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Eros in Aspect to the Zero Degree Aries Point

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.-- Sigmund Freud

The Aries point, or vernal equinox in the tropical zodiac, is a NODE. It marks the place where the sun crosses the equatorial plain going north. Think of it as a Sun/earth node, as opposed to the commonly used Lunar nodes which involve the Sun/earth/Moon).

In the Uranian system, the Aries Point, or AP, isn't just zero degrees of Aries. It also links to zero degrees of all the cardinal signs. Every chart—natal, progressed or horary—has the AP at exactly the same zero degrees, yet each chart will be unique as to house placement and planet contacts. Eros apsecting the AP certainly adds spice, energy and the potential for transformation!

The AP represents a movement from an inner quality to an outer manifestation. It orients us towards the world at large—society, public events and all relationships propelled from the individual to the collective. When a planet or point conjuncts the AP the nature and energy drive of that planet has the added thrust or urge to express collectively. It may also represent what the public at large recognize most readily in us, or remember us for.

Eros in Aspect to the AP suggests that ones passionate desire for erotic transformation is noticed by the collective. It is difficult to hide! Taboo relationships tend to become public, hidden projects burst onto the scene and suddenly the most intimate details of life become public property. Society will see the potent energy as tantalizing or threatening, according to their own cultural conditioning.

Actors, like Errol Flynn and Marilyn Monroe, who are remembered more for their erotic nature than their actual performance skills exemplify an Eros/AP contact. It adds charisma, charm and intensity, making it difficult to go unnoticed. Where is 0 Degrees of Libra in your natal chart? That's the area of life you may express this energy.

Please feel free to share your view about this conjunction on the forum.

Via Combust   

“…to ignore the Via Combusta is a mistake." Barbara Watters

Eros will be crossing the Via Combust between November 19th and the 26th of December. In the tropical zodiac, the area between 15 Libra and 15 Scorpio is called the “Via Combusta” or Fiery Way. It is considered hazardous in horary charts, especially if the Sun, Moon or Ascendant is found there. The only safe place, the only protected degrees, are the fixed star Spica at 23 Libra and the fixed star Arcturus at 24 Libra. These beneficial stars negate the deleterious effects of the Via Combusta.

This is not to say that having a natal planet or point in the Via Combust Way always equates with disaster. Of course it does not. It is a point to watch with transits, being mindful more of the “tricky” than difficult, more of the disruptive than the out and out dangerous. It can be like an area of sudden surprise, insight and sometimes disruption. With Eros traversing this part of the zodiac, (and Jupiter there too) it is good to keep our eyes open if a planet or point is activated.

Eros & Chiron

Seducing your doctor? Healing sexual hurts? --Mystic Medusa

Eros & Chiron transits can feel earthy and tangible. They ignite inner emotions containing compassion, audacity, conviction and the desire to dare. When Chiron awakes, so does the wise counselor, teacher of heroes. A prolonged transit to this point can expose deep wounds as well as the deeper understanding required to heal them.

Not infrequently, this transit links with a time of exploring past hurts and patterns of behavior effecting the ability to relate. Delving into these lesions can bring about insights and perceptions that lead to change. The partner, lover, friend or therapist can take on the role of faithful companion, accompanying the individual into areas of unexplored trauma.

This transit may also signify the appearance of an individual that enters the life as a teacher or guide, offering a course of study, suggesting a relevant book or simply being open to communicate on an earnest level. We may be incline to fall in love with this mysterious guru. Certainly, with Chiron involved, a physical attraction may be likely. (understatement) Long term transits usually indicates more than a brief encounter, although the experience is prone to be heart felt, regardless of the duration.

Eros & Juno

Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss in the cup,
And I’ll not look for wine.
--Ben Jonson

When Eros touches Juno by transit, she is likely to get the shivers. Not opposed to love and union, an awakened Juno may go out looking for the perfect match, a partner to spend the rest of her life with. What she does, if she finds Eros instead, is not totally clear.

Juno may be reticent to take the risks implied in an Eros encounter. She may find the taboo nature of the god difficult to honor and the extreme intensity overwhelming. Dedicated and steadfast, the roller-coaster ride of Eros may make the matronly Juno feel sick to her stomach.

What Juno wants is a commitment but with Eros involved, that may be a big ask. This could ignite the raging side of Juno, bringing up feelings of frustration, jealousy and demand. She may also be incline to enact righteous retribution on those she feels have transgressed, or are the products of a transgression.

A prolonged transit from Eros to Juno could indicate a confrontation with these conflicting issues: trust, integrity, freedom, commitment, jealousy, vengeance. This may coincide with the opportunity to experience these dynamic feelings through the presence of another: a tantalizing person that opens the door to divine, but not necessarily permanent, love.

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Eros & Neptune

Perfume, magic & love spells! --Mystic Medusa

So the lively force of his mind has broken down all the barriers, and he has past far beyond the fiery walls of the world, and in mind and spirit has traversed the boundless universe. --Lucretius

When the god of numinous spirit and the god of love land on a personal planet, generally one is a goner. If this transit manifests at all in the conscious awareness, it drowns us in a sea of unity with the divine, lifting us so far above the mundane matters of the world we can see only the immortal beloved. Usually we feel rather romantically incline, if not helplessly head over heals in love.

What may be going on is a reminder call about the spiritual world, about the inner experience of the ineffable. This can rarely be processed in any rational or personal way but is readily scooped up into a projection of longing for the usually unobtainable other. Hopelessly impossible relationships dangle between people who have little or no chance of being with each other in any conventional sense of the word. The mystery of it all is that this does not seem to matter.

What matters are the feelings evoked. Quite possibly, there will be times when these feelings far surpass any sensation ever experienced before, defying translation into rational forms of communiqué. The awakening may seem based on tremendous sensual and sexual attraction yet the results can be a peak or religious experience. With this contact, the spirits leave the bodies and mingle together in a world impossible to 'know'.. The relationship takes place in that ‘other realm’ where everything merges into one continuum of energy and light. This is not an ordinary infatuation, this is communion with the god.

Of course, the 'other' will be mortal and in that sense, ordinary. The odds of disappointment are very high and along with the enrapture of this contact comes the concurrent pain, disappointment and grief. If we are willing to have the whole experience, without skimping on the accompanying sense of loss and disconnection, the results can be magnificent. What can eventuate is a very real contact with the inner divinity and when that is offered through the beloved, who would say no?

Eros Ephemeris From Swiss Ephemeris Positions of Eros 02 Nov 2006 | 0 li 1 - 2°32 | 03 Nov 2006 | 0 li 55 - 2°59 | 04 Nov 2006 | 1 li 49 - 3°26 | 05 Nov 2006 | 2 li 42 - 3°53 | 06 Nov 2006 | 3 li 36 - 4°20 | 07 Nov 2006 | 4 li 29 - 4°47 | 08 Nov 2006 | 5 li 23 - 5°14 | 09 Nov 2006 | 6 li 16 - 5°41 | 10 Nov 2006 | 7 li 9 - 6°08 | 11 Nov 2006 | 8 li 3 - 6°34 | 12 Nov 2006 | 8 li 56 - 7°01 | 13 Nov 2006 | 9 li 49 - 7°27 | 14 Nov 2006 | 10 li 41 - 7°53 | 15 Nov 2006 | 11 li 34 - 8°20 | 16 Nov 2006 | 12 li 27 - 8°46 | 17 Nov 2006 | 13 li 19 - 9°12 | 18 Nov 2006 | 14 li 12 - 9°37 | 19 Nov 2006 | 15 li 4 -10°03 | 20 Nov 2006 | 15 li 56 -10°28 | 21 Nov 2006 | 16 li 48 -10°54 | 22 Nov 2006 | 17 li 40 -11°19 | 23 Nov 2006 | 18 li 32 -11°44 | 24 Nov 2006 | 19 li 23 -12°09 | 25 Nov 2006 | 20 li 15 -12°34 | 26 Nov 2006 | 21 li 6 -12°58 | 27 Nov 2006 | 21 li 58 -13°22 | 28 Nov 2006 | 22 li 49 -13°47 | 29 Nov 2006 | 23 li 40 -14°11 | 30 Nov 2006 | 24 li 31 -14°34 | 01 Dec 2006 | 25 li 21 -14°58 | 02 Dec 2006 | 26 li 12 -15°22 | 03 Dec 2006 | 27 li 2 -15°45 | 04 Dec 2006 | 27 li 53 -16°08 | 05 Dec 2006 | 28 li 43 -16°31 | 06 Dec 2006 | 29 li 33 -16°53 | 07 Dec 2006 | 0 sc 23 -17°16 | Eros Astrology Reports by Kim Falconer Go straight to the heart! The personalized Natal Eros Report takes a fresh look YOUR astrology Chart, delineating asteroid 344 Eros by house, sign and aspect. The current transits and progressions are discussed, shedding new light on old and sometimes troublesome feelings and emotions. Looking to find out more about a current, past or potential relationship? Choose the Composite Eros Report if you want to investigate the chemistry between you and another. Click here to ask some of the 250 forum members what they thought of there Eros Report!     © Copyright Kim Falconer 2006

Libra The Sign of Libra is symbolized by the scales, the only inanimate object in the zodiac. Oddly also is Libra’s fluctuating arrival into the order of the constellations. To the ancient Greeks, there was no Libra but instead, 60 degrees of Scorpio! Yet before, in Babylon and after, in Rome, there was the current 30 degrees of each sign, including Libra! Goddess, make up your mind! Libra was said to be “created” from the ancient Scorpion's claws by the Romans, though as early as 2000 BCE, the constellation of Libra was associated with the judgment of the living and the dead in Babylonia. Here, Zabanitu, who represented the Scales, weighed souls of the deceased. The Sumerians called Libra Zi-Ba An-Na - 'the Balance of Heaven'. The Greeks merged the stars of Libra into Scorpio and the presence of the scales was not again recorded until they suddenly (and mysteriously) reappeared in Roman times. In between, these stars were seen as the Scorpion's claws, but the image of the scales was recognized elsewhere, perhaps Mesopotamian in origin. Sometimes the Scales are seen placed in the right hand of Virgo, represented by Astraea, the Starry Goddess. Astraea or Virgo was seen as linking the constellations of Virgo and Libra…Libra making a bridge between Virgo and Scorpio. The symbols certainly resonates with this concept. An origin myth of Libra: Astraea used to live among mortals during the golden age of mankind, Saturn’s age. In the pans of her great golden scales, she carefully weighed the positive and negative deeds of men and women, thereby deciding their many different fates. After a time, (and after Saturn’s age) Astraea became disturbed by the actions of her people. Without warning, she abandoned them, returning to the heaven to joining Demeter as the constellation of the Virgin Goddess. She left in such a rush, her scales fell behind. Out of fear, and honor, the Romans created the constellation of Libra from the ancient Scorpion's claws so that The Scales would always be nearby Astraea in the sky. Eventually the stars of Libra came to represent the Golden Chariot of Pluto. The Egyptians also saw Libra as a set of scales, one in which the human heart was to be weighted after death, "the Scales of Justice." In India, the constellation was called Tula, meaning "a balance," showed a man bent on one knee, holding the scales. The ancient Chinese called the constellation Show Sing, "the Star of Longevity," but later generation changed the name to Tien Ching, meaning "the Celestial Balance."   Astrology & Aptitude How to Become What You Are Meant to Be. By Kim Falconer 2nd edition New Release! Joseph Campbell advised everyone to live authentically by “following their bliss,” but how many of us do? Somewhere along the way, we lose site of our aims. We forget the myths that guide us, and end up lost in the dark. This book is a light in that darkness, a guide to our own natural talents, aptitudes and potential.