⚶

The eternal fire in the Roman temple to the goddess Vesta. The current form, which incorporates the letter 'V', is an astrological simplification, from the 1970s, of the 1852 form below.

⚶

1. (astronomy, astrology) The asteroid 4 Vesta.

• ④, 🝷

• The symbol as published in 1807
• Gauss's original symbol, now at 🝷
• An 1840 variant, a more complex depiction of Vesta's hearth
• An 1852 variant, a more complex depiction of Vesta's hearth, from which modern ⟨⚶⟩ is a simplification
• A simplified variant of the previous, from 1930
• Calligraphic variant
• Symbol on an orange background