We are temporal beings here for our average three score and ten, while even the puniest planet endures for billions of years. But this is exactly the kind of Capricornian stuff that we are now on the verge of leaving behind. In a relativistic universe all are connected all the time. We have the sheer mass of the planets weighed against an individual person. Well, if the planets influence us, we must influence them.
Energy flows both ways.
The deeper message is that human experience has meaning beyond the personal. Life is cosmic. We are cosmic. And we are at a time in our human history when we are preparing to rediscover this. All of the current UFO stories are reminders that we are not really islanders separate from the rest of the universe.