The New Moon in Libra is in exact conjunction with centaur Thereus.

Thereus was discovered in 2001 and named in 2003 from Greek mythology after one of the centaurs who attended the Lapith king Pirithous’ wedding and was killed by Theseus. Centaur Thereus was a hunter who captured bears and carried them home, alive and struggling. The phrase thēreios bia, ”beastly strength”, used to describe centaurs in Greek mythology. The orbital period is 34.7 years. Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.20 and an inclination of 20° with respect to the ecliptic.

The following people have their Sun in conjunction with Thereus within one degree.

Ian McLellan Hunter (Aug. 8, 1915 – March 5, 1991) was an English screenwriter, best remembered for fronting for the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo as the credited writer of Roman Holiday (1953). Hunter was himself later blacklisted. (The Hollywood blacklist was the mid-20th century banning of suspected Communists from working in the United States entertainment industry.) – The Sun conjunct Thereus in Leo.

Helena Kara (Aug. 16, 1916 – Feb. 26, 2002) was a beloved Finnish film actress. She gave up the film business after 1952. A dog bit her in the face so that a visible scar was left, and she did not want to be in films anymore. – The Sun conjunct Thereus in Leo.

Boris Yeltsin (Feb. 1, 1931 – April 23, 2007) served as the first president of the Russia from 1991 to 1999. He played a significant role in the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Yeltsin made a memorable speech standing on a tank outside of the Russian White House and resisting the coup attempt in Aug. 1991. – The Sun conjunct Thereus in Aquarius.

Miloš Forman (Feb. 18, 1932 – April 13, 2018) was a Czech-American film director, who was an important figure in the Czechoslovak New Wave. He immigrated to the United States in 1968. He received two Academy Awards for Best Director, one for the psychological drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and one for the biographical drama Amadeus (1984). – The Sun conjunct Thereus in Aquarius. (Jack Nicholson, who starred in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, has a tight Sun-Thereus conjunction in Taurus.)

Herbert Alpert (March 31, 1935) is an American trumpet player who led the band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s. After years of success, Alpert had a personal crisis in 1969, declaring “the trumpet is my enemy.” He disbanded the Tijuana Brass, and stopped performing in public. Eventually, he sought out teacher Carmine Caruso, “who never played trumpet a day in his life, (but) he was a great trumpet teacher.” Alpert told: “What I found, is that the thing in my hands is just a piece of plumbing. The real instrument is me, the emotions, not my lip, not my technique, but feelings I learned to stuff away—as a kid who came from a very unvocal household. Since then, I’ve been continually working it out, practicing religiously and now, playing better than ever.” – The Sun conjunct Thereus in Aries.

Leonard Lipton (May 18, 1940 – Oct. 5, 2022) was an American author, filmmaker, lyricist, and stereoscopic vision system inventor. At age 19, Lipton wrote the lyrics to the song ”Puff, the Magic Dragon”. – The Sun conjunct Thereus in Taurus.

Johnny Hallyday (June 15, 1943 – Dec. 5, 2017), “the French Elvis”, was a French rock and roll singer and actor, credited for having brought rock and roll to France. He was one of the best-selling artists in the world. – The Sun conjunct Thereus in Gemini.

Camilla (July 17, 1947) is the wife of King Charles III and Queen of the United Kingdom. On Sept. 8, 2022, Charles became king upon the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, with Camilla as queen consort. – The Sun conjunct Thereus in Cancer.

Nicolas Cage (Jan. 7, 1964) is an American actor and film producer. “Nouveau Shamanic” is a style of acting developed by Cage. “The process itself is about: How do you augment your imagination in a healthy way? So that you can believe you’re these characters… You don’t feel like you’re acting, you feel like you’re being.” Film director David Lynch described him as “the jazz musician of American acting.” At one point in his life, Cage had decided that he wanted to develop the philosophical aspect of his nature, and he went on a quest to find the Holy Grail. Cage traveled to England to look for it, but also looked at some areas of the United States. – The Sun conjunct Thereus in Capricorn.

Kanye West (June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is among the most successful musicians of the 21st century. He is also known for his controversial public persona. – The Sun conjunct Thereus in Gemini.

Usain Bolt (Aug. 21, 1986), “Lightning Bolt”, is a Jamaican former sprinter, who is widely considered to be the greatest sprinter of all time. In 2021 he released a single titled “Living the Dream” with his childhood friend and manager Nugent ‘NJ’ Walker. – The Sun conjunct Thereus in Leo.

This is an intense New Moon. The Moon is in its home sign Cancer. When a planet is in the sign that it rules, it is in a strong position and able to operate powerfully. The Sun and the Moon in Cancer are in cojunction with Mercury retrograde and centaur Eurytus. In Capricorn opposite the New Moon is cubewano Máni.

Máni is one of the large bodies named last year. It is named from Norse mythology after the personification of the Moon. Máni controls the course of the Moon and rules over the New Moon and the Full Moon. The astronomical cubewano Máni has some extreme features in its physical properties. There is a mountain peak among the tallest known and a crater among the deepest known for bodies of the Solar System.

A New Moon is always a conjunction of the Sun and the Moon. At the time of the Full Moon, the Sun and Moon are opposing each other. Now that the Moon is conjunct the Sun and Máni is opposite the Sun, it evokes the image as if both were happening simultaneously.

Centaur Eurytus reminds us of the Centauromachy, the famous battle between the centaurs and the Lapiths in Greek mythology. The battle is said to represent the struggle between civilization and barbarism. The centaurs were guests at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia. Eurytus was the fiercest of the centaurs, and he tried to abduct the bride. All the other centaurs were up in a moment and tried to seize the other women. The centaurs were beaten, many of them were killed, and the rest were driven off by the Lapiths. One person’s toxic behaviour led to serious consequences when the crowd reacted.

The Moon rules the masses and crowds, things of public nature, and collective reactions, and the fast moving Moon can act as a trigger. Keep your calm!

Summer Solstice – June 21, 2026, 08:24 UT

The New Moon occurs at 24+ degrees of Gemini. There are two large trans-Neptunian planets in the same degree with the Sun and the Moon, ”Buffy” and Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà.

Buffy is a nickname given to (612911) 2004 XR190 by its discovery team. It has not been officially named yet. Buffy is kind of a hybrid. It is classified as both a scattered disc object and a detached object. It is the largest known highly inclined object with an estimated diameter of 335 to 850 kilometers. The inclination is almost 47° with respect to the ecliptic, which means that it is traveling rather up and down than left to right around the Sun when viewed edge-on the ecliptic. It has an unusually circular orbit for a scattered disc object.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a character who must battle vampires, demons, and forces of darkness. She is a protector.

Read more about Buffy here Full Moon in Gemini – Dec. 15, 2024, 09:02 UT

Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà was named from mythology of Jul’hoan people of Namibia in 2019 which was the International Year of Indigenous Languages, a United Nations observance that aimed to raise awareness of the consequences of the endangerment of Indigenous languages across the world, with an aim to establish a link between language, development, peace, and reconciliation.

Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà is the beautiful aardvark girl and a shape-shifter of Jul’hoan mythology who sometimes appears in stories as a python and sometimes as an elephant. She defends her people and punishes wrongdoers. An aardvark is a nocturnal, burrowing mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa. ChatGPT told me that “the figure G!kúnǁ’hòmdímà appearing as an aardvark is significant because aardvarks are associated with strength, digging, persistence, and survival in the harsh environments of southern Africa. Their ability to create protective burrows may also symbolize shelter and defense, which fits the role of a protector defending her people.”

Read more about Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà here New Moon in Gemini — June 03, 2019, 10:02 UT

On June 21, 2026, the Sun enters Cancer and it is the Summer Solstice. The Moon will be at 23+ degrees of Virgo square to these tough defenders.

This New Moon in the earthy sign of Taurus is a fertile moment of renewal and perhaps the beginning of a soul journey. The Sun and the Moon are in conjunction with the trans-Neptunian Uni and the asteroid Ceres.

55637 Uni was discovered in 2002. It was named in September 2025 after the Etruscan goddess of love and fertility, which was the second time in a short period of time that I heard about this for me previously unknown goddess.

Katariina Souri, a Finnish author and artist, published her book Unimyytti, Joutsensukuisen suominoidan tarina Osa 1 (The Uni Myth, The Story of The Finnish Witch from The Swan Clan Part 1) in the spring of 2025. Her interdisciplinary and intuitive work maps the root causes that have eroded the communal way of life and, in particular, the value and significance of women. It explores the history and tradition of the Finno-Ugric tribes, especially the role of women in them. ”Past generations live within us, and we have a responsibility to carry forward the baton they have handed us,” she says. She thinks that a return to the matriarchal system is the only hope for humanity.

The Finnish word “uni” means ”dream”. In her foreword, Katariina Souri sheds light on the meaning of the book’s title. The work connects to mythologies. Some people probably think that the title refers to sleep and dreaming. By the term, she means something completely different. She explains the etymology of the word ”uni”. The word-forming element ”mono” means ”single, alone”, and refers to isolatedness, while ”uni”, in spite of meaning ”one, single”, refers to something which is connected to the whole. For example in the words ”monology” and ”monopoly” versus ”universe” and ”unity”. The title also refers to the ancient Etruscan goddess Uni, the giver of life and the renewer. According to the Etruscan myth, Hercle, a version of the Greek hero Heracles, drank the breast milk of Uni to achieve immortality. Heracles was given the task of completing twelve labors in order to achieve immortality and become a god. Heracles’s survival of the task is an example of the traditional monomyth, the symbolic hero’s journey. ”However, achieving the ultimate goal and becoming a god was not possible for even the great hero without the participation of the sacred feminine,” writes Katariina Souri.

Unimyytti Part 2 will probably be published soon. The text stems from the author’s personal journey of descending into the soul. We all have our own journey to make.

The trans-Neptunian Uni was named on Sept. 1, 2025, after the ancient Etruscan goddess of marriage, fertility, family, and women. This quite large cubewano has a diameter of about 660 km. The orbital period is 282 years. Uni has one known moon, Tinia, which was named together with Uni, after the Etruscan sky god and husband of Uni.

When cubewano Uni was discovered on Oct. 30, 2002, it was retrograding at 23+ Aries. The Sabian symbol for the discovery degree is Aries 24 Blown inward by the wind, the curtains of an open window take the shape of a cornucopia. Keynote: Openness to the influx of spiritual energies. (Dane Rudhyar, An Astrological Mandala)

A few words about asteroid Ceres, now in the same degree with the New Moon and Uni. Ceres is Mother Earth, the Roman goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility, and motherly relationships. The myth of Pluto, Proserpina, and Ceres tells of the changing seasons. Pluto kidnapped Proserpina, the daughter of Ceres, and took her to the underworld. Ceres searched for her daughter, and in her despair, let plants to die and winter to fall on the world. Jupiter forced the gods into an agreement: Proserpina would spend six months with Pluto and six months with her mother, Ceres. Now, in spring, we are living in the time of Proserpina’s return.

In Asteroid Goddesses Demetra George describes widely the mythology and the astrological meaning of Ceres. Among the Ceres astrological rulerships I notice this: ”Ceres values the family: deep family roots and ties, extended family systems, communes, clanship systems, tribes.” She also writes: ”Ceres symbolizes the principle of adaptation and survival of the species.”

There is a huge stellium in Aries. The fiery Mars entered its own sign on April 9, 2026, and there are Neptune, Mercury, Saturn, Eris, Chiron, the Sun and the Moon in Aries too. The exact Chiron-Eris conjunction took place in March, and now the New Moon occurs tightly conjunct the Chiron-Eris conjunction. In the mid-degrees of Cancer, Jupiter, which represents expansion and magnification, is in exact conjunction with the newly named centaur Eurytus, and they are squaring the Aries cluster.

A few days ago centaur 2012 VU85 was named from Greek mythology after a centaur who took part in the famous battle between the centaurs and the Lapiths, known as the Centauromachy. 463368 Eurytus was discovered in 2012 by Kazimieras Černis and Richard Boyle, the same astronomers who discovered and named the trans-Neptunian Praamzius. Eurytus is suspected to be a binary. The orbital period around the Sun is about 160 years and the diameter approximately 190 km.

The official naming citation sounds a bit mild compared to what we actually know about the mythical centaur Eurytus. Eurytus was one of the guests at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia, and he caused the whole conflict. The centaurs had been invited but they got drunk, and their untamed nature was unleashed. Eurytus, the most violent of the centaurs, attempted to abduct the bride. All the other centaurs were up in a moment, attempting to carry off the women. Eurytus’s ears and nose were cut off, and he and many other centaurs were killed. The defeated centaurs were expelled from Thessaly.

Ovid describes in Metamorphoses (trans. Melville): ”Eurytus, the fiercest of the fierce Centauri, was fired by wine and by the sight of that fair girl, and drink was in command, double by lust. Tables were overturned, the banquet in confusion, and the bride, held by her hair, was seized and carried off. Hippodame was seized by Eurytus; the others seized what girl each would or could.”

The Sabian symbol for the discovery degree of Eurytus is Gemini 9, A quiver filled with arrows.

What to say about the current Chiron-Eris conjunction in Aries (2025-2026), one of the important astrological aspects of our time? There is still no fully agreed and established interpretation of Eris, which was discovered in 2005, and perhaps not even of Chiron, discovered in 1977. Their previous conjunction occurred in 1971-1972 also in Aries. From my point of view as a Finn, the conjunction that took place in 1917-1918 in Pisces is more interesting though. It occurred during the final years of the World War I. The Russian Revolution, one of the historic events of the 20th century, started in 1917. Russia abolished its monarchy and adopted socialism. Following the Russian Revolution, Finland declared its independence on Dec. 6, 1917. A civil war ensued in 1918. In the chart of Finland there is a stationary Chiron and retrograding Eris in conjunction at 25-27 degrees of Pisces.

In Amy Shapiro’s Inviting Eris To The Party: Our Provocateur In Unfair Affairs (2014) she writes about natal Eris-Chiron conjunction: ”As Chiron is the wounded healer, and Eris is discord related to inequity, those themes drive you in some way.” Eric Francis wrote in 2024: ”Chiron is an awakening principle. Eris is a chaos principle. Chiron individuates; Eris tribalizes. Their meeting could have a wide diversity of effects for whoever experiences it, and will have noticeable collective effects that feel like a mass uprising of some kind, whether helpful or not.”

Vernal Equinox – March 20, 2026, 14:46 UT

The New Moon in Pisces in the early hours of March 19, 2026, is followed by the Chiron-Eris conjnction in Aries later the same day. The Sun enters Aries on March 20, marking the Vernal Equinox and the beginning of the astrological new year. Mercury is stationary conjunct the North node of the Moon at 8+ degrees of Pisces, about to turn direct five hours later.

The New Moon at 28+ degrees of Pisces is in conjuncton with Neptune and tno Borasisi in the early Aries. Neptune is associated with oil and Borasisi with nuclear power, among other things. Both planets may also refer to a denial of the truth.

The Chiron-Eris conjunction at 24+ Aries shares its degree with centaur Okyrhoe, named after the nymph daughter of Chiron and Chariklo. She was a prophetess, whose ability to speak was taken. She revealed to Chiron his fate. Zeus tranformed her into a mare for revealing the secrets of the gods.

Astrologically Okyrhoe has been interpreted to give clairvoyance and abiliity to travel between different realities. According to Mark A. Holmes’s delineation, “Okyrhoe seems to indicate being criticized or attacked, being able to cope with attacks or unpopularity, ability to stand up for one’s beliefs or principles.”

This New Moon is in tight conjunction with Okyrhoe of the European Union at 29+ degrees of Pisces. The European leaders stood up for their principles despite of threats from Trump and rejected his call for help to reopen strait of Hormuz: “This is not our war.”

Silencing Okyrhoe can also be seen as a symbol of the restriction of press freedom and the free flow of information. When Trump was elected to his first term in 2017, Okyrhoe was in early Aquarius, caught by the Sun within a few days. Trump’s attacks on the American media and journalists began immediately. He has caused a significant decline in freedom of the press. In recent news we saw how the Pentagon has not permitted press photographers to take photos inside the press briefing room after taking unflattering photos of Pete Hegseth. There has been no free press in Putin’s Russia for a long time, but now Russian authorities have said that they are escalating internet censorship efforts by fully blocking the nation’s most popular social media platform Telegram in April.

I also consider the recent heated debate in Finland as an example of the Chiron-Eris-Okyrhoe conjunction. Our government proposed that all restrictions on nuclear weapons would be removed from the Nuclear Energy Act. The parties didn’t receive information about the government’s bill in advance. Broad parliamentary consensus on issues related to Finland’s security has worked successfully before. The assessment of such significant legislative changes affecting Finland’s security should take place in parliament.

The New Moon on Feb. 17, 2026, at 28+ degrees of Aquarius is an annular solar eclipse and it is the first eclipse of the year. The unprecedented Saturn-Neptune conjunction at the Aries Point is about to become exact within a few days. The eclipse squares Uranus in Taurus.

A solar eclipse can take place only when there is a New Moon. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon is at or near its furthest point from the Earth, and the Moon appears smaller than the Sun’s disk. The golden ring of the Sun stays visible around the Moon during the eclipse. The astrological trends that the solar eclipse shows are valid about the next six months. The current eclipse is at the future oriented North node of the Moon.

This eclipse is a member of the Saros series 10 North. The initial eclipse of this Saros was tightly conjunct Mercury, and Saturn was on the midpoint of the New Moon and Neptune. So Saturn and Neptune were involved in determining the quality of the original eclipse too. Bernadette Brady has delineated: “There is a very strong emphasis on communication and, at the same time, frustrating or inhibiting events may come into the person’s life via news, paperwork or a young person. The person may feel tired and drained, and this is therefore a good time to take things quietly and work through the difficulties one at a time.”

The conjunction of Saturn and Neptune takes place roughly every 36 years. However, since the beginning of the common era this is the first time that it is happening at the Aries Point, the first degree of Aries. Neptune entered Aries on Jan. 26 and Saturn followed on Feb. 14. Now the conjunction is developing to its full precision at the Aries Point. The historic Saturn-Neptune conjunction takes place on Feb. 20, 2026. The energies have been felt long before the peak moment.

The Aries Point is the starting point of the zodiac. It strongly symbolizes new beginnings. Saturn and Neptune operate in opposite ways. Saturn builds boundaries while Neptune dissolves them. No wonder that the world is in chaos now. The rebellious Uranus, the ruler of Aquarius, is shattering the structures of Saturn too. The eclipse forms a challenging square to the unpredictable Uranus. We are unlikely to get relief anytme soon and Uranus keeps offering us surprises.

The eclipse is opposite the peace planet Praamzius in Leo. The Sun and the Moon in Aquarius, Uranus in Taurus, and Praamzius in Leo form a t-square. A new round of peace negotiations has just begun in Geneva between the Ukrainian, Russian and US officials. Since communication, negtiations and making deals fall under the dominion of Mercury, which is strongly colouring this Saros series, I had a quick look at the charts of Ukraine and the European Union too. Ukraine has a triple conjunction of Venus, Mercury and Jupiter at 25-28 degrees of Leo, which receives the transits of the eclipse and other points of the t-square. The eclipse and the t-sqiare also transit the Moon-Mercury square of the EU.

At the New Moon at 28+ degrees of Capricorn there was a cluster of planets and minor planets in late Capricorn and early Aquarius. The New Moon is sextile to Saturn and Neptune in Pisces and trine to Uranus in Taurus.

The Sun and the Moon were in conjunction with asteroid 5 Astraea, also at 28+ Capricorn. Astraea was the fifth asteroid discovered. The first four (Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta) were considered first as planets, but rapidly after the discovery of Astraea in 1845 more asteroids were discovered, and it became apparent that these were members of new type of celestial bodies. Astraea was a Greek goddess of justice, who was the last of the immortals to live together with humans during the idealistic Golden Age, when no evil existed in the world. But when humans became crueler and more corrupt, Astraea abondened humanity and went to live among the stars in the constellation Virgo. Astrologer Martha Lang-Wescott describes the meaning of Astraea excellently with these phrases: “it ain’t over ’til it’s over”; “go down with the ship”, “wait until the dust settles”; “the famous final scene” (Martha Lang-Wescott, Mechanics of the Future).

Mars and Mercury at 26+ Capricorn are in conjunction with another Astraea family asteroid, 8273 Apatheia, discovered in 1989. In Stoic philosophy, the concept of apatheia refers to a state of mind in which one is not disturbed by the passions. It was the quality that characterized “the sage”, someone who had attained wisdom.

Asteroid 1566 Icarus and centaur Hylonome are in the first degree of Aquarius. Among the keywords of astrologer Juan Revilla for centaur Hylonome are “lost innocence” and “the cry of the poor.”

Asteroid Icarus was discovered in 1949. It is a potentially hazardous asteroid with an extremely eccentric orbit. It comes closer to the Sun than Mercury and goes further out than Mars. It was named from Greek mythology after Icarus, the son of Daedalus. They attempted to escape from prison with wings that Daedalus constructed from feathers and wax. Icarus ignored his father’s advice not to fly too close to the Sun. The wax melted and Icarus fell into the sea and drowned. Astrologically Icarus likes to take risks and wants to escape limitations.

Plutino Arawn is in conjunction with Venus at 1+ Aquarius. Arawn was the ruler of the Celtic otherworld, Annwn. Arawn was a shapeshifter, who switched places with a mortal man. Van Morrison (the Sun conjunct Arawn) has said: “What’s your original face? Know what I mean? Who are you really? There’s so many different kinds of healing but, if you are in alignment with yourself, then that in itself is going to be healing. If you’re trying to be something other, like something superficial, trying to be someone you’re not, then that would take you away from your true centre.”

At 3+ Aquarius there is Pluto, the Greek ruler of the underworld, who kidnapped the maiden Persephone and made her the queen of the underworld.

In Cancer, opposite the New Moon and the cluster, is Cardea, one of the quasi-moons of Earth. It is an asteroid discovered in 2004. A quasi-moon is an asteroid that actually orbits the Sun, but if you watch it from the Earth, it looks like it’s orbiting our planet just like the Moon does. Cardea is named after the Roman goddess of the hinge, the goddess of doorways and transitions, symbolizing the guardianship of thresholds.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 19, 2025. The comet was at 10+ degrees of Virgo conjunct the South node of the Moon and cubewano Aya. Aya was named last summer from Akkadian mythology after the goddess of dawn. She was the wife of the Sun god and called the “morning-maker”. The Sun was at 27+ Sagittarius, exactly at the Milky Way’s Galactic Center and in conjunction with cubewano Varda. We remember that comet 3I/ATLAS originated in the direction of the Galactic Center. Varda is named after the Star-Queen in J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional mythology. She created the stars and constellations and also set the vessels of the Sun and the Moon upon their appointed courses in the sky.

At the New Moon in Sagittarius on Dec. 20, comet 3I/ATLAS was at 9+ degrees of Virgo. The New Moon is always a conjunction of the Sun and the Moon, so the Moon was now also at the Galactic Center and conjunct Varda.

On Dec. 21 is the Winter Solstice. The Sun enters Capricorn and the days start to slowly get longer from now on. In the solstice chart the Sun is still in a tight conjunction with Varda. The Moon at 17+ Capricorn is in conjunction with cubewano Máni, another large object named last summer, and asteroid Vesta. In Norse mythology Máni is the personification of the Moon. Vesta is the brightest asteroid seen from Earth. It is named after the goddess of the hearth and keeper of the sacred flame. The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is at 8+ degrees of Virgo.

The days have been dark and short, and the Moon is invisible at the New Moon. Professor Emeritus of Space Astronomy Esko Valtaoja has recently stated that seeing light requires conscious effort. Let us seek the light.

Retrograde Mercury meets the New Moon at 28+ degrees of Scorpio. There is an awesome and complex Grand Cross in the fixed signs.

Mercury turned retrograde on Nov. 9 and re-entered Scorpio on Nov. 19. The New Moon occurs in conjunction with Mercury and several trans-Neptunian bodies, all either in the same degree with the New Moon and the retrograde Mercury, or within two degrees.

The Sabian symbol for the New Moon is Scorpio 29 An Indian squaw pleading to the chief for the lives of her children. “This is the symbol of the stark sacrifices the self must make in the common interest and of the high responsibilities the group must accept for the welfare of each individual, as these factors together create a functioning society and enable man to control his everyday world. Here is emphasis on the give-and-take in human allegiances, and a call for a balancing of rights and wrongs as a result of direct experience with the problem of self-fulfillment.” (Marc Edmund Jones)

The trans-Neptunians at the 28+ Scorpio are Deucalion, Dziewanna and Typhon. Deucalion is a cubewano with the orbital period of almost 296 years. It was named from Greek mythology. Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha were the only people who survived a great flood. An oracle told them to “throw the bones of their mother” behind them. They understood that their mother is Earth and her bones are stones. The stones they then threw over their shoulders became people who repopulated the world.

Dziewanna is a scattered disc object with the orbital period of 592.5 years. Dziewanna was discovered during the Polish Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment of Warsaw University, and there were a couple of Polish astronomers involved in the discovery. So the planet was named after the Slavic goddess of the Moon, wild nature, forests, and hunting. She is a maiden goddess having much in common with the Roman goddess Diana.

Typhon is a scattered disc object and a centaur, when using the extended definition of a centaur. Typhon was the first known binary centaur. The orbital period is almost 237 years. Typhon was a giant monster in Greek mythology, associated with typhoons, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and hot winds.

One of the recently named cubewanos, Goibniu, is at 29+ degrees of Scorpio. The different populations of the Kuiper belt and the scattered disc are not always easy to distinguish. Goibniu is also classified as a scattered-extended object. The orbital period of Goibniu is about 271 years. It is named after the Irish god of metallurgy and hospitality. He made weapons for the gods and furnished feasts for them. Goibniu was the metalsmith of the Tuatha Dé Danann (“the people of the goddess Danu”), the race of gods who populated Ireland before the Celts.

Directly opposite this heap of planets is the unpredictable Uranus at 29+ degrees of Taurus (conjunct Sedna). There are two trans-Neptunians tightly in conjunction with Uranus, namely Alicanto and Lempo.

Alicanto at 28+ Taurus is an extreme trans-Neptunian object (ETNO) with the orbital period around 6000 years. Alicanto was named after a nocturnal bird from Chilean mythology. Alicanto has wings that shine at night with beautiful, metallic colors. A miner who follows it can find treasures, but a greedy one will be guided off the cliff.

Lempo at 27+ Taurus is a triple plutino named from Finnish mythology. The orbital period is 248 years. Is Lempo the goddess of love and fertility or the devil? The name Lempo is connected to fire. Erotic love has been described like a flame which flares up within a person. After Christianity came to Finland, the reputation of Lempo worsened. Love can turn dangerous, and even lead to destruction.

The other opposition of the Grand Cross consists of Damocles in Aquarius and Praamzius in Leo. Praamzius is a cubewano with the orbital period of 278 years. It is named after the chief god from Lithuanian mythology. He was the god of sky, peace, and friendship and played a role in creating the world.

Then there is Damocles at 28+ degrees of Aquarius. Damocles is a damocloid and a centaur. The damocloids is a group of minor planets which may be inactive nuclei of the Halley-type and long-period comets, tells the Wikipedia. The Sword of Damocles is an expression which describes the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power. According to Wikipedia, “More generally, it is used to denote the sense of foreboding engendered by a precarious situation, especially one in which the onset of tragedy is restrained only by a delicate trigger or chance.”

The last degrees of the signs are called “anaretic degrees”. They are often referred to as the degrees of crisis. The late Finnish astrologer Raimo A. Nikula once noted that it’s precisely the 28+ degree of a sign that is often the most difficult one, not the last degree. According to him there is always a paradox involved in last degrees: they can be both punishing as well as be spiritually very rewarding, because the individual has in his possession the whole experience and extension of the sign. He said that the last phases carry the possibility to purify the soul so that new life experience is possible, but first the individual may have to face things that rise from the unconscious.