Minderwiz
Yesterday I was reading an article in the Astrological Journal (of the Astrological Association of great Britain) which discussed the Chiron cycle and the likely experiences associated with it. Turning to the letters page, I came across a letter from the Editor of the Journal of Spiritual Astrology. His basic 'complaint' was that we have become too certain of the astrological meaning of the many Astronomical bodies that have been discovered.
He asks why we have taken the wounded healer view of Chiron, virtually to the exclusion of other possible meanings, when we only learned about this body some 26 years ago and for a large part of that time we did not know what sort of a body it was.
In the process he quotes Alan Leo, saying that the nature of Neptune is presently 'little understood' (written around 1900) and Isobel Hickey around 1970 making similar statements about Pluto. Yet the cookbooks are full of statements about what these planet mean (rather than 'may' mean).
I've also just finished reading John Frawley's The Real Astrology, wherein he questions the validity of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto in Astrology, to say nothing of Chiron, the Asteroids and a variety of hypothetical planets.
So my question to everyone is - What do the outer planets signify if anything, and on what basis should we continue to use them?
If you wish to broaden this to include Chiron and any other body please feel free.
He asks why we have taken the wounded healer view of Chiron, virtually to the exclusion of other possible meanings, when we only learned about this body some 26 years ago and for a large part of that time we did not know what sort of a body it was.
In the process he quotes Alan Leo, saying that the nature of Neptune is presently 'little understood' (written around 1900) and Isobel Hickey around 1970 making similar statements about Pluto. Yet the cookbooks are full of statements about what these planet mean (rather than 'may' mean).
I've also just finished reading John Frawley's The Real Astrology, wherein he questions the validity of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto in Astrology, to say nothing of Chiron, the Asteroids and a variety of hypothetical planets.
So my question to everyone is - What do the outer planets signify if anything, and on what basis should we continue to use them?
If you wish to broaden this to include Chiron and any other body please feel free.