Hades: A Major Planetary Player This Summer
Hi Everyone:
This summer, end of July, early August 2010, we are in for one of the most powerful shifts this Earth has seen since Atlantis sank, in my opinion. This cardinal cross doesn’t come along often and it certainly doesn’t come with Hades, the Uranian planet, in tow. So this makes this cardinal cross in the sky like none other we’ve EVER seen in this lifetime. And that’s why I’m blogging about it.
You don’t have to be an astrologer to understand Hades. As usual, my articles are written for every person, not just astrologers :-). Why do you want to get to know Hades? Because his energy is going to “color” this coming Cardinal cross of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. It’s not your usual “cardinal cross” situation. It has Hades being the major player in HOW it plays out–and what tests we’re going to potentially have.
I don’t know about you, but I pray every day for peace. I see people getting along. I see war being abolished. I see us understanding we must work together as a team or perish. If you could say a small prayer daily or visualize our earth and all us getting along–we can work on the positive side of Hades. And as always, our lives are in our hands. This cardinal cross heralds the JUMP TIME (Jean Houston) and movement into the NEW paradigm. Let’s be ready for it. The more we understand Hades, the more we can work with it–and not against it.
THE URANIAN OR TRANSNEPTUNE PLANETS–HADES
by Eileen Nauman, DHM(UK)
Copyright 1998 Eileen Nauman
All Rights Reserved
An introduction needs to be given on the Uranian planets before we discuss the eight of them over the ensuing months here at Athena.
Everyone is familiar with the ‘known’ planets of our solar system, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. In astrology, the ‘lights’, the Sun and Moon, are also used. Collectively, we call the whole thing ‘planets’ although that is a misnomer with the Sun and Moon there.
Most astrologers use the known nine planets plus the lights, the Sun and Moon. A handful of astrologers from around the world, use the Trans Neptune or Uranian planets. They are considered renegades. However, using these eight other ‘sensitive points’ or ‘planets’ that no one can see to identify, does work. I use Uranian planets exclusively in progressions for medical astrology work with a 90% accuracy rate. But more on that later. Let’s look at the history of how the Uranian planets came into being.
THE HISTORY OF THE URANIANS:
In World War I there was a German cook by the name of Alfred Witte. He must have had a lot of time on his hands in the trenches during the war, because he worked up a lot of astrology charts on his friends, his soldier buddies and the things that happened to them. What he found was that the known 9 planets, nor the Sun or Moon, were present when some crisis occurred in a soldier’s life; such as getting a transfer, going home on leave, getting injured, getting killed, hearing news of a baby being born to his wife, a problem with one of his children back in Germany, getting married on leave, or suffering other traumas of wartime.
Eventually, over several years, he hypothesized that there were eight other ‘planets’ that he couldn’t see, but were there, because one of them, or more, were present when one of his friends had a crisis. Witte started with only the first four TNPs – Cupido, Hades, Zeus, and Kronos. Pluto and the remaining four of Apollon, Admetos, Vulcanus and Poseidon (suggested by Friedrich Sieggrün and came much later, were not included till the 4th edition of the Rulebook in 1946. The first edition had been published in 1928, two years before Pluto was discovered. Over time, eight separate planets with the names of Hades, Admetos, Zeus, Cupido, Apollon, Kronos, Vulcanus and Poseidon were “born”. When something happened to Witte’s friends, he figured out the orbit of each of these planets–and sure enough–there it was! He spent a lot of time figuring out the orbits of these first four planets.
Then, he called them “Trans Neptune” planets, because in 1914, Pluto had not yet been spotted or identified, so the planet farthest from the Sun was Neptune; therefore, ‘trans’ or beyond, ‘Neptune’ was born. Witte went on to create an elaborate system, which I won’t go into here. He called it the Hamburg School. Suffice to say, that he continued to work with these Trans Neptune planets he couldn’t see, until his death. His work was then carried on by a handful of German students; among them, Hans Niggeman, who eventually wrote a book about Witte and his system. He even published an ephemeris with the eight planets and their orbit as well as the sign that were in.
MODERN-DAY USE OF THE URANIANS
The use of Uranian planets in a progressed chart, at least for me, is essential. Charles Emerson, one of the leading proponents of Witte’s system, cajoled me into trying it back in 1974–and I did–and I’ve been a believer in them ever since. So, for the next eight installments, I’ll be writing articles about each of these incredible ‘sensitive points’ out in space that definitely DO influence our lives. I’ll start with Hades. As a shaman, I’ve run thousands of journeys for people around the world since 1990. One of the things I saw was that in Atlantis, the continent or “third world” utilized all these “Trans-Neptune” planets. They also had a thirteen-sign zodiac to correlate with the thirteen lunation’s we have. This is ‘lost’ Atlantean knowledge from what I can discern. And those who are drawn to “Trans-Neptune” planets or sensitive points, were using as astrologers when they had many, many lifetimes during the Atlantean period. It is old knowledge returned to us. Nothing is ever lost. Information came back through certain individuals when the world is ready for it once more. Let’s look at what the Atlanteans knew and utilize in our “fourth world” of today.
HADES–“dust to dust”
HADES RULER SHIPS IN MEDICAL ASTROLOGY
Symbol: Half Moon in the waning form, with the “cross of matter” contained within it. The Moon in another form reminding us that our emotions can ultimately dis-ease us and kill us if we don’t work constructively with them. “Breakdown to make a Breakthrough”….E. Nauman. It is also the Persephone/Hades myth being lived out by the individual–one must go into the depths of their own, unique “Hell”, be destroyed by it, resurrected and rebirth and finally, emerge from Hell into the outer world of fruitfulness, fertility and higher spiritual evolution.
MEDICAL RULERSHIPS OF HADES
- Rules over slow, deteriorating diseases such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes, osteo-arthritis, lupus, chronic fatigue syndrome, and osteoporosis, M.S., Lou Gherig Disease, to name a few. A disease that slowly dissolves one or more of our systems.
- Rotting (within us, such as in blood poisoning, sepsis conditions, cellulitis, gangrene–diabetes, or any other cellular destruction or tissue damage).
- “Dust to dust”–the slow but inevitable breakdown of our flesh, red and white blood cells, a system or organ in our body that we will eventually deteriorate and die from.
- Gangrene (the loss of an extremity as in diabetes, or on an emotional framework, we cut off our emotional circulation to some part of ourselves, and it dies, too and eventually, so does the physical body).
- Deformity. (You can take this to any level….deformity of the mind, twisted attitudes, for example such as prejudice, etc.)
- Filth (they may not wash often, or hate to bathe or don’t mind wearing dirty clothes). Street people. Beggars. A person who will wear the same clothes for twenty years until they are rags. They hate to throw away old clothes.
- Garbage (they may eat a lot of ‘garbage-foods’ such as junk food instead of good, healthy food). They are sending a message that they feel useless, shamed, humiliated, lack of self-esteem and deserve nothing better than ‘garbage.’ Their body’s show this eventually with vitamin/mineral deficiencies for starters.
- Deterioration of a body, organ or system on a spiritual, mental, emotional or physical level.
- Breakdown to make a breakthrough. Some part of us on the spiritual, mental, emotional or physical level must breakdown and go back to “dust to dust”, be removed, so that new growth and new awareness can take place. Consider Hades a sort of Cosmic pruning shears. And it is pruning us here and there to support more healthful, centered growth. No one said it was going to be painless. A person will have to ‘die’ a death on one of these levels. That means the death of an old attitude (mental), the death of an old emotional behavioral pattern (emotional), the death of a religious or philosophical belief (spirit) or the death of a system or organ (physical) so we can make the “aha!” and get on with our lives.
- Death on some level of ourselves. This is necessary to let the ‘old’ die from the past/antiquity/childhood condition patterns, so that new and better ways of seeing ourselves and our world can grow there instead. The Death Cycle. The Death of a Paradigm or world order. The emergence of a new world order or new world cycle.
- Slow, gradual onset and decline. It may take years, even a decade, before the disease causes death or is stopped. If the person will empty their own, personal ‘garbage’ from within them, out and work through it, spontaneous healing from the disease can and does take place.
- Hatred (of the self; self-loathing, self-hatred).
- Mutilation (self-mutilation, mutilation of animals or of human beings).
- The monster within all of us. Our worst, primal Shadow self. It must be integrated and not held a part from us or it will “eat us alive”.
- Anorexia and bulimia; both self-hating diseases.
- “Our past is our biology”–Caroline Myss. If we don’t change what is dysfunctional from our past, it will eventually ruin our quality of life and possible, give us a disease so we are forced to confront these issues buried in ourselves.
- Sociopathic behavior; lives by no one’s rules but their own; apart from society. Disconnected. Gangbangers bent on self-destruction of self and others.
- Murders (how do we ‘murder’ ourselves?). Destruction of others–human, animal, environment, etc.
- Suicidal and suicide.
- Pus–abscesses (tooth or anywhere else in the body).
- Infection (usually slow onset with nasty results–such as Strep A necrotic bacteria which destroys human flesh).
- Poisonous animal and insect bites (snakes, Brown Recluse Spider, Black Widow, Scorpion stings, etc.)
- Poisoning of ourselves in some way on a spiritual, mental, emotional or physical level. “Toxic shame” (emotional). Spiritual crisis (sorcery used against you, spirits ‘suck’ off you, etc.). Rigid mindset, opinion, projection that destroys us (terrorism and terrorists). Eating or drinking food/water from a poisoned, toxic source.
- Food poisoning.
- “Bad” thoughts (old family conditional patterns and tapes we live our life by, murderous thoughts, destructive thoughts, obsessive-compulsive behavior, lascivious/sexual thoughts, etc.) Repetitive thoughts. OCD, obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Sexual predators.
- Rapists.
- Pedophiles.
- Sexual degradation (of self or of others).
- Abusive and destructive toward others.
- Abuse in the past by someone toward you.
- Sexual dysfunction; lack of orgasm, premature ejaculation, unable to function, dislikes sex, or wants sex all the time–depravity, prostitution, dislike of opposite sex, “johns,” pornography, child porn., etc.
- Stalker.
- Humiliation (which later, turns into something ugly, self-hating in person)
- Low self-esteem.
- Slave-like attitude (toward others–usually a woman–she ‘enslaves’ herself in an abusive marriage or a marriage where she is destroyed by her partner mentally, emotionally and/or physically).
- Skin diseases; psoriasis, dermatitis, eczema. Ulcers. Bedsores.
- Wounds that do not heal up properly or very slowly.
- Poor memory.
- Acute injury or illness which has devastating and long-term effects (Christopher Reeve thrown off his horse and he breaks his neck and he was paralyzed from neck down and eventually died).
- Diseases with a root cause of humiliation, shame, loss of self-esteem, loss of a parent/job/family/country of origin–“shocks” to the vital force that are held deep within the person and manifest later as dis-ease.
- “Eating one’s self up alive.”
- PTSD symptoms; nightmares. Check for high cortisol levels in a person who exhibiting PTSD symptoms. Get them to a Functional Medicine specialist.http://www.functionalmedicine.org/findfmphysician/index.asp
- Mentally challenged individuals.
- Grief as a root cause of disease later on (grief and loss of a loved one, a pet, a divorce, a separation, a loss of a job, a move to another state or country, etc.)
- Anger and rage (toward self or others. If turned inward on self, it becomes DEPRESSION. If turned outward, can be abusive)
- Trauma suffered through an attack, robbery, rape, etc.
- Stupidity (as in the person repeats the same mistake again and again and never learns from it–example: woman married an alcoholic man one marriage after another or a woman marries an abuser type of man, one marriage after another)–a destructive cycle that gradually beats the woman (or man) back to ‘dust’ because they ‘don’t get it’ and can’t see/perceive the pattern they are repeating.
- Superstitious (and it negatively impacts the person).
- Fear. It is our fear(s) that stop us from growing. And if we allow fear to stop us, overwhelm us, then we will die on some level of ourselves and we ‘self-destruct’ over time. Fear of heights. Fear of animals. Fear of death. Fear of insanity. Etc.
- Depression (so dark and deep that they spiral into a world of hopelessness).
- Menopause (the destruction or break down of the fertility cycle to the barren, menopausal cycle–one must suffer a ‘death’ so that the other is borne. However, menopause is not barren; it is ‘fertile’ in new and wonderful ways. Both cannot inhabit a woman’s body at once–one must ‘die’ for the other to be birthed–a beautiful example of Hades in a positive manifestation, in action).
- Sadness. Sorrow. Melancholy. All can stop us from growing. If that happens, then festering ‘infection’ from these emotions which have not been worked through, may dis-ease us.
- Victimization. Co-dependence. Being a victim. All of these put us on a highly self-destructive path. The person only knows how to ‘give’ and not ‘take.’ They put everyone else ahead of their own needs. They hemorrhage themselves emotionally and psychically until they ‘bleed to death’ and ‘die’.
- Caught in a religious, satanic, black magic kind of group; a prisoner in that group. Zealots, religious fanatics and imprisoned within it. Brainwashed. Manipulated.
- Psychically drained by a “psychic vampire”.
- Decay of a system or organ of the body. Decay of the mind (Alzheimer’s), for example.
- Worry. “Worrywart”. The frittering away and waste of energy of worrying about things that s/he cannot change or control the outcome of.
- Phobias. Obsessive-compulsive. Psychotic breaks (acute and chronic). Schizophrenia. Mental diseases.
- Spiritual disease (which eventually, will affect the mind, emotions and finally, the physical body). One or more of the auric fields is involved, as are one or more of the chakras–shut down, blocked, destroyed or hardened by trauma or past life reactions that have yet to be worked through in this life time.
PSYCHOLOGICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF HADES
- Hades people will have a scruffy, dirty, unkempt look about them. They may have a “moonlike” face. Pay special attention if their face is concave or seem to be like a bowl and does not project outward like most faces. Round faces. At best, they are an easy-going lot fashion-wise–they will wear the same old clothes for ten to twenty years. They are not into style or fashion. Old shoes are worn like old friends. Their clothes may be clean, but they won’t be pressed. Their hair will be natural, not ‘styled’.
- Hades people usually have the ‘dirty’ jobs in life: the undertaker, the garbage pick-up man, the sewage engineer, the therapist (digging into other people’s ‘shit’), and because of their love of ancient history, may be involved in archeology, history (teaching it), research into past, hunting for shipwrecks, scientists hunting for a virus, etc.
- Realistic about life in general (not idealistic, but may be somewhat the pessimist). Brutally realistic.
- The need for in-depth psychotherapy to dig out their own, internal ‘garbage’ that is festering within them.
- Poor self-esteem that is mirrored in some aspects of themselves.
- “Looser” attitude.
- “I can’t do anything right.”
- Quitter.
- The loner who is disdained by the clique or classmates at school or college.
- Having to lift one’s self up by their own bootstraps.
- Murphy’s Law applies to a Hades person: If it can get worse, it will. Rather, Murphy WAS a Hades person!!!
- Job, of the Bible, who suffered endless tragic events, the loss of his crops, the loss of his family, his wife, but still kept his faith in God–and because he did–everything was returned to him in reward. THIS is the bottom line of Hades at work in our life. Shit happens. We get shit on. We get put in seemingly, shitty situations where we feel more like garbage that we’re wading through, than a human being. Eventually, this cycle of “dust to dust” dissipates. Afterward, stand by for an incredible ‘gift’ if you have worked hard on yourself, maintained, endured, and kept your faith. This is a wonderful metaphor for the positive side of Hades. If we keep our faith and trust in the Creator, it will eventually work out for us.
- Looking at our own ‘ancient’ history to understand ourselves and to change what we no longer need or have outgrown.
- A Hades person will go through endless cycles of destruction and renewal, time after time, in their lives. It is what it is. A fast track, spiritually for ultimate growth.
- Utilizing an illness as a form of teaching and spiritual renewal and spiritual evolvement. (Example: Stephen Hawkins, the brilliant scientist).
- A base sense of humor. No puns. No jokes. Just an appreciation of the basics of life and how it impacts us. Blunt. Practical. Common sensed.
- Uses curse words routinely.
- Basically and uncultured person who has no interest in “labels” or fashion. Simple things for a simple person. Is not cosmopolitan; has no desire to be. Sees this as shallow on the other person’s part–putting on an ‘act’ that is not sincere or in integrity.
- Hades people are the ‘salt of the Earth.’ They are simple, direct, honest, humble and without an expanded Ego (but they do have an Ego–it is reined in and in balance). Every day happenings with people are their bread and butter. They don’t need fancy parties, gourmet food or know famous people.
- They like to work alone. They do not care for crowds, parties or huge organizational things. They like to work with others of like mindedness.
- They cherish the Earth. They revel in the “soil of Life” and understand on a very deep level that they must go through destruction in order to grow and rebirth–like the fable of the Phoenix bird, who rose from the ashes of the fire (hell) only to be more beautiful than before. THAT is Hades at its finest. The high side of Hades is a “green” mentality and an effort to see themselves as a team member on Mother Earth.
- The ability to perceive another person, their actions/reactions based upon the past of that individual. No one takes in the past as much as Hades does. They are wonderful psychotherapists able to peel back the layers to the root cause of the person’s torment and imbalance, name it and lead them to it for healing.
- Healers often have a strong Hades in their chart. They are the “wounded healers” and must go through the fires of their own personal hell in order to die, transform and then transcend to turn around and help others.
- They have the ability to dig as deeply as Admetos, into their own psyche, to come up with the answers they need in order to transform and transcend.
- After going through a cycle of dissolving back to “dust”, they arise like the fabled Phoenix bird, more beautiful, knowledgeable and powerful than before. All of our trials are aimed at one thing: to make positive spiritual progress. In order to do that, we have to be brought down to our knees and learn humility, lose the Ego, lose the pride and anything else that holds us back from spiritual evolvement. Hades job is to nurture our spiritual core and improve upon it–where we want it or not.
- Some of the greatest spiritual leaders or people who have influence with others spiritually speaking, are working from the high, positive side of Hades. These people are rock solid, literally. They can remain in the core during the worst testing that can be thrown at them. All they do is surrender over to a higher power, entrust the Creator and shed what is no longer needed. In doing so, they wear the Cloak of Many Colors, their connection with the Creator unbreakable. They become beacons of light during our darkest hours on this planet. They also may come into your life when you are down and feeling as if you will never survive–and be there as a stranger, perhaps, to help you up and out of your hole. Hades people of this type are truly angels in disguise. They’ve earned their spiritual depth because they’ve learned to work through the heart chakra. Their compassion is where they are at and what they’re always working on.
- They have a great service-oriented nature. They love to serve in any and all capacities, whether in a day job of digging ditches, being a cashier at a grocery store, a caretaker, a hospice worker, a therapist, a medical doctor, an alternative healer, being a diplomat, a soldier, a scientist or mystic. Where they are, they practice their compassion. Interestingly, Hades people suffer the worst of the suffering here on this earth. Yet, their suffer is transmuted into a deepening and widening of their spirit that is breathtaking and they become role models for the rest of us struggling to work out of our heart chakra, too.
HEALING TOOLS FOR HADES
- Working with the soil; gardening, planting, agriculture (“dust to dust” concept), working with Nature in some form.
- The study of history; taking classes, reading books on it.
- Soul recovery and extraction–to bring pieces back from prior lifetimes to support the spirit of the person in this lifetime.
- Meditation.
- Psychotherapy to ‘dig’ into their ‘past’ to uncover the root(s) of their disharmony/imbalance.
- Amateur archeologist, digging through relics of the past to find their present.
- Trips to archeological sites or to countries or areas that they are drawn to go–in doing so–they will find the ‘piece’ of themselves from that lifetime and become more whole.
- Environmental causes and concerns. Working to improve the environment in some way–from mundane to the science level.
- Finding help through age-old ceremonies, whether Native American or others.
- Weaving, the art of and learning how to do it. Working with fabric such as sewing and quilting.
- Visiting local museum(s).
- Working with metal in some way; sculpting or metallurgy.
- Working with rocks, rock hound, gemstones, faceting or other earth-oriented trades that nurture and support their “dust to dust” reality.
- Working with wood; carving it, giving it shape.
- Working with clay; fashioning and shaping it.
- Taking any “natural” substance and “transforming it” into an object, art or expression.
FLOWER & GEMSTONE ESSENCE CONSIDERATIONS FOR HADES:
- Evening Primrose collection: White for ‘general’ cleansing, yellow for mental toxicity, pink for emotional/heart toxicity–whatever the level they needed it on. Every 6 months, as a general tune-up.
- Crested Prickle Poppy–to bring up their Shadow so they can see it in their dream work and begin integrating it.
- Cottonwood Tree–when they have over worked and abused the privilege of their body, or they’ve taken hit after hit and are reeling, but still moving forward when they should rest. For Life’s devastation’s.
- Chaparral–for a deep, deep internal cleansing to keep them free from cancer or other deeply rooted diseases. Also supports immune system. Should be used every 6 months as a ‘tune-up’ for 30 days.
- Bromeliad–red/yellow–to deal with the malicious, angry, destructive nature of a Hades person if they are showing this side of themselves.
- Spanish Bayonet Yucca–for abusive anger and destructiveness.
- Bromeliad–red–to shift the Hades person to a higher, more refined and spiritual level that they are capable of, within themselves.
- Black Tourmaline–to protect themselves from Dark influences, negativity, as well as to protect others from their own, dark projections and negativity. Releases negativity, fears and anxieties as well.
- Bleeding Heart–to begin to work with sexual dysfunction.
- Fireweed–for people who have had their lives destroyed in some manner or fashion and they must start all over again–good for loss of a job, a marriage, divorce, move to another city/state/country, loss of a loved one, etc.
- Colville’s Columbine–to reconnect their heart with their mind so they begin to think and act/react in a more balanced manner.
- Lilac–for those who are base, who cannot raise their consciousness to a higher, more evolved level of function. For those who are ‘stuck in a rut’ of old, destructive behavior.
- Scorpion weed–for those who abuse violently, repeatedly and on all levels toward others: spiritual, mental, emotional and physical-based abuse.
HOMEOPATHIC COUNTERPARTS
- Sulphur (“thinks the rags he’s wearing are beautiful”)
- Mercurius Viv. (self-destructive, eats themselves up from the inside out)
- Hyoscyamus (insane, lewd, sexually perverted, denigrates everything into something dirty, unclean or debasing)
- Stramonium (lost in the psychosis of splits within their personality due to terrible trauma. The fear has a greater grip on them and their life; and in order to break free of it, they must walk through their fear and throw off the yoke of it in order to be whole again)
- Carsinosin (eaten up by others; codependent, the victim who is used, and abused by everyone else)
- Syphylinum (eating self up; self-destructive, obsessed)
- Psorinum (Psora): (destruction of self, in bits at a time, over a long period of time, especially with skin problems)