Catherine II of Russia

XR190/Sun opposition

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>>Yekaterina (Catherine) II Alekseyevna of Russia, called the Great

(Yekaterina II Velikaya; 2 May [O.S. 21 April] 1729 – 17 November [O.S. 6 November] 1796) reigned as Empress of Russia for 34 years, from 9 July [O.S. 28 June] 1762 until her death. She exemplifies the enlightened despot of her era.

Early life

Catherine's father, Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, held the rank of a Prussian general in his capacity as Governor of the city of Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland) in the name of the king of Prussia. Though born as Sophie Augusta Frederica (Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst, nicknamed "Figchen"), a minor German princess in Stettin, Catherine did have very remote Russian ancestry, and two of her first cousins became Kings of Sweden: Gustav III and Charles XIII. In accordance with the custom then prevailing amongst the German nobility, she received her education chiefly from a French governess and from tutors.

The choice of Sophie as wife of the prospective tsar — Peter of Holstein-Gottorp — resulted from some amount of diplomatic management in which Count Lestocq and Frederick II of Prussia took an active part. Lestocq and Frederick wanted to strengthen the friendship between Prussia and Russia in order to weaken the influence of Austria and ruin the chancellor Bestuzhev, on whom Tsarina Elizabeth relied, and who acted as a known partisan of Russo-Austrian co-operation.

The diplomatic intrigue failed, largely due to the intervention of Sophie's mother, Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, a clever and ambitious woman. Historical accounts portray Catherine's mother as emotionally cold and physically abusive, as well as a social climber who loved gossip and court intrigues. Johanna's hunger for fame centered on her daughter's prospects of becoming empress of Russia, but she infuriated Empress Elizabeth, who eventually banned her from the country for spying for King Frederick of Prussia (reigned 1740–1786). Nonetheless, Elizabeth took a strong liking to the daughter, and the marriage finally took place in 1745. The empress knew the family well because she had intended to marry Princess Johanna's brother Charles Augustus (Karl August von Holstein), who had died of smallpox in 1727 before the wedding could take place.

Princess Sophie spared no effort to ingratiate herself not only with the Empress Elizabeth, but with her husband and with the Russian people. She applied herself to learning the Russian language with such zeal that she rose at night and walked about her bedroom barefoot repeating her lessons. This resulted in a severe attack of pneumonia in March 1744. When she wrote her memoirs she represented herself as having made up her mind when she came to Russia to do whatever seemed necessary, and to profess to believe whatever required of her, in order to become qualified to wear the crown. The consistency of her character throughout life makes it highly probable that even at the age of fifteen she possessed sufficient maturity to adopt this worldly-wise line of conduct.

Her father, a very devout Lutheran, strongly opposed his daughter's conversion. Despite his instructions, on June 28, 1744 the Russian Orthodox Church received her as a member with the name Catherine (Yekaterina or Ekaterina) Alexeyevna. On the following day the formal betrothal took place, and Catherine married the Grand Duke Peter on August 21, 1745 at Saint Petersburg. The newlyweds settled in the palace of Oranienbaum, which would remain the residence of the "young court" for 56 years.

The coup d'état of 1762

The unlikely marriage proved unsuccessful — due to the Grand Duke Peter's impotence and immaturity, he may not have consummated it for 12 years. While Peter took a mistress (Elizabeth Vorontsova), Catherine carried on liaisons with Sergei Saltykov, Charles Hanbury Williams and Stanislaw August Poniatowski. She became friends with Ekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, the sister of her husband's mistress, who introduced her to several powerful political groups that opposed her husband. Catherine read widely and kept up-to-date on current events in Russia and in the rest of Europe. She corresponded with many of the prominent minds of her era, including Voltaire and Diderot.

After the death of the Empress Elizabeth on 5 January 1762 [O.S. 25 December 1761], Peter succeeded to the throne as Peter III of Russia and moved into the new Winter Palace in St. Petersburg; Catherine thus became Empress Consort of Russia. However, the new tsar's eccentricities and policies, including a great admiration for the Prussian king, Frederick II, alienated the same groups that Catherine had cultivated.

Peter III of Russia

Compounding matters, Peter intervened in a dispute between Holstein and Denmark over the province of Schleswig (see Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff). Peter's insistence on supporting his native Holstein in an unpopular war eroded much of his support among the nobility.

In July 1762, Peter committed the political error of retiring with his Holstein-born courtiers and relatives to Oranienbaum, leaving his wife in Saint Petersburg. On July 13 and July 14 the Leib Guard revolted, deposed Peter, and proclaimed Catherine the ruler of Russia. The bloodless coup succeeded; Ekaterina Dashkova, a confidante of Catherine, remarked that Peter seemed rather glad to have rid himself of the throne, and requested only a quiet estate and a ready supply of tobacco and burgundy.

Six months after his accession to the throne and three days after his deposition, on July 17, 1762, Peter III died at Ropsha at the hands of Alexei Orlov (younger brother to Gregory Orlov, then a court favorite and a participant in the coup). Soviet-era historians assumed that Catherine had ordered the murder, as she also disposed of other potential claimants to the throne (Ivan VI and Princess Tarakanova) at about the same time, but many modern historians believe that she had no part in it.

Catherine, although not descended from any previous Russian emperor, succeeded her husband, following the precedent established when Catherine I succeeded Peter I in 1725. Her accession-manifesto justified her succession by citing the "unanimous election" of the nation.

However a great part of nobility regarded her reign as a usurpation, tolerable only during the minority of her son, Grand Duke Paul. In the 1770s a group of nobles connected with Paul (Nikita Panin and others) contemplated the possibility of a new coup to depose Catherine and transfer the crown to Paul, whose power they envisaged restricting in a kind of constitutional monarchy. However, nothing came of this, and Catherine reigned until her death.

Foreign affairs

During her reign Catherine extended the borders of the Russian Empire southward and westward to absorb New Russia, Crimea, Right-Bank Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Courland at the expense of two powers — the Ottoman Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. All told, she added some 200,000 miles² (518,000 km²) to Russian territory.

Catherine's foreign minister, Nikita Panin, exercised considerable influence from the beginning of her reign.

Nikita Panin

Though a shrewd statesman, Panin dedicated much effort and millions of rubles to setting up a "Northern Accord" between Russia, Prussia, Poland, and Sweden, to counter the power of the Bourbon–Habsburg League. When it became apparent that his plan could not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and, in 1781, Catherine had him replaced with a Ukrainian-born councillor, Alexander Bezborodko.

Alexander Bezborodko

Russo-Turkish Wars

Catherine made Russia the dominant power in south-eastern Europe after her first Russo-Turkish War against the Ottoman Empire (1768–1774), which saw some of the greatest defeats in Turkish history, including the Battle of Chesma (5 July – 7 July 1770) and the Battle of Kagul (21 July 1770). The Russian victories allowed Catherine's government to obtain access to the Black Sea and to incorporate the vast steppes of present-day southern Ukraine, where the Russians founded the new cities of Odessa, Nikolayev, Yekaterinoslav (literally: "the Glory of Catherine"; the future Dnepropetrovsk), and Kherson.

Catherine annexed the Crimea in 1783, a mere nine years after the Crimean Khanate had gained independence from the Ottoman Empire as a result of her first war against the Turks. The Ottomans started a second Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) during Catherine's reign. This war proved catastrophic for the Ottomans and ended with the Treaty of Jassy (1792), which legitimized the Russian claim to Crimea.

Relations with Western Europe

In the European political theater, Catherine remained ever conscious of her legacy and longed for recognition as an enlightened sovereign. She pioneered for Russia the role that Britain would later play throughout most of the nineteenth and early twentieth century — that of international mediator in disputes that could, or did, lead to war. Accordingly, she acted as mediator in the War of the Bavarian Succession (1778–1779) between Prussia and Austria. In 1780 she set up a League of Armed Neutrality designed to defend neutral shipping from the British Royal Navy during the American Revolution, and she refused to intervene in that revolution on the side of the British when asked.

From 1767 to 1790, Russia fought the Russo-Swedish War against Sweden, instigated by Catherine's cousin, the King Gustav III of Sweden. Expecting to simply overtake the Russian armies still engaged in war against the Ottoman Turks and hoping to strike Saint Petersburg directly, the Swedes ultimately faced mounting human and territorial losses when opposed by Russia's Baltic Fleet. After Denmark declared war on Sweden in 1789, things looked bleak for the Swedes. After the Battle of Svensksund in 1790, the parties signed the Treaty of Värälä (August 14, 1790) returning all conquered territories to their respective nations, and peace ensued for 20 years.

The partitions of Poland

In 1764 Catherine placed Stanislaw Poniatowski, her former lover, on the Polish throne.

Stanislaw Poniatowski

Although the idea of partitioning Poland came from the Prussian king Frederick the Great, Catherine took a leading role in carrying this out in the 1790s. In 1768 she became formally protectress of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, which provoked an anti-Russian uprising in Poland (see Bar Confederation). After smashing the uprising she established in the Rzeczpospolita a system of government fully controlled by the Russian Empire through a Permanent Council under the supervision of her ambassadors and envoys.

After the French Revolution of 1789, Catherine rejected many of the principles of the Enlightenment which she once viewed favorably. Afraid that the May Constitution of Poland (1791) might lead to a resurgence in the power of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and that the growing democratic movements inside the Commonwealth might become a threat to the European monarchies, Catherine decided to intervene in Poland. She provided support to a Polish anti-reform group known as the Targowica Confederation. After defeating Polish loyalist forces in the Polish War in Defense of the Constitution (1792) and in the Kosciuszko Uprising (1794), Russia completed the partitioning of Poland, dividing all of the Commonwealth territory with Prussia and Austria (1795).

Relations with Japan

In the Far East, Russians became active in fur-trapping in Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands. However, Russian settlements suffered from lack of supplies and constrained by the need to import goods over long distances across Siberia from Europe. This spurred interest in opening trade with Japan to the south for supplies and food. In 1783 storms drove a Japanese sea-captain, Daikokuya Kodayu, ashore in the Aleutian Islands, at that time Russian territory. Russian local authorities helped his party, and the Russian government decided to use him as a trade envoy. On June 28, 1791, Catherine granted Kodayu an audience at Tsarskoye Selo. Subsequently, in 1792, the Russian government dispatched a trade-mission led by Adam Laxman to Japan. The Tokugawa government received the mission, but negotiations failed and formal trade relations between the two countries did not come about until 1858.

Arts and culture

Catherine's patronage furthered the evolution of the arts in Russia more than that of any Russian sovereign before or after her. She subscribed to the ideals of the Enlightenment and considered herself a "philosopher on the throne". She showed great awareness of her image abroad, and ever desired that Europe should perceive her as a civilized and enlightened monarch, despite the fact that in Russia she often played the part of the tyrant. Even as she proclaimed her love for the ideals of liberty and freedom, she did more to tie the Russian serf to his land and to his lord than any sovereign since Boris Godunov (reigned 1598–1605).

Catherine had a reputation as a patron of the arts, literature and education. The Hermitage Museum, which now occupies the whole of the Winter Palace, began as Catherine's personal collection. At the instigation of her factotum, Ivan Betskoi, she wrote a manual for the education of young children, drawing from the ideas of John Locke, and founded the famous Smolny Institute for noble young ladies. This school would become one of the best of its kind in Europe, and even went so far as to admit young girls born to wealthy merchants alongside the daughters of the nobility. She wrote comedies, fiction and memoirs, while cultivating Voltaire, Diderot and D'Alembert — all French encyclopedists who later cemented her reputation in their writings. The leading economists of her day, such as Arthur Young and Jacques Necker, became foreign members of the Free Economic Society, established on her suggestion in Saint Petersburg. She lured the scientists Leonhard Euler and Peter Simon Pallas from Berlin to the Russian capital.

Catherine enlisted Voltaire to her cause, and corresponded with him for 15 years, from her accession to his death in 1778. He lauded her with epithets, calling her "The Star of the North" and the "Semiramis of Russia" (in reference to the legendary Queen of Babylon). Though she never met him face-to-face, she mourned him bitterly when he died, acquired his collection of books from his heirs, and placed them in the Imperial Public Library.

Within a few months of her accession, having heard that the French government threatened to stop the publication of the famous French Encyclopédie on account of its irreligious spirit, she proposed to Diderot that he should complete his great work in Russia under her protection. Four years later she endeavoured to embody in a legislative form the principles of Enlightenment which she had imbibed from the study of the French philosophers. She called together at Moscow a Grand Commission — almost a consultative parliament — composed of 652 members of all classes (officials, nobles, burghers and peasants) and of various nationalities. The Commission had to consider the needs of the Russian Empire and the means of satisfying them. The Empress herself prepared the "Instructions for the Guidance of the Assembly", pillaging (as she frankly admitted) the philosophers of Western Europe, especially Montesquieu and Cesare Beccaria. As many of the democratic principles frightened her more moderate and experienced advisers, she refrained from immediately putting them into execution. After holding more than 200 sittings the so-called Commission dissolved without getting beyond the realm of theory.

During Catherine's reign, Russians imported and studied the classical and European influences which inspired the Russian "Age of Imitation". Gavrila Derzhavin, Denis Fonvizin and Ippolit Bogdanovich laid the groundwork for the great writers of the nineteenth century, especially for Aleksandr Pushkin. Catherine became a great patron of Russian opera (see Catherine II and opera for details). However, her reign also featured omnipresent censorship and state control of publications. When Radishchev published his Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow in 1790, warning of uprisings because of the deplorable social conditions of the peasants held as serfs, Catherine exiled him to Siberia.

Religious affairs

The circumstances of Catherine's whole-hearted adoption of things Russian (including Orthodoxy) may have prompted her personal indifference to religion.She did not allow dissenters to build chapels, and she suppressed religious dissent after the onset of the French Revolution. Politically, she exploited Christianity in her anti-Ottoman policy, promoting the protection and fostering of Christians under Turkish rule. She placed strictures on Roman Catholics (ukaz of February 23, 1769), and attempted to assert and extend state control over them in the wake of the partitions of Poland. Nevertheless, Catherine's Russia provided an asylum and a basis for re-grouping to the Society of Jesus following the suppression of the Jesuits in most of Europe in 1773.

Personal life

Catherine, throughout her long reign, took many lovers, often elevating them to high positions for as long as they held her interest, and then pensioning them off with large estates and gifts of serfs. After her affair with Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, he would select a candidate-lover for her who had both the physical beauty as well as the mental faculties to hold Catherine's interest (such as Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov). Some of these men loved her in return, and she always showed generosity towards her lovers, even after the end of an affair. The last of her lovers, Prince Zubov, 40 years her junior, proved the most capricious and extravagant of them all.

Catherine behaved harshly to her son Paul. In her memoirs, Catherine indicated that her first lover, Sergei Saltykov, had fathered Paul, but Paul physically resembled her husband, Peter. She sequestered from the court her illegitimate son by Grigori Orlov, Alexis Bobrinskoy (later created Count Bobrinskoy by Paul). It seems highly probable that she intended to exclude Paul from the succession, and to leave the crown to her eldest grandson Alexander (whom she greatly favored), afterwards the emperor Alexander I. Her harshness to Paul stemmed probably as much from political distrust as from what she saw of his character. Whatever Catherine's other activities, she emphatically functioned as a sovereign and as a politician, guided in the last resort by interests of state. Keeping Paul in a state of semi-captivity in Gatchina and Pavlovsk, she resolved not to allow her son to dispute or to share in her authority.<<

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CATHERINE II of Russia

born May 2, 1729 at 2:30 AM, 1:31:44 UT by Astrodienst, in Stettin = Szozecin (Germany), Lat53n26 - Lon14e34.

Rodden's AstroDatabank Rating: B

Using RIYAL 3.1

Astrological Setting (Tropical - Placidus)

RIYAL Mon May 2 1729 UT 1h31m44s Lat53n26 Lon14e34 SORT ALL

Planet	Longitude	Latitude	Declin.	Const.
CC22	0Sa15 r	10n28	9s59	Sco
OP32	0Pi19	14n25	2n08	Peg
96PW	0Vi40 r	5n39	16n32	Leo
BU48	1Cp52 r	9n07	14s21	Sct
HB57	1Ge55	11s36	9n12	Tau
RM43	2Sa46 r	9n51	11s04	Oph
GQ21	2Ta58	5s10	7n39	Cet
VR130	2Sa59 r	3n17	17s34	Sco
TY364	3Pi08	6s48	16s42	Aqr
QD112	3Le10	11n27	30n36	Cnc
FZ173	3Ta11	7n12	19n21	Ari
Jupiter	3Ca16	0n05	23n32	Gem
YQ179	3Pi52	15s38	24s35	Aqr
WL7	3Ar57	0n08	1n42	Psc
XX143	4Li36 r	7n04	4n39	Vir
CZ118	4Ge41	27n25	47n54	Per
TD10	4Li47 r	0n23	1s33	Vir
KF77	4Li48 r	0n23	1s33	Vir
VU2	4Sc51 r	10s16	22s47	Hya
QB1	5Ta09	1n20	14n31	Ari
VS2	5Ar22	13n13	14n14	Peg
Cyllarus	5Ta27	2s50	10n42	Ari
Pelion	5Aq37	0n19	18s35	Cap
KX14	6Li45 r	0s24	3s03	Vir
CE10	6Sa50 r	38s21	58s54	Nor
Ixion	7Sc02 r	10n24	4s02	Vir
Saturn	7Pi08	1s34	10s21	Aqr
RZ215	7Vi14 r	0n08	9n00	Leo
SB60	7Pi41	20n50	10n39	Peg
CO1	7Sa42 r	3n41	17s59	Oph
FP185	7Ta45	21s43	6s28	Eri
Mars	7Ta55	0s14	13n57	Ari
QB243	8Ca06	4n55	28n08	Gem
Pluto	8Li11 r	17n30	12n49	Vir
RP120	8Sc30 r	5n53	8s47	Lib
GB32	8Ge52	13s44	8n14	Ori
Okyrhoe	8Sa53 r	16n44	5s16	Oph
Asbolus	9Ca17	17n07	40n13	Aur
Neptune	9Ge21	1s29	20n25	Tau
Sedna	9Pi37	3s52	11s33	Aqr
CF119	9Pi37	12n48	3n54	Peg
GM137	9Sa38 r	8n49	13s12	Oph
OM67	9Vi46 r	7s09	1n17	Sex
QF6	10Sc29r	24n30	8n20	Ser
XR190	10Sc54r	26s40	40s09	Cen
Pholus	11Sc00 r	25n24	9n03	Ser
SA278	11Cp17r	14n59	8s04	Sct
Echeclus	11Sc18 r	3n37	11s48	Lib
RN43	11Aq27	15n41	2s16	Aqr
Sun	11Ta33	0n00	15n19	Ari
MW12	11Cp39r	21n29	1s33	Aql
Crantor	11Ca58	2s07	20n50	Gem
TO66	12Ar14	9n57	13n59	Psc
Radamantus	12Le15	10n08	26n51	Leo
CY118	12Ar27	14s29	8s25	Cet
AW197	12Li42 r	24s32	27s25	Hya
CR105	13Aq00	3s22	20s10	Cap
PN34	13Ca00	3n20	26n09	Gem
PA44	13Le21	3s01	13n56	Cnc
EL61	13Li51 r	28n00	20n16	Boo
Teharonhi	14Pi21	1n43	4s35	Psc
RG33	14Vi23 r	22n00	26n18	Leo
DH5	14Cp55r	18n01	4s44	Aql
FY9	16Li10 r	25n52	17n29	Boo
AZ84	16Ge18	2s06	20n41	Tau
Varuna	16Ca30	4n15	26n40	Gem
Chaos	16Ca48	10n31	32n50	Gem
CO104	16Ar59	1n18	7n52	Psc
Amycus	17Ge00	10n25	33n12	Aur
Nessus	17Ge04	11n49	34n36	Aur
MS4	17Sa05r	12n46	10s09	Ser
Typhon	17Ar16	1n07	7n49	Psc
Logos	17Li26 r	2n47	4s17	Vir
Mercury	17Ar30	2s50	4n16	Psc
WN188	18Ar09	24s21	15s23	Cet
Hylonome	18Ca09	3s41	18n35	Gem
GZ32	18Ta12	12s02	5n42	Tau
LE31	18Ca19	4n36	26n46	Gem
Midheav	18Sa26	0n00	22s58	Oph
Eris	18Sc35r	15s24	32s07	Cen
DA62	18Cp43r	53s27	74s03	Pav
XA255	18Pi48	11s20	14s50	Aqr
GV9	18Li52 r	16s56	22s59	Hya
Deucalion	19Sc14r	0n01	17s32	Lib
XZ255	19Pi15	2s31	6s35	Aqr
OX3	19Li24 r	2s57	10s20	Vir
Vertex	19Vi38
RZ214	19Vi46 r	13s45	8s35	Crt
Node	20Aq01r	0n00	14s50	Cap
BL41	20Vi12 r	13s34	8s35	Crt
RD215	20Li12 r	3s00	10s41	Vir
Orcus	20Ca27	9s35	12n27	CMi
Chiron	22Ar13	0n43	9n20	Psc
TX300	22Ar15	22n26	29n18	Psc
Quaoar	22Sa33r	7n57	15s20	Ser
PB112	22Li36 r	7s49	16s03	Vir
OO67	22Li49 r	18n18	8n08	Vir
Moon	23Ge08	4n12	27n30	Tau
UJ438	23Sc17r	1s58	20s31	Lib
Bienor	23Aq17	5s11	18s40	Aqr
PJ30	23Ge23	2n27	25n46	Tau
Pylenor	23Ta34	5s07	13n44	Tau
Venus	23Ge53	4n13	27n32	Tau
FZ53	24Pi07	16n41	12n57	Peg
TL66	24Sc23r	8n52	10s17	Lib
SQ73	24Ca24	16n46	37n44	Lyn
Thereus	25Le06	16s46	2s39	Hya
Uranus	25Sc25r	0n15	18s54	Lib
VQ94	25Pi31	58s51	53s14	Eri
Huya	25Le39 r	5s02	8n15	Leo
RR43	25Ta51	13s02	6n34	Tau
Ceto	26Aq37	8n43	4s27	Aqr
UX25	26Ar49	1s57	8n32	Psc
Chariklo	27Ar36	22n12	31n09	Psc
UR163	27Ge39	0n20	23n48	Gem
Elatus	28Aq35	4s35	16s16	Aqr
Ascend	28Aq42	0n00	11s57	Aqr
Apogee	28Ta56	4n57	24n47	Tau
RL43	29Sa11r	12n02	11s26	Ser
TC302	29Li30 r	6s48	17s39	Vir

Focused Minor Planets

XR190 = 10 Sc 54 r

Pholus = 11 Sc 00 r

Echeclus = 11 Sc 18 r

Sun = 11 Ta 33

Sedna = 9 Pi 37 Trine

CF119 = 9 Pi 37

Crantor = 11 Ca 58

RN43 = 11 Aq 27 T Square

Rhadamanthus = 12 Le 15

SA278 = 11 Cp 17 r Sextile

MW12 = 11 Cp 39 r

OM67 = 9 Vi 46 r

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AW197 = 12 Li 42 r

EL61 = 13 Li 51 r

CY118 = 12 Ar 27

TO66 = 12 Ar 14

Sun = 11 Ta 33 Quincunx

CR105 = 13 Aq 00 Trine

RN43 = 11 Aq 27

Crantor = 11 Ca 58 T Square

MW12 = 11 Cp 39 r

Rhadamanthus= 12 Le 15 Sextile

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Quaoar = 22 Sa 33 r

Moon = 23 Ge 08 4n12 27n30

Venus = 23 Ge 53 4n13 27n32

OO67 = 22 Li 49 r Sextile

PB112 = 22 Li 36 r

Ixion = 7 Sc 02 r Semisquare

Chiron = 22 Ar 13 Trine

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TL66 = 24 Sc 23 r

Uranus = 25 Sc 25 r

RR43 = 25 Ta 51

Moon = 23 Ge 08 Quincunx

Venus = 23 Ge 53

VQ94 = 25 Pi 31 Trine

Thereus = 25 Le 06 Square

Huya = 25 Le 39 r

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FY9 = 16 Li 10 r

Logos = 17 Li 26 r

Typhon = 17 Ar 16

Mercury = 17 Ar 30

Varuna = 16 Ca 30 Square

Chaos = 16 Ca 48

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GV9 = 18 Li 52 r

Logos = 17 Li 26 r

Mercury = 17 Ar 30

Typhon = 17 Ar 16

Eris = 18 Sc 35 r Semisextile

Deucalion = 19 Sc 14 r

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Ixion = 7 Sc 02 r

Mars = 7 Ta 55

FP185 = 7 Ta 45

QB1 = 5 Ta 09

Saturn = 7 Pi 08 Trine

SB60 = 7 Pi 41

Quaoar = 22 Sa 33 r Semisquare

KX14 = 6 Li 45 r Semisextile

RZ215 = 7 Vi 14 r Sextile

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TY364 = 3 Pi 08

YQ179 = 3 Pi 52

Mercury = 17 Ar 30 Semisquare

Jupiter = 3 Ca 16 Trine

FZ173 = 3 Ta 11 Sextile

GQ21 = 2 Ta 58

RM43 = 2 Sa 46 r Square

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UX25 = 26 Ar 49

Chariklo = 27 Ar 36

Uranus = 25 Sc 25 r Quincunx

RR43 = 25 Ta 51 Semisextile

Huya = 25 Le 39 r Trine

Thereus = 25 Le 06

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Sedna = 9 Pi 37

CF119 = 9 Pi 37

OM67 = 9 Vi 46 r

Neptune = 9 Ge 21 Square

Pluto = 8 Li 11 r Quincunx

XR190 = 10 Sc 54 r Trine

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Astrological Setting (Sidereal - Fagan/Bradley)

RIYAL Mon May 2 1729 UT 1h31m44s Lat53n26 Lon14e34 SORT ALL

Planet	Longitude
Chiron	1Ar15
TX300	1Ar17
Quaoar	1Sa36 r
PB112	1Li38 r
OO67	1Li51 r
Moon	2Ge10
UJ438	2Sc19 r
Bienor	2Aq19
PJ30	2Ge25
Pylenor	2Ta36
Venus	2Ge55
FZ53	3Pi09
TL66	3Sc26 r
SQ73	3Ca27
Thereus	4Le08
Uranus	4Sc27 r
VQ94	4Pi33
Huya	4Le41 r
RR43	4Ta53
Ceto	5Aq39
UX25	5Ar51
Chariklo	6Ar38
UR163	6Ge41
Elatus	7Aq37
Ascend	7Aq44
Apogee	7Ta59
RL43	8Sa14 r
TC302	8Li32 r
CC22	9Sc17 r
OP32	9Aq21
96PW	9Le42 r
BU48	10Sa55r
HB57	10Ta57
RM43	11Sc49 r
GQ21	12Ar00
VR130	12Sc01r
TY364	12Aq11
QD112	12Ca12
FZ173	12Ar13
Jupiter	12Ge18
YQ179	12Aq54
WL7	12Pi59
XX143	13Vi38 r
CZ118	13Ta44
TD10	13Vi50 r
KF77	13Vi50 r
VU2	13Li53 r
QB1	14Ar11
VS2	14Pi24
Cyllarus	14Ar29
Pelion	14Cp39
KX14	15Vi47 r
CE10	15Sc52r
Ixion	16Li04 r
Saturn	16Aq11
RZ215	16Le16 r
SB60	16Aq43
CO1	16Sc44r
FP185	16Ar47
Mars	16Ar57
QB243	17Ge08
Pluto	17Vi13 r
RP120	17Li32 r
GB32	17Ta54
Okyrhoe	17Sc55r
Asbolus	18Ge19
Neptune	18Ta23
Sedna	18Aq39
CF119	18Aq39
GM137	18Sc40r
OM67	18Le48 r
QF6	19Li31 r
XR190	19Li56 r
Pholus	20Li02 r
SA278	20Sa19r
Echeclus	20Li20 r
RN43	20Cp29
Sun	20Ar35
MW12	20Sa41r
Crantor	21Ge00
TO66	21Pi16
Radamantus	21Ca17
CY118	21Pi29
AW197	21Vi44 r
CR105	22Cp02
PN34	22Ge02
PA44	22Ca23
EL61	22Vi53 r
Teharonhi	23Aq23
RG33	23Le25 r
DH5	23Sa57r
FY9	25Vi13 r
AZ84	25Ta20
Varuna	25Ge32
Chaos	25Ge50
CO104	26Pi01
Amycus	26Ta02
Nessus	26Ta06
MS4	26Sc07r
Typhon	26Pi18
Logos	26Vi28 r
Mercury	26Pi32
WN188	27Pi11
Hylonome	27Ge11
GZ32	27Ar14
LE31	27Ge21
Midheav	27Sc28
Eris	27Li37 r
DA62	27Sa46r
XA255	27Aq50
GV9	27Vi55 r
Deucalion	28Li16 r
XZ255	28Aq17
OX3	28Vi27 r
Vertex	28Le40
RZ214	28Le48 r
Node	29Cp03r
BL41	29Le14 r
RD215	29Vi14 r
Orcus	29Ge30

Focused Minor Planets

XR190 = 19 Li 56 r

Pholus = 20 Li 02 r

Echeclus = 20 Li 20 r

Sun = 20 Ar 35

Sedna = 18 Aq 39 Trine

CF119 = 18 Aq 39

Crantor = 21 Ge 00

RN43 = 20 Cp 29 T Square

Rhadamanthus = 21 Ca 17

SA278 = 20 Sa 19 r Sextile

MW12 = 20 Sa 41 r

OM67 = 18 Le 48 r

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AW197 = 21 Vi 44 r

EL61 = 22 Vi 53 r

CY118 = 21 Pi 29

TO66 = 21 Pi 16

Sun = 20 Ar 35 Quincunx

CR105 = 22 Cp 02 Trine

RN43 = 20 Cp 29

Crantor = 21 Ge 00 T Square

MW12 = 20 Sa 41 r

Rhadamanthus = 21 Ca 17 Sextile

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Quaoar = 1 Sa 36 r

Moon = 2 Ge 10 4n12 27n30

Venus = 2 Ge 55 4n13 27n32

OO67 = 1 Li 51 r Sextile

PB112 = 1 Li 38 r

Ixion = 16 Li 04 r Semisquare

Chiron = 1 Ar 15 Trine

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TL66 = 3 Sc 26 r

Uranus = 4 Sc 27 r

RR43 = 4 Ta 53

Moon = 2 Ge 10 Quincunx

Venus = 2 Ge 55

VQ94 = 4 Pi 33 Trine

Thereus = 4 Le 08 Square

Huya = 4 Le 41 r

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FY9 = 25 Vi 13 r

Logos = 26 Vi 28 r

Typhon = 26 Pi 18

Mercury = 26 Pi 32

Varuna = 25 Ge 32 Square

Chaos = 25 Ge 50

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GV9 = 27 Vi 55 r

Logos = 26 Vi 28 r

Mercury = 26 Pi 32

Typhon = 26 Pi 18

Eris = 27 Li 37 r Semisextile

Deucalion = 28 Li 16 r

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Ixion = 16 Li 04 r

Mars = 16 Ar 57

FP185 = 16 Ar 47

QB1 = 14 Ar 11

Saturn = 16 Aq 11 Trine

SB60 = 16 Aq 43

Quaoar = 1 Sa 36 r Semisquare

KX14 = 15 Vi 47 r Semisextile

RZ215 = 16 Le 16 r Sextile

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TY364 = 12 Aq 11

YQ179 = 12 Aq 54

Mercury = 26 Pi 32 Semisquare

Jupiter = 12 Ge 18 Trine

FZ173 = 12 Ar 13 Sextile

GQ21 = 12 Ar 00

RM43 = 11 Sc 49 r Square

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UX25 = 5 Ar 51

Chariklo = 6 Ar 38

Uranus = 4 Sc 27 r Quincunx

RR43 = 4 Ta 53 Semisextile

Huya = 4 Le 41 r Trine

Thereus = 4 Le 08

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Sedna = 18 Aq 39

CF119 = 18 Aq 39

OM67 = 18 Le 48 r

Neptune = 18 Ta 23 Square

Pluto = 17 Vi 13 r Quincunx

XR190 = 19 Li 56 r Trine

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Tentatively, for 2004 XR190:

Popularity

Compact Character

Succeeding Determination

Drastic Changes

Tendency toward self-promotion

Passion for Writing

Mania for beginning innumerable enterprises which are never pursued

Coming to terms with conflicting elements

Enduring Work

Pioneering Spirit

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Tentatively, for 2004 TY364:

Revered Icon

Symbol of the Unusual

Saying and expecting of non-attainable ideals

Confirmed Dreamer and Doer

Champion of a Difficult Cause

Transcending the normal features of ordinary ego-functioning

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