The launching of the Neptune Canada project caught my astrological eye. It's an 800 k (or nearly 500 mile) loop of high speed fiber-optic cable out off Victoria, B.C., that will be a sea floor observatory. Neptune (the sea) is now in the sign of Aquarius, which rules frontiers of science & technology, networks, connectivity and frequencies. Chris Barnes, the director of Neptune at University of Victoria, said, "We are truly at the start of a new era -- an era of wiring the ocean."
The project will gather data to better understand changing currents due to climate change, undersea volcanoes, pollution, fish populations and marine mammals. You may be able to hear whale songs via the project's line. I got the chance to see these gentle giants from a cruise ship off Canada and Alaska in August. Many indigenous traditions see whales as carriers of human history. Neptune is the planet of transcendence, oneness and dissolving of boundaries. Neptune's journey in Aquarius has heightened the fascination with whale sounds, as frequencies with an otherworldly message for humanity.
I wondered if the sensors and instruments of this project would interfere with the whale sonar. Along with sonar equipment, they're using the far-out sounding technology of hydrophones and echosounders. The team did an environmental impact before hand, and found, that disturbance to marine mammals from electromagnetic waves and such "is expected to be minor, localized and, for most potential effects, temporary in nature."
It reminds me, though, of the idea that the technologies we're creating today are a stepping stone to activating them from within, in the future. That we are made of electromagnetic currents, and have yet to use our built-in abilities to gather data about the world around us. That in the age of aquarius, we may drop our cell phones for telepathic communication, and like the whales, be able to send and receive messages through unseen currents.
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