Saturday, April 19, 2014

Musings: Tracing Kepler

I heard a beautiful song about Kepler, sung by Stefanie Sun.




I looked it up and apparently the song is named after the Kepler's Supernova, a supernova in the Milky Way (Ophiuchius constellation) discovered by Johannes Kepler in 1604. Back then, the exploding star was so bright that it shone for 3 weeks.


Remnant of Kepler's Supernova (wiki)

The song lyrics is about how a star still wants to shine amidst all the darkness despite feeling like it's alone. Because by doing so, at least it radiates some light to other stars and they can in turn do so. And it reminds how people are the same that even though they are apart, they still radiate and remain connected like stars in the skies.

The song gives such a good feel. It seems to awaken consciousness.

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In 1604, when the supernova exploded, it left people amazed by its brightness for 3 weeks. Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer back then. He did not believe the rumours when people had spotted the splendid sight since 9 October 1604. It was only till 17 October 1604 that he looked at it. Kepler then studied the star for more than a year, which led to huge advancement in the studies in astronomy, math and physics (and maybe astrology ;) ).

This is the chart for when Kepler first discovered the supernova on 17 October 1604.



Astrometria at 18 Scorpio
Astronautica at 15 Leo
Astronomia at 20 Aquarius
Astrowizard at 24 Libra

What's really interesting is how all the "Astro" asteroids are aspected.

Asteroid Kepler quincux Serendip 
It shows Kepler's slightly less than enthusiastic attitude until he noticed his serendipitous find.

Sun conjunct Astrowizard at fixed star Spica/Arcturus 
A very lucky astronomical find blessed by the 2 most fortunate stars.

Uranus opposite Mercury-Astrometria, squaring Moon-Astronautica
There were groundbreaking changes in teachings in astrometry after the event since the assumption made by Aristotle that celestial spheres were unchanging didn't hold anymore.

Asteroid Pholus conjunct Astronomia/Discovery
Asteroid Discovery opposite Astronautica
A turning point in astronomy, a discovery made towards astronautical travels (to the moon).

The T-square to Moon-Astronautica didn't make sense to me as space travel wasn't happening then but later I found out Kepler wrote a novel called Somnium (The Dream) in 1608 about travelling to the moon to look at how planets move from another perspective. How apt. It's very possible the book was inspired from the event, and his book inspired future generations of the idea of space travels.

Pluto conjunct South Node
North Node at 29 Libra
A powerful transformation of the past. The supernova explosion actually happened in the past before it was seen in 1604 since it takes around 20000 light years for the vision to travel to our planet.

The Sabian Symbol for North Node is "Mankind's vast enduring effort to reach for knowledge transferable from generation to generation."

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On 17 April 2014, NASA revealed that its Kepler program, a mission to find Earth-size planets, had succeeded in finding the first validated, Earth-size planet called Kepler-186f. Kepler-186f orbits around a red dwarf.

The announcement was made at 2 p.m EDT.



Astrometria at 6 Capricorn
Astronautica at 13 Aries
Astronomia at 8 Cancer
Astrowizard at 5 Leo

There was a Grand Cardinal Cross between Mars, Pluto, Mercury-Uranus, Jupiter.

North Node at 29 Libra
Again, the same Sabian Symbol is spotted "Mankind's vast enduring effort to reach for knowledge transferable from generation to generation."

Asteroid Kepler conjunct Astronomia, opposite Astrometria, trine Neptune
Kepler's new achievement in his dreams in astronomy, and also astrometry

Vesta conjunct Interkosmos
A dedication towards bridging of worlds in the name of diplomacy

Jupiter conjunct Somnium at fixed star Sirius
Uranus conjunct Astronautica, squaring Jupiter-Somnium
An blazing expansion of a dream. Kepler's Somnium perhaps? ;)
A new challenging difficulty in space travels arises from it.

A Grand Water Trine between Serendip, Jupiter-Somnium, Venus-Chiron-Neptune
A serendipitous find in the expansion of our dreams. Bridging old wounds idealistically in the name of love for our survival.

Moon-Saturn squaring Venus-Neptune
There's an uncertainty about the idealism but emotions are bonded with responsibility.

A Kite between Jupiter, Saturn (weak), Chiron-Venus with Pluto at the apex.
Pluto conjunct Vertex
Pluto in the Grand Cardinal Cross
The apex point of a kite will fly the kite. Pluto, the planet of transformations, will be the driving force for resolving challenges ahead. Pluto is also in Capricorn, the dictator. But I remain unsure because of the grand cross involvement. It just seems hard to balance between the cross and the kite.

Asteroid Astrowizard conjunct BML in 12th house.
Does this mean an advancement in astronomy and space travel in its darkest relam? As BML can be so unpredictable, I can't figure this out exactly. And I don't like that it's in the 12th House. It just feels too much uncertainty over something I don't really understand.

I'm not sure if anyone is planning an expedition to Kepler-186f. It's very likely someone would but I remain apprehensive about it.

And I suppose this marks the starting age of locating habitable worlds outside of Earth.

Kepler's Dream.




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