How The Charts Work For The Planetary Alignments

The Home Planet charts show severe compression of the outer orbits.  The orbits of the four inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars) are close to their actual proportions, the circles are reasonable approximations.  But the outer planets are all severely compressed to show on the same page.  It would take a football field sized chart to include far away Pluto.

All motion in the Home Planet diagram flows in a counter clockwise direction.

Orientation Of The Charts   the top center of the charts point toward the galactic plane and the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy's great bulge (Sun in Sagittarius).  The bottom center of the charts point directly toward Orion's Belt and the outer reaches of the Milky Way Galaxy.

ALL DATES IN THE EC ALMANAC, BULLETIN, & GALLERY ARE UTC UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE.  This sometimes means that dates listed for a January 5 may actually occur late on January 4 if you are in  UTC time, such as in the United States.

Dates, Accuracies, & Reliability Of Forecasts

Date Accuracy Of Alignments = plus or minus two days (dead reckoning from software graphics)   for exact scientific correlation of timing with other factors, dates should be calculated from an Ephemeris, such as the JPL Ephemeris. 

Sunspot Windows With Planetary Alignments  = better than even odds in the range of  12 days to +3, typically most surges, if there is a surge, fall in the range of 7 to 3 days before the day of the alignment. (Major Exception = solar MIN, when solar activity typically does not  appear very often or at very low levels for the better part of 1 to 2 years).

PROBLEMATIC ZONES: 

When planets are highly grouped into a narrow quadrant, solar response is very difficult to predict, but typically the response is more drawn out and some times the final surge appears on or after the date of the final alignment in the grouping.

The four Inner planets generally draw a lot of solar activity when they align during the active phase of the Sunspot Cycle.  The outer planets sometimes draw responses, sometimes not at all.  Generally an inner planet match with an outer planet is good for a surge, except for lonely Pluto.  Best to ignore Pluto, not worth the digital energy.

Advantage & Limitation Of My Method:  This has all been worked out by seat of the pants cosmic engineering.  This has produced the advantage of seeing what many experts can't bring themselves to quite admit professionally is actually real.  It has the limitation that no generalization can be considered to be universally true....the limitations are still in the process of being discovered.  Some times the forecasts eat dust.  More often than not, these are about as good as weather forecasts about two or three days in advance.

March 21, 2009 Spring Equinox - Loose Double Header involving six planets

This clustering alignment I expected would wake up the Sun.  But, more or less, the Sun scantily noticed.  Accordingly, it is very difficult to expect much out of the remaining planetary alignments for 2009.

NOTE:  The orientation in this chart places Galactic Center on a line running straight out at the middle of the top of the diagram.

source:  Home Planet Software

May 4, 2009  New Cycles of Alignments Begin

NOTE:  The orientation in all remaining charts for this year, unless noted othe wise, places Galactic Center on a line running approximately from the Sun through the middle of the bottom of the chart. I forgot to reset the orientation before making a year's worth of charts and I decided not to redo them.

Mercury has just passed Saturn (which probably produced the small two day surge of Sunspots a few days ago. 

Next is a very rapid series of alignments in three waves.  First Mercury will fly past all the remaining planets during the next 60 days, beginning with an alignment with Earth.  Then Venus will pass by them. Hauling by them more slowly, the Earth will progressively align with the outer planets, the last one being Mars.  Since Mars is not that much slower than Earth, the Earth will not catch with Mars so those two can align until next year.

source:  Home Planet Software

May 11, 2009 - Mercury | Earth & Mars | Uranus

You can see how rapidly Mercury flows around the Sun. By May 11 an alignment begins to form up with Earth.  So also, more slowly an alignment is forming up between Mars | Uranus.

By about this time, a surge in Sunspot Activity may become manifest.

source:  Home Planet Software

May 15, 2009 Double-Headed Alignment Near Perfect

This demonstrates how rapidly the alignments shape up when they involve the inner planets.  Notice that Venus is forming up an alignment with Pluto as well.  Since alignments with Pluto do not appear to drive Sunspot activity, these alignments are ignored.

source:  Home Planet Software
 

May 18, 2009 - Triple Headed Alignment

source:  Home Planet Software

May 25, 2009 - Mercury Twines Earth and Venus

This is my pick of the strongest attractor.   This may produce a surge in sunspot activity, the strongest in a year and a half, which comes in three peaks.  The first beginning about May 10 for the Mercury | Earth alignment, the second about May 20 for this "twine moment", and the third about for the Mercury | Venus alignment.  This final wave may be the greatest yet.

source:  Home Planet Software

June 8, 2009 - Four Planet Close Alignment

Here is why the third wave should produce the greatest surge of Sunspot Activity.  We have a virtual four planet alignment involving the  two most influential inner planets. It is slightly bent but as seen through the true scale of the long distances, it is not nearly so bent.  The attractor values are hardly affected.

June 13, 2009

Here may be the strongest moment in the four planet alignment.