Subject: Conjunction/Opposition (was Re: TP Astrology!)
From: astronut@athena.mit.edu (Robert M Sanner)
Date: 1991-04-23, 10:09
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

rdees@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Matthion) passed along the info that:
   >>>  A couple of words on the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction...In our world, 
   >>>the last conjunctions between them occured in late 1980 through mid 
   >>>1981. (There were actually three exact conjunctions then due to the
   >>>retrograde motion of both planets.)  The next will not occur until
   >>>the end of May 2000.  This does not correspond with any TP time
   >>>frame, but who ever said it should?

...leading me to wonder:
   >>  If this is true, and it takes ~20 years between conjunctions, then
   >>in 1991, are they in perfect opposition??? 

...to which bvickers@ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers) replied:
> >Actually, they are.  Given that Jupiter and Saturn line up on the same side of
> >the sun every 19.85 years, that means they line up on opposite sides of the
> >sun 9.93 years after...

...which brings us up to date...

i just got some e-mail (thank you, thank you) to the effect
that, according to ephemeris data, Jupiter and Saturn are due to be in
perfect opposition sometime during the second week of May, 1991, a
couple weeks from now (any confirmations of this?).  Hmm...when were
the last episodes for this season supposed to air, before TP get the
axe...?

This event also happens in 20 year cycles, according to Brett's
posting.  This suggests an interesting theory.  Maybe we have only
part of the story.  Maybe access to one lodge becomes possible only
during conjunctions, while access to the other is possible only during
oppositions.  Of course, this would suggest 2 distinct lodges,
destroying my "aleph" theory of the nature of the lodges.

On the other hand, perhaps the two lodges are same (preserving
the aleph theory), but access is directional depending upon the status
of Jupiter and Saturn.  That is, people/spirits on "this side" of the
lodge/aleph/whatever can get "in" during conjunctions, but those on
the "other side" can not get "out" to our world, and vice-versa during
oppositions.

Admitting both conjunctions and oppositions as nexus points
heightens the duality of the lodge interpretation, yet still preserves
the "something odd happened twenty years ago" observations.  Plus it
concretely ties in with an astronomical event apparently scheduled to occur
around the time the second season would have been concluding.

Or is this stretching too far...?

rob