These are brilliant ideas, MM. Sooo much of that I have been focused on this year. Your take on the asteroids significance & what role they play I couldn't put better myself so...ditto.It is fascinating how there is such Devine order in every chart. Even after nearly 10 years I am still left in awe after almost every chart I analyze. I just started really using the astro database at the start of the year & I love it. Like you said, the asteroids are mainly there to support and strengthen the chart themes.
My Moon is my greatest source of power as well as my greatest pain. But until I decided to heal that wound, my Moon remained in weak state.
I was watching Rick and morty back in 2014 or 15 & a minor character says during one episode "existence is pain" & it became my own. Those words have become somewhat sacred to me over the years too. Pain is what ik and it is what is comfortable to me. Not suffering... I hate that. But the pain is an essential part of who I am. Late last year or earlier this year I remember having this really bizarre moment. That pain had completely disappeared all of a sudden and it kind of was a shock to my psyche because it was feeling something alien that it didn't understand. It was like there was a complete void. And I absolutely hated that feeling. I was quite literally hurting because I was no longer hurting. Lol my first response was to create pain because it was so painful not being in pain....yes that makes perfect sense to me too :P thankfully it returned. I felt void of my own soul. I didn't feel anything. It was an enlightening realization though.
So the reason I told you all that was because shortly after I started using asteroids, I was just getting familiar with them and running various ones in my natal. In one run 4 of the asteroids I chose to add..no real pattern..just whatever caught my eye. Asteroids born, pain, chaos & angers were all sitting there @ 11° Taurus ♉ in the 11th house. Chaos is actually @ 10°10' ...but you know at least it kinda tried with two 1s.
I have never been able to express or even fully connect to my pain a majority of the time. So anger is the alternative. Some of the main parts of my chart say that in childhood and/or past lives I had been wired to feel most comfortable when my outside world was unstable & stressful & confrontational. If craziness didn't happen naturally, I would subconsciously create it somehow in order to fill that need. Idk... I guess it felt better to express that outwardly rather than inward.
I had both a therapist & a reader who had told me the same thing basically. My exhusband would tell me I feel most content when the world around me was in disarray. So yeah. Asteroids are pretty awesome. They were also opposing my 11° venus & my 9° pluto in Scorpio.
Around this time for w/e reason I thought of my ex MIL - whom I share a very unique synastry with too. And I remember wanting to run her chart to see if her pain asteroid was anywhere near something regarding kids as that was a reoccurring theme throughout her life. Her last child was a stillborn which is bad enough. But as soon as her SIL who was due to have her baby soon after, had gave birth she gave her son the same name as my MIL did her stillborn. This wasn't to honor her nephew but because she originally thought about that name but my MIL called it first. But now that the name had freed up in the worst way it could have, she snatched it right up. Like she wasn't in enough pain already. Another time, when my ex was still a kid, a boy who lived next door, who's parents were out at the time, comes running over to find her because his friend was over and they decided to play with his dad's gun...you probably can figure the rest out. She said the bullet had gone through his forehead and the back of his head had completely just blown out, everything everywhere. When she got there he was still somewhat alive like making these horrible noises trying to breathe. His eyes were open but he was not home. Kid died before the paramedics arrived thankfully. Finding him in that state had to be the worst part to see. She told me this story twice and everytime she was crying hysterically as she had to relive it in her head. I cannot even imagine. Another time she hears a kid screaming next door and she runs out to see that family's chow chow just mauling this boy. She jumped the fence and was able to get herself and the boy away. She had alot of stories with this theme.
She would come to mind regularly until I finally ran her chart. I used pain & child asteroids to see if there were any clear indicators. I kind of expected to see something of some sort pointing to that, but when I look at her chart I see pain @ 17°10 in cancer 1st house and child is at 17°10 cancer. 😶 ain't nobody going to ever convince me astrology is BS.
I love the idea of using numerology alongside the charts. I am a 6/33 life path and my 6th has a 5 planet (+juno since she is exact my Neptune @ 5° Capricorn.) The rest of the 6th house planets are in Sagittarius. Mercury, saturn, uranus & my sun. Just a big ol house party. Haha I'm funny.
I also have been looking alot the past year of known figures that are currently working with the dark energies. I could use some help on this one though, lol.
I'm going to kind of wrap my post up now though. There are endless ways to use astrology.
If you don't mind me asking.. what topic were you referring to about thinking it might not be received well? Just cause it's probably interesting when you put it like that.
1 more thing I found interesting you said was how we should start preparing for if these resources go. This year I've been putting alot of what astro info I would need if I no longer had the internet as an option. That means knowing all of the mathematical formulas. I have some books but the internet just has much more resources. Just such an odd reality we have been thrown into.
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