Taurus 29 = Melchior, Sun/Moon midpoint (draconic Groom)

Melchior is the commonly attributed name for one of the three wise men or astrologer kings in attendance to pay homage to Jesus and give him their gifts after his birth. In Spain, Melchior is said to be the mage representing Europe, but otherwise places like Persia and Babylon are more common suggestions of origin. Midpoints are discussed at length on several sites, but the one between Sun and Moon is said to marry the attributes of the two big luminaries and be the most significant of them.

The Sabian symbol for 29 degrees Taurus is below. The description is again quoted from the Rudhyar related site.

"PHASE 60 (TAURUS 30°): A PEACOCK PARADING ON THE TERRACE OF AN OLD CASTLE.
KEYNOTE: The personal display of inherited gifts.
A great person able to display a multitude of gifts is always, at one level or another, the consummation of a long past of efforts and victories. As a great occultist once wrote: "Adepts are the flowering of their races and cultures." The peacock is the bird consecrated to Venus; in occult tradition the Promethean Spirits who gave to animal mankind the divine gift of self-conscious intelligence had come from "Venus" — which may or may not refer to the physical planet we can observe in the sky.

This is the final symbol of the fourth scene, whose Keyword has been given as "Confirmation." This peacock symbol indeed confirms the social status of the owner of the ancestral estate. It indicates a CONSUMMATION of individual efforts; and it suggests that such a consummation is hardly possible except when a line of "ancestors" — biological or spiritual — forms its base."

When I started this I had not systematically looked at my asteroid positions and had no idea of their individual Sabian symbols. That I would find this midpoint directly tied to an astrologer king after the Ascendant and draconic MC got the "Constellations of stars at night" is rather amusing, but not the last good match.

Melchior seems by nature of the stories to be tied to either where we get or give gifts. The magi are said to tie to Zoroastrianism as well. The Wikipedia article on Angra Mainyu, the evil counterpart of the "Bountiful Spirit" Ahura Mazda in Zoroastrinism, has an interesting tie-in to peacocks, despite their apparently being used as guard "dogs" against intruders in India.

"Zurvanism's principal feature is then the notion that both Ahura Mazda (MP: Ohrmuzd) and Angra Mainyu (Ahriman) were twin brothers, with the former being the epitome of good and the latter being the epitome of evil. Further, this dichotomy was by choice, that is, Angra Mainyu chose to be evil: "It is not that I cannot create anything good, but that I will not." And to prove this, he created the peacock."

Melchior brings gifts and the Sabian displays them. Whatever I know about astrology or anything theoretical otherwise is obviously built on generations of other people's work.

Peacocks are tied to the eyes on their tails, relating to Argos Panoptes with his hundred eyes. Argos guarded Io for Hera for a time before Hermes lulled him to sleep and slay him to free her. Hera then placed the eyes of her faithful servant in the tail of a peacock. Eyes see, as they say. I have Io conjunct my Sun, Hermes opposite them by one degree.

Interestingly, there is a painting of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi with a peacock prominently positioned. Peacocks (or peafowl as I'm now told), are also the national bird of India, with their tails renewing every year for a symbol of renewal. This site points out their closeness to legendary phoenixes. This one says they "prefer peace and harmony and will try to avoid commotion".

I'll endeavour to talk more about the potentials of Groom once I get around to 25 Capricorn, natally "A Nature Sprit Dancing In The Iridescent Mist Of A Waterfall," but for now shall merely be amused over a potential mate or a partner, a groom to be, matching the Sun/Moon midpoint on the karmic, nodal level. As one would possibly expect as well in an ideal case, but even so.