Free Cupido Asteroid Calculator

Enter your birth details to find asteroid 763 Cupido: the first-spark register in your chart, the layer that names initial attraction and the body's first flutter before language has caught up.

What Cupido is, and what this calculator returns

Cupido (asteroid 763) is an inner main-belt asteroid, often grouped with the Flora family, about 7 kilometers across, with an orbital period of roughly 3.34 years. She was discovered on September 25, 1913 by Franz Kaiser at the Konigstuhl Observatory in Heidelberg. The Roman name Cupido comes from the same root as the English word cupidity and was the Latin name for the arrow-shooting god of desire, often paired with the Greek Eros but typically used in Latin poetry for the lighter, mischievous spark of attraction rather than the primordial force of erotic love.

The calculator above returns your Cupido sign, degree, house, and current retrograde state. Positions come from a JPL Small-Body Database Keplerian element set, the same engine the rest of Augurine uses for live transits and Astro Replay. The twelve sign and twelve house entries that follow give written interpretations placement by placement; the calculator points you to the ones that match your chart.

The stance this page takes

Most online writing about asteroid Cupido calls her the love asteroid and leaves the definition there. That is too vague to do real work, and it tends to push the reading toward a soulmate-confirmer frame that the placement cannot carry.

We read Cupido as one specific thing: the first-spark register. The chart layer that names initial attraction, the body's first flutter response, and what catches your eye before the rational mind has cast a vote. Eros names the erotic charge once two people are already engaged. Amor names the tenderness that takes over after attraction has settled into a bond. Cupido is the earlier moment than either: the strike of the arrow, the lighting up of attention, the second before a real conversation has begun. Read her this way and she does real work. Read her as a marriage signifier and she does nothing the rest of the chart did not already say.

Cupido vs the Uranian TNP Cupido

Two completely different points share this name and the most common mistake on Cupido pages is to merge them. Asteroid 763 Cupido is a real physical body in the main belt, discovered in 1913, with a 3.34-year orbit and a position that can be computed from observational data. That is what this calculator returns.

The Uranian Cupido is a different object entirely. It is a hypothetical Transneptunian Point, one of the eight Hamburg School points that Alfred Witte and Friedrich Sieggrun proposed in the 1920s and 1930s to model influences beyond Neptune. The Uranian Cupido has never been observed and is positioned by an assigned orbital element set rather than measurement. In the Hamburg School, the Uranian Cupido describes marriage, family, household, art societies, and group cohesion: a sociological reading that has nothing to do with first-spark attraction.

If you are looking for the Uranian Cupido, you are on the wrong page. Augurine computes the Uranian set in the broader Uranian astrology toolkit; this calculator is for the physical asteroid only.

How to read your Cupido placement

Sign is the attraction vocabulary. Cupido moves through a sign in roughly three to four months on average, which makes the sign placement reasonably particular to a birth window. The sign tells you the style of first attraction that tends to land for you: how the body recognizes the opening spark, what tone of presence catches your eye, what kind of signal lights the placement up. Aries Cupido fires fast, Taurus Cupido pulls slowly, Gemini Cupido sparks through language, Scorpio Cupido locks in across a room without a word.

House is the venue. With a known birth time, Cupido lands in a specific house, the life area where the first-spark register tends to show up most visibly. Cupido in the 5th places it inside romance, performance, and the dance-floor moment. Cupido in the 7th places it inside the partnership seat itself, where the spark and the long bond arrive in the same breath. Cupido in the 11th places it across the friend group and the community network. Cupido in the 12th places it in the private interior, often in fantasy and dream life before it becomes anything outwardly visible.

Aspects to personal planets are where the calculator's first pass becomes a private reading. Cupido with the Moon adds initial attraction to the emotional baseline. Cupido with Venus aligns the broad love-taste with the first-spark signal. Cupido with Mars wires the opening flutter directly into drive and pursuit. Cupido with Mercury runs the spark through language and rapid first-conversation chemistry. Keep orbs tight: one and a half degrees for the major contacts, less for the minor ones; otherwise you are reading the surrounding chart rather than Cupido.

Retrograde at birth turns the register inward. Natal Cupido retrograde shows up as a chart whose first-spark response tends to fire privately first, in fantasy or in the inner life, before any outward approach is made. The work is letting the inner ignition become an actual move toward a real person once it has settled, rather than collecting unspoken crushes that never get tested.

Cupido vs Venus, Eros, and Amor

Four chart factors carry most of the love-reading work, and they read in a sequence. Venus is primary: the broad love and pleasure factor, the relational taste, what draws you across the long arc. Cupido is the first-spark register: what catches your eye in the opening moment before contact has been made, the flutter before any real engagement. Eros is the erotic charge layer: the voltage that activates desire once two people are already in contact. Amor is the tenderness register: the texture of daily care that takes over once attraction has settled into a chosen bond.

Reading them well is a question of order and weight. Venus first, then Cupido at the room-entry moment, then Eros once the physical conversation has begun, then Amor across the long middle of a relationship. A reading that opens with Cupido and treats her as a primary factor will mistake a doorway for the house. A reading that ignores her entirely will miss the moment that started the bond and the diagnostic signature of how the native gets pulled in.

Practitioners running synastry usually weight the four supplemental asteroids unequally inside the love stack. Juno carries the heaviest interpretive load on commitment (who you marry); Eros and Cupido carry the chemistry layer at different timescales (charge vs first spark); Amor carries the tenderness inside the bond once it has formed. Use all four if you have the appetite; use Venus alone if you do not. Either is honest reading.

Cupido in synastry

Cupido synastry contacts are read for the question of initial spark between two charts. The strongest single contact is Cupido to the partner's Venus or Mars: it asks whether what your chart is wired to be attracted to lines up with what the other person actually presents, or whether the other person's drive shape matches the opening signal your placement responds to. Conjunctions usually produce a strong first-meeting spark; squares mark friction between attraction-style and presentation that can still produce a charge, just one with more turbulence.

Cupido on the partner's Ascendant places the first-spark register directly on the front door: their physical arrival and presentation lights your placement up in the opening moment, which is one of the most reliable signatures of fast romantic attraction in synastry. Cupido on the partner's 5th-house ruler places the spark inside the romance-and-play house and tends to produce the kind of attraction that organizes itself around dating, flirtation, and the courtship phase rather than around long commitment.

Composite Cupido describes the spark the relationship itself produces: the third thing that exists between the two participants, in the opening moment specifically. A composite Cupido in the 1st is the couple whose first impression as a unit is striking, the pair that other people notice when they arrive together. A composite Cupido in the 8th is the couple whose attraction signature has weight from the start, with intensity baked in rather than gradually accumulated.

What Cupido does not do in synastry, no matter how tight the contact, is prove the bond will last. Longevity is a Saturn-Juno question and ultimately a behavior question. Cupido describes the quality of the initial spark and the chemistry of the opening chapter. The two people involved decide whether what was ignited is worth tending into something steadier.

Cupido's astronomy and naming

763 Cupido is a small inner main-belt asteroid, often grouped with the Flora family, with a semi-major axis of about 2.24 AU, an eccentricity of 0.166, and an orbital inclination of 4.08 degrees. The 3.34-year orbital period and the relatively low inclination make her an unremarkable inner-belt body astronomically. She is approximately 7 kilometers in diameter and bright enough at opposition to have been picked up on a routine photographic plate at Heidelberg in 1913.

Franz Kaiser was a German astronomer working at the Konigstuhl Observatory in Heidelberg, where he discovered or co-discovered about twenty minor planets across his career. The naming follows an old Roman convention: Cupido was the Latin name for the god English-speaking sources usually call Cupid, and Latin poets typically used the name to mark the playful, arrow-shooting figure of desire rather than the larger Greek archetype of Eros. The asteroid carries the lighter half of the desire archetype, the spark and the strike, not the deep erotic force.

Augurine computes Cupido's natal position from a JPL Small-Body Database Keplerian element set, the same data the rest of the engine uses for transit calculation and live timing. The astronomical specification is precise; the astrological reading is symbolic. Both layers are honest about what they are.

Cupido through the 12 zodiac signs

A short interpretation of Cupido in each zodiac sign. Read the entry that matches your placement above. The other entries give you the texture and shape of the archetype across the full wheel.

Cupido in Aries

attraction as sudden ignition

Cupido in Aries fires the first spark in seconds. The attraction signature is immediate, direct, and a little hot-headed: someone walks into the room and your attention has already moved before the rational part of you has cast a vote. The placement reads as a strong opening serve, the leaning-in that says I want to know more before anyone has finished saying hello. The shadow is the chart where the spark loses voltage the moment the chase is settled, the relationship that gets bored once it has been won. The work is letting the first ignition stay live long enough to turn into a real bond, and learning that being chosen is not the same as being conquered.

Cupido in Taurus

attraction as slow magnetic pull

Cupido in Taurus is the slow magnetic pull. The first-spark register is patient and physical here: the body notices long before language does, the attention is held by tone of voice, by the scent of someone, by the way they take up a chair. Attraction lands as a long, steady draw rather than a sudden flash. The placement reads as the chart where the spark is recognized by the senses and remembered for years. The shadow is fixation on the surface signal, the spark that organizes itself around a beautiful exterior and never asks what is underneath. The work is letting the body's first response open the door without making the door the whole house.

Cupido in Gemini

attraction as quick mental flicker

Cupido in Gemini sparks at the speed of language. The first attraction is mental and conversational: someone says one sentence that lights the placement up, or asks a question that nobody has thought to ask. The chemistry registers as 'I want to keep talking to this person' before it registers as anything else. The placement reads as the chart where curiosity is the leading edge of desire. The shadow is the spark that fires for new conversation partners every week and never lets any of them mature past the brilliant exchange. The work is letting the mental flicker turn into something the body and the calendar can also commit to.

Cupido in Cancer

attraction as familial recognition

Cupido in Cancer sparks through emotional recognition. The first attraction is rarely the loudest signal in the room. It tends to be the person who feels like a place you have already been: a familiar quietness, a way of holding their drink, a parental echo, a tenderness in their face. The placement reads as the chart where the body recognizes belonging before strangers know each other's names. The shadow is the spark that confuses familiarity for safety and gets pulled into patterns from the family of origin. The work is letting the emotional ping be information without making it a confirmation of fate.

Cupido in Leo

attraction as warm visibility

Cupido in Leo sparks through warmth and visibility. The first attraction lands when someone radiates confidence, holds the room, makes you feel seen the moment they look at you. The signature is generous and unhidden: this placement does not flirt by accident, it flirts on purpose, and the spark wants to be noticed flickering. The placement reads as the chart with high attraction-magnetism that knows how to use it. The shadow is the spark that needs steady audience response to stay lit, the attraction that quietly fades the day the other person stops being impressed. The work is letting the warmth keep generating itself when the spotlight moves on.

Cupido in Virgo

attraction as quiet noticing

Cupido in Virgo sparks through small precision signals. The first attraction is the noticing of the well-made detail: how someone makes their tea, how they have folded their shirt, the exact word they chose, the competence of how they handle a small task. The placement reads as the chart where attention is what calls attention back. The shadow is the spark that flicks off the second the imperfection appears, the placement that catalogues flaws faster than it lets desire move. The work is letting the spark survive an ordinary humanness, and learning that the careful detail you noticed is also a person who will sometimes have a bad day.

Cupido in Libra

attraction as graceful first impression

Cupido in Libra sparks at the level of first impression. The placement is calibrated to the moment of meeting: the symmetry of a face, the elegance of a sentence, the way someone introduces themselves at a party. Attraction lands when the other person arrives well-presented. The placement reads as the chart with a refined attraction sense and an unusually quick read on chemistry potential. The shadow is the spark that is bound to the courtship phase and dims as the relationship lets its hair down. The work is letting the first impression become a doorway into the unpolished daily person on the other side of it.

Cupido in Scorpio

attraction as locked-in stare

Cupido in Scorpio sparks through locked-in attention. The first-spark register is private, intense, and absolute: someone catches your eye and the rest of the room dims, the spark has a depth charge attached to it from the start. The placement reads as the chart where attraction is not casual and has never been; small talk is rarely how it announces itself. The shadow is the spark that mistakes intensity for compatibility and stays locked on a person who is not actually available or safe. The work is letting the depth of the spark be felt without letting it override what the rest of the evidence shows.

Cupido in Sagittarius

attraction as bright far-off ping

Cupido in Sagittarius sparks across distance. The first attraction is often the bright far-off ping: the stranger across the room, the person from another country, the someone who carries a worldview wider than the one you are standing in. The placement reads as the chart where attraction is wired to a larger horizon, to freedom and to the idea of an expanded life. The shadow is the spark that loses signal once the relationship requires staying in one place, the placement that confuses 'this person makes my life bigger' with 'this person makes me stay'. The work is letting the spark survive the part where the adventure becomes a daily address.

Cupido in Capricorn

attraction as composed appraisal

Cupido in Capricorn sparks through composed appraisal. The first attraction looks calm from the outside, even when it is not on the inside: a careful read of the other person, an internal sense of whether they will hold up, the spark and the long calculation arriving in the same breath. The placement reads as the chart where the first flutter is screened for durability almost before it is felt. The shadow is the spark that gets edited out by the long calculation, the placement that talks itself out of attractions that would actually have been good. The work is letting the spark be allowed in the room while the appraisal is still running.

Cupido in Aquarius

attraction as offbeat curiosity

Cupido in Aquarius sparks through offbeat curiosity. The first attraction lights up around what is unusual, unconventional, or pleasingly off-script. The signature ignores the standard checklist and pings on a person who is wearing the wrong shoes to the right effect, or who said something nobody else in the room would think to say. The placement reads as the chart where the spark is allergic to the obvious. The shadow is the spark that requires the partner to keep being different, the placement that loses interest the day the relationship looks ordinary from the outside. The work is letting the offbeat first attraction be the doorway and not the lifelong audition.

Cupido in Pisces

attraction as soft permeable mood

Cupido in Pisces sparks through atmosphere. The first attraction is the soft permeable mood: a piece of music in the background of the meeting, a quality of light, a kind of voice, a sense that the other person has a porous quality. Attraction lands as a feeling, not a fact. The placement reads as the chart where the spark is woven into the felt sense of a moment more than the specifics of a person. The shadow is the spark that runs ahead of the actual evidence, the placement that has fallen halfway in love before knowing the other person's full name. The work is letting the atmospheric flutter be information without letting it write the rest of the story alone.

Cupido through the 12 houses

If you have an exact birth time, your Cupido also lands in a specific house, the life area where this prompt may be easiest to notice. Without a birth time, use the sign placement as the steadier read and skip this section.

Cupido in the 1st house

Cupido in the 1st places the first-spark register inside the visible self. People who carry this placement tend to register as attractive within seconds of arriving in a room, often before they have done anything to earn the read. The signal is structural rather than performed: the chart is built so that initial impression carries a charge. The placement works when the native lets the spark be a doorway, lets the conversation that follows the first look do the actual relationship work. The shadow is the chart where the first attraction is everything, where the placement collects opening moments and then loses interest as soon as the courtship phase ends. The work is letting the spark introduce you to the people who then need to be known beyond the first three minutes.

Cupido in the 2nd house

Cupido in the 2nd places the first-spark register inside resources, possessions, and the felt sense of a person's material world. Attraction often arrives through a noticing of what someone wears, drives, builds, or makes: an aesthetic of provision, a sense that this person can hold their life together, a competence in the visible material register. The placement reads as the chart where surface signals about resource and presentation carry a real charge. The shadow is the spark that locks onto status and stops there, the placement that confuses material competence for romantic compatibility. The work is letting the material signal be useful information without letting it stand in for the rest of the assessment.

Cupido in the 3rd house

Cupido in the 3rd places the first-spark register inside the daily near-traffic and the language layer of life. Attraction lands fast here through conversation, wit, the right sentence at the right moment, the way someone phrases a question. The chart is wired to be ignited by a neighbor, a sibling's friend, a classmate, a person three blocks away who keeps showing up at the same coffee shop. The shadow is the spark that needs the cleverness to keep being clever, the placement that loses interest the day the partner is too tired to talk well. The work is letting the conversation that lit the spark become the platform for the long bond, not a daily performance review.

Cupido in the 4th house

Cupido in the 4th places the first-spark register inside home, family, and the felt sense of belonging. The attraction signal is the recognition that someone could be brought home, that they fit a domestic image the chart is already carrying, that they remind the native of a parent or a grandparent or a childhood kitchen. The placement reads as the chart where the spark fires when familiarity is sensed. The shadow is the spark that confuses inherited family patterns for genuine compatibility, the placement that finds itself attracted to people who replay the family of origin in ways the native did not consciously sign up for. The work is letting the home-recognition be data while staying awake to whether the pattern being recognized is one worth repeating.

Cupido in the 5th house

Cupido in the 5th is the classical first-spark placement, the romance-and-play house turned up to full volume. Attraction here fires through flirtation, performance, the dance floor, the creative project, the first date that feels like theater. The placement reads as the chart with a strong, easy charge in the romantic and creative register, often a long history of crushes that lit up early and burned bright. The shadow is the spark that needs constant fresh staging to stay lit, the placement that organizes the love life around the high-romance opening chapter and avoids the quieter middle of a relationship. The work is letting the play be the on-ramp to a steadier love, not the only thing on offer.

Cupido in the 6th house

Cupido in the 6th places the first-spark register inside daily routine: workplaces, classes, the gym, the standing meeting, the coffee shop at 8am. Attraction lands through ordinary repeated contact, through noticing someone over many small interactions, through the slow recognition that what started as a hello has become an internal flutter. The placement reads as the chart where the spark prefers the slow-building familiarity of weekday life. The shadow is the spark that crosses lines it should not, the placement that catches fire on a colleague or a client in ways that get complicated quickly. The work is letting the routine-based spark serve the people available to be loved, and being honest with the rest.

Cupido in the 7th house

Cupido in the 7th places the first-spark register inside the partnership seat itself. Attraction arrives through the recognition of someone as potential partner material, often within an unusually short window: the placement does not browse, it picks. The chart is wired so that the initial spark and the question of long-term partnership arrive in the same breath. The placement reads as the chart whose love life tends to be a series of meaningful relationships rather than a string of casual ones. The shadow is the spark that commits before it has gathered enough evidence, the placement that mistakes recognizing a partner for actually having compatible plans for the next decade. The work is letting the spark fire and then letting the courtship phase do its work before the contract is signed.

Cupido in the 8th house

Cupido in the 8th places the first-spark register inside depth, intensity, and the charged-undercurrent layer of attraction. The chart is ignited by what is unsaid: a sense of secret in someone, a quality of held intensity, a private offer made with one look across a room. The placement reads as the chart where the initial spark is rarely casual and often laced with the awareness that this person carries weight. The shadow is the spark that mistakes intensity for compatibility, the placement that follows the charge into entanglements that the daily life cannot actually sustain. The work is letting the depth-sensing be useful diagnostic without letting it write you into commitments you did not actually choose.

Cupido in the 9th house

Cupido in the 9th places the first-spark register inside distance, travel, study, and worldview. Attraction lands through someone from elsewhere: a different country, a different field, a different cultural frame, a teacher or a fellow student in a setting that has opened the native's horizon. The placement reads as the chart where the spark is wired to expansion. The shadow is the spark that needs the partner to keep representing somewhere else, the placement that loses interest when the other person becomes ordinary and local. The work is letting the horizon-attraction become a long bond that survives the part where the once-exotic partner is also the person who leaves dishes in the sink.

Cupido in the 10th house

Cupido in the 10th places the first-spark register inside the public-facing life. Attraction here is often noticed in professional contexts, at conferences, in the rooms where people are operating in their public role, or through the visible reputation of someone before personal contact is even made. The placement reads as the chart where status and public presence carry an attraction charge. The shadow is the spark that fires on visibility and dims when the partner stops being publicly successful, the placement that confuses career performance with relational availability. The work is letting the public version of someone be a doorway into the private person, not a substitute for them.

Cupido in the 11th house

Cupido in the 11th places the first-spark register inside friendship, community, and the social network. Attraction lands through someone in the friend group, through the unusual person at the activist meeting, through the friend-of-a-friend who shows up at a party. The placement reads as the chart whose love stories tend to begin as friendships and convert later, or whose attractions ignore the standard categories of dating in favor of chosen-family geometry. The shadow is the spark that stays in the social context and never becomes private one-to-one, the placement that flirts at the group level and avoids the dyad. The work is letting the network-based spark move one specific person into a closer focus.

Cupido in the 12th house

Cupido in the 12th places the first-spark register inside the hidden, the private, the dreamed-of, or the unrequited. Attraction often happens at a distance, in fantasy, in a quiet inner life that the rest of the world does not see; the chart is wired to register desire before the desire becomes visible to anyone, including sometimes the native. The placement reads as the chart with a rich inner romantic life and an external presentation that may underplay it considerably. The shadow is the spark that prefers the imagined version of someone to the actual person and never quite makes the move. The work is letting at least some of the secret first-spark life become spoken, become a real approach to a real person who could spark back.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is asteroid Cupido (763) in astrology?

Cupido is an inner main-belt asteroid, often grouped with the Flora family, about 7 kilometers across, discovered on September 25, 1913 by Franz Kaiser at Heidelberg. It is named for the Roman god Cupido, the arrow-shooting figure of desire whom Latin poets used as the lighter, more playful counterpart to the primordial Greek Eros. In a chart, asteroid Cupido reads as the first-spark register: the chart layer that names initial attraction, the body's first flutter response, and what catches your eye before the rational mind has cast a vote. It is a supplemental love prompt, not a primary love factor, and it should be read alongside Venus rather than instead of her.

Is asteroid Cupido (763) the same as Uranian Cupido?

No. They share a name and almost nothing else. Asteroid 763 Cupido is a real physical body in the main belt with a JPL-tracked orbit, and modern asteroid astrologers read it as a marker of initial attraction. The Uranian Cupido is a hypothetical Transneptunian Point used in Hamburg School Uranian astrology to describe marriage, family, household, and art societies. Different system, different math, different reading. This calculator returns the physical asteroid 763 only. If you are looking for the Uranian point, you are on the wrong tool.

How do I find my Cupido sign and house?

Enter your birth date, time, and place above. The calculator returns Cupido's sign, degree, house, and current retrograde state. Positions come from a JPL Small-Body Database Keplerian element set, the same source the rest of the Augurine engine uses for transits and timing. Cupido has an orbital period of about 3.34 years and moves through a sign in roughly three to four months on average, which means the sign reading is reasonably particular to your birth window. The house placement needs an accurate birth time and is where the personal reading sharpens.

What is the difference between Cupido and Eros?

Cupido and Eros sit on the same spectrum and answer different questions. Eros (asteroid 433) is the erotic charge layer: the chart factor that names what activates passion once two people are already in contact, the voltage that turns attraction into desire. Cupido is the earlier moment, the first-spark register: what catches your eye before contact has been made, the flutter before the body has decided what to do about it. A reading that uses both well moves from Cupido at the room-entry moment to Eros once the physical conversation has begun. They are complementary, not interchangeable.

What is the difference between Cupido and Venus?

Venus is the primary love factor in a chart: relational taste, pleasure, what you find beautiful, how you love and what you draw toward. Cupido is one of several supplemental love asteroids that add detail to Venus, not a substitute for her. Read Venus first and let her carry most of the interpretive weight. Read Cupido second to clarify the signature of initial attraction specifically: what tends to catch your eye, what makes the first flutter happen, what the chart is wired to ignite around. If the Cupido reading contradicts what Venus and the lived relationship show, trust Venus and the relationship first.

How does Cupido work in synastry?

Cupido synastry contacts can ask useful questions about initial attraction between two charts. When one person's Cupido sits on the other person's Venus, Mars, Ascendant, or 5th-house ruler, the placement may name a strong opening spark, the kind of attraction that registers fast in the early phase. Keep orbs tight (one and a half degrees for major contacts, less for minor ones). Cupido contacts do not prove longevity, soulmate status, or compatibility. They describe what is likely to ignite at the start. Whether the spark turns into a relationship is decided by the rest of both charts and by what the two people actually do.

What does Cupido retrograde mean in a natal chart?

Cupido is retrograde for roughly a third of any given year and about a third of natal charts carry it retrograde. The reading is not pathological. Natal Cupido retrograde turns the first-spark register inward: attraction tends to ignite more slowly, more privately, or in ways the native does not immediately broadcast. The placement often describes a chart whose crushes are felt long before they are spoken, or whose attractions are recognized first inside fantasy and dream life. The work is letting the inner spark become an actual approach to a real person once it has stabilized.

Where does Cupido live on the master Asteroid Calculator?

Cupido is in the optional asteroid set on the Augurine master calculator (Amor, Cupido, Fama, Aura, Briede, Lucifer, Nessus, Karma, Hekate, Pholus, Hygieia, Sappho, Chariklo, Eris), under the Add more asteroids panel. The dedicated page above gives you the same calculation plus the twelve sign and twelve house interpretations, the comparison to Eros, Amor, and Venus, and the Uranian Cupido disambiguation. Use the master calculator when you want the whole minor-body picture in one place; use this page when you want Cupido specifically read carefully.

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