As one of our contributors mentioned below, a vast new ring has been discovered around Saturn. The first thing most astrology readers are going to ask is: what is the implication for astrology? My reply: the solar system, which makes up most of our symbolic set of references for the astrology we do, is a work in progress. We hardly know anything about it, and most of what we know we learned from looking rather than visiting; or visiting with a space probe.
Sending your camera on vacation to France is not the same thing as going there yourself.
It’s remarkable that this discovery is announced just as Mercury is making a conjunction to Saturn, in aspect to the Galactic Core (see today’s daily astrology post below Dani’s photo). This is a message from Saturn. And it’s about the galactic nature of Saturn (for eons, thought to be the outermost planet): this ring has the distinct image of a galaxy, a far-flung plane of dust.
The ring also does something a little like Pluto or a Centaur planet: it intersects the plane of Saturn’s traditionally referenced rings at an angle. Pluto’s angle of intersection the Sun’s equator is about 11 degrees (and I can’t find that data for Chiron, stay tuned and I’ll turn it up). This ring intersects at about 27 degrees. So there’s a mystery. If some force is holding the other rings in place where they are, some other previously unknown force is holding this one in place. That raises more questions than it provides answers, though one implication is that this is how Saturn works in astrology as well. It has another influence than the one we think it has.
In any event, the synchronicity of this discovery with a major Saturn aspect (and let’s not forget Saturn opposite Uranus, still unfolding) is difficult to miss. I will do my best to hunt down an actual discovery time. Here is the full text of the article from Times Online (the Times of London).
A huge ring of dust has been discovered around Saturn that is about 50 times farther out into space than the planet’s known rings.
The faint hoop, the largest-known planetary ring in the Solar System, is believed to be made up of debris from one of Saturn’s moons, Phoebe.