Asteroid 84, Klio, was discovered on August 25, 1865 by Robert Luther at Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. It has a period of 3 years, 230 days and is about 59 miles in diameter.
Klio was named for one of the nine Muses of Greco-Roman mythology, daughters of Hermes and Mnemosyne who were goddesses of the arts and sciences; Klio was the Muse of history.
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Astrologically, Klio seems to indicate history or focus on the past or on tradition.
William Manchester (born April 1, 1922 in Attleboro, Massachusetts) had Klio in the second house, cusping the third, conjunct Ixion (creating karma), square Mars (anger), and quincunx Pandora (to cause a stir, have an impact, unintended consequences). Manchester coined the generational name "Silent Generation" for those born between 1919 and 1945, whom he described as "withdrawn, cautious, unimaginative, indifferent, unadventurous and silent." He was sued by Jackie Kennedy over his book about her first husband, Death Of A President, and ended up removing certain passages dealing with the Kennedys' family life, which prompted satirists and Kennedy enemies to imagine all kinds of scandalous things.
Edward Gibbon (born May 8, 1737 [New Style] in London), author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, had Klio sextile Don Quixote (to take on the system) and contraparallel Pluto (unforgettable). He blamed the rise of Christianity and its encouragement of otherworldliness, intolerance and withdrawal from involvement in society (as well as tribal invasions, excessive devotion to luxury, an unfair tax system and other factors) for bringing about the fall of the Roman Empire, infuriating his Christian contemporaries.
Will Durant (born November 5, 1885 in North Adams, Massachusetts), a philosopher and social reformer (and avowed socialist), tried to bring philosophy to the masses, believed that philosophy had not grown because it avoided society's problems, and wrote the Declaration of Interdependence for the civil rights movement. He had Klio semisquare Pallas (politics) and trine Pluto, Pandora (to stir things up) and Heracles (to strive against).
His wife, student and collaborator Ariel Durant (born May 10, 1898, in Khmelnytskyy [formerly Proskurov], Ukraine), who co-wrote The Story of Civilization with him, had Klio quincunx Venus (marriage, values) and trine Chiron (the door-opener).
Controversial African-American political commentator and anti-civil-rights-movement apologist Shelby Steele (born Janury 1, 1946, in Chicago) has Klio conjunct Dioretsa (stupidity, something that sticks), semisextile Cruithne (branded), square Sun (to shine) and Vesta (dedication), trine Pluto (self-damage, baggage from the past), and Pallas, and opposite Ixion (creating karma).
Joseph Campbell, whose work explores the relationship of mythology to psychology, had Klio sextile Pallas and Damocles (drastic change, experience of groupthink), square Neptune (spirituality), trine Juno (to relate), sesquiquadrate Saturn (work, career, rewards and consequences), quincunx Cruithne (in touch with one's roots or the past), and opposite Sun, Mercury, Heracles, and Lilith (the arational, the marginalized).
Slobodan Milosevic, whose Serbian nationalism did a lot to ignite the internecine war in the former Yugoslavia, has Klio semisextile Mars, sesquiquadrate Jupiter (religion, law) and Saturn (work, career, consequences), and contraparallel South Node (past influences, separation).
Nathan Bedford Forrest (born July 13, 1821, in Chapel Hill, Tennessee), Confederate general and founder of the Ku Klux Klan, had Klio conjunct Chaos (something groundbreaking), semisquare Uranus (rebellion) and Neptune (ideals, delusion), square Mercury, sesquiquadrate Pluto, and quincunx Dioretsa.
Narotham Godse (born May 19, 1910 in Poona, Maharashtra, India), the Hindu extremist who murdered Mahatma Gandhi, had Klio conjunct Thereus (wildness, hunting something), semisextile Mercury and Phaethon (out of control, off the track), square Jupiter, trine Pallas and Pholus (need to learn respect, infected, folly), parallel Pandora, and contraparallel Hidalgo (to assert, to promote, to defend) and Chaos.
Ronald Reagan, the father of the contemporary American political conservative movement, had Klio conjunct Okyrhoe (to listen to oneself, deal with opposition), semisextile Quaoar (to create, to feel compelled to address an issue), sextile Neptune (illusion, ideals) and Hidalgo, trine Mercury, sesquiquadrate Vesta and Elatus (eloquent expression), and quincunx Phaethon )(a phenomenon).
Henry Ford had Klio decile Venus (values), sextile Juno, square Nessus (freeing oneself of psychological toxins), sesquiquadrate Elatus, and quincunx Heracles. He is credited with originating the saying "History is bunk," but apparently intended to say that Americans rightfully were not overly focused on the past. He also created a "living history" museum, Greenfield Village, in Dearborn, Michigan, that focuses on the lives of ordinary Americans throughout history, but does not neglect more prominent individuals such as Thomas Edison (whom Ford greatly admired), the Wright brothers, and H.J. Heinz, founder of the food company.