“What the hell is asteroid Gary?” has become a F.A.Q. in the last few weeks and so here is the answer.
Asteroid Gary is an actual asteroid – number 4735 – that began as a kind of a joke. I was looking up some fancy asteroid and instead of Ganymede or Ganesha or whatever it was, i happened upon asteroid Gary.
There are times when asteroids seem irrelevant but on other occasions, they add a wow factor of strange synchronicity that cannot be ignored.
So asteroid Gary FYI was conjunct the New Moon on the weekend and is currently at 25 Scorpio. I have Gary conjunct my Moon in Libra, which really is something i need to parse.
What is the delineation of asteroid Gary? Well, we’re kind of on our own with this. Nobody but us is using asteroid Gary. There are no existing delineations for Gary in astrology.
So Gary was discovered and named on January 9, 1983. Unlike the classic planets, which have had certain significances for millennia and across multiple cultures, asteroids are a lot more random.
But my delineation of asteroid Gary is that he lends a certain stone-washed masculine braggadocio to any persona or circumstance. Asteroid Gary is simplicity itself. Gary is where you’re basic. You like going to the mall with your jeans fitting right and good hair. You prefer globally branded food and beverage products or hand-prepared meals composed of commodities such as bread and a spread. You like sunny weather, your velour couch, a good laugh, and sexual release.
The actor Channing Tatum has asteroid Gary Rising in Scorpio. Kim Kardashian has Gary conjunct her Mars in Sagittarius.
Thoughts?
Image: Stranger Things
Hiys, It s relevant in my experience. I m Gary. First of all a Gary and derivates of the name are swords, knives, Pricks if you will. The Jarre is or was where the’d keep the swords. Garrison anybody ? It s in my tropical 1st house Sag 12 deg 41 min with late Scorpio Asc. opposes my Gem Merc Vesta Sun Conj. I use it with my childhood friends ,family and etc. It shows me a lot in hindsight. I also use Ast Mary my ex wife and wow does that appear significantly in charts a lot on my descendant. I guess you need al lot of memories and of course birth info along with issues good or bad to culminate or arrive at just what they are, Gary
I love this – I don’t understand it but I like the stream of consciousness and word play!
I guess I forgot I wrote this back in 2020 as I wrote a lengthier deliniation just now on your other site. The word play is The Gemini schtik I guess. and ya know it s all part of Sun Chiron Jupiter Saturn Kite
You do seem very Gary-ish Gary but what other site?
Mystic Medusa right above another Mystic Medusa asteroid Gary article there are two
How does your name astroid work in your chart? For example, I found an asteroid with my name and it is in my 7th house in Capricorn. Do name asteroids only work when comparing or combining charts with someone else?
sorry, incomplete thought — in regards to my name asteroid in my own chart…would that only mean something significant when compared to someone else’s chart as 7th house is about partnership….?
– super confused, super curious
I personally don’t rate the name asteroids at all – i think they are meaningless – sorry
He was discovered in 1983….definitely a stonewashed vibe then.
lol i cant get enough gary
I have to laugh, having Gary conjunct my north node exact, of all things! Like, GARY is part of my guiding light?!
(in Taurus, and I feel like the bit about enjoying life’s simple pleasures could refer to Taurus as well… And I must say, it’s all about the little things like that with me. Doesn’t take much.)
Haha Gary as a guiding light – love it!
Asteroid Gary, just crashed into my world tonight,
Real Estate mogul
Happy to discuss all matters regarding the landlords decision to sell the property.
Oh yeah, that’s my home :/
His name is Gary
LOL. And sorry. Are you Leo Rising? Apparently Gary’s in Scorpio these days
OMG I love asteroid Gary and everything he stands for lol – such an antidote to more serious issues/transits going on in my chart. He is at 4 Scorp in the third house and completely unaspected.
I fell in love with so much around the time Gary was discovered – first true love, music, fashion, ideas. Hung out with a lot of surfer dudes that summer.
Am just past my Gary return, and post that Venus-Jupiter conjunction. I won’t lie, it’s been heavy. Perhaps Venus-Jupiter was the double denim of transits.
How timely. My Gary Return is less than a degree off! Gary is conjunct my natal Mars-Uranus-MC stellium and I can definitely say that I do my career my way, lol.
Love it PF. What a well spent youth you had 🙂
Man, Gary is like the etheric idiot who sits painfully on your Chiron in Aries, the professional disaster in your 10th House!!
Ok that’s probably just my Gary, but still, a Aries/10th H mess. Stupid enough to be dangerous and just smart enough to be irritating.
He’s like the guy who pretends to be Chiron to get your attention, but he’s no god, he’s the dope who has an infinite amount of spare time to button-hole you as you try to get to sleep.
Like he’s the sozzled, left-over ghost remnant of a tradie who had one too many and died in his backyard after a bbq, and when his guide came to take him he was like ‘no way man, I have a few stubbies left yet!’. So there he is drunkenly whooping about in your dreams. So. Annoying. Go home Gary!!
checked it just in case and there it is, right on my moon, chiron, sun stellium in gemini. O.o
My Gary is in Leo – dial up that mullet mane and that braggadocio
He’s conjunct my SN – sorry G I’m moving on
Why are there no Keith Richards, Keith Moon, or Pete Townshend asteroids to counteract this influence? There’s a James Taylor asteroid, ffs…
Or Joe Walsh!
There is a David Bowie asteroid, does that help?
Oo I need to check on my DB. ‘I’m not saying David Bowie was keeping the fabric of the universe together, but ** gestures broadly ** ‘
He does 100%. I have this funny theory that he Guides my dating life, lol sorting the men from the Gary’s
Cool
DB is at 18 Leo, my 4th, and squares my 7th house Neptune in Scorpio. Have been in love with him since I was a teenager and saw the Heroes and Ashes to Ashes videos
Gary sits exactly on my Saggi Saturn in the 2nd. Always loved pragmatic, music men who can fix things.
Currently on my POF- Scorp powered.
Ah asteroid Gary how did I forget thee. I seem to remember him being somewhat prominent in my chart.
😮 okay he’s conjunct my Sun lol along with asteroid Bacchus. Funnily enough the first person I had a crush on was a boy called Gary. He had swagger. I didn’t know whether I wanted to date him or be like him.
Lol – I have this conjunct my NN in early Pisces. All I can think of is Geddy Lee (from the Canadian rock band Rush), whose real name is actually Gary, but his Yiddish-Canadian mother always pronounced it “Geddy” so all his friends just kept calling him Geddy.
I think it’s Gary’s fault that my motorcycle’s been stolen. BEFORE I even received my Mercurial Key Ring.
Makes me think of my super Aquarian father in law, named Gary, who does not give a f-ck. I have it in the 11th house in Leo, I should check his chart. I totally lurked on the step brothers chart – he’s like a quintuple Scorpio with Mars in Leo…my Venus in Scorpio is like dammnnnn
Gary at 2’22 Virgo? 5th house? That just sounds contradictory…
Maybe its why I’m so un-Virgo (although drawn to them like catnip)
Haha! My Gary is in the 5th house, in Aries, with trickster Mercury.
The thing I love about my Gary is that i seem to encounter the Australian Gaz when i’m dressed most likely to appear to Gazzas as a bit stick-jammed-up-my-bum (i.e.in work clothes), who try it on, to shake up my apparently prissy self. (Gary in intercepted Aries.)
😀 Give a Gary as good as i get, but better, ’cause noone expects me to fling out the bogan, and i find it raucously funny while holding a straight face.
Even better, Gazzas and i have a great time together at parties and tribal gatherings! There’s a lot of raucous affection among us blokes
Hehe! That’s because you read me, not see me! Latent/oblique/intercepted…but what’s a DC? Neptune trine Gaz knockin it back anyway while i ask a polite q
Gary, GAZZZAAA
Hahah it looks hilarious! So he is currently on my natal south node in my 10th (career Gary!) and just a few degrees (3) off my ASC natally. Actually my last boss was called Gary now I’m relieving Gary. So does that mean I get his job or will a tradie step in? real Gary surfed but retired.
*2 1/2 degrees
thats hilarious!!
I just went on astrodiesnst to chart my Gary. The server is down. This hasn’t happened before!
1983 resonates with me though. Saw Stevie Nicks and Pretenders in concert on the weekend, so felt like I went back to the 1970s/early 1980s… Brass in Pocket came out in 1980 and rocked my world (I was 16). Rhiannon was a chart hit in Australia in 1976 so that’s probably when I first heard it as a teen. I remember the early 1980s as a time of great music and experimentation and possibility artistically and musically.
p.s. Gary is in my third house, Cancer and trines Neptune and Chiron. I have Venus in 3rd Cancer as well. Does this explain why I’m attracted to down to earth, ‘tradie’, no bullsh*t men?
She’s from Akron just like my godfather and had a vegan restaurant there for a while
Akron is a very Gary city actually
Yeah, it is! My dad is from Akron.
Stevie’s a Gemini…
Gack! Steve AND Chrissie at the same show? Wet dream material.
1983 is the Year of Parachute Pants in the US…
Yes it was sensational to see a couple of old broads rocking out. And looking great at 69 and 66 yo. Chrissie sang the Tom Petty part on Stop Dragging my Heart Around!!
They were both amazing! A few years ago we saw Blondie and Pretenders together at the same Day on the Green winery. I’d been a huge fan since the early 1980s and hadn’t seen them live. Heaven!
Yes asteroid Gary definitely has a douche-core aspect to it, regardless of peoples individual gender identity.
This past dark moon I was pretty deep down in the dumps, not feeling loved, and just general over the top self loathing until a casual fling (Gary) who buys videos from me once in awhile sent me a picture of himself driving a yellow ferrari with the note attached “After you, this ferrari is the second best thing in my life”. it brightened my night completely and my best friend called him my Gary Godmother.
Could Gary be a corny angel?
YES
Most definitely! That is the jewel that is Gaz. Gary is warm-hearted, and big-hearted. You can often parse that from his hairstyle.
Aw, I love this osunrise! So sweet…..and so Gary! Glad you got cheered up, too! 🙂
How great is that kid in Stranger Things? I described him to my friend as the love child of Keiffer Sutherland AND Jason Patric in The Lost Boys. The perfect blend of bad boy douchey-ness and hotness that was a staple of all my 80’s movie crushes during my early 90’s, junior high, sleepover parties.
Hmm, Gary conjunct my Pisces sun in the 7th. Also have Mercury, Venus and Eros in the 7th. I can see why the 80’s movie bad boy fantasy would appeal.
Could Jon Bon Jovi be the ‘face’ of Gary..? https://youtu.be/KJl2Aq7kpxU
I wonder where his natal Gary placement is..?
He absolutely is. I just googled him and the band formed in 1983.
Totally, right?! When I saw ‘1983’ and ‘stone-washed braggadocio’ in MM’s post my mind immediately flashed on Bon Jovi! Haha!
Jon Bon Jovi has Gary in his 3rd house Capricorn trine Pluto in 11th house Virgo.
It makes so much sense the band formed the year Gary was discovered.
I feel it’s wrong to attribute stone-washed mullet hood to the beauty that is the Born to Run album as well as the stultifying beauty that was Bruce Springsteen in that era. Much too poetic and winsome for Gary.
I hear you on Bruce. I got the sense that the Gary vibe is a bit cheesy, so I think Bon Jovi (1983 version) fits the bill better than Bruce, like, Bruce is not lightweight enough to be Gary!
Haha! I love all this astro-theory around Gary. We’re trying to ‘place’ his archetype in our psyches…. Plus, I listened to a bunch of old Bon Jovi last night for old times’ sake! I need this levity right now……
Yeah – i’m also thinking more along the lines of Kurt Russell in “Big Trouble in Little China”.
I’m with you – I reckon Bruce is who Gary would aspire to be, post-Saturn/Pluto transits to his 10th house.
Ok so I’ve got Gary @ 1 Scorpio ON my Mars @ 1 in Virgo
This makes so much sense!!!!!
Gary has a diminutive place in my natal but he must have been somewhere important in 1983 because that was the year I had my first crush on an ‘older boy’ who rode my bus. His name was Gary and he wore a pleather jacket and played air guitar. I was in first grade and he was in third.
Oh duh Gary was discovered in 83. I’m Uranian, so yeah.
Ha. This is hilarious. I met my first hubby in 83. He was a whole past life issue to get cleared and move on, my Gary resides in my Aqua 12th. He was double denim guy with aspirations of triple denim.
I have Gary nearly conjunct my Ascendant in Kataka. “…he lends a certain stone-washed masculine braggadocio to any persona…”
Brb…. *returns with mullet haircut and bitchin’ Camaro* ….Hahahahaha! 😉
But I like the appreciation of simple pleasures thing. If Gary was conjunct this new moon, I guess I felt it because I was just happy and warm in my home with candles on and enjoying my new, albeit inexpensive, nothing fancy, furniture. So content with my simple, yet sparse, home life. And that would make my Gary-graced Crab Ascendant happy too!
That sounds lovely and feng shui minimal chic!
I did a little rearrange last night (apt below probably hexing me) to my already shuied space. Blame Gary
Thanks, dark star! I like the minimalism, for sure.
Hope your shui fix worked!
I’m all for simplicity and so I love my Gary – but i suppose i would – it being conjunct my Aries SN (6th H). It’s also conjunct Panacea which might explain gaffer tape obsession as a fix-all remedy ….. I knew that i had met my match when i first met my partner and he had gaffer-taped a whole poinsettia branch to the front door as a romantic greeting. His Gary sextile my Mercury.
Omg
All of this
Arrow thru heart emoji
Particularly Garry conjunct panacea and the genius association with duct tape
V romantic 😉
lol. Gaffer tape is the sh*t
Cable ties are no patch on gaffer tape….(snicker)…
plus they’re not biodegradable …Gary-Panacea has standards.
MATE – if ya wanna gary on this way we can take this outside…… (i should warn you that Gary is now cruising past my Jupiter/Lilith/Mars)
Lol, this thread! 🙂
If gaffer tape is ‘duck tape’, then yes, it is the shizz! Go Gary! Haha!
With this guy being discovered in 1983 the synchronicity of attitudes, serious stereotyping, and my own personal health I am not surprised by this….do I need to don my mini skirt, wedgie sandles and do my hair really big to scare him off? At the risk if scaring humanity…I will.
I have gary on my midheaven in Pisces. when will the public recognize my “stone-washed masculine braggadocio”? says the moon-ruled virgoan libra. lol.
I have a theory that Gary is kind of the workshop Buddhist. He embodies many Zen paradoxes.
That’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” paradoxes, babe, you do know your Gary.
As I mentioned below, I am blaming Gary for today’s (or last night’s?) theft of my motorcycle. I support running with this paradox.
I’m sensing there’s a “Tao of Gary” manual in the making here.
I think we’ve been writing it here for a few years now 🙂
Such a good point. I’m grokking the zen of my grad school advisor now — working class background, jeans every day, but also rocking dreadlocks and a spaced-out creative personality that could not be hurried. Gary?
The idea of a Virgoan Libran letting their Gary SHINE is giving me giggles.
lol I know. I’m not an actress, but I feel like this would be me playing Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire or something, trying to act out my macho side.
Tangental: stranger things is awesome, I have a crush on all the older teen boys for separate reasons, and I identify with Eleven (an outer plantoid Uranian if I’ve ever seen one). I’m always traipsing around the corporation where I work trying to meditate – I should rly try with a radio fuzz and blindfold.
It’s so awesome. I also have a crush on the older teenage boys and the younger boys make me nostalgic for children or little brothers I never had. Also living for Sean Astin this season.
Yes!
Lol also chief hopper
Definitely!
Natally Gary is conjunct my north node in Pisces. Is a Gary style male my future????
I love love love the fact that Channing has Gary conjunct scorpy rising it explains magic mike / Everything
Wasn’t 1983 also Jupiter Uranus conjunction in sadge?
Not sure BUT wasn’t it the year Buck’s Fizz won the Eurovision song contest?? 🙂
Gary is like a mobile Aries vibe? Roaming. Being Australian I see him as a friendly working class type, almost Paul Hogan ish but more suburban bloke vibe. He’ll try anything once, isn’t a bastard but knows the ropes. Prefers a counter lunch at the local.
Can’t remember where he is in my chart but I feel like I have a head start with Venus in Aries hahaha
Funny you mention “mobile Aries vibe” – I was reading the description above and all I could think was MM’s description about Aquarians and their Hunky Door Stopping. Just showing up unbothered, uninvited in all their swaggeriffic glory.
Yeah. Like a free range persona in our chart
Naturally I have Gary in my 7th house, exact square Pluto and my refined (?lol) Libra IC. Out of orb from moon and descendant though, thank fuq. Maybe this is why I want to shag the Gary types but no desire to make a home with them. With an exact square to my midheaven and most personal IC, I now believe that Gaz, while handy to have around, is a source of deep seated discord within the life of pi..
wow okay. so three boys that i had (and still have–they’re not going away. they’re THAT kind. like, just serious click-vibes with these dudes and luckily they are actually my friends) major crushes on have gary conjunct MY name asteroid.
My Gary conjunct a my 11th house Cancer sun by less than a degree. I am not Garyish. I have not even had lots of
Grayish friends. But the Gary who had a deep emotional side that very few see, I love them.