Great article Ang, I do so love your literary analogies. Thank goodness for Jupiters ingress into Cancer bringing his much needed blessings to the place of his exaltation. The great benefic should provide some wisdom, grace and resilience as he is squaring Eris/Chiron by whole sign making him a significant part of the story untill June 2026. He’s also in mutual reception to the moon in the ingress chart, which is trining Eris & Chiron by whole sign. I’m in the process of delineating the ingress so haven’t anything further to add at the moment and it’s way past my bedtime!
I must raise one point of contention though. About Hamlet. He did kill his uncle, after all. I realize that the standard interpretation is that his uncertainty was his undoing, but think about it for a second. He was told by a ghost that it was his uncle that killed his father. Any sane man would have wanted some kind of confirmation. Hamlet sought it out, got it, then made a public spectacle of killing Claudius. He did not waste much time in that process. I can't imagine that Shakespeare was trying to make the point that we should listen to what ghosts tell us and kill our uncles based on it, and Hamlet somehow messed that up. It seems like there must be some other point to the story.
Aside from that, lots to contemplate here. Thank you.
Elliott, cheers for engaging so sharply, and to your point, allow me please:
Hamlet does swing the blade in the last act, yet it’s the lag, the obsessive probing, feigned madness, barbed play-within-a-play that matters to the analogy. For four full acts, we see him circling his hurt like Chiron: chronic, intellectualised, unstaunchable. Claudius thrives precisely because Hamlet keeps resheathing the sword to test proofs, debate ethics, scan the heavens. Only when the court is already poisoned does the Erisian impulse finally detonate, and he cuts Claudius down, —sadly too late to save himself, Ophelia, Polonius, the State. That tragic latency is the point: a wound that will not heal (Chiron) collides with discord that will not be contained (Eris), producing a cathartic yet ruinous “resolution”. We see this mirroring everywhere in our society today.
So, yes, ok, Hamlet acts, but it's the delay that exposes the cost of ruminating on pain until strife comes crashing through. That’s the cautionary thread I’m pulling forward: in our era the backlog of psychic and societal injuries is massive; if we don’t address them before Eris lights the fuse, the clean hit might arrive only after collateral damage is baked in. We're only at the beginning of some godawful, ruinous mess—so hang on...
Anyway, appreciate the pushback; certainly allows us to sharpen the argument. Cheers!
Compelling article. I totally related to all of this, as I have Chiron/ Sun conjunction in the 12th. You have articulated much that was swimming in my consciousness but was not defined. I wonder about Lilith's square to Pluto's contribution as I have directly been impacted by the T square with Mars. Ankle break and surgery. Even so, this timing with only Chiron and Eris makes so much sense. Thank you.
Thanks for some brilliant insight here…some of us *have to* speak-up.
“I refuse to be complicit. I’ll bring down the entire system if that’s what it takes.” — THAT’s the precise feeling.
It’s no small wonder that I have a grande cross with Eris in strong opposition to my mid-heaven and Black Moon Lilith in strong opposition to my ascendent which may explain the utter necessity (literally a need for resurrection) of my reporting on having been silenced (under threat) and isolated for a decade+ at the hands of non-dual teachers to ensure their lies would never become public knowledge.
Additionally Eris is in aspect with my natal Uranus…”freedom is your lifeblood, the air you breathe. You are therefore a bit of a rebel, with a sense of mischievousness riding along with you like a second skin." Naturally, I have Saturn 1° Libra 9th House. With Eris in the 3rd opposing my 9th house Saturn that was a prescription for going to battle for the truth…and for my life…and the lives of my family.
“Mars fights because he wants to. Eris fights because she *has* to!” ~Henry Seltzer
“Observe the recent death of Virginia Giuffre, a tragic figure who, in her pursuit of exposing abusers within elite networks, became emblematic of how society often punishes those who reveal its most uncomfortable truths—emphasising the stark, Chiron/Eris reality that only after the myths are unravelled, and hostilities dragged into the open, can genuine transformation begin to occur, albeit at heartbreaking personal cost.”
What happened in this life has been described as a “Soul murder’…akin to being ‘buried alive.’
Tragically, those are accurate descriptions.
While I am no astrologer, none-the-less, knowing of these planetary influences have been absolutely key in accepting the fate this Soul endured in this lifetime…and, no doubt, prior lifetimes.
Thanks again for your deep insights into these archetypal energies…and how, utterly accurately, as-above-so-below.
Great article Ang, I do so love your literary analogies. Thank goodness for Jupiters ingress into Cancer bringing his much needed blessings to the place of his exaltation. The great benefic should provide some wisdom, grace and resilience as he is squaring Eris/Chiron by whole sign making him a significant part of the story untill June 2026. He’s also in mutual reception to the moon in the ingress chart, which is trining Eris & Chiron by whole sign. I’m in the process of delineating the ingress so haven’t anything further to add at the moment and it’s way past my bedtime!
This is more than my words can say, I truly appreciate your insightful wisdom as well as guidance for all of us.
Thank you for the food for thought. Good stuff.
I must raise one point of contention though. About Hamlet. He did kill his uncle, after all. I realize that the standard interpretation is that his uncertainty was his undoing, but think about it for a second. He was told by a ghost that it was his uncle that killed his father. Any sane man would have wanted some kind of confirmation. Hamlet sought it out, got it, then made a public spectacle of killing Claudius. He did not waste much time in that process. I can't imagine that Shakespeare was trying to make the point that we should listen to what ghosts tell us and kill our uncles based on it, and Hamlet somehow messed that up. It seems like there must be some other point to the story.
Aside from that, lots to contemplate here. Thank you.
Elliott, cheers for engaging so sharply, and to your point, allow me please:
Hamlet does swing the blade in the last act, yet it’s the lag, the obsessive probing, feigned madness, barbed play-within-a-play that matters to the analogy. For four full acts, we see him circling his hurt like Chiron: chronic, intellectualised, unstaunchable. Claudius thrives precisely because Hamlet keeps resheathing the sword to test proofs, debate ethics, scan the heavens. Only when the court is already poisoned does the Erisian impulse finally detonate, and he cuts Claudius down, —sadly too late to save himself, Ophelia, Polonius, the State. That tragic latency is the point: a wound that will not heal (Chiron) collides with discord that will not be contained (Eris), producing a cathartic yet ruinous “resolution”. We see this mirroring everywhere in our society today.
So, yes, ok, Hamlet acts, but it's the delay that exposes the cost of ruminating on pain until strife comes crashing through. That’s the cautionary thread I’m pulling forward: in our era the backlog of psychic and societal injuries is massive; if we don’t address them before Eris lights the fuse, the clean hit might arrive only after collateral damage is baked in. We're only at the beginning of some godawful, ruinous mess—so hang on...
Anyway, appreciate the pushback; certainly allows us to sharpen the argument. Cheers!
Ang,
Some excellent pushback. Thank you.
This was fantastic.
Brilliant, simply brilliant.
Compelling article. I totally related to all of this, as I have Chiron/ Sun conjunction in the 12th. You have articulated much that was swimming in my consciousness but was not defined. I wonder about Lilith's square to Pluto's contribution as I have directly been impacted by the T square with Mars. Ankle break and surgery. Even so, this timing with only Chiron and Eris makes so much sense. Thank you.
Hi Ang…
Thanks for some brilliant insight here…some of us *have to* speak-up.
“I refuse to be complicit. I’ll bring down the entire system if that’s what it takes.” — THAT’s the precise feeling.
It’s no small wonder that I have a grande cross with Eris in strong opposition to my mid-heaven and Black Moon Lilith in strong opposition to my ascendent which may explain the utter necessity (literally a need for resurrection) of my reporting on having been silenced (under threat) and isolated for a decade+ at the hands of non-dual teachers to ensure their lies would never become public knowledge.
Additionally Eris is in aspect with my natal Uranus…”freedom is your lifeblood, the air you breathe. You are therefore a bit of a rebel, with a sense of mischievousness riding along with you like a second skin." Naturally, I have Saturn 1° Libra 9th House. With Eris in the 3rd opposing my 9th house Saturn that was a prescription for going to battle for the truth…and for my life…and the lives of my family.
“Mars fights because he wants to. Eris fights because she *has* to!” ~Henry Seltzer
“Observe the recent death of Virginia Giuffre, a tragic figure who, in her pursuit of exposing abusers within elite networks, became emblematic of how society often punishes those who reveal its most uncomfortable truths—emphasising the stark, Chiron/Eris reality that only after the myths are unravelled, and hostilities dragged into the open, can genuine transformation begin to occur, albeit at heartbreaking personal cost.”
What happened in this life has been described as a “Soul murder’…akin to being ‘buried alive.’
Tragically, those are accurate descriptions.
While I am no astrologer, none-the-less, knowing of these planetary influences have been absolutely key in accepting the fate this Soul endured in this lifetime…and, no doubt, prior lifetimes.
Thanks again for your deep insights into these archetypal energies…and how, utterly accurately, as-above-so-below.
Warmly,
-Leslie@ integrityintruth.com