Madonna: The Cosmic Star of Evita

Order your copy of Asteroid Name Encyclopedia now! Just like the Star of Bethlehem, there is a Star of Eva Peron, Argentina's social and political leader, and heroine of the stage play and film Evita. The Star -- a collection of specifically relevant asteroids was literally shining over Madonna at her birth. Yes, over Bay City, Michigan at five minutes past seven on the morning of August 16, 1958. A collection of four asteroids specifically named for Eva Peron were flying in a tight pattern above the newborn babe Madonna, named Louise Veronica Ciccone. As more and more astrologers are beginning to comprehend, the names given to those chunks of astronomical gravel we call asteroids relate to events on earth with the names. The five asteroids named for Eva Peron were not memorialized by Madonna's press agent but by astronomers years before the singing and acting star's birth. First discovered two centuries ago, over 5,000 asteroids have been named by their discoverers or committees of astronomers. These huge rocks orbit about the Sun, and travel throughout our solar system, but the vast majority are confined between Mars and Jupiter. In an uncanny way, the names of asteroids connect to Earthly events, people and places with the same names. Remember, astronomers named Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto and astrologers have found those names, and the mythology surrounding them, useful in delineating horoscopes and making predictions. So, why not the thousands of light bodies called asteroids with their popular names -- names like Eva, Evita, Donna, Lola, Argentina, Martir, and Maria as well as the names from Argentine social movements during Eva Peron's reign at mid century? With over 5,000 asteroids named so far, and many more added every year, your name and the unique collection of all the names around you are components of the human cosmic connection. Asteroid names are suddenly an element of a collective consciousness. For example, when the singing group Peter, Paul, and Mary first performed in the summer of 1961, the asteroids with the same names were all together in the theatrical constellation Leo. When Nancy Kerrigan was attacked by Shane Stant, an accomplice of Tonya Harding, the asteroid Harding was rising in the East, the asteroid Tanya joined mysterious Pluto setting in the West, with the asteroid Shane directly beneath Detroit, the site of the attack, at that precise moment. A perfect triangle to the degree, no variance. And when scientist Carl Edward Sagan was born to parents Rachel and Sam, the asteroids with those given names were all together too. Madonna literally inherited the mantle of Eva Peron, not by blood and ancestry as we generally think of it, but by virtue of a holistic purposeful universe. In this new perception of life on our planet, all events are interconnected. Technology has made the world a smaller place in many ways, and events in remote parts of our planet impact with persons far removed. In fact, the concept of beginnings are changing too, and a connection between the births of Eva Peron, Madonna, her daughter Lola, and the astronomers calculating asteroid orbits and naming them is not as far fetched now as it used to be. The idea of the universe as a solid whole is becoming more and more an acceptable hypothesis. So what does all this have to do with Evita? Let me explain. Eva Peron's stars: Shortly before Eva Peron's death in 1952, Argentine astronomer Miguel Itzigsohn discovered five asteroids. His admiration for the social and humanitarian activities of Evita, as she was called, moved him to name all five asteroids in her honor. The five asteroids are: Evita (#1569) for Eva Peron's popular name; Abanderada or flag bearer (#1581) for Evita carrying banners and leading demonstrations against cruel labor practices; the Spanish word for martyr, Martir (#1582); the Spanish word used by Argentine trade unions for the working classes, Descamisada (#1588) literally meaning the shirtless ones, and Eva Peron was called The First Descamisada; and Fanatica (#1589), a word of tribute to Evita "whose devotion and enthusiasm for the welfare of the Argentine people led her to champion the cause of the workers," said astronomer Itzigsohn in his entry supporting the name. The latter four of these asteroids, plus one named many decades earlier, Eva (#164), were all within a narrow 13 degrees of arc over Bay City, a point called the Mid Heaven and representing career aspirations, at Madonna's birth. The asteroids named Evita and Argentina (#469), two names at the time remotely connected to her life were directly beneath the earth and Madonna at her birth, a point astrologically representing roots and family. Accurately describing her artistic challenge, the planet of courage and strength Mars was challenged by an opposition to asteroids Evita and Argentina! If art can reflect life, the cosmos reflects art. Whatever vibrational energy inspired Itzigsohn to name those asteroids for Evita, was apparently transferred to Madonna at her birth when those same asteroids were directly overhead. Separate from the rest, the asteroid Evita was aligned with angry and courageous Mars at the same place in the sky in stubborn, determined mid Taurus when both Eva Peron and Madonna were born! "People were angry with Evita in her day for the same reason they are angry at me today," writes Madonna, "we are women with success and power." But, she adds, "if you want something bad enough, the whole universe conspires to help you get it." That's the Martian mythology expressed in modern times, the spirit of victory, challenge, winning. The collection of these asteroids in a small way resembles a quality somewhat like the Star of Bethlehem at the birth of Jesus -- a special cosmic event describes a special earthly event. And there are collections of asteroid names containing a message and mission for all of us. Astronomers generally deny any earthly connection to their name assignments, but the sheer distribution of Eva Peron's asteroids at her birth is so precise and relevant that it appears that either astronomer Itzigsohn is a closet astrologer, or the distribution reflects in yet another miraculous way, the infinite order of things. Asteroids Evita, Fanatica, and Descamisada were all challenged by an opposition to brave Mars and the proud Sun in Peron's horoscope on a fixed Scorpio/Taurus axis. The asteroids Argentina, the karmic lunar node, and the asteroid Martir were also together on the Sagittarius/Gemini information axis on May 7, 1919, time unknown, outside Buenos Aires. Evita in Madonna's dream "Last night," Madonna wrote on February 8, 1996, during the filming of Evita, "I dreamed of Evita. I was not outside watching her. I was her. I felt her sadness and her restlessness. How would I react, and what would I do, if I had cancer and was dying?" Madonna asked, according to her diary published in the December 1996 issue of Vanity Fair. Eva Peron died of uterine cancer at age 33 after over a decade of national attention first as a leading radio actress and then as a social activist working for the improvement of living conditions for Argentine workers. Eva Peron, running as a presidential candidate with her husband, became the first woman elected to lead a Latin American nation. Her last seven years of life, married to Argentine dictator Juan Peron, was the high point of her political career, but also a painful and cruel time as well. "I understood the feverish pace Evita lived during her last few years. She wanted her life to matter. She didn't have time for the bureaucracies, she needed results. Evita did not want to be remembered as a girl from the sticks, or a B actress, or the wife of the president. She wanted to be remembered for her goodness." But that projection of goodness took great courage and initiative in a very corrupt political and social system that was Argentina in the mid 20th century. The astrological symbol of strength and courage, Mars, would have to be prominent. If Evita exists at a spiritual level after her death, and with her feeling then that so many things had yet to be accomplished in Argentina, wouldn't it be likely that she wants her Martian courage to be transferred to another being with a similar drive for victory. Mars represents that energy, and Mars at Eva Peron's birth and Mars at Madonna's birth were in the same place in the heavens! Martyrdom was demonstrated by her bold political stance opposing strongly entrenched military forces ready to destroy her. Eva Peron's sacrifices were especially evident just before her death, at the hands of her husband Juan. Madonna writes in her diary, "when Evita was very ill and confined to her bed, Juan Peron forbade any visitors except the immediate family. He rarely visited because he couldn't stand the smells of her room, her body, her cancer." They slept in separate bedrooms for years. But one night when she was especially scared, she got out of bed and went to her husband's room. When she woke him up he smelled her and shouted "get out of my room, get that thing out of here." Before she died, Juan Peron decided for political reasons to have her body put on display after death. "He wanted her to look good," Madonna writes, "but she was losing weight and deteriorating. ...they started injecting her with chemicals to preserve her organs and flesh. To make matters worse she was not allowed any painkillers." That Madonna could empathize with her pain for a greater cause than herself is reflected by the asteroid Martir not only overhead when Madonna was born, but in the same perceptive zodiac sign, Gemini, as in Eva Peron's horoscope. The Moon receives and reflects the light of the Sun, and one of the astrological traits of the Moon is personality and a reflection of inner needs for security and protection. That's why the Moon symbolically connects with mothers and homes. Well, the asteroid Donna at Eva Peron's birth (#3085, there is none named Madonna so far) was on the very same plane as the Moon at Madonna's birth, 11 degrees Pisces/Virgo! A person's horoscope, the portrayal of the cosmos at birth, is a description of cosmic consciousness, literally. The name Donna in Eva Peron's cosmic consciousness was joined by the receptive Moon in Madonna's cosmic consciousness. Daughter Lola Lourdes Maria The names Lola and Maria were very meaningful to Madonna astrologically long before her daughter was born. The asteroid Lola (#463) was together with asteroid Donna in the gracious and esthetic sign of Libra. The asteroid named Maria, the middle name for Eva Peron and Madonna's daughter, was next to the beautiful planet Venus in Madonna's chart in the theatrical sign Leo -- a love child indeed. So when Lola Lourdes Maria Ciccone-Leon was born October 14, 1996 at 4:01 p.m. in Los Angeles, the names she was given were already prominent in her mother's cosmic consciousness described by the asteroids in Madonna's horoscope. In utero during the filming of Evita in Argentina, the asteroid Evita is significantly placed next to the point of destiny, the lunar node, and the planet of perception Mercury, while the asteroid Argentina is next to a loving Venus in analytical Venus in Virgo in Lola's house of partnerships. The asteroid Maria was placed next to the Moon, both in intensive Scorpio, and near the planet Pluto, symbol of regeneration -- all overhead shining down upon Lola at her birth, the Star of Lola. Even more awesome is the fact that in Lola's horoscope, the asteroid Maria is at the very same degree as asteroid Evita in Eva Peron's chart. It's almost as though the spirit of Eva Maria Peron wanted part of her own name, Maria, to transfer to the daughter of her portrayer. The thread of name connections crosses generations and roles. Where is Carlos, Lola's father? The horizon represents what comes into being in the rising east, and what moves out of vision in the setting west. So the symbolism is clear, what rises represents what comes into being, the self, and what sets represents the alter ego, the significant other, a partner, a near and dear. There is no asteroid Carlos, but there are asteroids Carla (asteroid names were feminized with -a or -ia endings for over a century), and two others with a Mediterranean flavor, Carlostorres, named after a Spanish astronomer, and Carlova. At Madonna's birth, all three Carlos-connected asteroids were either exactly rising or setting, indicating a strong attraction to persons with names like Carlos. Similarly, at Lola's birth, the three Carlos-like asteroids were within a few degrees of her descendent setting in the west, the place of the mate. The asteroids were all very close to Lola's Mars indicating her father as a strong figure in her life, and perhaps a physical exercise trainer as was to Madonna. Are all these coincidences? Or is the universe presenting a message that all experiences, even the naming of asteroids by astronomers, even the birth of two famous, assertive and creative women, physically distant are yet artistically and cosmically tied. These isolated events are not arbitrary but a part of the grand plan that most of us are just now learning to appreciate. Author James Redfield wrote in his The Celestine Prophecy, that new insights would begin to dominate world consciousness before the transformation at the beginning of the 21st century. Well, the first insight was the appearance of strange coincidences, events related to each other and making no logical sense. What could be more unlikely as asteroid names, astrological symbols, and events on Earth carrying those names. Perhaps astronomers in their selection of names for asteroids are unintentionally and unconsciously tapping into the vibrational frequencies of the asteroid, which triggers a sound vibration which in turn stimulates a name. What's that biblical phrase, In the Beginning was the Word...?