Sagittattitude
November 26, 2004
http://cainer.com/ericfrancis/nov26.html
Dear Readers:
Welcome to Sagittarius, what I refer to as Sagittattitude. The Sun
transited into this freewheeling, visionary, make up the rules as you go,
devil-be-patient I've got a job to do, hey I'm late for my flight sign of the
tropical zodiac on Monday, commencing the third solar month of the season (autumn
in the north, spring in the south).
Sagittarius is the mutable fire sign.
Mutabilty is the quality of diffusing or dissipating energy, giving way to
something else, which is why it always ends each season and precedes one of the
major solar events (such as the forthcoming solstice). Fire is the creative
passion that drives all the cosmos. This is a bizarre combination (fire being
rather yang, mutability being rather yin), and as a product of this cosmic
laboratory we get highly a diverse collection of odd and incomparable
specimens.
What other sign possibly could give you
William Blake, Jane Fonda, Philip K. Dick, Uri Geller, Emily Dickinson, Robert
Hand, Jimi Hendrix, Margaret Mead, Steve Speilberg, Mark Twain, Jonathan Cainer
and my old friend Karen Pardini, I ask you?
For a long time, astrologers have noticed
something a little bit "beyond this reality" about Sagittarians. They
associated it with foreign travel, long voyages, learning about culture, higher
education, libraries and collections of knowledge, getting the word out through
publishing, and the higher spiritual energies that inspire people to do their
greatest work. In fact Sagittarius sees beyond this world well enough to see
this world in context of the rest of creation. As a result, its natives often
feel like strangers in a strange land, and as such, I would not be surprised at
all if Moses were born under this sign (we don't have his chart). Sagittarians,
while they can seem like iconoclasts, tend to be quite concerned with cosmic
law, ethics, and philosophy -- and they can just be quite creative about all of
it. If you don't have a good philosophy, ask someone born in Sagittarius.
As the centuries progressed and we
learned more about the nature of space, Sagittarius -- which is an actual
direction in the cosmos; like the other signs, it is a kind of place -- became
the scene of several major discoveries. One is the galactic core. We live on an
island in space called a galaxy -- the Milky Way (or Milky Weg if you happen to
be in
Think of it this way. When you look at
the Sun this time of year, you are looking straight at the core of the galaxy.
Imagine the galactic arms spreading off fro the Sun like wings, steeply
inclined. When Saggies are born, the Sun lines up with the galaxy. Aren't these
people starting to make a little more sense now?
Then came major discovery number two,
made in 1986 (with Chiron exactly opposing it): The Great Attractor. As
scientific equipment became more sophisticated, we began to be able to see into
space and pick up things not visible to the eye, or even a telescope. Radio
signals and invisible light at odd ends of the spectrum provided this unusual
ability to see.
The Great Attractor, located at about 14
degrees of Sagittarius and two arc minutes (with which the Sun aligns each year
around Dec. 7) is the largest, heaviest, most massive, most prodigious thing
known in all of space. It is invisible, but it is very much there, pulling
toward it a million galaxies at a speed of 24 million miles per day, including
our own galaxy, and Andromeda, and the entire local group that surrounds us.
That's one a heck of a vacuum cleaner.
What it actually is, scientists are not quite sure; so you can read up on it,
I'll include some links below, including a piece I wrote a couple of years ago
that quote astrologer Phil Sedgwick, who gives talks and makes really good
tapes about how to interpret this and other galactic points in charts (and
whose methods I have adopted for this point).
So, in Sagittarius, we have two examples
of the center of space; local space in the form of the galactic core, the core
of a few hundred billion stars; and the Great Attractor. Does this give us a
few clues as to why so many Sagittarians seem larger than life?
Also currently in Sagittarius, we have
the planet Pluto (discovered 1930), and much newer planets Ixion (discovered
2001) and Quaoar (discovered in 2002). During the next month, the Sun will go
over all of these points, and Mercury will be retrograde in this vicinity as
well. This should be yet another an exciting and unpredictable little curve on
the teacup ride known as life.
Here's a bit on the Great Attractor:
http://www.thebestlinks.com/Large__MM__scale_structure_of_the_cosmos.html
Here's my article on the Great Attractor,
with some multimedia links that hopefully still work. It's connected to a whole
essay series on Sagittarius.
http://www.ericfrancis.com/sagittarius/sagittarius10.html
Here's a nice collection of images of
Andromeda Galaxy, which is like our twin in outer space:
http://www.solstation.com/x-objects/andromeda.htm
Here are two of your questions this week.
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