Gaea

Gaea

(religion, spiritualism, and occult)

Gaea, asteroid 1,184 (the 1,184th asteroid to be discovered, on September 5, 1926), is approximately 20 kilometers in diameter and has an orbital period of 4.4 years. Gaea was named after the Greek earth goddess; gaea is Greek for “Earth.” J. Lee Lehman associates this asteroid with what she calls the “ground of being.” Jacob Schwartz gives the astrological significance of Gaea as “a personification of Mother Earth, a place rather than a player.”

Sources:

Kowal, Charles T. Asteroids: Their Nature and Utilization. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Ellis Horwood Limited, 1988.

Lehman, J. Lee. The Ultimate Asteroid Book. West Chester, PA: Whitford Press, 1988.

Schwartz, Jacob. Asteroid Name Encyclopedia. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1995.

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Gaea

goddess of the earth; mother of the mountains. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 104]

See: Earth

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Gaea

goddess of the earth. [Gk. Myth.: NCE, 785]

See: Farming

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Gaea

earth and mother goddess. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 108]

See: Motherhood

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