Transpluto- Bacchus- Persephone- Dionysus- Isis: orbit 685.65 years, 77.755
astronomical units, family of 8 comets.
Keywords - Charisma, reactionary power, emotes,
entertainers, new found freedoms, tremendous release, unbinds, resurrection, earthquakes, events during which forces
leading to chaos are suddenly released, chaotic conditions, pandemonium, winebibber, fertility, prophecy, spiritual
gold, rapture.
Persephone Aspects to Other Transits
1999 Nov 13 - 90 Mercury
Nov 18 - 90 Sun
Nov 28 - 120 Jupiter
Dec 7 - 90 Mercury
2000 Jan 9 - 120 Jupiter
Feb 2 - 180 Mercury
Feb 14 - 180 Sun
Mar 9 - 180 Venus
Apr 26 - 90 Mars
May 11 - 90 Mercury
May 15 - 90 Saturn
May 21 - 90 Venus
Jun 6 - 90 Jupiter
Jun 15 - 90 Saturn
Aug 2 - 00 Venus
Aug 17 - 00 Sun
Aug 20 - 00 Mercury
Sep 10 - 00 Mars
Oct 15 - 90 Venus
Nov 18 - 90 Sun
Dec 1 - 90 Mercury
Dec 5 - 90 Saturn
Dec 31 - 180 Venus
During the late '70s and early '80s, Joyce Wehrman from Colorado, Neil Michelsen
from New York, and I lived in San Diego. As publisher of ACS, Neil was going to press with the American Ephemeris
for the 20th Century. Omitting declinations, Neil decided to include some new astronomical object that Astrologers
previously were under-using in their charts. Neil was initially impressed with the arguments for Transpluto in
Joyce Wehrman's "WINNING" and John Hawkin's "TRANSPLUTO OR SHOULD WE CALL HIM BACCHUS THE RULER
OF TAURUS?" A West German Supreme Court Judge, Theodor Landscheidt, who's also Europe's top amateur astronomer,
has popularized Transpluto since 1960. In 1949, astronomers found eight comets orbiting Transpluto. (Only five
have been found to orbit Pluto.) Separate discoverers have named it Planet P, Persephone, Bacchus or Pandemonium.
Transpluto's sidereal period is 685.65 years. Transpluto last entered Aries in 1772, Taurus in 1804, Gemini in
1838, Cancer in 1879, and Leo in 1937. Transpluto will enter Virgo in 2014.
But Zane Stein, Al Morrison, Malcolm Dean, James Neely, and I were so persuasive
that Neil changed his mind and put Chiron into his new ephemeris, instead of Transpluto. Since 1977, Chiron has
become the "pet rock" of American Astrologers. From hindsight, I now believe it was a Pyrrhic victory
that Chiron got into Neil's popular ephemeris. After studying the charts of large scale accidents, explosions and
disasters where many people died, I've discovered that Transpluto is too consequential for American Astrologers
to continue to ignore. Joyce was right.
The best Transpluto ephemeris is in Hawkins' book published by the American
Federation of Astrologers. The CCRS and Solar Map software includes Transpluto. When requested, ACS includes Transpluto
for free into their charts.
"The answer to the Sun's apparent violation of the Standard Solar Model -- ironically, is contained in its
striking "violation" of our key angular momentum/luminosity diagram:
In the Hyperdimensional Model, the Sun's primary energy source -- like the planets' -- must be driven by its total
angular momentum -- its own "spin momentum," plus the total angular momentum of the planetary masses
orbiting around it. Any standard astronomical text reveals that, though the Sun contains more than 98% of the mass
of the solar system, it contains less than 2% of its total angular momentum. The rest is in the planets. Thus,
in adding up their total contribution to the Sun's angular momentum budget -- if the HD model is correct -- we
should see the Sun following the same line on the graph that the planets, from Earth to Neptune, do.
It doesn't.
The obvious answer to this dilemma is that the HD model is simply wrong.
The less obvious is that we're missing something ...
Like ... additional planets (above)!
By adding another big planet (or a couple of smaller ones) beyond Pluto (several hundred times the Earth's distance
from the Sun -- below), we can move the Sun's total angular momentum to the right on the graph, until it almost
intersects the line (allowing for a percentage, about 30%, of internal energy expected from genuine thermonuclear
reactions ...). This creates the specific "HD prediction" that "the current textbook tally of the
Sun's angular momentum is deficient because ..."
We haven't discovered all the remaining members of the solar system yet!"
A 10th planet
in our solar system? Big object warping orbits of comets, astronomers say
by Seth Borenstein, Mercury News Washington Bureau
October 12, 1999, in the San Jose Mercury News
WASHINGTON --Our solar system may have a new, strange and very distant member, two teams
of astronomers think.
It may be a big 10th planet hidden far beyond Pluto, a hitchhiker that joined the solar system later than the rest
of the planets. Or it could be a burned-out mini-star, called a brown dwarf, that is a long-lost twin to our sun.
Whatever it is, it's really, really far away: 3 trillion miles, give or take a few billion, from Earth, the scientists
figure.
But it's still part of our solar system and big enough -- probably three times the size of Jupiter -- that it is
warping the orbits of some far-traveling comets. Patterns in the distortion of their paths led separate teams of
scientists in Louisiana and England to conclude something else is out there.
Other astronomers are skeptical. They want to see something, and that's part of the problem. The object -- informally
nicknamed ``the perturber'' -- is so distant and dark that telescopes can't see it. What these two teams of scientists
``see'' is the gravitational push-pull of this mysterious neighbor on about three dozen comets.
It's not unusual for astronomers to see the effects of a planet before they see the planet itself. That's what
happened earlier this century, before Pluto was first observed.
And that's what's happening now. John Murray, a planetary scientist at the Open University in Milton Keynes, England,
said he was looking at the paths of 13 comets whose huge orbits bring them into this part of the solar system once
every few million years or so. He found that their paths showed a similar distorting pull. After two years of rejections
in more noted scientific journals, Murray's findings were published in Monday's edition of the Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society.
At Louisiana University (formerly Southwestern Louisiana), physics Professor John Matese found warping in about
one-quarter of 82 other comets that generate from the Oort Cloud, a comet breeding ground far past Pluto. He and
physicist Daniel Whitmire used a different type of analysis than Murray did but reached similar conclusions. Their
paper will appear in the journal Icarus next month.
The two groups differ on the precise orbit of the object, its origins and what exactly to call it.``We prefer brown
dwarf,'' Whitmire said. ``It's how it formed. We don't think it formed like a planet. We believe it formed like
a star.''
Whitmire's group theorizes that when the solar system formed, there were two stars: the sun and a small twin. The
theoretical twin shrank and cooled. If it can be observed at all, it would be in the infrared spectrum of light,
he said.
Murray prefers to call the object a planet, ``because something orbiting the sun is a planet unless it glows.''
He thinks the object moved into the solar system after the solar system formed.
Astronomers have long suspected something warps comets' paths -- everything from a theoretical anti-sun called
Nemesis to passing stars -- but many are dubious about a 10th planet or a brown dwarf.
``I'm quite a bit skeptical,'' said Brian Marsden, associate director of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
``But there may be something to it.''
``You don't have enough numbers of comets to feel comfortable that this is really convincing evidence,'' added
Renu Malhotra, a scientist specializing in planetary dynamics at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.
Whitmire hopes that a new NASA infrared telescope, scheduled to launch in 26 months, will find the inner heat of
this mysterious object. That would confirm its existence.
