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crimsoncurrentSince the recent presidential election, I have spent a heap of time pondering Chiron’s approach to Eris in Aries.
There are some extremely difficult associations with Eris. Allegedly, she loved the piteous groaning of warriors dying on a battlefield. She savored conjuring mayhem everywhere she went. Why? According to lore, when she perceived herself to be excluded, she sought to even playing fields and extract infinite retribution. She sought to go well beyond equalization of the score and penalize all she perceived who wronged her.
In optimal reality, the cosmic agenda of Eris extends far beyond her pettiness and paranoid perceptions. Her north node is Taurus, her perihelion Libra, both Venus ruled signs. Eris’ nodal degrees contrasted with her perihelion degree are found to be in quincunx - an aspect that insists upon adjustment and correction to achieve long-range objectives.
What does this even mean?
For one thing, when the world is extra complicated and it seems the powers that be induce mayhem and more at every turn, one must rely upon inner instincts and sensibilities as if there is no tomorrow to ensure that there will actually be a tomorrow. The combined effect induces a series of questions all intended to securing the clear sense that you have a place at the table of your own life. Being at the table of life means offering a full skill set, and based upon those skills offering a full, solution based plan that cannot be denied, regardless of theological, social, political or any agenda-driven position. This does take honest answers to difficult questions.
Since the recent presidential election, I have spent a heap of time pondering Chiron’s approach to Eris in Aries. Eris, was the goddess of discord... or is it dischord? If a member of a symphony hits a clunker of a note, what does that do the performance? The conductor will notice and likely expand the rehearsal schedules. Will other orchestra members be knocked off key? Will the audience notice such discordant rendering? If the audience notices, will it react? What can the audience do about a performance in progress? Are orchestra goers confined to submitting bad online views later? What does a crappy review do for a performance that already occurred? Is there any point?
T
The Rise of Eris: The Warrior Woman
Eris entered Aries in 1926 amid the "Roaring Twenties." It was during the "Roaring Twenties" that a "new" woman was born. These new, politically forward women were very controversial and created discord by defying society's standards of what women were supposed to do, say, wear, act like, and be.
They gained political power when they won the right to vote in 1920 and by the middle of the 1920s women:
Had broken out of their domestic shell
Began wearing shorter skirts, pants, more dramatic makeup, and cut their hair
Weren't shy about flaunting their sexuality
Drank, smoked, and danced in clubs
Eris, the "Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman" Planet
Eris' visual discovery and her naming began the process of merging the "warrior woman" archetype into the collective consciousness. Eris won't exit Aries until 2048. Which means the almost everyone alive today has witnessed or participated in the rise of the "warrior woman." Since 2006 there has been incredible progress in the fight towards achieving gender equality.
Eris and the 2017 "Woman's March"
Uranus the planet of radical change and Eris the warrior woman were side by side (conjunct) in the heavens from about June 2016 to March 2017. On January 21, 2017, the tension had built to the point that suddenly and unexpectedly an estimated 3,300,000 to 4,600,000 people in the United States and up to 5 million worldwide stepped forward to participate in a march for women's rights.
Create your chart at Astro.com
Enter Birth Data and select continue
Choose "Extended Chart Selection"
Select Eris in the "Additional objects" box
Create your chart
Eris in Your Birth Chart
Unless you were born before 1926, you have Eris in the sign of Aries. This makes her position by aspect and astrological house in a birth chart significant. However it takes many years for astrologers to come to an understanding of how a new planet should be interpreted in a birth chart, and Eris has only been studied since 2006. However, it seems clear that wherever Eris is in your chart, an "angelic warrior" is at work creating discord and strife.
Possible Key Phrases for Eris
Listed below are some key phrases you can play with that might help you interpret what Eris means in your birth chart. Note: Keep in mind that men also have a feminine warrior within.
The house Eris occupies may be where you:
Must overcome crises through compassion
Strive the hardest to grow
Where you can no longer be in denial
Fight to the end
Shake up the status quo
Liberate yourself from tradition
Do things in your way
Apply all of your resourcefulness
Have a general sense of being forsaken, condemned, or abandoned
The Feminine Fights Back
Few astrologers use Eris in their day-to-day consulting, which isn't surprising since it took 30 years for many to use Pluto after its discovery. However, Eris is important because she's related to your fight for existence and to standing up and fighting for what you believe in, even if violence is involved. Eris, at her most basic, is the fighting strength of the feminine that's exemplified by the feminist struggle for rights in a patriarchal society.
There are some extremely difficult associations with Eris. Allegedly, she loved the piteous groaning of warriors dying on a battlefield. She savored conjuring mayhem everywhere she went. Why? According to lore, when she perceived herself to be excluded, she sought to even playing fields and extract infinite retribution. She sought to go well beyond equalization of the score and penalize all she perceived who wronged her.
In optimal reality, the cosmic agenda of Eris extends far beyond her pettiness and paranoid perceptions. Her north node is Taurus, her perihelion Libra, both Venus ruled signs. Eris’ nodal degrees contrasted with her perihelion degree are found to be in quincunx - an aspect that insists upon adjustment and correction to achieve long-range objectives.
What does this even mean?
For one thing, when the world is extra complicated and it seems the powers that be induce mayhem and more at every turn, one must rely upon inner instincts and sensibilities as if there is no tomorrow to ensure that there will actually be a tomorrow. The combined effect induces a series of questions all intended to securing the clear sense that you have a place at the table of your own life. Being at the table of life means offering a full skill set, and based upon those skills offering a full, solution based plan that cannot be denied, regardless of theological, social, political or any agenda-driven position. This does take honest answers to difficult questions.
Since the recent presidential election, I have spent a heap of time pondering Chiron’s approach to Eris in Aries. Eris, was the goddess of discord... or is it dischord? If a member of a symphony hits a clunker of a note, what does that do the performance? The conductor will notice and likely expand the rehearsal schedules. Will other orchestra members be knocked off key? Will the audience notice such discordant rendering? If the audience notices, will it react? What can the audience do about a performance in progress? Are orchestra goers confined to submitting bad online views later? What does a crappy review do for a performance that already occurred? Is there any point?
T
The Rise of Eris: The Warrior Woman
Eris entered Aries in 1926 amid the "Roaring Twenties." It was during the "Roaring Twenties" that a "new" woman was born. These new, politically forward women were very controversial and created discord by defying society's standards of what women were supposed to do, say, wear, act like, and be.
They gained political power when they won the right to vote in 1920 and by the middle of the 1920s women:
Had broken out of their domestic shell
Began wearing shorter skirts, pants, more dramatic makeup, and cut their hair
Weren't shy about flaunting their sexuality
Drank, smoked, and danced in clubs
Eris, the "Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman" Planet
Eris' visual discovery and her naming began the process of merging the "warrior woman" archetype into the collective consciousness. Eris won't exit Aries until 2048. Which means the almost everyone alive today has witnessed or participated in the rise of the "warrior woman." Since 2006 there has been incredible progress in the fight towards achieving gender equality.
Eris and the 2017 "Woman's March"
Uranus the planet of radical change and Eris the warrior woman were side by side (conjunct) in the heavens from about June 2016 to March 2017. On January 21, 2017, the tension had built to the point that suddenly and unexpectedly an estimated 3,300,000 to 4,600,000 people in the United States and up to 5 million worldwide stepped forward to participate in a march for women's rights.
Create your chart at Astro.com
Enter Birth Data and select continue
Choose "Extended Chart Selection"
Select Eris in the "Additional objects" box
Create your chart
Eris in Your Birth Chart
Unless you were born before 1926, you have Eris in the sign of Aries. This makes her position by aspect and astrological house in a birth chart significant. However it takes many years for astrologers to come to an understanding of how a new planet should be interpreted in a birth chart, and Eris has only been studied since 2006. However, it seems clear that wherever Eris is in your chart, an "angelic warrior" is at work creating discord and strife.
Possible Key Phrases for Eris
Listed below are some key phrases you can play with that might help you interpret what Eris means in your birth chart. Note: Keep in mind that men also have a feminine warrior within.
The house Eris occupies may be where you:
Must overcome crises through compassion
Strive the hardest to grow
Where you can no longer be in denial
Fight to the end
Shake up the status quo
Liberate yourself from tradition
Do things in your way
Apply all of your resourcefulness
Have a general sense of being forsaken, condemned, or abandoned
The Feminine Fights Back
Few astrologers use Eris in their day-to-day consulting, which isn't surprising since it took 30 years for many to use Pluto after its discovery. However, Eris is important because she's related to your fight for existence and to standing up and fighting for what you believe in, even if violence is involved. Eris, at her most basic, is the fighting strength of the feminine that's exemplified by the feminist struggle for rights in a patriarchal society.