He was not really up to the task of being president furthermore, he didn’t get along with his wife, and consequently he became legendary for his extramarital affairs (real and alleged) and his administration’s political scandals. Harding, 29th president of the United States, was a wealthy newspaper owner who went far in politics through his distinguished looks, money (some of which he married), connections, and gift for public speaking, as well as a dedicated ability to avoid making important people mad. EST in New York, he has Dioretsa at 9 Aries 35 (retrograde) in the 10th house, sextile the Moon and Pallas, square the Ascendant and sesquiquadrate the Sun. CST in Ferriday, Louisiana, he has Dioretsa at 15 Aries 18 in the 3rd house, tightly opposite the Midheaven (tightly conjunct the IC).įormer Vermont governor and presidential candidate and current Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean is noted for his imprecise and controversial statements and his sometimes eccentric rabble-rousing, as well as his innovative use of the Internet in campaigning and fund-raising. Jimmy Swaggart was a Louisiana televangelist who liked to inveigh against sexual immorality and then was caught patronizing prostitutes. MST in Salt Lake City, she has Dioretsa at 8 Aries 15 (retrograde) in the 2nd house, sextile the Ascendant, square Chiron and sesquiquadrate Pluto. Roseanne Barr, known for her loudmouthed blue-collar public persona, alienated her parents by publicly accusing them of sexually abusing her and once sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” in a shrill, unpleasant voice at a San Diego Padres game and capped the unattractive, boo-evoking performance by grabbing her crotch and spitting on the ground. Born December 21, 1918, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, time unknown, he had Dioretsa at 21 Aries 21, trine Mercury. (Here, where no birth time is given, noon is assumed.)ĭonald Regan, Ronald Reagan’s chief of staff, wrote a tell-all book, after being forced out through Nancy Reagan’s influence, that revealed she used astrology to plan her husband’s schedule. He has Dioretsa at 9 Aries 15 (retrograde), quincunx Vesta. Gun-loving, right-wing rocker and hunting enthusiast Ted Nugent (born December 13, 1948, in Detroit, time unknown), has cultivated a cartoonish caveman persona and is nicknamed the Motor City Madman. (By the way: There is an asteroid named Retsina which was named, according to Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, "in honor of the resined wine of Greece," but Dioretsa would have an association to that name and its meanings as well.) Resin, a sticky substance, is used to generate friction (that is, to reduce slipperiness).Īstrologically, Dioretsa seems to indicate unfitness, incompetence, ineptitude, impairment, getting rid of something, "chickens coming home to roost," that is, dealing with the consequences of one's actions. What struck me about its name first was the “retsa” part of its name, suggesting retsina, the Greek wine flavored with pine resin which is said to have been drunk by the devotees of Dionysus, the Hellenic god of wine, people noted for their wild, lawless, even crazy behavior (as described in Euripides’ play The Bacchae). Dioretsa is believed to come from the Oort Cloud, the vast cloud of cometary material at the edge of the solar system. Its name ("asteroid" spelled backwards) comes from the fact that it is the first known numbered asteroid to have a retrograde orbit (an orbit like that of Venus, Uranus and Pluto, going in the opposite direction from most bodies that orbit the Sun).ĭioretsa’s highly eccentric orbit means it’s classified, like Damocles, as a damocloid its orbital eccentricity is about 0.9 on a scale in which 0.0 is a perfect circle and 1.0 a straight line, and its orbit takes it from about twice Earth’s distance from the Sun (about 2.3 astronomical units) at perihelion to about 46 astronomical units at aphelion. "Dioretsa," by Mark Andrew Holmes Dioretsa By Mark Andrew HolmesĪsteroid 20461, Dioretsa, was discovered on Jby the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research Project (LINEAR) at Socorro, New Mexico.
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