Nostalgia is asteroid #3162 and also known as 1980 YH. Nostalgia was discovered by Edward L.G. “Ted” Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory. But the name Nostalgia was suggested by the Belgian astronomer and mathematician Jean Meeus. Nostalgia’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.16 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.16, a period of revolution of 2 049 days, and an inclination of 17.9 degrees.

Nostalgia is named after the feeling of a sentimentality for the past. The official naming citation describes that the discoverer followed a suggestion of a J. Meeus and named the asteroid in remembrance of good things, that are no more. I first wondered why astrological charts could need an asteroid named Nostalgia. The word nostalgia was first used in a medical context and described Swiss Disease. This is a possible and likely meaning of the astrological force. But nostalgia changed its meaning and is rather not anymore a description of a sentimentality of a certain place, but a word for longing for a time with persons, places, events, and possibilities, that don’t exist anymore. Since some weeks I too have felt a longing for the possibilities of past times, when we had guaranteed rights. The so-called old normality or former normality. So I understand the meaning of Nostalgia, although I’m not sure whether I can put it into clear words. Who already misses the basic rights, understands Nostalgia and what she represents in an astrological chart. I hoped to make it understandable in an abstract manner, so that all future astrological charts can consider correct interpretations of Nostalgia. She represents what really was better in the past.