The Black Hole, the Fate & Trusting the Shape – hera, the black hole, and a podcast episode

This episode is from Sabrina Monarch's podcast, in which i finally go off about my favorite thing - how the black hole at the center of our galaxy is holding us in place.
This episode is from February 2025, so I'm just a little late getting it up, lol.

The black hole thing is something I talk about so often, it's a running joke with my friends. When I learned about this, it actually changed my worldview. I believed, like many believe, that the world is slowly sliding toward the black hole. I had seen physics documentaries of einsteinian visions of spacetime - the massive gravitational well distends space, as well as time, bringing everything in its orbit slowly toward it. It was eating us.

This fundamental misunderstanding of how the black hole works is a metaphor for the entire nihilistic worldview. This was a view i ... i'm not sure whether to say 'sacrificed' or 'was saved from' here... when i became more godpilled. But even then, I thought we were sliding toward the hole. I thought, even if there was a pattern to the cosmos that we could speak to, see, feel, and communicate with, it must at its center have a murderous dark that wants to kill us.

Why did i think that? It reflects the world we live in, both in an irony poisoned world where religion has harmed many, which then tried to replace the job of religion with empiricism - and the governing forces that control the material means that shape our world. These people do not care about us. They do not care if we die. As above, so below. ^*

Now, there's no getting around death. But the black hole isnt going to kill us. Not now, nor ever. That's because we are in stable orbit around the hole. we aren't going to slide into her mouth. The black hole is holding us. Her massive body is the skeleton on which the entire galaxy rests. Not devouring Kronos, but Mother Saturn. This is now a blog post about Hera, whose milk, it is said, formed the Milky Way itself.

The black hole in sagittarius is the reason the galaxy exists. It lets our body- the earth, our solar system, and every constellation you know the name of- hang out together in her arms, at 1.3 million miles per hour. She is our neighborhood. Our temple. Our home.

The devouring void is a lifegiving force. It's a skeleton. Saturn rules the bones. The purpose of power and structure is to facilitate life. And the things that made me think the hole is evil? Those things are an aberation against the natural order. We should treat them accordingly. "Black bad." "woman bad." I have heard these things before. And

She eats some things, but only those that cross her border. She is not the insatiable, all devouring force I thought she was. Anti-hole propoganda told me that the greatest powers in the universe will crush us. But she won't, any more than the sun would eat us for fuel. Like, thank you. Thank you hole.

There is an even bigger thing, beyond her, that is doing this for and even bigger chunk of space. As the black hole is to the galaxy what the sun is to our solar system, there is a thing called The Great Attractor that is doing that job - holding the shape - for hundreds of galaxies, including ours. We have no idea what that thing is. We will never be able to see it, because the very things she is pulling toward her are blocking her from our sight, in the same way the optic nerve is impossible to see. As above, so below.

This unseeable, unknowable, cosmic exoskeleton is the reason we are all here. I feel this when I try and think about fate patterns,and how such a world exists where we can know our fate through omens, divination, astrology. And even try to change it with magic. There's a Shape- one that can not be apprehended, because it is obscure, in the way the milky way obscures the great attractor. But it is felt.

I am personally just reassured by the understanding that the world doesn't slide toward the dark. It is held by it.

Here's the podcast episode.

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*I have recently been inspired by talking to Imani harmon (as recently as today, in a conversation wherein she described her views on fate as a tool of white supremacy), and aidan wachter, who gave a great talk at North Star. Both inspire me to include the parts of me in my writing that are thinking about how magic & worldview intersect with conditions like structural racism, climate collapse, and the situation where several billionaires rule the entire world (poorly). thanks guys