The asteroid #212 was discovered by the Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa, who lived from 1848 until 1925 and had discovered a total of 123 asteroids. Medea is the name of asteroid #212, that is also known as 1930 FW and is a large Main Belt Asteroid. Medea is named after a princess and witch from Greek mythology.

Medea is often depicted as an evil witch, who stops at nothing, even not at sacrificing her own children for a magical ritual. Medea helps and then backstabs Jason on his journey and commits crimes against her own family. But if you have this idea about Medea, then you should change it! There are in this case three historical sources of clearly different ages. Only the youngest of them shows Medea as an evil witch. The middle-aged source shows Medea as of good will but bad luck. She kills there also the children of herself and Jason, but it is clearly an accident. The oldest source depicts Medea rather as a kind of good fairy or, because she is a human being and the daughter of Jason’s enemy, a Bond-girl of antiquity. Also Ariadne from Greek mythology is a kind of Bond-girl centuries before the invention of James Bond.

Medea is an antique Bond-girl with magical powers. But for the meaning of the astrological force Medea should be most relevant what was done with Medea. Similar to Ixion was Medea more and more criminalized. In the case of Medea did this happen over some centuries and is still clearly traceable! While Ixion was turned from a sky god into a human criminal, who has somehow still kept some divine privilege as he is brought alive into the underworld and a plutino named after him, Medea is turned from a good fairy into an evil witch. So the astrological force Medea will certainly hint to defamation. Especially to defamation in the style of the witch-hunts. Depending on the aspects to other astrological forces can Medea certainly fulfill other roles too. So should she show a beneficial assistant when in aspect with Jason. Of course empirical studies, which don’t exist yet for this astrological force, must have the last word.