffering is archetypal and collective, it can be taken as a sign that [we are] no longer suffering from [ourselves], but rather from the spirit of the age.” Jung continues that we are suffering from an “impersonal cause, from [our] collective unconscious which [we have] in common with all [humanity]” [words in brackets have been changed from singular, masculine to gender neutral]. If we are able to channel and creatively express the spirit of the age from which we are suffering with consciousness, however, we become the “medium” through which the spirit of the age reveals itself to us so as to potentially transform itself, the world around us, as well as ourselves.

As wounded healers, we become transformed when we recognize that our wound is completely personal and uniquely our own, while simultaneously being a universal, impersonal process in which everyone is participating. It is this shared felt sense that deeply connects us with each other. This is the paradox: An experience of our wholeness, what Jung calls the Self, is both personal and archetypal/transpersonal (beyond the personal) at the same time. To experience this contradiction consciously IS itself the expansion of consciousness which initiates a transformation in ourselves, and by extension, the world around us. This is to paradoxically step into being a genuinely autonomous, independent being while at the same time realizing our interconnectedness, interdependence, unity and ultimate inseparability from the world and each other. The energetic expression of this realization is compassion.

The fact that what is playing out in the world theatre is not separate from, but is intimately correlated to, and an expression of what is happening inside of ourselves, is significant in that it is revealing to us that a way of gaining more traction in effectively dealing with the pervasive destructiveness that is happening in the outside world is by becoming intimately acquainted with what it constellates inside of us. The unconscious, mad, violent, destructive, evil, wounded and wounding energies in the outer world nonlocally reflect and activate, trigger and express themselves in similar, resonant processes within ourselves. The dynamic unfolding in the outer world “translates” itself through the organ of our psyche, thereby giving shape and form to our subjective experience of our wound, our world and ourselves.

Our wound introduces and connects us with the transpersonal dimension of our being, whose realization, amazingly enough, initiates the transformation and potential healing of our wound. Simultaneously containing both the pathology and its own medicine, our wound is a higher-dimensional event which has manifested in the flat-land of our third dimensional life. Symbolically encoded in the wound, uniquely tailored to our exact sensibility and aesthetic, is both the seeming “problem” and its own re-solution co-joined in a state of open-ended and boundless, indwelling potentiality.

Our wound is a genuine quantum phenomenon: Will it destroy us or wake us up? Is it a wave or a particle? Answer: it depends upon how we dream it. Our wound is not separate from the psyche that is experiencing it. This means that the way we interpret our wound, the meaning we place on it, and the story we tell ourselves about it, and thereby ourselves, has an actual effect on how our wound, ourselves, and by extension the world manifests in this very moment.

OUR WOUND IS INITIATORY

Through our wound we become introduced to the part of ourselves that is not wounded, just like we would never notice the mirror if it were not for its reflections. The reflections are indistinguishable from the mirror while simultaneously “not” being the mirror. Paradoxically, the reflections in the mirror reveal what is not a reflection. Similarly, our wound reveals to us the part of ourselves that is free of our wound. The reflections in the mirror help us recognize the underlying mirror which embraces, contains, and is fundamentally unaffected by whatever it reflects. Our wound doesn't affect our mirror-like nature, just like a mirage of water in the desert doesn't make the grains of sand wet. We won’t notice the underlying mirror, however, if we become entranced by, fixated on, absorbed into and identified with the reflections.

The reflections in the mirror are the inseparable, indivisible, unmediated expression of the mirror, as we never have reflections without a mirror, or a mirror without reflections. Similarly, the wound is, in disguised form, a manifestation of the part of us that is not wounded.

Until we became wounded, however, we were unaware of the part of ourselves that is invulnerable to being wounded, as we were unconsciously identical with this part of ourselves, which is to say we were not relating to it as an object of our knowledge, i.e., it wasn't conscious. From the dreaming point of view – where the inner process of the dreamer plays itself out in the seemingly outer theatre of the dream so as to become conscious of itself – the deeper part of ourselves dreamed up our wound so as to make us conscious of the part of ourselves that is transcendent to the wound – i.e., “healed.” The wound itself is the very instrument through which our intrinsic wholeness prior to our wounding becomes consciously realized in time – the present moment – the only “place” where our wholeness can be realized.

To realize this is to have an expansion of consciousness, in which the opposites such as being wounded and not being wounded lose their previous sense of distinctive meaning relative to each other. Of course, on the relative level of reality, being wounded is different than not being wounded. To expand our consciousness, however, is to be introduced to the absolute level of reality, a state which simultaneously includes the relative, and yet embraces and transcends it in a higher synthesis. It is only our conceptual mind which “thinks” of the opposites as being separate. To recognize the relativity, and hence, identity of the opposites is to realize what Jung calls the “Self” (which he described as a union of opposites). One of the deeper meanings of the Buddhist word “nirvana” is to be free from the opposites. In alchemy, the philosophers stone is found and the “gold” (which is none other than an expansion of consciousness) is made when the “greater coniunctio” is accomplished, which is when the opposites are united.

To recognize the union of opposites is to connect with and remember our intrinsic wholeness, which is the ultimate healing, as we become “one piece” with ourselves (and can create “one peace” with one another). This is, “as though by enchantment, to bring forth Asclepius, the sun-like healer,” who symbolizes the healing power and hidden theophany latent in the wound that is invoked by the light of consciousness. When enough of us recognize the healing that our wound is revealing to us, the healing aspect of our wound becomes constellated collectively, writ large on the world stage.

As a wounded healer, we are continually deepening the healing of the disassociation in our world. Healing our internal disassociation from ourselves non-locally impacts and is correspondingly reflected back by the seemingly outer world, as we re-associate with each other (the powers-that-be’s worst nightmare), remembering who we are with regards to both ourselves and one another. We can co-operatively help each other to step out of a hierarchical universe based on fear, power and separation, and step into our deeper, co-equal identities as wounded healers and spiritual friends who ultimately depend, can count upon, and care about one another. We are interdependent parts of a greater, all-embracing whole and holy being. Realizing our interconnectedness, we can collaboratively put our lucidity together, becoming empowered agents of healing in the world.

It could not be more crystal clear that it is only through an expansion of consciousness that we will be able to transform our world crisis. Maybe all that is needed in this moment is for any one of us to wake up, as all the great enlightened teachers throughout the ages have said that when any one person wakes up and realizes the union of the opposites within their own selves, the entire universe wakes up with them.

From this deeper, more expansive point of view, our wound, instead of obstructing our wholeness, is actually an expression of it, as without our wound we wouldn’t have been introduced to the part of us that is free, healed, whole, liberated and awake. Our true nature can never be obscured, just as the clouds in the sky seemingly obscure the sun, but from the sun’s point of view, it is always radiantly shining, even on the cloudiest of days.

A pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, Paul Levy is a healer in private practice, assisting others who are also awakening to the dreamlike nature of reality. Paul is also a visionary artist and a spiritually-informed political activist. He is the author of The Madness of George Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis,which is available on his website www.awakeninthedream.com. (See the first chapter, The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of our Collective Psychosis). Please feel free to pass this article along to a friend if you feel so inspired. You can contact Paul atpaul@awakeninthedream.com; he looks forward to your reflections. © Copyright 2010

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The invention of psychological archetypes was first put forth by Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), the famous Swiss psychiatrist and originator of such other concepts as the collective unconscious and synchronicity. His archetype of ‘The Wounded Healer’ originated with the Greek myth of Chiron who in the process of overcoming the pain of his own wounds came to be known to us in modern times as the compassionate master teacher of the arts of healing and medicine, privy to the secrets of life and death. Chiron is not listed as a Dying God Archetype presumably because he was not a god himself but merely an immortal. We may soon be tempted to count him among the Dying Gods anyway.

Chiron was the oldest, wisest and best of the Centaurs. He was the son of Cronos (the Titan god of time & the ages, ruler of the cosmos) and Philyra (one of the Oceanides nymphs or nature spirits of the clouds). Because the Titans were immortal, Chiron was born immortal. A great healer, hunter, astrologer, and respected oracle, Chiron was revered as a teacher and tutor. Among his pupils were many culture heroes: Asclepius, Aristaeus, Ajax, Aeneas, Actaeon, Caeneus, Theseus, Achilles, Jason, Peleus, Telamon, Heracles, Oileus, Phoenix, and in some stories, Dionysus.

Chiron is considered a wounded healer because he healed himself by trading his immortality for the ability to die as an antidote to the eternal suffering of unbearable pain.  But there is another wound he bore that I haven’t observed anyone talking about as a function of the ‘wounded healer’ archetype, and this wound of which I speak is what unquestionably qualified Chiron above all others to raise and tutor Asclepius after Apollo killed his mother and bade Hermes take his infant son to Chiron.

The story of Chiron’s deepest wounding probably begins with the moment of his conception when Cronus, in the act of coupling with the nymph Philyra, transformed himself into a horse to avoid being caught by his wife Rhea who had suddenly come upon the scene.

As a consequence of the form change, Chiron was born half man-half horse which so horrified Philyra that she rejected her newborn on the spot. How Chiron grew up to be intelligent, wise and compassionate instead of wild and savage like the other centaurs we are not told directly although as the story goes Apollo adopted and schooled Chiron thoroughly in the arts of hunting, healing, medicine, all branches of science, and the mysteries, giving him the tools to rise above his beast nature (and psychological issues too no doubt).

In fairness, the references do say the other centaurs were the product of the unions of one or more of the cloud spirit nymphs and Ixion the King of the Lapiths¹ whom Zeus judged as evil and sentenced to be bound to a wheel set to turn and burn forever over a spit in Tartarus. However to conclude Chiron had greater spiritual potential on account of his parentage would be to make a dangerous assumption. Studies show as a practical matter there is no telling from whence issues the criminal mind. Bad people come out of good families every day, and vice versa. Evil wouldn’t be evil if it were predictable.

The defining difference between Chiron and the rest of the centaurs in behavior and disposition, then, ceteris paribus (all other things being equal) is apparent, i.e., Chiron was raised and tutored by Apollo specifically to overcome his animal nature. Picking up where the mythographers leave off, then, we now change voices and wax poetic starting with the telltale clue …

… we are told in ancient Greek literature that Chiron lived alone in a cave…After that day, according to myth and legend, Chiron met and married a nymph he had admired named Chariklo who went on to become the foster mother of many of the great heroes of Greece, among them Asclepius, son of Apollo. Chiron also had three or four daughters by Chariklo, depending on which version of the myth you consult. The only daughter of Chariklo who came to misfortune was the one not sired by Chiron. But that is another story.

The essence of Chiron’s heroic death story which originally earned him Wounded Healer Archetype status begins with his flesh being pierced by Heracles’ arrow which had been treated with the poisonous blood of the Hydra.The fatal blood of the Hydra mingling with his immortal blood and body, the wise master teacher of the healing arts who knew the secrets of life and death ironically could not heal himself nor being immortal could he die. Fortunately, Chiron was able to strike a bargain with Zeus to exchange his immortality for the life of Prometheus who had been chained to a rock and left to die for his transgressions.This act would later result in the gift of fire being transmitted to humanity.

The story about Chiron “healing himself” by trading his immortality in for the ability to die, I suppose, teaches us something about hard choices, but I’m not sure I get what Chiron did with that result after the fact that would qualify him as a wounded healer on that account.Surely now we can see Chiron’s choosing to trade his immortality for the right to die speaks to a different albeit related dynamic. Yes, he cured himself of excruciating pain, but what sort of self-healing does the right-to-die represent? I submit this question also needs to be re-examined in the context of life-death-rebirth. Chiron should be given due consideration as a Dying God on the basis of his heroic gesture and contribution to humanity followed by death and re-entry into modern day society as an ascended master possessed of a celestial body/form (Centaur Object 2060 Chiron).

To honor his heroic self-sacrifice, Chiron was placed in the sky after he died as constellation Sagittarius, Ophiuchus’s zodiac neighbor to the West but somewhere along the line Chiron’s constellation was changed to the Archer. Today Chiron’s constellation Centaurus can be seen walking along the Galactic Equator in the Southern Hemisphere.Chiron the Wounded Healer RevisitedNow that we have finished looking at both halves of Chiron’s story, it’s time to reevaluate the evidence that unfolded when we reread the myth from head to tail and from a new angle. The unabridged version of Chiron’s life story presents my argument with authority. It’s the story of a rejected and abandoned half boy-half colt raised by Apollo to transcend his heart-and-soul wounding, overcome his limitations, and become the peerless wise master teacher, healer and sage enabling the self-healed Chiron to step in and perform the same service later for Apollo in the raising of his son Asclepius. I just want to point that out.

Return of the Centaurs

Orbit of 2060 Chiron

In 1977 astronomers observed a minor planet exhibiting both asteroid and comet characteristics and behavior between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus. Chiron was the second object of its type to be discovered by astronomers so they created a new classification, “centaur”, and they named their latest discovered centaur “Chiron”.2060 Chiron is a planetoid in the outer Solar System. Discovered on November 1, 1977 by Charles Kowal from images taken two weeks earlier at the Mount Palomar Observatory (precovery images have been found as far back as 1895), it was the first known member of a new class of objects now known as centaurs, with an orbit between those of Saturn and Uranus. Although it was initially classified as an asteroid, it was later found to exhibit behaviour typical of a comet. Today it is classified as both, and accordingly it is also known by the cometary designation 95P/Chiron. Chiron is named after the centaur Chiron in Greek mythology. Original source of facts: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2060_Chiron. See also http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/chiron.html

The generic definition of a centaur is a small body that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune and crosses the orbits of one or more of the giant planets. Subsequent to the discovery of Chiron in 1977, other “cross-listed asteroid-comet” (centaur) objects were sighted. The largest centaur so identified to date is 10199 Charliko. In December 2005 a cometary coma was detected on Centaur 60558 Echeclus originally discovered in 2000 and studied in 2001 (no tail was previously detected).The astrologers, of course, took the baton passed to them by the astronomers and ran all the way with it. Following the Harmonic Convergence in 1987, Chiron the Centaur brightened in 1988, developed a cometary coma in 1989, and grew a tail in 1993.Since 1987 Chiron has become one of the most important small planets to add to a birth chart, arguably more essential to include than any of the asteroids popularly plotted. But we will not cover that ground here except to note for the record that on November 1, 1977, the date of Chiron’s discovery, NASA’s JPL Online Ephemeris Generator recorded Chiron’s position as transiting constellation Aries (zodiac sign of birth) in retrograde motion, occultly suggesting REbirth for Chiron since at the top of the list of retrograde motion affects are reversal, renewing, and redoing.

Chiron as Dying & Resurrected God

Chiron’s heroic, transformative death in ancient Greek mythology followed by a metamorphic, modern day rebirthing into physical form as a space rock and resurrection by astronomers and astrologers ironically working as a team despite their being, like Chiron, two halves of one cosmic body, more than qualify Chiron to be considered one of the Dying and Resurrection Gods. Chiron is serving humanity today in a number of capacities but the disciplines that relate to our subject matter here is as a Master Astronomy-Astrologer and Divine Wisdom Teacher. If you want to know how to interface with him personally, one way would be consult a New Age Astronomy-Astrologer. Or you could just go within and ask in your Heart to speak to Chiron.

Chiron the Centaur, Hand of the Gods

The closest Chiron could get to the feeling of ever having had a mother was to live in a womb shaped cave he’d found one day at the foot of Mount Pelion. He had been dropped on top of the mountain as a newborn by one of the fluffy white clouds who then suddenly turned dark and began to rain like mad, washing him away down the mountain in a disorienting torrent like so much flotsam and jetsam.

It was no coincidence that Apollo, God of Healing and Light, was standing at the foot of Mount Pelion at the very moment Chiron came tumbling down it. He’d had an oracular vision in which it came to Apollo a great teacher was coming to Thessaly and it would be up to the God of Light to make sure the future wise one was provided for. Apollo chuckled at the sight of the future great teacher sprawled out at his feet. He could see his work was cut out for him.

Apollo saw to all of Chiron’s immediate needs and, after ensuring the halfling was safely and securely settled in to his new environment, the God of Light slipped away at dusk saying he would return the following day at daybreak and every day with the rising Sun for a season he called the Spring of Life when all things learn and grow and seek the light. And this he did on every fair and sunny day but always on days marked by the gods for ritual and sacrifice, no matter what.

The hours of the days when Apollo came to tutor or hunt with Chiron were alight with the sunshine of the spirit. But those times seemed fleeting to the immortal-born. Whenever Apollo departed, always with the last rays of the setting Sun, Chiron would repair to the darkness and solitude of his cave.

With nothing to distract him and time without end on his hands, young Chiron was his own worst enemy. His mind was the battleground for a world of conflicting thoughts and feelings about everything (you have only to imagine). He was, after all, half animal, and the animal half of him that caused his mother to reject him at birth made up the lion’s share of his body by weight and was driven by herd instinct in a world where there was no herd, for he was the first of his kind. It confused him to think both halves of him were not equally good and valuable and that one needed to be brought under submission to the other. So Chiron would alternately wrestle with dark thoughts about his man-half, the half Apollo was trying to teach and enlighten, and his animal nature.

One day Chiron had a lucid dream as he was staring at his reflection in the glassy obsidian wall of his womb cave. In a flash he understood why he had been placed by the gods in the life that they chose for him—the one with Apollo in it as his foster father and mentor. The gods had a Plan for the world and there was a particular role in it that only Chiron could fill.

He saw that as part of this Plan Apollo would in the future be blessed with the coming of a son and that both father and son would suffer rejection, each in his own way, denying them the same comforts and pleasures of home and family relations that had eluded and psychologically wounded Chiron. The thought of someone dear to him—or indeed anyone—suffering what Chiron had suffered went straight to his Heart like a knife. And as Chiron recoiled from the painful memory of his own wounding as a foal-child he saw the Big Picture very clearly.

Apollo would need a foster family to raise and tutor his son who was destined go on to become saviour of the whole world (or the revolutionary new Archetype Master Physician, whichever came first). It was then Chiron accepted he was a special creation of the Gods sent to Earth in an uncommon form earmarking him to follow a narrow path. He would become the right hand of Apollo, God of Light and the Sun, and raise Apollo’s son Asclepius just as Apollo had raised Chiron. Hence the spiritual significance of the name ‘Chiron’ which means ‘hand’ [of the Gods].

Chiron emerged from the womb cave the next morning even before the Sun rose and he waited for it. He was beast no more except in appearance and really only that from a certain point of view (which all goes to illustrate the oft-quoted words of wisdom still good to this day, never judge a book by its cover).

Off in the distance just behind the Day Star, strode Apollo toward him carrying something. It was a rite of passage gift from foster father to foster son—a special bow and quiver of arrows. And with the gift Chiron’s beloved teacher announced it was time for Chiron to learn the first of the secrets of life and death, about poisons and antidotes and about openings in the flesh and how to make them go away.

Waiting for the Sun - The Doors

The Beatles- Norwegian Wood

Into the Wild - Rise (Eddie Vedder)

Teddy Pendergrass: The Whole Town's Laughing at Me

Heatwave - Mind Blowing Decisions

Roxy Music Do The Strand (Lyrics) (HQ)

There's a new sensation
A fabulous creation
A danceable solution
To teenage revolution
Do the Strand love
When you feel love
It's the new way
That's why we say
Do the Strand
Do it on the tables
Quaglino's place or Mabel's
Slow and gentle
Sentimental
All styles served here
Louis Seize he prefer
Laissez-faire Le Strand
Tired of the tango
Fed up with fandango
Dance on moonbeams
Slide on rainbows
In furs or blue jeans
You know what I mean
Do the Strand
Had your fill of Quadrilles
The Madison and cheap thrills
Bored with the Beguine
The samba isn't your scene
They're playing our tune
By the pale moon
We're incognito
Down the Lido
And we like the Strand
Arabs at oases
Eskimos and Chinese
If you feel blue
Look through Who's Who
See La Goulue
And Nijinsky
Do the Strandsky
Weary of the Waltz
And mashed potato schmaltz
Rhododendron
Is a nice flower
Evergreen
It lasts forever
But it can't beat Strand power
The Sphynx and Mona Lisa
Lolita and Guernica

JR. WALKER & THE ALL STARS - GOTTA HOLD ON TO THIS FEELING (SOUL)

Paul Weller - Wild Wood