Total Solar Eclipse March 8, 2016 & The Borasisi Effect - Beware the BLACK MOON

On Tuesday, March 8, there will be a total eclipse of the Sun in Pisces conjunct a slow-moving planet called Borasisi. Discovered in 1999, Borasisi is located in the Kuiper Belt, slightly beyond Pluto. It takes 292 years to go around the Sun, compared to 248 years for Pluto.

Kurt Vonnegut, author of Cat’s Cradle, created the fictional god Borasisi. The name which GE does generously. I’m discoverers of a planet close to Pluto in 1999.

Its discoverers, two of whom had located the Kuiper Belt itself several years earlier, did something unprecedented: they named a planet for a fictional deity — the Sun-god of a made-up religion called Bokononism.

Back in March 2011, there was a New Moon conjunct Borasisi, and on that occasion I told the story behind the name, which is from Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle. This novel, which has its roots in the author’s stint as a public relations man for General Electric, deals with some of the most profound questions of our time, involving religion, science, ethics and specific topics like technologies that can destroy the planet, particularly nuclear — a GE speciality.

One metaphor in the book is a substance called Ice 9, a chemical form of ice. If one crystal of Ice 9 gets in the ocean, the whole thing freezes. Symbolically, this represents the kind of toxin that can affect the entire world, the effects of which cannot be reversed. Ice 9 can stand in for many of the environmental problems we face today.

If you’re studying Borasisi from a psychological standpoint, themes emerge; such as the lies we believe in order to be happy. I included that interpretation in my original article. Yet, having personally covered the environmental crimes of GE, I made sure to tell the story of Cat’s Cradle and describe its implications.

In order to rig the world with atomic bombs, and to create technologies that contaminate every living creature on the planet, it’s necessary to suspend all ethics and tell a lot of lies, which GE does generally. I’m typing right now next to a huge bookshelf that is stacked with binders full of GE documents demonstrating that very fact.

While I really liked what Vonnegut had to say, I was taking it mostly as symbolic, and used the Boraisisi New Moon of 2011 as a way to bring up those themes; as a way to remind my readers that these issues exist.

Then something strange happened. One week after that 2011 article, there was an earthquake and tsunami that destroyed the Fukushima nuclear power station. Three of the six reactors melted down. That is, a power loss disabled the cooling systems of the plants, the reactors went out of control, and hundreds of tons of radioactive fuel melted into the Earth.

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