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Meet the Dwarf Planet Eris
12/26/2025
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Eris was the first planet discovered by Caltech (Mike Brown) at the turn of this century. Brown originally named the “dwarf” planet, Xena, after the campy TV show “Xena: Warrior Princess.” Can’t say I ever watched it, but apparently Mike Brown really loved it. More importantly, he picked up on the energy that was coming into being at the turn of this century, what was about to define the start of the 21st century, terrorism, and the rise of fundamentalist religious extremism. One could also argue that women’s rights and power have also been at the forefront of the 21st century. Women taking their power, fighting for their power, and all the strife that has come from that, as the religious extremists here and abroad have fought to suppress them. There could also be an argument for the rise of women in leadership, the rise of misogyny, and, more importantly, an awareness of all these issues as Eris came to be seen. The other big event was the 2000 election, in which Al Gore won the presidency, but the courts intervened to halt the vote and hand the presidency to the loser, George W. Bush. This was the first time in American history that the courts were used to deny votes from being counted. It heralded in a new Republican playbook - minority rule via stacking courts and cheating at elections - strife, the purview of Eris.
Of all the “dwarf” planets found in the Kuiper belt, and many more were to be seen, Xena, or later officially Eris, was the first and hence the most significant. Any good astrologer, parent, or writer knows the power of a name. Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? I don’t know - if you called it poop, maybe not. Names are powerful; they have energy. Contained within them are packets of spiritual information that get superimposed on the plasma being via its name. I’m not sure if the name co-creates the being as it is born into this incarnation in time/space. Or if the being is named because the namer felt the energy of the being about to be born. I suspect it’s a two-way street, a little of both. Names are significant in astrology, as they conjure archetypes and shape how we will interact with the giant plasma being/planet. Xena is campy and kind of a stupid name, so you can see why I was worried. As an astrologer, I knew the next generation of astrologers, like me, were going to be taking the name and meditating on it, spinning it around, trying to make sense of it, and using it as a jumping-off point for its interpretation. So I did something rather unlike me, I found Mike Brown’s university email and told him I was a concerned astrologer and had he considered naming his planet a goddess name like Hera, or Juno, etc. He responded by assuring me he was aware of the psychological and archetypal significance of the names he had chosen, but he was in a bit of a pickle, as the asteroid belt had used up all the good names. There weren’t any ancient Geek or Roman or Celtic or really any European ancient Goddess names that hadn’t already been given to lesser astronomical bodies. Apparently, one cannot use the same name for an asteroid and a planet, or vice versa. Rules are rules. So he and his team were racking their brains and researching lesser-known and more obscure goddesses. Hence, Eris, a kind of crappy goddess, took center stage.
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Denise Siegel
Dec 26
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Eris was the first planet discovered by Caltech (Mike Brown) at the turn of this century. Brown originally named the “dwarf” planet, Xena, after the campy TV show “Xena: Warrior Princess.” Can’t say I ever watched it, but apparently Mike Brown really loved it. More importantly, he picked up on the energy that was coming into being at the turn of this century, what was about to define the start of the 21st century, terrorism, and the rise of fundamentalist religious extremism. One could also argue that women’s rights and power have also been at the forefront of the 21st century. Women taking their power, fighting for their power, and all the strife that has come from that, as the religious extremists here and abroad have fought to suppress them. There could also be an argument for the rise of women in leadership, the rise of misogyny, and, more importantly, an awareness of all these issues as Eris came to be seen. The other big event was the 2000 election, in which Al Gore won the presidency, but the courts intervened to halt the vote and hand the presidency to the loser, George W. Bush. This was the first time in American history that the courts were used to deny votes from being counted. It heralded in a new Republican playbook - minority rule via stacking courts and cheating at elections - strife, the purview of Eris.
Of all the “dwarf” planets found in the Kuiper belt, and many more were to be seen, Xena, or later officially Eris, was the first and hence the most significant. Any good astrologer, parent, or writer knows the power of a name. Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? I don’t know - if you called it poop, maybe not. Names are powerful; they have energy. Contained within them are packets of spiritual information that get superimposed on the plasma being via its name. I’m not sure if the name co-creates the being as it is born into this incarnation in time/space. Or if the being is named because the namer felt the energy of the being about to be born. I suspect it’s a two-way street, a little of both. Names are significant in astrology, as they conjure archetypes and shape how we will interact with the giant plasma being/planet. Xena is campy and kind of a stupid name, so you can see why I was worried. As an astrologer, I knew the next generation of astrologers, like me, were going to be taking the name and meditating on it, spinning it around, trying to make sense of it, and using it as a jumping-off point for its interpretation. So I did something rather unlike me, I found Mike Brown’s university email and told him I was a concerned astrologer and had he considered naming his planet a goddess name like Hera, or Juno, etc. He responded by assuring me he was aware of the psychological and archetypal significance of the names he had chosen, but he was in a bit of a pickle, as the asteroid belt had used up all the good names. There weren’t any ancient Geek or Roman or Celtic or really any European ancient Goddess names that hadn’t already been given to lesser astronomical bodies. Apparently, one cannot use the same name for an asteroid and a planet, or vice versa. Rules are rules. So he and his team were racking their brains and researching lesser-known and more obscure goddesses. Hence, Eris, a kind of crappy goddess, took center stage.
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