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21 June 2009 - 9:10pm | 
http://www.fullmoon.nu/dntoerth.htm
[ attractors ] -show how the system changes over time. Even the most complicated systems of nature, when plotted mathematically in phase space and followed over time, stay within a certain measure but, within this measure, the orbits of the system never intersect, indicating that the system never exactly repeats itself, but neither do the orbits wander off in unpredictable ways. In other words, the system is attracted to an inescapable overall behavior and the resulting shape of this creative confinement is quite distinctive. It is the shape of the Strange Attractor.
Edward Lorenz, one of the pioneers of Chaos, describes an attractor as "a limit set that is not contained in any larger limit set and from which no orbits emanate". Which means, in plain English, a simple description of all the conditions that could possibly occur. In the weather machine, for example, we must include all temperatures between about -45° to +45° (Celsius) as being possible across the planet as a whole, all wind speeds from 0 up to about 200 mph, all precipitations from 'none' to 5" hailstones, etc. A Strange Attractor is an attractor with a self-similar or fractal nature. In essence, an attractor is the working out of all the possibilities within a certain frame of reference and the expression of the whole through its self-similar parts. There is likewise a continuum that each astrological symbol represents and a continual process by which the invisible upper levels of the astrological filter down into the realm of eventualities.
The Strange Attractor is a bizarre blend of determinism and chaos. It consists of a number of curves and directions, yet the big picture it gives us is always predictable. Lorenz has compared the earth's climate to a strange attractor, "...the attractor", he states, "is simply the climate, that is, the set of weather patterns that have at least some chance of occasionally occurring." The day to day weather fluctuations we experience make up the background chaos of the earth's climate, which in turn defines the equilibrium level of the system - the attractor - the overall predictable form a system will take. Otherwise stated, the overall global form (the attractor) is predictable - the local details within the overall form are not.
Astrology also exhibits this type of behavior, and it too has its Strange Attractors. You see, contained within the chart's overall form are the factors of the signs and planets, and each is itself an attractor of sorts...
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