Firefly Sparkle

Post by Jane Lewis

On 11^th December Nature magazine reported that NASA’s James Webb Telescope had made its first discovery of another galaxy that existed about 600 million years after the big bang.  Nicknamed Firefly Sparkle, it gleams with ten star clusters and was reported to look something like a string of coloured Christmas tree lights. 

The Telescope was designed to orbit the Sun around 1.5 km from Earth with the main goal of searching for the first galaxies formed after the big bang to give us a better understanding about the formation of our own galaxy.  It was launched in French Guiana at sunrise on Christmas day 2021 and the launch chart enjoys all the practical benefits of a Capricorn stellium comprisin Sun, Mercury, Venus and Pluto.  Saturn is further strengthened as ruler of the chart, as an angular planet and in dignity in Aquarius.  And if that’s not enough earth to provide strength, endurance and stability there’s also a grand earth trine comprising ascendant, Moon and Uranus.  The overall balance of the chart is therefore cardinal earth.  A strong earth is imperative for success even in a mission into the weightlessness of outer space for there’s no point floating off into the great beyond unless we can keep control from Earth.

Pioneering Mars is in the adventurous sign of Sagittarius which happily goes off into space in the 11^th house of science and technology, potentially helping to raise human consciousness by pushing out boundaries of human knowledge through exploration of new horizons.  Mercury is rising and is out of bounds.  This means that its declination is greater than normal, signifying that the winged messenger of the Sun is literally going beyond its normal limits to show us something extraordinary.

Like Father Christmas, Saturn is Father Time.  As the light from the Firefly Sparkle galaxy has taken over 13 billion years to reach Earth it really gives us a very rare look back in time.  The Telescope was able to observe it because of a rare cosmic alignment that acted as a magnifying glass.  The star clusters are made up of different colours, showing that they didn’t all form at the same time.

Traditionally, the coloured lights on our Christmas trees are symbolic of the rainbow colours of the human chakras: red relating to the base centre, orange to the sacral, yellow to the solar plexus, green to the heart, blue to the throat, indigo to the brow.  Once these are perfectly balanced we get pure white light at the crown centre.  Literally, as above so below.

Merry Christmas all!