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Ceres: Food Provider and Grieving Mother (1985)

Frances McElroy

  • Vol 4, Issue 7
  • 3 pages
  • 1987
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Ceres (Asteroid), Maternal Significators, and Celebrity Natal Charts serve as the primary focus areas of this historical astrological literature. This archival item is the March 1985 issue (Volume 4, Number 7) of the Astrologers’ Newsletter, a publication of the Boston chapter of the National Council for Geocosmic Research (NCGR). The featured article, “Ceres: Food Provider and Grieving Mother” by Frances McEvoy, examines the largest asteroid through its discovery, its orbital cycle and eclipse involvement, and its mythological identity as Demeter, the Earth Mother goddess of agriculture and the bereaved parent of Persephone. The digital file preserves an extended survey correlating Ceres placements across the natal charts of prominent public figures including Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli, Eleanor Roosevelt, Queen Victoria, and Ingrid Bergman, arguing for Ceres as an indicator of nurturing, maternal devotion, and the grief of parental loss, while tying its 1984-85 transit through Taurus to the Ethiopian famine and the American farm crisis.

Citation:“Ceres: Food Provider and Grieving Mother (1985),” AIP Special Collections

Ceres: Food Provider and Grieving Mother (1985)

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