Sunday, January 1, 2023

Focus On: (7) Iris

Basics

Class: S-type asteroid
Location: Main belt
Orbit length (approx): 3.69 years
Discovered: 13th August 1847 (time unknown), from London, UK, by John Russell Hind
Events at time of discovery:

  • August – Yale Corporation establishes the first graduate school in the United States, as Department of Philosophy and the Arts
  • August 21 – Birth of Hale Johnson, American temperance movement leader



Naming information

Name origin: Greek personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods, a servant to the Olympians and especially Queen Hera.
Mythology: Iris appears in several stories carrying messages from and to the gods or running errands but has no unique mythology of her own. In ancient art, Iris is depicted as a winged young woman carrying a caduceus, the symbol of the messengers, and a pitcher of water for the gods. Iris was traditionally seen as the consort of Zephyrus, the god of the west wind and one of the four Anemoi, by whom she is the mother of Pothos in some versions.

Iris as depicted by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893; image cropped).
Iris as depicted by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893; image cropped).


Astrological data

Discovery degree: 28+ Capricorn
Discovery Sabian: A Woman Reading Tea Leaves
Discovery nodal signature: Scorpio-Cancer
Estimated orbital resonances: Venus 1:6, Earth 3:11, Mars 7:12, Ceres 5:4, Jupiter 16:5, Saturn 8:1
Discovery chart details: Mercury is retrograde. Juno (and Pholus) opposite Jupiter, both squaring the Nodes; Juno and Iris are both in Capricorn; Juno-Pholus, Saturn and Mercury form a Yod. Iris is square Vesta, and they form a Finger of the World with Nessus. Chariklo is on the Aries Point exactly. Sun sextile Chiron.



Summary and references

May signify divine or intuitive, visual or metaphorical messages[1]; a message that is sometimes apparent and overt, at other times hidden or veiled[2]; messenger, telling stories, acting as a go-between, connections, storytelling, revelation, idealism, tolerance and living with ambivalence or diversity, openness, chasing dreams, media, photography, feelings of being watched, restlessness[3]; psychic and oracular work, channelling, iridescence[4]. I'd add possibly speaking on behalf of, or as a proxy for, an authority figure.

References:
1) Amanda Painter: Venus Reaches the Heart of the Matter
2) Alex Miller: Iris 7
3) Mark Andrew Holmes: Iris
4) TAKE Astrology: Asteroids in Astrology


Noon chart for 7 Iris, 13th August 1847, London, UK.
Noon chart for (7) Iris, 13th August 1847, London, UK.

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