Taurus New Moon sometimes seems to be the cue for a lot of pseudo-spiritual bullshit about attracting personal wealth, but this lunation is exactly square Nessus in Aquarius.

The New Moon takes place at 15° Taurus 22?24? tomorrow at 12:18:13 UT. Minor planet chart is here. It is conjunct asteroid Hephaistos and centaur Thereus; square Nessus and Nemesis in Aquarius; square Hebe in Leo and opposite Pandora in Scorpio.

Nessus is a centaur planet whose elongated orbit crosses those of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. He is most often associated with the dynamics of power and abuse, and in Aquarius is about those situations we are all collectively responsible for.

The symbolism of the orbit implies that Nessus somehow brings Neptune’s energy back in towards Saturn, where it can manifest in more concrete form. In which case you could say the deeper causes of what Nessus represents come from Neptune; big fat boundary issues and/or a lot of delusion and denial. All forms of abuse and neglect could be viewed that way.

Neptune of course has a positive side too, but it is impossible to access in the presence of the ego. The ego is the one that thinks it owns its money. Hence the camel and the needle. If everyone and everything in this world is part of you (the real Neptune), then taking care of all the parts, none more important than any of the others, automatically becomes the unified goal, and personal ownership cannot be conceived of. In theory Nessus could go for that, particularly in Aquarius.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2if5GYXOGyo

Saturn, still in a grand earth trine with Pluto and Venus-Asbolus, stations direct in the 2nd degree of Virgo today, conjunct centaur Okyrhoe. He’s also exactly square Mercury which just entered its own sign Gemini yesterday, and square True BML at 0 Sag.

So right now it’s as if Saturn is a heavy, stationary fulcrum for that whole aspect structure. Since all the objects are in the early stages of their stints in new signs, and all affecting one another, the experienced anchor could be a useful thing. It’s as if he came all the way back to supervise the transition.

Okyrhoe, daughter of Chiron and Chariklo, entered Virgo last week. Okyrhoe is one of the faster, closer centaur planets. Her orbit comes in close enough to cross Jupiter’s, and then out just past Saturn’s. Her orbital period is only around nine years, not much more than Jupiter. There’s a lot of Virgo in her discovery chart (Sun, Moon, Mercury and Venus), so she may be feeling quite at home there.

Daughter of a nymph and a centaur, Okyrhoe was born in human form, “her shoulders covered with her long red hair.” Her mother named her after the fast-flowing stream where she gave birth to her. She had the gift of prophecy, but in the end the Fates turned her into a mare as punishment for using it (they forbade her from revealing certain things; she had predicted the fate of both Asclepius and Chiron). Ovid’s version of the story is here.

Okyrhoe’s transition was from fully human to fully animal, rather than her ever embodying both simultaneously like the centaurs; unable to integrate the parts of her psyche she was split in two. My impression is that she was an all-or-nothing (Jupiter to Saturn) kinda gal, experiencing only the extremes, everything quite black and white. This echoes the Virgo in the discovery chart. She was unable to be at all selective in her predictions, which welled up within her until she was fit to burst:

So when she felt the prophetic frenzy in her mind, and was on fire with the god enclosed in her breast, she looked at the infant boy and cried out ‘Grow and thrive, child, healer of all the world! Human beings will often be in your debt, and you will have the right to restore the dead. But if ever it is done regardless of the god’s displeasure you will be stopped, by the flame of your grandfather’s lightning bolt, from doing so again. From a god you will turn to a bloodless corpse, and then to a god who was a corpse, and so twice renew your fate.

Moments later (but too late) she denounces the whole prophecy thing with equal passion:

Other prophecies remained to tell: but she sighed deeply, distressed by the tears welling from her eyes, and cried ‘The Fates prevent me, and forbid me further speech. My throat is constricted. These arts are not worth the cost if they incur the gods’ anger against me. Better not to know the future!

Her “painful gift of sight,” over which she seems to have no control, is a familiar archetypal paradox much like her father’s “wounded healer” (painful gift; Saturn/Jupiter). The anaretic degree of the retrograde Neptune in the discovery chart seems like a symbol of her relationship with her foresight, particularly in Capricorn, where Neptune could be experienced in a harsh or punishing way.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IWGg77Uzb54