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There seems to be a dearth of anything that is really engaging me at the moment. There is only one solution to this problem and that is to come at it from a different angle. So an otiose post, one of probably two to be found here.
It is grey and cold here today and has only stopped raining today, after two days of day and night, non-stop, pitter patter. The air is not only pregnant with a budding full moon with added eclipse, but also thick with water. It's all so very dense.
Genius that I am, I figured out that plotting the planets onto a natal wheel, gave one a pretty clear indication, in fact a pretty accurate indication of where in the sky everything is or was. The cloud parted enough to prove this startling discovery of the bleeding obvious, when I saw both the Moon and Jupiter the other night when I was putting out the rubbish. Jupiter has been rising in the evenings and stands-out like the proverbials, so is not hard to spot. I knew the Moon would be very nearby because, it too was in Taurus where Jupiter is. I could also tell that we wouldn't be seeing Mars or Saturn as they had already passed the 180 degree mark--if daylight can be measured in degrees which I suspect it can. 30 minute segments, but best not get too deep there into maths.
I did figure out why Jupiter won't be sucking Saturn into it's gaseous vortex when they are conjunct in 2020. And that would be because even at their closest i.e, teh (Grand Conjunction) they are 100 million miles apart and while Jupiter's big, that's gotta be some vacuum that can suck something in from 100 million miles.
What I have been pondering of late is the idea that the planets serve a function that is beneficial to Earth--even if that function is one relating to the psyche (and obviously if you follow astrology which I do, they do that). It requires a couple of leaps of faith or informed guesses to suggest that Earth is the only planet in our Solar system that has a form of life capable of a degree of consciousness, a statement which will always be resisted by some, but one I think is probably at this point in time quite probably true. I don't really want to think about the semantics relating to what constitutes conscious life, let's take human beings with beating hearts and a brain as a baseline. It would be interesting to ask astrologers what they think the state of mankind would be if there were no planets. The Professors of Astrologie would probably have to argue that zis is impossibleur and clearly it is. But the whole idea that the Solar system is necessary for life on Earth in a mechanical sense and in a metaphysical sense is very interesting. We've been encouraged not to be Earth-centric, for centuries, because that was to believe we were at the centre of the universe and that 'life' spins around us and there are obviously problems pertaining to aggrandisement and self-importance that we are generally encouraged to believe are misguided. We know the Earth is not the centre of the universe and that the Sun doesn't revolve around us, but that's not to simultaneously believe that as merely 'the third rock' from the Sun we have absolutely no consequence above that. I don't think life is so meaningless frankly, I'm not sure that Planet Earth is the bee's knees exactly, but I think it's probably not being too self important of us to think we are the most psychically dynamic planet in the Solar System which is both a terrifiying and exciting prospect.
