Dept. of Hypotheticals I Don't Have the Time to Write

[swan_tower]

Last night, in a discussion of Pluto's demotion to dwarf planet, I brought up the fact that many astrologers have decided to disregard science's classification and go on treating Pluto as a regular planet(1). And then I said it would be interesting if some pioneering astrologer retooled the system to account for all of the dwarf planets in a new and interesting way, and as a result astrology suddenly started being so laboratory-accurate that even the most defiant of skeptics had to admit that it only didn't work before because the math wasn't quite right yet.

IANAAstrologer, and I don't feel like putting in the research necessary to write the story. But the idea amuses me.



(1) I am told the State of New Mexico has done the same, owing to how the guy who discovered Pluto was New Mexican -- though he was in Arizona at the time of the discovery.

Comments

[ithiliana.livejournal.com]

Maybe too many coke zeroes, but all I can think is: yay, fanscience fiction can save Pluto!

[ombriel.livejournal.com]

I don't know the details, but I believe Scorpio was originally associated with Mars, and then became associated with Pluto when it found. Now Scorpio's planet is being interfered with once again. Woe!

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

And there's another story -- in which Scorpio, pissed off at all these humans messing around with its symbolic associations, decides to strike back . . . .

[laurelwen.livejournal.com]

It's consistent with my (and others') identification of Pluto as representative of the Other. What happens when you other an Other?

Sedna.

But that would take too long to unpack here.

[ozziel.livejournal.com]

What happens when the scientists who regard pluto as a regular planet strike out at the scientists who don't and it begins the Astrologic Reformation that drags out for hundreds of years with thousands of dead on both sides?

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

That too.

You could fill an entire anthology with stories about the Pluto Conflict, it seems.

[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

Interesting... I hadn't even thought of it that way.

[celestinenox]

I'm waiting for someone to use the LJ friends icon. I would, but for some reason, I've never saved it.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

It bugged me that the astrology-oriented thingything I did last year tried to anchor itself in a huge long tradition and then included the newer planets seemingly at random. Pluto affects a generation at a time, more or less. It just doesn't move fast enough to be interesting on an experimental scale.

Oh. Hi. Plot. Damn.