THE MESSAGE OF THE 2008 CROP CIRCLES

Published in Spiegelbeeld Magazine (autumn 2008)

nr. of pages: 2

The crop circle season of 2008 surpassed all previous seasons, both geometrically and energetically, both in quality and in quantity. Researcher and author Janet Ossebaard spent 3 months in Southern England where she studied all the crop formations that appeared. Their message was one of Balance, Oneness, and Harmony. Fasciating communications were revealed such as the Return of Quetzalcoatl, the increase of Christ Consciousness and Goddess energy, the transcending of dimensions and the exposure of the Illusion. A message of Hope and Love...


Over 130 crop formations were reported world-wide this year, of which 77 appeared in Southern England. Second were Germany and Italy with both 14 formations. New this year was South Korea...

The 2008 crop circle season started off on April 19. A magnificent flowerlike pattern appeared in canola, close to the ancient stone circle of Avebury.

When another canola formation appeared on May 4, I decided to jump into my car and drive off to Wiltshire. I collected my colleague and friend Bert Janssen and ten hours later we were standing inside the stunning formations, surrounded by countless yellow flowers. And as we arrived at the microlight airstrip to go up for aerial shots, the pilot told us he had just discovered a brand new formation, yet again at Avebury. It was a giant Yin-Yang of unprecedented beauty...

This Yin-Yang was the first formation that clearly communicated a message of Balance. Even though it seems like an obvious theme for the Circle Makers, yet in all those years only once before had we received a Yin-Yang in a field, namely in 2007. The Circle Makers persisted with this theme in 2008; both at Furze Knoll and at Etchilhampton more Yin-Yang related formations appeared:


Straight away all recognised an enormeous Celtic Cross in the Etchilhampton formation, but when you look closely and zoom in, you can see clearly that this figure is built up out of many Furze Knoll figures: all Yin-Yangs!

Yin and Yang are the two opposite elements of the universe. Everything in the universe has both a Yin and a Yang side. This means for instance that there is no such thing as absolute darkness or absolute light. At night we can still see and during the day there are always shadows. Something is only Yin or Yang when it is compared with something else. Yin and Yang are inter-dependent. For instance, when Yin becomes too dominant, Yang slows it down. Yin and Yang are both part of the TAO (the All). The Tao manifests itself as two opposite values that do not form duality. Yin is not better than Yang or vice versa. Thus one can say that Yin-Yang symbolises the harmony of opposites and the transcending of duality. What magnificent symbolism in the crop fields of Southern England...

However, the Furze Knoll formation gave us yet another clue: the Möbius Strip.

The second illustration (made by Bert Janssen) clearly shows us the three-dimensional character of this crop formation.

What is it that makes the Möbius Strip so special? Escher's famous drawing of the ants makes it ever so clear:

If you follow the ants in their tracks, you will see that they can continue walking endlessly without crossing over one of the strip's edges; yet they walk over the strip's entire surface. Even though the strip exists of only one dimension (with only one side and one edge), it can only exist in 3 dimensions. The Möbius Strip not only symbolises endless movement (you recognise the infinity symbol), it also represents the transcending of dimensions and - thereby - the exposure of the Illusion in which we (think we) live.

The theme of infinity (of energy? of the soul?) reappeared on August 8 (8-8-8) in the gigantic formation at the foot of Milk Hill, Alton Barnes:

Many crop circle enthousiasts did a night watch on August 7-8. The year before, on 7-7-07, a formation of incredible proportions was filmed with infrared cameras as it suddenly appeared in the East Field at Alton Barnes. Thus, people were now hoping to catch a glimpse of the Circle Makers at work on 8-8-08...

Unfortunately, the Circle Makers don't want too many eye-witnesses, we know this well by now. And so, we were all in the wrong place at the wrong time. Except for Rob and Gill Nicholas, two friends who live in Wiltshire. They were in the correct field, excatly were the enormeous infinity symbol would appear only moments later. But at 2 am, Gill suddenly received a very strong telepathic message to leave the field straight away. They took the warning seriously and left. As they left the field they smelled a strong metal odour and saw a swirling vortex-like movement in the air above the field. The very next morning at dawn the breathtaking formation was there, leaving all of the researchers, tourists, and locals in awe...

Next to my dear friend and fellow researcher Andrew Fowlds, I photographed a beautiful hexagonal light in the formation, an interesting shape I had never captured before:

2008 proved to be a break-through in the area of strange lights seen, photographed, and filmed by people. I captured the most amazing light forms; some looked like eyes, others more like jellyfish, and yet others were more like cell-like entities. You can read and see more bout this topic in my article New Light Forms.

Another reocurring topic this year was 2012. The majority of the crop formations have a direct link with the ancient Maya and the end of their calendars at 2012. In 2008, the following two formations were most clear about this topic:

The formation at Avebury, right next to the ancient stone circle, presented our own solar system. According to astronomical software programs our planets are only positioned this way on one particular date: December 21, 2012. (Only Pluto was slightly off-set, the reason of which was elaborated upon brilliantly by the Australian researcher and scientist Red Collie).

The formation at the foot of Silbury Hill (also at Avebury) showed us a beautiful serpent surrounding a circle in which the wheat had been flattened in the most amazing way. Outside the main body of the formation were 3 separate circles that had appeared several days before. I feel these 3 circles symbolise the coming of a comet, whereas the serpent represents the return of Quetzalcoatl, the flying Deity of the ancient Meso-American cultures. According to author and Sumerian clay tablets expert Zacharias Sitchin, Quetzalcoatl was the very same as the Egyptian God Toth, one of the sons of the Annunaki Enki, the extra-terrestrial scientist from the 12th planet Nibiru who created man in his own image by means of genetic manipulation. (Sitchin's books are a must-read!) Quetzalcoatl's Sumerian name was Ningiszidda, the Maya called him Kukulkán; ancient lore tells us that he landed in Meso-America where he taught the original inhabitants about culture, society, and politics. He introduced the complex writing in symbols and the highly advanced calendars. The current decoding of their symbols and calendars is directly connected with the profecies about the Return of Quetzalcoatl, the main deity of the Meso-American people, and with December 21, 2012: the end date of the Mayan calendars. Both are themes that continuously reappear in the crop circles.

Back to the beautiful formation at Silbury Hill. The way the crop was laid down in the central circle was totally unique. A play of circular and radial shapes reminded me instantaneously of Silbury Hill. Seen from above, this ancient pyramid has striking similarities with the inner circle of the crop formation. Were the Circle Makers telling us about the Return in 2012 close to Silbury Hill, at a time when a comet reaches our skies?

The profecy of the Return also showed up in a formation that we saw at the beginning of this article:

A gigantic cross, as big as 3 football fields, appeared in the night of August 14-15 (Ascension of Mary). The link with Christianity is clear: most people associate this formation with the Christ Consciousness. But there were more associations. It is a Celtic Cross; Celtic patterns have appeared in our fields for many decades. Furthermore, the ancient Mayan, Toltec, and Aztec people also had the cross an a sacred symbol, long before the Spaniards reached the American shores. Cortés wrote down his amazement: How could these 'primitive' people worship the Cross whereas they had never heard of Christ before? What Cortés did not know was that the cross also symbolises the Planet of the Crossing (Nibiru) and thus the return of this planet in our solar system at the end of 2012...

While I was takig photographs of the various details inside the formation, a gorgeous halo appeared around the sun:

Over the past decades, I observed quite a few halos around the sun as I was standing inside a crop formation and feel there is more to this than meets the eye. If it were a mere meteorological phenomenon, how come I observed them much more often above a crop formation than elsewhere? Is the energy column reaching high into the sky (noticed by many pilots who have trouble with their measuring instruments whilst flying over formations) responible for the appearance of these halos?

At the end of January 2009, a mysterious light cross appeared in the sky above Russia. Could there be a conncection? (See website Niburu).

The two last formations of 2008 appeared on September 24 and 28 in maize. Once again we recognise the crucifix:

On August 22 the following formation was discovered at the foot of Woodborough Hill at Alton Priors:

I did a night watch that night with several friends at the edge of this field. There was a lot of army activity. Not just the usual black helicopters were scanning the fields for several hours, even jet-fighters were woozing over the fields of Woodborough and Alton Barnes for quite a long time. It seemed they were waiting for something to happen, so we staid put! At about 3 am it became quiet and we saw nor heard anything special. But at dawn, this incredibly beautiful formation was there... It seemed to show two pairs of 3 birds flying in opposite directions.

The fact that the army knew this was about to occur was crystal clear. Never before in the past 15 years did I observe jet-fighters scanning the crop circle fields.

What both army and researchers did not know, however, was that the formation would grow twice its size the following night:

Another 2 sets of 3 birds were added to the original formation, giving the impression of two flocks of birds flying away in opposite directions. It reminded me immediately of the prophecy that there will be a division of dimensions in the End Time. Part of humanity (those who have not grown emotionally and spiritually) will remain in the third dimenion, whereas the other part (those who did do the emotional and spiritual work) will thrust into a higher dimension. This process is described in all ancient scriptures (including the Bible). The higher dimension is described as one of balance, peace, love, and harmony.

Yet another theme was put in the spotlights this crop circle season: the emergence of femenine Goddess energy. The most obvious formation representing this theme appeared on Julky 27 at Honeystreet. (That night no less than 6 new formations appeared in Wiltshire alone!)

The theme of this powerful femenine energy was found in quiute a few formations in 2008:



In all formations containing the Vesica Pisces (the symbol of the vulva, femenine energy, Mary Magdalene), this was the predominant theme. The Lockeridge formation, at the edge of the West Woods, presented a four-armed star: the traditional symbol of Venus, the Goddess of Love.