In order to settle an argument I had in a dream just before I woke up, I just discovered that King Arthur’s Birthday was traditionally celebrated on the Winter Solstice. No surprise there, since he’s a pretty clear example of a Sun God. But yeah, in the dream, I was in some kind of English class, and the teacher and I were having a disagreement over when King Arthur’s birthday was. I think he was saying that it was April 14th or 19th, but I was absolutely sure that wasn’t it. All these things happened in the intervening time, but all I could do was scan through my notes and a text and then search on the internet, but I found nothing to give me a picture of when the day was. But I checked when I woke up. Actually, the original argument may have been over when King Arthur & Guinevere’s anniversary was. But then it morphed. I haven’t been able to find a date for that one. I remember I was so wrapped up in hunting for this date, that I barely noticed this weird conversation which was taking place in front of me between a man and this weird reptilian-alien-puppet sort of thing, which was sitting on a rock, and which had some other very small alien companion in a sort of chest pocket.

This whole argument calls to mind something else entirely. I recently read somewhere about something called the precession of the equinoxes. Basically, it has to do with the fact that the axis of the earth gradually changes it’s alignment over time. So that the North Pole ends up pointing at a different star, and the entire layout of stars in our sky changes very gradually. The author was saying that King Arthur and his father, Uther Pendragon, were symbolically linked to this change. Apparently, the previous pole star was a star called Thuban, better known as Alpha Draconis. This was supposed to be in the time of the Ancient Egyptians. This star is located, as far as I know, in the head of the Draco (Dragon) constellation. Pendragon means “head of the dragon.” The name Arthur is supposed to derive somehow from the word for bear. I forget what language. And now what we call the North Star, Polaris, is in the constellation of Ursa Minor, the Little Bear. It may be a coincidence, or it may be that this information was somehow encoded into the legend of King Arthur. According to these sites, our next pole star will be Vega, which appears in the constellation Lyra, the Lyre. This of course won’t happen for another 10,000 years - oh, and it also is said to have been the pole star 12,000 years back as well. If King Arthur had a son who was a big lyre-player, then that would be something to scream about, I think. Like, say, the Greek Orpheus. Instead his son, was Mordred, who slew him and overthrew his kingdom.