Chaos frightens me.

nobody@vox.com(fullmoon) — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:21:37 -0800

(Posted for the astrology carnival theme.)

When I heard that they were naming the new planetary body Eris, after the goddess of chaos and discord, I thought, "Oh shit, that is a BAD IDEA." It seems like in astrology the planetary influences are based upon their namesakes, and I cannot fathom why anyone thought naming an asteroid/dwarf planet after one of the biggest troublemakers out there was a good idea, even if it caused astronomer-types some trouble. Besides, don't we have Uranus around to cover the "unexpected event" territory? Uranus at least allows for some positive unexpected events. Eris doesn't seem to have that going on, other than the "well, maybe it'll make you work hard" thing.

I already felt a bit like Eris throws things at me a lot. I tend to attract chaotic stuff. I'm very well behaved, but I've spent most of my life since I turned 18 having various drama eruptions break out around me. I've always assumed that had something to do with Uranus being in my first house, that things are just supposed to go wacky in my vicinity. My friends tend to either be strange and/or have strange things happening with them, my family situation has been flushing down the toilet for years, and let's not even start about my dating life. Plus I've had tons of fun on the home front that was very unexpected and discordant (flooded apartment that had to be rebuilt).

Naturally, I couldn't help but wonder if Eris had any major relations to anything in my chart. Of COURSE it did- it's conjunct my Mercury. It also opposes my chart ruler, Pluto, and trines the midheaven, Neptune, Saturn, and Mars. So essentially, I have discord and chaos tied to dreams, career, adulthood, passion, war, and my very self.

YIKES!

Okay, okay. I'm probably supposed to be more Positive! about such things...so I did some searching over at Lindaland.

Better keywords:

"Positive - liberation from addictions to success or status, clear priorities regarding matters of love and money, finally getting you can't take it with you and applying full resourcefulness in life, recognition of the potency of one's energy and life force, clear sense of the sacred marriages: spirit to body, self to Creator, between soulful companions, personal sense of emergence.
Negative - greed, workaholism, believe that you must take over for God, general sense of being forsaken, condemned or abandoned, lack of spiritual regard for life, superficial, status oriented.
Mundane: promises and vows (both kept and broken), elections and election fraud, intervention by higher powers (troubleshooters, authorities, deity or God), using chaos and disruption as a method of reorganization - i.e., dumping a closet onto the floor, then reorganizing, things that overturn, the scales of justice
Ceremonial: capitulation ceremonies, vows to create order from chaos, intent to right wrongdoing, abundance ceremonies"

Sounds Uranian to me again!

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