Chiron at Aries 3

The Sabian Journey of Magical Chiron – Aries 3

As Chiron transits its complete zodiac cycle we can look for the various steps of its journey through the lens of Sabian Symbols. Chiron will passage Aries 3 between 25 March and 11 April 2019.

Desire and Action

The first 5 degrees of Aries is about taking action to express desire and, according to Rudhyar, every batch of 5 degrees follows the formula:

1. Affirmation of an idea
2. Countering and contrasting that idea
3. Reconciliation and the combined result
4. Change mechanism
5. Synthesis and progression

Personal Journey

If we are able to make this work on a personal level we have to identify a seed, something totally new, that occurred between these dates: 18 February 2019 to 8 March 2019, or if not then 17 April 2018 to 7 May 2018, or 3 September 2018 to 26 September 2018. This could be a new idea, a new project, a new person, a new way of being – the seeding of a very significant new chapter of life.

The Seed of Possibility

Although we are looking at Aries 3, let’s consider the preceding steps.

Aries 1; we see that the woman who has arisen from the sea represents the receptive principle coming out of the undifferentiated sea of humanity’s collective unconsciousness. The seal, which rises up to embrace her, shows a rather similar image of something rising out of the unconscious, yet with a more masculine, rather phallic sense. At this first point in the story, both aspects could very easily simply sink back into the sea and return into unconsciousness. Indeed most of our ideas and possibilities lead nowhere; they pop into our awareness for a moment, we have our little fantasy about what could happen, and then we forget all about it.

Comedian

Aries 2, (the comedian entertaining a group), the second within the batch of 5 degrees, is the polarising principle to the first idea. In society it is the comedian’s function to make it clear that our own exalted self-perception is not shared by society.

Reflexive Self Awareness

This symbol shows us that an idea we may have of who we are, or what we are doing, cannot be properly understood until we have also taken into account the way our community views us. We will only ever be effective within a background context, and that context is the social group within which we circle. An important aspect of who we are is the community’s take on who we are.

Making Adjustments

So whatever was seeded in Aries 1 will come up against something that gives pause during Aries 2 since we have to come to terms with outside factors. We have to make adjustments to our awareness and intentions so that we may progress.

Social Context of What We Do

In Aries 3 (A profile of a man outlined by his country), we have to marry what we want for ourselves with what we want for the community with neither side taking advantage, and both gaining benefit. The power needed to realise any idea comes from those who support it and do work to bring it into form. To some extent this idea, and any other project, must become a communal project because in fact we can do nothing alone. This fact requires us to win support, to persuade, to communicate and negotiate, and eventually to find an overlap between our personal vision and the collective need.

Power of Participation

Participation is powerful, alienation is ultimately disempowering.
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Those of us who feel we can complete a project alone may need to think again. We love the idea of independence, the freedom from the need to compromise and being forced to interact with potentially tiresome people – but here the wisdom is very clear, unless we align with the community to some extent we will not succeed to realise anything much, and our ideas will come to nothing.

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Further understandings of the mystery of polarity can develop and deepen during Aries 4, and then the gate to progression is opened in Aries 5.

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