This Valentine’s Day, let’s go beyond Venus and Mars to uncover the hidden love stories within your birth chart.
While planets and luminaries are strong markers of archetypes within your story, asteroids are also a great tool that often go unnoticed (until you realize they’re there, and now you’re going down a rabbit hole on Saturday night).
There are so many asteroids you can look up in your chart, and I do in fact spend a lot of my time interpreting their placements in my chart, so prepare to learn more about them.
Given the theme of today, I figured we can start with a few love asteroids.
These markers provide deeper insights into your romantic dynamics, soulmate connections, and karmic relationships (in synastry readings).
They’ll be especially potent in your chart if they make a tight orb (1-2 degrees) with a personal planet.
In order to do this, you’ll first need to pull up your birth chart. I recommend astro.com (astro.com > Charts & Calculations > Extended Chart Selection).
From there, you’ll input your birth information (and yes, birth time matters if you know it!), and scroll to the bottom where it says “Additional Objects.”
From there, you can either look up each asteroid under “Asteroid name/number list” or input the number associated with the asteroid in the Manual Entry box, separated by commas.
Here are some key ones to explore:
Eros (433): Passion, erotic desire, and the magnetic pull between lovers. Where Eros lands in your chart reveals what ignites your deepest passions.
Psyche (16): The soul’s longing for love and deep emotional connection. This asteroid sheds light on spiritual bonds and soulmate themes.
Juno (3): Commitment, marriage, and the kind of partner you seek for long-term union. Juno’s placement can reveal your ideal partnership style.
Amor (1221): Unconditional love and the ways you express affection beyond physical attraction.
Vesta (4): Devotion, sacred love, and where you focus your inner fire in relationships.
Sappho (80): Artistic expression, sensuality, and relationships, particularly those involving the same sex. It can indicate how one expresses creativity and experiences love and desire.
Aphrodite (1388): How one expresses love, experiences beauty, and connects with others on an emotional and sensual level.
When you’re looking these up in your chart, there are a few things you’ll want to consider:
What sign is it in?
What house is it in?
Is it touching anything in my chart?
That’s when you start doing your hot girl math (energy math) and learn more about its expression by taking the energy of the sign with the area of life (house placement) and any conjunctions (touching anything within 1 to 2 degrees) into consideration.
This may seem overwhelming at first, but if you’re a nerd like me, it can quickly become your next hyperfixation.
You can always Google to help you with interpretations, but if you’d like to get more into astrology and learn the basics, you can grab my Astros Basics e-book to help you with the foundational information!
Xo