Post by ariesmoon on Jun 11, 2009 22:25:26 GMT
Has anyone looked into the meaning of Pholus in their chart? I've been reading round it this evening, have found articles by Eric Francis, Zane Stein and by Kim too. It's making itself known to me at the moment!
I'd been looking at the Sabian symbols thinking there must be something about locks and keys, about needing things to be secure. There are so many messages for me about this at the moment, both at work and at home. Locking up is a source of some anxiety for me, and I couldn't for the life of me trace it to anything.
The Sabian for Aquarius 17 is "A Watchdog Standing Guard, Protecting his Master and his Possessions". Lynda Hill says this is connected with "worrying endlessly about loss ..constantly checking up". Which I do. At first glance I had nothing at 17 Aquarius, so looked again at the asteroids and found Pholus there. From what I've read, it seems to be about release - and in Eric Francis' article I picked up that it has some connection with patterns through 3 generations - patterns that can be "released" suddenly.
Now this is odd - it falls in my 10th house, conjunct Saturn, and corresponding to my career, and the mother. This anxiety is very definitely inherited through my mother and back from her, to my grandfather, who used to go back to work after hours, worrying about things he hadn't done. That worry and anxiety killed him in his mid 50s.
Maybe I'm being told that this is a 3rd generation pattern I can now break - that it's essential to break it, for my own health and well-being. I haven't missed the connection with locking in my emotions, protecting myself.
Coming back to this, I've also just found a piece by Melanie Reinhart on her website about Pholus, where she talks about its process being of an event that sets off a chain of consequences. She also mentions the generational aspect.
When I think of what my grandfather must have gone through - I never knew him, he died long before I was born - I get some picture of a good man, tormented by never doing (in his eyes) enough to protect his family, never working hard enough. And I can see it in my mum, and I can see it in me. And I am meant to break this pattern.
I'd been looking at the Sabian symbols thinking there must be something about locks and keys, about needing things to be secure. There are so many messages for me about this at the moment, both at work and at home. Locking up is a source of some anxiety for me, and I couldn't for the life of me trace it to anything.
The Sabian for Aquarius 17 is "A Watchdog Standing Guard, Protecting his Master and his Possessions". Lynda Hill says this is connected with "worrying endlessly about loss ..constantly checking up". Which I do. At first glance I had nothing at 17 Aquarius, so looked again at the asteroids and found Pholus there. From what I've read, it seems to be about release - and in Eric Francis' article I picked up that it has some connection with patterns through 3 generations - patterns that can be "released" suddenly.
Now this is odd - it falls in my 10th house, conjunct Saturn, and corresponding to my career, and the mother. This anxiety is very definitely inherited through my mother and back from her, to my grandfather, who used to go back to work after hours, worrying about things he hadn't done. That worry and anxiety killed him in his mid 50s.
Maybe I'm being told that this is a 3rd generation pattern I can now break - that it's essential to break it, for my own health and well-being. I haven't missed the connection with locking in my emotions, protecting myself.
Coming back to this, I've also just found a piece by Melanie Reinhart on her website about Pholus, where she talks about its process being of an event that sets off a chain of consequences. She also mentions the generational aspect.
When I think of what my grandfather must have gone through - I never knew him, he died long before I was born - I get some picture of a good man, tormented by never doing (in his eyes) enough to protect his family, never working hard enough. And I can see it in my mum, and I can see it in me. And I am meant to break this pattern.