SUDDEN QUIET ON THE SUN (PDF-1901)

Many of you who read my blogs are used to me pointing out the influx of solar activity, large flares, coronal mass ejections (CME) and strong sunspots. Here I am pointing out just the opposite, a suddenly completely quiet sun (no sunspots!) and so close to the sunspot maximum year (2013) at that. The sun is spotless right now!

I don't quite know what to make of it. In my study and experience it is the noisy sun that gets my attention, the energetic sun that precipitates change in our internal life. I kind of forgot that no change is also a kind of change, and here we are.