{"id":34385,"date":"2011-02-15T06:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=34385"},"modified":"2011-02-15T13:05:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T18:05:51","slug":"just-a-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/just-a-bite\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a Bite: Haumea and Saturn"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Len Wallick<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Now that Valentine’s Day is over, we can embrace the real reason to celebrate the season — Girl Scout Cookies! Or not. If you are in the process of swearing off the sugar, we have an alternative to sink your teeth into. Continuing the discussion of Haumea (a dwarf planet orbiting our Sun), Saturn and Libra, which among other things is about the process of laying off the sweets of getting real with what will really nourish you and your relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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From its very discovery in 2004, Haumea has been distinguished in two ways. It has been difficult to define, especially in relationship to other objects in the solar system. It has also exhibited auspicious timing in the course of assuming an identity. The two are related and relationship is the continued theme from yesterday.<\/p>\n

It all started off with a quandary over when Haumea was discovered and by whom. In the realm of science, resolution of such a dispute would confer both prestige and naming rights. For astrologers, there is a little more at stake because the time and place of a new planet’s discovery are vital to the development of what amounts to its natal chart. This is important because a new discovery is a whole different ball game.<\/p>\n

With the Sun and Moon for sure, probably with all of the classical planets visible to the unaided eye, every human being has a relationship that is a part of our DNA as well as our experience. We get them because they are a part of us. They are family in fact. Nobody needs to know the discovery date of Venus. It would be like asking your mother for her birth certificate. Not that we would put that past a few members of Congress.<\/p>\n

Although we all orbit the same Sun, and that is not to be underrated, our relationship with the planets discovered by science is not nearly so intimate; it is known. It is of conscious intellectual experience. Admittedly, after discovery we can trace back and observe the synchronicity of a planet’s character with a particular time. Chiron last in Pisces during the 1960s is a prime example. Still, the awareness does not fall into place until we get to know the associated presence. Most importantly for astrologers, we can’t work with something we don’t know and the better we know it the better we can work with it.<\/p>\n

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So it was that discovery credit issue was settled in favor of the inestimable Mike Brown and his Cal Tech team. This gave us a place (Hawaii) which from current guidelines a name was derived: Haumea, the Hawaiian goddess of fertility and childbirth. Add to the location the date (December 28, 2004), and we have the makings of a discovery chart where the object in question is located in the 13th degree of Libra. With the somber knowledge that this date followed the Asian tsunami event by a scant two days, we look at the chart to find an asteroid Tsunemi in close conjunction and we know we are on to something.<\/p>\n

This, by the way, in spite of the fact that the name Tsunemi has no association with tidal waves. It is a proper name, that of a scientist. In astrology, however, that’s typical of how asteroids work. Combine some poetic license and serendipity with your synchronicity, apply Occam’s razor (a maxim stating that the simplest answer is probably best) and it works.<\/p>\n

One might have considered that to be a pretty solid start, but no such luck. Every successive return of Venus to Libra brings a conjunction with Haumea and it seems that we are generously gifted with additional information about this distant object just about as often. As a matter of fact, it’s amazing how much we know considering how far away it is. The problem is the more we learn, the more difficult it is to relate to — or it to anything else. Having been reclassified a couple times already, Haumea is anything but comfortable in the current role of dwarf planet.<\/p>\n

You see, other than going around the Sun, a dwarf planet is supposed to have sufficient mass to attain hydrostatic equilibrium. That’s a fancy way of saying a spherical shape due to is own gravity. Instead, Haumea is an oblate spheroid, tumbling end over end like a lost football in search of a cosmic goal post. This rapid rotation will prevent its ever coalescing into a sphere. Add to that two discernible moons, unlike any other Kuiper Belt object with the possible exception of Pluto, and we have the celestial equivalent of an orphan with no known relatives.<\/p>\n

That’s where Saturn and some amazing timing come into play. When one considers that Haumea takes almost as long to go around the Sun as Pluto does, it is astonishing that Saturn, with its orbit of nearly 30 years, would be anywhere near conjunction so soon after the little one’s discovery. Compound that improbability with the location of the conjunction being the sign where Saturn is exalted. Then go exponential with the fact that it’s a cardinal sign up to its nose in a series of aspects with long-term historical impact. Finally put a cherry on top with the fact that the opposing cardinal sign is host to a larger, more distant and slower moving object, Eris, which is in the process of resolving some identity issues of its own.<\/p>\n

Put that all together and it would seem that something has got to give, that Saturn would act to define and Eris would act to challenge and the whole cardinal sign shtick would oversee a revolution leading to a new era with a higher and more evolved octave, which in turn would lead to a different level of relationship and identity for Haumea symbolizing the same for us all. And maybe so. But that all supposes Haumea is an object being acted upon. What if, as is more realistic, it’s just part of the combo?<\/p>\n

What if the goddess of fertility is interpreted as creativity? What if crisis is toned down to necessity? What if identity is collective and what if revolution is set to music as an expression that has nowhere else to go? One other planet that Haumea has a relationship with is Neptune. It is a relation of orbital resonance with a ration of seven to twelve. This implies a musical fifth, which in turn brings to mind a daring cycle of chords that characterize something that really happened. This something is just as improbable as the concurrence of Haumea, Saturn, Eris and the cardinal signs. This something is in fact is very evocative of our sky now.<\/p>\n

In the nineteenth century, where the great river Mississippi joins with the sea, in the city of New Orleans, a diverse and unlikely group of people found themselves in relationship. In close quarters and common poverty, their circumstances required them to get along in order to survive. The great goddesses of necessity and creativity flowed together like the muddy waters of half a continent, joining together the nationalities of half a planet. It was expressed in music, resonating in a cycle of fifths, unique and revolutionary, nourishing and defining, the first new art form from a new world. It was jazz. In the midst of that ferment was an unlikely orphan who did not fit in; who nonetheless proved to be not only among the most creative but who also attained a higher octave of existence even as he played above our heads.<\/p>\n

Now, that hallowed city is very much like the rest of us, reeling from one unthinkable challenge after another; living proof that the patrilinear paradigm has become irrelevant if not downright pernicious. It is wondering whether its own hard won passionate expression of creativity will follow the way of a polluted river and a decimated sea. Abandoned by the privileged few, it is yet embraced and nourished by new level of relationship that does not come from above, but rather from the people themselves. The outcome is not certain. The obstacles are substantial. The perils have almost certainly not ended. But necessity remains and with it the potential for creativity. It is a new century and a new song awaits. Somewhere in those streets, Haumea wanders, as it does in the unseen distant sky and in every human mind on the planet. Its day is coming.<\/p>\n

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