Asteroid 2150 Nyctimene was discovered on October 13, 1977 at the Palomar Observatory near Pauma Valley, California by William Sebok. It has a period of 2 years, 236 days. It was named for Nyctimene, a character from Greek mythology. Forced by her father, King Epopeus of Corinth, to have sex with him, she ran off into the woods; Athene took pity on her and changed her into an owl.
Astrologically, Nyctimene seems to signify one's ability to escape from bad situations.
Tina Turner, who escaped her abusive husband Ike Turner and has prospered on her own, has Nyctimene in the fifth house, conjunct Venus(love, values, art, indignation) and Cupido(keeping up appearances, relationship concerns, the look of something); semisextile Sassi(defiance, rebellion); sextile Juno(marriage); sextile/trine the North and South Nodes; quintile Black Moon(wildness); square Jupiter(the law, prosperity, foreign countries), Neptune(music, bad situations), and Midas(making money); trine Saturn(work, rewards), Vesta(commitment), Nessus(the predator), Jabberwock(the slain monster) and Hebe(codependency); biquintile Pluto(claiming one's power); quadnonagon Moon(the public, wifehood); opposite Stentor(speaking in a loud voice); parallel Madhatter; and contraparallel BAM(to obliterate something) and Thetis(all too human). One of her best-known songs is "What's Love Got To Do With It?"; she now lives in the south of France, far from her native Tennessee, and avoids relationships.
Maria von Trapp, who fled Nazi-occupied Austria with her family and the family priest, had Nyctimene conjunct Sassi; undecimal Mars(the military, assertion); decile the East Point(as the world sees you); nonile Pallas(defending one's principles); septile Chiron(ingenuity); sextile the Moon(the public, motherhood), Vesta(commitment), Tantalus(giving to the wrong people), and Aesculapia("just what the doctor ordered"); quintile Saturn(career, rewards); square Chariklo(glamor), Tithonus(a situation that has outlived its ability to furnish benefit), and the Nodes; bisetpile Venus(art, music, singing, values); trine Heracles(to cope, to overcome); sesquiquadrate Jupiter(long-distance travel, prosperity); quadnonagon the Vertex(ideal relationships); quintundecimal the Part of Fortune(life development); opposite Aquilegia(tragedy, victimization), Ariadne(betrayal), and Hephaistos(unlikely relationships); parallel Nessus(the predator), House(stuff that goes on in your own backyard) and Rhiannon(accusation, escape); and contraparallel Photographica(motion pictures, vivid memories).
Martina Navratilova, who defected to the US from Communist Czechoslovakia and has been very open about being gay, has Nyctimene semisextile Thalia(life is a ball) and Tithonus; undecimal Casanova(selfish pleasure, or what is perceived as such); decile Torricelli(in trouble); nonile Uranus(breaking loose, being gay); sextile Tisiphone(getting what is coming to you); binonile East Point; square Daedalus(the bird in the gilded cage); biseptile Mercury(thought, speech, agility, skill) and Mars(athletics, assertion); trine the Sun(to shine) and Neptune(the feet, ideality); quincunx Abanderada(raising a banner high) and Hebe(service to others, codependency); triseptile Saturn; quintundecimal Juno(relationships); opposite Cupido(relationship concerns, how things look); parallel Panacea(finding solutions); and contraparallel Eurydike(blowing something).
Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was basically driven out of England by his own disregard of convention after the suicide of his first wife, whom he abandoned, and losing custody of his two children, had Nyctimene in the second house of values, semisextile Tantalus; septile the East Point; sextile Casanova and Eurydike; biundecimal the Sun and Venus; quintile Uranus; square Mercury, Pholus(failure to show respect where respect is due), Daedalus, Summa(consummate achievement) and Tithonus; tredecile/quintile the North and South Nodes; trine the Vertex and Ariadne(betrayal); opposite Photographica; parallel Chiron, House, and Hybris(hubris); and contraparallel Cheshirecat(to take life with a grin, or stiff upper lip).
The glyph for Nyctimene is my own invention.