Asteroid 5204 Herakleitos was discovered on February 11, 1988 by Eric W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory at Pedernales, Coquimbo, Chile. It has a period of 5 years, 210 days.
Elst named asteroid 5204 for the ancient Greek philosopher Herakleitos(540 BCE?𤾸 BCE?), also known as Heraclitus.
Heraclitus
Heraclitus' most famous teachings are expressed in the statements panta rhei (everything changes) and "No one can step twice into the same river."
A lot of water has passed under this bridge in France since its completion in the 13th century.
I have also heard Heraclitus quoted as saying that "the price of impulsive desire is the loss of one's soul."
Astrologically, Herakleitos indicates awareness of change or constant change, entropy, transitory things, the consequences of impulsiveness.
Michael Jackson, whose career is still much more successful than that of most singers but has never returned to the stratospheric heights of the 1980s(which it is possible he has trouble handling), has Herakleitos in the third house, intercepted, semisquare Hidalgo, square the Moon and Neptune, trine Jupiter and Juno, biquintile the Sun, quincunx Pluto, and parallel Saturn.
Marilyn Manson's career seems to have cooled off a bit, too. He has Herakleitos prominent, on the Descendant in the sixth house, semisextile the Sun, semisquare Chiron and Ceres, sextile Pallas and Hektor, square the Midheaven, opposite the Moon as well as the Ascendant and contraparallel Pluto.
Plus ca change, plus c'est la même chose.
Elvis Presley had Herakleitos in the second house, prominent by virtue of its conjunctions with the Sun and Mercury, and also semisquare the Moon, sextile Jupiter, square Hidalgo, trine Neptune and quincunx the Black Moon(lunar apogee point). His legend shows no signs of fading, and his record sales remain high, but his image has changed several times, from the young, slim Fifties Elvis to the Sixties Elvis to the portly, white buckskin-and-rhinestone-suited Seventies Elvis, Elvis the sex symbol, Elvis the burned-out pop-culture joke, Elvis the object of veneration--sometimes actual religious veneration. He sang not just rock but also country and gospel and also acted, and after his death his house, Graceland, was turned by his ex-wife Priscilla into a museum which is one of Memphis' biggest tourist attractions.
Their daughter Lisa Marie Presley has been married three times and divorced twice. She has Herakleitos in the sixth house rather widely conjunct Venus(6 degree orb), and also semisextile the Sun, sextile Mars, quintile Chiron, trine the Black Moon, and contraparallel the East Point.
Lots of time, perhaps too much, to think.
Atheist activist Madalyn Murray O'Hair had Herakleitos in the tenth house, decile the Sun, sextile the East Point, tredecile Pluto, trine the Part of Fortune, sesquiquadrate Juno, and quincunx Hektor. Toward the end of her life, lamented what she saw as the backsliding of America to a state ruled by religion and robber barons, and she and one of her two sons and her granddaughter were eventually murdered for their money by three men, two of whom went to prison. The third was murdered himself by his partners in crime.
Writer Jack London, who wrote about the often brutal nature of life's changes, had Herakleitos in the twelfth house, conjunct Pluto and the East Point, undecimal Chiron, sextile Mars, square Heracles and Saturn, triseptile trhe Black Moon quadnonagon Ceres, and opposite Jupiter.
Actor Brandon Lee, who died fairly young(like his father, martial-arts master and movie action hero Bruce Lee), in a freak shooting accident on the set of his final movie, The Crow, had Herakleitos conjunct Jupiter, semisquare Vesta, sextile Chiron, quintile Saturn, square the Vertex, trine Uranus, Pluto, Juno, the Part of Fortune and the Ascendant, and opposite Neptune.
The glyph for Herakleitos is mine and is derived from the mathematical symbol for summation.