A new crop picture which appeared near Milk Hill on June 2, 2009 seems to show the imagery of a “Saros eclipse cycle”, even though it shows 7-fold rather than 3-fold symmetry, as has been portrayed in many other crop pictures from the past.
During any Saros cycle, new eclipses occur once in every 18 years, 11 days and 8 hours. That extra 8 hours (or one-third of a day) means that each new eclipse will be shifted 120º westward in longitude on Earth’s surface (see SEsaros). So when looking down from space onto north or south polar regions, we can see a series of spiral eclipse paths that have rotated one-third of the way around Earth’s surface from any previous eclipse, and hence show 3-fold symmetry.
Now however, those crop artists are showing us “Saros eclipse paths” about our north or south poles which seemingly possess 7-fold symmetry! No such periodic cycle of eclipses really exists (see Eclipse_cycle). What then could they be trying to tell us?
Well, we can see in that new crop picture a “multitude of sevens”:
For example, we can see: (a) a 7-sided heptagon at its very centre, (b) 7 inner eclipse paths about our north or south poles, (c) 7 outer eclipse paths at latitudes near the equator, (d) 7 circles of increasing size on one edge, representing perhaps the phase of our Moon as it approaches full on July 7, (e) and 7 small circles around the outside at 7 different vertices.
In several other pictures from April or May of 2009, those crop artists showed us 7-fold symbols almost incessantly, concerning an upcoming penumbral lunar eclipse on July 7, 2009. That lunar eclipse has seemingly been predicted to be the date of a major solar storm (see waylandsmithy or waylandsmithy). Could that be what they are telling us here as well?
Any major solar storm on July 7 would produce bright auroras at Earth’s north or south poles, that might extend even to latitudes near the equator. For example, the great solar storm of 1938 produced bright auroras “over the whole of Europe, as far south as Australia, Sicily or Portugal, and even across the Atlantic to Bermuda or southern California” (see solarstorms).
Was Milk Hill of June 2 their 7-7-2009 crop picture? Just like Milk Hill of August 8, 2008 was their 8-8-2008 crop picture (see 080808)? Or East Field of July 7, 2007 their 7-7-2007 crop picture (see eastfield2)?
Not far in the field from this new 7-fold crop picture, they drew another large circle that could represent either (a) a setting full Moon on July 7, or (b) a late afternoon Sun on the same date:
Moonset on July 7 at 0340 UT lies at 228o in the southwest, while the late afternoon Sun on July 7 at 1410 UT also shows an azimuth of 228o (see usno.navy)
Interestingly enough, in contrast to predictions about upcoming solar behaviour made by our crop artist friends, the leading scientific authorities on Earth are not expecting much: "The Solar Cycle 24 Prediction Panel has now reached a consensus decision. First, the panel has agreed that a solar minimum occurred in December of 2008. Secondly, the panel has decided that the next solar cycle 24 will be below average in intensity" (May 8, 2009, see SolarCycle).