Hopi - Odysseus - Atlantis
 

1. HOPI: Do you have special feelings or events connected to prejudice; do you react strongly to the treatment of the American Indian, to the Holocaust, to the history of Afro-Americans (or minorities or indigenous people in any country)? While Hopi addresses these areas, it is also about "attacks" and what (was it Konrad Lorenz?) can be described as "the territorial imperative."
The "attack" theme can combine with medical indicators to describe "attack" symptoms. But the idea of ambush or attack can also be experienced on a psychological level...

This "territorial imperative" does have to do with a people defending the boundaries of "their lands." But again, on an individual level, folks also have a sense of their physical territory-- and with Hopi strongly placed, this is pronounced... as is a feeling for The Land (the earth.)
For those of you who investigate violence, you see Zeus when there's a gun (or a chainsaw!)-- and Hopi when there's a more "hands on attack" or the use of a knife or cutting. (Thus, with medical indices, Hopi can show up with surgeries.)

Drawing on the importance of The Corn Spirit of the Hopi and other Indian People, Hopi is "corn based foods," and incidents with snakes or birds. (The Hopi would gather snakes in the mountains and bring them down for a ritual. The snakes would all be released at once as part of a ceremony with the thought that as they made their way back to the mountains, they would fertilize the fields so the corn would grow.)

In a very basic way, Hopi refers to the West or westerly direction (cf. Siva and Siwa which point East.)

2. ODYSSEUS: In a general way, we can speak of Odysseus as relating to "the personal odyssey"-- the journey away from and back to "home." At Odysseus, there can be travel, estrangement, a longing for "home" (on many levels) and the sense of being "a stranger in a strange land." It covers the range from carefree gypsy to banished hobo (depending on aspect patterns.) So, in your chart, who and why is someone "far away"? Who might have been using the "a rolling stone gathers no moss" theme? Is Willy Nelson's "On the Road Again" an anthem? What isn't "settled"?

3. ATLANTIS: Taking cues from the mythos of The Lost Continent, Atlantis can relate to experiences connected with water (fear of drowning, near-drowning incidents, swimming, floods, hurricanes, tidal surge) but it's much more complicated than that.

The mythos includes the notion of "retribution for misuse." So, environmentalists can have a strong Atlantis, as can people who "expect to be punished" (and thus carry an ongoing negative expectancy about points in the axis or in aspect with Atlantis.) That produces the sense that "the end is near" or a "it'll never work" attitude. There can be then, a "sense of doom." There's a distinctly Altantean flavor to the idea that "knowledge is power"...

Then there is that "misuse" area to consider. Misuse of knowledge and information. Thus: breaches of confidentiality and protection of what is private and personal. We see Atlantis in "insider trader scandals" and, heavens, the Clinton presidency has been a graduate seminar in Atlantean themes! In my research on the brain, Atlantis shows as "invasion" (of cells) but also as a frontal lobe issue-- where one identifies who they are and appropriately handles the personalization of subjective experience and awareness. It helps you to know what is "private" and not to be shared with "just anybody." (So you can guess what a strong Neptune or Pluto might do to this!)

We see Atlantis too in some of those "I'm working off my karma" (ie., I've been bad and have to "pay" or expiate) statements. Sometimes Atlantis combines with poor self-esteem to further lower the sense of worth; sometimes this isn't conscious... and it needs to be! A person can have "an ancient but nebulous sense of having been or done something Bad" and it can be important to consider how this relates to the current life experience.

Through Atlantis, a person knows about "invasion of privacy" and betrayal (through the revealing of private information--or at least, information that wasn't intended for general distribution.) So, if you "tell your business on the street" or guard every item of it-- your Atlantis explains why! "Confession" is an Atlantean theme. How does the Atlantis in your chart show what or/and why you do or don't want people to "know everything" about you? (And how do you have to be aware of this as you do other people's charts with the detailed information provided by asteroids?)

So Atlantis has an ethical edge; it shows whether one can be trusted with confidentiality and whether they have respect for what is private. Atlantis is VERY "New Age"-- interest in crystals (and geometic shapes) can be an Atlantis thing-- as can feeling as though you "know things" that you don't have any idea how you know them. Have you ever been with someone who seemed to "look right through you" and know all about you?

That was Atlantis in action. Bermuda Triangle? Atlantis! ----- So: Can you see why a Hopi-Odysseus would be part of a Trail of Tears configuration, and how an Atlantis-Odysseus would be a journey across water (or an estrangement perceived as a punishment)? ----- While I tend to think that the entire chart reflects the amalgam of experience that is sometimes called "Past Lives," points like Hopi and Atlantis create openings in consultation to discuss historical sensitivity. Sometimes it's easier to relate to "the religious (Hopi-Poseidon) or racially based killings" in history than it is to see the ways in which one has felt attacked in the current life. The word, attack, is a strong one, and we hear it now as adults, but it's good to remember that the chart exists too for the child (and for the memory base that was started in those young years--and is continually accessed in the present perception of the meaning of an experience.) I wish we were all together; I've had, over the years, some incredible stories about these asteroids from clients and from folks at seminars, and I'd love to be able to share them with you, but, likely, examining them in your chart will bring some amazing tales too!

Answers to the first quiz: A-3; B-2; C-5; D-6; E-9; F-7; G-8; I-10; J-4
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