posted March 15, 2004 08:42 PM              

For those who didn't already know, Quaoar was discovered around 1930, and was given meaning by tribal indians. It is said to have connections to the Indigo Children, as well as having similarities to the Kabala. It's associated with "transformations" occuring, and was found when it was in Sagittarius. Quaoar stays in each sign for decades, and apparently cannot be attributed to any sign, moreso belonging to "everyone".

Nevertheless, I'll say when I was born it was in Libra at 20.00 degrees in the 5th, while I have Libra Sun at 9.37 degrees in the 5th.

Now that it is so closely related to Pluto AND NOW to Sedna, it will be interesting to see how Sedna is attributed astrologically if at all.

There is still the mystery of why the Mayan calendar ends at the year 2012, and why there is this belief of a "Planet X" out there. When Quaoar was first discovered, they thought it might be it, but it's not. Sedna is said to be too far from us at it's closest to the Earth, but who knows if it will wreak havoc in terms of gravitational pulls? (Things that make you go hmmmm...)

Links for GENERAL info on Quaoar:
www.gps.caltech.edu/~chad/quaoar/
www.karmastrology.com/qmyth.shtml
www.stariq.com/Main/Articles/P0003940.HTM

More INDEPTH info on Quaoar:
www.daykeeperjournal.com/aarch03/0308aug/amm-quaoar.shtml

.gloria

posted March 15, 2004 10:27 PM              

so why December 21, 2012? From what I`ve read on this day occurs a rare astronomical event - the Sun conjuncts the intersection of the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic. The Milky Way, as you know, extends in a north-south direction in the night sky. The plane of the ecliptic is the track the Sun, Moon, planets and stars appear to travel in the sky, from east to west. It intersects the Milky Way at a 60 degree angle near the constellation Sagittarius. (imagine that somewhat as a cross).

This cosmic cross formed by the intersecting Milky Way and plane of the ecliptic was called the Sacred Tree by the Maya. The trunk of the tree is the Milky Way, and the main branch intersecting the tree is the plane of the ecliptic(Sun, Moon, ect). Mythically, at sunrise on December 21, 2012, the Sun rises to conjoin the center of the Sacred Tree, the Tree of Life..

The Sun has not conjoined the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic since some 25,000 years ago, long before the Mayans arrived on the scene. What does this mean?

Due to the precession of the equinoxes, (caused by the Earth's wobble that lasts almost 26,000 years) the apparent location of the Winter Solstice sunrise has been ever so slowly moving toward the Galactic Center. (imagine a spinning top. Over many revolutions the top will rise and dip on its axis. One complete rise and dip constitutes the cycle of precession.)

The amazing Mayans noticed that slippage of the positions of stars in the night sky over long periods of observation and foretold this great coming attraction. By using an invention called the Long Count, the Mayans fast-forwarded to anchor December 21, 2012 as the end of that Great Cycle and then counted backwards to decide where the calendar would begin.

posted March 15, 2004 11:34 PM              

That's so cool that you're interested in that too. Those Mayan's were something else...

posted March 20, 2004 05:49 AM              

Do you think Sedna will have any effect on astrology ?