79360 Sila-Nunam is a cubewano, a classical Kuiper belt object with an orbital period of 293 years. It was discovered in 1997. It is a binary system with components of almost equal size. Both bodies, Sila and Nunam, are elongated with their long axes pointing to each other. They are named after old Inuit deities. Sila is the god of the sky, weather, and life force. Nunam is the Earth goddess, who created the land animals and the Inuit people. Sila breathed life into the Inuit.

The Full Moon is at 22+ degrees Aquarius. The Sun in Leo is in exact conjunction with Venus and Sila-Nunam.

I saw recently a documentary The Jam: About The Young Idea on the legendary new wave / mod revival band The Jam (active 1972 – 1982). The front man of the band, Paul Weller (born 25 May 1958), has natally his Sun conjunct Sila-Nunam. His successful and varied career is still continuing.

The mod revival of the 1970s and 1980s in England was a youth subculture which was set in motion by Paul Weller and his band. Weller is often referred to as “the Modfather”. The original mod subculture began in London in the late 1950s. The term mod derives from modernist, a term used in the 1950s to describe modern jazz musicians and their style-conscious fans.

The mods wore tailor-made suits and military parkas, they had neat haircuts, they drove Vespa motor scooters and spent time in coffee bars listening jazz and rock music. Scooters were a practical and moderately cheap choice of transportation for teenagers. Besides, the body panels of Vespa shielded the expensive suits of the mods from oil and dust. Parka jackets were worn for the same reason.

Paul Weller has described how the audience of The Jam used to look like a sea of green parkas. Everyone looked the same. He says it is not the ethos of the mods. He himself is a mod because he doesn’t want to be like everyone else. To him a mod means a person who embraces continuous reinvention, someone who looks forward and picks the best features of other cultures, filters and merges them into something new and different.

Perhaps the spirit of Sila-Nunam resembles that kind of fusion. Ideas, even good and practical ones, need “Sila’s breath” in order to fly and become something magnificent. It has much in common with the enthusiastic and fearless energy of youth. So, fuse bits of things that you appreciate into something original, blow your idea boldly on its way, and see what happens!

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