The flare’s extreme ultraviolet flash. Credit: SOHO
A Legacy of Truth and Light
The Nov. 4, 2003, flare occurred during the declining phase of Solar Cycle 23. Twenty-two years later, we are near the same point in Solar Cycle 25. The downslopes of solar cycles are prime time for big explosions. No one knows why, but it’s true.
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 11/04/2025
THE STRONGEST SOLAR FLARE OF THE SPACE AGE: Twenty-two years ago today, the sun unleashed the strongest solar flare of the Space Age. The underlying sunspot was not facing Earth; otherwise we might have experienced a new Carrington Event. Instead, the debris flew harmlessly off the sun’s western limb:
The Carrington Event (Sep 1, 1849) studies suggest values near X-45, although some estimates go as high as an X-80 Class Flare
The explosion on Nov. 4, 2003, was so intense that, at first, no one knew how strong it was. X-ray detectors onboard GOES satellites were saturated for 11 minutes. This clipped the readings at X17.4, but clearly it was stronger. Shortwave radios in North America went silent as the continent experienced a deep radio blackout–a hint at the flare’s true severity.
Eventually, researchers figured it out. Our personal favorite estimate comes from this paper, which describes how Earth’s ionosphere was used as a giant solar flare detector. Their answer, X45, has been confirmed by other studies.
This puts it in the same ballpark as the Carrington Event. There were no X-ray detectors in the 19th century, so researchers have to use indirect methods to guess the intensity of Carrington’s flare on Sept. 1, 1859. Studies of auroras, ice cores, and magnetic disturbances suggest values near X45, although some estimates go as high as X80.
Now for the interesting part: The Nov. 4, 2003, flare occurred during the declining phase of Solar Cycle 23. Twenty-two years later, we are near the same point in Solar Cycle 25. As any good space weather forecaster will tell you, the downslopes of solar cycles are prime time for big explosions. No one knows why, but it’s true.
In conclusion, don’t be surprised if it happens again.
Realtime Space Weather Photo Gallery
GEOMAGNETIC STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS WEEK: Yesterday, a magnificent CME billowed away from the sun’s eastern limb. A glancing blow from that CME combined with influences from an incoming solar wind stream could cause G1/G2 geomagnetic storms on Nov. 6th and 7th.
NOTE: Recent flares originated from the emerging Eastern limb of the Sun. In another 3 Days (11/7/2025) the emerging Sunspot could arrive near the Western limb, where Flares are earth-directed by the currents created by the Sun’s rotation as revealed by the Parker Solar Probe.
Mayan Calendar Time and Synchronicity
12 Crocodile/IMIX represents the Light of Human’s Understanding. The Truth is a Divine Communion shared by the One Above. A Divine Creator raises every Question of Love. When it touches our Heart, we know a Place where our Heart is “home” – covered under the Wing of the Almighty One.
Human Understanding is the Wisdom that follows the Creator’s Light, as Truth we learned by an experience that happened before.
THE TRECENA OF DOG/OC: THE DOG’S TREASURE OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
MAYAN CALENDAR DAYKEEPER’S JOURNAL
12 Crocodile/IMIX (ee meesh), Cherokee, Cherokee, Turtle/DAK’SI I’SB, Destiny Kin 181, Position 1
November 4, 2025, 11/04/2025; Rounds Before: 02/17/2025, 06/02/2024
THE TRECENA OF DOG/OC: THE CREATION OF LOVE
Visit the 13-Day Trecena Guide Page for the “Tzolk’in Field Guide: A Daily Practice for Personal Discernment.” My gift for the Tzolk’in round offers an overview for each 13-day trecena and the aspects of each day of the Tzolk’in round. The page also offers a link to resources for your own practice of counting the days to conceive your own discernment of the Meaning of Time.
The Dog/OC trecena is found in the 3rd Season of the Tzolk’in Guide:
VOLUME 2: Tzolk’in Seasons 3 and 4 (PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 20, 2020)
NOTE: If you haven’t kept a Journal of your Count of Days, you can look for the Synchronicity of Time in the major experiences of your life.
12 Crocodile/IMIX (Cherokee, Turtle/DAK’SI I’SB) – Day 12 of 13 of the 1 Dog/OC trecena
Descriptions by Ian Xel Lungold (12 Sun/AHAU), wisdom and Free Tzolk’in calculator preserved on MayanMajix.com
Galactic Tone 12: Twelve is a gift of great capacity of retrospection. It is this ability that allows Twelve to connect disassociated parts into a (new) functioning whole. The energy of Twelve is that which presents a new piece of understood information or accumulated experience to be applied.
Crocodile/IMIX: Crocodile receives messages of primal creative force; simply the beginning of all things. Crocodiles who follow their hearts are seen as genius. There is no order to the primal messages, so Crocodile persons should direct their energies toward practical and cooperative efforts to bring productive results. Crocodiles have a strong nurturing energy and will work hard to provide security to family and friends. Being extremely territorial, Crocodiles must watch not to be over protective or too dominating. While in these states, Crocodiles are insecure, indecisive and emotionally volatile.
A GOOD DAY TO: Open to new beginnings.
Cherokee Turtle/ DAK’SI I’SB: Turtle Island; direction East. The Turtle Constellation Orion, one of three stars in the Cosmic Egg. In Mayan is the Cosmic Hearth. Turtle is the Energy of Creative force at the one-on-one, personal level; dawn, awakening, birth. The beginning of each new era, this star in Orion appears with the rising Sun, heralding the creation of a new World cycle. Totem-Dragon. The energy to understand all things sacred; creation energy, connection for visions, to learn the mysteries of the Universal Knowledge. The dragon carries the source energy of life, revered in ancient cultures for power and wisdom.
[Text in italics was the primary source of inspiration for my journal. These are the sources that started my journey and they are the reference for interpretation each day. By providing the original text, I hope to offer a way to see what inspired my thoughts and by including all the aspects – allow for something more to inspire you. Mayan descriptions are those written by Ian Lungold. Cherokee descriptions came from multiple sources. Links to sources and other resources of study are offered on the Daykeeper Resources Page. ~Debra]
