The newest formation at Stanton-St. Bernard is the symbol for tone six of the Mayan numerical system. The symbol of six is related to organization, balance and equality. Its qualities are: receptivity, ability to respond, dynamic equilibrium, and roots in many dimensions. The sixth day of the Galactic Underworld, November 13, 2008 - November 7, 2009, (see www.calleman.com), according to Barbara Hand Clow's book: is a flowering of a more balanced way of living and fighting will begin to cease because no one remembers why they are fighting, care will be taken to conserve energy resources and to develop new Earth friendly alternative ways of living, women will be acknowledged and included in decision-making. Until then there will be a continued playing out of the old paradigm for those who wish to hang on to it: patriarchal dominance, war, exploitation of the environment, negative materialism, etc.

- Michelle Jennings

Stanton St. Bernard of August 12: six days left until a significant if unknown event on August 18

A new crop picture from Stanton St. Bernard shows the ancient Mayan symbol for number "6", as a long bar drawn just below a filled circle (many thanks to Michelle Jennings and Heather Horning for their quick and astute observations):

Furthermore, on close inspection, one can see that its "filled circle" contains 13 smaller mini-swirls:

Taken together, both observations lead one to believe that those crop artists are trying to tell us about "6 days" from their ancient 13-month calendar (based on motions of Venus and the Sun), where any month contained 20 days, and any year contained 13 x 20 = 260 days.

The "long bar" in that same crop picture is skewed with respect to a nearby tramline by approximately 10 degrees. Such a small but precise angle might be intended to represent the small angular fraction of "6 days" within any complete 260-day Mayan year as (6 / 260) x 360 = 8.3 degrees. But I cannot be sure from current photographs: would someone like to measure in the field?

Why would they show us the ancient Mayan symbol for "6 days" right now, on a particular date of August 12, 2007?

In the context of other pictures from 2007, this new message seems to represent the continuation of some countdown until a significant if unknown event on August 18. That same date was implied symbolically at East Field on July 7 in terms of "lunar cycles", at Sugar Hill on August 1 in terms of "cube sundials", and at Pewsey on August 4 in terms of a "solar-lunar calendar".

The Sun and Venus are moving towards an inferior conjunction on August 18, thereby ending their current 260-day Sun-Venus calendar, and beginning another. So they could be trying to tell us about that, or maybe something else entirely?

In the context of other pictures from 2004 or 2005, this new message seems to represent the continuation of Mayan Sunstone messages from Silbury 2004 and Wayland's Smithy 2005. The latter also coded for a near-future date of August 16-19, 2007 in terms of an ancient 52-year Sun-Venus calendar.

Field orientation at Stanton St. Bernard: close to moonset six days later

A new crop formation at Stanton St. Bernard showed a long bar beneath a filled dot, that clearly was meant to represent the Mayan number six. Its message was apparently "six days after this current new Moon on August 12, we may see a significant event on August 18".

A similar symbolism was shown at East Field on July 7, where lunar cycle IV began with a new Moon on August 12, then proceeded for just six days to an approximate 30% lunar phase on August 18, before slowly tapering off into nothing.

Another related symbolism was shown at Pewsey on August 4, which gave a more precise lunar phase of 32-34% following the next new Moon (midnight August 18 to early morning August 19 GMT).

The question then becomes: why was Stanton St. Bernard oriented in the field toward one particular direction on the horizon? Might it have something to do with the Moon? With that idea in mind, I calculated moonrise and moonset for three relevant dates using a program available on the web (http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/AltAz.html):
August 12: moonrise 0400, 57 degrees, 1% phase, moonset 1900, 296 degrees, 0% phase (new Moon)
August 18: moonrise 1100, 114 degrees, 26% phase, moonset 2030, 240 degrees, 30% phase (crescent Moon after six days)
August 19: moonrise 1200, 122 degrees, 36% phase, moonset 2100, 234 degrees, 39% phase. (crescent Moon after seven days)

Judging from published photos or Google Earth, Stanton St. Bernard seems to point on the horizon to an azimuth of approximately 230-240 degrees, or 50-60 degrees south of the setting Sun at 290 degrees. Thus it seems to point to where a crescent Moon of 30% phase will set on the night of August 18 at 2030, six days later. Its Mayan number "six" therefore takes on additional significance!

A few notes on the origin of modern crop pictures

Why do solar and lunar symbols keep appearing in crop pictures from modern Wiltshire? The most plausible answer would be that such pictures are coming from an ancient culture who lived in the British Isles (or central America) 4000 to 5000 years ago; and that may be their "native language". Unlike us, they have not forgotten the Sun, Moon or stars. Two excellent books titled Sun, Moon and Stonehenge or Cracking the Stone Age Code have been written by Robin Heath about those ancient people (www.skyandlandscape.com/pdf/Thompresspack.pdf).

The logarithmic spiral which appeared near Stonehenge in July 1996, for example, may be explained as a long-forgotten but fundamental aspect of megalithic astronomy called the "lunation triangle". Other lunar symbols appeared at Chiseldon in August 1996, that agree precisely with phase and azimuth of the Moon on those days (CCC archives). Hence the many lunar observations noted above, for a crop season of 2007, seem to follow well-established precedents from other seasons more than 10 years earlier.

- RED COLLIE