Living the Myth: Asteroids, Synchronicity, and the Work of Lori Kaufman

There are stories we seek—and stories that seem to be seeking us. Lori Kaufman lives in that mysterious place in between.

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For the past five years, she has been quietly, obsessively building a mythic archive—an ever-growing encyclopedia of asteroid archetypes, drawn from ancient stories across cultures and etched into the very fabric of astrology. What began as a side project has now become something sacred, something strange, and something stunningly alive.

Each asteroid carries a name, a story, a signature—and as Lori has discovered, those names have a way of showing up exactly when we need them.

Reclaiming the Feminine

Lori’s entry point into the asteroid world came through a kind of dissonance: why, she wondered, are the traditional feminine archetypes in astrology limited to Venus and the Moon? Lover and mother—was that all?

Through the teachings of Demetra George, Lori discovered the four main asteroid goddesses—Ceres, Juno, Vesta, Pallas—and somethi…