This blog covers current topics in the news, with a metaphysical twist, and a pinch of humor.
Monday, October 31, 2011
HALLOWEEN 2011
When I woke up this morning, my thoughts were not about Halloween, but on 11/1/11 or 1/11/11, "tomorrow". A giant consciousness gateway that connects time and creation has opened. As you sit there now reading this ... pause ... relax ... feel this energy ... no need to close your eyes if you are busy at work. 'See' the number 11 as a portal and move through it. May I suggest you take a few minutes each day, perhaps before drifting off to sleep, to connect. It's like the creation forces are offering an opportunity you should embrace. This is the time to clean and clear - food, chemicals, brain chemistry - now or never. Open yourself up and let the rest happen. After exploring this, I have to wonder why I am back here ... or maybe I'm not.
About the 2011 Halloween nor'easter this weekend - it's all part of the grids creating sudden unexpected changes - The Aquarius Effect. Expect more - much more until it all collapses like the trees (metaphor) that Shut Down the power from the weight of the snow - but not until The End of the story. Sadly for the children ... many schools will be closed for Halloween due to power outages.
From my daughter Zsia in Basking Ridge, NJ (an area called The Hills) ..
Can you believe school is cancelled today? Basking Ridge still has no power due to the downed trees. We ventured out yesterday and have never seen anything like it - split trees all over the place and lots of downed trees on the roads. They said it will be days before power is restored. It is the craziest thing - poor people first got hit with Hurricane Irene and now this. The Hills has a lot of downed trees - too much weight from the snow. We still have so much. We got lucky because everything here is underground.
October 28, 2011 - End of the Mayan Calendar? Another WRONG prophecy.
Closure is not about the Mayan Calendar - though there is a connection.
The program just fades to black - the 2012 date is part of the illusion.
June 7, 2011
August 2, 2009
Friday October 28, 2011 - 4:00 PM EDT
Will the stock market hit around 13,000 in 2012 coinciding with a consciousness pole shift and the Precession of the Equinoxes? There has been speculation that the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is somehow calibrated against the precession, but this view is not held by professional scholars of Mayan civilization, and I agree, but numbers are fun.
Sorry to post late today ... I've been busy getting ready for Halloween ...
It took forever to get my hair done but extensions take time!
This reminds me of the old days ... 'calculating' the future.
[Delete Image ... Save in 2012 Folder]
[No tongue jokes]
Thursday ... People everywhere are telling me that everyone is going crazy - from their friends and relatives to the workplace and the public at large. You had to know that was coming - and where it is all headed - from psychic to psycho and back. I find it funny when people ask me when the program is closing. As I say - go within. To me ... it is very close and I still see around 2012. The timelines read more serious precursors in the near future ... so sit back, wait, watch and brace for impact. There's nothing else we can do.
Trick or Treat?!
Will the market hit just under 13,000 the magic number linked to our shift and the Precession of the Equinoxes?
Once upon a time, the gods built giant pyramid complexes in Egypt and Mesoamerica as stone markers, like a giant monopoly board. Along came Thoth who wrote his Emerald Tablets - As is Above, So is Below. Actually he wrote the entire story of this reality but this is where it all began.
Millennia passed ....
Then one day, at the end of the story ....
in the land of Quetzalcoatl where the Mayan Calendar was found ...
The stunning upside down pyramid in the middle of Mexico City is designed to get around height limits on new buildings in the capital. The subterranean building will have 10 stories each for homes, shops and a museum, as well as 35 stories for offices. The Earthscraper preserves the iconic presence of the city square and the existing hierarchy of the buildings that surround it. It is an inverted pyramid with a central void to allow all habitable spaces to enjoy natural lighting and ventilation. It will also allow the numerous activities that take place on the city square year round such as concerts, open-air exhibitions and military parades to go ahead.
CMEs, Planetary Magnetics and Auroras in Strange Places
Earth's aurorae demonstrate the electrical connection between our planet and the Sun.
There is an electrically active structure called a magnetotail (or plasma tail) extending for millions of kilometers from Earth, always pointing away from the Sun. The flow of charged particles ejected from the Sun, called the solar wind, is captured by our planet's magnetosphere, collected in a plasma sheet within the magnetotail, and held together by our magnetic field. Energetic ions stream into Earth¹s magnetic field down into the poles, exciting atmospheric molecules to the point where they emit various colors of light: red frequencies from oxygen at high altitudes, green from oxygen at lower altitudes, and blue light from nitrogen.
Spaceweather.com
Image was processed at Fleet Numerical Meteorology and
Oceanography Center Monterey CA, USA. Oct. 25, 2011
A coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth on Oct. 24th at approximately 1800 UT (2:00 pm EDT). The impact strongly compressed Earth's magnetic field, directly exposing geosynchronous satellites to solar wind plasma, and sparked an intense geomagnetic storm. As night fell over North America, auroras spilled across the Canadian border into the contiguous United States. A US Department of Defense satellite photographed the crossing.
"This shows the auroras on Oct. 25th at 0140 GMT," says Paul McCrone of the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center in Monterey, California. He created the image using visual and infrared data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's F18 polar orbiter. DMSP satellites carry low light cameras for night time monitoring of moonlit clouds, city lights and auroras. Some of the auroras recorded by the F18 on Oct. 25th were as bright as the city lights underneath.
This "big picture" from orbit makes sense of what happened next. The bright band swept south and, before the night was over, auroras were sighted in more than thirty US states: Alabama, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Nebraska, Kentucky, North Carolina, Indiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Maryland, New York, Montana, Ohio, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Washington, Virginia, Texas, Arizona, Minnesota, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Oregon, Arkansas and California.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Wednesday Memos
As the stats increase, where do you think people are going? It would seem 11:11 is the place. Obviously there is momentum building. I'm so glad I chose to have a class that day.
While in the energies of the New Moon in Scorpio - which is about new beginnings that 'might' come to fruition in 6 months from now - play with these energy and see what happens. We know that the program doesn't work the way it used to - the landscape of reality has changed - but fun is fun and this is Halloween. Make this a magic moon moment. Think ... "this is what I would like for 2012, or just bring the element of surprise."
Personally, if I had one wish it would definitely be teleportation as things down here move way too slowly. From above it is like looking at a program in slow motion as it is slowing down to zero point - magnetics decreasing - frequency increasing.
The story ... the journey ... all myth, math, metaphor and magic
Look below for unusual red auroras across the US
CMEs, Planetary Magnetics and Auroras in Strange Places
A solar outburst sparked surprising displays of the northern lights as far south as Arkansas, Mississippi and North Carolina tonight, marking one of the farthest-reaching auroral shows in years. As word spread about the geomagnetic storm, photos streamed onto the Web from the usual places, such as Norway, Sweden and Iceland, but also from locales that are typically too far south to see the northern lights.
The northern lights seem to create a big red spot amid a sky full of green auroras in a picture taken very early Tuesday from Marquette, Michigan. The sun has been ramping up its activity over the past year, heading toward the next maximum in its roughly 11-year cycle. Eruptions from the solar surface have been linked to coronal mass ejections (CME), huge clouds of particles that can come hurtling from the sun's upper atmosphere in any direction. Monday's auroral display was most likely caused by a CME on Saturday that was aimed at Earth. More frequent CMEs have some experts worried about the risks sun storms pose to satellites and the power grid-but often the particles' most noticeable effects on Earth are brilliant auroras.
Image was processed at Fleet Numerical Meteorology and
Oceanography Center (FNMOC) in Monterey CA, USA. Oct. 25, 2011
A coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth on Oct. 24th at approximately 1800 UT (2:00 pm EDT). The impact strongly compressed Earth's magnetic field, directly exposing geosynchronous satellites to solar wind plasma, and sparked an intense geomagnetic storm. As night fell over North America, auroras spilled across the Canadian border into the contiguous United States. A US Department of Defense satellite photographed the crossing.
"This shows the auroras on Oct. 25th at 0140 GMT," says Paul McCrone of the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center in Monterey, California. He created the image using visual and infrared data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's F18 polar orbiter. DMSP satellites carry low light cameras for night time monitoring of moonlit clouds, city lights and auroras. Some of the auroras recorded by the F18 on Oct. 25th were as bright as the city lights underneath.
This "big picture" from orbit makes sense of what happened next. The bright band swept south and, before the night was over, auroras were sighted in more than thirty US states: Alabama, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Nebraska, Kentucky, North Carolina, Indiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Maryland, New York, Montana, Ohio, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Washington, Virginia, Texas, Arizona, Minnesota, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Oregon, Arkansas and California.
Many observers, especially in the deep south, commented on the pure red color of the lights they saw. These rare all-red auroras sometimes appear at low latitudes during intense geomagnetic storms. They occur some 300 to 500 km above Earth's surface and are not yet fully understood. (See Photo Gallery)
A solar outburst sparked surprising displays of the northern lights as far south as Arkansas, Mississippi and North Carolina tonight, marking one of the farthest-reaching auroral shows in years. As word spread about the geomagnetic storm, photos streamed onto the Web from the usual places, such as Norway, Sweden and Iceland, but also from locales that are typically too far south to see the northern lights: Oklahoma ... Kansas ... Kentucky ... Tennessee ... Virginia.
Matthew: Hi! I'm just letting you know that Sunday Noah and I visited the pumpkin patch and we think it's been affected by the recession. Kind of sad to see...
If you were telling the story about this image, how would you begin?
In the city, the energies of Autumn and Halloween are in full swing. The falling leaves are turning colors as my panoramic view outside ... the park, bridge and Atlantic Ocean ... create amazing energies that everyone comments on as come here for a reading, a visit, or next on the agenda ... my 11/11/11 class. That will indeed be a special sharing as the energies for 11/11/11 seem to be building everywhere. Souls sense something ... but not just the normal seasonal changes ... something different ... whatever it is we came here to experience that says, "Now is the time." Speaking of time ... we don't return to stand time in the US and other places until November 6th. Is your biological clock already making the adjustment? In 2012 your perceptions of reality will shift especially in relation to time and space. You will forget and at the same time remember that which is important. Your psychic abilities will move quickly and with greater clarity and accuracy. You will ponder something and voila ... the answer comes.
October 26, 2011
New Moon 3° Scorpio
Find your greater purpose ... Rebirth
This horoscope talks about totality. You will get a chance to understand what it is that you are really committed to in your life: is it your addictions (drugs, food, etc.), is it your career, your relationship. It will be very tempting to tell lies to yourself, but you will get glimpses of what IS the most important thing to you, usually its not something you easily admit to.
This Scorpio New Moon's dark intensity reminds us to cleanse our emotions and see what still remains. Under strong Scorpio influence, everything gets destroyed that can't handle the hard and clear light of truth. Pluto, the ruler of Scorpio, went direct on September 16, the day before Occupy Wall Street began, so Scorpio cleansing is global; people are connecting to demand equal justice for all.
The New Moon of October 26th coincides with Diwali, the festival of lights. This traditional festival is celebrated in India and beyond, and it signifies "the power of light to illumine darkness and uplight our hearts." As we celebrate the festival of lights, Diwali, the Moon is at its darkest phase (known as New Moon). Not only that, this New Moon of October 26th is at 3 degrees Scorpio, the sign ruled by mighty Pluto. Pluto is known as the Lord of the Underworld. The symbol for Pluto is the phoenix, a mythological bird. The phoenix inspires us to ... continued
Lamps are lit as a sign of celebration and hope for mankind.
Celebrations focus on lights and lamps, particularly traditional diyas.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Closing Moments
In case you forgot ... the final marker for closure of the program is the passing of Pope Benedict XVI and the election of the last pope. When that happens the program is done. Kaput! That feels like 2012.
Leading up to that ...
Geologists recently told me to watch out for plate movement affecting Norway, Sweden and the UK but it doesn't resonant yet. For days I have been telling friends that a large earthquake is going to hit western Europe setting that plate up for closure - though I saw it west of Turkey. Bear in mind that the LHC can't be affected as it is part of closure. It takes down that plate at the end.
As night fell over eastern Turkey on Sunday following the most powerful earthquake in at least a decade, citizens were using flashlights and shovels as they clambered over the rubble of collapsed buildings looking for survivors. At least seven aftershocks rattled the region, one of the nation's poorest. The extent of casualties was not immediately known.
As we follow the accelerating movements of the tectonic plates -
earthquakes and their aftershocks - I thought I would start the day with ...
Using shovels, heavy machinery and their bare hands, rescue workers scrambled through piles of rubble to find survivors Monday after a deadly 7.2-magnitude earthquake devastated parts of eastern Turkey.
In the city, the energies of Autumn are in full swing. The falling leaves are finally turning colors as my panoramic view outside ... the park, bridge and Atlantic Ocean ... create amazing energies that everyone comments on as come here for a reading, a visit, or next on the agenda ... my 11/11/11 class. That will indeed be a special sharing as the energies for 11/11/11 seem to be building everywhere. Souls sense something ... but not just the normal seasonal changes ... something different ... whatever it is we came here to experience that says, "Now is the time."
Speaking of time ... we don't return to stand time in the US and other places until November 6th. Is your biological clock already making the adjustment? We will definitely be here as 2012 rolls in ... yet your perceptions of reality will shift especially in relation to time and space. You will forget and at the same time remember that which is important. Your psychic abilities will move quickly and with greater clarity and accuracy. You will ponder something and voila ... the answer comes.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Sense of Urgency
What is the truth we are all feeling, that changes our lives forever? Why do some people have an Sense of Urgency about events to come? Where is it all going? Can anyone make this reality work, or is it programmed to short circuit now as we move on to something else ... somewhere else.
The Urgency Feeling has to do with drastically changing one's former life patterns to quest for their mission and truth while they are here. Some people become healers, channelers, energy workers, start creative careers in the arts, help the planet, etc.
The feeling is to 'hurry up' and do it today as people find themselves going to extremes they never imagined would be part of their lives. It's probably happened to you as your started your quest. The changing face of the global economy would have something to do with people reinventing themselves for a greater good that feds their need to find their purpose.
The difference between today and past years ... the clock is ticking so the feeling becomes more intense than for those who started their journey years ago. Now, a person can become driven ... almost an obsession to remember, and complete, their mission here.
So what it the ultimate answer? We exist in a consciousness hologram that is about to end. This is the time of prophecy ... but which one?
In the year 2012, you are going to hear more and more theories about end times. Actually, many of these predictions are already posted on the internet. Please understand that the volume of information and disinformation that is about to come out will be prolific. Here's the thing ...
YOU already have the answer. No matter what you read, what people tell you, always GO WITHIN. Listen to your inner voice to discern what your truth is. This skill will become easier as the months progress. Whatever your technique is for tapping into the grids, into your soul memory, that is where the answer has always been. Trust yourself. Trust your dreams and the symbols they will reveal. Global events will trigger you more and more. You will feel it. Keep things simple. Don't overcomplicate your life, your feelings, your intuition. Don't over think and please try to have some fun. Don't focus your attention on 'worry'.
We are all waiting for that final momentus event, that makes all
of what we've been through in this hologram, worth our 'time' here.
October 2011 Doomsday Theories, Anyone?
Well, comet Elenin zipped by Earth in pieces this month, and we are still here !! It's perigee (when it is closest to Earth) was last weekend. Nothing! But you knew that, and like myself, actually forgot about its passing. Around the world, there were far more interesting energies coming out of "Occupy". Everything happens according to plan with surprises at the end.
Moving right along ... we had Harold Camping's prediction regarding the rapture. You remember him. He is the 90 year old crazy guy who made $100M by predicting that Judgment Day would arrive on May 21, 2011. Surprise! Surprise! Nothing happened. Like all "prophets," he changed the date! Will he change it again? The way he sees it, it was all over October 21, 2011. Maybe he feels a connection to the number 21? The great and powerful OZ (Z) says, "Life goes on... sorry Harold ... Z rules!" Low and behold ... I woke up to just another day.
Next on the list is ........ the end of the Mayan Calendar. Some say that the real end date of the Mayan Calendar is October 28, 2011. The most popular theory to that end is presented by Carl Calleman. It doesn't matter about the end date of the Mayan Calendar. What matters is closure of the hologram which feels in the same ballpark. 12.21.2012 is another metaphor which comes after some serious rocking and rolling on the physical planet. The Mayan Calendar is just another insert of awakening.
Rounding out the year ... we come to 11/11/11. As I always blog, this date will trigger and awaken those whose grids are aligned with that numeric code - and it certainly seems to be an endless number. For everyone else, it will be just another day. Some are saying that on 11/11/11 stargates will open, portals will appear, consciousness will be raised, and other grid connections will manifest. It is really up to individual interpretation. You will experience what you are ready to experience. Global frequencies will be very high on 11/11/11 starting in areas that are one day ahead of where I live in NYC. Those energies allegedly conclude on 11/12/11 ... but do they?
In my 11.11.11 Workshop, I'll be discussing the alignment of the 11:11 archetype with the closing of the consciousness hologram. The 11:11 code seems to be like no other - a universal trigger for millions of people and that will have a palpable effect. Rest assured, that there will be many who are not connected to the 11/11 phenomena, but for those that do, the energies are building, and have parallels to our global systems including Occupy Wall Street, where 9/11 happened. It's always going to be about 11. We'll discuss it all during the workshop.
It's that time of the year ...
Orionids 2011
The energies of Autumn are strongly in the air in the city. Outside, people are jogging and something is going on in the park, but I'm not sure what it is about. The leaves are finally turning color and falling as my panoramic view outside ... the park, bridge and Atlantic Ocean ... create amazing energies that everyone comments on as come here for a reading, a visit, or next on the agenda ... my 11/11/11 class. That will indeed be a special sharing as the energies for 11/11/11 seem to be building everywhere. Souls sense something ... but not just the normal seasonal changes ... something different ... whatever it is we came here to experience that says, "Now is the time."
Speaking of time ... we don't return to stand time in the US and other places, for another 2 weeks - November 6th. We will definitely be here as 2012 rolls in ... yet your perceptions of reality will shift especially in relation to time and space. You will forget and at the same time remember that which is important. Your psychic abilities will move quickly and with greater clarity and accuracy. You will ponder something and voila ... the answer comes.
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People are talking about Halloween - especially the children and grandchildren. Gone are the days of make-shift costumes in a box from Toys 'R Us. Now it's more like outfits - homemade and store bought - as parties and plans forge ahead for next weekend. The feeling to go out and play is here.
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For the ladies ...
It's that time of the year when summer clothes get put away and out come denims and flannels and leather and velours and long sleeve shirts and footwear and everything else I love to wear. (smile) The only thing I'm not into are sweaters, unless outdoors. I think I own 2 sweaters and never ever a turtle neck.
Last week, I went clothes shopping on several occasions to see what was out there and just to play. I didn't buy much as once again that sense of end times rang true especially when Z suddenly chimed in with, "Ellie, you have enough ....." It's like shopping with your husband and yet when I enter a store he tells me where to go, and when there is nothing left for me to buy. In that case maybe he's not a husband but more of a 'personal shopper' yet he's never been wrong. It really saves on time as at this stage of my life I am not a clothes horse. Those were the old days when I worked outside the home. Now it's about comfort.
The styles this fall are pretty much the same - the stores empty as compared to years gone by, the recession easily felt everywhere. I never go home without one new pair of earrings ... some real ... some costume - all with a story about how they came into my life - and all fun. Just like the thousands of images I have on Crystalinks, I remember every pair of earrings and can easily find them. This week was about a large pair of earrings in rose gold with stunning stones in taupe. I was told that pink gold is in and find that interesting as i was drawn to it once again. Accessories this year are definitely in, but I have enough. They really easily make an outfit work, but you know that.
Let's talk bags ... pocketbooks. When, oh, when will they bring back the shoulder strap?! What good is carrying a bag (men or women) if your hands aren't free. This year they are adding the shoulder strap as a perk to many leather bags, but it's not the same. When clients come here ... or I'm just out and about ... I still note that woman are more comfortable with a shoulder bag.
My niece Zina owns a large company that manufactures bags - Zina Eva (her website is being updated but this is her Facebook Page).
Check out the new logo ... Ring any bells? I didn't help her design it.
Zina is trying to find a bag for me. The style I like is called a satchel bag with drop-in pockets, a shoulder strap, in leather or suede. They are not easy to find.
Okay ladies ... time to clean and organize your closets. This weekend, between clients ... life was about cleaning out closets, drawers, and shelves, and putting away most of the summer stuff.
Alas, I am ready ... everything neatly in place.
Wait ... I forgot to mention relationships ... this is the time of the year new relationships begin as people 'nest' for the cold months ahead. Have fun but be realistic and never mix money with pleasure.
About sports ... again have fun playing or as a spectator. It's a great time of the year.
And so the new week has begun. I have clients today and as always will keep an eye on global events. Don't expect blogs about the political scene or the economy unless something major happens. It's the time of Scorpio. Who will get stung next ... as was Muammar Gaddafi a few days ago.
The program also appears to be cleaning house, so off we go to the last week of October 2011.
In case you forgot ... the final marker for closure is the passing the Pope Benedict XVI and the election of the last pope. When that happens the program is done. Kaput! That feels like 2012.
President Barack Obama on Friday announced that virtually all U.S. troops will come home from Iraq by the end of the year -- at which point he can declare an end to America's long and costly war in that Middle Eastern nation.
People around the world breathed a sigh of relief today as President Obama announced that he would keep his campaign commitment to wind down the war in Iraq. And families across our country are overjoyed that they will have their loved ones home for the holidays.
Why did President Barack Obama announce Friday that he has decided to end the American troop presence in Iraq by the end of the year? The United States had been negotiating with Iraqi leaders for months on a possible continuing military presence in Iraq. But the negotiations stalled over a key hitch: Iraqi leaders refused to comply with Washington's insistence that any American forces serving in Iraq be granted legal immunity in that country.
Over the past 48 hours, small earthquakes have rocked various parts of the United States, including the largest ever recorded in Texas by the United States Geological Survey. The quakes, in San Francisco, San Antonio and Hawaii, are unrelated, seismologists said. No casualties have been reported after the quakes. "We have lots of earthquakes; it's common, really nothing out of the ordinary. None of the quakes are very big," said Paul Caruso, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center. "They are totally separate faults and in no way related at all."
Several earthquakes struck the United States Friday (Oct. 22), including a 4.0-magnitude quake near San Francisco, Calif., a 4.8-magnitude temblor in central Texas, and a 3.2-magnitude quake in Hawaii. Though experts say the small burst of seismic activity on U.S. soil isn't all that unusual, it has likely led some people to wonder how much worse things could get. Extremely powerful earthquakes could happen in two places in the United States, scientists say: the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Geophysicists estimate that the Cascadia Subduction Zone, an intersection of tectonic plates just off the northwestern coast that stretches from the northern tip of California up to Canada, is capable of generating an earthquake with a magnitude as high as a 9.0.
Scorpio, Orionids, Orion, (Orion and Scorpio are Egypt)
Orion has important mythological connections with the journey of humanity, some people feeling they lived on Mintaka - one of the Belt Stars of Orion - in a past/parallel life. Ancient Egyptian claimed their gods came from there and there is a sense that this is where we all come from.
Throughout the world there are numerous ancient sites that align with Orion.
he most famous is the Giza Plateau in the layout of the three Great Pyramids of Egypt.
The Thornborough Hengesa neolithic complex in North Yorkshire, England that date from between 3500 and 2500 BC. - this monument complex has been called 'The Stonehenge of the North'.
It's all a geometric puzzle coming together.
Friday, October 21, 2011
ORION
Orion has a important mythological connections with the journey of humanity, some people feeling they lived in Mintaka - one of the Belt Stars of Orion - in a past/parallel life. We also find Orion geometrically connected to the famous pyramids of the Giza Plateau and perhaps the Pyramids of Teotihuacan. It's all a geometric puzzle coming together.
In Greek Mythology, the myths associated with Scorpio (Scorpius) almost invariably also contain a reference to Orion. However, there are two contrasting stories about the two. One tale is that Orion was a giant who was a great hunter and very modest about his amazing skill. One day, he fell in love with a princess of an island he was passing, but her father refused to let his daughter go and, thus, was determined to keep Orion away from the princess. The king did so by blinding Orion, thus not letting him hunt and amaze the woman. Orion traveled to the Sun, which healed his eyes, and decided to kill the king (who later died during a war) and pursue his hunting. He became great friends with Artemis, who favored Orion greatly for his modesty and superb skill at hunting. One day, Apollo was jealous that the two were great friends, and sent a harsh scorpion at him and stung his heel. Artemis, furious with her brother, killed the scorpion and threatened to throw Delphi (Apollo's beloved city) into ruins if he did not apologize, which he hastily did. Zeus decided that Orion should be put in the stars, and the scorpion should always chase him; therefore, the constellation Orion appears in the winter, running away from the constellation of Scorpio which arrives in the summer. - Wikipedia
The Orionids are annual meteor showers that occur at and are named after their radiant, which is located near the constellation Orion. The peak of the Orionid meteor shower occurs around October 21 and range typically from ten to fifteen meteors per hour. The Orionid meteor showers are caused by the well-known Halley's Comet, which was named after the astronomer Edmund Halley and last passed through the inner solar system in 1986 on its 75-to-76-year orbit. The radiant of the Orionids is located between the Orion and Gemini constellations (in the south-eastern sky before dawn, as viewed from mid-northern latitudes).
Orion in Mythology
The constellation has more than one version of a story surrounding it in Greek mythology.
In one version, Artemis, the goddess of hunt and the moon fell in love with Orion. She was so entranced by him, she forgot her divinely duty of illuminating the night sky. Her twin brother Apollo, seeing Orion swimming in the sea, dared his sister to strike what only appeared to be a spot on the waves. Not knowing it was Orion, Artemis shot an arrow and killed him. Later, when she found out what she did, she placed his body among the stars. The grief she felt explains why the moon looks so sad at night.
In a different ending of this myth, Apollo's jealousy led him to summon a giant scorpion, which not even the mighty hunter Orion could defeat, and he was killed by its poisonous sting. In some versions, he slays the scorpion just after it stings him, and they die simultaneously. This explains the seasonal alternation of the appearance of the constellations of Orion (October to April) and Scorpius (April to October), which do not appear in the sky together. Legends differ on whether this separation was imposed by the gods so that they would never have to fight again or so that they would be eternally chasing each other.
Sirius, the Dog Star, constitutes Orion's left leg. It is part of Canis Major and has its own mythology. In some myths, it is Orion's hunting dog. By the time of the Roman Empire, Canis Minor was said to be Orion's second child, but the ancient Greeks refer only to one dog.
It may be that the naming of the constellation precedes the mythology in this case. It has been suggested that Orion is named from the Akkadian Uru-anna, the light of heaven, the name then passing into Greek mythology. As such, the myth surrounding Orion may derive simply from the relative positions of the constellations around it in the sky.
In some depictions, Orion appears to be composed of three bodies, having three arms, two divergent legs, and a small central one, as well as the three bodies being bound at the waist. As such, together with other features of the area in the Zodiac sign of Gemini (i.e. the Milky Way, the deserted area now considered as the constellations Camelopardalis and Lynx, and the constellations Gemini, Auriga, and Canis Major), this may be the origin of the myth of the cattle of Geryon, which forms one of The Twelve Labours of Herakles.
In pre-Christian Scandinavia, the "Orion's belt" portion of the constellation was known as Frigg's Distaff (Friggerock) or Freyja's distaff.
In Finnish mythology, the constellation of Orion is called the scythe of Vainamoinen. The term most likely comes from the fact it can be seen in the sky in early autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, the time of haymaking.
In ancient Aram, the constellation was known as Nephila, Orion's descendants were known as Nephilim.
The constellation is mentioned in Horace's Odes, Homer's Odyssey and Iliad, and Virgil's Aeneid.
The Seri people of northwestern Mexico call this constellation Hapj (a name denoting a hunter) which consists of three stars: Hap (mule deer), Haamoja (pronghorn), and Mojet (bighorn sheep). Hap is in the middle and has been shot by the hunter; its blood has dripped onto Tiburon Island.
Orion is also important in Australian Aboriginal Astronomy. For example, the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land say that the constellation of Orion, which they call Julpan, is a canoe. They tell the story of two brothers who went fishing, and caught and ate a fish that was forbidden under their law. Seeing this, the Sun sent a waterspout that carried the two brothers and their canoe up into the sky where they became the Orion constellation.
In Indian Mythology, the constallation is known as 'Vyadh', which also means The Hunter.
Orion in Literature
The constellation is mentioned in Horace's Odes, Homer's Odyssey and Iliad, and Virgil's Aeneid.
The constellation of Orion also appears in Milton's Paradise Lost, and Tennyson's Locksley Hall, "Great Orion sloping slowly to the west".
The Bible mentions Orion 4 times: Job 9:9, Job 38:31 , Amos 5:8 and Isaiah 13:10.
The Romanian poet Geo Bogza devoted a poem to Orion.
In the Middle-earth mythos of J. R. R. Tolkien, Menelmacar is the Quenya elven name for Orion.
Adrienne Rich wrote the poem, "Orion", in which she describes how she viewed him differently from childhood to middle age.
Orion in History
The configurations of the constellation Orion roughly formed about 1.5 million years ago, because of relative slow movements of stars within the constellation from earth's perspective (especially the belt of Orion), constellation Orion will remain visible in the night sky for the next 1 to 2 million years, making the constellation one of the longest observable constellation parallel to the rise of human civilization.
Being so bright and distinctive, the pattern of stars that form Orion were recognized as a coherent constellation by many ancient civilizations, though with different representations and mythologies.
The ancient Sumerians saw this star pattern as a sheep, while in ancient China, Orion was one of the 28 zodiac signs Xiu. Known as Shen its literally meaning is "three", it is believed to be named so for the three stars located in Orion's belt. Chinese Constellations
The "belt and sword" of Orion are frequently referred to in ancient and modern literature, and even found recognition as the shoulder insignia of the 27th Infantry Division of the United States Army during both World Wars, probably because the division's first commander was Major General John F. O'Ryan.
Belt Stars of Orion and Ancient Egypt
The Pharaohs of the fourth dynasty were star worshippers and knew considerably more about astronomy than previously thought. The three main Giza Plateau Pyramids were allegedly design in alignment with the Belt Stars of Orion. Ancient Egyptians were highly spiritual; their architecture symbolic of their beliefs. The stars were associated with Osiris, the god of death and underworld.
The metaphysics is it believed that the connection between Orion and Earth, particularly the Great Pyramid, is set up by a blueprint or architectural design created by the patterns of sacred geometry. This in turn also links with theories about aliens, or ancient astronauts, and the geometry of Earth and Mars.
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