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Saturn’s Hexagon Emerges

posted by Lynn Hayes | 7:31am Friday December 11, 2009

by Lynn Hayes

 
Many people who know nothing about astrology have often heard of the Saturn Return, and the very mention of the astrological Saturn causes those with the strongest hearts to quake in their boots.  But Saturn is an amazing planet astrological that offers rich gifts along with its famous tests and challenges.
Back in the early 1980s the hexagon that encircles Saturn was first discovered by NASA’s Voyager, but the recent images offer more details than were previously known.  
Scientists are still trying to figure out what causes the hexagon, where it gets and expels its energy and how it has stayed so organized for so long. They plan to search the new images for clues, taking an especially close look at the newly identified waves that radiate from the corners of the hexagon — where the jet takes its hardest turns — and the multi-walled structure that extends to the top of Saturn’s cloud layer in each of the hexagon’s six sides. Scientists are also particularly intrigued by a large dark spot that appeared in a different position in a previous infrared image from Cassini. In the latest images, the spot appears in the 2 o’clock position.

Because Saturn does not have land masses or oceans on its surface to complicate weather the way Earth does, its conditions should give scientists a more elementary model to study the physics of circulation patterns and atmosphere, said Kevin Baines, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., who has studied the hexagon with Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer.

“Now that we can see undulations and circular features instead of blobs in the hexagon, we can start trying to solve some of the unanswered questions about one of the most bizarre things we’ve ever seen in the solar system,” Baines said. “Solving these unanswered questions about the hexagon will help us answer basic questions about weather that we’re still asking about our own planet.”

The hexagon pattern is famously found in snowflakes, honeycombs, and other crystals in nature.  In ancient magickal traditions the hexagram, made up of two equilateral triangles, is the Seal of Solomon (later called the Star of David).  The six lines of the hexagram divide the figure into seven parts, and Saturn is the seventh planet.
In Masonic rites, the Star of David is associated with Saturn worship and talismans dedicated to the god Saturn held a hexagram according to Israel Regardie, an occult practitioner of the early 20th century.  And Lesser and Greater Banishing RItuals of the Hexagram are found in many magickal traditions.
Somewhere along the way Saturn became corrupted as Satan which didn’t help Saturn’s reputation much.  But the synchronicity of Saturn’s association with the hexagram and the fact that Saturn is itself embedded in a hexagram is pretty amazing. 


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Grish

posted December 11, 2009 at 1:07 pm


Reading this information on the occult significance of the star of David, I can’t help but wonder, what with the jewish sabbath being on a Saturday (saturn’s day), and with orthodox judaism’s extreme emphasis on hundreds rules and rituals for every aspect of life from eating to dressing to menstruation, whether the God of judaism is actually the planet Saturn.
And if you use each religion’s holy day as an indicator, Christianity with it’s Sabbath on Sunday is a form of sun worship (jesus was born on 25th December on the winter solstice when the sun is reborn each year etc), and Islam could well be Venus worship as their holy day is a Friday.



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Kieron

posted December 11, 2009 at 6:42 pm


Grish, that is the most interesting collection of insights! Thanks for sharing this. However I might suggest taking into consideration the way Islam uses the Moon to determine certain holidays, and many Islamic countries have a crescent moon on their national flags, and so on. I have no proof of any sort, just some observations.



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laura Mullen

posted December 12, 2009 at 2:50 pm


Hi Lynne,
Thanks for this article. Have you looked at Richard C. Hoagland’s website? Check it out. Amazing stuff about geometric physics.
Love and light,
Laura



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Lynn Hayes

posted December 13, 2009 at 4:41 am


Hi Laura, Hoagland’s website is indeed fascinating, but I have to say I haven’t looked at it for quite a few years. Thanks for the reminder!



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