posted September 25, 2013 11:02 AM            

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Asteroid Atropos 273 is a main belt Asteroid discovered in Vienna on March 8 1888. She is the third dark aspect of the three fates. Atropos is the cutter of the cord of life and her Roman equivalent is Morta, Italian for death. So very final then! According to Demetra George “Her position in the birth chart shows how and where we bring our fate to it’s inevitable conclusion and how we cut the life thread when we experience endings, loss, closure and death.”[1]

Astronomical data: Atropos has diameter of just 29km and it has an orbital period of approximately 3.8 years. The meaning of the word is “the inevitable”, and what is impossible to put aside. It’s namesakes include the poison Atropo Belladonna or “Deadly Nightshade” and an ominous looking yellow and black moth called Acherontia Atropos or “Deaths Head Hawkmoth” There is even a skull motif on its thorax. It was regarded as an evil omen.

This moth is a thief and opportunist, it steals nectar from the honeybee. So Atropos is a scavenger, like the raven, and associated with both death and magic. Scavengers are looked down upon, but they are essential as natures recyclers and rubbish collectors. Maybe Atropos in the chart burns off once any for all any left over festering karma.

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I'm trying to make sense of this one. It is conjunct my Ceres, at the base of this kite formation:

Atropos: 1.31 Gemini
Ceres: 1.47 Gemini
Saturn: 0.36 Leo
Vesta: 0.35 Aries
Magdalena (apex): 1.32 Sag

Will think more about it and post again. In the meanwhile, does anyone else have a reading for their Atropos?

Edit: Going by this...

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I’d expect to find a prominent Magdalena in people who HAD strong ties to a traditional church, perhaps even worshipped devoutly as children or felt a connection to Christ but whom moved away from that.

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That is true! So Atropos has me cutting ties with the church, to the extent that I have to nourish myself (Ceres) a whole other way than I learned to do with my religious family...I do that by learning to speak my truth (Gemini) with structure (Saturn) so that I can be reborn (Vesta on the Pisces-Aries cusp)