NEPTUNE IN ASPECT TO CHIRON
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Challenges
to healers, challenges in treatment
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Water/boating mishaps, from battleships to
bathtubs
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Personal details
are hidden, lost, obscured or misrepresented
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Communication that is misleading,
exclusive or alienating
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Neptune/Chiron's
representation in fine art and popular art (including magic acts)
Neptune/Chiron
will be referred to as NC.
All
charts cited have contain natal NC aspects
or NC by transit or progression at the time of the relevant event, the
specifics of which are in the data.
NEPTUNE/CHIRON
AND HEALTH
When
NC describes health:
·
The
condition may be misdiagnosed or incurable
·
The
healer or the treatment may be unavailable, unsafe or ineffective
·
Healers
face challenges
Setbacks to improving
health
Early proponents of basic medical sanitation struggled to
convince doctors who joked about "Good old surgical stink."1 and
whose reasoning was "It seems improbable that enough
infective matter could be secluded around the fingernails to kill a
patient"2. Finding that
infant mortality was reduced by 90 using
basic antiseptic procedures was met with widespread rejection, proving
irreversibly traumatic for the one- man movement for medical hygiene (Ignaz Semmelweis)
who was beaten to death in a mental asylum.
Even
twenty years later physicians still resisted the efforts of Pasteur and Lister efforts
to encourage medical hygiene, absent even in the highest medical circles. "Twelve
different doctors inserted
unsterilized fingers and instruments in President Garfield's back probing for
this bullet," before he died of sepsis rather than the bullet wound. T. Chiron stationed trine to N. Neptune. "If they had just left him alone he
almost certainly would have survived".3
Proof
that cancer could be transmitted by a
virus was discredited for decades, despite the proof. Fifty five years later, Frances Peyton Rous
won a Nobel Prize for that work.4
Jonas Salk's vaccine to control the polio epidemic was
widely accepted but contaminated with a cancer causing virus, to which 98
million people were exposed over 8 years.5
Some NC doctors hastened their patients' demise, among the most
notorious being "Doctor Death"
Kevorkian and "Angel of Death" Doctor Josef Mengele. When Adolf Hitler tasked Dr. Karl Brandt with
designating and mobilizing doctors to
grant "mercy death to patients",6 Brandt's N. Chiron was trined by T. Neptune
(no natal aspect). Convicted of
murdering their wives, Doctors Jeffrey MacDonald and Sam Sheppard had Venus and
Moon=NC in their respective charts.
Their wives also had natal NC aspects.
Michael Jackson and Marilyn Monroe, who died of overdoses
resulting from medical mishandling, had no natal aspect, but died on T. NC aspects (conjunction and
trine respectively).
For the average person, a NC transit often marks a
medical glitch or an incomplete cure. At
the time of a progression, Albert
Einstein became ill and "suffered from chronic (digestive) illness"
for the remaining 39 years of his
life", finally dying of a stomach aneurism, now all routinely treatable.7 The manifestation may be milder, e.g.,
an unavailable doctor.
NC
may mark a loved one's health event.
Here are instances of exact progressions:
When
Marilyn Monroe overdosed, Joe DiMaggio
had exact progression
Learned
of his son's deafness Spencer Tracy had
exact progression
Prince
Albert's sickness/death - Queen Victoria transiting conjunction.
Albert's P.NC conjunction was exact by progression. Some thinking: previously undiagnosed,
untreated condition.8
?? Katie Couric TV colonoscopy T Chiron=N. Neptune
Chadwick Boseman sesquiquadrate
I GUESSED THIS: Woman who gave John Belushi fatal dose of drugs: Venus=Neptune/Chiron=Aries April 25, 1947 no TOB Cathy Smith
Water and boating,
troubles and tragedy
In addition to his fatal health crisis, two weeks before
Albert died, he intervened in an naval dispute, as American Civil War
Confederates tried to dodge a blockade.
Their arrest on a British boat resulted in outcries for retaliation on
both continents.9
When
things go awry on the water or in vessels (from battleships to bathtubs), NC is a frequent symbolic component. It appeared in the transits for for Pearl
Harbor (T. ssq) , Horizon Oil Spill (conjunction), the natal charts of "Fulton's Folly" designer as well
as Winston Churchill, whose career included a naval fiasco in the Dardanelles
as well as the Suez Canal crisis, characterized as the end of the British
Empire, which was marked by an NC transit.
On another transit he incurred an injury from which he never recovered He had untreated/untreatable
physical, mental and alcohol challenges, including depression, which he named "Black
Dog".10
The
event chart for the sinking of the Titanic contained NC=Aries. When Germans
sank the British Lusitania, with over 100 Americans on board, it was a catalyst
for WWI. Leaders of three countries
going to war all as a result of the ship's sinking, all had some NC
symbolism. (see Data)
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British
Prime Minister Asquith transit
·
Kaiser
Wilhelm II transiting conjunction!
·
U.S.
President Wilson natal + relevant SR
·
As
well as Aleister Crowley who was rumored to have instigated the sinking of the
Lusitania.
When Crowley's N. N//C became
exact by progression, he faked his own drowning. He became a
drug addict when a doctor prescribed heroin for his asthma. He was
almost certainly involved in the death of a follower from drinking bad water. 11 That's also how Emily Bronte herself died.
It's
in the charts of drowning victims, intentional or not: Whitney Houston, Jeff
Buckley and Virginia Woolf, who walked into a river with a pocket full of
stones.11 Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin was pierced by a ray.
Some
drowning victims had transits but no natal aspects of N/C. Natalie Wood had T. Chiron trine N. Neptune,
Thomas Merton (bathtub fatality) had T. Neptune trine T. Chiron, both trining
his N. Chiron. Not fatal but
illustrative: Annie Edson Taylor, the first to survive a trip over Niagara
Falls in a barrel on her 62nd birthday.
Other aspects and positions with
the potential for health or water mishaps: Saturn/Neptune, Neptune/Hades,
Neptune=Saturn/Uranus, Pisces planet in hard aspect to Saturn.
...
Hidden or
mistaken identity/activity
That which
is inscrutable or incomprehensible
Personal
details are hidden, lost, confused, or misrepresented, intentionally or by
chance. It appeared in the charts of "Deep
Throat" Mark Felt and Rachel Dolezal who resigned the chapter presidency
of the NAACP when her natal square was 2' from exact by progression, after her parents revealed "She's clearly
our birth daughter and we're clearly Caucasian--that's just a fact."13 "Passing"
as white, literary
critic Anatole Broyard knew his racial origins were mixed. It was only when he died that his children
learned of his (and their own) Creole background. His daughter went on to write Not One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--a
Story of Race and Family Secrets. 14
Architect of witness protection program "fashioned new identities for vulnerable witnesses
N. Neptune/Chiron=Aries DOB Oct. 18, 1933 I guessed this
History and Science
"A
frustrating combination of misinformation and ignorance" 15 characterize George Washington's chronicled
history. beginning with the cherry tree
story (didn't happen), the silver dollar (there were none at the time) the
winter at Valley Forge (wasn't really all that bad) and his wooden teeth
(although he had lost them all). The myths were created by his first
biographer in response to "Millions
are gaping (sic) to read something about
him ...My plan! I give his history,
sufficiently minute". The work was criticized even in its day as “ belonging
to the annals of fanaticism and absurdity".16
A
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He also performed his first military task in this time frame, reconnoitering
a river, which led to his arrest for an ambush
that killed a French officer.
He
understood no French and--according to the famously truthful Washington-- his
terms of surrender were interpreted incorrectly and misunderstood.
18 The incident led to the French Indian War,
which in turn developed
into the Seven Years
War, fought by the world powers of four continents. The specifics are still
debated.19
Thomas
Jefferson intentionally shied away from public scrutiny. "My great wish is to go on a strict but
silent performance of my duty to avoid attracting notice"20. "He did not always speak exactly as he felt, either towards
his friends or his enemies...he has left hanging over a part of his public life
a vapor of duplicity...generally felt more than it is seen"21,
according to the son of John Quincy Adams, who, as a child, actually knew
Jefferson. American
Sphinx is the title of one Jefferson biography.
His
work behind the scenes backfired on at least one occasion when secret talks attempting
to encourage France to wage war against a common enemy (Great Britain), led
instead to an undeclared naval war involving unnamed diplomats ( X,Yand Z). The October 1797 incident was symbolized by
two simultaneous transiting contacts to Jefferson's natal Neptune/Chiron
conjunction, a trine from Neptune and a square from Chiron
...
Galileo's
device to raise water using a horse22 notwithstanding, the work of NC
scientists may be secret or misrepresented.
Copernicus recorded in secret his
heliocentric observations on a
transiting conjunction; said they were "not intended for observation" to avoid the scorn "to which he would expose himself on account of the novelty
and incomprehensibility of his theses". 23 At the end of his life, his work was betrayed by an unsigned
letter printed in the preface without his knowing and "at variance with Copernicus' claims
for his own theory".24
Codes
The code breakers' goal in wartime is to understand a secret
language, indecipherable to outsiders, created to inflict harm. Among the code breakers who 'cracked' the code
of WWII German Enigma machines, 8 of the 14 charts available had major natal NC
aspects (see Code Breaker Data). Success
came with the "bombe" machine, introduced by cryptologist Marian
Rejewski when his natal NC conjunction was 2' from exact by progression. When it was exact, he broke the code of the Polish military in 2
hours.25 The most famous among them, Alan Turing, had both
natal and SR aspects. Supreme Court
Justice Stevens, an intelligence officer during WWII, who was awarded a Bronze
Star for successful code breaking in Pearl Harbor, had both a natal aspect as
well as transit at the time of the event.
Samuel
Morse designed his code in response to a personal tragedy when he learned his
wife had become ill and died without his knowing. His horoscope contained the natal aspect, and
it re-appeared in his solar return at the time of the first transmission.25
Literature, art and film
NC
art contains multiple manifestations
of the symbolism, in endless combinations:
. Water
disasters
·
Physically and mentally sick characters, sick author, dangers
of medicine, some intemperance
Water
disasters are portrayed in blockbuster films and novels, created by artists
with natal NC pictures. Jaws, the novel and "Jaws",
the film, "Titanic", Mutiny on
the Bounty authors (and Captain Bligh himself),
Moby Dick, authors of classics about
Odysseus/Ulysses (James Joyce and Ezra Pound), who, like Steve Irwin died from
a ray's sting.
The
plots and characters in NC fiction and art ( as well as the real lives of the
artists) include
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Mistaken or
assumed identify. Mask, disguises
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Facelessness,
namelessness
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Absence
of other distinguishing characteristics
such as linear time or punctuation
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Misrepresentation;
trusting the wrong people; results in alienation, harm
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Mental or
physical health problems, usually accompanied by ineffective or harmful
treatment
Fabricated details
On a transiting conjunction, Melville published Pierre, or The Ambiguities, about a
character whose personal details had been fabricated. In real life, Melville suggested to his
publisher not to use his real name on for the book. "It might not prove unadvisable to
publish this present book anonymously" and suggested "A
Vermonter" as a possibility.25 The book's
reviews declared "Melville's fancy
is diseased" and "Herman Melville Crazy".26 His obituary incorrectly records his personal details, referring to him as
Hiram Melville, and to his novel as "Mobie Dick".27
Sarah Bernhardt's mother is referred to with 3 different names, there are more than 2 versions as to who her father was, her birthday is disputed and she had an amputation.
Communication is inscrutable,
non-linear, absence of distinctions such as time or punctuation
Ezra
Pound transcended boundaries of linear communication
using images to (called ideograms) to express abstract
concepts, he based on the Chinese alphabet. Convicted of treason, he spent 12
years in a federal mental institution. Stream
of consciousness writers whose work is nonlinear and considered inscrutable are
James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, born the same week, both with natal NC aspects. Neither
writer used linear time and both blur the lines between thought and reality.
Health events; harm inflicted
by medicine, doctors portrayed in the arts
Novelists
James Joyce and Virginia Woolf also had in common misguided medical treatment; both had their teeth pulled to combat depression and blindness,
respectively. 28, 29 Joyce's blindness worsened after years
of bad treatment, starting with his first childhood diagnosis advising against
eyeglasses, 30 followed by decades of more misdiagnoses
(near-sighted rather than far-sighted), 31 as well as the ill informed connection between
his poor eyesight and poor teeth, 31 marked by an exact square of transiting
Neptune to natal Chiron.
Before she drowned
herself, Woolf
expressed frustration with the psychiatric profession in Mrs. Dalloway. 29
The psychiatrist portrayed
in the novel, who advised the extractions, was also born with the natal aspect
(Dr. George Savage). Another surreal
writer, Franz Kafka ("Kafka-esque" refers to incomprehensible
experiences), also had health concerns and died young after
trying bizarre regimens like avoiding moonlight. 33
Novelist Thomas Mann's "The
Magic Mountain is the result of his wife's misdiagnosis.34 Death in
Venice features a sick older man wearing disguises while a
cholera outbreak which begins to become
a plague. Flaubert's Madame Bovary features a doctor who'd had a failed operation on his clubfoot
Medical blockbusters
featuring flaws in the system: Coma , One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and
The History of Madness (Robin Cooke,
Ken Kesey, Michel Foucault, respectively).
The Citadel, an expose of the
health industry, which spurred the creation of the British National Health
Service. (A.J. Cronin)
Disguise; Hidden/mistaken/misleading identity
In a real life incident, writer Vladimir Nabokov's future
wife wore a mask the entire night they met.
His chart contained Moon=Neptune/Chiron, triggered by progressed
Sun, just one minute from the natal
picture. It became the 'dear mask'. He referred to his own use of pseudonyms as "the little
silk mask of an additional pen name in order to deceive this or that captious
critic".35
William Butler Yeats "preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks" Neptune/Chiron=Aries
A
portrait of a faceless subject, "The Bride stripped bare" was
produced in secret while the art world thought Marcel Duchamp retired to be a
chess master. Described as
"baffling..unclassifiable, not a discrete whole", it's accompanied by a stream of consciousness
style guidebook which refers to parts of the painting that aren't there. Earlier, "Nude Descending a
Staircase" raised questions as to the age or gender of the subject; some
even question whether it's a human body at all. 36
...
Beauty
belies evil. The real character is hidden on a portrait sequestered
from view (Picture of Dorian Gray). The characters pretend to be others in
"The Importance of Being Earnest".
Wilde's deafness was hastened by bad medical treatment in prison.37
Rebecca's plot neatly lays out every
NC attribute: a stunningly beautiful title
character who had a terminal disease but died in a boating accident. She is never "seen" by the
reader. Believed to have been perfect by
her husband's new wife (who remains anonymous) Rebecca's dark truths are
revealed at a masked ball. Rebecca was used as a spy code to send
reports during WWII.38.
...
Woody
Allen's life and prolific output illustrate endless combinations of NC
possibilities in life and work. Still
"claustrophobic and agoraphobic" after 37 years in psychotherapy; "He won't go through tunnels, doesn't
like the country after dark, or showers with drains in the center of the
floor".39
His work targets questionable,
sometimes despicable, doctors (faceless therapists in particular), bizarre illnesses (hysterical
blindness) and treatment (herbs rendering you invisible so you can view
everyone's private lives) as well as fake and real drowning and boating mishaps,
such as murder/suicide on a boat resulting from a criminal doctor's
manipulations to save himself ("Cassandra's Dream"). Characters' lives change following misplaced
confidences and conversations overheard, accidentally or intentionally.
Magicians often appear in his
films.
Analyst:
"I'm an analyst, not a magician."
Patient: "Then perhaps what I need is a
magician," ...and with that he terminated his therapy.
Side Effects by Woody Allen 40
Woody Allen is, himself, a stage magician. Steve Martin started his career in a magic shop with P.
Chiron conjunct Neptune 1' orb. John
Dee, who conducted a serious investigation of Hermetic magic, had the natal
conjunction. In the charts of 10 stage magicians,
8 had major aspects, including Houdini who had Neptune/Chiron=Aries
Houdini's "secret ghost-buster" working undercover for the illusionist to expose phony psychics
Rose Mackenber 7/10/1892
...
In
closing
Neptune
brings its own nature to every aspect it makes, potentiating health or water
events as well as that which hidden.
Combined with Chiron, the outcomes of health or water events are less
likely to be successful, and likelier to result in a "wound" or
damage. And while all secrets exclude
others, when secrets are symbolized by Neptune/Chiron aspects, they are often
rooted in personal alienation or with the aim of "wounding" others.
Neptune inconjunct Chiron
The French writer Maurice Blanchot, who has died aged 95, was not so much a private person, it was almost as if he was perpetually absent. He lived in isolated places, such as the village of Eze-Village, in the south, or Mesnil Saint Denis, in the Yvelines, where he died. He never appeared on radio or television, never spoke in public and did not allow himself to be photographed. One biographer, Christophe Bident, entitled his book Maurice Blanchot: Invisible Partner.
also Sun=Chiron/Admetos
Mars=Admetos
William John Aloysius Bailey (May 25, 1884 neptune//chiron
sold radioactive patent medicine
