Eris, Lilith and Venus: Return of the Goddess

By Len Wallick

…most of us believe that the essence of the Good is love and freedom so that the Good cannot impose itself by force without ceasing to be good.”
-W.H. Auden

There is a stellium congregating in Aries. Jupiter and Mercury, Uranus and now the Sun are in the house, but it is not theirs. Eris, the outcast woman of ancient mythology, has a brand new bag. Eris has been in Aries for a long time but we were not aware of it until recently. That awareness has coincided with the advent of a new, feminine challenge to the established order. This challenge is fueled by the advent of a new sense of identity; a sense that has not been given to but arisen within the consciousness of countless people all over the world, all at the same time.

Daily Astrology & Adventure by Eric Francis

Aries is now the house of Eris as much as it is of the traditional ruler, Mars. Eris is longer the outsider. This planet orbiting our Sun from the edge of the Kuiper Belt, out beyond Neptune, has extended the boundaries of the solar system to include itself as an insider that is also on the expanding edge of discovery: the discovery of new identities that actually fit who and where we are now.

Tomorrow, Eris gets backup when the mean lunar apogee joins the party in Aries. This is a hypothetical point. It represents what the current, averaged-out location of the Moon’s furthest distance from the Earth would be if Luna were there now. In astrology, this point is commonly referred to as Black Moon Lilith.

Lilith is named after another outcast woman in the tradition of western civilization. Supposedly the original wife, she had the courage and self-respect to assert that love imposed by force is not love at all. Imagine that. The patriarchal deity couldn’t imagine that at all, nor tolerate it. She was banished to the outermost orbit of the undeniable feminine. She was left without extension or form, retaining only a name as an ostensible lesson to any woman who would challenge the power structure. What the established order did not consider is that one day the name Lilith would cease to be a shame and become a badge.

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