The Photon Belt is a stream of photons which seems to emanate from the galactic center towards the star Alcyone (in the Pleiades). Visualizing the solar system as a pancake, with the Sun at the center, the Photon Belt is like a fork stuck through the pancake. First detected in 1961 by means of satellite-borne instruments and reported by Dr. Paul Otto Hesse, the first contact of the solar system with the Photon Belt came in 1972 when Pluto was briefly in the band. Speculation ran high of "three days of darkness" with the usual gloom-and-doom predictions when Earth first touched the edge of the band for a week in March 1987. When the three days of darkness failed to happen, interest in the Photon Belt waned.
The entire solar system is moving slowly sideways into the Photon Belt. As planets rotate around the Sun, they swing in and out of the band. Earth has been in the Photon Belt two additional weeks each year since 1987 as our planet approaches and leaves the spring equinox. Last year, Earth was in the band from Dec. 29, 1997 until June 8, 1998.
We are in it now. This year, Earth is in the Photon Belt from Dec. 22, 1998 to June 15, 1999. This is the first time Earth is in the band for more than half the year. In 2012, the Earth will be in this band full time until about 4320 A.D. The last time the entire solar system was in the Photon Belt was the Age of Leo, from 10,800 B.C. through 8640 B.C.
The Sun itself had never entered the Photon Belt until sometime last summer when the corona of the Sun just started to touch the band - less dense at the edges than in the center. Quite unlike the Earth's entrance into the band, the reaction of the Sun has been spectacular. Early in June 1998, two comets entered the Sun, which is not unusual since as many as 25 or more comets and asteroids a year will either enter the Sun or graze it. Nothing has ever happened before when the Sun was struck by a cosmic body. But this time the Sun reacted in a way no one has ever seen before.
Approximately 30 to 35 solar flares erupted on the surface of the Sun, all in two parallel circles at the 19.5 degrees north and south latitudes. These are the latitudes where the interlocking tetrahedrons cross the sphere of the Sun. It is the same with the Earth or a human being. These are the latitudes of the great pyramid in Egypt, the Cydonia complex on Mars, Mauna Loa in Hawaii, and the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. Djwhal Khul ('DK,' as channeled by Barbara Reid) said that the comets which penetrated the Sun have been describing the orbits or movement patterns which form geometric shapes forming a greater sacred geometry beyond the solar system. These comets have finished that work of creating ley lines around the solar system and have returned home.
Concurrent with its entrance into the Photon Belt, this has apparently been a signal for the Sun to begin using these new ley lines. Since then, GOES 8 and 10 satellites have reported 12 major magnetic storms from solar eruptions, from July through December. These storms pour a tremendous amount of magnetic energy and protons towards Earth. The solar proton flux, measured in PUI, rose to about 2,500 PUI in the late 1980s. The scientific community was very concerned about this much energy reaching Earth.
On Oct. 13 it measured 42,000 PUI! Every magnetic storm, in the Pacific Northwest at least, has been followed one or two days later by several days of abnormally warm, clear weather. Some people report emotional sensitivity and upset during the storm. The Sun does not fluctuate in and out of the Photon Belt like Earth does, and it will move steadily further into it. It should be completely within the Photon Belt by 2001.
The Sun is clearly acting differently as it enters the Photon Belt. This energy is being felt on the Earth as it works to raise the vibratory rate of every atom in every human being on its surface. NASA diagrams show a startling effect in that Earth does not sit passively to receive these tremendous magnetic outpourings from the Sun. Rather, she sends out a magnetic pulse, the result of which is a cylinder of magnetic flux extending over both Sun and Earth like a sleeve linking them. It's as if they are reaching out in magnetic embrace, like reunited lovers.
This is not the only recent change in the Sun's behavior. In 1992 everything was normal: The Sun had magnetic north and south poles and was functioning normally by all scientific standards. In December 1994, the NASA Ulysses spacecraft arrived at the Sun to measure its magnetic field, and found that it no longer had north and south magnetic poles! Its magnetic field had changed dramatically into a homogenous field, with no scientific explanation. No one had ever seen anything like it before. DK has told us that this lack of solar polarity reflects a reduction in the duality seen on Earth; spirit and matter are not so exclusively separate any more. The Sun has also perceptibly changed its visible radiation from the yellow towards the white.
It is important to understand how the Photon Belt and Earth are arranged in space. Visualizing a Christmas tree, wide at the bottom and pointed at the top, Alcyone is the ornament at the top. Each of the remaining seven Pleiadian stars is like an ornament placed on the tip of a branch going down from the top towards the bottom. Each is thus further away from the trunk of the tree than the one above it (since the tree is widest at the base). Our Sun is at the bottom branch, furthest away from the trunk.
Imagine then that the tree is spun slowly on a stand, so it rotates like a lazy-susan. All the Pleiadian stars, plus our Sun, thus rotate about a common axis, once every 26,000 years or so (the "Precession of the Equinox"). The axis is the tree trunk, which is exactly how the Photon Belt is positioned. The Photon Belt flows from Galactic Center, and the entire spinning tree revolves around Earth's center because of its rotation. As the Sun moves around the base of the tree, it is in the Photon Belt during the Ages of Leo and Aquarius.
Barbara Hand Clow in The Pleiadian Agenda refers to these periods as the "Galactic Day" and all others as the "Galactic Night." We, then, are moving slowly out of the Galactic Night.
The Mayan astronomer/astrologer Hunbatz Men has decoded much of the 17 Mayan calendars. One of these describes the timing and meaning of our Sun's orbit around the central star of the Pleiades, Alcyone. According to the Aztec calendar, each of our Sun's 26,000-year cycles around Alcyone is equivalent to one of the Ages of the Sun. We will soon complete a larger 104,000-year cycle (four times 26,000) and then begin yet another, called "El Quinto Sol." In this cycle, those who stay on Earth will become a cosmic humanity and contact with other worlds will be possible.
Our Sun's rotation around Galactic Center is a cycle of 225 million years; and interestingly, 225 million years ago was the dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs. It can be assumed that the evolutionary changes now beginning on Earth will parallel the enormity of the emergence of the dinosaurs.
Energy from the Photon Belt serves to further the Earth's ascension process as well as our own. There has been an additional energy influx of late, coming as a tremendous burst of magnetic, X-ray and gamma ray radiation on Aug. 27, 1998. During the early morning hours, a star named SGR 1900+14 (20,000 light-years away) sent a five-minute burst of energy felt on Earth to be every bit as strong as that of the Sun. An entity named Kryon, channeled through Lee Carroll, has said that we will continue seeing bursts like this, these bursts being a signature of the arrival of what he calls "Master Guides."
This is the fifth such burst recorded since the first one seen in 1993, and it was by far the largest. The energy it released in one five-minute burst, said Kevin Hurley of the University of California, Berkeley, was roughly equivalent to the amount of energy the Earth's Sun will put out in the next 300 years.
These "Master Guides" are bringing additional energy for Earth's ascension. DK tells us that these beings come from a galaxy far away and have evolved in other realities beyond our own. Like other ET entities, they are bound by the non-interference rule and need to be invited before they can dispense their energy or wisdom. We can help this by inviting them to do so, either by offering to be vehicles for their work or by asking their assistance in our own work.
The blast of energy came from the constellation Aquila, which has always been associated with the Eagle and the Tarot major Arcana card VI: "The Lovers." This card, among other things, expresses the idea of "two paths." The position of the star of origin, at about 29þ Capricorn, is near - but not exactly aligned with - Galactic Center. Neptune was exactly in line to be our solar system's first receptor of this energy, and I believe that those who respond to Neptune's energies of compassion and mysticism may be more able to distribute this new energy than others, at least initially.
Cycles from 225 million years on down are all coming together as we approach the millennium. It is indeed a time of spiritual opportunity. Hopefully, if we're aware of these cycles, we will be more eager participants in the changes happening all around us. Notice that from Dec. 22, 1998 to June 15, 1999 will be the first time both Earth and Sun have been in the Photon Belt simultaneously in over 10,600 years.
Click here to view the diagram of the Photon Belt
This article first appeared in the final issue of Scott Mandelker's publication, From Elsewhere: The ET Journal (it is no longer published). Mandelker is the author of From Elsewhere: Being ET in America (1996) and Universal Vision (published by Bluewater Press in 1999).
Portions of this article first appeared in The New Times (December 1998) in Seattle, Washington.
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