Hello, please tell me about the asteroid Nefertiti in the 1st house
nefertiti, queen of egypt and wife of akhenaten (asteroid 3199)
since i have not covered nefertiti this ask looks like a good place to start. the 1h is about philosophies on life, appearance, personality, and beginnings so in reading the history below, i hope you can take what resonates and leave wasn’t when comparing the 1h ideals to her story. please feel free to comment with follow up questions if you are still unsure where this leaves you!
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Queen Nefertiti who ruled alongside the Pharaoh Akhenaten is considered one of the most powerful yet mysterious women to have existed in ancient Egypt. In 1913, a sandstone bust of her face was discovered and quickly became the icon for beauty and power. Nefertiti translates to "the beautiful woman has come" (she was possibly foreign and not from Egypt) which only furthered her popularity post-discovery of her bust. Pharaoh Akhenaten was a leader of a cult for the sun god Aten (I still have ptsd from 6th grade seeing the one sandstone wall - they looked like aliens lmao). Pharaoh Akhenaten attributed Nefertiti's fertility to the god as she had - six daughters within the first ten years of their marriage (we all know how rare it was to survive birth like that back then let alone succession birthing like that). Two of their daughters would later become queens of Egypt themselves. Like most queens of Egypt, very little can be found about her: likely due to wishing to keep masculine energy associated with rulership. Though based on art it is very likely that the family was a happy and seemingly perfect nuclear unit. It is also likely that she had significant political power due to art depicting that she sat on a similarly decorated chair next to her husband (this one more so has to do with the sun cult than the throne room) and wore the headdress of a pharaoh suggesting that she may have ruled independently or equally with her husband. There is also scandalous (for the time of their ruling) art that depicts the two as inseparable and sometimes even kissing in public - this is a rare find for ancient marriages not often was their affection in public nor were royals often happily married as depicted in these pieces of art. Twelve years after the start of her reign she goes missing from all historical texts and art works - either destroyed by patriarchy or due to some unknown reason regarding death (something too painful to be documented). They believe that they discovered her body in the wall of Akhenaten's tomb - scans determined that she likely wasn't as beautiful as she was sculpted to look (then again it could be aging) and DNA testing suggests that she bore King Tut. IN MY OPINION Nefertiti in a natal chart suggests a) where you are iconic, b) what you tend to believe in or worship, c) how fertile you are, d) where you tend to create a lot of mini-mes, e) your ability to lead and where you are treated as an equal, and/or f) where you are most mysterious to others.
relocation charts can tell you where you too can be “Nefertiti.”
i encourage you to look into the aspects of nefertiti along with the sign, degree, and house placement. for the more advanced astrologers, take a look at the persona chart of nefertiti AND/OR add the other characters involved to see how they support or impede nefertiti!
OTHER RELATED ASTEROIDS: akhenaten (326290) and aten (2062)!
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