The Astrology of Space - Matrix Software

The Astrology of Space
and stretches out in a long tail away from the sun, just
like a comet. The solar wind rushes around and past
the Earth and on out into space.
A most important function of the solar wind, which
acts like an aura out as far as Saturn (during the
years of high solar activity, the sunspot cycle) is to
push back cosmic ray particles coming from outside
our solar system. The intensity of cosmic rays
reaching the Earth is cut in half during the years of
highest solar activity.
One way of looking at this phenomenon is that the
Earth and the inner planets are wrapped in a cloak or
aura of solar particles for several years and are thus
shielded from information trying to reach us from deep
space. As the Sunspot cycle ebbs and the aura
withdraws, the cosmic rays once again penetrate in
greater numbers into the inner solar system and to
the Earth. There were sunspot minimums in 1964 and
1976.
It is important to note that the Moon passes through
the different sections of the Earth’s magnetic sphere
in its monthly orbit. At New Moon it is always in the
upstream portion of the magnetosphere, facing the
sun and downstream in the Earth's tail at Full Moon.
At First Quarter, the Moon is to the dusk side of Earth
and at Fourth Quarter, the Moon is in the dawn side of
the magnetosphere.
The interrelationship of the solar wind and the Earth's
magnetosphere is receiving considerable attention in
recent years. It has been suggested that the passage
of the Moon through the Earth’s magnetic shield may
serve to trigger various weather and magnetic activity.
The interrelationship of indicators like the
geomagnetic index, solar flux and other measures of
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