Celestial Symbiosis

Two orbiting stars round a center of mass that’s common to both in the scheme is symbiotic in relationship class or so goes the titular theme for many descriptions of R Aquarii, a twosome of stars which portray white dwarf and red giant in midst of very co-interdependent ballet. From Greek the word symbiosis has import of living together in close long-term liaison of a mutual sort. In space there is one grandiose exhibiting steadily changing brightness o’er time for sidereal pair which interact in a stellar forthrightness of following paths doctrinaire. The affiliation will detonate blasts as white dwarf pulls stuff from giant; then each outburst into surrounding space casts the clay of creation pliant, ejected occasionally in bizarre looking loops to nebula shape out of binary dwarf giant system star as seen in celestial cloudscape. Denoting in Latin cup-carrier’s sway, Aquarius constellation is where seven hundred ten light-years away in Ptolemy’s adaptation this volatile symbiotic so-labeled arrangement astral is spotted ‘midst skies of zodiac water group fabled, stelliferously bedotted. Symbioses in nature upon our earth can be in biology viewed of various types, those of mutual worth or parasitically shrewd. Perhaps in a sense all is symbiotic whether or not we discern it on terrestrial realms and spheres aquatic, if so we’d do well to learn it and seek for the deepest dimensions there are within and without our being both nearby plus unimaginably far beyond the ones we are seeing. When we notion of symbiotic expand to include each effect and cause from smallest that’s made to cosmically grand that thought might indeed give us pause. ~ Harley White