Sahmain: Connecting Venus and Persephone with the Moon

La Parca in Potter's Field, 1999

Last year I was at the origin of the holiday, at Tara in Ireland.  This year, I took a country ride to purchase a pair of Paperwhite Narcissus bulbs to plant at the dawn of the pagan New Year.  Afterwards, I took walk in the woods at dusk, when the veil was lifted between the visible and invisible worlds.  I didn’t encounter any ghosts on the trail past Potter’s Field, where I originated my La Parca project (above), which found its way into Kundalini’s Daughter: Critical Trilogy, Vol. I.

Along the garden path of the adjoining Bartlett Arboretum, I entered what felt to me like a sacred space during the final aspect of the Moon (see chart, below).

I meditated under this glorious energy, Moon opposing Neptune/Chiron, on the shamanic archetype of attraction.  Venus, naked and shivering, in the Underworld, preparing mentally for her Emergence as Morning Star in the sign of Scorpio.  Below, are my insights, spoken in the voice of Venus:

Having had intercourse with the Sun last Thursday, I know my surrender is complete. I have made the transition to the archetype of Scorpio, the priestess at the temple, the well of ancient wisdom.  I now trust this process of equal partnership, authentic collaboration between the duality of male and female, to deliver the message of my return.  When I arise, in five days, I will not be alone.  I carry with me my manifesto, the creative child of this Underworld collaboration.

As I listened to the voice of Venus right there in the circle, I realized that I did, in fact, honor the cosmic marriage  (chart below) last Thursday through an intense rewriting of my essay on Aldo Tambellini, in which I placed his (r)evolutionary art within my theory of the hieros gamos. And, in fact, my editor, John Wronoski, is an earthly partner in this marriage by enforcing the integration of male structural logic and irrefutability with my female intuition that initially channeled the writing!  Which just goes to show that you externalize what you need to do the job that the universe requires of you!

Venus Interior Conjunction with the Sun

This chart, above, reveals a structure (North Node/Pluto in Capricorn ruled by Saturn on the 5th house cusp) for relationship (seventh house) made extremely dynamic by the exact Sun/Venus conjunction in the fifth house of creativity conjunct Vesta and Mercury!  The rising Moon in Cancer is in a harmonious trine to Uranus/Jupiter and inconjunct Neptune/Chiron in Aquarius (opposing the Moon before it went Void of Course this evening at Samhain).

A day full of illumination triggered by the integration of the pagans within the traditional structure of UUIS service, rather than the ritual in the circle.

This is what I wrote in the “sacred circle.”

I just purchased two paperwhite Narcissus bulbs.  Persephone is in united with Venus as she surrenders to her underground capture tonight.   Venus, having mated with the Sun, will show the feminine soul the passage to female empowerment.  Tonight she embraces the paradox: it is through the sacred marriage that she arrives at the full externalization of the inner archetype of the sacred marriage.  Tonight she descends to fully surrender to the natural process and embrace the darkness, at the Winter Solstice she begins her ascent.  This year, there will be a lunar eclipse on the eve of the Winter Solstice, making her journey all the more crucial.  Yes, the roadmap is laid out tonight.   This week, she puts on her robe, the appearance of a new archetypal energy.   But tonight she is still shivering in the cold.  She knows her life is about to change.  But how?  Marriage after she surfaces in the spring, yes. But to whom?   Is it possible to begin an entirely new life while still in this one?  Is it possible to be so renewed by love as to be young again?   As if I died and was reborn, yet without the physical pain of transition?    But isn’t this the metaphysical definition of the hieros gamos, where two merge into one — and the flower that blooms in winter — the harbinger of what is to come!  Instead of death as a finality, as in the old paradigm, death revolves into life.  RENEWAL!!!

Venus Moon Conjunction at the Helical Rise of Venus

She has five days of naked exposure before putting on her robe, at the first gate of her Return, which incredibly, falls at helical rise, November 5th, a mere 20 hours before the New Moon.  What a sequence!  First, Samhain, the passage into the pagan New Year (which I am honoring through ritual in the writing of this post); and then the combination of the first Venus/Moon conjunction at helical rise (Venus 10 degrees from the Sun) where we can see Venus at her brightest, as the Morning Star (Lucifer); and finally the New Moon  (below).   With the Leo ascendent, the New Moon is ruled by the Sun conjunct Moon in the Third House of communication.

This chart (below) reveals the entire three-step sequence ( Samhain, Helical Rise and New Moon) is about a meaningful (Scorpio) and coherent (Saturn) communication (third house) of a newly emerged archetype of the sacred marriage (Saturn in Libra ruling North Node conjunct Pluto in Capricorn).

With my Mercury (11 degrees Capricorn) squaring Saturn (11 degrees Libra) directly overhead during the final lunar aspect of Samhain (Moon opposing Neptune in Aquarius), the message for me is extremely clear.  Publish the manifesto  or…

…Perish!

The New Moon (in the third house) delivers the vehicle, providing the deed* is done!

How this for a New Paradigm approach to a manifesto of a New Paradigm!!!???

The necessity of imaging the deed as done, and acting in a manner appropriate to this resolution, while still in the process of struggling with the birth!

It seems to me that this is how the gods have protected this knowledge from arising before its time: the midwife of the message has to be fully embodying the message in order to make the delivery!!  She, in fact, delivers the wholly new Self to replace the decaying image of the uncooperative, uncompromising self of the distrustful female genius!  This process of shedding skins is reflected in the heavens by the absence of the brightest star, Venus, who is naked and vulnerable in the underworld.

* Pluto/North Node of the New Archetype (moving the Uranus/Jupiter out of the 12th house of the collective unconscious on Samhain to the New Moon flowing trine from the 8th house of partnership to Mercury in Scorpio in the 4th house of personal mythology)

 

Aries Full Moon: Edgar Cayce Channeling the New Paradigm

This Full Moon in Aries is the second Aries Full Moon this year; the first occurred on the Fall Equinox.  Here we have the Moon at two critical degrees in the first sign of the zodiac, representing birth: 0 (beginnings) and 29 (endings).  The power of these critical degrees is emphasized by the North Node/Pluto conjunction on the Galactic Center,  energized by the upcoming eclipse on the Winter Solstice.

In New York City, the Full Moon chart for September 23 (left) had the lunation across the east-west axis, the first and seventh houses representing self and relationship.  This Full Moon has the lunation across the fifth and eleventh houses, the individual vs. the collective.  The North Node/Pluto was in the  the 4th house of the subconscious before; and now it is almost exactly on the seventh house cusp, in conjunction with Ceres, the nurturing Mother Goddess.  The separation (opposition) of self from relationships (Libra) has a purpose: to intuit (Aries) who we truly are!   The theme in this chart is the transformation (life/deathrebirth) of personal relationships so we may enter a New Paradigm, emphasized by the critical degree of Aries.

Can we take our relations with us on this paradigm leap, or must we go alone?

Gina, my spiritually grounded friend, sent me a very inspiring newsletter from Bente Hansen.  A channel for Edgar Cayce, Hansen titles this issue “Mmoving into a New Paradigm.”   I often use this term in my writing on this blog, and it is thrilling to have Cayce’s consciousness of this new grassroots movement fall into my lap.  I am reprinting in its entirety below and summarizing answers to questions that followed.  Contact Bente at bhansen9@hotmail.com to subscribe to her newsletter.  Her  book, Edgar Speaks – Inner Transformation, Journey to 2012 and Earth Changes, scheduled for publication on March 18, which just happens to be the birthdate of Edgar Cayce.

Moving into the New Paradigm

This One, she always thinks it is necessary to prepare for this (session), but there is no need, absolutely no need. While in linear time, in your time, you are accustomed to mentally preparing yourself for whatever you may have to undertake, particularly the tasks you are unfamiliar with or you feel as though you need to be mentally and emotionally in a state of readiness for. When it comes to something such as this, in universal time, my energy is here immediately. There is no separation from this moment to any other. All is one time.

So when This One asks, ‘Are you ready?’, of course I am ready. Why should I not be? This is one of the states that you too will experience as you step into now time, as you leave behind linear time, as you step away from always needing to plan and to think things through. When you are in that now moment you are immediately able to embrace whatever is.

Think about it, when you are in the now moment you are able to embrace whatever is. There is no thought required. There are no mental gymnastics that need to be undertaken. There is no checking or double-checking required. There is no need to align your emotions with your thoughts. It all happens in the now instantaneous moment. With that, there is greater ease.

Leaving Behind the Old Ways

Reflect upon your normal day. Visualize the routines you have created. All your routines have been established through regular practice and whenever you are about to add another event to that routine in your mind you have to juggle it, to fit in the change. Then you wonder what you may have to leave out in order to accommodate another change to your routine. All that is in the mind. As you move closer to the state of being in the now moment all the old ways of being and doing will fade away. You will wonder why you ever perceived life to be so tough, challenging or even painful.

Once you reach that state of being in the now moment at all times there is nothing else. You then exist and have the experience of whatever is, as it occurs. You do not pre-think it nor do you reflect. It is just the experience of being in the now.

Why, why do you think I am addressing this subject right now? Because as you well know time is speeding up, or as I prefer to say, time is compressing. All time is compressing from the linear into the now moment. As time compresses into the now moment there is nothing else. Linear time, which was once like this (hands stretchedwide) is shifting into this nothingness, in to this now moment (hands coming together, signifying closing in of time). This means, whether or not you like it, you are going to be experiencing now time in the not too distant future.

Get used to the idea. You have incarnated into this lifetime in order to have this experience and in having this experience, to help shift the consciousness of the planet into what will eventually become a thousand years of peace.

Being a Way Shower

You are a way shower. You have come in to show others how this is done, for there are many, many, many upon the planet who do not yet have an inkling of this, who do not have the understanding you hold. But who will become apt students in a very short period of time once you get serious about making this shift.

Time is definitely compressing, and there is not much time left to continue living in linear existence. As your vibration shifts to increasingly higher frequencies you, through your vibrational frequencies, are responding energetically and through the soul knowing that this is what you are here to do.

Letting go of Monkey Mind

In previous discourses I have made significant reference to the importance of letting go of thought, of allowing the mind to be in a relaxed meditative, empty state at every possible opportunity. You may not believe this is possible but it is essential and even imperative to attain that state of non-mind, of empty mind, being free of the ceaseless chatter that constantly accompanies you day and night.

Most individuals will say they cannot stop thinking. You now have the opportunity to make the shift in such a way that you gradually reduce the mindless chatter you would normally engage in, and instead begin to experience moments of pure emptiness of mind. Here I am not talking about meditation.

As I have said previously meditation is critical to spiritual evolvement. Meditation is essential for gaining peace of mind. But in meditation you close your eyes and shift yourself into another space, another dimension. You feel the benefits of that experience, but once, once you are out of the meditative state you then will encounter situations and issues that will begin to distract you. Before you know it that empty space experienced during meditation becomes filled with mindless chatter once again.

No, I am referring to a state of non mind where you have your eyes wide open, where you are fully focused, where you are totally functioning but without conscious or subconscious thought. This is one of the biggest challenges you will find yourself experiencing during this time of transitioning into the higher vibrations.

The Way of the Future

Emptying the mind totally goes against the grain of all you have ever learned. It is the total antithesis of your upbringing, your understanding and life experiences. As you transcend the limitations you have come here to transcend, you will find that you will experience moments where there is an emptiness within, where you are able to observe the world through eyes that have no filters, where you are able to just be in whatever experience you are having. In doing so, you will have this moment of, ‘Oh, now I understand. Now I know what it feels like. It feels good.’

Once you have that awareness then you will endeavor, you will strive to find that space again. That is the space I refer to – the space of being in the now moment with empty mind. Now, why? Why do you need to have an empty mind? Because your mind does not serve you well – not the way it has been used. In this society thinking has been encouraged to such an extent that the feeling state has not been valued or understood. It is only by emptying the mind, going into the now moment that you can fully embrace and step into the way of the heart center.

This is the way of the future of this planet. All individuals to have that vibration of love coming from within at all times with no distractions from senseless and mindless chatter, and being fully present in the now moment.

This does not mean you will not be thinking. This does not mean you will be unable to function. The thinking you will experience will not come from the conscious and subconscious minds. It will come from the seat of your soul, and the information you require in order to enjoy life will come through the heart center and through your soul. The words that will come from your lips will be the words that are the expression of your soul.

In other words, you will speak your divine truth. You will not be speaking what you have been told is the truth or what you have been led to believe is the truth. You will have shed those tribal belief systems, those cultural mores that have held you trapped and believing that life is the way it is because it is meant to be this way.

Shift of the Ages

This shift of the ages is a magnificent transformation, but it can only take place when you are willing to let go of the many things that are holding you back. Whenever you feel strongly about something, whether that feeling or belief may be a positive or negative belief is irrelevant, whenever you feel strongly about something go within, reflect upon that strongly held feeling or belief and mentally and ask of it and at the same time feel what the response is. Ask of it, “Is this feeling real? Is this feeling of any value? Does this feeling or belief serve me?”

In most instances you will find when there is a strong belief or feeling that there is an attachment to it, and that you have some emotional energy invested in it. Do not for one moment think I am advocating that you become completely detached from everything. That is not what I’m saying. I am saying instead it is time to do your housekeeping, to let go of old belief systems, limiting belief systems, cultural values, anything that no longer resonates with the higher vibrations you are shifting into.

You may even find, during this process, that you feel as though you have no foundation. You may feel as if the very basis of your being is actually eroding, as you let go of one belief after another. However, it is important to do this, for you do not need a foundation. You do not need a foundation upon which to stand or to build your house. Here I refer to the house of your soul, the very essence of your being. It is whole and complete as it is. What I say is that it is time to strip those things that limit and prevent you from recognizing and owning the power of who you are.

Future Creation Comes From Within

There has been so much focus on the external reality, with individuals worldwide seeking to know what is going to happen in the future. In my discourses, I have said time and again – the future will be what you make it. You know, day-by-day you create reality. It is done consciously and unconsciously. It is now time to have more awareness of what you are creating. This is the point in Earth’s history where you have been given the task – or should I say, you have tasked yourself – with this important job. You are here to help change the world and you are here to show others how this is done.

It is not done by focusing on the external reality at all times. Change will not come about while there is constant criticism and judgment of others and of world events. The changes come from within and you as a way shower, have come to make those inner changes. Make them in such a way that you leave such a profound impact within your families, communities so that others too will be inspired to do as you do. As you make these inner changes you will actually find what it is that you have come here to do. You will find you have come here to be of service. The service you will offer to humanity and to the planet will be one of individual and personal transformation.

Inner Vibrational Shift

As you do this you will find that others will follow. What for you is a challenging task, will not be as challenging for those who come behind, and for those who come behind them it will be even easier. In my many discourses I have said time and again that this is not the lifetime for you to hide away. By this I mean, as you make these changes it is important that you are not secretive about them, that you do not hide them from family and friends, communities and organizations. You see, there is a lot of fear in the world, as there was when I was last alive. There is a lot of fear of the unknown and even greater fear of change.

As you change within, your vibration shifts. This in turn is reflected in your language, in your interaction with others, in your interests. This results in those around you feeling threatened for they will not understand what is happening to you. There are many who are transforming and they keep this process secret. Their families do not understand what is happening to them. People will not speak about why they are changing and of what they are doing. This is the lifetime to speak up, not so that you become over zealous and endeavor to convert others to your thinking. This is not what this is about. It is about you finding the core essence of who you are, living this as divine truth and not denying who you are to others.

Walking Your Truth

This is the lifetime to do that. It is vitally important. As you look within society you know only too well there are so many young ones coming through who already have the understanding, awareness and abilities that you have been busily rediscovering. It is important to be there to encourage them, to show them that it is all right for them to be as they are. If they are not encouraged they too will quickly forget all they have brought in. There is also within society a feeling that people who are undergoing this experience are just a small group and do not belong to the larger societal structure. No, no, no. It is time to walk your truth, to live in integrity and honesty without judging others who will not necessarily see the world as you do. At all times extend unconditional acceptance and love toward others regardless of whatever they may do or of whatever may transpire in the larger context.

It is very easy to sit back in the comfort of your own home and to find fault with whatever else is happening in the world. Given the instantaneous connection that occurs through telecommunications and the wonderful technology now available there are no secrets. Everything is being revealed, as it should be. However, that does not mean that you are responsible for what happens elsewhere.

Let Go Of The Burden

Do not take on the burden of others. All of humanity is together sharing the burden of whatever takes place. There is no one person who is to shoulder more responsibility than any other. One of the things you can do to lend support to those in need, to the planet when she is in dire straits, is to be unconditional in your intentions, to send healing, to meditate, to say prayers, to focus energy upon trouble spots. Do it at all times with heartfelt emotion, knowing fully well that your contribution is powerful. That is all you need do.

There is no need to gnash your teeth or be upset because of what is happening elsewhere. Humanity and the planet are undergoing a transformation that has been heralded for eons. As souls you came in knowing you would be part of this transformation. And, as souls you also knew you would be successful – of that there is no doubt. As the changes occur within individuals, within nations and also across the planet, allow yourself every opportunity to say, ‘It is divinely perfect. It is as it is meant to be.’

The world will no longer be the same, as it once was. It cannot continue as it has been going, for if it were to continue as it has been ultimate destruction would take place and that cannot, and will not be allowed. You have your work to do. As an individual you are transforming yourself. Remember that is your main purpose – transforming yourself. You will be surprised at the impact of that transformation upon others.

SHIFT IN CONSCIOUSNESS

As there is a shift in consciousness in individuals who come to value their uniqueness and divinity this too will impact others. Over time the deleterious impact of technology will fade, but it will take time. One of the most powerful agents of change in this regard is the parents and the educators of these young ones. Those who are resisting the advances of technology will gradually be heard – but it will take time.

PARADIGM SHIFT

It takes time for paradigm shifts to occur. When you have awareness that something is not beneficial you too are one of many individuals who has this awareness. So this then spreads until such time it becomes a movement. Be active. Learn as much as you can and begin informing others. The days of the large corporations dominating consumer trade will soon be gone. The Earth cannot sustain industry in the way it has been, and there will be a reversal. Not yet, not in your generation. It is beginning though. There is a reversal – so there is increasing tendency toward self-sustainability, towards a more harmonious way of living with nature. As I say the grassroots movement has commenced and it will continue growing.

CHANGE

This is all about change. As one thing changes, then the next thing changes. Think about this for a moment. The education system has been structured a certain way, but is no longer serving the needs of many of the young population. In order to serve the needs of the younger population there has to be change in community thinking, in parents who begin to insist upon change. It takes a long time for that to happen in terms of linear time. In terms of now time the change is almost instantaneous.

 

 

“I Am Alive” The Inside Story

“Nando looked mr in the eye and said,  ”Carlitos, I want to eat the pilot.’”

–Carlitos Baez, from the documentary, “I Am Alive” airing tonight, October 20, at 9 PM EDT on the History Channel

“…what is without question the finest survival documentary I have ever seen on TV.”

LInda Stasi, TV Critic, New York Post

‘Alive’ & well: Andes plane crash survivors tell their tale” 

 

This chart reveals a mythology (Neptune elevated in Sagittarius) of the Hero's Journey connected with survival (Jupiter conjunct the Moon in the 11th house) under the sign of the chart co-ruler, Saturn, ruling the North Node in tension with the Uranus/Sun in Libra. A human condition in which the transformation (8th house) of ego (Pluto conjunct Mars in Libra) resulted in the most brilliant inspirational (Uranus conjunct Sun/Ceres in Libra) tale of human survival (North Node in Capricorn in the 11th house of the collective consciousness) ever told (Saturn in Gemini in the 4th house of personal myth trine the Uranus/Sun in Libra.

On Friday, the 13th of October, 1972, a charter plane carrying 45 passengers, including a college rugby team, vanished over the desolate, snow-covered Andes Mountains. For 72 days, the world thought they were dead. But for 16 survivors, including 20 year-old Nando Parrado, what they experienced was worse than death.  (the text in blue, here and below is from the AMS website)

Eduardo Strauch, survivor with Andrew Streitfeld, Executive Producer, before the memorial marker at the crash site of flight Uruguayan Air Force # 571

When my brother, Andrew Streitfeld, told me he was making a documentary on Nando Parrado, I was reading Drunvalo Melchizedek’s Serpent of Light which relates a new mythology of the Earth’s kundalini axis shifting from the Himalayas to the Andeas.  I was intrigued, to put it mildly, that my brother, who never subscribed to my father’s mysticism, would be embarking on a documentary in the Andean Mountains, home to my father’s first guru, the Andean mystic Oscar Ichazo, founder of Arica.

According to www.alchemyrealm.com, the earth’s kundalini is from the core of the planetary sphere that can be described as a large iron crystal.  This force enters the body at the base chakra.

Ouroboros surrounding the hexagram symbolizing the 21st century archetype of Self

The base chakra is precisely what was activated in the tale of survival in the Andes.  Which is what the documentary reveals.  The power of the survival instinct and the communal spirit made tangible in the physical ingestion of the body as the group (Aquarius) contributing to the individual (Leo) heroic journey.

“I Am Alive” is, therefore, the story of the self-devouring Ouroboros made real, revealing a quantum leap into a multidimensional reality.

Nando Parrado, who rescued his fellow survivors through a miraculous ten day trek in his rugby shoes over the Andes, wrote a 2006 autobiography Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home that brings us up to date on the lives of the survivors.

Filming the documentary "I Am Alive"; photo by Daniel Streitfeld

Trapped in the sub-zero degree temperatures for over 72 days, the survivors faced circumstances that no human should ever have to endure. Fighting just to stay alive, hope was a cruel mirage in a landscape that offered nothing but despair and death. Against all odds one man led an expedition into the mountains in a desperate attempt to reach civilization. For the first time ever, the hero of Uruguayan Flight 571, Nando Parrado, tells his story in its entirety.

Nanda Parrado telling his story for the documentary "I Am Alive"; photo by Daniel Streitfeld

Parrado, who lost his mother, sister, and scores of friends among the 29 victims of Uruguayan Flight 571, shares a complete, candid and unflinching account of the 72 days of suffering that followed the crash, including factors that led to his courageous decision to climb out of the mountains and—together with fellow survivor Roberto Canessa—save 15 others.

Nando Parrado, natural chart, birth time unknown

Today, Parrado is a highly sought inspirational speaker in demand throughout the globe.  The documentary reveals in his gentle persona, that when he speaks his Truth,  he holds the audience in rapture.  The key to his character  is the North Node in Aries (“I AM ALIVE!”) inconjunct Saturn/Mars in the feminine sign of the body, Virgo, and the incredible masculine will of his Sun/Pluto trine.  He claims that his struggle to survive was his quest to reunite with his father, revealed in his natal chart by his Mars/Saturn in a tense square to his Sagittarius Sun which pushed him to scale the heights of the Andes.   A declared atheist, he deferred to the rule of Saturn, personal endurance, rather than faith, for survival (defined in the accident chart by the Moon/Jupiter conjunction in the survival sign of Capricorn) which propelled him from the crash site over the Andes to his father.  His method of self-transformation (Sun trine Pluto) to reach his goal was in the practical detail, one step at a time on treacherous mountain peaks.  His inspirational philosophy of “taking each moment as it comes” and “I’ll keep going as long as I am breathing” is revealed in the chart by the inconjunct from Saturn/Mars in Virgo to the North Node in Aries. the apex of a yod.  Having the detachment  to view (Venus/Jupiter in Aquarius) the bodies of his dead companions as sustenance  (Ceres) for the living (Aries North Node), he was able to motivate (Mars) the resilience (Saturn) of  body ( Virgo) into a miraculous (Jupiter conjunct Venus in Aquarius) act of Ouroboroic self-devouring in which the group (Aquarius) serves the heroic (Leo Moon) quest.

The December 21, 1972 alerted the world to this Andean feat of the kundalini charged 10 day trek over 30 miles of mountains.  This 29 degree Sun on that day of rescue is being eclipsed by the Moon on December 21, 2010.  Is this the manner that the collective consciousness is being alerted to the energy shift on the planet — an inspiring story of love and life (Neptune/Venus/Mercury/Midheaven in Sagittarius) which confounds experts even today.

Could the shift of the Earth’s Kundalini and the Rise of the Female Light be connected to this affirmation of life on the peaks of the Andes?

The Earth’s Kundalini is always attached to a single location on the surface of the Earth & stays there for a period of about 13,000 yrs. Then it moves on to a new location for the next 13,000 yrs, based upon cycles of 9, or what we call the Precession of the Equinox. When it moves, our idea of what “Spiritual” means changes. It transforms according to the new energies of the future cycle leading us into a higher spiritual path.

The bigger picture is this. The Kundalini has 2 poles, & 1 is in the exact center of the Earth. The other is located on the surface somewhere & anywhere in the world. It is the consciousness of the Earth herself that decides where it is to be.

There is a pulse of exactly 12,920 yrs when the polarity of the Earth’s Kundalini changes to the opposite pole, & it simultaneously changes location on the surface of the Earth. This new location not only rapidly wakes up the people living near this sacred point on Earth, but also sends a frequency into the electromagnetic grids surrounding the Earth. This in turn, affects those consciousness grids in ways that are determined by the Earth’s DNA. We grow according to a set plan & design!

To the few that know of this event & what is occurring all around us, a wisdom is transferred, & a peaceful state of being becomes their inheritance, for they know the awesome truth. In the midst of chaos, war, starvation, plagues, environmental crisis & moral breakdown that we are experiencing here on Earth today at the end of this cycle, they understand the transition & know no fear. This fearless state is the secret key to the transformation that, for millions of years, has always followed this sacred cosmic event.

On 1 level this means that spiritually the Female will now have her turn to lead humankind into the New Light! Eventually, this Female spiritual light will permeate the entire range of human experience from Female leaders in business & religion to Female heads of state. By 2012-2013 this Female spiritual light will become so strong as to become obvious to all who live on this dear planet & will continue to grow for 1,000′s of yrs.

For many of you, none of this will probably make any sense until you read chapters 2 & 3. Chapter 2 is the Cosmic Knowledge of what is actually occurring in nature & in the stars & how it relates to this new cycle of light. Chapter 3 is the history of what the ancient cultures understood about this sacred event up to this present time. This prepares you for the content of this book.

Beginning with Chapter 4 will be the stories of my personal experience & involvement with this “Serpent of Light” & the 100′s of indigenous tribes/cultures that have secretly helped guide this spiritual energy from Tibet to its new home in South America! Coming out of Tibet into India, it then moved in a snakelike manner to almost every country in the world until it reached Chile, the new home of the Earth’s Kundalini, the new “Tibet”.

What has occurred in the world along this path that the Earth’s Kundalini has taken has been almost unbelievable. People from different cultures & countries all cooperating together “as though” they were coordinated by a higher power simply for the good of human life. Without this spiritual assistance, I believe, humanity will be unable to evolve to the next level of consciousness, crucial to our very survival.

There are 10s or 1,000s of people, mostly indigenous people, who have been led by a deep inner guidance, from 1949 to the present, to help bring this unyielding White Snake to its new location high up in the Andes Mountains in Chile, where it now finally resides. Not only is this a shift of spiritual power from the male to Female, but it is also a spiritual power shift from Tibet & India to Chile & Peru. The Light of the World that has been nurtured & expanded with the Tibetan & Indian cultures is now completed. Its new reign has just begun in Chile & Peru, & soon it will affect the hearts of all humankind.

–Drunvalo Melchizdek, introduction to Serpent of Light: Beyond 2012

Ralph Lemon’s “How Can You Stay in the House All Day

And Not Go Anywhere?”

The cage of our postmodern existence; photograph of Walter Carter by Ralph Lemon, "How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?"

Imagine this:

A stark, empty stage.

A woman wailing in the wings.

For about 10 minutes.

That seemed like an hour.

A public catharsis for the loss of a specific woman.

And the loss of the feminine in every woman under thousands of years of patriarchy.

When Janet Stapleton told me the title of a unique cross disciplinary experience premiering in NYC at Brooklyn Academy of Music, I had to laugh. Perfect!   If this doesn’t get me out of the house, nothing will!

Ralph Lemon had been absent from New York stage for six years.

What is so remarkable about his comeback is that his public act of private grieving has provided a universal narrative for a new paradigm ascending.   The most memorable component of this four part (monologue, film, live dance and “Meditation”) multi-media interactive experience, described above, had no movement at all.

Yet, it precipitates an entirely new movement in art.

What was so magical for me personally will resonate with my readers.  Lemon, in relating his surrender of postmodernism language to the death of his beloved girlfriend, showed segments from a film they watched together in the final stages of her illness.  It was Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 Solaris, which I hadn’t seen, though I analyzed the 1992 remake a few posts ago on this blog.

Natalya Bondarchuk as Hari and Donatas Banionis as Kris Kelvin in Tarkovsky's "Solaris"

The protagonist of Lemon’s parallel film is Walter Carter, a Mississippi Delta native born at the turn of the century.  This Walter is a stand-in for another Walter: Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), the German intellectual whose “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” anticipated the late stages of postmodernism.   Lemon juxtaposes his two Walters in his opening monologue against the backdrop of Walter’s entrapment.  The protagonist transforms into a hare as representation of the underground journey that he — and the audience — will travel to embrace Lemon’s non-linear narrative — and subsequently make the leap in consciousness out of postmodernism — to something entirely new.

Spaceman fallen to Earth; Walter Carter, photograph by Ralph Lemon

We are provided with a prescient view of Walter in his initial entrapment in a cage (projected in video) to the place of his release into the sacred marriage of heaven and earth, represented by the falling of an identity of this “everyman” as spaceman into the ordered fields of the sharecropper.  He arrives via an intimate real life staging of Tarkovsky’s avant-garde film, his home transformed into space via cellophane covering the bed that he shares with his partner Edna.  Their dance in imitation of the dance in the lovers of the film (above) was proclaimed by the filmmaker/choreographer  as a real experiment in overcoming the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, meaning the artist/scientist holding the camera acknowledged his own role in the unscripted actions of his real life actors dancing in their living room.

This authentic breakthrough revealed in the title — which got me out of the house and to my first performance in over a year — into multiple levels of meaning.  On one level, he admonishes his peers in the avant-garde performance world as to how they can “stay at home” with outworn languages of movement while a new configuration is yearning to be revealed!  The entrapment in the  Solaris space station, mimicks the entrapment of Walter in the cage, yet this multi-media imaging of the embodiment of a new archetype is transformed into a liberating authenticity via the unscripted performance of Walter and Edna in their tacky living room.  Release into the momentary experience of the archetypal is what frees them, and the avant-garde itself,  from being the mere object of an artistic experiment but rather a movement towards real human connection in deep inner and outer space.  In beating the drum for unity of the opposites in this manner:  a universal archetype (personified by the spaceman falling to earth) in such an intimate everyday reality as a sharecropper’s home, and then transmitted to the most avant-garde audiences in New York City!  That very act of transformation reveals the destination of the surrender experienced with the dying lover into the weightless lovers of Solaris, triumphing over the copy to experience what is real and authentic.

Geography of the Two: Okwui Okpokwasili and Ralph Lemon perform in "How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?" at the BAM Harvey Theater on October 12, 2010, part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival. The dancers: Djedje Djedje Gervais, Darrell Jones, Ralph Lemon, Gesel Mason, Okwui Okpokwasili, Omagbitse Omagbemi, David Thomson Credit: Stephanie Berger

On another level, the artist is revealing the struggle embedded in the work, which is also the central struggle of Solaris: how to distinguish the real, the authentic, from the copy?  He might as well been asking his protagonist the namesake for the philosopher of the postmodern how to distinguish the Real under the relentless cynicism of the all-knowing postmodern ego?

Geometry of the Three; Members of the Ralph Lemon Dance Company perform "How CAn You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?" at the BAM Harvey Theater on October 12, 2010, part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival. The dancers: Djedje Djedje Gervais, Darrell Jones, Ralph Lemon, Gesel Mason, Okwui Okpokwasili, Omagbitse Omagbemi, David Thomson Credit: Stephanie Berger

Originally a choreographer, Lemon attempts to find this Holy Grail in a merging of opposites: abandonment of the highly developed dance body with the public body of his ordinary hero, Walter Carter.  In doing so, he creates a language of freedom of movement that extends The Geography Trilogy theme of his 2005 work to the rectangular space of the stage, even as projected in film.  Within the confinement of a stark, unadorned stage which absorbs his words and images, he creates a geometry of movement through Reichian charged bodies surrendered to the internal movement of the Kundalini, a free form attraction/repulsion through the Eros/Thantos play of opposites in space.  A visual and visceral language of the very meaning embedded in numbers: the solo, the duo, the trilogy (triangle), the quartet (cube) and pentagram (five).  Revealing sexual desire of the pentagram as the fear (projected by Christians as the Devil) of being left out, the fifth ending up alone in the center of a quartet.

Geometry of the Five as a pentagram. Members of the Ralph Lemon Dance Company perform "How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?" at the BAM Harvey Theater on October 12, 2010, part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival. The dancers: Djedje Djedje Gervais, Darrell Jones, Ralph Lemon, Gesel Mason, Okwui Okpokwasili, Omagbitse Omagbemi, David Thomson Credit: Stephanie Berger

This stripped down, naked show of emotional vulnerability is not only setting a new standard for the brave in New York performance, it is also huge leap forward for the language of the avant-garde.  The coding that Lemon has formally delivered to the body in movement out of the current struggle of the five, the struggle to contain our very desires, is hurtling towards a geometry of a new archetype: the harmony of the six, the sacred marriage of opposites that we yearn for in romantic love.  It remains, in the final gesture, as a goal rather than a destination.  Fortunately for us, this leaves something for Lemon to explore in the future, just as he has left something for us to explore in ourselves through his final act, “Meditation,” a multimedia installation on the stage of the Kitchen theater,  on the final day of the performance.

Ralph Lemon performs in "How CAn You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?" at the BAM Harvey Theater on October 12, 2010, part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival. The dancers: Djedje Djedje Gervais, Darrell Jones, Ralph Lemon, Gesel Mason, Okwui Okpokwasili, Omagbitse Omagbemi, David Thomson Photo Credit: Stephanie Berger

ADI DA SAMRAJ’S “ORPHEUS AND LINEAD”

(r)evolutionary!

The divine feminine born out of the sacred marriage and therefore indifferent to the male gaze!!! "The Spiritual Descent of The Bicycle Becomes The Second-Birth of Flight: Part Eleven – IX" Orpheus One 2007, 2010

My images are created to be means

for any and every perceiving, feeling,

and fully participating viewer

to “Locate” fundamental and Really Perfect Light–

the world as Light,

all relations as Light,

conditions (or naturally perceived) light

As Absolute Light

– Adi Da Samraj

About five years ago, I was leaving a Chelsea galley with my friend Peter Frank, when he said: “You have set a difficult task for yourself.”

“What is that?” I asked.

“To find the spiritual in art,” he replied.

Was he joking?  I never really know with Peter the wit, the punster.

From my 1997 launch as newspaper critic, I managed to interpret from within my own reality structure established through an experiment catalyzed by a Heaven meets Earth  planetary configuration which metaphysicians were interpreting as the gateway to the Age of Aquarius.

But in the time that has passed since I stopped writing regularly for the public about art, the only passage forward was surrender, as there didn’t seem to be any existing track for my journey to uncover the post-patriarchal archetypes.  The New York art world has little concern with spirituality in art.  Surviving, never mind triumphing, in New York City requires a great deal of ego.  For the last two decades, it was the ambition of pushing the slick and salable object into an insatiable market.  Currently, it is illusion of finding the “next great artist” through the competition of a “reality” TV show.

"The Spiritual Descent of The Bicycle Becomes The Second-Birth of Flight: Part Eleven – VIII from Orpheus One" 2007, 2008 – Lacquer on aluminum, 72 x 71 inches / 183 x 180 cm

Fortunately, the New York premiere of Adi Da Samraj at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Chelsea revealed a new modernism — that ironically for a self-declared avatar– resolved the postmodern obstacle of ego.  Not only because the artist is dead, but because the fallen guru managed an entire trajectory of death and rebirth the last decade without being tempted by the prospect of fame.  The hand that removed itself from the physical manifestation of his vision was also the hand that waved away the viscitudes of fame and fortune, and the audience expectations that come with such an unholy pursuit.

Yet, it turns out that Peter Frank led me onto “Orpheus and Linead,” Adi Da Samraj’s premiere exhibition in Chelsea!  It began with an e-mail “By way of Peter Frank” which contained an invitation to a special preview from  Mei-Ling Israel, author of The World as Light, a fascinating book about the evolution of the avatar’s vision into the material of his art.  The images from the exhibition didn’t initially attract me.  They were so blatantly digital with primary color combinations reminiscent of a child’s plastic game.  The viewing experience was jarring; how could their source be organic?  Yet, I found his videos so compelling that I did some research.  After reading much about the avatar Adi Da Samraj, and nothing about his art, I was prepared to dismiss him as yet another of the stream of fallen gurus that have appeared in my path…

But in an internet search for his astrology chart, I discovered this writing from his appointed astrologer, the Broken Yogi Samyana:

As mentioned in an earlier piece on the astrological view of the universe as an endless series of cycles, I got my start in astrology on something of a lark. As a strong skeptic and disdainer of all things astrological, I felt at a certain point that I should actually look into it and see if there was anything useful or meaningful or even true about it. Rather than simply read the literature, which seemed rather puerile for the most part, I simply used astrological software to plot out star patterns, using a charting method of my own devising, to see if there really were significant correspondences between star patterns and life patterns, studying most directly the life of my Guru at the time, Adi Da. What I found defied rationalistic explanation, and I began to formulate ideas and theories about how these correspondences could be meaningful, and deducing from the patterns what the underlying meanings of various astrological patterns were. In some respects these meanings confirmed traditional astrological literature, but at other times they stood in stark contrast, and implied a different understanding than the literature seemed to hold true.

After a year or so I wrote up a very long paper detailing some of these findings, along with a set of “test predictions” which could be used to verify their value, and sent it to Adi Da. His inner circle were quite excited about it, and told Adi Da what I had done, but he wanted to see nothing of it until time had proven or disproven the predictions I had. After another year or so, so many of the predictions I had made had come to pass that they felt comfortable presenting my work to Adi Da, and he approved of it, asking me to be his personal astrologer. After spending retreat time with him, he modified and expanded the function to simply “studying his pattern”. During this time, he also gave a significant amount of instruction on his view of the universe as an endless series of patterns emerging in consciousness, and a fair amount of that instruction involved astrology and my use of it in relation to him and his inner circle.

Adi Da’s view of the conditional cosmos is, essentially, that of a machine that constantly spits out patterns. In his view, the entire cosmos is a single pattern that is endlessly modified at every level and viewpoint, which, while always appearing differently in every time and place, yet retains the same basic patterning. Therefore it is possible in his view to study any kind of phenomena at the level of pattern, and if one compares it to any other phenomenal pattern, the correspondences will reveal the something about the greater pattern of the universe itself. In his view, astrology is just one particular way of studying a pattern and seeing its correspondences with other patterns. One could do the same thing with tea leaves, or lines on one’s palm, or the birds in one’s backyard. Any patterning correspondence studied with enough attention and depth will reveal the same universal patterning, and yield insight into what is going on everywhere else in the cosmic pattern. This is in fact what Adi Da liked about my approach to astrology. Many people in Adidam speculated that he approved of my approach to astrology because of my devotion to him, as a way of drawing me into relationship to him, etc. Some of that may be true, but primarily it was because my approach to astrology was based on looking for real correspondences rather than just superimposing rote meanings on the star patterns and the patterns of the life of whomever’s astrological pattern I was looking at.

This view of patterning fits my experience.  I have had my astrology chart read many times, my palms read, my numerology and voice analyzed.  My tarot card readings were invaluable aids to my life journey.  In revealing the same pattern, these insights were my introduction into magic — the raising of my vibration — as the practice by which I could overcome them.  So, I was intrigued and prepared to re-enter Chelsea with an empty mind.  I entered the gallery with a single goal — to experience the art of Adi Da Samraj, not as a critic, but as a participant in a subjective search for — well nothing, in particular.

How could I resist an artist who claims he has a key to unlock me from my patterns?

My visit to the gallery knocked me out.  The power of the New bounced right off the smooth surfaces and reverberated deep into my psyche.  The tremendous scale, the sleek surfaces that seemed to mock the postmodern with the depth of their meaning.  The sacred marriage of opposites on the surface symmetry/irregular geometries of meaning as well as the objective/non-objective merging of abstract and figuration.  The newly imbedded archetypes of liberation busting up old patterns.  I left feeling incredibly free and optimistic about the future of art.

The shock of discovering what I had long given up expecting to find in Chelsea took over a month to sink in.  I wasn’t ready to penetrate Mei-Ling’s book or the catalog until September 29, and I didn’t write a review until I returned from the October 9 closing with Peter Frank .

"The Spiritual Descent of The Bicycle Becomes The Second-Birth of Flight: Part Eleven – XI" from Orpheus One 2007, 2008 – Lacquer on aluminum, 84 x 41 inches / 213 x 104 cm

“Ultimately, when “point of view” is transcended, there is no longer any separate self at all–but only love-bliss-brightness, limitlessly felt, in vast unpatterned joy.”  Adi Da Samraj

Adi Da’s position on astrology can be found in:

Three Views of Reality and Human Potential
Book 8 of The Practical Spirituality Series

The Chilean Miracle and the Quantum Wave Collapse

What better mythology could exist for our times?   The saga of  33 male miners trapped in the Underworld for 68 days and transported by way of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle into a global awakening by the Fenix (Phoenix)  capsule??!!!!  This reflects a cycle of life/death/rebirth in the national narrative of Chile in which an Aquarian grassroots experiment was quashed by the patriarchy, a C.I.A. funded coup.

 

 

NASA, with its Masonic origins, knows the value of a symbol. The Nasa constructed Fenix (phoenix) transporting to inner space.

68 days underground

…caves and caverns were compared to the matrix of the Earth-Mother.  The ritualistic role played by ‘caves,’ attested in prehistoric times, could likewise be interpreted as a mystic return to the mother, which would also help to explain the sepultures in the caves as well as the initiation rites practiced in these same places.  Such primitive intuitions die hard.  – Mircea Eliade, The Forge and the Crucible

The prophecy I was given, by many sources, is that the new archetype would emerge in the extraordinary ordinary person.  When I returned from Chile in January, 2009, I penned a Letter from Chile predicting the quantum wave collapsing in this Aquarian country full of extraordinary ordinary people, so completely attuned to the Kundalini due to the fissures of its earth.

In the chart of the mining disaster below, Chile becomes the focus of global media (Moon in Gemini rising ruling Mercury in his ruler Virgo, overhead at the top of the chart) for a personal/universal Aquarian (Neptune in Aquarius in the 4th house) mythology regarding an understanding into the new archetype of equal partnership (Jupiter ruling the chart conjunct Uranus in Aries in the 5th house opposing Mars/Saturn/Venus in the 11th house).

 

Chile Mining Disaster rectified to 1:45 PM (5:45 PM GMT). With the rising in Sagittarius, the first house passes through the Galactic Center with Pluto, planet of death and rebirth, conjunct the North Node in Capricorn.

 

The Galactic Centre is the womb of  Mother Goddess, the Milky Way Mother of Suns known of and told of in ancient myths,  who we have forgotten, and she the beginner and ender of great ages.

– Susan Seymour Hedke.

Last Miner Reaches Surface

“One of the most poignant moments of the last few days came with the rescue of shift foreman, Luis Urzúa, the last miner to reach the surface. (Thursday 1.56am, 9.56pm Chile). As the world’s media wait to talk to the miners, his will surely be one of the most eagerly awaited personal stories. It was Urzúa who held them all together by rationing them to two spoonfuls of tuna a day for 17 days. It was Urzúa who told the Chilean president: Mr President, we need you to be strong and to rescue us as soon as possible. Don’t abandon us.” His arrival on the surface triggered scenes of wild celebrations, with more champagne being sprayed about than at a grand prix podium. Chilean miners rescue – live coverage | World news | guardian.co.uk

 

 

Ruled by the Moon at Zero degrees Capricorn conjunct Pluto/North Node, this chart reveals the tension of being the focus of global media attention.

 

The manner that these men comported themselves in their daily work (Capricorn line-up in sixth house) while trapped below, and now in the spotlight, is a harbinger of what is to come.  The key here is the body and why this body of miners have been elected to deliver a new archetypal configuration to humanity.  Venus Retrograde on the IC is about to hit the Venus/Uranus conjunction in the 12th house of the collective unconscious in the  birth chart of the Chllean Republic.  As Venus continues its underground journey and surfaces while Mars travels to the Galactic Center and conjuncts Pluto and the Nodes at the point of the eclipse on the eve of the Winter Solstice…

The mythology of the miner reaches a new era!

This site has all sorts of data and charts on the Chilean Mining Disaster, including the individual charts of participants.   http://astroxa.blogspot.com/2010/10/astrologyminingaccidentchile2010.html

Resurrecting Ana Mendieta…

… 0n the 25th anniversary of her tragic death.

 

Ana Mendieta's 1978 "Silueta Series"

 

 

An altar memorializing Ana Mendieta in the office of the NYU Department of Performance Studies was placed between the windows overlooking the spot on the deli where she fell.

 

 

The deli across the street from the NY School of Performing Arts where Mendieta fell in the early morning of October 8, 1985.

 

September 8, 2010 marked the  25th year anniversary of the fall of Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) from the 34th story of her apartment with Carl Andre, her husband of eight months. She landed on the Delion delicatessen across the street from the NYU Tisch School of Performing Arts on Broadway.

Where is Ana Mendieta? Curated by Richard Move, the exhibition at the NYU Fales Library opened the A.I.R.  (Artist in Residence) Gallery Archive  to the public and screened Move’s new film (in which I was a participant), Bloodwork: The Story of Ana Mendieta.

On October 7, 2010, Move hosted a panel which resurrected her groundbreaking art to bold new interpretations in the 21st century.

It was standing room only. Several people had to be turned away.

 

Kat Griefen – Director, A.I.R. Gallery spoke the five years in which Mendieta (in white shirt) played an active role in A.I.R.

 

 

Genevieve Hyacinthe – Assistant Professor, Purchase College (SUNY) provided a fascinating interpretation of Mendieta's art through the spiritual practice of Santeria

 

 

Jose Esteban Munoz – Chair, NYU Department of Performance Studies, spoke about why we are still looking for Ana Mendieta

 

 

Carolee Schneemann – Multidisciplinary Artist revealed the parallel path she and Anna were on to give form to the unseen force of the kundalini in the body.

 

 

Diana Taylor – University Professor, NYU and Founding Director, Hemispheric Institute spoke about Re-performance: Here she demonstrates how "Abramovic can't let go."

 

Richard Move, the most avant-garde of New York performance artists, has catalyzed a (r)evolution in the academy.

 

 

Richard Move at the reception following the symposium with his longtime collaborator, Janet Stapleton

Ana Mendieta's "Tumbas (Tombs)" 1977

 

If man can no longer control the female through the body, then it effectively means the death of the patriarchy.  With a grounding in this consciousness, Where is Ana Mendieta? answered its own question by delivering performance art into a new era.

The Kundalini climbing out of exile (the tomb) into an awakening was captured in a spirit collaboration described by Carolee Schneemann in both the film and symposium:

 

Carolee Schneemann talking about the process of making the art which gave form to a dream sent by Ana.

 

(Left to Right) A letter sent to Mendieta informing her unpaid dues at A.I.R. and the artist’s response in the form of a brief letter resigning from the collective through the sell of her share.  Beside it, an invitation to  participate in an Earthworks show which would have placed her as an equal among the male artists in a new Land Art movement.  She didn’t live to participate.  

Think of how art history, and the culture, might have evolved if Mendietta had lived!

 

Ana Mendieta's "Alma Silueta en Fuego (Soul Silhouette on Fire)," 1975 brings the unseen force of the Kundalini into the human form.

 

But perhaps it was inevitable with an artist who ventured that far out into the unexplored realm of inner space would be creating her own tomb …

She left the family that she created in NYC, the grounding of the A.I.R. collective of female artists and lept into an unconscious marriage with the High Priest of minimalism, Carl Andre.  But her star was ascending as his was on the decline.

 

"Tree of Life" a 1976 self-portrait by Ana Mendieta captures her image as the ancient love goddess Inanna/Ishtar of the Sacred Marriage Rites

 

In a more perfect world they might have met in the middle as collaborators of a new vision of equal partnership, ushering in the icon of a new era: the hieros gamos (sacred marriage).

 

View of where Ana Mendieta landed from her 35th story fall. Carl Andre, who was tried and acquitted of murder, still lives in the same apartment on the top floor of this high rise building across the street from the Tisch School of Performing Arts

 

It was not to be.  And from where we stood to honor her memory on October 7, you can look right down at the spot she fell.

The transformative love of  Richard Move for the feminine divine has propelled the Kundalini consciousness out of the Underground where she fell and directly into the Ivory Tower!

LIBRA NEW MOON: HIEROS GAMOS

The New Moon in Libra has HIEROS GAMOS stamped all over it.

The chart set for NYC, the capital of global media, practically screams out: THE TIME HAS COME!  If anyone reading this has been attentively working on embodying this archetype, I can channel Neitzsche’s Zarathustra:

The destined hour has arrived!

“My hour has come” (to his sister, June 19, 1891).  ”It is one of the strongest spiritual drinks…It is a beginning of my beginnings—what lies ahead of me! …I am at the summit of my life, i.e. my tasks…” (to Overbeck, September 1881).  What Nietzsche was later to consider the third phase had now arrived in the form of fate which claimed him completely and which he knew he was destined to carry out.  (Karl Jaspers, C. F. Wallraff, F. J. Schmitz; Nietzsche: An Understanding of his Philosophical Activity, p.48

The coding is threaded throughout the chart.  Mars triggering the Midheaven conjunct Venus.  Capricorn rising with Pluto/Ceres conjunct the North Node in the 12th house of the collective unconscious.  The message here is concretization, containment and structure of a new archetype.  This interpretation is reinforced by the Venus/Moon conjunction this afternoon.  Taking place nearly an hour earlier, the Capricorn Rising conjuncts the North Node.  It promises to be an intense 24 hours night of illumination coming from the body.  I ended up finishing a manuscript, writing a short speech and chronicling my next two posts.  And I still have three hours to go!  That is how intense this lunation cycle is for the crystalization (Saturn) of a new archetype embedded in the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction, here straddling the second (body) and third (communication) houses.

What is key is the Asteroids: the feminine in the chart.  Vesta and Ceres sextiling at Zero degrees and Juno forming a Yod with the sextile to Vesta and Jupiter/Uranus at the apex.  It is as if a Congress of the female goddess has converged to formally (Capricorn) usher Venus through the gate to the Underworld draping her in the full garb of the Sky Goddess!

Crystalization of a New Archetype: Venus Retrograde Conjunct the Moon

 

Mario Vargas Llosa wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.

““The lies in novels are not gratuitous—they fill in the insufficiencies of life,” he wrote.  “Thus when life seems full and absolute, and men, out of an all consuming faith, are resigned to their destinies, novels perform no service at all.  Religious cultures produce poetry and theater, not novels.  Fiction is an art of societies in which faith is undergoing some sort of crisis, in which it’s necessary to believe in something, in which the Unitarian, trust and absolute vision has been supplanted by a shattered one and an uncertainty about the world we inhabit and afterworld.”

—excerpted from: “A Storyteller Enthralled by the Power of Art”   Michiko Kakutani’s “An Appraisal” the New York Times, October 8, 2010

And I bring to a close my 24 years of novel writing by finishing The Sacred Seven which incorporates sacred geometry into the novel through the progression of seven self-contained chapters chronicling a 24 year process of containing the kundalini in the body.

The Full Moon will bring the illumination to the 9th house process engaged at this New Moon!  Stay tuned!

 

The Subtext of George Clooney

George Clooney on Capitol Hill. Photo credit: Lisa Paul Streitfeld

…is in the stars.

The subtext  of George Clooney is not in any particular work of art he has had a hand in creating – whether as actor, director, writer, producer or all together — but rather  the evolution of an on-screen persona.  Rare for an actor, his core character strength is a work in progress that leaves artifacts – films, public appearances, mischievous pranks – for us to decode.

In overcoming the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, Clooney becomes an extremely hospitable guide to the paradigm leap.  That he manages to do so while challenging his audience’s expectations, yet without self-conscious irony, indicates he is hooking into something beyond the postmodern.

The precise and even calculating manner that this artist — who labored for so long in the shadows under the burden of a consciousness of the very pitfalls of fame – chooses his vehicles for public expression is fascinating against the backdrop of his natal astrology chart.  This has been true ever since his starring role in Steven Soderbergh’s 2002 remaking of Solaris, which reinterpreted the Stanisław Lem science fiction novel about an oceanic consciousness in outer space into the Ouroboric passage into the sacred marriage, via the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.  While many films are about the anima, it is rare for a film to work out the anima problem as Solaris does within a non-linear story with a self-contained aesthetic.   In the film, the beloved Rheya (derived from Rhea, the patriarchal mother goddess who destroys her children at the command of her husband, Cronus) evolves from seductress to conscious collaborator.  The message is that conscious action in regards to relationship (Saturn in Libra) is an evolution into the eternal union of the sacred marriage.

The shift from the patriarchal to a new partnership model is the door into Clooney’s chart.  Notice the fixed cross (in red) as the dominate configuration in the chart; this pattern connotes a surrender of previous patterns upon a new set of conditions that are both personal and universal (his Sun in the fixed cross with transcendental planets Uranus and Neptune).

His first house is shared by Pisces and Aries, so the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction passing between these two signs, the first and last of the zodiac, indicate that the lasting power of George Clooney’s celebrity is a  harbinger of what is to come.

When Clooney was born, Venus, suddenly in view, had just begun to move forward after retrograding in the independent minded sign of Aries.  While making no planetary aspects, it formed an EXACT conjunction first house conjunction with Vesta, the keeper of the Kundalini flame.  This reveals a containment of the Kundalini via the route of evolving (Vesta) the anima principle (Venus) publicly through the labor (North Node in Virgo in the Sixth House)  of expressing (Mercury) his talent (conjunct the second house Sun).

ICON AS SUBTEXT

At the moment of this posting, the archetype of the hieros gamos is constellating.  The signature is the conjunction of Venus/Mars in Scorpio as Venus moves into a retrograde station.

In Clooney’s chart, the configuration triggers his eighth house Neptune while Saturn/Sun conjuncted ( Sept. 30)  the partnership sign of Libra.  It is quite an amazing pattern, given that Jupiter (in conjunction with Uranus) in Pisces is EXACTLY on the ascendent!  Also, the Moon is in Leo opposing Neptune in Aquarius, making the personal (Leo) anima complicit in the universal (Aquarius) quality of the sacred marriage!

See below, how the sacred marriage (Mars/Venus conjunction) hits Clooney’s chart: (1) Transiting Sun/Saturn (seventh house of partnership) opposing his  Venus (first house) (2). Venus/Mars conjunct his Neptune in Scorpio (eighth house of marriage) opposing his Taurus Sun.

George Clooney natal with Venus/Mars conjunction of October 3, 2010

ANIMA CONTROL

Solaris (2002) set the tone for this new terrain: man in control of his anima.  Subsequent films he participated in extended this idea,

Elevating the Anima: "Men Who Stare at Goats"

notably the innovation Frances McDormand character whose female proactive desire drives the action in the film, and the joke is that this desire stems from the urge to fit the societal female idea via plastic surgery, yet the Clooney character accepts her as she is.

I happened upon this excerpt from Bill Tiierney’s Dynamics of Aspect Analysis which sums up the solitary position of Clooney’s Venus:

Usually our estimations of how any planet might act out its impulses are prompted by the presence of aspects to that planet.  But with no aspects to consider, what is an astrologer to expect in terms of that planet’s expression?  There are probably other unknown factors in existence that regulate the manifestation of life principle beyond what is presently realized through the structure of astrology as it has now evolved.  Astrology is as subject to the evolutionary process as is everything else (which should be evident every time a new planets is discovered and added to the structure).  We should not assume that all that is is exclusively contained within solar system based astrological archetypes (as we do when describing life processes indicated by the Zodiac).  What if earth-based astrology is simply the necessary springboard for human beings to eventually tap into completely alien concepts of being?  What if even more powerful galactic archetypes unknown to us nevertheless direct the mechanism of earth-based astrological phenomena?  Frankly, we just do not know if the astrological formulae we apply to our human condition are unconditional.  Thus, if an unaspected planet tends to show a periodic lack of control in its actions or moments of oscillating expression that are hard to account for, it could be prompted to activate this way due to the processes that we are not ready to know about yet.  These planets have been shown to undergo periods of spurtlike activity for no apparent reason (i.e. not

because of transits or progressions).  With our limited knowledge, it is hard to explain how these planets are generated into expression without any aspect stimuli.  (p. 173)

COLLECTIVE TIMING

Because the art world is both stymied by its commercial sellout during the boom years and comatose as a result of the economic downturn, there is an urgency for the celebrity/movie star to fill the void.  After all, what does the term movie star mean but an archetypal constellation patterned in a human being?

If the August 20^th Mars/Venus/Saturn gathering in the sign of Libra could bring the Palenstinians and Israelis together for peace talks, then couldn’t we expect to see some bold strokes from the arts of the paradigm leap catalyzed by the cardinal T-square of the last month?

Could it be that the popular culture is too corporate controlled to allow for self-examination?

Which makes George Clooney all the more valuable, and explains his universal appeal.  A movie star who reminds us of our own humanity through his very public humanitarian persona.

Fortunately, along with his grey hairs revealing the maturity separating him from other leading men, Clooney has developed his innate gift of timing.

Just three days after his acceptance speech for winning the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award, The American hit the theaters.  Why was a film based on a book titled An Extremely Private Gentleman re-titled as The American?  Good question that the score of reviews of The American undoubtedly failed to probe.  But for an astrologer it was a crucial clue to the super consciousness that appears to be guiding George Clooney.  The comparison of Clooney’s chart with the USA Sibly chart reveals a karmic connection related to his widespread appeal: Clooney’s Jupiter is EXACTLY conjunct the USA South Node.

Modernism dictated genius as a singular work, a masterpiece.  Under the paradigm shift that artists, like everyone else, must acknowledge today, the requirement for art is the sacred marriage of opposites:  the shedding of the personal subconscious and then accessing the collective unconscious and finding the vehicle of containment (Saturn) for that dose of super-consciousness (Uranus).

We can’t forget that two planets, Saturn and Uranus, rule Aquarius, the sign of genius, which is placed in Clooney’s chart by way of the ruler of his mid-heaven, Jupiter.  This dictates that his very calling demands that he hold the tension of the opposites — the Leo-Aquarius polarity — during this crucial time of transition between the breakdown of patriarchal archetypes and rise of the Aquarian Age icon, the sacred marriage.  In fact, the very ability to maintain a center is how the sacred marriage icon takes hold!

With this insight regarding is position in the collective consciousness (Jupiter in his 11th house), the title of his most recent film is a form of coding.  That the character of Jack  is an American in a foreign country is obvious.  But what about “the American” as the archetype our forefathers coded into the American nation?

Let’s look at the charts in comparison.

Here we discover that George Clooney’s Jupiter is EXACTLY on the USA South Node while his Mars in Leo opposition conjuncts the USA North Node.  Here is the opposition of Aquarius/Leo, the human and the movie star.

What is more significant is his Moon in Capricorn EXACTLY on the USA Pluto, with his Saturn only two degrees away.  What this signifies is an uncanny instinct (the Moon) to uncover deep state (Capricorn) secrets (Pluto).  We will see how he has been going about this in his recent films.

Moreover, Jupiter makes this highly karmic position a stellum, so this archetype of heaven/earth, human/celestial is imbedded into Clooney’s persona (Moon) as a sense of personal duty.  The position in the  11^th (Aquarius) house only adds to a personal narrative that is reflected in the collective: a commitment (Saturn) to truth (Aquarius) seeking (Jupiter ruling the Midheaven, the calling).

SYMBOLS, CYCLES & ARCHETYPES

What is uncanny about The American is the use of the symbol and archetypal characters drawn from the Spaghetti western (the priest and prostitute both offering redemption from opposite ends of the chakra spectrum: spirit vs. the body).   The physical  labyrinth, representing the journey of self-discovery with its unknown twists and turns — is embedded in the streets of the Italian village where the assassin is hiding out.  Along with its geographical isolation, this elevated landscape conveys the mood of the yearning for transcendence of a new archetype.  This is personal for the character but also pertains to the American nation, with its two primary exports revealed in the film: munitions and culture (the spaghetti western on the restaurant TV).  The primary symbol of the film is the butterfly, which connects the physical body image (the tattoo on the assassin’s back) with the ethereal concept of the sacred marriage.  This newly emerging archetype was to be located in arcadia by early American spiritualists (the Theosophists) translated into the film as a paradise where Jack would bring the  female anima figures of death (the female assassin) and rebirth (the prostitute); both women gave him the nickname farfalla (butterfly).

On one level, the butterfly, along with the film’s premise, is a cliché about the quest for transcendence.  In this case, however, the butterfly is a live presence in arcadia  where the trained assassin is confronted with two females.  The first will be his killer.  And the other?  The Beloved.

On a more mundane level, the butterfly is the quest for the freedom to be human, an emotional being.  But in a hidden coding that illuminates the ambiguity of plot, butterfly references Project Monarch in which CIA operatives are subject to mind control, which makes them slaves to an external authority.

When a person is undergoing trauma induced by electroshock, a feeling of light-headedness is evidenced; as if one is floating or fluttering like a butterfly. There is also a symbolic representation pertaining to the transformation or metamorphosis of this beautiful insect: from a caterpillar to a cocoon (dormancy, inactivity), to a butterfly (new creation) which will return to its point of origin. Such is the migratory pattern that makes this species unique.

Occult symbolism may give additional insight into the true meaning Psyche is the word for both “soul” and “butterfly” coming from the belief that human souls become butterflies while searching for a new reincarnation. (source: Project Monarch: Nazi Mind Control by Ron Patton)

Was this association intentional or the unconscious at work?  The American, rather than butterfly, was the assassin’s nickname in the book.  Could this film character be symbolic of the illuminati mind control of the American masses by the collusion of government intelligence and the corporate entertainment media?

In fact, the cyclical manner that violence is treated in the film – the very gun that the hitman so meticulously crafts is the instrument of his own death – is a mirror in which America’s exportation of violence has turned back on ourselves, creating technological slaves immune to emotion via America’s two largest exports: our entertainment culture and munitions industry.

Could this be a higher intelligence working through the Clooney subtext that the star himself isn’t even aware of?  A message informing Americans to connect with our humanity so we may together evolve into a liberating new archetype — or otherwise making us unwitting victims of illuminati mind control?

It seems that the true guerilla approach to creating a revolution in a media driven society is to use the mechanisms of the globalization of culture to mirror the very process by which the unquestioning adherence to the American dream is undermining the very freedom guaranteed by our constitution.  How does this bear out with Clooney and the emergence of a new icon out of the postmodern decay of the patriarchal archetypes?

SUBTEXT IN TRAJECTORY

the highflying American puer eternus encapsulated by George Clooney in "Up in the Air'

An early Clooney film was a 1996 formulaic romantic comedy with Michelle Pfeiffer about a social dilemma — the frazzled life of the single parent.  One Fine Day cast Clooney in the light of the archetypal puer aeternus.  He returned to this archetype with his indelible 2009 characters in Burn After Reading and  Up in the Air, where the insecurities of age transform puer into senex.  These portraits reveal the puer/senex polarity as crucial to the American myth, the innocence coupled with cynicism stemming from an inability to evolve  –whereas consumerism has filled the void left by the non-emotionalism of the American male.

Confronting the Shadow: George Clooney in “Men Who Stare at Goats”

In Men Who Stare at Goats he takes the shadow by the horns, so to speak (the goat is the symbol for Capricorn, the mythological Cronus or patriarchal shadow).  We are served in this film an antidote, the surrender to the feminine in a common goal of caring for the Earth.  Such a whooping message is delivered, as it only could be in the entertainment culture, with characteristic Clooney humor.  But even his humor is a vehicle for revealing the overblown violence in media, which, as Michael Parenti states in his Make-Believe Media: The Politics of Entertainment“… violence cultivates exaggerated notions about danger in the real world.  The exaggerated sense of risk may lead to increased demand for protection and increasing pressure for force by established authorities.”

But The American was a departure from the humorous vehicle for shattering a consensus reality so ingrained in the American psyche that no film critic could even detect it, despite the freedom of thought supposedly allowed by the Internet.  It was deadly (excuse the pun) serious examination of the American character that has become completely desensitized.  America’s penchant for violence, manufactured and exported in our military industrial complex and entertainment industry, will — like the carefully hand crafted weapon of George Clooney’s assassin — be turned on ourselves one day.

Perhaps it already has