The German-born British astronomer, William Herschel, spotted a celestial body on March 13 1781. He thought at first it was a comet.
Back in 1690, another astronomer, John Flamsteed, observed the same celestial body on six separate occasions. He thought it was a star and catalogued it as 34 Tauri.
Between 1750 and 1769, French astronomer, Pierre Lemonnier would observe this celestial body no less than twelve times.
This elusive celestial pimpernel turned out to be the seventh big rock from the sun. Not scarlet, but a lovely shade of turquoise - or maybe pale cerulean - we know this cosmic body by the moniker of Uranus.
Uranus is just visible to the naked eye. The five brightest planets: Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, have always been visible to the naked eye and it surprised me somewhat to learn that if you look roolly roolly hard, you can also see Uranus ~ albeit most of us will need the assistance of binoculars and that is still naked-eye viewing in my book. Plus you have to know where to look.
A Rose by any Other Name
Astrologists do not appear to experience any difficulty in latching onto the names given to these latter-day astronomical discoveries, creating a whole astropathology, if you will, to further their particular hobby-horse and line their pockets with the royalties received from booksales, lectures and other such paraphrenalia.
Chiron's Apples
An asteroid first spotted in 1895 was paid more attention in 1977, was named Chiron after that noble Centaur mentor of Greek mythology. When you consider how much Chiron's Wounded Healer archetype has been milked, I feel that the name of a divine bovine-goddess of Hindu mythology, Surabhi, - she who provides her owner whatever he desires - may perhaps have been a wryer moniker. This astrogullibility, this hypochondria of the almost-Hypercronius of Uranus. This neon tetra-like following of the name up in bright lights outside our fishbowl perceptions....the power we place in verb and noun.
Mars' Kid Sister
Astronomer Mike Brown, a homo noeticus of some renown, in 2005 (with his team) spotted a large object in the Kuiper Belt (rhymes with viper). ....
This large object in the Kuiper Belt was categorized as 2003 UB313 and was given the codename of Xena. Mike Brown favoured Lila for the name of this...uh... most massive known dwarf planet. Now Lila is a concept from Hinduism that explains the universe as a cosmic puppet theater or playground for the gods and I totally grok, resonate, vibrate, boogie, jive, and moon that concept. All the heyoka blokes and sheilas do.
Now your common garden-variety astrologist may not know that Eris was almost Lila and so they are going to snapdragon onto the mythology of Eris - Goddess of Strife and Discord. How bloody boring is that!
Keiron Le Grice (rhymes with Chiron?) will be publishing in 2012 his book, Discovering Eris: The Symbolism and Significance of a new Planetary Archetype. Be interesting to see just what planetary archetype he is peddling: the strife and discord or the cosmic puppet theatre. Le Grice has some impressive credentials. Homo sapiens are an impressionable species.
Hula Hands
Haumea spotted on 28 December 2004 by Mike Brown and his team was given the codename of Santa for the obvious reason. Haumea was the first of all the current dwarf planets to have been discovered since 1930 when Pluto was found. However, the original official name suggested for this dwarf planet was Ataecina, an Iberian goddess of the underworld, her Roman equivalent being Proserpina. But following guidelines established by the IAU that classical Kuiper belt objects be given names of mythological beings associated with creation, in September 2006 the Caltech team submitted formal names from Hawaiian mythology, and so we have Haumea.
There was a controversy over the naming of this dwarf planet. Accusations of political bias with the rejection of the name Ataecina, the rejection of another name, Dagda - a name from Irish mythology. The Spanish astronomers were, in a nutshell, Not. Happy. Jan.
So when we consider Haumea's archetype astropoetically, do we focus on the creation aspect because of its feel-good fuzzyness, or do we also consider the perpetuation of spatial prejudices and political correctnesses evidenced by the storm-in-the-teacup in astronomical circles over the - shall we say - christening of this distant rock.
The Frozen Frontier
The Kuiper Belt is now known to be home to millions of objects, which have become the cutting edge of astrology and of planetary astronomy. This new classification of dwarf planets in which objects such as Eris, Makemake, Haumea, Sedna, Orcus, Quaoar are included - with all their mythos-baggage: the stories that ancient windbags, drolltellers, bards and bullshit artists have spun.
As of Fri Oct 28 2011
there are:
8 objects which are nearly certainly dwarf planets,
31 objects which are highly likely to be dwarf planets,
59 objects which are likely to be dwarf planets,
102 objects which are probably dwarf planets, and
388 objects which are possibly dwarf planets.
(spirited from Mike Brown's Planets)
Yup, that should keep all of us out of mischief for a rooly rooly rooly long time!
Trans Neptunian Objections
The Kuiper Belt is yielding in my humble opinion, the physical proof for the hypothetical Transneptunian energies that son-of-a-baker, German astrologer, Alfred Witte, grokked whilst getting his ass shot at during WWI whilst serving on the Russian front. A circumstance that can either refines your suprasenses or breaks your concentration.
Astronomically, the largest known Trans-Neptunians are Pluto and Eris followed by Makemake and Haumea. (Makemake by the way was given the codename of Easterbunny - that hypothetical creature). Entities such as Varuna, Ixion, Typhon, Sedna and Orcus have been added to the TNO to-do list and astrologers are out there mulling over the mythologies -
As for me....well.....ask a good question, get a good answer.
What's it all about Alfie?
Will a man ahead of his time be found just in time.....
Back in 1690, another astronomer, John Flamsteed, observed the same celestial body on six separate occasions. He thought it was a star and catalogued it as 34 Tauri.
Between 1750 and 1769, French astronomer, Pierre Lemonnier would observe this celestial body no less than twelve times.
This elusive celestial pimpernel turned out to be the seventh big rock from the sun. Not scarlet, but a lovely shade of turquoise - or maybe pale cerulean - we know this cosmic body by the moniker of Uranus.
Uranus is just visible to the naked eye. The five brightest planets: Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, have always been visible to the naked eye and it surprised me somewhat to learn that if you look roolly roolly hard, you can also see Uranus ~ albeit most of us will need the assistance of binoculars and that is still naked-eye viewing in my book. Plus you have to know where to look.
A Rose by any Other Name
How this seventh big rock from our Sun got to be called Uranus makes for interesting trivia. The Finnish astronomer Anders Lexell suggested it be called 'George III's Neptune' or 'Great Britain's Neptune'. Herschel himself proposed the name 'Georgium Sidus' (The Georgian Star or The Georgian Planet) in honour of King George III, then King of England. Mad King George as some historians would remember him.
Other suggested names included 'Hypercronius' and 'Transaturnis' (by Swiss mathematician Daniel Bernoulli), 'Herschel' (by French astronomer Joseph Lalande) and 'Austraa' (by German scientist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg). None of these names followed the traditional naming scheme, however, and it was the German astronomer Johann Bode who suggested that Uranus would be a more appropriate name for the planet. Although Bode suggested this name soon after its discovery, it took several decades to become accepted worldwide.
Astrologists do not appear to experience any difficulty in latching onto the names given to these latter-day astronomical discoveries, creating a whole astropathology, if you will, to further their particular hobby-horse and line their pockets with the royalties received from booksales, lectures and other such paraphrenalia.
Chiron's Apples
An asteroid first spotted in 1895 was paid more attention in 1977, was named Chiron after that noble Centaur mentor of Greek mythology. When you consider how much Chiron's Wounded Healer archetype has been milked, I feel that the name of a divine bovine-goddess of Hindu mythology, Surabhi, - she who provides her owner whatever he desires - may perhaps have been a wryer moniker. This astrogullibility, this hypochondria of the almost-Hypercronius of Uranus. This neon tetra-like following of the name up in bright lights outside our fishbowl perceptions....the power we place in verb and noun.
Mars' Kid Sister
Astronomer Mike Brown, a homo noeticus of some renown, in 2005 (with his team) spotted a large object in the Kuiper Belt (rhymes with viper). ....
This large object in the Kuiper Belt was categorized as 2003 UB313 and was given the codename of Xena. Mike Brown favoured Lila for the name of this...uh... most massive known dwarf planet. Now Lila is a concept from Hinduism that explains the universe as a cosmic puppet theater or playground for the gods and I totally grok, resonate, vibrate, boogie, jive, and moon that concept. All the heyoka blokes and sheilas do.
Now your common garden-variety astrologist may not know that Eris was almost Lila and so they are going to snapdragon onto the mythology of Eris - Goddess of Strife and Discord. How bloody boring is that!
Keiron Le Grice (rhymes with Chiron?) will be publishing in 2012 his book, Discovering Eris: The Symbolism and Significance of a new Planetary Archetype. Be interesting to see just what planetary archetype he is peddling: the strife and discord or the cosmic puppet theatre. Le Grice has some impressive credentials. Homo sapiens are an impressionable species.
Hula Hands
Haumea spotted on 28 December 2004 by Mike Brown and his team was given the codename of Santa for the obvious reason. Haumea was the first of all the current dwarf planets to have been discovered since 1930 when Pluto was found. However, the original official name suggested for this dwarf planet was Ataecina, an Iberian goddess of the underworld, her Roman equivalent being Proserpina. But following guidelines established by the IAU that classical Kuiper belt objects be given names of mythological beings associated with creation, in September 2006 the Caltech team submitted formal names from Hawaiian mythology, and so we have Haumea.
There was a controversy over the naming of this dwarf planet. Accusations of political bias with the rejection of the name Ataecina, the rejection of another name, Dagda - a name from Irish mythology. The Spanish astronomers were, in a nutshell, Not. Happy. Jan.
So when we consider Haumea's archetype astropoetically, do we focus on the creation aspect because of its feel-good fuzzyness, or do we also consider the perpetuation of spatial prejudices and political correctnesses evidenced by the storm-in-the-teacup in astronomical circles over the - shall we say - christening of this distant rock.
The Frozen Frontier
The Kuiper Belt is now known to be home to millions of objects, which have become the cutting edge of astrology and of planetary astronomy. This new classification of dwarf planets in which objects such as Eris, Makemake, Haumea, Sedna, Orcus, Quaoar are included - with all their mythos-baggage: the stories that ancient windbags, drolltellers, bards and bullshit artists have spun.
As of Fri Oct 28 2011
there are:
8 objects which are nearly certainly dwarf planets,
31 objects which are highly likely to be dwarf planets,
59 objects which are likely to be dwarf planets,
102 objects which are probably dwarf planets, and
388 objects which are possibly dwarf planets.
(spirited from Mike Brown's Planets)
Yup, that should keep all of us out of mischief for a rooly rooly rooly long time!
Trans Neptunian Objections
The Kuiper Belt is yielding in my humble opinion, the physical proof for the hypothetical Transneptunian energies that son-of-a-baker, German astrologer, Alfred Witte, grokked whilst getting his ass shot at during WWI whilst serving on the Russian front. A circumstance that can either refines your suprasenses or breaks your concentration.
Astronomically, the largest known Trans-Neptunians are Pluto and Eris followed by Makemake and Haumea. (Makemake by the way was given the codename of Easterbunny - that hypothetical creature). Entities such as Varuna, Ixion, Typhon, Sedna and Orcus have been added to the TNO to-do list and astrologers are out there mulling over the mythologies -
As for me....well.....ask a good question, get a good answer.
What's it all about Alfie?
Will a man ahead of his time be found just in time.....
His approach to astrology was to verify assumptions by current reality checks rather than historical validation. He sought to approach astrology as a science, and the controversy over his assertion of the existence of Trans-Neptunian objects other than Pluto led to widespread ridicule and rejection during his later years...
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