Surfing the Milky Way after Kali Yuga

What is the Kali Yuga? Basically, the “Kali Yuga” is the shortest but darkest age in the 8-age cycle of human civilizations. According to Sri Yukteswar, the full “Yuga Cycle” includes 4 ascending ages and 4 descending ages, and totals 24,000 years. Similarly, many ancient calendars recognized a cycle between 25,000 and 26,000 years. Today, in 2024, we left the “Kali Yuga” over 300 years ago.

Why does this matter? Haha, this matters to me, because after “going down the rabbit hole” with Clif High’s “Elohim” videos, I was curious about what he meant by “Kali Yuga”. But after a few more videos, it made sense. Essentially, our Sun not only revolves around the Milky Way’s galactic center every 200-250 million years, but also orbits within its own local star cluster every 24,000-26,000 years.

Hi, my name is Jay, and I’m an IBM TRIRIGA content designer at IBM. According to Clif High, at a certain point in its 26,000-year cycle, our Sun descends into the galactic plane, where the matter is densest and blocks the galactic-center energies that are responsible for the ascending “Bronze”, “Silver”, and “Golden” age of human consciousness. Thus, the “Kali Yuga”. So what’s the problem?

What’s the problem? Distance?

Well, the problem or omission is that Clif High doesn’t seem to consider the increasing distance from the galactic center as a contributing factor in the “Kali Yuga”. While his explanation for the blocking or absorbing of galactic-center energies by denser matter makes perfect sense, I’ve also read articles which state that when our Sun “moves closer” to galactic center, human consciousness rises.

If that’s true, then conversely, when our Sun “moves farther” from galactic center into “Kali Yuga”, human consciousness falls. Clif doesn’t mention this distance factor. In other words, as it orbits within its local star cluster, at a certain point in its 26,000-year cycle, our Sun not only descends into the galactic plane of densest matter, but it also simultaneously “moves farther” from galactic center.

*Clif High & Kali Yuga (16:53 to 19:10)*

What’s the real problem? Orientation?

After I realized the missing distance factor, I was curious about finding some diagram that compared our Sun’s local-star-cluster plane with the galactic plane in terms of the “Yuga Cycle”. But how do you define our Sun’s local star cluster? According to Sri Yukteswar, our Sun orbits as part of a binary star system. Similarly, many ancient calendars observed that our Sun orbits a sister star in the Pleiades.

So, assuming that such a diagram does not exist, I can still sketch the possible theoretical “Yuga Cycle” planes of our Sun’s local star cluster or binary star system, relative to the galactic plane. Four orientations come to mind: (1) parallel, (2) perpendicular with its axis pointing to galactic center, (3) perpendicular with its axis pointing in the direction of galactic rotation, and (4) sloped or inclined.

First orientation: Parallel

Let’s start with the first orientation. If both planes are parallel to each other, then the relatively constant depth of blocking galactic-center energies by denser matter becomes less significant. But the increasing distance from galactic center becomes a more significant contributing factor. Yet I can only speculate if the density of galactic matter is proportional to the distance from galactic center.

Second orientation: Perpendicular

With the second orientation, if the star-cluster axis is pointing toward galactic center, then the distance from galactic center remains relatively constant during our Sun’s star-cluster orbit. However, the blocking or absorbing of galactic-center energies by denser matter increases as our Sun descends into the galactic plane, and decreases as our Sun ascends away from the galactic plane.

From these 4 star-cluster scenarios, Clif High assumes the second orientation. But I noticed another problem with Clif’s assumption. He further assumes that our Sun’s star-cluster axis is centered on the galactic plane. This doesn’t make sense, because then our Sun crosses the galactic plane twice, instead of once, every 26,000 years. Therefore, I’m assuming that the axis is not centered.

Third orientation: Perpendicular

The third orientation gets a little more complex. If the star-cluster axis is pointing in the direction of galactic rotation or tangential motion, then both the depth of blocking galactic-center energies and distance from galactic center varies. However, if I assume that the axis isn’t centered on the galactic plane, then the densest (vertical) depth doesn’t coincide with the farthest (horizontal) distance.

Fourth orientation: Sloped or inclined

The fourth orientation gets even more complicated, but is probably the most realistic scenario. If our Sun’s star-cluster orbit touches the galactic plane only once every 26,000 years, then the point at which the densest (vertical) depth coincides with the farthest (horizontal) distance suggests a sloped or inclined star-cluster plane largely somewhere between the first and second orientations.

In other words, as our Sun’s star-cluster orbit descends deeper into the densest (vertical) depth of the galactic plane, it simultaneously reaches the farthest (horizontal) distance from galactic center. Thus, the “Kali Yuga”. Conversely, as our Sun ascends higher from the densest (vertical) depth, it simultaneously reaches the closest (horizontal) distance from galactic center. Thus, the “Golden” age.

What’s the rookie mistake? Scale?

Earlier, I mentioned my curiosity about finding some “Yuga Cycle” diagram that compared our Sun’s star-cluster plane with the galactic plane. Well, during my diagram search, I stumbled across some interesting and enlightening “Kali Yuga” articles on several spiritual websites. Unfortunately, the common “rookie mistake” that I noticed is their poor sense of galactic scale! Here are a few examples.

First example: Black hole

First, here’s an excerpt from a 2016 “Kali Yuga” blog post by KarmicPedia.

Supermassive Black Hole at the Galactic Center Verified “Cycle of Yugas” (24 May 2016)

The solar system with the Sun and the planets around it is moving in the galaxy. It takes 25,920 years for our solar system to complete one cycle around the Super Massive Black hole (Sagittarius A*). From the effects upon the planet, we believe this Black Hole at the galactic center that our system is going around is not located in the center of the orbit but somewhere to the side. Whenever our solar system comes closer to this big system, all the creatures living in our system rise to greater possibilities. Whenever our system moves away from it, the creatures living in our system come to the lowest level of possibility – we say this is Kali Yuga.

Do you see the “rookie mistake”? Specifically: “It takes 25,920 years for our solar system to complete one cycle around the Super Massive Black hole.” Not 200-250 million years, but only 25,920 years! If we assume that the Milky Way is at least 100,000 light-years in diameter, then the galaxy rotates 4 times in the period that light travels from one end of the galaxy to the other. Poor sense of scale!

Second example: Solar system

Next, here’s an excerpt from a 2012 “Kali Yuga” blog post by Five Seasons Medicine.

Maybe This Isn’t the Kali Yuga After All (18 July 2012)

The Great Year is our Sun’s cycle through the solar system, that takes 25,800 years. NASA defines the Great Year as “The period of one complete orbit around the ecliptic, or about 25,800 years”. This is also called the “Platonic Year”, as discussed by Plato, and the “Precession of the Equinoxes”, the name given by Isaac Newton.

Do you see the “rookie mistake” this time? Specifically: “The Great Year is our Sun’s cycle through the solar system, that takes 25,800 years.” My guess is that the author meant to say “ecliptic” or “ecliptic plane” instead of “solar system”, because taken literally, “our Sun’s cycle through the solar system” sounds as nonsensical as “our Milky Way’s cycle through the galaxy”. Poor choice of words and scale!

Having said that, I like the author’s comparison with other ancient “Great Year” cycles. In fact, the Earth’s axis doesn’t really “wobble” during the ecliptic “Great Year”. That’s just how it appears during the natural 26,000-year “Yuga Cycle” of our Sun’s local star cluster or binary star system. But I’m not sure why the author listed “25,714 years” for the Hindu “Yuga Cycle”, instead of Sri Yukteswar’s 24,000 years.

While modern thinking regards the Great Year as a phenomenon caused by the Earth’s wobbling axis, ancient cultures saw it as a natural indication of Earth’s place in galactic movement. Swami Sri Yukteswar presents a very different model of the Great Year from the “wobbly axis” we inherited from Isaac Newton.

Many ancient calendars used Earth’s “Great Year” cycle, including the Greek, Inca, Chinese, Hindu, Egyptian, Mayan, and Hopi.

The Greeks observed a “Platonic Great Year” of 25,920 years in 5 Ages: The Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroic, and Iron Ages.

The Hindu calendar has “Yugas” or Ages: The Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Iron Ages total 25,714 years. Yugas define the rise and fall of civilizations in a never-ending cycle.

The Egyptian calendar recognized a 25,920-year cycle with 12 zodiac sub-cycles.

The Hopi calendar says humans have existed in three ages. In each age, we turned away from spiritual teachings, and the world was destroyed. The first world was destroyed by fire, the second by ice, and the third by water. We are now at the end of the fourth age.

The Mayan “Long Count Calendar” of 5125 years is one-fourth of a precession cycle of 25,625 years. The Mayans measure many cycles from 16.4 billion years ago.

The Hebrews knew about precession in the time of Kings David and Solomon, as evidenced in the Psalms of David 19:4-5, that trace the zodiac through each age.

The Chinese calendar refers to a “Cosmic Year”, a cycle of human evolution in 12 sub-cycles.

Third example: Fixed plane

Finally, here’s an excerpt from a 2023 “Milky Way” blog post by The Oikofuge. To be clear, the author’s meticulous and articulate style is far from that of a “rookie”. But I did find one potential issue.

The Solar System’s Place In The Milky Way: Part 1 (03 May 2023)

So the plane of the solar system is tilted at an angle of about 60° relative to the plane of the galaxy. It also, as you see, comes close to aligning with the centre of the galaxy—the mismatch is only about 6°. Since the plane of the solar system remains fixed as it orbits the galaxy, a perfect alignment will occur twice in every galactic year—the most recent happened three or four million years ago.

Do you see the potential issue? Specifically: “Since the plane of the solar system remains fixed as it orbits the galaxy…” After discussing the “Kali Yuga” at length, we can see that the author is missing the “not so fixed” 26,000-year local-star-cluster rotation, between the solar-system rotation and galactic-center rotation, that ancient calendars recognized for millennia, if not hundreds of millennia.

Is the 26,000-year cycle negligible? Well, if our Sun revolves around the Milky Way’s galactic center every 200-250 million years, then this “Yuga Cycle” is roughly 10,000 times shorter. If Pluto revolves around our Sun every 248 years, then this “Yuga Cycle” is roughly 100 times longer. If neither of these comparisons are negligible, then the “Yuga Cycle” isn’t negligible. The ancients didn’t think so either.

However, if the author is correct, and “the plane of the solar system remains fixed as it orbits the galaxy”, then there are two possibilities. Either the plane of our Sun’s local star cluster is parallel to the plane of the solar system. Or it’s parallel to the plane of the Milky Way. But if that’s true, then the 26,000-year cycle wouldn’t satisfy the probable fourth orientation. So the potential issue still exists.

Wait a second. If “the plane of the solar system remains fixed as it orbits the galaxy”, then the solar-system plane must also rotate at the same 26,000-year rate as it orbits in its local star cluster every 26,000 years. Even worse, if the star-cluster plane is neither parallel to the solar-system plane nor galactic plane, then the solar-system plane must both rotate and roll at the same 26,000-year rate.

On the other hand, if the plane of the solar system aligns with the galactic center 1 time every 26,000-year cycle, then it aligns roughly 8,000-10,000 times every 200-250 million years of galactic rotation. If it aligns at all. But there must be someone out there who can calculate the angle of inclination between our Sun’s “Yuga Cycle” plane and the Milky Way’s galactic plane? Maybe The Oikofuge can?

What are my final thoughts?

That’s about it! I think that the process of researching and writing this blog post helped me to correct and clarify how the “Kali Yuga” cycle fits into the Milky Way. As I’m writing this, I still have to compose some cool “Yuga Cycle” diagrams. I doubt they’ll look as amazing as the galactic diagrams on The Oikofuge, but at least, I can still refer to their style as a “gold standard”, haha. Thank you, Oikofuge!

Oh yeah, before I forget, let me circle back to Clif High. Do you know why Clif’s “Elohim” videos discuss the “Kali Yuga”? Because if you were an invading extraterrestrial “Elohim” force during ancient Biblical times, as revealed by the oldest Hebrew texts in Mauro Biglino’s “Gods of the Bible“, wouldn’t you want to conquer the native human civilizations at their weakest level of human consciousness? Obviously.