VENUS TRANSITS - HISTORY & SIGNIFICANCE

Venus transits (or inner conjunctions

of Venus) occur when Venus passes
across the face of the Sun, when
viewed from Earth. They are among the
rarest of predictable astronomical
phenomena. The Sun's rays must pass
around and thru Venus to reach our planet
during each transit. They always occur in
pairs, eight Earth years apart, with an
average of 104 years between transit
pairs. Each Venus transit is also
accompanied by an "outer conjunction"
when our sister planet passes directly
behind the Sun, in a straight line with the
Earth. But, of course, we cannot view
such an event, except from Space.

As Venus is the brightest object in
Earth's night sky after the Moon, ancient
peoples have long observed its position
as it appears to travel across the night
sky. Because its orbit around the Sun is
inside the Earth's orbit, and due to its
closeness to our planet, Venus appears
either just after dusk OR just after dawn,
viewed from any one spot on Earth,
temporarily disappearing from view, then
magically re-appearing but at the opposite
end of the night sky. This made it
especially important to all ancient peoples
as Venus' regular cosmic " dance" with
Earth defines the sacred geometry
relationship called the Golden
Mean since 1.6 Venus years equal 1
Earth year.

As early as ancient Babylon,
astronomer - astrologers recorded the
movements of Venus and the "discovery"
of its "transits" or inner conjunctions, when
Venus is visible in daytime as a black spot
crossing the Sun, was made thousands of
years ago. Edmond Halley was the first
modern astronomer to be credited with
using measurements of the distance
between Earth and Venus during an 18th
Century transit to extrapolate how far the
Earth is from the Sun via Keppler's laws.

June 5-6, 2012, marks the next
Venus transit. It is the second of the
currrent pair and thus the phenomenon
will not again be visible from Earth until
2117 CE - 105 years from now. Of course
because Earth has a 23-degree axis tilt
and rotates every 24 hours, the upcoming
Venus transit will be either fully-viewable,
partially-viewable (ending either at
Sunrise or Sunset), or not viewable at all,
depending on where one is on Earth's
surface during the 6+ hours it takes Venus
to move across the Sun. These viewing
positions change with each transit. They
are given below for J une 5-6, 2012.


Mainstream astronomers routinely ignore the energy implications of Sun-Venus-
Earth alignments but these were of paramount importance to our ancestors and still
to indigenous peoples today. During each Venus transit, the Sun's life-giving
energies must pass thru and around Venus to reach Earth. The transit visibility
boundaries, which repeat every 243 years with slight variations, have long been
seen as significant for ancient myths give Venus a dual character - bringer of beauty
& harmony or violence & conflict - depending on where it is viewed. Venus as
" evening star" is seen as the goddess of love whereas as " morning star" it
becomes a symbol of conflict and destruction. Some ancient texts describe
Venus as "female at sunset but male at sunrise".

Cutting the visibility of Venus' daytime
transit was seen as having dire
consequences on Earth, especially for
spots along the sunset boundary - where
Venus "defeated" the Sun as it set during
the transit's visible progress.
Consequently, during a Venus transit,
where visibility ended during the transit at
sunset, destruction was predicted. On the
other hand, where the Sun rises during a
transit, it "defeats" Venus, so that the
"sunrise boundary" line is considered a
positive omen, releasing her goddess
qualities along it. No transit visibility
regions are neutral and 100% transit
visibility regions are considered especially
charged with Venus' positive harmonious
energies, boosted by the Sun's rays.
Looking at the J une 2012 Venus transit visibility map, we see that the 100%
visibility area is largely over the Pacific Ocean, including J apan, Alaska and Hawaii.
This is where native Hawaiians have seen an " opening of the Aloha
Spirit" (Venus' positive aspect) in the world. The more-negative "sunset boundary"
passes east of New Zealand and Hawaii to intersect North America in British
Columbia near Vancouver, close to the active San J uan de Fuca fault subduction
zone. Most of North America is in the potentially-destructive "transit ends at sunset"
area while much of Europe, the Middle East and India is in the "transit in progress at
sunrise" positive area.





While it's impossible for science to
comment on such beliefs, the historical
record does appear to point to a possible
relationship between past Venus transits
and violent Earth Changes, specifically
earthquakes, volcanoes and
tsunamis. For at least the past 500
years history has recorded significant
destructive Earth movements
happening between four months and a
year after previous Venus transits.
The first transit of the current pair
occurred on June 8, 2004. The sunset
boundary ran through Sumatra's Aceh
province and western Thailand.
Some six months afterwards a 9+
scale earthquake and huge
tsunami devastated the region and
crossed the Indian Ocean.
The previous transit was in December
1882, again centered on the Pacific
Rim. On August 27, 1883, the
Indonesian island of Krakatoa literally
disappeared in the largest volcanic
eruption of modern times.
An estimated 7.5 scale quake
destroyed much of the Andes in May
1875, just 6 months after the
December 1874 Venus transit.
Haiti was destroyed exactly one year
after the J une 3, 1769 Venus transit.
A major J apanese earthquake hit in
J uly 1640, seven months after the
December 1639 transit.
A 1519 tsunami destabilized Korea
and J apan one year after the May
1518 transit, which also was viewed by
doomed Aztec emperor Montezuma,
overthrown by Cortez's band of
mercenary soldiers who invaded
Mexico just as the ancient Aztec
calendar reset in 1519.


Mindful of such precedents, our Society believes that gathering indigenous elders
and wisdom-keepers along with the interested public to discuss suggestions for
creating a positive, sustainable future for the next seven generations and to hold
sacred ceremonies in Hawaii, where the J une 2012 Venus transit is 100%
visible, will mitigate potential destructive consequences, especially along the
sunset line that impacts the eastern Pacific and North America. We seek to inspire,
educate, engage and enlighten participants both present and via mass media
involvement in this historic event. It is appropriate to hold it in Hawaii, reknowned for
its "Aloha Spirit" of love and brotherhood, using these energies to further positive
global change at this key time as our entire solar system aligns with the center of the
Milky Way Galaxy and the Mayan calendar renews its 5,200 year long counting
cycle.

We consider it vital that many positive people join us in Kona, Hawaii, this
June.




Mitakuye Oyasin - Aloha Nui Loa - Namaste
Shalom Aleichem - Salaam Alekem - Peace & Goodwill
This is from the web site
(The four directions.)