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Asteroid Medusa: Protectress of Secrets
I can’t tell you when I started working with asteroids. I know it wasn’t from the very beginning, while I was memorizing facts and themes of the traditional planets and their potential expression, but it feels as if the asteroids have always been a part of my practice. Perhaps that’s because the Asteroid Goddesses–the name often given to the four primary asteroids used by many astrologers–speak uniquely to the Divine Feminine which has been a fixture of my magical practice. Pallas, Juno, Vesta, and Ceres give astrologers a new set of signifiers to indicate feminine energy in the cosmic makeup of people, events, and ages, and to view a chart without them feels like an incomplete picture to me. But there are so many more asteroids out there–potentially millions, several thousand of which have been named, recognized, and cataloged for astrological use. But very little work has been done on what they indicate, the energy they bring to the chart, and what they tell us about ourselves and our potential.
Over the last few months, I’ve felt a strange pull towards these bodies. I’ve read their names over and over again, looked at the ephemera, combed through their placements in my own chart and the charts of others. The absence of research into their influence felt like a gaping hole, a darkness begging to be illuminated. That’s when this project was born. Beginning this project with…
