When I opened the delivery box, my fingers lingered on the bottle of dark ink. My eyes were mesmerised by the way it glittered as it shifted its form. Suddenly, I was floating through the dark void of the infinite and eternal cosmos. The feeling was so strong that it led me to doing a bit of research and purchasing a tiny slice of a meteorite called Muonionalusta. I wanted to anoint it with the Sphere and Sundry Ink for meditation. It’s the oldest meteorite discovered so far, impacting the Earth about one million years ago. Since landing on Earth, the meteorite has been a witness to four ice ages. It was unearthed from a mass of rocks left by a glacier in northern Scandinavia, near the border between Sweden and Finland. It has a unique, structured pattern (see picture) that is an outcome of truly Saturnian processes. As a person born with Saturn in Aquarius in a night chart, I find that this was really the first time I was close to understanding its nature in a somewhat tangible way. Saturn in Capricorn is of bone and soil, much more visceral and therefore less elusive. Its processes can be depicted by decay, something that every human can grasp by the nature of living in a suit of flesh we call a body. However, Saturn in Aquarius is closer to the mental processes accompanying that Capricornian decay – feelings of grief, of transience, of the vast and incomprehensible nature of time. This is more difficult to get a tangible grasp on because of its intellectual nature. If you’re willing to embark on an expedition through the cold and empty vastness of the universe, you shall be rewarded with a true understanding how spectacularly rare is the abundance of green life we have been given on Earth. Use at your own peril.
