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Watching the Sun -the relationship to Earth events

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The sun has energetic cycles like every other living, dynamic or organic system in existence. The cycles of the sun relate to the level of sunspot activity which has been observed to approximately follow 11 year cycles. Currently we are in Cycle 24 in terms of modern era measurement. Sunspots explained Sunspot Cycle explained Solar Cycle 24 explained Traditional astrophysics provides us with an exciting array of freely available online data via NASA , NOAA and enthusiast sites like Solar Ham and Space Weather  plus many more. These sites are excellent for data, forecasts/predictions based on measurement systems and computer modelling. They are good, even excellent resources but not infallible, since the human factor always has to be factored in in terms of error, bias etc. An extension of this mainstream realm of information is the network of often highly experienced enthusiasts, analysts even hobbyists, who put their own spin on the observations they make, often using th

September 2011 New Moon & Planets

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Solar System :source Wikimedia Commons (Distance scale compressed) The end of September 2011 sees a combination of planetary energies in highly active mode. To understand all of this you need to be able to appreciate that little planet Earth is tiny in the scheme of solar system dynamics and that the system comprises planetary objects in orbit within a field arrayed on the basis of the forces of gravity and electromagnetism. These forces mean that tiny earth is embedded in a system -not separate or independant. furthermore. Astrophysics is a science in infancy and heliophysics ( specifically the operation of the Sun) is equally in its early stages of understanding. The irony is the fundamental knowledge of planetary operations and effects in respect of earth/people impacts, were so insightfully understood by humans of the ancient and prehistoric worlds. It is taking the age of science more than a millennium to catch up ( their methodology is so much more laboured). Astrologers f

Things People Are Afraid Of

Too many to list. In fact the list of possible phobias identified is also too long to repeat. A curse of being human it seems is to be afraid, insecure. People handle it differently within our hard-wired fight-flight options. Do you get under the covers or rush outside to confront that strange bump in the night? This afternoon a man gave feedback to Radio New Zealand host Jim Mora after Jim had discussed a guest's interest in astrology. The listener who felt compelled to contact Jim attacked him basically for giving astrology any credence ( even though Jim has been heard in the past week to diss it) So the listener then extends his banned subjects to include homeopathy, crystals and beings at the bottom of the garden. Wow thought I, all things I believe in. So the listener must by now be frothing in apoplexy that National Radio is endorsing such stuff. And he is not alone, since we have officially a Skeptics Society, numbers unknown, but typically fronted by Vicki Hyde of Christ

September 2011 - Full moon notes

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                                                           Full Moon - source Wikimedia Commons August was a power packed month of planetary activity including the biggest solar flares in recent years ( sending extra magnetic turbulence around earth in the first weeks of August) See the prior summary  as well as the several posts archived about August 2011 events. So now, looking into September 2011 - already Christchurch NZ has had a seismic uptick as expected in vulnerable locations, due to the turbulence in the week from August 26. Japan, Taiwan, Philippines are experiencing typhoons with difficult names and Irene damage is well documented. Syria and Libya remain tense with further progress towards democracy likely to proceed after this month's Full Moon ( Pluto goes direct) -and from Dec 10 2011 when Uranus goes direct, but of course the story the  democracy wave has legs for some years to come...Massive Transformations Ahead. The full moon in September has some e