posted August 23, 2009 02:44 AM            

not really.

not with the following solar arc directions that I listed:

SA Saturn (5th and 6th house ruler)in 9th oppose N Jupiter (4th and 7th house ruler) - '09 applying
SA Uranus sesquiquadrate N Moon (11th house ruler) in 6th - '06 separating
SA Neptune (7th house ruler) oppose N Saturn (5th and 6th house ruler) in 9th - '19 applying

also I would say this was a big one:

SA Sedna in 8th oppose N Sun (12th house ruler) in 2nd - '14 applying

like I said before, Sedna is the slowest moving object in our solar system, and so it could have most profound influences as an outer object......named after the Inuit Sea Goddess, it's like Neptune, but even more otherworldly and remote.
victimization,abuse,trauma,betrayal are negative aspects of Sedna

It's so important to take everything into account and not just focus on one thing

Raymond

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“It is absolutely the perfect name,” Dr. Brown said, given the continuing discord among astronomers and the public over whether Pluto should have retained its planetary status.

In mythology, Eris ignited discord that led to the Trojan War.

posted August 23, 2009 12:47 PM            

Solar Arc Venus conjunct Natal Uranus
Solar Arc Uranus conjunct Natal MC
Solar Arc Node conjunct ASC/opposition DSC
Solar Arc Jupiter conjunct ASC/opposition DSC
Solar Arc Saturn conjunct SOL MC
Solar Arc ASC opposition Natal Vertex

also progressed...

Progressed North Node conjunct Natal Jupiter
Progressed Jupiter conjunct Natal North Node

posted August 23, 2009 04:10 PM              

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•Sun• Cancer
•Moon• Gemini
•Mars• Cancer
•Mercury• Cancer
•Venus• Leo

posted August 23, 2009 05:10 PM            

Yeah...they do.

They are regularly used with Solar Arcs,transits,natal,synastry,and secondary progressions by cosmobiologists.

conjunctions,oppositions,squares,semisquares,sesquiquadrates are used

Noel Tyl astrologers use midpoints too.
Noel Tyl type astrologers use the 165 aspect which Noel Tyl calls "quindecile" and Robert Blachske calls "contraquindecile"

I don't use that aspect with midpoint pictures. I lean more towards the Cosmobiologists with the use of only conjunction,opposition,square,semisquare,sesquiquadrate.

traditional quindecile is 24 degrees

I am like...if the 165 degree aspect is used, why not the other 24th harmonic aspects?

Raymond

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“It is absolutely the perfect name,” Dr. Brown said, given the continuing discord among astronomers and the public over whether Pluto should have retained its planetary status.

In mythology, Eris ignited discord that led to the Trojan War.

posted August 23, 2009 06:03 PM            

I honestly don't know. I really don't get into all that asteroid stuff when checking out love,romance,relationship stuff. I just look at the planets. I will also look at Juno because it's one of the major asteroids and its connected to committed relationships. I look at Ceres because it's a major asteroid but also dwarf planet and is associated with nurturing which I feel is important in relationships. I feel that Ceres is highly underrated in Astrology too.

my Ceres formed a t-square with my exgf's Venus square Ceres, and I am totally convinced that was the most challenging aspect configuration in our synastry too. It was about her strong attachment to her mother that interfered with her relationship with me. She kept our relationship a secret from her mother because her mom hates men because my exgf's father hurt her. When she finally told her mother about us, her mother was angry with her for lying to her. She wasn't happy that her daughter found love with a nice guy who is not at all like her exhusband. She was angry and made her daughter feel guilty for being with a man. My being the son of black man and white woman like Barack Obama didn't probably go well with her mom either, especially when Barack Obama interfered with Hillary Clinton to be the first female president. Both my exgf and her mother are white. It got more complicated when my exgf told me that black men got the vote before women did after I told her that I wanted Obama to win back in March of last year. I stayed neutral until then. I didn't want to be caught up in the racial tug-a-war that's been the theme of my life. Like it or not, the presidential race led me to confront my own racial identity as mixed person. I felt racial tension between me and exgf...especially when she expressed her fears that Obama can't run USA because he's biased because Rev. Wright was his pastor. For the first time, I felt like she and I were in two totally different worlds when it came to race. I felt like she couldn't understand the Black/African American experience. Her telling her mother about us and her breaking up with me occurred during the later stages of the presidential democratic primary between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. She ended up relocating with her mother to another state. She had to give me up to make her mom feel secure and comfortable. It was like her mom made her choose between me and her. That is something that I would have never done. I wanted to treat both my exgf and her mother like family. I wished that her mother gave me a chance to know me and not just judge me based on me being a man. As you know, I am not a typical man either with my high estrogen levels and my neurodivergence. So she would have no real argument about me as a male.

so hell yeah...Ceres was a major factor in our relationship in regards to the mother/daughter,empty nest type stuff. I will never see Ceres as a minor influence in Astrology.

Ceres being made equals with Pluto in Astronomy as dwarf planet is very fitting.

was Ceres involved with solar arcs when I got dumped by my exgf. hell yeah it was!

SA Venus (ruler of 2nd and 9th) sesquiquadrate Natal Ceres in 11th/12th - '27 applying
SA Ceres semisquare Natal Sun (ruler of 12th) in 2nd/3rd - '19 separating
SA Ceres semisquare Natal True Black Moon Lilith in 2nd/3rd - '02 applying

True Black Moon Lilith fits with the feminist stuff with my exgf and her mother.
The 9th house ruler Venus fits with the racial stuff.

I still miss her too. :O(

Raymond

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“It is absolutely the perfect name,” Dr. Brown said, given the continuing discord among astronomers and the public over whether Pluto should have retained its planetary status.

In mythology, Eris ignited discord that led to the Trojan War.

posted August 23, 2009 07:15 PM            

For me the thought of darkskin or lightskin differences in culture are much conservative. I most say i thought that type of thinking as you describe from your ex girl friend and her mother do exist in to a lesser extent, in 2009. I am surprised. In our country we are now so mixed people. It should not be so.

Maybe she will come back to you again. Sometimes there is someting strange about love in our life. You could never realy know.

I have never looked at Sedna in any progress chart before . Sedna are now square my pluto. My natal pluto 12,49 in virgo SA sedna 13,07 in twins. Should i be scared? I like that you writing about. That is much intresting.

What do you think about
SA pluto conj venus?
SA eris conj venus?
SA sedna conj venus?
SA BML conj venus?

I am fascinated about asteroid. I cant stop reading the stoff.

posted August 23, 2009 08:04 PM            

SA uranus opposes my n sun (0) does that mean i'm about to do something spontaneous and stupid?

SA sun conjunct my Pr sun (0) in my n 4th house
I am about to move house!

posted August 23, 2009 08:26 PM            

Solar Arc Vertex conjuncts his natal name
Progressed Juno conjuncts his natal name
His Solar Arc Name conjuncts natal North Node

....just a little asteroid test for those that don't believe....

posted August 23, 2009 08:58 PM            

I always thought it was. Like I said before, I believe that Ceres is highly underrated. It's not some small object either. It's over 900 km in diameter. No asteroid comes close to that. That's why it's classed as a dwarf planet along with Pluto,Eris,Makemake,and Haumea. Ceres was classed as planet for half a century in the 1800's. So was Pallas,Juno,and Vesta. When it was discovered they were just a few of a new class of objects called "asteroids", their planethoods were stripped. That's the same thing with Pluto. Pluto was classed as a planet for 70 years. Now it's discovered to be one of a new class of objects called "kuiper belt objects", and now its planethood has been stripped. Pluto got the same treatment as Ceres. Ceres ranked lower than Pluto for many years, and now they are equals.

Ceres is much closer to our Earth than Pluto is, and it's of large size. Therefore, I don't see why Ceres should be viewed as not having a strong influence on us like Pluto which is larger but much farther away from our Earth than Ceres is. The combination of Ceres' size and distance from Earth compared to the combination of Pluto's size and distance from Earth makes it logical to think Ceres would actually be far more influential on us than Pluto would be.

CERES in wikipedia
Ceres, formal designation 1 Ceres, is the smallest identified dwarf planet in the Solar System and the only one in the asteroid belt. It was discovered on January 1, 1801, by Giuseppe Piazzi,[17] and is named after the Roman goddess Ceres — the goddess of growing plants, the harvest, and motherly love.

With a diameter of about 950 km, Ceres is by far the largest and most massive body in the asteroid belt, and contains a third (32%) of the belt's total mass.[18][19] Recent observations have revealed that it is spherical, unlike the irregular shapes of smaller bodies with lower gravity.[11] The surface of Ceres is probably made of a mixture of water ice and various hydrated minerals like carbonates and clays.[12] Ceres appears to be differentiated into a rocky core and ice mantle.[6] It may harbour an ocean of liquid water underneath its surface, which makes it a potential target in the search for extraterrestrial life.[19]

Origin and evolution
The observations imply that Ceres is a surviving protoplanet (planetary embryo), which formed 4.57 billion years ago in the asteroid belt.[56] While the majority of inner solar system protoplanets (including all lunar- to Mars-sized bodies) either merged with other protoplanets to form terrestrial planets or were ejected from the Solar System by Jupiter,[56] Ceres survived relatively intact.[47] (Another possible smaller protoplanet, Vesta, suffered a catastrophic impact after solidifying.[43]) However, there is a chance that Ceres formed in the Kuiper Belt that was captured by the asteroid belt.[57]

Further evolution of Ceres was relatively simple. Heated by the energy of accretion and by decay of various radionuclides including, possibly, short-lived elements like 26Al, Ceres differentiated into a rocky core and icy mantle soon after its formation.[11][47] This event caused resurfacing by water volcanism and tectonics, erasing older geological features.[47] However, due to its small size, Ceres cooled down quickly, and resurfacing processes stopped.[47][58] The ice on the surface gradually sublimated, leaving behind various hydrated minerals like clays and carbonates.[12] Now Ceres is a geologically dead body, whose surface is being sculptured only by impacts.[11]

The presence of significant amounts of water ice in its composition[6] raises the possibility that Ceres has or had a layer of liquid water in its interior.[47][58] This hypothetical layer is often called an ocean.[12] The water layer is (or was) probably located between the rocky core and ice mantle like that of Europa.[47] The existence of an ocean is more likely if ammonia or other antifreeze compounds are dissolved in the water.[47] The possible existence of liquid water inside Ceres makes it a target in the search for extraterrestrial life.[19] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Ceres

"For me the thought of darkskin or lightskin differences in culture are much conservative. I most say i thought that type of thinking as you describe from your ex girl friend and her mother do exist in to a lesser extent, in 2009. I am surprised. In our country we are now so mixed people. It should not be so."

I honestly don't know how they think. They are liberals. They are not conservatives. I don't believe my exgf is racist any way, and I am not sure about her mother. My exgf did show some racial fears and resentment during the presidential race. She even got irritated with me talking about black rights.

I and many others feel that racism is still a problem but it's just more subtle. Many people afraid to speak their minds now in these later times because of the fear of political correctness. It's a lot easier to speak their minds on the internet. I see a lot of racist stuff on the internet. Heck...I was watching the movie, Roots on youtube, and I saw a lot of racist messages. My mother and I live in Sacramento,California in USA. My mother tells me straight up it's a very racially prejudiced town even though it's a city that was voted most racially integrated major city here in USA.

"Maybe she will come back to you again. Sometimes there is someting strange about love in our life. You could never realy know."

I don't know. Even if she did, the trust is gone. Also she hasn't contacted me at all since she broke up with me. She cut off all contact with me.

"I have never looked at Sedna in any progress chart before . Sedna are now square my pluto. My natal pluto 12,49 in virgo SA sedna 13,07 in twins. Should i be scared? I like that you writing about. That is much intresting."

Yeah...Sedna is no joke. It has a very profound outerplanet influence. Transiting retrograde Sedna is opposing my Venus.

"What do you think about"
SA pluto conj venus?
SA eris conj venus?
SA sedna conj venus?
SA BML conj venus?"

I think:

SA Pluto conjunct Venus
Intensity,transformation affecting love,relationships.....need to avoid power issues

SA Eris conjunct Venus
diversity,ideology affecting love,relationships........equality issues are possible, need to avoid controversy,discord, and the "you're right and I am wrong" stuff

SA Sedna conjunct Venus
otherworldliness,spirituality,compassion affecting love relationships....need avoid victimization,abuse,betrayal

SA BML conjunct Venus
feminism,gender equality affecting love,relationships..............there is possibility of nonconformity,rebelliousness......as well as feeling like you're oppressed as a woman in relationships

Raymond

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“It is absolutely the perfect name,” Dr. Brown said, given the continuing discord among astronomers and the public over whether Pluto should have retained its planetary status.

In mythology, Eris ignited discord that led to the Trojan War.

posted August 23, 2009 10:02 PM            

The following stuff on Ceres is from Asteroid Goddess Report by Demetra George and Douglas Bloch:

Ceres, the archetypal Mother and the Goddess of Agriculture, gives birth to the world of
physical form, bearing children and providing food for their survival. As the Mother archetype, she stands for the principle of unconditional love and nurturing support in both women and
men. In the above mandala she is placed at the IC, the very bottom of the horoscope wheel, which in astrology is related to the foundation, the roots, and the family.

Ceres expands on the Moon's symbolism by further illuminating the relationship of a man to his mother and also to women and other nurturing figures in his adult life. In addition, Ceres signifies a man's own tender, caregiving side and the ways in which this part of his nature can
find expression. Typical manifestations of Ceres energies in a man are teaching and mentoring,pediatrics and pedagogy, farming and gardening, cooking and nutrition, medicine and therapy,ecology and environmental protection, and, of course, his part in helping his own children thrive
and grow.

Part One:
Ceres, the Mother
Appropriately, the first asteroid to be discovered was named after the Olympian goddess who most exemplifies the mother - the first human being with whom most of us have contact, the first relationship that we encounter in life. Ceres, the Mother, deals with all sorts of mother-child issues.
Of the four stages in a person's life, she signifies the Child.

The glyph or written symbol for Ceres takes the form of a scythe. Besides signifying the goddess of agriculture, this tool for harvesting suggests both the roundness of a breast and the themes of separation and death that run through the legend of Ceres. As the mother, she brings us into life,
and, like the Christian Mary who grieves over her crucified Son, she also lets us go into death, thus starting another cycle. For this reason she is associated with the IC of the horoscope, the very bottom of the day cycle, where, in the system of astrological houses, life begins and ends.

The Myth of Ceres
Known to the Greeks as Demeter, Ceres was the goddess of agriculture who worked unceasingly to bring food and nourishment to the people of the earth. One of the great classical myths tells of her daughter Persephone's ravishment and abduction by Pluto, lord of the underworld. Grieving,
Ceres wandered over the earth in search of her missing child. In her grief, depression and anger,she caused a famine, withholding production of all food until her daughter was returned.
Persephone meanwhile had eaten pomegranate seeds, a symbol of sexual awareness, thus giving Pluto a claim over her so that she could not be returned permanently to her mother. A compromise was reached whereby Persephone would spend part of each year in the underworld with Pluto caring for the souls of the dead, but each spring would be reunited with her mother in the upper
world as she initiated the dead into the rites of rebirth. For over two thousand years, this drama was celebrated regularly in ancient Greece as the initiation rites of the Eleusinian mysteries.

Ceres Within Us
Ceres represents the part of our nature that longs to give birth and then to nourish and sustain the new life. She represents the essential bonding or lack thereof that occurs between mother and child. She is the impulse not just to nurture, but also to be nurtured by others through the giving
and receiving of acceptance and unconditional love.
The story of Ceres and Persephone speaks to the complex mother-child relationship, emphasizing the interplay of closeness and separation, of nurturing and eventual letting-go as the child becomes an adult able to function on her or his own. Once the letting-go is accomplished, the child is free to reestablish the bond in a different key by becoming a friend to the parent and by producing grandchildren.

The Ceres myth also contains the themes of major physical or emotional loss, separation,
abandonment, rejection, and estrangement that occur between parents and children, and later in life with other loved ones. One example of this is the anguish we face in cases of divorce or adoption when we need to share our children with their other parent.

Ceres symbolizes attachment to
whatever we have given birth to or created, and also the agony of losing it. If her myth is one of loss, however, it is also one of return, of death but also rebirth. Reminding us that loss makes way for new birth, Ceres can teach us the lesson of letting go.
A central part of Ceres bonding is the giving of food as an expression of love. In our early experiences as children, this food and love may be freely given. In other instances, however, it is conditionally awarded, withheld as a form of punishment, pushed upon us, or simply neglected.
Then the self-love and self-worth of the child are undermined and underdeveloped, causing a host of psychological problems.

The mythological Ceres withheld food in the midst of her grief and depression. Correspondingly, one typical kind of Ceres wound is an obsessive relationship with food, including the whole range
of eating disorders and food-related illnesses. Related to this, there can also be problems with a poor body image.
In her grief, Ceres became immobilized. Thus another Ceres problem manifests as being plunged into depths of depression or despair, making us incapable of daily functioning, work, and all other
forms of productivity. To the extent that depression is associated with incomplete mourning,working through the stages of grief (shock, anger, bargaining, depression, and ultimately acceptance) can help to promote healing in times of loss.
An additional theme comes from Ceres's daughter Persephone being raped by Pluto, her mother's brother. This points to fears that parents may have in protecting their children from similar harm.
Certain Ceres placements in the chart may also point to one's having oneself experienced incest or other sexual abuse as a child.
In a desire to keep their children safe, parents with strong Ceres placements can become overly controlling and restrictive. In order to establish their own identity, their children may then struggle against the parental attachment. This, in turn, can bring up the Ceres theme of loss of the child.
On a transpersonal level, Ceres as the Mother of the World moves us to care about the homeless and hungry, and also about the destruction of the earth's resources. She urges us to take compassionate action to provide for fundamental human needs, and to care for the body of the earth which supports and sustains us.
Ceres not only gave birth to the living, but in her aspect as Persephone she received the souls of the dead back into her womb to prepare them for rebirth. Thus Ceres can also express as a vocation for either midwifery or hospice work, facilitating the transition from death to life and
back again on either the physical or the psychological level.
Ceres embodies the great truth of transformation, that from death comes new life. This comes not just from the Persephone part of her story, but also from the nature of food, which always requires
the taking of plant or animal life in order to sustain our own lives.

Ceres also teaches the wisdom that over-attachment and possessiveness can eventually bring loss,whereas sharing and letting go lead ultimately to reunion.
http://www.alabe.com/Diana-%20Asteroid%20Goddess.pdf

Ceres is no joke. I wouldn't dismiss it as a meaningless asteroid no kind of way. At least,the astronomers have given more respect to Ceres by promoting it to dwarf planet and giving it equal status with Pluto finally,and that's because of the discovery of Eris.
It fits with the myth of Ceres and Pluto too. Eris co-discoverer, Dr. Michael Brown pointed out that Eris' orbit is Persephone-like for it orbits half of its time far away from Pluto. He actually said that Persephone or Proserpina would have been a good name for Eris.

Raymond

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“It is absolutely the perfect name,” Dr. Brown said, given the continuing discord among astronomers and the public over whether Pluto should have retained its planetary status.

In mythology, Eris ignited discord that led to the Trojan War.

posted August 24, 2009 06:56 AM            

In 2002 juni-my ex husband died my daughter find him dead in bed. SA Sedna conj my moon and squared my merk. It s not easy to take care about all around someones dead. Huu. I´m happy we divorced a couple a year before. The tie between us was break and i could helped my children on a better way, i think.

In august 2003 - may 2005. SA Sedna square my merk/uran conj in Virgo. I moved with my daughter 400 kilometers from the town we lived in because i was persecute and real harrasment from my ex husbands family and sometimes also from my own family member. They used my daughter sometimes and she do not feel good so i took her with me. It was a hell in start.

We lived in a little room she and I. I payed much money. I dont get the house sold from the little town we come from. I had heavy expenses. I work in another country and get in shool there we lived. We moved three times in year 2003-2005 in the city we now live in. In 2004 also my son coming to live with us.

No 2009 my two children and I lived in same town on the same street. But we have different apartment. I helpt my children and bought the apartment to them through hard work. I do not get nothing for my house which get sold after a year.

Now Sedna square my pluto 12,49 (´13 separating) so its not out of orb yet. But when im looking backward when SA Sedna conj my moon 6,49 twins and square my merk 7,58, uran 8,33 virgo conj it could not be worse.

Im looking at my daughters chart when she find her father dead.

SA Sedna conj jup (ruler of the 7,8,9 house) ´21 applying
SA sedna semisquare sun (ruler of th 5,6 house) ´1 applying
SA mars (ruler of the 12 house)square sun ´34 separating
SA varuna conj IC `13 separating

When i looking backwards i wouldnt have miss that experience.We got a new much better life.
My children thanks me today for what i did. They will not moved back. Never. Now they get the possibilities to evolution.

When im looking at Sedna it scares but huuu. Strong changes really. But i will allways beleve that all changes in our life will be better if we take the situation and fight. Not everg give up.

I think its so intresting. That give me much when you writhing here and describe the experience in your life and which describe the aspect planet and how they connecting each other and so on.

In my transit Sedna is out of orb. My jupiter 23,17 in taurus and it out of orb everyting else to.

In my natal i have sedna sextil my venus

posted August 24, 2009 08:31 AM            

quote:

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Hi Lara,
SA Uranus=Sun is what suggesting all the intense kind of crazy stuff going on with your ex-husband and also suggestive of what was happening with your son on his birthday. Depending on what what house your Sun rules, that could also be a strong signal of your moving right now. It's an intense need for freedom and to fully be yourself.

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OMG Geo! you are so right! My sun rules house 7 in my natal chart!! It is true; i do have an intense need for freedom and to be fully myself
you totally ROCK with your analysis's of my chart, always..
I feel like you are really intune with me, thank you

posted August 24, 2009 12:28 PM            

I wonder about the following Solar Arcs
orbs

30 minutes applying and separating
1 year span

SA Juno conjunct N Sun - committed relationships highlighted
starting Dec 5, 2009
(this seems like a time for a committed relationship..even marriage)

SA Ascendant semisquare N Jupiter - expansion,optimism involving self/relationships
starting Dec 28, 2009

SA Venus square N Pluto - love,relationships that involving intensity,transformation
starting Jan 31, 2010
(this seems like a time for a relationship,intimacy, more sexual)

SA Moon conjunct N Eris - feelings,women relating to diversity,equality
starting Feb 2, 2010
(this seems to fit with interracial relationships but also advocacy like the neurodiversity advocacy that I am into)

SA Neptune semisquare N Mars - passion,assertion involving idealism,inspiration,sensitivity
starting Feb 13, 2010

SA Sedna conjunct N Midheaven - aim of life/domestic environment involving the otherworldly,compassion,spirituality
starting Feb 24, 2010
(this would be significant when it comes to being on a spiritual path/journey as well as volunteering, working with special needs)

Raymond

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“It is absolutely the perfect name,” Dr. Brown said, given the continuing discord among astronomers and the public over whether Pluto should have retained its planetary status.

In mythology, Eris ignited discord that led to the Trojan War.

posted August 24, 2009 03:10 PM            

Now SA sedna square my pluto separeting
In january 2010 my SA pluto opposite my Sedna applaying. What do you think could happend? What kind of transformation?

The same aspects problem after the other....

I also have now

SA mars square nept, ´40 separeting
SA nept opposite venus ´4 separeting
SA pluto conj valentine `15 applying
SA pallas,juno conj lust 25,32 applying

What do you think about that

posted August 24, 2009 05:56 PM            

"Now SA sedna square my pluto separeting
In january 2010 my SA pluto opposite my Sedna applaying. What do you think could happend? What kind of transformation?"

some type of spiritual transformation.

"The same aspects problem after the other....

I also have now"

SA mars square nept, ´40 separeting
SA nept opposite venus ´4 separeting
SA pluto conj valentine `15 applying
SA pallas,juno conj lust 25,32 applying

What do you think about that"

I don't look use asteroids in solar arc pictures except for the major asteroids aka asteroid goddesses (Ceres,Juno,Pallas,and Vesta). I also use Hygeia because it is the 4th largest asteroid,and is associated with health.

I also don't look at Solar Arc pictures that are over 30 minutes of arc.
Solar Arcs are said to last 1 year, and they are based on the idea that 1 degree equals 1 year. So 30 minutes of arc applying and 30 minutes of arc separating. The total of that is 1 degree. 30 minutes of arc applying covers 6 months before,and 30 minutes of arc separating covers 6 months after.

SA Neptune oppose Natal Venus can indicate love,relationships that involve sensitivity,idealism,inspiration.....but also can be confusion,deception

Raymond

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“It is absolutely the perfect name,” Dr. Brown said, given the continuing discord among astronomers and the public over whether Pluto should have retained its planetary status.

In mythology, Eris ignited discord that led to the Trojan War.

“She causes strife by causing arguments among men, by making them think their opinions are right and everyone else’s is wrong,” Dr. Brown said. “It really is just perfect.”