#velleda

▪︎Velleda.

Date: 1850-1875

This will be separated into two parts since there are so many asteroids that have to do with the following:

Contributing to rebellion

Using your power to go against something bigger/tradition

Resilience as a stance

Drive and willpower

Intelligence and human advancement seen as a threat to others

Coming together as one group, power in numbers

Freedom, liberation

Justice

Sign of the times

Peace and Disharmony

PART 1 will focus on themes 1 - 5

21419, 1809, 126, 661, 897, 1181, h58, h13, h21, 175, 4921, 1589, 238, 5450

These asteroids could also point to a more negative manifestation: zealotry, extremism, etc.

GOING AGAINST:

Devience 21419

Deviance is where we stray away from accepted rules and standards

Prometheus 1809

Named after Prometheus, the Greek Titan god of fire

Defied the gods by stealing fire and giving it to humans = giving technology, knowledge, and civilization to humans

Champion of humankind, punished by the gods

Velleda 126

Named after Veleda, a Germanic priestess and prophet, who predicted success of the Batavian rebellion against the Romans

Cloelia 661

Named after Cloelia, a woman who was taken hostage as a peace treaty, but escaped from her camp and helped a group of Roman virgins escape too

Praised for her heroism and bravery

Lysistrata 897

An ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes about a woman who, with the help of other women, denied all men sex to end the Peloponnesian War. 

Ends up being a battle of the sexes

Known for its themes of sexual relations in a male-dominated society

Lilith 1181, Waldemath Lilith h58, True Lilith h13, Natural Apogee Lilith h21

Lilith 1181 is named after Lili Boulanger, a French composer and the first female winner of the Prix de Rome [often used as an asteroid version of Lilith, a demon and the first wife of Adam, although Lili Boulanger sounds pretty cool too]

Was equal to Adam and refused to be subservient to him

Left Eden and the narrative of Lilith as succubus and baby stealer persists

Lilith was later reclaimed as a feminist icon

RESILIENCE & DRIVE:

Andromache 175

Named after Andromache in Greek mythology

Her name means man battler, fighter of men, man’s battle, or courage

Represents the suffering of women during the Trojan War

Her husband and son die during the war, leaving her alone; she is made into a concubine and then a slave

But she survives, remains faithful to her husband, and lives to old age

Volonté 4921

Named after Gian Maria Volonté, an Italian actor

Can be read as the french word volonté meaning will, willpower, wish, goodwill

Fanatica 1589

Named after Eva Perón or Evita, the First Lady of Argentina and an Argentine actress, politician, activist, and philanthropist

Can also be read as fanatic, fanaticism, extreme passion

INTELLIGENCE AND ADVANCEMENT AS A THREAT TO OTHERS:

Hypatia 238

Named after Hypatia, a philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician in ancient Alexandria

Known for her intelligence, wisdom, and tolerance

Was murdered by a Christian mob and was made into a martyr for philosophy

Was later a symbol of Christian virtue in the Middle Ages

Sokrates 5450

Named after Socrates, a Greek philosopher and a founder of Western philosophy

Known for ethics and moral philosophy and was controversial in his time

Accused of impiety and corrupting the youth and was sentenced to death after a one-day trial

Refused help from followers and friends to escape prison

Velleda 

In the chaos that ensued after Neros death, this battle-hardened tribe of warriors, not content with being used as political pawns in the power struggle of pretenders, decided to take their fate into their own hands. Instrumental in this audacious act was the powerful and enigmatic Lady of fate, Velleda.   

Source:https://mimirsbrunnr.com/2019/01/30/velleda-and-the-divine-female-archetype/