In recent years the occurrence of global meditation events have become relatively commonplace. The purposes of such meditations, as well as their timing, may vary, but most of them seem to have been called to a relatively short time in advance. The meditations at the occasions of the Venus passages in the years 2004 and 2012 are different in this regard, they have been called to and planned for years in advance. Why is this? The most important reason is that we may already now know of their critical importance based on the nature of these astronomical occurrences and their place according to Mayan calendrics. Because the Mayan calendar, properly understood, is an expression of the divine plan predictions based on this calendar may be made several years into the future.

Before going into this it may be appropriate to consider an astronomical event that will receive considerable attention already in this year - the solar eclipse of August 11, and what role this may have, if any, in the overall scheme of events. This is the last eclipse of the century, which will move from the Eastern United States, across the British Isles, through France, Iraq to complete its path in India. In Southern England the maximal duration of the total eclipse will be two minutes and 6 seconds. Astrologers maintain that it concurs with a dramatic Great Cross in the stable signs of the zodiac, Scorpio, Taurus, Leo and Aquarius, all of which may be found in the Book of Revelation, and we may speculate about the spiritual importance of this event.

Solar eclipses re of course relatively common occurrences, but this one some believe is what Nostradamus refers to in his Century X, 72, where it says that in the seventh month of 1999 "the terrifying King of Angolmois will return from the sky". This prophecy by Nostradamus is in fact almost unique in that it is actually linked to a specific date. It is thus special in that it may be regarded as an acid test of the validity of his prophecies. When prophecies are linked to dates our own space for reading in to them what we want to be there becomes considerably less. Since Nostradamus wrote his famed prophecy about the return of the terrifying king of the Angolmois, which sometimes have been thought to refer to UFO's ("from the sky") and sometimes to a power from the East (Angolmois may be read as Mongolois, Mongolian), before the Gregorian calendar was taken into use some have suggested that it refers to the eclipse which in the Julian calendar used at the time would fall in the seventh month (July). I disagree with that interpretation, mainly because prophecies would probably incorporate such calendrical changes, but also because July 4 (of "Independence Day" fame), which is actually in the seventh month of 1999, has also been suggested as the date for Nostradamus prophecy seems to be a more ill-omened day from the perspective of Mayan calendrics.

So if I am right in denying that August 11 is the day referred to in Nostradamus prophecy, what might the true significance of this day then be? Solara says that it will mean the opening of another portal to allow an influx of cosmic energy, and that this will take a cylindrical shape. Contrary to others she feels that the place to be for this opening is in French Polynesia at the opposite side of the planet from the path of the solar eclipse. I feel it is right to move the focus away from the very solar eclipse, which rarely by themselves seem to be correlated with any significant changes in human affairs, and I do agree that the date August 11 of this year may turn out to be an opening towards new cosmic energies, but in a sense that may be different from the view of many others.

I would like to place emphasis both on the fact that there will be a Great Cross in the sky and the fact that this occurs on the day of the year, August 11, when, on the tzolkin day 4 Ahau, the Mayan Long Count was began in the year 3114 BC. If we focus on these coincidences we may be alerted, not only to the increasing relevance of the Mayan calendar in the years ahead, but also to the Return of the True Cross. Yet, the day of the solar eclipse, which is 11 Cauac in the tzolkin count is not by itself a particularly important day in the tzolkin count and the Great Cross of planets in the sky is not the returning True Cross. Hopefully, the constellation in the sky will however raise the question as to the nature of the True Cross and its relationship with the Mayan calendar and then we are getting some matters that are of great importance in the spiritual evolution of humanity to come.

On January 4, 1999 began the creation cycle of thirteen tun, 360-day periods, designed to lead to the completion of the ascension of humanity to a time-less cosmic consciousness and currently we are in the beginning of the first of these tuns of setting seeds for the future (among the Maya the tun, the 360-day year, rather than the solar year of 365 days, was the prophetic year). Seeds are now set in a multitude of ways for what is to follow in the progression of these thirteen tuns. A seed is set by some now beginning to use the Mayan calendar as a map of time for Revelation and another seed is set for the coming emergence of Christ consciousness, a galactic Christ consciousness, that will be carried by the True Cross. The two, the Mayan calendar and the return of Christ consciousness, are related and in a much more exact way than most people probably realize today. Not many are yet aware that the Mayan calendar is a calendar of the divine plan, something entirely different from an astronomical calendar.

The Return of Christ Consciousness, that is to say the Apocalypse, is intimately linked to the Return of the True Cross. But the True Cross is not a cross of planets or any other physical, astronomical, objects, but a cross that will dominate not only our own individual minds, but also the entire planet and the galaxy. It is a cross that exclusively exists in the invisible universe but yet will completely dominate the course of events in our earthly reality. This is a cross of Yin/Yang dualities that will provide us with an entirely new framework for viewing the world around us. Although non-physical by nature it will be visible to some as an inner cross or as a cross in the sky, the Star of Bethlehem. This Holy True Cross will increasingly make its presence known at tuns 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13 of the Galactic Creation Cycle that has just began. Since the tuns with these particular numbers represents the periods of the greatest moves forward in a spiritual sense, the pulses of light, the days in the divine creation scenario of Seven days and Six nights, which will now begin to alternate every 360 normal days. During days 1, 3 and 5 (corresponding approximately to the years 1999, 2001 and 2003 our present materialist consciousness will continue to dominate over the True Invisible Cross, whereas during days 9, 11 and 13 the roles will have been reversed, with the most important breakthrough of the new galactic Christ consciousness taking place in day 9, corresponding approximately to the year 2007. In day 7 the True Cross reaches a balance with our current materialist consciousness. The map of time thus created is given by the Mayan calendar through the ancient tzolkin count developed through an advanced resonance with the cosmos. In my view, what the Great Cross during the solar eclipse in the first of these Seven tuns of light heralds is the Invisible True Cross that this divine scenario of creation carries.

The incarnation of this True Cross among the human beings is what will give rise to the new consciousness of Christ. The new reversed Yin/Yang polarity is what will give rise to a new way of viewing the world and relating to it. In this emerging Yin/Yang duality the East and the West will switch places, so that the light will now fall on the Eastern, wholeness-directed, hemisphere. On an individual level the divine light will favour the right, female, brain half and the qualities associated with this, in women and men alike. This new Yin/Yang polarity maintained by the True Cross will amount to a new morality that bases itself on a larger perspective, what effects our actions may have on the larger whole, as this is the perspective of the right brain half that is now to be favored. This emerging wholistic morality, and the actions and ways of being that will stem from it is none other than the Returning Consciousness of Christ, and this returning consciousness will then be incarnated in any human being who chooses to let this happen.

If we choose to become carriers of this new Christ consciousness what can we do to make this happen. We may of course continue along old lines and just practice the morality that we may have intellectually assimilated from the Gospels, but since this would not necessarily lead to an immersion of the new ways of thinking by our entire being it may falter as we encounter obstacles. Another way would seem to be to seek, through meditation, to put ourselves in resonance with the new Yin/Yang duality and then as a result, become incarnations of the new consciousness in a complete sense of the word.

This is where the Venus passages come in, and especially the first one occurring during seven hours on June 8, 2004, in our Gregorian calendar. During the Venus passage the planet Venus will pass across the disc of the sun and create a kind of eclipse, and by its very nature it provides an ideal Cosmic Mirror, a Cosmic Mirror for our own aspirations of developing a consciousness of Christ. While prayer is talking to God, meditation is listening to God. This event is a meditative event and about listening to the new message, the new imprint of the Cross and to God's guidance for developing a consciousness of Christ.

The Venus passage of June 8, 2004, occurring shortly before the True Cross will become powerful enough to balance our present materialist consciousness, will thus by its very astronomical nature allow meditators to effectively assimilate the True Cross in their consciousness, the new Yin/Yang duality favoring a wholeness-oriented creativity and morality, favoring the consciousness of Christ. To alert people to this unique opportunity to have the consciousness of Christ incarnate among us human beings is thus a crucial task of the present. We may do this by disseminating information about the importance of the meditation of June 8, 2004 already now, but we may also do this by organizing yearly meditations on June 6 (which is the date of the second in this pair of Venus Passages occurring in the year 2012). The rewards for this will be purely spiritual and lies in the joy of having contributed to the emergence of a new human being, a human being who looks for the best of all and to serve the planet and God's creation in its entirety.