Tag: 1642
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From Iceland to Saturn in the Seventeenth Century and back again
I’ve been questing this evening. Looking for more information to fill in the blanks I have with 1642 and the surrounding years. Although I haven’t filled in any of those blanks with answers, I have filled them with a few more interesting facts and questions. Questions are good, I find, but the answers are obviously…
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The Meteorite of 1642
An earth-shattering event – well, not exactly earth-shattering in the true sense of the word – occurred on 4th August 1642. The town of Aldeburgh in Suffolk, England, or Alborow as it was spelled back then, played host to this astronomical escapade. A 4lb meteorite fell from the sky at 5 O’clock – five of…
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Resonating with past times
I’ve had a nice little surprise today. Nothing spectacular in the grand scheme of things, and nothing that really goes anywhere near to helping me to solve my self-imposed quest to find what is pulling me back to the year 1642 (actually, the first part of the Seventeenth Century). But more on this in a…
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Linking the past and the past and the present
In my post last night, I wrote that I felt as though time was running away with me, and I didn’t feel as though I had time to do everything that I wanted to. Well, this morning, it appears as though the Universe has listened to me, and slowed time down considerably. I don’t tend…
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1642: Universal laws, myths, coincidences and me
I’ve been trawling the internet today. Not all day, I’ve been doing other things too, but I’ve had a ‘pull’ to search for Iceland and 1642. I’ve briefly searched with this criteria before, which was when I found out that the Poetic Edda and the Codex Regius were rediscovered in Iceland at that time. I…