I won't go into all the details, but the entry point of the 'Communication' hinting at this particular 'storm' was the highly symbolic event of powerful lightening striking the Atlantis launch pad on August 25 (two days before original launch day). Together with Atlantis being a (atmospheric) 'tower' a la Atlas/Pillar of Hercules, the underlying imagery was that of lightening striking a tower - or the Tarot card #16.

In addition to reinforcing the tower/atmospheric nature of the shuttle, it hinted at the relevance of another '16' - Pope Benedict 16... who heads an institution, the Church, that historically claims to represent the gateway between heaven and earth... just like the Atlantean tower/atmosphere. From there the floodgate just flung open and it quickly became clear that we were dealing with a serious set of patterns involving the Pope that was about to manifest via the Atlantean Gate window. In other words, the 'destruction of Atlantis' theme we had attached to the window and the shuttle mission was here being contextually transposed and reapplied to the 'Atlantean Pope'. And, again, the transposition in this case was tracked in 'real time', i.e. before the 'impact' itself manifested in 'reality'.

And certainly the impact did a lot of damage to Church-Islam relations... which, generally speaking, is far from over. The speech controversy was only the tip of the iceberg of the Church/Papacy destruction now unfolding...

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So that was the Atlantean Gate window. Now let's take a look at the realm beyond the 'Gate'...

Beyond Atlantean Gate Window

Atlantis concluded its 'as above, so below' mission on September 21 as it safely landed at KSC in Florida. And there, already, was sown the seed of the next phase of the 'Communication'...

It was again all about timing.

On the day of the Atlantis landing were observed two other space events:

• 9/21: Russia's Soyuz TMA-9 docking at the ISS
• 9/21: New pictures of Cydonia/'Face on Mars' taken by the European Space Agency's Mars Express released

Those were closely followed by:

• 9/22: Annular solar eclipse, Japan's Solar-B probe (to Sun) launched
• 9/22-23: Autumn equinox

These  were all very meaningful events having various implications. But most relevant to our discussion here are the 'Face on Mars' image release and the autumn equinox. (The eclipse was supremely important but we'll skip it in this article.) Again, it's all about the timing...

The combination of the two space events constituted an allusion to... the Great Sphinx at Giza. The first thing to point out here is that the Sphinx and Giza as a whole are decidedly Martian in nature:

• The Egyptian capital Cairo, situated adjacent to Giza, derives its name from Al Qahira denoting Mars. (More literally it means ‘the victorious’.)

• The ancient Egyptians called Mars ‘Horus of the Horizon’ (Horakhti), which was the very same name given to the Great Sphinx. Mars was also called ‘Horus the Red’ (Hor Dshr), and for a long time the Sphinx was painted red.

• The term ‘pyramid’ derives from the Greek term pyr meaning ‘fire’, as in Mars the ‘fire planet’. (Mars is often referred to as pyroeis in Greek.)

• Just as the Great Sphinx is the hybrid of man and a lion, in ancient Hindu myths Mars is Nr-Simha, the ‘Man-Lion’.

• etc.

There is a striking mathematical connection as well. Most notably, the cosine of the Giza latitude equals the tangent of the Cydonia structures' latitude – both equaling e/pi.

And like the Great Sphinx, the so-called 'Face on Mars' when 'decoded' is a combination of a lion head and a (pregnant) Virgin/Virgo body - which is actually the reverse of the Sphinx which is a human-headed lion.

And here is how the Great Sphinx, and through it the 'Face on Mars', relates to the equinox. Equinoxes are when the Sun rises due east, and that's exactly where the gaze of the Great Sphinx points to. Sunrise being a form of Horus as per ancient Egyptian tradition, the Great Sphinx is in effect designed to look at itself on equinox days. So this is no mere coincidence, this is intentional.

The timing of the release of the 'Face on Mars' images thus had the inevitable effect of highlighting this ancient time-marking scheme.

But there is something more being telegraphed here... because the Great Sphinx is not only equinoctial but also... cross-quarter.

'Cross-quarter days' are those that mark the midpoint between an equinox and a solstice. (The timing is more flexible here because we have different ways of locating that midpoint position.)

The Great Sphinx acknowledges cross-quarter days by way of the angle of the causeway that connects the monument to the 2nd/middle pyramid of Giza. Angled 14 degrees south of east, it is designed to pinpoint the sunrise at the halfway point between the solstice and the equinox. In other words, the Sphinx causeway aligns with (two of the four) 'cross-quarter sunrises'. (Note: This angle/timing is not the same as the traditional Samhain/Imbolc cross-quarter days, ~11/1 and ~2/1, or the astronomical ones, ~11/7 and ~2/3. The reason has to do with how the relative angle of Earth's axial tilt shifts at an unsteady rate as it orbits around the Sun.)

We have reason to take this alignment seriously because cross-quarter days have been a cornerstone of many of our 'time codes'. And the next one coming up, to be aligned with the Sphinx causeway, is Oct. 25-26... which can be considered a subset of a larger Samhain window around the beginning of November. The cross-quarter day coming after that one will also align with the Sphinx causeway, around 2/16-17. The next two after that will be northern ones - which too are actually acknowledged by Giza...  namely the causeway of the Great Pyramid...

That first of those two takes place around April 21, and the second one around August 22. The latter warrants a closer examination.

It coincides with 'Regulus Day' (annually), when the Sun passes directly over the brightest star of the constellation Leo - the Great Sphinx in the sky - signifying the birth of Horus. This year's was extra special. It was joined by a New Moon...

And an 'Orange Alignment' was forming on the same day! ('Orange Alignments' is the lining up of the Sun, Mercury, and Venus and have been the 'minute hand' of our 'Super Torch Ritual'/Damage Plan clock'.)

As if that wasn't enough, August 22 this year even witnessed a 'kamikaze event' - a major plane crash in Donetsk, Ukraine. (The 'kamikaze' theme is typically expressed through plane crashes.) The city's flag is a clear sunrise, evocative of the Japanese Navy flag closely associated with Kamikaze fighter planes...

It was a 'kamikaze' crash indeed: The location could not be more meaningful, as you can see... (There is actually much more to this than just this alignment.)

So the collective signal could not be clearer. The Lughnasadh 'cross-quarter sunrise day' around August 22 was important. And via the Giza sunrise alignment scheme, it is easy to infer from this that we are likely in for a set of 'echoes' from that time during the Samhain cross-quarter period especially on/around October 25-26, actually likely to be amplified by the involvement of the Great Sphinx.

Samhain '06 Window

Here is a list of key alignments and events already scheduled for the 'Samhain '06 window':

Note the Orange Alignment on November 10-11 - already an 'echo' from August 22-23...

And there is a a major 'Judgment' event scheduled for November 7th - the US midterm elections. It actually coincides with the astronomical cross-quarter day, and both terms 'midterm' and 'election' express the idea of 'balance/justice/judgment'. The former implies 'midpoint'; and the latter is about people making decisions. 'Election Day' thus comes to denote 'Judgment Day', especially one that is 'midterm'. This is intensified by the biggest peak of the 'Equation of Time' coming just days before - 'equation' implying 'balance/justice/judgment' and 'Equation of Time' basically meaning 'Judgment Day'. 

November 7 is even the 311th day of the year. As you should know by now (if you visit this website regularly), '311' is a 'Judgment Day'/'Disclosure' number, closely associated with the Madrid bombings ('Transit Strike' event) on March 11 (= '311')  and Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines clearly and prophetically encoded this date/number... before Madrid 3/11. Terminator 3 was released in 2003 shortly before the California 'Total Recall' election through which Arnold became governor, nicely relating back to the election theme.

And more ominously, Terminator 3 equates 'Judgment Day' with a nuclear holocaust... That represents another cross-quarter 'echo' effect because August 22 happened to be specifically associated with a nuclear apocalypse, as reported in the news:

Iran Hints at Aug. 22 Doomsday for Israel

Noted Middle Eastern scholar Bernard Lewis warns that Iran is preparing for an apocalyptic "end of time” – and that it could come as soon as August 22.

...Iran leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country would respond to Western demands regarding Iran’s nuclear program, and a possible attack on Israel. [...]

And obviously the pattern is already unfolding around us. The current North Korea 'nuclear crisis' that began on October 9 cannot be more nuclear or evocative of a nuclear 'Armageddon'.

I should add that it was clear to me even before October 9, and I've stated so numerous times, that we were (re-)entering a 'warlike' period around Samhain '06. First, we have Mars heavily woven into the pattern and Mars is traditionally the planet/god of war. And then there is the 'Paris Tower Axis' inseparable from Genesis and Atlantis which comes from the Champ de Mars or 'Field of Mars' in Paris. Another Mars/war allusion... And we have a world-famous tower, the Eiffel Tower, standing in the Champ de Mars. 'Tower' is analogous to Atlas/Atlantis and related to the Atlantean Gate window which can now be viewed as a 'War Gate'.

We just went through that gate this fall...

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World War III or the 'Trojan War' has been a big theme since last year... since last Samhain (Nov. '05) actually. The main Samhain 'signal' last year was the Paris riots that lasted for weeks around the beginning of November, peaking around November 7. The unrest was so intense and the timing so meaningful that I saw in it the idea of the 'Judgment of Paris' which could be interpreted as a code signaling the coming of the modern 'Trojan War'. In mythology it was the 'Judgment of Paris' involving the Golden Apple/Apple of Discord that led to the abduction of Helen by Paris and then to the ancient 'world war' known as the Trojan War.

This continues to be an important context to keep in mind, and indeed the 'Atlantean' alignment involving Mt. St. Helens discussed earlier should be treated within this context - which turns the city Paris into the the mythological figure Paris and St. Helens into the 'Helen of Troy'...

See how the Paris Tower/War Axis (green) goes to the Genesis Crossroads and then to St. Helens (purple). That's 'Paris, 'war', 'origin', and 'Helen'. That screams 'Beginning of the Trojan War'! And of course, it was soon after the landing of Atlantis STS-115, corresponding to the dates marked by Mt. St. Helens, that North Korea detonated its first nuclear weapon, creating an international crisis. The mood around the world suddenly became 'warlike'.

The focus can quickly shift to Iran - another one of the 'Axis of Evil' nations. (See the 'Axis' theme intensifying here?) In fact, Iran appears more likely to play a big role in starting the modern 'Trojan War', after all we all know that Israel and the US neocons are just itching to drop their bombs on Iran. All they need is a plausible excuse to do so...

So basically, what we're looking at is a picture of the start or actually more like the intensification of the 'Trojan War' during or closely associated with the Samhain window. We are entering a new phase via Samhain '06. And chances are that it is 'designed' to interact with the 'Deep Impact Clock' counting down to Impact Point around the beginning of 2007. And also heavily woven into all this is the Papal/Church destruction theme which may well involve the exit of the current pope in the surprisingly near future. I'd watch the US midterm elections (11/7) closely for more clues as to what kind of 'Judgment' the Church/Pope is in for. The Foley pedophile scandal dominating US political news just before the elections can be considered a major 'signal', as the biggest crisis the Church has been facing since 2002 is of the same kind - priests sexually abusing children... and the Vatican actively covering it up. A disturbing theme underlying these disturbing crimes is that of the Great Flood found in the Book of Genesis - Genesis! - wherein it is written the the great Judgment event was unleashed to clean up the mess created by the sexual misconduct of the 'sons of God' coming unto the 'daughters of men'. So we'll need to closely monitor how or if the modern offenders, the Church and the Republican party, will face their own 'Great Flood' event in the near future. The coming midterm elections should do much to advance or perhaps alter this storyline.

Don't forget that reality is 'poetic' and mysteriously responds to our awareness level. The more the 'Communication' is ignored, the deeper the 'impact' will be...

It's a game.... but a very serious game.