CERES IN THE INDIVIUDAL CHART
From Asteroid Goddesses by Demetra George & Douglas Bloch
Ceres in Gemini ♊ persons receive nurturance through being educated, talked to, and listened to. These people nurture others mentally through communicating knowledge to them. Self acceptance is based on feeling smart or intellectually competent. Imbalance occurs when feelings of mental inadequacy lead to learning disabilities or to attempts to intellectually impress or verbally manipulate others.
Ceres in Cancer ♋ individuals receive nurturance through bonding with the mother, feeling loved, and being fed. If these needs are met at an early age, these people will excel at caring for others physically and emotionally. Self-acceptance is based on one's ability to express feelings and master emotions. Imbalance occurs when the child is either deprived of nurturance or smothered with love and affection. Excessive neediness or emotional dependency are the resulting psychological affliction.
Ceres in Leo ♌ individuals identify nurturance with self-expression. Ideally, the parents will foster in the child a sense of pride, confidence in his/her abilities, and an appreciation for the creative efforts of others. These people can nurture others by helping them express their creativity -- thereby making a unique impression upon the outer world. Self-acceptance is based upon tone's ability to create and share something he/she takes pride in. The inability to do so may bring self-rejection and lack of self-confidence.
Ceres in Virgo ♍ persons identify nurturance with perfection or with service. Ideally, the mothering experience can foster the child's sense of competence, discrimination, and self-discipline which gives the ability to extend skills to others. Nurturing is expressed through teaching others to achieve excellence by right application of skills and talents. Feelings of self-worth arise through mastering a skill or technique and expressing it in the work world, or through feeling useful to others. Imbalance often results when the children are constantly criticized for their efforts, no matter how good they were. This can lead to an obsessive need to be perfect and to be critical of the imperfections in others.
Ceres in Libra ♎ individuals identify nurturing with cooperation. Ideally, the mothering experience fosters a sensitivity to others with a positive attitude toward relationships. Nurturing is expressed through imparting instructions on how to interact, cooperate, and exhibit right conduct in egalitarian relationships. Self-acceptance may be based upon one's demonstrated ability to create harmony in one's relationships and environment. Imbalances occur when one is so other-directed that he or she places being accepted above a need for self-determination.
Ceres in PIsces ♓ people identify nurturing with compassion. Such a person receives nurturance through feeling connected to and unified with a reality beyond him or herself. Nurturance is expressed through alleviating the suffering of others - either through empathy or inspiring in them the qualities of faith, universal love, and recognition of a transcendent reality. Self-acceptance may be based upon the ability to serve others selflessly without expecting anything in return. Imbalances occur when the individual does not receive the proper reassurance and emotional support as a child. This often leads to feelings of helplessness and powerlessness which in turn promote the victim-martyr syndrome.
