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Greetings!
Nov. 23rd, 2020 05:39 pmHello and welcome to the Eris Astrology Project! Over the coming weeks, months, and years I'll be looking into the astrology related to the body which was once called the tenth planet: Eris. Eris was discovered in the first half of the 2000s (Did you think the planet of Nihilism would let something like her discovery date be clear?) in either 2003 or 2005, depending on whether we talk about when the plates with Eris on them were taken, or when a human being noticed there was something on them. Judging from other examples of the kind, the effects of Eris should have started showing up around 30 years prior to the discovery date; in other words, sometime in the mid-1970s.
The fact that this is around the same time that Postmodernism began its rapid ascent from fringe ideas which most people, even in the rarefied fields of academia where these kinds of things exist found absurd to a powerful ideology capable of shaping the world; the point in time where personal computers began to exist; and shortly before a massive shift in nearly every Western country in the world towards extreme nihilism in the 1980s. (May I be frank? As someone who will have to live with the consequences, I find the idea that the consumerist binge of the 1980s and 1990s was anything other than an extreme act of nihilism to be absurd. I find this especially true given how much warning people had what would happen if they did it.)
This post will be an outline for the work ahead. The first step is going to be getting a rough sense of the Eridian; this will involve a few posts on topics related to the major Eridian themes, as I see them. As I'm doing this, I'll also be looking at mundane charts from the period when Eris was either in focus (2003 or 2005-2006), coming into focus (1970s-c.e. 2003), or as it fades out (since 2006).
Once this is mostly done and I have a good idea of what Eridean effects look like, then I'll take a look at Eris in famous individuals charts. This will initially focus on people who were highly influential, or highly influenced by, the Eridian, but it will hopefully eventually cover a decent range of people, enabling us to get a good sense of how Eris functions, both when powerful and when not.
The fact that this is around the same time that Postmodernism began its rapid ascent from fringe ideas which most people, even in the rarefied fields of academia where these kinds of things exist found absurd to a powerful ideology capable of shaping the world; the point in time where personal computers began to exist; and shortly before a massive shift in nearly every Western country in the world towards extreme nihilism in the 1980s. (May I be frank? As someone who will have to live with the consequences, I find the idea that the consumerist binge of the 1980s and 1990s was anything other than an extreme act of nihilism to be absurd. I find this especially true given how much warning people had what would happen if they did it.)
This post will be an outline for the work ahead. The first step is going to be getting a rough sense of the Eridian; this will involve a few posts on topics related to the major Eridian themes, as I see them. As I'm doing this, I'll also be looking at mundane charts from the period when Eris was either in focus (2003 or 2005-2006), coming into focus (1970s-c.e. 2003), or as it fades out (since 2006).
Once this is mostly done and I have a good idea of what Eridean effects look like, then I'll take a look at Eris in famous individuals charts. This will initially focus on people who were highly influential, or highly influenced by, the Eridian, but it will hopefully eventually cover a decent range of people, enabling us to get a good sense of how Eris functions, both when powerful and when not.
