Sunday 15 October 2017

(481984) Cernunnos, adjusting physical capacity and perceptions according to reality

(481984) Cernunnos is an amor asteroid discovered in May of 2009. There is a prediscovery image back to September of 1996. It was officially named in August of 2017.

The orbit is located between the Earth-Moon system and the cybele zone. It has a perihelion of 1.16 AU and an aphelion of 3.23 AU. The semimajor axis is at 2.19 AU. It has an orbital period of 3 years and 94 days. It has an inclination of 9.4º.


Orbital resonance:
4:13 with Earth-Moon (99.6%)
11:19 with Mars (99.6%)  *[4:7 with Mars (99.0%)]
9:1 with Saturn (99.6%)
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17:12 with Pallas (99.9%)
10:9 with Vesta (99.8%)
17:12 with Herculina (99.9%)
19:11 with Davida (99.8%)
18:11 with Interamnia (99.7%)
5:3 with Europa (99.7%)
2:1 with Sylvia (99.5%)



Celtic mythology

Cernunnos was a god with two horns on his head and ring-shaped bracelets.

The mythological representations of Cernnunos remind 'The Devil' (XV Mayor Arcana of the classic tarot deck), whose meaning is related with traps and limits of Saturnian reality and with a great capacity to get ahead in difficult circumstances. 
 

The Devil in Marsella, Waite and Secret tarot decks

(481984) Cernunnos is related with the ability to adjust physical capacity and perceptions so that the personal way of looking at things be more realistic.

"Mission: Impossible" (1996)

However, because the adaptation is both by excess and default, sometimes it allows much more than most people would consider, like in the movies "The Ugly Truth" (2009), "Kick-Ass "(2009) and" Bolt "(2008).

"Kick-Ass" (2009)

Miguel de Cervantes, author of the book "The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha" (1605; 1615), has Cernunnos in Virgo (3rd Moon-Node House) in opposition to Jupiter in Pisces (9th Moon-Node House), which is, in sextile with Saturn in Capricorn (11th Moon-Node House) and in sextile with Neptune in Taurus (7th Moon-Node House). Cernunnos is also in semisextile with Pallas in Leo (4th Moon-Node House), which is in quincunx with Jupiter.