Alarm bells started to ring throughout "Croppyworld" during April and May, for so far up until then, no genuine circles had appeared anywhere in the UK (or for that matter even throughout Europe). But just when everyone was beginning to think that maybe they weren't going to appear this year, a formation arrived on the 9th June at North Farm, West Overton in Wiltshire. Softly laid in young wheat, this complex ring quite importantly held much interrelating symbolism that was deemed high in spiritual content.


Photo 1 - West Overton Wiltshire - 9th June
© Steve Alexander

June was also quiet but on its final day, a real eye-popper appeared! This was an amazing 3D design that depending on which photographic angle you viewed it from, magically appeared to shape-shift. Built upon a precise series of elliptical arcs this was truly a remarkable event. Sadly (but then perhaps understandably) it wasn't appreciated by the farmer who within hours of its arrival swiftly cut it out!

Photo 2 and Photo 3 - Avebury Trusloe, nr. Beckhampton Wiltshire - 30th June
© Steve Alexander

Apart from its ability to perform optical illusions, are we looking through doorways to an alternative dimension...a "wormhole" or a shortcut through space and time to a parallel universe?

What's a "wormhole"?...well if a worm takes a stroll around an apple, it could take a shortcut to the other side by burrowing through it! Similarly space travellers in theory could cut across the universe in order to traverse space and time, through the likes of a so-called "wormhole" that possibly exists in higher dimensional space. Interestingly this now begs the question, are we being shown how possibly "The Circlemakers" reach us in order to communicate their message?

As if to replace the Avebury Trusloe formation that was cut out by the farmer, the "wormhole" feature was included in a new design that appeared at Savernake Forest, near Marlborough on the 8th of July. "The Circlemakers" obviously placed some importance on this design for they again laid down a similar effort at New Barn, nr. Aldbourne in Wiltshire, just three days later!


Photo 4 - Savernake Forest , nr. Marlborough Wiltshire - 8th July
© Steve Alexander

As you can see from the aerial the one that arrived at Savernake was superb, but whilst we stood in awe of this beauty, we also learnt of three other amazing events that also had arrived on the same day. Two appeared in Oxfordshire, whilst one had landed right on our doorstep here in Kent. Placed on a gentle slope beside the scant remains of Boxley Abbey, this one was a spectacular fractal that spread itself over four tramlines.


Photo 5 - Boxley, nr. Maidstone Kent - 8th July
© Andy Fowlds

This event was simply a million miles away from any "circle faking" efforts...its floor lay was certainly a free-flowing reminder of just why my interest in this phenomenon never wanes. What confronted me was a gentle sweep of crop that looked hell bent on flowing into every nook and cranny. Look at the photo...it was as if the tide had come in.


Photo 6 - Boxley...the stunning floorlay
© William Betts

Perplexing many, the "Book of Revelation" is a disturbing account of the visions of St. John who's concerned about the end of our present age, that's known as the "End Times". In chapter twelve of Revelation a woman bearing a child is mentioned wearing a crown of twelve stars. As you can see from the following diagram, this dazzling twelve-fold features a ring of six-pointed "Jewish" stars. Also as I mentioned before, the formation had placed itself beside the remains of Boxley Abbey, which became important historically for its association with the Cistercian Monastic Order's cult worship of the Virgin Mary. So have we been dropped a very large hint here with regards to confirming the imminent "Second Coming", or what many like to interpret as being, the spiritual birth of the "Christ Consciousness"?


Diagram of Boxley
© G.Tucker

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