Part 1
Crop circles are unquestionably one of the most spectacular art forms we’re ever likely to encounter. Their beauty continues to astound and the circles that graced our fields during the 2008 season were amongst the best we’ve ever seen. Not only were we confronted with a continuing rash of mathematical and symbolic complexity, these beauties arrived during a year of renewed enthusiasm for researchers and “croppies” alike. Throughout the season there was a real sense of the positive around which thankfully meant that mischievous hoaxes this year were rarely encountered.
The season opened on the 19th of April with a beautiful toroidal-shaped formation in oilseed rape. Its magnificent swirling crescents provided us with a feeling of movement as it majestically sat upon Waden Hill, that’s close to the village of Avebury in Wiltshire. Two more rape formations that followed continued with more of these eye-catching crescents, culminating in a breathtaking circle in Barley that measured a staggering 630 ft or so across.
Around a week later on the 1st of June the second Barley formation of the season was to provide us with one of the most exciting and puzzling events to arrive so far. It had so many layers of information hidden inside and was based on seven, nine, ten and Pi in a very intriguing way. Mathematical codes within geometric patterns have long been an important factor in crop formations and this outstanding event certainly proved once again that there has to be an exceptional intelligence behind this phenomenon.
Leaving many perplexed and stunned by its ingenuity, Michael Reed a retired US astrophysicist, started to unravel its complexity at www.cropcircleconnector.com and on www.earthfiles.com.
“The ratcheting arcs starting at the centre and proceeding outwards express Pi as increments of a circle divided into tenths, or 36 degrees. If you proceed outward from the centre, the multiples of 1/10 of a rotation (including the small circle as a decimal) are 3.141592654…” (Although this might appear complicated at first, it does make perfect sense if taken step by step.)
The bold line that you can see to the right of the overhead photograph is in fact a public footpath. It crosses right through one side of the formation and allows you to view it up-close without worrying about having the farmer’s permission! In having the whole area of the field to choose from though why is it that “The Circlemakers” made use of the path-line to touch upon the circle just inside the formation? The answer happens to be quite a simple one…for they were obviously drawing our attention to a geometric construction that’s known as “Squaring the Circle”, which commonly provides us with an Earth to Moon ratio. Its presence here though provided us with a key to many more startling revelations that unfortunately are beyond this review.
With all other counties seemingly not getting a look in this season, Wiltshire was blessed with some of the finest it’s ever seen. The central part of this intriguing design reflects the Jewish Kabala.
Traditionally the Summer Solstice is celebrated on June 21st but what less is known is that often by means of a true correction it can arrive either side of that date. This year it fell on the 20th and qualified for being the earliest in more than a century.
This beautiful design in Barley that was surrounded by small semicircles, symbolically expressed yin/yang and infinity symbolism…And so it would seem that on a day that winter and summer are at one here we have a Solstice formation that spells out a simple message of oneness.
Those that visited this formation were well impressed for they were greeted with an exquisite lay. Consisting of many tight swirls and eddies many took note of the seed heads which were amazingly bent into banana shapes!
Discovered close to the Avebury Stone Circle this multi-ringed circle was identified as a diagram of our Solar System. It depicts the position of the Planets on or around December 21st 2012…Which is as many of you know, commonly regarded as being the end of the Mayan Long Count Calendar. Quite a number of Crop Circles in recent years have appeared to be symbolically related to these old Mayan prophesies, which many have come to believe signify an impending shift in human consciousness.
Word quickly spread regarding the special significance attached to this formation and as a result it attracted the “World and his Wife” to it! Because hundreds of visitors flocked to see the circle this really upset the farmer and in temper he gouged out several pathways that did no more than impressively vandalise its middle bit. But then surprise, surprise...several nights later the field was later revisited. A huge ring appeared along with several strange glyphs and some odd looking patterns. Amazingly the centre of the original formation that the farmer had tried to destroy was not only enlarged but also re-laid! Could it be that this was an attempt by “The Circlemakers” to further ratify the powerful significance behind its original message?
Graham Tucker © 2009
End notes
• The video still shot of the “West Woods Light Show” used by kind permission of Andy Folds. For further details of this extraordinary event visit the Kent site at: www.medwaycropcircle.co.uk
•• All other photographs used by kind permission of Steve Alexander © 2007.Steve is a professional crop circle photographer who produces a beautiful yearbook illustrating the season's events. Details to be found on his homepage at: http://www.temporarytemples.co.uk