Beschrijving
Volume 5 of the series Asteroids in Astrology focuses on Inner Main Belt and Near Earth Asteroids. This volume examines the astrological significance of 147 objects, including Earth Trojans, a Quasi-Satellite of Earth, Arjuna, Atira and Aten asteroids, as well as Apollo, Amor, Hungaria, and Alinda groups. Many of these bodies cross the orbits of Mars or Earth, and some are potentially hazardous due to impact risk. Their meanings in horoscopes are diverse, precise, and highly relevant to natal, progressed, mundane, electional and especially forensic astrology.
Many Inner Main Belt Asteroids and NEAs were named after figures from Greek, Celtic, Mayan and other mythologies, often adding an extra dimension to their meaning.
The asteroids covered here are characterized by relatively short orbital periods. Consequently, their transits are brief — often lasting only hours, and rarely extending beyond a single day. Yet their effects are frequently strikingly concrete, specific, and situational. In contrast to Trans-Neptunian Objects or many Centaurs, which tend to correlate with slow, deep-seated psychological processes or large-scale collective developments, fast-orbiting asteroids more often coincide with sharply defined moments, decisions, incidents, or technical details. In natal and event charts, however, this distinction largely dissolves. A horoscope is a static configuration: every body, regardless of orbital speed, functions as a fixed point of concentration. Under these conditions, even very small asteroids can operate with considerable intensity — provided the aspecting is exact.
