Anastasia

Asteroid 824, Anastasia, was discovered on March 25, 1916 by Grigori Neujmin at Simeis, Ukraine. Anastasia has a period of 4 years, 246 days and is about 25½ miles in diameter.

It was named after a friend of Neujmin's, Anastasia Semenoff.

Anastasia is a Greek name meaning "resurrection."

Astrologically, Anastasia seems to indicate what this might suggest: resurrection, bouncing back, returning from what appears to be certain defeat or at least catastrophe..

Bill Clinton, who bounced back from political disaster several times, has Anastasia in the eighth house, quincunx Jupiter.

Vanessa Williams, who was forced to resign in disgraced as Miss America after nude pictures of her surfaced and bounced back from them to a highly successful acting career, has Anastasia square Mars and parallel Chiron.

Surfer Bethany Hamilton, who couldn't get back into the water fast enough after having her arm bitten off by a shark, has Anastasia opposite Mercury.

Aron Ralston, who amputated his own arm with a pocketknife after it got caught underneath a boulder while he was hiking alone in a remote area of Utah, has Anastasia square the Sun and sesquiquadrate Pallas.

Richard Nixon had Anastasia in the fifth house, parallel the Moon and contraparallel Jupiter.

Marion Barry (born March 6, 1936 in Itta Bena, Mississippi), former mayor of Washington, who managed to get re-elected despite being arrested for drug possession in a hotel room with a prostitute (an arrest caught on tape, for which he served jail time), has Anastasia semisextile/quincunx the Nodes, sextile Mars, trine Chiron, and parallel Mercury.

Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia (born October 31, 1922 in Phnom Penh), who managed to return to his position as his country's head of state after the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime and Vietnamese occupation, has Anastasia conjunct Mercury, square Venus and trine the Sun.

Mexican dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (born February 21, 1794 in Jalapa Enriquez, Veracruz, Mexico), who experienced several political setbacks and comebacks, had Anastasia square Neptune.

The glyph for Anastasia is mine.



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