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More on Mercury Retrograde

I thought I’d include more information on the Mercury Retrograde since I’ve already experienced a couple of delays being served at a cash register, misplaced a bag and had to go back for it, and had a misunderstanding with the clerk at the airline while booking travel on a flight because the airline lost my tentative registration.

A Mercury retrograde period is a difficult time to begin new projects linked to communication, networking, information-flow and travel.

Skyscript: Mercury Retrograde – Meaning and Periods from 2005 – 2010

If you’re experiencing the same kinds of frustrations, remember to be patient and that it will be over February 1st. That’s only 20 days and counting!

Mercury Retrograde from January 11 to February 1st

Do you know that Mercury has just gone retrograde? This happens about three times a year. It usually causes confusions and misunderstandings in communications plus difficulties getting things done on time.

It is a good time for taking care of things you meant to do. Here’s what Alpha Life Trends has to say about Mercury Retrograde:

In 2009 the adjustments that are slated to occur during the retrogrades begin in air signs and return back to earth signs. Thus these Mercury retrogrades take our ideas, decisions and attitudes about specific events and utilize the information to put new processes, contracts,and the like into place.

Mercury Retrograde

Are Children Happier if they are raised in a religious environment?

I found this article interesting. It says that teens and adults seem to be happier if they participate in institutional religious practices. However, researchers have found that “religiousness” does not affect a child’s happiness.

Their research shows that children who feel that their lives have meaning and value and who develop deep, quality relationships – both measures of spirituality – are happier. It would appear, however, that their religious practices have little effect on their happiness.

Researchers look at relationship between spirituality, religiousness and happiness in children

Is it a Space Ship or a Sleigh Drawn by Eight Reindeer!

Isn’t this cute. It’s from Kent in the United Kingdom in a newspaper that writes about UFOs. I love these spoofs about Santa, or I mean Kris Kringle I think he’s called in the UK, and his reindeer being UFOs.

The truth may be out there, and it could be over the skies of Kent during Christmas following reports of mysterious UFOs.
One happened at 8.30pm on Christmas Day when a resident said they saw “four silent lights”.

UFOs head for county to join festive celebrations

The Legend of the Sorcerer Dwarf – Part 2

The Witch and the Sorcerer

In Arrival of the Gods in Egypt, I wrote about the sorcerer dwarf on page 154 saying that “I interviewed Santiago Domingez, a modern-day Maya whose family has lived for generations close to Uxmal. He told me the story, handed down from his grandparents, of the witch. She was lonely. Therefore, she took an egg and hatched out of it a dwarf who became her companion.”

I had heard this story before. Possibly I read it in a guidebook or read it in a book about the Maya. In the stories I had read, there was no mention of the witch being lonely. These stories would just proclaim that this witch decided to hatch a dwarf out of an egg which sounded like some nonsensical story fabricated by primitive people to make sense of their world.

However, when I heard the story from Santiago, I saw that the legend had a deeper meaning. Santiago said that the witch was lonely and that it was her loneliness that caused her to hatch the dwarf out of the egg. The story became a creation story on a par with the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Adam was also lonely and had his companion, Eve, was created in an amazing manner.

In Arrival of the Gods in Egypt, I continued by referring to Edgar Cayce’s concept of twin souls. I believe the egg represents the primordial soul that becomes two twin souls.

This legend of the witch and dwarf sorcerer refers to that time when single souls separated into twins. The witch and the dwarf are the twin souls.

While in Yucatan this December, I talked again with Santiago. It was good to see him. I wanted to make sure that I photographed the correct stone carving of the dwarf when I visited Uxmal last January. He assured me that I had. However, he said that researchers at the Uxmal archeological zone said that the carving his grandparents described as the dwarf was actually supposed to be the king. I told Santiago that I took more stock in the traditions of his grandparents than a modern-day researcher’s opinions. Santiago said that since the dwarf became the king it made sense that the carving of the king could also be the dwarf.

I had good reasons for supporting the long-lasting traditions of Santiago’s traditional grandparents. Last January, when we visited Uxmal, we stayed for the nighttime Sound and Light show. To my great disappointment, there was no mention of the Legend of the Sorcerer Dwarf and the Witch. Instead, they told a fabricated story about young men of one village vying for a Mayan princess’s hand or something along that line.

It was a simple story that had nothing to do with the magnificent ruins of Uxmal which reverberate with intrinsic mystery because the main pyramid is named the Pyramid of the Sorcerer or as Santiago calls it, “Piramide de Adivino” and there is also a ruin named the Witch’s House.

Santiago said it also made him sad that the traditional legends were not included in the Sound and Light show.

Definitely disappointing.

Carol Chapman —

Is the Martian Moon Phobos a Satellite Made by Martians?

Today I found the origin of the theory that the moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, or anyway, Phobos might be hollow and therefore artificially made satellites.

In the late 1950s and 1960s, the unusual orbital characteristics of Phobos led to speculations that it might be a hollow artificial object.

Around 1958, Russian astrophysicist Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky, studying the secular acceleration of Phobos’ orbital motion, suggested a “thin sheet metal” structure for Phobos, a suggestion which led to speculations that Phobos was of artificial origin.^[

Phobos (moon) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The article goes on to say that “S. Fred Singer, then science advisor to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, came out in support of Shklovsky’s theory, stating that ‘[Phobos’] purpose would probably be to sweep up radiation in Mars’ atmosphere, so that Martians could safely operate around their planet.'”

“Very interesting,” is all I can say.

Carol Chapman

2012, Eros, Extraterrestrials and the Moons of Mars

In researching near earth asteroid 433 Eros and its possible impact on the 2012 end of the world predictions, I came upon this very interesting information:

Its approximate diameters are 40 x 14 x 14 km making it the second largest planet-crosser and larger than the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos.

The Near Earth Asteroid Mission to 433 Eros

This interests me because it makes the outrageous claim that an asteroid, in this case 433 Eros, is larger than the moons of Mars: Phobos and Deimos.

That’s amazing! I vaguely remember reading something years ago that Phobos and Deimos are so small and light in weight that there has been some speculation by people who think “outside the box” that they could be satellites left by an extinct civilization or the abandoned spaceships of extraterrestrials.

Carol Chapman

The Mayan Legend of the Sorcerer Dwarf – Part 1

OK, so where was I?

Oh yeah, now I remember. I was about to tell you the Legend of the Sorcerer Dwarf . . . but then, Christmas came along and everything stopped for a while.

I hope you had a wonderful time during the Holidays, whether you celebrated it traditionally with family and friends or quietly at home by yourself enjoying the time to relax or any other way.

I am always amazed at how everything so quickly gets back to normal. For me, after all the running around doing last minute gift shopping, going to parties, preparing many meals and wrapping presents, suddenly, it is all over and everything returns to just the way it was.

Well, almost. There is still that warm rosey glow that lingers after being together with loved ones.

So, now, back to the Sorcerer Dwarf. It is this legend that originally brought me years ago to the archeological ruins at Uxmal in the Mexican State of Yucatan.

Edgar Cayce’s trance source said that citizens of Atlantis had established colonies in Yucatan in anticipation of their homeland being destroyed by earthquakes. But, where in the Yucatan had the Atlanteans settled?

I figured that wherever Atlanteans had been, a residual myth or legend would pervade the region handed down through the generations.

This legend would also had to have a magnificent flavor to it similar to the legends surrounding the construction of the Great Pyramid in Egypt, which I believe was also constructed, at least partially, by Atlanteans.

For example, as I wrote on page 149 in When We Were Gods, “There is an ancient Arab legend that says that the [great] pyramids were built by supernatural beings called the jinn, entities who could enter animal bodies and even stones.”

So, here’s the legend of the Sorcerer Dwarf. It makes the outrageous claim that the sorcerer dwarf built the main Uxmal pyramid in one night. Now, if that isn’t a legend derived from Atlantis, I don’t know what is!

Because it has rounded sides and is oval rather than square, this pyramid is also the most unusual pyramid in the Yucatan and perhaps in the world.

The Very

Unusual

Pyramid of

the Sorcerer

Uxmal

Yucatan

Carol Chapman —

A continuing article from Carol Chapman’s emailed Newsletters.

More on 2012 and the Near Earth Asteroid 433 Eros

Here’s more information on the near earth asteroid 433 Eros that some people think might be the cause of the 2012 end of the world prophecies. Some people think that 433 Eros might collide with earth in 2012 when its orbit is close to earth.

433 Eros, discovered in 1898 by G. Witt, was the first asteroid discovered to cross within the orbit of Mars and to approach that of Earth.

The Near Earth Asteroid Mission to 433 Eros

However, if you click through to the above UCLA paper, which is about a spacecraft sent to bring back information about Eros, you’ll find a diagram of Eros’ orbit relative to the earth. Even when Eros is closest to the earth, it is very far away.

Carol Chapman

2012: A Too-close Encounter with Eros?

Yesterday, I quoted an excerpt from a blog that said that 433 Eros, a Near Earth Asteroid, would pass close to earth on January 31, 2012. The blog writer wondered if this close encounter might lead to a collision and be the cause of the end of the world 2012 predictions.

Here’s an excerpt from an official NASA site that says that, not only has Eros already passed close to the earth many times, but it will NOT collide with the Earth in 2012 or any other time.

The closest approach of Eros to Earth in the 20th century was on January 23, 1975, at approximately 0.15 AU (14 million miles/22 million kilometers). Previous close approaches occurred in 1901 at 0.32 AU (30 million miles/48 million kilometers) and in 1931 at 0.17 AU (16 million miles/26 million kilometers). Because of its repeated close encounters with Earth, Eros has been an important object historically for refining the mass of the Earth-moon system and the value of the astronomical unit. Eros is no threat to actually hit the Earth, however.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/eros.txt