Post by Sowelu on Jan 10, 2005 23:22:10 GMT -5
Jonathan Cainer's
2005 Predictions
PART ONE
It may only seem like a small ball of rock at the edge of the Solar System but now that the tenth planet has revealed itself... all our lives are about to change forever. The big shock came on March 15, last year, when an international team of scientists announced a new discovery, 1,000 miles wide and 84 billion miles from the Sun with an orbit that takes 10,500 years.
They found it for the first time in November 2003 and, in a controversial break with protocol they immediately gave it a name, Sedna, after the ancient Inuit goddess of the ocean. This upset many astronomers who feel that their official 'naming committee' was being rudely bypassed. Others were aghast because, they felt Sedna was far too small to be a proper planet and should really be described as a 'planetoid'. The fact remains, though, that she exists and, from her current position in the middle of the sign of the bull, she is already starting to exert an extremely powerful influence on the whole human race.
You don't believe it? Then follow me, please, back to 1781.
That's when the first of these 'new' outer planets turned up and the world first changed forever, for everyone. The technology of that time was not exactly primitive. People understood a lot about how the world worked and had long been using telescopes to study the sky. Through these, they could see that Jupiter had moons and Saturn had rings. They laughed at the old idea of the earth going round the Sun. They would have laughed even louder though, if you had tried to tell them there were more than seven permanent 'moving bodies' in the sky. That fact, they believed, was observable and indisputable. You could no more question it than you could assume that humans were capable of, er... flying.
In March 1781, while William Herschel was peering through a home-made telescope and becoming the first person ever to see the eighth planet, French engineers were starting to experiment with the world's first hot air balloon. Very shortly after the name Uranus was officially given to the new discovery, human beings really COULD fly and the world was never going to be the same again. Suddenly, the minds of the great were all thinking alike, 'If we can do THAT, what else might be possible?'
A thousand further discoveries followed. Revolutions in politics, science, art, fashion and agriculture soon swept the globe. It's largely because of what changed, when Uranus was first found, that astrologers believe that a 'new' planet only starts to have a big influence once it has been identified. Think, if you like, of the planets as a performing troupe. Between them, this team of actors can play most roles, express most ideas, communicate most messages. Sometimes though, a new and truly mind-blowing idea will come along. It simply can't be conveyed by the members of the existing cast. At such a point, a new actor steps in and it turns out that he (or she) has been patiently waiting in the wings since the play began.
We are, of course, interested to know what the new arrival has been doing for all that time... but we are much more concerned about what will happen next. Because the cosmic cast are so versatile, such additions are rarely required. Uranus, the magician, though, was needed not just to provide an astrological symbol for 'flight' but for steam engines, electrical impulses and innovative technologies of all kinds. It also became a metaphor for 'spontaneous discovery with life-changing consequences'. Uranus 'did nicely' as the planet of the new, until about 1840 when once again, humanity made a breakthrough so big that there just weren't words, in the existing language, to describe it. Suddenly we realised that we might be descended from the apes, that the human mind had mechanisms which could be understood and adjusted, that moving images could be captured, that people's voices could be recorded, that messages could be instantly telegraphed thousands of miles... and that if you wanted to find a new planet you could work out its position by a series of algebraic equations. An age of intellect had begun and Neptune, the planet discovered by formula, had become its chief symbol.
By now, I hope, you are starting to get the picture. New planets turn up only when humanity is just about to take a truly historic step forward. They don't just symbolise new technology, they symbolise new thought processes, new social orders, new expectations and new possibilities for everyone. I'll show you more during the rest of this week when I tell you about the influence that Pluto's discovery had on the world, back in 1931. I'll also start to tell you more about how I think Sedna, the newly discovered tenth planet, could be about to catapult us into a world of time travel and telepathy, and, perhaps more importantly, how it could be about to herald a step for the whole human race towards a far deeper level of emotional maturity. I shall also explain how she is set to open up so many exciting new possibilities for you.
PART TWO
Last year, an international consortium of scientists announced the discovery of a celestial object, 900 times further away from the Sun than we are. This dark, cold and distant world is following an orbit so slow that it is only now returning to the position it held in the sky while the Egyptians were starting to build the Sphinx.
Some astronomers argue that it is slightly too small to be called a planet and ought, really, to be classified as a planetoid. All agree though, that its existence obliges us all to think again about what we previously knew to be possible in our solar system. It also obliges us to think again about what's possible here on earth.
We astrologers now know, from long experience, that new planets only ever turn up at times when our world is starting to change beyond recognition. They coincide, as I began to explain in Part One, with new discoveries, new powers, new philosophies and new ideals. This latest arrival has been officially named Sedna after the ocean goddess of the ancient Inuit people. Later this week, I'll tell you her story in detail and I shall explain why she could be heralding the advent of the most mind-bogglingly potent technology the world has ever seen. For now, though, let's focus on the fact that, to the people of the icy northlands, Sedna was always the goddess of relationships. The Inuits knew, as we all know, that real life relationships are never easy and that sometimes, years can pass before old wounds can heal between people who have inadvertently hurt one another. The emergence of the planet Sedna though, is undoubtedly a symbol of hope for all humanity. There may soon be a lot more love on this earth, not just between couples and families but between races, nations and even religions.
Sedna, above all else, is the planet of emotional intelligence. She represents the chance that we shall soon all have to stand back from the powerful things we feel... and, without repressing or denying our deepest passions, to learn how to express them constructively, with sensitivity and care. Before you turn to your forecast to see how Sedna's gift of emotional intelligence could yet help you transform your love life this year, let me tell you just a little more about the last time humanity made such a dramatic discovery in the sky.
Between 1930-31, Percival Lowell's laboratory found the planet Pluto - a fact immediately celebrated by Walt Disney in the creation of Mickey Mouse's pet dog. That may seem like a rather trivial association but it is very telling. Disney went on to become the most influential storyteller on the entire planet. There's hardly been a single impressionable young mind, anywhere on the earth, that has not been exposed to an unforgettable 'Disney vision' at some point in the past seventy-five years. If Disney has shaped the positive side of our culture, Pluto's other namesake has become indelibly associated with negative side. It is absolutely no coincidence that the most powerful and potentially dangerous substance on the earth should have been given the name Plutonium. The element wasn't isolated (and thus the atom wasn't split) for a few years after Pluto's discovery but the planet's first 'shadow of doom' fell across the earth almost immediately. Pluto became a symbol of 'global fear' - a previously unheard of concept.
Prior to this, all threats and dangers were localised. Suddenly, Pluto gave us terrors from which there could be no hiding place. The Great Depression, when America sneezed and the whole world caught cold. World War II, when almost the whole world really did go to war. Then, the cold war. Suddenly, whole generations were growing up with secret fears too dark to face. Pluto's symbolism lay behind all these and has also been associated with the threat of Aids and of global warming. Looking back on the 20th century, it is easy to see how Pluto, the Lord of the Underworld, so aptly summed it all up. As we now look forward to the 21st, it's inspiring to see a new symbol, of far greater hope, emerging in the sky to encourage us.
2005 Predictions
PART ONE
It may only seem like a small ball of rock at the edge of the Solar System but now that the tenth planet has revealed itself... all our lives are about to change forever. The big shock came on March 15, last year, when an international team of scientists announced a new discovery, 1,000 miles wide and 84 billion miles from the Sun with an orbit that takes 10,500 years.
They found it for the first time in November 2003 and, in a controversial break with protocol they immediately gave it a name, Sedna, after the ancient Inuit goddess of the ocean. This upset many astronomers who feel that their official 'naming committee' was being rudely bypassed. Others were aghast because, they felt Sedna was far too small to be a proper planet and should really be described as a 'planetoid'. The fact remains, though, that she exists and, from her current position in the middle of the sign of the bull, she is already starting to exert an extremely powerful influence on the whole human race.
You don't believe it? Then follow me, please, back to 1781.
That's when the first of these 'new' outer planets turned up and the world first changed forever, for everyone. The technology of that time was not exactly primitive. People understood a lot about how the world worked and had long been using telescopes to study the sky. Through these, they could see that Jupiter had moons and Saturn had rings. They laughed at the old idea of the earth going round the Sun. They would have laughed even louder though, if you had tried to tell them there were more than seven permanent 'moving bodies' in the sky. That fact, they believed, was observable and indisputable. You could no more question it than you could assume that humans were capable of, er... flying.
In March 1781, while William Herschel was peering through a home-made telescope and becoming the first person ever to see the eighth planet, French engineers were starting to experiment with the world's first hot air balloon. Very shortly after the name Uranus was officially given to the new discovery, human beings really COULD fly and the world was never going to be the same again. Suddenly, the minds of the great were all thinking alike, 'If we can do THAT, what else might be possible?'
A thousand further discoveries followed. Revolutions in politics, science, art, fashion and agriculture soon swept the globe. It's largely because of what changed, when Uranus was first found, that astrologers believe that a 'new' planet only starts to have a big influence once it has been identified. Think, if you like, of the planets as a performing troupe. Between them, this team of actors can play most roles, express most ideas, communicate most messages. Sometimes though, a new and truly mind-blowing idea will come along. It simply can't be conveyed by the members of the existing cast. At such a point, a new actor steps in and it turns out that he (or she) has been patiently waiting in the wings since the play began.
We are, of course, interested to know what the new arrival has been doing for all that time... but we are much more concerned about what will happen next. Because the cosmic cast are so versatile, such additions are rarely required. Uranus, the magician, though, was needed not just to provide an astrological symbol for 'flight' but for steam engines, electrical impulses and innovative technologies of all kinds. It also became a metaphor for 'spontaneous discovery with life-changing consequences'. Uranus 'did nicely' as the planet of the new, until about 1840 when once again, humanity made a breakthrough so big that there just weren't words, in the existing language, to describe it. Suddenly we realised that we might be descended from the apes, that the human mind had mechanisms which could be understood and adjusted, that moving images could be captured, that people's voices could be recorded, that messages could be instantly telegraphed thousands of miles... and that if you wanted to find a new planet you could work out its position by a series of algebraic equations. An age of intellect had begun and Neptune, the planet discovered by formula, had become its chief symbol.
By now, I hope, you are starting to get the picture. New planets turn up only when humanity is just about to take a truly historic step forward. They don't just symbolise new technology, they symbolise new thought processes, new social orders, new expectations and new possibilities for everyone. I'll show you more during the rest of this week when I tell you about the influence that Pluto's discovery had on the world, back in 1931. I'll also start to tell you more about how I think Sedna, the newly discovered tenth planet, could be about to catapult us into a world of time travel and telepathy, and, perhaps more importantly, how it could be about to herald a step for the whole human race towards a far deeper level of emotional maturity. I shall also explain how she is set to open up so many exciting new possibilities for you.
PART TWO
Last year, an international consortium of scientists announced the discovery of a celestial object, 900 times further away from the Sun than we are. This dark, cold and distant world is following an orbit so slow that it is only now returning to the position it held in the sky while the Egyptians were starting to build the Sphinx.
Some astronomers argue that it is slightly too small to be called a planet and ought, really, to be classified as a planetoid. All agree though, that its existence obliges us all to think again about what we previously knew to be possible in our solar system. It also obliges us to think again about what's possible here on earth.
We astrologers now know, from long experience, that new planets only ever turn up at times when our world is starting to change beyond recognition. They coincide, as I began to explain in Part One, with new discoveries, new powers, new philosophies and new ideals. This latest arrival has been officially named Sedna after the ocean goddess of the ancient Inuit people. Later this week, I'll tell you her story in detail and I shall explain why she could be heralding the advent of the most mind-bogglingly potent technology the world has ever seen. For now, though, let's focus on the fact that, to the people of the icy northlands, Sedna was always the goddess of relationships. The Inuits knew, as we all know, that real life relationships are never easy and that sometimes, years can pass before old wounds can heal between people who have inadvertently hurt one another. The emergence of the planet Sedna though, is undoubtedly a symbol of hope for all humanity. There may soon be a lot more love on this earth, not just between couples and families but between races, nations and even religions.
Sedna, above all else, is the planet of emotional intelligence. She represents the chance that we shall soon all have to stand back from the powerful things we feel... and, without repressing or denying our deepest passions, to learn how to express them constructively, with sensitivity and care. Before you turn to your forecast to see how Sedna's gift of emotional intelligence could yet help you transform your love life this year, let me tell you just a little more about the last time humanity made such a dramatic discovery in the sky.
Between 1930-31, Percival Lowell's laboratory found the planet Pluto - a fact immediately celebrated by Walt Disney in the creation of Mickey Mouse's pet dog. That may seem like a rather trivial association but it is very telling. Disney went on to become the most influential storyteller on the entire planet. There's hardly been a single impressionable young mind, anywhere on the earth, that has not been exposed to an unforgettable 'Disney vision' at some point in the past seventy-five years. If Disney has shaped the positive side of our culture, Pluto's other namesake has become indelibly associated with negative side. It is absolutely no coincidence that the most powerful and potentially dangerous substance on the earth should have been given the name Plutonium. The element wasn't isolated (and thus the atom wasn't split) for a few years after Pluto's discovery but the planet's first 'shadow of doom' fell across the earth almost immediately. Pluto became a symbol of 'global fear' - a previously unheard of concept.
Prior to this, all threats and dangers were localised. Suddenly, Pluto gave us terrors from which there could be no hiding place. The Great Depression, when America sneezed and the whole world caught cold. World War II, when almost the whole world really did go to war. Then, the cold war. Suddenly, whole generations were growing up with secret fears too dark to face. Pluto's symbolism lay behind all these and has also been associated with the threat of Aids and of global warming. Looking back on the 20th century, it is easy to see how Pluto, the Lord of the Underworld, so aptly summed it all up. As we now look forward to the 21st, it's inspiring to see a new symbol, of far greater hope, emerging in the sky to encourage us.
