Get ready for the ultimate reckoning when Ceres enters Aries this weekend

Gather round and look skyward, folks.Ceres, our asteroid of loss and deliverance, is moving into the infernal heart of Aries this weekend.On Friday, May 16th, Ceres enters Aries at 2:16 PM EST, where she will reign and remain until March 2026.Named for the Roman goddess of the maternal, fertile, and agricultural, Ceres is technically a dwarf planet but is regarded by astrologers as an asteroid.Demeter is the Greek equivalent of Ceres, and as the myth goes, the goddess of the grain endured the abduction of her daughter Persephone by death daddy Hades — who took his new bride to the underworld.In her devastation at the loss of her daughter, Ceres ceased the growth of everything on earth — leaving the world all but barren.Brokered by Zeus, a deal was struck to satisfy both deities.

Persephone would eventually come to spend 1/2 of the year above ground with her mother and 1/2 below — giving rise to seasons.This myth and this asteroid illustrate themes of maternal devotion and surrender.In addition to indicating what and who we create and protect, Ceres helps us alchemize lessons of loss and sacrifice.Ceres in the birth chart helps us unlock our unmet needs — and serve as better stewards of our own self-care and inner children.Ceres shows us what we need to be nourished.This transit feeds us (Ceres) the fire (Aries) we need in order to begin again — and build ourselves stronger, fuller, and freer than ever before.The brilliant astrologer and tarot reader Elise Wells of Planet Poetica tells The Post, “Ceres represents the protective mother and the ways we guard anything near, dear, precious, and fleeting to us.

Ceres indicates how we allow the thing we hold to grow and flourish while under our care.”However, while the Ceres archetype can coddle to the point of stunting, a smother mother if you will, Aries energy understands that to empower, we must initiate separation.“Inevitably, every child, seedling, or burgeoning project has to come out from un...