Chiron and The Scape Goat

THIS MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT ASTROLOGY

TRANSMISSION OF MY LIFE.

I’ve been deep in the midst of an Archetypal Study of Chiron, the “wounded healer”. At this moment, Chiron is Conjunct the North Node in Aries. This is one of the most significant transits of this year. And perhaps this decade for the United States. (and those the United States influences)

I’ve been observing and working with Chiron for close to a decade, but never embarked upon a formal study this deeply. I’m pleased to say, so much of what I am reading in Liz Greene’s book, “Chiron in Love” is bore out in my own experience with Chiron.

However, there is one thing that has stuck out to me that I hadn’t really considered in all of my study with Chiron, and that is the wound and function of the Scapegoat.

Indeed, Chiron was the “willing” Sacrifice that bore the Sins of Prometheus, and thus, finally achieved mortality through this act.

What is the Scapegoat, and how does it point to something important for us as a collective at this time?

Let’s begin with understanding what the Scapegoat is: “The story of the Scapegoat appears in ancient Hebrew tradition and is described in Leviticus. The Hebrew word for the Scapegoat - (azazel) - was understood in later Christian thought to be the name of a demon or a fallen angel, reflecting the idea of the goat as an evil bearer of the sins of the community. The goat in Christian iconography is often associated with Satan, who is portrayed with a goat's horns and hoofs. This iconography has carried through into modern times in the association of the goat with black magic. But in the Hebrew tradition, the goat itself isn't evil. It's a holy sacrifice, a blameless creature given the job of carrying human evil so the community can begin another year free of sin and guilt. Two goats were involved in the early Hebrew ritual. One goat was sacrificed to the Lord and the second goat was driven into exile in the desert. Both were sacred, chosen creatures blessed by God to be the sacrifice. Driving the goat into the wilderness to die symbolized the cleansing of the community. The ritual took place each year as part of the ceremony of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the holiest day in the Jewish religious calendar. Yom Kippur usually occurs in late September or early October, close to the autumnal equinox when the Sun enters Libra.” -Liz Greene

We can see in this understanding, that the Scapegoat is both the Demonized, and the Willing. It is a very complex archetype in and of itself.

My interest in the Scapegoat emerged from trying to understand the psychical experience of the Adopted. As an adoptee, the unwanted child of an unmarried teenage mother, there is something very “scapegoat” like in the motif of closed adoption. We are sent into exile, carrying the sins of our parents, and their family’s. For mother’s, something in relinquishing her child, was meant to wash her sins clean, and redeem her in the eyes of God and Her community.

However, the Scapegoat isn’t only relegated to the extremes of Adoption. So many of us play the Scapegoat for our family of origin. Or have deep wounds around taking all the blame for sins that are not our own. I can't tell you how many people on my client list, carry the wound of the Scapegoat without fully being conscious of it. Somewhere down the annuls of time, parts of the Scapegoat motif became honorable, making the wound difficult to distinguish.

Even though, in almost every dysfunctional dynamic, there exists a Scapegoat. Or, one might say it’s the Sacrifice of the Scapegoat’s that renders the dysfunctional, functional again… even though that sounds twisted, our whole world works on this premise. Just take a moment to look. It seems we must have a good and bad guy for the world to work. For us to sense make our experiences.

How does this relate to our time? It was 2016 when I first began hearing the near Universal theme that people couldn’t go home for the holiday’s, or even talk to their family’s because they either voted for Trump, or vehemently opposed him. That immediately brought the Scapegoat to mind.

Trump’s election seemed to revitalize the ancient template of the Scapegoat in our collective psyche.

Though it only seems this way. When I track the pattern back, we Scapegoated Muslim people in the wake of 9/11, before that it was Black People, and before that, It was Jewish People. In essence, almost every single group has been on a carousel, taking turns in the Scapegoat role. In other places in the world, it’s us in the West that play the role of the Scapegoat.

Why I think it’s important to look back to 2016, is because I think this is a time in which we hit a critical mass of Scapegoating in the collective psyche. Each side Scapegoating the other. When we hit a critical mass of something, and it begins to consciously affect not only our personal lives but our political lives, it means that it is that is coming up to be cleared.

In Astrology, we often talk about “Ages”. The age of Taurus representing the Bull Gods of the Ancient Egyptians. Think of the Cow faced Hathor, or Isis adorned with the Horns of a Bull. Next would be the Age of Aries, The Age of the Ram, the Shofar, and the religion of the Hebrews, our first Monotheistic Doctrine. Next is the Age of Pisces, the two Fish, the Age of Christianity. (in 2016, Chiron was in Pisces, our Current Age)

Coming back to the Age of Aries, where Chiron is now. One of the Great wounds of Aries, is a wound around innocence/guilt. (Which is the Scapegoat wound) Aries is the first sign of the Zodiac, where we are imbedded with the divine spark. It is associated with the statement “I am”. It is the very essence of who we are, with no additions, no subtractions. In its essence it is innocence. In Aries we are unaffected by both societal and family conditioning. (From the Cancer Capricorn Axis that squares it). Across from Aries is Libra, the Judge. The one who hands out writs of Judgment. Guilt. Condemnation. Blame.

As I’ve been deeply contemplating the current events, and how often the wounds of Chiron work paradoxically on the inner and outer planes of our existence. They are the very mythology that informs our lives.

It is clear to me that Scapegoating is coming up to be cleared for so many different populations that have been collectively victimized by this archetype. It’s obvious that scapegoating of both the Jewish and Muslim communities is rampant right now. It couldn’t be any more clear that if this wound isn’t addressed, we are assuring some kind of mutual external, and internal destruction. In addition, Chiron was in Aries when the United States was established. So there is the Scapegoating that happened at the hands of Early American Settlers that can also be addressed and healed, should we be keen to take this opportunity.

There is also the Scapegoating that happens in our familial and community systems. The more I delve into the wound of Scapegoating, the more I see how prevalent, or rather, malevolent, this wound really is. How many of us, especially in the healing community, don’t realize how much of our pain stems from being Scapegoated at the hands of narcissistic parents, or through being raised by a Scapegoat.

Chiron’s conjunction to the North Node makes it clear that we must remove the Karmic debris of these wounds if we want to evolve. However, as always, with Chiron, this is internal work. It’s not something that can be cleared on a collective level. We must recognize it, and address it within ourselves first. When enough of us create a productive relationship with our inner Scapegoat, the energy will begin to shift in the collective.

This transmission is very long. In a subsequent video, I will dive deeply into the nuances of the Scapegoat, and how we can meet the Scapegoat within us. This has been such a gorgeous archetype to come into a healthy relationship with inside myself. And will be the focus of some deep teaching in the coming months as we see how important it is to do this work for our own evolution.

I cannot even begin to express the importance of embarking on this work. It will affect Global Events.

Art Emmanuel Palanco

Some distinctions and considerations when working with the Scapegoat.

One of the things that’s important to distinguish inside the archetype of the Scapegoat is

Blame for unearned sins vs responsibility for wrongs.

If someone has wronged another, and they point that out, it is not scapegoating.

Scapegoating comes from being persecuted for crimes we did not commit. Whether we are being persecuted because a group we belong to committed a sin, or simply because we are the family scapegoat… scapegoating is the phenomenon of - projection of misplaced blame with the intention of enrolling others in that blame. -

We have to be careful of assigning the scapegoating function to people who are speaking from genuine hurt or trauma at the hands of someone else. That is not scapegoating. It’s truth telling.

And of course, people are capable of both.

Another shadow of the scapegoat, is feeling constantly scapegoated and victimized when scapegoating isn’t active. One might call this a persecution wound/complex. We can get caught in victim cycles if we aren’t in right relationship to the scapegoat.

All nuances that are worth mentioning….

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THE SCAPEGOAT’s RELATIONSHIP TO POWER

I am continuing my own exploration around the scapegoat. When I "sit with" an energy, or a frequency, I really let it work me. It stays on the dashboard of my awareness for quite some time, and little pieces drop in one by one as my awareness and intimacy with the frequency expands.

I'd love to invite you all into this inquiry as well. Into the ways the archetype of the Scapegoat is active in your life.

For me; There are places I've both participated in scapegoating, and been the object of others scapegoating me.

One of the things Chiron Points to, is not just the pain we feel, but all of the maladaptive coping skills that have come in to cover the pain. So when he is active in the Sky, especially conjunct the North Node, he gives us the opportunity to release these maladaptive traits that are standing in the way of our true destiny.

This Chiron, North Node, Scapegoat Archetype is tricky one, full of booby traps, just waiting to be revealed, met, felt, loved and ultimately integrated.

I've been looking at how, me as a TRUE Scorpio, has had so much POWER projected onto me. Bitchiness, Witchiness, and Meanness, that I am a cruel dark mistress, out to ravish and smother, the object projecting this idea onto me. I don’t say this as a victim statement. But rather, as a fact. This is an experience I’ve had. Especially in relationship with my spouse. I wasn’t Eve, but Lilith. And there was a constant sense that I was out to undermine him. Which always schocked me. Because as a Scorpio, I am extremely loyal, and there was no evidence for it. It was something that lived in him.

Now, out this experience, trying to shift those projections….I developed some really gnarly maladaptive coping skills. I have tried to make myself so small, and weak, to show others I am not a threat. I’ve tried to be nice, but in a way it’s not true, it’s an affect to disarm people. Because I unconsciously assumed that the scapegoaters were threatened by my potency and truth telling.

I’ve also found places of irreconcilable guilt. Places that I feel guilty when good things happen for me. Or when I'm successful. These are real shadows of the scapegoat.

Another place is that dealing with projections, is my father consistently sent me the message that I was “too much”. And he tried to enroll others in that idea with jokes about it. (I love my Dad, and I’m not sure if he did this consciously to hurt me, but it did DEEPLY wound me around an idea of being ANNOYING) This is akin to scapegoating. Perhaps not exactly scapegoating, but in the realm. That has left me feeling guilty when I need help or support. I don’t want to be too needy, too much, or put anyone else out of their way to help and tend to me.

After reading the transmission below, I’d love to hear from some of you, if you recognize

Read on... (I will post a long form video at some point)

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Chiron is now sitting on the Moon’s Nodes, which always speaks to issues of the collective, and how we are evolving together. Right now, the Nodes are across the Aries/Libra Axis.

One way we can look at this axis is - Libra is the Judge, while Aries is the essence of “I Am”. Or we can see Aries as “Self” (I am and how “I am” asserts the essence of itself in the world) and Libra as “other” or “the one who sits across from me”. And how we negotiate in relationship between self and other.

One of the shadows of Libra is codependency and people pleasing because of it’s bent towards finding harmony. In Hellenistic Astrology, Libra in its correspondence to the seventh house, Is “the house of open enemies”.

Psychologically, Libra also rules the act of projection. (I am not trying to write a tome today, so I will point you towards a video I did on the nodes if you’d like to learn more about this Axis). One of the things I discussed in this video is the danger of projection, and an increase in the energy of “canceling” coming through during this nodal transit. Canceling is essentially the act of projecting psychological or literal annihilation onto someone or something else. It is an energy of total negation. (a Death Mother energy)

Likewise, The psychological act of projection is how scapegoating works. A community, family, or society, must project an outsized amount of sin, evil, violence, illness, etc, onto the scapegoat for it to be a true case of scapegoating. In some ways, the energy of canceling and scapegoating are very similar.

I’ve been sitting with the nuance between these two. And now that Chiron is so close to the nodes, one of the things I’m tuning into is POWER.

Part of what is involved in Scapegoating is also an almost “magical” type of POWER projected onto the scapegoat.

For instance, in the case of the Witch Burnings of old, it would be projected onto the witch that she had the power to make an entire village sick.

In other words, the Scapegoat has the power to take down all of society. We believe one person, or one relatively small group, has the power to destabilize, or annihilate our entire way of life.

So with canceling, we are projecting a desire to annihilate the object of our ire… think back to Harvey Weinstein. But with the Collective Scapegoat, we are projecting the POWER to Annihilate onto them.

It’s a small, yet meaningful distinction.

From a personal perspective, think of all of the maladaptive coping mechanisms that would come out of having the “power to annihilate” projected onto us? The idea that our very being is dangerous. If this was magical power, perhaps we’d even begin to fear ourselves because our “power to destroy” is out of our control. This might implant some kind of irreconcilable guilt. Or the need to be very small and powerless. And prove that we are not powerful, but rather weak. “Look, I couldn’t possibly be powerful enough to be that destructive”. This feels insidious on a personal psychic level.

One of the reasons I believe we’ve seen such a rise in scapegoating is surprisingly the decline in spirituality. We used to hold God responsible for our calamities. If a storm wiped out the village, it was a message from God. With the removal of spiritual context for our seeming “bad luck”, the target of responsibility has moved from God’s hand, onto the Scapegoat.

While this isn’t a rule across the board. We can certainly find exceptions to it. Especially considering the scapegoat grew out a spiritual tenet in Ancient Greece and is interwoven in so much of our mythology, and our dogmatic religious traditions. So we must remember that there is (perhaps) an exalted form of the Scapegoat, where it serves a sacred function for society. And then there is this non-productive form of scapegoating which serves to justify the annihilation of “evil” populations. In essence, this is a co-opted form of scapegoating.

The reason I put the word “perhaps” in front of “exalted”, is that scapegoating is an integral part of our psychic mythological template. That’s why it is so effective. Because our psyche recognizes these narrative grooves. In fact, we often get off on scapegoating when it’s unconscious.

In essence, Jesus is the most famous scapegoat. Killed and hung on the cross to absorb all of our sins…. However, just because this sacrifice of the “sin bearer” is a common, historical, mythological motif, doesn’t necessarily mean it needs to come with us as we evolve.

This is what I am sitting with… what is the exalted form of the scapegoat, and is it necessary that we have one from a Karmic, spiritual perspective? What is its spiritual function? I am quite clear that we can do without the witch-hunt-esque scapegoating that serves to justify the annihilation of literal people. What is less clear, is if this spiritual principle around scapegoating, which looks something like taking on the karmic debt of others, is still relevant given our access to consciousness. How does it serve evolution? How does it fit into natural law? I am deep in "wondering" about these things.

What I want to leave you with now is the exalted form of the Aries/Libra Axis…

“The essence of me, sees and relates to the essence of you”

Instead of relating to each other through our projections, the most evolved from of Aries/Libra seeks to meet and relate to the deep humanity in others, as we open to allowing our deep humanity to be known. It’s being in relationship to each other without masks, roles, projected labels and archetypes, and ideologies.

It’s bringing the “I am” (with no additions and no subtractions) forward and relating to other people as “they are”. That is the evolutionary ask right now. How could we transform our own relationships through meeting people in their messy, complex, humanity, vs all of our projections?