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The photons entering your eyes right now left Deneb around 590 BCE, from the age of Pythagoras and the Buddha, when the foundations of every major intellectual tradition were laid simultaneously across civilizations that had no contact with each other. 2,615 years that photon traveled, arriving tonight as bright as stars a hundred times closer. September 26 - October 5: create something the universe cannot ignore.
The photons entering your eyes right now left Altair in 2008. This A7 V white main-sequence star rotates once every 8.9 hours, so fast it has squashed itself into an oblate spheroid. In 2007, it became the first star other than the Sun whose surface was directly imaged. The Flying Eagle opens Decan 19 with vision and speed: see clearly, move fast, accept the shape that velocity gives you.
The photons arriving from Nunki tonight left the star in 1797. Its name is Sumerian, five thousand years old, coined by the civilization that invented writing. September 6-15: source your knowledge, aim it with the Archer's precision, and find the galactic center of your life.