#chariklo

4: Chariklo and How Sci-Fi Envisions ‘Things to Come’.

He considered all religions as equal and pointed to the fact that they all contain the same core truth. This is one of the major themes of Stranger in a Strange Land where characters regularly say ‘Thou art God’ and feel each others’ souls.  Many look to aspects between Mercury and Uranus to suggest the native is a Science Fiction Writer (his Mercury is in Leo and Uranus in Capricorn) – the Aquarians are an obvious choice- or just a well placed Mercury in Gemini or Virgo, or Uranus in a water sign. He has none of these obvious signatures, but that intense opposition he has between Mars/Uranus to Sun/Neptune may be enough to suggest rapid self development to higher states of mind or elevated sense of purpose. 

But this is where asteroid Chariklo has something to offer. Her name means ‘graceful spinner’. She was the wife of Chiron in mythology possibly herself a centaur but also named as a nymph. She was the daughter of Apollo and Oceanus. Asteroid Chariklo orbits between Saturn and Uranus and radiates the clear light of being. She is a healing presence, and so quite mystical. Wherever she appears in the chart would be indicative of  visions, or near-indefinable spiritual qualities such as a healing presence. Heinlein himself had asteroid Chariklo in Pisces at 20° and Chariklo activates the objective ‘ground’ of being in an already very spiritual sign.

However, Chariklo is not limited to being a radiant presence. Zane Stein and others have linked her to Science Fiction writers as one of her associations is the ‘envisioning of things to come’, something it behooves us all to do.  In Heinlein’s chart Chariklo is 7° from Saturn, which is a wide orb, so we can only claim they are ‘co-present’ in the sign,  but Chariklo is sesquidratrate to Mercury, trine to Jupiter and square to Pluto which establishes her as a strong influence in the chart. 

Other examples of Chariklo in the charts of Sci-Fi writers are:

Arthur C. Clarke had Chariklo trine/sextile his North and South Nodes;

Ray Bradbury had Chariklo directly opposite Mars;

Philip K. Dick has Chariklo conjunct Mars, square Uranus and sextile Jupiter. 

Ursula le Guin had Chariklo trine to Mars and square to both Uranus and Mercury.

J. G. Ballard had Chariklo conjunct his Juptier and Pluto;

Samuel R. Delaney has Chariklo conjunct the Moon and sextile to both Pluto and Chiron.

Gene Rodenberry, creator of Star Trek, has a prominent Chariklo square to his Sun.

Even L. Ron Hubbard has Chariklo conjunct his Mars/Uranus in Capricorn.

Knowing all this  in the charts of these writers should give us a new appreciation of the meaning of Chariklo and why we should never underestimate the wife of Chiron as she shares his gift of prophecy by being able to see into the future i.e. she is a sci-fi visionary.  

Extract 3 from 'Song to the Strangers in a Strange Land'

Venus conjoins my natal Chariklo between 10:17 and 11:23 AM on July 12 2023.

Even the bestselling novelist in the world isn’t being spared woke rewrite treatments to spare the delicate sensitivities of modern readers, with Agatha Christie’s works getting the full treatment from her publisher.

Mercury (reason, speaking, writing) sextile Chariklo (interrogative about touchy or delicate issues, intolerant) opposite Makemake (books, especially those of multi-cultural interest (Agatha Christie books have become the latest to be edited by sensitivity readers)).

Christie is famous for creating such timeless sleuths as Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, and the Daily Telegraph reports new editions based on both these investigators have had original passages amended or excised by publisher Harper Collins.