Astrology isn’t just the Sun, Moon, and the ten main planets. At the edges of our solar system sit the dwarf planets, each carrying its own mythology and influence. They’re slow movers, working in the background, shaping eras and generations. They don’t just pass through unnoticed. They carve out deep channels in our lives. Here’s how I see them.
Eris 136199
Eris doesn’t cause chaos. She exposes it. She shows where things have been ignored, excluded, or pushed aside for too long. Her influence isn’t about stirring trouble for the sake of it. It’s about demanding inclusion, recognition, and truth. When Eris is active, things come to the surface that were never being dealt with properly. She’s the whistleblower, the agitator, the one who refuses to let the lie keep going.
Haumea 136108
Haumea is birth and regeneration. She’s not the soft and dreamy kind of fertility. She’s raw creative force. She rules rebirth through rupture, through splitting open what’s been calcified or sterile. There’s an ancestral quality to her too. She brings memory through the body. She reminds us that life doesn’t come from nowhere. It comes through labor, through bloodlines, through the mess of creation.
Sedna 90377
Sedna is deep time. She speaks to generational trauma, abandonment, and the slow reclaiming of self after betrayal. She sits at the far edge of the solar system for a reason. Her stories take a lifetime, sometimes more. Sedna shows what’s been cast aside or buried under ice, but still holds power. She asks us to restore what was lost, especially where the feminine or the natural world have been violated.
Makemake 136472
Makemake is primal awareness. He’s tied to survival, land-based intelligence, and the wild parts of ourselves that existed before modern systems. There’s something observational about him. Watching how systems are built, how groups organize, what rituals hold a people together. He points to the intelligence of the body, of instinct, of remembering how to live with the Earth, not just on it.
Quaoar 50000
Quaoar speaks to sacred order. Not control, not hierarchy, but the natural laws that hold reality together. He rules creation through sound, song, and intention. In a chart, he can point to the structures we live by, the codes that shape culture, and the rituals that help us stay connected to the divine. He asks if we’re living in harmony with the pattern or working against it.
Orcus 90482
Orcus is oaths and consequences. He deals with what happens when promises are broken, especially the ones made to yourself. He’s tied to the underworld, like Pluto, but his focus is moral contracts and integrity. Orcus in action is slow and absolute. He doesn’t punish right away. He waits. Then comes the reckoning. He asks, did you keep your word? If not, why?
Gonggong 225088
Gonggong brings disruption. He’s the storm no one planned for. Not chaotic for the sake of chaos, but because systems built on lies eventually collapse. He’s associated with flood myths and with tipping points. He represents the forces that shift everything when the balance has gone too far. He shows up in charts where imbalance needs correcting, usually by force.
Salacia 120347
Salacia is clarity after concealment. She begins underwater, in the unseen, in the places we avoid looking. When she surfaces, there’s no going back. She’s tied to truth-telling and emotional transparency, but not in a soft way. Salacia’s revelations can feel like a flood, washing away anything that can’t withstand honesty. In charts, she points to where something hidden must be acknowledged before healing or resolution can happen.
Varuna 20000
Varuna is cosmic law, the order that exists whether we honor it or not. He governs morality, integrity, and the consequences that come when those are ignored. His scale is massive. In myth, he sees all, and in the sky, he makes Jupiter look small, like Jupiter multiplied by one hundred. There’s a sacred authority here that transcends politics or religion. In astrology, Varuna shows where we are held to higher standards, and where we can restore balance by aligning with universal truth.
Ixion 28978
Ixion is the one who breaks the unbreakable rule. In myth, he commits a betrayal so deep that it earns eternal punishment. Astrologically, Ixion is about moral boundaries, where they’re crossed, and what happens afterward. He’s tied to betrayal, taboo, and the repeating cycles of harm when lessons go unlearned. Ixion in action forces a choice, break the cycle, or repeat it.
These are not lightweights. The dwarf planets move slow, but their influence is thorough. When one of them touches your chart, you feel it in your bones. They’re not here to decorate astrology. They’re here to remind us that the farthest reaches of the solar system still speak to the deepest reaches of the soul.