Dionysus and the
Centaurs
“When a Situation Is Not Made Conscious, It Happens Outside,
as Fate.”
C.G. Jung
A teacher from the Republic
of Ireland has been turned down for a
job in South Korea County Kerry ,
had applied for a teaching job in Seoul
Shown here
is the chart of the Oct 23 solar eclipse drawn for Dublin ,
capital of Ireland
The solar
eclipse was conjunct Miaplacidus of Argo
and stars of the Centaur and the Virgin.
Miaplacidus, Beta Carina of Argo Navis, is the
second brightest and most important star of the Argo—the first being Canopus
As the
above reference indicates, Miaplacidus is about emigration just what the Irish
teacher Katie Mulrennan intended to do by seeking a job in South Korea
But what
about the other stars of the Centaur and the Virgin in the mix. Symbolically,
the centaur; half man, half horse represents the complete domination by baser
influences, instincts, the unconscious uncontrolled by the spirit. The
man-beast combination illustrates the conflict between man’s lower animal
nature merged with his higher nature of human virtue and judgement, the
struggle between the savage and the benign. In Greek myths centaurs sometimes
accompanied Dionysus (Bacchus) in his wild, abandoned drinking revelries. (see
image)
About the
constellation of the Virgin, Aratus wrote:
But when she had filled the great heights with
gathering crowds, then would she with threats rebuke their evil ways, and
declare that never more at their prayer would she reveal her face to man. [Aratus,
Phaenomena, 3rd century B.C., p.237-239]
The Virgin
can therefore produce self-righteous people who may condemn the “sinful” ways
of the centaur. When there are such dissimilar energies in any area of the
stars, eclipses activate events on earth that reveal a conflict symbolised by
those energies. These events often occur
in places where the energies of stars on
the angles also resonate with the eclipse stars. Here we notice that on the IC
[25vi] is the star Alkes, [24vi]. Alpha
(α) Crater, Alkes, is a 4th magnitude star in the base of the Cup. To the early
Greeks it was Kantharos, or Goblet of Apollo; at some point it also became
connected to the story of Icarius, the inventor of wine who was killed by
shepherds when they became drunk and thought Icarius had bewitched them. In Asia Minor a legend connected Crater with the mixing of
human blood with wine in a bowl. According to Manilius, Crater is the bowl of
Bacchus. So once again we have a reference to the god of wine.
Finally, we
notice that progressing the eclipse chart to Nov. 6, the date of the news
aligns a Grand Cross with the meridian axis. The asteroids Bacchus [4cp],
Dionysus [7cn] and Lilith [15li] form a
part of the cross. The various elements
of the Grand Cross are delineated as below:
Bacchus
(Dionysus): Excess; addiction; intoxication.
Lilith: selection & rejection; decisions
(regarding angle or aspects;) favoritism; gender stereotypes; use of rejection for dominance.
Bacchus-Lilith: People
are criticized or rejected because of their addictions.
Kronos-Hades: to
note disgust with authorities; to see
that people in charge – and the regulations they enforce – cause embarrassment or
are experienced as humiliating.
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