The Frequency of Light
CHAPTER 147
The Frequency of Light
The story for the new moon time:
Nov 1 – Nov 14
MOON DETAILS
New Moon
9°35′ Scorpio
Nov 1, 2024
8:47 AM EST
REFLECTION DATES
Apr 30, 2018 – May 14, 2018
6 MINUTE READ
The ascent is long and steep.
The blue light behind you has faded to black, and now, you cannot see a thing. You grip the book in your hands and carefully lift your feet between the darkened steps. Your heart starts to race, and you whisper to yourself:
“Hallowed be thy name
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done
on Earth as it is in Heaven.”
Your prayer weaves through the air like a long lost protection spell, but when it alone is not enough to soothe your fears, you search your mind for facts. You hone in on a lesson from your high school physics class on the nature of color:
All color comes from light.
And what is light? Waves of electromagnetic radiation.
Most of these waves are invisible to the human eye, but a spectrum of wavelengths appear as colors — red on one side and blue on the other.
Heinrich Hertz confirmed the waves were real nearly twenty-five years after Maxwell predicted their existence. He found them, of all places, in a darkened room. There, he ran an electric current through a glass jar with two brass balls. As the current passed, it generated enough light — just a spark — between the balls that Hertz could literally see the electromagnetic waves.
"It almost seems absurd,” he said. “That they should be visible; but in a perfectly dark room they are visible to an eye which has been well rested in the dark.”
And as you climb the steps, your pupils open and your irises dilate. What was pitch black now appears dark grey, and an almost imperceptible glow fills the air.
You think of the spark of light in Hertz’ Leyden jar and the electrical pulse of wires. Perhaps they’re hiding in the walls. Perhaps the waves are moving through the walls. Perhaps this is the source of the glow.
For when you think of electricity, you think of metal and cords. Fossil fuels and wind turbines. Solar cells and water wheels. You have forgotten that you don’t need any of these to produce electricity. That all of these are simply technologies designed to harness and amplify the electric field that is naturally present in our world. For as Hertz himself once said, “the domain of electricity extends over the whole of nature.”
Wherever there is heat, an electrical process is transpiring, and as you ascend the steps, your body radiates at a perfectly healthy 98.6 degrees. You are naturally synched with the hum of the earth, aligned with the frequency of lightning bolts that bombarded the planet billions of years ago. Your anxiety settles as you enter a state of deep relaxation and radio waves ripple off your being at a frequency of 8 hertz.
The frequency of light — measured in units named after Hertz himself —speaks to the number of electromagnetic waves that cross the same point over the course of one second. At extremely low frequencies, there’s no visible color at all. For color does not appear until the waves begin traveling at a frequency of approximately 430 trillion waves per second — otherwise known as: the color red.
As more and more waves appear and the frequency increases to approximately 630 trillion waves per second, humans begin to see the color blue.
And as you reach the top of the stairs and open the door, your eyes — wide open from all that time in the dark — are flooded by waves of blue. The sun’s light permeates the atmosphere and scatters across the air, sending high frequency blue waves through the windows of the bookshop where you are now standing.
For a moment, the world feels so bright you can barely stand it. You close your eyes in response, breathing deeply before slowly opening your eyes again and allowing the light to enter.
You walk to the front of the shop and open the door. The sidewalk is wet from rain, and the sky above is clear. A rainbow shines brightly overhead, revealing the full spectrum of visible light, and as appreciation overwhelms your amygdala, you feel like you are seeing for the first time.
You see clearly how light moves in waves. It comes and goes, comes and goes, scattering itself across the earth for all the creatures with eyes to see and all the plants with pores to breathe.
You raise your hand and look at the space between your fingers and the air, and while it seems almost absurd, you swear you can see the radio waves — those typically invisible lengths of light — flowing from your body. You look up and see the passersby, each going about their day — buying groceries, waving hello — and you swear, you can see their light too.
It comes and goes.
It comes and goes.
And all the world is like this.
And all matter of things are like this.
Waves flow through invisible fields, revealing themselves at times in shapes and colors that we are blessed — only ever blessed — to see.
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To be continued…
Star Summary
This Scorpio new moon is a Leyden jar. A container for discovery, capable of revealing the light in the dark.
This time — from November 1 to 15 (and then some) — is about getting comfortable in the unknown.
It’s about facing your fears and strengthening your sight.
It’s about the tricks of color the mind and eyes play as a result of the mysterious electric and magnetic fields in which we live.
It’s about the nature of light.
And dark.
And interestingly, this new moon is falling at the same place as the one in late April and early May 2018.
Somehow, it’s all connected. Even if we can’t see how or why at first.
As always: Look to the reflection dates and think about what you experienced then. (Refer to your journals, calendars, pictures, etc. to help you remember.)
And look at these curious alignments in the stars:
Sun conjunct Moon in Scorpio: We are thrust into the depths of human emotion — the full spectrum of shadow and shame — and there, in the parts of ourselves where we are afraid to look, we discover…light.
Hertz conjunct the south node (and Vesta): This time is all about the frequency of the past. The recent past — yes — but mostly, the primordial past, the one our mind’s have forgotten but our bodies remember with every spark of electricity in our cells. For we are capable of producing a collective combined hum, so together we may burn as one united sacred flame.
Iris conjunct America, Gratia, and Psyche: America is often called a melting pot, but what if instead: it is a rainbow. Less about everything blending together and more about seeing all the different shades, shining gloriously side-by-side in the bright blue sky? The asteroid Iris, named after the rainbow goddess (for which the colored portion of the eye is also named), is in the same place as the asteroid America, just like it was when America declared its independence in 1776. Alongside Iris and America, on this new moon, are the asteroids Gratia and Psyche, delivering us a message that’s full of grace and transcendence as as we learn to rise above, like a rainbow in the sky.
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