This week we had the solstice – winter here in the southern hemisphere and summer in the north – with a full moon on the same day. From television news items and google searches I find so many different statements about the regularity of this: some say it happens every 19 years, others say the last was in 1948 and others that the last was in 1967; some say the next will be in 40 years and others, 60 years. While there is no evidence of any major historical occurrences coinciding with such events, many people like to celebrate them, especially at ancient megalithic sites.

My own findings about the correlation between solar and lunar activity pinpoint the significance as being in the rotations of the Sun and the Moon… the iron core of the Sun rotates once every 27.3 days, the same as the rotation of the moon. However, from the point of view of the observer here on Earth, that appears to take 28 days, due to what is called the Synodic (as opposed to the Sidereal) period. And of course the moon also orbits the Earth in the same number of days. Human biorhythms also go in 28 day cycles, at least the main one, sometimes called the ‘Emotional cycle’ does. In my case, both my 28 day cycle and my 33 day Intellectual cycle were right at the uppermost point of the chart on 21st June, while my 23 day Physical day cycle was right at the bottom of the chart. Along with the solar impulse and full moon influence, I had quite a wrenching day. We are definitely aligned with the vibrations and frequency of these two great celestial bodies!

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Among the yogis of India throughout the centuries there have been those adept in obtaining all their energy requirements from the Sun, while refraining from eating food. In his best-selling book Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda wrote of one such lady called Giri Bala and says to her, “Your nourishment is derived from the finer energies of the air and sunlight, and from the cosmic power that recharges your body through the medulla oblongata.” [Those ‘finer energies’ are the same that I refer to in my articles as Pneuma].

He predicts that, “Someday scientists will discover how man can live directly on solar energy,” comparing it to the way chlorophyll collects and stores the Sun’s energy in plants. He cites a speech made by Dr Geo. W Crile in the USA back in 1933 as follows: “This all important radiation, which releases electrical currents for the body’s electrical circuit, the nervous system, is given food by the Sun’s rays. Atoms, Dr Crile says, are solar systems. Atoms are the vehicles that are filled with solar radiance as so many coiled springs. These countless atomfuls of energy are taken in as food. Once in the human body, these tense vehicles, the atoms, are discharged in the body’s protoplasm, the radiance furnishing new chemical energy, new electrical currents. ‘Your body is made up of such atoms,’ Dr Crile said. ‘They are your muscles, brains, and sensory organs, such as the eyes and ears’.”[1]

Just as with looking at the Sun, I add the caveat that nobody should attempt these kinds of practices without the training and supervision of qualified teachers!
 
 
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REFERENCE:
[1] Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda, Self Realization Fellowship, USA, 1946, p.396

It is unfortunate that Nasa’s “Solar Probe Plus” mission got put back from 2015 to a 2018 launch, however once it gets going it will have been worth waiting for.  After doing seven fly-bys of Venus first, it will make its initial close approach to the Sun on 19th December 2024, getting within 8.5 solar radii, or less than 6 million km away (here on Earth we are 150 million km away).  And fittingly, the primary power source for the craft will be a dual system of photovoltaic arrays - in other words the energy of the Sun itself will drive it.  The primary objective is to answer two questions: Why is the Sun's atmosphere - the  corona - so much hotter than its visible surface, the photosphere? And how is the solar wind accelerated?
 
In pursuit of new scientific information, Solar Probe Plus will: determine the structure and dynamics of the magnetic fields at the sources of solar wind; trace the flow of energy that heats the corona and accelerates the solar wind; determine what mechanisms accelerate and transport energetic particles; and explore dusty plasma near the Sun and its influence on solar wind and energetic particle formation. The spacecraft will go close enough to the Sun to watch the solar wind speed up from subsonic to supersonic, and it will fly though the birthplace of the highest-energy solar particles.
 
Ultimately it will revolutionize our knowledge of the origin and evolution of the solar wind, which I believe carries not only visible particles but also the Pneuma – the very life force that vivifies us.
 
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Back in January I reported, over on my other blog site, about the discovery of ‘Planet 9’ at the far edge of our Heliosphere (http://www.solarancestors.com/blog/-newsflash-planet-x-located-in-outer-solar-system-today ). Generally speaking, I confine my blogs to matters pertaining to our own Solar System, not celestial bodies outside it. The latest information by researchers at the Lund University in Sweden, based on computer simulation, suggests that Planet 9 is most likely an ‘exoplanet’ – meaning it originated outside of our Heliosphere. If the discovery proves correct, it will make this the first exoplanet found to be inside our home Solar System and, possibly, the only one we could ever reach by using a space probe.

According to the experts from Lund, the planet might have been ‘captured’ by our Sun in the distant past and remained undetected until now. It would be ironic that while astronomers are looking for exoplanets hundreds of light years away in other solar systems, there's probably one hiding in our own backyard. There is still no image of Planet 9, not even a point of light - we don't know if it is made up of rock, ice, or gas. All we know is that its mass is around ten times that of Earth.

As exciting as the discovery may be, it will take a lot more research to establish whether Planet 9 is indeed the first exoplanet found in our solar system - and what it is like. Stayed tuned!
 
Reference: "Is there an exoplanet in the Solar System?" - Alexander J. Mustill1, Sean N. Raymond, and Melvyn B. Davies - Monthly Notices Letters of the Royal Astronomical Society (2016) - doi: 10.1093/mnrasl/slw075

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