We are about to reach the point in the year at which the circular path traced out by the Sun in its daily travels matches the line of the Celestial Equator.
The annual dance of the Earth and the Sun, and the fact that our Earth is tilted to the plane of the ecliptic, causes the Sun's arc to move along a predictable path in between the two Solstices, reaching its most northerly path above the Celestial Equator at the June Solstice, and its most southerly path beneath the Celestial Equator at the December Solstice.
In between those two extremes, the Sun's path crosses the Celestial Equator twice in the year: once on its way "up" to the most northerly path (which it reaches at the June Solstice), and once on its way "down to the most southerly path (which it reaches at the December Solstice).
These two crossing-points, when the Sun on its path crosses the Celestial Equator, are called the Equinoxes. The crossing-point on the way north takes place in March each year, and the crossing-point on the way back south takes place in September.
These points of Equinox are not debatable in their date or their time: the relationship of Earth to Sun means that the Sun's center-of-mass crosses the line of the Celestial Equator at a precise moment, and that moment does not change no matter where you are on the Earth.
There is some confusion about this point because the news reporting (which has nothing to do with educating men and women about the truth of virtually any situation) consistently tells us that the equinox marks the day with exactly 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness, which is not precisely accurate. However, the moment when the Sun's center-of-mass crosses the Celestial Equator is the actual definition of Equinox and is quite precise.
This year, the Sun crosses that point at 1533 UTC on 20 March (which is already 21 March in some parts of the world whose local time is ahead of UTC by some number of hours). For readers in North America, this time corresponds to 11:33am Eastern time on 20 March, and 8:33am Pacific time on 20 March.
The Sun's path through the sky will be generally along the Celestial Equator throughout the entire day, but due to the relative motion of Earth and Sun, the Sun's exact center-of-mass will not be precisely on the line of the Celestial Equator throughout the entire day, but just at that special time described above.
The angle of the Sun's path across the sky has a tremendous impact on the Earth and all creatures on Earth, of course -- and in parallel to the changes that we can observe as the Sun moves between its highest and lowest path throughout the year, the world's ancient myths employ these motions and changes as a kind of code or esoteric language for conveying profound truths for our benefit in this life.
This ancient system can be seen to be operating in the ancient myths and sacred traditions of virtually every culture on Earth, from every inhabited continent and island on our planet. It is already present, fully-developed, in the earliest myths we can find, from the earliest cultures we know of: for example, this system is already fully-developed in the earliest writings of ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, and ancient India.
It is also clearly present in the stories of the Bible -- and indeed we can see that the various sacred days described in the scriptures of the Bible and derived from those stories correspond to the framework of the Solstices and Equinoxes.
This fact argues that this system comes from some even older predecessor culture. The differences between the myths of these cultures (while still using the identical system) also argues that this predecessor may have been much earlier than any of those civilizations (Egypt, India, or Sumer).
The fact that myths on faraway continents and islands -- such as the myths of the cultures of the Americas, and the myths of the cultures of Australia, and the myths of the cultures of the Pacific -- can also be shown to be built upon this same esoteric foundation also argues for some extremely ancient predecessor culture as a possible explanation for this remarkable phenomenon.
Needless to say, this evidence completely upends conventional paradigms of human history. And yet the evidence in the myths is abundant, clear, and compelling (in fact, I would argue that it is so abundant and so clear that the evidence is conclusive).
I have now created a series of online courses in which I describe and demonstrate this evidence -- and the operations of this ancient world-wide system -- as clearly and comprehensively as I can. These courses are available at The Undying Stars Academy.
The first course that I made is entitled "Celestial Mechanics and the Myths," and it spends a lot of time explaining concepts such as the Celestial Equator, and the ecliptic, and the Sun's motion back and forth across the Celestial Equator throughout the cycle of the year.
I hope you will enjoy these classes, and that your learning the details of this ancient system of celestial metaphor will help this important knowledge to be preserved -- and will also have real and immediate positive impact on your life.
And, as we arrive at the point of Equinox, I hope you can take the time to reflect on the amazing message of the ancient myths -- and in particular their teaching regarding recovery of Self.
I am convinced that ancient observances connected to this point of the annual cycle (such as Passover and Easter, both of which have connections to the Full Moon following March Equinox, although the formula is rather complicated) relate to the phenomenon of our alienation from Self -- and our hoped-for recovery of Self.
That recovery of -- and greater and greater harmony with -- Self is what I sincerely hope for each of you reading this right now, this Equinox and going forward into whatever the future holds.
