Astrological Repair Manual

Jupiter is the Expansiveness of Love.
Mars is the Externalizing of Love.
Venus is the Valuing of Love.
Mercury is the Perceptiveness of Love.
And, our ol’ familiar Moon is the Style of Love’s expression.
The Sun is the Center of it All...
To make sure this chapter goes out with a sense of the ineffable—the truth that
defies rigid expression—here’s a poem by Emily Dickinson:
Love reckons by itself — alone —
"As large as I" — relate the Sun
To One who never felt it blaze —
Itself is all the like it has —
Galactic Visitors
The last chapter may have been a bit weird for some people: planets not forever
circling in stable orbits, catastrophes that ravaged our ancestors, plasma that powers the
stars...
Let’s take that last fact. If plasma does make the Sun glow so ferociously, where
does it come from? Well, it’s pretty much all over the place when you look at things from
a universal perspective; ninety-nine percent of all the stuff there is. So, it comes from the
space that surrounds the solar system. All those atomically-small charged protons and
electrons that make up the plasma that’s streaming into the system and lighting the Sun
are the most obvious and most continuous Galactic Visitors there are.
But astrologically, just like the case of the hordes of small bodies we considered
earlier, in this perpetual stream of particles, it’s not the particles that concern us; it’s not
the particles that can be used to give meaning in astrology; it’s the Stream itself—the
patterns and convolutions and dance of the plasma stream have meaning.
Naturally, since humans have only been considering this plasma in any serious
way since the space age dawned, there isn’t a heck of a lot of considered opinion about
what this Galactic Visitor means. Except, maybe, this: