NASA’s mission Dawn is hurtling its way toward the dwarf planet Ceres. Much excitement has been generated about the latest photos taken of Ceres from 52,000 miles away. Follow me below the orange doodad to read more about the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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From the NASA website (click on link for pictures of Ceres) on the Dawn mission:
“Craters and mysterious bright spots are beginning to pop out in the latest images of Ceres from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. These images, taken Feb. 12 at a distance of 52,000 miles (83,000 kilometers) from the dwarf planet, pose intriguing questions for the science team to explore as the spacecraft nears its destination.
‘As we slowly approach the stage, our eyes transfixed on Ceres and her planetary dance, we find she has beguiled us but left us none the wiser,’ said Chris Russell, principal investigator of the Dawn mission, based at UCLA. ‘We expected to be surprised; we did not expect to be this puzzled.’ “
Uh huh.
Many astrologers consider the larger objects in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to be archetypal energies that need to be incorporated into our psyche. The reasoning behind this has to do with Bode’s Law which, although now discredited by science, stated that according to Harmonic Law, there should be a planet between Mars and Jupiter. Ceres was discovered, right where it was theorized to be, in 1801 by an Italian named Giuseppe Piazzi and for the next 50 years was considered to be the eighth planet in our solar system.
Some astrologers speculate the asteroid belt could be the remnants of a planet that was shattered at some point in time. Hence, the need for humans to find a way to integrate the energies represented by the various objects in the asteroid belt into our psyches. These energies are not a given like the Sun which represents our individuality and our will or the Moon which represents our patterns, our knee jerk reactions and what nurtures us.
It makes a very interesting point to accept unconditional love (a parent’s love for a child) must be consciously integrate into one’s psyche because it is not a given in our culture. Ceres is the Roman version of the Greek goddess Demeter whose daughter Proserpina was stolen by Hades (Pluto). Ceres was so grief stricken that she forbade anything to grow upon the Earth until her daughter was returned to her. Ceres was willing to do anything to have her daughter returned to her. Zeus (Jupiter), king of the Olympian gods and Proserpina’s father, had to interfere to convince Proserpina to come above ground for half the year before Ceres would relent and allow crops to grow upon the Earth again, and only for the amount of time Proserpina was above ground.
Ceres, in addition to unconditional love, also represents the great mother, the cyclical nature of the natural world, the cycles of womanhood and fertility, parenting and reproduction.
What do you think? Are the above energies something that must be integrated into our psyches? What about integrated into our cultural psyches? Do you think mothers, their love for their children, the cyclical nature of the natural world, womanhood, fertility, etc. are integrated into our culture or are they seen as “other”?
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Also, Mars and Venus are conjunct in the evening sky. Venus is the brighter planet. Mars is above her – smaller and reddish. Look to the western sky – a little to the south if you have clear skies.