Virgo discovery - The Evening Star Café

Petroglyph of Makemake with two birdmen, carved from red scoria.

Dwarf planets, Focus On, Trans-Neptunian objects, Virgo discovery

Focus On: (136472) Makemake

Theano / April 4, 2024 / Chiron resonance, Eris resonance, Gemini node, Neptune resonance, Pluto resonance, Uranus resonance

Name origin: Make Make is considered the supreme divinity of Easter Island and the most important mythological being in the Rapanui worldview. Make Make was the creator of all things, the first man and the first woman, and he had the power to reward the good people and punish the bad ones. The most important ritual in honour of Make Make was the bird man (Tangata Manu) competition in which prominent contestants sent helpers to obtain the first manutara (sooty tern) egg.

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Detail of a panorama of Mandeville, Jamaica, looking north. Photo by Op. Deo.

Asteroids, Focus On, Main belt objects, Virgo discovery

Focus On: (739) Mandeville

Theano / January 1, 2024 / Earth resonance, Jupiter resonance, Leo node, Mars resonance, Mercury resonance, Saturn resonance

Mandeville is the capital and largest town in the parish of Manchester in Middlesex, Jamaica. It was laid out in 1816, and named after Viscount Mandeville, the eldest son of the Duke of Manchester, who was then governor of Jamaica.

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Detail of a mediaeval manuscript page featuring Prudencia (crowned), at top riding a wagon and then a horse to the celestial Empyrean; at bottom, addressing young women.

Asteroids, Focus On, Main belt objects, Virgo discovery

Focus On: (474) Prudentia

Theano / January 1, 2024 / Ceres resonance, Mars resonance, Mercury resonance, Virgo node

Name origin: Roman personification of prudence. Prudentia, whose attributes are a mirror and a snake, is frequently depicted as a pair with Justitia, the Roman goddess of Justice. The word “prudence” derives from the Latin prudentia meaning “foresight, sagacity”.

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Detail of Kore (Persephone) statue at the Acropolis Museum, Athens.

Asteroids, Focus On, Main belt objects, Virgo discovery

Focus On: (399) Persephone

Theano / January 1, 2024 / Ceres resonance, Chiron resonance, Earth resonance, Jupiter resonance, Pisces node, Saturn resonance

Name origin: Ancient Greek goddess of the underworld. Persephone as a vegetation goddess and her mother Demeter were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries, which promised the initiated a happy afterlife.

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The Food of the Gods on Olympus (1530), majolica dish attributed to Nicola da Urbino.

Asteroids, Focus On, Main belt objects, Virgo discovery

Focus On: (193) Ambrosia

Theano / January 1, 2024 / Ceres resonance, Chiron resonance, Jupiter resonance, Pisces node, Saturn resonance, Uranus resonance

Name origin: Greek; food of the gods. The word ambrosia means immortality, and is often said to have either that effect or longevity on whoever consumes it. The term may not originally have been distinguished from nectar, the other food of the gods.

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Artist's rendering of the Temple of Concord (1892), by Christian Hülsen.

Asteroids, Focus On, Main belt objects, Virgo discovery

Focus On: (58) Concordia

Theano / January 1, 2024 / Jupiter resonance, Leo node, Saturn resonance, Uranus resonance

Name origin: Roman goddess/personification of peace and social harmony. Often associated with Pax (Peace) in assuring a stable society; probably a close match with the Greek concept of homonoia (likemindedness), which was also anthropomorphised.

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Asteroids, Focus On, Main belt objects, Virgo discovery

Focus On: (41) Daphne

Theano / January 1, 2024 / Ceres resonance, Chiron resonance, Jupiter resonance, Mars resonance, Mercury resonance, Saturn resonance, Venus resonance, Virgo node

Name origin: Greek Naiad who was transformed into a laurel tree. Daphne was loved by the god Apollo, who pursued her until she grew exhausted and cried out to Gaia for help. The goddess transformed her into a laurel tree which Apollo then adopted as his sacred plant.

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Thetis and attendants bring Achilles the armour prepared for him by Hephaistos. Attic black-figure hydria, c. 575–550 BC, currently at the Louvre, Paris.

Asteroids, Focus On, Inner main belt objects, Main belt objects, Virgo discovery

Focus On: (17) Thetis

Theano / January 1, 2024 / Cancer node, Ceres resonance, Chiron resonance, Mars resonance, Mercury resonance, Venus resonance

Name origin: Greek sea goddess and the leader of the fifty Nereides. Like many other sea gods, Thetis possessed the gift of prophecy and power to change her shape at will.

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True-colour image of 4 Vesta taken by the Dawn space probe on 24th July 2011.

Asteroids, Focus On, Main belt objects, Virgo discovery

Focus On: (4) Vesta

Theano / January 1, 2024 / Ceres resonance, Chiron resonance, Gemini node, Jupiter resonance, Mars resonance, Mercury resonance

Name origin: Roman goddess of the hearth fire. Vesta was held in high regard in Roman culture, where she was worshipped with a perpetual fire guarded by the Vestal Virgins.

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Classical mosaic from a villa at Tusculum, 3rd century AD, now at Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican. Artist unknown.

Asteroids, Focus On, Main belt objects, Virgo discovery

Focus On: (2) Pallas

Theano / January 1, 2024 / Ceres resonance, Chiron resonance, Jupiter resonance, Mars resonance, Mercury resonance, Saturn resonance, Venus resonance, Virgo node

Name origin: Pallas Athene, Greek goddess of wisdom and good counsel, war, the defence of towns, heroic endeavour, weaving, pottery and various other crafts.

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