Lost in scale. We humans imagine we understand that an atom is small and a star is huge but we are lost in scale.
We are a blip in a fractal and we have no way of knowing how long the pattern has been playing out or over what expanses of time and space. There is a grand dance of energy and we are surely a part of it, but we are not the entire show. Our lives mean nothing on the scale of the Cosmos and everything to our children. We are the dancer and the dance, the matter and the motion, twirling into eternity in the arms of The Divine.
I built the little model in the top photo. It is, in an odd way, a representation of our solar system made with my grandkids in mind. I want them to understand their connection to everything very young. I do not want them to have their head filled with the same misunderstandings I have labored so hard to be free of. It is whimsical and bears no resemblance to the actual solar system but it will be a wonderful conversation starter, and visual aid to the chat once it gets going.
I tried using the wire to run my holes through, but it was too weak. I used the screw and then threaded pipe cleaners through. I left part of the stems straight and taped them to the light. I twirled the other ends around my finger.
These are the points I will use this "sculpture" to illustrate:
The sun is connected to the planets by a dynamic electromagnetic filament. As the sun revolves and the planets orbit, the connection point will dance across the sun. On our planet, the connections are what we call the "magnetic poles" and they are designated as "north" or "south." These are strong tethers to our star and as we all go hurtling through space together this connection allows constant energetic contact between the sun and EVERYTHING in the solar system. Planets to moons, all the way down to humans and atoms. Here is a great article about some of these connections if you wish to delve a little deeper. Even planets without poles are subject to "solar winds" that wash them in energy from the sun. Everything within the heliosphere is energetically connected to our star.
I wanted to make the concept of this strong connection between planets and sun first because that is missing from the video at the bottom. If you have never seen this, prepare to have your mind blown.
Remember this thing from school?
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They were wonderful! Fun to play with and so helpful at visualizing how the solar system ran... and WRONG. To be fair, I cannot imagine how you could make a desk top version of what is in this video and even this video, as noted, does not tell the entire story. We remain adrift in cosmic scale but it does an exquisite job of illustrating
The Dance.
Thank you to @cabelindsay for hosting Steemit Vision Quest and bringing a little sacred space to the blockchain!