playing with asteroids

[Cruiser1]

[waybread]

Thanks, Cruiser1 and Michael. Maybe someone could find me an asteroid to make me less of a technophobe.

Cruiser1, you mentioned asteroid Nereus. He was one of the Greek titans, who preceded the Olympian gods. Nereus was an ocean god. There may be a link to the sinking of two Russian war ships and the destruction of a sea port city in the battle to date.

Alex Thanks for your very articulate and thoughtful post on fate.

It's quite possible there is now a disgraced astrologer doing hard labor in a Siberian salt mine.

I think the Ukraine invasion chart, however, shows that Putin's purpose all along was highly punitive. It surely doesn't suggest an expectation of a warm reception, the salvation of ethnic Ukrainian Russians, or the ability to sustain a well-functioning country post-conquest.
https://www.astro.com/astro-
databank/Military:_2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

On fate:

1. It would also have to be fated that the IAU approved the names of over 20,000 asteroids exactly as they did. One type of bias I've noted in their names, incidentally, is that very few are cognate with evil characters, whether mythological or historical. This must have been a conscious choice.

2. It would have to be fated that English language homonyms work as well as more concise meanings. This means that the Master of the Universe worked this scheme out in English millennia prior to the evolution of modern English.

3. Never mind all the hooey about "free will." There is no conscious choice whatsoever. In anything. Whatever decisions we think we've made are merely an enactment of tiny chunks of rock hurtling through space, named by astronomers with no conscious role in the naming-- and set in motion eons ago.

[waybread]

But just so you-all don't see me as a total skeptic, I did some more sleuthing of asteroid names of evil mythological characters. It's a short biased list but I did check out:

Hekate #100. She was an initially beneficial goddess who got seriously demoted over time as the hideous ruler of black magic.

Sauron: 378214. evil lord of Mordor in the Lord of the Rings.

Lucifer 1930

Typhon 42355 evil storm god ( cf "typhoon")

Seth 86551 (Set) evil Egyptian desert god whose sandstorms obscured the sun

Loke 4862 (Loki) evil trickster god of Norse mythology.

I tend to stick to close asteroid-planet or asteroid-angle conjunctions. What I found on the invasion chart was:

Typhon conjunct MC within the degree (20 Scorpio)

Lucifer conjunct Moon within 10'.

Seth conjunct sun within a degree (4-5 Pisces)

I've had a hunch that bad weather is to Russia's disadvantage. They claimed that their flagship Moskva sank during a storm on the Sea of Azov. Let's hope for wild windy weather.

Sauron was pretty close to the moon-MC midpoint involving Typhon and Seth.

[alex miller]

So, Mattel released a Queen Elizabeth II Barbie doll yesterday, for Liz's 96th birthday.

Natally the Queen has asteroid Barbara at 29 Leo, trine the 1 Taurus Sun, at station, turning direct two days after her birth, in a T-square with Dollen (Doll) 3 Pisces and Toyen (Toy) 5 Gemini.

Yesterday a Grand Trine of Queen's 14 Cap, Barbara 14 Virgo and Mercury 19 Taurus (naming a Barbie for the Queen); Mattei (Mattel) 24 Cap opposed Toyen with Regina, 20 & 25 Cancer. Saturn (Head of State) conjunct Dollen at 23/24 Aquarius opposing natal Barbara 29 Leo.

I guess Mattel employs an astrologer, too.

[alex miller]

Waybread, you can add Apophis 99942 (named for the ancient Egyptian personification of pure evil) and Tantalus 2102 (noted for heinous crimes) to your list of astro-baddies.

[waybread]

Thanks, Alex. Sticking to close conjunctions on the Ukraine invasion chart linked above, I didn't get any hits for those two astro-baddies.

So I took another tack. It troubles me greatly that asteroid Nike (307) named after the Greek goddess of victory, sits right on the invasion chart's ascendant at 16 degrees Capricorn. Bellona (28 ) the Roman war goddess conjuncts the ascendant within a degree, at 17 Capricorn.

However, Nike also conjuncts Volodymyr Zelenskyy's sun-Venus within 1.5 degrees. Justitia (269,) the Roman goddess of justice, conjuncts Zelenskyy's first house Jupiter within the degree.

Vladimir Putin's chart has no close hits.

The Ukraine national chart looks better: Victoria (12) hits Ukraine's sun (0 degree Virgo) within one degree. Justitia conjuncts Ukraine's sun within 1.5 degrees.

Nike conjuncts Ceres within a degree. Anciently the goddess Ceres/Demeter was known as "the law giver."

[Ouranos]

Alex,

Just read your last post 'Rich Strike's Upset Kentucky Derby Win'.
Can I ask you where you got the birth date of the horse and the jockey?

Thank you,
Ouranos
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[alex miller]

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[alex miller]

[alex miller]

testing ... testing ... been trying unsuccessfully to post

[alex miller]

OK, seems OK today. let's have at it again, shall we?

in reply to Ouranos, there was no human birth data given in the article you cite.

as for Rich Strike, I found his foal date here, in an article on his bloodline: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/horses/kentucky-derby/2022/05/07/rich-strike-bloodline-son-keen-ice-wins-kentucky-derby-2022/6552228001/

this will be my fourth attempt to convey this information, as well as an abortive PM to you directly, so let's hope we're done with this!

[Ouranos]

Thank you Alex,
I received your PM and can read your post right now.

Best to you,
Ouranos
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[annadeer]

hello everybody, been a while -- am too busy with other things -- felt like joining in the ukraine conversation today -- also, somewhere above i predicted on the basis of the asteroids that Elon Musk and Grimes were going to split -- turns out I was right. Queen Elizabeth is still reigning though.

about ukraine

[alex miller]

Anna, the asteroid you are using for Zelensky is Zelezny, with an N, not Zelezy, but there's also a Zelinsky, just one letter off, which is what i have been using for him. and the Putin asteroid is Putilin, w/o your final I, not Putilini.