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Monday November 2, 2009

Categories: Mysteries

Crop circles in Brazil

by Lynn Hayes

Crop circles don't have anything to do with astrology, and perhaps they have no place in an astrology blog.  But I love a good mystery (my Mercury is in Scorpio - there!  I made an astrological connection). 

From Professor A.J. Gevaerd, via Colin Andrews:

[O]n October 29th, in the same town of Ipuaçu, by a few miles from the precise spot here last year's circles have been found, a new sign in a wheat plantation was registered. This time, however, it is nothing like a circle, but a figure far more complex and with precise measures in its internal features. Take a look at the diagram:

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The case was first reported by newsman Ivo Luis Dohl, consultant of the Brazilian UFO magazine, who lives nearby and was the same investigator to report last year's cases. He is on site 24/7 evaluating this new case and waiting for others to come, and in permanent contact with the magazine HQ in Curitiba. This new circle was found by Bernardete Trevisan, who lives in the área where the formation was found. She called Vagner Visoli, officer from the City Hall, who went to the place and called Ivo Dohl. 

Visoli was the first to arrive at the formation area and assured the Brazilian UFO Magazine that he found no indication of human action at all. No footprints, not tractor tracks (except for old ones produced during plantation process, weeks before), no indication at all of how the formation was produced. With lots of experience in wheat plantation, however, Visoli was afraid to enter the formation. He took the first pictures, which were sent for analysis.  The origin of this new crop formation is not known yet. However, agricultural technicians have assured that there is no method, equipment or instrument that could produce such effect on the plants and cause them to lay down so tidy as it can be seen in the photos.  Besides, nothing could cause the plants to bent and form such precise figure. 

So far, this has been what is believed to be the first Brazilian crop formation in 2009, and if this country has really entered in this phenomena last year, as reported above, it is reasonable to expect that many more formations would happen this year. The Brazilian UFO Magazine team is prepared to investigate and report any new activity.  

The question of why crop circles mainly turn up in one area (Wiltshire) in Britain is an interesting one.  If these circles are hoaxes, and so easily made as some claim, why are copycats not making circles all over the world, particularly in the United States where there are plenty of wheat fields?  The circles that have turned up elsewhere have been notably inferior and more obviously hoaxes, such as this one in Germany.  

As I wrote before, I suspect that these circles might have some relation to the British secret service.  In any case, it's a fascinating mystery!

Friday October 30, 2009

Categories: Mysteries

Stalin's astrological secrets

by Lynn Hayes

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You don't think of Communist Russia as being a hotbed of astrological thought, but evidently Stalin's seven Moscow skyscrapers were part of a plan to rebuild Moscow with astrological symbolism (hat tip to Astrococktail):

Rumor has it that Stalin planned to re-build Moscow to make it look like a Zodiac table. The metro loop line with 12 stations and nine skyscrapers representing planets were designed for these purposes. The Exhibition of Economic Achievements and the Ostankino TV Tower were to represent an asteroid belt. The metro loop line and the skyscrapers were built concurrently.

I'm not sure what a "zodiac table" would look like, but although there's little evidence to prove that Stalin was a devotee of astrology, there's no doubt that occult sciences played a major role in the scramble for power that followed World War I.  The occult practice of the Nazis are well-documented, and since Stalin was a bitter enemy of Hitler it would not be surprising if Stalin secretly pursued occult methods of gaining power.  

Philosophies of the Russian Revolution centered around the use of science to improve the state (a very Uranian concept!) and astrology in many ways aligns science with mysticism.  In any case, it's an interesting and thought-provoking article!

Monday October 26, 2009

Categories: Mysteries

Holy Spaceman!

From the Telegraph:

The sergeant, who has not been named, was off-duty when he saw the figuresstanding in a field near Silbury Hill, and stopped his car to investigate.

However, as he approached the 'men' - all over 6ft tall with blond hair - he heard "the sound of static electricity" and the trio ran away ''faster than any man he had ever seen''.

Wiltshire Police has refused to comment on the incident, saying it is a ''personal matter'' for the officer involved.The officer returned to his home in Marlborough, Wiltshire, and contacted paranormal experts and told them he had spotted a UFO.

Crop circle researcher Andrew Russell, who is investigating the bizarre sighting on behalf of the officer, described the moment his sighting was made.

He said: ''At first he thought they were forensic officers as they were dressed in white coveralls. He stopped his car and approached the field.

''The figures were all over 6ft and had blond hair. They seemed to be inspecting the crop. When he got to the edge of the field he heard what he believed to be a sound not dissimilar to static electricity.

''This crackling noise seemed to be running through the field and the crop was moving gently, close to where the noise was.

''He shouted to the figures who, at first, ignored him, not glancing at him. When he tried to enter the field they looked up and began running.

''He said; 'They ran faster than any man I have ever seen. I'm no slouch but they were moving so fast. I looked away for a second and when I looked back they were gone.


Update:  Something is a little fishy about this.  Crop Circle Connector, a website that details all of the latest crop circles, is showing no circles in September or October yet the report was of aliens standing by a freshly made circle.  I will continue to investigate this matter, and please feel free to add your own comments!

Thursday September 3, 2009

Categories: Mysteries

13 things scientists don't understand

I love a good mystery, and you probably do too.  Check out these 13 THINGS SENT TO TRY US from Michael Brooks via New Scientist - it's almost enough to make you think there is more to this Universe than scientists can understand: 

1.  Radiation left from the big bang is still glowing in the sky - in a mysterious and controversial pattern.

2.  Something unseeable and far bigger than anything in the known universe is hauling a group of galaxies towards it at inexplicable speed.

3.  Tens of millions of years ago, the average temperature at the poles was 15 or 20 °C. Now let's talk about climate change!

4.  Space probes using Earth's gravity to get a slingshot speed boost are moving faster than they should. Call in dark matter.

5.  The fusion of two distinct evolutionary lines is not supposed to work - but the seas are teeming with chimeras that prove it can.

The other 8 mysteries and more details on each one here...

Friday July 10, 2009

Categories: Mysteries, Religion, Venus

Lucifer: Satan, or Venus?

by Lynn Hayes

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I was taking in my daily dose of hilarity on Matthew's blog this morning where he has a post about asteroids that begins with a comment about Lincoln's Sun being conjunct Lucifer which has caused some astrologers to say that Lincoln is the Antichrist"  

The whole thing about Lucifer being Satan is bizarre to me.  Lucifer is the "Light Bringer," the "Morning Star."  So how did he get from bringing the light to representing the devil?  This article from the Theosophical University Press has some interesting information on the subject.

Lucifer means lightbringer, from the Latin lux "light" and ferre "to bear or bring." The word Lucifer is found in only one place in the Bible -- Isaiah 14:12 -- but only in the King James and related versions: "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! . . ."  In other translations we find: "O shining star of the dawn!" (Moffatt) or "O morning-star, son of the dawn!" (Hebrew Bible). The King James Version is based on the Vulgate, the Latin translation of Jerome. Jerome translated the Hebrew helel (bright or brilliant one) as "lucifer," which was a reasonable Latin equivalent. And yet it is this lucifer, the bright one or lightbearer, that came to be understood by so many as the name for Satan, Lord of Darkness.

Lucifer is mentioned only in the Old Testament, and Satan doesn't come into the picture until the New Testament. Jesus is also known as the "Morning Star" in the New Testament, which confuses the issue even more. 

But before either the Old or New Testament, Venus was known as the "Morning Star."  Plato, who is thought to have been born in 428 b.c.e. and therefore predates the New Testament and some of the rewrites of the Old Testament, wrote in his work called Timaeus:

Time, then, and the heaven came into being at the same instant in order that, having been created together, if ever there was to be a dissolution of them, they might be dissolved together. It was framed after the pattern of the eternal nature, that it might resemble this as far as was possible; for the pattern exists from eternity, and the created heaven has been, and is, and will be, in all time. Such was the mind and thought of God in the creation of time. The sun and moon and five other stars, which are called the planets, were created by him in order to distinguish and preserve the numbers of time; and when he had made their several bodies, he placed them in the orbits in which the circle of the other was revolving -- in seven orbits seven stars. First, there was the moon in the orbit nearest the earth, and next the sun, in the second orbit above the earth; then came the morning star and the star sacred to Hermes, moving in orbits which have an equal swiftness with the sun, but in an opposite direction; and this is the reason why the sun and Hermes and Lucifer overtake and are overtaken by each other.

Plato clearly here is speaking of Lucifer as being the actual planet Venus, with Hermes as being the planet Mercury, "moving in orbits which have an equal swiftness with the Sun."  

It appears that the misogyny of the early Solar cults and the later Roman church might have had a part to play in linking the feminine Venus with Satan:

There are also many pre-Christian myths and allegories that include stories about Lucifer, which is the Latin name for the Greek Eosphoros. ... In the oldest Zoroastrian allegories, Mithra is supposed to have conquered the planet Venus. In the Christian tradition, Michael defeats Lucifer.

So we see that in the Zoroastrian myth the solar resurrected god Mithra conquers the Divine Feminine as represented by Venus, just as the archangel Michael in later Christian mythology conquers Lucifer.  The Solar cults, of which Christian is just the most recent, feared the mythic power of the Divine Feminine and perhaps this is one of the reasons for the confusion over Lucifer's true identity.

Friday June 5, 2009

Categories: Mysteries

Crop circles are getting weirder

Some conspiracy theoriest speculate that crop circles are being made by satellite transmitters that have been programmed with mind control messages.  That seems rather far out until you read this:The 2009 crop circle 'season' started with abundance and now looks...

Wednesday April 29, 2009

Categories: Conspiracy, Mysteries

Ceres and the Swine Flu Connection

by Lynn HayesOne of the interesting blogs you'll find in my blogroll is Todd Chapman's "Through the Looking Glass."  Todd is an avid watcher of meaningful connections, and he has over time made an fascinating study of connections involving Ceres....

Sunday March 29, 2009

Categories: Mysteries

More thoughts on Planetary Reincarnation and how astrology works

by Lynn HayesI'm reading an out-of-print book by astrologer Ry Redd called Toward a New Astrology that is quite interesting.  Redd went through thousands of Cayce's readings and extracted the astrological signatures for each individual.  It is astounding that Cayce,...

Wednesday March 4, 2009

Categories: Mysteries

More evidence of ancient civilizations

Rich sent me this link about an ancient site at Göbeklitepe in southwest Turkey that appears to be around 12,000 years old:----------------------------------The Göbeklitepe monuments were created twelve thousand years ago. In other words, 10,000 years before the founding of the Roman...

Friday February 6, 2009

Categories: Mysteries

5000 year old solar calendar in Canada!

Rich sent me this link, and this is a wonderful example of the way new discoveries (Uranus) often have to battle with old and rigid ideologies (Saturn).   An academic maverick is challenging conventional wisdom on Canada's prehistory by claiming...

Thursday January 15, 2009

Categories: Mysteries

Comet Holmes and the Blue Star Kachina

My post the other day on Philip Sedgwick's blog cited an article by Bruce Fenton on his site 2012 Rising about the Hopi "Blue Star Kachina" prophecy.  My post echoed Philip's dismissal of Comet Holmes as the "Blue Star Kachina"...

Sunday December 14, 2008

Categories: Astronomy, Mysteries

The Tale of the Antikythera Mechanism

by Lynn HayesA new video shows a reconstruction of the Antikythera Mechanism by museum curator Michael Wright:  This is an extremely sophisticated device using a 19-year lunar cycle, which corresponds to the 19-year cycle of the lunar nodes.  New Scientist...

Sunday August 17, 2008

Categories: Mysteries

History of the Olympics: "A Race Against Time"

Thanks to the Magi Astrologers for posting this fascinating article about the origin of the Olympics.  The most common myths report that Zeus (Jupiter) started the Olympics to celebrate his victory in a battle over Kronos (Saturn), but Valerie Vaughan...

Sunday August 10, 2008

Categories: Mysteries

New crop circle found August 8, 2008

image by Frank Laumen. This crop circle was found at 5:30 am.  The Crop Circle Connector field report seems to suggest that it was made using mechanical means, but it's a fascinating image nonetheless. Harold Stryderight tells us that the...

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