Ceres is nurture and sustenance — how you feed and are fed, in food, care, and attention. Her myth is loss and return: Demeter's daughter taken and recovered for part of every year, which makes Ceres the archetype of cyclical grief and the seasons of a bond. The largest body in the asteroid belt and, since 2006, a dwarf planet.
Transiting Ceres circles the chart in about 4.6 years, so her contacts are frequent enough to track and short enough to date. She raises questions of care around whatever she touches: what is being fed, what is being withheld, and whether the arrangement is mutual.
care and its withdrawal, food and the body, parenting in both directions, and the grief of a cycle turning.
Transiting Ceres conjunct natal Moon brings the question of who is looking after whom right to the surface — comfort offered, or noticed by its absence.