There's an old tale told of Pythagoras walking home one day through the Agora, the central hub and market of ancient towns in Greece. He heard the pounding of hammers ting, ting, tinging through the air from the local Chalkéus (blacksmith). The sound of tools banging on copper and bronze were ringing across the spectrum, when all of a sudden a vibration carried through the crowd and Pythagoras stopped dead in his tracks. The two metallic notes hit in such beautiful harmony he was held captivated and in disbelief. He went to investigate. 

Entering the shop for him was like walking into a symphony, notes flying through the air like embers escaping a furnace. Observing the hammers in full swing, he noticed something peculiar. Of the two, one was twice the size of the other and hitting with such grace, Pythagoras had discovered the Octave. Obliging his curiosity, the craftsmen let him play and he soon realized the hammers that were most in harmony displayed mathematical ratios and by the end of the day the hidden secrets of music had revealed themselves. 

In time, exploring these ideas, the School of Pythagoras began looking to the night sky and found similar rhythms in the planets, literally meaning wanderers, as they crossed the firmament. They saw the dance as celestial spheres each vibrating their own notes and thus saw the heavens as a grand symphony. This ultimately came to be called The Music of the Spheres. 

In the center of this piece you will find the glyph for the Sun, and moving outwards, Mercury, Venus, Moon for Earth, Mars, and at the halfway point, the 4 Goddess Asteroids, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta. Continuing, Jupiter and Saturn along the quadrants, and then Uranus and Neptune directing the corners. Pluto I have yet to place with the other Kuiper Belt Objects, Eris (who created all the discord beyond Neptune), Haumea, Makemake, Quaoar, Orcus, Ixion, Varuna, Huya, and Rhadamanthus, but I am refraining until this new outer realm is further explored because their orbits are all revealing the existence of another planet still to be found, referred to as Planet 9. 

This piece ultimately expresses finding harmony with the world the surrounds us and finding our place within, one that aligns with the music. It is to the painting Wandering Wheel the way Artemis is to Apollo. One representing the Houses that surround us, the other the Spheres that dance across them like fingers on a flute. In the end, the Uni-verse is One Song, and we all have our parts to dance.