![]() ![]() ![]() Certainly, she encompasses many of the attributes assigned to the goddess Eris by the Greeks and Romans, but she also carries deeper meaning, pushing toward breakdown and thus breakthrough, just as Pluto does. I think we have to look further back to Persephone, and then back to her roots, with Ereshkigal, to get a more balanced view of the dwarf planet named Eris. The Greco-Roman myths would have us believe that Eris is merely negative chaos, but I would point out that we are explicitly told in the writings of the patriarchal Greeks and Romans that women are chaos, so I don’t feel we can look to their version of the story to get a balanced view of the subject. The energy of Eris feels to me much like the lovechild of Mars and Pluto - bellicose, delighting in conflict and chaos, but transformative and regenerative too, implying power, strategy and the ability to set actions into motion. I feel that Eris is most closely associated with Mars, for the inner planets, and Pluto, for the outer planets. ![]()
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