Asteroid 15870, Oburka, was discovered on August 16, 1996 by Petr Pravec at Ondrejov, Czech Republic. Oburka has a period of 4 years, 104 days.
It was named for Czech astronomer Oto Oburka (1909-1982), who in 1969 co-founded the International Union of Amateur Astronomers with Patrick Moore (long-time host of BBC-TV's The Sky At Night) and Ulf Johansson.
A burka is a robe worn by some Muslim women in ultraconservative Islamic societies which covers the entire body and is seen mainly but not exclusively in the Western world as a symbol of patriarchal oppression of women.
Astrologically, Oburka seems to get its meaning from that: dismay, horror, or schadenfreud at oppression.
Early 20th-century birth control activist Margaret Sanger (born September 14, 1879 in Corning, New York), who grew up in a large Catholic family, had Oburka conjunct Venus (values) and Chariklo (glamorization), sextile Ceres (to nurture, family life), quintile the South Node (past influences, separations), square Pallas (conceptualization, politics, defense of civilized values), tredecile the North Node (connections, transcending past influences), and trine Hidalgo (to assert, to promote, to defend).
Australian feminist Germaine Greer (author of The Female Eunuch) has Oburka in the seventh house, on the eighth cusp, semisextile Pallas and Hidalgo, sextile Pluto (transformative) and Ceres, trine Cruithne (culture, heritage), biquintile Chiron (lessons taught or learned), and quincunx the Sun (to shine).
American feminist Betty Friedan (author of The Feminine Mystique) has Oburka in the sixth house, on the Descendant, sextile Phaethon (a phenomenon), square Jupiter (philosophy, publishing), Ixion (creating karma) and Varuna (grown big, judgmental), tredecile Vesta (dedication, focus), and opposite Pholus (courage before power, to permeate or percolate).
Susan B. Anthony had Oburka undecimal Chariklo (glamorization), trine Asbolus (something to say, counsel given) and parallel Mercury (writing, speaking).
Soviet-era Russian dissident and human-rights activist Andrei Sakharov had Oburka conjunct Pluto, sextile Jupiter (philosophy, public support, foreign countries), quintile the South Node, tredecile the North Node and trine Uranus (rebellion, rejection, liberalism).
Mahatma Gandhi had Oburka conjunct Chariklo (glamorization, need to maintain perspective) and sextile Juno (human rights).
Martin Luther King, Jr. had Oburka in the first house, conjunct Jupiter, sextile Chariklo and Chaos (activism, a new order), and trine Neptune (culture, vision, spirituality) and Pholus (courage before power, need to show respect).
Malcolm X had Oburka in the sixth house of service to others, sextile Chiron, square Uranus and Varuna, sesquiquadrate Saturn (work, to reap) and opposite Pholus.
Cesar Chavez had Oburka in the fourth house, on the IC, conjunct Saturn and Hidalgo (to assert, to promote, to defend, Hispanics), trine the Sun and biquintile Pluto (transformation).
John Ashcroft, George W. Bush's first Attorney General, who was instrumental in creating many of the Bush regime's human-rights abuses, has Oburka conjunct Asbolus (awful things), quincunx Juno (public persona) and opposite Hidalgo.
Pat Robertson has Oburka sextile Don Quixote (to take on something), square Nessus (predatory; time-honored and ugly), trine Mercury, and sesquiquadrate Mars (aggression, energy).
Leonid Brezhnev had Oburka square Mercury, tredecile Pluto (tyrannical, mysterious), and trine Juno.
The glyph for Oburka is mine.