Basics
Class: M-type asteroid
Location: Main belt
Orbit length (approx): 5.00 years
Discovered: 17th March 1852, 20:55 UTC, from Naples, Italy, by Annibale de Gasparis
Notes: Psyche is thought to be the exposed iron core of a protoplanet. It is the most massive metallic M-type asteroid.
Events at time of discovery:
- February 26 – Birth of John Harvey Kellogg, American Adventist doctor and health reformer
- March 18 – Henry Wells and William Fargo create Wells Fargo & Company.
- March 20 – Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is published in book form in Boston, Massachusetts.
Naming information
Name origin: Greek goddess of the soul, wife of Eros.
Mythology: Psyche is initially a mortal princess, who becomes the wife of Eros after he wounds himself with his own arrow; he treats her lovingly, but she never sees him. After being tricked into revealing his face, leading to his flight, she endures trials to win the approval of his mother Aphrodite. She is eventually reconciled with Eros and becomes an immortal by his side.
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| Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss (1787-1793) by Antonio Canova, currently in the Louvre, Paris. Photo (2011) by Jean-Pol Grandmont, CC BY 4.0. |
Astrological data
Discovery degree: 27+ Leo
Discovery Sabian: Many Little Birds on a Limb of a Big Tree
Discovery nodal signature: Leo-Pisces
Estimated orbital resonances: Earth 1:5, Mars 3:7, Ceres 11:12, Jupiter 19:8
Discovery chart details: Balsamic phase chart. Large stellium in Pisces. Psyche was quincunx the Sun-Sedna conjunction; Saturn conjunct Uranus with Vesta and Chiron aspecting them; Juno was square Jupiter and Venus semi-square Nessus. Mars was sesquiquadrate Neptune.
Summary and references
Interpretations given so far include "trials and tribulations on the path to true love", intense passion, mutual trust[1]; appropriate beginnings to relationships, reconciliations, unpredictable developments[2]; journeys of enlightenment[3]; brains, psychological challenges and recovery, mental health[4]; soul journeys, transcendence, self-discovery, reflection, self-actualisation, the sacred marriage[5]; conscious relationship and psychic attunement as a path to spiritual illumination[6].
References:1) Alex Miller: Psyche 16
2) Amable: (16) Psyche
3) Neptune's Aura Astrology: Psyche 16 and Eros 433
4) Martha Lang-Wescott: Basic Resources
5) TAKE Astrology: Asteroids in Astrology
6) Demetra George & Douglas Bloch: Asteroid Goddesses (Ibis Press, 2003)
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| Discovery chart for (16) Psyche: 17th March 1852, 20:55 UTC, Naples, Italy. |
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