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Planetary Stations and UFO Encounters
MAUREEN RICHMOND
MAY 1
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Planetary Stations and UFO Encounters
Astrologer Maureen Richmond, Ph.D.
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Why just then is a question frequently raised in ufo circles. In other words, what makes ufo encounters occur at some times but not at others? A variation of this question comes in the form when will I see a ufo, or another ufo? Both versions of the question center on the notion of happenings in time and the ever present conundrum - what makes events take place at one point in time, but not at another.
The science of astrology is uniquely positioned to respond to that musing. Since its inception in the ancient Mediterranean world, astrology has been a science of timing. It arose for the express purpose of keeping time via celestial observation. It then evolved into a method for predicting celestial events and identifying the specific points in future time at which dramatic celestial events (such as eclipses of the Moon and Sun) would take place. Throughout the more than four thousand years during which some type of western astrology has existed, a central objective within its practice has been the effort to pinpoint times when specific developments would materialize as a result of astrological activations.
The astrological tool kit includes numerous methods of measurement for that purpose. Among them is a consideration of the points in time at which the planetary bodies of the solar system appear to stand still. These points are called stations. Yes, that’s the word: stations – like radio stations, tv stations, fire stations, battle stations, changing stations, and service stations, except in this case, it's planetary stations, which are actually nothing like the other earthly versions just mentioned. Instead, planetary stations are a feature of celestial observation. Planetary stations occur when a celestial body stops either its normal forward motion in the zodiac, or its apparent backward motion in the zodiac. The appearance of forward and retrograde motion is a normal occurrence. Stopping one direction of apparent motion and going to the other constitutes the all-powerful stationary moment.
Apparent forward motion in the zodiac is caused by the normal progress of a planetary body around the solar system. Apparent retrograde motion in the zodiac is caused by the concentric arrangement of the planetary orbits in the solar system, which inevitably allows for perspectives (or lines of sight) which make it appear from the position of one body that another body has ceased its normal forward orbital motion and has taken on reverse or retrograde motion.
In between those two phases are the planetary stations. The retrograde station happens when a celestial body appears to cease its normal forward motion. The direct station happens when a celestial body appears to stop its apparent backward motion and resume forward motion. Planetary stations are a regular feature of motion in the heavens tracked by both astrology and astronomy. Hence, it isn’t just astrologers who remark upon the stations of the planets, for astronomers do so as well. It’s because the planetary stations are a normal fact of life in the solar system.
As viewed from planet Earth, the outer planets Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter all experience one retrograde station and one direct station per Earth year. Mars experiences one retrograde station and one direct station approximately every two Earth years. Venus experiences one retrograde station and one direct station once every eighteen Earth months. Mercury experiences three retrograde and three direct stations in most calendar years (though sometimes there is a fourth). The Sun and the Moon are never seen in retrograde motion from Earth and so do not ever have any stationary moments in the zodiac, which is to say, as perceived from Earth.
Some astrologers feel that the planetary stations are the strongest and most refined applications of planetary energy possible. This means that at a planetary station, the energies and issues of that particular planetary archetype are amplified, magnified, and projected with great force into the affairs of planet Earth.
On May 2, 2024, at 12:46 pm CDT, Pluto will make a retrograde station at 2 degrees of Aquarius, effectively standing still in zodiacal motion and then assuming apparent backward motion in the zodiac. It will do so from the space flight and anomalistic sign of Aquarius, ruler of all things unusual, eccentric, and far out. What might such an astrological impact indicate?
Interestingly, a number of well-known historical ufo encounters have occurred within a few hours or days of planetary stations. The same might happen right away. Here’s some history on the synchronicity of planetary stations and ufo encounters.
Three Stations of Mercury
Three historical ufo encounters demonstrate the power of Mercury stations.
First, consider an encounter which occurred in the Middle East. Starting from November 9 and running through December 14, 1978, oil field equipment in the country of Kuwait suffered continual electronic disturbance and disruption by the presence of multiple ufos during eight major and distinguishable events.[1] Throughout most of the period operations were interrupted, Mercury was retrograde. Mercury made a station and turned direct on December 15, 1978, at 5 degrees of travel-oriented Sagittarius, just as the extended ufo episode ended.
Second, Mercury made a station and turned direct on May 5, 1984, the very day on which an Aerojet Satellite high in Earth’s atmosphere detected and captured on nine minutes of video a UFO as it came from deep outer space, entered the Earth’s atmosphere, slowed down considerably, turned around, and then went back to outer space. The whole sequence was also detected by a second deep space platform, significantly reducing any doubt the event actually transpired.[2] All of this occurred on the very day the planet Mercury made a station and then resumed apparent direct motion.
Third, Mercury made a station and turned direct within a few hours of one of the most dramatic and compelling of U.S. sightings in recent times. In the late afternoon of October 18, 2021, in Springfield, Missouri, a baffling spinning cube-shaped UFO was seen and videotaped as it hung high in the still daylight sky, and then turned to move toward the local airport. (Jupiter had also made a station and turned direct that day, bringing two planetary stations to bear on the moment.) As for Mercury, it made a station and turned direct around 10 am Central Time that day, about six hours in advance of this striking encounter.
A Station of Venus
February 25, 1942 saw a confused event called The Battle of Los Angeles, characterized by governmental authority figures as a hair-trigger response to a suspected invasion by Japanese war planes but described by others as a ufo visitation meant to uplift the sights of humanity and deter the subsequent horrific events of World War II. Peace-maker Venus had made a station and turned direct just two days before on February 23, 1942, doing so in Aquarius, the sign of universal community and the fellowship of humanity.
A Station of Mars
Mars made a station and resumed normal forward motion in the zodiac on January 20, 1976, a mere few hours before two ufos, each about 25 yards in diameter, hovered over Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico on January 21, 1976.
Two Jupiter Stations
Jupiter made a station and turned retrograde the day following a ufo encounter near Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, NM. Over the night between August 12 – 13, 1975, a U.S. military officer driving in the desert observed as an unknown flying object some 50 feet in diameter came down from the sky, hovered close to the ground only 300 feet away, appeared to contain beings visible behind windows, and emitted a buzzing hum.[3] The officer’s car went dead as the encounter began. Later, he arrived home much later than had been expected. Jupiter made a station and turned retrograde just hours after the ufo encounter in the New Mexico desert.
As mentioned above under the stations of Mercury, Jupiter also made a station and turned direct on the very day of a dramatic sighting. On October 18, 2021, a ufo in the shape of a spinning cube was sighted in the sky over Springfield, MO, only hours after Jupiter had made a station and turned direct.
Two Stations of Saturn
Long before the Himalayan country of Tibet was overtaken by the Communist Chinese Party, a European spiritual seeker and humanitarian artist named Nicholas Roerich led a cultural expedition through the highlands of Tibet to learn of its arts and cultures. On August 5, 1927, Roerich and his entourage sighted a huge oval object hurtling through the rarefied Tibetan skies, a sighting which the European travelers took to be a classic Tibetan Buddhist omen of some type, but which also may have been a ufo.[4] The planet Saturn made a station at 1 degree of the travel and adventure-oriented sign, Sagittarius, that very day, returning to direct motion in the zodiac.
On October 18, 1973, over Mansfield, OH, witnesses in a helicopter saw a gray cigar-shaped ufo with a dome on top and experienced a strange effect as the ufo seemed to take the helicopter under control, knock out its electronic systems, and cause it to rise uncontrollably. Saturn had made a station the day before, on October 17, 1973, turning retrograde thereafter.
Three Stations of Uranus
Uranus made a station and turned retrograde on March 14, 1983. This was just three days before a dramatic mass sighting of a boomerang shaped craft which occurred on March 17, 1983, over an interstate highway in the Hudson Valley area of New York state.[5]
On March 25, 1984 on the Taconic Parkway in New Jersey, again a mass sighting of a ufo occurred when numerous motorists stopped and parked their cars to watch 300 foot-long boomerang shaped craft with bright white lights as it hovered over the highway. Uranus had made a station on March 17, 1984, a bit more than a week before the mass sighting occurred.
A Uranus station was also associated with the historic Nimitz Event of November 14, 2004, when numerous military pilots and radar technicians participating in training exercises off the coast of Southern California detected multiple unknown vehicles traveling at mind-numbing air speeds and apparently able to do the same under water. Uranus had made a station and returned to direct motion three days prior, on November 11, 2004.
A Neptune Station
On October 5, 1996, in Loncolnshire, England, a ufo sighting incident initiated a flap. Neptune made a station and returned to forward zodiacal motion within hours of the event.
What Does It Mean?
What does it mean that planets make stations shortly before and after ufo encounters? It could mean many things. First to bear in mind is the fact that planetary stations are relatively rare. As mentioned above, the outer planets make stations twice a year, while Mars stations twice every two years, Venus twice every year and half, and Mercury six times every calendar year. Plainly, stations do not occur just every day. And yet many ufo sightings have occurred close in time to such astrological and astronomical events.
It is possible that stations of the planets create vortices of energies, portals, or other energy structures which allow for higher dimensional and otherworldly craft to manifest. At the very least, the close correlation of ufo sightings with planetary stations demonstrates the fact that happenings in our world are connected to happenings in the greater environment of the solar system. The solar system itself and the arrangements of its parts surely must be of interest to those who study our system from afar. Quite possibly these happenings and arrangements in the solar system are visible or somehow discernible to the intelligences behind ufo phenomena.
Additionally, it would appear that the archetypal nature of the individual planets plays into the type of event which occurs.
For example, communication and travel-oriented sightings have occurred coincident with stations of Mercury, the planet associated with communication and travel within astrological lore.
A sighting possibly connected with efforts at world diplomacy may have occurred coincident with a station of Venus, the planet and archetype associated with the capacity for establishing harmonious human relationships in the astrological lore.
A sighting at a war and weaponry-oriented installation occurred coincident with a station of Mars, God of War and Weaponry in ancient Greek myth.
Two grandiose and impressive sightings occurred coincident with stations of giant Jupiter, archetype of grandiosity.
A station of Saturn, planet of self-control, occurred coincident with a sighting in which a ufo appeared to have taken control over a helicopter, while another sighting coincident with a station of Saturn occurred in a land in which meditative self-discipline was once prized above all.
Uranus, planet of anomalies and modern technology, made stations coincident with sightings featuring boomerang and tic-tac styled craft which far transcend the conventional flying saucer design.
And finally, the island nation of England saw the beginning of a ufo flap coincident with station made by Neptune, ancient God of the Oceans.
Portals and Spontaneous Journeys Beyond:
The Jupiter Influence in Three Anomalistic Events
Astrologer Maureen Richmond, Ph.D.
Introduction
Throughout the paranormal community, interest in the subject of portal openings runs high. Portals are thought to be special places on Earth or in space which function as doorways into and out of other dimensions of existence. Speculation about the theoretical existence and nature of portals takes many forms. However, not often is the subject treated in the context of the solar system and the position of the Earth relative to the other celestial bodies in the solar system. Yet, my recent studies correlating the positions of the planets, Sun, Moon, and lunar nodes at the times of anomalistic events have suggested that indeed, the context of the solar system is in fact relevant to the topic of portals.
The fundamental reasoning which suggests that the correlation between paranormal events and celestial positioning is significant rests on the notion of synchronicity. Proposed in the mid-twentieth century by depth psychologist Carl Jung, the theory of synchronicity posits that events which occur at the same moment in time are inherently related. In today’s parlance, the concept of quantum entanglement might express the same idea. Whether one uses the language of the twentieth or of the twenty-first century, the underlying idea is the same. Two things acting at the same moment are interconnected, whether the method of connection is perceptible to the five human senses or not. Yet, the question could be raised, is the relationship one of causation? That question remains to be answered. First, the correlations between paranormal events and celestial positionings deserve attention and exploration.
For example, in three recent anomalistic events, the influence of the planet Jupiter figured significantly. The influence of Jupiter was significant in these events because the giant planet was emphasized at the time of occurrence, either by virtue of placement relative to the horizon as a result of the Earth’s rotation on its own axis, or by virtue of configuration with another celestial body. Of the three anomalistic events discussed here, two are suspected portal openings and the third is a discrete moment of scientific measurement regarding variation in the magnetic field at a site of suspected paranormal activity.
The first occurred on March 5, 2023, near Sedona, AZ, at Bradshaw Ranch, a location famous for its unusual paranormal properties, which are similar to those of the famous SkinWalker Ranch in Utah. The second occurred on December 7, 2023, near Mena, AR, at Board Camp Crystal Mine, also a location famous for its unusual paranormal properties. The third anomalistic event occurred on December 26, 2023, also at Board Camp Crystal Mine in western Arkansas. All three of these events point to the existence of happenings and energy structures not necessarily detected by the conventional five senses.
Furthermore, at the moment of each of these three anomalistic events, the planet Jupiter was emphasized. In astrology, Jupiter is associated with epic spiritual journeys, contact with sources of higher wisdom, and long distance travel. These themes bear a striking similarity to the function of portals allowing converse with distant dimensions or worlds.
The overall implication is that the influence of the planet Jupiter plays a significant role in creating the energies behind paranormal events, including portal openings. The influence of Jupiter is not the only factor of importance in this regard, but it appears to be one of real significance all the same. Just exactly how this influence is measured or identified is the subject of this paper.
The Three Anomalistic Events
The first of the three anomalistic events discussed here took place near Sedona, AZ, at Bradshaw Ranch, the location of paranormal investigations conducted by filmmakers Meyer and Alan Megargle. In early March of 2023, Meyer and Megargle were on site at Bradshaw Ranch to explore and record the nature of the phenomena experienced there. During their investigation, and with Meyer and Megargle nearby, a security camera captured the following image on March 5, 2023, at 8:16 pm.
Meyer and Megargle subsequently identified the central triangular figure as a pyramid-shaped portal. They based their conclusion on the nature of events observed at other times during the investigation, and reasoned that there must (or might) be an invisible energy portal at work. At the time of the photograph, it would seem the invisible became somewhat visible, at least for a time. The question for an astrologer such as myself naturally becomes, “What was the astrological situation at the moment this image was captured?”
Since the video taken by the security camera included a date and timestamp, it is possible to calculate an astrological chart for the precise moment this image was captured. The resulting chart below shows the symbol for the planet Jupiter at the far right. Jupiter at 13 degrees of Aries is just 4 degrees away from exact conjunction to the western horizon, or the Descendant. In astrological terminology, Jupiter is thus angular, a position well-known within the field of astrology to connote maximum effect.
If indeed this darkened shape in the central view field of the security camera did or does function as a doorway into and out of another dimension, and it manifested synchronous with the setting of the planet Jupiter, then the implication is that Jupiter at the setting or descending point in the moment of the event is in some way related to the manifestation of the portal. Simply stated, the idea is that the portal manifested at the time of Jupiter’s setting because the fact of Jupiter’s setting creates the necessary condition. Now, Jupiter sets once every single day of the year, and it is patently obvious that records of dramatic portal openings are not made on security cameras or by watchful human beings every single day of the year. However, that doesn’t mean such portals do not exist or do not open at the times of Jupiter’s setting. It only means the opening of such putative portals may go unnoticed by human beings and their technologies.
The second of the anomalistic events occurred at Board Camp Crystal Mine on December 7, 2023. Again, it was a security camera which captured the record of an event. In this case, the camera captured what appears to have been the opening of a light portal. The event began with what appeared to have been a spontaneous, non-artificial illumination of a wooded area. What followed was a period of more than an hour, during which two individuals experienced a paranormal event closely resembling a ufo abduction, including the apparent loss of time and the sudden return to a location on the mine property which differed from where the two last remembered themselves to have been.
All this occurred when Venus at 4 degrees of Scorpio was approaching a precise opposition to Jupiter at 6 degrees of Taurus, a fact which can be determined from the date of the event. At this time, Venus and Jupiter stood at opposite sides of the Earth, creating an alignment, which if observed from above or below the solar system would have looked like a configuration of three bodies resembling lined up billiard balls or three dots in a row. The two degrees of difference in zodiacal longitude are not great enough to have disturbed the resulting appearance. The Venus-Jupiter opposition would have held in place at + or – 2 degrees of exactitude for 2 – 3 days. The event occurred during that period, with the Venus opposition to Jupiter serving to emphasize the role and power of Jupiter. Jupiter was not angular at the onset of this event, but it was indeed emphasized due to its configuration with Venus.
The third of the anomalistic events occurred on December 26, 2023, also at Board Camp Crystal Mine in western Arkansas. As part of an ongoing experiment conducted by physicist and paranormal investigator Mark Wentz, a meter designed to detect variations in the magnetic field of the earth had been set out and linked to a computer which would record the readings obtained. At the conclusion of the experiment, the readings were studied. A dramatic spike had been recorded, starting at 8:08 pm CST.
What was the astrological situation at that moment? As the astrological chart for that moment shows below, the planet Jupiter at 5 degrees and 36 minutes of Taurus was precisely conjunct the zenith or midheaven at 5 degrees Taurus.
This means that the planet Jupiter had reached its greatest elevation in the southern sky for that day and was directly overhead. In astrological terms, that makes Jupiter angular. Planets are considered angular in the astrological mapping system whenever they are rising and therefore conjunct the ascendant, at the zenith or culminating and therefore conjunct the midheaven, setting or conjunct the descendant, or at the nadir and therefore anti-culminating. Any of these positions brings out the power of the planet so positioned. Again, Jupiter was angular for this event involving the measurement and recording of a radical alteration in the magnetic field, just as it was at the time discussed above during the onset of a paranormal event. According to the recordings obtained, the particular type of spike resulted from a sudden increase in the upward flow of electrical charge. This happened with Jupiter dead above.
Conclusions
The positioning of Jupiter in these three moments of apparent anomalistic activity raises many questions, but it also points to tentative answers. Although much more study is required for the formation of a theory, these three examples show that when Jupiter is angular, anomalistic occurrences have occurred. The importance assigned to these three correlations depends upon how seriously the potentially paranormal content of these three events is taken. If the Bradshaw Pyramid, the onset of a Board Camp Crystal Mine paranormal event including features similar to ufo abduction, and a magnetic field spike at a suspected paranormal site are all taken as veridical indications of anomalistic happenings, then the placements of the celestial bodies at these times might assume real importance, too. One thing for sure can be said: at all three of these events, Jupiter was suspiciously prominent by astrological measure.
Interestingly, the influence of Jupiter also figured significantly in 22 ufo sightings recorded by diverse reporting organizations and historians of the ufo phenomenon. Fortunately, these reporting organizations and historians included time, date, and place in each event description, allowing for the calculation of the full astrological charts. For each of the 22 ufo events, Jupiter influence was strong by virtue of positioning due to the rotation of the Earth.
In 5 ufo sightings, Jupiter was rising in the east, or conjunct the ascendant; in 2 ufo sightings, Jupiter was culminating at the zenith or conjunct the midheaven; in 8 ufo sightings, Jupiter was setting or conjunct the descendant; in 7 ufo sightings, Jupiter was at the nadir or anti-culminating. Thus, for all 22 of these ufo sighting events, Jupiter was angular. This fact lends strength to the notion that when the influence of Jupiter is emphasized by angular position, portals in consciousness allowing for paranormal manifestations such as ufo sightings and encounters are likely to open.
The angularity of Jupiter is a regular occurrence and can be predicted by both astrological and astronomical means. As the results above suggest, Jupiter setting or anti-culminating apparently present the most likely times for the opening of portals. This knowledge could be of critical importance in future paranormal investigations.
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