Asteroid 21795, Masi, was discovered on September 29, 1999 by Franco Mallia at the Campo Catino Astronomical Observatory in Frosinone, Lazio, Italy. It has a period of 3 years, 248 days.
It is named for Italian amateur astronomer Gianluca Masi.
Gianluca Masi
Astrologically, asteroid Masi seems to indicate what its name suggests: massiveness, obesity; also rudeness, paranoia, uncouthness, belligerence, aggression..
The hog, which has a (perhaps) undeserved reputation for overindulgence, is known to be mean, especially in its feral state.
Portly actor Dom DeLuise (born August 1, 1933, in New York), whose movies included Fatso, had Masi square Saturn (work, career, rewards).
Plus-sized model and sometime actress Mia Tyler (born December 22, 1978, in Hanover, New Hampshire) has Masi sextile Don Quixote (taking on the system) and square Pallas (politics) and Lilith (marginalized). "Plus-sized" meaning somewhat heavier than the norm for most models, which borders on emaciation, which is to say, more like the way most women look. Despite this, Mia Tyler has picked up a following (and it helps that she's the daughter of rocker Steven Tyler and the half-sister of actress Liv Tyler, too).
Actress Lindsay Hollister (born June 3, 1977, in Columbus, Ohio), who is decidedly heavy and breaks the rail-thin mold for Hollywood actresses, has Masi conjunct Cruithne (branded, stigmatized), semisextile Chiron (mold breaking, maverick), semisquare Mercury, trine Vesta (dedication) and Nessus (predatory), and biquintile Pallas.
Singer Ruben Studdard (born September 12, 1978, in Birmingham, Alabama), known as The Velvet Teddy Bear, a heavy man who likes soul food and who seems to have trouble sticking to a diet program, has Masi conjunct Mercury (the media, thought), sextile Venus (art, singing) and Lilith, and contraparallel Juno (public persona, the historically disadvantaged).
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (born November 7, 1970, in Parkersburg, West Virginia), who documented the negative effects of a month of eating nothing but McDonald's food on his waistline and health in the documentary Super-Size Me, has Masi sextile Lilith and tredecile Don Quixote. McDonald's officials wouldn't meet with him, and criticized the movie, but shortly after its release the chain phased out its super-size portions and revised its menu to include food choices considered healthier.
William Howard Taft (born September 15, 1857, in Cincinnati), perhaps the heaviest president the United States has ever had, weighed over 300 pounds and had to have a specially made bathtub that four regular-sized men could fit into. He had Masi conjunct the South Node (past influences), undecimal Mars (industrial arts), sextile Saturn (consequences, restrictions), square Ixion (creating karma), opposite the North Node (making connections), and contraparallel Pluto (unforgettable).
Robert Earl Hughes (born June 4, 1926, in Monticello, Missouri), whose weight of more than 1000 pounds earned him the title of World's Heaviest Man in the Guinness Book of World Records and who died early from uremia and was buried in an oversized coffin, had Masi sextile Mars and Vesta (dedicated), quintile Pallas (conceptualization) and Juno, square Neptune (expanding beyond all reasonable boundaries), trine Elatus (a picture worth a thousand words) and Ixion, and opposite Saturn.
Robert Earl Hughes
Rosie O'Donnell, known for her volatile temper, blunt language, and strong opinions as well as her weight, has Masi conjunct Saturn, semisextile Mercury, sextile Chaos (activism), square Pandora (making a splash), opposite Don Quixote and contraparallel Ceres (to nurture).
French racist and right-wing politician Jean-Marie Le Pen (born June 20, 1928, in La Trinite sur Mer, Morbihan, France) has Masi square Damocles (transgressive, crisis, experience of groupthink) and Don Quixote, biquintile Venus (values), and quincunx Nessus (white people, jealous, unpleasant) and Dioretsa (foolish, off course).
College football player Katie Hnida (born May 17, 1981, in Denver), who was psychologically abused and raped while at the University of Colorado, has Masi square Hylonome (pain, exciting sympathy) and quincunx Uranus (breaking in, anomalous). Sexist comments made by her former coach about the incident resulted in his suspension by the university's president.
Uday Hussein (born June 18, 1964 in Baghdad), a man so volatile and predatory even his own father Saddam Hussein didn't completely trust him, ended up hunted down and killed by American troops in the Second Persian Gulf War along with his brother Qusay. Uday had Masi sextile Neptune (unstable, unbalanced), square Mercury, trine Jupiter (receiving support from others) and Heracles (lawless, acting according to whim), quincunx Damocles, and opposite Chiron (self-wounding).
Ralph "Sonny" Barger (born October 8, 1938, in Oakland, California), founder and longtime president of the notorious motorcycle club Hells Angels, has Masi conjunct Mercury, decile North Node, semisquare Venus, sextile Juno, quintile Pluto, square Pholus (expressing power, courage before power, need to show respect, to permeate or infect), sesquiquadrate Ceres, biquintile South Node, quincunx Pallas, and opposite Saturn (work, rulemaking, rewards and consequences), Hylonome (dangerous pursuits) and Dioretsa.
The glyph for Masi is mine.