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Known in Greek mythology as Chariclo, she was the mate/wife of Chiron. Sources disagree between she being a centaur, a nymph, or one of the former able to shapeshift into the latter, and some claim her to be the daughter of Apollo. What is most agreed upon is that she was a beloved companion to Athena. Assuming the figures of the mythos to have some sense in their choices when it comes to relationships (not all seem to, for certain) begs the question: What kind of friend and confidant would a goddess of war, craftsmanship, and reason choose to have by her side?
Tiresias is told by some to be born of the union between Chiron and Chariklo and how it is he came to become a blind seer of the Thebans is, similarly to the nature of his mother's being, arguable depending on the source. One says he caught sight of Athena naked in the baths, who then struck him blind and later granted him the gift of prophecy to see the world not as it is, but as it will be to ease her friend's woe. Another has Hera blinding him after a query as to the nature of the sexes was not answered to her liking after an argument between she and Zues, with whom favor was struck and yielded the gift of a seer's sight. Quoting Brittanica's article, which provides a context to prequel the latter example as to how he became a prophet: "Besides longevity, another of Tiresias’s features involves his having lived as a man, then as a woman, and then as a man again. Reportedly, he had been turned into a woman as the result of having struck and wounded mating snakes. When Tiresias returned to the site of the transformation seven years later to see if the 'spell' could be reversed, Tiresias did indeed see the same snakes coupling and was changed back into a man."
Some very common threads among many accounts to answer any questions as to what kind of role Chariklo played are that she was a healer of a shamanistic disposition, innately aware of the psychological aspects of that which may ail and bring pain and suffering one's way. Whereas her mate was attuned toward the healing of others' physical ails, she existed not as a counter-balance, but to aid in the integration and healing of body and soul.
Chariklo was discovered February 14th, 1997 at 7:15 PM in Tuscon, AZ, but would not be officially named until September 30th of the same year. Considering the amount of information to peruse in a grand sextile chart, I'll forego a summary and simply share the chart:
A bit over sixteen years later in June of 2013, Chariklo was observed to be the first asteroid known to contain a ring system. She is the largest of the centaurs and has an orbit of 22,987 days or just under 63 years. Like all centaurs, the dynamic of her orbit yields highly irregular intervals for transits through the houses of zodiac, and in the far future is likely to be ejected from the solar system, collide with another planet or the sun, or possibly even become a comet.
Hands down the best and most thorough astrological study and theory of significance pertaining to Chariklo that I have found is that accomplished by Zane Stein, whose article I link here:
www.zanestein.com
In summary, Stein found a recurring theme ado with Chariklo's influence in the charts of individuals that played a significant, public role in the creative imagining or scientific fruition of humanity's future. Four of my personal favorite authors, Frank Herbert, H.G. Wells, Aldoux Huxley, and Kurt Vonnegut, all feature in his findings.
It was while reading his article my personal curiosity was first piqued many years ago when noting the calendar day of official naming being the same as my younger daughter's birthday seven years later. Shortly after I would realize she has Sun conjunct Chariklo in the eighth degree of Libra, that her Moon is conjunct my Chariklo in the fourth degree of Taurus, and that my mother's Chariklo was conjunct my Moon in the twelfth degree of Libra.
Tiresias is told by some to be born of the union between Chiron and Chariklo and how it is he came to become a blind seer of the Thebans is, similarly to the nature of his mother's being, arguable depending on the source. One says he caught sight of Athena naked in the baths, who then struck him blind and later granted him the gift of prophecy to see the world not as it is, but as it will be to ease her friend's woe. Another has Hera blinding him after a query as to the nature of the sexes was not answered to her liking after an argument between she and Zues, with whom favor was struck and yielded the gift of a seer's sight. Quoting Brittanica's article, which provides a context to prequel the latter example as to how he became a prophet: "Besides longevity, another of Tiresias’s features involves his having lived as a man, then as a woman, and then as a man again. Reportedly, he had been turned into a woman as the result of having struck and wounded mating snakes. When Tiresias returned to the site of the transformation seven years later to see if the 'spell' could be reversed, Tiresias did indeed see the same snakes coupling and was changed back into a man."
Some very common threads among many accounts to answer any questions as to what kind of role Chariklo played are that she was a healer of a shamanistic disposition, innately aware of the psychological aspects of that which may ail and bring pain and suffering one's way. Whereas her mate was attuned toward the healing of others' physical ails, she existed not as a counter-balance, but to aid in the integration and healing of body and soul.
Chariklo was discovered February 14th, 1997 at 7:15 PM in Tuscon, AZ, but would not be officially named until September 30th of the same year. Considering the amount of information to peruse in a grand sextile chart, I'll forego a summary and simply share the chart:
A bit over sixteen years later in June of 2013, Chariklo was observed to be the first asteroid known to contain a ring system. She is the largest of the centaurs and has an orbit of 22,987 days or just under 63 years. Like all centaurs, the dynamic of her orbit yields highly irregular intervals for transits through the houses of zodiac, and in the far future is likely to be ejected from the solar system, collide with another planet or the sun, or possibly even become a comet.
Hands down the best and most thorough astrological study and theory of significance pertaining to Chariklo that I have found is that accomplished by Zane Stein, whose article I link here:
Chiron and Friends - Chariklo
Chariklo, who was Chiron's wife in mythology, was the name given to Centaur #10199
In summary, Stein found a recurring theme ado with Chariklo's influence in the charts of individuals that played a significant, public role in the creative imagining or scientific fruition of humanity's future. Four of my personal favorite authors, Frank Herbert, H.G. Wells, Aldoux Huxley, and Kurt Vonnegut, all feature in his findings.
It was while reading his article my personal curiosity was first piqued many years ago when noting the calendar day of official naming being the same as my younger daughter's birthday seven years later. Shortly after I would realize she has Sun conjunct Chariklo in the eighth degree of Libra, that her Moon is conjunct my Chariklo in the fourth degree of Taurus, and that my mother's Chariklo was conjunct my Moon in the twelfth degree of Libra.
