Some spiders are expert sailors, according to new
research that found the agile creatures can use their legs as sails and their
silk as an anchor. The discovery, reported in the journal BMC Evolutionary
Biology, explains how spiders are able to migrate across vast distances, and
why they are quick to colonize new areas. Sailing spiders have both impressive
form, as demonstrated by this graceful tetragnathid spider sailing on its
abdomen, and function.
“A spider’s body is normally sealed very well to
prevent water loss and spiders also have high starvation tolerance, permitting
sailing spiders to survive long periods, and even on salt water,” lead author
Morito Hayashi of the Natural History Museum in London, told Discovery News.
Most spiders can travel by “ballooning,” or using
their silk to catch the wind, which then lifts them up into the air. Ballooning
spiders are estimated to travel well over 18 miles per day when wind conditions
are suitable. July 2
This news
is best explained if we start with the chart for the lunar eclipse of April 4
at London. The eclipse is very prominently aligned with the meridian. Here
Mercury [8ar30] is conjunct the star alpha. Reticulum [8ar]. Reticulum means a
netlike formation or structure; a network [1].
"In Ancient Rome a class of
gladiator, the retiarius, was armed with a net which he used to immobilize his
opponent by entangling him in the meshes, thus placing him at his mercy",
"Nets may also be compared with the web in which spiders lurk for
prey" [Penguin Dictionary of Symbols].
The
Ascendant is conjunct Azmidiske. Xi (ΞΎ) Puppis, Azmidiske, is the northern star
above the Stern in the Ship, Argo Navis. When combined with alpha Reticulum, the
celestial ship Argo is a good symbol for our sailing spider.
Venus
[22ta] which in hard aspect to Mercury [8ar] is conjunct the asteroid Arachne
[22ta]. Arachne is a shepherd's daughter ,in the Metamorphoses of the Roman poet Ovid, who became a great weaver. The term arachnid
is, therefore, applied to spiders [3].
If we now
progress the angles to July 2, the
eclipse cross straddles the angles triggering the news.
In a
previous post we mentioned how this eclipse is connected with the brain
(asteroid Psyche). As the image here shows, the brain is also a neural network
much like a spider’s web. If the sea and by association the Sea Monster Cetus [4]
represent, the trauma that human brains can be subjected to, isn’t the the little arachnid a hero who
should inspire us to overcome the trauma
of our past linked to “psychotic storms”?
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