View southeast from the top level of the Eiffel Tower, down the Champ de Mars, with the Tour Montparnasse (Montparnasse Tower) in the distance. The École Militaire is one third down from the top of the picture.
The Champ de Mars (French pronunciation:[ʃɑ̃dəmars]; lit. 'Field of Mars') is a large public greenspace in Paris, France, located in the seventh arrondissement, between the Eiffel Tower to the northwest and the École Militaire to the southeast. The park is named after the Campus Martius ("Mars Field") in Rome, which was dedicated to the god Mars. The name alludes to the fact that the lawns here were formerly used as drilling and marching grounds by the French military.
Originally, the Champ de Mars was part of a large flat open area called Grenelle, which was reserved for market gardening. Citizens would claim small plots and exploit them by growing fruits, vegetables, and flowers for the local market. However, the plain of Grenelle was not an especially fertile place for farming.
The construction, in 1765, of the École Militaire designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, was the first step toward the Champ de Mars in its present form. Grounds for military drills were originally planned for an area south of the school, the current location of the place de Fontenoy. The choice to build an esplanade to the north of the school led to the erection of the noble facade which today encloses the Champ de Mars. The planners leveled the ground, surrounded it with a large ditch and a long avenue of elms, and, as a final touch, the esplanade was enclosed by a fine grille-work fence.
The Isle of Swans, formerly a riverine islet at the location of the northeastern foot of the Eiffel Tower, was, for the sake of symmetry and pleasing perspectives, attached to the shore. (The Isle of Swans discussed here should not be confused with the Isle of Swans that sits in the middle of the Seine downstream and around the next bend in the river, between the fifteenth and sixteenth arrondissements.)
This place witnessed the spectacle and pageantry of some of the best-remembered festivals of the French Revolution. On 14 July 1790 the first "Federation Day" celebration (fête de la Fédération), now known as Bastille Day, was held on the Champ de Mars, exactly one year after the storming of the prison. The following year, on 17 July 1791, the massacre on the Champ de Mars took place. Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first mayor of Paris, became a victim of his own revolution, and was guillotined there on 12 November 1793.
The Champ de Mars was also the site of the Festival of the Supreme Being on 8 June 1794. With a design by the painter Jacques-Louis David,[2] a massive "Altar of the Nation" was built atop an artificial mountain and surmounted by a tree of liberty.[3] The festival is regarded as the most successful of its type in the Revolution.[4] During the Hundred Days a restored Napoleon held the Champ de Mai ceremony, during which he swore to uphold the Charter of 1815, at the Champ de Mars.[5]
In 2012, the United Buddy Bears exhibit was held on the Champ de Mars, an international art exhibition with more than 140 two-meter-tall bears representing individual countries. They promote peace, love, tolerance and international understanding and are displayed across the planet. They stand at Champ de Mars in Paris, fronting the Eiffel Tower.[6]
Champ de Mars was used as a filming location in the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill, in which Bond (played for the last time by Roger Moore) drove a Renault 11 taxi which he had hijacked at the Eiffel Tower in pursuit of a mysterious assassin, later revealed to be May Day (Grace Jones).[7]
Vista de la barranca de la plaza de San Martín de Tours, tomada desde la calle Posadas entre Adolfo Bioy Casares (ex Schiaffino) y la bajada de la avenida AlvearExtremo sur de la plaza, en la intersección de la avenida Alvear y la calle Adolfo Bioy Casares
La plaza de San Martín de Tours es un espacio verde ubicado en el barrio de Recoleta de la ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Forma parte de un amplio conjunto de plazas que conforma el tradicional Paseo de la Recoleta. Se encuentra delimitada por las calles de Eduardo Adolfo de Bioy Casares (ex Schiaffino), Posadas y la avenida Alvear,1 que en su desembocadura a la avenida del Libertador bordea los márgenes sur y oeste de la plaza. Frente a su margen norte, cruzando la calle Posadas, se ubican el monumento ecuestre a Carlos María de Alvear y el edificio del Palais de Glace. Recibió el nombre en 1962 en homenaje a San Martín de Tours, patrono de Buenos Aires, por decreto del entonces intendente Alberto Prebisch.2
Monumento a San Martín de ToursEl monumento a Alvear en la década de 1930. A la derecha se aprecia la parte inferior de la plaza
La fisonomía de la plaza está marcada por una ladera que desciende hacia la calle Posadas, parte de la barranca ribereña histórica del Río de la Plata. En el bajo se ubica un ombú de gran porte, mientras que la zona elevada forma una terraza donde se encuentran plantados varios especímenes de gomero, retoños del ubicado en la cercana plaza de Juan XXIII. Hacia la esquina de la avenida Alvear y la calle Schiaffino se encuentra una monumento en homenaje al ingeniero y periodista Emilio Mitre realizado en mármol de Carrara con basamento de granito, obra del escultor Hernán Cullen Ayerza emplazada allí en 1931.3 También en la porción superior de la plaza se ubica un monumento a San Martín de Tours realizado en bronce, del escultor Ermando Bucci.4
Los terrenos que hoy ocupa la plaza de San Martín de Tours formaron históricamente parte de la zona de quintas de la Recoleta, usándose para el cultivo de especies frutales y la cría de animales domésticos. Hasta el último cuarto del siglo xix, antes de que la epidemia de fiebre amarilla de 1871 llevara a la aristocracia porteña a abandonar el Barrio Sur, fue una zona marginal de las afueras de la ciudad. Excavaciones realizadas por un equipo de arqueología urbana encontraron restos de un pozo y materiales que señalan la existencia de viviendas de construcción precaria.5 Con la redistribución sociodemográfica ocurrida tras la epidemia, los alrededores de la plaza se poblaron a fines de siglo de elaborados palacetes en estilo academicista francés. A principios del siglo xx existió en el sector de la plaza cercano a la avenida Alvear el Recreo de Belvedere, café y restaurante donde por primera vez se habría bailado públicamente el tango. En 1909 el terreno fue adquirido por la Municipalidad, que dispuso su parquización.6
La normativa es inconsistente con respecto a la catalogación del espacio verde. Algunos registros legales de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires refieren a la plaza de San Martín de Tours mientras que en ocasiones es mencionada como una plazoleta.1
Black monolith on the moon. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Universal Pictures
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Black monolith in orbit around Jupiter. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Universal Pictures
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NASA Photos show that the Monolith in Utah's Red Rock Desert may have visited the Red Planet just 4 years ago.
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The Mars monolith is a rectangular object discovered on the surface of Mars. It is located near the bottom of a cliff, from which it likely fell. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took pictures of it from orbit, roughly 180 miles away.
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Black monolith on the moon. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Universal Pictures
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Black monolith in orbit around Jupiter. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Universal Pictures
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NASA Photos show that the Monolith in Utah's Red Rock Desert may have visited the Red Planet just 4 years ago.
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The Mars monolith is a rectangular object discovered on the surface of Mars. It is located near the bottom of a cliff, from which it likely fell. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took pictures of it from orbit, roughly 180 miles away.
Apparently the silver Monolith discovered in Utah's Red Rock desert is part of a family of monoliths, distributed throughout our Solar System by another civilization for some unknown purpose. Either that or it's moving around through our solar system, phasing into different locations at different times.
The monolith (or monoliths), has previously been sighted by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Mars and one of its moons, Phobos.
The Mars monolith is a rectangular object discovered on the surface of Mars. It is located near the bottom of a cliff, from which it likely fell. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took pictures of it from orbit, roughly 180 miles away.
This of course calls to mind the 2001: A Space Odyssey, where a black monolith is found buried on the moon. Then an astronaut named Dave travels to Jupiter, only to find a black monolith in orbit for thousands of years.
The Phobos monolith was a large pillar located on the surface of Mars's moon Phobos. It measured about 279 ft across and 300 feet in height--significantly bigger than the Utah Monolith.
The Mars monolith is a bright object near Stickney crater, described as a "building sized" boulder, which casts a prominent shadow. It was discovered by Efrain Palermo, who did extensive surveys of Martian probe imagery, and later confirmed by Lan Fleming, an imaging sub-contractor at NASA Johnson Space Center.
"A monolith is a geological feature consisting of a single massive piece of rock. Monoliths also occur naturally on Earth, but it has been suggested that the Phobos monolith may be a piece of impact ejecta," claims Wikipedia. But we know better.
The general vicinity of Phobos' monolith is a proposed landing site by Optech and the Mars Institute, for a robotic mission to Phobos known as PRIME (Phobos Reconnaissance and International Mars Exploration).
The PRIME mission would be composed of an orbiter and lander, and each would carry four instruments designed to study various aspects of Phobos' geology. At present, PRIME has not been funded and does not have a projected launch date. Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin has spoken about the Phobos monolith and his support for a mission to Phobos.
The object appears in Mars Global Surveyor images SPS252603 and SPS255103, dated 1998. The object may be related to another monolith located on the surface of Mars, which NASA noted as an example of a common surface feature in that region. In fact, all three monoliths may be related structures left by an unknown civilization, for us Earthlings to discover and wonder about. Or perhaps they're just rocks.
First, the summer of 2001 was, like in 2003, marked by a Martian close encounter. It was during June, instead of August, that the Mars 'flyby' took place. Not as spectacular as that of 2003, but the Red Planet was a prominent light in the night sky. On June 13-14 (2001), Mars was at 'opposition' (i.e. 180 degrees away from the Sun) and it made its closest approach to Earth several days later on June 21.
Mars Opposition (June 2001)
On the same day, June 21, there was a total solar eclipse - as if to commemorate the Martian visit. In fact, June 21 was even the day of summer solstice (midsummer)!
So, while not as historic, the 2001 Mars opposition closely preceding the events of 9/11 was spectacular - or in hindsight 'ominous' - in its own way.
It still 'missed' 9/11 by about 3 months... Actually, it did not miss. It hit the bull's-eye perfectly - in a coded form:
September 11Gregorian corresponds to 'Thoth 1' (New Year's Day) of the Egyptian calendar which was originally marked by the heliacal/dawn rising of Sirius. In the early phase of the ancient Egyptian civilization the Sirius rising (accompanied by the annual Nile flood) coincided with the summer solstice. It was a 'magical' day that the Egyptians naturally used to anchor their calendar. So by highlighting June 21 (i.e. Gregorian summer solstice), the special Mars opposition event in 2001 conceptually pinpointed September 11, the historical/Egyptian summer-solstice date!
On 9/11, there was another remarkable combination of summer solstice, Mars, and the Moon (i.e. all the key players of the June 21 alignment except the Sun). As the earthshaking events of 9/11 were unfolding on the planet, up in the heavens was observed the following configuration: 1) the Moon was at the summer-solstice point (i.e. where the Sun would be on the midsummer day); 2) Mars was positioned exactly 180 degrees away from the Moon on the opposite side of the sky, closely marking the winter-solstice point; and 3) consequently there was a tight Mars-Earth-Moon alignment bridging the two solstice points!
As the above illustrations show, the solstice points today are neatly indicated by the intersections of the apparent path of the Sun ('ecliptic', green line) and the Milky Way ('galactic equator', blue band). This arrangement is coincidental/temporary and is thus astronomically quite special. Some view these points as something akin to 'stargates'.
Now, the prophetic quality of all this dramatically increases as we progress forward (from 9/11/01). Mars opposition occurs approximately every 26 months, so the Sun-Earth-Mars alignment would be established again in the summer of 2003 - specifically on Aug. 28. As already discussed, it seemed to have 'anticipated' the 'Martian' event of Schwarzenegger entering politics on August 6. The same type of code was used here since Aug. 6 is or represents the actual day on which Sirius' heliacal rising occurs in our epoch. Through Sirius, June 21, Sept. 11, and Aug. 6 are but different expressions of the same archetypal date!
This calendrical link is reinforced by one of Schwarzenegger's nicknames being 'The Oak'. In pagan tradition, the 'Oak King' is associated with midsummer which is also reflected in the fact that the Christian version of the Oak King, John the Baptist, has his feast day on June 24, intended to mark the summer solstice (~June 21).
Similarly, Jesus Christ's birthday is celebrated on Christmas in mid-December to mark the winter solstice. The summer and winter solstices represent two opposite calendrical/spatial points. This makes John the Baptist (Oak King) the anti-Jesus, or 'anti-Christ'. Hence Schwarzenegger 'The Oak', whose political rise on Aug. 6 was marked by the Sirius rising associated with midsummer, would also share the ominous epithet. And why not, he's already the 'Terminator'... after all.
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Aprenda sobre el extraño ciclo de tránsito de Venus.
Venus siguió estas trayectorias a través del Sol en 2004 y 2012. La Tierra no vio un tránsito en 1996 y no verá otro en 2020.
Ciencia y tecnología : Gregg Dinderman
Quienes conocen los ritmos del cielo nocturno saben que ciertos ciclos astronómicos se repiten una y otra vez. Estos incluyen el ciclo estacional anual de la Tierra en su órbita alrededor del Sol, el ciclo de 29 días y medio de las fases lunares y el hecho de que Marte entra en oposición cada 26 meses. Incluso los eclipses solares y lunares se producen en ciclos de saros.
Pero comparado con estos otros ciclos, el ciclo actual de tránsitos de Venus es extraño. ¡ De verdad, extraño! Este artículo explica por qué los tránsitos de Venus son tan raros que el que se producirá el 5 y 6 de junio será el último que verás, por qué el ciclo tiene un patrón tan peculiar y por qué el ciclo actual no durará para siempre. (El tránsito ocurre el 5 de junio en el hemisferio occidental y el 6 de junio en el hemisferio oriental).
Cómo obtener un tránsito de Venus
Para que se produzca un tránsito de Venus, deben ocurrir dos eventos simultáneamente, y es raro tener una sincronía tan perfecta.
Los tránsitos de Venus sólo pueden ocurrir cuando Venus pasa entre el Sol y la Tierra, un punto en su órbita conocido como conjunción inferior.
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En primer lugar, y lo más obvio, Venus debe moverse directamente entre la Tierra y el Sol para que un observador imaginario que mirase el sistema solar desde arriba vea los tres cuerpos formando una línea perfectamente recta. Cuando esto ocurre, los astrónomos dicen que Venus ha alcanzado una conjunción inferior . Venus orbita el Sol más rápido y en una órbita más pequeña, y alcanza estas conjunciones inferiores cada 584 días terrestres.
Si Venus y la Tierra orbitaran alrededor del Sol en el mismo plano, disfrutaríamos de un tránsito de Venus cada 584 días, y el tránsito del 5 de junio no sería tan importante. Pero en realidad, el plano orbital de Venus está inclinado 3,4 grados con respecto al plano orbital de la Tierra. Los planos se cruzan en dos puntos llamados nodos . Para que se produzca un tránsito, Venus debe estar en conjunción inferior al mismo tiempo que está en un nodo. Esta alineación tridimensional perfecta no ocurre muy a menudo. Normalmente, la órbita inclinada de Venus significa que se encuentra "encima" o "debajo" del Sol cuando se trata de conjunción inferior.
La órbita de Venus alrededor del Sol está inclinada respecto a la órbita de la Tierra (exagerada aquí para mayor claridad). Los tránsitos de Venus solo pueden ocurrir en los dos nodos, donde se intersecan los planos orbitales de Venus y la Tierra.
Ciencia y tecnología : Gregg Dinderman
Uno de estos nodos ocurre a principios de junio y el otro a principios de diciembre, lo que significa que estos son los únicos momentos en que pueden ocurrir tránsitos de Venus. A principios de junio, Venus parece estar descendiendo (o hacia el sur), por lo que los astrónomos lo llaman nodo descendente . A principios de diciembre, Venus se mueve hacia arriba (o hacia el norte) en su órbita, por lo que se trata de un nodo ascendente .
Un ciclo extraño
Hasta ahora, las cosas parecen bastante sencillas y directas. Pero aquí es donde el tránsito del ciclo de Venus empieza a volverse extraño (aunque también bastante interesante).
Durante los últimos siglos y los próximos, estas alineaciones tridimensionales perfectas se producen a intervalos de 8, 105½, 8 y 121½ años. En realidad, considérelo un ciclo de 243 años, con pares de tránsitos separados por tan solo 8 años, pero con cada par separado por más de un siglo.
Se muestran las trayectorias de Venus a través del Sol desde el año 1388 hasta el 2012. La fila superior muestra los tránsitos de diciembre en el nodo ascendente de Venus y la fila inferior muestra los tránsitos de junio en el nodo descendente de Venus.
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Los tránsitos de nodos ascendentes ocurrieron en diciembre de 1631, 1639, 1874 y 1882. Los siguientes tránsitos ocurrieron en diciembre de 2117 y 2125. Los tránsitos de nodos descendentes ocurrieron en junio de 1761, 1769 y 2004, y el siguiente tuvo lugar el 5 y 6 de junio de 2012. Posteriormente, los tránsitos de nodos descendentes ocurrieron en junio de 2247 y 2255.
En los tránsitos de nodos descendentes con una separación de 8 años, Venus cruza la parte sur del disco solar en el primer tránsito y la parte norte en el segundo. Por eso, Venus cruzará la parte norte del disco solar el 5 o 6 de junio. Cuando Venus llegó a la conjunción inferior en 1996, estaba demasiado por debajo del Sol para transitar su disco. Y en 2020, estará demasiado alto.
Lo contrario ocurre con los tránsitos de nodos ascendentes. El primer tránsito de un par de ocho años cruza la parte norte del Sol, mientras que el segundo cruza la mitad sur.
Entonces, ¿por qué Venus tarda “solo” 105 años y medio en pasar de un par de tránsitos de junio a un par de tránsitos de diciembre, mientras que tarda 121 años y medio en pasar de un par de tránsitos de diciembre a un par de tránsitos de junio? Esta asimetría se debe a que la órbita de la Tierra alrededor del Sol no es exactamente un círculo perfecto. Es ligeramente alargada (el término técnico es excéntrica ), desviándose de un círculo perfecto en aproximadamente un 3 %. En cambio, la órbita de Venus está tan cerca de ser un círculo perfecto que su minúscula elongación puede ignorarse en este análisis.
La órbita alargada (excéntrica) de la Tierra (exagerada en el diagrama) explica por qué hay una asimetría en la cantidad de tiempo entre un par de tránsitos y el siguiente.
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El diagrama de la derecha (en el que se exagera la excentricidad orbital de la Tierra para mayor claridad) muestra lo que está sucediendo. Básicamente, la Tierra está cerca de su punto más alejado del Sol ( afelio ) en junio y cerca de su punto más cercano al Sol ( perihelio ) en diciembre. Cuando la Tierra está más cerca de la poderosa gravedad del Sol, se mueve ligeramente más rápido en su órbita que cuando está más lejos del Sol. La diferencia en la velocidad orbital de la Tierra desde el perihelio hasta el afelio produce una brecha más larga (121½ años) entre el tiempo que tarda en alinearse entre los tránsitos de diciembre y junio que los 105½ años que tarda en alinearse entre los tránsitos de junio y diciembre.
Nada bueno dura para siempre
En el futuro, los tránsitos de Venus serán aún más raros. Este diagrama muestra la trayectoria que Venus seguirá frente al Sol en 3089. En 3081 y 3097, la trayectoria de Venus no tocará el Sol (desde la perspectiva terrestre).
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Desafortunadamente para los astrónomos que viven en un futuro lejano, la frecuencia de los tránsitos disminuirá. Tanto las órbitas de Venus como las de la Tierra precesan, lo que significa que giran durante largos períodos de tiempo para producir un patrón similar a una roseta. En otras palabras, el perihelio de la Tierra se desplaza en su órbita, al igual que el de Venus. Debido a la precesión, los astrónomos terrestres solo podrán disfrutar de un tránsito de nodo ascendente durante siglos después del año 3000. Verán un tránsito de nodo descendente en 3089, pero ocho años después, en 3097, Venus alcanzará una conjunción inferior demasiado por encima del Sol como para transitar su disco.
Y a lo largo de decenas de miles de años, el ciclo de 243 años acabará cambiando a medida que la excentricidad de las órbitas de Venus y la Tierra evolucione debido a las perturbaciones gravitacionales de otros planetas. En escalas de tiempo aún mayores, se imponen efectos caóticos, y las matemáticas se vuelven tan inciertas que los astrónomos actuales ya no pueden predecir cuándo ocurrirán estas raras alineaciones celestes ni cómo serán los ciclos futuros.
Pero por ahora, puedes estar seguro de que habrá un tránsito de Venus el 5 o 6 de junio y, a menos que la medicina moderna haga un milagro, esta será la última oportunidad que tendrás de ver un tránsito de Venus desde la superficie de la Tierra.
Al representar gráficamente el número de días de cada año en que ocurre un tránsito de Venus, es fácil observar su comportamiento a largo plazo y la suerte de vivir en un período en el que podemos observar dos tránsitos tanto en el nodo ascendente como en el descendente. Observe el cambio del calendario juliano al gregoriano alrededor del año 1600. El astrónomo jubilado de la NASA, Fred Espenak, proporcionó a S&T los datos para este diagrama.
Intertemporal Perspective via 2016 Tower & Star Rituals By Goro Adachi
December 30, 2016
Century II - 41 The great star will burn for seven days, The cloud will make two suns appear: The large mastiff will howl all night When the great pontiff changed territory.
- Nostradamus
Not all New Year's Days are created equal and this one coming up happens to be a special one. The previous one was special as well, both being attached to the year 2016, the point of no return. And if the pattern holds, we are in for a whole new set of inter-temporal "clues" which, if decoded properly, should be quite prophetic in nature. Decoding these things happens to be my specialty, or obsession...
It's telling that The Economist's annual, end of the year crystal ball edition features a cover with tarot cards. Obviously they were inspired by the irresistible combination of "Trump" (cards) and the idea of divination (predicting the future). Not too surprising there. (What is surprising though is how most people trying to "decode" it can't even crack the first step: The only two tilted cards, "Judgment" and "The Star", are card #20 and card #17 per tradition, spelling out "20-17" or "2017".)
The Economist is actually a bit late to the party as there was a whole lot of foreshadowing going on last year through the tarot symbolism on New Year's Eve/Day(2015/2016). It came in the form of Dubai's tower inferno evoking the Tower card numbered 16 (as in 2016)...
...in effect foreshadowing the earthshaking rise of "Trump" who famously lives in Trump Tower (= Tower trump card).
Extending the pattern forward in time would have the new year 2017 correspond to tarot card #17 - "The Star".
It would most certainly be Sirius on New Year's Eve/Day as a magical celestial moment arrives every year when the brightest star in the night sky "culminates" due southreaching its highest point right around midnight on New Year's Eve/Day.
But as I said, it's extra special around 2016. I'm quite aware of this, and it seems so was Nostradamus. Let me introduce you to quatrain II-41, or as I like to call it the "Sirius quatrain":
Century II - 41 La grand' estoille par sept jours bruslera, Nuee fera deux soleils apparoir: Le gros mastin toute nuit hurlera, Quand grand pontife changera de terroir.
The great star will burn for seven days, The cloud will make two suns appear: The large mastiff will howl all night When the great pontiff changed territory.
- Nostradamus
Right now it is highly relevant and timely as shown below:
Line 1: The great star will burn for seven days
Being the brightest star in the night sky, Sirius certainly qualifies as a "great star". It "burns" in the sense that the name "Sirius" means "scorcher" plus the phrase "Dog Days of summer" derives from Sirius's nickname "Dog Star". Even the "seven days" (sept jours) part relates to Sirius in that ancient Egyptians called the star Spd, Spdt, or Sept, resonating with the French sept meaning "seven. ("Seven days" can also allude to the 7-day festival Saturnalia, Dec 17-23.)
Line 2: The cloud will make two suns appear
In esoteric tradition Sirius has been considered the "second sun".
Line 3: The large mastiff will howl all night
Sirius is the "Dog Star" ("mastiff") and it "howls all night" on New Year's Eve/Day by being visible all night long. (Culminating around midnight implies being visible from dusk to dawn.)
Line 4: When the great pontiff changed territory
The last time there was a change in the papacy was back in 2013 when Pope Benedict XVI stepped down and Pope Francis took over. Unbeknownst to most, it managed to multicontextually encode an arrow pointing ahead to the year 2016:
Pope Benedict XVI is "16" (XVI), numerically resonating with 2016 and the Tower card (XVI)
Pope Francis's first foreign trip ("changing territory") as head of the Catholic Church was to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in July 2013, where the Summer Olympics would take place in 2016
A geo-alignment pinpointing Rio was implied via Pope Benedict XVI's resignation announcement taking place concurrently with a major meteor impact event in Russia
Feb 11, 2013: Pope Benedict XVI announces resignation Feb 15, 2013: Major meteor impact in Chelyabinsk, Russia
In the context of the "Sirius quatrain" II-41, it makes a lot of sense for Rio to be highlighted in this manner. It has to do with the real, hidden reason behind the name "Rio de Janeiro" or "River of January" which I'm revealing here for the first time anywhere (aside from STRUG/members section which is always ahead)...
Firstly, the term "January" (Janeiro) derives from Janus the god of beginnings, endings, time, and doorways. Basically a perfect set of descriptions for New Year's Eve/Day (= beginning of January).
And it just so happens it's right around New Year's Day, when Sirius "howls all night", that Rio and the Sun are aligned in terms of latitude & declination. In other words, the Sun is directly overhead at noon in Rio right around New Year's Day. Rio in this way indeed is a "city of Janus/January"!
As above, so below... Sirius is the "New Year's star" above, Rio de Janeiro is the "New Year's city" below. Having established this and 2016 being the year of the Rio Olympics, we can then quite easily infer that the beginning and ending of 2016 are of special, "ritualistic" significance. We already saw this in action at the beginning of 2016 (Dubai tower fire), and we are now about to witness something at the end of 2016.
The straightforward expectation would be that it would reflect "The Star" card - #17 representing "2017" - just as the Dubai tower inferno was a simulation of the "Tower" tarot card, #16. This would mean it would likely involve Sirius on New Year's Eve/Day. (I may actually already know the ritual taking place, but I'll save it for another article, perhaps early next year.)
There is another approach here to discerning the nature of the end of 2016 "ritual(s)". It has to do with the fact that Rio and the Sun are also aligned on ~December 10th (equidistant from the solstice).
That "preview" window precisely coincided with a major geopolitical flareup stemming from the apparent Russian cyber attacks against the US during the 2016 presidential election.
Just so you know that I'm not discussing all this relying only on hindsight, I did quickly give a heads-up regarding this developing pattern via Twitter back in mid December...
My tweets from Dec 18:
My tweet from Dec 22:
Sure enough, the "next phase" got underway right on time late December just days before New Year's Day.
It's an ongoing situation, happening in real time as I write this and it wouldn't be surprising if we hear more about the US retaliation against Russia around the New Year's Eve/Day weekend, such as actual US cyber attacks against Russia.
(I've consistently pointed to the significance of the Russian cyberwar situation since the very beginning. See: Jul 26 tweet, Jul 27 tweet, Jul 30 tweet, Aug 30 update. Here we are, it's like the Cold War has returned.)
Saturnalia (Dec 17-23) was another important window we were watching very closely... (Saturnalia starts on Pope Francis's birthday, by the way.) My tweet from Nov 24:
...and contained some New Year's Day "signals". The exploding fireworks in Mexico City for example naturally bring to mind New Year's celebrations.
Plus, Mexico City's latitude, 19.43 deg. North, most recently aligned with the Sun (declination) around July 25th, precisely coinciding with the start of the Russian cyberwar situation playing out in the public, via Wikileaks releasing DNC emails, etc. So that's very coherent pattern-wise. (There were also Sirius allusions in the Saturnalia events but we won't go into those here.)
Notable as it connects right back to the 2015-2016 New Year's Eve/Day "ritual". The name "Dubai" means "market". And the fire there took place right next to the Dubai's spectacular New Year's fireworks.
Makes us wonder if these constitute an omen foreshadowing a major market/financial event coming in the New Year.
I'm going to end this article here, but really we've just scratched the surface. Just the tip of the iceberg for what's unfolding... because 2016 was a tipping point, the point of no return. We didn't even touch on the earth changes and the sixth mass extinction already being discussed on STRUG...
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