selene, goddess of the moon (asteroid 580)
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Selene, according to Hesiod, is the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia. It was said that this goddess flew the moon across the sky. The only time she did not was when she was ordered to stop by Zeus during the Gigantomachy so as cloak Heracles and Zeus who searched for an herb to defeat the giants. One of her most famous moments in myth was the story of her love affair with a mortal named Endymion. Selene once flew over the sky and saw the shepherd Endymion asleep on a hill (sometimes it is said that he spelt in a cave). She was enraptured by his beauty; she simply had to be with him on earth. So she waited for the new moon, when no one would notice her absence from the sky, and spent the night next to him as he slept. Selene was a lover of Zeus so it is a bit unclear what happened next - it is thought that she had two children with Zeus but likely 50 daughter with Endymion (possibly a rape situation if he was always asleep - some sources say he was cursed to sleep forevermore because he fell in love with Hera then toss out of the heavens). Some sources note that it was Endymion that chose to sleep forever, others state that Selene begged Zeus to put Endymion to sleep eternally so that he wouldn't age nor would he die, another option is that this was a punishment for Selene from Zeus that she had been having sexual relations with Endymion. IN MY OPINION Selene in your chart can represent a) femininity, b) transformation, c) secret tasks, d) fertility, e) inability to control your sexual temptations, and/or f) unhealthy romantic behaviors that go unchecked.
i encourage you to look into the aspects of selene along with the sign, degree, and house placement. for the more advanced astrologers, take a look at the persona chart of selene AND/OR add the other characters involved to see how they support or impede selene!
OTHER RELATED ASTEROIDS: zeus (5731 / h42), endymion (342), tithonus (6998), hesiodos (8550), hera (103), and heracles (5143)!
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