On The Calendar Of The Aeons
Channel: Rev Jonathan Barlow Gee
Date: 2023-11-02

PODcast 013 H

8. What is the calendar of the solar aeons and how, specifically, is it understood?

The calendar of the solar aeons maybe understood one of two ways: either “purely” - by adhering to the actual portions of the ecliptic occupied by each zodiac sign (as these each differ from every other, even if only slightly); or else “ideally” - by considering each of the 12 zodiac signs to occupy a span of 30° on a perfectly circular, 360° ecliptic plane - thus, 12 X 30 = 360. Assuming it makes no difference to this description which one we use, we may choose the “idealist” over the “purist” model for now, as the “idealist” model is easier to work with. In the “ideal” model of a calendar based on this method of measuring the 12 signs of the zodiac as spans of 30° each, we find this to be (very nearly) identical to measuring the 360° circle as alike the 365-day year. In the resulting model for a calendar (corresponding, essentially, to the ancient Egyptian civic/solar calendar model) each “month” is 30 days. The extra 5 days were celebrated as the “heru-renpet” holidays at the 2 equinoxes, 2 solstices and 1 annual new-year’s eve dates. The model of the calendar of “months” counts the order of the 12 zodiac signs as they rise on the horizon at dawn over the year (such megalithic monuments as Stonehenge seem to have been built to measure such phenomenon). The model of the calendar of the “aeons” counts the order of the 12 zodiac signs as they rise on the horizon at dawn over the thousands of years. Due to precession of the earth’s 23.5° axial tilt around “true north,” each of the 12 zodiac signs will rise on the horizon at dawn on the same days of the year for roughly 2000 years before they “roll-over” into the next aeonic “month.” So, “ideally,” each “month” of 30 days (per annual calendar-round) maybe seen as roughly equivalent to an “aeon” of 2000 years per 30 degrees (per Aeonic calendar-round). The precession of the 12 zodiac signs around the calendar of the solar aeons is opposite that during an annual orbit. Say you take an idealized, square, day-by-day calendar, with each month being 30 days, and you arrange its pages so that they form a circle: this is the “calendar-round.” Now, if one progresses “monthly” around this circle in one direction (say, clockwise) one will progress around the same circle in the opposite direction (in this case, counterclockwise) if measuring the spans of 30-day “months” as “aeons” of 2000-years apiece. This effect occurs due to the axial pole of the planet earth “precessing” east to west (very gradually) while the earth rotates (daily) west to east. The POD has various examples of “solar aeon” calendar-systems, including the “Lemurian,” the “POD” version proper and the “Atlantean,” each a varying degree of complexity. All these “aeonic” calendars of the POD are “calibrated” the same: to be read as if looking east along the equator at dawn on the winter solstice, and oriented to depict the ruling planets as of the year “nominal zero” on the current calendar of BC and AD dating eras. As such, the “nadir-point” of each “calendar-round” in the POD depicting an “aeonic” cycle occurs between the zodiac signs of cancer and gemini, with the moon ruling cancer and the sun ruling gemini, because these are the “rising signs” on the horizon at dawn on the winter solstice during these different periods of time. On this model, we are already now leaving the Aeon when the ruling signs are Gemini (in winter), Pisces (in spring), Sagittarius (in summer) and Virgo (in autumn) and entering a “new aeon,” when the ruling signs are Taurus (in winter), Aquarius (in spring), Scorpio (in summer) and Leo (in autumn). These will now be the ruling signs for the next around 2000 years or so. The purpose of keeping “long counts” of dates spanning thousands of years is more than just as a mnemonic for remembering history (though it helps), it is for remembering our current place in the planet’s “ice age” cycle. For example, the Aeon we are entering into now - governed by Taurus in winter - is actually in the early- to mid-Autumn of the “ice age” cycle’s 48,000 year-long span for the North hemisphere, equivalent to early- to mid-Spring in the South hemisphere. This means the glaciers will begin thawing over Antarctica and begin forming over the north-pole, likely Siberia, gradually over the next 6,000 - 12,000 years or so. Such are the “seasons” on the calendar of Aeons.