Lunar cycle III began
at Cannings Cross on July 17
A new crop
picture that appeared at Cannings Cross on July 17 seems
to represent the continuation of an earlier theme, that began
somewhat earlier in the season at East Field on July 7. There we
saw four lunar phase cycles in highly schematic form, labelled
as "I, II, III, IV" in the
diagram below:
On the
hypothesis that each of three "full Moons" as shown at East
Field might lie within our current "2007 summer season", as
defined at Yatesbury from May 30 to August 24, one can assign
the full Moon from cycle I
to June 1, the full Moon from cycle
II to July 1, and the full
Moon from cycle III to
July 30.
Tentative
assignments were not enough however for our mysterious crop
artists! They wanted to make sure that we knew exactly when any
lunar cycle in the summer of 2007 might begin or end. So they
made a second picture in Germany around July 1, which showed the
traditional symbol for planet Venus in conjunction with our
Moon:
That
conjunction occurred on May 19. A few weeks later, Venus reached
its maximal elongation from the Sun (as seen from Earth) on June
8. Hence lunar cycle
I
should overlap significantly with May 19 to June 8, and indeed
it does. There was a new Moon on May 17 that proceeded to
full by June 1, then waned again to new on June 15.
Just to make
sure that we understood, those crop artists drew yet another
"eight circle" lunar phase diagram at Cannings Cross on July 17,
only three days after a new Moon on July 14 which began lunar
cycle III:
Lunar cycle
III will now continue to
full on July 30, then will wane again to new on August 13. Why
so much fuss over the Moon? So far as I can tell, they are
trying to inform us that lunar cycle
IV (the next one) will
somehow not be "normal". It will start normally enough on August
13 with a new Moon, but then will "come to an end" on August 18
just six days later (see above).
Clearly
their message is meant to be metaphorical. The Moon is not
suddenly going to leave its orbit on August 18! Still they do
seem to be trying to tell us something, and it might be wise if
we would listen? These new 2007 crop pictures seem to represent
a continuation of Wayland's Smithy 2005, Wayland's Smithy
2006 and Etchilhampton Hill 2006.
RED COLLIE |
