Vignette: Transit of Mars @ otoh

Vignette: Transit of Mars

Ginger peers through the lens of the telescope. Mars is leaving the seventh house. Soon, she knows, it will be in retrograde. “He’s going back,” she whispers to herself.

Fred carries the last of his belongings out of the apartment. He locks the door but instead of removing the key he pushes sideways, breaking it off in the cylinder. He stares for a moment at the piece left in his fingers then turns and walks away.

As Mars approaches opposition it begins a period of retrograde motion, which means it will appear to move backwards in a looping motion with respect to the background stars. The next retrograde period will begin on November 16, 2007 and last through to January 31, 2008 with Mars appearing to move backwards through the sky from the constellation Gemini into Taurus. ~ Wikipedia

[Note: Learn more about Fred and Ginger here. ~Tim 6 Dec 2009]

Posted on November 15th, 2007 Tim 5 comments

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5 responses to “Vignette: Transit of Mars”
1. Zoely November 16th, 2007 at 08:00
  
  the retrogrades always…mess things up…for me. never a time to start new things, always a good time for wrapping up and finishing old business.
  Thanks for stopping by!
  
  Then I guess this one comes at a good time of year — we all have business to finish and wrap up. ~Tim
2. Snow White November 17th, 2007 at 12:02
  
  I like this!
  
  Thanks! ~Tim
3. m November 19th, 2007 at 09:12
  
  uh-oh.
  
  what does this mean?
  
  should we all hide under the covers until feb 08??!!
  
  Nothing here really means anything. But maybe we should hold a brief meeting under the covers anyway. ~Tim
4. minijonb November 19th, 2007 at 12:12
  
  interesting story.
  
  i’ll now have “Counting Backwards” by Throwing Muses in my head for the rest of the day.
  
  Oh, I hope that’s one you like having in your head all day. ~Tim
5. Leezer November 20th, 2007 at 01:17
  
  Well that explains my stroke of terrible financial luck and bad love life lately . . .
  
  Sorry about your luck. At least now we know what to blame! ~Tim

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