Eris: Sacred Feminine Force of Evolutionary Astrology is the first in-depth examination of Eris through Jeffrey Wolf Green’s Evolutionary Astrology. Usually viewed as a goddess of chaos and discord, Eris is presented here as a potent force for personal and global evolution-exposing shadows, demanding honesty, and urging the soul toward transformation.
Daniel Fiverson draws on decades of experience in the JWG tradition for this groundbreaking study. With mythic grounding, historical context, and detailed chart analysis, he explains how Eris functions in the natal chart, through transit, and within relationship dynamics. Each chapter presents Eris as an essential archetype-one that clarifies unresolved desires, illuminates the evolutionary path, and calls for acknowledging what has been denied or marginalized.
For practicing astrologers, this book expands the interpretive framework of Evolutionary Astrology and offers practical tools for working with clients. For students of the tradition, it provides a dynamic transmission of the Pluto-node method, now strengthened by Eris’s unwavering voice.
Eris does not comfort; she confronts. She is not an outsider; she has taken her seat at the table. In these pages, you will learn how to interpret her presence in the chart-and why no evolutionary reading is complete without her.
I have signed copies that you can order directly from me.
daniel@evolutionaryastrologer.net
Here is a recent review:
Eris: Sacred Feminine Force of Evolutionary Astrology by Daniel Fiverson (Wessex Astrologer, 2025) by Philip Graves
Those of you who were active in the online astrological community in the early 2000s will surely remember much chatter about and great excitement surrounding the ongoing discoveries of previously unknown minor solar system planetoids orbiting beyond the orbit of Neptune, collectively known as Trans-Neptunian Objects. Several of them had already been identified as being only a fraction smaller than Pluto, whose discovery in 1930 predated those of all other celestial bodies in this category by several decades. Was it not then only a matter of time before a discovery to rival Pluto in stature would challenge Pluto’s traditional status as the only true planet orbiting our Sun beyond the reach of Neptune?
We did not have to wait all that much longer for such a claim to be announced in the form of the discovery of Eris in January 2005. Based on astronomers’ initial estimates derived from their observations, it was suspected of being fractionally larger than Pluto. Although these estimates were downwardly revised a few years later, leading to a settled belief in its diameter being around 2326 km, compared with Pluto’s diameter of 2376.6 km, even the final estimate makes it 97.9% as large as Pluto. But in the light of the initial belief that Eris fractionally exceeded Pluto in size, the question arose among astronomers of how Pluto’s unique status as the planet beyond Neptune could possibly be maintained? In the light of the discovery of Eris, this was no longer astronomically tenable. Either Eris would have to be declared a planet too, or the previously unthinkable would be required – Pluto would need to be downgraded in status to a planetoid.
The following year, in 2006, the International Astronomical Union went ahead with downgrading Pluto in status, declaring it a ‘dwarf planet’, a new category in which Eris was also placed and to which Ceres, previously declared an asteroid, was at the same time upgraded.
Many astrologers were aghast at the perceived demotion in status of Pluto, and some have campaigned to have it reinstated as a full planet ever since. But in the meantime, others have cannily taken time to study Eris in its own right with an open mind; and in the two decades since 2005, several dedicated books and booklets on astrological Eris have been published, much as was the case with Pluto in the two decades following its discovery. Additionally, several others have given major prominence to Eris although without making it their sole focus.
In chronological order, these have included:
1. ‘Starry Messengers’ by Alison Chester-Lambert (2009) [chapter on Eris]
2. ‘Yankee Doodle Discord: A Walk with Planet Eris through USA History’ by Thomas Canfield (2010)
3. ’Eris, Goddess of Discord: Who is She, and What Does She Mean in Your Chart?’ by Thomas Canfield (2012)
4. ‘Discovering Eris: the Symbolism and Significance of a New Planetary Archetype’ by Keiron Le Grice (2012)
5. ’Inviting Eris to the Party: Our Provocateur in Unfair Affairs’ by Amy Shapiro (2014)
6. ‘The Tenth Planet: Revelations from the Astrological Eris’ by Henry Seltzer (2015)
7. ‘More Plutos’ by Sue Kientz (2015)
8. ‘Eris’ by Carol Reimer (2018)
9. ‘Brother Pluto, Sister Eris’ by Thomas Canfield (2018)
10. ‘Asteroids in Astrology 1: Centaurs, Damocloids, Scattered Disc Objects’ by Benjamin Adamah (2019) [3 densely printed pages on Eris]
11. ‘New Stars for a New Era’ by Alan Clay (2024) [long chapter on Eris]
Fiverson’s new book ‘Eris: Sacred Feminine Force of Evolutionary Astrology’, published by Wessex Astrologer, is the first title I’m aware of to purposely integrate Eris into the evolutionary astrology approach – specifically the Jeffrey Wolf Green school of evolutionary astrology.
As anyone familiar with Jeff Green’s first three books will know, two out of three of them were specifically on Pluto (Volume 1 in 1985; Volume 2 in 1997), with the one published in between the two (1988) being on Uranus. Thus, he made Pluto a major focus of his novel (in its heyday, that is – it is of course now well-established) astrological system. Is it not logical to suppose that within the context of his school of evolutionary astrology, if Pluto is that important, other large Transneptunian Objects should also be significantly powerful?
Fiverson’s book begins with several scene-setting short chapters on different topics including The Astronomy of Eris, The Mythology of Eris and The Astrology of Eris. Then there is a section exploring Eris’s cycles in relation to both Pluto and Neptune. Next, a variety of mundane astrological topics are briefly considered in terms of the influence and symbolism of Eris, before the rest of the book is focused on reading Eris in the birth chart. This section begins with a succinct look at Eris in aspect to the natal planets, but the bulk of the space is given over to multi-page delineations of Eris in each of the twelve houses, with each one supported by multiple lengthy case studies of Eris’s natal house placement in the charts of famous people. The author makes a conscientious choice not to delineate Eris through the signs, pointing out that: ‘because Eris has a 577-year orbit, everyone on the planet today was born with Eris in Aries’.
Without the case studies, the house delineations would run to about two pages each, but it is the case studies that pad this material out into a much fuller book than would otherwise be the case. For example, under Eris in the 1st house, we find just over 1½ pages of delineation followed by 12½ pages of case studies spanning three well-known public figures.
The inclusion of these lengthy worked nativities will surely add considerable interest in this book for astrologers who love to study the lives of cultural icons astrologically. Fiverson places a significant focus on the impact of Eris in the houses in each of these case studies, but as part of an integrated picture of the birth chart as a whole.
This book is an original and dedicated contribution to the growing astrological literature on Eris, and comes as recommended reading for astrologers in three categories: all who are curious to include Eris in their readings in a sensitive and balanced way or who have already read other sources on its astrological uses and want to blend in another opinion; evolutionary astrologers in particular (although not exclusively); and all who enjoy reading originally written worked case studies of famous people by sincere astrological thinkers.
