Asteroid 2174, Asmodeus, was discovered October 8, 1975 by S. J. (Buddy) Bus and John P. Huchra at Palomar Observatory near Pauma Valley, California. It has a period of 4 years, 17 days.
Asmodeus was named for the Babylonian god of lust, considered prince of the Revengers of Evil.
Asmodeus
Astrologically, Asmodeus seems to indicate to have something, hooked, hung, caught, trapped, cornered; fishing tackle; guts (according to astrologer Damian Foor).
Al Capone had Asmodeus sextile the Sun and trine Mars.
Nicolae Ceausescu had Asmodeus conjunct Ceres.
Sara Jane Olson has Asmodeus conjunct Pallas, sextile Vesta, square Chiron, opposite Saturn and parallel Mercury and Mars.
Adolf Eichmann had Asmodeus in the tenth house, on the Midheaven, sextile Pallas, square Mercury and Ceres, and sesquiquadrate Jupiter.
Lenny Bruce had Asmodeus in the tenth house, semisquare Juno, sextile the Moon, square the Nodes, and trine Vesta.
Janis Joplin had Asmodeus in the twelfth house, opposite Venus and parallel the Sun.
Shannon Hoon had Asmodeus sextile Chiron, square Venus and Jupiter, and trine Uranus.
Rock guitarist John Frusciante has Asmodeus trine Venus.
Rock guitarist Chuck Negron has Asmodeus quincunx Venus.
Megan Meier, a troubled teen from Dardenne Prairie, Missouri who was manipulated, abused and driven to suicide by a former friend and her parents who created a MySpace account of a nonexistent boy to lure and then torment her, had Asmodeus square Vesta.
The glyph for Asmodeus is mine.