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system and to the earth at a significantly We shall now present one of the most
higher rate than at the peak of sunspot fascinating aspects of the study of
activity when the solar wind pushes cosmic structure that this author has
these particles back. During sunspot encountered: the center of the Super
lows, perhaps the seed or Cosmic Galaxy at 1 deg. Libra is almost exactly
Message will impregnate us. Many of at a 90 degree angle from the center of
the most startling discoveries in modern the Galaxy at 26 deg Sagittarius.
astrophysical research such as pulsars, Furthermore, the equatorial planes of
black holes etc. occurred in the late the Galaxy and the Super Galaxy are
l960's - a sunspot minimum. inclined to each other by an angle of
about 84 degrees, again, almost a right
The Metagalaxy
angle! As previously mentioned, the
Our Milky Way Galaxy is a member of a Galaxy is inclined to the Earth's orbit,
yet larger structure containing many the Ecliptic or Zodiac by a sextile, and to
tens of thousands of galaxies that the Super Galaxy by a septile, and to
cluster together to form a large, rotating, each other by a square! In other words,
flattened, disc-shaped meta- or Super the Cardinal Sign axes are in line with
Galaxy. Our galaxy is located towards the two greatest superstructures we
the extreme edge of this Super Galaxy know.
and therefore the greatest number of
These superstructures are literally
external galaxies that make up our
perpendicular to each other with their
Super Galaxy are all in the same
centers at the zero points of the
general direction in space with their
Cardinal signs. Here is great food for
center at 1 deg 05m 28s Libra in Zodiac
thought in understanding the traditional
Longitude and +l4 deg 54m 03s in
meaning of the zodiac. Each year the
latitude. The equator or plane of the
Earth passes through the plane of the
Super Galaxy is inclined to our Zodiac
Super Galaxy at the Equinoxes and the
by an an angle of about 52 deg (a
plane of our Galaxy around the
septile), with the intersection or Line of
Solstices. The midpoint between these
Nodes to the Ecliptic at l6 deg 21m 06s
two great planes and centers occurs in
Aries/Libra (northern node in Aries).
Scorpio/Taurus, and it is in these signs
In the illustration, a section of the Zodiac that the earth/sun axis moves out-of-line
through Virgo and early Libra is shown, with one great center and begins to form
where the Super Galactic Plane an alignment with the other. This is
intersects the Zodiac and some attempt perhaps added confirmation as to the
has been made to present the mass of significance of the Scorpio/Taurus axis
external galaxies in this region, although in astrology.
in fact, there are literally ten of
Transit Tables
thousands in this area. The greatest
concentration of galaxies increases As pointed out previously, the equators
through the sign Virgo, reaching the of the Galaxy and Super Galaxy are
Super Galactic Center at about 0 Libra, inclined one to another by about a 90
crossing the Ecliptic in the middle of degree angle. A practical result of this is
Libra, after which there is a gradual that when one of these planes is directly
decrease in concentration. above us by Meridian transit, the other
plane is roughly on the East Point or
The Galactic Nucleus