Asteroids in Astrology 2 [Master List]
Here I will be going over a few more asteroids.
This time I will include their mythology, and also how to identify them in a birth chart.
They are separated by category but not alphabetically.
Love Asteroids -
Eros [433]
Eros is the god of love and erotic desire, a son of Aphrodite by war god Ares, from whom he derives his bow and arrows, piercing both gods and mortals with divine passion. Winged to ensure a swift response, he is one of the erotes, minor gods of Aphrodite’s retinue, along with Anteros [“Love Returned”], Himeros [“Impetuous Love”] and Pothos [“Desire or Longing”]. In ancient Greece, statues of Eros were placed in the gymnasium, and he was acknowledged as the special patron of homosexual relationships. Eros’ most well-known story involves his union with Psyche (see Psyche for details).
Astrologically, Eros represents carnal desire, that which “turns you on”, erotic passion and its fulfillment, and is frequently active in the charts of homosexuals. It is also anything one “has a passion for”, the thing above all else that one is drawn to and desires, what gives life meaning, as well as resonating to heath issues involving the genitals or heart.
Amor [1221]
Asteroid Amor is the Roman god of love; the asteroid represents compassion, empathy and loving kindness. As astrologer Demetra George notes, Amor represents a state of loving rather than falling in love. Amor can represent love of anything dear to the heart; George suggests that the archetype functions as the intermediary between the sensual love of Venus and the higher, platonic love of Neptune. Astrologer Zane B. Stein relates Amor to idealized love and related feelings. This would be warmth and love as one believes it should be; a person with a strongly placed Amor believes in the notion of "true love" and searches for the "soul mate". Martha Lang-Wescott notes that the sign, house and aspect pattern associated with Amor demonstrates conditions that are put on "unconditional giving and loving"; therefore the natal placement can show what keeps us from living up to our own ideals and expectations of what love really is. It can also symbolize what we substitute for love, what were our role models for love and our experience and examples of true, perfect and ideal love.
The natal house Amor occupies is where the person believes they will be able to express this highest form of love. Since the asteroid represents an ideal, if it is afflicted the person can feel incapable of achieving his ideal love or unworthy of being given love. One may even do self-sabotage in order to avoid experiencing love up close and real, since unconditional love does not easily exist within a framework of control and predictability. Zane suggests that planet in square or opposition to Amor can represent something else desirable that is preferred to love. One person's Amor conjunct a planet in another's chart brings feeling of love, however if that person also has a natal planet in hard aspect to Amor, it conflicts with the other person's chart and the result is a volatile state of love/hate.
Amor in opposition to planets or other love asteroids can indicate a situation where opposites attract; the loved one functions as a devil's advocate or as an expression of one's own shadow. Hard aspects in general tends to link the native up with people whose concept of love and sharing is very different from their own, resulting in various distortions of the impulse to love such as withholding, manipulating, caretaking, domination-submission scenarios etc.
Amor retrograde could intensify perfectionist conditions placed on the attainment of love. Correspondingly, the individual can be overly idealistic, controlling or attach a list of entitlements to their definition of love; conversely they may be judgmental of humanity at large, or feel so intrinsically unlovable that they never reach out to anyone in love. They might again attract those who cannot and will not return their affections in a normal way. To the degree that the concept of love has been distorted (e.g. associated essentially with a certain standard of perfection, pain or sexual dysfunction,) will be the degree to which one attracts those who are unsuitable and even damaging to them.
Aphrodite [1388]
The Greek goddess of love, beauty and pleasure, Aphrodite was born of the blood and semen from her great-grandfather Cronos’ severed genitals, when they fell into the sea. Aphrodite emerged from the sea-foam fully grown, and floated ashore on a scallop shell. Suspicious and jealous of her powers of attraction, Zeus married her to the lame smith Hephaistos, but Aphrodite was conspicuously unfaithful, with more than a dozen lovers attributed to her in various myths, including the gods Ares, Poseidon, Hermes, Dionysos, and the mortals Adonis and Anchises. Through Aeneas, her son with Anchises, she is the progenitress of the Roman people. She was known as vain, fickle, ill-tempered, and easily duped.
Astrologically, Aphrodite shares many attributes with the planet Venus, named for her Roman counterpart, but the relationships she engenders are more likely to be flirtations or short affairs, not lasting or permanent unions. Aphrodite represents fleeting passion, flirtation, illicit affairs; vanity, fickleness, capriciousness or changeability; vacillation and indecisiveness, and conceit.
Union [1585]
This asteroid represents divine unions only. This would mean in parent/child synastry or spouse synastry. Also prominant in the charts of twins. These are the people that you are fated to meet. Mostly important in synastry but in a natal chart can also show you where you're likely to come together with others. Sometimes even the sun signs will correlate.
Valentine [447]
Valentine is the kind of sacrificial love in which the lover will throw himself in front of the bus to protect his beloved. It is not a sexual asteroid, per se. It is an asteroid of purelove. Valentine thinks of his beloved before himself. It represents selflessness in love. In synastry it will be prominant in relationships where you serve eachother endlessly or one partner serves the other.
Sappho [80]
Sappho was a famed poet of ancient Greece, from the isle of Lesbos.
Her poems portray a broad spectrum of the human sexual experience, but she has become best remembered for her championship of female homosexual relations. Her birthplace, Lesbos, gave its name to our term “lesbian”, a female homosexual.
Astrologically, Sappho relates to poetic or artistic ability; graceful self-expression; friendship, especially between members of the same gender; and same-sex attraction, for men as well as women.
Cupido [763]
Asteroid Cupido: In Greek myth, Cupid is the son of Venus; his job was to "wound" the unwary with his arrows of love; awaken a consuming affection directed towards a particular object of desire. In one well-known tale, Cupid becomes entangled with Psyche, a beautiful king's daughter who has roused the jealousy of Venus; the tale is actually an allegory about how the soul obtains a true understanding of love by undergoing much suffering and hard experience.
In astrology, the asteroid Cupido by itself would perhaps be associated with the trials of love associated with the initial enthrallment and acts of seduction performed in order to obtain the love object, not the sexual act itself. Examples of an overactive Cupido can include crushes, cultivating romance for the sake of the game or putting the object of desire up on a pedestal. In the dark sense, romantic enthrallment can originate out of a love for the chase, only to abandon the prey once it is caught. Asteroid Cupido is not to be confused with Alfred Witt's Uranian body Cupido, which is associated more with family, marriage, tantra and art.
The natal sign and house Cupido is in would indicate the style, tone and preferred arena of action for an individual's romantic powers; aspects made to Cupido would pertain to the circumstances, positive or negative, under which one would be drawn into a dance of courtship with the object of love. Hard planetary aspects made to Cupido can relate either to that quality which particularly excites us in generating attraction or the barriers and obstacles we erect between ourselves and the object of desire. The latter could include actual physical obligations, hang-ups, fears, perfectionism, and a need for control or becoming enthralled with someone who is patently unobtainable. Or we may be essentially unobtainable ourselves, wrapped in a narcissic contemplation of the self. A strong Cupido in positive aspect to any of the planets would make one highly desirable to others in the ways expressed by the planet being aspected. For example, a native with a sixth house Cupido conjunct Venus in Capricorn and both in trine to a second house Saturn in Virgo could present as seductively overwhelming to someone turned on by financially stable, enterprising and fatherly authority figures.
Sexual Asteroids
Adonis [2101]
In Roman mythology, Adonis was the lover of Venus. A beautiful, young man, he was admired and sought-after by many, but only Venus was lucky enough to take his fancy.
In astrology, Adonis is one of the many thousands of minor asteroids, but in a woman’s chart, it can reveal a lot about the kind of man she finds attractive or thinks would be an ideal lover for her.
If you find yourself constantly attracted to the same sort of men over and over, you might like to take a peek at where Adonis is in your chart. I wasn’t at all suprised to find it was exactly conjunct my Venus in Scorpio, as I’ve always had a thing for Scorpio men and can usually spot them a mile off.
Adonis, in a man or woman's chart, can represent a kind of allure, fascination and inspiration when it falls on the Ascendant. Other people 'see' them as a kind of lovely wondrous being that they just might fall for. This is true of both sexes.
Casanova [7328]
This is the misuses of Charisma, Sexual Charisma and Charming, Negative Spells, and the Dark Magician, Musician or Sorcerer who uses their sexuality to satisfy their own sexual addictions. On its darkest sides its the issues of power and control over other people, especially women and especially innocent or young women.
The asteroid of the smooth communicator with all the answers, that others fall for because they have addictions to love, are being tricked by the beauty and charms of Venus or Mars. Casanovas can be male or female and they know exactly what to say to get even the most aware or innocent person to fall in love with them.
Its a gift and a curse to have such powers over people and I have seen many in positions of leadership in spiritual circles.The victim perpetrator archetype is very powerful in this asteroid and those who fear boundaries will always attract these types or those who are in love with love but not its real responsibilities of what needs to occur in being more discerning. The shadow sides are the misuses of sex as the master demon humans of seduction, the spiritual leader who sleeps with any of the women in his circle (transference issues).
Luck Asteroids
Atira [163693]
Atira is the name of the earth goddess in the Native American Pawnee tribal culture. She was the wife of Tirawa, the creator; manifestation god. Her earthly manifestation is corn, which symbolizes the life that Mother Earth gives.
She signifies money and the foundation of stable wealth. Based on her mythology and the earthly manifestation of corn, it symbolizes and wealth deeply rooted or wealth seen as a platform or foundation of fruits of labor. Atira tends to be prominently placed in the charts of extremely wealthy people.
The asteroid Atira founding chart has her North Node at 13 Cancer 57, conjunct the North Node of asteroid Vesta. The keynote for the Sabian Symbol for this degree is “Fulfillment in transcending and changeless wisdom. Atira seems to manifest this goal through physical resources and their use, symbolized by corn and all that it means: food, wealth, community, sacrifice.
Fortuna [19]
Asteroid Fortuna 19 is the Roman Goddess of luck, good and bad! She represents the tide turning for or against you according to life’s whims. Her father is not surprisingly believed to be Jupiter, who is also associated with gambling and trusting in fate. For the Romans, chance events and Fortuna were connected with Virtue, so that immoral individuals would invite bad fortune and virtuous persons would be rewarded with good fortune. Therefore Fortuna is also a goddess of fate and karma.
Fortuna is obviously associated with the wheel of fortune card in the tarot and the expression “what goes round comes round”. So she reminds us that when we are at our lowest the only way is up, by the same token, she also reminds us to enjoy the peaks in our lives because summer is not eternal John Russell Hind discovered Fortuna on 22nd August 1852. The time/place is an approximation to get the moon position; we know he worked in Greenwich.
The Arabic part of Fortune is not quite the same meaning in our chart as Fortuna. The POF in our chart gives us some idea what we need to do to make our soul happy so that the doors of opportunity open for us. Fortuna differs in that it tells us about our approach to luck. The house we find it in may be where we feel luckiest depending on how it Fortuna is aspected. If we find Fortuna squaring another planet this could be where we feel shortchanged.
If we find Fortuna conjunct Saturn, we may be very rigid in our views about our destiny, we may think it is set in stone and we have no free will at all. We will feel blessed if we have lucky stars and an easy chart overall. But what if we feel doomed by a square from Pluto? In my opinion, Fortuna on Venus does not guarantee luck in love or with cash either, but you should certainly feel lucky which in turn is more likely to attract to you that Venusian flavoured fortune.
In synastry your partners Fortuna conjunct your Sun or AC will make them feel like a lucky star to you. That just being in their presence brings you luck. Their Saturn on your Fortuna on the other hand may feel like they are a curse more than a blessing, or that they are dishing out some heavy karma back at you.
It may be useful to see how transits affect this little asteroid. I wouldn’t put it on the same level as the Part Of Fortune, but if you do happen to have Asteroid Fortuna strongly placed in your chart then you might feel your life is in the hands of fate and that you can back peddle a little while the Universe takes care of it for you. For the rest of us, it can’t hurt to play the lottery while Jupiter or Venus transits our Asteroid Fortuna can it?
Spiritual Asteroids
Angel [11911]
The asteroid’s number 11911 is an interesting number numerologically speaking, numbers add up to 13 (1+1+9+1+1) which reduces to 4 (1 + 3). Thirteen is the number of death and rebirth. Four is the number of manifestation. Generally, the numbers one and nine represent the beginning and end in numerology. Add 1 + 9 you get the number 10 which immediately reduces to the number 1. Number 1 is the beginning of all things and a number of purity.
Astrologically speaking, I would say that where this asteroid falls in your chart will show you where the best parts of you areThe . If in conjunction to Neptune or Uranus this can sometimes indicate a "helping hand" over you in your life, like a guardian angel. In synastry, this could represents someone who truly sheds light in to your life.
Anubis [1912]
Anubis is the ancient Egyptian deity governing funerary rites, including embalming, and was a protector of graves. Depicted as a having a human form with the head of a jackal, Anubis was also instrumental as a guide of souls, assisting them across the threshold between life and death. He was also known as the Guardian of the Scales, appearing at the weighing ceremony, where the deceased’s heart was weighed in the balance. If lighter than a feather, the soul was judged worthy, and Anubis conveyed it to eternal bliss; if heavier, the soul was deemed undeserving, and consigned to the crocodile-headed god Ammit, who devoured it.
Astrologically, Anubis is an indicator of death, endings or transformation. If properly placed, it could indicate employment with hospice or other end-of-life roles, as well as any number of jobs associated with morticians, grave keepers, the morgue, embalming or rituals for the dead.
Hypnos [14827]
Hypnos is the son of Nyx ["The Night"] and Erebus ["The Darkness"]. His brother is Thanatos ["Death"]. Both siblings live in the underworld [Hades] or in Erebus, another valley of the Greek underworld. According to rumors, Hypnos lived in a big cave, which the river Lethe ["Forgetfulness"] comes from and where night and day meet. His bed is made of ebony, on the entrance of the cave grow a number of poppies and other hypnotic plants. No light and no sound would ever enter his grotto. According to Homer, he lives on the island Lemnos, which later on has been claimed to be his very own dream-island. He is said to be a calm and gentle god, as he helps humans in need and, due to their sleep, owns half of their lives.
Hypnos was sort of manipulated into tricking people into falling asleep. It is said that he helped Hera put Zeus to sleep on two different occasions in order to help her. The second time, Hera used a charm from Aphrodite to hypnotise Zeus and then Hypnos put him to sleep. Then Hypnos leaving to alert Poseiden and help the Danaans. Zeus never found out that he was tricked for a second time.
The idea of Hypnos represents a trance-like state of mind. When prominantly placed in a chart it would represent someone who can easily access the Astral Realm or meditative states of euphoria or peace. It is also probably strong in those who get messages from their dreams. A prominantly placed position would be in conjunction with Neptune. If placed in the 12th house [subconscious] it is even more likely that your dreams are of significant value. I would recommend keeping a dream journal.
Horus [1924]
Horus or Her, Heru, Hor in Ancient Egyptian, is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably god of kingship and the sky. He was worshipped from at least the late prehistoric Egypt until the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Roman Egypt. Different forms of Horus are recorded in history and these are treated as distinct gods by Egyptologists. These various forms may possibly be different manifestations of the same multi-layered deity in which certain attributes or syncretic relationships are emphasized, not necessarily in opposition but complementary to one another, consistent with how the Ancient Egyptians viewed the multiple facets of reality. He was most often depicted as a falcon, most likely a lanner falcon or peregrine falcon, or as a man with a falcon head.
Horus in the natal chart represents our sense of identity, heritage and culture as well as our connection to traditions and ancestors. Since related to our ancestors, it gives this placement an overall spiritual energy. The ability to connect with those beyond. Horus is a symbol of creativity and prosperity through our connection to the land and guardianship of it.
in aspect to the sun denotes much creativity and strength of cultural / national identity.
in aspect to the moon denotes strong sense of family heritage and connections to ancestors and the land.
in aspect to Mercury is a love of folktales, mythology and traditional stories and ability to connect with themes and ideas contained in them.
in aspect to Venus shows a strong connection to the land and a strong sense of the history of ancestors being contained within it, also indicates green fingers
in aspect to Mars shows a strong passion for nature and an ability to be revitalised and rejuvenated by it as well as a strong sense of national identity
Kaali [4227]
Kaali is the Left Hand Path deity representing Shakti, the Divine Feminine "Animating" Energy that creates "Maya" or False Reality once given the "Thought" and Command to do so from Siva, the Divine Masculine Archetype of Consciousness away from Manifested Reality.
In Tantrik Traditions, Kaali rules Kundalini. She rules the Kundalini of all humans as well as Planets and even the Cosmos. She has 64 emanations and can be the most destructive force ever. Only Siva can fully control her. She gives revenge to her devotees and can consume blood to give a better next lifeline to one who sacrifices or is a martyr.
Dark Siders are misled by this and invoke her to feed her human sacrifice but little do they know that they lose their status in the next lifeline and the victim wins.
Asteroid Kaali gives us some ideas about all these occult events. In the chart of Royals, strong Kaali suggests that they sacrificed a lot to attain this status and in this lifeline, had active Kundalini to help them rule over the masses.
Too many other negative aspects indicate dangers when there is Kaali conjunct/square Sun, Moon or Ascendant.
The susceptibility increases when Kaali is in water signs. One of the best occultists in the world has Sun conjunct Kaali in an Air Sign and she knows the art of binding negative people in "Astral Chains". That is the positive power of Kaali.
Those who have afflicted charts plus Kaali conjunct Ascendant or Sun in water signs, once they realize how to protect themselves, they can become very powerful agents of positive change. They just need to learn how not to leak their Kundalini Energy to parasites and psychic vampires.
KAALI CONJUNCT VENUS would magnify Kundalini Energy, it may create sex addiction as well, cursing powers, blessing powers, you name it.
KAALI SQUARE VENUS EXACT bloodline, drive, Kundalini energy can be used for material gain through good or bad actions (freewill choice)
KAALI SQUARE MARS and URANUS warning you to do solid groundwork prior to opening chakras for if you force them open, you risk becoming an out of control sexual deviant.
KAALI CONJUNCT JUPITER theme of expanding your consciousness by learning about fiery, and sometimes vengeful, Divine Feminine Energy. You will gain wisdom by knowing about Reincarnation, by getting awareness of your Kundalini Energy and even getting luckier after this awareness.
KAALI CONJUNCT URANUS unpredictable Kundalini Energy, so be careful when doing Yoga. Never force pranic currents up/down your spine and meditate calmly.
KAALI CONJUNCT PLUTO is amazing Kundalini Energy, very strong sexual energy and sexual magnetism.
KAALI SEXTILE PLUTO this can bea great placement for occult transformation but in an already afflicted chart, this enhances wicked acts and bloodlust. This makes the native comfortable with death and sacrificial rituals.
Psyche [16]
[Can also be used as a Love Asteroid]
Very long story short - Psyche was a princess. She was beautiful and graceful. She did not submit or worship Aphrodite. This offended Aphrodite and she ordered Eros to shoot her with a love arrow and make her fall eternally in love with a hideous creature. Instead, Eros pokes himself accidentally. The first thing he sees is Psyche, falling eternally in love with her. A psychic warned Psyche's father of her fate and she is placed alone on top of a mountain. For some reason Eros refused to let Psyche see him. So he would visit her at night and leave by dawn. She is convinced he is really a hideous beast and the whole reason she is on the mountain. One night she prepares to kill Eros, and when the light falls on him she sees that he is not a beast. Eros denounces her for her lack of faith in him. He never returns back to her. She sets out looking for him and eventually pleads to Aphrodite for forgiveness so she can marry Eros. Aphrodite gives her a set list of impossible tasks to achieve. Eros eventually asks Zeus for permission, they make a deal, and Psyche and Eros wed.
Psyche is one of the most important asteroids in your chart. Psyche's asteroid number is 16, and she was discovered on March 17, 1852, when the Sun was in Pisces. Pisces is the sign of unconscious thoughts and dreams, and is ruled by Neptune, the planet of illusion, mist, and vapor. Pisces and Neptune can give us great creativity and artistic ability, but also incline us to want to escape from reality, into a pleasant dream world, where nothing is real, unless we want it to be.
Psyche is the Greek word for soul, and Psyche is the place in your chart that can detail for you where you can find your entrance into your self. Psyche also represents psychology and is involved with the discipline of the study of the mind. Psyche encompasses the soul, the mind, and the self.
The ancient Greek mythological saga of Psyche has formed the basis of numerous fairy tales and folk stories, including that of Beauty and the Beast, and The Knight and the Loathly Damsel. The elements of Psyche's life are trust, love, passion, betrayal, and jealousy. Beyond that, we can learn from Psyche the uncovering of who we are, why we act as we do, and what love means to us.
The end of the tale is always the same, since the ultimate end of the heroine's story is her final understanding of herself. It is the final acceptance of her totality of being, which includes her mind, body, and spirit. Psyche's story involves the ultimate acknowledgment that the soul can be granted immortality through its' ability to love.
Psyche can tell us a lot about ourselves and our own journey, but it may take us some time and thought before we become aware of what Psyche symbolically wants to say to us. Delving into our innermost depths can take some time, and reflection.
For example, let's say your own Psyche astrological placement is in Scorpio, conjunct to your Sun or Ascendant, your Rising Sign. Psyche in Scorpio means your understanding of the soul and the mind involves the attributes of the sign of Scorpio, which is a watery, fixed placement. You might have a very deep need to explore your own psychology, and you could be willing to take that exploration to its furthest levels. Psyche conjunct to your Sun or Ascendant means you incorporate your ideas and beliefs about the soul and mind into the very fabric of your being.
To understand Psyche's place in your own chart, it's a good idea to have a grasp of the elements of each sign, and an understanding of the houses and aspects involved. Look below for astrological keywords that will help you understand Psyche's place in your own astrological chart.
Astrology Asteroids [interest in astrology/career in astrology]
Urania [80]
In Greek Mythology Urania was one of the nine Muses, the eldest daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne. She was the Muse of astronomy, astrology, philosophy and cosmology. She is also associated with Universal Love and the Holy Spirit. Back then, Astrology and Astronomy were considered one in the same. They went together and were not separate studies.
Astrologically, Urania represents interest in Astrology or Astronomy, or at least the capacity to understand it. She represents logic and rational thought, astronomy; the ability to conceptualize and incorporate theoretical or abstract knowledge. She represents a gift for looking past small detail to a larger concept or theme.
“While Urania shows involvement with astronomy, astrology, mathematics or any kind of theoretical, abstract or symbolic knowledge, it is also the ability to extrapolate principles and relevant data from a mass of facts”. [Mechanics of the Future – Asteroids, Martha Lang-Wescott, 1988]
Look for conjunctions to Planets or the Ascendant. This will represent your ability to naturally analyze data. It will also show your interest or ability to understand Astrology. If conjunct Saturn it could indicate a career in Astronomy, Astrology or data analytics.
Astrowizard [24626]
Dave Rodrigues (a.k.a. the AstroWizard) is a lecturer at Morrison Planetarium and at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. He is also the program director of the East Bay Astronomical Society at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland. He is often interviewed on astronomical topics in the Oakland Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, KCBS news radio, and local TV. He has been a guest on the “KidTalk with Dr. Mary” show on Radio Disney. He assisted in the rescue of Apollo 13 at Chabot Observatory in 1970. Asteroid 24626 “Astrowizard” was named after him for his contributions to Astronomy education.
He would dress up as a wizard to talk to kids about Astronomy. He was very passionate about his work. This asteroid represents the pure fixation and dedication to Astrology or Astronomy. It would be prominent in the charts of those who are die hard commited astrological learners and teachers.
Stargazer 8958 -
This represents those who nobely pursue Astronomy and Astrology knowledge.
Dark Asteroids
[trigger warning]
Adrastaea [239]
In Greek mythology, Adrasteia (Greek: Ἀδράστεια (Ionic Greek: Ἀδρήστεια), "inescapable"; also spelled Adrastia, Adrastea, Adrestea, Adastreia) was a nymph who was charged by Rhea with nurturing the infant Zeus, in secret, to protect him from his father Cronus (Krónos) in the Dictaean cave.
Adrasteia was also an epithet of Nemesis, a primordial Great Goddess of the archaic period.[8] The epithet is derived by some writers from Adrastus, who is said to have built the first sanctuary of Nemesis on the river Asopus,[9] and by others from the Greek verb Template:Polytonic (didraskein), according to which it would signify the goddess whom none can escape.[
Adrasteia was also an epithet applied to Rhea herself, to Cybele, and to Ananke. As with Adrasteia, these four were especially associated with the dispensation of rewards and punishments.
If properly placed in an aspect with Venus or the Ascendant, this Asteroid indicates someone who stays in relationships or bad situations long after they logically should have. She represents a persistent person, but specifically in the areas of relationships and close friends.
“Who does not flee”; “the inescapable one”. Asteroid Adrastaeia can show those who do not leave abusive situations, or, can show moments and traumas where we were unable to escape, as in the case of abusive childhoods. This asteroid can also talk about areas of wounding we cannot escape, such as alcoholism or drug abuse.
Aeschylus [2876]
Aeschylus was a famous playwright in ancient Greece who was called the “Father of Tragedy” and became an initiate of the local mystery religion of the goddess Demeter. As a young man he worked in the vineyards and had a dream he was visited by the god Dionysus, he devoted his life to the newly developed art of tragedy from the destruction of the Goddess by the Dionysus Cult. As an archetype it rules addiction to alcohol or drugs and the tragedy this brings to the bearer and the family. It also shows the type of man who is older who gives disrespectful attention to young girls and maidens living off their light. It is the fool who eventually is caught in his own trap.
Ara, Arai [849]
The Ara, Arai or Arae are female spirits [daimones] of Curses who are summoned forth from the underworld to attack those who have not followed natures laws. They were largely indistinguishable from the Erinyes. Asteroid Ara would be considered an affliction within a natal chart and those who are cursed in past lives or this lifetime would show were that curse is effected in the chart. Hire a shaman who is a demon slayer and curse breaker to remove any darkness that comes out of the blue. Curses come fast, and that is how you know that they are a curse, everything was fine, and then went bad immediately.
Dionysus [6371]
Bacchus and Dionysus is the story of those who used their powers of corruption to build the patriarch at the expense of woman and take her power. So in an symbolic form, its men who use women or the masagenistic older man.They use their powers of corruption focused against the mothers and grandmothers who had equality, power and leadership and to devise a plan to destroy the Mystery Circle, the Great Circle of woman. In modern times it would be like almost all men after the 50s who made women’s lives hell who were trying to work in the world.
This asteroid also shows strong emotional commitments to loved ones alongside family tragedy. Self-destructive urges, misogynistic behaviors, drug addiction, perverse rituals, insanity and mental illness, shadow sides of men and their sexual power, schizophrenia, drug rape, intoxicants in excess, false visions and revelations and the dark side of drug ecstatic trance. Sobriety and Drug Treatment Centers, Narc-anon and other support systems to withdraw from this as a lifestyle or a spiritual lifestyles.
Hebe [6]
Hebe is the Maiden Greek Goddess of youth (Roman equivalent: Juventas). She is the daughter of Zeus and Hera and cup bearer for the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus, serving their nectar and ambrosia, until she was married to Heracles. Her brother is Ares and her sister is Eris and Hebe has the powers of eternal youth. In art she is typically seen with her father in the guise of an eagle, often offering a cup to him.
This is a symbolic image of older men or fathers, living off the life force and powers of their maiden daughters or young maidens in general. It is also the archetype of the perfect father that no man can live up to the Hebe type of woman, as she is never quite satisfied in her life with her partner, regardless of how strong or secure. It also represents parents who cheat and have rage against each other, wounding the sensitive parts of the inner child. This can turn into the wife who is blind to her husbands demands as he never lives up to them himself but expects a lot of perfection from her.
Chaos [19521]
Chaos is the Greek personification of the void and change from which all was born, known as the Goddess Nyx, then Chaos was born. Chaos is the name given to a TNO (Trans Neptunian Object) in the Kuiper Belt region of the solar system, near Pluto. Symbolically applied to the asteroid Chaos represents uncontrolled circumstances, fate, pain from disorder, anarchy, turmoil and upheaval which leads to argumentative and combative lives. Pay attention to the transits of this asteroid.
Klytia [73]
Jealousy or people jealous of you, especially acts driven by jealousy that end poorly, tattle-tale, a gossip and closure or letting go of a relationship because the jealousy is not healed. Desperate, senseless romances, being in love but being ignored and rejected. Klytia is in love with Apollo (the previous Helios, the Sun God), but he had another lover. Dejected, Klytia told Apollo’s potential father-in-law, who killed his own daughter as a punishment for her actions.
With Apollo’s love gone, Klytia hope’s to be snatched up by her paramour didn’t happen, he once again ignores her, and she withers away on a rock, staring at him until she dies. As an asteroid this is the placement where rejection is at its worse when it comes to love and relationships. Its also the place to heal and become whole again. All of our life’s struggles are from our soul and its karma and it bleeds into our lifetime at certain points so we can do the healing work.
Lacrimosa [208]
“Weeping”, tears, grief, sadness. Associated in the chart with depression or grief that doesn’t end. I would suggest the person who struggles with this asteroid that is prominently placed, give up all pot, alcohol, drugs and medications to begin the long journey to the root of the depression and sadness and find some balance or coming to terms with it. Many times karma of depression is a thirty year journey, but only if its karma, for others it will be much shorter of a period. But chronic illnesses are always our own past karma and how we burn it off.
Melete [56]
Melete is connected to the Greek word for anxiety, and as such, can indicate anxiety disorders, panic attacks and other forms of mental anguish.
Memoria [1247]
Memoria is the Latin word for “Memory” which can be a source of pain of the emotional body and suffering. Memory, Mother and Moon are all aspects of remembrance and where we were separated from our mothers at birth. Asteroid words for memory is forgetfulness, detachment, cold hearted, disoriented, emotional pain, flashbacks, woundedness within perception. Issues and pain that revolve around the pain.
Moroso [7724]
In Greek mythology, Moros, Morus is the being of impending fated doom, who drives mortals to their deadly or severe suffering path, such as those who have been murdered or those who are real shamans and are deathly and wrathfully torn apart and die a few times and return with their real medicines and wisdom over decades. Its pretty much the worst and deadliest asteroid there is. Moros is the offspring of Nyx, the primordial goddess of the nothingness creation, the Night and therefore the brother of the Moirai, or the Fates, who control destiny.
Moros represents the physical aspects of death, violent death and terminal sickness, while Thanatos represented a peaceful passing away and rebirths. Moros in mythology, in Prometheus Bound, the Titan myth, suggests that he gave humanity the Spirit of Elpis (see above this asteroid), in order to help them ignore the inevitability of Moros. He is also referred to as “the all-destructive” and even in the realms of Death, does not set his victim free” and even if they overcome death, the representative of the inevitability of death and suffering still go on. The Moire are the equals of Moros and Moroso.
Narcissus [37117]
Narcissus loved himself so much that he became transfixed with his own image and committed suicide when he could not have the object of his desires. Self importance, self loathing, selfishness, self involved or self concerned with no one, but the self. Narcissism is a disease, sometimes mental and sometimes emotional, its the root where the individual falls into the inability to see outside of his or her own needs at the cost of causing pain to those he or she loves. Astrologically it shows where the inability to see others’ point of views, heir needs, excessive pride in one’s appearance, rejection of others’ love.
Nyctimene [2150]
Nyctimene is a particularly painful asteroid, she is the daughter of a prominent man, who is seduced by her father. She hides away in the forest out of shame and is turned into an owl by Athena. Nyctimene in a birth chart closely aspecting the Luminaries or other important planets can show shame issues, incest, rape, and abuse by the father or father figure. Father daughter issues in this life and past life issues that can play out with the lover or spouse.
