Focus On: (935) Clivia

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Basics

Class: Asteroid
Location: Inner main belt, Flora family
Orbit length (approx): 3.31 years
Discovered: 7th September 1920, 22:17 UTC, from Heidelberg, Germany, by Karl Reinmuth
Notes: Diameter approx 7.9km.
Events at time of discovery:

  • September 5 – Presidential elections begin in Mexico.
  • – Birth of Apolonia Muñoz Abarca, American health professional and reproductive rights advocate
  • – Birth of Lawrence LeShan, American psychologist, educator and author
  • September 8 – events
  • September 9 – The Lotta Svärd women’s paramilitary auxiliary is founded in Finland.
  • September 10 – Birth of Robert F. Inger, American herpetologist
  • – Birth of C. R. Rao, Indian-born American mathematician and statistician

Naming information

Name origin: Genus of perennial flowering plants native to southern Africa, commonly called the natal or bush lily. They have green, long leaves and mainly bell-shaped flowers, with berry fruits. The genus itself is named after Charlotte Percy (née Clive), who first cultivated the plant in the U.K.

Photograph of Clivia miniata (the natal or bush lily) with flowers and fruit, in the Manie van der Schijff Botanical Garden, Pretoria. The leaves are long, thick and mostly dark green. To the lower right of the photo is a cluster of berries resembling pale red grapes. Above are a group of flowers, six bright orange petals apiece forming loose cup-like shapes, with long yellow stamens in the centre.
Clivia miniata (the natal or bush lily) with flowers and fruit, in the Manie van der Schijff Botanical Garden, Pretoria, South Africa (2015). Photo by JMK.

Astrological data

Discovery degree: 14+ Pisces
Discovery Sabian: An Officer Instructing His Men Before a Simulated Assault Under a Barrage of Live Shells
Discovery nodal signature: Pisces–Virgo
Estimated orbital resonances: Venus 3:16, Earth 3:10, Mars 9:14, Ceres 7:5, Jupiter 18:5
Discovery chart details: Last quarter phase chart with Ceres rising, Vesta descending and stellium in Virgo/4. Clivia opposite close Sun-Saturn conjunction, semi-square Pallas and semi-sextile Sedna. Moon sextile Mercury, semi-sextile Neptune and square Sedna; Sun-Saturn sesquiquadrate Pallas. Pluto trine and Juno conjunct North Node. Mercury quincunx Sedna; Venus semi-sextile Jupiter and quincunx Uranus; Mars square Jupiter. Jupiter opposite Uranus; Neptune trine Pholus; Ceres square Eris.

Summary

May signify a spiritual or intuitive approach to intellectual pursuits or duty; commitment to social and/or individual progress; devotion to a cause; active forward motion.

Discovery chart for (935) Clivia: 7th September 1920, 22:17 UTC, Heidelberg, Germany.
Discovery chart for (935) Clivia: 7th September 1920, 22:17 UTC, Heidelberg, Germany.
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