New Planetary Bodies, Millennium Planets and other Power Points in Space

 

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Goddess Asteroids/Dwarf Planets

Dwarf Planets

There are three rings (four counting the centaurs) of multiple objects circling our Sun in; the asteroid belt, the Kuiper belt and the Oort Cloud. Of the outer dwarf planets orbiting with Pluto; Eris, Haumea and Makemake are by far the largest and can be considered as part of a group, like the four goddess asteroids, Ceres, Pallas Athene, Vesta and Juno and the four largest centaurs Chiron, Chariklo, Pholus and Nessus. The two largest asteroids Ceres and Vesta are now designated dwarf planets. Sedna being so far out is presently on her own, the only body from the Oort cloud that has been individually observed, tracked, named and classified. Sue Kientz in 'There are More Plutos' has interestingly linked each one of the bodies in the foursomes to the four elements. Sue has also shown there are powerful linking resonances between the dwarf planets and with the gas giants (Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune) that literally, through their enormous gravitational influence, put the dwarfs in their places in orbit. Where appropriate, elemental connections and resonances are included in our asteroid and dwarf planet descriptions. The goddess asteroids were all named after the female family of Jupiter. Ceres his sister, Juno his wife, Pallas Athena his daughter and Vesta another sister. Much of the feminine is left out of astrology aside from Venus and the Moon. The asteroids help add the feminine back into the astrological chart.

CERES
Ceres was the first planetary body to be discovered in the asteroid belt back in the early 1800’s. Ceres has since been reclassified as a dwarf planet, which would make Ceres at least as important as Pluto in the astrological chart now they are both considered dwarf planets. Ceres was the sister of Zeus (Jupiter). She is the quintessential Earth Mother, and rules over food, cooking and nutrition. Wherever she appears in your chart, she shows how best you feel nurtured. This is also the area where you can easily provide love and comfort. Your Ceres Sign influences mothering, hard work, parenting, and gardening as well. It will show how well we go with the flow … the universal one, that is. This is the unification of both giving and receiving through ourselves as an exchange of energy. Ceres is associated with fertility, the uterus and stomach. On her negative side, she influences grief, work problems, eating disorders, custody issues and kidnapping. She may influence low self esteem, fear of abundance, feelings of abandonment or unworthiness, over-attachment, possessiveness, parent-child complexes and barrenness.

PALLAS ATHENE
Pallas Athene was the second asteroid discovered. Named after Jupiter's daughter, Pallas Athene is intelligent and cerebral. She is the weaver of patterns, linking ideas together. She is strategic command in both the warrior and the peaceful general. Cities are her domain. She has an interconnection with Libra because of her focus on ideas. Like Libra, she can see both sides. She is not blind justice … she is only just. She is creative and artistic. She is a survivor. She expects everyone to claim their personal power. Where her influence falls is where you will find talents in the following areas. Jupiter's daughter carries influence over many things, such as the immune system, the arts, the father/daughter relationship, intuition, justice, wisdom, defence, horses and the kidneys. With her spotlight on daddy's little girl, Pallas Athene will help determine how you interpret your relationship with your father, and in turn how you treat all males in general. On her negative side, Pallas Athene touches on conflict, legal battles, injustice and illnesses due to a weakened immune system.

JUNO
Juno was the third asteroid to be discovered. Juno was the wife of Jupiter. She has some similarities to Venus, but while Venus sparks that initial attraction, Juno makes the commitment. She sings of soul mates. As she moves through the sky, the face of relationships change, but she still stands for commitment of one kind or another. Where you find Juno in your chart is where you may meet someone that you will remain with for a long relationship. She covers marriage, fashion and beauty. She is the patron of relationships and true love. Diplomacy is part of her sphere. She has influence with the weather, flowers, fairness and female genitalia. She also dealt with many of Jupiter's infidelities, and thus has influence over the negative issues of spouse abuse, powerlessness, women's rights (both positive and negative), rage, inferiority complexes and unfairness. She may also affect issues of denial, betrayal, inequality and of course bitterness.

VESTA
Vesta is the second largest asteroid in our solar system and the fourth to be discovered. Vesta is a sister of Jupiter, the virgin goddess. Vesta is the keeper of the hearth. She is focus and dedication. She is mental clarity and self-respect. Vesta brings out your purest potential and Essence into being. Vesta is organised and perfect. She has a talent for breaking things down into its components. She rules the metabolism and the upper intestine. She carries influence over locks and keys, sisters, security, investments, insurance, and inheritance. She is the epitome of the home and family, ritual, chastity and sexuality, and devotion. Her negative aspects include insecurity, lack of focus, promiscuity, segregation, secret societies and family troubles. There may be a fear of sex or intimacy, as well as an invalidation of self. Denial can be a big aspect when she is negative.

KAALI

Kaali
In 2015 Kali, the Hindu Goddess of death, destruction and resurrection, appeared on the Empire State Building, projected as an avatar of conservation by the filmmakers of "Racing Extinction". The chart of that day in New York shows the asteroid Kaali opposing the Galactic centre, conjunct Chariklo, midpoint sextile to Venus and Eris, and quincunx Ceres, while eternal flame Vesta and warrior goddesses Pallas Athene and Lilith were also tightly aspecting each other. The goddesses were lined up in force to help Kali make her point loud and clear ~ Now is the time, transform or die. 

In his forward to Shambhavi Chopra’s book “Yogic Secrets of the Dark Goddess” David Frawley writes: “The Goddess or Divine Mother holds the key to the spiritual regeneration of humanity in this ecological age. Without reconnecting to the deeper feminine energy of the universe, we are unlikely to solve our current global crisis that is based to a great extent upon ignoring the Divine presence of the Goddess in Nature and in ourselves. Of the various aspects of the Goddess, it is her dark forms that carry the key to her secrets and her power, her connections to the Earth, the night, fertility, mystery, magic and transformation. It has been our inability to understand her dark forms and integrate them into our religious and social orders, which has caused us to ignore the Goddess and even become afraid of her saving grace that is the real power of inner growth and the enlightenment of awareness.

… Kali is not some mere folk deity, some ancient Goddess, or a strange object for intellectual curiosity or cultural image. She is the Supreme Power of the magical, awesome, cataclysmic universe in which we live, of which we are all but brief expressions, and to which we must all bow down in reverence in the end. Kali holds our life and death within her embrace that is kind to the soul but can be painful to the ego which delays or restricts the soul’s unfoldment" Asteroid Kaali in our natal charts shows where we can seek release from negativity and destructive karmic patterning. Kaali shows the way to Kundalini rising and ultimate cosmic consciousness. When evoked, Goddess Kali will always be there for us, eagerly lapping up all the accumulated dross of this and past incarnations. It takes courage to let go, but the reward can be pure bliss.

ERIS
A newly discovered tenth planet, approximately the same size as Pluto, made the headlines in 2005. This planet was initially named Xena, then Eris, by the International Astronomical Union. Eris is the Greek goddess of strife, and there certainly was a great deal of strife in the IAU that resulted from Eris' discovery. In a giant reclassification Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet. Eris and the goddess asteroid Ceres were classified as dwarf planets. Eris has a highly elliptical orbit, taking 560 years to go around the Sun. Eris/Xena, was discovered just inside the 8 year Venus Transit period highlighting a resurgence of the Divine Feminine.

Xena/Eris is classified as a transneptunian planet orbiting the Sun just beyond the Kuiper Belt. Her orbit is wider than the ecliptic, the path that the other planets of our solar system travel on. So this maverick goddess follows her own offbeat eccentric path moving into close proximity with the Sun and then out to the far reaches of the Kuiper Belt. Astronomically she is in the constellation of Cetus the Whale. Astrologically she is in the tropical Zodiac sign of Aries.

It is interesting to note that although we still have a male, classical Greek predominance in the naming of planetary bodies, more and more female and non Greek characters are appearing. Xena is a modern archetype, whose story is placed loosely in a Greek mythological setting. Seeing Eris/Xena as linked to the Sacred Warrior archetype we can see that if we are to continue creating a new human society on Earth we all need to be Sacred Warriors. Like old age, co-creating a New World is not for the faint hearted. We need to be visionaries and vigilant spiritual activists, constantly renewing our commitment to change our own individual and collective consciousness and our societal, political and spiritual paradigms. The challenge is to integrate the spiritual courage of self with birthing a new shared consciousness.

Eris in Aries opposes Haumea in Libra at present, emphasising the ongoing balancing act of trail blazing Aries. Eris and Uranus in Aries ask us to let go of outworn cultural beliefs and to be more tolerant of diversity. We are invited to risk being true to who we really are and to embark on an amazing quest into the unknown. Outsider Eris can be hugely disruptive as she challenges the status quo. In the Illiad Homer called Eris "the people's defender". The Uranus/Eris conjunctions in 2016/17 resonated with an ongoing mass awakening in consciousness and a people's revolution against patriarchal hegemony, or dominance by the greedy and powerful. In the first half of 2019, as personal planets meet Eris on 23˚Aries (Mars in early Feb, the Sun in April, Mercury, Venus and Vesta in May) we may be impelled to confront injustice in our personal lives and truly stand up for the causes we believe in.

continued: Pluto/Charon, Orcus/Vanth