Vesta entered Aries on Saturday, which she does every 3-4 years, and is hanging around the Aries point squaring Pluto. This has coincided with the Olympic flame protests across the world.
I think this is a great placement for Vesta. The Aries point is transpersonal, it’s right on the edge between something (Aries) and the nothingness from whence it came (Pisces). This is the moment of emerging from (or back into) the One, when a thing is not quite either separate or merged, somewhere between manifest and pure potential. Kind of both.
And if anything’s transpersonal, the Life Force (Vesta, the eternal flame) is. I think that may be why Vesta’s associated with selfless service; she can feel like an impersonal fire that is not really yours alone to keep, but is for everyone. Which is ultimately true.
Nice description of the zero point of the zodiac. Did you know that Leibniz said the same thing about zero the number? :
“…a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit – almost an amphibian between being and non-being”
Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero#Quotations.
I’m just getting into the centaurs/asteroids, love your site, and your post inspired me to check out Vesta in my chart. She is conjuncting Damocles to the minute, so it’s a bit of a borderline situation for her, rather like zero, but I haven’t heard any complaints from the life-force department. On a purely practical level, I seem to have survived sixty-odd years thus far, or at least I think I have — ghosts don’t write blog comments, do they? :-)
I note that my first comment went live but the heading above it still reads “No Comments”. Maybe the code on your site is a bit borderline.
Or maybe “No Comments” is a sign telling prospective commenters that no comments are to be posted, despite the “Leave a comment” sign and a perfectly functional comments box.
Either way, it all seems a bit borderline to me. Not to worry. Us centaurs are used to living a life on the borderline of existence.