Gemini 23 + Libra 28 = Mauderli, Krok, Leviathan

I also wanted to stray to a detour to something I otherwise wouldn't have gone over for a while yet since I had some time to read Lynda Hill's newsletter posts, featuring Libra 28 and its Sabian symbol to prompt this.

I chose the name Maude because it resonated with something some time before having any ideas about blogs or anything of the sort. There is no asteroid called Maude, but there is 1748 Mauderli, positioned at 23 Gemini 56'20 for me. Yes, the 23rd degree talked about on the morphing side. Coincidentally.

PHASE 84 (GEMINI 24°): CHILDREN SKATING OVER A FROZEN VILLAGE POND.
KEYNOTE: The use of inhibiting circumstances for the development of character and a transcendent approach to the environment.

Whatever Mauderli's actual meaning, which I haven't had time to look into yet aside the name connection, Rudhyar and the site's descriptions talk about growing in strength and skill through rising above the freeze of life and binding conditions for its degree here.

"He learns rhythmic freedom ("skating") by using the most binding situations ("ice") to demonstrate his transcendent capacity for pleasure and self-mobilization. // It is a mental technique inasmuch as it is through mind that man can transcend the entropy of the universal process of existence."

There may also be meaning in the fact that it's children, that you don't even need to be grown-up to manage it. Or that grown-ups rarely have the time for such things, possibly correlating more to having frozen over, water suggesting the subconscious matters in many places. Who knows?

There is a fallback in Krok coming with it for me, and most likely signifying false or twisted things even if going by meanings in languages like Swedish, where it means "hook, grapple, crook" type things. A hindrance to falsify whatever is going on in a way. Ironic as it is that a name not necessarily originally mine is pointed out by that which is false.

However, the draconic chart degree for both Mauderli and Krok is Libra 28. There are two Sabian versions below as per the site more commonly quoted and Lynda Hill's oracular book one linked to at the top.

"PHASE 208 (LIBRA 28°): A MAN BECOMING AWARE OF SPIRITUAL FORCES SURROUNDING AND ASSISTING HIM.
KEYNOTE: The realization, at any level of existence, that one is never alone, and that the "community" — visible or invisible — is sustaining one's efforts."

"A Man Alone In Deep Gloom, Unnoticed, Angels Are Coming To His Aid."

"This speaks of feelings of finally not being totally alone, awareness of spiritual forces in times of need, salvation versus depression, feeling like one's luck is about to change, changes in the "weather", helpers arriving just when they're needed, brightening influences, angels and spiritual forces for good, guardian angels. Hopefully, the message of this Venus retrograde period is one of coming out of difficulties, finding friends and helpers (or being that for others) and feeling a release of energy. "

I have 8813 Leviathan at 27o44'55 Libra natally. Whatever else, it instinctively seems a bit of a devouring monster of the deep potentially capable of eating up even whatever spiritual forces there may be. If you subscribe to theories about the demonizing of previously existing gods and goddesses and look at a vast undersea creature in relation to your Sun on the "mermaid rising from the ocean" degree, it is possible to look at it also in good light, since there is a sextile between them in any case as well. Things coming from deep down. BIG things. Possibly monstrous, but big in any case.

This ignoring it all being opposite Chiron square a 12th house Cancerian Saturn-Thetis and further complications, but let us not go there yet. I did say I wasn't going to write about any of this quite yet.

The "Mer Cortina" or Mercortina blog has its Venus on the degree and is also thus working whatever it is with Leviathan's seas of depths opposite Chiron the maverick, healer, astrologer. That a name I chose would choose to appear there likewise in the draconic chart is where we get those spiritual forces and assistance going though, and some slight smiles appearing. Names are vastly important and although I had the idea for this side earlier as noted in the first post here, time passed until it was possible to put up the blog and get started, leading among other things to that Venus.

I do find it significant that a chosen name would appear first on rising above limitations and then with aid to come with it, opposite an original Greek myth astrologer, when there was no intention whatsoever to have the astrology blogs, for one. The rest about names will follow sometime later on the other side most likely.