The Full Moon is in the enthusiastic and optimistic sign of Sagittarius. The Moon and the Sun in Gemini form a Grand cross with the centaur-like Damocles in Pisces and the trans-Neptunian Aya in Virgo.
55565 Aya is a large cubewano named from Akkadian mythology after the goddess of dawn. Aya is associated with morning light and the rising sun. Aya was the second-brightest Kuiper belt object known at the time of its discovery in 2002. It was named in 2025. Its orbital period is 324 years.
5335 Damocles was discovered in 1991 on an orbit that was completely different from all others known. Its aggressive orbit reaches from inside Mars to outside Uranus. It is now the namesake of a group of objects, the damocloids. Damocles, like other damocloids, are believed to be inactive nuclei of long-period and Halley-type comets that have lost their volatile material and are dormant. The diameter of Damocles is only about 10 km. The small size is probably the reason why Damocles has not been observed since 1992, and it is currently ”lost”.
The orbit of (5335) Damocles is stable for tens of thousands of years, but there is a good chance that it will become an an earth crosser asteroid. According to the official naming citation, “Legend has it that Damocles, a courtier of the tyrant Dionysius the Elder of Syracuse, was invited to a feast, where he was seated below a sword suspended by a thread. Intended to demonstrate the impermanence of power, the ‘sword of Damocles’ has become a symbol of impending disaster. This minor planet, in an unusual orbit of very high eccentricity and inclination and crossing the orbits of Mars to Uranus, could itself be seen as such a sword during periods of its orbital evolution when it becomes an earth crosser.”
“The Sword of Damocles” is the metaphor for the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power. It is often used also in a broader sense, and simply meaning an unexpected peril.
Damocles will reach its next perihelion on Aug. 23, 2031, in Leo. The orbital period around the Sun is nearly 41 years. However, astrologically it spends most of it, around 30 years, in Aquarius, and then hurries through the rest of the eleven signs of the zodiac in about ten years.
Damocles has recently started a new round. In April 2021 it visited Pisces for the first time, made five times a visit back and forth between Aquarius and Pisces, and in December 2025 ingressed Pisces for good on the current round.
It is darkest before dawn. From a scientific standpoint this is not true. It is a proverb which reminds us that when things in life feel at their worst, a new beginning is just around the corner. Have faith, there is hope even in the worst of circumstances.
AI is mechanization of thinking? Well, yeah, in terms of consciously engaging in the thinking process.
But we've been primed for it over the last several hundred years via the domination of the mechanistic materialism paradigm of science. The definition of science is ".. the intellectual and practical activity of systematically studying the physical and natural world through observation and experimentation. Its primary goal is to build organized, testable knowledge in the form of predictions and hypotheses about how the universe behaves."
In this paradigm, the reigning metaphor we use to grasp the world is the machine or mechanism. In reality, the physical and natural world needs to be understood in terms of processes, which are not linear, involve lots of feedback, and have numerous variables, many of which cannot even be observed let alone admitting of quantification. Gathering data is one thing, putting it together into a coherent pattern is something totally different.
The scientific method has tremendous flaws as a device for seeking the truth or a description of nature. It is mechanistic and legalistic and extremely linear. And it's mostly used to deceive people and confuse them.
Well, it has its great usefulness. No field of knowledge which calls itself a science should be based upon anything except the scientific method in terms of gathering and analyzing data. But it does not inform us how to fit any knowledge gained into some coherent general frame.
There are sciences like astronomy, geology and anthropolgy that fit a more observational model and are not compataible with the strict scientific method. Others like virology make it all up. Most of what today is called science is really technology...
Geology most certainly is compatible with the strict scientific method.One can make an hypothesis about certain findings in terms of layers of rock and test it using independent variables in experiments which can be replicated and falsified. Astronomy is not compatible with controls but hypotheses can be tested using independent variables, as with Eratosthenes and his conclusion that the earth is round and has a certain diameter. One can show that a flat surface would not result in a distant light source casting shadows of vertical sticks which are separated, of the same lengths, with the shadows being of different lengths.
I am not sure cultural anthropology is really a science per se, though physical anthropology certainly is, as is archeology. (my ex wife went back to school a couple of years before we separated, pursued an anthro degree at UC Berkeley, she was at Cal long enough to be able to complete her studies and get a Cal degree by taking a couple of classes at Cal State Fullerton, Orange County, i got to know anthro pretty well).
Virology is technology, with no real science holding it together, no independent variables. Climate science is most certainly science, not technology. Likewise mechanics, electromagnetism,....engineering.
Really appreciate the clarity of your writing and guidance, “bending the nodes” and its effects were something new to me. And yes, once again, loved the photos of a different time and place. Many thanks!
Full Moon in Sagittarius – May 31, 2026, 08:45 UT
By Kirsti Melto
The Full Moon is in the enthusiastic and optimistic sign of Sagittarius. The Moon and the Sun in Gemini form a Grand cross with the centaur-like Damocles in Pisces and the trans-Neptunian Aya in Virgo.
55565 Aya is a large cubewano named from Akkadian mythology after the goddess of dawn. Aya is associated with morning light and the rising sun. Aya was the second-brightest Kuiper belt object known at the time of its discovery in 2002. It was named in 2025. Its orbital period is 324 years.
5335 Damocles was discovered in 1991 on an orbit that was completely different from all others known. Its aggressive orbit reaches from inside Mars to outside Uranus. It is now the namesake of a group of objects, the damocloids. Damocles, like other damocloids, are believed to be inactive nuclei of long-period and Halley-type comets that have lost their volatile material and are dormant. The diameter of Damocles is only about 10 km. The small size is probably the reason why Damocles has not been observed since 1992, and it is currently ”lost”.
The orbit of (5335) Damocles is stable for tens of thousands of years, but there is a good chance that it will become an an earth crosser asteroid. According to the official naming citation, “Legend has it that Damocles, a courtier of the tyrant Dionysius the Elder of Syracuse, was invited to a feast, where he was seated below a sword suspended by a thread. Intended to demonstrate the impermanence of power, the ‘sword of Damocles’ has become a symbol of impending disaster. This minor planet, in an unusual orbit of very high eccentricity and inclination and crossing the orbits of Mars to Uranus, could itself be seen as such a sword during periods of its orbital evolution when it becomes an earth crosser.”
“The Sword of Damocles” is the metaphor for the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power. It is often used also in a broader sense, and simply meaning an unexpected peril.
Damocles will reach its next perihelion on Aug. 23, 2031, in Leo. The orbital period around the Sun is nearly 41 years. However, astrologically it spends most of it, around 30 years, in Aquarius, and then hurries through the rest of the eleven signs of the zodiac in about ten years.
Damocles has recently started a new round. In April 2021 it visited Pisces for the first time, made five times a visit back and forth between Aquarius and Pisces, and in December 2025 ingressed Pisces for good on the current round.
It is darkest before dawn. From a scientific standpoint this is not true. It is a proverb which reminds us that when things in life feel at their worst, a new beginning is just around the corner. Have faith, there is hope even in the worst of circumstances.
AI is mechanization of thinking? Well, yeah, in terms of consciously engaging in the thinking process.
But we've been primed for it over the last several hundred years via the domination of the mechanistic materialism paradigm of science. The definition of science is ".. the intellectual and practical activity of systematically studying the physical and natural world through observation and experimentation. Its primary goal is to build organized, testable knowledge in the form of predictions and hypotheses about how the universe behaves."
In this paradigm, the reigning metaphor we use to grasp the world is the machine or mechanism. In reality, the physical and natural world needs to be understood in terms of processes, which are not linear, involve lots of feedback, and have numerous variables, many of which cannot even be observed let alone admitting of quantification. Gathering data is one thing, putting it together into a coherent pattern is something totally different.
The scientific method has tremendous flaws as a device for seeking the truth or a description of nature. It is mechanistic and legalistic and extremely linear. And it's mostly used to deceive people and confuse them.
Well, it has its great usefulness. No field of knowledge which calls itself a science should be based upon anything except the scientific method in terms of gathering and analyzing data. But it does not inform us how to fit any knowledge gained into some coherent general frame.
There are sciences like astronomy, geology and anthropolgy that fit a more observational model and are not compataible with the strict scientific method. Others like virology make it all up. Most of what today is called science is really technology...
Geology most certainly is compatible with the strict scientific method.One can make an hypothesis about certain findings in terms of layers of rock and test it using independent variables in experiments which can be replicated and falsified. Astronomy is not compatible with controls but hypotheses can be tested using independent variables, as with Eratosthenes and his conclusion that the earth is round and has a certain diameter. One can show that a flat surface would not result in a distant light source casting shadows of vertical sticks which are separated, of the same lengths, with the shadows being of different lengths.
I am not sure cultural anthropology is really a science per se, though physical anthropology certainly is, as is archeology. (my ex wife went back to school a couple of years before we separated, pursued an anthro degree at UC Berkeley, she was at Cal long enough to be able to complete her studies and get a Cal degree by taking a couple of classes at Cal State Fullerton, Orange County, i got to know anthro pretty well).
Virology is technology, with no real science holding it together, no independent variables. Climate science is most certainly science, not technology. Likewise mechanics, electromagnetism,....engineering.
None of this is comparable to a large languag model, how it works or how it shapes consciouenss.
True, this thread was about the scientific method, not about LLM. About AI as the mechanization of the mind.
Really appreciate the clarity of your writing and guidance, “bending the nodes” and its effects were something new to me. And yes, once again, loved the photos of a different time and place. Many thanks!