The Asteroid Sappho is the first one to be named after an actual person while all the other asteroids are named after either Greek or Roman mythical characters.
The Asteroid Sappho stands for personal aesthetics and the desire we have to bond with others. It indicates the emotional extremities of love, poetical abilities, artistic sense, same sex bonding like gay or lesbian and the need for deep friendships.
It is said that Sappho was a Greek Poetess who was homoerotic and had affection for her companions. She is said to have lived in the Isle of Lesbos from which the term “lesbian” has been coined. Her works concentrated on same sex love and relationships. Sappho in our chart denotes any queer relationship tendency that stands out from the social order. The Asteroid Sappho is found to be prominent in the charts of noted Lesbian women and Gay men.
Generally in birth charts, Sappho indicates our artistic aptitude and how we deal with words. Sappho indicates the act of displaying our true sexual nature. Sappho is all about poetry, the feminine side and our libido.
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