Thanks for your thoughtful write-up! This different parentage apparently did not carry with it immortality, however, and Pholus died just as the other centaurs. The surface composition of Pholus has been estimated from its reflectance spectrum using two spatially segregated components: dark amorphous carbon and an intimate mixture of water ice, methanol ice, olivine grains, and complex organic compounds (tholins).

Heracles and Pholus crossed paths while the former was attempting to capture the Erymanthian Boar. I also find that it’s linked with the uncorking of multigenerational karma (the wine is passed down 3 generations) along with the healing of ancestral wounds. I say that because Chiron is far more Jupiter/Saturn in his expression, but Pholus is exceedingly Martian, even though he never touches Mars’ orbit. Pholus was mortally wounded by an unexpected coincidence, being punctured by a poised arrow he was removing from a Centaur. The differing accounts vary in details, but each story contains the following elements: Heracles visited his cave sometime before or after the completion of the capture of the Erymanthian Boar. In most accounts, Chiron surrendered his immortality to be free from the agony of the poison when it came to helping Hercules free Prometheus. Heracles convinced him to open it, and the smell attracted the other centaurs. In the Divine Comedy Pholus is found with the other centaurs patrolling the banks of the river Phlegethon in the seventh circle of Hell. He is a visionary, and can inspire you if he hits the right point; Hit the wrong one, and you lose yourself to his altered states. Hercules enjoying their special punch, they attacked him. Learn how your comment data is processed. Unlike Chiron, Pholus has shown no signs of cometary activity. The differing accounts vary in details, but each story contains the following elements: Herakles visited his cave sometime before or after the completion of his fourth Labor, the capture of the Erymanthian Boar. When Herakles drank from a jar of wine in the possession of Pholus, the neighboring centaurs smelled its fragrant odor and, driven characteristically mad, charged into the cave. The majority were slain by Herakles, and the rest were chased to another location (in the Bibliotheca, Cape Meleia) where the peaceful centaur Chiron was accidentally wounded by the arrows of Herakles which were soaked in the venomous blood of the Lernaean Hydra. While this pursuit and second combat was occurring, Pholus, back in his cave, accidentally wounded himself with one of the venomous arrows while he was either marveling at how such a small thing could kill a centaur or preparing the corpses for burial. Heracles opened it anyway and attracted other centaurs into the cave . He is great for releasing pent-up pain and aggression through transit.

Pholus has not come within one astronomical unit of a planet since 764 BC, and will not until 5290.
Well, right at the beginning, as the usual aphorism goes. Pholus represents a catalyst- Something small that grows to have a huge effect and takes on a life of its own. Tags: 5145 Pholus, Beginning, Catalyst, Heracles, Pholus astrology, […] He brings the energy of little actions that have enormous consequences. Heracles and Pholus, black-figured hydria, 520–510 BCE, Louvre (MNE 940). It […]. Pholus gave in and opened the wine and the sweet scent attracted many wild centaurs. When Heracles discovered a cask of wine he complained about his host's avarice and demanded some of it. But then Pholus accidentally dropped the arrow wounding his foot, the poison killing him instantly. On the way there, Herakles visited Pholus ("caveman"), a kind and hospitable centaur and old friend. They went at him with torn up trees, big boulders, torches, and axes.

Edmund Hillary, the first human (along with Tenzing Norgay) to climb to the summit of Mount Everest and then come back safely, has Heracles semisextile Nessus and Talos, undecimal Chiron, quintile Pallas, square Neptune and Damocles, tredecile Saturn, trine Venus, and quincunx Pholus. Consequently, his writings in places exhibit a conflation of details as a result of his typical inaccuracy.
Their mother, a big storm cloud, poured down a gray fog like pea soup that blinded Hercules and made the cave

Pholos picked up one of the poisoned arrows and admired the fact that such a small weapon should be capable of slaying so many centaurs. Hercules' fourth labour—by some counts, for there is no single definitive telling—was to capture the Ermanthian Boar. Your email address will not be published. The centaurs are an astronomical classification somewhere between the comets and the asteroids. He is easy to overlook, but he is arguably the most active centaur, even more than Chiron. Where does Pholus affect your life? Pholus, like Chiron, was civilized, and indeed in art sometimes shared the "human-centaur" form in which Chiron was usually depicted (that is, he was a man from head to toe, but with the center and hindparts of a horse attached to his buttocks). He also went with Heracles to These actions often have fatal consequences in the sense that the life of the person in question is changed forever." Heracles and Pholus, black-figured hydria, 520–510 BCE, Louvre (MNE 940). In the Divine Comedy poem Inferno, Pholus is found with the other centaurs patrolling the banks of the river Phlegethon in the seventh circle of Hell.

When Pholus opened up the wine for Heracles (because he was being a whiny primadonna, as he was want to do), he gave away something that was communal for the entire centaur tribe, and as we have already seen it had disastrous effects on them. Although Pholus entertained his guest, he gave him nothing to drink. Heracles opened the wine jar anyway, unleashing the wrath of the centaurs. Pholus' orbit around the Sun lies between the orbits of Saturn and Neptune. He died quickly as a result of the poison’s outrageous virulence and was found by Heracles. Its orbital period is 90.9 years (highly elliptical orbit). Iolaus, ancient Greek hero, the nephew, charioteer, and assistant of Heracles. 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, 2007–2008 Israel–Gaza conflict/merger-proposal, Prise de Jérusalem par Hérode le Grand.jpg, https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Pholus_(mythology)?oldid=205904.

Side B: Battle of Heracles and the Centaurs (not shown). Heracles and Pholus crossed paths while the former was attempting to capture the Erymanthian Boar. Pholus appears to repeatedly catapult us into unexpected and extreme situations in which we feel unable to cope and which force us to outgrow old patterns. Pholus had only one jar of wine, a gift from Dionysus to all the centaurs on Mount Erymanthos. The Myth– In Greek mythology, Pholus was a wise centaur and friend of Heracles who lived in a cave on or near Mount Pelion. Hercules tried to fend them off, killing many with poisoned arrows and driving others away.

Pholus, is the other closest to Chiron, but not immortal, who was the guardian of the “ancestral wine” and Nessus, a mere mortal, but who is indirectly responsable for Hercules death. The minor planet orbits the Sun at a distance of 8.7–32.0 AU once every 91 years and 12 months (33,601 days). ", https://www.astro.com/wiki/astrowiki-en/index.php?title=Pholus&oldid=8794. Pholus was kind and fed Heracles plenty of meat. The Astronomy– 5145 Pholus is an eccentric centaur in the outer Solar System, approximately 100 to 200 kilometers in diameter, that crosses the orbit of both Saturn and Neptune. I have Pholus Rx exactly conjunct my AC at 17 degrees Taurus and everything you shared resonates. While this pursuit and second combat was occurring, Pholus, back in his cave, accidentally wounded himself with one of the venomous arrows while he was either marveling at how such a small thing could kill a centaur (Bibliotheca) or preparing the corpses for burial (Diodoros).