New Planetary Bodies, Millennium Planets and other Power Points in Space
Centaurs | Scattered Disk Objects | Other Power Points
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 dwarf planet descriptions.
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 23ËšAries (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
