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Cosmic Watch

Monitoring The Changes In The Earth
for the prior seven days ending on

September 1, 2008

Galaxy - Solar Activity - Solar Cycle 24  Magnetic Field - Auroras
Planets - Moon Orbital Cycles - Asteroids - Meteors & Comets

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COSMIC WATCH

The Changes In
Our Sacred Body
Without these things we die, thus these things compose our true body.

Galaxy - Solar Activity - Planets - Moon - Asteroids - Meteors & Comets

GALACTIC PHENOMENON: Coming soon

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SOLAR ACTIVITY
Solar Storms, Sunspots, Ionic Wind, Magnetic Disturbances

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Alvestad Solar Activity  Graph As Of August 31, 2008

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In this chart the black line is the Solar Flux as measured in orbit near the Earth, the red line is the Sunspot Number and the blue line is a measure of the strength of the magnetic field in the Earth’s high atmosphere (called the Planetary A Index).

Note that Alvestad is using the historical statistical method and is still treating the current activity of the Sun as a part of Solar Cycle 23.

graph courtesy Jan Alvestad http://www.dxlc.com/solar/
Latest Graph: http://www.dxlc.com/solar/images/solar.gif
Daily Sunspot Numbers Are ISSN: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/DSD.txt

[8-18-08 ECB] Coverage of solar activity is revised as of this date. Longer range cycle data is included to provide a better perspective, daily/weekly update is below Cycle 23 trend lines.  IMPORTANT CONCLUSIONS AS OF THIS DATE:  In accordance with a more traditional statistical method of analyzing Solar Cycles, the EC Bulletin concludes that

• Solar Cycle 23 has not ended but may be ending now - statistical inference will not confirm this until 3-6 months down the road.
   

• Solar Cycle 23 is significantly longer than the past three previous cycles, but NOT out of overall statistical norms.
   

• Solar Cycle 24 may be another relatively small Solar Cycle; based on review of 300 years of graphs the approximate size of the next cycle is likely to be about the size of Solar Cycle 23 or perhaps a little smaller.  However, there are many ways to interpret historical solar cycles, the only way we can be entirely certain is in retrospect.  Net Solar Activity gives the distinct appearance of large cycles induced by the "cosmic frame" which both interfere and and energize Solar Activity cycles.  Trends appear and then disappear, producing in the final analysis a history which contains some chaos

The ELECTROMAGNETIC DYNAMIC PARADIGM for defining solar cycles is currently lost in the FLUX, in a matter of speaking.  This new paradigm forecast Solar Cycle 24 as having begun in late 2007 or January 2008.  Unfortunately it is now strongly possible that this will produce a variance of 9-12 months from the traditional 13 month weighted average (smoothed) method of defining the SOLAR MIN.  For purposes of comparative study of the impact of Solar Activity on Earth and its parts,  this much variation is not good.  Thus it is best to continue to use the traditional statistical method for marking the cycles.

[8-18-08 ECB] ASSESSMENT OF IMPLICATIONS OF THESE CONCLUSIONS:  The drawn out length of Solar MIN and a smaller Cycle 24 will promote a trend of Global Cooling, as some are speculating.  BUT this factor may be overshadowed by tectonic-induced Global Warming.  Thus Global Warming may continue.  If so, it will be apparent to nearly all scientists by about 2013/14 that Global Warming is an activity of the Earth, not of the Sun nor of reflected heat induced by human-created so-called greenhouse gases. Having said this, we cannot predict with precision either the amount of tectonic Global Warming nor the amount of Solar Activity during the next several years, hence the future is by no means certain as of 8-18-08

CURRENT SOLAR MIN PHASE
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source:  SIDC, Brussels;  http://sidc.oma.be/html/wolfjmms.html
 

[8-18-08 ECB] Current Solar Activity for August 08 corresponds very well with the "SM Trend" in this chart above.  We have had almost an entire month of 0 Sunspots.  This follows on July which averaged only 0.5 Sunspots per day.  This suggests strongly that Solar MIN is occurring right now, rather than 10 to 8 months ago.

[8-25-08 ECB]  Now we have had some 35 days without any Sunspots, a full five weeks!  This despite the fact that Mercury has aligned itself with all the inner planets and most of the outer planets during the past 60 days.  This "round" of Mercury (orbit around the Sun) must surely be the "message from the celestial gods" that Solar Cycle 23 is ending and Cycle 24 is about to begin.

[9-1-08 ECB]  Over 40 days of no Sunspots!!!

[9-1-08 ECB] Solar Historical Perspective -

These charts are from the ECB Gallery.  They are not for general release at this time.  I am showing these now in the Bulletins to help readers can a better sense of perspective about the current year and the next several. You will get a better idea of what to be watching.

Chart - 50 Year Trend Line Solar Activity - Monthly Count

As can be seen in this chart, a month of zero Sunspot Count occurs in many but not all of the Solar MIN periods.  There is nothing all that unusual about Solar Activity at this time once you look at a larger frame of time.

Chart - 100 Year Trend Line Solar Activity - Annual Count

This chart is even more interesting.  It is part of what I call the Vortex Paradigm Proof. It demonstrates the chilling accuracy of Edgar Cayce's comments, made during the 1930's.  Notice first that during the first half of the 20th century there were some years in which the entire year had an almost zero average count - less than five.  That has not happened since the peak of Solar Cycle 19 in 1958.  Shades of Edgar Cayce, who predicted during the 1930's that Major Changes in the Earth would begin in 1958.  Now notice that in Wobble Cycle 7 (1930's), for the first time on this graph the greatest amount of swing in the wobble was above the x= zero line.  This means that, as Cayce predicted during 1932 for the period 1935, a shifting in the balance of the Earth's orientation in space would occur.  Following this, in 1958 major trends of change would begin.  Notice that the X and Y directions of the wobble begin to progressively separate after a huge Solar MAX (Cycle 19 during Wobble 11) in 1958.  What this graph is telling us is that the wobble's average location is shifting progressively much more quickly towards Longitude West 90 (Y) than towards Longitude 0 (X) and this directional shift began when Cayce predicted. 

This tells us something incredibly important, namely, the equilibrium of the Earth's wobble in space can be influenced by the stormy energy in a major Sunspot Cycle. A blast of the Sun can move the Earth, change its orientation and orbit.  In fact it did so and all the trends of geophysical and ecological change in the Earth are a direct consequence, most emphatically including Global Warming.  There is no doubt about this whatsoever.  So far, this shift continues, the Earth has not regained stability.  The cycles since SS #11 have been far smaller in total energy output but they still outweigh by far the cycles of the first half of the 20th century. Rather exact the correlations, are they not?

Now you can see why the Earth Changes Bulletin is so focused on the Sun and the Cosmic Frame to provide the backdrop for analyzing the changes on the Earth.  Looking at this chart we realize the truth of the Hermetic Doctrine, as above so below, taught since the earliest days of Egypt.  By following the Sun in detail, we will be able to observe in advance the influences which will result in the next destabilization of the wobble and shifting of the poles. In the train of the destabilization will come accelerated breaking in the crust, which will produce major tectonic rifting, volcanism, earthquakes, and their tertiary effect, an increase in the rate of Global Warming. 

There is little to doubt about this.  But as can be also observed, there really is no statistical basis for predicting whether the next cycle is going to be bigger, smaller, or the same. So the larger frame of time is unknowable, but yet we probably can observe enough within the framework of A CYCLE to compare enough facts to draw appropriate conclusions. As the man said a long time ago, watch!  The astute will know what to do.

Chart - 100 Year Trend Line Solar Activity Correlate World Heat

This chart is part of what I call the Al Gore Paradigm Buster. It properly correlates Global Warming with the changes in the World Ocean.  During the first half of the 20th Century, before the acceleration of trends in tectonic motion began with the shifting of the wobble, global temperature shifts more or less seem to approximately parallel with the level of Solar Cycle activity.  Then 1958 begins, the blowout of Solar Cycle 19 pushes all the buttons, the measurement of the heat in the world oceans begins and we see that Global Warming rises isomorphicly with the increase of heat in the World Ocean  and both are moving, on average,  in an opposite direction from the average energy which is being received from the Sun.  The total Solar Input, declined, as a matter fact, and may continue to decline for all we know during 2008. Some say this decline will continue and a new "ice age" will begin.  But this chart rains on their parade as well. The heat gain is in the oceans and that heat gain is flowing from the bottom to the top...probably proving what marine geologists have been claiming the past couple of decades, there is a million times as much volcanism on the bottoms of the oceans as on the continents and islands. Thus this chart demonstrates that geophysical changes in the Earth could continue to drive Global Warming even if we have Solar Cycles during the next decades which look like the small ones in the first half of the 20th Century or the even smaller ones in the 19th Century.  With this chart before you, you cannot intelligently assert that small increases in "reflected" heat energy from a declining Sun is the cause of Global Warming.

HISTORY OF SOLAR CYCLE 23 & PROJECTED TRANSITION TO CYCLE 24
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This is a fuller, long-term version of the SIDC chart above

source:  SIDC, Brussels;  http://sidc.oma.be/html/wolfjmms.html
 

[8-18-08 ECB] REVISED STANDING PREDICTION FOR SOLAR CYCLE 24:  Previous coverage in the EC Bulletin for the past 12 months was not correct.  It covered the new electrodynamic paradigm of the Sun and it was well worth working with it to study possible better methods of observing solar behavior.  After six months of uncertainties which have been noted here, this coverage is now abandoned.  Accordingly, using the older statistical methods, Solar Cycle 24 is most likely to begin at any time from September 08 to January 09.  The year 2008 likely will be the MIN year, August 08 may be the MIN month.  Solar Cycle 24 activity may peak during 2012-2016.  As solar activity gradually increases, both environmental dynamics and human behavior and emotionalism will shift into a more rapid flux of activity and reactivity.  Solar Cycle 23 engendered deep, bitter polarizations in the world, especially in Palestine, the Middle East, and vis a vis the United States, both internationally and domestically.  Rather than resolve divisions and conflict, humans accentuated them during this last Solar Cycle.  Accordingly, during the coming cycle human reactivity and tendency to fear and violence will become greater and could easily match the worst episodes in human history.  Human affairs will be accompanied by continued Global Warming and extreme weather patterns in climate, cyclones, tornadoes, ocean storm-fronts, flooding, and drought conditions,  which are made all the more extreme under the ionic influence of the once-again active Sun which is producing major Solar Storms, Flares, and Ionic Wind Gusts.  Under this growing pressure, which will reach its heights in about 2012-2016, both the terrestrial environment and human societies will be subject to immense dynamic flux which will alter both the greater expanse of the Earth as well as the nations and the affairs of humans. Global Warming will accelerate more rapidly, mass migrations will become more frequent, more agriculture and oceanic food sources will fail, more nations will collapse (as in Africa), and the general level of violence will increase in many areas.  The exceptionally strong internal polarization in the U.S. against the Cabal of banksters and their oil-soaked Junta, and as well the antagonistic international polarization against the U.S., likely will be resolved by  acceleration of a chronic "half-collapse" of the current economic and political system in the U.S. This period will be marked by paralysis of politics and a chaotic period of increased repression and rebellion which gradually destroys the power of Federal agencies which have usurped far too much illegal (unconstitutional) power.  Likely the period will also spawn many concerted efforts to change major aspects of the constitution of the U.S. and the structure of its government.  In fact, these movements have already begun and are very likely to grow, perhaps reaching a peak in about 2012.  Increased international militarism may be attempted by intellectually and morally bankrupt Zionazi puppetmasters, cliques, and agit-prop organizations who manipulate and strongly influence nearly all institutions in the U.S. East Coast under the guise of "rational" globalism.  These attempts may be and probably will be made in various guises regardless of which political party "wins" the November 08 national U.S. elections.  Likely, however, these efforts will end in greater failure and bankruptcy of the U.S. and virtual abandonment of U.S. militarism by an exhausted citizenry.

The Planets of the Horos Sun
(in the Fourth Age of Human Memory)

PLANETARY ACTIVITY: Skywatching, Planet Alignments, Moon, Asteroids

 The Inner Four Planets set inside the ring of the asteroid belt and the orbit of Jupiter. Each point of light is an actual representation of a planet, asteroid, or comet (plus the Sun of course), set within a true scale of distance as of April 1.   The positions of all numbered asteroids and all numbered comets in JPL's small-body database are shown (as of April 1, 2007 ).  Asteroids are yellow dots, comets are the pale blurry smudges.  We are looking down on the Solar System, overlooking the "North Pole" of the Earth.  As can be seen, our Solar System is a pretty busy place.

Courtesy Jet Propulsion Lab
Inner Solar System Orbit Diagrams
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?ss_inner

NIGHT SKY FOR September 2, 2008 from Hopiland:  Click for full screen sky map

THIS CHART SET FOR 7:30 PM TUESDAY EVENING, ARIZONA TIME - about 10 minutes after the Sun sets.

IMAGE PRODUCED BY MICA, software & data from the JPL & U.S. Naval Observatory

If you want to learn how to follow the stars at night and get deeper into the cosmic scene of the planetary alignments, how the solar system actually works, and so forth, start using this.  It is centered for 4 AM Greenwich Tuesdays (the map is changed for each weekly update) for Arizona Mountain Time (no daylight savings- 9 pm Monday evening) at 2000 meter elevation on approximately Black Mesa, Hopi Land.  This projection is produced by U.S. Navy Observatory MICA software and Ephemeris (Ephemeris is maintained on line by JPL).  It is more or less the world standard of algorithms for precisely tracking the cosmos and the software is such a snap to use to create powerful results, I cannot resist using it.  With this you can stand on the bridge of a vessel at sea and navigate like they used to do (but no longer, its all satellite positioning now, but old habits die not at all in the navies of the world).  Hopi Land was selected as the focal point because this provides the same approximate night sky to New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and California (with a little time delay).  Sorry, you folks in the Pacific Northwest will not be able to use this very well, you need your own projection. As a rough and ready make-do, just face the South and look for the relevant items about 10 to 20 degrees lower than indicated in the chart.  Like California, expect events in the chart to be one hour earlier than your time.

PLANET WATCH: 

[9-1-2008]  This is for September 2 & 3 viewing.  The sky is even more interesting this week. The panoply puts the Milky Way in the center of the sky, running fairly close South to North, with Polaris due North, Vega in the Zenith of the mid-heavens, Arcturus in the western sky, and Jupiter in the southern sky riding the ass of the cow which jumps over the Galaxy (old Egyptian story). To this panoply, Mars, Venus, and Mercury are tightly clustered on the western horizon at sunset, riding a little to the north of the New Moon, which is passing over the Equator on September 2 on its way to its Southern Declination.    Check them out. Click on the chart above and then click the web chart again to expand it to full size.

First, the inner planet cluster on the sunset.

I imagine (I have to because I do not read astrological stuff) that astrologers are quacking up a storm about this conjunction.  The ancient Egyptians would call this a "train" in the "Solar Boat of Ra" (but you don't know that because euro-centric academics are still pretending that the ancients knew nothing about the heliocentric solar system).  I saw just one very bright planet on Sunday at sunset and I wondered if it was Venus or Mars, but then the clouds came and I was never able to see enough to figure it out. Tuesday and Wednesday evening I hope to see all three inner planets.  Venus should be the brightest (it is the closest), Mars should have still a slight tinge of red, and Mercury will be very intensely bright in a tiny needle point of light so small you won't see it if you have lousy eyesight. It will be closest to the Sun. All three are very close together.  Quite a rare sight. Pour a special celebratory treat and make a serious effort to try to catch it. 7:30 PM Arizona Absolute Mountain Time, UTC -7 hours. (Because of the very hot summers, Arizona was never interested in daylight savings time). If there is a lot of haze, you may not be able to see Mercury, but the other two should be briefly above the horizon.

Second, the outer planets.

In the chart above you will notice that all the outer planets except Saturn are still neatly arranged in the zodiac belt.  The Moon, of course, can't be seen because it is in the day sky as it approaches its New Moon phase.  Nor are you able to actually see Pluto and Neptune, only Jupiter can be seen by the naked eye. Look for the Zenith (overhead point in the vault of the stars), then look directly South to find the first star you see tonight (or tomorrow).  Jupiter shines so brightly you cannot miss it nor confuse it with the stars but you could mistake it for a jetliner with its landing lights on.  Pick the brightest light in the southern sky about 30 minutes after sunset and you will see it. 

Next, the Sun of our Sun. 

See if you can find Arcturus, in the Mid-heavens now near the western horizon.  It also is hard to mistake for the others, it is so bright.  In fact, after Sunset, the first point of light you will see is Jupiter, the second point of light is Arcturus.   Arcturus was claimed by Edgar Cayce to be the Sun of our Sun.  If so, its gravity field is a determinant of how the Earth's orbit resonates in our Solar System. When Arcturus and our Sun each year are close to being in a straight line, vis a vis the Earth, the Earth is close to its orbital Perihelion (its closest approach to the Sun). It would be interesting to see how the other planetary orbits resonate with Arcturus. So much to do, so much to do, never enough time.

Next, The Pole Star (which is almost directly overhead the North Spin Axis).  Look above Arcturus to find the Big Dipper.  Then look to the right of the Big Dipper to the Mid-Heaven close to the northern horizon. There is Polaris, our Pole Star. Then look to the Zenith again and find Vega.  Vega also is very bright and is hard to confuse. Vega is close to our Sun, relatively speaking, is estimated by astrophysicists to be very young.  Curiously Vega's axis is oriented to point directly towards our Solar System and during the Summer time, when the Earth is as far as it can get from the Sun (Aphelion), the Southern Hemisphere is oriented as far as it can get to point towards Vega.

Coincidence?  Not likely.  There probably are NO coincidences in the skies.  More likely it is that there is a linkage in the cosmic frame between this solar system and Vega.  It's gravity field is serving as an antipode to Arcturus. Perhaps Vega is in the same Arcturan Super-System, along with another half dozen to a dozen stars or so.

PLANET ALIGNMENTS:

Links to:  ALMANAC  |  COSMIC GALLERY  |  EARTH MONITOR

SOLAR SYSTEM FORECAST:

For a listing of all planetary alignments and charts for 2008, click onto the 2008 Alignment  Almanac.  Sunspot and solar activity should peak generally 8 to 3 days in advance of these alignment dates but keep in mind that some times the solar peak comes in on the day or the day after the alignment.

[8-18-08] FOR AUGUST

Given the tepid response of the Sun so far during 2008 to most planetary alignments, perhaps the most we can expect is about as much as the past few peaks during early 2008, which have generally been about 10-15. Beyond this weak notion, it is very difficult to predict much during this transition stage between Solar Cycle 23 and 24.

from Home Planet Software