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The basic principle of SELF-EVIDENT ASTROLOGY (SEA) is that the meaning ofthe heavens is inherent in their physical characteristics and by the same token allthe bodies in the solar system have a meaning.

As can be seen in the chart below, there are a great number of large moons in thesolar system. Several are larger than our own moon. Hence it would seem logicalthat if our Moon has so much meaning, why dont astrologers have meanings forthese large planetary moons?

SEA suggests a logical answer to this question. If we look at a planet with anyrings and moons that it may have and treat this grouping as a planetary system,the meanings may become more evident. Perhaps one can derive the meanings ofthe moons, in particular, by their characteristics. Since the vast majority of theplanetary moons rotate around one of the four gas giants, there is an evident par-

ent/child relationship between these planets and their moons. Hence it would benatural to assume a degree of inheritance of meaning from a planet to each of itsmoons.

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THE MOONS OF MARS

Since Mars has only twomoons and since Mars has todo with starting things, it

may be a good place to begin.

Mars has two moons, Phobosand Deimos. They are both very small and irregular in

shape as shown in the pictures upper left and right.

Astronomers suspect that these two moons are actually captured asteroids. Marsmeans the separation of two individuals. So it is appropriate that these moonsprobably did not come from the same gas cloud as Mars -- the idea of separation isthus re-enforced.

Beyond the origin of these two moons, with Phobos and Diemos we have the actualdistant separation of these two moons. (A review of the basic physical data of allthe moons will show why. )

Phobos and Deimos are the two most separated moons (in sequential orbit posi-tions) of all the planetary moons in all the planetary moon systems. In other wordstheir orbits are very distant from each other.

Most importantly, the orbit of Phobos is slowly decreasing. Phobos is graduallyfalling into Mars, but dont worry this wont actually happen for many millions of

years. The point being, that as the orbit of Phobos decays, the orbits of the twomoons of Mars are separating from each other. Aside from some of the very smallinner moons of Jupiter that also have decaying orbits, these are the only cases ofthis behavior the author s aware of.

What is most important it that Deimos and Phobos are both small, both likely cap-tured asteroids and they are separating. Hence the concept of equals separating.Note we have repeated the SEA meaning of Mars -- the separation of equals.

Since the moons of Mars seem to mean the same as Mars we seem to have a plural

meaning. But is it Deimos or Phobos that has the multiple meaning of Mars. Fortwo basic reasons, Deimos seems the proper candidate. Deimos the furthest out(most separated from Mars and staying separated). Phobosis decaying in orbit, this means that relative to Deimos,Phobos is separating. Note the reference point for the sepa-ration is Deimos. The symbol chosen in SEA for Deimos -or multiple Mars is shown to the right. The symbol wouldseem self-evident.

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There are many other planetary moons in our solar system. Most all are larger thanDeimos and Phobos. It would seem logical that if one of the moons of Mars couldmean multiple Mars; could there not be other planetary systems containing amoon that means the multiple of its respective moon.

THE MOONSOF JUPITER

Jupiter has thedistinction ofbeing the onlyplanetary sys-tem having fourvery largemoons thatrange in the sizeof Earths Moonall the way tothe size of Mars!

These are calledthe Galileanmoons becausethey are visiblevia a small tele-scope and were

discovered andrecorded by Galileo about 400 years ago. The four moons are Io, Europa,Ganymede and Callisto. [Shown above are also Titan of Saturn and Triton ofNeptune. Titan appears very large, but is slightly smaller in diameter thanGenymede of Jupiter.]

These Galilean moons of Jupiter are very much a family, all four always have thesame face to Jupiter, making them the only connected family of large moons in thesolar system. Also, and particularly important is that the orbits of the Galileans arein a synchronous arrangement.

The innermost of the four Galileans is Io. Io has an interesting relationship with thenext more distant moon, Europa. For every two orbits of Io, Europa makes exactlyone orbit around Jupiter. Io and Europa are a precise synchronous orbital arrange-ment.

The relationship of Io and Europa is very unusual in our solar system, but hang on,the plot thickens. As Europa goes around Twice, the next most distant moon,

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Ganymede, goes around exactly once. So Europa and Ganymede are in precisesynchronous orbits.

For purposes of understanding the next further moon, Callisto, lets look at the threeinner Galileans as not just being in a perfect 4 to 2 to 1 ratio; but it is also true that

when Io goes around Jupiter 8 times, Europa goes around 4 times, Ganymede goesaround 2 times and one might expect that the last Galilean, Callisto, would goaround exactly 1 time.

Well, yes and no. Callisto goes around almost once, ut not exactly. Callisto, whichhas an orbital radius nearly double that of Ganymede is slightly out of of thisexpected 8:4:2:1 synchronicity. Astronomers expect that in a few hundred millionyears, Callisto will join the resonance and then be locked into the perfect 8:4:2:1arrangement.

The fact that Callisto breaks the synchronicity is striking. It puts a major emphasison the fact that one of the family of four is separated from the others. This becomesvery significant when we go back to the SEA definition of Jupiter as familySeparation. The Galileans are very true to the idea of family separation.

So how do we pick a candidate for the moon that is the Planetary Companion,the multiple meaning of Jupiter. Even this author, at first looked to Callisto as it isthe moon out of sequence. But there are mor and perhaps better reasons for pick-ing Ganymede.

In dealing with Mars, Deimos was chosen as the Planetary Companion of Mars in

part as it was the reference point from which Phobos was falling away. With theGalilieans, it is Ganymede that is the reference moon that Callisto breaks awayfrom. The other and also important reason for picking Ganymede is thatGanymede has something important in common with Jupiter. Jupiter is the largestplanet in the solar system. Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system.Hence in SEA, Ganymede is given the honor of being called Jupiters companionmoon.

Again this symbol is being introduced with this work and is thesymbol for Ganymede meaning multiple separations from a fam-

ily or separation from multiple families. The symbol to the right,like the symbol for Deimos is clearly built on by reflecting part ofthe symbol of the planet, making it a multiple symbol of thatplanet.

It is amusing to note that Jupiter has four smaller inner moons and then four largemoons (the Galileans) followed by an odd-ball small moon (Leda). This arrange-ment of the moons of Jupiter very similar to the solar system. The four small inner

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moons are like the four individual inner planets inside the orbit of Jupiter. TheGalileans are like the four gas Giants and Leda being small and odd is similar toPluto. [There are many more very small moons beyond Leda - these seem similarto the Kuiper Belt which contains many large asteroids.]

That the Jovian family of moons suggests the idea that Jupiter is a reflection of oursolar system as a whole. Again, as Jupiter is the largest planet, Ganymede is likeJupiter being the largest moon. Hence Ganymede seems confirmed as Jupiterscompanion moon.

THE MOONS OF SATURN

Saturn, like Jupiter has a whole host of moons. Unlike Jupiter,Saturn has only one very large moon, Titan. Titan is very near-ly the size of Ganymede. All the remaining moons of Saturnare much smaller than Titan. Titan is so much larger than allthe others, that it seems very much the dominant moon. Seepicture of the substantive moons of Saturn to the right. In factthe gravity of Titan impacts the orbits of all the moons aroundSaturn (more than any of them impact Titan).

In SEA, Saturn is defined as family integration. This makesSaturn very much like the mother integrating (dominating) thechildren. Titan repeats this idea of domination by its shearsize. This makes Titan the clear candidate for the PlanetaryCompanion of Saturn, meaning multiple family integrations or

multiple integrations into a family.

Titans similar size to Ganymede also suggests another connec-tion between Titan and Saturn. If one looks at Saturn, the ringsare visible. And looking at the solar system from the point ofview of visibility, when the rings of Saturn are added to Saturn,the diameter of Saturn with its rings is greater than Jupiter. So in this once sense,Saturn appears to be the biggest planet. As Titan is clearly the largest moon ofSaturn and the nearest similar in size to the largest planetarymoon Ganymede; Titan is closely connected to Titan.

The SEA symbol for Titan, is to the right. As Ganymede is adouble symbol of Jupiter, Titans symbol is a double versionof Saturns symbol.

There are further situations regarding the moons of of Saturn thatshow that Saturn has an emphasis on domination (think of Saturn(or Titan) as a mother duckling, keeping all the children in align-

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ment. This word alignment is very tied to Saturn and the fits and fits the idea offamily integration .

One of these situations is that Janus and Epimetheus share the same orbit of 151,472kilometers from Saturn. They are only separated by about 50 kilometers . As these

two satellites trade orbits about once every four years.

Another situation, suggesting the idea of alignment is that three moons (Telesto,Calypso & Tethys) all share the same orbit and are merely separated by incrementsof 60. Thus these three are in a special alignment.

Moving a step further out away from the Sun is the Uranian planetary system.

MOONS OF URANUS

The five large moons of Uranus above are (from left to right) Miranda, Ariel,Umbriel, Titania and Oberon. Not shown in the picture above is that the moons ofUranus come in large groups (communities). Whereas Jupiter and Saturn havemoons grouped in small number (families), Uranus has a group of at least ten verysmall inner moons, a group of five larger moons as a middle group and then agroup of at many more small moons beyond the relatively larger moons picturedabove. If we relate these large groups to the idea of community, then in the plane-tary family of Uranus, we have the concept of multiple communities. If the SEAdefinition of Uranus is the integration into a community, then which Uranianmoon would be companion of Uranus, meaning the the integration into multiplecommunities or multiple integration of communities?

The first step is to eliminate the moons of both the inner and outer groups as thesemoons are simply very small. This narrows our focus to the five moons shownabove. These five moons break down into a group of four medium sized moons(these four are not gigantic like Jupiters four Galileans) and one smaller moon --

Miranda. [Miranda, although smaller than the four largest moons of Uranus is stillmuch larger than any of the other moons of Uranus.]

This odd size makes Miranda unique and being smaller than the large Uranianmoons makes it more like an individual size moon. Mirandas position puts it in aspecial situation. Miranda is beyond the inner groups of tiny moons, but inside theorbit of the four medium sized moons. This means that Miranda is integratedbetween two community sized groups of moons.

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Since the SEA definition for Uranus is community integration and since onlyMiranda fits this definition, it seems the best candidate for the PlanetaryCompanion of Uranus.

The orbit of Miranda re-affirms the choice of Miranda as the four medi-um sized moons beyond the orbit of Miranda (Areil, Umbriel,Oberon &Titania) are all constantly pulling Miranda every which way. So whenyou look at Miranda as part of the community of medium sized Uranianmoons, Miranda is the one most exhibiting the concept of integration.The SEA symbol for Miranda, again a doubling, of sorts, of the symbolfor Uranus itself.

MOONS OF NEPTUNE

Moving on to Neptune, we find that Neptunes moons, likeNeptune, are a bit strange and dont follow the usual patterns.Neptune has far fewer moons than the other gas giants. Neptunealso has the only major moon that rotates counter to the spin of theplanet it orbits.

This contrary moon is Triton. Be careful not to confuse Triton withSaturns very large moon Titan. The names are, perhaps unfortu-nately, very similar

Triton may be a captured moon. Captured means that Triton

(like the moons of Mars, probably did not form from the same gas cloud as its plan-et did; but was caught later in the gravitational pull of its respectively planets whenit accidentally passed very close to the planet. This would account for the contraryorbit, all the planetary moons in the solar system, except for some tiny moons, alltravel around their respective planet in the same direction the planet rotates.Neptune has another very strange moon, Neried, which is drastically eccentric.

The SEA definition of Neptune is community separation. it is a challenge todetermine which is the Planetary Companion of Neptune as both as different fromthe entire community of all planetary moons.

Nereid is clearly the most eccentric, but Triton has three characteristics that seem toput it in the best candidate. First Triton is much larger than Nereid or any othermoon of Neptune. As we have seen with Jupiter and Saturn, the largest moon hasbeen the companion. Tritons relationship to Neptune is very similar to Titans rela-tionship to Saturn as Triton and Titan are far and away the largest moons in theirplanetary systems.

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Second, Triton is the only major moon orbiting against the rotation of the planetand lastly, Triton is the coldest moon. Lastly, Triton is colder than Neptune, Plutoor Plutos moon Charon. [This is due to the fact that Triton reflects almost all thelight it receives from the Sun.]

So, in SEA, Triton is given the title of Neptunes PlanetaryCompanion, meaning multiple separations from community or sepa-ration from multiple communities. The SEA symbol is given at theright and as usual is a virtual double of the Neptune symbol.

MOON(s) OF PLUTO

[Note: Astronomers have recently discoveredtwo very tiny moons in distant orbit aroundPluto. These moons, while they re-enforce theSEA idea that Pluto means separation fromthe universe (of all others); these new moonsare too small and too distant to be consideredas Plutos Planetary Companion.]

Plutos only moon, Charon is very unusual. This seems only fitting for Pluto, theunusual (even weird) planet. The fact that the International Astronomical Unionkicked Pluto off the list of planets, again is harmony with the SEA meaning forPluto, again - apart from the universe of all others. Be Pluto a planet or not official-ly, this author sees no change in the meaning nor importance of Pluto, just becausea few scared astronomers feared that a larger object than Pluto might be found at

extreme distance from the Sun.

But, back to the question of a Planetary Companion. If we eliminate the two tinydistant moons of Pluto, Charon is the only choice. Does Charon deserve this title?

Perhaps is does. Charon is the only Planet / moon combination where both theplanet and moon both show the same face to each other at all times. This is a verytight synchronicity connecting Charon to Pluto.

Also, Charons size relative to its planet is by far the largest, Charons diameter is

1/4th Plutos. No other planet has a moon so relatively large. Plutoand Charon are almost a double planet. Charon seems to have notrouble meaning the separation from multiple universes or multipleseparations from a universe.

The symbol, true to its meaning, is not a double Pluto symbol, but thePluto symbol with Charon added to it. Charons symbol is the onlyone of the Planetary Companions that is not a double symbol.

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IF SIX PLANETS HAVE PLANETARY COMPANIONS - >WHAT OF MERCURY & VENUS?

Having covered Mars to Pluto without dissent from our pattern we must turn tothe two remaining planets: Venus and Mercury. As Venus and Mercury have no

known moons, where do we look for objects in the solar system that mean the mul-tiples of each of them?

In the parlance of astronomers, planetary moons are both known as planetoidand as minors. With Venus and Mercury we have no moons, but are there near-by minors / planetoids that might fit?

Luckily, asteroids are also included in the minors / planetoids category, so arecomets. Comets can be eliminated due to their odd nature and lack of relation toany given planet, this leaves just asteroids.

There are two asteroid belts. One is the Mars - Jupiter belt, the other is the KuiperBelt. The Kuiper Belt is beyond Neptune and thus seems too far removed fromMercury and Venus. This leaves the Mars - Jupiter belt.

So if we limit ourselves to the Mars - Jupiter asteroid belt, we should be looking forasteroids that have something in common with either Venus or Mercury.

Venus is the brightest planet in the night sky. One of the most highly visible aster-oids and exceptionally visible for its size is Juno. Juno was discovered around thesame time as three much larger asteroids Ceres, Vesta and Pallas. Juno is half the

diameter of any of the big three and there are many asteroids larger than Juno. Yetthese other asteroids that are larger than Juno were not discovered for another 40years or more. So Juno clearly stands out for brightness. If it is a match to Venusthan it should be related to multiple integrations of equals or integration of multi-ple equals.

Juno also happens to be in orbit directly between both Ceres and Pallas. Asidefrom this it has a twin (in reference to its size) called Bamberga (#343). So as wewould expect with being multiply integrated to equals, it is integrated to a twinand integrated to Ceres and Pallas which are equal in visibility. The symbol at the

right looks a bit like the symbol for Venus, but it has multiple intersections. Notethat this symbol is not the one generally used by Astrologersfor Juno While it may take some a while to warm up to thisnew symbol for Juno, the older symbol would not show theconnection of Juno to the other Planetary Companions.

Aside from this the current symbol for Juno does resemble itsmeaning, multiple intersections of equals -- yet another reason

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for choosing Juno as the Planetary Companion of Venus.

THAT LEAVES MERCURY

In SEA, Mercury means integration into a universe of something. Now we need to

find a candidate an asteroids that means the multiple integrations into a universeor integration into multiple universes.

We could chose an asteroid like eros that is very close to Mars in its orbit, but this isa very small asteroid. Our choice is Flores for two reasons. One is that of the rela-tively large asteroids, it is the one nearest the Sun. In other words in the Mars -Jupiter asteroid belt, the orbit of Flores is relatively close to Mars and far fromJupiter.

The second reason, and virtually unique in its nature, is that Flores is not only anasteroid, but is an asteroid group. Flores is a fairly large asteroid surrounded tight-ly by a large number of tiny asteroids. It is the only large asteroid known to be inthis asteroid + many small asteroids combination. It is probable that Flores wasonce a larger asteroid, was impacted by another asteroid, but any of the pieces ofthe original Flores stayed in a tight orbit with the main asteroid, the current Flores.

Hence Flores is integrated into its own little universe of asteroids aswell as being the integrated (closer to the Sun) of the large asteroidsin the main belt. The symbol for Flores, which is the double symbolof Mercury, shown to the right, is new with SELF-EVIDENTASTROLOGY. It is consistent with the symbols of 6 of the other

Planetary Companions and particularly similar to the new symbolfor Juno. This completes the logic behind the eight Planetary Companions.

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