As recently as last summer, it looked like our sun had gone into a sleep mode. http://www.space.com/11960-fading-sunspots-slower-solar-activity-solar-cycle .html
If you are new to Vortex, you may not realize that we have a unwanted and powerful neighbor in the galaxy named Eta Carinae. It is starting to act up now, and it may be taking out sun along for the ride. Aside from the 2012 (Mayan) hoopla, this is looking like a big year for solar activity. http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/79/79.html Figuratively, Eta Carinae is the closest thing to "evil" (wanton destructiveness) that anyone can imagine, even considering black holes. It is in the constellation Carinae - "the keel" which is visible from the Southern Hemisphere - about 8000 light years away. It could be both progenitor and destroyer, in a way. Earth is about 27,000 light years from the center of the Milky Way but Eta Carinae is less than a third of the way to the core, and it isn't associated with a black hole - in fact EC is closer to us and often beams more energy than the entire galaxy core, as seen by us. Here is what it looks like: http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0208/Breathtaking-Carina-nebula-photo- provides-window-into-star-nursery It is not yet clear what supplies the radiated energy that can peak at 10^50 ergs, but this output has been cyclically tied to abnormal solar activity on our sun. Curiously, one of the main power sources is likely to be nickel, in the sense of decay to 56Ni from heavier mass (according to spectroscopy). We see this massive energy peak coming from EC on a particular temporal cycle, and when we talked about it here on Vortex the last time that it peaked (~5+ years ago), it was in regard to abnormal sunspots at a time when we were supposed to be in a solar minimum. Our sun's cycle could be tied directly to the EC cycle for a number of reasons, but how can it "skip" and feel only every other one of EC's cycles ? Or else, it is a spectacular coincidence. Eta Carinae seems to be powered by the see-saw death and rebirth of an extremely massive star system. It is a 'repeat offender' regularly gaining and loosing mass in "hundred-sun" quanta. And the main output vector seems to be pointed at our sun like a rifle. In fact, EC could be the final remnant of a captured galaxy itself. Even if we limit the present speculation to a focused discharge from EC, traveling fairly close to light-speed, what kind of accelerated mass-energy fits these circumstances (disruptive enough to cause sunspots 8000 years removed) ? It must be strange, as in "strangelets". Can this kind of directed influence happen at all over 8000 l.y. or does it demand some kind of quantum entanglement of two systems, which goes back in time to a "genesis" event? IOW this may have been the predecessor star system for us, and that explains why we are still 'entangled' to a degree. Plus, the tie-in to nickel is also a coincidental detail that may not be completely random, vis-à-vis other phenomena - if some kind of weird quantum entanglement exist between us and our "keel". Anyway - let's hope it does not keel-over on us later this year... but... yes, to answer a lingering question - methinks the Maya would surely have been aware of Eta Carinae and its regular cycle. On occasion, it can be the brightest star in the heavens. Jones
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