{"id":17215,"date":"2009-08-19T16:37:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T21:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=17215"},"modified":"2009-08-19T16:39:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T21:39:43","slug":"pluto-in-the-age-of-eris-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/pluto-in-the-age-of-eris-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluto in the Age of Eris"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction.<\/strong> Hard to believe that it’s been three years since the controversy about whether Pluto is a planet, and the designation of both Pluto and Eris as dwarf planets. Yet after these thousand days, astrology seems no better adapted to work with or address the issues of Eris than it was the day it was named. Planet Waves has provided coverage right from the beginning<\/strong><\/a>. This coverage got the attention of even the Wall Street Journal, which featured my thoughts on minor planets <\/strong><\/a>as part of its coverage. This article is one of my favorites on Eris and Pluto. It was written in late 2007, about one year after the fireworks. –efc<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo by Danielle Voirin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ASTROLOGY DOES NOT know how to deal with new planets. It does so grudgingly, pessimistically and rarely. Astrology tends to be obsessed with predicting the future, but stuck in the ways of the past. We could do with less of both.<\/p>\n

And if you believe that, it’s a great time to be alive. I say this because we are in a moment when we need to create the future rather than predict it, and also when we have access to the visioning power of astrology to help us do so. As for new planets orbiting our local Sun, in late 2006 Eris got catalogue number 136199. The catalog includes only those objects orbiting our Sun, including asteroids, Centaurs, and a wide diversity of objects further out than Pluto.<\/p>\n

You haven’t heard of most of them, if any. If you follow astrology, maybe you’d heard of Sedna or Varuna, relatively recent discoveries beyond Pluto. You’ve heard of Chiron, which has made an unusual splash since its discovery in 1977. These planets got a little press, but nothing special, and certainly not what they deserved. The schools kept teaching that there were nine planets, and astrology for the most part kept feigning ignorance.<\/p>\n

Eris raised a ruckus because she was the first discovery of a planet bigger than Pluto, and also the furthest object known from the Sun. That in turn raised the long-dormant semantic issue, more germane to astronomers, of whether Pluto was ‘actually a planet’. But it took more than 136,000 discoveries to get sufficient attention of astronomers to acknowledge the existence of these new planets in a way that got public attention, or to make any decision at all regarding the definition of a planet.<\/p>\n

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Introduction. Hard to believe that it’s been three years since the controversy about whether Pluto is a planet, and the designation of both Pluto and Eris as dwarf planets. Yet after these thousand days, astrology seems no better adapted to work with or address the issues of Eris than it was the day it was … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}