Is this something new? Has our technology advanced so much that things like this are now visible that were simply not before? Seems that way, I can’t believe that planets are now aligning in ways and manners they have not previously. I guess I prefer to live in a world where these recent phenomena are due to technology rather than just random now current events...that later thought actually kind of terrifies me. That perhaps now these planets that have all hung and spun in their own orbits forever, are now moving closer to each other and putting on these skyward parades...
Well, regardless of whether this is a function of advancing technology or some sort of weird probably the end of times signaling from above, tonight, Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars all in alignment across the sky. Four of them (Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars) will be visible to the naked eye, while Uranus and Neptune will require visual assistance. Saturn will be the hardest to see, it is currently too close to the sun.
This blows my mind. I don’t know exactly why, but I guess growing up as a kid these planets were distant relative unknowns. Spinning other worlds that existed more in textbooks than in real life. Like a belief in a supreme being, we were just supposed to take “their” word for it that they existed. So they have always been sort of an enigma to me.
I know that since the 1970s great strides have been accomplished in space. I am not an avid space buff, but I do find certain aspects of it fascinating and this whole planetary parade definitely makes the cut for me. This whole idea that other planets are going to be visible to us tonight across the sky trips me out. I mean how cool and weird is that???
Perhaps there is some sort of universal alignment going on? A message from outer space that we might want to get ourselves similarly in alignment. I know I feel off. I know I am not completely centered and aligned currently. If I am honest, and I really do endeavor to be, I am feeling disconnected and more than a little lost. I do not understand the world we live in today. I feel, on a fundamental level, I am being occupied and owned by things that I am willing participating in. Like I am just this cog in some machine that I don’t even like or want to be a part of. I can’t really explain it better than that. I love the life I have. Of course, I would like to make some changes...but even if I didn’t, my life is pretty great by any measurement tool one might use.
But just underneath all the goodness, I feel some major shifts coming. I feel ill at ease with the status of so much of what is occurring in our world. So much hatred, disharmony and distrust. It is sad, making me feel so much less than good when I take the time to reflect on how far we have come and how far off progress still feels.
I know we are making progress. But I long for a simpler time. I long for a time when we lived off the land, were at one in our communities and loved just the one person forever. I know the world was never actually like this. Or perhaps it was for some people, but that number was small and inconsistent. I know the world has never been peaceful or loving or simple. But the longer I am here, the more complicated, hard and difficult it feels. And I do not know what to do about that...
I can tell you that conjures up in me a powerlessness that feels daunting and overwhelming. So I take great pleasure from events like the planetary parade that will occur tonight. Taking a moment out of my busy, complicated life to just look to the heavens and attempt to recall why the fuck we are all here and what is our higher purpose. It cannot be just to order or not order shit off of Amazon. To mindlessly scroll for hours of our free time. To date one person after another person after another person, until we are bereft of all feeling except numbness.
I know, I need to get a grip. But perhaps, all this existential angst is what it looks like in modern life to have a grip. Maybe? No? Fuck I really couldn’t tell you.
To a large degree, I feel like I am waiting on some sort of life precipice for the change that I can feel breathing its hot, steamy breath down my spine. It hovers over me, heating my back side and wetting my hair. I feel on the verge, of what, I am not sure. Some sort of universal answer for whatever I am supposed to do next. How life is supposed to feel that I do not have immediate access to.
I know that being able to be amazed and thrilled and a bit overtaken by the seemingly impossible alignment of seven planets is at least part of this whole thing. And for me, seven is a significant number which has further furrowed my brow in quiet contemplation.
I intend to spend a little time tonight looking heavenward and seeing what I can see. I mean, planetary parades seem like an anomaly to me. So I am going to revere and relish them. Perhaps for some of you wiser space nerds, you know this sort of shit happens all the time...please don’t spoil it for me. I find there is so very little in today’s world that brings about feelings of shock and awe and good vibes, I kind of want to hold onto this amazement for just a little longer.
Tonight will find me on some lonely, desolate road, lying flat gazing upwards contemplating how I got so lucky in my life time to see this gathering of planetary union...while another significant part of me prays this is not a signal that the end is nearer than I would like. I hope wherever you are tonight, you are beneath clear skies with solace and comfort from all the pollution that makes visibility poor and the parade impossible to witness. I hope wherever you are, you take a moment to be amazed by nature and all her whimsy. I pray that events like tonight’s planetary parade provides you comfort and joy on a level that far surpasses scrolling Instagram...but I really do hope that for all of us every single day we are lucky enough to be here at all...
Again...still.
Always.
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