Lynn Hayes on the new dwarf planets

It's becoming more and more clear to me that the newly tripartite nature of Pluto embodies the symbolism of this [death-rebirth] process: Eris creates the discord and strife that begins the death of the ego under Pluto, and Ceres presides over our emergence from the underworld and the regeneration of our lives.

When I read this, I felt a sudden quietness and awe take over me, like reading a mathematical formula that puts it all together. Perhaps there is a deeper reason for the IAU's decision to classify Eris, Pluto and Ceres as dwarf planets.

She writes in an earlier post:

... perhaps as we become more attuned to the transformational process[,] the process itself is becoming more specific as it divides between Eris (the strife and discord that creates the endings), Pluto (going into the underworld of endings and grief), and Ceres (the process of regeneration).

At the beginning of a Pluto transit, there is a sense of "discord and strife" as our ego fights against its own destruction. It is then dragged down into the underworld, where we encounter the Shadow elements of our psyche. Ceres mourns the loss of our virgin self (Persephone, untarnished until she is abducted by Hades). We then re-emerge, newly aware of that which we had hidden from ourselves, having undergone a shamanic initiation into our own deepest parts. The final product is then a sense of empowerment and authenticity, as we have integrated previously dis-owned parts of ourselves, aspects of our being that we had to hide (because society or our parents did not approve of them) or aspects that were just so biological or instinctual that we just did not feel safe acknowledging them in the light of day.

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