CELEBRITY ASTEROID, POP STAR ANDROGYNY

Madonna, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Boy George, Shakespeare. What have they got to do with an unknown asteroid? Asteroids would seem to be rocks in space, not much to see or do unless you can make astrological sense out of them. Which is worth the effort as they will certainly give it.

Example for doubters of the principle. Poor unwilling celebrity, Schapelle Corby, stuck in a Bali jail on conviction of drugs smuggling she claims with good reason (given what’s been discovered about Sydney airport) were planted on her, shows natal Saturn conjunct asteroid, Bali. Then again, Princess Diana who was determined to marry Prince Charles, is shown by an asteroid, Diana, in perfect opportunity sextile to Charles’ marriage angle but also in uncomfortable square to difficult Saturn. There were problems.

Last week I finally followed an invitation at HoroZscope on the Net to be first to make an astrological comment on asteroid, ASTROGEOS which has been languishing around unstudied and uncommented since discovered at 17 of Cancer on 21.1.1988.

I’m pasting below what I put to the relevant Net site but which may get a bit more exposure than it is likely to obtain there if recorded here too. Also I could have said a bit more than I stuck into the small box so I’m adding a few more celebrity details. This may not be a “censured topic” but it’s likely to be what’s much the same, an ignored one if people don’t refer to this kind of useful information and it’s a fact that even most astrologers don’t explore the asteroids. I wrote:

Androgyny Asteroid

Androgeos should be an important discovery for astrologers. This is definitely the asteroid that marks out androgyny issues and impulses.

Notice that at discovery time suitably the Sun is at the beginning of, the moon at the end of, and Mercury, an androgynous planet, towards the middle of Aquarius, the sign long associated with the alternative, the different and androgyny. Pluto is in Scorpio the sex sign bespeaking transformation of ideas and research in that area. Even the sign of balance, Libra, rises. Uranus, ruler of Aquarius, is conjunct Saturn in philosophical Sagittarius which may have something to do with grounding and clarifying what the difference factor Uranus is about and the difficulty of realizing it.

Anyway, start testing this asteroid and you will find it works. Shakespeare's sun is exact trine this asteroid from Virgo. He was noted for his ability to see into and through both sexes and point towards enlightened androgynous attitudes - an ability which in terms of the regular planets is involved with his moon in Libra and his Neptune/Venus conjunction in Gemini (words). Androgyny has a great deal to deal with the air signs but this asteroid will help highlight what they are doing in a chart more specifically.

Pop Star Androgyny

See the chart of Madonna. Androgeos is exact trine her Virgo moon from Capricorn, perhaps a rather commercial/pragmatic use of the androgyny impulse but it is present within her work and involved with her odd notion she's a gay male in a woman's body.

If some of us have the right time for the chart of Gay Lib in June 1969 then Androgeos is conjunct the Midheaven of that chart which could amount to an interesting comment.

Here are what certain celebrities notably show. Boy George has Androgeos conjunct in less than two degree with his showy and cosmetics conscious Venus in Taurus. David Bowie has Androgeos conjunct his Capricorn sun. While it isn’t the closest of conjunctions for an asteroid (17 degrees to the sun’s 21 degrees) not only are wider conjunctions allowed with sun or moon but Androgeos is at the same time in nearly perfect sextile opportunity aspect to his Jupiter so he can enact and enlarge the whole androgyny idea for stage and make financial success of it (Jupiter in second of finances).

Mick Jagger (who for born at 6.30 am with 4 degrees of Leo rising for the benefit of the many in astrology who don’t seem to know the fact) has Androgeos at 14 of Libra (probably the most androgynous of the signs) near enough conjunct to his IC base of chart angle (at 11 Libra) from where it’s within opportunity sextile both his first house Mercury at 11 Leo and his fated nodes at 16 Leo so that bodily (first house) he can project physically an androgyny which seems rooted in his being (base of chart).

All these examples from show biz do however seem to reflect a rather physical, material and staged version of androgyny as opposed to the more essential psychological kind linked to the spiritual and to Jung’s hermaphrodite archetype and which I think Shakespeare’s chart demonstrates.

Myth, Minos and Name

In myth Androgeos was the murdered son of King Minos whose death caused the king's requirement of the regular sacrifice of the youth of Athens in requital. One could argue that the connection to Minos links androgyny somewhat to wealth, to gold and some earthy principle as in the charts of those showbiz people who have made androgyny work for them, but the deeper meaning as in psychology and religion brings on risk and sacrifice. Bur really I am unable to trace something specifically related to andogyny in this myth. In this case it seems the name, as so often with the asteroids, will have to suffice as guide to what Androgeos is about and does. What’s in a name? Quite a lot really!