By being constructed as stable throughout time, Stonehenge is opened for the task of being our exemplary transfixture of Juxtaposition. It is a structure seeming to exist permanently that one can be prepositional to, and can even connect bodies via preposition. Because of the various placements and positions of the stones, one can be (and potentially can always have been) above, around, amidst, among, at, between, behind, below, from, near, on, under… etc Stonehenge. It is transfixed as a site of reference for the body, transfixing that body by creating an externality to be placed according to. Because it is not mobile, multiple persons or other objects can exist in reference to it, creating an intermediate point by which to model a path to a moving object, and thereby allowing the possibility of motion. This juxtaposition is possibly at its grandest scale when we look at how it interacts between humans and the stars. The structure uses celestial placement which predicts and approximates events such as solstices and eclipses based on the positions of heavenly bodies as they relate to stonehenge, and certain stones in it. The Heel Stone, for instance, will stand exactly between the center and the sun at the summer solstice. Here we have a relationship to time through regular events, but only as it relates to movement in space and the visual field, and which is once again entirely judged off the centrality of Stonehenge. 

Stonehenge becomes a fulcrum for various social structures as well, a crossroads of the material and spiritual worlds which holds a physical and metaphysical solidity. The dual astronomical and religious functions bring both the natural and supernatural into place transfixed by the site. Ancestor worship linked the present moment with past, and created a stability of self via the family and lineage through the ritual and action performed at Stonehenge and with the physical remnants of the material bodies of families there. Many of the bodies buried at Stonehenge were outsiders from places across Europe far from Amesbury, where it is located. This positioned Stonehenge as a gravitational center of meaning and culture, centering it in the worldview of those who transfix it. In a more local sense, too, it was a fixed center, which we can see when we compare it to the nearby Durrington Walls Henge. This establishes Stonehenge further as an inert site, one of death, as Durrington was a living community existing and changing alongside Stonehenges constancy. The site does not remain in a monumental way as it was repeatedly created by the traces of those actively living there, who would move their dead to Stonehenge and do the ceremonies at this more theoretically and physically durable site from which they drew fixed meaning in their transatory lives at Durrington.

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