Fire, Earth & Air 4

Whoa, speaking of the Life Force and Freud’s Death Drive, did I ever get hit today with a slab of the latter!  It wasn’t about “I’d rather Die than Feel that!” but “I’d rather Die than go through that again – Just Shoot Me Now.”  Maybe that’s Depression.  It certainly leaned toward Rage, with Powerlessness added.  The sense that the situation is Intolerable, all Exits are blocked, and just bailing out is the best course, that the Negative Rewards of the current path far outweigh the Positive Possibilities of all of the rest of the Lifetime.

While I’ve thankfully mostly Forgotten, this was a very familiar Emotion from my Childhood, and certainly historically Related to Abuse.  What Triggered the episode was a vivid picture in my Imagination of what the Digital Age will be like if the Present Trends aren’t reversed – Government and Business united with the purpose of harvesting every scrap of joie de vivre from “Commoners” and every scrap of Wealth left in the Commons.  The way ICE has been treating Children, and the Department of Education has been treating Student Loans.

Fortunately, these Varuna-Station Energies are Self-Resolving Challenges, and while the Experience was vivid, it wasn’t all-consuming, and faded in Intensity fairly quickly, especially after I Recovered enough to Remember that the Patriarchy is Dying, and to Poor-Sweetheart my Inner Child.  So it was clearly a Rooting-Out of the dregs of that colossal Victimization Energy that has characterized Colonialism since at least 1492, and other forms of Abuse since Forever.

As we’ve said many times, Karma does not Grasp us, we Grasp Karma.  Every time we Re-Experience our Traumas it is an Opportunity to Let Go of our Attachment to them.  For the first few zillion recurrences, we have so little Chance to Realize and Act.  But eventually comes the Dawn.  And every time any one of us makes the Transition from Victim to Choice, and from Self to Whole, we reinforce the Global Transformation.

Stretching our Sensitivity to five Degrees is perfectly legitimate if we shift our Perspective from What We’re Experiencing to What We’re Initiating, and this is probably never a bad idea.  If we make this shift with the Varuna-Station chart, it includes a Grand Sextile, one of the most Blessed of astrological Configurations…

We add Chiron – Pain and Miracles, certainly Who visited me today.  The Trine (long blue lines) is about “dumb-luck” Blessings, they happen to us, without Invitation.  The Grand Sextile includes two Grand Trines.  But the Sextile (shorter blue lines) is a Blessing that keeps on Giving, once we kick-start it with our own Personal Effort.  A Grand Sextile Energizes a Virtuous Spiral, where one Effort supports all the Others.

The Spokes in this one are…

• Varuna-North Node… our Mission Energizing and Energized by the Life Force
• Lachesis… Choosing when to Change Timelines, and Juno, the Meristem of Consciousness
• Chiron… Self-Empathy
• South Node… Held Emotions and Hidden Skills
• Mercury… Intellect/Communication, and Jupiter… Expansion
• Makemake/Manifestation… Aletheia/Truth… and Pallas/Boundaries

The Meristem is the growing tip of a Plant tissue, comprising the botanical equivalent of Stem Cells.  Imagine these six Energies all Operating Collaboratively and Synergistically in your Life.  While this Configuration will last only several days, nothing prevents us from capturing the Energy and Embedding it into our Life.  Do that with your Intention and Imagination.  It might help spur your Imagination to start with one facet of your Life (such as Health, Freedom, Abundance, whatever you’re working on), but you can do the same with many different facets, and then with your Life As A Whole.

If we don’t “borrow” Chiron by stretching our Sensitivity, the Vacancy in the Almost-Grand-Sextile is 2 Aries, “A comedian reveals human nature.”  Rudhyar’s take is “The capacity to look objectively at oneself and others.”  We need to add “with Levity” – Angels can Fly because they take themselves Lightly.

A final Configuration that we should consider in the Varuna-Station chart is one that we might call a “Cat’s Cradle”…

It consists of four Interlocking Yods (“Pay Attention!”) that Emphasize four of its corners, but more importantly, it’s a nest of four Interlocking Quincunxes.  A Quincunx is the Angle formed when two planets are five (“Quin”) Signs (“unx,” because there are twelve of them) apart.  The Quincunx embodies Curiosity, preferably “Permanent” Curiosity, as in Awe and Wonder.  “Left-brain” Curiosity, the sort that is compelled to Solve the Puzzle, encages the World and Freezes it.  It is Anti-Life.

“Right-brain” Curiosity on the other hand – Awe and Wonder – evokes Spirit.  It Recognizes the Living Mystery and is Humbled before it.  Among Faith, Hope, and Love, the greatest of these is Love.  Why?  Because it eschews Judgment.  Right-brain Curiosity also eschews Judgment.  Love fades when Conclusions replace Curiosity – even when the Conclusions are Positive.

We celebrate Trine Bridges and Quincunx Bridges when they create Easy Paths across a T-Square.  The Diamond Star itself is a T-Square with two Trine Bridges.  Here we have just one Square, but what a Celebration of alternate Easy Paths, practically an inverted geodesic dome!  The Challenge (Square) is presented by the Relationship between…

The Most Important Thing is our Survival Instincts (Saturn-Quaoar)

and…

The Truth Is That We Have Encaged What We Are Capable of Creating (Aletheia-Pallas-Makemake).

My Depressive Life-Suppressing Colonial and Fascist Image of the Digital Age is what I will Manifest if I don’t substitute an Image that Supports Life and Freedom and Empathy and Compassion and Collaboration and Cooperation.  And my Manifestation, in whichever form, will be a tiny but critical piece of the Global Co-Creation.

The Digital Age – which begins in earnest in late 2020 and runs for a Century and a half – begins with the first of seven consecutive Jupiter-Saturn Conjunctions in Air Signs.  Jupiter (Expansion) and Saturn (Contraction), both Social planets, govern Economic Activity.  For additional detail see https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2017/02/19/winding-down-the-industrial-era/. 

Prior to the Digital Age, Earth-Sign Jupiter-Saturn Conjunctions characterized the Industrial Age that ended in 1980.  Efforts to revive it, with its focus on the manipulation of Matter, are doomed to failure.  In Linear Time its Timeline has Expired. 

A series of 22nd-Century Conjunctions in Water Signs follows the Digital Age.  Like the Bugis, Huper culture may become Water-based, as sea levels rise.  And Economic Activity may revolve around the Scarcity of Fresh Water.

Some relevant perspective from the Sidhe Mariel, in conversation with Huper David Spangler, from Engaging with the Sidhe (p.87-88)…

“Mariel: Joy is part of who we are.  But do you understand and experience it as we do?  Joy for us is not an emotion of happiness but a relationship we have with what might be called the ‘energies of life.’  Joy enhances and at times even makes possible flow and connection…

“It is not something we feel in response to good things happening in our lives.  It is a quality we generate to add to life.  Where there is joy, all other energies flow more gracefully and powerfully.  Thought is enhanced.  Feeling is enhanced.  Presence is enhanced…

“We offer our joy so that you may take it into yourselves and act with greater connectedness and wisdom.  Your challenge is that your connections with the world and with each other are broken.  Joy can help you mend this.

“David: Most people, I think, would look at the state of humanity and of the world and not feel joyous.  In fact, people can get angry with those who feel joy, feeling they are not serious enough or grounded enough.  How can you be joyous, they ask, when there is so much suffering, so much pain, so much anger and evil in the world?

“Mariel: I understand.  But I would simply repeat that this is a mistaken understanding of what joy is.  You confuse it with happiness or pleasure, with things going as you want them to.  It is a reaction.  For us, it is an action.  It is a gift.  It is a flowing out of who we are.  It is a recognition that if we wish life to go smoothly and if we wish to be as connected as possible, we must do something to allow this.  What we do is joy.

“This is not just a Sidhe ability.  It is your ability, too.  It comes from a loving heart.  You need to change your thinking about the nature of joy, and perhaps my words will help in this regard.  We do not wish you to deny or overlook the darkness and brokenness in your world.  Joy isn’t a turning away of your vision to see only what is pleasing and beautiful.  Joy is a power, perhaps second only to love.

“Love defines and shapes the path forward, hope opens the gates to take that path, and joy strengthens and empowers your walking.  None of these things are emotions alone, certainly not in the simple way you define emotions.  They are powers.  They govern how things proceed, how things act.  They affect the probability of connection and the likelihood of graceful flow and exchange.  They make life possible.

“Do not underestimate joy nor deny it in the face of evil.  Joy is the fire of fiery hope; it is the power you need to confront the darkness coming to the surface of your world.  We are joy because we choose to be.  We choose to generate it.  This is a choice you can make, too.  It is a choice not of how you will see your world but of how you will see yourself and your own capabilities.”

Hope You’re Rested VII

Some outside Perspective wouldn’t hurt at this point.  Daniel Scranton’s Arcturian friends have this to say…

https://danielscranton.com/receiving-more-downloads-%e2%88%9ethe-9th-dimensional-arcturian-council/

“We have accelerated the pace at which we send you downloads because you are ready for that accelerated pace.  What we can see happening for all of you is the coming together of intentions with opportunities, and we want to be a part of it.  We want to give you what you need in order to act on those opportunities.

“Sometimes you need a nudge.  Sometimes you need a little bit more vitality, and sometimes you need a boost to your confidence.  We can provide any and all of those things and more, through the downloads that we are transmitting.

“Now, if you are concerned about not receiving your download, or that you will somehow fail to access it and utilize it, that just means that you need to relax.  The more relaxed you are, the more likely you are to let them in.  You tend to go to one extreme or another, rather than seeing your action and relaxation as being parts of the same cycle.

“So we are letting you know that it is alright for you to slow down and relax so that you can do some receiving, because ultimately, you are going to want to take action.  You are going to want to capitalize on the opportunities that flow your way.  And again, we are here to help.  You are the ones who make it all happen, and we are the support staff.

“When we see you receiving one of our downloads and putting it to good use, we feel that warm glow that you feel in your hearts when you look upon someone you love.  We are all in this together, and from what we can see, you all are getting that more and more every day.”

Marilyn Raffaele’s new Channeling is also very timely.  Here’s an excerpt, but I highly recommend the whole message…

https://madmimi.com/p/97e0dc?fe=1&pact=207633-147078905-9954513438-5bda4dce00c35aaac4f3eed13f71c71d3959bee3

“The material sense of earth will change as the false beliefs that formed it begin to dissolve.  It can never return to what it was in spite of efforts by those attempting to make this happen because the substance of it is different.

“People are beginning to honor and appreciate all life forms and are finally giving serious thought to cleaning and protecting the earth because they are starting to understand Oneness–that what they do to others and to Gaia, they do to themselves.  Humans are the only species that defiles its own nest.

“Those who do not yet know that they are spiritual beings (consciousness and not just a human body), are experiencing varying degrees of panic at this time as they observe their reality (the ‘right’ way of things) fall apart.  Because of this, some are acting out through violent and thoughtless reactions in a useless effort to keep the status quo…

“Shifts in consciousness can feel like and often are thought of as being a personal failure because they often result in the collapse of one or more parts of one’s life that were created out of a past state of consciousness.  Always remember that nothing real can ever dissolve, only concepts entertained about something can disappear.  If something in your life is a spiritual reality meant to be there, it will reappear in higher and better forms as your consciousness (the substance of it) evolves…”

And I’ve been reading a fascinating book about some of these “other life forms” that Marilyn mentions, David Spangler’s Conversations with the Sidhe.  Students of Irish Lore will know well the Sidhe.  They are a parallel race or species of Life Form that split off from the Hupers, maybe somewhere around Lemuria, since they are less tethered to Matter than modern Hupers.  Being more in Spirit than Matter, they can see many things that we can’t.  Here’s a short passage from a Sidhe (pp.136-7)…

“The reconciliation between human and Sidhe is part of a much larger project of integration going on in the world as a whole as Gaia moves to establish a greater coherency within herself.  We contribute to this, as do many others. 

“Frankly, the human world is both a driver of this integration and one of its obstacles.  Knowing how to understand and work with your energies and your world – and to have a better attunement to ordinary humanity – is an important asset to those of us working with this project.

“We need to understand your connection to matter, the love you bring to it and the love you draw out from it.  This is something even you do not always understand or think much about.  You take your physicality for granted, not always realizing the miracles embedded in it…

“To do our work, we need your help in drawing close to your world.  But for many of us, your world is filled with turbulent and often painful energies.  We need your help in buffering the impacts that arise from the conflicts you experience and create.  This is so whether the conflicts are physical or psychological. 

“I am not speaking here of your personal emotional conflicts; these we can weather if need be and may even be able to help.  Instead, it is the impact of your collective negativity that makes it hard for us to approach.  We need your help in bypassing this, like you would build a road around a swamp.  You do this by finding your own calm and peace in the midst of your life.  If you stand in serenity, we can stand there with you….”

I highly recommend the whole book; it’s less than 200 pages.  Some of you may not know that David was one of the founders of Findhorn.  Like Michael Roads’s Through the Eyes of Love series, David’s book introduces several non-Huper Life Forms that co-reside with us on Earth.  The Sidhe clarify many confusing aspects of these other Forms. 

Michael’s books left me with a much greater and deeper understanding of where Hupers stand on the Planet and in the Cosmos.  David’s book on the other hand leaves me with a greatly Expanded sense of the Energetic Matrix of the Planet and a much better appreciation for its Spiritual Matrix – which I believe are a prerequisite for our ongoing Existence on a Transformed Gaia.

Another Amazing and even shorter book I’m reading is Drunvalo Melchizedek’s Living in the Heart.  This is just a teaser (p.41)…

“At the end of my talk [at a conference in Queensland], I … walked to the back of the room and waited to hear the next speaker.  But I was intercepted by a group of five or six elderly Aboriginal men.  They motioned for me to come over to their circle, which I did without thinking much about it.

“These old men took me in their midst and told me that I was the first white man they had ever heard speak the truth as they knew it.  They told me how Mother Earth provided everything to them without their having to struggle, that the world was just light and that human consciousness was more than whites usually understand.  (They consider us a mutation of their consciousness, just babies who are still learning about the outer world.)”

Again, I highly recommend the whole book, it’s full of Mind-Boggling information about a litany of very important and surprising topics.