8405 Asbolus

[Ava]

Not sure what this asteroid means exactly, but it's intriguing.

It's transiting @ 27 Gemini if anyone's curious, and this is a slow asteroid, orbital period over 70 years.

Just recently named, there is a lot to study about this little body. His name comes from a Greek word meaning "soot" or "carbon dust", and probably derived from early Greece where charcoal burners were known for their black skin & face.

In mythology, Asbolus was a seer, or augur, with a reputation for accurately predicting the future. He foresaw the Centaurs' battle against the Lapiths at Pirithous' wedding, and how much of a calamity it would be for the Centaurs, but tried in vain to persuade them from fighting. And yet this Centaur is also said to have led the pack of Centaurs that rampaged toward Pholus' cave in an attempt to get the wine. And for this, Heracles is said to have crucified Asbolus with his arrows. The smell of the wine pervading the air, apparently, deadened Asbolus' abilities as a seer.

NOTED INDIVIDUALS
The following people have close natal Asbolus conjunctions, all less than 1 degree orb:

Asbolus conjunct Sun
Montgomery Clift (7' orb), Theodore Van Gogh, and Friedrich Nietzsche

Asbolus conjunct Moon
Ingmar Bergan and Igor Stravinsky

Asbolus conjunct Mercury
Paul McCartney (7' orb), James Watson.

Asbolus conjunct Venus
Cher (4' orb), Harrison Ford, George Orwell and Richard Strauss

Asbolus conjunct Mars
Fred Astaire and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (6' orb)

Asbolus conjunct Jupiter
Richard Burton, Anna Freud, Jack Lemmon, Melina Mercouri (8' orb) and Paul Newman ...but so do Slobodan Milosewic, Benito Mussolini and Margaret Thatcher

Asbolus conjunct Saturn
Joe Frazier and Mick Jagger

Asbolus conjunct Chiron
Agatha Christie, Max Ernst, Sergei Prokofiev

Asbolus conjunct Uranus
Audrey Hepburn, Benjamin Netanyahu, Linda Tripp, Stevie Wonder

Asbolus conjunct Pluto
Sigmund Freud (8' orb)

Asbolus conjunct North Node
Lloyd Bentsen, Daniel Berrigan, James Blish, Sean Connery, Betty Friedan

Asbolus conjunct South Node
Judy Blume, Willy Brandt

Asbolus conjunct Ascendant
Mel Gibson and Joseph Goebbels

It is way too soon to suggest keywords for Asbolus, but not too soon to start studying him in charts! How much of his nature will fit into the above myths? What can we derive by knowing that he links up Jupiter with Neptune.....the two rulers of Pisces?

Read more
zanestein.com/asbolus.htm

alexasteroidastrology.com/asbolus/

[lumina]

actually it is not an asteroid, but a centaur. Apparently there is a difference, but don`t ask me whaat it exactly is. I am sure Glaucus would know. Anyway centaurs are really slow movers. Didn`t Asbolus has something to do with sight, eyes or something of that sort? It rings a bell vaguely, but I might be wrong.



Ahh I stand corrected - yes an asteroid, but belonging to the Centaur class, which is apparently an own brand of asteroids, maybe farther out there, hence the longer time they need?


Anyway seems Asbolus was a prophet, a seer among the centaurs, apart from that not a very pleasant fellow it seems


"Asbolus is serious, intense, humorless, dedicated, strident, motivated, fearful, unsettling, bitter, caustic, foggy, and acerbic, and brings about ordeals and pessimism; it signifies conspiracy, mystery and oppression, the drive for accomplishment, the need for reputation and acclaim, for self-realization because of deeds done; on the one hand, impeccability in action, solidness and consistency, the ability to take compliments; on the other, reckless regard for reputation, lack of integrity, inability to take compliments."

markandrewholmes.com/asbolus.html


Mine is at 14 Leo, rx, doesn`T really do anything (at least in a closer orb), we could argue if it is maybe opposing my Moon, but that`s it.


BTW P`s Asbolus is at 23 Leo, so this asteroid-centaur moved only 9 degrees within 5 years. 

[lumina]

ups sorry, you already put the interpretation up there, I should have read the whole post before replying. I apologize.

[Deleted]

Ava, thanks for this. Very interesting asteroid/centaur.

I am surprised the site you quoted would consider such wide aspects, 7 degrees is no aspect at all in my book.

Asbolus is rather sinister in my chart. It is in the 12th, conjunct Lucifer, square Kaali but trine Venus.

Lucifer 15.19 Cancer
Asbolus 15.57 Cancer
Kaali 15.58 Aries
Venus 15.55 Scorpio

I could identify with most of these characteristics at some point in my life;
"Asbolus is serious, intense, humorless, dedicated, strident, motivated, fearful, unsettling, bitter, caustic, foggy, and acerbic, and brings about ordeals and pessimism; it signifies conspiracy, mystery and oppression, the drive for accomplishment, the need for reputation and acclaim, for self-realization because of deeds done; on the one hand, impeccability in action, solidness and consistency, the ability to take compliments; on the other, reckless regard for reputation, lack of integrity, inability to take compliments."

[Ava]

Very interesting @astrokeen,

Kaali-Asbolus-Venus in a Pythagorean rectangle (trine, square, quincunx)...looks dynamic! I would interpret that as Venus energy diffusing some of the excess tension of the Kaali-Asbolus/Lucifer square. What can't be resolved can at least be laid to rest (Scorpio Venus, endings for the sake of transformation).

The orb there is minutes ('), not degrees (°) so fortunately it's a strong list.

lumina

It makes sense Asbolus wasn't pleasant...imagine the frustration of being a prophet? 'Must be difficult to earn credibility.

I was saying on another thread that mine is rather prominent. Asbolus-Fortuna-Starr-Apollo-Lachesis sextile Mars-Telephus, forming a yod with my sun. Actually Asbolus is trine Jupiter-Anubis. I seem to have a good amount of spidey-sense asteroids in second decan fire (plus Neptune).