Iglesia de Santa María Madalena, Isla do Pico

...of the Trojan War, ultimately started by the Golden Apple of Discord.

That's our super theme and we've been tracking it very closely for a few years now, especially this year when Venus has been in its Evening Star phase or Hesperus in Greek from which derives the name of the nymphs "Hesperides" who tend the garden in which golden apples are grown.

The Evening Star will attain its maximum brightness in December 2013 (around Dec 8-11). A little later in the same month, there is going to be an Orange Alignment, which is our unique term for a Venus-Sun-Mercury alignment, a very reliable omen/time marker for a certain type of major world events including severe earth changes. In many languages, oranges are called "golden apples". Thus Orange Alignment = Golden Apple Alignment.


It will be a very special alignment this time indeed for various reasons. For one, it will coincide with the winter solstice, exactly one year after the "end" of the Mayan  calendar. The winter solstice is also pinpointed by the latitude of two Brazilian cities Rio and (more precisely) Sao Paulo sitting on the Tropic of Capricorn marking the angle of the winter-solstice Sun reflected on the surface of the earth.