janus+diana

~ self assertion & integration ~
~ withdrawal & return ~

"... if an ideal photographer with a perfect camera took a picture of the total universe at any given moment, the picture would be to some extent fuzzy, owing to the indeterminate state of its ultimate constituents. ... physicists' statements about sub-atomic processes can only refer to probabilities, not to certainties; in the micro-world the laws of probability supplant those of causality; 'nature is unpredictable' - to quote Heisenberg ... the Subatomic dance of Shiva ... creative anarchy"

Koestler, p249 1983

The name is generally explained as the masculine form of Diana (Jana), and Janus as originally a god of light and day, protector or shipping. Diana is essentially the goddess of the moon and light generally, and presides over wood, plain and water.