The Singularity People

The second snapshot of a so-called Black Hole has just been released but this is no ordinary gravitational anomaly – it’s our Galactic Center AKA Sagittarius. Yes that’s right. Regardless of where the Sun is from the Earth’s point of view, the whole solar system revolves around this point in Sagg.

You may recall that the ‘rival’ black hole was depicted in the notorious Eye of Sauron image released in 2019. At this point I think it would be cool to pivot away from the term ‘black hole.’ Coined in the early Sixties, it was a riff on the notorious prison in Calcutta because people went into it but never came out. Apart from space not needing colonial baggage, it also reflects an era when these phenoms were thought to be empty – the understanding has progressed radically since then.

Astrophysicists say the innermost sector of every ‘black hole’ probably has a gravitational singularity – “where the spacetime curvature becomes infinite.” Great – so let’s call them infinity portals. Saggos would presumably prefer that groovier description, right? And it’s not inaccurate.

If you’re born between December 18 to 21, your Sun is aligned with this infinity portal; you’re a Singularity Person along with Brad Pitt, Sia, Ronan Farrow, the poet Sandra Cisneros and Keith Richards.

Your hobbies may include trying to collapse time and space, devouring passing stars (you prefer to think of it as a merger) and fuqing with science careers by engineering intricate changes at quantum speed, within the logic of an intricate, incomprehensibly complex pattern. Seriously, could having your Sun – or Moon, Ascendant etc – conjunct this Infinity Portal be somehow negative?

No. I think it would make you more complex and galaxy-attuned, if anything. Also, a lot of the rhetoric around ‘black holes’ casts them as villains in a space drama – vindictive collapsed supernovas that draw in younger stars or seek to devour entire constellations etc. But what if the whole process is more organic and, well, magic?

In 2007,  Craig J Wheeler, an Aries astronomer, wrote in a book called Cosmic Catastrophe that “observers falling into a black hole cannot avoid being carried into the singularity once they cross the event horizon. They can prolong the experience by accelerating away to slow their descent, but only up to a limit. When they reach the singularity, they are crushed to infinite density and their mass is added to the total of the black hole. Before that happens, they will have been torn apart by the growing tidal forces in a process sometimes referred to as spaghettification or the “noodle effect”.”

This is the sort of thing Sagittarians fear might occur if they fill out a form or turn up on time. But respectfully, without visiting, how does Mr Wheeler know? Maybe you get noodled, maybe you emerge through a lotus pool into an alternative galactic disco. Or Atlantis.

In case you’re wondering, the Eye of Sauron Infinity Portal is an early Libra phenom: your Sun is conjunct if you were born between September 25 and 28. Think Lil Wayne, Gwyneth Portal and Pedro Almodovar.  See other Galactic Birthdays in this more recent post.

Thoughts?