The Pleiades in Mythology

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The Pleiades in Mythology

In the Encyclopedia we find this: Pleiades (mythology), in Greek mythology, sevendaughters of Atlas and of Pleione, the daughter of Oceanus. Their names were Electra,Maia, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope, and Merope. According to some versions of

the myth, they committed suicide from grief at the fate of their father, Atlas, or at thedeath of their sisters, the Hyades. Other versions made them the attendants of Artemis,goddess of wildlife and of hunting, who were pursued by the giant hunter Orion, but wererescued by the gods and changed into doves. After their death, or metamorphosis, theywere transformed into stars, but are still pursued across the sky by the constellationOrion.

IMIN.BI (Sumerian), ilu sibitti (Akkadian). Greek myth says these were 7 daughters ofAtlas and Pleione. They are in the constellation Taurus. Japanese = Subaru. Pleiadesmeans 'flock of doves'. These are Nordic aliens originally from Lyra. Alcyone is thecentral star.

Lyra is the original star of the Nordic type aliens. Lyra was invaded by the Saurian typealiens, and the Nordics escaped to the Pleiades, Hyades, and Vega. These are the goodguys. Note that some Nordics have been seen under the control of greys, however.

The Taygetans : These aliens are from the star system Taygeta, in the Pleiades starcluster, in the constellation Taurus. So they're probably the Nordic types originally fromLyra.

In another encyclopedia we find this: Pleiades - The Pleiades are the seven daughters ofAtlas and Pleione. They were the virgin companions of Artemis. When Orion, a beautiful

hunter, pursued them and their mother, they prayed to the gods for rescue. The godsanswered they prayer and they were changed into doves, and later into stars. Zeus placedthem in the sky where they formed a part of the constellation of Taurus.

According to another myth, they committed suicide after the death of their sisters theHyades.Native Americans call the Hyades the husbands of the Pleiades.

The Pleiads are Alcyone, Electra, Celaeno, Maia, Sterope, Merope and Taygete. In doingsome research on my own harddrive, this is the first thing I came across: AncientEgyptian records translate the Pleiades as "Krittikas" , "female judges of mankind" - they

primarily equated them as the Seven Hathors, whom the dead had to remember and speakthe names of those Goddesses to pass their examination to enter the ancient Egyptianperception of paradise, which was in the distant stars ... Modern Egyptians relate to thePleiades as the Seven Midwives.

In archaic seven-gated Thebes, the Pleiades were represented by Seven ManticPriestesses, who were linked to the Seven Pillars of Wisdom, an era when the Seven

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Hathors ruled over a rather grim calendar cycle which had the Sacred King slain everyseventh year.

In ancient Europe, the Pleiadian May to November cycle was represented by the Maytimefeast of life and the November feast of death ... Though quite obviously frowned upon by

the early church in that era, upon All Souls Day (November first), prayers for the deadwere recited in the direction of the Pleiades (a somewhat obvious archaic hold-over/linkto the Egyptian ritual of the dead, which included, speaking the names of the SevenHathors to enter the paradise in the distant stars)

Interestingly, milk is a symbol in stories about Skanda, the second son of Shiva andParvati. Scholars say that the symbolism in these stories is rather silly, but quitemeaningful. Skanda has seven heads and twelve arms. He lives in a forest of trees. Hisseven mouths are fed milk from the seven stars of The Pleiades.The Hindu Milk Miracle

THE 7TH SISTER - MEROPE

History of the star: This is the seventh of the sisters. She alone, married a mortal man andshe repents of it, Sisyphus, and hid her face in shame at being the only one not married toa god and from shame at the deed, she alone of the sisters hides herself in the sky (there issome dispute over whether it is Merope or Electra that hides herself, i.e. the star does notshine). She married Sisyphus, a mortal, and bore him a son, Glaucus, who was torn topieces by his horses because he would not allow them to breed.

Her husband, Sisyphus, son of olus, grandson of Deucalion (the Greek Noah), andgreat-grandson of Prometheus. Sisyphus founded the city of Ephyre (Corinth) and laterrevealed Zeus's rape of gina to her father Asopus (a river), for which Zeus condemnedhim to roll a huge stone up a hill in Hades, only to have it roll back down each time thetask was nearly done.

The bright star shrouded in nebulosity at center left is Merope, the star that marks thesouthernmost corner of the Pleiades "dipper," while the bright star at the upper right in itsown nebulosity marks the easternmost corner of the "dipper."

The nebulosity evident is deceptive. It's not gas, but mostly dust, and it's not around those

stars, but actually much closer. What appears to us as nebulosity surrounding these starsis actually a huge and very sparse dust cloud which happens to lie along our line of sightto the bright Pleiades cluster. The dust cloud glows a bluish color only because it isdiffusing the light of the bright blue stars which lie behind it.

Deep Sky Photos

Merope - 23 Tau, SAO 76172, HD 23480, magnitude 4.18, spectral type B6 IVe.

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Merope often is considered the Lost Pleiad, because, having married a mortal, the craftySisyphus, she hid her face in shame when she thought of her sisters' alliances with thegods, and realized that she had thrown herself away. She seems, however, to haverecovered her equanimity, being now much brighter than some of the others. The nameitself signifies "Mortal."

This star is enveloped in a faintly extended, triangular, nebulous haze, visuallydiscovered by Tempel in October, 1859; and there is a small, distinct nebula, discoveredby Barnard in November, 1890, close by Merope, almost hidden in its radiance, althoughintrinsically very bright.

It is sometimes said that Electra is the 7th Sister. This is her story: One of the Pleiades,the mythical ancestors of the Trojans. She is known as the "Lost Pleiad" for she is said tohave disappeared before the Trojan War so that she would not see her favorite citydestroyed. She shows herself occasionly, but only in the guise of a comet.

THE PLEIADES IN THE SKY

The seven "sisters" are Alcyone, Asterope (a double star),Electra, Maia, Merope, Taygeta and Celaeno; Atlas andPleione are their "father" and "mother".

From: http://vesta.astro.amu.edu.pl/Popular/Twn/m45x.html

Other information on M-45

Taurus Star Chart

In Taurus, the better-known group of 'maidens' is the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, a smallbut very noticeable cluster of stars on the bull's shoulder. They were called the 'sailing

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stars," for early Greek seamen would set sail only when they were visible. On a clearnight a person can resolve six individual stars, and thousands of years ago, it was likelythat seven were visible.

The Maya say the solar system rotates around Alcyone in a 26,000 period. The end of this

period is Dec 23, 2012 and is supposed to be the birth of Venus.

Various events are prophesied by various cultures' use of time cycles. The Phoenix cyclehappens every 500 years and is based on the Christian calendar. The Aztecs and Mayanshave their own cycle, based on the rebirth of Venus, which ends on Dec 23, 2012.Another Mayan 26,000 year cycle is based on the Pleiades star cluster and is called theGreat year. On Dec 23, 2012, a Great year and a Sun year (104,000 year cycle) ends.

The Pleiades is a name given to a cluster of stars in the shoulder area of the constellationof Taurus, the Bull. Six of the many hundreds of stars in this cluster are easily seen withthe naked eye. A seventh star, that is invisible or hidden, is often included when reference

is made to the stars of the Pleiades. These stars have been recognized and celebrated innearly every culture that has lived on the Earth.

During November the stars of the Pleiades can be seen in the sky for nearly the entireduration of the darkness of night. During this time of the year the stars of the Pleiades riseas the Sun sets, reach their highest place in the sky at midnight and then set at sunrise.

Another Pleiadian cycle involves the planet Venus. Every eight years for a few hoursafter sunset during April Venus can be seen very close to the stars of the Pleiades.Viewed from Earth, Venus returns to the same area of the sky every eight years. AsVenus returns every eight years, it gets closer and closer to the Pleiades. In 1972, Venus

reached a position within 1 of the star Alcyone. It approached even closer in 1980 andcloser still in 1988. Venus' return will again be even closer to the Pleiades in 2004. WhenVenus returns in 2012, it will be nearer to the central star Alcyone than some of the otherstars in the Pleiades including the one called Maia.

THE PLEIADES IN ASTROLOGY

THE ZODIAC

ZODIACAL ORDER - SIGN OR CONSTELLATION - (ENGLISH NAME)

1- Aries (Ram) 2- Taurus (Bull) 3- Gemini (Twins) 4- Cancer (Crab) 5- Leo (Lion) 6-Virgo (Virgin) 7- Libra (Scales) 8- Scorpio (Scorpion) 9- Sagittarius (Archer) 10-Capricornus (Goat) 11- Aquarius (Water Bearer) 12- Pisces (Fishes)

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The zodiac was considered to be the 'true earth.' The stars and planets that inhabited thetrue earth were called the 'lords of time,' the originators of history, with earthbound manplaying the role of mere spectators to 'earthshaking' cosmic events.

The four seasons are related to the four 'corners' or 'pillars' of the sky. These 'pillars' are

the constellations in the zodiac where the sun is located at the equinoxes and solstices.The equinoxes are the two events during the year when the days and nights are of equalduration, roughly March 21, the Spring equinox, and September 21, the Fall equinox. Thetwo solstices are the events when the day is longest and shortest, roughly June 21, theSummer solstice, and December 21, the Winter solstice.

If one connects the 'four corners' of the zodiac with imaginary straight lines, one obtainsthe 'square earth.'

The 12 signs of the zodiac are envisioned as 12 'doors' or 'houses.' Because of thePrecession, the sun enters a different 'house' at springtime about once per 2-thousand

years and causes us to enter a new astrological 'Age.' The phenomenon was well knownto the ancient astrologers, and it was used as a title of the Age of human history in whichone lived. If the sun rose in Aries at the Spring equinox, it was called the Age of ARIES.If the Spring equinox was in Pisces, it was called the Age of PISCES, etc. Actually, everyastrological Age had a double name, e.g. ARIES-Libra, PISCES-Virgo, etc. The doublename comes from the names of the constellations or 'signs' where the sun rises at both theSPRING and Fall seasons of the year. Modern astrologers say that we are now enteringthe Age of AQUARIUS-Leo or Leo- AQUARIUS.

Next, we consider some astrological symbolism in the Book of Genesis. Genesis 49 is aword picture describing the signs of the zodiac and are correlated with the names of the

12 tribes:

Reuben, 'boiling over with water,' is Aquarius (the Water Bearer)

Simeon and Levi, 'the brethren,' are Gemini (the Twins)

Judah,'the lion's whelp,' is Leo (the Lion)

Zebulon, 'who shall dwell at the beach of the sea,' is Pisces (the Fishes)

Issachar, 'a gelded donkey lying down in the cattle pens (REB)' is Taurus (the Bull)

Dan, 'a serpent in the way,' is Scorpio (the Scorpion)

Gad, 'a troop shall press upon him; but he shall press upon their heel,' is Aries (the Ram).[Aries, being the first sign of the zodiac, 'presses upon their heel' in the circular zodiac.]

Asher, 'the weigher of bread,' is Libra (the Scales)

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Nephtali, 'a hind let loose,' is Capricorn (the Goat)

Joseph, 'whose bow abides in strength,' is Sagittarius (the Archer)

Benjamin, 'ravening as a wolf, devouring his prey by morning, dividing the spoil at

night,' is Cancer (the Crab)

The 12 sons have been named but one sign remains- Virgo (the Virgin). This sign is'veiled,' and is correlated with Dinah, Jacob's daughter (Gen 30:21).

In addition to the names 'Pisces,' etc., the ancient Jewish astrologers named the signs ofthe zodiac after the twelve tribes in the manner suggested in Genesis. Thus the name ofthe first sign was 'Gad/Aries'; the second sign was 'Issachar/Taurus', etc.

Zodiac-Gematria

THE PLEIADES IN THE BIBLE

And there is a link to the Bible. The Lord challenged Job : "Canst thou bind the sweetinfluence of the Pleiades ?", Job 3:31.

In pre-patriarchal Jerusalem, the Menorah (the 7 branched candlestick) originallysymbolized the Pleiades in their aspect of the sevenfold "Men-horac"/"Moon Priestesses,with links once again to the Goddess Hathor" which returns us once again to 7 ladies and

the Pleiades.

Job 9:8 - Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.9:9 Which maketh Arcturus (the great bear), Orion (Hebrew, the fool fettered with"bands.") and Pleiades (lit. "the heap of stars." Arabic: "knot of stars." The various namesof this constellation in the East expresses the close union of the stars in it ass in Amos5:8), and the chambers of the south (the unseen regions of the southern hemisphere, withits own set of stars, as different from those just mentioned of the northern. The truestructure of the earth is her implied, a globular form). One scholar, named Brinkleypresumed that the stars mentioned here were those of Taurus and Scorpio, and that thesewere the cardinal constellations of spring and autumn in Job's time, calculated by the

precession of equinoxes, the time of Job to be 818 years after the Deluge and 184 yearsbefore Abram.

Job 38:31 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades (The sweet influences reflectthe joy diffused by spring, the time when Pleiades appear. Gesenius translated, "bands" or"knot", which is a better answer. The seven stars are closely "bound" together as seen inJob 9:9) or loose the bands of Orion?

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Job 38:32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturuswith his sons?

Job 38:33 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof inthe earth?

Amos 5:8 - Seek him that maketh the seven stars (lit. "the heap or cluster of seven largerstars and the smaller as seen in Job 9:9, 38:31. The former whole passage seems to havebeen in Amos 'mind. He names the stars well known for shepherds. Orion as theprecursor of the tempests which are more threatened, and the Pleiades ushering in spring)and Orion, the turneth the shadow of death into the morning and maketh the day darkwith night: that calleth for the waters of the sea and poureth them out upon the face of theearth, The LORD is his name.

The seven stars are not mentioned again until Rev. 1:16, 1:20, 2:1, 3:1 as the sevenchurches in Asia

The Seven Churches

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The Seven Churches of Asia

Revelation1:11 Saying, I am the Alpha and Omega, the first and last

and What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the sevenchurches which are in Asia, Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and untoPergamos and unto Thyatira, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.Revelation 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars which thous sawest inmy right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars arethe angels of the seven churches and the seven candlesticks which thousawest are the seven churches.

Job 38:31 may represent a very remote age. Alcyone, brightest of the 7 stars of Pleiades,was considered by the Ancients as the central point around which our universe of fixedstars revolves, the focus from which and into which the divine Breath of Motion works

during our present Space-Time span. The Chaldeans called the Pleiades 'Chimah."meaning 'hinge'.Occult legends associate the Pleiades and Orion, known in Hebrew as 'kesil' the 'Strong'.

Some believe that the loosening of the bands of Orion means distortion of gravitation asstated in Job 38:13. "Have you taught it to grasp the rings of the earth, and shake the DogStar from its place?" The Holy Bible states Job 38:13 as "That it might take hold of theends of the earth (Spread itself over the earth to it's utmost bounds in a moment), that thewicked (those who hate the light, and do their evil works in the dark as seen in Job 24:13)might be shaken out of it? (the corners or Hebrew, wings or skirts, of it, as of a garment,are taken hold by the day spring so as to shake off the wicked)"

The shaking of Sirius (Latin Sirius, from greek Seirios, from seirios, burning), was verysacred to the Egyptians. The Dog Star or Sirius , is the brightest star in the sky,approximately 8.6 light-years distant from earth. It has another name of So this (Greek Sothis, from Egyptian spdf) Procyon is the binary star in the constellation Canis MInor,which is also called the Dog Star (Latin Procyon, from Greek Procyon; pro-, before; +kuon, dog).

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Job 39:5 - Who hath sent out the wild ass (Hebrew' the ass of the woods' and 'the wildass'. See Job 6:5; 11:12; 24:5; Jer. 2:24) free? or who hath loosed the bands (man can robanimals of freedom) of the wild ass? 39:6 - whose house I have made the wilderness, andthe barren (unfruitful) land his dwellings 39:7 He scorneth the multitude (dim defies thedriver who tames) of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. 39:8 The

range (lit. searching) of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every greenthing.

From The Alpha and the Omega http://www.mazzaroth.com

The Orion Mystery

THE PLEIADES TO THE MAYANS

One of the important associations made with the movement of the stars of the Pleiades isthat of time-keeping. Many calendar systems utilized the positions of the Pleiades, someagricultural and some sacred. Every 52-years a celebration in Mesoamerica was timed towhen the Pleiades were directly overhead at midnight.

The Pleiades were used to orient many sacred sites. The pyramid and temple complex ofTeotihuacan, near Mexico City, is an example of a site oriented to where the Pleiades setalong the horizon. The temples in Greece and Ancient Egypt were oriented in space tothese stars. The Great Pyramid at Giza is also said to have been built in alignment withthe Pleiades. Many temples, stone circles and other rock formations in Polynesia and

numerous other places on the planet indicate Pleiadian alignments.

During the peak period of Mayan civilization 300 to 800 AD, the Pleiades passed directlyoverhead of the ceremonial temples of Tikal (17N13') and Palenque (1730'), every day.In the late 900s, Chichn Itz it is reported that this site was "reactivated" by thehistorical Quetzalcoatl. Not only the Pleiades passed directly over this site, but the starcalled Maia passed directly over the zenith of Chichn Itz (20N41'). The passage of thePleiades over the Yucatan no longer occurred by the time the Spanish arrived in the1500s.

Starting about the middle of May the Sun is aligned between the Earth and the stars of the

Pleiades. The Sun is astrologically conjunct these stars at this time. The stars of thePleiades are not visible at any time of the night during this time of the year due to theirclose proximity to the Sun. The Pleiades are visible and can be seen rising at dawnstaring about ten days later around June 1 and is called the heliacal rising of the Pleiades.This time period is regarded as sacred to those who honor Pleiadian cycles.

The 5000-year Mayan calendar cycle ends in 2012, the same year as a Venus passagethrough the stars of the Pleiades. Also in 2012, on May 20, there will be a solar eclipse

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astrologically conjunct the stars of the Pleiades. This alignment will be of the Sun and theMoon between the Earth and the stars of the Pleiades. See:All About 2012

It is said that our spiritual guidance comes from this area of the stars - - - The Pleiades.

THE PLEIADES AND THE CALENDAR

Exemplified in the writings of R.G. Haliburton, in the journal titled Nature (December,1881 issue) he was able to gather sufficient information to offer some rather dramaticthoughts about the Pleiades. He believed that, a world-wide tradition of relating to thePleiades had its source at a distant, beginning point in the history of humankind. An erawhen the constellation represented the "central sun of all religions, calendars, myths,

traditions, and symbolism."

Haliburton recorded that "the ancients believed that Alcyone of the Pleiades was thecenter of the universe ~ that Paradise, the primal home of humankind and the abode ofthe Deity and the spirits of the dead, was in the Pleiades". Haliburton only had access toresearch more than a century away from the present. In many respects, the current total ofinformation makes some of his observations seem rather conservative.

Note: One macro-cosmic way to answer that question is to say that our World is comingaround the Sun at a rate of once every three hundred sixty-five and one-fourth days. OurSun, bringing us with it, is traveling around a star in the Pleiades called Alcyone (sound

familiar?). One complete cycle encompasses the duration of twelve Ages of 2,160 yearseach; a total of 25,920 years. Alcyone, in turn (bringing our Sun and us with it) istraveling around a Great Central Sun. The time for that trip takes ten of the cycles that aretwelve Ages each; ten of the 25,920 year cycles. This information is very ably providedin the book The Seven Rays of the Q.B.L. by Frater Albertus.

The Universal Christ Spirit

The Hopi Indians are the Record Keepers of the Native Americans. The Hopis call thisthe "The Fourth Age of Man". According to them the earth has been wiped clean 3 timesalready. First by Fire, next by Ice, most recently by the flood... approximately 11,000-

12,000 years ago. Some believe that the actual date of the flood occured on June 5, 8498BC. According to the Hopis we are about to enter "The Fifth Age", which they call "TheWorld of Illumination", which seems to coincide with the dawning of the Age ofAquarius. The Hopis say that there will 2 more worlds after this. "The Sixth Age" whichis "The World of Prophecy and Revelation" and "The Seventh Age" which is "The Worldof Completion".

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In pre-Vedic (Dravidian) India, the Pleiades were referred to on two levels: as the "SevenMothers of the World" (one of which was Kali); and as the "Seven Priestesses who madejudgment on men. An ancient calendar was discovered in Tirvalon. Within that calendar,the time frame we relate to as November, was recorded as "Kartica", the Dravidian wordfor the Pleiades. In modern patriarchal India, the Pleiades, who were once symbolized as

the source of the 7 Mothers of the ancient human/Pleiadian race & as the 7 SpiritualJudges of humankind ~ are now known as the 6 nurses.

That Dravidian calendar designation for the Pleiades is important. In truely ancientGreece, the Parthenon as well as many of the oldest of the Greek temples wereastronomically oriented to the Pleiades. In that Dorian era of Greece, the calendar wasregulated by the position of the Pleiades.

The Doric calendar had two prime times, two times virtually forgotten and yetprominently remembered. A time frame set between, what is now, the 1st of May and the1st of November, became the navigational season for ancient Greece ~ a time to honour

the Pleiades, that had an archaic link to travelers to the Dorians. The ancient/astronomicalcalendars, had 13 moons, and the solstices and equinoxes. But there were also four othersignificant times, the cross-quarter holidays, each half-way between an equinox & asolstice. The two prominent Dorian cross-quarter times evolved into specific days onmodern calendars ~ May Day & Halloween.

May Day, the Feast of Life and November Eve, the Feast of Death. Though severelysuppressed by the Church, in Northern European Countries (such as Ireland), there wasan All Souls Day tradition of offering prayers for the dead in the direction of the Pleiades(an archaic remnant of the Egyptian ritual of the dead, which included speaking thenames of the Seven Hathors/the Pleiades, to begin the journey to the paradise in the

distant stars).

According to Gary Val Tenuta regarding the calendar change, the Mayan's did not specify22 December 2012 in their writings. That's just the date which happens to fall on the daythey said would be the end of this current age. The beginning of this current age wasmarked by what the Mayans called "the birth of Venus". This was the event of Venusrising on one horizon at the same time the Pleiades was disappearing below the oppositehorizon. It just happens that on 22 December 2012, we will witness the "death of Venus",marking the end of this age, when Venus will disappear below one horizon while thePleiades will be rising over the opposite horizon. So this all has to with celestial events,including sun spot cycles, and their effects on human populations. The Mayans had a"day count" which corresponded to these events and, thus, they were able to predictfuture celestial events. The number of days from the beginning of the age to the end ofthe age is 1,872,000 days. The way we know 22 Dec 2012 is the last day of that numberis that a man named Alfred Maudsely, in the early 1900s, worked out the Mayan codingin comparison to our own calendar. His work was considered ground breaking and waspublished in 1905 in the journal American Anthropologist. As I understand it, anydifferences between the Julian calendar and our current Gregorian calendar were takeninto account. In any case, it wouldn't seem to matter anyway. The beginning of the

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current age was marked by a celestial event the date of which we can identify bybacktracking with the use of modern computer programs. From that starting point we cancount forward 1,872,000 days and the date we arrive at is 22 December 2012. Gary ValTenuta's Gematria Web site.

When studying the Zodiac" it is amazing to see that all the major themes of scriptureconcerning God's great plan of creation and redemption are clearly figured in the Signs ofthe heavens. God wrote the gospel in the stars! Many people have shied away fromteachings concerning the Zodiac out of fear of venturing into the occult of astrology -- avalid concern.

However in Job 38:31-32 we read, "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, orloose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thouguide Arcturus with his sons?" Mazzaroth is a Hebrew word which means "theconstellations of the Zodiac." Hidden in plain sight in Job chapters 38 and 39, are giventhe twelve Signs: Battles of heaven -- Job 38:37; Lions -- Job 38:39; Ravens -- Job 39:41;

Wild goats -- Job 39:1; Hinds -- Job 39:1; Wild ass -- Job 39:5; Unicorn 39:9; Peacocks --Job 39.13; Ostrich -- Job 39:13; Horse -- Job 39:19; Hawk -- Job 39:26; Eagle -- Job39:27.

What is the purpose of placing these verses in the Bible. Does it merely concern somemysterious physical influences of the sun, moon and stars over the earth and men's lives -- or is it something far grander and greater?

In the book of Revelation the Holy Spirit gives us the symbols of the lion, the calf, theman, and the eagle and also of the twelve tribes in the heavens. Are these the true powersin the heavens that project their dominion upon the earth! Are these the ensigns and

standards that show that the heavens rule!

There are also religious implications from the practices of the ancient Babylonians. 40 isthe number of probation; trial; initiation; death. As an elevation of four it is wholenessand totality. The importance of the "forty days" probably comes from the Babylonianforty days' disappearance of the Pleiades, a period of rains, storms, floods and dangers.The return of the Pleiades was a time of rejoicing and a bundle of forty reeds was burnedfor the forty days of evil power.

THE SPIRALING ENERGIES

RIGEL

His energy is the spiral of creation.He is often perceived with the eagle or hawk's head and a human body.

Some people see him as a white column of light.

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WATER - AIR - EARTH - FIREthe cycle of creation

SEED - TREE- FRUITthe cycle of creation

The whole universe is held together by means of vortices within vortices of centripetalenergy--with their associated electromagnetic fields--like whirlpools on water, withinlarger whirlpools. These spiraling energies give rise to natural space-time orbits: satellitesaround planets, planets around stars, solar systems around other more major vortexcenters, and so on. Our planet Earth orbits the Sun once a year but our solar system as awhole also traverses an orbit in this section of the galaxy with a period of about 24,000years. There are many other solar (star) systems in this cyclic motion. The Pleiades, about400 light years from us is part of this system and in fact our solar system orbits thecentral sun of the Pleiades, Alcyone; the photon belt encircles the Pleiades system. Thusour solar system, and therefore planet Earth, takes some 24,000 years to come back to its

same point in this particular orbit. Picture several star systems in a massive orbit, but nowenvisage a torroid or doughnut-shaped cloud cutting across these orbiting star systems.This is the photon belt. This means our solar system goes through the belt twice eachcycle of 24,000 years (that is, every half cycle). The thickness of the photon cloud is suchthat it takes about 2000 years for our solar system to pass through, and therefore about10,000 years between each encounter with this belt (2 x 10,000 plus 2 x 2000 = 24,000years). When will this occur? Scientists around the globe in 1992 predicted that theencounter would occur within months to a year; with significant disagreements.However, Pleiadian extraterrestrials indicated that it would not occur until just after 2010and that it was difficult to predict since the belt was oscillating randomly. There are infact huge discrepancies in channeled material regarding the date of this revelatory

occurrence, ranging from 1996 to 'definitely before the end of this century' to 2003 andfinally, and more likely, about 2011-2012.

The term "electromagnetic" is used to describe the phenomenon-- this is the same asphoton, which is a particle of light or electromagnetic radiation.

It appears that for mankind on this planet the photon belt encounter will be essentially aspiritual experience--but this really depends on man. If we are sufficiently evolved at thetime, great advancements will occur in our consciousness as we attune to the high-frequency photon rays. If we are negative, that is, possess too many lower vibrations, theresult of selfish actions, we are not expected to survive the radiation. In other words,there will be a natural spiritual selection.

The Photon Belt: By Various Authors at Spiritweb

The Pleiades In Fact And Fiction- Exploding The Myth Of The Photon Belt: from NexusMagazine

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The Photon Belt - Part Iby Virgil Armstrong The Photon Belt - Part IIby VirgilArmstrong

The Convergence- Two Streams of Future Probability- by Kiara Earthwalker

In his book Spirit Visions - The Old One's Speak, Dennison Tsosie the Native Americanseer said, There's people called Light People who carry the flame of the Source . . . Theyare here to teach healing with the hands . . . Healers will work with light energy throughtheir hands and will be able to do things you can't even imagine now."

"Do you know the names of the stars in the Pleiades? . . . Keep an eye on the stars in thehandle of the Little Dipper; from them will come a message for all mankind to see."

The source known as XTE J1118+480 is highlighted by a small circle in this negativeimage from the ROTSE telescope

Sunday, April 9, 2000

Telescope Pursues Mystery

By John Fleck - Journal Staff Writer

Los Alamos scientist Jim Wren is chasing an odd new astronomical beast.

Using an unusual telescope that scans the entire sky night after night, Wren and hiscolleagues are helping study a strange galactic object discovered 11 days ago with aNASA satellite.

"It's a mystery," said Wren, a Los Alamos National Laboratory astronomer.

The object seems to flare and then dim like a slow-moving searchlight, saidMassachusetts Institute of Technology astrophysicist Ron Remillard.

It's probably a black hole of some sort on the fringes of our galaxy, but exactly how it'sdoing the things the astronomers are seeing remains a mystery, Remillard said.

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Remillard, using an instrument aboard a NASA satellite that records naturally emitted X-rays from distant stars, began playing cat-and-mouse with the strange object March 29.

He was analyzing satellite data collected over the previous week and saw a new brightobject in the Big Dipper.

"It was a fun puzzle from the beginning," Remillard said.

As soon as he verified that he was seeing something real, rather than an error in his data,Remillard sent out an electronic alert to the international astronomical community, askingpeople to make follow-up observations of the object.

Within an hour, an observer in Japan reported that he had spotted the object.

But since the object seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, Remillard needed to knowits history. Had it flared before? If it was pulsing, how fast were the pulses?

That's the sort of astronomical mystery Wren and his colleagues with the Robotic OpticalTransient Search Experiment salivate over.

Where most telescopes peer deeply at a single tiny spot in the sky for hours, ROTSE(pronounced "ROT-see") uses a wide-angle lens to march across the sky, building amosaic of images of the entire visible sky every night.

Because they scan the entire sky every night, Wren and his colleagues had an archive ofpictures of the object.

Finding the object would have been a needle-in-a-haystack sort of problem. ROTSE takespictures of 10 million stars and galaxies a night, so many that it's unlikely the scientistswould have seen the strange, changing object on their own.

But Remillard's announcement told them where to look, allowing them to go backthrough their data and find that the object had flared at least once before, in January,Wren said.

The object brightened rapidly, then leveled off before fading, Wren said.

"It's definitely a strange object," he said.

Remillard theorizes the light is coming from the neighborhood of a black hole, an objectso massive that nothing, not even light, can escape the clutches of its gravity.

The black hole, he thinks, is sucking in dust and gas, which heats as it spirals toward itsdeath, giving off the light and X-rays the astronomers are seeing.

He has seen similar things before, but the pattern of pulsing light and X-rays this time is

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different.

"There's a big mystery here that's not solved," Remillard said.

The ROTSE data was crucial to figuring out what is going on, Remillard said, because

there is no other way to look back over time and see what the object had been up to.

ROTSE was built in 1997 by the University of Michigan, Los Alamos NationalLaboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to study gamma-ray bursts,strange blasts in the distant universe.

But while it waits for a gamma-ray burst, the telescope spends its nights scanning theskies, and has become a valuable tool for studying stars and galaxies that change overtime, said Carl Akerlof, the University of Michigan astrophysicist who heads up theproject.

It occupies an odd astronomical niche.

Most astronomers study objects one at a time, revisiting them occasionally if needed tosee if they're changing.

ROTSE sees 10 million objects in the sky every night, said University of Michiganastrophysicist Tim McKay, another member of the ROTSE team.

Because it scans so much sky, it misses the fainter objects that can be seen with largertelescopes, but it makes up for that with the massive number of repeat observations it cancarry out, according to McKay.

"Anything that gets bright enough, we've got it," he said.

It has already paid dividends, according to Akerlof.

"When you open up another corner of nature," Akerlof said, "nature usually rewardsyou."

Fleck

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"The Grail is abundance for all Mankind, a time when all man will believe in the sameSource. It is the return of Nature, the return of the Golden Age, the return of the Gods toEarth. Paradise regained. Mankind will be one with God."

"The Grail is also a bloodline. There was a time when beings you called Sons of God andAngels walked on earth. They were from another plane. They wished to manifest in

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physical form, and they combined with Mankind, to create beings who were half 'God'and half man."

"There will be beings called Aloids that will come into existence at this time who willinteract with Mankind and be accepted by Mankind. They will look more like humans,

but they are what you call aliens. They are made from samples of human genetic materialtaken from earth beings."

"We call the Watchers planetary beings. They are associated with the regenerating ofMankind and oversee the resources on the planet, reassuring there will always beMankind."

"Why does Mankind fear so much when there is nothing to fear? They create their ownfears when none are there. That's a lesson yet to be learned by him."

" . . . certain symbols, like the cross, the triangle, the square, and the circle, have a lot of

power, and if used properly, they can manifest things you want . . . The serpent or dragonhad a very powerful meaning."

"The human body is a reflection of Mother Earth. We humans have certain points ofspiraling energy that go in different directions, either clockwise or counterclockwise. Wecall them Chakras. The earth also has such points . . . There are certain places on earth,such as Stonehenge, as well as many other sacred places, that relate to these points. Someof these places, if seen from above earth, form the shape of a dragon. These points relateto and are connected to certain stars and receive energy from these stars. The star patternalso forms a serpent or dragon."

"Another powerful symbol is the Tree of Life. It is directly related to man's spiritualconnections to the earth and the Creator."

"The old earth religions and the ways of the primitive peoples, the spiritual practices andteachings, are what kept the world in balance. We must learn them again if we are tosurvive."

"There are still many things that exist on the earth plane that are yet to be discovered,such as the Cup of Christ - things which people's belief systems will manifest."

"As people come to believe in something, when the belief energy is strong enough, it will

be manifest."

"Our history is all wrong. Our beliefs are all wrong, and things must come about to shakeour belief systems before new beliefs can come in."

If Dennison's sources and others are right, the new ideas need to be shared with thoseinterested. I do think this is critical to bringing about the positive change.

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Joe Mason states, "One of my dreams showed this as being like gravity . . . each believeradds their small part to the whole. Dreams of atomic or nova explosions may hint that"critical mass" has been reached, that will cause a sudden, dramatic change. "

In 1998, Ludwig Kumpf, an elderly German ham radio operator and his assistant, both

international pioneers in transcommunication techniques, picked up transmissions froman interstellar group calling themselves the Umer who said that they were our ancestorsfrom star number 20 in the Pleiades. In several transmissions, this group said they hadmade crop circles and also gave a series of warnings. Basically, these said that mankindwas disgracing and killing the Earth because we couldn't be good. However, the nature ofthe material is now being accelerated by the starfire of the entire Cosmos that is nowmoving here. The Umer say that unless we change, the Earth will go through a shamblesbecause we are "lighting the atom" again. The Umer are coming back to talk to us of thelanguage of and in the Earth and are genetically seeding it with pictograms. They say aquantum leap is coming up and the whole world is being embraced now in readiness forthis event.

If I may insert an opinion of my own and others who dream vividly and frequently ofworld changes, there is no doubt that we are being led to some 'truth' which is evident tothe other higher dimensions of the spirit world and they are imparting this information tous so that we may be aware of impending disaster and perhaps work towards solving thisproblem in advance and perhaps avert the disaster or at least diminish it.

It is evident that the crop circles we are seeing more and more frequently and inincreasing complexity, that messages are being imparted to the entire world in a graphicway rather than in words ... the language of the higher dimensions.

See: Crop Circles - Their Meaning And Connections To Dreams

A reprogramming of the physical consciousness is taking place in twelve majorcrystalline regions around the Earth. These twelve major regions are all focused towardsthe Great Pyramid at Giza which is the central alignment for major star positionscontrolling the geomagnetic grids of the earth.

Into these twelve pyramidal regions the capstone of Light will come down to completethe changing of the spiritual hierarchy. This will be the time when the twelve tribes of thephysical Israel and the twelve consciousness levels of the spiritual Israel will unitearound each manifestation of the Eben Shettiyah, the foundation stone for the Living

Light upon this planet.

It is important to note that the The Hall of Records exists physically within the GizaPlateau. The same information that is in that space is also located within other locationsthroughout the world: South America, India, China, Mexico, etc. When these halls ofrecords are discovered, mankind will find that they validate each other with story of ourtrue past.

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The Emerald Tablets is an example of the validation of the Dead Sea Scrolls which havealready been transcribed by the Benedictine monks that were sworn to secrecy. Thisinformation is now being released; the contradictions of what religion is today and whereChristianity began, the Israelites and the Hebrews. All the information that Mosesbrought forth is better recorded in the Dead Sea Scrolls which go back to ten thousand

five hundred years ago. It was about the communication between other dimensions. Theycommunicated with the star Sirius and the Pleiades and other star systems. Now with ourcontact with higher dimensions we are repeating the First Times.

The grid structure of the Earth is such that the Great Pyramid is the central cornerstonewithin the New Jerusalem which connects the pyramidal capstone of the Merkabahvehicle (under the Order of Melchizedek), with the twelve consciousness Light zones onthis planet."

In 1993, approximately in November, Joe Mason had a dream/voice message "TheMerkabah will not come for another five years." That makes the date approximately

November, 1998

Joe Mason is a direct descendant of Patrick Henry, the great statesman who said, "Giveme liberty or give me death". Joe continues the family heritage.

Joe feels that the symbolism is related to the great solar eclipse of Aug. 11, 1999. At thattime the planets were aligned in a "Grand Cross" pointing to Leo, Taurus, Scorpio andAquarius, which are the Four Living Creatures of Ezekiel and Revelation. The book ofEzekiel says that there are 4 wheels that travel along beside the living creatures and theirspirits are in the wheels. H.P. Blavatsky calls this "Ezekiels Wagon", and said that it isrelated to the Sanskrit concept of the Vehana which means vehicle. The kabalists word

for this is the "Merkabah", which means four wheeled chariot. The Keys of Enoch calls itthe "vehicle of vehicles".

The total solar eclipse of the sun on August 11, 1999 at 11:11 a.m. was at Cornwall,England, it's first landfall after crossing the Atlantic Ocean. It is at Cornwall, Englandthat King Arthur reigned who quested after the Holy Grail. It is said that King Arthur isgoing to return, and that return is related to the Second Coming of Christ who is thecapstone of the Great Pyramid. Details and maps of the Eclipse

Joe Mason wrote these great articles about that: Humanity on the Pollen Path and SolarEclipse 1999 - Final Quest For The Holy Grail

Hundreds if not thousands of people have been experiencing the 11:11 showing up innumerous ways. A collection of these letters received are posted on these pages.The11:11 Coincidence.

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THE NOSTRADAMUS CONNECTION

Nostradamus - Century X-74

"The year of the great seventh number accomplished,it will appear at the time of the games of slaughter,

not far from the age of the great millennium,

when the dead will come out of their graves."

The Great Shift of 5/5/2000

5/5/2000

Olympics 2000 - Sydney, Australia

This was received in an e-mail by Dee on April 16, 2000

Subject: Taurus Stellium Supplement to Universal Festival Calendar for May, 2000

Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000

From: "Dan Furst"

TAURUS STELLIUM SUPPLEMENT to the Universal Festival Calendar for May, 2000

The Grand Planetary Alignment of May 2-5 is the most momentous astral event since theGrand Cross formations of August, 1999. It is also the moment of cosmic birth at the endof the gestation period that began last summer. 5/5/2000 comes 269 days after 8/11/99,thus bringing to birth the energies seeded by last year's first Grand Cross. The arithmeticof the moment is easy. Far more complex and controversial is the question that ends thisreport: exactly what will be born this year in the early days of May?

This Supplement has four sections:

1. Defining the Window2. Astrology3. Mythic Resonance4. Cosmic Birth

1. General Introduction: Defining The Window - A stellium (Latin, plural stellia) is anyastral alignment in which five or more planets--including the Sun and Moon--areconcentrated in one of the 12 signs of the zodiac. A grand stellium is an alignment ofseven or more planets in one sign. The most accurate way to describe what will happenon May 2-3 (depending on your time zone) is that a grand stellium will form in Taurusfor about 14 hours, followed by a stellium lasting until May 13. The main energy of this

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powerful planetary cluster is on May 2-3, and that is why our main attention naturallygoes there.

The exact sequence of events:

. 4/29 (Sat)--4/30 (Sun): Mercury enters Taurus, followed by Venus, to join the fourplanets already in Taurus and form a stellium.

. 5/3 (Wed), 4:54 a.m. UT ("Universal Time" in Greenwich): the Moon enters Taurus asthe seventh planet forming a Grand Stellium. Note that this will occur in the evening of5/2 in the Americas and other locations west of Greenwich by 5 hours or more.

. 5/3 (Wed), 7:19pm UT: Mars exits into Gemini. The Grand Stellium ends.

. 5/4 (Thu), 4:12am: New Moon, Sun conjunct Moon in Taurus.

The Moon exits into Gemini on 5/4, leaving a stellium of 5 planets. When Mercurymoves into Gemini on 5/13, the stellium ends. By the month's end, only Jupiter andSaturn are in Taurus, forming the Chronocrator, or "Ruler of Time" conjunction (seeUniversal Festival Calendar for 5/28). The main energy of the planetary alignment is inthe first few days of May, at the time of the Grand Stellium and New Moon, while thetwo weeks from 4/29 to 5/13 are almost as highly charged as the Grand Stellium itself. Itis also important that the astral energy of the Grand Stellium is fortified by the earthenergy of the Mid-Spring Festival, which comes annually on May 1-3.

Stellia are not that uncommon. Many people, including the author, have a stellium intheir natal charts. Even grand stellia are not that rare.

A superb article by Mark Krueger documents nine grand stellia between April, 1845 andMay, 2000. However, only two of these nine stellia (in 1962 and 2000) are the rarer oneswhich contain none of the "outer planets" (Uranus, Neptune and Pluto), but consist onlyof the seven bodies defined as "planets" in classical astrology: Sun, Moon, Mercury,Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Broadly speaking, this year's Taurus Stellium begins onApril 29, when Mercury enters Taurus to join the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn informing the critical mass of five planets in the same sign. Venus enters Taurus on April30, followed by the Moon on May 2, forming the maximum cluster of seven planets. Theenergy of the Stellium begins to wane on May 4, when both Mars and the Moon begin toexit into Gemini. The Stellium dissolves on May 13, when Mercury enters Gemini. By

May 25 only Jupiter and Saturn, moving into exact alignment in the Chronocrator ("Rulerof Time") conjunction, remain in Taurus. (See Universal Festival Calendar for 5/28).

While May 2--3 will be the ideal time for synchronized meditations, the energy of theGrand Stellium remains very strong throughout the weekend, and this is why countlessevents such as Earth Healing Day are scheduled for Thursday, May 4 (when the energy ofthe Taurus Stellium is fortified by the New Moon) and Friday, May 5. Synchronized

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meditations and ceremonies will continue through the weekend of May 6-7.

2. ASTROLOGY

Readers who wish to avoid technical material, or astrology altogether, may wish to skip

to the Interpretation section of this piece, or to 3.

Mythic Resonance.

a. Specifications:

As always, casting a chart for an event like the Grand Stellium requires that the astrologerchoose a specific moment within a time window that may last hours, even days; and alsodecide the place for which the chart will be cast. The possibilities are limitless, andchoices are necessarily subjective, depending on the interests and beliefs of the individualobserver. Several Grand Stellium charts will appear in the months to come, cast for

places that astrologers have conventionally designated "Taurus countries" and for exactplanetary combinations such as the New Moon (5/4 at 4:12 a.m. UT).

The Grand Taurus Stellium chart cast for this report will be visible soon on the newHermes 3 website. The chart can be set up from the following coordinates, cusps andplanetary positions:

May 3, 2000 9:12 a.m. Greenwich Mean Daylight Time (8:12 a.m. Greenwich MeanTime, Greenwich, England)

1.) First House (Ascendant) cusp: 14 Cancer 50'; Moon's North Node (Dragon's Head) at

27 Cancer 40'

2.) Second House cusp: 0 Leo 31'

3.) Third House cusp: 18 Leo 46'

4.) Fourth House cusp: 13 Virgo 13'

5.) Fifth House cusp: 19 Libra 12'; The sign of Scorpio is "intercepted" in this House

6.) Sixth House cusp: 5 Sagittarius 59'

Pluto at 12 Sagittarius 17' Retrograde; Chiron at 16 Sagittarius 12' Retrograde

7.) Seventh House cusp: 14 Capricorn 50'; Moon's South Node (Dragon's Tail) at 27Capricorn 40'

8.) Eighth House cusp: 0 Aquarius 31'; Neptune at 6 Aquarius 34'

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9.) Ninth House cusp: 18 Aquarius 46'; Uranus at 20 Aquarius 38'

10.) Tenth House cusp (Midheaven): 13 Pisces 13

11.) Eleventh House cusp at 19 Aries 12'; The sign of Taurus is "intercepted" in this

House, and contains a Grand Stellium: Moon at 1 58', Venus at 2 44', Mercury at 6 27',Sun at 13 12', Jupiter at 16 44', Saturn at 19 29 and Mars at 29 40'.

12.) Twelfth House cusp: 5 Gemini 59'

The chart shown here is within the narrow window described above for the Grand seven-planet Stellium on 5/3. This chart has the obvious advantage of being symbolically andaesthetically pleasing, with the entire Grand Stellium located within the 11th House,which is traditionally considered the house of friends and allies, and thus implies that weshall gain the full benefit of this astral moment if we link together lovingly with peopleall over the planet who are like-minded and like-hearted with us in their desire to lift and

transform all of humanity. The 11th House is also associated with Aquarius, the 11th signof the zodiac, and expresses the additional import of the Grand Stellium as one of the trueharbingers of the coming Aquarian Age.

The disadvantage of this chart is that the sign of Taurus, and everything in it, is"intercepted" in the sense that the cusps or border points of the 11th house are in Ariesand Gemini. When a sign is entirely enclosed by the two neighboring signs, as Taurus ishere, its energy is said to be blocked or inhibited in some way. This is perhapsappropriate for the Grand Stellium, as human progress now depends largely on thetransformation of negative and limiting thoughtforms, and, as we shall soon see, some ofthe aspects in this chart clearly embody the increasingly palpable tension in today's world

between the growing desire for genuine freedom among more and more individuals, andthe determination of fear-based authorities everywhere to maintain domination,manipulation and control. More of this in Mythic Resonance.

b. Aspects:

. Sun conjunct Jupiter, sextile Ascendant and Midheaven, quintile Moon's North Node(Dragon's Head)

. Moon conjunct Venus and Mercury, square Neptune and both Moon's Nodes (Dragon'sHead and Dragon's Tail), quintile Uranus and Ascendant

. Mercury square Neptune

. Venus quintile to, and exactly on the midpoint between, Ascendant and Uranus

. Mars trine Moon's South Node (Dragon's Tail), sextile Moon's North Node (Dragon'sHead)

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. Jupiter conjunct Saturn, sextile Ascendant, quintile Moon's North Node (Dragon's Head)

. Saturn square Uranus (This square is, in fact, the only remaining component of lastsummer's Grand Cross alignments)

c. Interpretation:

The meaning of this chart, any chart cast for the full or partial Grand Stellium, is mainlyin the concentration of so much planetary energy in a single sign--and in the chart shownhere, in a single house as well. The two houses and interest areas most highlighted in thischart are: The Second House of money, beauty and art on the earth plane; of the alchemyof attraction on the spirit plane. This house is naturally aligned with Taurus, and is ruledby Venus.

The Eleventh House of friends on the earth plane; of the alchemy of loyalty on the spiritplane. This house is naturally aligned with Aquarius, and is ruled by Uranus.

The brief version of the opportunity this represents is one of the real advantages of theAquarian Age: that we shall have the chance to master the management of money as anexercise in teamwork and a ceremony of friendship, rather than a conspiracy of fear andparanoia, as it is now that the spiritual ideals of the Piscean Age have largely witheredinto the terrified grasping of money by those who fear scarcity, and the self-righteoushatred of money by poverts who believe money is dirty, and they themselves are purebecause they do not have it. While greed and hatred of money may seem opposite to eachother, they are in fact complementary forces that work together to continue to anchorpoverty consciousness on the planet. The Grand Stellium offers, among many otherthings, a chance to help liberate from ignorance some of the people who remain stuck in

this two-lane reality tunnel.

It may not be possible for all of humanity at once to get what Buckminster Fuller meantwhen he said, "There is no shortage of anything. There is only an abundance ofignorance." Or, if the Hundredth Monkey idea is sound, it may indeed be possible forhumankind to awaken en masse. Our responsibility to attempt this has been plain foryears now. The only question is when we will get it done. Until we do, we can count onreceiving signals like the Taurus Stellium, the events of 2012, and more.

In some way the Taurus Stellium must involve a transformation of consciousness aboutmoney, as Taurus is the money sign. What form this will take, whether it even signals the

birth of a broad-based, post-capitalist economy that will operate better for the good of all,remains to be seen. What we can foresee is that government will become more vocal andruthless in its attempt to regulate and squeeze cyberbusiness, as the internet is betterunderstood in more of its implications, as not only a movement for the freedom of themind, but also a system for protecting money against illegitimate taxation and control,and a spiritual vehicle for joining people worldwide in ceremonies of love, forgivenessand liberation. The presence of Neptune, ruler of Pisces, in the Eighth House of Deathand Rebirth, suggests that some outworn Piscean thoughtforms may pass on at this time,

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though the change may not be visible until later. Which pieces of worn Piscean baggagehumanity will now choose to discard remains to be seen--but something will get pitchedaway. As Neptune is square (90 degrees away from) Mercury, Venus and the Moon inTaurus, and thus implies delusion in the areas these planets rule, we can expect moreconfusion and distortion from Piscean control forces that are facing the ebb of their

influence, but will not let go of their claims on billions of human minds.

Which of the old hierarchic notions from the Piscean Age will be the first to go? It's amatter of opinion and taste. Will it be the alleged primacy of intellect over intuition? Thesupposed inferiority and submissiveness of women? The inherent sinfulness andunworthiness of human nature, and all the rest of the disempowering "original sin"thoughtform? The ultimate authority of purely materialistic science?

Which of these errors will be discarded soon, and which will hang on until the last--forthe Tooth and Nail Prize, the smart money is on original sin--remains to be seen, but asall of these thoughtforms are impediments to human and planetary ascension, all of them

will have to be outgrown if the progressive Aquarian spiritual paradigm is true. Theunstoppable flow of change is also evident in relationships involving the Ascendant inCancer and the MidHeaven in Pisces. These two points represent, respectively, thehorizontal field of consciousness projecting itself in the world, and the vertical thrust ofsoul aspiration and divine expression. Happily, the Ascendant and MidHeaven are trineeach other (at a 120 angle), The 90 relationship between Pluto and the MidHeavenembodies what is already increasingly clear: that moribund policies and institutions ofgovernment not only do not support the needs of spirit, but actively align against them, sothat the liberation of the collective human soul will come when greater numbers ofhuman beings succeed in discarding the old adversarial habits. In the end, as more humanbeings perceive that focused intention is less violent and messy than revolution,

governments will not have to be terminated. They will evaporate from lack of attentionand serious regard. Humanity will have more important work to do.

3. MYTHIC RESONANCE

The mythic resonance of the Grand Stellium is not in the complex relationships of all theplanets positioned in Taurus, but in the sign of Taurus itself. If we accept the premise thatthe sky is a map and picture gallery in which the Divine Teacher displays old and newinformation for humanity's benefit, and uses exact star and planet formations toencourage human beings to contemplate certain figures and themes more deeply, thenone symbol we are meant to study now is Taurus itself. When so many planets gather in

one sign, they are in effect asking us to notice something new about that sign--or toremember about it something that humankind used to know, but has forgotten.

While Taurus has always been regarded as a male image--the Latin word itself, like itsGreek ancestor, is masculine in gender--the ancients were not nearly as certain as most ofus are now that Taurus is a Bull only, period, and cannot possibly be a Cow. Amongancient peoples, Taurus had a mysterious double identity as both a male force of staminaand power, and as a female force who ruled the time of year in which the green plants

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leaf out, and the new animals begin to grow in the wombs of the mothers to be, from theseeds planted in the month of the Ram.

Venus--and her counterparts such as Aphrodite, Hathor, Inanna and Freya--has been theruler of Taurus since ancient times. While Venus and her many sisters have always been

called "Love Goddesses", and have always embodied the force of erotic love, they havealso, all of them, been mothers, and have therefore represented the Triple Goddess(Virgin, Mother, Wise Woman) in the second, physically productive phase of her life.And while Taurus' great "Bull's Eye" star Aldebaran has always been identified withMars/Aries and other male war gods because of its red color and giant size, the femininestar family of the Pleiades is at the back end of Taurus, perhaps to suggest the doublenature of this sign that is formidable Bull in front, and prolific Cow in back, where themilk and the calves emerge. Perhaps this is why the surviving temples, art and historicaldocuments from the Age of Taurus (roughly 4,300 to 2,150 BCE) show, along with themassively-muscled Babylonian winged bulls and the bulls' horns of the earliest Minoantemples, the cow images of Mother Goddesses as well.

Perhaps this is why the Egyptians revered both the Apis Bull, said to embody the malevitality of Osiris, and such female Neters as Isis and Hathor, both often depicted with thesymbol of cow's horns. Perhaps this is why the Hindu image of the cow as a "poem ofpity" was already very old before Gandhi coined the words. Perhaps the reality is thatTaurus is both Bull and Cow, always has been, and one thing that we are supposed tonotice, at a time that is ruled by the most intimidating, violent and possessive qualities ofthe Bull, is that right living requires a proper balance between the Bull and the Cow, andthat if one is greatly empowered at the expense of the other, much suffering will result forhumanity and for Mother Earth.

This is why the Return of the Goddess is not only at hand, but is already underway allover the planet, and is evident in both positive and negative terms, in everything from theincreasing empowerment and public voice of women to Taliban bullies in Afghanistan,elephant-sized SUV's on the other side of the planet, and many other signs ofinsecure manhood. The restoring of balance is now possible, as women reconnect withthe long-forgotten mythic symbol of the Triple Goddess, and understand anew that in herold age she is not merely a "crone" or "witch"--but a Wise Woman whose knowledge ofherbs and stones, stars and waters is among the keys to the survival of the community.

The Return of the Goddess is possible only if it is complemented by the Return of theTrue Warrior, after a time in which false warriors have been dominant. This does not

mean that we are on the eve of a battle between the spiritual bird men who fly in love andthe material crocodile and donkey men who bite and kick in fear. The point is that theTrue Warrior's most powerful weapon is Love.

The star map of the winter sky, in which Taurus lives, offers clues about this. Taurusstands facing east toward Orion the Hunter, who apparently extends his left hand, withsomething in it, toward the Bull/Cow. Behind Orion are the two dogs, the larger of whomis very prominent as the great star Sirius is his left eye. The horns of Taurus point

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upward, toward Gemini, the Twins, the next constellation in the zodiac. The previouszodiac sign, Aries, is below and a little behind Taurus. Above Taurus' back are the heroPerseus and Auriga, his Charioteer. While Taurus is often shown in pictorial sky charts ascharging toward Orion, who holds a club in his hand and is ready to whack the Bull--asthough any true Hunter would be mentally unfastened enough to stand in the path of a

charging bovine of either sex--the reality is that Taurus has not lowered his horns into acharge. He is standing still, looking at what the Hunter offers him.

The winter sky is a lesson in the education of the Hunter and Warrior, just as the summersky is a lesson in the education of the Virgin and Mother. Orion is surrounded by otherswho teach him, from below and going clockwise, when to retreat and conceal (Lepus theHare), when to link with loyal allies (the Dogs), when to negotiate (Gemini, the Twins),when to attack and how to move (Perseus and Auriga) and most important of all, how todefend with minimum effort and maximum posture (Taurus the Bull) and how to practicemercy and peace (Taurus the Cow).

All of these qualities together compose the True Hunter and the True Warrior, but theTaurus qualities are most exalted because without them the others mean little. The idealTaurus nature, like the true Warrior, is brave and loyal, hearty and good-humored, gentle,merciful and protective. Thus another very desirable effect of the Grand Stellium couldbe the drawing away of some focus from the warrior caricatures endlessly created by theworld's dominant fear culture, and toward the True Warrior as the growing world cultureof love understands him.

In these terms, the most important point of the Grand Stellium could be that it inducespeople all over the planet to understand the equal and balanced power of the Bull and theCow, the ways in which the balance has been upset in many parts of the world, and how

the balance might be restored in order to realize and release fully again the Taurus energyof Love. As the Taurus nature is generous, sensuous and fun-loving, the keynote forspiritual communication and persuasion at ceremonies and gatherings during the GrandTaurus Stellium is to fuse ceremonies of meditation and beauty with the joys ofcelebration, as a good, inclusive meal is one of the most basic ceremonies of love.

Much else can be said about the mythic resonance of this cosmic moment and will unfoldin time to come, especially as we come to understand more fully the path we have takento get here from our point of origin.

As Aldebaran in Taurus is almost exactly 180 across the zodiac wheel from Antares,

another red giant star in Scorpio, and both are about 90 from Regulus in Leo, these starsin the "fixed" signs would necessarily be navigational beacons for any starseed racecoming from afar to this sector of the Milky Way galaxy. These mythic voyages ofhumanity are also connected with the Grand Stellium in Taurus, and the story will unfoldas it is better understood.

4. COSMIC BIRTH

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For those who see the Grand Stellium as the culmination and flowering of a 9-monthbirth cycle that began at the Grand Cross alignment of last August 11, the most importantquestion of the time is: who or what is going to be born, for the great joy and healing ofhumanity and Mother Earth, in the early days of May? We shall hear many answers tothis question, some of them so bizarre and inventive that this section could unfold into the

comic scherzo of the whole report. Who will be born? The Antichrist is always a popularitem. He and the generic white-bearded old man who doubles as God the Father (bare-headed) and Nostradamus (with a hat) on the tabloid covers share an office and printingfacility behind a 24-hour store near everybody. The media of the fear culture willinevitably exploit Antichrist to the max, as in Circus Maximus, as Hollywood ispreparing to release a gore-and-agony spectacular about the gladiators of ancient Rome,starring the great Russell Crowe, on or just after the time of the Grand Stellium. Asalways, the fear culture will try to destroy the spiritual opportunity by creating as manyfearsome diversions as possible. Including predictions of Earth Changes. Is an entiregrand stellium of planets in the earth sign of Taurus likely to manifest in earthquakes, andin combustions of earth and other elements such as volcanic eruptions and tidal waves?

Yes, certainly, for those who hold that thoughtform. Or is it equally likely that no notableearth changes will occur, as they have also not occurred during other recent grand stellia?

Yes, certainly, for those who hold that thoughtform. As always, concentrations of humanfear and intensity will attract earth changes as a lightning rod attracts the sky's electricity.Events worthy of a Tiepolo skyscape have been predicted for the months to come. Onerecent report says the Chandra X-ray observatory has detected a black hole in our galaxy--"and the dangerous star-eater is pulling Earth, the Sun and our entire Solar Systemtoward it at more than one million miles per hour. At its current velocity, our planet willbe swallowed by the black hole on August 11th 2000--a date that could be Doomsday forall mankind, astronomers warn." This prophecy is certainly enough to get one's attention

and is doubly intriguing because 8/11/2000 will be exactly one year to the day after thefirst Grand Cross alignment of August, 1999.

According to another story from Earth Changes TV, "NASA has just disclosed thefinding of two new comets today as part of the recent 92 comets they have discoveredover the last four years since SOHO's orbit. NASA believes this latest stream of cometsare the remains from a breakup of 'one single gigantic comet' that may have occurredmore than 2000 years ago." This report has enormous implications, and has been linkedwith everything from Hopi prophecies to the return of the planet Nibiru as described byZechariah Sitchin. There is not space here to go further into all of this--but it may makegood material for a Millennium Supplement at the end of the year, assuming we are not

in a black hole by that time.

Who or what is going to be born in early May? For Christians, the obvious answer is thatJesus will return to bless the good, curse the bad and initiate a new kingdom of Heavenon Earth. As beautiful and desirable as this may be for so many, it is simply not in thecards. The Piscean Age has nearly run its course, and will not be the only one of theGreat Ages to play an encore for another 2,000 years. Jesus will not be coming back--andnot because he doesn't exist or his original, undistorted teaching was invalid. The

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Christos will not be returning to "save" us because that would not serve his purpose, andwould be inappropriate to our current stage of soul evolution. It would only reinforce thefalse perception that God is outside and above us, at a time when our spiritual growth andresponsibility require that we realize the divinity within ourselves and one another.

The reality is that divinity has been within us all along, though in a latent form that canbe realized through spiritual practice. The being that will be born in early May will not bea specific person, but the beginning of a new human spiritual hive mind formed by thelinking of intention by growing numbers of people who have perceived that the oldparadigms of duality, judgment and separation are hollow, and can now be replaced--withmuch less effort than we anticipated--by meditations and ceremonies of love and goodwill.

What will be born is the Aquarian Spiritual Paradigm, with all that it implies for thelinking of humanity in sincere and joyous friendship, and an acceleration of frequencytoward the divine music that has been sounding in the soul's ears for a very long time.

Ken Kalb at Lightshift 2000 perceived some 25 years ago, and pointed out to the greatastrologer Dane Rudhyar, the link between the Grand Cross alignments of August 1999and the Grand Stellium of May 2-5, 2000. His article "The Grand Planetary Alignment"is essential reading. See .

. The weekly PlanetVisions Update by author and astrologer Mark Krueger is invaluablefor checking the main astral data clearly and concisely. Krueger's writing is often elegant.See especially his recent piece "Bull's Eye" at .

. Astrologer and biblical scholar Jayj Jacobs ([email protected]) has prepared some

very valuable material on the "astro-physical" Star of Bethlehem and the Horoscope ofJesus. For Jacobs' articles and information on other sites devoted to this subject: [?]

. One more noteworthy astrological perspective is that of Mahala Gayle Flenniken, whosePlanet Alert Newsletter for April has good material on the Grand Stellium.

. Historian and calendar scholar Sepp Rothwangl was among the first to circulate advancee-mail and web information about the Taurus Grand Stellium and has shed new light onthe "Millennium" and other important time markers. See his historical backgroundinformation on the Grand Stellium at .

For those who seek to align their meditations with the energy of the Grand Stellium, or tojoin local ceremonies and gatherings, the most useful sites and networks are these:

. The Universal Festival Calendar is happy to acknowledge again its debt to Ren Mller,master of SpiritWeb, who has been kind enough to repost the Universal Festival Calendarsince last year. SpiritWeb offers comprehensive and long-range coverage of spiritual andmetaphysical events, along with much else. For a full list of the site contents:

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. Global Meditations provides excellent coverage of the current and following month andof major events on the 3-to-4 month horizon. Barbara Wolf of Global Meditations hasjust added a new page about early May 2000 to her website and also sends a free monthly

events list to e-mail subscribers. See .

. Leigh Tremaine's Earth Healing Newsletter offers a listing of peace and environmentalhealing events and has designated May 3-5, 2000 as Earth Healing Day. Her website hasa wide variety of information, art images, networking tools and other useful pieces--including suggested global meditation schedules--for those who wish to utilize theenergies of the Grand Stellium for personal and planetary transformation. See.

. Another important information source for selected major events is Gillian Macbeth-Louthan's Quantum Newsletter. Subscribe at .

. The growing Women's Spiritual Network is much favored by the currents of the time.Network coordinator Maggie Erotokritou sends out "daily postings on all aspects of selfgrowth, spirituality, health, healing, planetary events and meditations etc." See.

. For those interested in Earth changes connected with the Taurus Stellium, a very muchnoticed site over the last year has been Krsanna Duran's TimeStar, which predicted thelocation and timing of recent earthquakes in Turkey, Taiwan, Mexico and California. . . ."Locations and timing sequences of earthquakes predicted with messages in crop circlesand the pyramids at Teotihuacan represent a science rooted in humankind's earliest

geometry". See .

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Dreams of the Great Earth Changes

Joe Mason writes: In 1993, two individuals at the same work place told me that they hadrecurring dreams of dead people in coffins, including their own fathers, speaking to them.Their fathers are alive in real life. I believe the context of this is spelled out in Revelation3:1,2, ". . . you have the name of being alive, and you are dead. Awake, and strengthen

what remains and is on the point of death, . . ."

In Ezekiel 9:2, six men came from the north upper gate, with weapons for "slaughter."With them was a seventh man, clothed in linen, with a writing case at his side. Theseventh man marks the foreheads of those who will not be slain. This type of symbolismgoes way, way back. The original meaning was a purification process, after which one ispardoned. The Kali-Yuga is an age of "death or destruction creation," and is equated to a

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seed growing into a plant. The seed is destroyed in the process of the plant's growth. (SeeThe Hyades below) (Note: The Hyades actually consist of about 200 stars)

Certain constellations of stars, such as Orion and the Pleiades. Ursa Major, the BigDipper, symbolize something negative, like the cup going round and round in the sky,

pouring out upon us on the earth. I found it significant that the above mentionedconstellations all have seven major stars. The importance of Orion seems to be coming tothe fore, with all of the Great Pyramid associations.

Some incredible coincidences happened about the Pleiades. It relates to a dream, andconcerns the Seven Days of Creation, which are still in progress. I later read a book,called, "Beyond the Blue Horizon," which has a full chapter on myths about the SevenSisters. (The Pleiades) A number of the myths indicate six stars, with the dimmer seventhbeing "lost" or missing. (in Greek, it is the "Lost Pleiad"). In a couple of the myths, thelost star was abducted to the handle of the Big Dipper. In the "Enoch" book, Dr. Hurtaksays the handle of the Big dipper will be broken in the coming change.

A Native American Legend

Bear and Three HuntersThe Musquakie

(Big Dipper)

The bowl of the Dipper form a bear. The stars of the handle are hunters chasing after thebear. The tiny star Alcor is a small dog named "Hold Tight." In autumn when the Dipperis low to the horizon the blood from the arrow wounds drips on the trees and turns themred and brown.

Coyote, Wolves and BearsWasco

(Big Dipper)

There are five wolves that would share meat with Coyote. The wolves stared into thenight sky one evening. "What are you looking at?" asked Coyote. "There are two animals

up there. But we can't get to them." They said. Coyote said, "That is easy." He took hisbow and shot an arrow into the sky where it stuck, and another arrow which stuck into thefirst. Then another and another until the chain of arrows reached the ground. They allclimbed the arrows with the oldest wolf taking along his dog. When they reached the topthey saw the animals were grizzly bears. All the animals sat there looking at each other.Coyote thought they looked good sitting there so he left them and removed the arrowladder.

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The three stars of the handle of the Big Dipper and the two stars of the bowl near thehandle are the wolves. The two stars on the front of the bowl that point to the North Starare the bears. Alcor, the little star by the wolf in the middle of the handle is the dog.

Fisher Goes to Skyland

Anishinabe(Big Dipper)

Fisher was a small animal but a great hunter as well. One day the cold became too muchso he told his friends, Otter, Lynx and Wolverine, "We will go where the Earth is closestto Skyland. The Skyland is always warm and we will bring some of the warmth down toEarth." They traveled far up in the mountains, closer and closer to Skyland. When theywere close Fisher said, "We must jump up and break through to the land above the sky."

Otter jumped, bumped his head on the sky and fell back down the mountain. Lynxjumped, bumped his head and became unconscious. Wolverine jumped, bumped his head

and kept jumping over and over until the sky cracked a little, then finally it broke open.Fisher jumped through after him and found the place to be absolutely beautiful and warm.Birds flew through the crack in the sky to the world down below. The warmth began toflow to the Earth and melt the snow.

The Sky-People saw the warmth escaping and called out, "Thieves!" Wolverine ran backto the crack in the sky but Fisher was making the crack bigger. Arrows were flyingthrough the air. Fisher was killed. The great Gitchee Manitou took pity on Fisher, healedhim and placed him in the sky forever becoming the Big Dipper. Each Autumn as Fisherfalls towards the the Earth, the Sky-People try to patch the crack and Winter arrives. InSpring, Fisher climbs to the sky and reopens the crack - Summer.

Canoe RaceThe Chinook

(Orion)

A big canoe (Orion's belt) and a small canoe (Orion's dagger) are in a race to catch asalmon in the Big River (Milky Way). The little canoe is winning the race.

Six WivesWestern Mono

(Taurus)

The husbands (The Hyades) had six wives (The Pleiades). The Hyades threw out theirwives out of the dwelling because they ate too many wild onions that gave them very badbreath. When the wives went up to the sky to live, the lonely husbands followed them buthave to this day have never caught up with them.

The Lost ChildrenBlackfoot

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(Pleiades)

There were six young brothers who lived from handouts and wore torn and tattered oldclothing. These orphans were not cared for at all, except the pack of dogs that played withthem all day. People were unkind to them because of their appearance and teased by other

children. The boys no longer wanted to be people. They considered becoming flowers butthey might get eaten. Stones? No, they could be broken. Water could be drank, trees cut.So they decided to become stars. They are always beautiful and safe from others. Theboys ascended to the sky to become the Pleiades. The Sun welcomes the boys and theMoon calls them her lost children. The Sun punished the people with droughts. Thepeople heard the dogs howling to the sky because they missed them. The rains came afterthe Dog Chief asked the Sun for pity because it hurt all creatures.

THE DREAM CONNECTION

In 1995, The Dream Network Journalpublished a series of issues called, "DreamingHumanity's Path." The dreams clearly were indicating great changes ahead. A number ofthe dreams were about constellations, such as Orion and the Pleiades, and events in thesky.

In volume 14, Numbers 1 & 2 (combined), on page 50, is a dream that starts with anearthquake. Burning KKK crosses fall on people and pieces of buildings fall. Pieces ofthe street are thrust up. Then it is night time and everyone is looking up at the sky. Theysee a strange thing, like a comet, coming slowly toward them. It is glowing and pulsating.Everyone is afraid, but the dreamer is told mentally that it is extraterrestrials who arecoming to help, and save them. The dreamer knows that this is a worldwide destructiongoing on and that nothing will ever be the same again. But he and his companions arebeing saved and protected.

In volume 14, number 3, on page 19, two dreams were printed side-by-side, titled "Signsin the Sky," and "More Signs in the Sky." The two dreams were submitted independently,yet they were almost identical. One dreamer saw a giant wheel turning in the sky withconstellations going round and round. It was like time was turning, yet she and herfriends were in a place of no time. Not everyone could see what was happening. Sheknew the identity of the constellations by name, old and new, and by "connected" names.

She asked her friend, "Do you see THAT?" and described a sign in the sky. It was likethe stars were making connections. The second dreamer was with a friend and looked inthe sky with total awe. She asked, "Do you see THAT?"