The Dark Star: The Planet X Evidence (23 page)

To explain the consequences of this, it might help to create a
model in our minds. Let us imagine ourselves to be standing in the centre of a
large field. The field is circumnavigated by a curving road, reaching its
closest point directly in front of us at the gate. One can readily imagine a
car traveling around the field from left to right. We could watch its motion
and confirm that it was moving in a clockwise direction from our point of view.

Let us imagine that a fairground is coming to town today, and that
various vehicles carrying the fairground rides are traveling along the road,
left to right. We might wave at the drivers as they pass the gate. One of the
big trucks is carrying one of those spinning rides which people stand in and
are held against the sides by centrifugal force. It looks like half a hat box
and sits squarely on top of the truck.

This spinning ride is so big that its outer edge hangs over the
hedge of our field. The fairground people must have been in a hurry today
because they left the brake of the ride off, and as a result it has started
spinning in the wind, whilst atop the truck. It is spinning around in a clockwise
manner, in the same way as the truck is moving clockwise around the road.

Whenever trucks have over-sized loads they place a red piece of
cloth, or flag, at the most extreme point, to make sure that other road-users
don't accidentally knock into it. Today is no exception. The driver of the
truck has attached a red flag to our spinning fairground ride, and so it is
also moving around the truck clockwise.

Standing in the centre of our field, we watch the truck slowly
drive around us. The fairground ride is turning on top of it, which we can see
because the sides of the ride are visibly moving. During every revolution the
attached red flag also appears.

We focus our attention on the red flag. We can only see it when it
spins around along the nearside of the truck, and this happens to be where the
over-sized fairground ride overhangs the hedge of our field. For a short while
during each revolution of the ride the red flag seems to move into our field,
and seems to be moving right to left.

This is how Nibiru appears to us, like the red flag. We only see
it when it enters our field; our planetary solar system. Because it is
revolving clockwise around a central point on the truck, we see it moving only
in reverse, even though the truck, or Dark Star system, is actually moving
forward along the road at the same time.

The result is that, although the Dark Star and its outermost
planet are actually moving pro-grade, from the point of view of an observer on
Earth, the outermost planet is seen to move retrograde across the sky. This
explains a long-standing anomaly.

Nibiru's Apparent Transit

I contend that the outermost planet of the Dark Star system is
Nibiru and that it is seen from Earth as a planetary comet, moving backwards
through the sky. I don't think it moves into our system anywhere as close as
the Asteroid Belt, though. It would be too readily perturbed by the sun's
gravity. But I am sure that it would be visible even beyond Jupiter, because of
the massive shedding of some of its volatile surface ices; it would act as a
massive comet even at a great distance from the sun.

This might be the case under normal conditions in the solar
system, but I don't consider the perihelion transit of the Dark Star to be
anything like normal. Although the Dark Star remains at a significant distance
from the sun, it must still cross the Heliopause, the magnetic boundary of the
solar system. I believe that such a transit has an affect on the sun,
increasing its activity and leading to a greater intensity of magnetic storms.

These would increase the bombardment of the solar system with
charged particles, bringing about a greater visible 'tail' for the cometary
Nibiru. This is speculation, of course, because we don't really have any idea
what happens when brown dwarfs cross in and out of Solar magnetic fields. But
we should remember how active those brown dwarfs can be magnetically, and
imagine the consequences.

Its perihelion distance will vary over different passages, as its
own orbit around the Dark Star coincides with the perihelion passage of the
system as a whole (so my view here is necessarily 'ball-park'). On occasion,
there will be an exact juxtaposition between its own perihelion and that of the
Dark Star, along a line of sight from the sun. Other times, it will be on the
other side of the Dark Star during the exact moment of binary perihelion. So,
the timing of Nibiru will necessarily vary over the ages, as will its sky
position and relative brilliance. Perhaps this is why there are so many
unknowns about the transitory appearance of this body.

Another important detail is the fact that Nibiru is not seen to
swing around the sun. It seems to come towards the sun and then quickly
recedes, without traversing a large portion of the sky. This explains the weird
set of constellations it moved through (which probably vary between different
transits anyway), and also the short period of time that Nibiru can be seen.

Even though the Dark Star may take literally hundreds of years to
traverse perihelion, the time that Nibiru is observable from Earth is likely to
be short; perhaps a matter of weeks or months. I suppose it's possible that
there may even be more than one visible transit during a total binary
perihelion. Either way, this scenario opens up a number of new possibilities.

The idea that one of the Dark Star's planets is our 'Planet X' has
been suggested to me by a couple of people before, most notably John Lee. At
the time, I was mildly skeptical because it seemed unlikely to me that a small
brown dwarf would be able to maintain a planetary system at such a distance; I
am suggesting here that Nibiru may be orbiting at about 50AU from the Dark Star
(and this may vary as well, if its own orbit is elliptical around the binary
parent). But a recent precedent was discovered in the form of a large planet
imaged at a similar distance from a free-floating brown dwarf known to
astronomers as '1207'.
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So it's not difficult to extrapolate a
similar situation for our binary Dark Star, with Nibiru as the accompanying
planet.

The '12th' Planet

This finding has turned my thinking around. It presents us with
the potential for a 3-body solution to the orbital configuration. Also, instead
of one Planet X body, we now essentially have 3 notables; the Dark Star and two
major planets orbiting it (the other 5 appear to be minor bodies). Those two
notables are Nibiru at ~50AU distance, and the Homeworld much closer to the
Dark Star itself. Add these bodies to the 9 known planets to the solar system
brings us to 12 planets, which seems closer to the Sumerian 12th Planet
scenario than Sitchin himself!

The 'Ferry'

Other aspects of the myth surrounding Nibiru become more
understandable with this hypothesis. In their classic book "Hamlet's
Mill", Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend explored the mysterious
nature of 'Nibiru' in 1969, and showed that, at that time, no scholarly theory
adequately explained its celestial nature. Not much has changed since then,
except Sitchin's books of course. Here's what Santillana and von Dechend had to
say about what the name Nibiru actually means:

“The plain meaning of 'nibiru' is 'ferry, ferryman, ford' - 'mikis
nibiri' is the toll one has to pay for crossing the river - from eberu 'to
cross'".
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The 'Planet of the Crossing' is thus a ferry of sorts. This has
made little sense up until now, because the implication is that Nibiru takes
travelers onto another place. That place was never defined by Sitchin, who
insisted that Nibiru was itself the home-world of the Anunnaki; the gods of
ancient Mesopotamia. Yet with our new insight, the meaning behind the name
'ferry' becomes crystal clear.

The transit of the Dark Star around the sun at perihelion is still
a very remote event. At its closest, the Dark Star is still twice as far away
as Pluto. To rendezvous with the Dark Star would take many years of space
travel, with the risk of missing an object too remote to observe.

Yet, Nibiru acts as an intermediary. It swoops into the planetary
solar system, and then returns to the comet clouds. It would provide space
travelers with the ideal stepping stone to the Dark Star. It literally acts as
a ferry.

There may be other symbolic overtones to this. If the Anunnaki are
physical gods, then their Homeworld is mythological Heaven. It is very similar
to Earth ('as in Heaven, so on Earth', 'As Above, so Below', etc.). The myth of
the Ferryman coming to collect the dead to take them to the Underworld could
have new meaning, in the light of this new hypothesis. This idea works on both
a physical and a metaphorical level.

Another vexing issue with Sitchin's model is the fact that Nibiru
is said to move through the heavens at a 30 degree angle to the ecliptic,
nearly twice that of Pluto. Yet, a sizable planet moving through the planetary
solar system at such an extreme angle to the plane of the other planets would
cause chaos over time to their orbits. This is called the Kozai effect, which
has become a huge headache for me in recent years.

Again, this new hypothesis allows us to circumvent this problem,
in that the Dark Star does not actually move through the planetary solar system
at all. However, Nibiru, its outlying planet, does - and Sitchin seems
reasonably clear about its angle of inclination from the texts and scholarly
work he has studied. How do we explain this?

It seems likely that the inner planets of each of the binary stars
(the sun and Dark Star) should be as they were created; relatively flat to the
plane of the initial proto-planetary disc. Billions of years of interaction
between the peripheries of these estranged systems, however, will have lead to
chaos and perturbation among some of their outer planets. In the sun's case
Pluto is clearly perturbed, as are many of the bodies recently discovered
beyond it. So it seems likely that Nibiru is similarly affected, along with any
of the Dark Star's own retinue of comets in its locale.

In the analogy used in this chapter, we can imagine that our Dark
Star fairground ride is experiencing further mechanical difficulties. Not only
is the ride spinning around in the wind, but the hydraulic arm has now engaged
and has lifted the spinning ride so that it no longer sits on the flat bed of
the truck. Instead, it is held at an angle of about 30 degrees, with the ride
spinning around the angulated axis. As we look at the red flag (signifying
Nibiru) spin around, we see it subtend an angle to the top surface of the hedge
at the edge of the field.

To all intents and purposes, an observer watching the movement of
the red flag who was unable to see the rest of the Dark Star truck and its
spinning ride, could be forgiven for thinking that the flag was moving in such
an odd way that it could not be attached to something that was simply traveling
down the road. Yet it is.

In astronomical terms, this means that Nibiru's visible arc across
the sky could very well be seen to transit at a relatively steep inclination,
reflecting this 30 degree angle to the ecliptic. Yet, the binary Dark Star may
still move along a path more in keeping with the sun's other planets.

The upshot of this is that we can predict little about the Dark
Star's actual location from the reported transit of Nibiru. This has always
been my gut-feeling anyway. I tend to think that the Dark Star lies close to
the ecliptic, and still favour the area in the vicinity of Sagittarius as its
current location (near to its recent aphelion). This is because the actual
'line-of-sight' perihelion is the Duat region, around Sirius and Orion.
Sagittarius is opposite this region on the ecliptic.

But this is only my opinion. Others differ. If my hypothesis here
is correct, then detailed efforts to deduce the whereabouts of the sun's binary
companion and its own system of planets are almost bound to fail. There are
simply too many complicating factors at play.