Apollon

The Journal of Psychological Astrology

The Generation Gap ~ Liz Greene Born In The Sixties - The Uranus-Pluto Generation ~ Darby Costello The Romance Of Sibling Rivalry ~ Christopher Renstrom Icarus & Persephone ~ Erin Sullivan The Thirteenth Fairy ~ Lynn Bell Charles Harvey - An Appreciation

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Brother-Sister Marriage ~ Brian Clark Astrology As A Healing & A Wounding Art ~ Anne Whitaker The Oracle & The Family Curse ~ Liz Greene The Sun-god and the Astrological Sun - Liz Greene The Eternal Triangle ~ Liz Greene The Sacred Marriage & The Geometry of Time ~ Robin Heath Spirit Child - Melanie Reinhart & Isabella Kirton Thinking Magically & Critically ~ Erin Sullivan Creativity, Spontaneity, Independence: Three Children Of The Devil - Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig Wounding & The Will To Live ~ Liz Greene The Golden Age ~ Nicholas Campion Whom doth the grail serve? - Anne Whitaker Eros & Aphrodite, Love & Creation ~ Erin Sullivan The Saturn-Uranus Duet ~ Charles Harvey Measuring the Daimon ~ Lynn Bell Fire and the imagination - Darby Costello Neptune and Pluto: Romance in the Underworld ~ Sophia Young Wilderness Transformation Trails ~ Marilyn McDowell & Philomena Byrne The Progressed Moon ~ Brian Clark Leonard Cohen’s "Secret Chart" - John Etherington A Fatal Vocation To Witness ~ Suzi Harvey An Encounter With “The Ambassadors” ~ Simon Chedzey

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Table of Contents Published by: The Centre for Psychological Astrology Editorial 4 BCM Box 1815 Dermod Moore London WC1N 3XX England The Generation Gap 5 Tel/Fax: +44-20-8749 2330 [email protected] Liz Greene www.astrologer.com/cpa Born In The Sixties - The Uranus-Pluto Generation 14 Director: Dr Liz Greene Admin: Juliet Sharman-Burke Darby Costello Distribution: The Thirteenth Fairy 19 John Etherington Lynn Bell Midheaven Bookshop 396 Caledonian Road A Celebration of the Joyous Child 22 London N1 1DN Anne Whitaker England Tel: +44-20-7607 4133 The Romance of Sibling Rivalry 27 Fax: +44-20-7700 6717 Christopher Renstrom [email protected] Persephone and Icarus Adolescence: a psyche in progress 39 Advertising: Anne Whitaker Erin Sullivan 74 Victoria Crescent Road “I like children. If they’re properly cooked.” 48 Glasgow G12 9JN Kim Farnell Scotland Tel/Fax: +44-141-337 6144 Film: Pluto Rides Again: Sleepy Hollow 50 [email protected] Kay Stopforth Edited by: Moon-Pluto: Fault or Fate? 52 Dermod Moore Sophia Young 4 Midhope House Midhope Street Reflections: Pathos, Children and the Yearning for Slowness 55 London WC1H 8HJ Philomena Byrne England Tel: +44-20-7278 9434 The Tarot Fool and the Archetype of the Child 58 Fax: +44-20-7209 1648 Juliet Sharman-Burke www.astrologer.com/apollon [email protected] Charles Harvey - An Appreciation 60 Subscriptions: Lindsay Clarke, Richard Tarnas, Anne Whitaker and Liz Greene Please see centre pages

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e never stop being children at heart, if ealing with the expectations of parents, when Wwe’re lucky; without that curiosity and play- Dasked to comment on the chart of a new- fulness, that mania and risk-taking, we lose the born infant, is no easy task for an astrologer, and point of living. Just as we went to press, I was sent both Lynn Bell and Kim Farnell address this issue in a lovely story by email, about an eighty-seven year two original, contrasting pieces. Lynn draws on the old woman called Rose, who decided to go to col- tale of Sleeping Beauty to caution us against leaving lege, because she had never been. She became a something out in what we say; Kim comes to campus icon, immensely popular wherever she (more or less) the same conclusion, but only after went, and she revelled in the attention. She was spinning her own vivid Chandleresque tale, in her invited to speak to the students at a function, and inimitable comic style. she told them: “We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing.” ophia Young, in a moving, bravely personal She spoke of the secrets to saying young: the need Spiece, reflects on her own life-threatening to laugh and find humour every day; the need to experiences of childbirth and mothering. She tack- have a dream - “Those who are without dreams les head-on the guilt that many mothers feel when Dermod Moore is a are dead inside.” On the difference between grow- facing the implications (accusations?) of a stark Dubliner. A former actor ing older and growing up: “If you are nineteen Moon signature in the chart of their child, and does with Ireland’s National years old and lie in bed for one full year, you will so with honesty and dignity. Following on, Theatre, the Abbey, he turn twenty. If you are eighty-seven years old and Philomena Byrne makes an eloquent plea for time holds the Diploma in stay in bed for a year you will turn eighty-eight. and space in our culture, to allow room for mean- Psychological Astrology Anybody can grow older. That takes no talent or ing-making, and reflects on what is happening in from the CPA, where he is a ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the our society when children are being medicated student supervisor. He is a opportunity in change.” And on regrets: “The against mania and depression, in her thoughtful and writer and columnist, and is elderly usually have no regrets for what we did, but challenging Reflections piece. in training as a for what we didn’t do. The only people who fear Psychosynthesis therapist. death are those with regrets.” oth Christopher Renstrom and Erin Sullivan He practices as a psycholog- Bexplore childhood in two longer, more in-depth ical astrologer in London’s ne week after she graduated, she died, and articles; Christopher, in his entertaining retelling of Neal’s Yard Therapy Otwo thousand students attended her funeral. sibling myths, brings Mercury and Gemini energy to Rooms. He moderates the life for us, while Erin looks at the complex issues at discussion group on the he child” is the seed idea of this issue, and, as work in the liminal state of adolescence, drawing on Internet on psychological “Tever, the contributors have each responded the myths of Icarus and Persephone. astrology, and runs the to the theme in their own unique way, reminding us, Metalog Directory of if we need reminding, of the diverse richness that is est we forget, Anne Whitaker is here to remind Astrologers at to be found in the seams of common experience. Lus of the Joyful Child, the one that is inside all www.astrologer.com. of us. Add to that Juliet Sharman-Burke’s continua- oth Liz Greene and Darby Costello have tion of her excellent Tarot series, focusing on the Bdrawn their inspiration from the sixties. With Fool archetype, and, a new addition to Apollon, a her customary incisiveness, Liz looks at the various regular Film column by Kay Stopforth, in which she ways in which successive generations reflect the reviews Sleepy Hollow, and examines the charts of values and drives of the sign placements and con- both director and lead actor, and I believe we have figurations of the outer planets, starting with a look a full and entertaining issue for you to enjoy. at that turbulent decade, when the generation gap seemed at its widest. Through an examination of ur last pages are devoted to an appreciation successive generations of the Royal Family, she Oof the life of Charles Harvey, co-director of explores how such symbolic shifts manifest in the the CPA, and regular contributor to these pages, lives of public figures. Darby focuses on those of us whose passing has seemed difficult to believe for who were born in the sixties - a decade which has anyone who was lucky enough to know him. We a special memories for her. In her piece, she cap- have reproduced, with Suzi’s permission, the tures the restlessness of the energy at work in the words spoken at his funeral, as well as tributes lives of those who were born in a time when “sex from Liz Greene and Anne Whitaker. But we end was fun, food was good, and water and sunlight with a wonderful demonstration of why he will be were free and healthy” and the paradoxical way so sorely missed; a letter which he wrote for the Thanks to Cathy Casey for in which we, in so many personal ways, contend students of the CPA, last November. Thanks, the Rose story. with the subtle erosion of those truths. Charles. page 4 Apollon Issue 5 May 2000 The Generation Gap Liz Greene In this article, Liz Greene takes an overview of the way different generations interact. With examples ranging from the estranged mother and daughter in the TV series Absolutely Fabulous to the “real lives” of the various generations of the Royal Family, she offers us an insight into how the symbolism of the outer planets manifests in the lives of each generation.

ike death and taxes, the misbehaviour of responsibility and freedom, is too simplistic. Lyouth, we are told, is always with us. There are certain biological determinants which Complaints about adolescent flouting of ensure that, when we are young, we have more parental and civic authority may be found in lit- physical energy; and psychologically we may erature from Ovid to Shakespeare, and life have less containment and less rigidity when it amongst the medical students at the University comes to expressing ourselves, because the of Montpellier in the 16th century, according to ego has not yet become “set” in its habit pat- the outraged townspeople, was just as rowdy terns and defences. Repeated confrontations as it is today at Harvard Medical School. with worldly limits may also sometimes, “Youth,” said Oscar Wilde wearily, “is wasted although not always, play their part in making us on the young.” The phenomenon of the “gen- less inclined to take risks when we are older. eration gap” has never been as vividly demon- The archetypal polarity of the senex and the strated as in the 1960’s, when the chasm puer aeternus reflects this inherent life process. between the conservatism of age and the icon- But beyond these very general factors, the pic- Liz Greene holds a oclasm of youth appeared all but unbridgeable. ture is more complicated than it might seem. Doctorate in Psychology Bob Dylan’s seminal lyrics describe it concisely, Not only individuals may break the mould, but and the Diploma of the although they hint at something far greater than also entire generation groups. The face of the Faculty of Astrological the younger generation flexing its muscles senex may reveal itself in the young, the face of Studies, and is a qualified against the older one: the puer in the old. Jungian analyst. She works as a professional astrologer Come gather ‘round people hose who have watched the television and analyst, and teaches and Wherever you roam Tseries, Absolutely Fabulous, may glimpse, in lectures extensively And admit that the waters the character called Edina, a florid exaggeration throughout Europe. She is a Around you have grown of the “flower power” generation which domi- Patron of the Faculty of And accept it that soon nated the social upheavals of the 1960’s. Edina Astrological Studies. She is You’ll be drenched to the bone. is a mother who is entirely identified with the the author of many books If your time to you more rampant form of the puer aeternus. She on astrological and psycho- Is worth savin’ smokes dope, drinks herself into oblivion, pur- logical themes, including Then you better start swimmin’ sues promiscuous and often disastrous sexual Saturn, Relating, Astrology for Or you’ll sink like a stone liaisons, dresses like a bad advertisement for Lovers, The Astrology of Fate, For the times they are a-changin’. psychedelic drugs, and thinks and speaks in a and The Astrological Neptune fashion which many people would normally and the Quest for ...Come mothers and fathers associate with irresponsible, self-centred ado- Redemption. She lives in Throughout the land lescence. Astrologers might recognise a mock- Switzerland. The Mythic And don’t criticise ing portrayal of the revolutionary thinking, Journey, written with Juliet What you can’t understand incurable romanticism, and ruthless self-expres- Sharman-Burke, has been Your sons and your daughters siveness of the post-war “me” generation, with recently published by Are beyond your command Uranus in Gemini, Neptune in Libra, and, most Gothic Image. Your old road is importantly, Pluto in Leo. In stark contrast, Rapidly agein’. Edina’s daughter, Saffron, is prudish, stodgy, stu- Please get out of the new one dious, and deeply ashamed of the antics of her If you can’t lend a hand feckless mother. Saffron does not touch drugs, For the times they are a-changin’. 1 is wary of promiscuous sexual behaviour, dress- es “like a Christian” (in the words of Patsy, 1 “The Times They Are A- et to think in terms of an inevitable age-ver- Edina’s equally appalling crony), and eats sensi- Changin'”, Bob Dylan, Ysus-youth conflict between authority and bly. She is a realist who has no illusions about copyright ©1963, renewed rebellion, between experience and naivety, human nature, and she does not waste her time 1991, Special Rider Music - between limits and exuberance, between fantasising about how the world could be. She www.bobdylan.com

Apollon Issue 5 May 2000 page 5 Saffron and Edina (Julia Sawalha and Jennifer Saunders) from the BBC TV series Absolutely Fabulous © BBC

is so well grounded that she is incredibly, irre- motion between parents and children, genera- deemably dull. Astrologers might recognise a tion groups need to be viewed, not merely mocking portrayal of the pragmatism, cynicism, from the perspective of age, but from the per- and brutal honesty of the generation group spective of values. A generation group is not born with Neptune in Scorpio and Uranus and defined merely by time. It also exhibits inherent Pluto in Virgo. perceptions, responses, attitudes, and needs which make it unique. Generation groups his mother-daughter relationship presents reflect the quality, not the quantity, of the time Tus with a reversal which gives the series its in which they are born. punch and humour; and, although hilariously exaggerated, it is nevertheless a peculiarly truth- ow long is a generation? A biological gen- ful portrait of a particular dynamic between two Heration may be anywhere from fifteen to generation groups in the second half of the eighty years apart from its predecessor; we are 20th century. They are divided, not by chronol- dealing with the vagaries of procreation when ogy, but by attitudes. Here it is the old, not the we assess generation groups in these terms. young, who kick against the confines of senex Some people still in their teens have children; codes. If we wish to understand the sometimes others wait until their thirties or forties; some irreconcilable conflicts which are so often set in men start second or even third families in their sixties or seventies; with the advent of Viagra, the eighties are entirely feasible; and with the possibility of freezing sperm for an indefinite period, there may be no limit at all, and a posthumous child may be engendered by a father who has been dead for a couple of cen- turies. Grandparents may be young or old, and it is possible, if one gets moving early enough, to be a great-grandparent at forty-five. But if we think of generation groups in terms of the qual- ities which they embody, then we need to avail ourselves of the broader insights provided by the astrological model, and consider the outer planets and their cycles.

ranus, Neptune and Pluto in the birth chart Uportray three different but overlapping Bob Dylan generation groups reflecting fundamental needs page 6 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 and longings inherent in the collective psyche during the period when each of these planets transits through a particular zodiacal sign. We each belong to a Uranus generation, a Neptune generation, and a Pluto generation. We have more in common with the Uranus generation that lived 84 years previous than we do with those born only 7 years earlier. We have more in common with the Neptune generation that lived 178 years previous than we do with those who were born 14 years earlier. And we have more in common with the Pluto generation born 246 years previous than we do with those born with Pluto in the previous or following Mick Jagger sign. These planets provide us with a complex ©Copyright 1999 B.Remer mapping of the cyclical qualities of time and the Dylan’s generation group, and his poetry and growth pattern of the larger unity to which music thus became the vehicle for both. That each of us belongs. They also tell us about how remarkable trine between Neptune and Uranus our particular Uranus generation perceives and which occurred in the early 1940’s, common pursues progress, what our particular Neptune also to John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Mick generation idealises as the path to redemption, Jagger,3 seems to have reflected a vision of and how our particular Pluto generation progress which embraced not only political and mobilises when survival is threatened. Beyond social change but also spiritual aspiration. That our individual value systems and character qual- this configuration, moving from earth into air ities, we each belong to larger groups which signs, presided over virtually the entire period envisage evolution, salvation, and transforma- of the Second World War, may seem strange tion in different ways. When we respond, not in light of the promulgation of peace, equality, as individuals but as units in a collective, we and spirituality expressed by these generational respond through the outer planets in the birth prophets, especially by Lennon in the song, chart. These responses may be relatively con- “Imagine”. But Hitler’s Reich was also a reflec- scious and in harmony with our individual val- tion, albeit a vicious and distorted one, of a ues, depending on how the outer planets “sit” vision of political and social change combined in the natal chart; but they may also be rela- with spiritual aspiration. Jagger, with his natal tively unconscious or in deep conflict with Sun and Pluto conjunct in Leo, is perhaps more everything we thought we believed in. We may in touch with the darker elements inherent in be surprised, shocked, and even overwhelmed his generation group, as is demonstrated in the and fragmented when these deeper collective song, “Sympathy for the Devil.” levels of the psyche are activated. erhaps most fundamentally, these gener- t should be remembered that, although Bob Pational icons share the placement of IDylan was catapulted into prominence as one Pluto in Leo. In terms of generation groups, of the major prophets of his generation during when Pluto moved from Cancer into Leo, a the great Uranus-Pluto conjunction of the profound change occurred in the survival 2 See Darby Costello's 1960’s, Dylan himself was not born under that mechanisms of the collective; and this plane- article on the Uranus-Pluto conjunction.2 Born in 1941, he belonged to the tary shift is perhaps the astrological significa- generation in this issue, p. generation group with Neptune in late Virgo tor par excellence of an inevitable collision 14. Bob Dylan was born on trine Uranus in Taurus. Personal planet involve- between parent-child generation groups. 24 May 1941, 9.05 pm, ment such as the Moon, Jupiter, and Saturn in Those born with Pluto in Cancer tend, on Duluth, Minnesota, USA. late Taurus and the Sun in early Gemini con- the instinctual level, to perceive survival as 3 John Lennon was born on junct natal Uranus and trine natal Neptune, and dependent on family, community, and 9 October 1940, 6.30 pm, Mercury in late Gemini square natal Neptune, national bonds, which provide a sense of Liverpool. Paul McCartney ensured that he was able to translate the vision emotional belonging, continuity, and safety. was born on 18 June 1942, of his generation into highly personal creative These were the individuals who were pre- 2.30 am, Liverpool. Mick work. The timing of this was not accidental; pared to go to war and die for King and Jagger was born on 26 July Dylan entered his period of greatest creativity country even if, as individuals, the war itself 1943, 6.30 am, Dartford. and popularity while the Uranus-Pluto conjunc- made no sense to them. Those born with By the time the latter two tion of the ‘60’s moved over natal Neptune, Pluto in Leo tend to instinctively perceive were born, Uranus had trined natal Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and survival as dependent on ferocious individu- moved out of Taurus into Sun, and brought to flower the potentials inher- ality and determined self-expression even in Gemini, but was still trine ent in the natal configuration. In other words, the face of opposition. Amongst these are Neptune. It also now the collective needs of the 1960’s dovetailed the individuals who, whether through arro- formed a sextile to Pluto in beautifully with the collective values inherent in gant egocentricity or an intuitive perception Leo.

Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 7 may be possible if the father can face his own feelings of woundedness and inadequacy, and if the boy, when he is more mature, is able to recognise his father as an ordinary flawed human carrying wounds inflicted by a world much larger than the family.

owever, some issues are bigger and deep- King George VI & Queen Her than individual personality interaction, Elizabeth and any resolution may depend on a much of the individual’s power to create a different broader perspective. A child may appear to a reality, made their own decisions about their parent, not as an individual, but as a represen- personal destiny, and refused to fight in tative of a vast collective force which can seem Vietnam. profoundly threatening to all that the parent Outer planet configurations between stands for and believes in as an individual. And when it is the parent who embodies the power parents and children and vision of a whole generation, the child may xploring the patterns of astrological genera- feel terrified and overwhelmed. Parents and Etion groups can take us into many spheres children may also interact through the medium of human interaction and endeavour, and a sin- of outer planet aspects to other outer planets gle article cannot possibly do justice to the across the charts. In such cases, both stand for depth and complexity of this theme. However, the collective might of their generation groups, I will touch on one of the most valuable areas and may have difficulty in perceiving each other of insight which the perspective of astrological as individuals unless personal planets are also generation groups can offer - the interaction involved in the configuration. Anyone who has portrayed by outer planet involvement across perused the charts of successive generations two birth charts in parent-child relationships. within a family will have noticed the frequency Some difficult issues between parents and chil- of close contacts - especially the “hard” aspects dren may be reflected by conflicting aspects - between outer planets and personal planets between the personal planets, reflecting deep across the birth horoscopes. These contacts are dichotomies in personal attitudes and values. A often within 1º of orb. One may be forgiven for boy’s Mars opposition his father’s Moon may getting the feeling that there is method in this lead to some energetic conflicts of will, and per- cosmic madness, and that when such links haps even to violence in some cases; but such appear between parent and child, or parent and conflicts are unique to those two personalities grandchild, some deeper evolutionary pattern is and do not invoke deeper collective forces. at work which involves the group as well as the And some resolution is possible if the father individual. Individual reductive psychology may can understand that his son is a unique individ- fail to penetrate to the meaning of the respons- ual with self-assertive needs quite different from es which are activated, and we may have to his own, and if the boy, when he is more expand our psychological models to grasp what mature, can exercise the same objectivity about is at work. his father’s emotional outlook and needs. here are, of course, individual dimensions to ther difficult issues between parents and Tsuch contacts. Cross-aspects between the Ochildren may be linked with Saturn and outer planets in one chart and the personal Chiron cross-aspects. The former describe planets in another can be understood partly dynamics rooted in personal defence mecha- through the basic principles of synastry. For nisms; the latter, although collective issues are example, if a girl’s Uranus is conjunct her hinted at, also enact themselves through per- father’s Sun in Gemini, his lively, restless, and sonal defences against feelings of hurt and intellectually curious nature will activate the woundedness. A girl’s Moon square her spirit of progress and inventiveness in her - not mother’s Saturn may suggest a definite chill always in a comfortable way - while she, in turn, which dampens their emotional relationship. may prove - again, not always comfortably - to But some resolution may be possible if the be a source of potential creative awakening in mother can recognise the unconscious envy him. The disturbing, electrifying energy of this and anxiety which her child invokes in her, contact would be visible from early childhood, and if the girl, when she is more mature, can and such a cross-aspect between father and see beyond her feelings of rejection to the daughter could prove enormously creative and deeper meaning of her mother’s apparently intellectually stimulating, as well as conducive to impossible expectations. A boy’s Sun conjunct alienation. Or, if a mother has Mars in Libra and his father’s Chiron may describe mutual hurt her daughter’s Pluto conjuncts her Mars, that and misunderstanding; but some resolution mother may find her daughter’s obstinacy and page 8 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 emotional fixity baffling, frustrating, and some- the family psyche needs but does not possess times infuriating, while the daughter may feel amongst its members, it tends to instinctively deeply threatened by what she perceives as her acquire through marriage, so that its myths and mother’s aggression. The explosive energy of complexes can unfold and be worked through this contact would likewise be visible from early over the generations. It is therefore important, childhood, and power battles would probably when examining family charts, to include not be inevitable between mother and daughter - only the direct blood line, but also the spouses. although each may, with some consciousness, For the sake of both brevity and clarity, I am list- eventually help the other to be more honest ing only the relevant chart placements of a few about emotional and assertive needs and specific members of the Royal Family, rather desires. than reproducing the entire birth charts.4

ut interpreting such aspects in this way, The Royal Family Bwhile useful and valuable, may not go far enough. More is happening here than one King George VI Queen Elizabeth person interacting with another. One person the Queen Mother interacts with a whole generation, represent- Pluto 11º 34’ Gemini Pluto 17º 21’ Gemini ed by the individual with the outer planet Neptune 16º 30’ Gemini Neptune 28º 20’ Gemini involved in the cross-aspect. The daughter Uranus 22º 07’ Scorpio Uranus 8º 31’ Sagittarius whose Uranus in Gemini conjuncts her Moon 24º 51’ Scorpio Moon 20º 24’ Scorpio father’s Sun will shake him up and make him think about life differently, not simply Queen Elizabeth II because he perceives her as inventive and Pluto 12º 42’ Cancer rebellious, but because, for him, she embod- Neptune 22º 02’ Leo ies the enormous power of a generation Uranus 27º 21’ Pisces group whose perception of human evolution Saturn 24º 26’ Scorpio depends on breaking down the rigidity of old MC 25º 33’ Scorpio and outworn intellectual structures. The mother whose Mars in Libra conjuncts her Prince Charles Princess Diana daughter’s Pluto may feel overpowered and Pluto 16º 33’ Leo Pluto 6º 02’ Virgo inclined to fight back, not just because she Neptune 14º 07’ Libra Neptune 8º 38’ Scorpio perceives her daughter as intense and inflex- Uranus 29º 55’ Gemini Uranus 23º 20’ Leo ible, but because that child has at her back, Sun 22º 25’ Scorpio Moon 25º 02’ Aquarius like an invisible army, an entire generation Chiron 28º 13’ Scorpio Venus 24º 23’ Taurus whose survival depends on imposing a par- ticular set of ideals of fairness and justice on Prince William human relationships. The relentless pressure Pluto 24º 09’ Libra of Pluto does not reflect the child’s personal Neptune 25º 32’ Sagittarius power-drive, but the bottom-line necessity Uranus 1º 29’ Sagittarius of a collective which cannot tolerate any Chiron 25º 39’ Taurus deviation from its vision of what is necessary Venus 25º 39’ Taurus in order to avoid extinction. Ascendant 27º 30’ Sagittarius

e can briefly explore a demonstration of here are, inevitably, links involving the outer Wthis kind of parent-child generation Tplanets between the Queen’s chart and dynamic through an example. Although their that of her father, King George VI; he had a 4 Full birth data for the charts have been used ad nauseam, the British conjunction of Uranus in 22º 07’ Scorpio and family members described: royal family is always useful in this respect, the Moon in 24º 51’ Scorpio, and this conjunc- Queen Elizabeth II, 21 April because the birth times are documented and tion squares the Queen’s Neptune in 22º 02’ 1926, 2.40 am, London. the continuity goes back for many generations. Leo. The Queen also has Saturn in 24º 26’ King George VI, 14 Naturally, we need to work extensively with Scorpio, at the MC in 25º 33’ Scorpio, and both December 1895, 3.05 am, our own family charts to get a clearer picture of conjunct her father’s natal Uranus. We may Sandringham. Queen generational dynamics, because it is from direct speculate about the personal issues described Elizabeth the Queen personal experience and family “lore” that the by the Saturn-MC-Moon contact across the Mother, 4 August 1900, deeper patterns of the generation groups two charts, and surmise that the emotional rela- 11.31 am, St Pauls Walden. become visible. tionship between the Queen and her father Prince Charles, 14 November 1948, 9.14 pm, Generational games in the royal family was chilly but indestructible, and that a strong sense of responsibility and powerful but unspo- London. Princess Diana, 1 owerful generational aspects may occur, not ken bonds of duty and social obligation July 1961, 7.45 pm, Ponly between parent and child, but replaced simple affection and spontaneous Sandringham. Prince between the parent and the individual whom emotional exchange. But here we also have William, 21 July 1982, 9.03 the child, when grown, chooses to marry. What two outer planets in square across the charts. pm, London.

Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 9 This is more difficult to understand, let alone to her mother as well, who also has the Moon summarise in a few words. Uranus in King in Scorpio - because the Queen is the vessel for George’s chart exactly squares Neptune in the grandiose, chivalric dreams of a whole gen- Queen Elizabeth’s chart. The spirit of progress, eration. That generation is certain of its special for those born with Uranus in Scorpio, seeks spiritual role, in love with a code of honour and expression through compulsive destruction and excellence which, while noble and beautiful, rebuilding, through the mobilisation of survival may be too disconnected from the trials and instincts in the face of that which threatens life, tribulations of ordinary life and the egalitarian and through courage in the throes of battle. propensities of the present Uranus and Where a battle is not found, one will be creat- Neptune transits through Aquarius. When ed; in the King’s case, there was sufficient battle Neptune transited through Leo, the world going on in the world outside to satisfy any longed for glamour and magnificence, and Uranus in Scorpio vision of evolution through needed shining models; this was the era of the crisis. In stark contrast, the dream of redemp- great Hollywood film stars. King George VI may tion, for those born with Neptune in Leo, is have found his daughter strangely arrogant and expressed through a fantasy-world where all is unworldly, not because of a specific failing in her bright and beautiful, and where one’s own life is individual character, but because something both an act of sacrifice and a symbol of divine else, something pervasive and powerful and authority for others, similarly Neptune-bound, universal, peeped through the personal realism who seek release from their own dreary lives. and tenacity of her Taurus Sun and Capricorn The Queen both shares and embodies perfect- Ascendant. ly the mythic longings of her own generation group. It is not surprising that she is unwilling to omething profoundly intelligent appears to let go of them. Sbe at work in family patterns involving outer planet contacts. Prince Charles was born with the Sun in 22º 25’ Scorpio, conjunct Chiron in 28º 13’ Scorpio. The close conjunction between his Sun and his grandmother’s Moon reflects their emotional closeness. The conjunc- tion between his Sun and his mother’s Saturn reflects the great weight of expectation he feels from her, and the degree to which it both lim- its and shapes his destiny. But Prince Charles also has a powerful outer planet link with the grandfather whom he knew only in childhood; Charles’ Sun is exactly conjunct King George’s Uranus. Charles, as an individual, embodies that search for the hidden truth which the King’s Uranus generation group pursued as a collec- tive vision of progress. He is, in a way, the cul- mination in personal terms of the strivings of his grandfather’s generation. But Charles’ Sun- Dodi Al-Fayed and Diana, Chiron in Scorpio also squares the Queen’s Princess of Wales Neptune. It is not in the least surprising that Charles has sought to pursue his own develop- ment, intellectually, emotionally, and sexually, in ere, two generations collide: the older, ways which must seem directly threatening to Hwhich lived through two world wars and his mother’s Neptunian dream. made an idealogy of facing the harsh truth and building on the ashes of what had been harles, in turn, must feel bewildered, let destroyed, and the younger, which preferred to Cdown, and perhaps subtly manipulated by turn its back on the bleak hardship of the world his mother, and profoundly irritated by her and pursued a fairy-tale vision of splendour and insistence on clinging to an ideal which, for him, the divine right of kings. Such a square between is no longer valid in the world he perceives parent and child, unless reinforced by personal around him. The Queen belongs to a genera- planets, might not necessarily erupt in personal tion group wedded to a glorious redemptive conflict. Here there is reinforcement: the King’s vision of grandeur and nobility. Charles also has Moon squares his daughter’s Neptune, and his Pluto in 16º 33’ Leo. This is not in close con- Uranus conjuncts her Saturn. He must have junction with the Queen’s Neptune, but it is a seemed emotionally erratic and compulsively conjunction nevertheless. There is something in depressed to her. She, in turn, must have Charles which he shares with his Pluto genera- seemed incomprehensible to him - and perhaps tion: a survival instinct which depends on an page 10 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 Queen Elizabeth II ©Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital Trust inner sense of specialness and a profound con- group must seem like a guerilla army deter- viction that the individual’s voice matters. In this mined to spoil the party and destroy the last respect he instinctively feels what his mother vestiges of royal privilege and dignity. feels, not as a romantic ideal, but as a necessity - although the square between his Pluto and his nevitably, Prince William will carry on this gen- natal Sun suggests that he is in conflict with his Ierational pattern, which hints at a long, slow own generation group as well as with hers. He evolutionary process working its way through has more in common with his grandfather than the centuries. William’s outer planets are close- with those of his own age. ly linked with personal planets in both his par- ents’ charts: his Neptune-Ascendant conjunc- erhaps, on some deep and inaccessible tion, in 25º 32’ and 27º 30’ Sagittarius respec- Plevel, Charles did not feel he had the power tively, is conjunct both his father’s Mars-Jupiter to stand up to that Neptune in Leo vision of conjunction and his mother’s Ascendant. It noblesse oblige. His natal Pluto pulls him into would seem that his parents embody, on a per- collusion with it. So he chose (or had chosen sonal level, that longing for spiritual enlighten- for him, but nevertheless accepted) a partner ment and hunger for meaning which is essential whose planetary pattern added enough fuel to to the Neptune in Sagittarius generation’s his own to challenge the generational dream dream of redemption. The “New Age” activities described by his mother’s natal Neptune. of both Charles and Diana will undoubtedly sit Princess Diana had natal Uranus in 23º 20’ Leo, well with their son’s generation group. But conjunct the Queen’s Neptune. There is a cer- William also has Venus and Chiron exactly con- tain inevitability in the way in which these two junct in 25º Taurus, and his personal values, women polarised as the voices of their respec- developing partly through hurt and sorrow, are tive generations, and in the determination with not in accord with either his grandmother’s col- which they perceived each other as enemies. lective romantic vision, his mother’s ferocious Neptune in Leo dreams of redemption through collective self-expressiveness, or his father’s a heart-fuelled vision of a higher, nobler world; compulsive collective survival instinct. William’s Uranus in Leo perceives human progress in Neptune in Sagittarius is trine the Queen’s terms of the individual’s capacity to break down Neptune in Leo, and both share the fire signs’ existing authority structures to release the dream of a better, grander, nobler world. But potential of creativity for the group. Diana’s for William, that world can be found only natal Moon in 25º Aquarius and her natal Venus through a moral and spiritual quest, and not in 24º 23’ Taurus describe her own inner con- through an affirmation of personal specialness. flict with her Uranus generation group’s self- Making friends with the outer planets willed ideal. But when one puts together the explosive combination of Charles’ Scorpio plan- n the old days, astrologers used to talk about ets and her natal T-cross, all challenging the Ithe outer planets as “dumb notes” in a birth Queen’s natal Neptune, the annus horribilis chart; they were “unimportant” and not consid- takes on an altogether different cast. For the ered especially relevant to the individual’s life. Queen, this marriage must have seemed to Now we know better, and those astrologers herald the disintegration of her most cherished who study collective trends know how very fantasies of redemption, and Diana’s generation powerful is the voice of the collective psyche in

Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 11 Neptune seeks fusion with a higher unity through idealisation and self-sacrifice; Uranus seeks progress through the creation of new idealogies. If a parent wishes to be helpful to a child when such contacts exist between the two charts, it may be important to recognise not only the child’s individuality, but also what that child stands for as the representative of an entire generation. The wise parent will encourage the child to find appropriate vehi- cles through which collective needs and dreams may be individually expressed, rather than reacting blindly to what is perceived as a threat, or identifying blindly with what is per- ceived as the apotheosis of one’s own gener- ational dreams. A good example of the latter Princes William and Charles dynamic is the link between Joseph P. Kennedy’s conjunction of Neptune and Pluto in Gemini and his son’s natal Sun in Gemini.5 terms of individual destiny. When the outer John F. Kennedy was perceived by his father as planets are powerfully linked with personal the living incarnation of Papa Joe’s generational planets in the birth chart, the individual is, more vision of redemption and continuity through than others of his or her generation, a mouth- education, social mobility, and political power. piece for the collective. Such a person needs to The result was, inevitably, that John F. Kennedy be able to create appropriate vehicles for that never had a chance to become John F. collective vision, while still maintaining individual Kennedy, except in the context of his father’s integrity and an ego strong enough to process ambitions - not personal ambitions, but those collective energies through personal values, of an entire generation. aptitudes, and experience. The child whose ego cannot contain these things may be swept along great deal of further research is needed by the forces which reflect the zeitgeist under Ato comprehensively map out these great which he or she was born, sometimes achieving collective daimones which flow down through great creative expression and sometimes disin- the generations, described by outer planet tegrating into psychosis - or both. The child links between family charts. And the natal pic- who fights against his or her generation group, ture is not the end of the story. Generation and attempts to suppress the larger entity to significators not only link up across the natal which he or she belongs, may suffer equally. A charts of parents and children; they are also sense of profound isolation may be one by- mobilised at specific times by individual outer product. Another may be powerful internal and planet transits, and during those periods when external eruptions which leave the individual the conjoined cycles of two or three outer feeling utterly powerless in the face of the planets reach a critical juncture. For example, forces of change. Links between parent and during the period when Prince Charles and child involving the outer planets suggest that Princess Diana experienced the breakdown of each can help the other to recognise and devel- their marriage, Pluto was transiting through op the gifts and perceptions of their different Scorpio, activating not only their personal generational groups, perhaps contributing more planets, but also the Queen’s natal Neptune. positively to an evolutionary process in which For the Queen’s entire generation group, this both are required, willingly or unwillingly, to was a time of crisis and disillusionment. The participate. “dirt-digging” propensities of Pluto in Scorpio, flushing out all those spheres where emotion- adly, such links often result in a furious bat- al dishonesty threatens survival, ensured that Stle which may be blamed on personal fac- those born under the redemptive vision of tors. Perhaps it was highly inappropriate for the Neptune in Leo were forced to face, at last, Queen to blame Diana personally for her rebel- the impossible gap between their vision and lion against the royal status quo; Diana was a the reality of human sexual and emotional mouthpiece for her generation, and those born nature. with Uranus in Leo are not lightly predisposed to believe in Neptunian dreams. Leonine cre- s individuals, we cannot control or dam 5 See Apollon, Issue 4, "The ative vision may be common to both, but these Aup such great collective movements. We Oracle and the Family two outer planets are opposite in meaning and participate whether we wish to or not. But we Curse", for an analysis of reflect, respectively, intellectual and emotional can choose to participate creatively or the Kennedy family charts. perceptions of the same dimension of life. destructively. We can feel ourselves to be page 12 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 unwilling victims of malevolent external forces. Leo, we may relate better to those young We can puff ourselves up with collective people with Pluto in Libra than to those with We need to have dreams and convince ourselves that we are Pluto in Virgo, and we may find it very hard to the embodiment of divinely inspired change. sympathise with the energies of the Pluto in enough conscious- Or we can engage in the humbler, harder task Scorpio group, which we may experience as ness of where our of refining our own character and talents to quite threatening. Neptune in Libra relates own individual per- act as mediators, contributing as best we can better to Neptune in Sagittarius than to to the positive unfoldment of what is essen- Neptune in Scorpio, and Neptune in Scorpio sonalities merge tially a greater human necessity. We need to relates better to Neptune in Capricorn than into something larg- have enough consciousness of where our own to Neptune in Sagittarius. Whether we are individual personalities merge into something parents or astrologers - or both - the genera- er, in order to con- larger, in order to construct something valid tion gap will continue to exist, not because age struct something and life-enhancing out of our generational and youth are in inevitable discord, but valid and life- needs and compulsions. We also need to offer because the great collective cycles require a our children sufficient wisdom and contain- different vision at a different time. 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Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 13 Born in the Sixties - The Uranus-Pluto Generation Darby Costello Darby Costello compares her memories of the sixties with her experience of those who were born in that heady decade, and eloquently captures the spirit of the time, as well as describing the subtle complexities of those whose charts carry that unique signa- ture of the Virgo Uranus-Pluto conjunction combined with the Neptunian dream of Scorpionic redemption.

uring the late 1980’s, students who had infancy, and later projected onto the world and Dbeen born in the mid-sixties began arriving made real, while new people are being born at the CPA. I had been looking forward to taking in these new images and carrying them meeting this group, with their potent Uranus- forward in time. This generation all had Pluto conjunction, with Neptune in Scorpio. Neptune in Scorpio and Pluto in Virgo, and, This configuration had begun to intrigue me, except for the first and last years, they all had since I was now beginning to come across it in Uranus in Virgo too. The conjunction of Uranus the charts of people who came to consult me. and Pluto was in the middle four years of the They were either in the middle of their Saturn decade. I began to note the different shared Darby Costello studied psy- return, or approaching it, and although over the perceptions expressed by people born in the chology, philosophy, and years I had seen thousands of people through different time zones of the decade. I felt espe- theology at university in the their Saturn returns and remembered my own, cially touched by the people born during this mid-1960's. She then went with its tensions and crystalisations, this genera- ten-year period, as they were born during the on to study astrology with tion was expressing a very different order of time when my generation was young, and Francis Sakoian and Louis tensions and developments. There was another awakening to life in a most powerful and unex- Acker, and also with Isobel Hickey in Boston. In 1971 reason this group intrigued me; they were born pected way. she went to South Africa for in the sixties, and those were the years when a brief visit, and stayed my generation was young, and having a most he sixties were a time of great awakening. twelve years. During that extraordinary time. TThe generation coming of age during that time she worked with the decade shared a vision and a sexual freedom Museum of Man and ne Sunday, standing around with some that was unique and unprecedented. This was, Science in Johannesburg, Ostudents after a seminar, we began talking at least partly, because of two little pills that had recording the art and prac- about the sixties. I was regaling them with tales been designed in Virgoan research laboratories tices of the samgomas, the of that time, when we suddenly realised that in Switzerland: LSD and the birth control pill. priest/priestess healers of the six people I was talking to had all been born Neptune was in Scorpio, and sex, drugs and Southern Africa. At the then, and they all had the Uranus-Pluto con- rock and roll seemed to offer a path to heaven same time, she began prac- tising astrology, developing a junction in opposition to Chiron. It emerged on earth. It is ironic that the generation born wide clientele over the that they were born over a five-year span, with during the sixties was born in a time when years. In 1983, she came to Saturn in Aquarius, Pisces and Aries. One of the youth was freer to find physical, mental and London, developed her group said that he had the Uranus-Pluto con- spiritual satisfaction than all of the generations practice, and began giving junction in the 10th, opposite the Saturn- before them. workshops and seminars to Chiron conjunction in the 4th, and both various groups. In 1988, she squared Sun in Gemini in the 8th house. He luto had been moving back and forth joined the CPA, where she thought it ironic that sex had become so dan- Pbetween Leo and Virgo for the last few has been teaching and gerous for his generation, as they had been years of the fifties, but by mid 1958 it finally supervising students ever born into a decade of such sexual freedom. He settled in Virgo. Uranus joined it properly in since. She also teaches for also said, “You had something to rebel against - 1962, and they worked the same field for the the Faculty of Astrological Studies, and teaches and your generation spoke out continually. There is next eight years. Strictly speaking, Uranus and lectures regularly through- so much wrong today, but I think we are afraid Pluto were not conjunct until 1964. They out the UK and Europe. In to speak out for some reason - though we feel stayed close together in Virgo for the next 1996, Dorling Kindersley the weight of the world’s sorrow very much.” four years. Through those four years, Chiron, published Astrology in their as yet to be discovered, was opposing from “Pocket” series, written by e spoke for a long time, and his words Pisces. By 1968 most of the Western world Darby and Lindsay Wgave me a sudden insight into how gen- had been touched by the change in con- Radermacher. The CPA erations interweave with each other in surpris- sciousness that had risen, like a wave, through Press has published three ing and mysterious ways. For a moment, it was millions of young people, with their psyche- books of Darby’s: The clear how the outer planets describe images, delic vision, their sexual freedom, and their Astrological Moon, Water and thoughts and notions which are absorbed in experimental way of life. Fire, and Earth and Air. page 14 Apollon Issue 5 May 2000 his psychedelic generation grew up, made When Virgo is on the cusp of a particular Tcareers, had children, and in spite of all that house, we enter that house with a Virgoan and early freedom, became as deeply embedded in logical approach. When Uranus and Pluto are the world as any people do with time working there, logic is turned on its head at each fresh through them. Today, they are mostly in their approach. Because there was distress and dis- fifties, moving towards their second lunar and turbance in the things associated with that Saturn returns. Though Saturn has inevitably house in childhood, it feels threatening (Pluto) done its grinding work, many of them still carry to experiment (Uranus) - but it is necessary if some of the sense of wonder that was awok- one is to feel the excitement of life, and reach en in them as a group through their late teens the depths in oneself that nourish mind and Figure 1 and early twenties. The children born into that soul. As Saturn describes the work that must decade of radically changing consciousness are be done to keep your personal life in balance, now all into their thirties, a few years past their Pluto speaks of where you must abandon first lunar and Saturn returns. They are now yourself for the sake of your generation’s task. deepening into the world, and taking up their There may be some choice around Saturn; responsibilities, each in their own way; what there seems to be none around Pluto. they share, through the Uranus-Pluto conjunc- tion, is unique in the last 2,500 years. These n observing clients and students, and the two planets have only been conjoined thirty Igrowing body of friends who were born into times in this span of time, and never before in this decade, I became increasingly aware of a Virgo. number of different territories. There is the group born before the stage was set - articulat- Figure 2 his generation was born into a time when ing the transition between the old conscious- Tsex was fun, food was good, and water and ness and the new. Then there are the people sunlight were free and healthy. During their born between 1964 and 1968, when the years of sexual awakening, they had to contend Uranus-Pluto conjunction was most powerful. with a sexually transmitted killer disease; though And then there are those born at the end of food continues to be plentiful in the western the decade, making a bridge to the next devel- world, diseases such as anorexia and bulemia opment, with Uranus in Libra and Chiron in were taking their toll, and food scares were Aries. becoming more and more common. Drinking water began to come out of bottles instead of hough each group is interesting in its own taps, and the heat and light of the sun were Tright, for the purposes of this article I will Figure 3 becoming suspect, as they filtered through our concentrate on the middle group; those with weakening ozone layer. No matter how much the tight conjunction of Uranus and Pluto in this generation wishes to live private lives out of Virgo. We can better understand the interface the social mainstream, they are confronted with of their personal and collective lives if we divide collective issues every time they make a private them into three groups: decision. Their Uranus-Pluto conjunction in Virgo, with Neptune in Scorpio, demands that 1 The first group has Saturn in Aquarius. Many of they pay attention to a thousand small details them have Saturn quincunx the conjunction and and potential dangers. The trick - and Virgo is square to Neptune in Scorpio. (See figure 1.) Mercury-ruled - is to find where and how to pay attention, so that day-to-day life is not 2 The second group has Saturn in Pisces. Many of swamped in ridiculous and petty discontents, them have Saturn conjunct Chiron and opposing and there is no time for realising the depths of the Uranus-Pluto conjunction. (See figure 2.) spiritual satisfaction that any life requires. 3 And the third group has Saturn in Aries; near- n whichever house Uranus and Pluto fall, ly half of them with Saturn in a yod configuration Ithere is something to be done - something with the Virgo-Scorpio sextile. (See figure 3.) to be discovered, uncovered and perhaps recovered. This is the house where a pattern s they make their way through their years of order was broken in one’s early life. The rit- Aof fashioning the world, each group has a uals and habits of ordinary development were different responsibility, a different area of mas- disrupted, perhaps destroyed. One is later tery, a different kind of structural “imperfection” drawn, even driven, to experiment with new to contend with. Describing and helping to ideas, methods and rituals, to address the understand this responsibility is the task of each sense of fragmentation in the affairs of this astrologer, whether he or she shares these con- house. Yet it is frightening to experiment, figurations or not. Working towards under- because there is a powerful, albeit uncon- standing one’s responsibilities, both personal scious, memory associated with experimenta- and collective, is a large part of achieving satis- tion in the affairs of the house concerned. faction and certainly part of the road to peace.

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he first group, with Saturn in Aquarius, is planets and rulers, mistrust and humour are Tsocially idealistic and they have to work, not appropriate companions on life’s journey, and only to keep their own ideals, but also to facili- cynicism is one’s greatest spiritual danger. tate idealism in others. Those with their Saturns square to Neptune in Scorpio often experi- his group must regularly work what they ence, when young, psychological entanglement Tmust “give to Caesar and to God.” with the disappointed idealism of their fathers. Neptune’s spiritual longing and Saturn’s worldly Children with this aspect are attuned to where demands never melt into something comfort- father was let down by his own authority fig- able for any length of time, just as one’s father ures, and so could not live up to his own ideal never quite lived up to his child’s or his own of himself. Most of the people I know with this ideal, for any length of time. Thus do our souls aspect also have a memory of magic around struggle with the weaknesses of the personal their fathers - whether this is drowned or and collective bodies through which we incar- enhanced by other considerations is dependent nate. on how the aspect is integrated into the rest of the chart. ith Saturn quincunx the Mercury-ruled WUranus-Pluto conjunction, one is contin- aturn square Neptune demands spiritual ually nagged by the need to fix something. Srigour - you can’t leave the world complete- What needs fixing, and who one decides ly, to develop your soul, nor can you give in to should fix it, depend on house positions and the world completely, and forget your soul. other interweaving aspects. The things that Those with the Scorpio-Aquarius square need need adjusting and fixing cannot be done auto- to live up to their own social idealism while matically, or in a routine way. They require longing for profound emotional experience. In energy and audacity. But they can seem like dis- trying to bridge the two realms, they often find tractions to finding oneself. These things, seen themselves dangling at the end of a rope, per- out of the corner of one’s eye, keep one aware ilously close to the abyss. But when the bridge that the world is always out of one’s control. holds, they bring soul food right into the world This can be experienced as a constant torment, and are deeply nourished in soul and mind. or as a call to attention that comes out of Uranus, as dispositor of Saturn in Aquarius, is in nowhere, and demands renewed awareness Mercury-ruled Virgo. With this combination of whenever one gets too lost in ideas and ideals. page 16 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 The details of how it operates depend on the bother everyone around me all the time so that whole chart, and what sort of soul is inhabiting every detail I see of misuse of the environment the chart. will become someone’s personal task.” I asked him if he often felt hopeless, and he said, “Every hose born with Saturn in Pisces conjoined day, but it hurts more to stop trying than it does Tto Chiron in Pisces opposite the Virgo con- to keep failing, and sometimes I actually suc- junction, were born into the years where tradi- ceed for a time.” tional authority was showing its weaknesses more and more. In the landscape of my mem- he pain this aspect describes is never whol- ory it is tempting to say that the only people we Tly personal - it calls for action, without the listened to were the poets and musicians, who comfort of a consistent sense of hope. Those spoke and sang to us - and most of them who cannot take action themselves, act as cat- turned out to be less than holy. Saturn was con- alysts for those around them. Even those who joined to Chiron in Pisces - everything was experience themselves as helpless and falling apart and no one really knew what was obsessed, fulfil their generational task. They going on. For we who were young, it was excit- make others aware of where things just aren’t ing. For those born into this atmosphere, it is a right. spiritual problem that filters into all sorts of small and personal areas of their lives. he last group born with Saturn in Aries has Ta fight on its hands, each according to his or o find authentic authority in oneself, one her own Mars position. In childhood they expe- Tmust generally find it in others first, in early rienced their father’s battle for autonomy in the childhood. We begin by imitating, and later face of his own obstacles, and they generally work out what is appropriate to our own per- found him too harsh, or not directive enough, sonalities, through the various Saturn stages. If, in helping them foster their own self-discipline. in those early years, one’s authority figures were Those who have Saturn at the apex of a yod to lost or confused, absent or, indeed, lying and Neptune in Scorpio and Uranus and Pluto in betraying, it is difficult later on to find authority Virgo, have their own personal struggle for in oneself. Wherever the opposition falls in the authoritative action at odds with their need for chart, these people must confront inaccurate, deep emotional and mental satisfaction. imprecise, ill-founded, ill-advised words and Though each of their stories is unique, they actions. They do this from a stand that is muta- generally share a struggle for self-reliance in the bility itself - with their Saturn conjoined to face of emotional demands and economic or Chiron in Pisces, how can they be sure they are physical unpredictabilities, according to the right about what they see? They must act and houses involved. When personal planets are fail, and act again. Ultimately their guide and connected to any of the points of the yod, fate authority is Piscean compassion - a compassion comes through the planets involved. Looking in grown through the waters of hurt feelings and Lois Rodden’s database I noticed an intriguing bouts of helplessness. A difficult client with this mix of pop stars, adventurous princes and configuration said to me, “I’m all about hopeless porno stars. causes.” I asked if he was referring to himself or others. Being a Scorpio he looked enigmatic y clients from this group are, alas, usually and said, “What do you think?” I found myself Mmore conventional. However, many of caught right in the middle of the opposition, them are no less courageous. Saturn in Aries flung back and forth between irritation and con- always points to a struggle with developing an fusion, on several levels at once. In the end I energy flow that serves oneself and one’s work. said, rather enigmatically, “Of course”, and we With this yod, it can seem as though one slid into another gear. I felt strongly how the should act when one can’t, and be passive Neptune in Scorpio, with its mysterious conclu- when one is full of energy. And then fate comes sions, probably often acts as a release for the along and offers potential triumph if one throws opposition. one’s energy into the battle, and simply does the work. Doing the work requires bearing fail- any of the men and women I know with ure, of course, and this seems to be the key for Mthis configuration are part of that dedicat- this yod. Those who were part of the protests ed band of “eco-warriors” that now live every- and revolutions of the late sixties remember where around the world, as guardians of vari- both the frustrations and the vibrant energy of ous ecological systems. A client with the oppo- the time. Those born during that time carry the sition across the 3rd/9th houses, and Moon in need to fight for something and win. Those Sagittarius squaring it from the 6th, (see figure who risk failure do fail, but they also know tri- 4) was in this country to raise money for the umph. Depending on the personal planets tribal lands he was trying to keep ecologically involved, triumph and failure may be intensely balanced. “It is my job”, he said, “to willingly personal. But, because of the outer planets Figure 4

Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 17 Wham! Roy Lichtenstein ©The Tate Gallery

involved, even the most private acts of courage what is fate, and where the pattern can be have an effect on the world outside ones pri- worked with. It must be possible to do vate sphere. something that is my own decision. It so often feels like fate just takes over. I am ears ago, I was close to a couple whose searching for my own will.” Yfive children were all born in the sixties. One of them had Saturn in Aries in the 4th, he conjunction of Uranus and Pluto in quincunx Uranus-Pluto in the 9th and TVirgo, while Neptune was moving Neptune in Scorpio in the 11th. Mars was in through Scorpio, signalled a call to plunge Leo in the 7th, and all his personal planets through and past the current rites and ritu- were connected to the configuration in var- als of many aspects of daily life. A new ious ways. (See figure 5.) Though he was a approach to the Earth, to our bodies, to sunny child, with several planets in Leo, I work and service, and to the connection used to look at that Saturn in Aries in the between mind and matter was demanded. It 4th and wonder if he would look back on his sprang out of a hunger for depth, for inti- childhood as an unhappy time. There were mate union that broke through the rituals moments when I would find him sitting and rules of social life at that time. We, who alone, looking upset, while all the other chil- were young then, felt the touch of this dren were leaping about in the field. His breakthrough in many aspects of our lives, father certainly loved him, but he found this and, being an articulate generation, we sang tendency to withdrawal hard to deal with, as and chanted our visions and our demands. he hid his own tender skin even from him- The generation born during that time felt Figure 5 self. He would try to tease his son out of the call in the waters of their Earth bodies. these moments, but the teasing often ended As adults, there are those who play it out in in more hurt. When the boy was eight, his quiet and personal ways, and there are parents divorced. He rarely saw his father those who leap into the fray, working for again, as his mother moved them to a dif- transformation and regeneration of all sorts ferent town, and later a different country. I of systems on the Earth. It depends on how Darby Costello will be lost track of them, but heard from him other planets interweave with these exploring the issues raised recently. He had not had an easy life up to transpersonals as to whether one’s partici- in this article in a seminar now. He told me he’d been full of resent- pation is public or private, but everyone is she is giving on the Uranus- ment around his father, blaming him for the part of it. As progressions and transits touch Pluto generation on the “loss of my childhood”. Then he’d married, these planets, new clues are given as to 11th June 2000, at Regents and had his own children. When he left his what is demanded and what is offered. The College, for the CPA. See wife, he still blamed his father, for “making trick is to keep paying attention, with this centre pages for booking me that way”. Now he’d begun asking real Mercury-ruled field in hidden water worlds. information. questions. “I sound like I’m looking for God, The trick is to keep one’s tool box up to but it’s more than that - I’m trying to see date, and be willing to be surprised.

Melanie Reinhart will be presenting a lecture entitled Begin Your Future Now at the Mind Body Spirit Festival 2000, May 29th 2000 2.00pm - 3.00pm Royal Horticultural Halls, London. Take this opportunity to deepen your participation in the momentum of the new Jupiter-Saturn cycle. page 18 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 The Thirteenth Fairy Lynn Bell At a wish-giving for the new princess in Sleeping Beauty, there was a uninvited guest, a fairy who bestowed a curse in a fit of pique for having been left out. As astrologers, dealing with the expectations of parents who ask for a chart to be drawn up for a new arrival, we would do well to remember this tale, says Lynn Bell. ho among us has forgotten the christen- women. As Marie-Louise Von Franz1 points out Wing of the King and Queen’s long await- in her inspired commentary on the tale, these ed baby daughter? Twelve golden plates were wise women were the midwives who attended laid, with the best crystal and silver cutlery, and births and knew healing herbs, but also carried a all the fairies were invited to drink fine wine and whiff of the witch. Primitive cultures honour but give their blessings to the baby princess. One also fear those who straddle the gateway had been left off the list, though - the one who between birth and death. Midwives and was not so nice, whose eyes were a bit too nar- shamans are tainted by the supernatural, even row, whose nose was a bit too pointy, and the most benevolent among them. whose tongue could be sharper than one would like at such an occasion. Besides, thirteen is such ost “serious” twentieth century astrologers an untidy number, and twelve really seemed just Mhave worked hard to streamline their right. Perfect, in fact, until a cold wind chilled the image, and are, often enough, eager technicians, room and the door blew open with an outraged rational magicians with fast computers and reas- fairy in a very bad temper standing on the suring explanations. All of us are seduced at threshold. And if she hadn’t seemed especially some point by the golden numbers, the perfect lovely before, she was positively awful now, all cycles, the hidden harmonies of the universe. Lynn Bell has been an furrowed brow and twisted mouth and dark And yet, over and over again, we come up astrologer for 25 years, for portents for eyes. She knew how to choose her against the raw mysteries of birth and death, the much of that time in Paris, moment, too, because all the others had gifted feelings and fears of our clients, and the twists of where she has an active the child with beauty and sweetness and thick their destinies. So looking into the birthchart of consulting practice. She golden hair and the like, and they’d almost used a newly arrived soul is a very delicate enterprise. began teaching at the CPA up their wishes, and could only stand by help- We wish for the best, especially for the children in London in 1995. An inter- lessly as the outcast predicted that the child of our closest friends, and yet we can’t help see- national lecturer and would prick her finger on a spindle and die. ing that Saturn square Mars, or a prominent teacher, she gives seminars Chiron and a loaded 8th house. Like the fairies in Paris and throughout hat neglected fairy is like the thirteenth at the christening, we speak of the good things, France. Her first book, TMoon: she pulls things off centre, she dis- the talents and gifts promised by the birthchart. Planetary Threads: Patterns of rupts what is well ordered and comfortable. Her But then there is that thirteenth fairy. And per- Relating among Family and presence reminds us to pay attention to the haps it is because of her that many astrologers Friends, has been published irregular and unwanted, the frightening and the are unwilling to read the chart of a newborn by the CPA Press. left-over. A new baby evokes fierce feelings of child. protection from adults, who naturally wish the best for their child. But the tale tells us that it can hether “forgotten” or intentionally left be dangerous to insist on perfection. In some Wout, the thirteenth fairy also speaks to versions of the tale, this fairy has been living far- our unacknowledged envy, the possibility that away in an old ruined tower, not much seen of our thwarted desires for love or success, happi- late, and simply forgotten. It is easy to forget all ness or belonging, might erupt at the moment of kinds of things, when faced with the magic of a a reading, and amplify the more difficult aspects new life. But forgetting, like excluding, brings in a chart. All of us have heard stories of words with it certain dangers. that lodged in a client’s psyche, frightening words never put aside, sometimes blooming s astrologers, we are often in an odd posi- into self-fulfilling prophecies. And yet some diffi- Ation when a new child comes into the cult things need to be said. One mother has world, not so far removed from the fairies in often reminded me of this. Her daughter was Sleeping Beauty. Parents look to us with hope born with Mars on the Ascendant opposing the 1 The Feminine in Fairy Tales and trepidation, and our words carry great Moon, and I remember speaking (in what I Marie-Louise von Franz weight. In the Grimm Brothers’ German version, hoped was a most useful way) of the highly 1992, Spring Publications they were not fairies but Weise Frau, wise charged relationship that can come with this

Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 19 aspect, and what to be aware of when it is pre- trable briar forest that springs up, trapping sent. I had no idea at the time, no more than the would-be suitors among its thorns, hints at fear mother, that the chart I was looking at belonged of sexuality, regression, resistance. Sleep is both to a little girl with a serious and rare genetic dis- a metaphor for unconciousness, and an attempt order. She became strong and vital, but was at healing - such a process can last a long, long never able to speak and developed into a pow- time. erful, emotionally demanding child that required constant, often extremely physical attention ow to avoid such a state of stasis? We from her mother for the first five years of her Hastrologers may help by giving small doses life. of difficulty early on, by showing, when asked, what work may be done. Who has not wished t can be argued that the thirteenth fairy is no perfect happiness on a tiny new being? Yet no Imore than the messenger of the Fates, for the family environment is without its unlived ener- spindle is an attribute of the Moirae who twist gies or forgotten aspirations. The willingness to the thread into being, measure it and finally cut include the uncomfortable from the very begin- through. Her envy can then be seen as some- ning, to acknowledge what is more easily left thing more than personal, as an insistence that out, may keep things from getting wildly dis- the irrational and uneven be given its place at jointed when a child reaches adolescence. In this the table. Even in the best of families, where way, we admire the golden, the promise of kind-hearted and generous parents watch care- wholeness, but we also invite the thirteenth fairy fully over a child, even in palaces, fate slips in. to sup at our table. The King and Queen took precautions, of course; all the spindles in the kingdom were n India, an uninvited guest brings great good burned, but somehow one old woman was Ifortune to the marriage banquet, I learned this there in a tower spinning when the appointed as a backpacking traveller eagerly waved in off day came round. The princess did not die, how- the street in Agra, of all places, after following ever, because the last wish, the thirteenth wish, the music of a wedding procession. Four of us made by a fairy who had not had time to were welcomed warmly, invited to eat exquis- bestow her gift, was one of reparation, of deep ite food, honoured with smiles and encouraging sleep that lasts a hundred years. nods. It is quite extraordinary to be treated with such gracious and unmerited openness. hat to make of the thirteenth fairy’s pro- Why is it that at some times and places we are Wnouncement, that the princess would die full of faith in the unknown, while at others we when she reaches the age of fifteen? Fifteen is hide behind locks, hedges, and security guards? the age of the first Saturn opposition, and it quite clearly marks the death of childhood. ospitality was sacred to Zeus, and many Some separation from the parents becomes HEuropean traditions set a place at the necessary at this time - in our days it is mostly table for the uninvited guest. Openness, above psychological and emotional, while not so very- all, honours Jupiter, for it shows faith in what long ago maidens were married and young men life can bring. Richard Idemon used to say that sent off to seek their fortune. Both parents and each transit was like a stranger knocking at the children can feel regret or resistance when this door. If ignored, the knocking got louder on passage comes round, and if a child has taken a the second passage, for the stranger was often long time in coming, if she has been sighed for a god in disguise. If, on the third passage of a and hoped for during many long years, then her transit, the god is still denied entry, he may parents, like the King and Queen in our story, knock the door down, or even reduce the may be reluctant to end the idyll. house to ashes. Neglecting the thirteenth fairy is also sinning against Jupiter, for it honours he plates at the christening were gold, and fear rather than trust, and holds back growth Tgold does not change or tarnish. But a spin- in some way. What we include and what we dle is always in motion; it keeps dancing, trans- exclude may very well define our fate, on both forming raw matter into thread, into the stuff an individual and collective level. that weaves a life. This latter part of the story concerns our ability to step over the threshold child arrives in a family as a stranger, a into the next phase of life. Our princess goes Anew soul with his own destiny to fulfill, exploring on the day of her fifteenth birthday, and yet miraculously familiar, his eyes or ears she turns the rusty key in the rusty lock, she or nose or smile just like mother’s or father’s. reaches out for the unknown, and by touching We know that children are more or less the spindle falls into sleep instead. The whole desired, and timing is not always innocent. castle falls with her into a suspended life. She Each new baby becomes a permanent transit was willing to touch the future, but fate had to his parents’ chart, embodying Saturn-Sun or something other in store for her. The impene- Jupiter-Moon, and this tiny being can set off all page 20 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 This is Astrology with a Passion: Rigorous * Witty * Stimulating

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Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 21 A Celebration of the Joyful Child Anne Whitaker

Those of us who are involved with healing work may often get immersed in how hurt chil- dren can be, and how those hurts last long into adult life. Here, Anne Whitaker rightly reminds us of the fundamental joy of a child’s energy, and celebrates the “resilient, Joyful Child within all of us.”

“...he who kisses the joy as it flies aving been asked to write about The Lives in Eternity’s sunrise.”1 HChild, and having reflected on the topic for some weeks, I want to celebrate the sponta- Introduction neous, resilient, Joyful Child within all of us, explore how it fares as we mature. If we are wice in the year, in February and July, I go lucky, this part manages to survive the batter- Ton retreat for a week to the Orkneys, a ings, brutalities and tragedies of existence, con- storm-tossed scattering of green, fertile islands tinuing to provide inspiration and faith that life between the far North of Scotland and is worth living. Scandinavia. It is an eagerly anticipated treat: hotel living and no domestic responsibility, sur- ho, exactly, is this Child? The basic stuff rounded by the sea and an ever-changing Wof which s/he is made is the element of panorama of skies, which are an artist’s dream. fire, that which the gods prized so much they wanted to keep to themselves. But Anne Whitaker is an n enjoyable evening during this February Prometheus stole some, hidden in a fennel astrologer, astrology Aweek was spent visiting old friends: one a stalk, and gave it to us. He was savagely pun- teacher, and writer based in distinguished pillar of the local community, still ished for his misdemeanor - but ever since, we Glasgow in Scotland. Her vital in his eighties, the other an extremely witty, humans have had at least one chip of that mag- work has appeared in a erudite Sheriff in his sixties. ical, divine substance lodged in us. Everyone wide range of publications, has some; some people have too little, others including the UK’s e had a splendid time - talking politics, have too much. Astrological Journal, Astrology Wlearning about local history, indulging in Quarterly, Self & Society, that favourite island pastime of storytelling; hav- hat is it? It’s the spark of divine light, that Apollon, the USA's ing a good laugh. Wwhich tells us we are special and immor- Considerations and The tal, that we’re here for a reason, that our lives Mountain Astrologer. Her tepping outside revealed a magical night - have a purpose, that we have a future worth study of the February 1997 Sthick snow floating down in the still, cold air, seeking out. It fuels wonder, injects the passion Jupiter-Uranus conjunction, trees blanketed, ground covered. I couldn’t of inquiry into mere curiosity, causes learning “From erotic bathing to star resist it. Making a few snowballs, I threw them and exploration to be a joyful end in them- gazing” is being published at a tree at the far end of the garden. Pretty selves. It gives the capacity to look out at the over three issues of good aim still! The Sheriff and my husband world with a fresh set of eyes, take pleasure at Considerations November joined in - three middle-aged folk, happily hurl- what’s there, because it’s new, exciting. It brings 1999 - May 2000. She is a ing snowballs around like a bunch of six-year- spontaneity and the gift of laughter. It fuels play, tutor at the Centre for olds. We strolled back to the hotel, feeling very which is at the core of a response to life which Psychological Astrology. cheerful.”That kid in you is still alive and well, is fundamentally creative and imaginative. Contact Anne at isn’t she?” my husband remarked. I realise that [email protected] she is, and feel so grateful for it. t is highly protective and supportive of life, Defining the Child Iespecially when the going is rough, giving the hope that things will get better. It enables tough great deal has been written in recent years times to be survived, through the unquenchable Aabout the Inner Child, so much so that a belief that suffering may be awful, and protract- whole branch of the therapy industry has ed - but it means something, it is not just the grown out of it, along with Inner Child work- random brutality of quixotic gods, or fate. It books, weekend workshops, etc. The emphasis brings the capacity in extremis to laugh at the 1 William Blake MS Note- tends to be on the wounded, vulnerable Inner sheer absurdity of life, and oneself - a capacity Book, The Oxford Dictionary Child, carried to a greater or lesser extent by all which can drag one out from under the worst of Quotations, 1999 Edition, adults; the focus, on attempting to heal that of times for just long enough to reaffirm that p 120, par 8 injured aspect. life, despite everything, is worth living. page 22 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 he precious creature formed from such square, as we step across the boundary of fam- Tmagical substance never grows up, in the ily, is that the Joyful Child begins to hide, its sense of assuming worldly responsibilities, and energy becoming redirected, as we become never gives up on life’s possibilities and delights. more aware of ourselves in relation to what the It cannot be ordered forth - just appears, then outer world expects. By and large, that outer disappears: will o’ the wisp. world is more interested in us being able to tie Leaving the Otherworld our shoelaces, read, tell the time, and be truth- ful, than it is in knowing what a wonderful chat he advance through adulthood alters one’s we had in Chinese last night with the bright Tperception of what it is to be young. Having green tiger who sleeps under our bed. been scarred by life as we all are, watching a Early adulthood pre-school child absorbed in play is delightful, but also poignant. Delightful because it demon- he first Saturn opposition, at 14/15, is the strates clearly that there is another world than Tpoint where we take bigger steps out of the one we usually inhabit, full of deadlines, family, begin to challenge parental authority, duties and demands. and move towards greater identification with the peer group. The need to play and day- his Otherworld is full of goblins and fire dream, which is fundamental to the Joyful Tengines, magic bubbles and imaginary Child’s world, and the creative energy fuelling friends, bright green tigers who speak, and these activities, gets sublimated further at this amenable adults happy to give you the keys to point. It channels into the pursuit of achieve- the scary castle, where you can spend days of ment of an academic or vocational nature, and adventure without anyone telling you that it’s exploration of the exciting, troubling world of impossible for giants to keep a special pocket relationship and emerging sexuality as bodily full of ice cream that never melts, just waiting changes propel the young person towards for you to come and eat it. Poignant because physical adulthood. The Joyful Child’s impetus we wonder, looking at this absorbed child, how towards discovery and exploration of the new, s/he will cope with an adult world, whose entry engages in a complex dance with the tough tariff is extracted from the struggle between the realities that are also emerging. Too much time fantasy world of childhood, where anything is spent playing, not enough on taking responsibil- possible, and the reality testing which takes ity, can have a high emotional cost, e.g. exam place as we grow and confront the limits which failure or unwanted pregnancy. life sets for us. he waning square, at 21/22, brings with it he Saturn cycle offers a helpful containing Tthe world’s expectation that we should Tcontext within which to explore how the begin to assume adult responsibility, get a job if Joyful Child within us fares as life’s journey we’ve been studying for years, get serious. unfolds. There is a case to be made for not Many people marry or enter into long-term starting children at school until the first square partnerships at this stage, perhaps out of of the cycle. Five or six, the common age, unconscious fear of facing the adult world and seems too early to remove children from the its responsibilities alone. I have gained the Otherworld of play and unbounded imagina- impression from my varied professional work tion. Shakespeare vividly expressed the average with people of differing ages over a long period child’s response to being dragged from the of time, that part of the vulnerability of this life Otherworld: stage comes from a realisation that childhood is, indeed, over. “And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel, ecently I came across a scrapbook of news- And shining morning face, creeping like a snail Rpaper cuttings from a column I wrote in my Unwillingly to school.”2 early twenties. In it was a piece called “Thoughts on Childhood” which supports the f we did start children at the later age of seven view just expressed: Ior eight, socially disruptive though that would be in many ways, perhaps it would give more am close enough to childhood for my time for the Joyful Child’s domain to become “Imemories still to be clear and reasonably established. Thus it might be easier for the untainted by the rosy hues of nostalgia, growing person to retain contact with the although I realise now that as soon as we have Otherworld, as a source of inspiration through- ceased to be children, the world of childhood 2 As You Like It (1599) Act out life. becomes a closed world to us, one which we 2, sc 7, l 139, The Oxford can never recapture, except through flashes of Dictionary of Quotations, ssentially, what happens from the time of memory and watching our own children grow 1999 Edition, p 658, par 26 Estarting school through the first Saturn up. As adults, no matter how hard we wish to

Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 23 recapture the feeling of childhood, we must which never ages, which rejoices in being alive, always remain ‘watchers by the threshold.’”3 and is powerfully connected to the endless cycle of birth, maturation, decline, death and his is a critical age, in terms of the emerging return. Tindividual’s capacity to retain that spark of vital creative energy which ensures that engag- he thirties and forties are decades where a ing with the world as it is does not mean stifling Tmajor challenge lies in the grinding process the Joyful Child, who has been curbed by now, of reality testing our hopes, wishes, dreams and and knows that much of the time it’s not safe ambitions against the world as it is. Most of us to be too overt. But it is important that the eventually get to the Saturn opposition of the rechannelled energy continues to flow. It can mid-forties: we are still here, we may still be express itself in passionate committment to a functioning tolerably well, but we’re not young career, as opposed to working purely to pro- any more. vide life’s necessities. It can manifest through joy Midlife in good friends, or absorbing hobbies and inter- ests outside work. For some people, early par- rom the mid-forties on, we only have to enthood brings, along with responsibility, the Flook in the mirror, or realise that our idea of opportunity to view the world again through a good Friday night is increasingly of going to the eyes of their growing children. bed early, not with a hot lover, but with a good book, to be aware of the relentless advance of here is also a direct route for expression mortality. It becomes harder at this stage for Tthrough the sheer animal vitality of youth, most people to keep in touch with the Joyful which all by itself can make life feel worth living. Child, keep its energies flowing. For many peo- I recall a middle-aged male friend of mine’s ple, brutalities of an environmental, political, recent comment on seeing a young man run- social or personal nature have borne down so ning effortlessly up several flights of stairs hard that the vital spark of life borne by the recently, not because he had to, just because he Joyful Child can now fuel only the dogged sur- could. “I can’t do that any more - my back’s too vival instinct. bad!” remarked my friend. “It made me feel wistful, reminded me of the youthful grace and have found that one of the compensations of energy which I once had.” Imiddle age is deeply paradoxical, and was first Point of entry alerted to it a few years ago by a comment made by my late mother-in-law, then approach- rom the Saturn return at 29-30 onwards, the ing eighty. The way she dealt with an old age full Fmajor underlying task changes: from discov- of physical infirmity was inspiring. She had a live- ering the overall shape of who you are in rela- ly sense of fun and humour, maintained great tion to your own life, to beginning to use the interest in the wider world, as well as that of platform you have built as support in offering her own family and friends, and kept up a prodi- your unique contribution to the wider world. gious correspondence right up to the end of By this stage, the balance achieved between her life. The Joyful Child in her was alive right to necessary realism and the joyous, inspirational, the end, sustained in her case by a strong, ecu- creative aspects of life, is crucial to how the menical religious faith. “You know,” she said, next fifteen years unfold. The poet Dylan “occasionally when I’m not thinking about any- Thomas senses and honours the presence of thing in particular, I catch sight of my face in the the child he was, in his marvellous Poem in mirror and get an awful shock. I see an old October, written on his thirtieth birthday: woman’s face looking out at me - but inside I don’t feel old at all - I feel just the same as I did “And I saw in the turning so clearly a child’s for- when I was young.” gotten mornings...... where a boy.....whispered the truth of his joy he paradox is this. The body ages to the point To the trees and the stones and the fish in the Twhere you are faced with increasing physical tide.” evidence of the passage of time; but an opportuni- ty can also slowly arise to perceive, with a clarity In the poem’s last verse, he writes: not possible in youth, that this ageing body has 3 Thoughts on Childhood been carrying something else through life which is from Personally Speaking “And the true different, ageless, separate from the physical - that column, Stornoway Joy of the long dead child sang burning spark of immortality which comes in some time Gazette, September 1970 In the sun.”4 before birth, flying free at physical death. Thus, as 4 Poem in October from mortality’s approach becomes more and more dif- Dylan Thomas Collected or Dylan Thomas, as for many poets and ficult to ignore, a major compensation can be Poems 1934-52, Aldine Feven more for us ordinary citizens, being in offered by that which is clearly immortal becoming Press, 1972 Edition, pp 96-7 nature can powerfully evoke that within us more and more evident by contrast. page 24 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 idlife can be a depressing time. Vitality about a current “golden age for children’s fic- Mdeclines, children have either flown the tion” with reference to an article by S.F. nest and you miss them, or have their own Said.5 The success of current children’s problems which can bring yet more responsi- authors, led by Roald Dahl and J.K. Rowling, bility to you at a stage in life where you are “owe as much to the way they appeal to tired of being responsible. Careers can pall. grown-ups as well as children - and not just Dear friends die. You realise how fleeting life for nostalgic reasons.” Connell observed that is, and how little of it you have left. But as in those writers one finds good old-fash- always, there are choices. The paradox noted ioned storytelling, strong plots, and that above brings a great opportunity for reorien- quality which is present in all the best chil- tation and renewal. Increasing trust in the dren’s books, but often missing in adult ones, immortal spark within, that Joyful Child which ie a sense of wonder, of “being alive to the has survived the batterings of life, and still world.” He concluded by putting forward retains a sense of the importance of making a Said’s view that many adult readers to their creative response, can strengthen existing own children are discovering afresh, through belief that life continues in some form when the works of Dahl and Rowling, what great the body dies - or help that belief to grow. writers have always known: children’s stories Conclusion can touch “those parts of us that haven’t yet become bored, damaged or embarrassed by would like to conclude by returning to existence - and can help those parts that Iwhat I have called the Otherworld, that have.” magical domain which is the natural habitat 5 The Daily Telegraph, week of the Joyful Child. Its importance was high- prescription for helping to keep the beginning 13 March 2000. lighted in the 18 March copy of the magazine AJoyful Child alive ? Go and read the Quoted in The Week, 18 The Week, where Jolyon Connell was writing Harry Potter books...! March 2000, p 3

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All payments can be made by Access, Mastercard or Visa The Romance of Sibling Rivalry: Mercury, Gemini, and the Enfant Terrible Christopher Renstrom In his exploration of various sibling relationships in myth, such as Cain and Abel, and Jacob and Esau, Christopher Renstrom looks at the many facets of Mercury and Gemini. “Like any Mercury story, what’s important is what happens along the way.” “The world owes its enchantment to these curi- Mercury - that urges this person to develop ous creatures and their fancies, along his own unique path? A path that perhaps but its multiple complicity rejects them. we don’t understand, because it doesn’t fit our Thistledown spirits, heart-rending in model of what an “adult” relationship should their evanescence, they must go blowing head- be? long to perdition. And yet, all started harmlessly, in childish games and laughter…” ercury is all about doubling. In fact the Jean Cocteau1 MGreeks named the planet twice. It was called “Apollo” when it appeared as the morn- ean Cocteau’s novel, Les Enfants Terribles, is ing star and “Hermes” when it was the evening Jthe story of two precocious siblings who star.2 In Virgo, we see it as the refuse to grow up. An enfant terrible is a child Mother/Daughter pairing (or the Demeteres)3, who is more sophisticated than he or she ought but in Gemini, Mercury rules the Twins. The to be - a free spirit, an unholy terror who planet of thought and communication, Mercury wreaks havoc on the lives of those seeking a has a reputation for being the enfant terrible of Christopher Renstrom is more orderly existence. astrology. Rarely depicted as a mature figure, he based in New York, has is often described as the trickster/thief, who been a full time astrologer he Cocteau novel is a bittersweet ode to bestows a love of words and precociousness since 1985. He originated Tthe first and most complex of relationships on those born under his influence. the monthly horoscope col- (if one can call it a relationship in a societal umn for Allure magazine sense) - the sibling. Paul and Elizabeth live in a or the most part, Mercury is overshadowed (Condé Nast) in 1991, and world of their own making, replete with rituals, Fby the Sun, Moon, and/or Venus in a chart has been writing it since. In symbols, and sly gestures. They are so perfectly reading. Relegated to the marginal heading of 1997, Christopher was in sync with each other that neither one is capa- “this is how you think”, Mercury is skipped over, approached by The San ble of joining, much less recognizing, the outside almost as quickly as he skips about. There are Francisco Chronicle to write world. Like the two parts of a bicameral mind, attempts to dress him up in his psychopompos the daily horoscopes for the they constantly bicker and fight for dominance mantle - to make him appear somehow more paper, replacing the late in their see-saw existence. Yet neither one can “hermetic” - but he seems as comfortable with Jean Dixon. His column jump off without dooming the other. They are that as a child forced to put on Sunday clothes. appears every weekday and like psychic Siamese twins. Mercury’s particular genius comes from his love on SFGate.com, which is the of play. Everything is a game to this planet. Yet web-site for the Chronicle, n astrology, the air signs are given jurisdiction playing games doesn’t sit well with many peo- the Examiner, and KRON- Iover relationships. Indeed, the three stages of ple. Games are for kids, not adults. If someone TV. Last year, he signed with relating can be seen as one progresses from is playing with you then that means you’re being the Chicago Tribune Gemini to Aquarius. Gemini rules over siblings. deceived, led astray, made to look like a fool. Syndicate to write an astrol- Libra rules partnerships. Aquarius is about one’s What if you play and you lose? You could for- ogy Q&A column titled Ask place in the larger group or community. It’s feit everything you have. Games are mischie- the Stars, a sample of which tempting to read this in terms of an evolution- vous. Yet the rules of a game are the first set of can be viewed at ary ladder that one scales in order to achieve rules we learn. Game playing is more than just http://emuse.tms.tribune.com/ social happiness and fulfillment. But does that recreation for Mercury. Game playing is how His first astrology book will somehow indicate there’s something backward this mythological god made a place for himself be published by Harper about sibling ties? Do Geminis (or people at a dinner table where all the best seats had Collins next year. whose Sun falls in the 3rd house, or who have been taken. Mercury dealt himself in. He has appeared a number a strong Mercury signature in their charts) need of times on Good Morning to develop a more Libran or Aquarian sensibil- ercury is also known as Hermes - the trick- New York and MSNBC. ity in order to become socially acceptable? Mster thief. Fathered by Zeus and born of a Also a playwright, four of Might there not be something built into Gemini single mother, Maia (one of the seven virgin sisters Christopher’s five plays have - or for that matter, Gemini’s ruling planet or the Pleiades) Hermes is up on his feet minutes been produced Off Off Broadway.

Apollon Issue 5 May 2000 page 27 after he enters the world, taking in everything ceivable that the cows would be anywhere around him. One of the first things he spies at the other than where they’re supposed to be. mouth of his mother’s cave is a tortoise, whom he Apollo is more absorbed in retrieving his cattle, praises, and says will sing beautifully after it’s dead so he doesn’t realize that it’s Hermes who’s and gone. This makes no sense to the tortoise, leading him around by the nose. This is what who never lives to understand Hermes’ words, makes Mercury both a guide and a deceiver. because Hermes kills it, scoops the meat out of its Hermes knows the truth because he’s the one shell, ties seven strings of sheep gut across the rim who hatched the plan in the first place. and invents the lyre. This ability to size up a situa- tion, and conceive of possibilities that aren’t appar- he truth is revealed incrementally. And this ent, is characteristic of those who have Mercury Ttrail of breadcrumbs leads to the realization strong in their charts. Their swift discovery, spon- that Apollo and Zeus are dealing with someone taneous analysis, and immediate understanding of who’s smarter than they are. For every lie they what to do next can leave everybody else feeling catch Hermes in, their own shortcomings are baffled like the slow-moving tortoise. revealed. Apollo, the god of prophecy, has had 1 Les Enfants Terribles Jean his property stolen right out from under his Cocteau, trans. Rosamond ermes then hatches a plan to steal his half- nose. That’s not exactly the sort of thing one Lehman. New Directions. Hbrother Apollo’s cattle. This was during wants to get out. And Zeus, the god who 1957 Apollo’s pastoral phase, when the Sun god enforces lawful oaths, is manipulated into 2 "Mercury has been thought he might try his hand at animal hus- acknowledging that Hermes is his illegitimate known since at least the bandry. By leading the cattle out of their stalls son when Hermes swears in Zeus’s presence time of the Sumerians (3rd backwards, Hermes was able to make it look as that he is innocent. Within a day, Hermes has millennium BCE). It was if Apollo’s herd had come home at the end of transformed himself from juvenile delinquent given two names by the the day and then vanished mysteriously into into the sacred herald of the gods themselves. Greeks: Apollo for its thin air. Which was exactly what Apollo Not bad for someone who started out with apparition as a morning thought. However, he did smell a culprit and nothing.4 star and Hermes as an hastened to Maia’s cave, where he found evening star. Greek Hermes napping sweetly like a baby. or anyone born under the astrological sign astronomers knew, howev- Fof Gemini (or Virgo), ruling planet Mercury er, that the two names hen confronted, Hermes feigns inno- can only be in the same sign or one of the two referred to the same body. Wcence. He doesn’t know anything about adjacent signs. Mercury can never be in the The Nine Planets: A any cattle. He’s obviously still a baby - barely opposite sign nor can Mercury occupy the ele- Multimedia Tour of the Solar more than a day old. How could Apollo be so ment of its opposite sign. In other words, if one System. Bill Arnett. cynical as to suspect such a thing? But Apollo is a Gemini, Mercury cannot be in Sagittarius- www.seds.org/nineplanets/ will have none of it, and drags the child-god off nor can Mercury be in any of the other two fire 3 “Kore, the Girl, is so inti- to Mount Olympus. There, Apollo accuses signs. I find it intriguing that a Gemini Mercury mately associated with her Hermes in front of all the pantheon and pleads cannot reside in fire, the element of Apollo (the mother Demeter that they with Zeus to discipline his newborn son. Zeus Sun) and Zeus (Jupiter). Perhaps this is in are often referred to sim- disavows any knowledge of Hermes’s parent- exchange for Hermes having tricked them in ply as the two goddesses age and that’s when Hermes protests his inno- the first place? Or maybe it’s a comment that or even as the cence most dramatically. “If I am indeed guilty”, despite all the chicanery, the truth - which is Demeteres.” Hermes cries out, “then may my own father ruled by fire - will (or at least should) triumph in Greek Religion. Walter strike me dead for lying.” Knowing the truth and the end. Yet what strikes me as even more fas- Burkert trans. John Raffan. impressed with the little brat’s audacity, Zeus cinating is that the notion of opposition, or Harvard University Press bursts out laughing, and insists that the brothers “other”, is completely absent from this arche- 1985 be reconciled. He admits Hermes is his son and typal scheme. The native who has Mercury as a 4 The story of Hermes’ gives him the job of messenger - because Zeus ruling planet is predisposed to relate in an adja- birth, cattle theft, and sub- in his divine wisdom knows it’s much better to cent sense - i.e. to learn about relating through sequent confrontations have someone as wily and crafty as Hermes those who are close at hand - like a sibling. I with Apollo and Zeus can working for him rather than against him. think this provides a key to working with be found in Hermes: Guide Mercury in the astrological chart. of Souls Karl Kerenyi, t first glance, the myth is the story of a trans. Murray Stein, Spring Achildish prank. But it also says something ercury is the planet of thought. The mind Publications Inc. 1987; The more about the nature of intelligence. The Mis bicameral. There’s the left side of the Gods of the Greeks Karl mind is often attracted to answers that are easy brain and the right side of the brain. We often Kerenyi trans. Norman to grasp, especially when it’s feeling over- speak of being in “two minds” about a matter. I Cameron, Thames and whelmed and confused. When Apollo comes feel there is a natural tendency for Mercury to Hudson 1994; Early Greek home to discover that his cattle are missing, “twin” itself. For the person with Mercury Myth: A Guide to Literary and why doesn’t he just simply follow the cows’ strong in the chart, there’s this feeling, deep Artistic Sources (Vol 1) tracks back the way they came? Because the down, that the Other Half is out there some- Timothy Gantz, The Johns direction of the hoof prints points home. It where. The fantasy might be to meet one day, Hopkins University Press never occurs to Apollo to backtrack. It’s incon- discover you have everything in common, finish 1993 page 28 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 each other’s sentences, and successfully reunite injury. Over half of the mothers are thus left two halves that always belonged together as a bringing up a single cub which (not surprisingly) whole. Mercury types are driven to find the grows faster and does better than the remain- person who really gets them. They might refer ing twins.”5 to this person as the Soul Mate, Better Half, or even Partner in Crime. Yet, underneath that istory and literature are full of twins and dream of reunification lies a lot of baggage. Hdoubles. Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Ormazd Twins are not just one person times two. Twins and Ahriman. Castor and Pollux. Helen of Troy are siblings. And sibling relationships are not and Clytemnestra. Even Adam and Eve. These always harmonious. Remember Cain and Abel? twins symbolize pairs of opposites. Civilization and wilderness. Light and dark. Spirituality and hile a sibling’s bond is very strong, a sib- materialism. Beauty and ugliness. Male and Wling’s loyalty is uncertain. Indeed, sibling female. It could be said that with Gemini, one relationships are our first experience of how twin represents fraternity and neighborliness the world doesn’t work according to plan. Our while the other twin symbolizes rivalry and need to win parental approval spurs us on to one-upmanship. Like flip sides of the same accomplish the things we do. The shame of dis- coin, each is attached to the other, but oblivi- ...sibling relation- cipline teaches us to mend our ways. But a sib- ous to its existence, until it encounters anoth- ships are our first ling isn’t so predictable. You both spring from er coin. We all have this duality in our nature, the same parents. You have the same back- but perhaps those who have a strong Mercury experience of how ground and history. Yet you don’t necessarily polarize their opposite - projecting an entire the world doesn’t share the same views, much less wants and side of their personality on to another person? work according to desires. If you remember things one way, your Casting an outer twin according to its inner sibling might remember things happening one? One might almost think of it as “twinning.” plan. another - thus conflicting, and perhaps even invalidating, your version of events. A sibling ne of the most famous pairs of twins are competes with you for Mom’s attention. OJacob and Esau, from the book of Threatens to tattle on you to Dad if you do Genesis. This story is so Mercury to me. Jacob something wrong. Dumps peas in your milk is not a heroic character. He isn’t a lawgiver, a when you’re not looking. And, as you begin to prophet, or even an especially wise man. Jacob develop a peer group outside the family, your spends more time tripping over himself than he sibling follows you places where Mom and Dad does actually accomplishing anything. But the can’t go. Parents pay attention to abstract things story of Jacob is what would be called, in the like your studies and grades. Your sibling States, a “road picture”. Jacob’s fortunes rise reminds you of more pressing concerns like and fall with every bend or twist in the road. what do the other kids think of you. Are you Jacob is quick to seize an opportunity when he popular or a nerd? Always switching camps, it spots it. And, by going from opportunity to isn’t easy to tell when your sibling will play con- opportunity, he manages to rewrite the rules fidante or worst enemy. What helps is a divid- along the way. Mercury is the god of games ing line. If one sibling has the looks, then the and crossroads, both of which play a very large other has the brains. If one is ambitious and dri- part in Jacob’s travels. Like in the myth of ven, then the other one’s the life of the party. Hermes, Jacob is a no-good nick who starts out As long as there’s a fair exchange, things are with nothing, and ends up becoming the okay. This invisible boundary allows the two sib- Founder of Israel. The beauty of the story isn’t lings to coexist peacefully. But as soon as that in how he started out, or where he winds up. line is crossed, or a sibling starts trolling around Like any Mercury story, what’s important is on the other one’s turf, all bets are off. what happens along the way. Sleight of Hand his anxiety comes from a very real place. TAfter all, the first murder is motivated by ven in the womb, Jacob and Esau fought sibling rivalry. Cain kills Abel because he’s God’s Ewith each other. It got so bad that their favorite. As Mary Midgely points out in her mother, Rebekah, prayed to God for guidance book Beast and Man: “A common cause is that and was told that she was about to give birth of animals (often birds) that produce two off- to two nations who would always be at odds. spring, the larger of which promptly and regu- But in the end, the older would serve the larly kills the smaller. This ‘strategy’ is usually younger. Esau was the first-born. Red and hairy, explained as insurance against the possible he was athletic and loved to hunt. He was his death of the larger twin… Spotted hyenas usu- father’s favorite. Jacob, born gripping Esau’s ally have twins, the elder of which (especially if heel, grew up to become the more reflective, 5 Beast and Man: The Roots both are female) regularly attacks the younger brainy type. He hung out by the tents and was of Human Nature savagely as soon as they are born, sometimes constantly scheming to win his brother’s Mary Midgley killing it and often doing it grave permanent birthright and blessing. Routledge, 1995

Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 29 nyone who’s travelled in the Middle East position. Perhaps Jacob just wanted to see if he Aknows how important haggling is to just could get away with it. In any case, Esau can’t about any exchange. Merchants will even make keep up, and this creates a problem. a point of inflating prices, just to get a customer to start bargaining. Entering a shop and plunking s in the story of Hermes and the cattle down money for merchandise is practically an Atheft, Jacob reveals that the people in insult. Where’s the fun in that? You need to charge can be easily bamboozled. However inspect the wares. Look at this and that. Throw instead of being embraced, Jacob is packed off out a price you know the other party won’t to his Uncle Laban’s. He may have won the accept. Argue. Banter. Throw out a another battle of the wits, but he ends up exiled from price. Act like you’re leaving. Let yourself be his people. He holds a title and a birthright, yet lured back. It’s all a game. these have no practical use or value. Caught up in the game, Jacob focused more on the t may seem like the object of the game is to prize, while giving no thought to its conse- Iget the best deal, but the reality is you’re play- quences. ing with each other. Checking each other out. Matching wits, and having some fun while his is the sort of shortsightedness that you’re at it. This is very different from an ath- Tbedevils those with a strong Mercury. The letic competition, or a contest where one must inability to leave anything alone, combined beat out an opponent for a seat or position. with the need to discover things for them- However the game’s only fun if you’re playing selves, can lead to foolish decisions - like plac- with (and against) someone who’s on your ing one’s hand on the heated stove when level. mother said not to - but, if it weren’t for that lively Mercurial curiosity, then there wouldn’t acob deceives his brother twice. First, by trick- be such things as improvisation, and invention. Jing his brother into exchanging his birthright Many of our civilization’s greatest finds are a for some bread and lentil stew. And then, by result of accidents and happenstance. disguising himself as his brother and deceiving his nearly blind father, who blesses him instead hange lies at the very heart of Mercury. of Esau. Perhaps Jacob coveted his brother’s CIt’s not cyclical change, like with the page 30 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 Moon, disruptive change, like with Uranus, or Mind Games even the transformative change of Pluto. Mercury change is on-the-spot-make-it-up-as- f you look at yourself in the mirror, you’ll see you-go-along change. It’s hit or miss. A cardi- Ia reflection that looks exactly like you. But on nal sin, as far as Mercury is concerned, is to closer scrutiny, you’ll find that your right hand is come up empty-handed. Mercury will find an touching the mirror’s left. Moving one way and answer - even if it has to fabricate one. then the other produces the reverse motion in Mercury has no problem with quick fixes, your image. It looks like you. It acts like you. But because there will always be time afterwards only in exact opposition to you. It’s funny to to find a more permanent solution. That’s why think that even the simple act of looking at people with strong Mercury have little yourself is a trick of the mind. patience for people who flip out if something isn’t exactly perfect. Mercury knows that the hat Jacob finds waiting for him at the illusion of perfection can be achieved much Wend of the road is the mirror opposite more quickly and for about half the cost. of what he left behind. Uncle Laban, his moth- er’s brother, is as cunning as Jacob’s father Isaac ercury wants practical knowledge. is trusting. Instead of two brothers fighting over MSomething that can be put to use right their father’s blessing, it’s two sisters competing away. But there’s also a love of tangents - an for Jacob’s hand in marriage. intuitive sense for invisible connections and hidden meanings, that prompts Mercury types acob falls in love with the younger sister, to keep looking and asking and fiddling with all JRachel, but Laban won’t let Jacob marry her the things they find. But few people who because he is penniless. Jacob volunteers seven exhibit a strong Mercury have a game plan. years of servitude in exchange for Rachel. Laban They rarely follow a process straight through agrees, but seven years later tricks Jacob on his from beginning to end. That’s because wedding night by disguising the elder daughter, Mercury is a natural pathfinder. It follows the Leah, as Rachel. When Jacob discovers that he twists and turns in the road. has been deceived, he confronts his Uncle, who tells Jacob that he couldn’t very well marry off ne evening, while en route to his Uncle’s his younger daughter without doing something Ohouse, Jacob makes camp beside the about the oldest one first. If Jacob still wants road. He falls asleep and has a dream. In his Rachel, then he must continue his servitude for dream Jacob sees a stairway that reaches all another seven years. Jacob agrees, and is once the way to the sky; and, climbing up and down more under his Uncle’s thumb. This is when this stairway, are angels. God talks to Jacob in Jacob begins to appreciate the full ramifications his dream and promises him that He will of what he has done in his life. Jacob can’t always protect him, and will one day bring him accuse his uncle of being a cheat. Was Jacob back to this place. It will become his land. penitent after he played the same trick on his Jacob awakes from the dream, and realizes he brother and father? Jacob didn’t exactly make has a greater role to play. He still isn’t alto- headway in the world by playing fair and square. gether clear on what it will be, but he takes Jacob learns to his own chagrin that a game is the stone that he used as a pillow and sets it only fun until you lose. It’s not pleasant, but for up as a pillar. He then pours oil over the top someone with a strong Mercury this is the first 6 “Herma is a heap of of it. This is Jacob’s version of “X” marks the step towards self-awareness. That is, after you stones, a monument set up spot. Curiously though, this is not unlike the get even. as an elementary form of Greek tradition of the herme - which is where demarcation. Everyone Mercury (or Hermes) gets his name.6 A herme very game needs an opponent. And in this who passes by adds a stone was a pile of stones stacked beside the road Esituation, it’s Jacob’s Uncle Laban. One can to the pile and so intended to act as a signpost or guide. Later even think of him as the Evil Twin. Now, we’re announces his presence.” on, they included offerings left behind for hun- all used to thinking of an Evil Twin as an exact Greek Religion, Walter gry travelers - windfalls for those in need, like moral opposite, like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Burkert; “[Hermes] is the the little jar of pennies that sits beside the cash The Evil Twin is supposed to be that side of god of roads, and it is from register at the supermarket for those who find ourselves that expresses our repressed urges one of the heaps of stones themselves short of change. and desires. If only it was that cut and dry. An (hermaion) found on the Evil Twin is both a “sibling” and a “rival” who will edges of travelled ways, o what does Jacob make of this divine rev- truly give us a run for our money. Have you that he received his name; Selation? Nothing, for the moment. Where ever known someone whom you were con- every passerby threw a others might have sat by the road contem- vinced would always be better than you, but stone on the pile.” A History plating their navels, or even stood beside the you were friends anyway? Perhaps you had (or of Religious Ideas (Vol 1) stone waiting for something miraculous to even have) a friend whom you’re convinced Mircea Eliade, trans. happen, Jacob - in true Mercury fashion - is brings out the worst in you, but this is also the Willard Trask, The back on the road again the following morning. very same person you’ll call in a crisis? An Evil University of Chicago Press 1978

Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 31 Twin acts as both your conscience and devil’s mirror opposite and then expect it to stay on advocate. If you don’t want something, yet this its side of the looking glass. person does, then you’ll ask yourself what you overlooked. If you believe you’re making the problem that people with strong Mercury right decision and then this person starts poking Aoften encounter in relationships is that holes in it, you’ll question your judgment. This friends, colleagues, and loved ones might not person you fight with is the very same person like having one side of their personality played you’ll fight for. In the end you and your “Evil up so that it “mirrors” Mercury. For a planet Twin” always come back to each other. You’re famous for its curiosity and open-mindedness, bound by rivalry. You’re bound by the game. Mercury can be very quick to pigeonhole peo- ple - sizing up their complex natures with easy- he reason rivals have this unique ability to to-read captions. It’s a seductive way of looking Tget under our skin is because they’re natur- at life. Especially when Mercury is so good at al psychic hooks for our flip side. We insist caricatures. Yet what can happen is that in their we’re being neighbourly and it’s the rival who’s efforts to find the Other Half, Mercury types driven by one-upmanship. Somehow this per- can overlook the person they’re really dealing son got to somewhere you wanted to be, but with. you just can’t accept that this person did it hon- estly. Rivalries stoke ambitions and jealousies. dmittedly, cues can get confusing. A part- Oh, you might say: “I would never do such-and- Aner might say, “But I thought you liked me such a thing.” But as soon as you beat that rival like that,” and the Mercury type might respond: or the rival quits the game, guess what happens? “Like what?” And then a partner might say, “I You end up adopting many of the same tactics thought you wanted me to tell you about what your rival used. Like Jacob. Laban has everything I was feeling.” And the Mercury person might Jacob wants - wealth, family, property, even ask: “Why do you feel like you have to do that goats. Laban knows this, and continually throws with me? Why don’t you just be yourself?” it in Jacob’s face. He’s the only person in Jacob’s Mercury is very subtle at deflecting attention life that’s been able to beat Jacob at his own away from itself, and on to the other person. It game. Jacob ends up respecting him - not comes from all those years of dumping peas because he’s good or wise, but because he bet- and carrots on to a sibling’s plate when they ters him. This is the sort of begrudging respect weren’t looking. But Mercury doesn’t get off that we all have for someone who is clever and scot free. That’s because Mercury needs a coun- gets away with “it”. But is this good or bad? terpart. Someone to play Yin to its Yang. Who knows? Certainly our Mercury side would Turnabout is Fair Play recognize the benefits of this kind of symbiotic relationship. Over the years, Jacob siphons fter twenty years of service to Laban, God 7 “According to Nuzi doc- away some of Laban’s wealth for himself, while Atells Jacob to return to his homeland. Jacob uments, which have been Laban grows richer than he ever was before has worked hard. He has servants, cattle, sheep, found to reflect time and because of Jacob. Yet a commonplace pitfall for and camels. Both of Laban’s daughters are his again the social customs of someone with a strong Mercury is to believe wives, although Rachel is really his “Other Half”. Haran, possession of the that the ends justify the means. As long as the Now, under the law, Jacob is entitled to a share house gods could signify Evil Twin is around, one can say: “This is the of Laban’s estate, but that has been consistent- legal title to a given estate, way of the world. I didn’t make up the rules. I ly denied him, because Laban isn’t interested in particularly in cases out of just play by them.” breaking up their symbiotic relationship. To the ordinary, involving affirm Jacob’s status as Laban’s heir and to pro- daughters, sons-in-law, or he Evil Twin represents a side of you that tect her own interests, Rachel takes the law into adopted sons. Under Tyou’re uncomfortable with, but might long her own hands by packing her father’s house- Hurrian law, Jacob’s status to be. An Evil Twin may symbolize someone hold idols up with her own things. After all, in Laban’s household would you want to be like. But that’s not the same as Jacob has earned them, but Rachel knows that normally be tantamount to someone you want to be with. That person is her father would never voluntarily acknowledge self-enslavement. That the Other Half. that. These idols in Jacob’s possession would position, however, would serve as indisputable proof that Laban actually be altered if Jacob was rec- ercury is always playing out one half of the did transfer property to him.7 ognized as an adopted son Mequation. Like the bicameral mind, it’s who married the master’s either going to be left side or right side. If you’re aban pursues Jacob on his homeward jour- daughter. Possession of the nonverbal and emotional, you may be drawn to Lney, and accuses him of theft. The disap- house gods might well have someone who is rational and articulate. If you’re pearance of the idols is news to Jacob and he made the difference.” The the brainy intellectual type, you may be drawn invites Laban to search all his belongings. Anchor Bible: Genesis. to more tempestuous, passionate personalities. Everyone is searched but Rachel, who remains Translation and commen- Opposites may attract, but that doesn’t mean on her camel. When Laban asks her to step tary by E.A. Speiser, they relate - a lesson that Mercury types learn down, Rachel declines, claiming that she’s hav- Doubleday & Co, Inc. 1981 over and over again. One can’t go and find a (continued on page 37) page 32 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 The Centre for Psychological Astrology Seminar Schedule - Summer 2000 7th May Karen Hamaker-Zondag 18th June Anne Whitaker Synastry Techniques The Jupiter-Uranus Conjunctions – Exploration and There are several methods to compare charts to understand relation- Inovation ships. In this workshop we will learn how to work with them in a sys- What do the moon landing, the CPA, and Dolly the Sheep have in tematic way. How to delineate what the 7th house means, and how common? They all manifested under Jupiter-Uranus conjunctions in your “wishes” are answered in the chart of the partner; how to work 1969, 1983 and 1997 respectively. Uranus represents the breaking with aspects towards each other, and how to delineate your planets down of existing modes of perceiving life, and the bringing in of rad- in the houses of your partner and vice-versa. What is the role of ical new approaches and perspectives. When combined with Jupiter’s rulerships of the houses? We will work in depth in a very systemat- core association with the never-ending quest for meaning, we have ic way: this workshop will give you a clear tool to delineate rela- 14-year peaks in the process of "restless exploration" which has tionships. always driven humanity. This seminar will present some historical 14th May Melanie Reinhart perspectives on the conjunction, and explore some exceptional devel- The Many Faces of Venus opments, both collectively and in 17 individual lives, which mani- The current multiple conjunction of Taurus planets, including the fested in February 1997 when Jupiter and Uranus at 5-6° Aquarius forthcoming conjunction with Jupiter and Saturn, is ruled by Venus. combined with Mars, Saturn and Pluto to create a unique bowl pattern This seminar will take the opportunity to honour the planet Venus, and in the heavens. Jupiter Uranus people, and anyone with deepen our understanding of her themes in the horoscope. We will be planets/angles/Nodes at 5-6° Aquarius, are especially welcome to this exploring the astronomical cycle, linking it with the Sumerian myth seminar! of the goddess Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth, and connecting 25th June Liz Greene this with the astrological Venus. Sanity and Madness 21st May Lynn Bell "Normality", like beauty, is usually in the eyes of the beholder, and con- How Do Quincunxes Really Work? ventional criteria about whether an individual is psychologically sane or Planets in quincunx have a very tense, misfit relationship, often expe- mad, balanced or unbalanced, neurotic or healthy, are often of no help rienced as locked up energy or frustration. How can this uncomfort- whatsoever to that individual. Social definitions of normal behaviour and able energy be released? Sometimes the aspect deadens one of the perception may violate the individual’s inner values and needs, while psy- planets involved, and adjustments must be made to bring it back to chiatric diagnoses may tell us nothing at all about what is at work beneath life. Quincunxes have been described as “more opposite than opposi- the exterior manifestations of psychological disturbance. The astrological tions,” but full of humour and erotic energy as well. No two quin- chart can offer us many important guidelines as to the optimum norm of a cunxes are alike, and each of the twelve sign combinations points to particular individual psyche, and it can also give us profound insights into very different issues. We will explore them in depth in order to under- underlying causes and possible avenues of help when an individual’s dis- stand how to break through the initial limitations, to clarify the dilem- tress is so great that he or she can no longer connect with the external mas they pose, and hopefully learn how to harness the tremendous world or cope with the demands of everyday life. This seminar will transformative power of the Yod. explore the theme of psychological "normality" as it is presented by the 4th June Juliet Sharman-Burke individual chart, in contrast with sociological, psychiatric and psycholog- Advanced Tarot Day ical models of human behaviour and perception. This day is for revision, practical work, exercises and a chance to 2nd July Liz Greene deepen, broaden and put into practise techniques learned in the Jupiter: The Con-artist and the Giver of Gifts Beginners Workshop. Although it is primarily designed for those who Jupiter is often interpreted as a "benefic", and the astrological student have attended the Beginners, it is suitable for anyone who has a good may often be seen eagerly awaiting - although not necessarily receiv- working knowledge of the Tarot and wishes to expand and deepen ing - heaven’s bounty as an important Jupiter transit or progressed their work. aspect approaches. Yet Jupiter may be seen in the birth chart allied 11th June Darby Costello with serious inner and outer difficulties and conflicts, as often as it Born in the Sixties - The Uranus-Pluto Generation coincides with "luck" and talent, and the planet may equally be spot- During the 1960’s there was a revolution in thinking which ted in transit and progressed aspect accompanying many of life's most swept through humanity in its physical, emotional, mental and difficult and painful experiences. Likewise, transiting Jupiter is often spiritual body. Those who were part of it felt as though the powerful at the time of physical death. In this seminar we will world would be changed forever if we sang our songs deep approach the charismatic and chameleon-like nature of this largest of enough into the heart of the world. While the generation with the planets, the "gas giant" whose expressions may range from king- Neptune in Libra and Pluto in Leo was proclaiming its vision, ly rewards to nothing but a sack of hot air. We will examine the mean- the children with Neptune in Scorpio and Uranus and Pluto in ing of Jupiter from mythological, psychological, and mundane per- Virgo were being born. Now this generation is beyond its Saturn spectives, in the birth chart and in transits and progressions, attempt- return and deepening into its responsibility in the world. We ing to link together the multicoloured spectrum of experiences, per- shall look closely at this generation with its struggle to find per- ceptions, and behaviour associated with this most theatrical and sonal satisfaction - in a world which has yet to be transformed. volatile image in the planetary pantheon. INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGICAL ASTROLOGY A new three-term course for beginners commencing October 2000

Term 1: The Language of Astrology 4 October – 6 December 2000 Symbolic Thinking and the Language of Astrology Introduction to the Horoscope, Historical and Philosophical Background Planets - Personal, Social and Collective Signs - The Twelve Signs of the Tropical Zodiac: Polarity, Triplicity and Quadruplicity Houses - The Twelve Houses – Areas of Experience Term 2: The Dynamics of Astrology 24 January – 28 March 2001 Number Symbolism in Astrology Aspects and Aspect Patterns – Finding the story. Bringing the Chart to Life. Mythology in Everyday Life The Angles : MC/IC, ASC/DES and Angular Planets: Meeting the Outside World Term 3: The Cycles of Astrology 18th April – 20 June 2001 Towards Fluency Time – Linear and Cyclical The Sun/Moon Relationship: Eclipses, Nodes and their interpretation The Lunation Cycle. Solar and Lunar Returns. Transits, Progressions, Directions: Life Cycles and the Unfolding Horoscope.

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The Centre for Psychological Astrology provides a unique workshop and professional training programme, designed to foster the cross-fertilisation of the fields of astrology and depth, humanistic, and transpersonal psychology. The main aims and objec- tives of the CPA professional training course are: a) To provide students with a solid and broad base of knowledge, within the realms of both traditional astrological symbolism and psychological theory and technique, so that the astrological chart can be sensitively understood and interpreted in the light of modern psychological thought. b) To make available to students psychologically qualified case supervision, along with background seminars in counselling skills and techniques which would raise the standard and effectiveness of astrological consultation. It should be noted that no for- mal training as a counsellor or therapist is provided by the course. c) To encourage investigation and research into the links between astrology, psychological models, and therapeutic techniques, thereby contributing to and advancing the existing body of astrological and psychological knowledge.

History The Centre for Psychological Astrology began unofficially in 1980 as a sporadic series of classes and seminars offered by Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas, covering all aspects of astrology from beginners’ courses to more advanced one-day seminars. In 1981 additional evening courses and seminars by other tutors were interspersed with those of Liz and Howard to increase the variety of material offered to students, and Juliet Sharman-Burke and Warren Kenton began contributing their expertise in Tarot and Kabbalah. In 1982 the “prototype” of the CPA - the Centre for Transpersonal Astrology - was born, with the administrative work handled by Richard Aisbitt, himself a practising astrologer. In 1983 the name was changed to the Centre for Psychological Astrology, because a wide variety of psychological approaches was incorporated into the seminars, ranging from transpersonal psychology to the work of Jung, Freud and Klein. The Diploma Course was eventually created, with additional tutors joining the staff. The Centre continued to develop and consolidate its pro- gramme despite the tragic death of Howard in 1992, when Charles Harvey became co-director with Liz Greene. Richard Aisbitt continued to manage the administration until 1994, when the burden of increasing ill health forced him to restrict his contribu- tion to beginners’ and intermediate classes. At this time Juliet Sharman-Burke took over the administration for the Centre. Richard himself sadly died in 1996. In February 2000, tragedy struck again with the untimely demise of Charles Harvey, after a long struggle with cancer. Liz Greene now continues to run the Centre as sole director, and with the help of the wonderful team of tutors and staff, looks forward to develop the CPA in both familiar and new directions as these make themselves apparent, with the constant reminder of the excel- lence of Charles’ work and personality. For further information, including our full prospectus, visit our website at www.astrologer.com/cpa. You can receive email bul- letins from the CPA by sending a message to [email protected] with the words subscribe cpalist in the body of the mes- sage. For those without access to the Internet, please send a SAE to the administrator.

The CPA Press Since the Centre’s inception, many people, including astrology students living abroad as well as those attending CPA seminars, have repeatedly requested transcriptions of the seminars. In the autumn of 1995, Liz Greene, Charles Harvey and Juliet Sharman- Burke decided to launch the Centre for Psychological Astrology Press, in order to make available to the astrological commu- nity material which would otherwise be limited solely to seminar participants, and might never be included by the individual tutors in their own future written works. Because of the Centre’s module-type programme, many seminars are “one-off” presen- tations which are not likely to be repeated, and much careful research and important astrological investigation would otherwise be lost. The volumes in the CPA Seminar Series are meant for serious astrological students who wish to develop a greater knowl- edge of the links between astrology and psychology, in order to understand both the horoscope and the human being at a deep- er and more insightful level. Apollon, launched on October 1st 1998, is the latest publishing venture of the CPA Press. (continued from page 32) ing her period. Laban moves on, never realizing that Rachel is sitting on top of his idols. Laban realizes that Jacob has finally beaten him at his own game, and officially recognizes him as an equal. The ultimate irony, however, is that Jacob never realizes that he owes his freedom and prosperity to his wife’s quick thinking. Laban would still be in a position of power over Jacob if it were not for his Other Half, Rachel.

ecognizing one’s Other Half is a lot more Rdifficult than it looks. We think we know what we want in a person, but it’s often made up of what we know about ourselves. We might say that our ideal mate is someone who’s rich or funny or beautiful. Maybe you want to hook up with someone who will be able to keep up with you. Or someone who will help Detail from you become everything you were meant to be. Jacob Wrestling with the Angel But life doesn’t work like that. You can’t decide Rembrandt van Rijn where the blanks are, and how someone else is camps that night beside a river. Jacob knows going to fill them. The reason why the Evil Twin that once he crosses that river, there’s no is so immediately recognizable is because the return. Besieged by guilt and fear, Jacob is on Evil Twin reflects those aspects you don’t like, the verge of going back the way he came, when but secretly aspire to be. Your Other Half, on he is suddenly confronted by an Angel. And the the other hand, fills in the blanks you don’t two wrestle throughout the night until morning, know about, and will remain invisible as long as when the angel strikes Jacob in the socket of his your expectations remain in place. Remember hip. In a symbolic way, the struggle with the Lois Lane and Superman? Lois Lane was so Angel shows that Jacob and Esau are no longer enamoured of the man of steel who came joined at the hip. Each is his own person. Jacob swooping to her rescue, that it never dawned finally realizes that it’s his fear that bedevils him, on her that her mild-mannered colleague, Clark and if he’s going to truly become the great per- Kent, was the same fellow in disguise. She kept son he’s meant to be, then he must face his looking to the skies when he was right there at brother, and take responsibility for his actions. her side - hiding in plain view. And Lois was By wrestling with his conscience, Jacob supposed to be a crackerjack newspaper embraces his fear - his inner demon - and as a reporter! result finds the courage, not only to face his brother, but to ask his forgiveness. Jacob hose with strong Mercury can have a hard emerges from his night-time encounter with a Ttime shaking their initial projections. Firstly, new name: “Israel”. He is, quite literally, a new because they don’t see themselves as project- man. When Jacob is reunited with his brother, ing (remember there’s no predisposition to rec- Esau embraces him. In fact, the whole thing was ognizing “other”) and secondly, because the sib- a misunderstanding. Esau wasn’t coming with ling dynamic colors all subsequent interactions. his armies to punish his brother, but to greet This is why those with Mercury strong in their him, after having been away for so long. This is charts must make a point of separating from how the encounter with the inner demon that inner twin if they want to see someone as works. It’s only by wrestling with his own dark who he or she really is, rather than as a mirror angel that a Mercury personality proves himself projection. But if you think that inner twin will worthy of crossing over the threshold, and go easily into that good night, then you’ve got becoming everything he was meant to be. another thing coming. Reabsorbing the “other half” allows the May the Best Man Win Mercury personality to erase the dividing line and become a whole person. And when one acob has a destiny to fulfill. And his destiny is becomes whole one is able to recognize the Jto become the founder of Israel. But he’s not wholeness in others. going to be able to do that if he stays away, right? Which means that, at some point, Jacob iven the story of Jacob and Esau, one has to go back home and atone for what he did Gmight think that this is a life-long journey. to his brother, Esau. On his return journey, Actually, it’s an ongoing process. Like a game. Jacob receives news that Esau is heading his Every time you play, the outcome is different. way, leading a huge army. Terrified, Jacob These encounters, splits, contests, and reunions

Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 37 repeat themselves over and over again. They allows him to navigate all the twists and turns. might last for moments or go on for decades. Like the Prince who trades places with the This is how Mercury types get to know people. Pauper in the story by Mark Twain, what starts The Sibling. The Evil Twin. The Other Half. And off as a lark takes on the depth and profundity of the Inner Demon. These are all projections. a morality tale. Only by experiencing for himself These are all players. Like characters in a dream, how the other half lives does the Prince truly they are charged with carrying parts of our- understand the kingdom that exists outside his selves until we’re ready to incorporate them throne room. It’s this role reversal, this interac- into our lives. tion with one’s alter ego, that teaches a Mercury personality to truly appreciate another person’s es Enfants Terribles is the nightmare version of point of view. But then again, what else would LMercury. It’s the story of children who create one expect from the planet of the mind, where- an exclusive world, and are done in by their in the right side of the brain rules the left side of game. Yet this poses the question, “Does one the body and vice-versa? Is it any wonder that need to leave childish games behind to become things might get a bit mixed-up? However, “Do ‘whole’, or can one use childish games and laugh- unto others as you would have others do unto ter to grow and learn?” Jacob is the positive you” is based on the idea of imagining yourself in incarnation of the enfant terrible. It’s his very pre- someone else’s shoes. Like twinning. After all - cociousness that sends him on his way, and it’s child’s play. Icarus and Persephone Adolescence: a psyche in progress Erin Sullivan Passing from childhood to adulthood is never easy; in this article, Erin Sullivan examines the various neurological, mythic, and astrological pressures bearing down on the hapless adolescent.

dolescence marks the first step toward measurement show these conventional state- Aconscious individuation. Out of the ments not only to be misleading, but also to lie tantrums of the two-and-a-half-year old, and at the root of adult neurosis. In itself, the expec- the cleverness of the seven-year-old, into the tation to be “all grown up” is terribly illusory, assertiveness and confidence of the ten-year- because I know personally, as do my elderly old, there emerges suddenly a mysterious thing. clients, that one is never done with growing. At the first opposition of Saturn to itself, a new Individuation is a transitive verb; it is never finite. being materialises through the psyche. We are always growing, we are never grown - psychically, that is. s always, astrology recapitulates ontology, Aand now we find that biological, neurolog- aturn in opposition to its natal position caus- ical, psychological, phenomenological and all the Ses the delicate balance between the inner ‘logicals’ cadence into perfect synchrony. Self and the rapidly changing ego - the sense of “I am-ness” - to be severely threatened. The ecently, several significant neurological homeostatic principle is compromised, and thus, Erin Sullivan is Canadian Rresearch reports have validated that the there is no sense of sameness in the teenager: It born and has been a consul- adolescent brain functions in ways different is always “different”. There is no real sense of tant astrologer and teacher from the child, and vastly different from the order, or centre, hence so much chaos. Every since the late 1960s. She has twenty-something young adult. We all knew symbol of authority has some quality about it lectured worldwide and led that, but with the advent of technologies such that fairly begs for challenge. Both parent and workshops and symposia on as magnetic resonance imaging, neuroscientists child have been unconsciously participating in a many aspects of human have discovered that the adolescent brain is far symbiotic relationship that must separate, in development using mythol- from mature. Sandra Witelson, a neuroscientist order to mature into a good parent/child rela- ogy, psychology and the rich at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, tionship. language of astrology. Her 1 says, “The teenage brain is a work in progress”. work took her to London, This is a work that develops in fits and starts. he difficulty is that the child of fourteen England in 1989, since when Tknows its limits, but resents them. The deep she has been a tutor for the hank god for magnetic resonance imaging! Self is becoming urgent in its demands for CPA, and the Series Editor TWould we ever have suspected otherwise? expression. The unbearable yearning that the for Penguin’s Arkana Seriously, this quantified announcement gives young man and woman feel is the prima materia Contemporary Astrology parents and teenagers alike a lot more credibil- for the opus of life - literally the raw material out Series. She is an adjunct fac- ity in this mechanistic world. They now can of which character is moulded. ulty member for the Central prove that they are not in their right minds - American Institute of parents and teens alike! he ages from fourteen to about sixteen- Prehistoric and Traditional Tand-a-half recall the “terrible two’s” on a Cultures at Belize. Erin is the ut, of course, they are in their right minds; more sophisticated level. The Saturn opposition author of: Saturn in Transit, Bbut the implications of “right” changes and provokes an acute sensitivity to ambivalence Retrograde Planets, and fluctuates, and at times in the teen brain, right and hypocrisy; the more a young person expe- Dynasty: The Astrology of simply is not a concept - nor is wrong. Their riences hidden messages, fluctuating or uncer- Family Dynamics. Venus and brains are testing responses to social patterning. tain values and double standards in the home, Jupiter and Where in the Until recently, it has been assumed that a child the more defensive and uncertain will be his World? has been published is all grown up, and ready for proper decision response to authority, and the more vulnerable by the CPA Press. Erin may making, by puberty. This is as erroneous as he will be in society - where there are nothing be contacted for consulta- assuming that at age twenty-one one is “all but those questionable standards in evidence. tions, information on books, grown up”. Temenos for the sacred traveller studies etc. by email: [email protected] or visit orking with psychological astrology, we t appears we are never more brain-active than her website: Wknow that the astrological cycles and Iin this critical juncture in the maturation www.ErinSullivan.com. Apollon Issue 5 May 2000 page 39 process. New technology validates the suspi- Mercury is the five senses as a group, as well as cion that teenagers do not have all their circuits the extrasensory perceptions as states of wired, that they are not fully connected. They awareness - hence the mercurial temperament. are, indeed, transitional, liminal creatures. In ancient myth, any individual in transition was he apparent instability of the teenager’s considered to be protected by the gods, Tbehaviour is directly linked to his or her because they were not safe, they were without “work in progress”, i.e. his or her literally fluctu- walls - between a known point of departure, ating neuronal discharges, linkages and chemical and a yet-to-be achieved destination - and thus, flows. One minute, the kid is loving, the next, were sacred. slamming the door. Still being forged are the connections between neurons that affect not iminality is a term I use to describe the sta- only emotional skills, but also physical and intel- Ltus of being “in the threshold” of change; it lectual/mental abilities. That means it is unrea- is a state of provisional and transitional being. sonable to expect teens to organize multiple The word itself is derived from the Latin limen, tasks, or to grasp abstract ideas that have not threshold, and the earlier Greek, limne - sea, originated within themselves. These undevel- pond, basin, lake. Psychologically, it is a place oped links lead to many of the so-called symp- ...adolescence is life’s where one is not who one used to be, but not toms of teenagerhood: aggression, depression, first great crossing- yet who one is about to become. Sea journeys moodiness, self-absorption and its attendant (Odyssey) are associated with liminality (mid- isolation. That there are neurological and bio- over, and thus, a life), crossings of great waters (I Ching), and so logical effects that are associated with these state of sacredness; on. And adolescence is life’s first great crossing- behaviours is helpful - it means that more one in which there over, and thus, a state of sacredness; one in understanding can be offered the young jour- which there is much wisdom, and much mad- neyer, and his or her carers. is much wisdom, ness, and which is often filled with loneliness Wild at heart and much madness, and isolation. n the limbic system, where raw emotions such and which is often ne very important thing for a teenager is Ias anger, passion and extreme joy are gener- filled with loneliness Oher own space - a temenos, if you will, a ated, there is a hyper-developmental period in and isolation. place wherein no stranger can penetrate, no adolescence which creates the wild mood enemy of the soul might pass. This is a “room swings that the child goes through. Yes, child, of one’s own”, a place where health standards because the teen brain is more akin to his or may need to be enforced, but where values, her child brain that to the eventual adult brain tidiness and habit cannot be infringed upon. If a he or she will have. kid’s old cocoa cup has become a green and purple furry science project, mother may he limbic system, located deep in the retrieve it, but only upon invitation. The Tbrain’s interior, is associated with gut reac- temenos of the teen room is for his or her own tions, or the primal urge. This is the function that sanity, and thus, the sanity of the household. gives us “goose-bumps” when suddenly we see a large snake, or come upon something scary; s we shall see, there is a work in progress or when our “hair raises”, which is a literal expe- Ahere, and the hermetically sealed alembic rience of our vestigial pelts rippling at the impli- of the Room is necessary for this first step on cation of danger, fear, or, at the other end of the path of individuation, and a place to feel, be, the spectrum, surprise, pleasure, excitement and think as one is, not as one should be. This and foreknowledge. room could be thought of as the Hermes place, wherein the opus of life is being mysteriously n adults, the primal urge, or the limbic emo- processed, privately, secretly and safely. Itional responses, are modulated in the pre- Similarly, they need privacy in the mind, a place frontal cortex, the part of the brain that lies just that is sacred and sacrosanct - where they are behind the forehead, and acts as a kind of men- not pried at endlessly. A kind of “inner” room of tal guard, keeping watch on many parts of the one’s own. brain, including this wild limbic system. The pre- frontal cortex is the seat of civilization, and we he astrological Mercury is the planet of know that civilized behaviour is not yet set in Tyouth, and of childhood, but is also the the child or the adolescent (and not in aberrat- planet which governs our perceptions, all five of ed adults). the senses, and all our intake and process of data and information. Mercury runs the mes- xecutive functions are not part of the teen 1 Quoted from an article in sages from parts of the brain to each other, and Ebrain. Making wise decisions is simply not U.S. News and World Report from the brain to the body, and vice versa. Thus, routinely possible and thus cannot be expected. magazine. August 9, 1999 Mercury represents one of the first stages of As their brains mature, so does their capacity issue. growing up, discriminating and understanding. for considered decision and appropriate emo- page 40 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 tional response. One well-documented test on he dangers of authoritarian abuse, hypocrisy the function of the limbic systems and the pre- Tand ambivalence are more destructive at frontal cortices in adults and teens showed this age, because it is Saturn itself that is the something rather remarkable. Magnetic reso- keynote planet. When the adolescent runs up nance imaging machines take pictures of brain against authority that isn’t authentic, then he or activity every three seconds or so, in order to she rightfully resents and ignores warnings and see what parts of the brain are being used dur- admonitions, and turns inward to seek self- ing various types of processing. authorization for actions.

dult brains, the scientist discovered, light up he problem with that response lies in the Ain both the limbic areas and the prefrontal Tabsolute fact that the teen brain is not pre- cortex, when looking at pictures of facial pared for such a magnitude of problem-solving, expressions of fright, and when startled sud- and hence finds him- or herself lonely, fearful, denly. Their alarm system is connected to their angry and possibly endangered. Positive rein- capacity to comprehend the degree of danger forcement of the teen’s need for boundaries within nano-seconds. In teenagers, however, and focus helps that person become more the prefrontal cortex was almost dark, while capable of eventually making “good” decisions the limbic system lit up! Hence, their alarm sys- and “safe” behaviours part of his or her life. tem is not yet wired to their intellectual ratio- Use your brain! nalization function. ood judgment is learned, true, but one hus, early teenagers are not yet developed Gcannot learn it if one does not have the Tto read social signals, like facial expressions, necessary hardware. This hardware is installed body language or other implicate messages that in the time period in which the pre-frontal cor- we send unconsciously. So, a teen might say to tex is in development. For instance, teens seem her mother, seeing a frown on her face, “What unable at times to decide the order in which did I do, why are you mad at me?”, when the tasks need to be accomplished, and find that mother is angry with someone on the phone they are overwhelmed when faced with “sim- with whom she’s had a disagreement. The fif- ple” decisions, like in which order to wash the teen-year-old daughter may not know, pre- dishes, talk to a friend about homework, and frontal cortically, that is, to discriminate in a sen- read the book for a report due that afternoon sible manner - the teen daughter will limbically at class. They can collapse at this inundation of rush off to her room, slam the door, and feel task function. What am I saying? I can collapse put upon by her mother who frowned at the at that, and apparently my prefrontal cortical wrong time. Mother, meanwhile, is exasperat- civilizing is done! ed, thinking or even saying, “Do you think you are the only person in the world?” Quite. hat teenagers leap before looking is also Tnormal; that they enter dangerous situa- o, in the course of this rather lengthy growth tions is assumed. Their modes of reckoning Speriod of about three to four years, the par- appear to be illogical. A teenager will drive ent is even more important, in some ways, than without a seat-belt, get into a car in which his they were in other stages of development. companion is drunk and driving; she might go Received wisdom says early childhood experi- with an unknown man without thinking, they ences create the primary trauma zones, but this might smoke cigarettes in the face of universal- is clearly not true. Primary trauma zones are in ly known danger, and so on. They get yelled at: accord with personal transits coupled with a “Are you stupid?” And no, they are not stupid, numinous event. Both factors need to be pre- but they are “coming” from a different place. sent for trauma to occur. And when there are Parents and adults need to be aware of this - major generic transits and personal natal transits ideally, they must listen first, then guide them and events, then we have the material for both accordingly. 2 Saturn in Transit: trauma and growth. Boundaries of Mind, Body here is an attraction to novelty. Novelty is and Soul pp.57 - 67. The rauma associated with abandonment, Tattractive to all intellectually stimulated Saturn Opposition through Tabuse and unfair judgements from parents people, but this kind of novelty has a frisson of Saturn Square (ages 14 - and adults is more traumatic and more damag- danger to it. “Sex, drugs and rock‘n’roll” was the 21) Erin Sullivan. Arkana, ing in many, many socially developmental ways media’s theme of my own adolescence (post CAS. 1990. London. (nb. than at any other age. Because the advent of WWII), but that was only a small part of the This book is in transition, adolescence is marked by the first opposition archetype. In fact, it was a collective statement out of print in Arkana, but of Saturn to itself, it initiates a time of serious of political, spiritual, consciousness and philo- to be republished by reorganization of the physiological and psycho- sophical revolution that fed into religion, poli- Samuel Weiser in summer logical homeostatic principle (the stay-the- tics, world-awareness, economics and freedom 2000, along with Dynasty same principle).2 of speech and action! and Retrograde Planets).

Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 41 he Uranus sextile to itself, at fourteen, a moment of boredom by one of the waiting Tbrings in the revolutionary touch and quick- men. In retribution, Artemis becalms the sea, ens individuation. The Promethean foresight and orders that Agamemnon must sacrifice his that the teenager has is remarkable, and must most valuable possession, that being his lovely be heard - listeners, however, will be required young daughter, Iphigenia. to edit the emotional affect and the strident tones, in order to really hear the message of the phigenia is sent for, under pretext of marriage future. They “know” who they are about to Ito Achilles. After comprehending what her become, and thus are the megaphone of the true fate is meant to be, she pleads with her future. It behooves the over forty person to father to save her, then runs wildly through the hear this, because it will hint to them of condi- woods like a young stag herself, and finally, tions in their own latter years. worn out, she returns and offers herself for sac- rifice. lso, Uranus has to do with witnessing. The Awise person witnesses his own behaviour e are led to believe that she does hero- and moderates or augments it; a teenager wit- Wically go to the altar willingly. Is this the nesses and generally finds fault. The sky god, altar of marriage or of sacrifice? This is often Ouranos, from whom comes the astrological unclear in the lives of some adolescent girls. Uranus, was a critical, masculine god who And fathers, though not always as culpable as loathed imperfection. So does the teenager - Agamemnon, often have sacrificed their especially his or her own apparent flaws. From teenage daughters for less than the reputation this critique can come great compassion. Also, of the Greek army. it can bring depression and rage. The quest for the parents t is essential that a teenaged daughter is Iallowed to individuate away from her mother n the 6th century BCE poem by Homer, the - especially if she is very much like the mother. IOdyssey, Odysseus’ son, Telemachus, sets out From womb to womb a woman’s fate is to find his father. The Telemachia is the interior woven, and the daughter’s fate must not be to story cast within the tale of the mid-life quest of carry the mother’s pain, which she often will- his father. This is an archetypal situation where ingly does. And, in being able to define herself the son must find his father. In doing so, he as “not mother”, she generally arrives back at a must then overcome his father’s weaknesses comfortable conclusion about her own role, and flaws as well as his own. The father-quest is and so does mother. A teenage girl needs to an inner quest often enacted as a genuine feel she is her own woman, rather like search for meaning and contact with the actual Persephone, who does eat the pomegranate, father. For boys who do not have good father but also returns to the Earth - hence, to her contacts - either their dad or significant men mother - to fulfil her destiny as a whole and around them - their journey to father is long, self-identified woman. hard and sometimes never fully achieved. here are many female archetypes that are n part, this male journey involves a separation Tmore prevalent in these times - the return Ifrom mother, and as much as this might sound of the various goddesses other than Hera, the harsh, it is as necessary as cutting the umbilicus obedient wife, means that new modes are at birth. A mother knows in her heart that this more available to women. As with men, must happen, and if she is skilled in doing this women have had their focus sharply adjusted in for her son, then she will always have a cham- the latter part of the 20th century, and since pion. If she doesn’t withdraw her own projec- now we are only months into the 21st century, tions on her son, then she will always have a it is too early to predict what will emerge col- baby. To paraphrase Robert Bly, the poet, “He lectively. might have to steal the key to the ‘wild man’s cage’ (his own masculinity) from under the Icarus and Persephone: sleeping mother’s pillow.” - A man tied to his archetypal teenagers on the loose mother after eighteen will have a hard time Immortal being with women in his adult life. he most astounding aspect of adolescence omen seek out the father too, but often Tis the preoccupation with mortality, while Wto appease him, not to overthrow him. not yet taking it on board. This is the time in life Agamemnon and his brother Menelaos, along when indulgence in existentialism - not as a with their troops and a thousand ships, were degree course - is at its most intense. Teens are waiting to set sail to Troy. In the course of the obsessed with death. This is the first time in life assembly of the ships and troops, a stag, sacred when the biggest questions are asked and to the independent goddess Artemis, is killed in answers sought. Teenagers are fascinated by page 42 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 the dark domain of Hades. They are fearful of exempt from hubris, and, as we’ll see, there are 3 Metamorphoses Ovid. death, yet often seek it out consciously or mythological predecessors. Trans. Rolfe Humphries. unconsciously. Book 8, lines 184 - 272. ot much has changed since Icarus flew too Indiana University Press. hen we stumble across our mortality - Nclose to the sun and Persephone was 1955. The story of Icarus and some teenagers have experienced seduced by the exotic Hades. and Daedelos is best W known from this rendition. the loss of a grandparent, even a parent, or Icarus and Phaethon at the reins family member - we are suddenly sobered. Yet it is this very fear of death that catapults the carus was the son of a prominent architect in experimental adult into positions of extreme Iancient Greece.3 Daedelos was a legendary danger! The paradox! Eros and Thanatos are craftsman, who was said to have migrated or ensnared in a passionate grip. The life force was exiled from Athens to Crete, where he (Eros) and the death-wish (Thanatos) are inter- was implored to construct a hollow cow for twined always, but the teenager has only just King Minos of Crete’s wife, Pasiphaë. Pasiphaë come upon this dialectic. had developed an obsessive compulsion to make love to a sacred white bull, a gift to Minos nd he or she works it overtime. Death- from Poseidon. From this strange union, the Adefying acts, the teenage wasteland, the Minotaur was born, and Daedelos was then dark night of the soul - all are the romance of contracted by Minos to build a labyrinth to the young. Give teenagers danger, give them house and hide the Minotaur. Already there are thrills, challenges and mind-altering experiences implications of adult miscreance in the back- if you can - ones which will hardwire them to ground of Icarus’ origins! perception, discrimination, emotional survival Detail from and the thrill of success. They need to find ways fter Daedelos had completed the con- Fall of Icarus of aligning their wildness with their civilization - Astruction of the Labyrinth, he was detained Pieter Brueghel and discovering how to do that is a huge chal- by Minos, who imprisoned him on Crete. lenge to both adults and adolescents. Daedalus conspired to escape, and made wings of wax and feathers for himself and his teenage he neurons that link emotional centres to son, Icarus. They flew off the coast of Crete and Tmany other parts of the brain, that produce soared high into the sky. The surge of novelty, feelings of intense pleasure, are the same set of of adventure, that suffused Icarus clearly was neurons that are affected by certain drugs - not mediated by his prefrontal cortex, and his cocaine and methedrine and all associated limbic was in full throttle, and up, compounds that are “speedy” and stimulating. up he rose. Daedelus cried after Thrill-seeking is part of growing up. I call it the him, “Stop, stop, my son, you are flying too Stage of Immortality; when one is either walk- close to the sun! Your wings will melt, and you ing in existential despair or leaping off tall build- will fall and drown!” The rest is myth; Icarus flew ings. This phenomenon is also present in the too close to the sun, flaunting hubris at Helios, puer/puella psyche, in the psyche of adults who and his wings melted, and he plummeted into simply cannot get enough of the thrill of death- the sea. defying acts - either racing, hang-gliding, bungee-jumping, getting drunk or diving into myriad relationships. Dionysian acts of ecstasy are part of the religious fervour of the adoles- cent, and, indeed, were rituals in the ancient world geared to internalizing the gods and “standing outside oneself” - the literal meaning of ec-stacy.

he phase of immortality goes along with this T“thrill-seeking” aspect of young adulthood. Pluto, the “unseen one”, suddenly becomes exotic, erotic and desirable.

he release of dopamine, one of the brain Tchemicals, or neurotransmitters, is what is responsible for these action-stimulating experi- ences. That shaman of all cultures employ this ecstatic method for healing and divination says much - the teenager is seeking godliness or near-godliness. This desire, when over-reaching, is called hubris. And sadly, teenagers are not ould Icarus help himself? Was Daedalus an haethon can no more see the love in his Cirresponsible father? Pfather’s face than any other impassioned teenager might on the brink of adventure. imilarly, in Saturn in Transit, I relate the story Phaethon holds his ground, and Helios, fearing Sof Phaethon, son of Helios himself.4 Briefly, for the universe, hands him the reins of the Phaethon’s mother, Clymene, sends him off on chariot. Phaethon careens out of control across his adolescent father-quest, after his peers taunt the heavens, creating havoc and leaving him that Helios is not really his father at all. destruction in his wake. The Earth cringes, rivers Helios receives Phaeton joyfully, thankful he has evaporate and dolphins hide as Phaethon “does such a beautiful demi-god son, and asks him not know in which direction/To turn the reins, what he most wants from him. Phaethon eyes does not know where the road is,/ And, even if his father’s chariot, longing to drive it, and asks he knew, he could do nothing”.6 Phaeton, too to propel the chariot of the Sun across the sky late, rues his headlong urge; he crashes the for the day. Helios realizes his error instantly, chariot, and is destroyed. and tries to offer less daunting gifts. To no avail. he testosterone rush of the adolescent boy haethon hops on, even though Helios tries Toverpowers his intellect, and these tales of Pto dissuade him, because he loves him very ancient sons are not much different than of our much, crying: own. Persephone’s phantom lover Beware my son! I do not want to give you The gift of death; there is time to change your he woman’s journey is also hormonally prayer. Tassisted. Her needs are exactly the same as Of course you want the most convincing proof the son’s - to challenge the authority of her par- 4 Saturn in Transit. op. cit. I am your father. That I give you, surely, ent, to be the one to “do it differently” and to 5 Metamorphoses. op. cit. By fearing as I do. I am proved a father follow her heart to wherever it leads. But rather lines 89 - 96 By a father’s fear. Look at me! You see my face; than “up” to the heavens, as in the case of the 6 Ibid. lines 171-3 Would you could see my heart and all the cares boy’s journey, it is “down” into the Earth, as is Held there for you, my son.5 woman’s place. page 44 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 ersephone, the daughter of Earth goddess story is the origin of the mystery school of PDemeter and sky god Zeus, was with her Demeter, as well as the charter myth for the girlfriends, wandering in the fields of asphodel seasons of the earth. But more importantly to during a break in their school lessons. All the us now, is the mythic parallel to the romance girls were cautioned not to separate, but to stay and seduction of the adolescent girl on the limb in a clique together, for who knows what lurks of womanhood, longing for love in dark and outside the safety of the female pride? mysterious places. Coming of age ersephone, a goddess herself, perhaps felt Pexempt from such admonitions - but then, o, as we see, all this neuronal development too, clever mortal teenagers feel exempt from Sand chemical discrimination, along with the warnings from boring schoolmistresses and emergence of sex hormones, challenge the sta- overzealous mothers. bility of the teenager for about four or five years. Surges of testosterone at puberty swell nevitably, she wandered off, indulging in a the amygdala, an almond-shaped part of the Ireverie of her own, drawn perhaps by the limbic system that generates feelings of fear and sweet pungent scent of the narcissus flowers anger. This accounts for the rise in easy irrita- that clustered on a certain hill leading to a small tion and aggression in both boys and girls. gully. She found herself lingering there, in the Increased levels of oestrogen at puberty are hollow depression full of narcissi, when all of a responsible for the sudden growth of the hip- sudden the ground cracked open, and up pocampus, the part of the brain that processes rushed a golden chariot driven by an unseen memory. The larger the hippocampus, the bet- master. She was taken. ter the memory.

ost of Persephone’s story takes place in he hippocampus in girls grows proportion- Mthe glamorous realm of Hades - the Tally larger than it does in boys. This helps underworld of the shades. And, like the fathers explain why women are better than men are at in the stories above, Demeter was demented remembering complex social relationships, and with fear and grief. Her story is the story of all organizing and managing multiple tasks, all the mothers who “lose” their daughters to the mys- while monitoring the emotional affect of a situ- teries of womanhood. Demeter spent a whole ation. year in violent mourning, seeking her vanished daughter and fighting for her return, when she t is thought that one of the last steps to mat- was told by a sheep-herder, Triptolemos, that Iuration of the brain is the coating of nerves Persephone had been abducted by Hades, her with white matter, myelin, which is akin to the own brother! insulation around an electrical wire. This coating allows electrical impulses to travel down a emeter knew exactly what had happened nerve faster and more efficiently. Hence, a tod- Dthen, and in her prefrontal cortical maturi- dler is less coordinated than a ten-year old. It ty, understood the implications. She summoned now appears that this final stage of neurologi- Zeus, Persephone’s father - also a brother of cal/physiological maturation is not complete Hades - and demanded her return. Zeus didn’t until the early twenties, around and after the seem to think much wrong with the deflower- waning Saturn square to itself at twenty-one, ing of his daughter, it all being in the family. And and closer to the second Jupiter return at twen- there was a catch. ty-four.

f Persephone was to succumb to the seduc- he nerves that become sheathed in myelin Ition - symbolized by eating three seeds from Tduring adolescence, connecting areas of the the fruit of the underworld, the pomegranate - brain that regulate emotion, judgement and she then would be bound to the god Hades for impulse control (that old limbic!), are formed eternity. Persephone was easily manoeuvred, as earlier in girls than boys. This may help explain many young girls are by exciting, exotic, dark why teenage girls, still wild at heart, are often bad-boys on motorcycles or golden chariots. more emotionally mature than boys. There are Enchanted, she bound herself to Hades, and obviously cross-overs and myriad combinations, became Queen of the Underworld. but girls who are primarily fire and air sign types are more impulsive than boys who are primari- ow, Demeter was persistent, as mothers ly earth and water sign types. Nare. She employed Hermes to act as go- between, and a bargain was struck: Persephone ll this implies that we are hard-wiring our would be allowed to return to the Earth’s sur- Abrains in adolescence, and thus do have face for part of the year, and then return to her some choices. Many teenagers instinctively are lover-husband for another part of the year. This aware of this development within themselves,

Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 45 India, where hashish is a way of elderly life, that privilege is granted only to the elderly. Similarly in Asia and the Orient, where once opium was the approved drug of the elderly, it was not condoned in young men).

he teen brain knows only natural law, not Tmandated law. Threats of imprisonment, deprivation of goodies, flogging or public humiliation, will not work - remember the lim- bic thrill of the dangerous adventure? Did Icarus listen to Daedelus? Did Persephone think, “If I eat the pomegranate seeds, I will be bound to Hades for eternity, and that would really upset Mother”? No. Neither of them did.

phrodite Urania was midwived by Kronos, Aand she has a role in the emotional and social development that is so turbulent in ado- lescence. An opposition aspect is a Libran type of aspect, with a 1st house to 7th house impli- cation. The dual goddess comes in with her attendant, Eros, with all her wiles in full bore. The adolescent is lifted to the highest place of Platonic love of truth, beauty, and wisdom, and is plunged fully into lust, sexuality and the sen- sual world of his or her own type.

oo, this is the first time a young person Texperiences love on a peer level - often falling in love with an older mentor, or a hero- ic figure, or a famous performer as a safe place to practice love and romance. As the need for relationship becomes keener, toward fifteen and sixteen, the capacity for self-examination deepens. Adolescents Detail from become poets, philosophers, artists, all Persephone ardently exploring the vastness of the uni- Gabrielle Dante Rosetti verse for the first time. Then they begin to notice peers, and fall in love with more acces- and seek out ways of developing certain sible beloveds - someone in their own peer aspects of themselves about which they are group. coming to awareness. For instance, does the young man want to “hard-wire” himself phrodite’s domain over this era continues toward sports? Physics? Helping profession? Aas the adolescent develops more deeply Literary aspirations? Music, dance, art? Or, is he into the transitional stage. She not only rules being grafted to crime? Drugs? Violence? love and desire, she also symbolizes values, Mayhem? Couch-potato? All are there! justice and ethics. All these aspects of the human psyche are first truly tested in groups his hard work of wiring means that kids of teens, and within each young person him- Tare more susceptible than adults to the or herself. Saturn opposition at childhood’s effects of drugs, alcohol, tobacco and marijua- end is the time when all externally imposed na. It is not a cool thing, because it is possible values are challenged, found wanting (natural- to permanently alter the balance of chemicals ly), and moderated according to the individual in the brain; thus the psyche is prevented from and, more significantly, according to the cur- unfolding as it was seeded to, and the “folds” rent times that the teen is in, thus foreshad- of the psyche are rerouted to accommodate owing the future aegis of that generation. synthetic stimulation. It is a good idea to allow There is a lot of crying, “It’s not fair!” And, a that balance to achieve itself if at all possible. sympathetic parent will agree to this; there is That is why teens must be encouraged to a lot going on that isn’t fair. And they need to avoid these things, not because they are illegal. find the fairness in the world as it is seeded in (Even in the east, in Morocco and parts of themselves. page 46 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 The gathering of the tribes is expressing his or her most core Self, not the refined, semi-civilized “self” of the post-Saturn return upiter is the god-planet of organized beliefs, tribal person, who will emerge at around twenty-nine. Jaffiliation, ideological mind-sets, transitional individu- Crossing the threshold: making sense of it all als and consensus dogma. Tribal affiliation is so very important in the process of adolescence. Because n the eighteenth year, Saturn forms a trine to itself, teenagers are transitional beings, they are sacred to Iand, being a closing trine, it has the qualities of Jupiter Zeus and to Hermes, guides of the liminal soul and and the 9th house, and Sagittarius. The experiments the travelling person; and, by the by, to Hekate, the of the fourteen through eighteen period are now goddess of the underworld. Adolescence is when applied to a working philosophy. This age also coin- we identify not only our philosophical affiliations, but cides with the Saros cycle, the advent of the return of our individuality in relation to the collective. the Moon’s Nodes to their natal axis. The nodes are associated with incarnation and the purpose of the ribes are identified in indigenous cultures by incarnate life. A life-path often emerges out of this Ttheir markings: jewellery/adornment; hair style; phase; a working pattern begins to develop, and the clothing or lack thereof; marking - tattoos, piercing, final stages of the liminal phase of adolescence are scarification; mobility - cars/bikes/skateboards; technically over. This is the time of creative manifes- social hierarchies - techy, goth, hippie, nerd, jock, tation of the trials and tribulations, successes and druggie, punk; ideologies: orthodox; heterodox; achieved wisdom of the adolescent transition. atheistic; pantheistic; naturalist; intellectual. ery often, a vocational calling is heard at around t the time in life when individualism is so impor- Veighteen or nineteen, which will be reviewed Atant, kids seem to be most attached to labelling and shifted to a new level at the next nodal return, themselves in accord with an uncanny implicit “call to age thirty-eight, and the advent of mid-life. And thus adventure” - even those who stand outside the sta- begins the working model of the adult to be. tus quo of their ranking peers, have an aura of their own - the outsider, the misfit, the geek, the fat boy, eferring back to the Jupiterian ethos of this phase, the retard. All the things we don’t like to admit to Rit heralds freedom of thought, action and deed. when we are limbically sophisticated. All these rituals The world of justice and ethics rises to meet the of ordering should help us realize that the adolescent mind of the youthful philosopher. As with the Saturn opposition, where a sense of jus- tice is developing on an interper- sonal level (the Venus influence), this period too sees a growing sense of justice. However, a larger collective is involved, and there is a powerful sense of social justice. Maturity has brought to the mind an awareness of politics, in the sense of the intricate mechanisms and behaviour patterns that underlie the interaction of people in society. Matters political and judi- cial, world conditions, and the ideals that will create new societies, are of unending concern to the new citizen.

lthough the wiring in the brain Astill is completing its circuitry, the last thrust of the limbic and the fast-encroaching establishment of prefrontal cortical sensibilities(!) are creating the future - yours and mine.

o, when you say to your appar- Sently silly teenager, “Use your brain,” be assured that they are - and more actively, interestingly, challengingly and radically than you are!

Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 47 “I like children. If they’re properly cooked.”1 Kim Farnell A rainy Wednesday in the office, and you get an offer from a dame that you can’t refuse. Hell, you got to make a living. When she asks you to give it to her straight, warts and all, and you get that sinking feeling, Kim Farnell has words for the wise...

should have known that this one would lead to It was going to be a long haul. A couple of shots Itrouble. Too many rules were being broken, right would make all the difference. I could clear my at the start. I’ve always made it clear I don’t want head and get a few ideas by chatting to the boys people along for the ride. What else could I have at Liz’s place. They knew it all. I threw on my coat done? Maybe it’s easier if I start at the beginning. and headed on downtown.

It was a cold and wet Wednesday. I was sitting in Even at that time of day, you could smell the my office, rearranging a few pencils, when the call atmosphere. I took a stool at the bar, gave Liz the came. Her voice was soft, offered plenty of wink and waited till she could come over. Didn’t promise. And it wouldn’t be long before I’d find take long. I knew, as soon as I started to explain, out how well she could live up to it. What she was that it was her sort of problem. Something she’d asking wasn’t ethical, it wasn’t moral, but hell, I need like to get her teeth into. She took a look at the to make a living, just like everybody else. scrap of paper I passed over the bar. Then she A London-based astrologer, went quiet. She scribbled something on the back Kim Farnell writes columns So, when she said she wanted to come and listen of the paper, and passed it back, pointing to a guy for a number of magazines in, I only hesitated for as long as it took her to sitting in the corner. He looked about as incon- and has been widely pub- name the fee. And she wanted the works. No spicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.4 I lished in astrological period- cover-ups. I was to give it to her straight, warts and picked up the drinks she’d put in front of me, and icals. Her first book, The all. took them over. Astral Tramp: A Biography of Sepharial, was published in But I needed to prepare myself first. Get my head As I sat, he looked me up and down. He didn’t 1999. She regularly lectures together. Work out just how I was going to put seem to like what he saw. I told him the story, and on astrological subjects and this sort of information over. Before I told her any- said Liz had sent me over. Maybe he knew some- is presently researching the thing, I had a few questions of my own. thing - something that could save me a whole lot role of women in nine- of heartache. He lit the cigar he was holding and teenth century astrology for “I was caesarean born. You can’t really tell, started talking. a future book. She has three although whenever I leave a house, I go out cats and one hamster. through a window”2 “Every child is born a genius.”5

I needed a time. One special time. She was there, “First thing ya gotta remember is, as far as she’s shouldn’t be a problem. At first she claimed she concerned, we’re talking ‘bout perfect. We’re tak- couldn’t remember - had no idea. I told her it ing ‘bout a kid who ain’t gonna do no wrong. She wasn’t good enough. Made to hang up. Then she ain’t paying ya ter tell her he’ll enjoy playing the started her story. A story which could make grown pianner. She wants ya ter tell her he’ll be pulling men scream in their sleep. A story so full of blood ‘em in at Carnegie Hall. She wants to know if it’s and gore that it deserved the triple XXX I was gonna be Harvard or Yale. Tell her he’ll make a scribbling on my notes. In that dark world of knives number cruncher in Milton Keynes and ya’ve and drugs it all started. And she wanted to pull me blown it.” into her world. Wanted me to know every last lit- tle thing. Then she said, “Does it make any differ- I was getting the picture. Loud and clear. This guy ence?” It did to my lunch, which was now in the knew his kids. Is that what it was all about? trash. Some things you don’t have to share. Finally, I got what I needed. I told her I’d get on the case “Nah, ya ain’t doin’ it fer the kid. Ya doin’ it for her. right away. If she wanted to stop by my office in Ya don’t need ter know kids. Ya didn’t have ter the morning, I should have something to tell her. invade Czechoslovakia ter do Hilters’ chart, did Tomorrow was still a long way off to my mind. ya?”

“The trouble with children is that they are not He had a point. But I wasn’t convinced. There must returnable.”3 be more. Then he started to get into his stride. page 48 Apollon Issue 5 May 2000 “Most convicted felons are just people who were “He’s gonna have a good time. She ain’t. Simple as not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as that.” children.”6 “The best way to keep children at home is to make “See, whatever ya say, whatever ya think this kid’s the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out gonna be like, she’ll blame herself if he goes to the of their tyres.”10 bad. And far as she’s concerned, goin’ to the bad is when he don’t turn out to be what she wants. There comes a time when he’s going to leave Ain’t no good sayin’ cuz he got seven planets in fire home. That’ll worry her. Who’s he going to be he ain’t gonna need much sleep. Ain’t no good with? Can he cope? How can she make sure he sayin’ he’ll be a mechanic, if she wants him to be a gets enough freedom, while showing that she’ll be ballet dancer. She ain’t gonna listen.” there for him?

But she wanted it straight. She was paying for the “He’s gonna go when he’s gonna go. Ain’t nuffink full picture. she can do ‘bout it. Ya tell her who he wants ter hang his hat with - all ya can be sure ‘bout is she “Ain’t no-one pays for the full pictcher. She wants ain’t gonna like ‘em.” the good bits. She wants ya ter tell her he’s the best kid ya’ve ever seen.” He wasn’t looking like he wanted to say much more. And he’d given me plenty to think about. I “When I was born, I was so surprised I couldn’t talk got Liz to fill his glass. Shook his hand and made for for a year and a half.” 7 home. I was going to need plenty of sleep for this dame. I was getting worried. What I had in mind was telling how she could understand him on every “From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. level. Getting to grips with the emotional, the phys- From ten feet away she looked like something ical, the mental. How she could guide him into hav- made up to be seen from thirty feet away.”11 ing insights into his own needs. How she could use her power over him responsibly, with respect for I’m no good at mornings. But it was morning when his feelings. How she could help him to develop in I heard that tentative tap on my door. She wafted his own way. How she could listen to him, identi- in. Took the seat opposite, and was ready for the fy his talents, work with...? I had to stop when his full agenda. He was right, she wanted the good bits. laughter brought on a fit of coughing. But those beady eyes he threw my way, got me wriggling in my seat. Some day, he’d understand all “Ya got no idea. She ain’t wanting insights. She’s this. Some day he’d be knocking on my door, ask- wanting ya ter tell her he’s gonna be first on the ing for explanations. Asking me to tell him why. I block ter say ‘Mamma’. She’s wanting ya ter tell her tried to involve him. I tried to ask him what he he’ll be walking at three months. And she’s wanti- thought, what he wanted. He gave me a quizzical, ng ya ter tell her it’s ok ter lay the pressure on. Cuz almost plaintive look. Then the smell made me he’s big enough ter take it.” show her the bathroom.

“Even very young children need to be informed “I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I about dying. Explain the concept of death very enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.”12 carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.”8 I knew this kid. I knew what he thought of her. And 1. WC Fields it wasn’t all good. But he’d do what he was going 2. Steven Wright I might not know much, but I know that you need to do. Nothing would change that. I’d given her 3. Quentin Crisp to have a bit of respect for kids. You need to give enough clues. Just hoped she’d have the sense to 4. Raymond Chandler them some structure, to provide gentle, but firm, do something with them. Farewell, My Lovely (Ch. 1) discipline. Laying on the pressure is guaranteed to 5. R. Buckminster Fuller cause trouble. “If you don’t leave, I’ll get somebody who will.”13 6. Libby Gelman-Waxner 7. Gracie Allen “She ain’t wanting ter know how yer gonna bring I’d had enough. She wasn’t listening. Payback 8. P. J. O'Rourke up yer own kids. She’s got her own ideas.” time. She threw a roll of bills on my desk. 9. Anonymous Thanked me in a way that made me feel like I’d 10. Dorothy Parker “Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. just offered her son a job, and it wasn’t the sort 11. Raymond Chandler Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a of job a decent boy should even know about. I The High Window (Ch. 5) parent ages as much as 20 years.”9 knew I wouldn’t be seeing her again. But 12. Bart Simpson, maybe, someday, he’d listen to that tape, he’d The Simpsons But what about when he’s older? Those teenage take a look for himself. And then I knew he’d 13. Raymond Chandler years? be back. Notebooks

Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 49 Film: Pluto Rides Again: Sleepy Hollow Kay Stopforth

In the start of a new regular column, Kay Stopforth looks at the creative partnership of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp in the film Sleepy Hollow, which “offers a witty and satisfying mythic solution to the ‘problem’ of Pluto”.

Kay Stopforth is a film stud- ighly recommended for those who like astrologers. The headless horseman is a potent ies graduate and an Htheir fairy tales Grimm! embodiment of the Pluto principle. In life, a astrologer. She has mercenary warrior of repute, in death an agent observed the correlation ased (very loosely) on Washington Irving’s of (seemingly) mindless destruction, the horse- between the movements of Bshort story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, man is a most unghostly figure. He is a power- Neptune and the develop- this slice of American Gothic manages to be ful and terrifyingly real presence, and his violent ment of cinematic art over both beautiful and visceral. A kind of dement- activities are portrayed in gut-wrenching detail. many years. Kay is the ed fairy tale, with a dash of Hammer Horror, The horseman emerges from the roots of a author of the Universe Cards Sleepy Hollow is an invigorating mixture of gore tree (“the tree of the dead”, no less) and this is (Thorsons, 1999), a unique and humour. described as his “gateway” to the real world. divination tool using dramat- His eruption into the world perfectly embodies ic pictures of the universe in supernatural headless horseman is terror- the experience of Pluto’s often violent, disrup- a Tarot-type pack. Aising a remote village in the New York of tive emergence into consciousness. The decap- 1799. Constable Ichabod Crane (Johnny itations are shown in bizarre, macabre and con- Depp) is sent from the big city to investigate vincing fashion - the violence both ultra-real the strange goings on in Sleepy Hollow, where and cartoon-like. One reacts with both repul- several of the unfortunate inhabitants have sion and laughter - there is a macabre humour been decapitated by the horseman. Crane is a in the lopped-off heads spinning from the force new breed of police officer, using reasoning of their violent removal. and deduction to solve a crime, and he is immediately sceptical of the villagers’ wild tales he lack of a head indicates that the horse- of the ghostly horseman. However, logic and Tman is not amenable to logic or reason; reason prove to be inadequate to the task but he can be controlled, we discover, through when confronted with the horseman’s terrify- magic. The theme of headlessness and decapi- ing power, and Crane must use more magical tation points to one of the film’s central means to defeat his quarry. themes - the limits of reason when faced with a powerful, irrational force. Ichabod Crane is his Plutonian little tale of a dark, violent fig- determined that reason will reveal to him the Ture emerging from the underworld to identity of the killer, but he is troubled by vio- wreak death and destruction follows an arche- lent dreams of his mother’s torture. These typal pattern which will be familiar to dreams actually reveal more to him about the nature of the mystery than his deductive process, and they act to renew his determination to solve the mystery. His logical deductions, by contrast, are always laughably wrong. This is an interesting break with the conventions of the “detec- tive” genre. In the tradition perfect- ed by Conan Doyle, and copied by countless others, we are accus- tomed to see the processes of log- ical deduction triumphing over superstition and fear. Here, these processes are revealed to be woe- fully inadequate, when faced with a Plutonian quarry. Sleepy Hollow is a kind of reply to The Hound of the page 50 Apollon Issue 5 May 2000 Baskervilles, where the terrifying supernatural Edward Scissorhands and beast is unmasked as a fraud by the peerless Ed Wood. deductions of Sherlock Holmes. Here, our Director/actor part- detective is vulnerable, human, cowardly and nerships are not deeply flawed in his reasoning process. His uncommon in cin- deductions are ridiculous, but we sympathise ema - Martin with his determination to confront the horse- Scorsese and man. Robert De Niro are a he story of Sleepy Hollow is a considerable famous exam- Tdeparture from Washington Irving’s origi- ple of such a nal, where the rider is unmasked as a hoax per- pairing - and petrated by Crane’s romantic rival. This film is often the actor psychologically more complex - a discourse on carries some the theme of mythic horror, darkness and fear. aspect of the Its screenwriter, Andrew Kevin Walker, is cred- director’s creative ited with the screenplay for Seven, amongst identity onscreen, others, and the film’s director, Tim Burton, is representing for him well known for such gothic extravaganzas as or her a cluster of char- Edward Scissorhands and Batman. Burton is a acteristics, an onscreen great fan of Hammer Horror films, and his dis- persona. As one might tinctive style is a blend of gothic darkness and expect, this is reflected in the macabre comedy. Predictably enough, Burton synastry between the two charts. Depp has an extremely close Sun-Pluto conjunction and Burton share a striking amount of chart in Virgo (3’ of arc), and Pluto also conjuncts his synastry, the most notable aspect for our pur- Inner Wheel: Leo Mercury. His Sun-Pluto conjunction close- poses being Depp’s Mars/Pluto/Uranus con- Tim Burton ly sextiles Neptune in Scorpio, underlining the junction in Virgo, which falls on Burton’s 25 August 1958 Plutonian theme of his chart, as well as linking Sun/Pluto conjunction. Depp’s Mars “acts out” Burbank, California this theme creatively to the Neptunian medi- the essence of Burton’s identity (Sun). Depp’s Birth time unknown. um of cinema. It is hardly surprising that the Mars also conjuncts Uranus, and this rather Geocentric heroes of his films always represent the Pluto incendiary combination probably accounts for Tropical principle in some form. After serving an a lot of his quirky onscreen appeal, as well as 0º Aries at Noon apprenticeship as an animator for Disney (a his offscreen “bad boy” reputation. He also has suitably Virgoan entry into the film world!), a wide Sun-Pluto square, which echoes Outer Wheel: Burton had his breakthrough in filmmaking with Burton’s Sun-Pluto contact. Depp is ideally suit- Johnny Depp the mega-success of Batman in 1989. This film ed to playing a Plutonian hero, but the inclu- 9 June 1963 rehabilitated Batman as a Plutonian hero, res- sion of Uranus adds an element of the offbeat Owensboro, Kentucky cuing him from the “zap, pow” figure of fun he and unusual, which is evident in his engaging, 8.44am CST had become, thanks to the 1960’s TV series. twitchy performance as Crane. He plays the Geocentric The character of Batman is highly Plutonian; his character as a very human, fallible kind of hero. Tropical true identity is a secret, he disguises himself He is both courageous and cowardly, deter- Placidus with a mask, he emerges from an underground mined and stupid, in his pursuit of the horse- cave - and always at night - and his mission as man. an avenging hero has its origins in childhood pain and loss. Sleepy Hollow’s horseman is a leepy Hollow is ultimately a positive darker echo of Tim Burton’s Batman, the dif- S Plutonian film. It offers a possible syn- ference being that Batman has a mission to thesis of Plutonian energy into life and a fight crime and evil, whereas the horseman is resolution of the violent intrusions repre- called upon to kill mindlessly by outside agen- sented by the horseman. Ichabod Crane, cies determined upon doing evil. The horse- in his determination to confront the mys- man is pure instinct, whereas Batman is a high- tery, and his eventual acceptance of the ly principled figure, more like the “eagle” side of limits of reason, is a positive Plutonian Scorpio. Heroes in Burton films are often out- who acts as a balance to the “headless” siders; Edward Scissorhands is ostracised instincts of the horseman. Finally, reason, because of his outlandish appearance, Batman instinct and spirit are integrated in Crane’s distances himself from others to keep his iden- confrontation with the horseman and the tity secret, and Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow forces that control him. Without giving is literally an outsider, arriving from the big city away the ending, Sleepy Hollow offers a with his newfangled ideas about detection. witty and satisfying mythic solution to the “problem” of Pluto - a wonderful example ohnny Depp, who plays Crane, has starred in of mythmaking at work in the language of Jtwo other Burton films as the outsider-hero, the cinema.

Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 51 Moon-Pluto - Fault or Fate? Sophia Young In a moving personal account of her experience of being a mother, Sophia Young finds herself challenging her own preconceptions about the kind of mothering that a child receives when a stark Moon-Pluto signature is present in a birth chart.

Sophia Young is a CPA n the part of prehistory that is my life before mustered my fixed energy, determined not to graduate, Oxford graduate, Ichildren, I would counsel clients with Moon- have a caesarian, and heaved my son into the committed Gemini (if that is Pluto connections. The archetypal Medea- world. not a contradiction in Mother-Murderer would often put in an appear- terms), mother, counsellor; ance to the consulting room. These clients often ne of the first words Leo may have heard believes that it is important had a powerful subjective experience of mother Owas, “Look at the clock!” as I wanted to to be able to discriminate as the dark face of Pluto, which was not neces- know his birth time. Followed by my excited cry, between things; and will not sarily the objective reality. However, every pro- “That’s my baby, that’s my baby!” Or, he may eat a Yorkie bar if it is not a jection needs a peg on which to hang. The not have heard anything for the sound of snip- purple one. Moon-Pluto child must have a parent who ping, as the cord was tightly wrapped round his needs to do Pluto, I reasoned. I, for instance, a neck, and had to be cut while he was still emerg- gentle Gemini/Aquarius, years of therapy, ing. The accurate Greenwich timepiece my hus- decent relationship with my own mother, had band had bought had been left behind in our no need to experience Pluto through my rela- early-hours dash to the hospital. (Sadly, an accu- tionship with my children... rate clock isn’t listed in “what to pack for labour” Pluto in the labour ward: Pluto on my MC, notes.) Leo needed a bit of air to breathe. He had Pluto right on his Ascendant. However, I opposing my Sun. knew he was going to be fine. I felt it. On the gnoring this, I had planned to have my first other hand, I was not so convinced about my Ichild in a birthing pool, candles, whale music, own health. After his birth, I failed to respond to massage, low lights and whispering midwives. I medication. Drugs and I just don’t get along. A was expecting the birth of my first baby to be a doctor standing at the bottom of my bed told life-changing event. Transiting Pluto was oppos- me that with my kind of blood pressure people ing my natal Sun, conjunct my MC. Uranus was have strokes and die. I had become a mother, on my Ascendant. Slowly, my blood pressure but was as helpless as my child, unable to even crept up, and signs that I was not well became raise my head, and needing others to look after harder and harder to wave away with an airy all my bodily needs. hand. A month before he was due, my waters broke, just like they do on ER, and never in real- ot wishing to confirm the gloomy doctor’s ity. I knew I wasn’t well. Bleary-eyed, we tried Nopinion, I made my husband stay up and looking up “What to do” in the Pregnancy & talk to me, Leo in a cot by my side. I thought if Birth book. Then I phoned the midwives and I could hold on to my consciousness, I would be they told me to go to hospital, with my hospital okay, and not slip into the darkness that I could bag. I asked what went into a hospital bag. They feel close by. He talked to me about great told me. I cast about for any of the items they breakfasts of our time. He tells me that I was had mentioned and we left, empty-handed. staring in a most disconcerting way. After a long time, I told him to get some sleep. The lights n hospital, at first no one really noticed me, the were dimmed. As I lay on my hospital bed in the Iblood pressure machines were broken, Uranus dark, my husband and baby asleep at my side, was asleep. When the shift changed, and a nurse watching my monitors telling me I was ill, trying did eventually take my blood pressure, I was to pretend to myself I wasn’t, I had a strange instantly surrounded by a sea of white coats. A visitor. Greek Chorus of doctors seemed to be echoing the consultant’s mantra of “very unwell - possi- nurse came into the darkened room, ble caesarian”. I was given a set amount of time Awearing full Florence Nightingale uniform. to have the baby, and after that it was to theatre I knew she was not a living person, and with me. Uranus woke up and attached himself thought I was going to die. The doctors had to me. It was like being entangled in the hair of told me I was at risk of a stroke and death, the Medusa. We counted thirteen different moni- drugs weren’t bringing my blood pressure tors and lines snaking in and out. Despite being down. My time was up. She was surely com- pinned down, drugged up and very unwell, I ing to get me. I didn’t want to go. I thought of page 52 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 my new baby, and how I would miss his grow- Pluto is hard to swallow: ing up. My mind was spinning; I started freak- Chiron-Moon-Pluto arrives: Monday 5 April ing out inside. The “nurse” approached my 5:40 pm Hmmm. Was that a contraction? bed and “told” me not to worry, to stop try- 6:00 pm Need to go to the loo quite a lot. Can’t ing to think it all out. She wasn’t there to take feed Leo his tea. me away, and I would be fine. I just had to fol- 6:30 pm Bath with Leo. Leo has to get out as I am low her simple instruction. “Accept the fact trying to thrash like a fish, eight-and-a-half months that you are very loved”. She told me that pregnant, so more like a whale, really. receiving love and giving love are ultimately 7:00 pm Listen to the Archers, or fail to, as I crawl one. I had to stop being a carer, and allow about. myself to be cared for. I calmed down, and lis- 7:15 pm Phone midwife who says to leave for the tened to her. She vanished, and I knew that I Birth Centre immediately. would be alright. 7:30 pm Load bucket and towel into car and set off. 8:30 pm Car races past the Robin Hood round- ater on that night, my drugs ran out, all the about. I throw up into the bucket, have a huge con- Lstaff were on caesarians, and no-one could traction, my waters break onto the towel. I realise be found to refill the intravenous medicine. I that my second baby is not going to be born in any Leo had what the hospital call a fit, but which felt birthing pool. I shout, “Pull over. Baby coming!” just like fainting to me. I remember, while not internally remarking on my lack of grammatical abil- conscious, having to chose between a real ity. Alexander Sterling makes his entrance to this crying baby and a spirit baby, and being con- world in the back of a Rover Sterling on the edge fused, but not scared. I came back to yet of Putney Heath. another sea of faces. The consultant asked me 8:45 pm Desperately try to find out from the if I knew where I was. I replied, “Yes, hospital, ambulance HQ, who were talking us through it on but I’ve been somewhere else.” For the rest the carphone, what time they thought he was born. of my nights in intensive care a (real) agency 8:37 seems a good guess. Yet another contribution nurse was hired by the hospital to watch over I have made to the inaccuracy of astrology. me. By weird fate, her grandmother and 9:00 pm Ambulance finally finds us (we had got lost, mother had worked at my grandmother’s and so couldn’t tell them where we were). family home in Ireland. Her words were, “100 Everyone immediately asks for the bucket to be years ago I would have been doing this any- taken out. Alexander’s birth place is marked by an way.” abandoned bucket of sick. We go off to hospital to be checked over, and by 11pm we are all in bed o although Pluto had made an appearance together. Sin the labour room, he hadn’t hurt the rela- Leo tionship I had with my child. If anything, it was ithin a few hours of his birth, it became 7th August 1998 a positive experience. While still convalescing Wobvious that he could not breastfeed 3:33 pm in hospital after the birth, my astrologer friend well. He would scream in agony and choke as I London Phil Byrne bought in Leo’s chart. I was thrilled tried to nourish him. He hated feeding, but des- Tropical to see a well-aspected 10th house Moon perately wanted to at the same time. I loathed Geocentric Libra, trine Uranus and Neptune. I said, “That’s being the cause of such distress. He threw up Placidus me! Intuitive, sensitive, clever, attractive, bit much of what I did get in him. What should eccentric and dippy, but lovely.” If objective have been the most natural thing for a reality is two subjective realities concurring, mother to do for her child was trau- then I had two sets of factual evidence - our matic for both of us. Alexander birth charts - proving that I was going to be a experienced me as the source of fine mother. Pluto on the Ascendant may his distress and pain. I loved him mean he starts his ventures in a dramatic way. as Cordelia loved Lear. I His chart seemed to fit with my expectations longed to love him because of myself as a mother. This was surely meant he was lovely, yet his pain to be. Leo was such a blessing, so loved and so was anything but. I doubted easy to love, that we decided to have another my maternal instinct - was it baby when he had just turned one. maternal duty? It was so hard to love this baby, who our days before Alexander, my second son, rejected my milk, who was Fwas actually born, he considered arriving rigid, who was unhappy, who with a beautiful Moon Libra like his elder broth- was struggling, and whom I er. I had several painful contractions, and then it couldn’t comfort. I longed for my felt as if someone/something had a change of “real”, healthy baby. heart. An April Fool. I had noted in my diary that on Monday 5 April there was a Chiron- ventually, Alexander got pneumonia Moon-Pluto conjunction... Efrom inhaling his own milk and vomit, and

Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 53 ended up in intensive care. Hospital procedures them, things began to change. As he grew older, were simply ghastly. He was too young for their and spent more time on the wards, I felt more local anaesthetic, so everything was done with- confident in refusing painful procedures which out. I had to hold my screaming child while the were not wholly necessary. I discovered I could doctors inserted IV tubes into his fragile body, stand up to authority, and protect my child. feeding tubes up his nose into his stomach, test- There were still many horrible tests which were ing needles into his skin, testing tubes. Again and inconclusive, provoking much headscratching again. Even though I quietly whispered explana- amongst the doctors, until a diagnosis was tions to him, his pain was unbearable to me. He reached when he was ten months old: must have been wondering why I, his mother, Congenital Pharangeal Dysfunction. It is a very was party to this nightmare. Why wasn’t I stop- rare disorder for a baby to have, in complete ping it all for him, protecting him? Then his thin isolation from any other dysfunction. What goes veins would collapse, and the whole thing had into his mouth gets into his lungs. Liquid is to start again. Or another test would be banned from his mouth. About 25% of babies Alexander ordered. Or more blood would be needed. Or born with his difficulty die from the pneumonia someone else wanted to examine him. caused by inhaling milk. Chiron-Moon-Pluto.

didn’t let him see me upset. I didn’t let me see lexander’s short life story has not all been Imyself upset, I remained calm and comforting. Apain. He is only an outpatient now, and Then one day, about a week into our first without liquid in his diet, rarely in distress. He stay, when he was out of danger, I has a great, pixie-like sense of mischief, and his broke down in the nurses’ coffee Sun-Jupiter has started to shine. He thinks his room. I had walked across a wet older brother is tremendously amusing. I love floor, and the cleaner com- Alexander very dearly, in an affectionate way, as plained she would have to wipe well as in the lioness-protecting way. Although it down again. I apologised, he is still struggling with feeding, and he will and said I would clean it for always have Moon-Pluto in his chart, neither he her, and started to cry. I had nor I are as frightened any more. As transiting been caught out - I had Chiron and his progressed Moon clear his unconsciously trashed some- Pluto, there is no longer the daily battle to sur- thing clean and fresh. All the vive. bad feelings I had about myself rushed forward. With ur charts do not take away choice. Leo’s transiting Pluto now in my 10th Ochart, sadly, does not prove I am an enor- house, opposing my Venus, I mous Good Breast, nor does Alexander’s prove knew I was a bad mother. I am a Big Bad one either. I have learnt many lessons about love, pain and acceptance, since fter accepting that very other-than- becoming a mother. I now also know from Aperfect mother, talking about the experience not to prejudge the intentions of a dark feelings, and allowing rather than hiding Moon-Pluto’s mother! Alexander 5th April 1999 8:37pm London Tropical Geocentric Placidus

©Ken Cox 1999 page 54 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 Reflections: Pathos, Children and The Yearning for Slowness Philomena Byrne

In this thoughtful piece, Philomena Byrne reflects on what she perceives as a malaise in our society, our Western “time-starved” culture, in which “our yearning for slowness, with its attendant depth and holding, has become our Pathos.”

I don’t know exactly what a prayer is don’t want to go into any great detail about I do know how to pay attention, how to fall Ithe incidents I’ve referred to, and I am not down addressing the context in which either took Into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass place. However, at the risk of oversimplifying, I How to be idle and blessed, how to stroll do want to emphasise one of the differences through the fields between them. My client, as a child, was left Which is what I have been doing all day alone with an event that she couldn’t possibly Tell me, what else should I have done? digest in any way - and the story of her life Doesn’ t everything die at last, and too soon? since then reflects this awful abandonment. In Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your hearing the other story from the township, the one wild and precious life? only consolation possible for me was in know- ing that there are a group of adults in the com- Mary Oliver, excerpt from The Summer Day1 munity who know what has happened. These adults are suffering the impact, the bewilder- Philomena Byrne is a psy- ment and turmoil of the event. They are grief- chotherapist and astrological he astrological context for this article is the stricken, absorbing the horror, and trying to consultant based in London. Tclose conjunction throughout May of come to terms with the disbelief, rage and Jupiter and Saturn in Taurus - the planetary shame involved in taking in what has happened. representatives of the psyche’s capacity for mania and depression, meeting in the sign that he point I want to make is not only that most signifies our capacity for slowness and Tchildren are dependent on adults to digest depth. experiences for them, and to attempt to make meaning from them, but also that some events n his book Healing Fiction2, James Hillman are so challenging or horrific that they are Iasks a pivotal question: “What does Soul beyond the individual’s capacity for meaning- want?” In the same work, he elaborates his making. Only a community or collective understanding of Symptom - Hillman holds response will suffice to carry, and eventually that Soul speaks through symptoms. Through come to terms with, the more deeply tragic or our symptoms, our pathology or Pathos, Soul deplorable aspects of life. Making sense of the enters. terrible so that it becomes tolerable, liveable with, and eventually with its own meaning: this ast week, in preparation for an upcoming is the process of Soul-making. Making Soul Ljourney to South Africa, I spoke to some- involves the transformation of events into one who lives and works there. My friend told experience, so that we can live with how things me about something that had recently taken are, rather than how we would like them to be. place in a community I would visit, a township Usually, this involves mourning, grieving, feeling, outside of Johannesburg. In a schoolyard in remembering, imagining. It always involves the township, a group of seven-year-old boys time. had raped a little girl, also aged seven. The teachers and community leaders are in shock. ere in the West, particularly in urban set- I was also horrified. Two days later, one of my Htings, we are increasingly aware of being own clients from my practice, here in London, “time-starved”, or, maybe, we are over-stimu- 1. The Summer Day, Mary a young woman, told me about an incident lated, with too many happenings to try to bring Oliver, New and Selected from her childhood. When she was in prima- meaning to. But perhaps, following Hillman, we Poems, Beacon Press 1992 ry school, aged about six or so, two boys had might be able to attend to the Soul-fullness of 2. Healing Fiction, James taken her into the boy’s toilet and done our current pathos, the ills we currently suffer Hillman, Spring Publications “something terrible” to her. She hadn’t told in our society, in ways which, rather than Inc. 1983 anyone. pathologising us further as a culture, allow Soul

Apollon Issue 5 May 2000 page 55 and meaning to enter through these same vul- symbolic, that this inevitably entails. Our yearn- nerabilities. ing for slowness, with its attendant depth and holding, has become our Pathos. n example of one of the most tender col- Alective or archetypal hurts in the Western The place of the child in the collective is set world concerns the decline - real or perceived against this backdrop. - in our potency and generative capacity. We live longer than many other cultures on the report produced in the Journal of the planet, but we are having fewer children. We AAmerican Medical Association was quoted imagine ourselves to be less vulnerable to nat- in The Guardian newspaper recently.3 The arti- ural disasters, but we are also less fertile. We cle describes a “threefold rise in prescriptions are part of an ageing demographic that worries of medical drugs for children under five, with about falling sperm counts, where degenerative toddlers being fed anti-depressants and other diseases such as cancer and heart disease are substances... for perceived psychiatric prob- among our biggest killers. Though we can wield lems”, and “between 1991 and 1995, doctors’ some of the most fearsome technology in the prescriptions for... Ritalin (for supposed world, and artificially extend our child-bearing Attention Deficit Disorder, previously known capacity into old age if we choose, the truth is, as hyperactivity) shot up, from 4.1 per 1,000 more so than any other culture, on an imaginal pre-school children, to 12.3 (per 1,000)... level, we are closer to dying. Researchers expect this trend to continue.”

community with falling natural birth rates hat can be happening in the psyche of a Ais a community terrified of its own extinc- Wcommunity which finds itself unable to tion. We are in deep denial of death, and cope with the (hyper) activity of its children, allowing less and less time for honouring and and which needs to medicate even its youngest giving a place to mourning and grieving. There members against depression? was a poignant reminder of our dilemma car- ried in a number of national newspapers hildren embody life and possibility, and stir recently - London is running out of burial Cour longings for immortality. Where the space. What is happening in the psyche of a biological expression of such an essential ener- community that can’t find a place for its dead? gy is perceived to be in jeopardy, Psyche’s call draws our attention to the need to make s part of our denial of death, we have meaning from this. It isn’t surprising, then, that Abecome accustomed to thinking of we should find ourselves as a society in the grip change, growth and development - whether in of the archetype of the Child. The deepest market economy, technology, psychotherapy paradox for us is that the more we fear the or astrology - as inherently good, of the acqui- loss of the Child, and all that this represents for sition of new information, experience and us, the more we envy and emulate our chil- achievement as inherently desirable. These dren, the more we are in danger of becoming things can be intrinsically good and desirable, a culture of children unable to adequately tend but only when they are inclusive of other to our children. processes. There needs also to be space for divergent, slower movements - reflecting, tol- hildren are the world’s natural manics. To erating frustration, valuing the deepening yield- Cconstantly seek newness and stimulation, ed through loss and painful encounter, and of to be excited and impatient, this is the course, the slow and tortuous acceptance of province of the child. It is a child’s “right”, mortality. We know this, but we are finding it because his or her fundamental need is to keep almost impossible to live it, to give it a place growing, developing and changing. within our cultural life. It’s as though these processes have been displaced, out of our soci- n order to live with, and love, the mania of our ety, into “otherness” - other cultures, other Ichildren, we need to know how to be “idle and places, different times. blessed”, to fathom that “everything dies at last, and too soon”. Paradoxically, in order to enjoy ur “illness”, that which ails us, seems to be their constant motion, their capacity to keep Othat we have constructed a manic going until they drop with sudden, compelling defence against our collective ageing, pitting exhaustion, we need to be able to set aside our our memory of, and longing for, youthfulness own mania and enter, tolerate and eventually against the depression involved in acknowledg- value our depression, our death. In this way, in ing the Autumnal cycle of our culture. We are due time, children too learn to trust and value living in dread of being overtaken by this slowing down, they learn the art of waiting, and, 3 The Guardian 26 March descent. We are fortifying ourselves against the as they grow up, of living with tragedy and long- 2000 “Pester Power” fear of the encounter with death, literal or ing, of turning event into experience. page 56 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 MIDHEAVEN BOOKSHOP

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f Soul enters through our pathology, our he re-frame of the tragic events recounted Many thanks to Chris IPathos, these encounters with our failures Tat the beginning of this piece involves the Robertson of Re-Vision lead us to where we engage ourselves with recognition of our deepest tragedy - we can’t and my partner Marie making meaning. Through our struggle with stop terrible things happening. We need to try O’Kelly for their contribu- the illnesses of our lives, we enter the realm our best, and yet we will fail. We will fail tions. of Soul. This descent inevitably takes us fur- because we can’t legislate against failure, no ther into feeling and imagining, and, in so matter how much we might like to. And so, doing, begins to create a space for the illness we need to mourn. Mourning brings meaning, within the collective, shifting the weight of a and meaning transforms the unbearable into burden which is often simply too great for the the tolerable, to what is Soul-full. In this para- individual or family group to bear. There is a doxical way, through contradiction and rever- qualitative shift to Soul-making when those sal, Psyche brings us back to what ails us, and, who bear the illness, or Pathos, are honoured inevitably, as we instinctively search for heal- as suffering the symptom on behalf of the ing, back to the question “What does Soul community. want?”

Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 57 The Tarot Fool and the Archetype of the Child Juliet Sharman-Burke

Continuing her enlightening series on archetypal images in the Tarot, Juliet Sharman- Burke here introduces us to the Fool, and the hopeful Aries energy that is symbolised by the Child of the pack.

he Tarot Fool, and the archetype of the Divine Juliet Sharman-Burke has TChild who brings new hope, have much in been practising astrology common. The archetype of the Child is an image of and Tarot for the past twenty optimism and potential, which presents an oppor- years. She has been teaching tunity to write a new script. When we hear news and supervising for the of the birth of a child, we generally feel joyful at the Centre for Psychological idea of a new life beginning, wide open for adven- Astrology since its inception ture. in June 1983, and also runs the Centre’s administration. rospective parents, and parents of tiny babies, She is also a qualified analyt- Pare able to fantasise freely about the future hap- ic psychotherapist with a piness, success and fulfilment that their child may private practice in London. experience because, in early childhood, no reality Juliet is the author of The has yet impinged, and no restrictions or limits have Complete Book of Tarot, The been imposed. Mythic Tarot Workbook, and Understanding Tarot, and is imilarly, in the Tarot, the Fool, the unnumbered co-author of The Mythic Scard, who stands between the Magician as Tarot and The Mythic Journey Number One and after the World as Number with Liz Greene. She has Twenty-One, begins and ends the cycle of the also written The Barefoot Major Arcana. The Fool can be visualised as the Book of Stories from the Stars, start of the zodiacal cycle, as Aries, the start of a book for children. The spring. Every spring we feel a senseof new hope; Astrologer, the Counsellor and green growth pokes through dead winter wood, the Priest, with Liz Greene, sweet spring flowers emerge from the dull brown he Child and the Fool are deep and highly sig- and The Family Inheritance: earth, and birds are nesting. There is a feeling of Tnificant archetypes because they both repre- Parental Images in the potency and rejuvenation in the air. The energy of sent human experience at every stage of life’s jour- Horoscope, have both been Aries, the Fool and the Child have many similarities. ney. No matter how old or experienced we are, life published by the CPA Press. They are all concerned with new beginnings and always manages to produce new situations for us to carry the prospect of a positive future. “Tomorrow encounter. Anything new inevitably evokes not is a new day, with no mistakes in it,” says Anne of only the positive sense of looking forward to some- Green Gables, and this reflects the energy of the thing, but also brings feelings of vulnerability, uncer- Fool. He appears at the start of a new cycle, the tainity, and a sense of being at risk, all of which birth of a new year, and, as with all beginnings, any- reflect another aspect of the divinatory meaning of thing and everything is possible, and nothing has yet this card. come in to spoil the overwhelming sense of oppor- tunity which lies ahead. All this is true of the Tarot he image of the Fool, poised at the edge of a Fool in a divinatory sense when he appears in a Tprecipice, conjures up that moment of fear, spread. There is a sense of excitement, anticipation excitement, dread and thrill which accompanies any and enthusiasm which accompanies this image. new venture.

aradoxically, the Fool also ends the cycle. In he Mythic Tarot shows the Fool emerging from Pthe card of the World, the image is of a danc- Ta cave, which suggests the womb, an image of ing figure contained in a wreath, or, in the case of new life. He is standing on one foot at the edge of the Mythic Tarot, the snake eating its own tail. The a precipice, yet he is not afraid. He is ready to meet World signifies a completion, the end of a cycle, life head on; his eyes are raised toward the rising and once something is completed, the next step, sun, the start of a new day. Most Tarot decks por- inevitably, is a new beginning. The figure enclosed tray the Fool with his face upturned, about to step in the oval can thus be interpreted as the foetus off the edge of a cliff. Some decks show an animal in the womb waiting to be born again, as the Child snapping at his heels, which represents the instinc- or the Fool. tual fear that we all feel when faced with the page 58 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 unknown. Nevertheless, more often than not, the first conquer the dark forces and succeed the urge to grow, to learn and to experience the dead king to become ruler and father himself. The unknown, overwhelms the fear, and over the edge birth of Horus was celebrated by the Egyptians on we go! 21st December, the winter solstice, when the sun reaches its lowest point, after which it gains in he Mythic Tarot portrays the Fool as being con- strength and force, a cosmic representation of the Tnected with the Greek god Dionysus. Dionysus death of the old king and birth of the new. is a good image for humankind, as his semidivine parents connect him to the mortal as well as to the he birth of Christ is celebrated on 25th divine world. The cave symbolises his earthly moth- TDecember at midnight as a symbol of new life er, Semele, and the eagle watching from the branch emerging from the darkest hour on the darkest day above represents Zeus, his divine father. Dionysus’ of the year, suggesting that light can conquer dark- birth to a mortal mother from the seed of a divine ness; life conquers death. father, his violent death and triumphant rebirth, have obvious parallels with the Christian story. Both n some decks, the Fool is dressed in ragged or Dionysus and Jesus had to be hidden at birth, Imulticoloured clothes, which signify the different Dionysus from jealous Hera and Jesus from jealous impulses which pull him in opposite directions. In Herod. Both figures radically changed the relation- other decks, he wears a jester’s costume, which ship between men and gods, and both were put to suggests his unique position as the king’s Fool. In death and resurrected. Dionysus gave wine to medieval courts, only the Fool could get away with mankind, his sacred grapevine being pruned in the telling unpalatable truths to the king, which no one autumn in order to be renewed in spring. Grape else would dare mention. This, too, is often the role and grain were used by Jesus at the Last Supper and of children, who innocently ask questions or say in the Eleusian celebrations of Dionysus and things as they see them, rather than feeling inhibit- Demeter. ed by a wish to look good or curry favour. In the fairy tale, The Emperor’s New Clothes, the adults n some Tarot images, the Fool is portrayed as were so afraid of looking foolish that they all agreed Ibeing held back from the edge by a wild animal, they could see a fine coat, which did not exist. It sometimes a lion, symbolising the powerful desire was a child who innocently asked, out of sheer nature of man, while a crocodile, which may curiosity and interest, why the Emperor was parad- reflect the beast within humankind, lurks in the ing the streets stark naked! abyss. This imagery may refer to the Egyptian myth of Isis and her son Horus, who were forced he image of the Tarot Fool calls up the idea of to hide in the swamps of the Nile in fear of Horus’ Tthe Divine Child who is born again to give us wicked uncle, Seth, who planned to murder his hope. Throughout life, we will always find ourselves nephew. One of the forms Seth took was the in situations which make us feel ignorant or ill-pre- crocodile. According to this myth, Horus finally pared. Yet, like the Fool, we have no choice but to overpowered his evil relative, and succeeded to throw ourselves into the unknown, because to hold the throne of his murdered father, Osiris. Thus the back is to stagnate, and even to perish. As we look pharaoh of Egypt was seen as Horus, the lord of at the image of the Fool, balanced on the edge of sky and sun, in his lifetime, and Osiris after his the precipice, we know he must leap, because his death. The Fool is therefore linked with Horus, as desire to explore what lies ahead is greater than his the child who is heir to the throne, but who must fear and apprehension. Réalta The Quarterly Journal of the Irish Astrological Association A good blend of quality articles, from traditional to radical

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Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 59 Charles Harvey An Appreciation Charles Harvey, co-director of the Centre for Psychological Astrology, died on 22nd February 2000. Here follows an appreciation of his life and work, in words by Lindsay Clarke, Richard Tarnas, Anne Whitaker, and Liz Greene. Lindsay Clarke delivered both his and Richard Tarnas’ eulogies at Charles’ funeral.

f all the people I’ve known, Charles call telling me of his death. Winded by shock OHarvey is one of whom I’d say without a and grief, I felt for a time as though it wasn’t moment’s hesitation that here is a man of true true any more - that Charles was gone and he spiritual dignity. Yet it was an essential part of and I could never be together again. I knew his diffident charm that such dignity was lightly that I had always loved him but, until that worn, and enlivened more often than not by a moment, I didn’t know quite how much. And wry self-deprecatory humour. So I believe it’s with that knowledge, a sense of Charles’ own true to say that Charles understands, and is essential truth returned. He hasn’t been far bearing with, our need to grieve, but he from my thoughts since then, and in those wouldn’t want us to be gloomy. In an attempt thoughts I’ve found myself humbled again and to honour something of his lightness, then, again by the scale and quality of the man. together with his deep seriousness of purpose and commitment, let me give you a couple of ’ve realized that, in part, I loved Charles my own recent tender memories of him. Ibecause he so often, and so easily, called out the best in me. I loved the way that, with a he first is of the care and tact and delight shrewd eye on the vanities and foibles that Twith which, just before Christmas, and in attend my clutch of stars in Leo, he quietly the midst of his bodily struggle with pain, he required the best of my intellect, the best of set about secretly making arrangements for my wit and humour, the best efforts of the the celebration of Suzi’s birthday. Consider the imagination to understand inflections of con- irresistible smile beaming out from the photo- sciousness very different from my own. graph of Charles you are holding. Now imag- ine that smile broadened into an exuberant think of Charles as possessing a jovial imagi- grin of impish glee and you have some idea of Ination - and I don’t just mean that he had a the shine on his face in the lovely moment merry, benevolent and good-humoured heart when his wife realized with what loving cun- - though of course he did. But in the symbolic ning he had out-trumped all her expectations. realm of the classical deities, Jove was lord For though in many ways he was a deeply pri- because his comprehensive imagination under- vate man, Charles was also, and always, a man stood, and knew the need for, all the other of heart. He took his greatest pleasure in giv- archetypal modes of being. In the broad ing pleasure to his loved ones and his friends. embrace of that imagination, Jove held the He was, as I know to my own gain, quite bril- world together as a whole, with all its variety, liant at it. But he was also a profoundly serious its shadow and its light. scholar to whom precision of thought was both a virtue and a necessity. So my second n its own humane way, Charles’ imagination memory is of Millennium Eve when - carried Iwas of that jovial order, and it was a measure away by the desire for a new time, or just of his spiritual generosity that, in knowing him, eager to watch the fireworks spread their light each of us came more completely to know against the night’s black screen - someone in ourselves. For he delighted in our differences - our number started the countdown at a point in what, across the whole chromatic spectrum which was, by Charles’ reckoning, three or of the zodiac, makes each of us unique and four seconds early. I heard his voice beside irreplaceable. me, firmly resisting the pressure of the group as he looked down at his watch - which was, I et he was deeply in touch, too, with that am quite sure, atomically accurate - keeping Ysacred ground of our being where we are count of the passing seconds. I remember all members of one another. And I know that thinking that, if anyone understands the instru- I value Charles so highly because it was just ments of time, it’s Charles, so I’m with him. impossible to spend long in his company with- Then, last Tuesday morning, came the phone out being reminded that we are more, much page 60 Apollon Issue 5 May 2000 more than our nar- great-souled. For row fears and ambi- one person to have tions - that, as even at once such a large the physicists tell us mind and a large now, we are made heart is so rare and of starfire; that in precious. For all of the words of a great us his death is a Christian theologian, blow, tangible and there is a Sun and a sharp, hitting our Moon inside us, and hearts hard. I share also the stars; that with Suzi, and with we are all children his children and fam- of Earth and the ily and friends, a starry heavens. deep sorrow at his passing. His death is remember Charles a great loss; and yet, Ijoking, not so long in the mysterious ago, about some way these things ingenious endeav- work, we know that our of materialist he has entered into science that seemed the interior of our to be encouraging the belief that death is now lives, perhaps to bring his irreplaceable gifts to optional. Well, Charles was under no such illu- and through us in ways we cannot foresee. sion. He knew that, sooner or later, death comes and is needful. But throughout his adult ut Charles was not only a friend and hus- life he had studied with Plato and Plotinus and Bband and father. He was, in his quiet but all their golden school, and in his fidelity to highly effective way, an important and even what they had taught him, and to the deep essential figure in our culture and in the spiri- truth of his own experience, he also knew that tual awakening of our time. Certainly he was death is not final, that there are realities one of the most brilliant, technically masterful, beyond these shadowlands where we grieve encyclopaedically knowledgeable astrologers his loss. Secure in that knowledge, he made a of our age, and his great synthesis of the British brave and beautiful death as he had made a and German astrological traditions at their brave and beautiful life. And even those who best is one of his most important contribu- find it hard to share Charles’ belief in the con- tions. And he accomplished that synthesis tinuity of the soul, can see for themselves how within a profound Platonic and Neoplatonic his life goes on in the love and strength and philosophical framework that greatly expand- creativity of his wife and children, and in the ed and deepened the meaning of the astro- countless ways he enlarged and enriched the logical perspective and discipline. many lives he touched. ut that is only a part of his legacy. If I can o, yes, I miss my friend and deeply mourn Bspeak as an American looking from afar at Shim; but I feel just as passionately that his the world of British astrology, it seemed to me life was, is, and will continue to be a rich cause that Charles was the most recent representative for celebration. And I feel sure that I’m simply of a certain great lineage within the British astro- representative of hundreds of other people logical tradition, which began with Alan Leo, was when I say that this wise, courageous and lov- passed on to Charles E. O. Carter, thence to ing man, whose life we are honouring, and John Addey, and finally to Charles, who oversaw whom I am privileged to call my friend, is per- the Astrological Association for most of his adult manent in my heart and my imagination. life. And from that position, in his extraordinary Lindsay Clarke care for the whole, Charles served more than perhaps any other single person to unify the 28th February 2000 international astrological community. For all his intellectual brilliance and technical competence he was a visionary: he deeply recognized not et me speak first, as a friend. Charles was only astrology’s potential influence but its right- Lso dear to me, his friendship was one of ful place in our civilization’s future world view. the most important in my life, though we were He believed that astrology would someday separated by an ocean and a continent. It was move into the very center of the life of our cul- an honor to be his friend. He had such a pro- ture - and I believe he was right. And, like all foundly warm heart, loving and generous; his great visionaries, he not only saw, he gave him- being in its very essence was magnanimous, self to the task of incarnating that vision.

Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 61 inally, if I can speak very personally for a ed to a tall, thin, fair man standing beside a Fmoment, I always felt as if Charles and I slender blonde woman holding a very new were united across the Atlantic by our com- baby - his wife Suzi and their first son, I later mon goal to help open up our civilization’s discovered. “That’s Charles Harvey!” said my eyes to the sacred intelligence of the cosmos fellow novice beside me. We had found out and to the human being’s special role within very quickly what an important figure he was, that cosmos. and felt rather awestruck. I remember hear- ing him speak, and being struck by his charis- ur friendship was rooted in this shared ma, and his eloquence. I can’t now recall Oaspiration: I hope to spend the rest of exactly what the subject was, but loved the my life - and Charles’ death poignantly brings way he set our individual lives in the context home to us all how unknown and mysterious of the Big Picture. is the allotted span of our years - I hope to spend the rest of whatever years are given to he quest for a larger and more meaningful me working to fulfill what Charles saw and felt Tcontext within which to set my own small so fully. More than anything, I will remember existence had drawn me toward astrology. how much Charles cared - for astrology, for Here was someone who was articulating, with the divine cosmos, for the human community great conviction, something for which my own - and his caring had the tenderness of the soul craved I remember thinking “I’d like that Mother for a precious newborn, or, perhaps I man to teach me what he knows.” should say, reborn. ot long after this, Charles came up to oodbye noble Charles, we have been beau- NScotland to teach, staying overnight with Gtifully blessed by your living amongst us. my husband Ian and myself. We had met Richard Tarnas because I was involved in setting up what was to be a short-lived astrological organisation in February 27, 2000 Scotland, and had consulted him for advice. Although I didn’t consciously realise it then, “Touch my life with the magic of thy fire” what was required was for me to learn my craft through the long, painstaking apprentice- wo framed certificates hang on my office ship we all have to go through; not to try to Twall: the Certificate from the Faculty of run before I could walk, a novice setting up an Astrological Studies dated May 1983, and the organisation for which there was no real Diploma from the Centre for Psychological demand. I fell out with everyone else involved, Astrology dated November 1998. The signa- and retreated into the Plutonian underworld, ture common to them both is that of Charles only really emerging about ten years later with Harvey. I met Charles not long after obtaining my astrological apprenticeship served. the first, and last saw him on my graduation day from the CPA. It is appropriate to have ’m pretty sure Charles could see all this very those two signatures on those two education- Iclearly as an outsider - but he was enthusi- al documents bracketing the period of our astic and encouraging when the organisation relationship. Although there was a great deal was set up, supportive and constructive when of warmth and friendship between us, Charles I wrote to him telling him about my retreat. Harvey was primarily my teacher and my men- tor. It is in that special context that I am now rom that time on, we never lost touch. I writing about our relationship, whose untime- Fstudied with him at Hawkwood College ly end has left me feeling more bereft than I in 1986, then in 1987 went down to study could have imagined. Harmonics with him and Mike Harding in Oxford. My growing interest in mundane here will be many, many tributes to astrology was fostered by the sheer scope TCharles in the coming months as our and accessibility of his knowledge - I read his astrological community slowly comes to terms books and articles, and we would corre- with its great loss. A great deal will be said spond or speak on the phone from time to about his generosity of spirit, his enthusiasm time. and optimism, his broad-ranging, bright mind, his capacity to inspire, his kindness, his willing- n 1990, with his encouragement, I started ness to give. In this memoir I would like to add Itravelling down to London to study at the some personal shading to the broad brush CPA, purely as a member of the public then. strokes of our community’s picture of him. I set up and ran my first astrology summer school in Glasgow in 1991. On the morning attended my first astrological conference in of the first day I had a wonderfully supportive I1984, very much a novice. Someone point- card from Charles. As well as developing my page 62 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 own teaching, I carried on studying as often was devastated to hear of Charles’ illness, as I could at the CPA, and was pleased to Iand wrote to him throughout the year that hear in 1992 that Charles had become co- he was struggling with cancer and chemo, director with Liz Greene. although there was only the occasional, always appreciative response. My last ever card from y 1994, I realised how much I wanted to him, at Christmas of 1999, was entirely typical Bbecome a bona fide student on the CPA of the great man that Charles was. Sketchy in course, but couldn’t see a way, because of the details of his own brave battle for life, he geography and family and work committments was full of enthusiasm and pleasure for me in in Scotland, of meeting all the supervision my new role as a member of the CPA staff. hours through group supervision. I discussed it all with Charles, and he said he would take the t is natural and normal to respond to the matter up with Liz Greene. I wasn’t very hope- Iundeserved suffering and untimely death of ful, and didn’t hear from Charles for a while. someone you love, with initial anger and per- Then, on Christmas Day 1994, he called me to haps bitterness at life’s unfairness. But I know say that I could apply for a place and would be that to go on being bitter would be to dimin- considered. I was accepted in 1995 as a CPA ish his contribution to my life, and my memo- student, Charles Harvey having agreed to do ries of him. I will take the example he set me, one to one private telephone supervision with and the major contribution he made to my me to make up my full quota of hours. development, in being as constructive and cre- ative as possible for whatever time remains to hen I started the CPA Diploma course me. Charles and I shared a love of good Win September 1995 we met face to quotes, and this memoir is titled with a fitting face again, for the first time since 1987, one from Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali although we had spoken and corresponded. I poet and philosopher. Charles Harvey certain- was apprehensive - how would it be? I need- ly touched my life with the magic of his fire. I n’t have worried. Charles saw me, and imme- will always miss him, and will never forget him. diately came over and hugged me. “Anne, Anne Whitaker how lovely to see you!” he said. “You haven’t changed a bit.” 10th March 2000 harles was an excellent supervisor. CAlways encouraging and positive, he harles Harvey was my friend for twen- would nevertheless be forensic in his criticism Cty-seven years, and my co-director at when that was required. It felt like a great the CPA for eight years. The sense of terri- privilege, after all these years, to have him ble loss that I feel at his death is balanced working with me on an individual basis. only by the sense of privilege and gratitude During the period of my study, he then start- which I feel at having known such an extra- ed to encourage me to spread my wings, ordinary man, and having the chance to begin to teach out of Scotland. He also work closely with him in the sphere at encouraged me to start writing again, and which I believed he excelled: education. send out my work for publication. Whether he was encouraging different astrological groups to communicate with n March 1998, I travelled to Bath to con- each other, or building bridges through Itribute a seminar to his BASS series, ter- which intelligent lay people could recognise ribly nervous at the prospect of presenting the importance of astrology, or addressing a seminar in front of him. He dealt with my astrological conferences, or writing articles nerves by giving me a big hug, and telling for journals such as Apollon, or offering sem- me I’d be fine once I got started. inars and supervision to astrological stu- dents, his capacity to inspire and expand hen I graduated in November 1998, others’ thinking and vision was enormous. Wit gave me the greatest of pleasure Teaching information is easy and requires to tell everyone at the meeting that I would little of the soul. Teaching as a form of not have my CPA Diploma without the awakening the soul is a rare talent, most many years of support, help and encour- often found amongst poets, playwrights and agement that Charles Harvey had provided. philosophers. Being clever is also easy, per- I know he was very pleased and touched by haps too easy for astrologers. Being clever this, since he thanked me on more than and also kind is more exceptional. The one occasion for my affirmation of him. I combination of being a true educator, intel- recall feeling very concerned on that last ligent and inspired but also deeply generous occasion. He looked worn, thinner, and not and wholeheartedly interested in others, is quite his usual self. all but unique.

Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 63 t was not possible to listen to Charles teach tions to astrology. From an ordinary human Iwithout feeling profoundly connected to the perspective, Charles’ life was indeed incom- larger cosmos and the order and beauty which plete. He should have had many more fruitful he perceived and so eloquently communicat- years in which to develop his own consider- ed. This was one of his best contributions to able creative writing talents. He should have the CPA, a perfect counterpoint to the more had more freedom from material pressures. individually centred approach of psychological He also should have had a gentler end, as astrology. His capacity to invoke this sense of would have befitted such a gentle and gentle- connection made him a true priest, in a deep- manly personality. But from a deeper perspec- er and more authentic sense than many who tive, this was a perfectly complete life, shining practise under that name in collectively sanc- and full of meaning and purpose, polished like tioned religious institutions. Like a good pontif- a work of fine sculpture chiselled out of the ex, he built bridges over which others could raw stone. cross to glimpse those eternal realities which we have always known but have somehow harles was always very willing to offer his forgotten in our blind submergence in materi- Cown birth chart information, to help al existence. Those who focus only on the illustrate important astrological points. This more technical aspects of his work on mid- was never done from vanity or self-justifica- points and harmonics miss the greater cosmic tion, but always as objectively as possible, for unity which he unfailingly understood, and the furthering of astrological knowledge. It which underpins all such perspectives. The would not be appropriate here to discuss the gentleness and decency of his personality issues in his chart, although many astrologers reflected not only a heartfelt consideration for will no doubt be doing exactly that in order other human beings, but also the very high to make some sense of his death. However, ethical code which made him determined to it is fitting to mention that one of the great act at all times as a gentleman, with fairness planetary dyads which began a new cycle at and courtesy. In all the years I knew him, I Charles’ birth was beginning another new never heard him disparage another astrologer cycle when he died: the conjunction of in order to make himself look important, or Jupiter and Saturn, in the same sign in which denigrate a student in order to make himself they were placed at his birth. There is a hint look wise. He had the unusual gift of genuine- here that something had completed itself on ly listening, and the even more unusual gift of a deeper collective level, and his life and focusing on and calling out the best in any indi- work were set within the context of this vidual he taught or worked with. Charles was cycle. There is also the hint that the work he no cardboard saint, and it is not necessary to did for the astrological community is now idealise him. But he stands as an example to all ready to blossom and take new forms within of us, not only as an astrologer, but also as the the framework of the new cycle. Seeing this best of what humans are able to become. He extraordinary pattern at work, I cannot help did not use unhappy childhood issues to justi- but view it as Charles himself would have fy unpleasant behaviour, or unleash unfulfilled viewed it – as the reflection of a profound personal needs under the guise of helping oth- cosmic order and intelligence. I, and many ers. He was always no more nor less than the others who loved and respected Charles fine and beautiful man he seemed to be; and deeply, will not only miss him terribly, but all of us who worked with him and felt his will, for a time, feel angry both on his behalf warmth, support, and unfailing good humour and on our own. But I also share his Platonic are recognising with pain how much that mat- world-view, and believe not only in the con- ters in a world sadly lacking in such fundamen- tinuity of the soul but also in the permanent tal values. and indestructible contribution of a life com- mitted to the enhancement of life. Everything hen we lose someone we love, it is that Charles did in the world of astrology Weasy and natural to be angry and feel reflected his deep love and devotion to that somehow this life was cut short and left astrology itself, to all that is Good and True unfinished. Along with personal grief and sad- and Beautiful, and to the greater unified cos- ness, this was certainly one of my initial reac- mos of which he understood astrology to be tions. The mind rushes in to seek “reasons” a symbol. Such devotion will leave its mark when confronting that which seems so unfair on us for the rest of our own lives, and on and unreasonable. At fifty-nine, Charles was the astrology of future generations, who will still in his prime, and his appearance, energy, be his truest beneficiaries. and exuberance were those of a much Liz Greene younger man. We had every reason to look forward to many years of his delightful com- 16th March 2000 pany and thoughtful and provocative contribu- page 64 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 A Letter to Students of Astrology Charles Harvey At the beginning of each academic year of the Centre for Psychological Astrology, there is an orientation day for new students, and a general meeting of the staff and all students, past and present. Charles wrote this letter for the day last November, and Liz Greene read it out, leaving not a dry eye in the house. It seems appropriate to finish this appreciation by reproducing this letter, leaving us with a wonderful sense of this extraordinary man.

Dear Friends, Colleagues, Fellow Students, “...If we look ahead, it is already possible to say that Astrology seems destined to lead all other I am most deeply sorry to be unable to be here branches of knowledge out of the blind alley of with you all today. I had been looking forward unspiritual rationalism and materialism... and very much to reconnecting at this point, and join- effect the reconciliation that Science so ardent- ing in the orientations and disorientations and ly desires with Belief.” discussions of the day. Alas, my non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which had And “reconciliation” is the key word here. For seemed to go well in the summer, suddenly re- all its crimes against humanity, material science emerged in a new form early last month, and I has its well-deserved place in the scheme of am now back on a fresh cycle of chemotherapy things. Indeed, I have had many reasons to be treatment, and have to stay close to the clinic for grateful to reductionist science in the past year, the time being. as miraculous machines and processes have Whatever else I have not been able to do, at diagnosed the problems of my body, and doc- least the past year of critical illness has enabled tors have been able to prescribe tested drugs and compelled me to think about life priorities known to help in such conditions. and review my almost forty years of serious But when one hears those same scientists, as on involvement with astrology. the radio last week, saying that, “...Of course we I am happy to be able to say that, whilst there all know now that we don’t have souls!”, I am are probably many things I would change about obliged to remind myself, and anyone listening, the way I have used my time in astrology, I can that, consuming though it may be, my body and still see few areas of study that are as worthy of its physical illness are not the sum total of my a lifetime’s attention. I see no other study that present life. Indeed, they are but outward and enables one to engage with the human condition visible signs of an inward and invisible series of at so many levels, from environmental to physi- psychological and spiritual processes. cal, psychological and spiritual, and see the way in Whilst science sees only the physical facts of my which these different levels interpenetrate and condition, astrology sees these facts in terms of reflect one another. another dimension. In my chart, the Moon is in Indeed, I would go so far as to say (and I alert the first degree of Aquarius in the 6th house, you that I have Jupiter with the MC exactly135° opposite Pluto at 1° 35’ Leo in the 12th house, Neptune!) that the astrological dimension of in square to the MC-Jupiter, and more widely reality, when adequately articulated, still seems to square Saturn in Taurus. The Moon is a handle me to offer the only real basis for a true to my chart and the ruler of a stellium in Renaissance of the kind that the Uranus- Cancer, including the Sun, in the 11th and 12th Neptune conjunction sextile Pluto of the past and is the ruler of the l2th house cusp. years would seem to indicate. Such a Can it come as a surprise that, with Neptune’s Renaissance can only occur when the “Facts and long transit to my 6th/12th house Moon-Pluto Figures” of life, with which we have been so axis last year and again this year (occurring totally preoccupied these past few centuries, are along with my second Saturn return with Saturn once again consciously reconnected with some in 11° 16’ Taurus), my psyche might start ques- awareness of life’s deeper meaning, purpose and tioning my regular 18-hour working days and ultimate mystery. self-tyranny, and demand that I find some new This is, of course, not a new view. Many solution to this old self-punishing pathology? astrologers have said as much for many years. To add to the picture of transiting Neptune Back in the 1950’s, Prof. Dr. L. Cunibert opposite natal Pluto, my progressed Sun has Mohlburg of the Vatican Institute of Archaeology been all this year conjunct my Neptune/Pluto forecast in his book, Candi’s Letter to Tschu, that midpoint. On 5th October, when the specialist

Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 65 Charles Harvey announced that tests showed that 22nd June 1940 the lymphoma had returned in a 9:16 am new form, the Sun was exactly Little Bookham, Surrey setting with the Sun and (51°N29’, 00°W13’) Ascendant aligned exactly Geocentric 45° to my Neptune/Pluto, Tropical while of course transiting Placidus Neptune was coming to station conjunct my 6th Charles died on 22nd house Moon exactly to February 2000, at 2:50 am, the minute opposite in Bath (51°N25’, 2°W25’) Pluto. Neptune/Pluto has vivid- ly described this phase of my life at all levels. At the physical, it has been the constant subjecting of my body to fine-tuned cocktails of deadly poisons to dissolve deadly tumours - a not surprising- ly fairly exhausting procedure which leaves one in a Neptune/Pluto floating limbo much of the time. Psychologically, Neptune/Pluto has been about being forced by life-threatening conditions to approach, through dreams, imagery, and my it has been of immense help and comfort en route. psychotherapy, the unconfronted tyranny of my Perhaps, if I had been in astro-therapy these past internalised Fascist father (Pluto in the 12th is, years, rather than simple Jungian analysis, I might of course, the ruler of my 4th house). This have been obliged to confront my Moon-Pluto process of “escape from the father” was under- issues more specifically and vigorously. And that scored in August when, two days after the might have made my need for physical illness eclipse, we arrived back from France to the redundant. Who knows? That is the kind of ques- news that my elderly Jungian therapist, with tion those of us striving to create a working astro- whom 1 had been working weekly for seven therapy have to ask ourselves. What we do know years, had suddenly died earlier in the week. from observation is that, no matter how good our (With suitable synchronicity, that very morning defences and denials, the psyche will always find a a friend, who drove us to Avignon to catch the way of getting its message across. Equally, we can early morning TGV to connect with the know with some certainty that, had I circumvent- Eurostar to London, had been telling me that ed physical illness, these progressions would have she had, until recently, driven to Avignon every provided me with something equivalent to chew week to see her elderly therapist. But, alas, he upon in some other way! had suddenly died earlier in the year. That was Secondly, I think my case illustrates that astrol- the first time I had heard of anyone’s therapist ogy is about forecastable processes which dying, and it was, as it were, an eerie dress express themselves on many levels, and not rehearsal for what I was to experience just ten only about “predictable events”. This challenges hours later.) us to think about how we can communicate In the day-to-day world, Neptune/Pluto has this effectively to our clients. Not everyone been the relinquishing of some of the final ves- with a life-threatening illness who comes to you tiges of “power” by standing down from the will necessarily appreciate the suggestion that Chair of the Urania Trust, with which I had “there is a larger dimension and meaning to all been involved for twenty-nine years since its this”. On the other hand, if you are aware of the inception, not to mention a general standing likely wider ramifications of progressions and back from my involvement in helping to direct transits, you are in a better position to probe a powerful company. and pose the kinds of questions which may help I have given you some of my current personal the client discover what is already there some- case history at some length for several reasons where within their psyche, waiting to be recog- - first, as an object lesson. I have been doing nised. astrology professionally for nearly forty years. In Thirdly, I believe that it is vital that you all make January and February of this year, I gave a two- yourselves the primary testing ground for your part seminar on “Navigating the Tides of Time”, own astrological understanding. For you will even as I was succumbing to my lymphoma, of find that most of your deepest insights will which I was not yet formally aware. Evidently my come from the observation of the crucible of astrology has not helped me sail past Hell, although your own experience. page 66 Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 To study astrology is to converse daily with the tary aspects and combinations of aspects can interplay of the archetypal living realities, the express themselves. And this is not just theo- “gods” that unfold life and consciousness in indi- retical knowledge. Later, such well-known case vidual and collective through the anima mundi, histories can, in turn, prove useful as a point of the “soul of the world”. The job of the CPA is reference in expressing to a client a dilemma to help you become more clearly attuned to that you see in their chart. this language of the heavens so that you can But just as in music you must practise and prac- better hear the stories it is telling you and your tise, but also never miss the opportunity to do clients. a gig, so likewise in astrology. Whilst book case Apart from listening to yourself, how are you to histories can be an invaluable source of learning become a “really good” astrologer? The answer is and deep insight, in the end it is work with liv- much like in any other area of study. If, for exam- ing individuals that brings your knowledge alive ple, you want to become a concert pianist, then and demands that you articulate what you are you have to study and listen until you have got to beginning to understand. So never miss an the fine grain of the music, and then you have to opportunity to do someone’s chart, even if it is keep practising and practising until all the subtlety only as a five-finger exercise. and nuances that you experience in your soul can And when you do a chart, do try to get into the flow out through your fingertips. There really is no habit of keeping some notes about any salient other way but practice. issues that come up. If you do the chart for With astrology, the chart is your musical score, someone who has Saturn rising opposite the but to hear how it can sound you must listen to Moon, and they have a very bright, chirpy the case history. And here we have the enor- approach to life, note the fact and don’t assume mous advantage nowadays of some superb that the time of birth must be wrong. But do chart collections, such as those of Lois Rodden look to see what part of their chart they have and Hans-Hinrich Taeger. These will provide brought to the fore, and obviously explore that you with charts for a wide range of the great, very well-defended Moon! good, horrendous and hilarious for your delec- There is so much that might be said, but I leave tation and education. you with two favourite quotes. First, by the I cannot recommend strongly enough the value great French surrealist poet and philosopher, of regularly studying the charts of famous indi- André Breton, who said of astrology: viduals, alongside their detailed biographies and life work, for really understanding how the “I see astrology as a very great lady, most beau- paradoxes of a chart work out. If you are short tiful and coming from such a great distance that on time, potted biographies can be a useful she cannot fail to hold me under her spell. In start. For example, the catchily titled Sex Lives of the purely physical world, I see nothing which the Famous, which is usually readily available at has assets to emulate hers. She seems to me, bargain book shops, is an enormously well- besides, to hold one of the noblest secrets of written mine of information on the field of rela- the world. What a shame, then, that nowadays tionships. The charts of many of those included - at least for the common masses - a prostitute are readily available. reigns in her place.” Reading more than one biography of the same individual can also be highly instructive, as often I would like to hope that André Breton would one biographer may well emphasise different approve of the CPA’s work in rehabilitating aspects of the life. Cut price bookshops usually Our Lady of the Streets to lure new genera- have an excellent and constantly changing tions on to the deepest secrets of the universe. selection of biographies for a few pounds. Go On a personal note (and the CPA, you will dis- through them with the chart, annotating the cover, is as much about you becoming yourself margins. For example, study the charts of actors as it is about astrology), 1 would like to end and their lives and film roles. But before you with the words of the great mystic writer and start, try noting down in advance what you poet Thomas Traherne (c. 1638-1674), who in might expect to find, for example, in the chart many ways sums up the astrologer’s creed. of Jack Nicholson. What is the archetypal basis of that mixed bundle of messages that he is giv- “You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea ing off? Or what archetypal patterns might you floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with expect to find prominent in the chart of Francis the heavens: and perceive yourself to be the Ford Coppola, director of the Godfather films sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, and of Apocalypse Now? Or in the chart of John because men are in it who are sole heirs as well Cleese? Or Madonna? as you.. Till your spirit fills the whole world, and By immersing yourself in the case histories and the stars are your jewels.” charts of people whose characters through the media have been made somewhat larger than All love, life, you will begin to build up vivid empirical Charles experience of the way in which specific plane- 19 November 1999

Apollon Issue 5 April 2000 page 67 The Child Odilon Redon 1894 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon