Loke is asteroid #4862 and also known as 1987 SJ5. Loke was discovered by the Danish astronomer Poul B. Jensen at Brorfelde Observatory. Loke is a common Main Belt Asteroid.

Loke is named after the Norse god Loki. The name is twisted and hence easy to overlook. I had almost overlooked it too. He is additionally mistaken as the god of mischief. His original function is disputed, his relations with the other Norse deities are disputed too. But wannabe researchers, who have most likely never read any mythological tale, insist that Loki hasn’t anything to do with the giant fire demon Loge, also spelled Logi. Already the similarity of the names disproves this. Loki is the god of fire. Hence he can sometimes cause mischief. But the latter is only derived from the former. Loki is also a shape-shifter. Once he turned in a female horse and gave birth to the magical horse Sleipnir. Loki took also many other shapes, but usually he is a redhead of giant size and often supporting Thor/ Donar, when he isn’t fighting him. They are brothers and twins after all. Although Loki’s lineage is the most disputed part of Norse mythology, Donar and Loki are described as exact lookalikes.

Although Loki is male most of the time, he is the Norse counterpart of the Greek Hestia and the Roman Vesta. Hestia and Vesta represent only the tamed fire, while Loki represents mainly wildfires and hazards. Maybe this is why he is male or gender-fluid. Actually in the case of Loke is only this one thing sure that he is so much gender-fluid (this word isn’t serious enough, gender often means to ignore the biological sex and this wouldn’t allow to give birth, so he’s able to change his biological sex and this is something more serious than to be gender-fluid) that he was able to give birth to a foal. People in antiquity didn’t have any problem with this in spite of all modern prejudices! So what I find most noticeable about Loke is the connection to suffering from prejudices. Examining Loke in a natal chart should reveal much about prejudices.