Asteroids in your birth chart

Chiron is the one most people meet first, and it is not an asteroid at all but a centaur, orbiting between Saturn and Uranus. It is read as the place where a person was hurt early and never quite stopped being hurt — and, because of that, the place they turn out to be unusually good at helping other people with. Its house says where the wound and the teaching both live.

Then the four main-belt asteroids, between Mars and Jupiter. Ceres is nurture: how you feed people and how you were fed, and how you deal with loss. Pallas is strategy and pattern-recognition, the intelligence that sees the shape of a problem. Juno is partnership and what you require from it, including what you will put up with. Vesta is devotion and focus, what you keep sacred and what you are willing to go without in order to keep it.

Lilith is in this report too and is not an asteroid either: Black Moon Lilith is a calculated point, the far end of the Moon's orbit rather than an object you could photograph. It is read as what refuses to be made convenient — the part of a person that will not be domesticated, and what happens around it when other people try.

Read them as detail rather than as structure. A chart is built out of its planets, its angles and its aspects; the asteroids sharpen a reading that already exists, and they are at their most useful when one of them sits exactly on the Sun, the Moon, the Ascendant or a personal planet. An asteroid twelve degrees from anything is not telling you much.

The report gives each of them by sign and house with a reading, cast from the same birth data as everything else here. Start with Chiron and with whichever of them touches one of your angles; the rest will keep.