Christy in Crispy Astrology

After discussing the systemic framework of asteroids, I’d like to dive into the myth of Ceres, the goddess of agriculture. Ceres, the Earth Mother and goddess of agriculture, had a daughter with Zeus named Persephone. Persephone was a pure, breathtakingly beautiful young maiden whose entire life revolved around her mother and her nymph companions. One day, Hades, the Lord of the Underworld, approached Zeus to ask about Persephone. "I fancy her," Hades declared. "Good luck with that. Her...

Demetra spent the first 25 years of her astrological career researching asteroids. In the late 1990s, she shifted her focus to Hellenistic astrology. While she eventually came to believe that fate exerts a greater influence on human life than free will, it was her decades of tracking asteroids, not the fate-heavy framework of Hellenistic astrology, that led her to this conclusion. Robert Schmidt, a prominent figure in traditional astrology, once told her: "If you can find a place for...

One reason asteroids face skepticism is how they are interpreted. The interpretations of an asteroid in a natal chart usually connect to the asteroid's name and the mythology revolving it, if there is one. However, the astronomers who first discovered these asteroids hold the naming rights. They usually have no background in astrology and name the asteroids based on their personal inspirations. For example, Ceres was discovered on January 1, 1801, by astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi in Sicily. In...