🜔 Admetos – The Anchor of Endurance
🜔 Admetos – The Anchor of Endurance
Interpretive Basis
Mythic Root:
Greek — Admetos was a king aided by Apollo, noted for the tale where his wife Alcestis offered to die in his stead.
Core Function:
This Uranian hypothetical planet conveys patience, sustained effort, and latent resilience.
Astrological Role:
Admetos indicates slow-building strength and the ability to withstand pressure. It often shows where one must bide time before release.
Orbital Signature
Type: Uranian Hypothetical Planet
Orbital Period: ~618 years (Hamburg School estimation)
Inclination / Eccentricity: Theoretical
Retrograde Motion: Conceptually yes
Discovery Year: Introduced in the early 20th century
Keywords / Powerwords
Endurance, Patience, Compression, Latency, Resilience
House and Aspect Relevance
- Most active when in: 2nd, 6th, or 8th houses
- Aspect Sensitivity: Intensifies with Saturn aspects; often works slowly but profoundly
- Natal Function: Shows areas of life that require perseverance and internal consolidation before growth
- Transit Function: r
Use in Astrology Arith(m)etic
Admetos provides insight into compressive processes. Including it helps AI perceive how enduring pressure shapes eventual transformation.
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🧮 Calculation (Hamburg School / Uranian)
| Quantity | Value |
|---|---|
| System | Uranian astrology — one of the eight trans-Neptunian points of Alfred Witte (Cupido, Hades, Zeus, Kronos) and Friedrich Sieggrün (Apollon, Admetos, Vulcanus, Poseidon) |
| Swiss Ephemeris body | fictitious body “Admetos” (seorbel.txt, J1900 elements) |
| Semi-major axis | 73.62765 AU |
| Period (Kepler: P = a^1.5) | ≈ 631.8 years |
| Mean motion | ≈ 0.5698° per year (≈ 34.2′/yr) |
| Physical existence | none confirmed — a symbolic/calculated point |
Uranian points are normally read through midpoints and planetary pictures (A + B − C = D) on the 90° dial rather than by sign alone.
Sources (calculation)
- Alfred Witte & Friedrich Sieggrün, Hamburg School (Regelwerk für Planetenbilder, 1928/1932) — the eight Uranian trans-Neptunian points; elements as tabulated in Swiss Ephemeris
seorbel.txt - Astrodienst, Swiss Ephemeris programmer documentation (houses, Vertex, nodes, apogee, fictitious bodies): https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm ;
seorbel.txtandsefstars.txtfrom https://github.com/aloistr/swisseph