Demetra George and Douglas Bloch are practicing astrologers, and this ACS Publications book is their practitioner text developing an interpretive scheme for the four asteroid goddesses Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta within modern Western astrology, an interpretive framework that subsequently became widely adopted within that practitioner tradition. Its value is as the actual originating source for a scheme now in general astrological use, the correct place to check what these authors proposed and why, rather than a later secondhand summary of the tradition. Its limit is exactly its status as a practitioner's interpretive proposal rather than scholarship, tested by its own tradition's adoption rather than by independent historical or scientific method, so a claim about these figures' predictive validity or historical origin needs a different kind of source entirely.
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Citation
AuthorDemetra George and Douglas Bloch
PublisherACS Publications
Publication Year1986
URLhttps://archive.org/details/asteroidgoddesse0000geor
Source Typetradition
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
A modern astrological interpretive work from a specialist astrology publisher, the source of an interpretive scheme now in general practitioner use rather than independent scholarship on the asteroids' mythology. NotesSource of the interpretive scheme for Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta now in general use.
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Ceres, Deities This source names Ceres directly: "scheme for the four asteroid goddesses Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta within modern Western astrology, an interpretive framework that subsequently became widely adopted within that practitioner..."
This source names George directly: "Demetra George and Douglas Bloch are practicing astrologers, and this ACS Publications book is their practitioner text developing an interpretive scheme for the four asteroid goddesses Ceres..."
Juno, Deities This source names Juno directly: "four asteroid goddesses Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta within modern Western astrology, an interpretive framework that subsequently became widely adopted within that practitioner tradition."
This source names Pallas directly: "for the four asteroid goddesses Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta within modern Western astrology, an interpretive framework that subsequently became widely adopted within that practitioner tradition."
Vesta, Deities This source names Vesta directly: "goddesses Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta within modern Western astrology, an interpretive framework that subsequently became widely adopted within that practitioner tradition."
Claims Backed By This Source (41 claims)
This source backs 41 claims across the atlas. As facts: 29 well-attested. As cited relationships: 7 holds. Plus 5 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Planets, 24 claims: 17 well-attested, 2 holds, 5 general references.
- Sources, 13 claims: 8 well-attested, 5 holds.
- Articles, 4 claims: 4 well-attested.
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