The Asbolus Station chart, and the New Moon after it, features no less than three Quintile Yods. A Yod is a wedge-shaped triangle. A Quintile is two planets one fifth of the way ’round the Zodiac from one another. It means Learning and Teaching, the Fifth Harmonic. We usually draw them in orange (though they look more red here). A Quintile Yod is made up of two Biquintiles (two fifths of the way ’round) and one Quintile, making a narrow triangle, like these…
The three Quintile Yods include…
- A Nemesis QYod on a base of Stationary Asbolus and Venus – we will be Learning about Ego Death with our Intuition and our Values as our Teachers
- An Ixion-Saturn-Lilith QYod on a base of Pallas and Ceres-Aletheia-Mnemosyne – We’re finally Learning that it’s Most Important to Support the Sovereignty of our Hidden Genius, as we Remember the Truth of the Abuse that forced Her underground, and Learn to draw Boundaries to Protect Her
- A North Node QYod on a base of Chiron and Pluto – This one is Big too; we’re Learning to Support our Lifetime Mission (whether we recognize it Consciously or not), by Accepting the necessary Self-Transformations and Empathizing with the Pain of the resulting Ego Deaths
One Quintile Yod is fairly unusual; three of them at once is a Graduate School.
In the previous post, https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/intuitive-confidence-iv-asbolus/, we drew in, in light lines, the ongoing Earth Grand Trine that includes the 17 September Chariklo Station, partly to remind us that it’s still about, and partly to point out that…
- Orcus Initiated Mercury in 10 Virgo on 17 September (6pm PDT).
- Orcus Initiated Moon in 10 Virgo on 18 September (noon PDT).
- Orcus Initiates Mars in 10 Virgo on 19 September (10:30 am PDT).
10 Virgo is “Two heads looking out and beyond the shadows,” which Rudhyar interprets as Transcending Duality. Wouldn’t that be nice. Orcus is about Oath-Making and Oath-Breaking. The Etruscan God Orcus was in charge of Punishing Oath-Breakers. Oaths serve only to enforce Slavery, whether to outside Authority or to our own mind. A distant Ancestor once took an Oath to Breathe Oxygen, so we can’t dismiss Oaths completely – we’re Creatures of Habit, and we’d all be stumbling around like one-year-olds if we weren’t, if we made it to year one.
However, there’s a one-to-one relationship between Oaths we’ve made and Archetypes that Enslave us. We live 99% from the Unconscious, and many of the Archetypal Programs running in the Unconscious are Limiting Beliefs. Since those Limiting Beliefs travel with us from Lifetime to Lifetime, we’ve Vowed to Escape from some of them during the current Lifetime. The Etruscans were right – Breaking an Oath requires Punishment, and we feel it as Guilt.
Yes, we Disappoint and Abandon many people, in this Lifetime and others, when we disavow an Oath, and that doesn’t feel good. This Discomfort is part of our Ego Death. We use the Ego to Merge with an Oath to create a Limiting Belief – it Defines us – otherwise we wouldn’t reliably Obey it. So Transcending it requires an Ego Death.
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