"...The spiral of your Endeavor circumnavigates stellar mass in a ricocheting fashion. First one bounce, then another, held in check by HelioStella's gravitational pull.”
“Can I draw this?”
“Indeed you could. You would however need to step outside the circumference of your perspective. To begin with, you need a polar mass out of balance, or distorted, so as to wobble around a bit. Were there no such mass to cause Nature to be out of balance, there would be a restoration of Terra’s forward momentum of Greatest Sort. In orbit of natural momentum, Right and Proper forward progression is insured. Imagine a softball encircling a greater ball, let’s say a basketball. Now divide a line down half the softball, tilt it away from the basketball at a 45 degree angle. Wherever you move it, always pointing away from the basketball.”
“Would I move it clockwise or counterclockwise on the inside orbit?” Showay wanted to be as accurate as possible.
“There is no clockwise or counterclockwise orbit. It is what is called greater and lesser orbit, or Heartfelt Desire. The rotational direction matters not for the moment. Now imagine the baseball floating around the bigger circumference of the larger ball. When it takes a turn toward the basketball, it dips down similar to Lumina's orbit of Terra. When Terra’s orbit reaches maximum solar intensity, it is thrust from its forward momentum into a sideways rotational orbit on a slight downward turn until at last it circumnavigates unto that vast portal called vacuum. There, it is thrust back again into rotational orbit of Greater Endeavor.”
Basically, Aurora is telling Showay that when Terra reaches one side around HelioStella, Terra first takes a turn toward the Sun and then, the Sun pushes Terra sideways and slightly down. This causes Terra to begin her “lesser orbit” around the back of the Sun until it reaches the other side of HelioStella, where she is pushed away from the Sun and into her “greater orbit” around the back of the Sun. Remember, Terra never crosses the front of the Sun.
My guess is that this orbital pattern would look like an elongated 8 or infinity sign if we were to draw this movement onto the surface of the Sun. That is to say, to the inhabitants of Terra, HelioStella would make an 8 or infinity pattern in the sky when observed over a year.
Curiously enough, when People on Earth track the Sun’s trajectory over a year, they see a similar pattern develop:
What you see on this picture, courtesy of wikipedia.org, is an analemmatic sundial that shows the Sun’s trajectory over a year. This one is located on the facade of the Royal Victoria Hotel, Pisa ,Italy.
In this picture (again courtesy of wikipedia.org), you see the diagram of a calculated analemma looking east in the northern hemisphere with the dates of the sun's position shown. [1]
Isn’t it odd how we continue to uncover all these similarities? Must be Purely a matter of perception.