Basic Info on the Discovery:
http://starbulletin.com/2005/07/30/news/story3.html_________________________________________________________________
All about Planet X - Myth, Science, Astology
http://www.trivia-library.com/planet-x/PLANET X
Known Facts: The Bode Law of planetary distances predicted that Neptune should lie where Pluto is. The next planet in the sequence would be 7,172 million mi. from the sun. Neptune hasn't deviated far enough from its calculated orbit since discovery for astronomers to pinpoint the position of a possible perturbing planet, but other phenomena suggest that there may be one.
Several planets have families of comets associated with them. Pluto has 5, Neptune 8, Uranus 3, Saturn 6, and Jupiter over 50. One group of 16 comets has its aphelion at 7 billion mi., the magic Bode number. Some astronomers believe this family belongs to an undiscovered planet.
A more recent cometary investigation involves Halley's Comet. In 1972 Joseph Brady used a computer analysis to account for slight discrepancies in the comet's orbit unexplained by perturbations from the known planets. Based on the results, he predicted a large planet, three times as massive as Saturn, with an orbit tilted 120 deg. with respect to the ecliptic. When seen by earth dwellers, this orbit would appear tilted at 60 deg., but moving in a retrograde direction when compared to the other planets. Brady further predicted the eccentricity of the orbit as being 0.07, and said that the planet would have a period nearly twice that of Pluto. It should be large and bright, between the 13th and 14th magnitude, and lie in the direction of the constellation Cassiopeia. Furthermore, the remaining unexplained deviations of Halley's Comet might indicate a second trans-Plutonian planet.
Tombaugh's earlier search did not cover this part of the sky (he surveyed closer to the ecliptic plane), so perhaps a planet does lie there. Astronomers searched in 1972 and 1973, but no planet was found.
If one should be discovered, the view from its surface would be a desolate one. At that distance, the sun would appear as a bright star and no inner planets could be seen. The surface temperature would be near absolute zero, unless the planet had its own internal volcanic or radioactive heat source.
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PLANET X - Astrology
Astrological View: Many astrologers think each of the 12 "houses" is ruled by a heavenly body. Including the sun and moon, there are now 11 known bodies. One is missing. A tentative name is applied by a very few astrologers to the missing planet, the name Vulcan, the son of Jupiter and brother of Mars.
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According to Astrologer Dane Rudhyar:
CHAPTER ONE
Three Centuries of Crisis - 6
Shall man discover — perhaps at the beginning of the 2lst century — another planet beyond Pluto? The existence of such a planet has been considered probable by some astronomers; and some astrologers, in America and Europe, have not only calculated the general orbit it may have, but have spoken of several more distant planets. Their existence is not at all impossible; but my feeling is that only one planet is to be soon discovered beyond Pluto, and many years ago I have spoken of it — as a hypothesis — giving it the name Proserpine. (Dutch astrologers have used instead the Greek name, Persephone). If it does exist it would naturally and logically be the symbol of concrete rebirth after the threefold crisis on the Path of transformation. It would signify the foundation of a new type of human existence in which the dualism of life and death would be transcended by a consciousness able to experience cyclically both without loss of identity — a condition relating to the great myth of the goddess Proserpine who passed a third of her existence with Pluto in the "Underworld" and the other two thirds on the Earth's surface, as a symbol of a reborn vegetation. Proserpine would then represent the mind of the Initiate who, like the Lazarus of the Gospel, has known death and is resurrected through the power of a divine Being, his "Master" or guru.
Regardless of such a possibility, the fact is that we are dealing now with three planets beyond Saturn which indeed should be regarded as a unit, i. e. as a trinity — if for no other reason than the lengths of their periods of revolution around the Sun are related in a most unusual manner. The period of Neptune is twice, and that of Pluto three times the length of the period of Uranus. Such a 1-2-3 relationship between the time-cycles of successive planets is unique in our solar system; and any fact that is thus singled out must be given a special significance in any gestalt and therefore in any system of symbolism.
Thus, the correlation between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto and the three basic century-long phases of the process of total reorganization of humanity corresponding to their official discovery becomes even more meaningful. We are led to assume that the three planets constitute a real "trinity" of aspects — the three aspects of one single process of transformation of the deepest implications of human existence. We see this process at work in individual persons as we study the trans-Saturnian planets and their transits in relation to individual birth-charts; and we are shown in a measurable way how such processes operate in the lives of modern persons. In the past these processes were considered "occult" and they involved the greatest secrecy and awe-inspiring tests; but since Uranus, Neptune and Pluto have, as it were, come out from the unconscious depths of man's inner being and entered the consciousness of at least the evolutionary spearhead of humanity, the Mysteries of the past are being "dis-occulted."
When the human mentality was formed under the rigid patterns of social-cultural systems of communal organization celestially dominated by Jupiterian religions and Saturnian rites and dogmas, everything that would transcend and could lead to the universalization of the worshipped Tradition was publicly taught to be evil, and only made known, in the secrecy of some Holy of Holies, to selected and harshly tested candidates to Initiation. But now that the trans-Saturnian planets have entered the conscious Mind of Humanity, the radical crises of consciousness to which modern man is subjected — as his most fundamental bio-psychic allegiances are being dissolved into meaninglessness — have taken the place of the greater part of what once was occulted. Modern life itself is the tester because this life challenges us to make crucial decisions that only a few selected and trained individuals could make in the past. ..cont'd
http://www.khaldea.com/rudhyar/at/at_c1_pp6.shtml -----
Reference to Astrologer, Dane Rudhyar:
" To transform itself is the only solution left to the human species - in other words, to tear from the asuric forces the power of ruling over the human species. " Mirra Alfassa
For years Astronomers have been speculating about the existence of another planet in our Solar System assumed to orbit out beyond Pluto far from our Sun . In the late 1960's I remember seeing astronomical articles in the San Francisco Chronicle announcing that such a planet had been tentatively spotted; it was commonly referred to as "Planet-X". It's purported discovery was hotly contested among astronomers as it came and went in the Newspapers year after year during the following decades; first it would be announced as fact, then it would be relegated to the realm of speculative rumor. As far as I can tell these days (August, 2003) astronomers are still debating its tentative existence. But some astrologers and not a few "alternative writers" such as Zacariah Sitchin (not to mention a score or so of "psychics" and/or "channellers") have taken up the idea of its existence and speculated as to its orbit, its nature, and its implications for mankind. An excellent summary of the facts, myths, and theories concerning "Planet-X" is found in a very fine article by Joan d'Arc at Paranoia Magazine's internet web site, and I urge anyone beginning this article to read that one so as to save me the trouble of summarizing all that highly relevant material:
http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/planetx.html Followers of Sitchin tend to identify the astronomers' "Planet-X" with that worthy and imaginatively creative scholar's Sumerian planet called Nibiru, and from that kind of identification-association they've derived quite a bit of speculative belief concerning its 3,600 year orbital period as well as its role (or its inhabitants' role) in our presumed "genetic engineering" way back in our ancient past. I consider all such speculations most stimulating, highly evocative, and quite valid but they're not convincing enough to me and won't be my focus in this article. Instead, I propose to consider "Planet-X" primarily from the astrological point of view pioneered by Dane Rudhyar who argued that it makes astrological sense that a planet exists beyond Pluto, and suggested that it be considered in the light of the Tale of Persephone-Proserpine and even given that name. Planet-X, therefore, shall be considered as Persephone and as the complimentary astrological partner of Pluto, and I shall speculate as to its inevitable astronomical discovery and its meaning or function in our collective and personal lives largely by way of the work of Aurobindo Ghose ("Sri Aurobindo") and his partner, Mirra Alfassa (The "Mother").
Who was Persephone? For that matter, who was Pluto, and what was his relationship to his partner, Persephone? Indeed, who was Sri Aurobindo and what was his relationship to his partner, Mirra Alfassa? In pursuit of the answers to such questions we are about to enter the realm of two very unusual "couples" who defy all notions of traditional "Romantic Love," two couples whose relationships were centered around DEATH and the meaning of the UNDERWORLD -even though one of these couples is purely "mythological" while the other is "historical": Pluto-Persephone are mythological (a Greek God and a Goddess) while Aurobindo-Alfassa are historical personages from the 19th and 20th Centuries born respectively in India and France. The Sword, Excalibur, and The Lady of the Lake will make their entrance when and as they see fit. ...cont'd
http://starpathvisions.com/TheComingX.html----------------------------------------------------------------
Zechariah Sitchin:
http://www.librarising.com/planetX.htmlhttp://www.queenofcups.com/AR37article.htm____________________________________________________________________
Sedna (previously discovered 10th Planet):
http://www.moonspells.com/ie/articles/sedna.htmlhttp://www.crystalinks.com/sedna2.html_____________________________________________________________________
Misc. (from India):
http://www.zetatalk.com/index/signja31.htm____________________________________________________________________
A few interesting books on the topic:
Title:
Astrological Timing: The Transition To The New AgeBy, Dane Rudhyar (1969 - has been reprinted).
http://www.khaldea.com/rudhyar/bookshop.shtml Title:
Persephone Is Transpluto: The Scientific, Mythological, And Astrological Discovery…Beyond…Pluto Author: Vaughn, Valerie
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 096280312X
Without a doubt this is the most complete and well-researched book on Transpluto (Planet X) ever written. Author Valerie Vaughan tackles every significant fact relating to undiscovered planets and presents her case for the existence of Planet X and goes further by offering an interpretation of its astrological influence and meaning. She argues that Transpluto should be named Persephone because its influence is feminine. She predicts it will be the first feminine planet to be discovered in the modern era. She begins the book with descriptions of the circumstances of the discoveries of Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Chiron, all named for male deities and all symbolizing masculine functions. The next major planet to be discovered is feminine, Vaughan says, and her book contains valuable information on ancient feminine mythologies. Included also is a 112-year ephemeris for Persephone/Transpluto. Students of mythology will find this book to be an important work on the Persephone myth itself.
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Title:
Astro-Mythology: Celestial Union Of Astrology & Myth Author: Vaughn, Valerie
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 0962803154
Astro-Mythology is the oldest "inter-disciplinary" study. Before the invention of writing, and long before modern science divided human experience into "fact" and "myth," all knowledge was recorded in one unified script - the patterns and cycles of the stars and planets. The ancients could look in one place (the night sky) to find an extensive encyclopedia of human experience. The keys to science, mathematics, psychology, philosophy, spiritual teaching, the alphabet, the calendar, and astrology - all were contained in the mythology of star lore. With the development of modern science, human knowledge has been divided into separate categories, and star legends have been labeled as superstitious, quaint, outdated folktales. The purpose of this book is to remind us that the ancient traditions of astro-mythology are still living, eternally "writ in the stars." Astro-Mythology is more than a collection of entertaining and instructive stories of the gods we call planets and their adventures in the celestial lands we know as the signs of the Zodiac. Directions are also given on how to use astro-mythology to interpret birth charts and discover personal myths.
http://www.astrology-books.com/store/vaughn_valerie.html
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