M.J. Rose

This image via Milky way scientists.

While this beautiful planetary alignment of Mercury, Venus and Saturn is really going to occur later this year, it won’t line up over the Giza pyramids. This image is presently all over the internet – but the way the alignment is presented over the pyramids is false. The geometry is wrong. Here is what it will look like.

Isn’t it interesting how 2012 seems to be the year for all sorts of interesting celestial happenings? Makes one wonder if the Mayans were on to something? I think the pyramids are a celestial calendar – built as a language to indicate certain moments in time. But for what, who knows? Maybe just because when things happen in the sky it simply just looks amazing? The ancients were clearly interested in aesthetics (just look at those pyramids and then imagine them with their bright white casing stones intact – reflecting sunlight and moonlight as far as the eye could see).

P.S. By “ancients” I don’t mean the dynastic Egyptians – my gut tells me that these structures are way older than that.

We recently landed on Mars. The science involved to pull off this massive endeavor is mind bending. Here’s a video of where all the bits and pieces of the craft and skycrane landed, and a self portrait the Curiosity took of itself once it was  marsbound…

(Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

According to biologist Bernd Heinrich, the life cycle of butterflies does indeed “arguably involve death followed by reincarnation” –

Wow.

Are Butterflies Two Different Animals in One? The Death And Resurrection Theory

by ROBERT KRULWICH

“Here’s a dangerous, crazy thought from an otherwise sober (and very eminent) biologist, Bernd Heinrich. He’s thinking about moths and butterflies, and how they radically change shape as they grow, from little wormy, caterpillar critters to airborne beauties. Why, he wondered, do these flying animals begin their lives as wingless, crawling worms? Baby ducks have wings. Baby bats have wings. Why not baby butterflies?

His answer — and I’m quoting him here — knocked me silly…”

For the complete article click here to go to NPR.org.

(ButterflyGirl image borrowed from O! Lightning Astrology here, a wonderful destination for astrology insight and expert readings…)