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Moonlady Showcase
Earth Prayer
I want you to take a moment and feel where you are. Does it seem like youâre moving really fast? At this moment, weâre zooming along in an oval loop around the Sun at eighteen and a half million miles per second. And we're also spinning on our axis really fast, like a top through space thatâs quite a bit tilted. We live in a universe of celestial dervishes, circles inside circles inside spirals in the sky.
Along with 100 trillion other stars, the Sun and its solar system of planets, moons and meteorites is about two-thirds of the way out in our flat disc-shaped spiral galaxy. In the summer sky we can see how one of the spiral arms encircles us as the Milky Way. We all careen through the universe together, revolving every 225 million years around the galactic core. This is our cosmic year.
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Try to imagine that a universe of stars and clusters, galaxies and nebulae, dark matter and black holes, is above our galaxy, below our galaxy and around us on all sides. Yet this universe may itself be a part of something greater, which may be part of something greater still. In this cosmic vastness, the Earth is vulnerable, encased in a thin fragile atmosphere of trusting blue.
Open your eyes more often and experience life. Look at the trees, their branches and leaves, the way their roots snarl and turn into the ground, the insect burrows and birds nests held in its boughs. They give without obligation, progress without intent. They are art from the process of life, the way life was intended to be. Think about the Sun setting into the western sky and contemplate that the Sun is a star, a star in a universe of stars. It is our star and we are the third planet from its edge.
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