Three Games of London and the Venus Transit

 

By now the clamour of voices speculating about what could happen at the London Olympics, and what it all might mean, is becoming deafening. The speculation is becoming almost as much a part of the event as the Games themselves. Could this be part of the plan? 

This blog has also done its part to add its small voice to the general din. The point here, though, is not to offer any conclusions about what will occur, or even to imply knowledge of the correct interpretation of symbolism. The purpose of these posts on the Olympics is to examine what the spectacle of London 2012 can teach us about the particular weirdness of these times.

Previous posts have been about the location of the Games, the Torch Relay, the Opening Ceremony, the patron saints of Britain and how they might relate to London 2012, and possible predictive programming. This blog, while trying to sum up the research of others, has attempted to add new information -- especially information occurring as synchronicity.

This will be the last post directly on the Olympics before the Opening Ceremony. Among other things, it looks into a pretty startling synchronicity involving the three previous Olympics in London and the Venus Transit.

Like the sign says, and what everybody by now knows, London is the first city in the world to have hosted the Olympics three times. She played hostess once in 1908, forty years later in 1948, and now in 2012. Symbolically, another meaning of the XXX of the current games could be the three London Games.

           

 The Rose of Heaven

The last post argued that the 70-day Torch Relay of London 2012 could represent a journey to the underworld. Within this period two major astronomical events occurred which represent in a shorter duration this same journey.

The most significant of the two is the Venus Transit. Venus transits the Sun twice in an eight year cycle. In the most recent cycle, the planet's first journey across the face of the Sun happened in 2004. This year, Venus made its return trip. This has not happened since 1882, and will not happen again until  2117. It is the rarity of this transit that makes it so amazing.

 

Being both the Morning and Evening stars, Venus makes a short journey into the underworld every day, just as Sun does.

 

What is unique about the Transit period, however, is that Venus becomes visible while in the underworld:

From the last days of May to mid June Venus will not be seen in the sky. The most intense period is June 4th – 6th. On the 5th is the exact Transit of Venus. Symbolically speaking Venus is not only in the underworld (invisible to us) but she is exactly conjunct the Sun. She is neither Evening or Morning star. She is truly between the worlds; suspended at that eternal moment after the inhale, before the exhale or possibly after the exhale but before we breathe in. We too are meant to be suspended in those days. Especially on the evening of the 5th.

The eight years separating the two halves of the transit is due to the orbital periods of the Earth and Venus. As Venus is closer to the Sun than our own planet its orbit is quicker and it frequently "laps" the Earth. For every eight Earth years, Venus has already orbited the Sun thirteen times. This gives us the very curious ratio of 8:13, and from the vantage point of an observer on Earth, over an eight year period Venus traces out a very beautiful rose-like pattern in the sky.

  

There is abundant evidence that this pattern has been known by astronomers for a long time, and that the five-petaled, rose-shaped symbol, called the "rose of Venus" or the "cinquefoil", can be dated back to at least Roman times.

 In Dante's Divine Comedy, the rose pattern appears in the sky not in connection to Venus, but as the spiritually higher, Empyrean -- the dwelling place of God. Dante explicitly calls this the Rose. Clearly, the rose-shaped orbital pattern is far more important than even Venus herself.  

 

The Venus Transit mythologically represents the birth of Venus. It is extremely interesting that Venus/Aphrodite is the mother of Aeneas, who in Virgil's Aeneid also voyaged to the underworld, and therefore the whole line of Roman kings and emperors trace their origins back to the goddess.

Here, Aeneas is shown receiving armour and weapons from his mother, the goddess Venus, before his important battle to conquer the future site of Rome. Accordingly, this mythology is present at the core of Western civilization.

Venus also plays a big role in Mayan mythology. Aug. 11-12 3113, when the 5125 year Long Count cycle is said to have begun, is called "the birth of Venus." The god, Queztalcoatl/Kukulcan, was identified with Venus.
 

  














Mayan astronomers closely tracked the cycles of Venus. The Mayan Calendar Round is 52 years (a number which will take on greater relevance our analysis develops), and two such cycles, making 104 years, was viewed as synching with the larger Venus cycle. 

Three Games of Venus

With this, we can finally get back to the three London Olympics. 104 is also 8 times 13, the same numbers involved in the 8:13 orbital period ratio of the Earth to Venus. More interesting, though, is the fact that the 1908 London Olympics are 104 years ago. They were held 104 years before this year's return Venus Transit, and 104 years before the third London Games.

Most likely a coincidence, right? It gets stranger, however, when we consider the 1948 London Olympics. These games were 64 years ago. This means that the 1904 Games were roughly thirteen 8-year Venus cycles prior to this year's return Venus Transit, while the 1948 Games were eight Venus cycles before this year. 

We find in the three London Olympic Games the exact 8:13 ratio as we do in the Earth to Venus orbital periods. 104:64 is exactly equal to 13:8.

1908 London Olympics -- 104 years ago, 13 Venus cycles (approx.)
1948 London Olympics -- 64 years ago, 8 Venus cycles
2012 London Olympics -- Venus transit
13:8=104:64

Was this in some way planned? Were the years of the three London Games consciously chosen to symbolically reflect wider patterns in the cycle of Venus, culminating with the Venus Transit of 2012? A question like this appears ridiculous until we consider again that London is the only city that has hosted the Olympics three times, and 2012 is the only year during the history of the modern Olympics which has seen a return Venus Transit (and this happened during the Torch Relay).

If we do the same calculations from the 2004 Olympics in Athens (the initial Venus Transit for this cycle), we can get back to 1900 Games in Paris but the 1940 Tokyo Games were cancelled because of WW2. Neither the cities or the dates line up. Only with the three London Games does the really striking 13:8 Venus ratio match perfectly.

So could this be planned? Upon further research this seems impossible. The 1908 Olympics were only held in London because the Games scheduled for Rome were cancelled due to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 1906.


 
Likewise, the 1948 London Olympics were originally scheduled for 1944, but had to be postponed because of the war. Did the Black Magic Engineers of global events directly cause the volcanic eruption and prolong the world war in order that the London Olympics would sync up with the Venus cycle? Unless we assume, as perhaps some do, that these engineers are the ancient gods themselves this seems fairly impossible.

Are we back to coincidence then? Or is something far deeper and far stranger in play here? This blog is exploring the idea that it might be the latter.

And to further heap weirdness on top of weirdness, in the last post we've seen how the 8000 miles of the Torch Relay is possibly connected to a Dantesque journey through the center of the Earth. The Earth's circumference is roughly 8000 miles, and is rounded off very roughly as 13,000 kilometres. 8:13 yet again! 



There are a couple more relevant connections to the Venus Transit that should be touched upon before looking into the annular eclipse of 5/20.

Dragon Boat of the Underworld

The Diamond Jubilee weekend events of June 2nd to June 5th, including a 1000 boat pageant up the river of the underworld and the lighting of the beacon with a diamond/vajra, occurred in succession with the Venus Transit and the partial lunar eclipse of June 4th. 

 

Again, it would be stretching it to say that there is a definite connection between these two sets of events, but symbolic parallels can be drawn.

The riverboat pageant on the 3rd, which made its way down the Thames passing under several bridge stations where thousands watched, seems to suggest the passage of Venus across the face of the Sun on the 5th/6th.



The Royal Barge, Spirit of Chartwell, carried the Royals with golden dragons featured on its prow sculpture. If we allow ourselves to be culturally promiscuous in assigning symbolic meaning, the dragons could resonate with the red dragon of Wales, the Venus dragons of Mesoamerican mythology, and 2012, the Chinese Year of the Water Dragon. 

 
This Chinese zodiac sign is especially interesting as the last time it was the Year of the Water Dragon was in 1952 -- the year Elizabeth was made Queen. Sixty years, in addition to marking a Diamond Jubilee, also completes one full cycle of the Chinese zodiac.




The other major event of the Jubilee weekend was the beacon lighting, already mentioned in the last post. The lighting of thousand of beacons in succession across the planet on June 4th, the day of a partial lunar eclipse, also gave the sense of a passage recalling the Venus Transit. 

The intrepid researcher, Goro Adachi, has written of the parallels between the Venus Transit and the last voyage of the Space Shuttle, Enterprise, up the Hudson river on the same day. 

I'm not sure exactly what to make of this, but there's a lot of food for thought contained in it. Like the riverboat pageant, like the global beacon lighting, this journey of the Enterprise up the Hudson certainly resonates with both the Venus Transit and the longer journey of Sirius through the Duat. 

A Woman Clothed with the Sun

One last interesting connection I've come across on the web concerning the Venus Transit also involves a queen and a dragon.  

 

Revelation 12

King James Version (KJV)

12 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

² And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
³ And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
⁴ And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
⁵ And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

A crown of twelve stars. What does that recall? Does any of this have anything to do with the Venus Transit, the London Olympics, Queen Elizabeth, 2012, etc.? It's easy to accuse web researchers of mistaking poetry for reality, but what if reality is poetry?

    

Torch Through the Underworld

I am quickly trying to relay information that I've come across about London 2012 before the Opening Ceremony kicks off on the 27th. I feel this background will help to shed light on what is going on.

Into the Duat

Something that does not appear to have been noticed yet concerns the official Torch Relay. This year the relay arrived from Greece to Britain and began its meandering course on May 19th, running for exactly 70 days. What else do we know that begins in mid-May and continues for 70 days? People interested in astronomy and ancient traditions will realize that this is the traditional period of the journey of Sirius through the Underworld, the Duat. This is the time of year when Sirius is invisible to the naked eye on Earth.

It may be that this is exactly what is being represented during the Torch Relay. The lighting of the Cauldron at the Opening Ceremony on the 27th is symbolic of the heliacal rising of Sirius. 

We know, though, that the heliacal rising over London takes place in the second week of Aug. not on July 27th. Clearly, this appears to be a symbolic alignment not simply a physical one.

However, as one great researcher, known as Monk, has calculated, Sirius sets with the Sun on May 17th/18th, when the Torch arrives at the southern most tip of Britain in Lands End, and the Torch is finally put out on Aug. 12th, the last day of the Olympics, when incredibly Sirius rises with the Sun.

 

So far, this is the first mention of Sirius on this blog, but it will be shown in the course of things that this star in particular plays a huge role in the shift of the Ages that may be occurring right now.

The 70 day period of the boat journey of Sirius through the Duat, or underworld, was significant in Egypt because the rising of Sirius with the Sun, later called the Dog Days (Sirius being the Dog Star), coincided with the inundation of the Nile River bringing with it needed nourishment to the Delta and its crops.

 

This 70-day journey of Sirius was honoured in Ancient Egypt in the mummification process. The following is taken from www.king-tut.org.uk :

Egyptian Mummification Process - The 70 Day Rule
The mummification process lasted for a period of 70 days. The 70 day period corresponded to the length of time during which Sirius, the 'Dog Star', appeared to die by dipping below the horizon. The 70 day rule applied to all classes of Egyptians - rich or poor. The 70 day mummification process for wealthy Egyptians was divided into the following activities:

• 15 days spent on cleansing and purification
• 40 days drying period
• 15 days wrapping, bandaging and paintings

 

Is this why the Torch Relay around Britain is exactly 70 days? Have we, collectively, during this time been traveling through the underworld? Again, this seems to be an outrageous suggestion. When we examine other aspects of the Torch Relay, including the Torch itself, perhaps this suggestion becomes a little more palatable (or even more absurd!)

Journey Through the Centre of the Earth

 

The three-sided Torch, among other things, represents the three London Olympics in 1908, 1948 and 2012. In a subsequent posting I will show how the two prior Olympics of 104 years ago and 64 years ago connect with this year's Venus Transit. A fascinating fact, though, is that 8000 holes perforate the Torch.

Why 8000? We are told that this symbolizes the 8000 torch-bearers involved in the relay. But why 8000 torch-bearers? Again, we are told these correspond with the 8000 miles of the relay. This begs the question -- why 8000 miles? It is clear from looking at the map showing the route of the relay that several crisscrosses of Britain are required to total 8000 miles. 

 

So why 8000? A possible answer is that the diameter of the Earth is roughly 8000 miles. The relay around the UK could be intended as a microcosmic journey through the Earth. It is also interesting that the Earth's diameter, being variable depending on location, is often rounded off to 8000 miles or 13000 kilometers. This ratio of 8:13 will turn up significantly in examination of the Venus transit.

 

The 12800 km equivalent given for the Torch Relay is an even more accurate estimate of the Earth's diameter in kilometers, but 13000 km is cited often. Here we have the number 13000 yet again. 

8000 miles would be the rough distance from one side of the Earth, through the core, to the opposite side. This is exactly the journey that Dante took, led by Virgil, in the underworld of the Inferno. In her book on Dante's Divine Comedy scholar Kathryn Lindskoog points out that while Dante's estimate of the Earth's circumference was wrong, we know today that he would have travelled this distance:

To get to the center and out the other side would be a trip of about 8000 miles.

8000 miles, then, is another very strong clue, along with its 70 day duration, that the Torch Relay represents a trip through the underworld. 



There could also be a relation between Dante's trip through the underworld and the voyage of Sirius through the Duat. Dante's journey is set to exactly match the three days that Christ visited and conquered Hell. It also takes place from Good Friday to Easter Sunday. According to the Bible, Christ compared the time he would soon spend in the underworld with the three days that Jonah spent in the belly of the whale. Each of these involves an underworld ordeal lasting three days.



Many Christians reckon this three day period as being 72 hours. Other Christian scholars point out that the period was likely slightly less than this. They speculate that it was 70 hours that Christ spent in Hell, matching the 70 years the Israelites were held captive in Babylon, the 70 week prophecy of Daniel, etc. Is 70 hours in the underworld resonant with 70 days in the underworld? 



On the other hand, Sirius also has connections to 72. Traditionally Sirius is the leader of the 36 decan stars, which are often doubled to 72 dodecan stars.

The World Mountain

When Dante and Virgil finally surface on the opposite side of the Earth they reach the foot of the Mountain of Purgatory (the antipodes of Jerusalem or Zion). Here's what Dante's cosmology looks like:

 

Notice that the Earthly Paradise, or Eden, is on the summit of Mount Purgatory. From here there is an angelic ladder into the seven Heavens and beyond. Here is a closer view of the Mountain of Purgatory with its seven spiraling terraces:




This is where everything meshes perfectly with Danny Boyle's plans for the Opening Ceremony on July 27th. After passing for 70 days on an 8000 mile journey, equivalent to passing through the Earth and its underworld, the Flame lights the Cauldron towards the base of the Mountain of Purgatory -- the Gastonbury Tor.
 


The myths and legends surrounding the Glastonbury Tor are abundant; it is where Joseph of Arimathea brought his young nephew Jesus, it is the location of the Holy Grail, it is the Isle of Avalon, it is where King Arthur is buried, it is a portal to the underworld, etc. A more modern mythology has it as the centre of the Glastonbury Zodiac -- this also matches the circle of 120 animals at the opening ceremony.

The monks at Glastonbury Abbey themselves believed that the Tor was the Mountain of Purgatory. Like the mountain represented by Dante, the Glastonbury Tor also has a spiraling path of seven terraces.


   

The other curious feature about the Glastonbury Tor that concerns us is the alignment it makes every year on the Winter Solstice:

The Winter Solstice Sun will remain close to the Galactic Core for the next few decades. Thus an observer on the Mound at the Winter Solstice is aligned through Glastonbury Tor with the heart of the Milky Way.

In a symbolic sense, the two and a half weeks of the Games is the ascent of Purgatory. Both Mount Purgatory and Mount Olympus are different depictions of the same archetype -- the World Mountain. The Olympic motto of  "Citius, Altius, Fortius" or "Faster, Higher, Stronger" is a pledge to humanity to use all possible excellence to conquer this Mountain. The Olympian athletes strive to reach the great halls of the gods. Dante's own mythology is Christian instead of pagan but the archetypal imagery is identical. 

Is this, then, the greater message of the London Olympics? That after passing through the underworld of the Torch Relay, and scaling up the seven terraces of the Mountain of Purgatory during the Games themselves, we finally, like Dante, reach the Garden of the Earthly Paradise at the summit, and from here is the imminent ascent up the ladder of the celestial Spheres. Is this where 2012 leads to? 

Oaken Door to the Stars

A final clue is that in the Opening Ceremony set the Glastonbury Tor is not capped with St. Michael's Tower, as it is in reality, but with a massive oak tree. This is the World Tree atop of the World Mountain -- the centre of the mandala.

St. Michael himself is appropriate because he is the Cherub with the flaming Sword who guards the gates of Paradise. It is fitting that St. Michael's Tower should guard the summit of Purgatory.

The Oak takes us back to a deeper and older set of symbolism. It is no coincidence that the oak is also the tree most associated with the Door -- doors being most commonly constructed from oak wood. In the ancient Celtic Tree Language, the Ogham, the equivalent of our letter D is "Dair/Duir" which means oak. This exactly corresponds with Delta in Greek and Daleth in Hebrew. This latter is the D of Da'ath, the "hidden" sephiroth representing Knowledge on the Tree of Life (this will be discussed in depth in a later blog entry). 

It is the Door to and from the Abyss, and it is crafted with oak. Will this Door to the stars open up at the end of the Games? 

Midsummer of Ice

Several significant events have happened during this 70 day "underworld" period as the Torch made its way back and forth across the UK. We have looked at Christ's journey to Hell, but significantly thirty is the age when Jesus took up his ministry and it is also the age that Prince William turned, following his birthday on the Solstice. Appropriately, this coincides with the Games of the XXXth Olympiad.

On the net it is possible to come across many theories equating Prince William with the Antichrist. I don't take these things literally, and this blog will later explore the idea that Christ and Antichrist act as mutually dependent Hero Twins, but these theories provide interesting background.

It's interesting, though, that halfway through the 70-day Torch Relay, presumably the darkest point of the Underworld, was the Summer Solstice and Prince William's thirtieth birthday. The brightest day of the year in the upper world is also the darkest night in the Duat. 

In Dante's trip to hell the lowest point, at the core of the Earth where the gravest sins are punished, the Pilgrim finds the horrid form of Lucifer frozen in ice below his waist. The Devil's penis is situated at the exact gravitational centre of the Earth and therefore of the entire medieval universe.

 

A noteworthy aside is that the oak rules midsummer (June 21st), and Prince William's full name is William Arthur Philip Louis -- King Arthur's connection with the oak and Glastonbury Tor have already been alluded to. 

The Vajra Jubilee

William turns 30 and it is the 30th Olympics. 30 doubled is 60 and 2012 also happens to mark the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's reign. This year is her Diamond Jubilee and the celebrations of this are intimately tied up with the Olympics. The Olympic park will later be named the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in honour of the Diamond Jubilee.

There is a bunch of interesting symbolism involved in the Diamond Jubilee, but the diamond itself seems most relevant. In the East, the diamond is symbolized by the vajra which is also the thunderbolt.

In Buddhism and Hinduism the vajra is a symbol of cutting through the illusion of the world, but originally it was wielded by the thunder god, Indra. Indra is the equivalent to the thunder gods of the various other Indo-European pantheons. Zeus, Jupiter, Thor and others all held the power of the thunderbolt/vajra. Along with the thunderbolt, the oak tree is a closely aligned symbol for these same gods.

We notice that in Zeus' most sacred shrine and oracle at Dodona that the oak tree was the central symbol. In the below images, we see Zeus wielding his thunderbolt and Indra holding the vajra. The symbology of the two is identical.

That this cluster of symbolism -- Diamond/Thunderbolt/Vajra/Oak/Door -- is very consciously connected with the Queen and her Jubilee is shown by the fact that the first official event of the Jubilee was the Queen's planting of an oak tree on Feb. 6. Here's an article describing the ceremony and comparing the Queen herself to a sturdy oak:



Just as the ancient thunder gods, with Zeus the Olympian most prominently, acted as guardians of the threshold to higher realms, so the British monarchs as the successors to the gods also guard the Door. The Queen symbolizes the Guardian and during this year of her Diamond Jubilee this symbolism is more resonant than ever. Both the Diamond and the Thunderbolt have the power to burst through the Door.

In the East, the vajra is always coupled with the bell. This is another example of the conjoining of male and female symbols, resonant of the obelisk and the dome. The diamond in the Queen's Jubilee is the vajra and there is no confusion in the fact the Queen, a woman, is bearing a male symbol. As the reigning monarch she is playing a traditionally male role.



The crystal she uses to light the Palace beacon of her Jubilee recalls another event that happened more recently during the 70-day period.



The opening of the crystalline Shard, on July 5th, is another representation of the diamond or vajra. But where is the bell? Oh yeah, at the Olympics -- the biggest in Europe.

Bearers of the Torch

The official mythology of the Olympic Torch counts the Titan Prometheus as the first torch bearer. It was Prometheus who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humanity.

It should come as no surprise that the new Ridley Scott movie, Prometheus -- with its ancient
astronaut theme, was released during the end of May and early June, well into the 70-day Torch Relay.

The first modern Olympic Torch bearers are not now as revered as Prometheus, although they too had Promethean aspirations. The modern tradition of the Olympic Torch Relay began with the 1936 Berlin Olympics -- the so-called Nazi Games. Monk has brought this photo, a statue of a torch bearer at an athletic training centre at Ordensburg Vogelsang, to my attention. The statue has the following inscription, translated from German:

You are the torch bearers of the nation. You carry forward the spirit of light in the fight for Adolf Hitler.

Is this also Prometheus? Is this the spirit of the Olympics?

  

It could be, though, that the Torch Relay of London 2012 has a different guiding mythology then Prometheus, at least below the surface. If the torch really is making a 70-day underworld journey then maybe the torchbearer could be more accurately represented as Iacchus. 

Iacchus, usually identified as the god Dionysus, was the torch-bearing attendant of Demeter to Hades to rescue Demeter's daughter Persephone. In the ritualized reenactment of this myth during the Mysteries a dual torch-bearing youth led the procession of initiates from Eleusis. Along the way people shout out in joy to him, "O Iakkhos! O Iakkhos!"

Iacchus was called "the light-bringing star of our nocturnal rite" by Aristophanes in his play The Frogs. The star mentioned was most certainly Sirius and, if so, this takes us back to the theme of the 70-day journey of Sirius through the Duat. Are the same mythological themes being repeated in Ancient Egyptian, Ancient Greek, and Modern Olympian ritual settings?


 

The Epic Underworld 

Demeter's journey to the underworld is of course not the only in classical literature. In Homer's Odyssey, the Greek hero of the Trojan War, Odysseus, finds it necessary to visit Hades to speak to Tiresias in order to attain knowledge about his return home to Ithaca. Here he is shown harangued by the "shades":

 

Eight hundred years later the story continues with Virgil's Aeneid, although the Roman poet takes the side of the Trojan hero, Aeneas, and often calls Odysseus deceptive and cruel. Aeneas himself is led through the underworld by the Cumaean Sibyl, a prophetess of Apollo. The Sibyl will play a major role in history elsewhere, as we'll find out. In Hades, Aeneas is allowed to see the future leaders of the Roman Empire.



It's fascinating that 1300 years after Virgil the story still continues. In Dante's Divine Comedy, it is now Virgil who is leading the Pilgrim through the underworld. From Homer to Virgil to Dante this story, told in epic verse, has continued for more than two thousand years. But the underworld journey is much older than even Homer. We can find this same ordeal in the Epic of Gilgamesh, dating from the 18th century BC.



Is the story continuing even now with the 70-day Torch Relay through the underworld for London 2012? Could it be reaching some sort of a climax?

Maybe the biggest error researchers can make is to assume that one event will change everything. There are huge events -- certainly 9/11 was one of them -- but mostly the events/rituals that we've been tracing take on more meaning when looked at as a process or a sequence. 

The Shadow Surfaces

Much has already happened already during this 70-day period, and plenty that is "underworld" in character. There have been reports of zombies, vampires and giant mutant spider attacks. Several sinister international meetings have been held. There have been wars and rumours of wars. There have been huge demonstrations. There have been multiple attempts to stave off total economic collapse. Massive obelisk-like towers have been erected. Things appear to be on the boil.



In addition to the spectacles held on Earth surrounding the Queen's Jubilee and, to a much lesser extent, Prince William's coming of age birthday, there have also been signs in the Heavens. There was a relatively rare annular eclipse of the Sun on 5/20 (its ring perhaps reflecting the Olympic rings), and the biggest astronomical event of 2012 -- the return transit of Venus. These will be the subject of the next post.  

The intent here is not to cause fear and alarm -- quite the opposite, as awareness is strength. This blog is also open to the criticism that it is finding patterns where none really exist. The point, though, is that many others are finding the same patterns. This phenomenon in itself -- call it collective delusion if you want -- is worthy of close study. Why is it happening?

If the pattern does exist, though, if the 70-day, 8000 mile Olympic Torch Relay does represent a journey through the underworld, a kind of mass initiation, then what happens next? What happens when Sirius, both symbolically and physically, rises with the Sun? What happens when the Torch appears in the Stadium and the great Cauldron is lit at the base of the World Mountain? If this is collective delusion it is far more entertaining than anything out of Hollywood. Hold onto yer hats!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prayer 

To banish all fear, here's William Blake at the end of Jerusalem  with what I hope will be the real outcome of London 2012:

Awake! Awake Jerusalem! O lovely Emanation of Albion
Awake and overspread all Nations as in Ancient Time;
For lo! the Night of Death is past and the Eternal Day
Appears upon our Hills: Awake Jerusalem, and come away!