The asteroid #30 is named after Urania, the muse of astrology, of course including astronomy (and navigation, in short everything for what you would have to know the stars) as it was always the case in antiquity. Urania is also known as 1948 JK. Urania is a stony and very large Main Belt Asteroid. Urania was discovered by the British astronomer John Russell Hind, who lived from 1823 until 1895. He has discovered ten asteroids (Urania was the last) and calculated the orbits of at least seventy celestial objects. An asteroid (#1897) and a crater on the Moon (next to the crater Halley) got named after him. Urania belongs also to the names, which were once suggested as official names for the planet Georgium Sidus, that got later named Uranus because most astronomers agreed that they couldn’t continue to call the planet by only national and maybe silly names.

The name of the muse Uranía (Οὐρανία) is indeed believed to be derived from the name of the god of the sky. Muses have no own tales, but are simply useful female spirits. Uranía (Οὐρανία) is portrayed with a celestial globe and a pointer rod (sometimes pointing to the ground) in her hands and only thus can she be recognized. She could be the mother of Apollon’s children Hymenaios (Ὑμέναιος) and Linos (Λίνος), although most sources prefer Kalliopē (Καλλιόπη), who is also called Kalliopeia (Καλλιόπεια) and is also a muse, as the mother of Hymenaios (Ὑμέναιος) and Linos (Λίνος) and also of Orpheus, who is also a son of Apollon. In Late Antiquity became the different celestial spheres the realms of different muses and Urania was then only in charge of the sphere of the fixed stars. The name Urania was also used as an epithet for other goddesses.

I understand well why many astrologers deem Urania important. She’s the muse of astrology and that’s reason enough. Urania must be important in all natal charts of people, who get involved with astrology. In mine she is conjunct with Panacea and I see astrology indeed as a kind of universal remedy.