Part I is HERE. Have I over-stated this OCTAGON thing? You can decide for yourself.
On a Gemini New Moon. The seed moment of the sign that rules spectacle and the TWIN nature of things - the story being told and the story underneath the story. New Moons are dark. What is planted in them is not yet visible. The crowd cheers in the darkness and does not know what has been seeded.
(I have found out since writing yesterday's post that President Theodore Roosevelt was a boxer all his life, member of Harvard's boxing team, and even had a FIGHT CLUB in the White House basement. I have pondered before if Trump WAS Roosevelt and this is just more evidence - we talked about this HERE briefly in the weekly post after Trump was shot and a few other places, maybe we will do a full look, also note that week was the Mars/Uranus conjunction that repeats on the 4th of July!)
Keep in mind - the sky isn't causing earthly events any more than a clock causes noon. The clock and the sun and our hunger at midday are all expressions of the same thing/underlying rhythm. Astrology proposes that time itself has quality - that moments have a nature - and that the same quality expressing through the sky is expressing simultaneously through our human affairs. This isn't so much because one causes the other, this is because they are both made of the same moment. Jung called this synchronicity. Things that belong to the same moment share the nature of that moment. The chart doesn't predict Trump. Trump and the chart are both portraits of the same time.
Ok, on we go with this because now we are going to talk about the mythology of PHAETHON.
(I have talked about him before in connection with Trump and Vance - quite a bit HERE back when we talked about the election in 2024)
We make a mistake when we call myths metaphors as though the Greeks invented Phaethon to illustrate a point, the way a teacher might use an analogy or even the way a fairy tale is sometimes concocted. That's backwards. The myth came FIRST because the pattern was observed first - in the sky, in human behavior and in the repeating shape of certain kinds of catastrophe. Phaethon isn't a metaphor for overreach. Overreach is what happens when the Phaethon pattern activates in a life or a culture. The myth is the primary thing. The event is the instance/situation. The United States has a natal Phaethon in Gemini and Phaethon is back in Gemini. This is why being 'half-forgotten' doesn't diminish these stories and archetypes. The pattern doesn't require the story to be consciously known in order to operate. The Phaethon archetype runs whether or not anyone remembers his name BUT the remembering helps us make sense of what is happening. Does this make sense?
The United States natal chart has asteroid PHAETHON at 3 degrees Gemini. This is tightly conjunct where transiting Uranus is RIGHT NOW (2 Gemini) squaring the Nodes of Fate as I write this and at Sunday's New Moon and 3-degrees Gemini is EXACTLY where Uranus will be on the 4th of July/America's 250th birthday as he meets Mars. This is also the degree of J.D. Vance's North Node of Fate.
The United States natal chart has asteroid Helios (Sun God/Apollo/Phaethon's father) at 17 degrees Gemini. This is EXACTLY the natal position of Donald Trump's URANUS and J.D. Vance's PHAETHON. Trump's natal Phaethon is 23 degrees Taurus (conjunct Algol and tightly conjunct Trump's 24 degree mid-heaven, Vance's mini-me chart, that might not be as mini-me as we think, has a 22 degree Taurus mid-heaven). The United States has asteroid ATLANTIS (yes, the tech/people playing God/hands on the helm that shouldn't be - sinking almost everything into the sea story) at the same degree.
I know this is a bit confusing but stay with me. I promise you won't need an electric bike to keep up - a regular bike will do. At the end of these posts, I will post a chart to illustrate all this.
Let's look at the mythology of Phaethon and his father. This is an old story that KNOWS THIS MOMENT.
Because before there were presidents or nations, before there were cameras and instagram posts to broadcast the spectacle of power to millions of watching eyes, there was a boy who needed the world to know who his father was (and it is not a coincidence this is all coming to life as Chiron/the wounded healer prepares to leave Aries/the young man).
His name was Phaethon. His mother was Clymene a human or nymph depending on the telling, but Phaethon himself was most certainly a mortal. His father, she told him, was Helios (Apollo to the Romans, we will remember Trump has an exact Ascendent/Apollo which is what some see when they look at him) the God who drove the sun across the sky each day, whose horses were fire itself, whose hands were the only hands that could hold the reins of the world's LIGHT.
Phaethon grew up with this knowledge the way many children grow up with inheritance they haven't yet touched.
Teased about his fanciful paternal story, at some point he goes to find his father. The palace of Helios was supported by massive columns adorned with glittering gold and precious stones. The ceilings and doors were made with polished ivory and silver. Phaethon watched with awe the beautiful and moving representation of the earth, the sea and the sky on the walls of the palace. Amazed by the luxury, Phaethon came into the AUGUST presence of his father sitting on a diamond-studded throne, surrounded by the presences of the Day, the Month, the Year and the Hour. His attendants included Spring, bedecked with flowers. Summer, with a garland of ripened grains. Autumn, with feet reddened with grape juice and Winter, with hoar frost in his hair (not sure if anything here will matter, but it somehow feels important so I am tossing it all in).
Phaethon came for proof. He needed the God to look at him and confirm - yes, you are mine. Yes, you belong here.
Helios, golden and undone by love, made the mistake fathers make when love overwhelms wisdom. He swore an unbreakable oath on the River Styx that whatever his son asked, he would give. Phaethon asked for the chariot. For the reins. For one day to be the one who moves the sun across the sky. TO BE SEEN.
Every God in the heavens understood immediately what Helios did not allow himself to know - that this would end in CATASTROPHE. This isn't because Pharthon was wicked or even foolish. This was because there is a difference - absolute, cosmic and NON-NEGOTIABLE - between claiming divine authority and being the thing that can sustain/hold it. Humans are of God, but we are not Gods.
He lasted maybe an hour. The great fiery steeds felt the unfamiliar weight, sensed the uncertainty in the hands that held them and knew the one at the helm shouldn't be at the helm. They ran. Keep in mind that they were not malicious either. They ran in the way that power runs when it is no longer governed by the nature capable of governing it. They veered from the path. The sky cracked open with heat. Mountains ignited. Rivers boiled away to nothing. The earth itself cried out (deserts formed) scorched, unrecognizable, the familiar order of the world dissolving under the consequences of one boy's need to prove he was his father's son.
It is not a villain's story. That is what makes it endure. Zeus watched the world burning from above and understood that only one thing would stop it. NOT VIRGO/negotiation/a better argument. This needed a thunderbolt aka DIVINE INTERVENTION. The 'saving' had to come from something genuinely, irrevocably larger than the one who had grasped the reins and it had to come before there was nothing left to save.
Zeus tossed it.
Phaethon fell from the sky trailing fire, and the world exhaled.
The myth does not end in triumph. It ends in grief, with his sisters weeping at the riverbank until they became trees, their tears tearing into amber/the sun made real. The world was saved, but it was forever changed. The scorched places remained. Some things, once burned, take a very long time to grow back and some never do.
What the Greeks understood and encoded in this story with the precision of people who watched the sky for a living, is that the cosmos, like our human bodies that are a part of it - has an IMMUNE RESPONSE. That there is a difference between the performance of divine authority and the actual capacity to hold it. And that the universe, eventually, corrects for the gap. The question the myth never answers, the question it leaves burning in the reader's hands, is something like - how much burns before the correction comes? Maybe this is the question written across the sky right now. Yes, it's a nailbiter. But we already know this.
That's the basic story.
Phaethon's wound is not about arrogance. That's the surface reading. His wound is not knowing if he belongs to the divine at all. The overreach comes from the wound (Chiron at the very end of Aries right now) the need to prove paternity, to make the father's acknowledgment visible and undeniable to everyone who ever doubted it. He doesn't want to drive the sun because he's greedy. He doesn't want to drive the Sun to help the world either. He wants to drive the sun because he needs the world to see that he can. This is kind of the psychology of the fatherless son. Not all fatherless sons, of course, but a particular type, a recognizable type, the one who builds his identity around the question am I the son of something great? and who will burn the world proving it if the answer remains uncertain. Trump, sent off to boarding school as a boy had a powerful father he was always trying to please/prove he was "his son".
Vance's biography is almost too on point. Multiple fathers. Multiple last names. GEMINI! The name itself - the most basic unit of paternal inheritance - revised, renegotiated, claimed and then reclaimed again. James Bowman became James Hamel became JD Hamel became JD Vance. Each name is another attempt to answer the question of whose son he is, which is always also the question of who he is allowed to become.
Vance's natal Phaethon exact on Trump's Uranus (that is conjunct his North Node and Sun) is also exact on the United States natal Helios. When Trump (Phaethon midheaven) plays Phaethon or when Vance reaches for the next powerful father, they are not consciously enacting Phaethon. They may never have read the myth. But the pattern doesn't need anyone's awareness to use them as its current vessel. The archetype is older than any individual it moves through. This is the way it works for ALL OF US.
For years now Chiron in Aries has been asking us the most fundamental wound question - do I have the right to exist as I am? Am I enough?
Aries is the self, the primal I am, the first breath. Chiron there wounds and heals at the level of identity itself (Vance's natal Chiron is in Gemini conjunct his North Node, Trump's is in Libra and conjunct his Jupiter) - the question of whether our existence is legitimate, authorized, REAL. The fatherless son IS a Chiron in Aries archetype. The one who had to construct his own origin story because the given one was insufficient, absent or just too freaking painful.
The one who had to reach for a father because the father didn't reach first.
And as Chiron leaves Aries and moves into Taurus he takes the wound into the body, into the material world, into what we build and own and accumulate as proof of our worth. The wound shifts from am I real to can I make myself real through what I acquire and construct and hold?
That's enough for one post. I don't know if anyone will actually finish it, but it is so interesting, isn't it?
The fatherless sons are everywhere. Most of them don't get their hands on the chariot. But the myth asks us to look at the wound underneath the overreach. This isn't about excusing it, but because we cannot understand what's happening, and we cannot tend what comes after without understanding how we got here. We got here because someone needed his father to say yes. And the father said yes.
Back with part III tomorrow when we pull in the United States/the father who said yes. And Palantir, the company with an EXACT North Node/Phaethon and try to start to see where this current sh*tshow is headed.
xo all - please excuse typos/nonsense, no time to re-read this morning - have a great day all!
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