1. Venus the 'torch star' was situated inside the band of the Milky Way (i.e. our spiral galaxy) at the 'torch' region of Orion (making the constellation an analogue of the Statue of Liberty).

1. At dawn of August 4 in Athens, overlapping New York's August 3 (6-7 hours behind Greece), Venus crossed the heavenly due-east line exactly when Sirius - a star symbolically interchangeable with Venus - was rising at the horizon. Venus at this special moment was approximately 33 degrees (32.67 degrees) above the local horizon - '33' being a well known Masonic 'ritual' number (and the number of the Nile's 'anchor meridian', 33E, in my Time River Theory).

So there is enough here to suggest to us that the 'Aztec crop circle' was another key piece of the 'alien message' puzzle driven by the 'super torch ritual'.

Next up is the elevated significance accorded to the 'Sun Stone' theme. The combination of 1) the Aztec culture, 2) the circular nature of the crop glyph, and 3) the Mayan calendar theme in the background together evokes the famous Aztec Calendar (link 2, 3) shown below.

[From cropcircleconnector.com]

On the Crop Circle Connector page is noted:

Historically, the Aztec name for the huge basaltic monolith is Cuauhxicalli Eagle Bowl, but it is universally known as the Aztec Calendar or Sun Stone. It was during the reign of the 6th Aztec monarch in 1479 that this stone was carved and dedicated to the principal Aztec deity: the sun. The stone has both mythological and astronomical significance. It weighs almost 25 tons, has a diameter of just under 12 feet, and a thickness of 3 feet.

Yes, the Aztec Calendar is widely known as the 'Sun Stone'!

Now let's go back to the 'Sun Stone' ritual carried out by NASA on Sept 8, i.e. the 'Contact' moment when heaven and earth were united as the Genesis space capsule returning from the Sun crashed into the Utah desert. On the same day was produced a due-east alignment of Venus, Saturn, Moon, and Galactic anti-center as seen from Giza where stands the Great Pyramid missing its capstone/Benben Stone - the 'Genesis seed' - analogous to the 'Sun Stone'. The symbolic implication being that the pyramid's missing 'Sun Stone' returned from the sky in the form of the Genesis capsule.

The Genesis probe's mission was about bringing back the 'winds' of the Sun (solar wind samples). The solar wind - charged particles, or ions, spewed by the Sun - has much to do with the 'sunspot' activity driving solar flares and coronal mass ejections which in turn affect the earth's magnetic field and cause the aurora phenomenon near the polar regions. Every 11 years the Sun reaches a 'solar maximum', i.e. when the number of sunspots peaks or when the Sun is the most active. This is known as the sunspot cycle; it's the state of the Sun or... the 'sunshine state', as in Florida - the state hit by four major hurricanes or... winds! (So the Florida hurricanes were symbolically 'solar winds', hinting at the importance of the 'state of the Sun'.)

The previous peak, that of 'Cycle 23', officially came in 2001, the year of 9/11. As well known, 9/11 produced a lot of '11's, starting with the 11-shaped Twin Towers, having 110 floors, getting hit on the 11th day of the month by two planes the first of which was Flight 11, and such. Now with the persistent 'Sun Stone' theme alluding to the sunspot cycle, it becomes highly suggestive that the next sunspot peak, exactly 11 years from 2001, will mark 2012, the Mayan end date! This connection is reinforced by Maurice M. Cotterell's theory presented in The Mayan Prophecies (1995, co-written with Adrian Gilbert) showing that the strange rhythm of the Mayan calendar - which is a more sophisticated 'cousin' of the Aztec calendar - coherently interacts with the complex cycles of the solar magnetic fields.

http://www.goroadachi.com/etemenanki/sc2012-b2.htm