disposition, an air hand indicates an intellectual nature, and so forth. Despite palm-
istry’s wholesale borrowing of astrological terminology, modern astrologers have
shown little or no interest in studying correlations between patterns in palms and pat-
terns in astrological charts.Sources:
Gettings, Fred. The Book of Palmistry.London: Triune Books, 1974.
Hamon, Louis. The Cheiro Book of Fate and Fortune: Palmistry, Numerology and Astrology.New
York: Arco Publishing Co., 1971.PANDORA
Pandora is the name of two distinct celestial bodies: A moon of Saturn and an aster-
oid. Pandora, the recently discovered (1980) moon in the Saturnian system, is about
55 miles in diameter and orbits Saturn in less than two-thirds of a terrestrial day at an
average distance of 88,200 miles. Pandora, asteroid 55 (the 55th asteroid to be discov-
ered, on September 10, 1858), has an orbital period a bit longer than 4^1 ⁄ 2 years, and it
is almost 113 kilometers in diameter. Both celestial bodies were named after the
mythological Greek woman who released the ills of humanity by opening a box that
the gods had sent her but had forbidden her from unsealing. Only the asteroid has
been investigated by astrologers.
Pandora is one of the more recent asteroids to be investigated by astrologers.
Preliminary material on Pandora can be found in Demetra George and Douglas
Bloch’s Astrology for Yourself,and an ephemeris (table of celestial locations) for Pan-
dora can be found in the second edition of George and Bloch’s Asteroid Goddesses.
Unlike the planets, which are associated with a wide range of phenomena, the smaller
asteroids are said to represent a single principle. George and Bloch give Pandora’s
principle as “curiosity that initiates change.” Zipporah Dobyns also associates Pandora
with curiosity and has found it prominent in the charts of many astrologers. J. Lee
Lehman sees the effect of Pandora as twofold: “to stir a person into doing something,
and to produce unintended options of the person.” Jacob Schwartz gives this asteroid’s
significance as “encountering unanticipated ramifications and options of a larger
process, caught off-guard, curiosity initiating change.”Sources:
Dobyns, Zipporah. Expanding Astrology’s Universe.San Diego: Astro Computing Services, 1983.
———. Asteroid Goddesses: The Mythology, Psychology and Astrology of the Reemerging Feminine.
2d. ed. San Diego: Astro Computing Services, 1990.
George, Demetra, with Douglas Bloch. Astrology for Yourself: A Workbook for Personal Transfor-
mation.Berkeley, CA: Wingbow Press, 1987.
Lehman, J. Lee. The Ultimate Asteroid Book.West Chester, PA: Whitford Press, 1988.
Schwartz, Jacob. Asteroid Name Encyclopedia.St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1995.PARADISE
Paradise, asteroid 2,791 (the 2,791st asteroid to be discovered, on February 13, 1977),
is approximately 20 kilometers in diameter and has an orbital period of 3.7 years. Par-Pandora
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