{"id":4088,"date":"2025-10-21T01:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2025-10-21T01:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:55:17","slug":"new-moon-in-libra-oct-21-2025-1225-ut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/?p=4088","title":{"rendered":"New Moon in Libra \u2013 Oct. 21, 2025, 12:25 UT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We have a rare visitor in our solar system. The interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS was discovered last summer, and now this oddity is in exact conjunction with the New Moon in Libra, in the same degree with the Sun and the Moon.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025octnew.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4091\" src=\"http:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025octnew-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"New Moon in Libra\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025octnew-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025octnew-1024x637.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025octnew-768x478.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025octnew-1536x955.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sphinx.planetwaves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025octnew.jpg 1581w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Long-period comets originate from the distant Oort cloud, whereas short-period comets come from the Kuiper belt. The recently discovered main-belt comets form a group of their own. They orbit in more circular orbits within the Main asteroid belt.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Our visitor came from interstellar space, the space between stars<strong class=\"western\">.<\/strong> Comet 3I\/ATLAS is the third interstellar object discovered, after Oumuamua, the \u201cfirst distant messenger\u201d in 2017, and the first observed \u201crogue comet\u201d Borisov in 2019.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We don&#8217;t know where exactly comet 3I\/ATLAS is coming from or where it is heading after its orbit around our Sun. It seems that it originated in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, near the Milky Way&#8217;s Galactic Center. Astrologically the Galactic Center is often thought to be an intense energy point and symbolize the higher purpose or the door to deeper understanding. In the chart the Galactic Center is located around 27+ degrees of Sagittarius.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Comet 3I\/ATLAS may be the oldest comet yet seen. It could be at least 7 billion years old \u2013 older than our solar system, which is about 4.6 billion years old. The diameter of its nucleus is not big, perhaps less than 1 km. Initially, the comet had a <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">red coma<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When the sky darkened due to the total lunar eclipse on Sept. 7, 2025, astronomers took advantage of the opportunity to observe the interstellar comet and found it to be green.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"fi-FI\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Comet 3I\/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025 (astrologically in the early degrees of Capricorn). It passed by Mars <\/span>on Oct. 3, 2025. It will reach perihelion (the closest distance to the Sun) between the orbits of Earth and Mars <span lang=\"en-US\">on Oct. 29, 2025. Then it will pass by Venus on Nov. 3, 2025. It is expected to make its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 19, 2025, but it will not come very close us. It will pass Jupiter on March 16, 2026, before heading back into interstellar space.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Comet 3I\/ATLAS is in solar conjunction on Oct. 21, 2025, the day of the New Moon. It means that the Earth, Moon, Sun, and the comet are aligned with each other so that the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun, and the comet on the opposite side of the Sun as seen from Earth. It is not visible from Earth&#8217;s perspective now, but space probes will continue to observe it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Ancient astrologers considered comets to be harbringers of doom, predicting the death of a king or some other disaster. Although comets are unpredictable, modern astrology sees them in a bit more positive light. Comets bring a message of change. Considering the current state of our world, a message from the center of the Milky Way, from the Source, is bringing hope and a broader perspective to humanity.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a rare visitor in our solar system. The interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS was discovered last summer, and now this oddity is in exact conjunction with the New Moon in Libra, in the same degree with the Sun and the Moon. 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