Comments on: Is Tiny Pluto Really A Planet? http://astrologynewsservice.com/news/is-tiny-pluto-really-a-planet/ Tue, 07 May 2013 18:59:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: deek http://astrologynewsservice.com/news/is-tiny-pluto-really-a-planet/#comment-43 deek Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:33:53 +0000 http://astrologynewsservice.com/?p=734#comment-43 Pluto appears at too many turning points in history NOT to be considered a planet. For instance the 495-year Neptune-Pluto synod coincides with many of the "Ages" of History: http://mundaneastrologers.com/research-intiative/neptunepluto-synodic-cycle-5000-bc-2500-ad/. 576bcNeptune-Pluto85bc (the period between Neptune-Pluto conjunctions, 576bc-85bc) coincides with the rise of Classical Greece and evolution of Rome into a republic. Most significantly, the midpoint of this 495-year span fell at 331bc in the midst of Alexander's adventures across Eurasia. These were critical in spreading Hellenization that makes up a cornerstone of western society. Other Neptune-Pluto midpoints include 653, when the fundamental division of Islam into Sunni and Shiite began; and 1648 which ushered in the Age of Reason in the wake of Peace of Westphalia that brought Europe's religious wars to a close. Uranus-Pluto is also another important indicator. We get the beginning of two communication revolutions at Uranus-Pluto conjunctions: 1455, Gutenberg's Bible; mid-1960s, the Internet. The height of the French Revolution appeared in 1793 at the Uranus-Pluto opposition, The last three Uranus-Pluto squares came at the same time as significant economic downturns (1875: Long Depression; 1932: Great Depression; 2010-2015: Great Recession. As noted in the post, Saturn-Pluto spans are strong indicator of where different episodes of history fall: 1617-1648 matches the Thirty Years War; 1914Saturn-Pluto1947, the Global European Civil Wars. Going back to Neptune-Pluto, I consider as a great complement to the Ages of History as defined in mainstream history. Another indication from the astrological POV that Pluto is most definitely a planet! Pluto appears at too many turning points in history NOT to be considered a planet. For instance the 495-year Neptune-Pluto synod coincides with many of the “Ages” of History: http://mundaneastrologers.com/research-intiative/neptunepluto-synodic-cycle-5000-bc-2500-ad/.

576bcNeptune-Pluto85bc (the period between Neptune-Pluto conjunctions, 576bc-85bc) coincides with the rise of Classical Greece and evolution of Rome into a republic. Most significantly, the midpoint of this 495-year span fell at 331bc in the midst of Alexander’s adventures across Eurasia. These were critical in spreading Hellenization that makes up a cornerstone of western society. Other Neptune-Pluto midpoints include 653, when the fundamental division of Islam into Sunni and Shiite began; and 1648 which ushered in the Age of Reason in the wake of Peace of Westphalia that brought Europe’s religious wars to a close.

Uranus-Pluto is also another important indicator. We get the beginning of two communication revolutions at Uranus-Pluto conjunctions: 1455, Gutenberg’s Bible; mid-1960s, the Internet. The height of the French Revolution appeared in 1793 at the Uranus-Pluto opposition, The last three Uranus-Pluto squares came at the same time as significant economic downturns (1875: Long Depression; 1932: Great Depression; 2010-2015: Great Recession.
As noted in the post, Saturn-Pluto spans are strong indicator of where different episodes of history fall: 1617-1648 matches the Thirty Years War; 1914Saturn-Pluto1947, the Global European Civil Wars.

Going back to Neptune-Pluto, I consider as a great complement to the Ages of History as defined in mainstream history. Another indication from the astrological POV that Pluto is most definitely a planet!

]]> By: laurele http://astrologynewsservice.com/news/is-tiny-pluto-really-a-planet/#comment-42 laurele Mon, 10 Oct 2011 03:50:16 +0000 http://astrologynewsservice.com/?p=734#comment-42 Many astronomers have NOT gotten over what was essentially a political and blatantly wrong decision by four percent of the IAU, most of whom are not even planetary scientists. I am proud to be one of those. Hundreds of professional astronomers signed a formal petition rejecting the controversial IAU definition and five years later, stand by that position. According to the geophysical planet definition, a position equally legitimate as the one adopted by 424 members of the IAU, an object is not required to gravitationally dominate its orbit to be a planet. Dwarf planets are planets too. A planet, according to this definition, is defined as any non-self-luminous spheroidal body in orbit around a star. The overwhelming majority of Kuiper Belt Objects are not large enough to be rounded by their own gravity, so they are not planets. However, KBOs like Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris are BOTH small planets and Kuiper Belt Objects. Please do not count out the many astronomers, plus parents and children, who will not get over a bad decision simply because time has passed. Many astronomers have NOT gotten over what was essentially a political and blatantly wrong decision by four percent of the IAU, most of whom are not even planetary scientists. I am proud to be one of those. Hundreds of professional astronomers signed a formal petition rejecting the controversial IAU definition and five years later, stand by that position. According to the geophysical planet definition, a position equally legitimate as the one adopted by 424 members of the IAU, an object is not required to gravitationally dominate its orbit to be a planet. Dwarf planets are planets too. A planet, according to this definition, is defined as any non-self-luminous spheroidal body in orbit around a star. The overwhelming majority of Kuiper Belt Objects are not large enough to be rounded by their own gravity, so they are not planets. However, KBOs like Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris are BOTH small planets and Kuiper Belt Objects. Please do not count out the many astronomers, plus parents and children, who will not get over a bad decision simply because time has passed.

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