Part 6: The Perfect Solar Storm - A Global Event
September 1st, 1859: The Carrington Event and odds of it happening again?
What would happen if there was a “Perfect Solar Storm”?
Modern-Day “Idols” & Technological “Necessities”
In today’s modern high-technology world of mobile phones, tablets, laptops, smart sensors, smart power meters, smart power stations, smart cars, auto-drivers, auto-pilots, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), financial systems, healthcare systems, and Internet of Things/Bodies (IoT/IoB), mankind is extremely dependent upon telecommunication networks, applications, and appliances which all can be disrupted (i.e.: “electronically zapped”) by space weather, especially by a perfect solar storm.
Extreme space-weather events — intense solar and geomagnetic storms — have occurred in the past: most recently in 1859, 1921 and 1989. So scientists expect that, sooner or later, another extremely intense space weather event will strike Earth again. Such storms have the potential to cause widespread interference with and damage to technological systems. A National Academy of Sciences study projects that an extreme space-weather event could end up costing the American economy more than $1 trillion.1
Critical infrastructure such as cell towers, broadband hubs, switches, multiplexers, network time servers, gateways, etc. are often taken for granted. These critical infrastructure appliances fill our data centers, our cities, our nation-states, and link Big Tech, Big Pharma, and global governments. Our communications, transportation, automation, surveillance, cloud computing, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, and defense is reliant upon our fleet of satellites and a global mesh network,
…a recent paper estimates potential damage to the 900-plus satellites currently in orbit could cost between $30 billion and $70 billion. The best solution, they say: have a pipeline of comsats [communication satellites] ready for launch.2
Risk Reduction
Astronauts in space would need to quickly find shelter from photons blasted from the sun at ~2000 km/s. The humans on earth would be negatively impacted by:
an immediate disabling of transportation (all auto-pilots, smart cars, etc.)
a collapse in supply-chains,
a loss of telehealth services,
an inability to travel for critical healthcare services (i.e.: emergencies, etc)
Mankind will need to survive without technology until systems can be repaired and services can be re-established which may take weeks, months, to years, depending upon the damage to infrastructure.
“Early Warning Systems”
NASA has launched a fleet of spacecraft to monitor sunspot, solar wind, and coronal mass ejection (CME) activity using Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO), Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), hoping to provide nation-states some warning before another space weather event. None of these things will prevent another perfect solar storm, but they will provide some early warning.3
A Global Phenomenon
Imagine the Aurora Borealis visible over the majority of the globe…. Up until this point we have been looking at an increasing number of sunspots, solar winds, and corona mass ejections (CMEs) due to the 2025 Solar Maximum, however is there a historical record of a global event where the majority of the earth witnessed the phenomenon?
Yes: The Carrington Event - September 1st, 1859,
The largest recorded solar storm,
This resulted in a global Aurora Borealis phenomenon and damaged telegraph systems throughout the world, visible as far south as Cuba and Hawaii. The CME charged up and knocked out the telegraph systems around the world.
What are the odds of another Carrington Event in the near future?
Answer: 10% or greater
Hypothesis: Could planetary alignments influence the sunspots that could lead to a Carrington-level CME?
Answer: There was a planetary alignment on September 1st, 1859 discovered in Stellarium.
Let’s dig in and unpack these questions and answers.
Probability of a Perfect Solar Storm
The following 2012 article was published in Wired Magazine referencing research by space physicist, Pete Riley,
The Earth has a roughly 12 percent chance of experiencing an enormous mega-flare erupting from the sun in the next decade. This event could potentially cause trillions of dollars’ worth of damage and take up to a decade to recover from.
Such an extreme event is considered to be relatively rare. The last gigantic solar storm, known as the Carrington Event, occurred more than 150 years ago and was the most powerful such event in recorded history.
That a rival to this event might have a greater than 10 percent chance of happening in the next 10 years was surprising to space physicist Pete Riley, senior scientist at Predictive Science in San Diego, California, who published the estimate.
Make note this was published in 2012. So the earth is overdue for a major solar storm.
What happened during the Carrington Event of 1859?
At the time of the Carrington event, astronomers did not know that a CME caused the Aurora Borealis. NASA describes the morning of the event,
At 11:18 AM on the cloudless morning of Thursday, September 1, 1859, 33-year-old Richard Carrington—widely acknowledged to be one of England's foremost solar astronomers—was in his well-appointed private observatory. Just as usual on every sunny day, his telescope was projecting an 11-inch-wide image of the sun on a screen, and Carrington skillfully drew the sunspots he saw.4
Note below the sunspot that Carrington drew in 1859 and also note the size of an example sunspot from 2014 in relation to Jupiter and the Earth.
(source: The Sun Today, and Public Domain)5
As Richard Carrington was studying the sunspots, he was nearly blinded by the solar flare that exploded from the sun and resulted in a direct-hit earth-facing CME.
On the morning of 1 September 1859, as Richard C. Carrington was observing sunspots on the solar disk, a particularly large and complex active region destabilized, launching an extremely fast coronal mass ejection toward Earth. A large solar flare ensued, its optical brightness lasting some 5 min and equaling that of the background Sun…
The ejecta propagated rapidly away from the Sun, generating a fast-mode wave ahead of it, which rapidly steepened into a fast-mode forward shock. The shock, traveling in excess of 2000 km s−1 [Cliver et al., 1990] accelerated suprathermal ions in the ambient solar wind to high energies.
As these accelerated particles streamed away from the shock, they excited plasma waves that pitch angle scattered the ions, further accelerating the particles. Some of these energetic ions escaped, traveling ahead of the shock. As they streamed through the heliosphere, they amplified the ambient resonant plasma waves, simultaneously undergoing pitch angle scattering by them. Propagating through an ever-weakening magnetic field, the particles were focused and decelerated. The first particles arrived at the Earth within an hour, although the peak intensity of the particle distribution arrived with the shock, some 17.6 h later [Cliver and Svalgaard, 2004].
The CME and its associated disturbance rammed into the Earth's magnetosphere, generating one of the largest magnetic storms in recorded history [Tsurutani et al., 2003]…
…the 1859 storm holds the record as the largest space weather event in over 400 years [McCracken et al., 2001]. Additionally, since the event occurred only ∼150 years ago, it is a constant reminder that a similar event could reoccur any day.6
(source: NASA)
Testimonies of the “Sky on Fire”
When telegraphs did come back on line, many were filled with vivid accounts of the celestial light show that had been witnessed the night before. Newspapers from France to Australia featured glowing descriptions of brilliant auroras that had turned night into day.
One eyewitness account from a woman on Sullivan’s Island in South Carolina ran in the Charleston Mercury:
“The eastern sky appeared of a blood red color. It seemed brightest exactly in the east, as though the full moon, or rather the sun, were about to rise. It extended almost to the zenith. The whole island was illuminated. The sea reflected the phenomenon, and no one could look at it without thinking of the passage in the Bible which says,
‘the sea was turned to blood.’
The shells on the beach, reflecting light, resembled coals of fire.”
The sky was so crimson that many who saw it believed that neighboring locales were on fire. Americans in the South were particularly startled by the northern lights, which migrated so close to the equator that they were seen in Cuba and Jamaica.
Elsewhere, however, there appeared to be genuine confusion. In Abbeville, South Carolina, masons awoke and began to lay bricks at their job site until they realized the hour and returned to bed. In Bealeton, Virginia, larks were stirred from their sleep at 1 a.m. and began to warble. (Unfortunately for them, a conductor on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad was also awake and shot three of them dead.) In cities across America, people stood in the streets and gazed up at the heavenly pyrotechnics. In Boston, some even caught up on their reading, taking advantage of the celestial fire to peruse the local newspapers.7
Some thought it was the end of the world, others continued with their daily activities, but Richard Carrington saw that the heavenly pyrotechnics were triggered by the solar explosion. But what caused the explosion?
Planetary Alignment on September 1st 1859 - Coincidence?
Referencing our previous articles citing research from Solar System Geometry Survey (SSGEOS) and Kepler’s Third Law of Harmonies, planetary perturbations could cause gravitational forces on planetary objects especially when in alignment. Though forces are relatively small, it would be an interesting exercise to look at possible alignments on September 1st, 1859.
SkyLive.com only goes as far back as 1900 so Stellarium was leveraged with a critical modification. Typically Stellarium shows how the stars would look from earth.
To look for solar alignments the viewer needs to be on the sun to look out at the planets rotating the sun.
The originating viewpoint was switched from Earth to the Sun (note this can be done by selecting the Sun and hitting CNTRL-G or Command-G). Once the viewpoint has been centered on the Sun, and the date is set to September 1st, 1859, two large clusters of planets emerge at 90 degrees from each other.
Sun-Venus-Mars-Saturn Alignment
On September 1st, 1859, the following staggered alignment appears in Stellarium with Venus a few degrees northeast of Mars and Saturn in very close alignment. All three are before the constellation Leo the Lion.
Sun-Mercury-Earth-Neptune
Then 90 degrees from the above conjunction is Sun, Neptune, Mercury, and Earth. All three planets are near Aquarius.
With the sun at the center of the planetary orbits, the two clusters of planetary alignments are ~90 degrees from each other with Jupiter at the pivot point at ~45 degrees… this alignment seems familiar to the alignment found with comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner where again there are three bodies clustered in each group with Jupiter at the pivot point.
Solar Cycle 10 - 1855 to 1867
The solar cycle lasted 11.3 years, beginning in December 1855 and ending in March 1867.
September 1st, 1859 - The Carrington Event
September 1st, 1859 there was a rare planetary alignment as diagramed below.
1860 - The Solar Maximum was reached with a peak of 185.2 sunspots.
There is no way we can say this alignment caused the sunspots which led to the solar CME of 1859, but it is compelling and the probability of this occurring is very rare, as we have calculated below using the orbit period of each planet.
Neptune = 165 years
Saturn orbit = 29 years
Jupiter = 12 years
Mars = 687 days = 1.88 years
Mercury = 88 days = 0.24 years
Venus = 225 days = 0.62 years
1/(165 x 29 x 12 x 1.88 x 0.24 x 0.62) = 1/16,063 = one in sixteen thousand
In Closing
This Sixth Seal is a series of astronomical and geological signs that have been given to Apostle John by Jesus to document for future generations. These signs all potentially point to God’s astronomical clock within the Fig Tree generational time markers.
If God really wanted to destroy our hand-held idols and halt the globalist attempt for Transhumanism with track and trace surveillance under the skin, what better way then an earth-facing perfect CME exploding from our sun, penetrating our magnetosphere, splitting the skies with the awe inspiring Aurora Borealis, and globally impacting critical infrastructure with a complete blackout of communication.
Some say the blood moons are a harbinger for Israel and the total solar eclipses are a harbinger for all other nations. What if the planetary alignment found with comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner also causes the perfect CME “great wind”, and a great meteor storm where stars fall like unripe figs?
Is the Sixth Seal warning of a solar storm and its impact on mankind? Is the Sixth Seal an “Early Warning”?
The answer is for each reader to analyze on their own in prayer and study:
Analyze each sign, those that have occurred, those that are going to occur, and those that may occur.
Study the scripture and the science as well as the statistics.
Review the hypothetical interpretations and look at the probability of these signs aligning with the scripture
Are they mathematically more than coincidence?
Personally, this study has opened my eyes to an unseen realm of omnipotence and orchestration that my mind cannot grasp. These events could not have occurred by chance.
The signs reveal God’s everlasting control that He made everything. The heavens were set into motion at the creation of the sun, moon, and stars as signs. The signs were placed there for us. God wants us to follow the commands of Jesus Christ to persevere and overcome and to look up for His redemption draws near.
For new readers reference: Revelation 6, The Sixth Seal where verse 14 has been interpreted as the Northern Lights or the Aurora Borealis which is an astronomical sign that we as humans still struggle to understand as we watch for them with awe.
For a probability and poetry review, please see:
For a scientific and scriptural analysis of Revelation 6:14a and northern lights see:
14 The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up, and
every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
Revelation 6:14, NASB1995
Stay tuned for more on Revelation 6:14.
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Some videos:
https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/comment-weathering-perfect-storm-space/
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/06may_carringtonflare
Ibid.
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/06may_carringtonflare
https://www.thesuntoday.org/sun/surface/#sunspots
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2011SW000734
https://www.history.com/news/a-perfect-solar-superstorm-the-1859-carrington-event