As Astronomia Sees Pluto and Pluto System
Pluto was discovered in 1930 when it was listed as the 9th planet. Humanity was already feeling its intensity with the 1929 Stock Market Crash. The 1930’s: America was in the Great Depression. While millionaires were leaping out of windows, the poor were standing in bread lines. Unemployment went up to 25% by 1933. Our fertile soil had dried up and was blowing away. People were abandoning the land and heading for the cities. During the 1930s, Gospel music emerged. Alice Bailey's works, written between 1919 and 1949, describe a wide-ranging system of esoteric thought covering such topics as how spirituality relates to the Solar System, meditation, healing, spiritual psychology, the destiny of nations.
The objects located in a mysterious distant region called the Kuiper Belt must be named for the Underworld. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) specifies that the names come from the world's mythologies, scientists, or writers associated with Pluto.
That makes this section appropriate for exploring and examining transformative concepts!
Pluto was discovered and listed as a planet in 1930. In 1978 Charon was discovered.. Charon is the sixth-largest trans-Neptunian object after Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and Gonggong. Charon is called Pluto's largest moon yet Pluto-Charon is our solar system's only known double planetary system.
In 2006 Pluto was redefined as a dwarf planet. At 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) in diameter, Charon is about half as wide as Pluto. The center of mass of the two bodies lies outside the surface of either Pluto or Charon making Pluto-Charon a binary system. Pluto-Charon is sometimes referred to as a double dwarf planet system. Charon’s size and proximity to Pluto helped the push for a space mission flyby in 2015.
The most commonly proposed definition for a double-planet system is one in which the barycenter, around which both bodies orbit, lies outside both bodies. Under this definition, Pluto and Charon are double dwarf planets, since they orbit a point clearly outside of Pluto, as visible in animations created from images of the New Horizons space probe in June 2015.
NASA’s New Horizons is described as a mission to Pluto: one of the reasons the dwarf planet is so fascinating to scientists and astrologers is that it is part of the only known binary system in our solar system.
In a binary system, both members of the pair orbit around a common center of gravity. Earth is about 81 times more massive than the moon, so the moon orbits around us. Pluto, however, is only about 8 1/2 times more massive than Charon. That’s not enough for the dwarf planet to be its moon’s center of attention.
Measurements made by New Horizons reveal that Charon is 750 miles across. That’s slightly more than half of the diameter of Pluto, which is only 1,473 miles across. Pluto and Charon are only 12,200 miles apart. For the sake of comparison, our moon is 238,900 miles away from Earth.
Pluto has a rocky interior and a significant atmosphere. Charon has no atmosphere and contains about as much ice as rock. Scientists have detected nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide ices on Pluto, while most of Charon’s ice is made of water and ammonia. These two objects have been together for billions of years, in the same orbit, but they are totally different. Pluto is distinguished by its large "satellite", a variable atmosphere, and a surface composed of several ices and probable organic solid materials that give it color.
Pluto has four other moons — Hydra, Nix, Kerberos, and Styx — and they’re all much smaller than Charon. But they don’t orbit Pluto either. Instead, they orbit the combined center of gravity of Pluto and Charon.
This fascinating world has blue skies, spinning moons, mountains as high as the Rockies, and it snows – but the snow is red. Nearly every conjecture about Pluto possibly being an inert ball of ice has been thrown out the window or flipped on its head.
Pluto orbits the Sun about 3.6 billion miles (5.8 billion km) away on average, about 40 times as far as Earth. Pluto is 248 Earth years. A day on Pluto lasts 153 hours, or about 6 Earth day.
Pluto seems a octave higher than the vibration from Mars. For instance, while Mars is involved in war, Pluto represents nuclear war. It can also represent transformation at its finest!
There is quite a bit of chaos in the Pluto system, imparted by the complex and shifting gravitational field of the Pluto-Charon binary.
Nix and Hydra exhibit chaotic rather than synchronous rotation, meaning they don't always keep the same side facing Pluto-Charon — and that it's very tough to predict their rotational movement. (Nearly every other moon in the solar system, including Earth's, is a synchronous rotator.)
If you lived on Nix, you would not know if the sun is coming up tomorrow; it is that extreme. Models suggest that Styx and Kerberos are chaotic rotators as well.
Pluto is the god of the underworld in Roman mythology. Pluto was also the god of wealth because diamonds and other jewels come from underground.
There never was “a” Greek mythology, or “a” Roman mythology; what there was was a morass of local tales, often contradictory, which has given writers, artists and musicians a rich warehouse of materials to draw from, for at least 2500 years.
The existence of this unknown ninth planet was first proposed by Percival Lowell, who theorized that wobbles in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune were caused by the gravitational pull of an unknown planetary body (Pluto).
Pluto's moons are named for other mythological figures associated with the underworld. Charon is named for the river Styx boatman who ferries souls in the underworld as well as honoring Sharon, the wife of discoverer James Christy.
Nix is named for the mother of Charon, who is also the goddess of darkness and night. Hydra is named for the nine-headed serpent that guards the underworld. Kerberos is named after the three-headed dog of Greek mythology (and called Fluffy in the Harry Potter novels). and Styx is named for the mythological river that separates the world of the living from the realm of the dead.
Definitions:
Charon: Destinations and milestones of fictional space and other exploration. Fictional and mythological vessels of space and other exploration. Fictional and mythological voyagers, travelers, and explorers. Styx: River gods. Nix: Deities of the night. Kerberos: Dogs from literature, mythology, and history. Hydra: Legendary serpents and dragons.
While we do not agree on whether Pluto is a planet or not, it gets much more murky when we talk about Pluto the ancient god. In Hesiod, who wrote down an early version of Greek religion, the three brother gods split up the world into three kingdoms. Poseidon got the seas, Zeus got the skies and Hades got the underworld. They were all to share the dry land.
But, there was another god of the underworld already, and his name was Plouton. Since there were two mythic purposes to the underworld, it made sense there might be two gods. One was the ruler of the dead and buried; the other was the god of those things we take from the ground: precious metals and food crops. So, Hades tended to be seen as the king of the dead and Plouton of mining and the wealth that we can dig out of the ground.
1. Learn a secret about ourselves for health and healing.
2. Commune with a separated loved one, or stranger, in order to seek consolation or apologize.
3. Discover hidden, arcane, or forbidden knowledge.
4. Bring a loved one back to the world of the living.
5. Parlay or plead with the gods on behalf of our world.
6. Retrieve a valuable item, concept, understanding, or creature.
7. Bring comfort to, or free, those dead to us. ("making peace with the dead").
8. Challenge the powers and abilities of death or negative forces.
9. Accompany someone who has recently died.
10. Face the SHADOW self.
11. Sacrifice ourselves or someone else, perhaps as replacement for one of the dead.
IS THERE A HEAVENLY UNDERWORLD?
Not all descents underground were dark, grim, or hellish. Many cultures imagined subterranean worlds of light. In Zoroastrian scripture, the king, in order to avoid a cataclysm, creates an underground city lit by artificial light. In shamanic journeys, the shaman descends through a hole in the ground and emerges into a bright, sometimes watery underworld. In Ancient Egyptian mythology, the daily journey of the sun god, Ra, briefly brings light even to grim nether regions.
Heavenly Underworld Adventures
Glyph: Pluto's glyph is the circle of spirt, resting on the half circle of reflection, above the material cross. The upper case P with a bar is also used. It suggests honoring Percival Lowell's search and Observatory with his initials.
Planet: While we have reclassified Pluto and still working on its label, its importance and impact has not diminished! The more we learn, the more significant it seems to become.
Sign: Pluto is associated with the sign of Scorpio. Scorpio is one of the most misunderstood signs of the zodiac. Because of its incredible passion and power, Scorpio is often mistaken for a fire sign. In fact, Scorpio is a water sign that derives its strength from the psychic, emotional realm. What makes this water sign unique is its distinctive venomous sting. This doesn't mean Scorpio intentions are necessarily nefarious. Scorpios simply know what they want and aren't afraid to work hard and play the long game to get it.
The 8th house is about rebirth, regeneration, and the transformation of energy. Joint financial matters also come under the eighth house. (To the ancients, money was a form of concentrated energy.) The financial dealings in the 8th house may cover money you lend and also owe others. It does not include earned income that would be covered by the second house.