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I love celestial globes. I love orreries. I love ancient astrolabes. On one day this week, I rode the train seven miles east from Victoria Station to the Greenwich Royal Observatory. I wanted to feel what it was like to straddle the prime meridian with one foot east of Greenwich and one foot west.
Of course this line, actually a great circle encompassing the
earth, 
is, unlike the equator, totally artificial. The line could have been anywhere. At one time, it cut through
Paris.
...and would today if the French had won the Battle of Quebec.
The line is important because of what opposes it on the other side of the
globe 
— nothing but ocean and a few volcanic pimples. We need the line on the other side to end yesterday and start tomorrow. It's more practical to do this where few people will be concerned about what day it is. These few are not living in artificial time and space.
However, most of us are living under an unnatural dome scheduled by an unnatural
clock,
or we are trying to, and in the stress between nature and standardization, we are likely causing ourselves cancer and other diseases unknown. Our clocks and calendars are only approximations to our bodily time.
There are less than 24 hours in a day, and more than 365 days in a year.
There are many biological clocks our bodies synchronize with: circadian rhythms, ocean tides, summer, fall, winter, spring, each a cycle, shorter or longer, in a fathomless spectrum of waves.
And although we respond to all these clocks, we are aware of but a few of them.
For example, there may be some unknown clock, where the planetoid
Pluto
is the clock hand, that encourages Americans to periodically fight a war and indicates the reason for that war according to the celestial longitude of Pluto. Wow! How's that for far out
crankdom?
Ah, so nice to think freely without the shackles of respectability.
Before we scoff, perhaps this table of Pluto through the tropical signs, not the artificial zodiac, may prove amusing.
| PLUTO TRANSITS | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SIGN | KEYWORDS | INGRESS | AMERICAN WAR | CAUSE | |
| SAGITTARIUS | religion expansion | 1748-49 | French & Indian | catholics colonize protestant lands | |
| CAPRICORN | hierarchy conservation | 1762 | Colonies v. King | taxes to preserve hierarchy | |
| AQUARIUS | liberation revolution | 1777-78 | American Revolution | liberty-equality-fraternity ideals | |
| PISCES | boundlessness oceans | 1797-98 | War of 1812 | kidnapped sailors | |
| ARIES | exploration conquest | 1822-23 | Mexican War | pioneers v. imperialists | |
| TAURUS | possessions values | 1851-53 | Civil War | property & economics | |
| GEMINI | media news transport | 1882-84 | Spanish v. American | yellow journalism | |
| CANCER | family defense | 1912-14 | WW I | family alliances | |
| LEO | ego demagogues | 1937-39 | WW II | racial superiority | |
| VIRGO | limitations humility civics | 1956-58 | Vietnam | service to another nation | |
| LIBRA | diplomacy opposition | 1971-72 | Iran | embassy hostages détente | |
| SCORPIO | energy power | 1983-84 | Gulf | oil & energy | |
| SAGITTARIUS | religion expansion | 2001 | 9/11 Iraq-Afghan Wars | religious fanatics on both sides | |
| CAPRICORN | heirarchy organizations | 2008 | ? | web v. tree systems | |
| AQUARIUS | 2023-24 | ? | |||
| PISCES | 2043-44 | ? | |||
| ARIES | 2066-68 | ? | |||
| TAURUS | 2095-97 | ? |
According to the table, Is this just another example of the mind seeing patterns where there are none? But if you see a pattern, doesn't that prove there is one? the USA will complete one Pluto cycle in 2024. The last time this occurred, the American Revolution began. You can scoff now. But you cannot scoff at the power of the human mind to see patterns everywhere and correlate any two sequences.
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