Peaker

Asteroid 14595, Peaker, was discovered September 23, 1998 by the Spacewatch project at Kitt Peak Observatory near Sells, Arizona. It has a period of 4 years, 36 days.

It was named for Brian Ronald Peaker (born 1959), a competitive rower from London, Ontario, Canada. Peaker and his crew mates won the silver medal for Canada at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and a gold medal at the 1993 World Championships in the Czech Republic.

Brian Peaker


Astrologically, asteroid Peaker seems to indicate passive observing, being on the outside looking in, possibly voyeurism or snooping.

Former East German spymaster Markus Wolf has Peaker undecimal Ceres (to nurture), square Quaoar (to examine, to create) and quincunx Rhadamanthus (to work or exist under supervision). He ended up in prison after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

John Ashcroft, known for his lack of regard for most constitutional rights, including the right to privacy, has Peaker conjunct Mars (aggression) and Don Quixote (taking on the system).

Legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover kept files on everyone who came to his attention, spied on civil-rights activists and Vietnam War protesters, and found himself the subject of blackmail from the Mafia, which threatened to reveal his homosexuality if he prosecuted them. He had Peaker sextile Nessus (predation), trine Mars, quincunx Quaoar and opposite Jupiter (the law).

Paris Hilton, who found herself an unwilling porno star when a videotape of her having sex found its way onto the Internet, has Peaker semisextile Venus and sextile Ixion (lust for life, reaping bad karma) and Quaoar.

Britney Spears, known for her brief outfits and public quasi-nudity in print and on stage at age seventeen, has Peaker in the fifth house of entertainment, sextile Mercury (ideas) and Juno (feminine adornment) and trine Pallas (the puella, the politics of something).

Rapper Li'l Kim (Kimberly Jones), who has also been known to wear very revealing outfits in public, has Peaker conjunct Venus.

Hollywood gossip columnist Walter Winchell had Peaker in the ninth house, conjunct Mars and Juno and quincunx Chariklo (glamor) and Pelion ("life is tough and you have to earn your keep").

Kenneth Starr, notorious for his intrusive investigations of Bill and Hillary Clinton, has Peaker in the seventh house, conjunct Pluto (ruthlessness), sextile Ixion and square Nessus and Chariklo.

Reclusive poet Emily Dickinson had Peaker in the fourth house of home, square the Sun (to shine), Mercury and Pallas.

Gene Pope, founder of the National Enquirer, had Peaker conjunct Ceres, square Jupiter (publishing) and Neptune (scandal, illusion, slander), trine Juno, and quincunx Chiron.

The glyph for Peaker is mine.



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