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Es wird ihm gewährt. Und so steigt er von der unsterblichen zu sterblichen Form herab und wird von seinem Leiden befreit. Der Mythos legt nahe, dass es bei Chirons Heilung nicht darum geht, etwas zu "reparieren", sondern darum, sich von der unrealistischen Vorstellung zu verabschieden, dass wir göttergleich sind und alles unter Kontrolle haben.
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Since Pluto entered Sagittarius, we have been forced to confront what threatens our physical and psychological survival in the spheres of morality, religious beliefs, spiritual aspirations, law, our concepts of right and wrong, and our definitions of the "highest good". So far, we have run the gamut from the ridiculous to the sublime: from the pantomime of Monica Lewinsky and the impeachment of the US President to whether we intervene in the bloodshed in Kosovo or Sierra Leone, and whether the death penalty is any kind of solution at all to the problem of human destructiveness. We have been told by the Vatican in no uncertain terms that consulting an astrologer or a psychoanalyst constitutes a sin as serious as contraception. We are being faced with a barrage of moral questions which are not as simple to answer as they might once have seemed. Behind these moral questions are deeper spiritual questions: What God do we, as a collective and as individuals, believe in? Do we believe in anything at all any longer? Slowly but inexorably, Pluto reveals to us our dangerous religious blindness, our naivety, our infantile belief in the "goodness" of authority and the moral rightness of the legal and spiritual systems we have created, and our desperate allegiance to political and spiritual gurus who promise quick fixes and an over-the-counter antidote to the condition of being human. Pluto in Sagittarius also raises issues of the foreigner and what is foreign, forcing us to recognise that, for some, survival depends on crossing the borders - physical, mental, emotional, spiritual - to find a new life, while for others, survival depends on keeping the borders closed.
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