The Asteroids
Most commonly applied asteroids in the chart.
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Ceres (1)
• Keyword: Nourishment, continuity of life
What we need in order to feel loved and nurtured, how care is perceived, longed for. It is considered a second moon and rules over food, cooking, nutrition. Ceres is associated with fertility, the uterus and stomach. Your Ceres Sign influences mothering, parenting style/experiences, approach to hard work, and gardening as well. It will show how well we go with the flow. The challenges involved grief, problems related to work, eating disorders, custody issues and kidnapping. It is associated with how you give and receive care, issues with the mother, how you deal with pain, loss and separation. A prominent Ceres represents a strong desire to be a parent or nurturer. Indicates cycle of loss and return, union and separation.
Similar as the IC
Pallas (2) ⚴
• Keyword: Strategic intelligence, pattern recognition
Where you have genius qualities even though you doubt yourself. It is our creative intellect, the search for truth, art, logical thinking. An indicator of wisdom, intelligence and coping strategies. Associated with the logistical side of marriage, wisdom and childbirth. Where her influence falls is where you will find talents in the following areas. Pallas will help determine how you interpret your relationship with your father, and in turn how you treat men/masculine principle in general. The challenges include conflict, legal battles, injustice, prolonged/structural patterns of manipulation, and illnesses due to a weakened immune system.
Similar as the MC
Juno (3) ⚵
• Keyword: Commitment, covenant
Asteroid of contractual relationships, exclusive allegiance, and the principal of commitment. An indication for pregnancy, conception, birth and care. Challenges involve power struggles, jealousy, infidelity, betrayal, arguments. Indicates what kind of person we marry, and what we need (or need to learn) to commit. The placement of Juno in your chart is where you may meet someone that you will remain in a long term relationship with. She has influence on the weather, flowers, fairness and female genitalia. In a female chart, Juno represents who you are as a wife. In a male chart, Juno represents what he truly desires in a wife.
Similar as the DSC
Placement of Juno in the birthchart and its meaning
Vesta (4) ⚶
• Keyword: Sacred focus, devotion, self-sufficiency
What you’re devoted to and how sexuality will develop. She represents sacred unions, the heart fire, spiritual/vocational aspiration, celibacy and spiritual sexual energy. When Vesta is prominent in the chart, there may be issues with purity, singleness and sexuality either by abstinence or by involving oneself with multiple partners which yet leave the individual untouched by relationship. The placement of Vesta by house and sign also indicate the area of life where these issues may manifest. Rules the metabolism and the upper intestine. Influence over locks and keys, sisters, security, investments, insurance, and inheritance. It is the epitome of the home and family, ritual, chastity and sexuality, and devotion. It is how we devote to ourselves and the authenticity of self.
Similar as the ASC
Psyche (16)
• Keyword: Soul, inner self
Where we can grow spiritually, where the self-realization is within the Natal chart. Asteroid that can bring deep transformation, (self)recognition, and profoundly challenging journeys that alter self understanding.
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Eros (433)
• Keyword: Desire, pull
Asteroid often associated with sexual preference, turn-on’s, and the physical act of sex. Symbolizes our passion, what we feel pulled towards, our preference and the primal font of desire-energy. Shows our longing for completeness. The sign placement is often one you feel most attracted to, such as Eros in Aquarius could mean you feel attracted to Aquarian type of people.
Cupid (763)
• Keyword: Romantic action
Cupid is another name for Eros, it is associated with the trials of love, the initial enthrallment and acts of seduction performed in order to obtain the love object, not the sexual act itself. It signifies infatuation and having a crush on someone when conjunct to someone else’s personal planets or points.
Indicate the style, tone and preferred action for an individual’s romantic powers.
Amor (1221)
• Keyword: Unconditional love
Amor represents a state of loving rather than falling in love. Amor can represent love of anything dear to the heart. It can also symbolize what we substitute for love. 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. The sign and house Amor is found in can indicate the nature of issues that can block or interferes with the exchange of or participation in earthly, obtainable love.
Union (1585)
• Keyword: Binding principle, third term
Often associated with union, organizations, marriage, twins, and as the capacity of mutual growth. However, Union creates a shared structure, a third element/thing that connects two points/people into a single unit or dyad. Challenges us to negotiate inside/under its binding principle, whether we want that or not. Can feel like puzzle pieces or glue. Do not assume this asteroid stands for marriage for it is not, it simply means “connected by a third thing” which can be a contract, child, situation, experience,…
Lilith / Black moon (1181)
• Keyword: Shadow principle, intuition, blind spot
Asteroid of intuition and the energetic. Lilith is the purest form of feminine and raw sexuality. She’s is also associated with the worst human sin, suicide, which is probably the extreme consequence of all passions when they are pursued relentlessly. It shows what type of people, amongst those we meet on our path, will play provocative roles in our lives, or even be our enemies. Lilith is not capable of bringing us happiness, as she is not able to trigger real-life events as the real planets do; her impact is exerted on the psyche, on our passions and on the deepest of our desires. She is a channel and portal for psychic abilities and development.
Nessus (7066)
• Keyword: boundary violation, abuse
Nessus is the evil within us, but also the abuse that is done to us by others, and in some cases it indicates self destruction or abuse. This Asteroids helps to find hidden events from your childhood. Often linked to sexual or emotional abuse. When Nessus is conjunct the Sun, it indicates sexual abuse by father or it can also mean that the person with this position has a possibility for becoming an abuser when the ego is wounded. Nessus in 8th house is the strongest indicator of sexual abuse.
Hades (h41)
• Keywords: The hidden gore
Represents sorrow, widows, orphans and grief in general. Planet of death, garbage and crime. Asteroid of hurt, break-ups. It has a connection with past lives and is an indicator of karma. It rules disintegration, waste, bacteria, depletion, erosion, regression, withering, shriveling and decay.
Pholus (5145)
• Keywords : Release, cascade, chain reaction, turning point
A slow moving asteroid that has a strong connection to your purpose and life changing events that feel fated or magical. If it’s conjunct to any of your personal planets in the birthchart, it indicates a life of memorable events and deepfelt transformations that are connected to the meaning of the planet it’s conjunct to. It is a key in triggering events when activated through transits, progressions, arcs,.. This asteroid can help/is associated with overcoming addictions, bad behavioral patterns and destructive behavior.
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Find out where the Asteroids are in your Birthchart
• Enter your birth data, press continue
• Hover with mouse to the top site bar “Free horoscopes”
• Go to “Drawings & Calculation” and Press “Extended chart selection”
• Go to the option “Additional objects”
• Select the desired Asteroids in the left option box. select multiple by holding ctrl key + click
• Or Enter the numbers manually on the right and divide the number with a comma