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Stanton St Bernard, nr Alton Barnes, Wilshire. Reported 12th August.
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Stanton St.
Bernard: six conjunctions of Venus with the Sun until a rare transit
on June 6, 2012
Previously I and many other people interpreted
Stanton St. Bernard as the Mayan number six, meaning "six days from
August 12 until August 18". That interpretation was evidently wrong.
But still we would like to understand what the crop artists were
telling us?
After further study, it became clear: the planet Venus entered an
inferior conjunction between Earth and the Sun on August 18, 2007
(as shown at
West Kennet on July 25). Hence there will be precisely
six more conjunctions of Venus with the Sun, until
we see a rare transit of Venus between Sun and Earth
on June 6, 2012!
The time required to go from any Venus conjunction to another
(inferior to superior or vice-versa) equals 292 days. Hence 6 x 292
= 1752 days separate August 18, 2007 from June 6, 2012 (www.transitofvenus.org).
Such transits only happen once every 105 to 121 years (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus).
The Mayans would sometimes show twelve constellations of the zodiac
as a ring of 12 small circles, with a somewhat larger 13th circle
placed between them to represent our Sun (www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/replicant/29/chapter8.htm).
That was what the "dot" at Stanton St. Bernard showed. Whenever
Venus is in conjunction, it will lie within that 13th circle too.
Jamie Maussan,
Wayland's Smithy 2005 and
Silbury 2004
Stanton St. Bernard seems to be the
first crop picture that refers to an upcoming transit between Venus
and our Sun in June 2012, as predicted by Jamie Maussan at
Wayland's Smithy in 2005. Now
that we finally understand the astronomy of Venus as shown at
Stanton St. Bernard, we can calculate the binary-hexadecimal dates
from Wayland's Smithy with greater accuracy:
0-0-0 = April 10, 1961 (conjunction of Venus with our Sun)
16-0-0 = March 28, 2013 (conjunction of Venus with our Sun,
52 years later)
13-10-7 = August 9, 2005 (precisely when that crop picture
appeared)
14-5-11 = November 20, 2007 (plus or minus two days)
Silbury 2004 also showed a Mayan
calendar, based on periodic conjunctions of Venus with our Sun. It
suggested 52 / 6 = 8.67 years from its date of appearance (August 2,
2004) until the end of that calendar, giving again March 28, 2013.
The transit of Venus shown at Stanton St. Bernard will occur 292
days earlier on June 6, 2012.
Other crop pictures such as
Chute Causeway
of July 26, 2007 may also relate to astronomical cycles of the
planet Venus, but require further study.
RED COLLIE
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Image
Steve Alexander Copyright 2007
RED COLLIE
Diagram by Andreas Müller
www.kornkreise-forschung.de /
www.cropcirclescience.org
Images Bert Janssen Copyright 2007
Stanton St. Bernard of August
12: six days left until a significant if unknown event on August
18
A
new crop picture from Stanton St. Bernard shows the ancient
Mayan symbol for number "6", as a long bar drawn just below a
filled circle (many thanks to Michelle Jennings
and Heather Horning for their quick and astute observations):
Furthermore, on close inspection, one can see that its "filled
circle" contains 13 smaller mini-swirls:
Taken together, both observations lead one to believe that those
crop artists are trying to tell us about "6 days" from
their ancient 13-month calendar (based on motions of Venus and
the Sun), where any month contained 20 days, and any year
contained 13 x 20 = 260 days.
The "long bar" in that same crop picture is skewed with respect
to a nearby tramline by approximately 10 degrees. Such a small
but precise angle might be intended to represent the small
angular fraction of "6 days" within any complete 260-day Mayan
year as (6 / 260) x 360 = 8.3 degrees. But I cannot be sure from
current photographs: would someone like to measure in the field?
Why would they show us the ancient Mayan symbol for "6 days"
right now, on a particular date of August 12, 2007?
In
the context of other pictures from 2007, this new message seems
to represent the continuation of some countdown until a
significant if unknown event on August 18. That same date was
implied symbolically at
East Field on July 7 in terms of "lunar
cycles", at
Sugar Hill on
August 1 in terms of "cube sundials",
and at
Pewsey on August 4 in terms of a "solar-lunar calendar".
The Sun and Venus are moving towards an inferior conjunction on
August 18, thereby ending their current 260-day Sun-Venus
calendar, and beginning another. So they could be trying to tell
us about that, or maybe something else entirely?
In the context of other pictures from 2004 or 2005, this new
message seems to represent the continuation of Mayan Sunstone
messages from
Silbury 2004 and
Wayland's Smithy 2005. The latter
also coded for a near-future date of August 16-19, 2007 in terms
of an ancient 52-year Sun-Venus calendar.
Field
orientation at Stanton St. Bernard:
close to moonset six days later
A new crop formation at Stanton
St. Bernard showed a long bar beneath a filled dot,
that clearly was meant to represent the Mayan number six.
Its message was
apparently "six days after this
current new Moon on
August 12, we may
see a
significant event on August 18".
A similar symbolism was shown
at East Field
on July 7, where lunar cycle IV began with a new Moon on
August 12, then proceeded for just
six days to an approximate 30% lunar phase on August
18, before
slowly tapering off into
nothing.
Another related symbolism
was shown at Pewsey
on August 4, which
gave a more precise
lunar phase of 32-34% following
the next new Moon (midnight
August 18 to early morning August 19 GMT).
The question then becomes: why
was Stanton St. Bernard oriented in the field toward one
particular direction on the
horizon? Might it
have something to do with the Moon? With that idea in mind,
I calculated moonrise and moonset for three relevant dates
using a program available on the web (http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/AltAz.html):
August 12: moonrise 0400, 57
degrees, 1% phase,
moonset 1900, 296 degrees, 0% phase
(new Moon)
August 18: moonrise 1100, 114
degrees, 26% phase,
moonset 2030, 240 degrees, 30% phase
(crescent Moon after six days)
August 19: moonrise 1200, 122
degrees, 36% phase,
moonset 2100, 234 degrees, 39% phase.
(crescent Moon after seven days)
Judging from
published photos or Google Earth,
Stanton St. Bernard seems
to point on the
horizon to an azimuth of approximately 230-240
degrees, or 50-60
degrees south of the setting Sun at 290 degrees. Thus
it seems to
point to where a
crescent Moon of 30% phase will set on the night of August
18 at 2030, six
days later. Its
Mayan number "six" therefore takes on additional
significance!
A few notes on the
origin of modern crop pictures
Why do solar and lunar symbols
keep appearing in crop pictures from modern Wiltshire?
The most plausible answer would be that such pictures are
coming from an ancient culture who lived in the British
Isles (or central America) 4000 to 5000 years ago; and that
may be their "native language". Unlike us, they have not
forgotten the Sun, Moon or stars. Two excellent books titled
Sun, Moon and Stonehenge or Cracking the Stone
Age Code have been written by Robin Heath about those
ancient people (www.skyandlandscape.com/pdf/Thompresspack.pdf).
The logarithmic spiral which appeared
near
Stonehenge in July 1996, for example, may be
explained as a long-forgotten but fundamental aspect of
megalithic astronomy called the "lunation triangle". Other
lunar symbols appeared at Chiseldon in August 1996, that
agree precisely with phase and azimuth of the Moon on those
days (CCC archives). Hence the many lunar
observations noted above, for a crop season of 2007, seem to
follow well-established precedents from other seasons more
than 10 years earlier.
Click on hot spots to see previous
formations
July 1997 to June 2012 is close
to 15 years exactly.
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