I looked at ICHING to ask the purpose of Stonehenge and I received HEXAGRAM 10.
I decided to ask tarot the same question. Now I am telling you all I did not make this up, this is the card that tarot has given to us and I will explore this.
The first thing that comes to mind is obvious that Stonehenge tracks the path of the sun. That is why I thought you would believe I just picked this card at random. Well I did,nt and it is definately what tarot has given.
But the sun card is VERY interesting.
Now you would think its just the sun and that is all but its not.
The sun card is about possible travel to hot countries.
So does Stonehenge link to a hot country? And you know right away Im going to say I wonder if this links to Egypt which has been part of my thinking in my early reakonings and the first post I wrote as an explanation here on the forum as to why we need to take the 'journey'.
The sun is a card of hot countries, it is a card that can be linked to travel to them and it is a card of wellbeing and bliss and contentment. It is also a card of the Family and this card if you asked a question and it appeared in your spread is the YES 'without question' card.
So what we are looking at is a very positive card for the answer to my question.
Now this is where it gets interesting.
The sun card is at number 19 in the Major Arcana. The card that sits BEFORE the sun card is the MOON card!!! that is card 18 and AFTER the sun card we get .................
JUDGEMENT at number 21.
We have thought of Stonehenge as a place of Sun and Moon Worship. The tarot card answer can easily reflect that, but then we have JUDGEMENT.
Judgement is a reincarnation card - and brings lost souls back to life. It returns to those what has been lost.
It is a card of hospitals because it has a red cross on the Angel, or health matters. It is therefore a HEALING CARD.
I myself am a little astounded by this next description taken from very old tarot inscription.
Card XIX.”The Sun”.
The Symbol and manifestation of
the tetragrammaton. Creative power. Fire of life.
The Tetragrammaton is thought to be the name of GOD which later translated to YHWH. When I was talking about Stonehenge and the 'druids' I was seeing a possible connection between the language ancient to England which you can read a few posts back.
But I also mentioned about The Tetragrammaton because I felt that in old symbols it showed as upright 'pillars' with other markings that act as a bar across. Here are examples once more.
I accept that most say that Stonehenge was a circle of 33 stones and we know that Christ was thought to have been crucified at the age of 33.
However, it has been noted that the stones have been pinched, removed, altered etc over the years so nobody can truly prove that there was an actual stone circle it is simply what is believed.
What my proposition is, is whether or not the stones were actually positioned to give a MESSAGE.
There is an example in previous posts here on this thread to show how perhaps a message could be obtained if the stones were placed to represent an old language of the Druids which could be old welsh.
So I go back to my sun card knowing that it is a symbol of the Tetragrammatton.
This card is described as somewhere that there is a wall the sign of the card is GEMINI (the twins) sun and moon????
and the Month attributed is FEBRUARY.
On this card a sharp weapon can also be applied such as an axe. Right now one might think of sacrificial situations, however I would wish to think further on that as the card is thought to be happiness and not only that but it has a huge connection to highly creative energy.
More importantly the sun card stands for ONE YEAR and we have astronomical connections to stonehenge as it is the YEAR calender of the soltices
I note February is linked to this.
start of spring February 7th February 7th February 2nd - Imbolc Candlemass
From Wikis link
we understand that ....
Candlemas was in fact this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CandlemasThe Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, which falls on 2 February, celebrates an early episode in the life of Jesus. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, it is one of the twelve Great Feasts, and is sometimes called Hypapante (lit., 'Meeting' in Greek). Other traditional names include Candlemas, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin, La Fête de la Chandeleur, and the Meeting of the Lord. In many Western liturgical churches, Vespers (or Compline) on the Feast of the Presentation marks the end of the Epiphany season. In the Church of England, the Presentation of Christ in the Temple is a Principal Feast celebrated either on 2 February or on the Sunday between 28 January and 3 February.But I think that it is this relationship with Pagans that needs to be read in the wiki link as we have spoken about pre christianity with the Druids and must consider stonehenge was built and in place before St Augustine brought over to Britain Christianity from Pope Gregory.
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Modern Pagans believe that Candlemas is a Christianization[4][5][6] of the Gaelic festival of Imbolc, which was celebrated in pre-Christian Europe (and especially the Celtic Nations) at about the same time of year.[7][8] Imbolc is called "St. Brigid's Day" or "Brigid" in Ireland.[9] Both Brigids are associated with sacred flames, holy wells and springs, healing and smithcraft. Brigid is a virgin, yet also the patron of midwives. However, a connection with Roman (rather than Celtic or Germanic) polytheism is more plausible, since the feast was celebrated before any serious attempt to expand Christianity into non-Roman countries.
In Irish homes, there were many rituals centered around welcoming Brigid into the home. Some of Brigid's rituals and legends later became attached to the Christian Saint Brigid, who was the Abbess of Kildare and seen by Celtic Christians as the midwife of Christ and "Mary of the Gael". In Ireland and Scotland she is the "foster mother of Jesus." The exact date of the Imbolc festival may have varied from place to place based on local tradition and regional climate. Imbolc is celebrated by modern Pagans[citation needed] on the eve of 2 February, at the astronomical midpoint, or on the full moon closest to the first spring thaw.
Some[who?] have argued that the Roman church introduced Candlemas celebrations in opposition to the Roman Pagan feast of Lupercalia.[citation needed] The Catholic Encyclopædia is definite in its rejection of this argument: "The feast was certainly not introduced by Pope Gelasius to suppress the excesses of the Lupercalia," (referencing J.P. Migne, Missale Gothicum, 691). The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica agrees: the association with Gelasius "has led some to suppose that it was ordained by Pope Gelasius I in 492 as a counter-attraction to the pagan Lupercalia; but for this there is no warrant." Since the two festivals are both concerned with the ritual purification of women, not all historians are convinced that the connection is purely coincidental. Gelasius' certainly did write a treatise against Lupercalia, and this still exists; see Lupercalia.
Pope Innocent XII believed Candlemas was created as an alternative to Roman Paganism, as stated in a sermon on the subject:
Why do we in this feast carry candles? Because the Gentiles dedicated the month of February to the infernal gods, and as at the beginning of it Pluto stole Proserpine, and her mother Ceres sought her in the night with lighted candles, so they, at the beginning of the month, walked about the city with lighted candles. Because the holy fathers could not extirpate the custom, they ordained that Christians should carry about candles in honor of the Blessed Virgin; and thus what was done before in the honor of Ceres is now done in honor of the Blessed Virgin.[10]If you go back to the wiki link which has the above passage some of the words are links so that you can interpret properly other linked in sources of information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CandlemasPlease note the JUDGEMENT card that comes AFTER the sun card which is about HEALING and then note above St Brigids day which as you can see above is renowned for healing and health matters - makes perfect sense of course.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImbolcImbolc, which is alternatively termed Imbolg or Oimelc, is a festival marking the beginning of spring which was celebrated in Ireland during the Iron Age. A Celtic pagan festival, its original purpose and associated practices are unknown, although it has been suggested that it was associated with the goddess Brigid, who was later Christianised as St. Brigid, and whose saint day was located at the same time as the earlier Imbolc, around 1 or 2 February. Following Ireland’s conversion to Christianity in the 5th century, Imbolc survived in folk memory into at least the Mediaeval, when it was featured in various mythological tales, such as the Tochmarc Emire of the Ulster Cycle, albeit with little understanding of its original purpose.[1] Imbolc was one of the four cross-quarter days referred to in Irish mythology, the others being Beltane, Lughnasadh and Samhain, all of which were originally Iron Age Irish, and possible pan-Celtic, festivals that were used to divide up the year.[2]
Imbolc coincided not only with the later St Brigid’s Day, but also with other religious festivals including the Christian festival of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple. In Scotland the festival is also known as Là Fhèill Brìghde, in Ireland as Lá Fhéile Bríde, and in Wales there is a similar festival, Gŵyl y Canhwyllau.[3]
In the 20th century, Imbolc was resurrected as a religious festival by three Neopagan faiths; Wicca, Neo-druidry and Celtic reconstructionism. In the first two of these religions, Imbolc is viewed as one of eight Sabbats celebrated annually, which are collectively termed the Wheel of the Year, and is partly celebrated because it falls halfway between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox in the northern hemisphere.[4][5] In Wicca, Imbolc is commonly associated with the goddess Brigid, and hence the Wiccan Goddess, and as such it is sometimes viewed as a "women’s festival" with specific rites only for female members of a coven.[6]
And if you read further on that wiki link it brings you back to THE HILL OF TARA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImbolcNow if you go back to the sun card you will see direct references to ST Brigids day. The child the strip of cloth ( red banner) ETC
so it seems to me that Stonehenge could certainly link into the traditions of St Brigids day.
St. Brigid's Day
In the modern Irish Calendar, Imbolc is variously known as the Feast of Saint Brigid (Secondary Patron of Ireland), Lá Fhéile Bríde, and Lá Feabhra — the first day of Spring. Christians may call the day "Candlemas". Long celebrated as "the feast of the Purification of the Virgin".[5]
One folk tradition that continues in both Christian and Pagan homes on St. Brigid's Day (or Imbolc) is that of the Brigid's Bed. The girls and young, unmarried women of the household or village create a corn dolly to represent Brigid, called the Brideog ("little Brigid" or "young Brigid"), adorning it with ribbons and baubles like shells or stones. They make a bed for the Brideog to lie in. On St. Brigid's Eve (January 31), the girls and young women gather together in one house to stay up all night with the Brideog, and are later visited by all the young men of the community who must ask permission to enter the home, and then treat them and the corn dolly with respect.[5][17]
Brigid is said to walk the earth on Imbolc eve. Before going to bed, each member of the household may leave a piece of clothing or strip of cloth outside for Brigid to bless. The head of the household will smother (or "smoor") the fire and rake the ashes smooth. In the morning, they look for some kind of mark on the ashes, a sign that Brigid has passed that way in the night or morning. The clothes or strips of cloth are brought inside, and believed to now have powers of healing and protection.[5][17]
On the following day, the girls carry the Brideog through the village or neighborhood, from house to house, where this representation of the Saint/Goddess is welcomed with great honor. Adult women — those who are married or who run a household — stay home to welcome the Brigid procession, perhaps with an offering of coins or a snack. Since Brigid represents the light half of the year, and the power that will bring people from the dark season of winter into spring, her presence is very important at this time of year.[5][17]
Strangely on a further link of Brigid we have this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrigidStories and symbology that survive in the persona of Saint Brigid may be related. St. Brigid was associated with perpetual, sacred flames,
such as the one maintained by 19 nuns at her sanctuary in Kildare, Ireland. Should it not be noted that the SUN CARD is NUMBER 19.
I will continue to explore this tarot and will be back to write further on this to see if a conclusion can be reached or perhaps what conclusion can appear ultimately .
Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:47 am by starfish
Subject: STONEHENGE AND A PECULIAR THOUGHT 
Ok this is a pet right???? 
that rather indicates that theres something about this question that is tricky? but dangerous? To continue perhaps with investigation but at the current time Im being told the purpose is still unknown so Iching cannot tell me. I will ask tarot instead.
