sisyphus, the punished king (asteroid 1866)
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Sisyphus, king of Ephyra (now Corinth - a place he founded and ruled over as the first king), was the son of Aeolus and Enarete. While Sisyphus helped the city to become a nexus of trade and merchants, he did so by being deceptive. He notably broke the rules of ettiquete - one of the most important being Xenia in greek culture; the concept of hospitality that is shown to strangers and guests. Often Sisyphus would kill those who came to his home. Not only did he break this rule but he also ratted on Zeus by telling Asopus where Zeus took his daughter, Aegina, to solely to be rewarded by the river god. Zeus then demanded that Thanatos chain him in the Underworld. When Thanatos got to Sisyphus, the king asked how the chains worked that Thanatos was about to bind him with. Thanatos explained only to become chained by Sisyphus - it is said that Ares was the one to release the personification of death because no one was dying anymore in war/battle. Ares then trapped Sisyphus and handed him over to Thanatos. In some versions, it is Hades that is sent and tricked by Sisyphus who then releases the death god. To attempt escaping his fate, Sisyphus made a deal with his wife to have his body thrown in the river when he died. And she did so. When Sisyphus arrived in the Underworld, he went to Persephone and told her his wife had not given him a proper burial and because of this Persephone granted him permission to return to the land of the living to punish his wife, Merope. Sisyphus then attempted to stay in the land of the living, but Hermes dragged him back to the Underworld. Sisyphus was then made to roll a boulder up a hill and the boulder would never reach the top instead it would roll back down - forcing him to do the task for all of eternity. IN MY OPINION Sisyphus in your chart can represent a) where you are deceptive, b) where you may seem unfeeling or as though you use others, c) where you trick others, and/or d) where you are forced to find meaning in an "endless" existence or the monotony / "endless" cycle in your life.
i encourage you to look into the aspects of sisyphus along with the sign, degree, and house placement. for the more advanced astrologers, take a look at the persona chart of sisyphus AND/OR add the other characters involved to see how they support or impede sisyphus!
OTHER RELATED ASTEROIDS/PLANETS: xenia (625), aegina (91), MARS, zeus (5731 / h42), persephone (399), merope (1051), hermes (69230), and hades (h41)!
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