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Somewhere in the distance, your future is holding out its arms to meet you, ready to bring you whatever you've had the courage to ask for. It is already holding in trust whatever you have the courage to keep stead-fastly moving toward. It wants to join hands with you to create the next chapter of your life, but it won't - it can't - if you stay riveted to the same spot, whining and complaining, passive, fearful, and resentful. That's because the future always comes toward us in exactly the spirit in which we approach it - hands and heart open, or souls withered in defeat.
Astraea was the fifth asteroid discovered, on December 8, 1845, by K.L. Hencke and named for Astraea, a goddess of justice named after the stars. It was his first of two asteroid discoveries. An amateur astronomer and post office employee, Hencke was looking for Vesta when he stumbled on Astraea.
....where you stumble, there lies your treasure - Joseph Campbell
Asteroid Astraea is currently retrograde in Virgo and quincunx Centaur asteroid Nessus in Aquarius. The cleansing power of tears, grieving for ones losses and crosses, drawing a line between what was and what shall be. Choosing to bloom when the budding-time is over.
Sabian Symbol degree pair interpretion:
Virgo 26: "A boy with a censer"
Pisces 26: "A new moon divides its influence".
Apply this degree-pair with a mind to the focus on motivational factors from seemingly insignificant influences; divergent interpretations of the most innocuous of events; discriminating awareness of exacting detail or overall influence. Think of a parting of the waves: the scientist from the romantic; the ordained priesthood from the passionate pagani; using formulated fertilizers rather than using the moon to fertilize the garden. Watch for powerful responses to smells, fragrances, odors; swaying motions like sowing seeds or swinging a censer. Consider pervasive influences that freshen stale air; that imbue an archaic feel for the novice; slivers of hope; preserved embers for future fires; being moved in a definite direction. - Blain Bovee
The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears.
~ Scott
