What is the currrent thinking on the rulerships and attributes of Virgo and Taurus? I allocate Sedna to Virgo and Eris to Taurus (as co-, not main or sub-rulers) for the following reasons.
1. Aesthetic. The allocation completes the traditional schema, putting the planets in the order from the fastest moving (Moon) to the slowest (and remembering that the Sun is actually still). I illustrate this in the attachment.
2. Mythological. There are two mythological Erises; the Goddess of discord who threw the Golden Apples at Peleus' wedding, suggesting an antithetical connection with Venus and Libra, and a less sinister daughter of Nyx, connected with a primitive work ethic. Both suggest Taurus. Sedna is the Inuit analogue of Persephone, the Virgin herself. The prominence of marine resources should, I think, be deemphasised in terms of reflex action from Pisces.
3. Synchronistic. Sedna was discovered in 2003, the European Year of Disability; very Virgo/6th house. Eris was discovered in 2005, when the policy of subprime mortgage management achieved its earliest prominance. Eris thus established her presence ready to preside over the current financial troubles; Taurus and the economy are linked in Mundane astrology.
4. Personal. The suggested rulerships sit well in my own Nativity.
5. Historic. The suggested rulerships and attributions sit well in several important horoscopes. For instance, Margaret Thatcher (below).
Problems: I originally had difficulty reconciling Eris with Taurus, due to the associations of "lawlessness". On the synchronistic level this association was inescapable. Even if the original name "Xena" had been adopted, this was the name of a fictional bandit portrayed by the actress Ms. Lucy Lawless. However, lawlessness is not possible without the concept of property, and this is certainly a Taurean association. It is even possible to identify the two; consider the old Marxist truism "property is theft". Therefore, the greed and acquisitiveness of the sign under affliction, hitherto often attributed to reflex action from Scorpio, sits very well in the rulership of Taurus. I interpret Eris as "competitiveness, recognition of and pursuit of scarce resources".
I interpret Sedna as "ability to analyse and construct useful models, for means of maintenance". This is an attribute of Virgo which complements mercury nicely; Mercury mimics, but Sedna models.
The influence of the new planets in the chart of Margeret Thatcher is quite spectacular. Sedna completes a Grand Cross with Sun, Pluto and Jupiter. Eris completes a Grand Trine with Venus and the North Node.
First, the Cross, Sedna (Aries) Square Pluto (Cancer) Opposition Sun (Libra) Square Jupiter (Capricorn). If my own associations are correct, then the Grand Cross may be read as "aggressive models of policy leading to difficult and profound change in the conditions of common people"; "such models in confrontation with a centralised opposition associated with fairer distribution"; and "the same models causing difficulty for traditional concepts of liberality and charity". This seems wholly approproiate for the creator of "Thatcherism", the aggressive use of monetarist policies and the repression of non-governmental (non-Conservative) institutions and initiaves.
Secondly, the Trine, Eris (Aries) Trine North Node (Leo) Trine Venus (Sagittarius). This would read "aggressive competition assisiting and assisted by known allies, to further the free practice and expansion of trade". Regretably, the Grand Cross effectively perverted the promise of this trine.
What are the thoughts of the forum?
1. Aesthetic. The allocation completes the traditional schema, putting the planets in the order from the fastest moving (Moon) to the slowest (and remembering that the Sun is actually still). I illustrate this in the attachment.
2. Mythological. There are two mythological Erises; the Goddess of discord who threw the Golden Apples at Peleus' wedding, suggesting an antithetical connection with Venus and Libra, and a less sinister daughter of Nyx, connected with a primitive work ethic. Both suggest Taurus. Sedna is the Inuit analogue of Persephone, the Virgin herself. The prominence of marine resources should, I think, be deemphasised in terms of reflex action from Pisces.
3. Synchronistic. Sedna was discovered in 2003, the European Year of Disability; very Virgo/6th house. Eris was discovered in 2005, when the policy of subprime mortgage management achieved its earliest prominance. Eris thus established her presence ready to preside over the current financial troubles; Taurus and the economy are linked in Mundane astrology.
4. Personal. The suggested rulerships sit well in my own Nativity.
5. Historic. The suggested rulerships and attributions sit well in several important horoscopes. For instance, Margaret Thatcher (below).
Problems: I originally had difficulty reconciling Eris with Taurus, due to the associations of "lawlessness". On the synchronistic level this association was inescapable. Even if the original name "Xena" had been adopted, this was the name of a fictional bandit portrayed by the actress Ms. Lucy Lawless. However, lawlessness is not possible without the concept of property, and this is certainly a Taurean association. It is even possible to identify the two; consider the old Marxist truism "property is theft". Therefore, the greed and acquisitiveness of the sign under affliction, hitherto often attributed to reflex action from Scorpio, sits very well in the rulership of Taurus. I interpret Eris as "competitiveness, recognition of and pursuit of scarce resources".
I interpret Sedna as "ability to analyse and construct useful models, for means of maintenance". This is an attribute of Virgo which complements mercury nicely; Mercury mimics, but Sedna models.
The influence of the new planets in the chart of Margeret Thatcher is quite spectacular. Sedna completes a Grand Cross with Sun, Pluto and Jupiter. Eris completes a Grand Trine with Venus and the North Node.
First, the Cross, Sedna (Aries) Square Pluto (Cancer) Opposition Sun (Libra) Square Jupiter (Capricorn). If my own associations are correct, then the Grand Cross may be read as "aggressive models of policy leading to difficult and profound change in the conditions of common people"; "such models in confrontation with a centralised opposition associated with fairer distribution"; and "the same models causing difficulty for traditional concepts of liberality and charity". This seems wholly approproiate for the creator of "Thatcherism", the aggressive use of monetarist policies and the repression of non-governmental (non-Conservative) institutions and initiaves.
Secondly, the Trine, Eris (Aries) Trine North Node (Leo) Trine Venus (Sagittarius). This would read "aggressive competition assisiting and assisted by known allies, to further the free practice and expansion of trade". Regretably, the Grand Cross effectively perverted the promise of this trine.
What are the thoughts of the forum?
