Are you experiencing the solar flares? I think I am.

 

Solar Flares
On Monday I called a friend and at first he could hear me—then suddenly, nothing. He called back with the same result. We’d hear each other, then we wouldn’t. After five rounds of this, the signal finally locked and we finished the conversation. Later that day I had a long talk with another friend, but near the end she lost my audio and had to call back three times. That evening my husband phoned his mother and halfway through their chat she could no longer hear him. Again, a call back fixed it. AT&T glitch? Maybe. But then I fell down a rabbit hole after receiving astrologer Stephanie Austin’s newsletter late last night.

She wrote:

Dear Friends,
On December 1, an unexpected X2-class solar flare erupted, launching a coronal mass ejection (CME) that is expected to graze Earth on December 3, generating geomagnetic storms for the next few days. More X-class flares are anticipated as sunspot complex 4294–96—potentially the largest in 10 years—rotates into view. This cluster appears similar in size to the 1859 X45 solar flare/CME known as the Carrington Event, which disrupted telegraph systems and produced auroras as far south as the tropics. These enormous bursts of energy can affect satellite communications, GPS, and power grids. They also influence our cardiovascular and nervous systems, helping release old programming and recalibrate our consciousness. Extra rest, hydration, and time in nature support integration of these downloads.

I don’t know much about solar flares other than that certain regions of the Sun become more active, and when those regions face Earth, we feel the effects. After reading Stephanie’s newsletter, I poked around online and learned more about the December 1 flare—November 30 for us in PST. Evidently, scientists didn’t see it coming because it was a “stealth storm.” According to Space.com, Australia—which was in daylight at the time—experienced a radio blackout.

The site also noted:

The real story might be the enormous sunspot region following closely behind this flare. AR4294, a sprawling, magnetically complex sunspot cluster, is now turning toward Earth. It’s so vast that NOAA has divided it into three numbered groups. It’s also the same region responsible for multiple X-class flares last month—and it has only grown larger.

Interesting, right?

Adding to the strangeness, yesterday I noticed our bedroom lights acting odd—almost strobing. My husband said the living room lights were doing the same thing and then mentioned his Bluetooth connection had gone wonky on his music pod.     Big tech in the era of big magnetic storms equals not good. 

In her report, Stephanie references the 1859 Carrington Event. That was when English astronomers; Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson, working separately, observed what became known as the first and largest recorded solar flare on September 1, 1859. Telegraph systems across Europe and America failed. Wooden pylons sparked and caught fire. Auroras were seen around the world, as far south as Mexico, Hawaii, and New Zealand. The aurora over the Rocky Mountains was so bright that gold miners reportedly got up and started making breakfast, thinking dawn had arrived—even though it was still the middle of the night.

If this week’s flare is as strong as expected, we could see auroras unusually far south—possibly even in the Los Angeles area.

Stephanie’s note about the human body responding to these waves also makes sense to me. I woke up at 5 a.m. feeling as alert as if it were 7. There was no going back to sleep; I was just awake. So yes, I’ll take her advice and do some extra hydrating this week because my body is feeling something, for sure.