Asteroid Merlin is named after the wizard of Authurian Legend. That story is fictional and has become more and more removed from the historical Merlin over the years. The historical Merlin was born about AD 540 somewhere around northern Wales and southern Scotland, and his name was Myrddin Wyllt.
He was the advisor to the pagan king Gwenddoleu ap Ceidio. In AD 573 Myrddin watched his king being slaughtered, along with all his troops at the hands of the Christian king Riderch I in the Battle of Arfderydd (modern day Arthuret).
From the poems in the The Black Book of Carmarthen (AD 1250) we learn that the experience of witnessing the devastating defeat of his side in this battle, the death of his king who he advised, sent Myrddin mad. Consumed by guilt, he fled into the Caledonian Forest of Scotland, to fend for himself where his only friends were the animals.
From his madness and isolation, Myrddin developed the ability to prophesy, even foretelling his own death by “falling, stabbing, and drowning“. This was fulfilled when a gang of jeering shepherds drove him off a cliff, where he was impaled on a stake left by fishermen, and died with his head below water [1]. Like other druids, Myrddin used astrology to assist in his role as advisor and prophet. “Jupiter shall abandon its preordained paths, and Venus desert its appointed circuits. The malice of the planet Saturn will pour down like rain, killing mortal men as though with a curved sickle. The twelve mansions of the stars will weep to see their inmates transgress so” [2].
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Asteroid Merlin Astrology
Asteroid Merlin should therefore represent the suffering of some personal disaster which leads altered states of consciousness through drugs and or psychotic breaks. Feelings of guilt for being responsible for the disaster, not advising correctly, not foreseeing what was to come. Looking for answers and discovering truths in occult knowledge, and perfecting the skills to then master the role of advisor and prophet through some medium such as Tarot, astrology or clairvoyance.
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3. In “additional asteroids or hypothetical planets”, add 2598.
References
1. Stobo Kirk: a guide to the building and its history. Seymour, Camilla & Randall, John. 2007, p.9.
2. dreamscape.com – Merlin’s Prophesies
Hi Marina!
I have this aspects:
Merlin is on my 9th house, in pisces. on 10°10´. It conjuncts my Vesta. It squares my moon and my saturn (5th/6th)on sagg.
It trines my vertex and sextiles my ceres (hope, it does something with all the opposition and quadrates ceres faces regarding the hole in my soul – I guess- opposes those forces on my 8th house -lillith, chiron and Part of Fortune- and quadrates those presences on my 5th house, at the beginning of it, in my 5th house).
Though a very 8th house person, I don´t recall having an episode where I regret not advising, and seeing destruction. Though, I always feel that lack of communication might end in a disgrace, so I always look for communication, though I don´t find so much resonance.
But I will still reflect. I read Vesta is hard for me to “down load” because it is in the 9th house and in pisces. Would that be the case also with Merlin, in my case?
Now, that I remembered, I had a brother -a pisces- and he died very young. I had this guilt feeling deep inside, because one day he was playing with one of my toys, and he crashed it. As a chirotic being, I started to cry, and thought it was very unfair because it was my only entertainment, while they were swimming and having fun. And my violent father beated him so bad (I don´t cry anymore by remembering that day, but I felt so guilty, that I never said a word again to my father… so I had to suffer him, my brother, and to place limits to him… Oh!).
He died at 27, we was an alcoholic, in the middle of having to companies, a divorce going on, a 2 year old son and 2 girlfriends… too much for him!
Maybe!
Rín.
Oh! Now the picture has widened. In my solar return chart, my north node is in sag. 2nd house, opposing my Merlin on the 9th house. I should just reflect on this. Thanks! Rín.