The Hungry Ghost Liberates Itself

There is a figure in Buddhist cosmology called the hungry ghost. It has a vast, distended stomach and a throat so narrow that nothing can pass through. It is always reaching, as it has never felt fed. I did not know for a long time that I had organized a significant portion of my relational life around that figure. This time the story shows the same wound from a different angle, the degree itself rather than only the pattern, and the figures who have stood on that degree before. I am very touched these days because there is something underlying in the rivers of humanity right now, and it is how can we all separately, individually, reconnect to our sense of value. If you speak from the word axiom, axiom is a principle, but it also means worth. How do you make yourself worthwhile? How do you make your life worthwhile? How do you make your voice worthwhile? And now Chiron entering Taurus shows us that there is a wound in humanity because we have not spoken our values because we barely know what we need, because we have been following outside authorities for a long time to tell us this is right, this is wrong, this is the way. And there is no other thing more slippery than following the way of others. I am speaking from a place where I, in my heart, I am also going in on the way. It has been a long road. I love the way that I chose this lifetime. So to explore what value is as something deep, profound, and it may take some time. Uranus in Taurus [2018-2026]showed us that value can be erratic, that it can lead to different unexpected situations. Chiron is going to come back to the place where it was discovered and show us that it all reduces to what essential needs are. Why Now I do not believe in coincidence. I just know about resonance. What Chiron has done for humanity since 2018 until now is give us the capacity to have the courage to take space for who we are as individuals, even if we do not know yet what individuality looks like. At least it gives us the courage to take the space, to breathe it, and to expand. The way Chiron expanded to the sky and became a witness that the pain could be the healing instrument. Chiron is now entering Taurus, on the same year Uranus left, the cycle of liberation that began in 2018 is completing. The structure is going to support the healing of value, and that healing has to come from the liberation of the individual, creating the space that is needed. There is a gap right now, and it is beautiful, because each one is playing a role. Taurus is ruled by Venus, the archetype of the second house, the sign of the body, the earth, the resource, the talent, the thing you can hold in your hand. Chiron moving through Taurus for the next seven years is asking us to go deeper than the abstract idea of self worth and look honestly at how we have organized our material lives around the same wound. How have we undercharged, overgiven, worked for less than we are worth, allowed others to set the price of our time and presence? The hungry ghost pattern plays out in every transaction, in every negotiation, in every moment we say yes to a deal the body is refusing. While transiting Chiron was in my second house after my return, I was totally driven to study what money really means. Not only did I get into Bitcoin, but I have dedicated the last half a decade to understanding Austrian economics, of what value really is. Little did I know that it would open a new perspective on what it means to become free and responsible. Ludwig von Mises called it subjective value theory: the worth of a thing is never set by the market, never set by another, it is set by the individual who chooses it. Which means the hungry ghost, the one who lets others determine its worth, is not only a psychological wound. It is an economic one. Prometheus is a kind of inspirational daimon. He is a force within the psyche that has ac