Sputnik Launched (October 5, 1957 local time)

On this day in 1957, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) launches Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite.

To read about this momentous event, click on the relevant Wikipedia page here.

It isn’t often that I get to correct a chart that’s already on my Kepler 7.0 computer program. The original timing was 12 noon Moscow time on the 4th. In fact, it would have been 19:28:28 UTC, which is actually 12:28:24 AM (AOTT) on the 5th. As a result, a short-term inconjunct appears miraculously.

Moon Inconjunct Mercury

It may be hard for you to put your feelings into words, because your emotions are so different from your intellect. Of course, there is nothing really strange about your feelings, but that part of your mind is quite different from the reasoning part. In fact it would be very unfortunate if you decided to listen only to your reason, because your intuition and imagination, both of which are more related to the Moon, can be of great assistance to you. They can tell you much about the world that your reasoning mind cannot.

At the time, the launching of Sputnik I made a lot of people nervous.

Notice one man suggested a conspiracy theory being that the event didn’t really happen. That’s not new…