posted January 14, 2010 02:36 PM         

January's Jupiter Jam Spreads for Years

There's certainly a lot going on out there. Last Monday the Sun, Venus and Node aligned in Capricorn directly in between two potent manifesting and manifesto black holes all square Eris, goddess of discord. Material manager and task master Saturn went retrograde on Wednesday. Today (depending upon where in the world you stand) there's the solar eclipse in Capricorn supercharging emotions, causing many to react without any semblance of rationale. Mercury turns direct tomorrow, still stammering as verbal miscues continue to come under fire. Jupiter enters Pisces on Sunday and in so doing demands that everyone rise above all of it and rally with inspiration, ingenuity and fervor to place the wheels of the runaway train back on the track as gently as possible.

As if these patterns above do not suffice, one of the recently discovered likely to be a dwarf planet has been determined to be a child of the dwarf planet Haumea, created during a violent collision and the edge of our solar system a multitude of completed Mayan Calendar cycles ago. This complicates astrological perception of how to treat what is out there. But wait! Now we have a new guy that totally slid under my scan of data sheets. Yep, now we have likely dwarf planet 229762, who is probably larger than Varuna and smaller than Ixion. For more on the dwarf planet changes and additions, please visit the Matrix blogs (link below). There's only so much a body's consciousness can distill per e-zine posting.

So, let's go for an amalgamation.

A factor that stands out in my mind that most likely will act like a substrate to the collective subconscious or unconscious or some level of awareness lying just below the conscious comes from the pairing of Jupiter and Uranus in Pisces. Both of these planets love to push limits and slosh about in a sign that couldn't define a boundary to save itself. I remember standing with a shipmate on the flight deck of the frigate to which I was assigned many years ago. One of the new sailors on the ship approached us. My companion said to the new sailor as he looked out at the ocean which surrounded us with no land in sight, "I remember being here on the last cruise." The new sailor surveyed the omnidirectional oceanic horizon and replied, "Wow! Do you?" That's a bit like the Pisces part of the pattern. It's hard to define where a wave begins or ends and how to separate any two events or interactions between persons on the planet.

Suggestively, Jupiter is very comfortable in Pisces, one of the signs he co-oversees. He would love nothing more than to take everything in life beyond invisible limits - and optimistically, in a good way. The thing he loves about invisible demarcations is that people protest less when pushed beyond limits because they do not possess a full GPS sense of where there pass. Cranky ole Uranus loves it, too. He'd love nothing more than to get people through obsolete beliefs they cling to even though definitive proof made the beliefs antiquated some time ago. Uranus holds an honorary chair in the "No Flat World Society," "No Planet X Social Networking Group," and the "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Imagine This Club of Unlimited Innovation." Both planets promise, "Yeah, there's more out there... you just have to wander over yonder."

You know what? We need this. Whether one has resolved in her/his mind to disbelieve the end of the Mayan Calendar equals the end of the world mindset, if a psychic tells you a cantaloupe dropped from the International Space Station might bonk you on the head when you walk outside, you tend to look up when walking outdoors though you know the likelihood is smaller than the odds of a cantaloupe-cranium collision. We need Jupiter and Uranus in Pisces to reinstate a fearless and blind faith approach to innovation, advancement of society and installation of a "truly, we are all together on this planet" brand of consciousness. Whether people believe in the now obsolete Photon Belt prophecy, the Planet X bastardization of astronomical reality and the fear mongering incited by politicians hell bent of keeping the masses in compliance, fear running rampant in the masses clouds humankind's advancement.

To get to 2012, we need to grab all the galactic gusto and promise of the planets in 2010 and 2011, starting with the rebooting of the psychic computers such that boundlessness (in a non interfering manner) and courageousness prevail. On the heels of Jupiter and Uranus in Pisces, they both move into Aries joining the ever so resistant to snubbing, willing to overturn the apple cart, anti-vanity goddess-based planet Eris. Imagine, three planets who prefer to remain free range all forging through the most intrepid sign of all. And during 2011, based upon the inspirations of 2010 courtesy of the Jupiter-Uranus-Pisces thing, Saturn the great manifestor aligns with the Hawaiian creation goddess, Haumea and takes a foothold in direct opposition to Eris. It's all big stuff and it promises advancement equal to the development of consciousness. Of course, if no one changes anything along the way, there's no guarantee of improvement.

Says Jupiter, "When an opportunity knocks, open the damn door as widely as you can." Uranus declares it's all about timing. When it's time, know it. Go with it. Move with it. Sort through life's annoyances, maintaining an eye on the highest objective you can muster. Forgo petty disturbances and ignore petty tyrants. Expect you'll need to inspect all incoming ideas for inspiration. Recall the ancient myths. Summon the muses. Swim in the sea of creative vision. Flying in the fertile fodder above you might find the nugget of inspiration that suits your personal destiny. And who knows? Perhaps you'd do global good as well. That is, if you can sort through the falling cantaloupes.
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I am being blown away by the astronomers keep finding big transneptunian objects. Damn...Pluto has a lot of neighbors. He was never lonely in the first place.

Raymond

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"Nothing matters absolutely;
the truth is it only matters relatively"

posted January 14, 2010 02:44 PM         

Another Pesky Planet Pops Up
January 13, 2010

First, let’s back track a bit. The object recently discussed in A Planet of a Planet, 2009 YE7, evidently underwent great scrutiny as its orbital parameters, particularly absolute magnitude, now stands revised. As Mike Brown suggested based upon his observations of brightness, this body, while in the top fifty of size in the Kuiper Belt, no longer ranks in the top ten. While remaining notable by size and singular by origin – being one of the offspring of Haumea, this object may or may not claim dwarf planet status. That seems to depend upon who calls the defining shot. In my book, this is going to be an object to include. Though I’ve found no official confirmation of Mike Brown’s speculation about this body’s origin, recent changes seem to the data seem to suggest his theory is correct.

So, if you’re thinking we dodged another dwarf planet bullet, you’re incorrect. While I carefully watched daily posting for 2009 YE7, another dwarf planet slipped by my radar.

The Kuiper Body formerly known as 2007 UK126 received orbital refinement and an official small solar system body number: 229762. This highly inclined, moderately eccentric object stands out as a Scattered Disk Object. It ranges out to 108.5 Astronomical Units in space when most separated from the Sun, more than twice as far as Pluto’s most-distant retreat from the Sun. It possesses an orbital period of 630.47 years, now passing by the 27th degree of Taurus.

Evidently people have been missing the messages of Sedna’s north node in Leo and perihelion in Cancer. So we find this body reiterating those themes, and like Sedna, now travels through Taurus. While in different heliocentric degrees of those signs, 229762’s node is 11 Leo 04 (heliocentric) and the perihelion is 27 Cancer 16 (again heliocentric). The urgency of self preservation and acquisition of primal life needs precedes a necessary unfoldment of the self that extricates itself from ego as to support soulful development.

Yesterday a client mentioned that it’s too much “all about me” out there. From the material bonus demands of bank executives who think quite highly of the skill they applied to damn near crash the world economy to the “look at me, be my friend” pleas of users of social networking sites, my client’s observation seems to be true.

The consciousness behind naming bodies more distant than Pluto encourages selecting a name that implies resurrection, recreation or creation. These bodies suggest what one can pursue as a lodestone cause and act as a lighthouse of consciousness development as they urge human evolution toward enlightenment. Does this mean that people can miss the message of these planets? Sure. Any person at any time can choose to explore less than ideal manifestations of a body. Still, the guideposts are there, offering support for those who chose to engage them.

Hmm. Here’s a question: Is life more convoluted and difficult to untangle for those choosing to ignore the new planetary discoveries? Obviously that rhetorical shall require a few years to define as fact or fiction. No matter. I want to cast my vote in the never to be posted opinion poll that is exactly what happens.

Planets are pesky only when ignored or applied in a non-evolving manner. Sure all transits provide their surprise package of challenges. But if one works with the ongoing and expanding awareness of the solar system’s contents, later when the impact of these bodies becomes accepted by status quo delineation, one may avoid the feeling of being overwhelmed by the shower of goodies from the great planetary piñata in the sky.
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"It possesses an orbital period of 630.47 years, now passing by the 27th degree of Taurus."

That means that the January 15th Eclipse-Venus conjunction is trine 2007 UK126

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"Nothing matters absolutely;
the truth is it only matters relatively"

posted January 14, 2010 02:46 PM         

When Mike Brown, co-discoverer of Eris, Haumea and Makemake spoke in Arizona a year ago last November, he displayed a graphic of the sky search completed by his team. He announced that they had now equaled the sky area searched by Clyde Tombaugh in his decades of diligent sky scanning. What was obvious were the “holes” in the search. Given the northern hemisphere location of the observing telescopes much of the southern skies could not be seen. Given the length of orbital periods of Kuiper Belt Objects, if an object holds a southern disposition by position, it could be decades before it would be detected. So, one of his original sky search partners, David Rabinowitz, headed for the mountain tops of Chile to fill in some of the celestial canopy not yet examined for Kuiper Belt bodies. Given the vastness of the remaining sky to be examined, there’s potentially a lot of yet unknown Kuiper Belt Objects – as well as stuff out near Sedna – to be found.

Mike Brown weighed in on 2009 YE7 last week. First, he noted the high inclination of the body and stated that even early in working to refine a body’s orbit, inclination is one of the more easily determined attributes (which is why the early nodal position typically remains reliable). The inclination of this body at 29 degrees is high as compared with the “norm” of bodies orbiting the Sun. And 29 degrees is very close to the 28.2 degree inclination of Haumea, once subject to a violent collision which scattered body parts in the Kuiper Belt. What’s more, the absolute magnitude of YE7 is close to that of Haumea.

Brown concluded that YE7 is likely a shrapnel remnant of the collision Haumea endured way back when. This means this body, like the ice chunks in Haumea’s orbit and her two moons, Hi’iaka and Namaka, is one of her offspring. As well, given a similar surface to Haumea, the object would not be as large as one might initially conclude from the measure of absolute magnitude. Brown issued a relatively simple test for astronomers down under with a view of the newly encountered body to confirm his speculation. To date, I have heard of no such confirmation and no doubt this will be confirmed soon.

Should Brown’s suspicion be confirmed, astrologers have an exciting new condition to consider: a planetary body that is not a satellite of another body born of another planet. It’s true that Triton was once a planet unto itself and ultimately the gravity of Uranus grabbed the planet, diminishing it to satellite status. But the YE7 issue is a whole new ball game.

Suggestively, the body would take the name of a Hawaiian deity or at least one of a Pacific Rim culture. I’m going to submit my vote for a Maori name. They were, in fact, blessed with superlative eyes (such that they could see moons of Jupiter with the naked eye) and developed a sophisticated understanding of the heavens. And the Maori departed Hawaii back in ancient days heading for new lands and settled in what we now call New Zealand.

I hope Mike Brown is right. And I hope that like astronomers, astrologers will grasp the amazing singularity of Haumea (and Eris) and expand astrology to remain inclusive of the facts of the heavens instead of persistence in ignoring what is known.

A planet of a planet! Imagine!
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Triton is actually Neptune's largest Moon.
He might have confused Triton with Titan,one of Uranus' Moons.

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"Nothing matters absolutely;
the truth is it only matters relatively"

posted January 14, 2010 02:48 PM         

This past week a new entry appeared on the Minor Planet Center’s (MPC) public posting of Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNO): 2009 YE7. It’s not the only new discovery revealed from the batch of 2009 discoveries. To date in 2009, astronomers have released information of the discovery of eight Scattered Disk Objects (SDO) of which four fit the centaur criteria, making them cousins of Chiron. Five “standard” Trans-Neptunian Objects, including the aforementioned 2009 YE7 top the TNO discovery list. Notable about 2009 YE7 is the body’s absolute magnitude. This brightness factor is part of what astronomers use to reckon an object’s size. According to the rules of thumb – around which there are possible special circumstances – this new body weighs in somewhat smaller than Orcus and minimally smaller than Quaoar – both of which are assumed to be dwarf planets by many in astronomical circles according to the ultra-ill definition of planet criteria. A few astrologers now apply Orcus with gusto and consideration of the “other Pluto” as a planet. As well, 2009 YE7 appears to be larger than Varuna and Ixion – both of which appear to be likely dwarf planets.

It gets worse. Two bodies recently received orbital refinement: 2003 AZ84, now minor solar system body 208996 and 2005 UQ513, now 202421. Both these Trans-Neptunian Objects seemingly fall into the same size category of Varuna and Ixion and are likely smaller than 2009 YE7.

This means astrologers not only have existing delineations challenged by that thing that’s not really named, Snow White, as a most definite dwarf planet in the category of Pluto, Charon, Eris, Makemake, Haumea and Sedna, but 2009 YE7 in the realm of Orcus and Quaoar, who are most definitely probably planets. How’s an astrologer going to keep up if the Kuiper Belt continues to introduce significant bodies that a properly delineating astrologer cannot afford to ignore? I’m working on a model for this… it’s not quite there yet, but it’s close (and you’ll have to tune into to my Galactic Times, published through my official website – visit about me on this blog and you can get there from here).

Meanwhile, most astrologers do not include the full package of “no doubters” in the dwarf planet smorgasbord: Pluto, Charon, Eris, Makemake, Haumea and Sedna, let alone the most likely ones – Orcus and Quaoar. They certainly fail to include the “probably planets” 2009 YE7 – which just came to collective attention – or Varuna or Ixion.

Back to this new body. The orbital data is rough as of yet and it is risky to form definitive conclusions about it until the body receives a minor solar system body number, indicating astronomers believe they have the orbital elements pegged. What we do know is that it now travels through 25 Taurus 35 (as of January 1, 2010) and its north node crosses the ecliptic at 18 Leo 48. Significantly, another Kuiper Belt Object appears with one of its two ecliptically measured orbital factors in a sign that promotes self discovery, confidence, certainty in the soul, creative aspiration and all the benefits and merits of a conscious existence. Evidently, the Kuiper Belt seeks to reaffirm previously diminished personality traits in the interest of shoring up souls and spirits weakened by participation in the relatively rough existence of life on Earth. If the current orbital data is more or less spot on, 2009 YE9 will be determined to come closest to the Sun while in the sign of Scorpio as does Pluto.

No doubt the Pluto in Leo generation folks will come to embrace this body more than other recent Pluto generations. Accused of being the most solipsism rich of all Pluto signs, those of the Leo generation of this underworld body love to ponder the meaning of one’s existence and the splash one can make on the planet. The multitude of new found dwarf planets with orbital elements in Aries and Leo seem to agree. Figure out who you are, what you’ve got and get on with giving to the world in a good way. Of course the Pluto in Cancer generation wonders what went wrong with the idea of devotion to family, culture, heritage and country. The Pluto in Virgo generation stands amazed at the lack of modesty – false or otherwise – displayed by those full of themselves sporting Pluto in Leo. Pluto in Libra folks travel in packs and create cooperative ventures as to not stand out too much or draw attention to personal individuality. Pluto in Scorpio wants to give everyone what they’ve got whether others want it or agree with it or not. Pluto in Sag folks, the earliest ones of this generation now reaching into adulthood seeking their place, have it figured out or so it seems to them. Yes, each Pluto generation carries its ego-healing bear to cross.

All of these generations (except the very early portion of Pluto in Cancer) share Eris in Aries. This commonality inspires each and every person to find their optimal, personal niche and remain true to it. No matter what sign they traveled in a person’s nativity, Haumea, Makemake and Sedna sport agendas of personal development, the awakening of the soul and the fulfillment of one’s dharma.

Why not embrace these new planets? They impact your horoscope and support transformational effects that appear along the path of life. They ask the questions: What does one do after “seeing the light,” transforming about the restrictions of the mundane and diving deep into the underworld returning to the surface for the first breath of air as an awakened being?

Simple. Awaken to the skill sets now available upline in the heavens above courtesy of the new planets.
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"Nothing matters absolutely;
the truth is it only matters relatively"