Skip to main content

Metaphorical reflections on Supernova SN 2020tlf

 



Astronomers have watched a giant star blow up in a fiery supernova for the first time ever — and the spectacle was even more explosive than the researchers anticipated. 

Scientists began watching the doomed star — a red supergiant named SN 2020tlf and located about 120 million light-years from Earth — more than 100 days before its final, violent collapse, according to a new study published Jan. 6 in the Astrophysical Journal. 

“This is a breakthrough in our understanding of what massive stars do moments before they die," lead study author Wynn Jacobson-Galán, a research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley said in a statement. "For the first time, we watched a red supergiant star explode!"

https://www.livescience.com/first-supernova-real-time-observations

 

The worldview underlying astrology sees all of reality as symbolic in nature. To the symbolist, the heavenly bodies are threads within a great tapestry of affinities and correspondences. Elwell has defined the term multicongruence as the tendency for certain things and conditions to co-occur because they belong together at a higher, unmanifest level. Similarly, the ancient Hermetic doctrine “as above, so below” or “as inside, so outside” sums up the symbolic nature of events. 

The Right Ascension of supernova SN 2020tlf is 14h40m10s and the declination is +42d46m40s so that the ecliptic longitude is 16libra. Generally speaking any individual or nation that is connected to this degree is likely to be affected. The US Sibly has Saturn at about 14Libra in the 10th house. And coincidentally, Russia’s President Putin also has his radix Sun [14libra] and Saturn [17libra] here. 

In Latin, nova means "new", referring astronomically to what appears to be a temporary new bright star. Adding the prefix "super-" distinguishes supernovae from ordinary novae, which are far less luminous. A supernova is an event that occurs upon the death of certain types of stars. Supernovae may expel much, if not all, of the material away from a star in a brilliant explosion. Metaphorically , therefore, a Super Nova symbolizes the necessary evolution of ego/psychology to soul/spirit. The pre-explosion mass loss symbolically represents the shedding of unnecessary defenses, attachments or "baggage." The Super Nova rings the bell of the soul's calling [1]. 

In the current standoff between Russia and NATO, President Vladimir Putin said that Russia had no room to retreat over Ukraine and would be forced into a tough response unless the West dropped its “aggressive line.” This stand itself represents the shedding of unnecessary defenses by Russia which had so far been quietly accepting NATO’s aggressive moves.

 

[1] The Soul of the Sky; Philip Sedgwick


Comments