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Mechanism behind nature's sparkles revealed




Researchers from the University of Bristol have revealed "a universal explanation" for many of the dazzling coloured and silvery reflections in the natural world. The team revealed that disordered layers of crystals that are responsible for silvery reflective scales of fish reflect light in the same way as coloured, iridescent insect wings and carapaces. The research reveals just how shiny creatures have evolved nanoscale structures that exploit light. The team also says that humans could copy the effect to produce, for example, hyper-reflective surfaces. Disordered layers of crystals also produce many gleaming examples in the insect world. Different amounts of this nano-scale disorder is found in the surface of fish scales, butterfly wings and beetle carapaces, and produces an effect known as Anderson localisation. BBC; Oct 22. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29711463




To understand this news we will go back to the solar eclipse of November 3, 2013 at Bristol. The eclipse luminaries are conjunct the TNP Poseidon amid stars of Corona Borealis.

Poseidon
It is clear to see that this energy relates to glass and mirrors, that which lets light thru, or reflects it back, in either case not taking on whatever it is that passes thru or reflects back... it stays pure and true to its nature. [1]

That the constellation of Corona Borealis is associated with bright colors can been seen from the  astrological influences of the constellation given by Manilius [2]:




"Corona the Crown's lustrous ring, which twinkles with varying luminosity; for the circle is dominated by a single star [Alphecca], which with passing splendor sparkles in the mid forehead and enhances with its blazing flame the bright lights of the constellation. They shine as the memorial of deserted Ariadne" [Manilius, Astronomica, 1st century AD, book 5, p.29].

"The child of the Crown will cultivate a garden budding with bright flowers and slopes. Grey with olive (trees) or green with grass. He will plant pale violets, purple hyacinths, lilies, poppies which vie with bright Tyrian dyes, and the rose which blooms with the redness of blood, and will stipple meadows with designs of natural color…Such is the endowment prescribed by the years of the Maid and the flowers of the Crown" [Manilius, Astronomica, 1st century AD, book 5, p.321.]


The stars alpha and beta Pavo rise on the Ascendant.

Pavo, the Peacock,  is of integration, illumination, and beauty, is enduring and immortal, and brings inspiration to express the beauty that we are and that we truly envision [3]

In Greek myth the stars that are now the Peacock were Argos [or Argus], builder of the ship Argo. He was changed by the goddess Juno into a peacock and placed in the sky along with his ship." Indeed, the peacock "symboliz[ed] the starry firmament" for the Greeks, and the goddess Hera was believed to drive through the heavens in a chariot drawn by peacocks. As recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses, the death of Argus Panoptes also contains an explicit celestial reference: "Argus lay dead; so many eyes, so bright quenched, and all hundred shrouded in one night. Saturnia [Hera] retrieved those eyes to set in place among the feathers of her bird [the peacock, Pavo] and filled his tail with starry jewels." [4]






Progressing the eclipse chart to Oct.22, the date of the news, brings the Pluto-Uranus square to the horizon axis. Among other things, Uranus-Pluto is about scientific discoveries. Also the eclipse Sun and the TNP Poseidon align with the MC  and the Ascendant with kappa and lambda Pavo bringing to us a news item which combines the colours of  Nature (here indicated as the Peacock and the many hued flowers of Corona Borealis) with  Poseidon (light, refraction).




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