"The CMG's logo isn't Sagitarius [from the Latin for "arrow", sagitta] but rather is Chiron [kye-ron], the wisest of all the centaurs.  In fact, Chiron might also be the basis for the Sagitarius image rather than the other way around.  Chiron is famous in Greek mythology for his knowledge of medicine and for teaching Asclepius [god of Healing & Medicine], Achilles [the at least bi-sexual human hero of the Trojan War] and Hercules [demi-god of many adventures].  This image of Chiron is a simplified version of a bas relief in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.  The original, by American artist John Singer Sargent, is part of the permanent decorations of the museum.  It shows Achilles astride Chiron's back with an archery lession in progress.  There are twin bows as both males aim for the same point.

The image came to the California Men's Gatherings from a photograph illustraton in planner Ted Kerkelis' encyclopedia next to the entry for "myth" when the planning committee was searching for a logo to illustrate the theme of the 28th Gathering "Men, Myth & Magic" in Spring 1996.  A local West Hollywood artist was given an enlarged, lightened photocopy of the illustration and asked to create a graphic image of it.  The logo was used again Spring of '97 for "Celebrating Choice and Possibility" at least for the program booklet.  Ted had moved to San Diego and later became the moving force behind starting the third regular CMG Gathering, now called Fall.  In 1999, the logo was again used as the symbol for a specific Gathering, "Thanksgiving", Thanksgiving weekend.  Somewhere in that time span of 3 years, many of us had come to associate the image of Chiron's teaching Achilles a skill he would need to survive in the ancient world with the CMG's mission as a whole and it has since come to be the logo of the entire CMG."