Asteroids can be used to fine tune themes brought up in the natal chart and also in synastry and mundane astrology. When using asteroids the orbs must be very tight, I would say not more than a 1.5 degree orb, otherwise you are in danger of completely diluting the chart and not seeing the forest for the trees.
The next filter is to determine if they are conjunct or opposed the Sun, Moon or the Ascendant. We would also consider a tight trine or square. If they complete an aspect pattern then this is also important. If you find yourself strongly attracted to a mythical figure it is worth looking up the asteroid name and see if it features strongly in your chart.
We consider Ceres, Pluto, Eris, Chiron and the Black Moon Lilith to be exempt from the above rules and they are given more weight at Darkstar Astrology. The rest of the asteroids and minor planets are loosely categorized into three sets.
1. The Main Belt Asteroids; the Greco-Romans between Mars & Jupiter eg, Juno, Vesta, Pallas and Astraea.
2. The Trans-Neptunians; which are not all technically asteroids but some large enough to be minor planets. TNO’s contain the more exotic sounding Cubewano’s eg: Sedna, Quaoar, Orcus and Varuna .
3. The Centaurs; are all small TNO’s except Chiron who orbits between Saturn and Uranus and is actually classified as a comet. eg: Pholus, Nessus, Asbolus and Ixion.
We are starting to build a database of these bodies as we look into them with each Moon phase.
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Asteroids in Your Astrology Chart
1. Create your chart HERE.
2. Choose “Extended Chart Selection”.
3. Select everything in the “Additional objects” box. This will show the major asteroids in your chart.
4. If you have a particular asteroid in mind that is not in that Additional objects box, then under that you will find a box called “additional asteroids or hypothetical planets”. Find the number of the asteroid you want from this Asteroid name/number List and add it to the box.
5. Yet another option is to use Serennu to list over 1000 asteroids in your chart. Remember to use UT for your time of birth, select “sort by degrees of the zodiac“, add the coordinates of your birth place, then select “Include first 1,000 asteroids“.
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Astrological Meanings of Asteroids
The Wikipedia Asteroid Name Meanings Page lists all the known asteroids by number with links to the deity, person or place they were named after. Asteroids are like the saints, you can pray to them and meditate on them to inspire and ignite your own intuition about how to read your chart. Don’t take the myths too literally, they are a base from which to explore. It’s important to also consider the personality of the planetary body through it’s orbit, appearance and it’s discovery chart as well as the myth behind it. I would suggest browsing through Zane Stein for the TNO’s , Juan Antonio Revilla and Zsuzsanna Griga for Centaurs and Karen at Ravenesque for a huge selection of asteroids in their archives.
If you would like to know how an asteroid works in your chart, Marina can look at it as part of a natal reading if you request it. It’s important to see ones asteroids in context , therefore we cannot answer questions like “I have Isis conjunct my Sun, what does that mean?”. However we are happy to discuss the asteroids meaning generally.
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New asteroids to be announced on Thursday! This will keep you busy Marina!
OH MISERY! THE RAVENESQUE SITE HAS CLOSED.
terribly sad….
She cited too much negativity in emails – but I could’t get the whole post. Anyway, as you said, terribly sad.
NOoooooo!!!!!! She had so much good stuff. I think this has happened before and she has come back. I hope so. Why someone with such a wonderful site gets hassled I have no idea. It’s not like she slags anyone off. Life just isn’t fair sometimes…
well her name Ravenesque has been hijacked as a sort of portal for crap…anyway… awful news. MInd you if you look at the filth people spout on youtube… I believe there are people with nothing better to do than be negative and aggressively so… Well I hope she comes back. As you said, lots of good stuff on her site.
Marina – a question!!
This asteroid is due to pass us in November – 2005YU55. Its a big one. But it has no exotic name. Yes its going to pass less than one lunar distance. Can we expect an effect astrologically despite it not having a symbolic name? – no meaning ascribed to it??
I put it into astro and it came up in my chart as Henck as 28 Scorpio.??? I did a discovery chart for it – it comes up as An Aries with Cap rising if the chart is drawn for midday in Tucson – where it was discovered. With that combo it has a very cardinal flavour – and maybe something of the energy of PLuto and Uranus.
Anyway, your magnificent expertise appreciated. I just have this gut feeling some of my travel plans might be altered…
Crumbs! Now that IS a good question. We can only go on its discovery chart and possibly the news headlines the day it was discovered? I’ll have to get back to you on that. Meanwhile I’m about to go check out Threadwells, maybe I’ll get some inspiration there:)
If it is an Aries with Cap rising then we can expect the unexpected. earthquakes anyone??
I am noticing with the passing of YU55 some things have come to light:
- The Italian PM resignation
- Joe Paterno stepping down at Penn State at the end of the season over the Jerry Sandusky/child molestation scandal, with more people to fall
- Herman Cain has his own sexual harrassment scandals, yet it seems one or two of the complainants have skeletons in their closets as well, also coming to light.
- The Iranian Nuclear Crisis (I need to check other alignments to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962… wait… this should be close to a Chiron return for this, right?)
- Eric Holder and the Fast and Furious Scandal
- Tremors in Oklahoma, larger than in recent years (5.0 +)
- DOW Jones just dropped nearly 400, but this isn’t really news at this point in the economic game.
- US Congress Debt “Supercommittee” may be unraveling (needs verification).
Gotta say, hell of a transit with YU55 with it having passed within Luna’s orbit…
Aries with Capricorn Rising? hmm… That would make so much sense. Namewise: Lucifer, Chaos, Loki, Pandora, Justitia all taken… thoughts? Because IMHO this thing clearly is having an effect.
I’m so happy to see someone has asked about this. I wonder the same thing. How will this upcoming asteroid affect our astrology?
I just want to point out something technical.
“2. The Trans-Neptunians; which are not all technically asteroids but some large enough to be minor planets.”
Minor planets are just category of objects that transneptunians,centaurs,and asteroids fall under.
That’s why all of them are assigned minor planet numbers. That even includes Pluto,Eris,and Ceres.
all asteroids are minor planets
all centaurs are minor planets
all transneptunians are minor planets
minor planet doesn’t equate to dwarf planet
all dwarf planets are minor planets
not all minor planets are dwarf planets
I don’t see Psyche mentioned..
I am curious as I have it conjunct my N sun- H1
Ceres is conj my moon & Eros conj my Jupiter
I have a Ceres conj moon- vesta trine..
I have read the main books that I can find & am looking
for the more ‘obscure’ & often illuminating ones
GG