Aquarius, associated with the 11th house of the Natural Zodiac and ruled by the planet Uranus, associated with electricity, is often depicted as the Water Bearer. However, as astrologers know, Aquarius is not a Water sign; rather it is an Air sign. I propose that the cosmological Age of Aquarius into which we are now entering, due to the Precession of the Equinoxes, brings forth a river of fire, more specifically plasma (electrically charged particles as are given off by the Sun during both mild and extreme ejections), the cosmic streams that pervade the universe.
“Not to be a scare-monger, a moniker my husband and I both reject (we simply follow the evidence where it leads), I write this short article to bring attention to research, and a book, that may not be known to most astrologers.”—Catherine Ulissey
In 2012, my husband, Dr. Robert Schoch, known for his work on ancient civilizations (specifically, pushing back the age of civilization due to the evidence of water erosion on the core body of the Great Sphinx) published a book titled Forgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in Our Past and Future.1 In it he proposes that a massive solar event was the mechanism that snapped Earth out of its last ice age, simultaneously decimating the high civilizations of the time.
Dr. Schoch supports his assertions with ice core data, sediment data, moon data, and more, demonstrating that our Sun was massively active c. 9700 BCE, the moment (which has now been narrowed by science to days) that marks the end of the Younger Dryas and Earth’s last ice age. Dr. Schoch asserts that an enormous solar event (a coronal mass ejection of dense plasma pushing down to atmospheric levels) instantaneously melted glacial ice sheets, causing the precipitous rise in sea levels that occurred worldwide at that time. Furthermore, the event (fire hitting water) pumped moisture into the atmosphere, which subsequently poured down as heavy and protracted rains. This explains the extreme water-weathering created in prehistory visible on the core body of the Great Sphinx and on the walls of its enclosure. (Dr. Schoch has always asserted that the head of the monument, heavily weathered in prehistory, is a Dynastic re-carving.)
This latest aspect of Dr. Schoch’s three decades of research (not just demonstrating that high civilization goes back thousands of years earlier than traditionally acknowledged, but now also identifying the culprit of the ancient demise) was inspired by an archaeological discovery that I made in 2010.
For several decades, the preeminent U.S. plasma physicist, Dr. Anthony Peratt at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has been studying not just the activities of our Sun, but also ancient petroglyphs worldwide.2 To summarize his work, Dr. Peratt, in modeling plasma discharges in his laboratory, noticed that, at high intensities, plasma takes on distinct shapes: stick-figured men with dots on their sides (a spinning plasma torus with synchrotron radiation extending outward from its center), stick-figured men with bird heads, and cascading cylindrical shapes describe just three of his many examples. What is remarkable about this is that Dr. Peratt further noticed that many ancient petroglyphs depict these same shapes (his published papers offer examples from over 130 countries), suggesting strongly that ancient people witnessed an extreme solar event at some point in our remote past and recorded the shapes they observed in the sky on rock.
Today mild solar storms are seen in the blazing and swirling shapes of the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis. The stronger the storm, the more intense the aurora (charged particles emitted by the Sun interacting with our atmosphere). In the wake of a
micronova, these charged particles, Dr. Peratt explains, would take on shapes similar to the ones mentioned. The discovery I made, which expands upon Dr. Peratt’s research, is that Easter Island’s previously undeciphered script, known as rongorongo, is comprised of the same plasma configurations Dr. Peratt has identified. Indeed, a member of Dr. Peratt’s research team confirmed that our discovery is correct: the rongorongo is solar in nature; they noticed the correlation years before we did, but intentionally never published on it.
An explosion from our star c. 9700 BCE sent the world into chaos. The high levels of radiation associated with the event explain the die-off of large mammals that also occurred at this time. The way to survive would have been to go underground, to seek protection within rock, and we see evidence that humans did just this worldwide, with quintessential examples found in the Cappadocia region of Turkey where a network of underground cities that housed tens of thousands of people still exists. Humankind was thrown into a dark age for thousands of years, only to reemerge (amidst megalithic monuments belonging to a much earlier period) with scattered memories and nascent abilities.
When first presenting his evidence of a water-weathered Sphinx in prehistory, asserting our current civilization is not the first to have arisen on Earth, Dr. Schoch was challenged to present another example of megalithic construction dating back as far as he had pushed the Sphinx (initially he pushed the monument back to c. 7000–5000 BCE; now he pushes it back to before the end of the last ice age, c. 9700 BCE). At the time, he had no corroborating evidence. However, he and the world now have the extremely sophisticated 12,000-year-old megalithic site of Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey, and it has certainly silenced his critics, for it challenges academia regarding the rise of civilization.
How does this all connect to Aquarius? Isotope levels – one way to measure the activity of the Sun – indicate that our star today is showing the same signs of agitation now that it did 12,000 years ago, with nothing comparable in between.3 12,000 years ago, approximately one half of a precessional cycle, our last ice age ended, and advanced culture was brought to its knees, when a river of fire (solar plasma) emanated from our Sun and washed over our planet, leaving little more than large stones standing. Will we be hit again? Geology teaches that it is not a matter of if, but when. The question is, will the world be prepared? And knowing that such an event is coming, what will our civilization leave to posterity?
A postscript (7 December 2020):
Robert and I often speculate on what might, on a recurring basis (perhaps on the order of every 12,000 years or so), destabilize our Sun. Our star does not float idly or motionless in space; rather it travels through a spiral arm of the Milky Way at vast speeds. Some believe our star has a stellar companion, thus driving (or locking) it into a recurring orbit with another star (see, for instance, the work of Walter Cruttenden and the Binary Research Institute). This is an assertion we find interesting, though it has yet to be proven. While still others believe (and this is not mutually exclusive to that just mentioned) that our star is about to cross the
galactic equator, and when it does it will traverse a
galactic current stream, much like a rip current in a vast ocean, where the magnetic charges on one side of the galaxy meet (or collide) with charges from the other side. Is this crossing of the galactic equator a recurring event for our star? Does such an event, causing calamity on Earth, regularly repeat due to our Sun being locked in an orbit with another star (which may be either a massive but dark star and/or one so far away that it has yet to be detected — though some suggest Sirius is our Sun’s companion). If our Sun is part of a binary system, with an orbit that forces it to repeatedly traverse this perilous region of our Milky Way, this could explain such recurrences of catastrophe on Earth. Plato, based on more ancient knowledge, suggested that civilization never progresses beyond a certain point before it is knocked down and forced to begin again. (Robert addresses this topic in Forgotten Civilization.) I suspect this is what the ancient artist(s) who carved the basalt moai pictured below might have been trying to say. The
birdman motif, carved into the shoulder area of the moai, has already been identified as a plasma configuration (by plasma physicist Dr. Anthony Peratt). Our galaxy appears to be an enormous, spinning toroid, no different than small versions studied by Dr. Peratt in his laboratory. And if you tip your head 90 degrees, you will understand why this configuration connects to another major area of our research, which you can read about in this article posted to our website (as well as in the revised edition of Forgotten Civilization): God and the Sun: The Writing at Göbekli Tepe
Note: This article was originally published in the National Council for Geocosmic Research’s (NCGR’s) eNews publication, April 14th, 2020, edition. Reprinted here by kind permission of Catherine Ulissey, from the RobertSchoch.com website version.
The updated and revised edition of Forgotten Civilization is due out in March of 2021 (with 150 new pages, including over 40 new/additional photos, and bearing a slightly altered subtitle, changed by the publisher): Forgotten Civilization: New Discoveries on the Solar-Induced Dark Age: https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Civilization-Discoveries-Solar-Induced-Dark/dp/1644112922
1. R. M. Schoch, 2012, Forgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in Our Past and Future (Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions).
2. Dr. Peratt’s work is discussed and his papers referenced in Forgotten Civilization.
3. See: S. K. Solanki, et al., 2004, Unusual activity of the Sun during recent decades compared to the previous 11,000 years, Nature 431:1084-1087; I G. Usoskin et al., 2007, Grand minima and maxima of solar activity: New observational constraints, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 471:301-30.
Catherine Ulissey was a twenty-year professional ballet and Broadway dancer, beginning her career at the age of sixteen and performing with the Maryland Ballet, the Feld Ballet (where she also served the company as Ballet Mistress), and the original Broadway cast of The Phantom of the Opera (she later went on to help supervise one of its world touring productions). Ulissey also performed in the Broadway casts of The Mystery of Edwin Drood and the original productions of The Red Shoes and Rags. In 2002, she graduated from Emerson College with a B.A. in visual and media arts (summa cum laude) and has subsequently enjoyed a teaching career (of dance) for close to two decades, contributing to the education of students at the Boston Ballet School, Harvard University’s Dance Program, American Repertory Theater, and Wellesley College. Inspired by her husband’s research from the moment she learned of it, she is enormously proud to now contribute to it. She can be contacted via www.robertschoch.com.