Zodiac held by astrology Muse, Urania (Albrecht Durer). Prognosticon by Johannes Stabius
Asteroid Urania - In Greek Mythology Urania was one of the nine Muses, the eldest daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Urania was the goddess of astronomy which was the same then as astrology. She is also associated with Universal Love and the Holy Spirit.
“To each of the Mousai men assign her special aptitude for one of the branches of the liberal arts, such as poetry, song, pantomimic dancing, the round dance with music, the study of the stars, and the other liberal arts . . . For the name of each Mousa, they say, men have found a reason appropriate to her : . . . Ourania, because men who have been instructed by her she raises aloft to heaven, for it is a fact that imagination and the power of thought lift men’s souls to heavenly heights.” [Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. 7. 1 (trans. Oldfather) Greek historian C1st B.C. ]
“Corymbus of Helicon . . . formerly the Musae’s friend, to whom Uranie herself, knowing full well his Stygian destiny, had long foretold his death by the position of the stars.” [Statius, Thebaid 8. 548 ff (trans. Mozley) Roman epic C1st A.D.]
“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]
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Asteroid Urania and Famous Astrologers
Jonathan Cainer conjunct Pluto
John Dee conjunct Saturn
Elsbeth Ebertin conjunct Jupiter
John Frawley conjunct Neptune
Augusta Foss Heindel conjunct Mercury
Deborah Houlding conjunct Moon
William Lilly conjunct Jupiter
Joan McEvers conjunct Pluto
Jeff Mayo conjunct Mars
Johannes Morinus conjunct Neptune
Eileen Nauman conunct Mercury
Ernst Ott conjunct Sun Mercury
Robert Pelletier conjunct Moon
Vivian Robson conjunct South Node
Lois M. Rodden conjunct North Node
Zane Stein conjunct Saturn Vertex
Noel Tyl conjunct Lilith
Sonna Van Toen conjunct Mercury
Robert E. Zoller conjunct Pluto
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Find Asteroid Urania in Your Chart
1. Create your chart HERE.
2. Choose “Extended Chart Selection”.
3. In “additional asteroids or hypothetical planets”, add 30.
For the love of the cosmos, I hope that the conjunction will mean something good!
(It has to, says this Libra.)
I really think it will Deb. The New Moon is on a really nice star and trines Neptune.
Hmm, I just ‘discovered’ Urania, hence a Google search to find out more, since she sits .04 degrees from my sun. Thanks for your article.
Hi Penelope, that’s a close conjunction and I didn’t find anyone in the list of astrologers with Urania conjunct Sun. Our friend Karen has a special interest in asteroid astrology, she says of Urania “astrologer, psychic, mystic, priest” [Asteroid Profile - The Muses]. Might be interesting to find where Calliope and Polyhymnia are in your chart.
Interesting, I just stumbled upon your site again and see I’ve been here before, but didn’t found your reply until now. Karen’s site seems to have disappeared, but I did find I have Calliope also within a degree of my Libran sun, Polyhymnia in last degree of my 4th house in Virgo. Anyway, I’m pondering Urania as I look for help with my digital publishing start-up: putting lovely work out into the ether/heavens. Thanks for your words, Jamie.
Cool, Marina want to start writing a book soon and we had thought of e-books. We had asteroid Urania on the Midheaven of our wedding chart.
(In reply to your reply which I can’t see now.)
Well, that prompted me to look at the launch moment of http://www.rosamirabooks.com and see that Urania was right on my own mid-heaven at that time. That helps, as I go through the turmoil of beginnings . . .
All the best to Marina, too.
Hello,
I get back to this 2009 article about 30 Urania.
Urania was part of the last New Moon in Aquarius (with Sun Mars Ceres conjunct, and Saturn Libra in trine)… Almost an anniversary.
In addition to Uranus, could this asteroid be of some use to precise the way we do astrology?
The discovery map of 30 Urania is quite impressive by its illustrative touch: servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=333&u=11887630 (for 22 July 1854 London.. I tried around 11PM):
- Urania in conjunct Ceres in Aquarius;
- At the mid point between Neptune/Pisces and Chiron/Capricorn (semi sextile with both of them);
- In opposition to Mercury; and double square Uranus.
The whole picture brings us back to the idea of abstraction, between logic & intuition, and relates pretty well with astrology…
Maybe, 30 Urania with Uranus (in relation to Saturn, Mercury, Ceres, Neptune..) could also give hints about the way astrology is considered and developed, right from its study on the maps of the different nations (??)
The examples of personalities cited in the article above (like Ebertin & Lilly with Urania conjunct Jupiter; Holding’s with Moon; Robson’s with South Node, etc.) also help to think the asteroid responds pretty well. It could turn to be a fantastical tool for astrologers.
I love that Urania was conjunct Ceres at discovery. I don’t know how I missed her being conjunct this moon. I do like to keep Asteroids at a one deg orb however, like the fixed stars.
I was pleased to see her on the MC of our wedding chart also:)))
@Marina, I love Urania conjunct the MC of your wedding chart. Who wouldn’t want a little “universal love”?
Lately I’ve been thinking more and more about my North Node as I try to move away from some of my more negative, unproductive (and reactionary) South Node behaviors. With Urania conjunct my 2nd house Libra North Node/Venus, the message clearly seems to be about love, since I know I wouldn’t make a very good astrologer. It is interesting though, how astrology has helped open doors for me.
I think I’ve also read where Urania’s placement can lend a certain eye for detail, which in my chart, comes across in both practical and spiritual ways. My art can be very detail oriented, with intricate designs. And I try sooooo hard not to be hypocritical in my spiritual beliefs.
Hey,
I have uranian in 4 degrees in Capricorn, also moon and polyhymnia in 20 degrees. Moon is trine to Pluto (virgo) and Saturnus (taurus. Moon squares uranus (libra). I have stellium in scorpio with sun, jupiter, merc,venus,neptune and opposite is saturnus. So pretty hard aspects.
And one more thing is true node in 29 degrees of aquarius and Pars Fortune (taurus) opposite neptune so all in 29 degrees… not sure if this counts but I think guess this can be grand cross due to nodes 
How do you feel, any change to become an astrologer ? My uranian is in the 6th house which makes me wonder if there is a reason why i am so interested to learn more and more in daily basis.. =)
There’s a thread in the AD forum that’s been running for a while about this asteroid. The later pages are more informative than the earlier ones. Urania’s practical capabilities with astronomy/astrology are its strengths, while asteroid Asteria seems more involved with the intuitive experience of astrological associations.
http://forum.astro.com/cgi/forum.cgi?num=1314564533
Urania is at 1 Sagg in my 1st house, trine Aries Moon 5th, trine Mercury 9th, square Pluto 10th, and sextile Saturn 2nd. I’ve always been interested in depth-psychology, and astrology became part of this tool-kit by the time I was 18. I’m currently in my 3rd and longest immersion now. I spent a couple of years in my early ’30s studying the principles for the first time with good mentors and a solid library for research. I haven’t examined any pertinent long-term transits to the Urania 1 Sagg position that would explain these cycles, but with Saturn sextile Pluto in my natal I suspect the Pluto transit to Saturn (in a cross with Sun/Moon/Nodes) which began in late 2008, is responsible for the most recent immersion. Urania’s trine to Mercury in the natal bolsters my intellectual interest, and also gives me the ability to communicate about astrology in a versatile way. Saturn sextile Pluto are methodically guiding me on a path to make this my profession going forward. Urania’s been transiting my 7th, opening me up to everything that’s available in cyber-space now and testing my “best relationships” to astrology with others.
The more intuitive Asteria is interesting to me, as it conjuncts my Moon at a yod apex from Pluto and Neptune. Sometimes I doubt my astrological conclusions and panic over the myriad modes of study, but the synchronistic motifs that continue to occur through astrology in relationship to others cannot be explained away. I allow Asteria to guide my interests, learning, and associations with others in the fabulous mystery of it all !
Moira
Thanks for your reply, pretty interesting. I`ll check new site. I understand you feeling frustrated when there is no planets to inform something when you try to eplain something.. its hard sometimes. There is things what we cannot explain even we would like to, unfortunately. I am in a situation that I quit my job last summer and trying to find out what I really want to do, it seems that I am stuck in my astro studies.
But this is what i really want to do. Not sure what life brings but it seems that uranus and saturnus are changing my life in age of 40-41 totally. I have today read from Anne Massey book Venus that individuals born with the retrograde station will by progression experience a change in about 40 years and it really feels like.. Its pretty interesting because I have been always single and for somehow I feel that there is no way to sort that out because work seems to be number one always. Well, radix tells that too but its not that easy to change life.. For some reason I feel that everything happens when its a right time.. maybe I am wrong but if somebody can show me something else, then i can believe it 
) I have learned astrology only a year and last 3 months read about 20 books and been in courses so last 3 months been intensive studies because now i have time to put time on it. And it feels so good that I cannot even express. I have to learn more about Urania and Asteria because I have never even heard about those before. 
simple synchronicities- I suddenly decided to look up Ceres on my chart, then randomely picked Urania as well ( conjunct my moon )and am sitting digesting them both when I read your comment that the two were in conjunction when Urania discovered
) As above, so below I suppose.