For those of you wandering my way yesterday, or trying to wander my way yesterday, yesterday GoDaddy crashed due to internal corrupted whatevers. That is the company I use for hosting my websites, e-mail and sending out my e-mail campaigns. Poof! They were gone and with them so was my electronic presence in terms of e-mail and my websites. Immediately, someone claiming to be from the web vigilante group Anonymous claimed responsibility in a very poorly written statement, and it was widely and falsely reported as such. According to GoDaddy it was not an outside job. They are back and with them, so am I.
What a strange feeling. I was trying to remember how I did business in the pre-Internet, pre-website era. It was interesting to conjure up how to do what was once normal and is not now. And what is normal now will be obsolete soon, unless the power grids crap out or unless those with servers to hack grow in number.
Maybe what’s needed is an interesting way of looking at the same old stuff. Something weird, but something ultimately usable.
First, there’s a very cool picture on www.spaceweather.com of something colliding with Jupiter early yesterday. It does look a bit spark-like. Maybe this will rekindle some of Jupiter’s mojo after the impact parade of Comet Shoemaker-Levy back in 1994. There’s no science or astrology to that thinking. Just a symbolic thought I had while looking at the beautiful impact image.
Maybe everything deserves a new and fresh look. Back in my military days I had a shipmate who would constantly say, “Well, we could always look at it like this.” Then he would tilt his head as far to the side as he possibly could, noting that maybe a different point of view would help in whatever strait we were navigating.
Over the last weeks I’ve been watching the data on a relatively small, but seemingly unique Scattered Kuiper Belt Object who fits the alternate view model. Minor solar system body 336756 (2010 NV1) owns one of the most extreme eccentricities out there with its exceptionally elongated orbit (0.9685207, an eccentricity of 1 would indicate a trajectory no longer in orbit). The stretch of this body’s orbit gives it a 5175.25 year orbit in which the body comes in to only 9.418 astronomical units from the Sun before heading down range some 589 AU. This puts the body’s closest contact with the Sun at just about the same distance as Saturn’s closest point. This object’s most distant point is virtually the halfway point between Eris and Sedna.
Even more to point, this body is tilted at an angle of 140.797 degrees! The highly inclined Uranus leans only 98 degrees from what is considered vertical. What an interesting view from down there this body must have.
Sadly, 336756, due to its diminutiveness, is unlikely to be named. Still, we can hope that the oddities of the object’s orbit might render naming attention. Astronomers generally seem disinterested in naming these new objects, but maybe a spark can be added to that kindling. With no name/mythology to follow, this leaves us looking to the body’s current position, degree of north node and perihelion to glean meaning.
This scattered Kuiper Belt Object crosses the ecliptic at 16 Leo 12, declaring its north node to be aligned with generating an apex of self-confidence, free of bluster and boasting, and full of certainty and inner clarity. The greatest priority for urgent attention comes from the perihelion degree of 29 Scorpio 09. Simply, get down into it, figure out what it really means and surface with a lustrous agenda. With this, an image of pearl divers who swim through unclear waters comes to mind.
Tomorrow this body traverses 28 Aquarius 03, retrograding. This is the degree of the innovative black hole Cygnus X-3. (You’ve all purchased a Galactic Report, right?), which demands forward thinking insights that might not catch on for five to ten years. Perhaps this body reminds us that life and our inner evolution are a long range efforts and that evolving humankind and caring for the planet are long term campaigns that require constant attention, fostering and stewardship.
The suggestions:
Dive deep into the unconscious.
Look for nuggets and sparks of inspiration.
Cultivate the insights.
Hold the vision even if others take their sweet time in catching up with your lead.
Play the long haul game of life as if there is no tomorrow.
Again, this is a newly refined orbit. With a few weeks of observation it’s difficult to nail down more than this... but it offers an interesting, curious and wonderfully weird point of view to ponder.
More soon.