3/24/2023 0 Comments At the end of the sun spot cycle![]() Neptune does have a reputation for not seeing things clearly. In this horoscope the earth is moving into opposition with Neptune – indicative of light or somewhat unusual disturbances here on earth – however this particular opposition could equally simply indicate an unnecessary level of paranoia. Heliocentric Saturn and Pluto – planets associated with nuclear fission and eruptive power in general – are in square aspect, suggesting a bombardment of matter. And clearly which ever way you want to look at it -our earth is governed by conditions on our central star. Viewed from the heliocentric perspective – the Earth is in Leo – the sign traditionally ruled by the Sun. Heliocentric Horoscope of the Largest Solar Flare: It is probably the memory of this event that has led to such enormous coverage of the current sunspot activity. Why for example was there virtually no sunspot activity at all between 16, in what is now called the Maunder Minimum? At the other end of the spectrum an enormous sunburst in 1859 “ the Carrington Event“ which took place in 1859 – caused the largest recorded geo-magnetic storm, which led to a massive breakdown in telegraph communications across America and Europe. There is however a lot of mystery involved here. It always starts off however with a relatively low level of activity, building up to a maximum of activity roughly half way into th e cycle, and then activity dies down again. Sometimes the cycle can be as short at 8 years sometimes as long as 16 years. ![]() The Sunspot cycle is approximately 11 years – but does vary. In view of the close relationship between wheat, the price of bread and revolutions, I find it fascinating that Herschel of all people attached this particular meaning to Sunspot activity, and was the first to draw a connection between commodities and the sunspot cycle. If we consider what has happened during the last four years of very low Sunspot activity – then we have seen a rise in wheat prices – and on the very day of the largest solar flare, this story about the measures the Chinese are taking to stave off a wheat crisis was in the news. When Sun spot activity was low – Herschel noted that the wheat harvest was poor and that wheat prices were high – on the other hand when there was a lot of Sunspot activity, wheat crops flourished and wheat prices fell. Herschel – who you might remember discovered the outer planet Uranus – was one of the first astronomers to pay serious attention to the Solar cycle– suggesting that it bore some relation to the price of wheat. the planets viewed from the perspective of the Sun as opposed to the Earth. ![]() The horoscope – which we will be looking at later – is a heliocentric horoscope i.e. The ever considerate BBC kindly released the following data: “ The flare recorded at 0156 GMT on 15 February was the strongest such event in four years, according to the US space agency (Nasa), which has been monitoring activity on the Sun“. He found that the number of sunspots varied systematically, in cycles about a decade long.After several years of relative inactivity our mother star the Sun has burst back into life this last week, producing three spectacular solar flares. He failed to find the hoped-for planet, but his diligence paid off with an even-more important discovery: the sunspot cycle. What he was really looking for was a planet inside the orbit of Mercury, which he hoped to find by observing its dark silhouette as it passed between the Sun and Earth. ![]() This region produced many flares and coronal mass ejections.īetween 18, Heinrich Schwabe, a German pharmacist and amateur astronomer, kept daily records of the number of sunspots. On March 30, 2001, this group of sunspots extended across an area about 13 times the diameter of Earth. This sequence of photographs of the Sun’s surface tracks the movement of sunspots across the visible hemisphere of the Sun. ![]()
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