Chico is the most populous city in Butte County, California, United States. The population was 86,187 at the 2010 census, up from 59,954 at the time of the 2000
census. 2013 is reaching 100,000. The city is a cultural, economic, and educational center of the northern Sacramento Valley and home to both California State University, Chico and Bidwell Park, one of the country's 25 largest municipal parks and the 13th largest municipally-owned park, Bidwell Park, which makes up over 17% of the city. Other cities in close proximity to the Chico Metropolitan Area (population 212,000) include Paradise and Oroville, while local towns and villages (unincorporated areas) include Durham, Cohasset, Dayton, Hamilton City, Nord, and Forest Ranch. The Chico Metropolitan Area is the 14th largest Metropolitan Statistical Area in California.

The official city nickname is "City of Roses", according to the Seal of the City of Chico, California. Chico has been designated a Tree City USA for 27 years by the National Arbor Day Foundation. Historian W.H. "Old Hutch" Hutchinson identified five events as the most seminal in Chico history. They included the arrival of John
Bidwell in 1850, the arrival of the California and Oregon Railroad in 1870, the establishment of the Northern Branch of the State Normal School in 1887, the purchase of the Sierra Lumber Company by the Diamond Match Company in 1900, and the development of the Army Air Base, which is now the Chico Municipal Airport.

Several other significant events have unfolded in Chico more recently. These include the construction and relocation of Highway 99E through town in the early 1960s, Playboy Magazine naming Chico State the number-one party school in the nation in 1987, and the establishment of a "Green Line" on the western city limits as protection of agricultural lands.

Street system
The downtown area of Chico is located generally between Big Chico Creek and Little Chico Creek. The downtown has a street grid offset 49.75° from the four cardinal directions. There are numbered streets and avenues, which generally run ENE-WSW. Blocks are usually addressed in hundreds corresponding to the numbered streets and avenues. While the ENE-WSW streets and avenues are numbered, Streets running NNW-SSE are generally named after trees. The part of the 'tree' streets that intersect the CSUC campus spell the word "CHICO" at Chestnut, Hazel, Ivy, Cherry, and Orange Streets.

The Constellation of Sagittarius' second brightest star is postioned at the Chico City Plaza, centering the constellation over the city street system and esoteric park plaza, 135 miles south of Mount Shasta.

In 1872 John Bidwell deeded the land to the city while reserving the right for a county courthouse to be built there. In 1873 Bidwell planted the first elm trees envisioning a civic space for public gatherings. Elms were planted around the four bounding streets, and a double row lined the diagonal walkways that led to the raised center fountain. Over time a wooden gazebo was added and the fountain was removed. Activities have increased dramatically from the picturesque
parade-watching 1910s to more than 100 planned events per year that can draw up to 2,000 people a day.

City Plaza is Reborn - 11/17/2006
By JENN KLEIN - Chico Enterprise Record Staff 

The City Plaza reopened to the public Thursday in downtown Chico. People came out in the evening...  After more than a year of construction, $4.1 million in construction costs and endless complaints by residents, City Plaza reopened quietly.  Workers took down the fence around City Plaza at 4 a.m. Thursday. The city chose the early morning hour to avoid interfering with traffic, said General Services Director Dennis Beardsley.

The park at the heart of downtown was already in use at 6:35 a.m. when Erin O'Neil and Al Petersen decided to play a game of chess on the plaza's new
tables in the hopes of being the first people to do so. Beardsley said construction crews still have to finish a few minor details on the park, like the installation of lighting fixtures.  "For all practical purposes of the public, it's finished," Beardsley said.

Twenty-four benches are also waiting to go in. Twelve have plaques purchased by locals in memory of a loved one or as a commemorative plate. The others will have blank plaques that are still available for purchase. The contributions pay for the benches, Beardsley said.

Many residents stopped to check it out after stumbling on the newly opened plaza as they walked by. "I was surprised it was open," Chico resident Greg Scott said. "It's great. I think it's a great addition to the city." "I love it," Michael Farrety said at the plaza with his 2-year-old daughter. "I think all the naysayers should be eating crow right now. & Chico needs to modernize."But others, like Marcia Wilson, remain unpleased with the redesign of City Plaza. She said it would not provide enough shade and there was nowhere to sit. "I don't like any of it. & I'm upset that progress has to rip up something that's been there all my life. I don't understand why they have to take up the park and ruin it," Wilson said. "I just think this is rude. Too much concrete, not enough grass and no shade. Yeah, 30 years down the line when I'm dead there will be shade (when the trees grow) & but that's not going to do me any good," she added.
 
Others expressed concerns about just who will use the plaza."My comment is simple. The homeless needed showers," Guy Halloberten said, referring to the fountain in the park. Katie Zukoski noticed a homeless man already in City Plaza, but said she thought the openness of the plaza might mean it would not be as
overrun with homeless people as before."I'm hoping. I want to be able to bring my kids here and feel safe myself," said Zukoski, whose children ran in and out of the fountain. Zukoski said the family had been watching City Plaza develop and were eager to check out the finished product. While the site looked like it was full of concrete during construction, she was pleased to see the end result, calling the plaza "open and welcoming."  "I love it. & I miss the old elms, how could you not? But these trees will grow," Zukoski said.

City Plaza is closed from 2 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day, but passers-by can walk through it.Butch Hastaran was surprised to find he actually liked the park. He said he expected not to after hearing so many people speak badly about it.  "I really like it. It's better than I thought it would be," Hastaran said, noting that he loved the
fountain and thought the area in front of the grandstand looked like it would have a lot room to dance.

Beardsley said the parks division is also talking with the Chico Area Recreation and Park District about holding events, including chess tournaments, in City Plaza. He would like to see about 150 to 200 events a year.  "That's what this facility was built for," Beardsley said.

Greg Melton of the plaza's principal designer, Land Image Landscape Architects, said residents were very patient with construction crews during the process.  "I think they're going to be happy with the wait," Melton said.

The plaza's fountain will run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. daily. Melton said the base of the fountain is designed to look like a view of the globe from outer space. Four arrows, which Melton said are meant to represent the four waters of Chico, on each of City Plaza's four corners lead to the fountain. The four
arrows then converge into one arrow that circles around and into the fountain where it points to where Chico is on the globe.

Sue Luallen brought her 3-year-old grandson, Jack Antoine, with her to the plaza and smiled at him as he ran in and out of the fountain in his rain boots.  "We were just driving by and saw it was open," Luallen said. "I think it's great. Change is difficult, but it's beautiful. It's not like the old one, but it's great."  "I like it because it has a fountain. It goes up and down," Antoine Giovanni said.

City Plaza used to hold about 200 trees planted during Chico founder John Bidwell's time. A branch from one of the elms fell and hit a person sitting on a bench. The 2003 incident prompted the removal of the trees, which had rotting roots.  Many Chico residents expressed dismay about their removal.  "It's sad. It's like using losing your favorite grandfather," local arborist Joseph O'Neil.   "I liked the feel of the old park," Greg Alan said. "It's a shame they had to take it down."   O'Neil said the new trees in the park will have a life span of 75 to 150 years. "I think there's a lot of cement but I do like it though," O'Neil said. "I think everyone has to be patient. There's some good tree selection made but it's going to take 20 years for them to grow in."

Beardsley said City Plaza's cost to date is $4.1 million, but the city has not yet closed the contract."I'm a visual artist by vocation and I give it two thumbs up. I am not so happy about the price tag," Christina Aranguren said.    

BACKGROUND: A fallen tree in 2003 prompted a redesign of City Plaza. Many residents expressed dismay over the removal of
the trees and the redesign of the plaza. The City Plaza opened Thursday  Nov. 16th after construction crews removed the fence at 4
a.m. The city will hold a Ribbon cutting was  at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 29, and a grand opening was in spring.


 

                      The Chico City Plaza was redesigned in 2005 through 2006

Chico CA New City Plaza 500 Main St.

Chico City Plaza 2010

The Star supporting the archers forearm just below the wrist is 500 Main St. City Plaza

Chico CA City Plaza

Feb. 14 2009 Chico State Compassion Mandala Dali Lama

In Constellation Art, this archer shoots upward, In Chico the archer aims downward

Legend says, that the arrow of the archer always points towards Scorpio. If Scorpio was to do any harm to anyone, Sagittarius will shoot an arrow through the heart-star of Scorpio.

In late 1999, Nasa discovered that a supermassive black hole lies at the center of Sagittarius, in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.   Lore held that Sagittarius held "Gods Gate", Nasa finds one there.

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At this time, 9/23/12. it is theorized that this overlay not only superimposes over Chico in several sizes, exacting main street junctures as crosspoints but that every star in the sagittarius constellation is in the extended overlay, not just these main eight, often used for constellation art. All the Sagittarius Constellation stars have been found in Chico City Streets, charts are underway.

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                    THE CONSTELLATION OF LIBRA HAS ALSO BEEN FOUND  IN THE ARCHERS BOWSTRING DRAW HAND.

A close up of the Archers Hand holding the Constellation Libra in his grip. Inside the boundaries of the Libra Constellation is none other than the Diamond Match Company.

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   Stars in the Sagittarius Constellation

RUKBAT ALRAMI (Alpha Sagittarii) - One of the rare  instances where the Alpha star is not the brightest star in the constellation.  And this one isn't even close. With a magnitude of 3.97, there are no less than  14 stars in the constellation that are brighter. When Johann Bayer allotted the  stars their Greek alphabetic designations back in 1602, he normally named them  in order of brightness. But when he came to Sagittarius, he seemed to throw the  rule book out the window. No-one knows why. The name of the star is Arabic for knee of the archer. It is a B8 blue dwarf, 170
light years away.

ARKAB (Beta Sagitarii) - Arabic for achilles tendon, Arkab is an optical double, meaning it can be easily seen as two distinct stars with the naked eye. Arkab Prior (Beta 1) leads the way across the  sky. It has a magnitude of 3.96 and is 378 light years from Earth. Arkab Posterior (Beta 2) follows close behind, with a magnitude of 4.27 and is 137 light years from Earth.


EL NASL (Gamma Sagitarii) - Arabic for the point, this star marks the point of the arrow, aimed not only at the heart of the scorpion, but also directly towards the black hole at the center of our galaxy. It is a K0 red giant, magnitude 2.97, 125 light years away.


KAUS MEDIA (Delta Sagittarii) - The middle of  the bow. A K2 red giant, it has a magnitude of 2.71, and lies 85 light years away.


KAUS AUSTRALIS (Epsilon Sagittarii) - The southern bow. At a magnitude of 1.81, this is the brightest star in the constellation. It is a B9 blue/white star, 125 light years away.


ASCELLA (Zeta Sagitarii) - Latin for arm of the centaur, it is an A2 main sequence blue/white star, 140 light years away.


KAUS BOREALIS (Lambda Sagittarii) - The northern bow. It is a K2 yellow giant, with a magnitude of 2.8, 70 light years from Earth.

NUNKI (Sigma Sagittarii) - With a magnitude of  =2.1 This is the second brightest star in Sagittarius. Its name is Babylonian, roughly translated as proclamation of the sea, possibly referring to the "water" constellations that closely follow it across the sky. In the 2nd millennium when the Akkadians ruled the Sumerian culture for  about a century, the entire constellation of Sagittarius was known as Nunki. To  these ancient cultures Nunki was, as translated, The Place of the Mighty Ones.

Sagittarius has the stars closest to the center of the Galaxy

1822 Sagittarius Constellation rendering.

Sagittarius contains the famous "Swan Nebula"

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                                        GATE OF THE GODS


The Gates of the Sun are the two points on the Zodiac where it is believed that souls enter or leave the material world.  Before the present Age of Pisces, the Gates of the Sun were  Cancer and Capricorn. By this is meant that, in the preceding age of Aries, Cancer was in the Milky Way and, when the Sun  passed through Cancer, souls from other star systems were able to incarnate
into  matter (Earth) to assist mankind (the Microcosm) to ascend to the
Universal Soul  (the Macrocosm) where they became gods. The latter could only take place when  the Sun was in Capricorn, the sign opposite Cancer, which also intersected with  the Milky Way during the Age of Aries. Due to the precession of the equinoxes,  the 'Gates of the Gods' became Gemini and Sagittarius for the Age of Pisces. By  'precession of the equinoxes' is meant that, due to the earth’s wobble, the  North Pole moves backward one zodiacal sign every 2,000 years. 
 
"The Galaxy, Macrobius says, crosses the Zodiac in two  opposite points, Cancer and Capricorn, the tropical points in the sun's course,  ordinarily called the Gates of the Sun. These two tropics, before his time  [Aries], corresponded with those constellations, but in his day [Pisces] with  Gemini and Sagittarius, in
consequence of the precession of the equinoxes; but  the signs of the
Zodiac remained unchanged; and the Milky Way crossed at  the signs Cancer
and Capricorn, though not at those constellations.

 "Through these gates souls were supposed to descend to  earth and re-ascend to Heaven. One, Macrobius says, in his dream of Scipio, was  styled the Gate of Men; and the other, the Gate of the Gods. Cancer was the  former, because souls descended by it to the earth; and Capricorn the latter,  because by it they re-ascended to their seats of immortality, and became Gods." (155:437-8)  Albert Pike: Morals and Dogma

 Occultists understand  that the Macrocosm is a euphemism for the Underworld, which their adepts  and masters have convinced them is Paradise. Ancient Egyptians and the Constellations describes Sagittarius as the portal or birth canal leading to  the Underworld in the present Age of Pisces. As the 'Galactic
Stellar Womb' or  Mother, Sagittarius will be impregnated by the Sun, the
father, when it passes  through this constellation, and this union will produce
the New Age, the Age of  Aquarius. 

"[Sagittarius] is a centaur--part man and part horse, and he is an  archer. The word Sagittarius means 'The Archer.' In Akkadian, he is  called Nun-ki, which means 'The Prince of the Earth. The human portion of the Centaur is drawing a bow  and aiming an arrow at Antares, the very heart of the Scorpion... 

The Sagittarian Centaur is clearly on a galactic mission being the principal constellation and sign on the Galactic Equator, home of the "Gate of Gods" of Earth's Precessional Cross 

Revelation of The Gate of God
Sagittarius is the stargate to Galactic Center, commonly referred to as the Zen
Archer, or the First Horseman whose arrow points toward Galactic Center. From Allen (Star Names): "the Strong One, and Illuminator of the Great City
(i.e., galactic center); Light of the White Face; and on the stones of Sippara
(the Sepharvaim of the Old Testament)--a solar city Sagittarius, 'appears
sculptured in full glory'."

The First Horseman, the Sagittarian Centaur, is where the First and Highest
Spiritual Light is found. Sagittarius is Galactic City of Light, gateway to the
High Council or Throne referring to our Galactic Center and is responsible for
our higher spiritual education. Overhead is the constellation Scutum, Galactic
shield of the Holy Cross, which is emblazoned with the symbol of the Holy Cross (the cross in a circle).

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                                                      GALACTIC CHART

This map is a plot of all the stars visible with the naked eye.  There are  approximately 9000 stars visible with the naked eye.  This map is plotted in galactic coordinates - the plane of the Milky Way galaxy passes across the middle of this chart with the zero point of galactic latitude and longitude pointing directly at the galactic centre.  The majority of the stars plotted on this map are within a thousand light years from us, which is only a minute part (less than 0.1%) of our galaxy, although there are a few naked eye stars which are probably beyond ten thousand light years.  All of the 88 constellations have also been marked onto this map although constellations have no real significance - all constellations consist of stars that lie at very different distances.

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According to the verses in Ezekiel and its attendant commentaries, his vision
consists of a chariot made of many heavenly beings driven by the "Likeness of a
Man." Four beings form the basic structure of the chariot. These beings are
called the "living creatures" (Hebrew חיות khayyot). The bodies of the creatures are "like that of a human being", but each of them has four faces,
corresponding to the four directions the chariot can go (north, east south and
west). The faces are that of a man, a lion, an ox (later changed to a cherub
in Ezekiel 10:14) and an eagle. Since there are four angels and each has four
faces, there are a total of sixteen faces. Each Chayot angel also has four
wings. Two of these wings spread across the length of the chariot and connected
with the wings of the angel on the other side. This created a sort of 'box' of
wings that formed the perimeter of the chariot. With the remaining two wings,
each angel covered its own body. Below, but not attached to the feet of the
"Chayot" angels are other angels that are shaped like wheels. These wheel
angels, which are described as "a wheel inside of a wheel", are called "Ophanim" אופנים (lit. wheels, cycles or ways). These wheels are not directly under the chariot, but are nearby and along its perimeter. The angel with the face of the man is always on the east side and
looks up at the "Likeness of a Man" that drives the chariot. The "Likeness of a
Man" sits on a throne made of sapphire.


The Bible later makes mention of a third type of angel found in the Merkaba
called "Seraphim" (lit. "burning") angels. These
angels appear like flashes of fire continuously ascending and descending. These
"Seraphim" angels powered the movement of the chariot. In the hierarchy of these
angels, "Seraphim" are the highest, that is, closest to God, followed by the "Chayot", which are followed by the "Ophanim." The chariot is in a constant state of motion, and the energy behind this movement runs according to this hierarchy.
The movement of the "Ophanim" is controlled by the "Living creatures" while the
movement of the "Chayot" is controlled by the "Seraphim".

                                   Why do we ever ask, "Who are the Gods?"

The Galactic Center is in the approximate lviewing location here at the Half Teal Dot at the right of the photo.

This is the center of the galazy, black hole discovery with Sagittarius "A" circling the center as one of the13 orbiting stars called the "circumnuclear" ring.

The Size of the star is as incredible as it's orbit around the galactic center, a presumed astoundingly massive black hole. Tau Sagittarii is Sagittarius "A".

                      MORE AND GROWING SIGILS AND ALIGNMENTS

             Diamond Theme and Alignments

                Dragon Theme and Alignments

                 Rose Theme and Alignments

            Checkerboard Theme and Alignments

      Sagittarius Theme and Astrological Alignments

            Free Masonry Theme and Alignments

                Esoteric and Occult Geometry

                        A Portal Gate

The City of Chico is loaded.  It has sigils, portal gate structures, Holy Grail art covering the entire city.  The Plaza design is constantly repeated throughout.  The Cathedral Chartres Labrynth is copied in the downtown childrens park.  Each position of the art, the plaza compas and metatrons cube design aligns to another in unending weaving of geometric shape.  The Astrological Constellations of the Gods were a surprise all in their own, another repeated geometric theme overlaying the entire city street grid.  The Plaza Chess board pattern is repeated with several stone inlaid chess boards and benches through out the plaza, the all seeing eye is overwatching the plaza in gigantic statue.  The Plaza sits at the Queens Square north and this odd positing is repeated around the city, Knights Malta, Templar and Rosecruisian is present and the plaza sits on the "dragon" line of the mason dixon line.  The Plaza itself is a compas pointing due north to Mount Rainier and the three sisters sculptures at the college implicate the three sisters volcanic mountains in the Cascade Range.  Chico is 113 miles from Mount Shasta City and the last star of Libra falls on Normal and 13th street intersect,  ????  A normal 13? 
The listings go on and on and the geomancy follows it to a tee along with a plethora of insinuating allegories in art and sculpture that imply realm gates and parallel dimensional geometries..
Cort Lindhal, a surveyer made several commentaries and a video on the city of Chico, due to its location in alignment with the Internaltional Peace Park in Canada as well as covering the freemasonry of the city founders, the Bidwells and their associates, Lassen, Stanford, Durham, Sutter and so on.
Layer after layer continue to emerge in this city of the gates with copper crescent arches at the entrance of the city plaza, the corners in the exact four directions with four pawns or archangels posed at each entrance and four spiral painted walkways leading to the center fountain into a six outer and then twelve starred circle of the zodiac and and 8x8 chess board magic 64 square city plaza on full city block in size.  The plaza holds in its square the diamond that is banked by the chico radio station to the north, the diamond tower of the senator theator to the east, the Diamond hotel tower to the west and to the south there is a jackin the box". The huge mural on the front and back of the large bathrrom building is of a train, in another realm going through a tunnels, on both sides of the building.
The entrance to the plaza stands two towering pillars wreathed at the top in oak leaves and the axis mundis is implied at every turn.
There are some very strange photos in the Chico State University archives of a very interesting past and an odd owl photo or two at the old college fraternity formal photo shoots.
There is a new stone henge styled monolith garden at the college grounds with towering stones in a circle, there are the griffins and dragons guarding the diamond atop the senator tower.
Sagittarius is the center of the galaxy and the recent find of a black hole there by Nasa has caught everyones attention and Sagittarious overlays this cities street design more than once and he is holding Libra in his hand as he shoots downward...what does all this mean?
The plaza seems to be a clock, a clandar, a zodiac, metatrons cube, a compass as well as a massive chess board.  The plaza itself sits at the queens square on the larger 8x8 64 square city block grid.  Theme repeate here in smaller and larger geometric overlays. It has everything that suspicion, lore and mystery hold dear as well as a Monks Tavern with wines from the New St Clairvoux monestary just moments away in Vina, built with some of the original Knights Templar and Knights Malta temple stones they imported from the Clairvouix Cistercern Monastery in Italy.  These are the oldest known stones from the 16th century in all of the United States..  Chico has a Maltese bar with the Maltese cross.  It has the nickname the city of "roses" with a full rose garden on the college grounds shaped and designed exactly like the city plaza and the Lisbon Rose Line also aligns to the city with a full california triad of Roses, Rosevill, Santa Rosa with Sacramento sitting perfect middle..
Everything is in its place to be an eccentric geometric esoteric playground.  Any brief study into symbolism and realm gates would give this town away in a heartbeat.  The continued speckling of crosses on circles seen only from an aerial view is astounding because no one ever sees any of it from the ground.
The Chico Freemasons are the Lodge no.111 and the Auxillary is located at 1110 West East Ave.  Numbers are popular too, especially 13.
Who could miss all this?  Sagittarius poised every faithful guard at the Gate of the Gods in the center of the Galaxy, holding Libra the scales of Justice in his bow hand with a Diamond inside.  I shudder to think who he is pointing at, is it Scorpio, still? Is he pointing in only one direction?
The biggie here, the astonishment above other man made geomancies and symbolisms of today is that this plaza was charted and the city streets built in accordance with these sagitarian anomolies nearly at least 100 years before the galactic center supermassive black hole was discovered by humans and at least fifty years before any comprehension of black holes was available.  Now there is a cosmic event underway as the hole is pulling in a celestial mass and swallowing it right before our very eyes.  This swallow is to be in 2015 and at the moment the mass is picking up speed and racing towards its transformation out of this galaxy through the gate of the gods.  Crazy!
This supercedes any geomantic system on earth that aligns with any other constellation by far due to the galactic center black hole as a focus and with obvious prior knowledge of celestial events and human discoveries. Comparable galactic geomantics may exist but are not readily known or famed thus far in history.  Geomantics aligning to star systems and constellations are certainly not new, the Egyption Pyramids are a prime example, but nothing yet that includes or prominates the actual milky way galactic center or a black hole.  Further it concludes the long posited theory by some, including myself, that "buildings" are only useful as points heavily laden with occult esotericism and that the talisman should be outdoors under direct influence from solar light, lunar light and celestual affects.  Closed and hidden talismans are weakened and the effects smaller when out of direct contactual influence of the cosmos around it.  Chico Plaza is a large talisman out in the opne, like stonehenge and other great outdoor talismand and the entire talisman is the actual size of the entire city and  is repeated in descending size or ascending size in overlay after overlay with acute permeation and quality vortex energies.
To master such a keyed vortex, one would have to have some credible and weighty connection to it . . . or earn it.