Morning After Eclipse, Paris, Thurs., Oct. 28 This is one of those 'let's see what the day holds days', if there ever was one. True, that's every day, but the day following an eclipse is worth watching carefully. We are already in an unlikely time with strange things happening. Is it some kind of omen that the Boston Red Sox, John Kerry's home team, won the World Series for the first time in nearly a century? And on the night of an eclipse, at that? Reports are coming back that the event was magnificent. It was, unfortunately, raining in Paris. But that's the game with eclipses. Some people travel thousands of miles to witness them, then gamble on the weather. For some of those people, the clouds actually part. In any event, this morning there is the familiar post-Full-Moon drop in tension, which must feel like the sudden release of PMS. It is distinctly hormonal but it also feels gravitational and emotional; could it all be the same thing? This will be a short entry this morning. Those who are space watchers or news watchers may have noticed that Tuesday, Oct. 27 was the historic flyby of the Cassini Space Probe past Titan, the great moon of Saturn. What most people don't know is that part of the Cassini mission, a cooperative effort of the European Space Agency, the Italian Space Agency and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA's contractor in Pasadena, California) is being run from just outside Paris at L'Observatoire de Meudon. On Thursday, after getting my Q and A text in to the editors at http://Cainer.com I will be visiting the observatory and interviewing Dr Athena Coustenis, a long-time scholar of Titan, who is in charge of three experiments on the mission, including two on the Huygens Space Probe that will be dropped from Cassini to Titan in early January. Titan is of interest to astronomers and other Earthlings because its terrestrial and atmospheric conditions are believed to be very similar to Earth's in the early years of the solar system, some 4 billion years ago. I'll have more on that interview, and a first-hand look around the laboratory and its magnificent outdoor facilities, in this space, with full coverage in Planet Waves Weekly. Planet Waves, by the way, began its journalism career with a lot of writing about the Cassini Space Probe back in 1999. Here is a reprint of one of my pieces from 1998, written that summer. A big apocalyptic, but all in good fun of course. http://www.planetwaves.net/thinking.html PS, the new chart above is accurate except for one thing -- the Grand Quintile it depicts comes with the Moon 10 degrees or so further into Taurus (see yesterday's entries). This one puts the star of the Grand Quintile into a connection with this morning's eclipse. It is connected, but not geographically like you see above. We're still looking for the perfect chart. And it may have changed before I update this blog again! -->> Subscribe! http://PlanetWavesWeekly.com/