Stargate article 2

What is a stargate?

I first wrote about the theory of stargates in The Mayan Prophecies [Published 1995] but at the time I did not realise just how important these "gates" are for understanding certain prophecies contained in the Bible. Whilst writing Magi I stumbled upon something else, which is that the "Ascension" of Jesus, which according to the Bible took place 40 days after the Resurrection, would have happened on the precise day that the sun was placed in the northern stargate position: that is to say over the upstretched right-hand of Orion.

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As this position in the sky was also indicated by the mysterious shaft at Arsameia in Commagene, a sanctuary with Magi connections, this seemed more than coincidental.

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Now of course the idea of physical "stargates" at the points where the ecliptic intersects with the Milky Way is a metaphor. In reality their positions are a consequence of the earth's orbit around the sun (which determines the ecliptic: the imaginary pathway of the sun through the sky) and the angle of this relative to the Milky Way. By convention the first day of spring, when the sun moves into the northern hemisphere of the celestial sphere, is called 0º of Aries. At the time our present astrological system was conceived the sun, at the spring equinox, was indeed in the zodiacal sign of Aries. Astrologers still make use of what is called the "tropical zodiac", which is a convention dividing up the year into twelve equal portions and assigning each to a sign of the zodiac, begining with Aries at the start of spring, Cancer at mid-summer, Libra at the autumn equinox and Capricorn at the winter solstice. However, because of what is called the "Precession of the Equinoxes", this no longer corresponds with real position of the sun in relation to the stars. The position the sun occupies in the zodiac at the start of spring moves backwards along the ecliptic year by year, making a complete circuit in roughly 25,800 years. Today it occurs in Pisces the Fish and in some three hundred years time it will have moved out of Pisces into Aquarius. Thus the tropical zodiac used by astrologers, with a notional 0º of Aries at the spring equinox is out of sync with the stellar or sidereal zodiac used by astronomers. In practical terms this does not matter very much as what is being examined by astrologers is not usually the perceived influence of fixed stars but rather the waxing and waning of solar, lunar and planetary cycles according to relative positions in the sky and time of year. However it does matter in other ways, most notably the question of when does one "age" end and another begin.

Now this question is made more urgent by the fact that the constellations that make up the zodiac are not all of equal sizes. Aries and Cancer, for example, are quite small constellations whereas Virgo and Pisces are much larger. Thus if we equate ages as exactly correlating with the position of the spring equinoctial sun in zodiacal signs (Age of Aries, Pisces, Aquarius etcetera), then these ages would have to be of unequal length. Moreover, because some zodiacal constellations overlap one another, it would be impossible to decide where one age ended and another began. We therefore need a different system, still linked to the precessional cycle, to determine how our zodiacal 'ages' should be apportioned. This can done with reference to the hypothetical stargates, which provide very exact calibration points on the zodiac with reference to the Milky Way.

The northern stargate over the upstretched "hand" of Orion is exactly at the cusp of Gemini and Taurus; the southern stargate is at the cusp of Sagittarius and Scorpio. From these two fixed points the zodiac can be divided into twelve equal portions roughly, though not exactly, correponding to the stellar constellations.

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This picture shows how the sun will stand at the northern "stargate" position at the summer solstice 2000 AD.

Now the spring equinox is not the only date that precesses backwards through the zodiac, so also does every other day of the year including the summer and winter solstices. The upshot of this is very interesting from the point of view of our own times. Today the sun stands exactly between Sagittarius and Scorpio at the winter solstice and over the hand of Orion at the time of the summer solstice. In other words the positions of the stargates correspond with the sun's positions at the solstices. This is the first time this has happened since c.10,880 BC when the gates were in the opposite positions, with the Orion gate in the south and the Scorpio gate in the north. This latter date, c.10,880 BC, correponds closely with the ending of the last ice age and the legendary destruction of Atlantis [According to Plato, the Greek philosopher, the last phase of this destruction took place around 9500 BC]. Thus we can say with some assurity that last time the Sun was positioned at the stargates at the solstices corresponded with major changes in the earth's climate. Could this be why we are currently experiencing global warming on a scale not see before in historic times? Climate change, it would seem, is connected with this changing of astrological epoch.

There is obviously very much more that can be said about the stargates. Much more detail about all of these matters and much more besides can be read in my book Signs in the Sky. For the moment suffice it to say that I believe that the summer solstice of 2000 AD marked the beginning of a new epoch in the Ages of Man. For this reason I hosted a tour to the Holy Sites of Egypt and Israel to correspond with this birthing of the new epoch. The reasons why these sites are so important in this context will be the subject of the next articles.