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  • Wise men follow the Stars

    The Star of Bethlehem, a UFO, fabrication, or astronomical computation?

    https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/star-of-bethlehem-stopping-comet

    The fixed date of December 25th when the Christians mark the birth on Earth of the son of God stands as a bit of an anomaly in these deep winter weeks in the northern hemisphere, although taken to its logical conclusion, the outcome is very clear.

    Helios at Winter Solstice has an overarching logic. Incrementally the Light from the Sun moves down the horizon, rising and setting lower and lower in east and west until that deep place of pause around the 21st, given as 3:03pm GMT this year in clock accuracy, and laid out by the priests of olde as in the evidence at Newgrange where the newborn Light of the World enters the small portal above the entrance at the turn again from Tropic of Capricorn on its way up to the Tropic of Cancer. We know now that the tilt of Earth on its axis produces this effect but Light is light, and life within the atmosphere depends on it, and which is why in times past the reality of food supplies, frozen winters, circadian rhythms, and the survival of a small society depended on knowing ‘the time of the year.’

    In pre written calendar times the knowledge of passing of time during the dark months would be very useful, and it was known, as Newgrange demonstrates, and the work of Prof. Alex Thom has measured. Prof. Thom, 1894-1985 grew up in 55′-56’N and although his extensive work was roundly put aside by the growing scientific disciplines and specialisms and sub divisions, his work has been proved, and back in those days, life on Earth was in 3d. Not on a digital screen, but from one place and one place only on Earth, in a landscape, with the vast arc of the starry sky overhead. With his son, Dr. Archie Thom, and Dr Euan MacKie, another independent worker therefore able to observe natural facts, their body of written work of astroarchaeology stands as a comprehensive and systematic portrayal of the comprehensive and systematic activity of Neolithic societies in ancient Briton and western Atlantic seaboard. What is astroarchaeology? In a nutshell it could be said to be the societal functioning in alignment with Earth, Helios, Selene, and the brightest stars in the sky at that time.

    https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2009.00368.x https://theorkneynews.scot/2024/12/29/book-review-walking-in-all-of-the-squares-alexander-thom-engineer-and-archaeoastronomer/

    https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781784918330

    Prof. Thom, Dr Euan MacKie, 1936-2020 and down to the present day of Duncan Lunan continuing the work https://www.duncanlunan.com/thestonesandthestars.asp

    With the geographer’s eye and knowledge again, Robin Heath – Bluestone Magic, Temple in the Hills (Bluestone Press) in 2016, right into the big scientific data era, shows how humans marked out their calendar, as did all human societies over Earth as the available Light of the Sun moved from the tilt of the Earth, and some still do. Robin Heath –https://www.skyscript.co.uk/moonheath.html – speaks of what all native societies practice, because there is nothing else. T

    he Hebrew calendar in the ancient Middle East marked festival days from lunar and solar correlations, making it not an exact ‘modern calendar’ day, just as the first Full Moon of the new Lunar cycle in Anglo-Saxon pagan was known as the Wolf Moon, from the sound of wolves calling in the cold, then icy, nights. And beyond the Anglo-Saxons, Germanic Yule and Scandinavian Jol, fortunately for them less interrupted societal practices and still active participation with Odin and Freya and the pantheon of gods and godesses and alignment with the true facts of Sol and Earth, enter the Jul Blot in accordance with the dying and rebirth of the Light. Drinking and feasting and sacrificing, it is in the rising again of the Light of the World.

    Yule now put, especially among us pagan folk, as the 21st December being keen to reinstate something of societal stability based on reality in the ‘UK’ is not Celtic but fully Germanic and Norse, and is not the date of 21st December. That is the Winter Solstice itself. With the traumatic history of Britain from Christian belief, it is relative and not intended as actually wrong, merely the best that we can do under difficult circumstances of the last 1,500 years. Constantine’s 336 CE declaring Christianity the official state religion required a festival day, in true pagan practice, and the allocation of 25th of December as the birth of Jesus Christ can be read as a, or the, major departure from the real facts of humans upon the Earth. The evidence shows Constantine acted from political expediency for all the reasons that study of that period open up, but from western society on a mass of spinning rock in space, the fixing of a son of a god in the sky born in a manger on December 25th puts the Son of the Christian god and the Sun, Helios, Sol, An Ghrian, which is the fundamental fact of existence on Earth in direct conflict. At first, and for several 100s of years, the Christian festival on December 25th merged in with the traditional Roman feast of Sol Invictus, given by Aurelian in 274 CE as the official Roman cult, the Unconquered Sun, because no human can conquer the Sun, and the fun of Saturnalia, merged in with the Jewish month of Kislev. The eastern Mediterranean peoples were Greeks, Jews, Romans, with the centres of Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople and Ephesus. We here in Britain were definitely still barbarians in that time. Study of the switch from the Sun to the Son tends to stay within history and not theology, for the reason of this fundamental and unreconcilable belief in facts. Belief in the Son leads away from Earth into a place so unconnected with Earth that it is hard to see in 2025 nearly 2026 how folks can still hold such beliefs, but they do. Belief in the Sun, in the inevitable moving down the horizon into winter months, the portal of Winter Circle of stars, magnitude one stars, bright and clear, of Capella, Aldebaran, Rigel, Sirius, Procyon, and Pollux, with Orion clear in the middle, and the vast history of human societies into the portal, down, and out into the reborn Light, as one human gets incrementally older and passes on into spirit, and new humans are born, but always contained within the majestic facts of Earth and Sol, Earth and Sky.

  • Winter Solstice 2025, the 4.5 billionth-ish on Earth

    21st of December 2025 in the northern hemisphere is the ‘Winter Solstice’ and in the modern era possible to measure the exactitude in minutes, which this year on Greenwich Mean Time was 3:03pm when the Light of An Ghrian, Helios, the Sun, Ra, Sol, is in the pause above 23.5’S, named the Tropic of Capricorn, does pause for a few days. This is not to take time out and consider whether to return north or just continue south and soon leave the Earth is an awful cold and dark, not to mention spinning off somewhere in space from the lack of gravity, but from the tilt of Earth which creates this slight shift from north to south hemispheres. Helios will be born again,

    It all makes sense from the bigger picture when the human sees the models, or nowadays on a digital screen, and can see how from a northern latitude’s position the corresponding exact equal and opposite is experienced in the southern hemisphere (half – of Earth) because geometry is geometry, and luckily gravity holds it all in place.

    So 3:03pm GMT, or UTC now but between Helios and Earth the name of the line is irrelevant and the human drawn line of longitude Pole to Pole only states the fact that Winter Solstice in northern hemisphere equals Summer Solstice over the equator and down into the south Pole. This is the fact.

    However, it could be said that in the exactitude of modern measurement now down to 3:03pm for us in GMT, the word Solstice itself has got lost. Like so much in the Protestant ‘west’ which has gone further and further into detail and data and data and detail, the Heliostasio for the Greeks and the Solstitium for the Romans was not a minute or an hour or a day but as the name says, the stand still, the pause.

    The latitude of Athens at 38’N and Rome 42’N is itself a difference, but in the geographical Mediterranean lands the history is interconnected and the necessity to observe celestial movements was not a pass time but for maritime navigation, agriculture, observing civic functions, etc., none of which correlate to the modern era when information appears at the touch of a button (until the next Big Solar Flare). Because the facts are still the same of Sunlight falling onto the Earth surface as it spins in space, the now obscured word of the standing still, or the pause (fortunately to come back again) would once a long time ago have been a different societal time than the 3:03pm of last Sunday. a trajectory follows through to the present time of 2025. However, when the pause of Helios is where Bamako in Mali at 12.5’N

    Bamako in Mali at 12.5’N has only a short pause because Nay, as the Dogon tribe call the giver of Light and warmth, is not greatly angled above. The shadows do not fall long, and about 11.5 hours of sunlight are given at deepest midwinter. Up to Oran, Algeria, at latitude 35’N, and about 9.5 hours of Light came to Earth. Up again to Caen, and the busy ferry port where 8 or so hours of Light are experienced by the humans at that place on the Earth. Over La Manche and up to Hull, at 54’N (rounded up or down), with 7.5 hours of Light, and then its into open sea as the GMT line heads east of the ‘UK’, not correlating with dry land until the Svalbard archipelago under Norwegian governance. Longyearbyen on Svalbard, (on because although all humans are ‘on’ the Earth, it is said that a human is ‘on’ a small island, and ‘in’ a landmass) at 78’N has daylight hours at Winter Solstice of ….. zero. Not only is it zero ‘on the 21st December’ but it is zero for the whole of December, and the month either side of November and January. That is where the pause of Helios becomes the standstill. This is common knowledge, facts do not need to be referenced here because it is geographical fact.

    However, this blog is very interested in the correlation or not of human society on geographical fact, and Solar fact, and this measurement of hours of Light in the Winter Solstice (and equally the opposite in the southern hemisphere) compared with universal time where anyone can sit on a computer or a smart phone and do the same thing via digital tech is the most stark evidence of a society’s departure from the facts. Until the worldwide web of time and info created the disembodied communication zone, a society measured only to its allocated hours of Light and the physical food, water, shelter, language, clothing materials from that.

    Here in mid latitudes of the British Isles and Ireland, between 55′-56’N, allocated Light at Winter Solstice is about 7 hours, and a few days later it is really not much difference as An Ghrian is a long, long way south, and it could be under the definition of stand still rather than pause with several more weeks of Deep Midwinter before almost imperceptibly the hours of Light start to lengthen again. The western world is certainly not now constructed upon Solar time and the length of that pause …. or stand still for days …. but if it was, if the whole of society paused or stood still with Helios, laid low, slept, reset its circadian rhythms, feasted around a fire, sang and recited poetry, observed the winter stars, and caught up with kith and kin, how wonder-full that would be.