Asteroid goddesses calculator - Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta natal positions
post_astrology_asteroidsCalculate the natal positions of the four classical asteroid goddesses, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta, for any birth moment. Each asteroid returns its tropical zodiac sign, degree, house placement, daily speed, retrograde status, and a plain language interpretation of its meaning in the chart. Chiron is available through the natal chart endpoint, so this endpoint stays focused on the four asteroid goddesses for natal reports and relationship astrology.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| date | Yes | Birth date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Determines planetary positions for the specific calendar day. | |
| lang | No | Response language (BCP 47). Supported: en, tr, de, es, hi, pt, fr, ru, zh-Hans, zh-Hant. Defaults to en. Coverage varies by domain, and a field with no translation in the requested language returns English. | en |
| time | Yes | Birth time in 24-hour HH:MM:SS format. Determines the Ascendant (rising sign) and house cusps. Use 12:00:00 if unknown. | |
| compact | No | Set true for the same data in a compact shape: arrays of same-shaped objects arrive columnar as {"__cols":[names],"__rows":[[values]]}. Lossless, typically 40 to 52 percent fewer tokens. | |
| latitude | Yes | Birth location latitude in decimal degrees (-90 to 90). Positive = North, negative = South. | |
| nodeType | No | Lunar node convention. "mean" is the smoothed average node, which always moves retrograde; "true" is the osculating node, which tracks the real perturbed node, oscillates up to about 1.5 degrees either side of the mean on a 173-day cycle, and can briefly turn direct. Neither is more correct and they almost always fall in the same sign. Applies to the North and South Node. True is the osculating node and the default, because it is what most Western chart software reports; mean is the smoothed node preferred by several evolutionary schools, so pass "mean" to match one. Nothing else in the chart changes, and the two agree on the sign except when the node sits within about 1.8 degrees of a cusp. Defaults to "true". | true |
| timezone | Yes | Timezone: IANA name (e.g. "America/New_York", "Europe/London") OR decimal hours from UTC (e.g. -5 for EST, 1 for CET). IANA strings are resolved to the DST-correct offset for the given date, so you can pass `cities[0].timezone` from /location/search directly. | |
| longitude | Yes | Birth location longitude in decimal degrees (-180 to 180). Positive = East, negative = West. | |
| houseSystem | No | House system used to assign each asteroid to a natal house. Placidus (default), Whole Sign, Equal, or Koch. Above the polar circle, quadrant systems fall back to Whole Sign and the echoed houseSystem reports the system actually used. | placidus |