DJED PILLAR

The Djed is a pillar, a type of the World Tree, representing stability, continuity, and regeneration. The Festival of The Raising of the Djed dates back more than 5,000 years to predynastic times--as does the Egyptian Book of the Dead which identifies the Djed as both the backbone of Osiris and the support and backbone of the universe. The Djed, however, is more than just an object; it is a mythic complex that existed long before Osiris emerged from the dark realm of the collective unconscious.

Historically, the Djed was raised at crucial transitional times between cycles, evoking light and stability to dispel darkness and disorder. Such periods were the Winter solstices, the failing years of a reigning monarch or the coronation of a new one. However, according to the texts of the Temple of Horus at Edfu, the Djed served its greatest purpose and revealed its greatest mystery at the ending of one world age and the beginning of another. This is such a time!

The Djed is the supreme unifying symbol of all polarities, connecting us to the transcendent reality of the whole, the One. It symbolizes the macro and microcosmic "axis." As the cosmic axis the Djed is the "cylinder," the column of light linking the Earth to the pole star. It represents stability because it aligns the North pole of Earth with the the still-point of the revolving "dome" of the heavens--the pole star. Beyond the pole star were/are the realms of the "gods" and higher dimensions of being. In the microcosm, withinus, the human axis is the spinal column, the time-tunnel of the transformative journey from the gross materialism of homosapiens to the Self-realization of homoChristos at the crown chakra. It is through this chakra that we, too, are aligned with the energies of the pole star. 

 Mercury, Venus and Earth

A, the Sun
B, Mercury
C, Sqrt distance Venus
D, Venus^.75
E, Venus mean radial orbital distance, 1.866025404.
F, Earth mean radial orbital distance, 2.583305712

Note how the key points of this geometry coincide with the Djed of ancient Egypt, associated with the chief god of creation.

The nine green dots along the vertical line at the center are, from bottom to top:

0.000000000,	Origin, Sun center
0.7928932188	Perihelion Mercury
1.000000000	Mean radial distance of orbit, Mercury
1.207106781	Aphelion, Mercury
1.366025404	Sqrt mean radial distance of orbit, Venus
1.414213563	Sqrt diameter of orbit, Mercury
1.596570733	Venus^.75, sqrt time of orbit, Venus
1.866025404	Mean radial distance of orbit of Venus
2.583305712,	Mean radial distance of orbit of Earth

Notice how the Venus^.75 arc touches exactly at the tips of the longer "horns". These horns seem to make 2 and a half front to back revolutions. The smaller horns make one each. Venus takes, very approximately, 2 and a half Mercury revolutions to make one revolution of its own, perhaps another yet symbolic representation of this relationship.

Also, the root 2 arcs from the two sides meet exactly between the eyes of the Djed, and the Sqrt Venus point is perfectly set at the eyebrows. There are lots of other fine points. This figure is thousand of years old.