However, that version of the story is a bit twisted, because Chiron didn’t actually know that he would become immortal and join his pals on Olympus. The Chiron myth is the story of one who sacrificed his ‘lesser’ life (the mortal existence) for a greater one (his immortality). If we pursue our spiritual path further, we begin to discover that the entire universe may be within us. ![]() When we find that the partner who promised to be the divine entity, the symbol of wholeness and perfection, the great healer of our psychic wound, turns out to be just an ordinary shlub with feet of clay, we can see for the first time that there is a plan for us beyond fulfilling the desires of the ego. The bursting of the illusions surrounding partnership, or our notions of partnership in this culture at this time, provide the first steps of spiritual seeking for many, the grist for the mill towards an awakened consciousness. The search for transcendence and the search for true partnership have only a soupcon of difference between them. In seeking our lost divinity, and the divinity of the material world itself, it is no surprise that we turn our potential partners into gods. (Dorothy has the ability to click her ruby slippers and go ‘home’ all the while.) We forget that, however, once we are born into this dog eat dog world that is our initial perception of everyday reality. It is, of course, a myth and an illusion that we can be completed by something outside ourselves, because we are divine within ourselves. What we are actually seeking is our lost “Self,” our divine ‘Other half,’ the thing that will replace this perpetual ache of feeling trapped alone in this prison of a material universe. ![]() We operate, in our lifetimes, within a duality and with a dualistic mind-there is ‘Self,’ and there is ‘Other.’ There is ‘me in here’ and ‘you out there.’ The seeking of ‘Other’ is in fact the urge towards growth, to unite with what we have (apparently) been split away from via our material birth. It is the separative aspect of the human condition on the material plane that makes us seek out our mirror selves in Libra. However, ‘the One,’ if it were complete within itself, would not move forward, would not seek out. The Aries point at the Ascendant represents our entry into time and space-otherwise known as the ‘material world.’ It is representative of ‘the One’, the birth of a unique consciousness from that mass soup of universal mind. It goes beyond the primal survival needs to something very basic. Chiron/Moon, It is no accident that human beings seek security.
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