We know the moon is important:
- https://qalerts.app/?n=1543
- https://greatawakening.win/p/15Hv2RP7NU/-more-moonfagging--may-16th-2022/c/
The July full moon is also known as the Full Buck Moon and, like the last two months, will feature a supermoon as it occurs while the moon is near perigee, it's closest approach to Earth for the month. It is the third of four supermoons in a row according to NASA eclipse watcher Fred Espenak.
Read more about Super Flower Blood Moon (not a Switch game) and other supermoons here:
https://www.space.com/super-flower-blood-moon-eclipse-may-2022-espenak
Epsenak's definition of supermoon will put the next four full moons in a row as supermoons: May 16, June 14, July 13 and Aug. 12. But he noted that streak is not particularly uncommon. Per his website, 2023 will also see four consecutive full supermoons, as will 2024. Even 2025 has three in a row.
Looks like we're moonfagging for a bit 😳. I'll go first.
Theres no Q posts for that day, so lets see what the Jews are reading in the Torah: https://www.chabad.org/dailystudy/torahreading.asp?tdate=7/13/2022
Ah, this is the story of Balaam in the Book of Numbers (NIV for easier reading): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+22&version=NIV
TL;DR for the Heathens: King Balak of Moab offered Balaam money to curse Israel, but Balaam blessed the Israelites instead, as dictated by God.
You get the feeling this might backfire on the DS?
I don't know what you mean by a "transit." Pluto's orbital period is about 248 years. We don't have observations for even half of its orbit. I agree on paper that the orbits could be projected. But what would we notice that wouldn't be accounted for by the other planets? (Similar problem with Neptune. It wasn't discovered until 1846 and its period is about 165 years. We observed the first full orbit by 2011.) Pluto has other interesting traits, such as the high inclination and the fact that for part of its orbit, it is closer to the Sun than Neptune. What does that mean astrologically?
Astrology is based on a geocentric view of the universe, because astrology is old enough to date from times when everyone thought (or was forced to pretend) that the Earth was the centre of the universe and everything revolved around us.
Whenever the astrologers saw that a planet was "transiting" (moving across) an area of our sky corresponding to stellar objects they observed any apparent correspondence with real events happening, wars etc. Next time the same transit happened they looked up whatever they noted from a similar one last time and slowly over generations built up a knowledge base. If planet x does this then political event z is likely to happen.
The later acceptance of the heliocentric model, where all planets revolve around the sun including us, didn't invalidate anything and they just continued to use geocentric. Even through they now knew geocentric was false the model still worked.
Pluto symbolises many things but most directly, power. Including nuclear power. Right now I am seeing the biggest power struggle in my life ever.
Pluto is so far from the Sun that the Earth is essentially in the same point for viewing purposes. It takes over 200 years for Pluto to move through all the houses of the Zodiac. Since its discovery, it has barely moved through half of them.
Is there any learned dissertation on the past projection of Pluto's orbit, and how to treat its inclination and perihelion? Or is the meaning of Pluto just internet lore?
As far as the outer planets are concerned then you are dead right. It's difficult for people to look back at their notes of "what happened last time" if there wasn't a previous time observed.
The solar system has an obvious religious element as is demonstrated by the planets being named after gods. A lot of scholars went beyond simple observation and correlation, and extrapolated that since Mars the planet is red it therefore belongs to Mars the god of war, so tended to emphasise martial qualities in their writings.
The job of modern astrologers is to try and make sense of thousands of years of sometimes contradictory history. When I was a kid at school our chemistry teacher taught us that atoms are composed of protons neutrons and electrons. Then he said this is not strictly true but it is a good way to visualise what happens to them. Astrology is the same - it doesn't matter if it is "true", just if it is practically useful.
I shared his channel in a comment above, but The Leo King is incredibly well read on evolutionary astrology. He’s not a typical horoscope astrologer that you’d find in Refinery29 or Cosmopolitan magazine. He actually tracks every transit throughout history to find commonalities. He also has a very different take on what the planets represent than others.
Here’s his video for the full moon today if you’re interested
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hy6n9lV9BrE
Thanks for the reference. I can't promise I will look him up (limited life, unlimited task list), but I do want to show appreciation for your openness.
Sorry, by “transit” I’m referring to a planetary transit in a sign, or constellation (in this instance, capricorn).
But you are correct that pluto’s orbit is 248 years. But more specifically, it takes pluto 248 years to transit through all 12 signs (or constellations).
And a slight correction- I had to look it up. Pluto spends anywhere between 12 to 30 years transiting each sign. It’s transit is faster in some signs than it is in others. Other planets behave similarly (jupiter, for instance).
As for neptune, I don’t know the astrological significance of it being farther away from the sun. All I know is that it’s energy signature is very different from pluto’s. I do know that neptune is considered the higher octave of venus (in the same way that uranus is considered the higher octave of mercury).
So far as Pluto is concerned, with an orbit that varies from 29 to 49 AU, there is only a minor difference between a heliocentric and a geocentric system model. The faster transit in some signs undoubtedly correspond to it being closer to the perihelion of its orbit.
Neptune is nearly at a constant distance at 30 AU. Pluto varies between being nearer and farther away. I recall reading that the distances are considered as being related to the strength of a planet's effect. This would be a causative theory of astrology. I'm not sure I would buy a magical theory (mere placement in the visual sky). I do not understand what being a "higher octave" would mean for motions that have longer periods. I don't think that terminology has any literal meaning.
Higher octave doesn’t refer to motion, but rather, how the energy presents itself.
So for instance, if venus is the energy of beauty, love, marriage, partnership, self worth, etc., neptune being the higher octave would be unconditional love, a higher vibration of these energies, taking love, beauty, etc., to a spiritual level.
Alas. "Higher octave" has nothing to do with octaves!