Jormundgand's Star: The Serpent's Heart
It’s said that the constellation of Hydra the Sea Serpent goes back far before Greek or even Babylonian civilization. It is the largest constellation in the sky, and cultures had different ideas about where it started and ended, but it generally seems to have been seen as a great sea serpent wending its way about the sky, as Jormundgand the Midgard Serpent wends its way about the ocean, creating a living boundary that protects Midgard from dangerous influences.
The Great Snake is the least humanlike of all the Norse Gods; it was born a magical serpent and has always been that way. Those who work with Jormundgand have often reported that it has no language; it communicates in imagery. Like the Snake itself, Jormundgand’s star is a force of Nature driving toward its goal like the Snake drives through the ocean waters. It confers both a hunger for intense experience and a certain cold-blooded ignoring of whatever is not that goal on the horizon. The Serpent’s Heart is a chaotic star, but it is also associated with the creative ideas that arise from fertile primal chaos and emotion. The Snake itself is hermaphroditic, and this star is associated with the pleasure organs of both sexes, and the libido.
This is a star of obsessive passion. People whose charts are strongly affected by it are drawn to intense experiences of all sorts which spark their creativity and make them feel alive. Difficulties can include ignoring the needs of others, or driving one’s self again and again toward the new interesting experience (or repeatedly back to an old one that may be self-harmful but stimulates that need for obsession) like an addiction to adrenalin. The Serpent’s Heart requires a strong will to keep focused on positive goals without overriding the boundaries of others.