Crop Circle Countdown

This is not the first time that crop circles have indicated, emphatically, the importance of an upcoming date. A number of "solar system" crop circles in 1994 pointed toward a date six years in the future, on April 6 - 7, 2000. Crop circle researcher Andy Thomas wrote about this. I have reproduced some of his article below:

http://www.swirlednews.com/article.asp?artID=659

"Using the astronomical computer program ‘Red Shift 3’, Jack discovered that the West Stowell ‘galaxy’ of 1994 clearly showed a conjunction of the planets Mars, Saturn and Jupiter (the three rings) superimposed over a map of the star constellation Cetus (the small standing tufts). A particular phase of the moon (the small crescent) was also depicted. Comparison to star maps showed that this was an alignment which was indeed due to take place in that part of the sky at midnight GMT on the cusp of 6-7th April 2000! The formation’s depiction of this was compacted (to enable it to feature within one circular frame), but irrefutable.

The importance of this date and the accuracy of the interpretation was solidified when Jack Sullivan looked at the other two ‘galaxies’ of 1994 and found that they depicted the same alignment, but from slightly different zoom perspectives and with different emphasis upon individual elements of the charts. Encouraged by such positive results, Jack went on to look at several other past formations in an astronomical light and discovered other plainly predicted dates within their configurations.

…Finally, the night of 6/7th April 2000 arrived… The planetary conjunction itself was considered remarkable enough to make it into the newspapers (which had no knowledge or interest in the galaxy formations). One even carried a story that some believed an unexpected (and, to some, suspicious) computer crash on the English stock markets on 6 April – the first day of the UK’s new ‘tax year’ – might have been caused by an unusual energy configuration generated by the astronomical alignment. Others simply ran stories about the visual beauty of the conjunction, which would not be repeated for over three thousand years.

On the night of 6/7th April 2000, one of the largest solar storms of the century erupted on the Sun, flooding the Earth’s ionosphere with particles and creating the widest sighting of the aurora borealis across the UK and other parts of Europe for many years, usually being restricted to more northern regions (hence its more common name of ‘northern lights’). I was lucky enough to witness this effect as a strange shifting curtain of red light above Alton Barnes.

The solar storm, caused by an enormous flare thrown out by the Sun as it approached its eleven-year peak of sunspot activity, had been measured by some observatories as a G4 event on a scale of 1 to 5 – very big, threatening satellite communications and other electronic systems."

-- Andy Thomas

"Will the transformation."-Rilke

But they can predict solar cycles and intensity, if not specific dates (in response to Daniel's comment below: "Our scientists have no means for predicting such an event.")

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10mar_stormwarning.htm

From the link:

When the belt is turning "fast," it means that lots of magnetic fields are being swept up, and that a future sunspot cycle is going to be intense. This is a basis for forecasting: "The belt was turning fast in 1986-1996," says Hathaway. "Old magnetic fields swept up then should re-appear as big sunspots in 2010-2011." Like most experts in the field, Hathaway has confidence in the conveyor belt model and agrees with Dikpati that the next solar maximum should be a doozy. But he disagrees with one point. Dikpati's forecast puts Solar Max at 2012. Hathaway believes it will arrive sooner, in 2010 or 2011. "History shows that big sunspot cycles 'ramp up' faster than small ones," he says. "I expect to see the first sunspots of the next cycle appear in late 2006 or 2007—and Solar Max to be underway by 2010 or 2011."

Hello--

I may have missed it in the commentaries on the Stanton St. Bernard crop circle, but there are two other points of interest about the planetary configuration for August 18:

1) Venus's inferior conjunction with the Sun is happening exactly as the Sun enters Leo, and as Venus moves back into Cancer;

2) Venus will be at the same place as it was at the birth of the Virgin Mary. When I first saw the West Kennett circle (reported 7/25), I interpreted the pentagram inside the circle, the Venus symbol, and the crescent moon as a threefold symbol for Sophia, the Divine Feminine. In May 2000, traveling in Wiltshire with the Sophia Foundation of America, our group came upon -- at East Field, near Alton Barnes-- a newly made circle: the Venus pentagram inside a circle. We were delighted to have been greeted so warmly and in such a timely way by Sophia herself, and her elemental helpers!

The Virgin Mary became "Sophia Maria," having in her person incorporated an aspect of Sophia, just as Jesus of Nazareth incorporated into His being the Christ. It seems fitting then that on this day (August 18) when the cosmic configuration calls up the memory of the birth of the Virgin Mary, that the elemental beings of Nature are rejoicing, and have made a series of images for us to meditate upon. Perhaps it is their desire and hope that we begin to fashion a Grail vessel for Sophia's advent, just as they have been doing with their astonishing images in the Wiltshire fields. . .

Best wishes,

Kevin Dann

From August 15-21 the Shipibo-Konibo tribe are conducting Merayabo Tsinkitash Rao Jiwiki Bewakani - Shipibo-Konibo Ritual for the Healing of the Master Plants.

The opening of the ritual is on the 17th. On the 18th at 10am begins Ritual at the foot of the Planta Maestra "Shihuahuaco".

This tree is sometimes used to build bridges.

and, interesting about the 2000 solar storm, since Shihuahuaco is sometimes used as an antipyretic, the reduction of fever.

On the 19th is Ritual for the Planta Maestra "Renaco"

Renaco may alow one to be able to travel under the water.

The line and dot, turned 90'cw could resemble a bridge with a sun.

I am ever the optimist. However, with the recent earthquakes and falling bridges, I wouldnt be surprised if a bridge is washed out on that day.

On the other hand, while tragic and deeply saddening, the destruction of such infrastructure may point to a 'universal' way of life, living with the stars, planets, earth and so on. Rather than with concrete, steel and grids.

Yet it feels to me best to help direct and encourgage these powerful synchronicities and energies towards the best possible outcomes.

sure, place your bets on what -may- occur.

Or set your intention on what you would Love to occur.

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Whether by bridge or underwater travel, we cross over on the continued path.

Earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, volcanoes.

If everything has an equal and opposite reaction... then there must be some earth-shattering, consciousness-flooding things going on.

Part of what these formations and indications are telling us is that there actually and truly some amazing things occuring all the time. Of incredible magnitude.

Yet many are tuned into (and turning on) the destruction and horror.

Part of what we can do is decide upon and present eruptions of beauty, whirlwinds of amazement.

In other words, what's the opposite of 9/11? What is the opposite of an earthquake?

A sign, like a 'stop sign', a crop circle- isn't necessarilly a thing that one is supposed to fixate upon, per se. It is usually something that tells one to slow down and take a look around before proceeding further.

Perhaps a crop circle is the opposite of a hurricane?

I'm catching this post on August 21, a few days past the anticipated "due date" of August 18th. However, I think it's worth pointing out that the circle’s appearance date (August 12th), in addition to being the date of the new moon, is also roughly the date that Venus’s visibility as an evening star ended. Venus then reached inferior conjunction with the sun on August 18th, and then will make its first appearance as a morning star on August 22nd or 23rd.

If the Maya numeral “six” in the crop circle is intended as a countdown indicator, then one must know at what date to begin counting. Obviously, it could be August 12th, the circle’s appearance date. But if the timing of the appearance is related to the Venus events in August, one could logically begin the count at August 18th or even the date of its first appearance as morning star. Both of these times can be seen as symbolic starting points in Venus’s 584-day synodic cycle.

Maya lore on Venus is quite interesting, and has been explored in depth by author Bruce Scofield. For one view on what’s happening this month, see the article “Venus Switches from Evening Star to Morning Star - Hold on to your Hat.” It can be found at:

http://www.onereed.com/journal/archives/00000008.php

There has been quite a bit of creativity shown in the application of Mayan calendar theory to explain this circle, and in many ways, it has served as a kind of rorschach of the month. As Daniel Pinchbeck wisely points out, some time may need to pass before its meaning becomes apparent to us.