Asbolus opposite Huya; last occurred in 1924, and about once per century prior to that. This century the pattern changes completely and we get repeated prolonged occurrences of this oppostion, starting today. See the aspect history here.

Asbolus in Taurus makes his first exact opposition to Huya in Scorpio at 8:22:12 UT today, and this aspect continues on and off until 2011. They lock into another long period of opposition from 2031 to 2041, and again from 2061-67. Today is their first post-discovery opposition.

Asbolus is a centaur planet discovered in 1995. He has an extremely elongated 77-year orbit, crossing that of Saturn, coming right in towards Jupiter, and going out as far as Neptune (seeming to skim Neptune’s orbit but not crossing it). He is currently quite close, just beyond Saturn’s orbit, moving inwards.

Huya, named after a Venezuelan rain god, is a slow TNO discovered in 2000, with a 250-year orbit similar to Pluto’s. He is also near the closest point of his orbit. Observation of Huya’s effects is muddied a bit by the fact it’s been conjunct Deucalion, another slow-moving TNO with watery themes, since 2005 (Deucalion is a bit like Noah). They are now beginning to separate.

The Full Moon is at 10:25:23 UT today at 0° Scorpio 42′52″. Minor planet chart here.

This Moon, exactly conjunct asteroid Klotho, is quincunx (simply cannot relate to) Vesta on the Aries point. It sextiles Pluto-Juno-Diana, which are all hovering near the cusp of Capricorn (all retrograde, squaring Vesta), and sextiles Saturn-Okyrhoe on the cusp of Virgo. The Sun, opposite at 0° Taurus, is conjunct centaur Asbolus and asteroid Phaethon. Thus we have a kite of Sun, Pluto, Saturn and Moon.

The kite formation would suggest the Moon is the way out of the mire. But to go back to basics, a Full Moon, Sun opposite Moon, symbolises a tension between spirit and soul, like an internal split, which can feel much like when you were a small child listening to Mum and Dad fight. There are various ways to approach an opposition, but Asbolus conjunct the Sun implies to me a sort of transcendent approach. Maybe. This is not how Asbolus is usually described, but I’m not talking about anything misty or Piscean. I mean seeing the paradox from a slightly removed perspective with absolute clarity, i.e., from a point somewhere above the chart. I think Asbolus can point you away from the struggle itself, back to the awareness that watches it (which is the one constant).

Asbolus used to watch the birds.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JSi3_izdRZE