Taurus 29 = Melchior, Sun/Moon midpoint (draconic Groom)

Melchior is the commonly attributed name for one of the three wise men or astrologer kings in attendance to pay homage to Jesus and give him their gifts after his birth. In Spain, Melchior is said to be the mage representing Europe, but otherwise places like Persia and Babylon are more common suggestions of origin. Midpoints are discussed at length on several sites, but the one between Sun and Moon is said to marry the attributes of the two big luminaries and be the most significant of them.

The Sabian symbol for 29 degrees Taurus is below. The description is again quoted from the Rudhyar related site.

"PHASE 60 (TAURUS 30°): A PEACOCK PARADING ON THE TERRACE OF AN OLD CASTLE.
KEYNOTE: The personal display of inherited gifts.
A great person able to display a multitude of gifts is always, at one level or another, the consummation of a long past of efforts and victories. As a great occultist once wrote: "Adepts are the flowering of their races and cultures." The peacock is the bird consecrated to Venus; in occult tradition the Promethean Spirits who gave to animal mankind the divine gift of self-conscious intelligence had come from "Venus" — which may or may not refer to the physical planet we can observe in the sky.

This is the final symbol of the fourth scene, whose Keyword has been given as "Confirmation." This peacock symbol indeed confirms the social status of the owner of the ancestral estate. It indicates a CONSUMMATION of individual efforts; and it suggests that such a consummation is hardly possible except when a line of "ancestors" — biological or spiritual — forms its base."

When I started this I had not systematically looked at my asteroid positions and had no idea of their individual Sabian symbols. That I would find this midpoint directly tied to an astrologer king after the Ascendant and draconic MC got the "Constellations of stars at night" is rather amusing, but not the last good match.

Melchior seems by nature of the stories to be tied to either where we get or give gifts. The magi are said to tie to Zoroastrianism as well. The Wikipedia article on Angra Mainyu, the evil counterpart of the "Bountiful Spirit" Ahura Mazda in Zoroastrinism, has an interesting tie-in to peacocks, despite their apparently being used as guard "dogs" against intruders in India.

"Zurvanism's principal feature is then the notion that both Ahura Mazda (MP: Ohrmuzd) and Angra Mainyu (Ahriman) were twin brothers, with the former being the epitome of good and the latter being the epitome of evil. Further, this dichotomy was by choice, that is, Angra Mainyu chose to be evil: "It is not that I cannot create anything good, but that I will not." And to prove this, he created the peacock."

Melchior brings gifts and the Sabian displays them. Whatever I know about astrology or anything theoretical otherwise is obviously built on generations of other people's work.

Peacocks are tied to the eyes on their tails, relating to Argos Panoptes with his hundred eyes. Argos guarded Io for Hera for a time before Hermes lulled him to sleep and slay him to free her. Hera then placed the eyes of her faithful servant in the tail of a peacock. Eyes see, as they say. I have Io conjunct my Sun, Hermes opposite them by one degree.

Interestingly, there is a painting of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi with a peacock prominently positioned. Peacocks (or peafowl as I'm now told), are also the national bird of India, with their tails renewing every year for a symbol of renewal. This site points out their closeness to legendary phoenixes. This one says they "prefer peace and harmony and will try to avoid commotion".

I'll endeavour to talk more about the potentials of Groom once I get around to 25 Capricorn, natally "A Nature Sprit Dancing In The Iridescent Mist Of A Waterfall," but for now shall merely be amused over a potential mate or a partner, a groom to be, matching the Sun/Moon midpoint on the karmic, nodal level. As one would possibly expect as well in an ideal case, but even so.

Leo 6 = Ascendant, Taranis, Enya, Philia

My Ascendant is 6 Leo 53' 21". To quote the Khaldea site on Sabian symbols again, we get the following description.

PHASE 127 (LEO 7°): THE CONSTELLATIONS OF STARS SHINE BRILLIANTLY IN THE NIGHT SKY.
KEYNOTE: The power of basic spiritual values which refer to man's common humanity and to all enduring archetypes.

Every people on this Earth has developed the concept of constellations, probably because of a need to find order in existence and to personalize everything that could be given a permanent form. Such personalizations can be called "psychic projections," but the projection concept should be worked out both ways. If man projects his basic human nature upon the star-filled night sky, is it not just as logical to say that the universe projects its own forever-evolving patterns of order upon human nature? In either case we deal with archetypal factors which endure through a long series of generations.
The Keyword here is PERMANENCE."

Even without the interpretation below the Keynote line, as someone interested in astrology from at least the age of nine, to discover that your Ascendant is based on the constellations in the night seems nothing but right. As with the Sun's Sabian symbol, there is a feeling of familiarity and rightness for things.

To put it otherwise, would you take into consideration the astrological views of someone with their Ascendant on the symbolic constellations? ;) I'm personally starting to consider it.

I have a Mutable Grand Cross and other patterns galore going on in my chart as well as some other things that potentially add to my restlessness or unsettledness in interests or focuses, but throughout the years there has generally remained an interest in astrology. Cyclical as things always tend to be with me, with any returns to things leading the spiral deeper or further into whatever it is, astrology has seemed to have the most depth or the most to study or look into.

I do love the stars in the night sky in general though and astrophysics seemed interesting when I was in my late teens, but I move more on symbolic fronts.

Other than my Ascendant, at current I only remember 5370 Taranis, 6433 Enya and 280 Philia for other things present at 6 Leo. Taranis is 14 minutes away from the AC, the rest I don't recall right now. A thunder god with the wheel symbol prominent in his imagery, you could probably spin a lot out of that. I'll however not try to reinvent the wheel and go with what I recall from M.A. Holmes's description tying Taranis with technology, especially communications. I do like computers and robots if nothing else, and would love a proper space exploration program, even if it's limited to the closest things in our solar system for now. All that is meaningless when I like a zillion other things as well, but exists in any case.

On another note, there is nothing quite like lightning in the night sky. A glorious view.

Enya comes from the Irish singer Enya, "little fire", but is interpreted by me also to refer to the goddess Enyo or Enyalius through her being the Greek counterpart of Bellona, which is opposite my Sun/Moon midpoint. There probably is an Irish connection as well, but I haven't looked into that side for me personally. Enyo is "warlike", described as "supreme in war", and I suspect I may come off as seeming more belligerent than I expect through her and Bellona.

Enya may suggest something more ethereal as well given the singer's otherworldly style. I would need to look at it in the charts of people who do not have Bellona and other things positioned strongly to compare whether the goddess or mortal wins, or if both potentials feature with Enya. I remember Enya the best from her "Sail away" hit, but as she also featured for the Lord of the Rings movie music, there seems to be a strong instinctual connection to sailing to other worlds beyond this one. I also assume Celtic music may feature.

Philia is Brotherly Love, including that even of fellow voyagers. The direct link may or may not work, but Google "Philia asteroid" and the top result should lead you to a book with talk about it. The following is from Wikipedia however.

"Thus acts of philia might seem to be essentially egoistic, performed apparently to help others, but in fact intended to increase the agent's happiness. This, however, confuses the nature of the action with its motivation; the good person doesn't perform an action to help a friend because it will give her fulfillment; she performs it in order to help the friend, and in performing it makes both her friend and herself happy. The action is thus good both in itself and for the effect it has on the agent's happiness."

Other than those, at least my draconic chart MC, Desdemona and Midsomer Norton fall on 6 degrees Leo. More of those once I get to early Aries.

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of astrology. The stars are there for everyone. Why try to keep them to myself?

Leo 28 = Cortina, Tutenchamun, Louhi, Huya, Pecker

My Sun is at 28 degrees 19'44" Leo in my chart. The degree is shared by asteroids like 50240 Cortina, 1629 Pecker, 4848 Tutenchamun, 38628 Huya, 85 Io and 3897 Louhi at least, out of the ones I currently remember or know about.

The Sabian symbol for Leo 29 is below. I have quoted some of the text from a Dane Rudhyar/Astrological mandala site that comes up among the first options when googling Sabian symbols.

PHASE 149 (LEO 29°): A MERMAID EMERGES FROM THE OCEAN WAVES READY FOR REBIRTH IN HUMAN FORM.
KEYNOTE: The stage at which an intense feeling-intuition rising from the unconscious is about to take form as a conscious thought.

"The mermaid personifies a stage of awareness still partially enveloped by the ever-moving and ever-elusive ocean of the collective Unconscious, yet already half formulated by the conscious mind.
The YEARNING FOR CONSCIOUS FORM AND SOLIDITY."

I'm talking Cortina first because while people say that planets within 17 minutes of the Sun are purified Cazimi ones, I have Cortina 17 seconds conjunct my Sun.

Cortina gets interpreted by me through the Regulus conjunction of the late Leo degrees. Regulus, the heart of the lion, Cor Lionis or something of the sort as listed on sites about Fixed stars. Cor Tina, the heart of Tina then, ignoring the actual meaning further below. The name has some meaning to me on personal levels, yes, should you be wondering. Tina stems primarily from Christina and Christine, meaning a Christian person.

Alternatively, Cor Tina for a heart of tin? The word also sounds like "court in a" or even "courting a (something)". Or Ford Cortina cars, at a pinch. Which would you prefer? Given the Cor-Heart interpretation, should we be looking at the heart of Christianity through the positions of Cortina? Mother Theresa had Cortina 1 degree conjunct her Sun likewise, if going by a chart and time found from Google.

Cortina as an asteroid is supposed to tie to the Cortina d'Ampezzo Italian mountain holiday resort and was discovered by an observatory in the area, but for now I'm not feeling connections to the place in my case. I'd need to look into the 1956 winter Olympics having been held there as well though, same as some James Bond movie connection, but as I dislike winter as it manifests in Northern countries or high-altitude mountainous regions, I am not entirely or necessarily at ease with the heart of winter the closest to my Sun. It might reflect Louhi coming from the North as well perhaps, but I would need to think more closely on it to say more in this case.

I do however find it interesting that Wikipedia has "German: Hayden" listed for its name. Cortina d'Ampezzo is supposed to mean "Graveyard of Ampezzo" if you trust the Wikipedia article. My first mental connection from the German name is haven, and it suits my image of graveyards as well. I've always found them highly peaceful and resonating places for the most part. They have history and depth.

The coat of arms appears to have a tower with two fir trees on both sides of it. Towers and that I may relate to, mountains, not particularly. Being encircled and closed in 360 degrees by the Dolomites or any other mountains does not seem an ideal scenario to me, but may reflect something of Cortina's nature then. A valley surrounded on all sides? Is this death or the grave, peace with no apparent out? But why would you want out either - or - you need to pass the mountains to get out? I wouldn't know. The place itself comes with the valley and holiday resort in any case, so is more pleasant in associations despite everything people may fear about graveyards.

Cortina translates to curtain, screen or hanging on Google, so either the Sun gets behind and past anything of the sort to shine and illuminate things even so, or everything shines through a shimmering pair of curtains or is screened. Something screened would correlate with things buried in the graveyard of the Cortina d'Ampezzo village translation. Otherwise, something either hangs in the way or provides shade.

Pecker I believe gets known through the colloquial meanings. We are talking dick here, if you'll pardon my French. From what I recall, there was a site somewhere that spent a long time analyzing the position of relevant asteroids in the chart of Bill Clinton, Pecker being one of the ones featured in relation to his scandals.

I am female, the Sun is said to tie to the masculine forces in the chart. That I'm heterosexual has no bearing on Pecker's position, but I do happen to be that, yes. I may go into some of the asteroids that refer to the male member at some stage in any case, given the connection, while also noting that none seem to exist in asteroids in relation to female anatomy. Even if going by mere surnames of scientists that happen to match slang words for penis.

Noblesse oblige, Pecker must in any case?

In this case I also see Pecker as being a joke of the universe. Things that are one thing but get understood or seen as something else simply because the masses titter over such a thing as their joke. Reinterpretations of meanings happening whether it actually has anything to do with the subject matter or not.

There is also pecking at things, keeping poking at them? Woodpecker becomes the Sun-pecker in my case.

I slightly disagree with what I recently read about the asteroid Tutenchamun being strongly positioned in a person's chart denoting their interest in Egyptology from the archaeological or "grave-digging" point of view. It may in part and in my case seems to tie to (metaphorical) graves and poking at things, but the popular image of Tutenchamun or Tutankhamen is still the glorious gold and blue death mask everybody sees pictures of sooner or later in their lives. That is what he's primarily about to people. Gold and thus far the most glorious discovery of Egyptology throughout time. Pomp. The big thing, the showiest or grandest thing there is.

Then again, it is conjunct my Leo Sun and a Cazimi one by 5-6 minutes, so you may have to excuse my grandiosity coming in the way of everything else.

Most people don't think about Tut having been so young even when he died, or that he was a minor pharaoh compared to some of the most accomplished or glorious ones. Tutankhamen is less than we understand him to be, but a vision of a luxurious world gone all too long ago. He is a gift from the past, something kept secret through time until the time to discover the tomb? After that, he becomes one of the main symbols for what he relates to. Egyptology on the whole in general, but if such symbolic leaps were to hold otherwise as well, well, who knows?

Louhi is a matriarch and mistress or ruler of the North in the Finnish national epic Kalevala. The heroes of Kalevala come to her land to court her daughter and she sets them tasks in the typical mythological story pattern. I'm currently not sure how exactly she's involved with magic aside from having the power to lock away both the Sun and the Moon in a nigh Amaterasu-deal in a cave, but apparently she has power of some sort even on other magical fronts. Especially with frost and cold and shape-shifting. With my Moon 2 degree orb opposite my Sun conjunct Louhi, she seems significantly positioned.

One thing she asks from the heroes is for them to make her the Sampo, which is some sort of a mill for three types of riches. However, when her daughter prefers a younger and better looking suitor to the old wizard and whoever it was, the "heroes" take a grudge to her having the riches and steal the Sampo and run off. She transforms into some sort of a big bird creature and flies after them, and in the ensuing battle, the Sampo thing is lost into the sea. Which, as far as I'm concerned, is still a better option than her letting the "heroes" have it willy-nilly.

The asteroid Louhi could thus denote a position of female power and asking for things in return for something, but with the potential of others not liking your having them in the end and having to fight for it?

So we have doubly the hearts of things or "court in a" Regulus Leo Sun in conjunction to something peckish, or peckerish in dishes perhaps reinterpreted, a grandiose vision of a king from something long gone, and a witch of transformations and enchantments ruling the North, willing to fight for what she sees as hers. I think I'm cool with that. ;)

However, for potential dangers inherent, there is the fact that with so much for the Sun, the ego, you, when the Sun is also said to reflect a part of what a woman wants in their men, who would ever do for such a mate? I don't know of Louhi having a partner or consort named either, although I could be wrong.

There is in any case the imagery of changing shape and asking for something to be put into form to benefit and bring riches to you and your people, even with the danger of losing it into the depths of the sea if stolen and there is a contest for it. With the Sabian symbol having a mermaid and an interpretation talking of the sea "of the collective Unconscious", you could take such things as symbolically "potent-full". It's also reflected in what the posts are in a way, taking inklings and trying to put them into shape.

Io was a nymph of Hera's who caught the eye of Zeus and despite at least initially resisting, was seduced (?) by Zeus in the shape of a cloud. She was then changed into a cow to hide things from Hera. Because of Hera's jealousy or wrath she ended up driven to and plagued in Egypt for a long time before an eventual return to humanoid form. She's apparently known as "the horned virgin".

Without any of that, my first thought of Io is the Io9 website with their more science fiction related talk. There appears to be a theme of shape-changing with her as well in any case, and if you like, a king of gods for a lover, although causing you harm more so. I don't think I have a handle on Io for the moment though, although considered her as a stand-in for Iole in relation to Herakles at one stage, there appearing to be no asteroid named Iole that would correspond to the highly archetypal energies from the myth missing for now. Her story is fascinating and you should look it up sometime.

Louhi is also alleged to refer to an underworld goddess Loviatar, the Kalevala epic having been sewn together from bits and pieces by the gatherer Lönnrot. I find this significant only because Cortina apparently means graveyard and I have Tutenchamun conjunct those two. Three things that could relate to something buried or under the surface, dug out or otherwise. If the Sun brings light to or purifies that with which it is conjunct, dead or buried things (of or with power?) or the subconscious seem lit up or burning with solar fusion in my case then. Or maybe I should consider a career in undertaking, wrong direction as it seems with all that. I'm choosing to ignore that Io got harassed into Egypt for another connection to Tut, for now.

Having since first writing these read Mark Andrew Holmes's views on some asteroids, it appears there are certain similarities between what I felt for Tutenchamun and what he notes for that particular asteroid. He lists "service, awareness of something missing, environmentalism, failure to pay attention" for Huya, "a god of the Wayuu Indians of northwestern Venezuela and northeastern Colombia who is associated with the rainy season". I'm not entirely sure what to make of all the aspects listed at the site though when mine comes with the Sun and thus seems automatically more whatever than anything listed there.

Huya is right at the end of the degree, 59' past it. I know there are a lot of things missing, but I assume one doesn't need Huya to tell you such things. Cortina d'Ampezzo's Wiki-article noted the water sources as well, but I also doubt my particular connection makes for generic ones. I have served and find it a noble enough in its own way, depending on the type of service. I don't agree with all angles of everything I've read at the site thus far, but have no information beyond that to say anything about Huya even on instinctual guess levels for starting points.

Huya is however a plutino, tied to Neptune, so there is a watery connection through that in its way as well. It's big and it should be noted, but we haven't seemed to figure out how yet. "Juyá — god of rain, a warrior, hunter, seducer and inhabitant of “the place beyond the Sun.”"

That it's on the mermaid Sabian degree however, well, that is entirely up to you in interpretations again. If you think I've missed something as well, please comment or email me with more insights.

But why would it work? Why would you care, if it works?

I recently read someone say something about how since there are thousands of small asteroids and other objects being found in the solar system all the time, they cannot have any significance in anybody's astrological charts. I instinctively disagree. It's not the researched approach, but to me the appearance and inclusion by some of such things in their astrological work reflects the world as it is these days.

We are no longer merely about the big things. We have an increasingly fractured world that specializes and turns into specific niches more and more. How wouldn't the asteroids, centaurs and Kuiper belt objects fit into astrology for a world like that?

Not everybody responds to everything in the world either. We don't all need to respond to everything, do we? We reflect different things or levels, whatever you want to call it. Basically, as the argument goes that nothing up there can have any influence on people in any case, why are you dismissing the asteroids simply because there are so many of them to deal with? If Fixed Stars have influence, why not a rock a few kilometres wide somewhat closer, IF anything of the sort is taken to have any influence at all?

My main approach is "If it works, it works". I don't necessarily care why, I just want to look at if it works in similar fashions for large groups of people otherwise as well. If it doesn't for everybody, then it doesn't. If it works for a large group even so, then it works for them. Since I don't have large groups of people at hand, I'm forced to start from my perspective first. The rest of the work can follow when it can.

I know how subjective symbolic interpretation can get with Tarot cards or more, but am more on the "working on subjective levels" sides when it comes to focus on people. Who am I to judge another religion than whatever mine might be working deeply for another person, or belief in the football season being the light of someone else's life?

The Alpha, if not the Omega, in whys

I appear to have need of an astrological blog on the side. Astrology, asteroids and archetypes was born finally somewhere toward or before 5am on 7.11.2010 in thoughts and the phone claims 05:11am for the first words written. Probably a minute earlier but hey, 11 is cooler, what? I slept a bit earlier, should you be wondering about the time.

There are many things and so little time, again, and your holistic (to some degree) or Everything At Once approach kills individual posts, but I'll try to limit myself on topics to work through things.

"Isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed?" and "And I felt it welling inside me, like a sneeze, or an orgasm, determined to come out, will-I or never-so," with "Atlantis is calling, S.O.S. for love" as some quotes that relate to some of the things in mind. Bad (?) 80s songs and Sandman quotes galore it's to be then, I see. You'll have to wait for the relevant posts to see why.

Archetypes. Songs reflect them as well, and since the approach will be highly intuitive at best, it is "Whatever works". It's not up to me to decide if it works for others or if they get any further insights from whatever you may get in images.

I recently finally found a list of Sabian symbol descriptions as well, so those will feature along even if I'd disagree on some nuances at times. I may or may not be drawn to draw or illustrate whatever over time. Hope that I would be, since that would mean getting over my ever persistent reluctance and actually feeling something enough for it to force its way through despite that. Like writing any of these, hopefully. There is a need only for so long and then it's gone, apparently. You can put it down to Mars in Gemini or that involved in a mutable Grand Cross all you like if you like, I don't particularly care or know if it's such things alone.

Things go in cycles for me and when it's time for something, it's time. There is also so much and so little time when it comes to it that I need to try and work on such things through something like this if at all possible.

When asking for a current Sabian at the Lynda Hill site Oracle page a day before the thought for this in any case, the following was got. Make of it what you will.

ARIES 10
A TEACHER GIVES NEW SYMBOLIC FORMS TO TRADITIONAL IMAGES

You may be holding back your ideas because you think it has all been done before, but it is yet to be done your way. Bring out something new and it will revitalize those around you. Looking at things in a different light will allow you to revision old thought forms with new. Try to find new solutions to old ideas.

Reinterpretation. New dimensions of consciousness breaking through old thought forms. Quantum science.

The Caution: Rejecting old ideas because they are old, instead of reforming them OR stick with the tried and true and not changing with the times.