Saturn recently reversed course and will remain retrograde until mid-September. Are you resigned to receding, retreating, regression during Saturn’s retrograde? There’s no need for that. Understand that the essence of this ringed wonder’s retrograde to suggest in the strongest terms that one pause, ponder, edit, reframe, reconstruct, rewrite. With all that checked off the list, progress yearns to be made. Nothing like a devoted, diligent first step to mount magical momentum.
News outlets continue to post astronomical news and what seems to be an unusually high occurrence rate. Recently posted is an article that astronomers have recently enjoyed a look at “one of the most extraordinary black hole systems.” No, not the image of the Super-Galactic Center. This is the combined imaging resulting from an array of telescopes scouting out V404 Cygni. This black hole singularity in Cygnus the Swan operates with several other black hole contenders in Aquarius, including the first presumed, later “confirmed” black hole Cygnus X-1 - and this aggregate collection of galactic anomalies assure the “out there” qualities that Aquarius is presumed to be.
V404 Cygni, occupies the zodiacal position of approximately 21 Aquarius 19 (plus or minus a minute). The black hole wobbles, squirting plasma jets into space, often as frequently as a minute apart. Evidently this is a black hole consuming a nearby star, and now this singularity now sits in the top tier of anomalistic behaviors for black holes. While the behavior of the core of this singularity may appear erratic, in fact, it physically responds to the influx of available matter at any given moment. Through the context of laws of gravity, that warp space into a curvature and distend time, its “random” jets result from being in the midst of a moment of matter, energy and timelessness. Perhaps this could be an operating motto for all Aquarians, or for any individual focused and determined on declaring their individuality and its perfect fit in the here and now.
Here’s a question: Why are news outlets posting so much astronomy news? Is it because Donald Trump has signed an order of formation of the Department of Space? Is it because China landed on the dark side of the Moon? Is it because an Israeli space probe, Beresheet (means “in the beginning”), crashed on the Moon last month? Nope to all of the above. Perhaps it’s because people need to look up in awe and wonder and those in the business of revealing the daily disarray of the economy, environment, politics and state of the world realize that. Perhaps as well, the stories intend to inspire people to recollect their psyches and not get lost in the muddled mundaneness that appears everywhere conscious attention is focused.
Classical astrological underscoring factors weigh in through Saturn, Pluto and Eris.
Saturn in Capricorn details the grind of daily activity. Get down the trenches. Get dirty. Do the work. Saturn supports the archaeological profession, not simply from a “dig to see what you can find” theme. Saturn asks a deeper dive question: What does what was found mean in terms of the story arc of human kind? What does that mean to you? Saturn urges that history, tradition and existing cornerstones be fully contemplated, understood, and utilized in moving forward to create progress, building upon what once was, served us well and continues to serve us in the present.
Pluto in Capricorn checks in urging a complete psychic overhaul of what truly makes the world go round. Is it greed, power and the stuff from which plutocracy is formed? Perhaps the collective stacking implies the veracity of that question’s answer. Pluto is far more personal. Pluto gets that what one person “gets” spreads like a wildfire or measles. When one person realizes personal empowerment, those in that “woke” person’s aura, act and react to the world accordingly inspired. Those witnessing such activity likely are roused to such a threshold that it’s no longer the razing of consciousness, but the raising of consciousness. Ultimately, Pluto inquires: Okay, fine. You’ve transformed your life and you’ve evolved your consciousness. So what? What have you done for the world lately? Take note: Transformation with aspiring application punches Pluto’s ticket.
Ultimately, it all comes back to the spiritual selfie... a quest and depiction of self led by the goddess of discord, exclusion and ultimately, a perfect inner harmony. Eris in Aries, where it is now and where she has been for nearly a century (first Eris in Aries interval, June 1922) demands that each person find their personal fit: soul in body, and how that applies consciousness in the universal scheme of things. She insists that social norms that do not fit get shed... and not in disruptive manners. She plays 6-d chess when it comes to staking out a life track that will yield personal evolution, no matter what. She demands that each person discover, excavate, polish and apply all incarnation-granted attributes and groom those into creative ventures that perfect align with the urges of the soul.
Eris ranges pretty far out there. She requires 557.55 years to once around the Sun. From her vantage she sees beyond the limits of vision of the third planet from the Sun. Beyond her is minor planet number 225088, soon to hold an interim name and mythology, weighing in from a track that requires 553.05 years to trek about our star, now in early Pisces. Then there’s the yet unrefined body “Far Out,” currently in early Gemini requiring 929.43 years for a full revolution, by today’s data. Transcendent, restorative urges from Aries, Gemini and Pisces. If that does not require a mental image of where one fits into the cosmic scheme of things, what does?
How about the unusual and enigmatic black hole V404 Cygni?
Rudhyar’s spin of the Sabian symbol for 22 Aquarius - the position of V404 Cygni - is: A rug is placed on the floor of a nursery to allow children to play in comfort and warmth. Out there, beyond what we know to be the limits of our solar system, is a time warping, space bending black hole seeking to afford a space in which primal creativity can determine its attributes and application without mundane stresses. Can we now pause and set our greatest talents in such a place and nurture them into greatness? Doing so may afford one being recognized as “one of the most extraordinary.”
As I was concluding this piece, my instincts suggested I check the listing of Kuiper Belt Objects. There I find that a new naming of a Kuiper Belt Object has been posted. This of The name G kún ʼhòmdímà, a name from the Juǀʼhoansi ( Kung) people of Namibia, a KBO requiring 620.17 years to circumscribe the Sun. I will dig into this newly named body in the next days and report more soon.