Book 4: Music of the Spheres

Chapter 4: Orrery

What are your bearings?

Before you can know where you are going, you need to know where you are. Triangulate your position amongst the landmarks and find yourself on the map. It's also wise to track the other wanderers so you don't collide with them along the way.

You sit on a paper thin crust, around a big ball of fire orbiting at 67,000 mph around a larger ball of fire, moving with other big balls of fire at 570,000 mph around a big hole in the universe, moving with other big, spiraling holes at 1,342,162 mph through the Universe.

All us currently flowing, slowly moving forward toward The Great Attractor. The caveat is that due to the bulge at the center of our galaxy, we can't see it directly, but we can clearly see all the other Galaxies moving in that direction, so there we all go.

It's kind of mind bending, when you think about it. This piece was a meditation on that, but relative to our solar system, and how we gauge and measure the planets against the Zodiac, or the Ecliptic, which is the plane all the planets follow around the sun.

An Orrery is a mechanical model of the Solar System that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons. Rather than circles, this painting maps the pattern out as a spiral, slowly twisting its way one orbit at a time through the Orion Arm of the Milky Way.

In many ways, this piece still has more layers, but for now, it works just fine. It's as if we are all glorious tunnels folding through glorious tunnels.

It's Rabbit Holes all the way Down! Or maybe it's Up! Either way, moving Forward, because we can't find Reverse.


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