As you may be aware, tonight, at 10 52 (+/- 3 min.), NASA's "Deep Impact" mission is scheduled to expolde a 820 pound bomb on the surface of the 8.7-mile-long comet, Temple 1.  It could result in a crater which might range from the size of a house to the size of a football stadium, and from two to 14 stories deep.

The sky map at the moment of impact, should look like this, for observers on the Pacific coast and Hawaii:

Scientists at NASA expect to gather valuble clues as to the origins of the Universe out of the analysis of the detritus of the impact.  One very interesting theory, so far derisevly dismissed by the scientific establishment, is the Electric/Plasma theory as expressed by cosmologist Wallace "Wal" Thornhill.  His site presents an easily accessible explanation of that theory, and its implications.  You might want to check it out.

This, however, is not a science forum.  So I'll leave that to others who have the expertise in that area to fight those issues out.  ASTROLOGY is the game here.  As such, I have an astrological observation to make.  I'll make it breif.

When Temple 1 is impacted tonight, it will be very nearly conjunct, both by celestial Longitude and Latitude, to the Fixed Star, Spica.  Here's the skinny on that Star, snipped from my Solar Fire program:

Spica (whose apparent Declination, by the way, is 11°11" South) traditionally represents the potential for brilliance.  One of  the great stars of the sky, Spica is the wheat sheaf being held by the goddess of fertility, the thousand-named Isis or the Christian Mary. Spica represents the gift of this goddess.  Once this gift used to be knowledge of cultivation.  Now Spica represents the goddess' gift of new knowledge and gives a potential for brilliance to any chart it touches.

"New knowledge" is certainly what is being sought.  As Spiritual seekers, might we not also use this "deep impact" to explore the deepest origins of the Universe within.  In doing so, to realize that the potential for brillaince that Spica promises illuminates our own God-Conscious Selves.  And realizing that, to act accordingly in the World.

Johnny

PS:  This might have significant impact on those with Planets or points at about 23-24° of the Cardinal Signs, Aries, Libra, Cancer and Capricorn.