Post by svenskasfinx on Oct 6, 2004 22:19:05 GMT
I was reading something a long time back in a dell horoscope magazine, and I mean really far back some ideas about the names of asteriods being just enough for some remarkable coincidences.
When I found I could draw up charts with some of them, just by adding them manually into Astrodent extended menu, I found a few surprises. However I did not find one with my own name... just ones a few concerning some names I have used on the internet and the relationship to my own horoscope.
3412 Kafka (as I used the name Kafka's unfulfilling muse and happen to be an admirer of his works, and him also being a cancerian born around or about the same degree as mine.) It is in conjunct my MC by 2 degrees. My feelings about the asteriod Kafka, are if named after Franz Kafka, proves to make some kind of mark after they "disappear" or die, for the internet's sake, I feel that disappear is more of the word needed.
896 Sphinx I had taken on that name for a while now on a few forums, I used it due to a dream I had where I found I was a relative to the Sphinx.. this is why svenskasfinx is my name here. I only found this out two months ago that this asteroid is conjunct my mars, in the first house and is the first thing after my ascendant, so it does mean something to me I guess.
57 Mnemosyne this is one of the older ones, goes along with some of our "traditional" female archetypes, she is known for being the goddess of memory and the mother of all the muses, a boon for the creative is the memory, a brilliant source, she is at 7.51 virgo in a wide conjuntion to the moon (12.35) in the fourth house..
I adapted this name for my astrological "forum", but it had been inspired by a dream of Howard Devoto, I had which touched upon the myth of the titian Mnemosyne, which I had never heard of before...
www.loggia.com/myth/mnemosyne.html
Mnemosyne in Greek Mythology
The name of this female Titan means "memory". Her main role in Greek mythology is as the mother of the Muses - nine daughters who each represented aspects of the arts and humanities. According to the legend, Zeus, the ruler of the Olympian gods and goddesses, had an affair with the Titan Mnemosyne, the result of which was the birth of the Muses.
The ancient Greek poet Hesiod mentions Mnemosyne in his Theogony:
"Mnemosyne, mistress of Eleutherian hills,
lay with father Zeus and in Pieria gave birth to the Muses
who soothe men's troubles and make them forget their sorrows."
(Hesiod, Theogony, 53-55)
A contemporary invocation of Mnemosyne can be found in a novel that was published in 1990:
"Help me Mnemosyne, thou Titaness
Thou ancient one, daughter of Heaven and Earth,
Mother of the Muses, who inhabit not
In flowery mount or crystal spring, but in
The dark and confin'd cavern of the skull -
O Memory, who holds the thread that links
My modern mind to those of ancient days"
- A.S. Byatt, Possession
as there is a connection between, being "Kafka's unfulfilling muse" (which one that may be, maybe I have to look into the nine daughters names later) and then the sphinx... learning her riddles from the muses.. so it falls back upon itself.
Looking at other charts, I tend to see a conjunction here and there of some of these with some other creative asteriods, for example a close conjuntion of Kafka and Sapho in pisces Howard Devoto's chart, seems to suggest his creative force and talent will probably only be admired after he is no longer living.
moon conjunct mnemosyne in scorpio ( I don't have house information as I don't have his birth time) could mean being someone who makes himself a strong emotional part of memory in a collective, public sence.. (the moon remember, in scorpio)
This is all from a bit of research into a few close friends as well... but if anyone wishes to research and validate it, I feel mnemosyne, is well worth a look due to the archetype of her name's sake.
Am I making a mountain out of a mole hill or could I actually be on to something?
When I found I could draw up charts with some of them, just by adding them manually into Astrodent extended menu, I found a few surprises. However I did not find one with my own name... just ones a few concerning some names I have used on the internet and the relationship to my own horoscope.
3412 Kafka (as I used the name Kafka's unfulfilling muse and happen to be an admirer of his works, and him also being a cancerian born around or about the same degree as mine.) It is in conjunct my MC by 2 degrees. My feelings about the asteriod Kafka, are if named after Franz Kafka, proves to make some kind of mark after they "disappear" or die, for the internet's sake, I feel that disappear is more of the word needed.
896 Sphinx I had taken on that name for a while now on a few forums, I used it due to a dream I had where I found I was a relative to the Sphinx.. this is why svenskasfinx is my name here. I only found this out two months ago that this asteroid is conjunct my mars, in the first house and is the first thing after my ascendant, so it does mean something to me I guess.
57 Mnemosyne this is one of the older ones, goes along with some of our "traditional" female archetypes, she is known for being the goddess of memory and the mother of all the muses, a boon for the creative is the memory, a brilliant source, she is at 7.51 virgo in a wide conjuntion to the moon (12.35) in the fourth house..
I adapted this name for my astrological "forum", but it had been inspired by a dream of Howard Devoto, I had which touched upon the myth of the titian Mnemosyne, which I had never heard of before...
www.loggia.com/myth/mnemosyne.html
Mnemosyne in Greek Mythology
The name of this female Titan means "memory". Her main role in Greek mythology is as the mother of the Muses - nine daughters who each represented aspects of the arts and humanities. According to the legend, Zeus, the ruler of the Olympian gods and goddesses, had an affair with the Titan Mnemosyne, the result of which was the birth of the Muses.
The ancient Greek poet Hesiod mentions Mnemosyne in his Theogony:
"Mnemosyne, mistress of Eleutherian hills,
lay with father Zeus and in Pieria gave birth to the Muses
who soothe men's troubles and make them forget their sorrows."
(Hesiod, Theogony, 53-55)
A contemporary invocation of Mnemosyne can be found in a novel that was published in 1990:
"Help me Mnemosyne, thou Titaness
Thou ancient one, daughter of Heaven and Earth,
Mother of the Muses, who inhabit not
In flowery mount or crystal spring, but in
The dark and confin'd cavern of the skull -
O Memory, who holds the thread that links
My modern mind to those of ancient days"
- A.S. Byatt, Possession
as there is a connection between, being "Kafka's unfulfilling muse" (which one that may be, maybe I have to look into the nine daughters names later) and then the sphinx... learning her riddles from the muses.. so it falls back upon itself.
Looking at other charts, I tend to see a conjunction here and there of some of these with some other creative asteriods, for example a close conjuntion of Kafka and Sapho in pisces Howard Devoto's chart, seems to suggest his creative force and talent will probably only be admired after he is no longer living.
moon conjunct mnemosyne in scorpio ( I don't have house information as I don't have his birth time) could mean being someone who makes himself a strong emotional part of memory in a collective, public sence.. (the moon remember, in scorpio)
This is all from a bit of research into a few close friends as well... but if anyone wishes to research and validate it, I feel mnemosyne, is well worth a look due to the archetype of her name's sake.
Am I making a mountain out of a mole hill or could I actually be on to something?
