Exact timing of Winter Solstice 2012

[Anchor]

Here you go:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=December+solstice+2012&iso=20121221T1112&sort=2

I was interested to know the exact time of the absolute moment of the solstice so I can organize myself to be in a quiet place. For me its 10.12pm tomorrow, so that should be easy to arrange.

This is more important to me than Christmas ;)

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(Source of information: http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/december-solstice.html )


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Later on in this thread, the time is suggested as 11 mins past the hour and not 12 minutes past as the website I used suggested. So if you are going to be in silent contemplation/mediation during this time, you may want to start tuning up on the hour and give it a good period of time either side.

[Soul Safari]

11.12 AM

London UK.

[Hermite]

6:12 a.m., Eastern Time zone, for North America. Just about 24 hours from now.

[Kryztian]

Anchor - make that 10:11 your time. Originally, the U.S. Naval Observatory listed the solstice as 11:11 UT (Universal Time, the time in London UK). Well numerologists really liked that number, especially when the Solstice combined with the last day of the Mayan calendar. Then, mysteriously, that moved it up by a minute, 11:12 UT. A lot of people questioned why, but an explanation was never given. Apparently some people feel they control the very nature of time and don't have to answer to the rest of us.

So everyone, just change the last to digits of the time to "11" from "12" and you will have the true solstice time.

[Tony]

It's all one to me.



The Guardian.
One doesn't have to be a Mayan to believe that 21.12.2012 represents a numerological end of an era.
Apocalyptic visions stem from reading the Mesoamerican long count calendar.
But even in the Gregorian calendar, there's something special about 20.12.2012.

It's one of those dates where the digits create interesting patterns. It also comes at the end of 13 years
that have been astonishingly fertile for such numerologically "magic" dates.
The rest of the century is going to be a desert by comparison.

Dates can be aesthetically attractive because they repeat a number several times (eg 12.12.12)
or contain a string of successive numbers (eg 10.11.12) or because they are palindromes (eg 01.1.10),
where you get the same date if you run the numbers backwards.

The beauty of these numbers is in the eye of the beholder.
There can be no consensus over what constitutes a date that has numerological significance.
But one way of shedding light on the situation is to look at different formats.

First up is the series that runs from 1.1.1 to 2.2.2 and all the way up to 12.12.12.
There are only 12 members of this series because there are only 12 months in the year.
This feature of the Gregorian Calendar is the main reason why the magic number boom is about to end.
We will have to wait 88 years, until 1 January 2101, before we get the next one.

With three members of this series, it is also possible to add a time of day to make the date even more
magical: 10.10.10 10.10am (or pm); 11.11.11 11.11am; and 12.12.12,12.12am.
The middle one – containing 10 1s in a row – is exceptional.

Next, comes the series that starts with 1.1.11 and ends with 9.9.99.
There are nine members in this series, one every decade. The next one is just over nine years away.

Then we have 11.1.11 and 22.2.22. There are just two members of this series because of another feature
of the Gregorian calendar: no month has more than 31 days, so you can't get 33.3.33.
The next member of this series is nine years away – and then emptiness.

Where you put the dots also matters. 1.11.1, 11.11.1, 1.11.11 are all beauties. But there are, sadly,
no more of this type until the next century.

There are 12 dates in the series of which 20.12.2012 is a member – using the European convention
that puts the day before the month rather than the American convention that reverses the order.
Others include 20.01.2001, 20.02.2002, and 20.09.2009. The last in this series in this century is 20.12.2002.
We have to wait 88 years until 21.01.2101 for the next one.

And then there are the palindromes: 01.1.10, 02.2.20 and the rest up to 09.9.90 are really beautiful.
The second member of the series can also be written as 02.02.2020 – another great palindrome.
Given this double dose of magic, it is worth putting a reminder in the diary for 2 February 2020.

22.02.2022 is another good palindrome, the only member of its series – unless you want to go back more
than 900 years to when Henry I was king of England. It too is magical twice over – as February 22 2022 can also be written as 22.2.22.

Then there are dates that contain a string of successive numbers. These include the series: 1.2.3, 2.3.4, and 5.6.7 …
The best three, which I count as magical, are: 1.2.3, 10.11.12 and 11.12.13. Set your watch to a quarter past two
on 11 December next year: 11.12.13 14.15pm. It's the last really magical number of this decade.

Below is an appendix that lists all the numbers I think make the grade. I reckon there are a total of 68 magical dates
in the 21st century, using the convention that the century began on 1 January 2000 rather than 1 January 2001.
By the end of 20.12.2012, 43 of these will have passed – an average of just over three a year. There are only 25 left in the next 87 years.

What this means is that the incidence of magic number dates so far this century has been 12 times greater than it
will be in the remainder of the century. Unless one is superstitious, there is nothing much one can do with a magic number
date apart from admire its beauty. But that's not to sniffed at. Let's cherish 20.12.2012. It's almost the end of an era.

Appendix – full list of magic dates in chronological order, grouped decade by decade

1.1.00, 2.1.0, 1.1.1, 10.1.01, 11.1.1, 20.01.2001, 3.2.1, 1.11.1, 11.11.1, 2.2.2, 20.02.2002, 20.2.02*, 22.2.2, 1.2.3, 3.3.3,
20.03.2003, 30.3.03, 4.4.4, 20.04.2004, 5.5.5, 20.05.2005, 6.6.6, 20.06.2006, 7.7.7, 20.07.2007, 8.8.8, 20.08.2008, 9.9.9, 20.09.2009.

01.1.10, 01.2.10, 3.2.10, 10.10.10, 20.10.2010, 01.11.10, 1.1.11, 11.1.11, 1.11.11, 11.11.11, 20.11.2011, 1.2.12, 10.11.12,
12.12.12,20.12.2012, 11.12.13 at 14.15pm.

02.2.20, 02.02.2020*, 02.22.20, 4.3.21, 12.3.21, 1.1.22, 2.2.22, 22.2.22, 22.02.2022*.

03.3.30, 3.3.33, 1.2.34.

04.4.40, 6.5.43 at 2.10am, 4.4.44.

05.5.50, 7.6.54 at 3.21am, 5.5.55.

06.6.60, 6.6.66.

07.7.70, 7.7.77.

08.8.80, 8.8.88.

09.9.90, 9.9.99.

* Same date but different format as previous entry

Hugo Dixon is the founder and editor of Reuters Breakingviews

[Anchor]

Anchor - make that 10:11 your time. Originally, the U.S. Naval Observatory listed the solstice as 11:11 UT (Universal Time, the time in London UK). Well numerologists really liked that number, especially when the Solstice combined with the last day of the Mayan calendar. Then, mysteriously, that moved it up by a minute, 11:12 UT. A lot of people questioned why, but an explanation was never given. Apparently some people feel they control the very nature of time and don't have to answer to the rest of us.

So everyone, just change the last to digits of the time to "11" from "12" and you will have the true solstice time.

Thanks, I'll be in the zone for at least 10 mins, 5 either side, so I'll catch it either way.

I'll look forward to sharing the energies with all those who are there, and in service to all.

[Marianne]

5:12 AM
Central Standard Time North America

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Update, 5:11 AM CST

[4evrneo]

4:12 AM in Phoenix, AZ. MST

Good grief its going to be cold outside :)

[MorningSong]

Wow! Here in Italy it'll be 12:12pm 21-12-12....a string of 3's ... 5 of them... hmmm... I'd better be careful. lol

[Carmody]

I'll be sleeping my way through it.

Wake me if the world ends.....

(I'll probably go astral or what not, so no missing it regardless)

[Wind]

http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/maya

[Deborah (ahamkara)]

Thanks, Anchor! It's 3 am or so on the West coast, so I will wake myself an hour or so before. I feel a silent meditation at that time of the morning should be interesting!

[Rocky_Shorz]

that's about 11 hours from now...

I'll be sleeping at 3:11 in the morning...


we're all more Powerful in our dreams...


see y'all on the other side!!!

[Rocky_Shorz]

so I'm curious, why is the Equinox 11:11 on Queen's London time? UTC

did the Mayans universe revolved around her?


just saying... ;)

[ghostrider]

5:12 am, yeah early birdie, I freakin love fridays anyhoo .. My vacation starts at 5:01 pm , off for nine days . yeah yeah yeah, whoo hoo ...

[Positive Vibe Merchant]

10:12 pm here also..

Decisions, decisions.... Do I go out and wipe myself out on sex, drugs, and rock and or roll, or do I stay home and meditate on the answers that will come in this moment... hmm...

:P

[Keltikmuse]

Go for wild sex and all the other good stuff.........

[Chris Gilbert]

Very useful, thanks for posting this Anchor. :)

[DeDukshyn]

PST 3:11 pm (west coast NA)
MST 4:11 PM (Alberta, Colorado, etc)

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Go for wild sex and all the other good stuff.........

interestingly enough, I have already read a few posts on other threads of some who are planning on this! Sounds like fun to me! ;) ;)

[Taurean]

Hmm, some authorities have been stating that it occurs at 12 mins past the hour in an effort to downplay the Numerology effect.


Although the exact time of the solstice this year - when the Earth's axial tilt is farthest away from the sun - is at 11:11 GMT, English Heritage will be providing access to the stones earlier in the morning.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-20797129

[Rocky_Shorz]

Hmm, some authorities have been stating that it occurs at 12 mins past the hour in an effort to downplay the Numerology effect.


Although the exact time of the solstice this year - when the Earth's axial tilt is farthest away from the sun - is at 11:11 GMT, English Heritage will be providing access to the stones earlier in the morning.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-20797129

anyone going to Stonehenge?

any live real time cameras?

8 Hours until the meaning of all of the stone circles become clear...

The Pyramids...

all aligned to this moment...

[D-Day]

It'll be at 9:12 pm for me here in Brisbane (SE Qld - Aus).

I hope to be fully immersed into a deep state of meditative awareness at that time.

The plan is to focus my intention on becoming an antenna/receiver for whatever energetic frequencies are being direced towards us at the time.

I have been feeling the intense energetic buidup of the solstice that is now almost upon us since early December.

... powerful stuff!!

Should make for an interesting experience tonight......

[enfoldedblue]

Funny yesterday I looked it up and it seemed I read 11:11 here in NSW...brain or reality glitch!