“If
you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you
do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy
you.”
―
Gospel of Thomas
Presented here is the horoscope of Samuel Hahnemann [1],
the founder of Homeopathy. Notice the conjunction of the Ascendant with Pluto
amid the stars of Ophiuchus.
Ophiuchus, or Serpentarius, the Serpent-holder, the
Serpent Bearer, the Serpent Wrestler, or the Snake Charmer, is depicted holding
a snake, the snake is represented by the constellation Serpens. The
constellation is located around the celestial equator with the two legs of
Ophiuchus protruding right into the zodiac and south of the ecliptic. Ophiuchus
is identified with Aesculapius (Asklepios, Asclepius), an ancient physician who
grew so skilled in the craft of healing that he was able to restore the dead to
life [2].
Pluto was the
ruler of the underworld in classical mythology. The earlier name for the god
was Hades usually taken to mean ‘invisible’ and in the myth it was Hades’
helmet that made him so. Pluto comes from the word for ‘riches’ and it was he
who received buried treasure. Perhaps the buried treasure attached to the
planet or horoscope element contacted by Pluto is potentially the depth of understanding
that we might have with respect to that planet or horoscope element.
Hahnemann was dissatisfied with the state of medicine in
his time. Remember that Pluto is dissatisfied with anything superficial always
wanting to probe the depths. Hahnemann claimed that the medicine he had been
taught to practice sometimes did the patient more harm than good. Giving up his
practice, he began systematic experiments with his new form of medicine using dose
reduction around 1800–01. In Hahnemann’s method, a chosen substance is
repeatedly and thoroughly diluted so that often, not even a single molecule of the
original substance can be expected to remain in the product. In other words,
the substance has become “invisible” much like Pluto!
Just as Pluto is visible in the elemental power of a volcanic
eruption, it is present in all violent, purgatorial discharge of pent-up
energies from the human body and psyche as in therapy or in a psychotic break.
Homeopaths recognize this in the power of a correctly chosen remedy to produce
severe aggravations before the actual healing. Modern homeopaths recognize
disease as stemming from a false perception of reality [3]. Those things that
are hidden are always the most powerful, in the same way that the more
unconscious aspects of our psyche are potentially the most dangerous, but
alongside all the ugliness there is also usually buried treasure and this is
the reward we receive for foraging into Pluto territory.
Around the time his progressed Sun began forming a
powerful T-square to his radix Pluto-Uranus square, Hahnemann published in 1810
"Organon of the Rational Art of
Healing", followed over the years by four further editions entitled The Organon of the Healing Art, the
first systematic treatise and containing all his detailed instructions on the
subject. Ebertin interprets, Uranus-Pluto as the collapse of an old order and
the beginning of a new one. This is indeed what was happening in the period
1810 – 1815, a new and much more powerful method of healing was being born!
The Master in the
5th edition of the Organon on aphorism 78, postulates that chronic illnesses are the ones that emerges
from chronic miasms. Miasms are internal blockages that prevent the flow of
vital energy. Strangely, Hahnemann’s radix Sun [20ar] was conjunct the star
Acamar of Eridanus – the celestial river of life. Nick Fiorenza pictures Acamar
as a dam blocking the flow of life. The radix Moon and Sun in the Master’s
chart are placed in the 4th house often linked by astrologers to the
end of life. Pluto transit over the Hahnemann’s Moon and Sun in the 4th house led
him to formulate his theory of miasms close to the end of his life.
[3] Miasms; Rajan Sankaran
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