Earlier this morning we sent out the latest edition of Chiron Files, our monthly article on astrology and healing with a focus on Chiron. Eric writes about the chart for Sept. 10, and it’s striking how these current and approaching aspects throw some light on the divergence between Western allopathic medicine and more holistic methods of healing. You can read the full article by clicking here to buy the issue or by trying a one-month free trial subscription.
Eric,
First of all, thank you for what has to be the best edition of Chiron Files so far. The quote from Stuart Tyson caused my crown chakra to open up like an observatory roof and is emblematic of the the hard work and clear vision you wove into the exceptional piece.
Thank you also for the reference to one of the most valuable results from the Hindsight Project – evidence of a real, actual lineage connecting us to our progenitors. Just the physical stimulation from the mental contemplation is, alone, corroborating evidence that we retain in our physical bodies to this day.
By the way I was standing knee deep in this confusion yesterday, until I wrote a paragraph and fact checked it — and discovered I was wrong.
Yes Hermes T is one of “the founders” of astrology — and the scholars of Hellenistic astrology are quite convinced this was a historical figure, not a mythological one, but someone working with (shall we say) a little extra something, because of how fast the body of knowledge of astrology coalesced (basically, closer to all at once, rather than over a long span of time, according to Ellen Black and Robert Schmidt).
If we’re looking at how astrology is delivered by “the gods” “from Atlantis” we have an image in what seems to be not a gradual intellectual development of astrology but more of an arrival.
Hi – yes, the link with hermeticism is another part of the cause of the confusion.
Hermeticism comes from Hermes Trismegistus, an Egyptian god / person who is not the same as the Greek god Hermes, though they have a similar name. The Greek Hermes was not associated with medicine.
Hermes Trismegistus supposedly invented astrology – he’s the guy credited with the original “as above so below” quote.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes_Trismegistus
phall — thanks for the extra info! very cool, to learn about the medicine/alchemy link. we forget how differently the ancient and medieval scholars saw the world.
As one who wore the caduceus on my uniform as an officer in US Medical Service Corps and also who did time as a sales rep in the industry – thanks for the added perspective.
I googled around and found this at http://drblayney.com/Asclepius.html#worm
The link between Hermes and his caduceus and medicine seems to have arisen by Hermes links with alchemy. Alchemists were referred to as the sons of Hermes, as Hermetists or Hermeticists and as “practitioners of the hermetic arts”. By the end of the sixteenth century, the study of alchemy included not only medicine and pharmaceuticals but chemistry, mining and metallurgy. Despite learned opinion that it is the single snake staff of Asclepius that is the proper symbol of medicine, many medical groups have adopted the twin serpent caduceus of Hermes or Mercury as a medical symbol during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.