Global Meditation Times
for some Major Cities

Updated January 15, 1997


The times listed here are the local equivelant of 17:30 - 17:35 GMT. This time was originally chosen for the Simultaneous Global Meditation based upon the time at which the star pattern chart using the Ascendant (Eastern Horizon) as the sixth point would perfect in New York City at 12:35 p.m. EST.

About 4 degrees Gemini will be required to complete the geometric pattern in the chart. At exactly 12:35 p.m. (a nice round number) 4 degrees and 04 minutes Gemini will be rising in NYC. That is the chart used on all of the GaiaMind Project graphics. A similar chart could be cast for anywhere else on Earth at about midday on January 23rd, but we chose New York because it is in some sense the center of the world, the UN is there, and the Internet runs on that time zone. It also made the times work well as far as waking hours in those parts of the world we were most likely to be able to reach (except Australia). The time choice did, however, seem somewhat arbitrary. But, by a miracle this time choice has been confirmed.

There are actulally two different time dependant points used in astrological charts. The first, most powerful, and most physically "real" is the Ascendant, or Eastern Horizon - the degree of the Zodiac rising at that moment. The second point is the Midheaven - the degree of the Zodiac directly overhead at any given moment. Thus there are two different times in the day at each point on Earth at which the star pattern will perfect. One using the Ascendant around midday, and the second using the Midheaven in the early evening. Astrologically the first would be considered more powerful, but in this case the second time forms a more graphically powerful upright Star of David. For any given location when one pattern perfects there, the other pattern is simultaneously perfecting somewhere else.

It turns out that at the exact SECOND that 4 degrees 04 minutes Gemini is rising in New York City, 4 degrees 04 minutes Gemini is at the Midheaven in Jerusalem forming an upright Star of David there at 17:35 GMT which is 7:35 p.m. EET in Jerusalem.
 

United States

New York City, NY
12:30 - 12:35 p.m. EST = 17:30 -17:35 GMT
GMT +5:00

Washington, DC
12:30 - 12:35 p.m. EST
GMT +5:00

Chicago, IL
11:30 - 11:35 a.m. CST
GMT +6:00

Denver, CO
10:30 - 10:35 MST
GMT +7:00

Los Angeles, CA
9:30 - 9:35 a.m. PST
GMT +8:00

San Francisco, CA
9:30 - 9:35 a.m. PST
GMT +8:00

Australia

Sydney
4:30 - 4:35 a.m. - Jan. 24th
GMT -11:00.

Argentina
These are the correct times

Buenos Aires
2:30 - 2:35 p.m.
GMT +3:00

Brazil
These are the correct times

Brazilia
3:30 - 3:35 p.m.
GMT +3:00

Rio de Janeiro
3:30 - 3:35 p.m.
GMT +3:00

Sao Paulo
3:30 - 3:35 p.m.
GMT +3:00

Czech Republic

Prague
6:30 - 6:35 p.m.
GMT -1:00

PRC (China)

Beijing
1:30 - 1:35 a.m. - Jan. 24th
GMT -8:00

England

London
5:30 - 5:35 p.m.
GMT +0:00

France

Paris
6:30 - 6:35 p.m.
GMT -1:00

Hong Kong

Hong Kong
1:30 - 1:35 a.m. - Jan. 24th
GMT -8:00

India

Calcutta
11:00 - 11:05 p.m.
GMT -5:30

Delhi
11:00 - 11:05 p.m.
GMT -5:30

Israel

Jerusalem
7:30 - 7:35 p.m. EET
GMT -2:00

Japan

Tokyo
2:30 - 2:35 a.m. - Jan. 24th
GMT -9:00

Mexico

Mexico City
11:30 - 11:35 a.m.
GMT +6:00

Russia

Moscow
7:30 - 7:35 p.m.
GMT -2:00

South Africa

Johannesburg
7:30 - 7:35 p.m.
GMT -2:00

Sweden

Stockholm
6:30 - 6:35 p.m.
GMT -1:00

Switzerland

Zurich
6:30 - 6:35 p.m.
GMT -1:00

Thailand

Bankok
12:30 - 12:35 a.m. - Jan. 24th
GMT -7:00

 

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