Pholus examples

PHOLUS-JUPITER M.PT

Pholus can unleash Jupiter person's benevolent energy, acting as a catalyst for Jupiter to express its spiritual fervour - fanaticism?? Susceptible to wild ideas, toxic views and extreme beliefs.

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Pholus “the lid comes off”
Posted on 11/20/2020
| By Mary Plumb
I’m looking again at the centaur Pholus.


Herakles and Pholus 520 BCE
British Museum


Pholus, known in astronomical nomenclature as a centaur — a sub-category within the minor planet category — was discovered in January 1992. Named for mythological centaurs, Pholus (and Nessus, discovered in 1993) are connected to the most gifted centaur, Chiron. (1) Chiron was discovered in 1977 and traveled alone until his companions began to be sighted. There are now more than 100 minor planets, but Pholus and Nessus were the first to be discovered. They share some of Chiron’s unique astronomical properties — they come from outside our solar system and have highly elliptical orbits.

The bodies from “outside our solar system” are boundary crossers — they cross the boundaries of the orbits of Saturn and Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. As such, they are connected to transgressing, going past established norms or limits, or having experiences outside of ordinary time and space. In client work, the positions of Nessus and Pholus can be seen in the storylines of those working with generational issues, and may reveal a heretofore hidden ancestral pattern. These visitors from the great beyond can help establish a large enough container to create the space to work the complex, multi-faceted and invisible experiences that many experience. Those drawn to shamanic practices, ancestral healing and soul retrieval work are in the realms where the centaurs dwell.

To focus on Pholus, his orbit is between Saturn and Neptune and part of his mythic story is connected to wine. Pholus was the guardian of a special wine that gets uncorked prematurely, creating a temporarily wildly intoxicating and chaotic situation. It can be seen as describing a process that gets “uncorked” or released, and it cannot be put back. Melanie Reinhart, my friend and mentor in these matters, has famously said of Pholus: “The lid comes off.”

When I remember those words, I always think of a client who was embroiled in a very painful situation, marked by the presence of Pholus in family members’ natal, solar return, and progressed charts. My heartbroken client said, “I just want things to go back to the way they were.” In this situation, things were not going “to go back,” as what had seemed like an insignificant act on his part had unleashed an unweildy process.

This especially poignant moment in the counseling room evoked the myth: Pholus died by a self-inflicted and accidental wound from the poison on the tip of one of Hercules’s arrows.

The association with the tip of the arrow leading to unseen consequences also connects Pholus (described by Robert von Heeren) to “small cause and a big effect” — small decisions or actions that precipitate lasting and unforeseen events.

And now, back to the obituary — it is for writer Johanna Harcourt-Smith. She was born on January 13, 1946 and died on October 12, 2020. (2) She was born with the Sun conjunct Pholus at 22°- 23° Capricorn.

Johanna Harcourt-Smith
January 13, 1946
sunrise chart, no birthtime



She was a poet, author, psychedelic activist and companion of Timothy Leary. She was 26 when she began “began an intense romantic odyssey that lasted from 1972 to 1977.” At the age if 30, they had separated and she was “ready to start her life over.”

In 2013, she published her memoir, Tripping the Bardo With Timothy Leary: My Psychedelic Love Story. She wrote that it took her three decades to absorb and “compost” her experience with him. “I followed him off that precipice, and my family, nationality and sanity were fragmented beyond recognition.”

The connection between Pholus as the lid coming off and small cause and a big effect seems very congruent with LSD, where as “little as 20 micrograms can produce a noticeable effect.” (3)

(Timothy Leary’s Ascendant is 9°50’ Sagittarius with Pholus sitting right there at 13°03’ Sagittarius.) (4)

Ms. Harcourt-Smith passed away at home as transiting Jupiter and Pluto was at 22° Capricorn, with Jupiter at 18° and Saturn at 25° Capricorn, all of which triggered the natal cardinal T-square.

Errol Morris’s documentary based on her life is scheduled to air on Showtime on November 29.

Transiting Pholus is in Capricorn from October 2019 until 2040. Pholus has also been connected with viruses (aka, small cause, big effect). See Melanie Reinhart’s extensive research on Coronavirus.

Have a good week everyone, I know we are all doing the best we can to enjoy each moment of our often strange circumstances. Stay safe. Stay kind. I’m glad we’re all here together.

Footnotes:

(1) There are lots of sources for Pholus in myth. Here are a few:
Zane Stein: Pholus

Wikipedia: Pholus

Greek Legends and Myths

(2) All quotes from NY Times.

(3) Wikipedia

(4) Timothy Leary, October 22, 1920, 10:45 a.m. EDT, Springfield MA; Rodden AA
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Kate Plumb
11/21/2020 at 4:45 AM

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Amycus examples

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Fidel Castro has Amycus in the sixth house, trine Venus (anger, values) , quincunx Neptune (communism, idealism) and opposite Ceres (nurturance). He has made a career out of sticking it to the United States, which he despises; he tried to export his communist revolution to other countries, but ended up more admired for improving Cuba's health care and education system and sending Cuban doctors rather than agitators overseas.

Mahatma Gandhi had Amycus square Jupiter (philosophy, prosperity).

Sam Dreben (born June 1, 1878, Poltava, Ukraine) was a now-nearly-forgotten World War I hero who came to the US to avoid conscription into the army of czarist Russia and ended up a professional soldier (for the US, several times) as well as a soldier of fortune. He became a celebrity in part because he was Jewish and gave the lie to the stereotype of the meek Jew. He had Amycus trine the Sun (leadership, celebrity), parallel the South Node, and contraparallel the North Node.

US army general and Secretary of State George C. Marshall, who gave his name to the Marshall Plan that rebuilt World War II-ravaged Europe, had Amycus square Vesta (dedication).

Peter Gloystein (born November 25, 1945 in Bremen, Germany) is a former German politician with a once-promising career that he destroyed when he publicly dumped a bottle of champagne over the head of a homeless man during a speech in 2005. He has Amycus opposite Jupiter.

Pauline Phillips, the original Abigail Van Buren, and her identical twin sister and rival advice columnist Esther "Eppie" Lederer aka Ann Landers, both had Amycus in the seventh house, trine the Sun, quincunx Saturn (caution, solidity, work) and parallel Mars (energy).