EP020_EN_273 Atropos – how to accept the inevitability of life

273 Atropos is a main‑belt asteroid discovered in 1888. It is named after Atropos, the Moira of Greek mythology who cuts the thread of life. Atropos represents the morality of necessary endings: firmness, relentless justice, acceptance of destiny, and the ability to close what must be closed. She is the personification of the limit that gives shape and meaning to life itself. Atropos is known as the “unchangeable” Moira unyielding, unable to reverse her decisions or bend to pleas. Her nature expresses the virtue of absolute firmness and coherence with the law of fate, a law that not even the gods can alter. These are attitudes we, too, can bring into our daily lives.