posted January 05, 2012 04:30 PM
Literally. lol.Thought I'd share this because I made this connection earlier. A few days ago Uranus entered Aries. It completed it's cycle, and is now reborn. Well, I inadvertently welcomed it into it's new cycle. Uranus rules sudden change, and in this case, explosions.
As some of you may know I am an organic chemist (grad student). I was working on a reaction a few days ago using a reagent called palladium on carbon, and adding it to my compound which was dissolved in methanol. I have done this sort of reaction several times in the past. You do need to be careful because palladium powder is pyrophoric.
I go to dump it in, slowly. I had followed protocol and good techinque like I always do. Then... BANG! The flask exploded quite loudly (the glass didn't break), burnt my fingers, and scared the living CRAP out of me! I am not afraid of chemicals, I rather like them. Dangerous ones are kind of bracing to me. This though, was unexpected. Added to that, my adviser was right around the corner when it happened. Good news is, it wasn't my fault. Just a series of "good" conditions for it to go off like that.
Thank you for that, Uranus. Good to see you're excited to be in Aries too... -_-
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