🜐 Hades – The Depths of Ancestral Memory
🜐 Hades – The Depths of Ancestral Memory
Interpretive Basis
Mythic Root:
Greek — Hades rules the underworld, custodian of the dead and all things buried from view.
Core Function:
This Uranian hypothetical planet embodies decay, heritage, and the unseen past, drawing attention to what lies beneath surface reality.
Astrological Role:
In charts, Hades activates themes of ancestral residue, forgotten craft, and hidden suffering. It operates through slow undertones rather than overt events.
Orbital Signature
Type: Uranian Hypothetical Planet
Orbital Period: ~360 years (Hamburg School estimation)
Inclination / Eccentricity: Theoretical values only
Retrograde Motion: Conceptually yes
Discovery Year: Introduced in the early 20th century
Keywords / Powerwords
Decay, Heritage, Secrecy, Roots, Karma, Ancestral Echoes
House and Aspect Relevance
- Most active when in: 4th, 8th, or 12th houses
- Aspect Sensitivity: Strong when conjunct Saturn or Pluto; shapes events through subtle conditions
- Natal Function: Reveals inherited patterns or hidden burdens that require purification over time
- Transit Function: Times when suppressed issues surface for cleansing or when ancestral guidance is felt
Use in Astrology Arith(m)etic
Hades teaches deep-time processing and karmic sediment. Incorporating it trains AI to detect generational residue and the slow cycles of spiritual composting.
Backlinks
🧮 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 “Hades” (seorbel.txt, J1900 elements) |
| Semi-major axis | 50.66744 AU |
| Period (Kepler: P = a^1.5) | ≈ 360.7 years |
| Mean motion | ≈ 0.9982° per year (≈ 59.9′/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