Let Alone the Galaxy.
The best time to study a distant Galaxy is when another, closer Galaxy is between it and you. As Einstein claimed, Mass bends Light (or Space), so the nearer Galaxy acts as a “Gravitational Lens” to amplify the Galaxy behind it. It’s the same when one planet lines up in front of another; the nearer planet amplifies the Energy of the planet behind it. Astrologers call that a Conjunction or Transit; we usually call it an Initiation, as the far planet grants Shakipat to the nearer planet, which passes it on to us.
Technically, there’s a “catch,” or a fly in the ointment. An astrological Conjunction occurs in only one Dimension, Longitude (East-West). Two planets that are astrologically Conjunct need not be in the same position on the North-South Dimension, which astrologers call Declination.
So, for instance, the 10 September (5am PDT) Pholus Station and the 11 September (8:30 am PDT) Quaoar Station are two-and-a-half Degrees apart in Longitude, but they’re five-and-a-half Degrees apart in Declination. So technically, on the purely Physical level, Pholus (27 AUs from us) won’t be doing much Gravitational Lensing of Quaoar’s Energy (43 AUs from us).
“AU” is short for “Astronomical Unit,” which measures the approximate distance from the Earth to the Sun, 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers, or the distance Light travels in about five hundred seconds. The AU is the standard unit for measuring distances between planets. So dwarf planet Quaoar (a Plutoid) is 60% farther from us than Pholus (a Centaur).
Centaur is a name given to “minor planets” (a general term that includes asteroids) that orbit between Jupiter and Neptune. Most have an elliptical orbit; Pholus’s varies from 9 to 32 AUs from the Sun; 27 AUs is it’s current distance from Earth. Plutoids are Pluto-like dwarf planets and other minor planets. Quaoar’s orbit varies from 42 to 45 AU from the Sun (compared to Pluto’s elliptical orbit of 30-49 AU).
Nevertheless, the Western astrology that we practice has a long history of Empirical success using only Longitude. So if we say that Pholus will “Lens” Quaoar’s Energy anyway, metaphorically, we’ll have Empirical astrological history behind us.
Now, the reason I bring all this up, is that Pholus and Quaoar are straddling the Galactic Center, which is only a quarter of a Degree of Longitude from the Exact Pholus-Quaoar Midpoint. The Galactic Center is quite a bit further south, but we’ll use our Metaphoropoetic License to say that the almost-Simultaneous Pholus and Quaoar Stations is likely to, in effect, in our Psychic Experience of it, “Lens” or Amplify the Energy of the Galactic Center.
Of course, even if that metaphor doesn’t hold, it’s still a classic astrological Conjunction, without dispute.
And you can see why what astrologer refer to as “Parallel Conjunction,” where two planets occupy the same or adjacent Longitudinal Degrees and also the same or adjacent Degrees of Declination, is considered to be more Powerful than a “simple” Conjunction.
The Longitudes are Pholus Station 26:10, Galactic Center 27:08, Pholus-Quaoar Midpoint 27:25, and Quaoar Station 28:40, all Sagittarius. The Declinations are Pholus 9:53 South, Quaoar 15:30 South, Galactic Center 29:00 South.
The reason we bring that up is the way we interpret these three Energies.
We consider the Galactic Center to be Headquarters.
Quaoar’s namesake was a God or God-like Entity who taught the Indians of what is now California how to, literally, groom their “wild” Landscape to maximize their Survival, teaching them how and when to replant seeds and bulbs, and how to know when the Acorns were ripe in the mountains, for instance. When the Spanish got there, of course these folks were just “nekkid savages” who knew nothing and weren’t even really People, so to the Spanish these folks were just Scavengers. The rest of the Europeans, who came along later, were no more observant of their environment than the Spanish. So we interpret Quaoar as our Survival Instincts.
Now Pholus was a half-horse dude in the Greek Mythologicon, who didn’t exactly ignore his duties, but there were things that he could have done that he didn’t. Specifically, he let Herakles (aka Hercules) find and drink the Wine that Pholus’s People were saving for Special Celebrations. That led to Herakles “having to” kill most of the Centaurs, and ultimately led to Pholus’s Death as well. So we interpret Pholus as the process of Becoming Fully Responsible. That’s Responsible for Improving Future Outcomes, not Blameworthy for Past Causation – these are very different.
The plot is actually a little thicker than this, as Pholus’s lack of caution with the Celebratory Wine also led to Chiron’s famous “Unhealable” Wound, and subsequent Death. Of course, we understand that Empathy Heals, and we’d rather Take our Power than our Victimhood, so we know better than to fall for the “Unhealable” bit.
And we know that Herakles was one of the budding Patriarchy’s Hit Men, whose Labors, like Perseus, were intent on eliminating the Matriarchy. In this case, Herakles, in “self-defense,” killed off the Matriarchy’s Intuitive Healers.
Oh, and have we mentioned that the Centaurs (other than Chiron and Pholus) were bastard children of our Pathological friend Ixion, our Forbidden Genius that’s Stationary as we speak? After Zeus pardoned Ixion for some ungodly depravity, Ixion immediately set off to seduce Zeus’s wife Hera (Jupiter was the Roman version of Zeus, and Juno the Roman equivalent of Hera). Zeus conjured up a Cloud to look like Hera, which Cloud got raped and produced the Centaurs.
The First Patriarchs were Imaginative, you have to grant them that.
The four asteroids most commonly used in Western astrology – Juno, Pallas, Ceres, and Vesta – are the largest of the ‘roids between Mars and Jupiter, and the first discovered. There’s also an asteroid Hera, currently at the end of Virgo.
There also happens to be an asteroid called Heracles, which is an Earth-Crosser, though it theoretically will never come closer to our Home Planet than 22 Moon-distances. At the moment it’s Conjunct OR10 (Irruption of Unconscious Contents). Asteroid Zeus is also an Earth-Crosser.
So, that was a long way of getting to the Bottom Line, though you hopefully got some useful background on the way.
The 10-11 September virtually-Simultaneous Stations of Pholus and Quaoar are Channeling Instructions to us directly from the Galactic Center, Asking, or perhaps Demanding, that we Become Responsible to our Survival on the Planet. The Stations are Exact just about the time when Hurricane Irma hits Florida and Mar-o-Leggo, which is of course a “Coincidence.” Tropical Storm Jose, which may by then also be a Hurricane, is right behind Irma and will be hitting Dominica at about the same time, on a similar track. Mar-o-Leggo is Spanish for “repairs will be funded by your taxes because Mexico won’t pay up.”
Meanwhile, while Air and Water (intellect and Emotion) pummel the Gulf Coast and, soon, East Coast, after a record-breaking wet winter (producing plenty of fuel) and a record-breaking dry summer, Fire (Spirit) consumes the Left Coast of the US. Though the nearest of the Forest Fires is a tad shy of a hundred miles from here, this is what our Fulling Moon looked like last night…

That’s pretty close to the real color, in mid-sky, not on the horizon. You can’t feel the Ash falling, but you can see it on cars and windowsills as a thin layer of fine dust. Last night’s Sunset was literally blood red. Tonight’s is less intense, as the clouds are thicker…

That’s the Sun, not the Moon. Here’s another Forest Fire, this one a little over a hundred miles away in a different direction…

That lake is a mile wide. This next one’s in Central California…

It’s good when the Sky burns like that, because like a Rocket Stove, it produces less Carbon Dioxide. But don’t stand too close. So, now, do we really have the surplus Energy to go to War? Or is it just that our Betters need the revenue from selling the Bombs, and they don’t really care what happens to us nekkid savages?