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III. MINOR PLANETS

TALOS

Minor Planet 5786 Talos deserves special attention. Most asteroids reside primarily in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and take 3-5 years to circle the Sun. But Talos is one of a group of minor planets that is much closer to the Sun and make one orbit in a much shorter period of time. These bodies are classified as Apollo asteroids, named after the first such earth-orbit crosser that was discovered. And Talos is one of the three who get closer to the Sun than all the other asteroids (less than 0.2 au.) (The other two are Icarus and Phaethon.)

Talos was discovered 3 September 1991, at 5 Pisces 38 R. It reaches as far as 1.9757 au at aphelion, but only 0.18724 at perihelion. The orbital eccentricity is 0.82687, with an inclination of 23.234 degrees to the ecliptic. It takes 1.12 years to circle the Sun, only slightly more than an earth year.

MYTHOLOGY Talos was named for a character from Greek mythology, but there are two possibilities for which character.
nephew of the master craftsman Daedalus, who invented the saw; also known as Perdix. Fearing that Talos would become more highly regarded than he, Daedalus tried to murder him by throwing him off the Acropolis of Athens, but Athene saved him by changing him into a partridge.
2. The more widely referenced story was that Talon a giant automaton of bronze, created by the god Hephaestus to protect Crete. Talos served as a guardian, preventing invaders by hurling boulders at ships and, in close encounters, by searing them with his superheated body. He was powered by a river of divine ichor (life fluid) that flowed through a single vein, sealed by a bronze bolt at his ankle. When the Argonauts arrived, the sorceress Medea tricked Talos into removing this bolt, causing the ichor to drain out and the automaton to die. (I designed the glyph for this body to reference this robot.)

ASTROLOGY Mark attributes the following to this asteroid: envy, jealousy and hostility and dealing with it; having a chip on the shoulder; unprovoked attacks; territorialness; complaining about the world's evil or stupidity or feeling it deeply; ingenuity; inventiveness; learning to share and be welcoming and generous; bad karma.

I asked AI what the astrological influence of this asteroid was and received this reply:

Talos refers to asteroid 5786 Talos, which represents themes of technology, science, and protection. It also symbolizes where an individual is both physically strong and vulnerable, indicating an area where they are a gift to others, or a place where routine-breaking is harmful. Because this body takes only slightly more than a year for one orbit, then if you look at its position on the same date each year, it will appear to be moving a few degrees backwards each year. For example:

Jan 1 2010 01°Pi55' Jan 1 2011 27°Aq53' Jan 1 2012 22°Aq48' Jan 1 2013 16°Aq36' Jan 1 2014 06°Aq59'
Feb 1 2010 13°Pi41' Feb 1 2011 09°Pi54' Feb 1 2012 05°Pi42' Feb 1 2013 01°Pi18' Feb 1 2014 25°Aq20'
Mar 1 2010 26°Pi13' Mar 1 2011 21°Pi43' Mar 1 2012 17°Pi54' Mar 1 2013 13°Pi39' Mar 1 2014 09°Pi05'
Apr 1 2010 12°Ar58' Apr 1 2011 06°Ar08' Apr 1 2012 01°Ar20' Apr 1 2013 26°Pi49' Apr 1 2014 22°Pi40'
May 1 2010 05°Ta00' May 1 2011 22°Ar21' May 1 2012 15°Ar07' May 1 2013 09°Ar22' May 1 2014 04°Ar46'
Jun 1 2010 16°Ge11' Jun 1 2011 14°Ta22' Jun 1 2012 01°Ta14' Jun 1 2013 22°Ar33' Jun 1 2014 16°Ar21'
Jul 1 2010 08°Ge58' R Jul 1 2011 19°Ge19' Jul 1 2012 21°Ta25' Jul 1 2013 06°Ta17' Jul 1 2014 26°Ar38'

And Talos has a nine year return cycle. Or rather, it circles the Sun 8 times in approximately 9 years (8.96 to be exact.) For example, if you have Talos returning to your natal Talos on March 28, 2000, you will find it return again on March 28, 2009, March 28, 2018, and March 28, 2027.

In numerology, every ninth year is said to be a year of Endings, completion, compassion, and preparing for the next cycle.

The Apollo Plus 13
As of May 2016 there are 468,416 numbered asteroids, with 19,978 of these officially named, and I'm certainly not suggesting you try to put that many in your chart! (For an up-to-date list of all the named minor planets, check out this IAU website.)

***ATTENTION!***
Ceres is no longer classified an asteroid.
On August 24, 2006, the IAU declared Ceres a Dwarf Planet!
That doesn't change all that we have already discovered about this remarkable body....but now, more than ever, it's important for you to know where your Ceres is.

All of the "Big Four" (Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta),
Glyphs for Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta
have proven to be quite significant.
There are a great many studies available on the influence of these bodies. Some of these include:

Up until 1980, we only had those four to study. Then, Al H.Morrison and I got together and talked about some other bodies. He first released short ephemerides, covering 1900-2000, of these six as-yet-unresearched minor planets: Hidalgo, Toro, Icarus, Sappho, Eros and Lilith, and then these were soon followed by Amor, Pandora, Psyche, Urania, Apollo, America, Atlantis and Bacchus. Each one of these 14 bodies was published as a separate booklet, and people all over the world began studying them for the first time.

Unfortunately, when Al passed away, the publication of these booklets ceased, and it became more difficult to discover where your Pandora was, or whether you had a conjunction of Psyche and Eros....until now. I have just republished all 14 asteroids in a single volume. To order, click here.

Here follows some information on the Mini-Planets whose ephemerides are included in that volume. I hope that you find it useful and also hope that it encourages you to plunge into this research yourself. The order of bodies is not based on importance, only on my personal preference, since I tend to be more fascinated with some than with others.

[Halloran Software has a cool astrological font, and it comes with an additional font containing a whole slew of asteroids....including the fourteen that this page is about. Here is a list of the ones included on this font:

Aesculapia, America, Amor, Apollo, Arachne, Ariadne, Astraea, Atlantis,Bacchus, Ceres, Circe, Cupido-A, Daedalus, Dembowska, Demeter, Diana, Dike, Dudu, Eros, Eurydike, Frigga, Hebe, Hera, Hidalgo, Hopi, Hybris, Hygiea, Icarus, Industria, Isis, Juno, Kassandra, Lilith, Minerva, Nemesis, Niobe, Orpheus, Pallas, Pandora, Persephone, Pittsburghia, Proserpina, Psyche, Sappho, Sisyphus, Siva, Terpsichore, Themis, Toro, Urania, Vesta.

If you are interested, visit the Halloran Software website.]

Martha Lang-Wescott has a website focusing on the asteroids, and you can find out there how to get some of her excellent books on the subject.

Table of Contents

Hidalgo glyphHIDALGO
Icarus glyphICARUS

TORO
Eros glyphEROS
Pandora glyphPANDORA
Urania glyphURANIA
Psyche glyphPSYCHE
Lilith glyphLILITH
Sappho glyphSAPPHO
AMOR
Apollo glyphAPOLLO
BACCHUS
America glyphAMERICA
Atlantis glyphATLANTIS

Another perspective

Mark Andrew Holmes has a very interesting article on Hidalgo, Pandora and Lilith at http://markandrewholmes.com/hidpanli.html

Cybele and Rhea

Here are two other minor planets I began researching not long ago.

Click here, Minor Planets, to find out how to order an ephemeris of all fourteen bodies.

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