Focus On: (433) Eros

Basics

Class: S-type asteroid
Location: Near Earth object, part of the Amor group
Orbit length (approx): 1.76 years
Discovered: 13th August 1898 (time unknown) from Berlin by Carl Gustav Witt
Discovery degree: 22+ Aquarius
Discovery Sabian: A Big Bear Sitting Down and Waving All its Paws
Name origin: Greek

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Name meaning & mythology

The Greek god of love. In the earliest account, he is a primordial god, while in later accounts he is described as one of the children of Aphrodite and Ares and, with some of his siblings, was one of the Erotes, a group of winged love gods. The main myth about him involves how he met, married and later rescued Psyche.

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Astrology in a nutshell

While Eros is evidently a representative of romantic and physical love and desire, there seems to be another side to this asteroid, connecting the primal erotic force with the aspiration of the soul to the heavens. Love is indeed a powerful means of revealing the best in others and connecting us to the best in ourselves; through it, we glimpse the Divine truth behind our mortal frame, and the paradise within which that sacred form naturally dwells.

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Composite image of (433) Eros from the NEAR Shoemaker mission, published in 2000 by NASA/JPL/JHUAPL.