Fulfilling a Meaning and Purpose
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 01/07/2026
PLANETARY ALIGNMENTS AND THE SOLAR CYCLE: This week, Jupiter and Venus are on opposite sides of the sun. To some researchers, this geometry is more than a celestial coincidence. A small but persistent body of research suggests that planetary alignments help regulate solar activity.
“A decade ago, I set out to to find a viable mechanism by which the solar cycle could be synchronised by tidal forces of the planets,” says Frank Stefani, a physicist at the HZDR national research center in Germany. “These forces are known to be very small, yet we have developed a model that shows remarkable agreement with observed solar activity.”
This is a controversial topic. Some researchers, like Stefani, have focused their careers on it, while others are vehemently opposed. The idea refuses to go away mainly because Jupiter, Venus, and Earth form repeating alignment patterns with a characteristic period near 11 years, similar to the average length of the sunspot cycle. Coincidence–or something more?
Mainstream solar physics holds that the tides of Venus and Jupiter are too weak to affect solar activity. Jupiter’s tides on Earth are a million times weaker than the Moon’s tides, and Venus’s tides are even weaker than Jupiter’s. How could these absurdly small forces affect the sun?
A 2019 study led by Stefani suggested a way: The sun’s inner magnetic dynamo is exquisitely sensitive to external perturbations (“parametric resonances”). Regular “taps” from planetary tides could nudge the dynamo into an 11-year pattern like a metronome keeping a piano player on time.
Critics note that convective noise in the sun’s interior (pictured right) dwarfs tidal stresses. Yet the coincidences are hard to ignore.
Stefani’s more recent work focuses on magneto-Rossby waves in the solar dynamo. “Our latest model shows that the natural periods of these waves fit amazingly well to the two-planet spring tides of Venus, Earth, and Jupiter: 118 days for Venus-Jupiter, 199 days for Earth-Jupiter, and 292 days for Venus-Earth.”
These spring tides do not cause the solar cycle, clarifies Stefani. They help synchronize it. Tidal beat-periods match several well-known cycles of solar activity including the famous Schwabe cycle of 11 years, a Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) of 1.7 years, and the Suess-de Vries cycle of 193 years (plus two Gleissberg cycles at 90 and 58 years).
Again, critics have a counterargument: With so many cycles and harmonics to play with, you can always find a match. Indeed, this may be true.
But Stefani has a prediction: “The present alignment is happening only 40 to 60 days before the expected peak of a Quasi-Biennial Oscillation. If the alignment excites magneto-Rossby waves as our model predicts, we might expect a higher probability of strong solar activity 40 to 60 days from now.”
That’s science. Stay tuned for a follow-up story in two months.
Realtime Space Weather Photo Gallery
GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH (G1): Minor G1-class geomagnetic storms re possible on Jan. 9th when a co-rotating interaction region (CIR) is expected to hit Earth. CIRs are plasma pile-ups between fast and slow-moving streams of solar wind. They act like mini-CMEs, often doing a good job of sparking Arctic auroras.
Co-Rotating Interactive Regions (CIRs)
A Corotating Interaction Region (CIR) is a large-scale, recurrent structure in the solar wind where fast streams, often from coronal holes, catch up to and compress slower streams, creating a compressed plasma boundary that rotates with the Sun. These boundaries are marked by increased density, magnetic field strength, and solar wind velocity, and can develop into shock waves (forward/reverse shocks), influencing space weather, accelerating particles, and causing geomagnetic effects at Earth. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)
When the CME reaches Earth, the sum of the 2 can be greater than their parts. (The Elders said, “Sometimes the only cure for a shock, is a greater shock.”)
THE SUN TODAY
Active Sunspot 4336 will be moving into position for a geoeffective X-class Solar Flare the same Day the CIR shock wave hits Earth, Jan 09, 2026.
Daily Sun: 07 Jan 26
Sunspot 4336 has a ‘beta-gamma-delta’ magnetic field that harbors energy for X-class solar flares. Credit: NASA/SDO
Coronal Holes: 07 Jan 26
Solar wind flowing from this northern coronal hole should reach Earth on Jan. 10. Credit: NASA/SDO | more data
Mayan Calendar Time and Synchronicity
By the Light of the Wolf Full Moon our Ancestors found safety in numbers, keeping watch through the night, and tending the Fire at the center of a circle. God knows the wolves are howling for Love, the same as our heart is howling for the Spark that sets our Life on Fire.
11 Serpent/CHICCHAN is a spark of the Highest Order, on a whole new wave-length of Love. CHICCHAN is a Quickening of Spirit the Maya call “lightning in the blood.” CHICCHAN is the Yod, and Physical and Spiritual Experience all-in-one. The Force of the Light is an Epiphany that comes with the Jolt of a Shock wave. When the “X” reaches the Center of the Sun, a greater shock could follow.
THE TRECENA OF EAGLE/MEN: ASCENDING TO A HIGHER PERSPECTIVE
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.
1 EAGLE/MEN IN THE 4TH SEASON: 1 Wisdom/CIB begins the 4th Season of the Tzolk’in – VOLUME 2: Tzolk’in Seasons 3 and 4 (PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 20, 2020)
If you are just starting to count the days you can look to see the Mayan dates for major life experiences to understand the meaning of a Truth that came before. The Daykeeper Resources page offers a library of free resources to count the Time.
11 Serpent/CHICCHAN (Cherokee, Serpent/DO’TSI) – Day 11 of 13 of the 1 Eagle/MEN trecena
Descriptions by Ian Xel Lungold (12 Sun/AHAU), wisdom and Tzolk’in calculator preserved on MayanMajix.com
Galactic Tone 11: Resolution; 11 assists every new thing to find its place in the universe in the process of ‘fitting in’ some modifications must occur. Eleven is the energy of dynamic actions facilitating change, simplification and improvement.
Serpent/CHICCHAN: Movement and the creation of time. Sensual and dramatic, this sun sign embodies intense instinctual wisdom and creates a connection from Earth bound, to Heavenly aspirations. By sincere service to others, Serpent opens and expands its heart. Serpent aligns authority and the truth to bring justice that is quick and sure. Serpents are very adaptable, even fluid until trapped in a corner, and then they explode. Serpents, venomous temper poisons itself as well as others by creating resentful, suppressive and even destructive attitudes.
A GOOD DAY TO: Pray for fluidity and flexibility.
Cherokee, Serpent/DO’TSI VK: Serpent’s symbol is Constellation Serpens. Serpent people are Sky people who come to earth periodically as Educators. As above-So below, on Earth the Serpent is the roots of the tree of knowledge. Serpent power is vital energy, the moving force, the instinct and desire for creativity, the trigger that sets off the action. It lights the fuse that magnifies and explodes the life force itself. Knowledge, combining science, technology and psychology, plus spirituality are seeded on the planet.
[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]
