Petitions to reinstate Pluto

[Kim Falconer]

Hi Everyone,

I just got home from work and found an email from my friend Zane Stein and I thought it would be of interest to you all!

It seems Astronomers are still in an uproar over Pluto's demotion to Dwarf Planet and they are going to try to over turn the decision.

As a collective, how we 'see' Pluto has a lot to do with how we see the depths of our souls. 'Demoting' this energy can not be a healthy sign!

Here is Zane's letter: Links to petitions below. It's a chance to have a say in this!

Warm wishes, and happy Eros into Leo everyone.

Alan Stern, a very highly respected astronomer, is extremely angry over the recent vote that changed Pluto's status to "Dwarf Status."

""I'm embarassed for astronomy," said Alan Stern. "Less than 5 percent of the world's astronomers voted." "This definition stinks, for technical reasons."

He expects the astronomy community to overturn the decision.

Stern called it "absurd" that only 424 astronomers were allowed to vote, out of some 10,000 professional astronomers around the globe.

"It won't stand," he said. "It's a farce."

Stern said astronomers are already circulating a petition that would try to overturn the IAU decision.

We can't sign the astronomical petition....but there are at least two other petitions on the web that have just gotten started. I signed both of them. If you would like to see Pluto called a planet once more, perhaps you'd like to sign them also:

1. www.pleasesavepluto.org/
2. www.petitiononline.com/mvemjsun/

Zane B Stein
1043 St Charles Ave NE, Apt 15
Atlanta, GA 30306
www.zanestein.com/chiron.htm

[AquarianEssence]

A friend emailed this link showing other ways people are speaking out. Thought you may all enjoy.

www.worth1000.com/cache/gallery/contestcache.asp?contest_id=11570&dis

[Kim Falconer]

Here is the latest on the ‘Pluto response’ from astronomers...it seems they plan to IGNORE the IAU (like their estranged ‘sister’astrologers)

www.boulder.swri.edu/CSEPR/

“We, as planetary scientists and astronomers, do not agree with the IAU’s definition of a planet, nor will we use it. A better definition is needed.”

Kim

[svenskasfinx]

plutopetition.com/

I found this, it seems that the fight to keep Pluto a "planet" is winning on their site.. I got this this one from following a link on www.spaceweather.com

keep up the good work and fight for our cultural-collective-engeries in a healthy way

svensksasfinx

[samina]

I read yesterday that the MPC ("Minor Planet Center") has assigned a new name to Pluto, now... a 6-digit number! www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060911_pluto_asteroidnumber.html

There's no way *this* chica's gonna denigrate Pluto that way! Holy smokes.

I was thinking about it yesterday and it really seems like such a perfect parallel to what's going on in the world right now, with so many people giving up their power so rapidly, so unconsciously and so readily, to the secret power structure to whom they trust to make all the "important" decisions. And meanwhile, tyranny closes in, like a spider closing in on something caught in its web.

The dark side of Pluto, and the debilitating powerlessness that occurs when someone both renounces the ability to make potent decisions and doesn't pay attention to how one is being manipulated. I mean come on... the preeminent scientific body on our planet decides that Pluto ISN'T A PLANET??? That's either evidence of a supreme disconnect from knowledge of the very powerful energies carried by Pluto, or else a reflection of a very conscious effort to redirect the populace away from their power.

In any event, I certainly won't be using this so-called new name. Don't even wanna know what it is. After all, there's a lot of power in names and what we call things.

She's Pluto to me!
What silliness...

Samina

[Kim Falconer]

Samina,

Thanks for this post. I too feel there is a connection between Pluto's symbol of the power of the unconscious and current movements in the collective.

Many astronomers (and all astrologers as far as I can tell) are ignoring the IAU's demotion of Pluto...I think it will be a 'power struggle' right in front of our eyes.

Pluto is Pluto, no matter what the minor planet center and the IAU says, and to ignore the potency of this sphere, well, I'd advise the world to do that at their own risk!

Kim

[samina]

Pluto is Pluto, no matter what the minor planet center and the IAU says, and to ignore the potency of this sphere, well, I'd advise the world to do that at their own risk!

Well-said, Kim! I feel the same.

We'll have to watch this and see how it unfolds...

Samina

[ana]

And now Xena has become Eris of strife and chaos Well suits the times.......

[Kim Falconer]

Yes, Samina, we have to watch and see how this one unfolds....I have...concerns.... (oh, I turned your [/b[ tag around for you...just the html nerd in me...)

2003UB131 is now Eris, yes, I think partly because she felt 'caused' all the fuss with Pluto. If they gave her Planet statis (She's larger than Pluto) they would have to give dozens, maybe hundreds, of Kuiper Belt object planetary status as well, but if they denied her, they couldn't keep Pluto in.

Eris mythology is the archetype of the 'Uninvited Guest'...she causes trouble when we deny, ignore or demean her. I think we might be in trouble...as far as I am concerned, she is a planet and 'deciding' she isn't won't improve her temperament.

Thanks for the comments.

Kim

[AquarianEssence]

A lot of the comments I've read, including Michael Brown and Philip Sedgewick, seem to be saying that we just have to submit to the powers that be and can't have an unlimited number of planets and that's what would happen if we "allowed" her or Pluto that status. But I wonder what if.....What if every speck of dust in the universe were just as important and just as powerful as the largest object. What if in demeaning or belitteling even the smallest of these is upsetting the balance. Ok, I'm hearing that song now, "What if God were one of us....Just a slob like one of us....or an odd shape rock on his or her own peculiar path trying to find his/her way home.

[Kim Falconer]

Thanks for that, Aquarianessence.

It is an important What if . . .

Kim