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As we have been discussing for the past week or so, communication is one of the many themes infusing our current time on this planet. What we say, how we say it, how we hear things and how others hear us is the motif running beneath most of our time spent trying to get a handle on the mysteries life presents to us.<\/p>\n
New communication devices come out practically every hour. We also live in an age of planetary discovery, when more new things appear than we know what to do with.<\/p>\n
Makemake (pronounced mahkay-mahkay<\/em>) is a dwarf planet (a kind of planet beyond Neptune) that astronomers Mike Brown<\/a>, David Rabinowitz and Chad Trujillo discovered in March of 2005. It’s getting considerable energy in the minor planet cults, though we have not covered it in this section of Planet Waves before. It’s one of the largest known objects in something called the Kuiper Belt — a field of comet-like objects that is scattered in the region of Pluto. This body was initially known as 2005 FY9<\/sub><\/span> (and later given the minor planet number<\/a> 136472).<\/p>\n Makemake is from the same discovery team that brought us Quaoar, Sedna and Eris — some of the great discoveries of our time; and it was one of three discoveries made at about the same time as Eris (the other is Haumea, which is football shaped). The three were discovered on the same day<\/a>. They are depicted in this illustration<\/a>, which shows their approximate sizes visually. All of these are planets orbiting our own Sun. Makemake takes just under 310 years to orbit (compare with Pluto at 248 years). Because it’s out of Pluto’s resonance, it is classified as a cubewano<\/em> and gets named after a god\/goddess of creation or resurrection. The planets in range of 250 years (i.e., within Pluto’s resonance) are classified as plutinos<\/em>, and are named for underworld gods and goddesses.<\/p>\n It is named after the primordial creation god of Rapa Nui. The word also refers to the current inhabitants of Easter Island, the place where those enormous, strange rock sculptures which nobody is really sure how they got there are found. Makemake is depicted as a man with the head of a bird. Sea birds are his representatives on Earth. He is in a cycle of mythical figures depicted as men with the heads of birds, one of whom is the Egyptian god Horus<\/a>.<\/p>\n Not much is known yet about Makemake’s place in a chart, though some envisioning is being worked out by minor planet specialist Philip Sedgwick<\/a>. He places fast-paced communication and the sharing of information with no thought about the consequence in the domain of Makemake. He attributes it to the collection of data for a specific goal, much like the bird will fly to and fro collecting bits of cloth and plant matter to build its nest.<\/p>\n A trine to the Sun opens up a gateway of communication; you need to make sure that communication has a goal and a purpose. This is called intention.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n In some respects, the aspect for today is about learning to become comfortable with expressing yourself. As the Sun is in a trine with this ancient bird-god, today is a day to meet the perils of keeping your true self hidden head on. You are a direct participant in the creation of your world, and while it may take time, you can visualize the way a bird weaves its nest, and collect the things and ideas that you need to make it your way. A bird never read any books on the subject; it just knows what it’s got to do.<\/p>\n Merry Met, Dear Friend and Reader: The Moon is in late Virgo this morning and enters Libra today at 5:30 pm EDT, as the Sun works its way through the last degrees of Capricorn. Libra Moon plus Capricorn Sun means we’re beginning the last quarter phase of the Moon, which concludes in a solar eclipse on Jan. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,52,181,905,35],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9422"}],"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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGenevieve Salerno <\/strong>w\/Eric Francis
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