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posted June 09, 2022 05:10 AM            

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It emerges the New Horizons probe took images of Pluto and it has a giant colour-contrasting heart shaped icy plain - since known as Sputnik Planitia, the size of Texas.
At 98% nitrogen, its glaciers flow into the heart shape.
Pluto also features mountain ranges & has an atmosphere.

Any poetic parallels on how this fits in with Pluto astrologically or from your experience are welcome

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posted June 09, 2022 02:01 PM            

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Homer, Odyssey. Where else?...

Spending all our life under this calling of the Muse, studying, researching, contemplating, in an eternal quest of our Ithaca...

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Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered full many ways after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy. Many were the men whose cities he saw and whose mind he learned, aye, and many the woes he suffered in his heart upon the sea, seeking to win his own life and the return of his comrades. Yet even so he saved not his comrades, though he desired it sore, for through their own blind folly they perished — fools, who devoured the kine of Helios Hyperion; but he took from them the day of their returning. Of these things, goddess, daughter of Zeus, beginning where thou wilt, tell thou even unto us.
Now all the rest, as many as had escaped sheer destruction, were at home, safe from both war and sea, but Odysseus alone, filled with longing for his return and for his wife, did the queenly nymph Calypso, that bright goddess, keep back in her hollow caves, yearning that he should be her husband. But when, as the seasons revolved, the year came in which the gods had ordained that he should return home to Ithaca, not even there was he free from toils, even among his own folk. And all the godspitied him save Poseidon; but he continued to rage unceasingly against godlike Odysseus until at length he reached his own land...

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posted June 09, 2022 02:11 PM            

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"Circe, fulfil for me the promise which thou gavest to send me home; for my spirit is now eager to be gone, and the spirit - of my comrades, who make my heart to pine, as they sit about me mourning, whensoever thou haply art not at hand".
So I spoke, and the beautiful goddess straightway made answer "Son of Laertes, sprung from Zeus, Odysseus of many devices, abide ye now no longer in my house against your will; but you must first complete another journey, and come to the house of Hades and dread Persephone, to seek soothsaying of the spirit of Theban Teiresias, the blind seer, whose mind abides steadfast. To him even in death Persephone has granted reason, that he alone should have understanding; but the others flit about as shadows".
So she spoke, and my spirit was broken within me, and I wept as I sat on the bed, nor had my heart any longer desire to live and behold the light of the sun. But when I had had my fill of weeping and writhing, then I made answer, and addressed her, saying:
"O Circe, who will guide us on this journey? To Hades no man ever yet went in a black ship".
So I spoke, and the beautiful goddess straightway made answer: "Son of Laertes, sprung from Zeus, Odysseus of many devices, let there be in thy mind no concern for a pilot to guide thy ship, but set up thy mast, and spread the white sail, and sit thee down; and the breath of the North Wind will bear her onward. But when in thy ship thou hast now crossed the stream of Oceanus, where is a level shore and the groves of Persephone — tall poplars, and willows that shed their fruit — there do thou beach thy ship by the deep eddying Oceanus, but go thyself to the dank house of Hades. There into Acheron flow Periphlegethon and Cocytus, which is a branch of the water of the Styx; and there is a rock, and the meeting place of the two roaring rivers. Thither, Prince, do thou draw nigh, as I bid thee, and dig a pit of a cubit's length this way and that, and around it pour a libation to all the dead, first with milk and honey, thereafter with sweet wine, and in the third place with water, and sprinkle thereon white barley meal. And do thou earnestly entreat the powerless heads of the dead, vowing that when thou comest to Ithaca thou wilt sacrifice in thy halls a barren heifer, the best thou hast, and wilt fill the altar with rich gifts; and that to Teiresias alone thou wilt sacrifice separately a ram, wholly black, the goodliest of thy flock. But when with prayers thou hast made supplication to the glorious tribes of the dead, then sacrifice a ram and a black ewe, turning their heads toward Erebus but thyself turning backward, and setting thy face towards the streams of the river. Then many ghosts of men that are dead will come forth. But do thou thereafter call to thy comrades, and bid them flay and burn the sheep that lie there, slain by the pitiless bronze, and make prayer to the gods, to mighty Hades and to dread Persephone. And do thou thyself draw thy sharp sword from beside thy thigh, and sit there, not suffering the powerless heads of the dead to draw near to the blood, till thou hast enquired of Teiresias. Then the seer will presently come to thee, leader of men, and he will tell thee thy way and the measures of thy path, and of thy return, how thou mayest go over the teeming deep".
So she spoke, and straightway came goldenthroned Dawn. Round about me then she cast a cloak and tunic as raiment, and the nymph clothed herself in a long white robe, finely woven and beautiful, and about her waist she cast a fair girdle of gold, and upon her head she put a veil.
But I went through the halls, and roused my men with gentle words, coming up to each man in turn.
"No longer now sleep ye, and drowse in sweet slumber, but let us go; lo! queenly Circe has told me all"...

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posted June 10, 2022 03:16 AM            

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Wow

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