Interestingly, those who are unaware (or reject) astrological influences, have it in their natal chart that they cannot feel astrological vibrations. It would seem that the less one is attached to belief patterns, the greater the astrological awareness,...but this is not the case. It is certain that the less one is attached to belief patterns, the more that astrological vibrations influence their lives,...but that does mean they're aware of it. An example,...Yogananda. He was influenced by his Capricorn chart to a great degree (because he had few belief patterns which filtered his activities,...and yet, he disagreed with astrology. In my book Full Spectrum Consciousness I wrote: Chapter Four Astrology and Calendarics “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: Let’s look at astrology and “have no fear of the signs from the heavens” (Jeremiah 10:2). For me, my first look at astrology was as a skeptic. After reading a statement signed by 186 scientists in the September 1975 issue of The Humanist called “Objections to Astrology,” I decided to research the subject. I wanted to acquire a sufficient background to verify astrology’s lack of validity and debunk the beliefs of astrologers. The scientists in The Humanist had said, “The time has come to challenge, directly and forcefully, the pretentious claims of astrological charlatans.” Therefore, during a long Montana winter, I studied the topic and searched for evidence to dispute astrology’s assertions. Instead of unveiling charlatans, however, I emerged from my research with an unexpected appreciation of the simplicity and veracity of astrology. I realized why no one has ever proved astrology wrong. For anyone to say that the planets around us do not exert forces, albeit subtle, is like saying that the seasons do not affect the clothes that we wear or the foods that we crave. It would be like claiming that our moon has nothing to do with ocean’s tides or that the orbital distribution of electrons within an atom does not influence its nucleus. Viewing astrology only through the blinders of a sciential point of view, instead of through the point of view of what is being observed, is paralogical. To differentiate my assessment of astrology from a relative perspective, consider Bode’s law. If the earth were one measure from the Sun, then Mars would be 1.5, the asteroid belt 2.5, Jupiter 5, and Saturn 9.5, The influence that celestial bodies have upon the disposition and character of our bio-electrodynamic form within the invisible energy field of physical life, from my observations, is real, not imaginary. Therefore, throughout the first five years after I realized the existence of this influence, I computed, before the touch-a-button personal computer age, as many birth charts as I could. For many, especially skeptics, I would often bet them, with no strings attached, my services as their slave for one year if they could do one thing that was not in their natal astrology chart or cosmograph. It was a sort of neti-neti approach to astrology. By identifying what they cannot do, show that astrology has yet to be proven false. I would tell them what wasn’t in their natal graph or chart that they could not do. For example, one woman, eager to win my services to liberate herself from cleaning house and preparing food for a year, had a particularly aspected Saturn positioned in her eighth house. Essentially, the eighth house signifies sex, and with Saturn being the planet of limitations, her sexual activities were restricted, which is to say, she could not satisfy a partner sexually, no matter how much technique she attempted to develop. Her task, then, was to sexually satisfy a partner. However, the moment I articulated this, she had a light-bulb moment that my challenge accurately described her, and she immediately conceded the bet. At the same time, I showed her the strengths in her natal graph or chart, and since then, she has become quite successful and joyous, aware of how to flow with the nature of her own unique vibrational current. Astrology is one way in which our physiological vehicle interacts with the universe, and yet the general populace rejects this profound, observable, integrated rhythm. Just as there is a rhythmic vibration that influences an atom from the electrons moving around it, there are rhythmic vibrations from the planets that influence us. Instead, the scientially biased, those with active parietal lobes, believe what’s not true, for example, religious feelings and object-ive science, utterly disregarding astrology’s profound frequency, which partly determines our reality, just as many deny the subconscious. The modern Western rejection of astrology, through both religious and object-ive sciential belief, arises from fear. Neither they, nor anyone, are afraid of the unknown, for fear is always about the known. Christianity’s rebuff of astrology is even queerer if one considers such events as the nativity or birth of the Biblical Jesus. Astrologers, or Magi, from the East purportedly traveled west to Jerusalem in pursuit of a star in the East, which no one, including Herod, seems to have known about. Then they followed this star in the East south to Bethlehem to fulfill the prophecy of Micah 5:2, in which more than one mage presents three gifts. Nowhere does it say three magi, as alluded to in the Christmas stories. These astrologers reportedly give Joseph and Mary the resources, or funds, that is gold, frankincense, and myrrh, to travel either back to Jerusalem (Luke 2:22), where Herod was waiting, or to Egypt (Matthew 2:14), depending on which story you cr edit. One would think that Christians would be grateful to astrologers for their gifts to Joseph and Mary. Despite Christianity’s assertions, the truth is that no source beyond the Gospels According to Matthew and Luke, two second-century CE constructs, has documented a star, a comet, or any other easily recognizable celestial anomaly that accords with those two accounts. Such a phenomenon surely would have been noticed. At the time of Jesus’ alleged birth, probably around 7 BCE, three years before Herod’s death, Hellenistic astrology was quite prevalent. Even in the ancient cultures of the West, as in Aztlan, an area that was once part of what is now the U.S. Southwest, and among the Olmics and Maya of Mesoamerica, there is evidence of very capable sky watchers. The Jews also had their own astrologers, for they knew well that “the heavens declared the glory of [their] God, and the sky proclaimed the work of his hand.” In the East, whence the Magi came, Daniel, said to be a one-time chief Nargal at the royal court, must have been intimately familiar with the great year of Mezzoroth (Job 38). The great year is roughly the 25,860 years it takes the earth and the solar system, moving retrograde, to complete one cycle of the zodiac. Yes, astrology was widespread in those days. Some say that astrology was the mother of the sciences. The ancients observed many connections “Can you bind the sweet influence of the Pleiades or loose the bonds of Orion? Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in their season or guide Arcturus? Do you know the principles of the heavens? Can you discern their plan on Earth?” There is a plan for everyone on earth, and astrology is a means to understand it. Unlike the imaginative beliefs of the scientially centered, astrology shows that anyone cannot be anything he or she wants to be. Astrology expounds on how we can be the best us that our chart allows. But as mentioned above, if it is not in the chart than one cannot do it. If you hear someone say, “You can be anything you want to be,” run; that person lives in a fantasy world, a world of self-deception. The word zodiac, from the Greek zokiakos kuklos, means circle of animals. This circle, the great year, is divided into twelve ages of approximately 2,150 years each. Just as the Biblical Moses heralded in the Age of Aries, the Ram, for the Israelites, from the Age of Taurus, the Bull, many believed from their myths that there would be a prophet to usher in the Age of Pisces, whose symbol is the fish. There have been suggestions that the Star of Bethlehem and the shift to the religiously deceptive Age of Pisces could have been a particular planetary alignment. Actually, there was a very prominent Jupiter–Saturn conjunction in September 7 BCE, according to the ephemeredes. That month of that year was likely the time during which the birth of a Jesus/Yeshua, the Notzri or Nazarene, occurred, who as mentioned in the previous chapter, was hanged for sedition on the eve or Friday before Passover in 28 CE. Astrology certainly shifted to a Piscean Age, with all the deception that a Pisces vibration could muster. The nativity stories found in the gospels are clearly zealous fabrications attributed to Matthew and later the author of Luke to reconcile Jewish prophecies, such as Numbers 24:17 and Isaiah 7:14, which indicated that a virgin would conceive a child, that a star would arise out of Jacob, and that astrologer kings would bring this child gifts (Psalms 72:10). The feast of Mithras was actually celebrated on the Gregorian equivalent of December 25, which was the first day following the Solstice when the light of the sun was seen returning. In the Roman catacombs, it is said that frescos of a virgin holding the infant Mithras on her lap can still be seen. The propagandizing religious songs will have to go, such as “Come all ye Faithful” and Christianity’s rendition of “Silent Night.” However, we can turn many of them into nonreligious love songs, in praise of the love that we are. For Yule is one of Nature’s grandest holidays; it’s for everyone. Celebrating the birth and return of the sun transcends religion, its beliefs, and calendarics that are designed to keep society as a whole disconnected from nature. With our transcendence, we will quell the noël and reclaim Yule and nature’s other holidays beyond religion’s conditions. The Christian calendar has influenced secular governments, social structures, and the ideology of economics long enough. A calendar establishes the rhythm of social life. In a large part of the world, the Christian belief system, through its calendar, infiltrates the rhythm of our years, months, and artificial religio-centric orientated weeks, and thus, albeit subtly to most, dominates society. Because Christianity’s Gregorian calendar disconnects us from the natural cycles of life, it is one of the most significant underlying impediments to peace, love, and spirituality in the world. A calendar organizes our human activities. Consider again Albert Gore’s statement, “The roots of our crisis are an outer manifestation of an inner crisis that is, for the lack of a better word, spiritual.” The Christian calendar has much to do with our difficulty. Although the Christian calendar is an outer manifestation, it governs our inner life by obscuring the natural cycles To establish peace, love, and a connection with spirituality in the world, we need a profound shift in our everyday consciousness that can be facilitated through a “natural calendar” one based on natural time. The CRFC (Calendar Reform for the Future of Civilization) pointed out that “by rational discourse and common sense, it has been determined that the Gregorian calendar does not represent a true or accurate standard of measure or belong to any systematic science of time, and hence, is worthy of reform.” That is to say, as the sword is an anachronism in modern warfare, the Gregorian calendar is, as Rick McCarty says, “an anachronistic scheme serving the interests of men in a pre-scientific, theocratic society with a feudal economy.” The Christian calendar encourages neither spirituality nor a birthing of human beingness. It stimulates unrest, disempowerment, conflict, unrighteous intolerance, and violence. A natural calendar based on the natural rhythms of earth and our relationship within the universe would promptly change everything. Our activities would ensue through an atmosphere of connectivity, versus an environment that arose from spiritually limiting Aristotelian logic and dissynchronizing theocratic beliefs. We are where our attention is. If our attention functions within a religio-centric environment, there is an obscuring of our spiritual essence. It doesn’t matter whether we think that we are becoming more spiritual; we simply are not, and we cannot cultivate the sapientialness of spirituality upon a dogmatic sciential foundation. Christianity is a patriarchal, cerebrally invented religion whose intent is to perpetuate an inferior humanity. Many nature-orientated pagans, such as Wiccan, Asatru, solitaires, Druids, Stregharia, and polytheists, have also been ignorant of their own disconnection from the natural rhythms brought about by Christian calendarics. Except for freethought witches and more aware pagans, the eight sabbats, or nature’s cardinal celebratory days, have become generally obscured, and they have degenerated into mostly arbitrary days, which renders their vibrational qualities impotent. The sabbats are times of high magick. (Magick with a “k” differentiates the word from the sleight-of-hand, trickery illusions of magic.) These times of high magick occur at very specific times within the motion of the solar year. Two of them are synonymous with the solstices—points when the sun To grasp that, imagine a Tibetan mandala. There is a square with four gates, one on each side. These gates represent the solstices and equinoxes. The top gate is Yule, the left is Ostara, the bottom is Litha, and Mabon is on the right side. Astrologically, these represent, counterclockwise from the top, the cardinal signs: Capricorn, Aries, Cancer, and Libra. The four corners of this mandala represent the other four sabbats. During these sabbats, magick can be extended ninety-one days ahead and ninety-one days into the past, which is the time in space one could see while standing on the corner. Counterclockwise, from the top right corner, are Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane, and Lughnasadh. These sabbats, which arrive at equidistance points between solstices and equinoxes, are often referred to as the greater sabbats because magick is quite powerful from these positions. Most ceremonial pagans, however, celebrate these sacred times on arbitrary, socially convenient dates, not during the time when the corner exposes two full planes of the mandala. Samhain (pronounced Sow-en) is now associated with Hallow’s Eve on We can celebrate the sabbats whenever we wish. For example, many celebrate Mabon, the autumn equinox, on the closest weekend to the equinox, but the shadow of the snake slithering down the pyramid of Kulculcan in the Yucatan only occurs at the time of the equinox itself. Mabon magick is for the time of Mabon, not a few weeks before and after. Nature and its vibrations do not follow Christianity’s Gregorian calendar or the standard work week; a spiritual society should follow nature’s flow. We can celebrate Imbolc whenever we wish. However, to initiate the particular magick of Imbolc, witches and shamans must go by nature’s time, not human time. For Imbolc magick and connection with frequencies for geomancy and shamanistic practices, it must be during the exact midpoint between Yule and Ostara, on the upper right corner of the mandala. If we are not on the corner, just as on the corner of a city block, we do not have the connection to the previous quarter and the arriving quarter for magickial purposes. We can celebrate the full moon two or three days before or after a full moon, but full moon magick is best during the vibration of an exact full moon. Christian calendarics muddies our view and understanding of the nature of time and timelessness. The Gregorian calendar denies zero, whereas the much older and more accurate Maya calendar encourages a sapiential connection with the natural rhythms of time and those things upon which time effects its motion. To be connected with spirit is to flow with the spiritual without hesitation. Spirit is often associated with water, and water flows, as in a river. Martin Schulman pointed out that the river moves, floats, winds, and curves, yet as soon as we impose our predispositions and Christianity wants us to think that spirit can only be accessed through accepting their Jesus. They want us to think that love can only be had through the conditions of bearing, believing, hoping, and enduring, as in their scriptures (such as 1 Cor. 13:7). That is not love; that is the submission, devotion, expectation, and suffering to the conditions of their beliefs. We are indeed love. We are radiant beings with a song of the Sabdana at the heart of our essence, along with an active and incorrigible parietal-lobed ego, which veils our music. Cloaked in beliefs, ego has an inherent fear and need for hope, so does not want the symphony of love to be heard, the celebration of life to be experienced, or the liberation into light to be welcome. I once read of neurocardiology experiments that suggested that the heart’s energy field is more than 5,000 times stronger than the brain’s. Undivided light is our innermost core, the fulcrum of our physical essence. Everything we identify with, as well as everything observed in the universe, has light as its source, which will be more fully explained in the final chapter. It is important to recognize that the process of gestation or the continuation of this perceptive reality’s posterity is a metamorphosis within the particles and wavelengths of projected or divided light. Everything is light, and that light, as postulated by Bell’s Theorem, influences waves, even at great distances. This is part of the fundamental why and wherefore of astrology because waves and their frequency determine the form of everything. FSC is a book about ontosophy, not object-ive physics. However, some basic information regarding how things work from light’s point of view, which was also the point of view of Mahasiddhas, like Tilopa, is necessary to grasp an understanding of full-spectrum consciousness. When an ovulated human egg accepts a sperm cell and starts the fertilization process, thus triggering cell division, there is a light, a scintillating luminescent template in the shape of a little person inside the fallopian tube. Within this auric atmosphere, cells multiply and divide to their natural positions along an intricate, attracting–repelling subtle grid system, becoming zygote, embryo, and then, at birth, an individual human. That grid system is the same pathway through which energy moves or At the moment of birth, through the first breath, our form is imprinted with the frequencies of those prodigious planets in motion around us, which are also made out of condensed projected light. In other words, our perceived individual bio-electrodynamic form gets imprinted to a frequency, in part through emittances from our celestial neighbors. This frequency—as above, so below—within the electrodynamic ocean of space-time is similar to an atom’s being influenced by the orbital movement of the particles within and around it. The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung made an analogy with wine. He said, “We are born at a given moment, in a given place, and like a vintage-year wine, we too have the qualities of the year, season, and time in which we were born.” To say that there is no astrological influence on our life is like saying that one bottle of wine is identical to every other bottle of wine. All matter, regardless of one’s particular perceptions, is in motion. Just because you do not see a rock moving does not mean that it is not in motion. Form is a manifestation of divided light. Without exception, albeit often contrary to the upside down, object-ive views of the priests of science, all form conforms to the laws of divided light. All substance is formed through particles and their waves, and all waves have length, thus measurable frequency. Astrology is the art and science that interprets how the vibration of that frequency, according to its relative position, influences behavior and characteristics. Rationalists call this determinism, which posits that physical existence is determined to act in a certain way, in this case through astrologically derived vibrations. Astrologically, that certain way is directed and can be measured by mathematically identifiable rhythmic frequencies within our zodiacal encapsulated home, seen through the natal chart. As a precise mathematical discipline, astrology could as easily have been called space geometry. That is, through the observed repetition of the transiting relationships between planets, especially those aspected in conjunction, sextile, square, trine, quincunx, and opposition, propensity towards certain conditions can be identified. Just as the cyclical patterns of nature can predict when it is best to fish or plant crops, these patterns On one occasion, a group called the Gaia Mind Project commercialized a rare astrological event that would take place on January 23, 1997. They predicted this event, which from a two-dimensional perspective seemed to form a mandala in the shape of the Mogen David, or Star of David, which the Gaia Mind Project said would present a metanoia—a profound, transformational cognizance. Actually, a metanoia was experienced; however, the Project got the date and place wrong. The authentic mandala took place on February 14, 1997, at 4:48 p.m. HST, near Maui Island in the Pacific Ocean. Some have called that location the heart chakra of the earth. For those who participated in observing the event on February 14 on Maui, it was somewhat like the heightened intensity following one of the Just Because Club activities, which you may have done at the end of chapter one. The Just Because Club, as mentioned in chapter one, engages in transformational trigger activities that literally gust open the veils that obscure the heart of our essence. For those having followed one of these activities to completion, there is a perceived intensity similar to being immersed in a suspended colloidal condition that rests between realities, as if one were water that had been stirred quickly in a pail and then suddenly converged into an expansiveness as the direction of the spin changed. However, the Gaia Mind people, possibly for some mundane convenience, held their event three weeks too early, so they missed it, as many Wiccans miss the magickal vibrations of the sabbats by doing rituals at their leisure, versus nature’s rhythm. Other similar celestial events, including the so-called Harmonic Concordance in 2003, was accompanied by a vibrational pattern also configured as the Star of David, were misinterpreted by belief-invested New Agers. The Concordance occurred on November 8, 2003, at 6:13 p.m. MST during a lunar eclipse, which was said to have subtly contracted the earth’s geometric grid, as will be discussed in the next chapter. This occurrence may have allowed the toxicity of the Abrahamic religions to begin being vibrationally exposed so that healing could begin. Keep in mind that the Star of David is representative of separation and duality, although it also points to how to transcend separation and duality. The Star of David actually has seven points: three points of the upward triangle, three points of the lower triangle, and their point of interlacing, which comprises the seventh point. The Star of David symbolizes physicality and the diversification out of wholeness. Seven is a reflection of one, but seven does not exist in wholeness. The three-dimensional geometry of this star, which often is called the Merkabah, or Star Tetrahedron, is a product of space–time, thus it is part of the larger design that crystallizes projected or divided light into form. Divided light slows into form or matter through an optic grid of ninety-degree angles or arch-angles upon which wave pressure directs particles to travel along the direction of the division of seven from three zero planes (as shown in the Matrix illustrations). The enneagram indicates that the direction of pressure between the ninety-degree planes flows in the recursive pattern of 14285714285714. One divided by seven is .142857. Two divided by seven is .285714. Three divided by seven is .428571. Four divided by seven is .571428, etc. The direction of the optic flow that compresses spectra into form is at ninety degrees, as the “Six Convex Planes” illustration expresses. In contrast to seven and its conceptual reflection of one, spiritual enlightenment arises through the awareness of nine, which is the reflection of zero. Oneness is part of separation and duality; for there can be no “one” without a “many.” Zero is synonymous with the wholeness left when the duality of oneness and many is recognized. The frequencies encapsulated within our forms at birth infix psychological characteristics, vocational talent, ambition, and physical predispositions to health or illness. These frequencies influence our transient condition through the continual moving rhythm of the planets around us, like the sand on a Hans Jenny plate cymatically moved as he altered a tone. Many do not accept the view that people’s lives are determined or influenced by effects perceived to be external to them, for that somehow negates their belief in free will. For those ensnared within the Abrahamic belief system, such a notion threatens their special status as created beings; however, electrodynamically speaking, all physical processes can be posed into a deterministic context. If you have not seen a Hans Jenny Cymatic demonstration, put it on your To Do list. A Cymatic video/DVD is an excellent visual for astrology workshop facilitators to show how waves affect form. The study of astrology not only will lead to an understanding of the “principles of the heavens” (Job 38:31–33), but also will encourage a While considering that, are there natal astrological aspects that encourage pedophilia? For me, a one-time staunch advocate of throwing away the prison key for child molesters, I was astonished by the give and regive of what astrology was presenting. This isn’t to say that a crime has not taken place when an adult sexually abuses a child, but through more openness to astrology, could such behavior be prevented? My own propensity for not feeling that I am good enough is indicated in my chart, yet a tendency is not a certainty. Someone else could have witnessed his or her parents having sex and not been affected to any great extent. The external event of witnessing a parental sex act precipitated for me a propensity that had undermined most of my lifetime before I was able to dissolve it. The identification of a potential criminal, alcoholic, or someone predisposed to other deviant behavioral problems through astrologically based counseling would bring a change to the current groupthink. That groupthink encourages us to believe that incarceration and death are the only viable and just legal remedies for those considered outside acceptable social norms. For pedophiles, threats of incarceration and the death penalty do not diminish the compulsion, and these threats do not heal their suffering. Most often, their suffering arises from having been abused themselves, which they either resist confronting, as through the be-positive-about-negativity twelve-step therapies, or they confront it alone by reversing the role from abused to abuser. Either way, as Carl Jung said, what one resists persists. That is the nature of spirituality. What spirituality is not is the Christian-influenced twelve-step system. Many feel that this indoctrination process has “saved” them. However, the I have a very sweet nephew who, astro-carto-graphically speaking, was born under a Uranus Imum Coeli (IC) (or point opposite the midheaven). A Uranus IC is indicative of a behavior that renders family, home, and possessions irrelevant. This is a person whose characteristic is to engage in a self-destructive life from one minute to the next. Before reaching the age of twenty-one, he was arrested three times for alcohol-related and marijuana-related offenses. He then tried to join the U.S. Coast Guard, but was denied because of his criminal offenses. Living in the place of his birth has vibrationally maneuvered him into being a black sheep. However, if he relocated to a place where Jupiter is on his midheaven, he would easily rise in financial success, be admired, and see his personal status elevated. Many crimes are pushed into expression simply by someone’s being in the wrong place at the wrong time. My youngest son had self-esteem issues, mostly due to his parent’s separation. So I moved us to central Virginia, where his Jupiter IC lies on his astro-carto-graphy map. Within the first month, his low self-esteem issues were over. He had made numerous friends, realized a fuller inner self-worth, and made a meaningful and lasting impact in the community. Although we moved on after a year, his experiential connection with his Jupiter remains part of him. What if we had community resource centers throughout the world that supported the astrologically disadvantaged in their efforts to relocate and participate in places under more beneficial influences? Prospective engineers could spend a year under a positive Mars line, or future animators could live a year under a Venusian influence, thus enriching their success and contributions to the evolution of humanity. Denying astrology and its influences is like living in the cultural dark age of Gregorian laws. There are many prophecies regarding the birth of human beingness, which coincides with the end of the dominance of Christianity. The prophecy of the twelfth-century Irish Bishop Malachi (St. Malachi Prophecy) discussed all of the popes until the end of Christendom. Only one pope remains after the current one. These last two pontiffs will reign over the final die-hards of their faith. Already, the sweet sounds of that splashing, dying fish are as sweet music to Gaia’s heart. Beliefs are unfurling, and love is waiting our welcome. My Eastern friends often speak of dharma. Dharma literally means “that which holds.” It is associated with the highest quality of a thing. For example, the dharma of a tree could be said to provide shade, the dharma of water to quench thirst, and the dharma of love to welcome. The dharma of astrology is to acquaint us with how we participate with the vibrational nature of the universe. Love, astrology, and peace on earth only wait on our welcome. Astrology is an art and science that observes and expounds on the condition of form, not the condition of accumulated beliefs. That is to say, whereas most beliefs proceed from the ego complex, the astrological condition of form, specifically our physical vehicles, is integral to the universal blueprint. Ego’s beliefs obscure our authentic consciousness (that is, all levels of consciousness), and act as a filter, dimming and subduing the understanding of the bond and interconnectedness between nature and us. Frequency manifests and determines form. Without frequency, particles would not multiply/divide sufficiently enough to be form. The condition of form can be measured and discerned through the vibrational imprinting at birth. A grapevine may produce wine, yet as Carl Jung noted, the moment of birth, not just the vine, is what largely dictates the characteristics of the vintage. The study of astrology offers profound insight into the frequency lattice of our individual characteristics through the natal or birth chart. However, by comparing that cosmograph with the natal graphs of those in close relationship to us, we can reveal even more about ourselves by observing the frequencies that we are attracting to ourselves. In other words, who we are attracting to ourselves is not only the frequency signature of our natal astrology charts, but also the outcome of our total frequency pattern, which includes our beliefs. This aspect of astrology is called synastry, and it is one of the ways in which I was able to identify the attributes of the belief of not being good enough, mentioned in chapter one. This understanding enabled me to revisit the core belief that was repressing almost every portion of my life. The natal configuration, when charted, consists of the geometric positions of sun, moon, eight planets, and the lunar nodes at the time and place of birth. These are positioned on a segmented graph identified by the zodiacal degree in which the sun was rising on earth, often called the ascendant. Synastry compares those twelve distinct positions with the twelve of another, so 144 possible aspects or associations are examined. An even more detailed review would include scrutinizing the connections to the Medium Coeli or midheaven, Arabic parts, such as the part of fortune, Chiron, asteroids, stellar influences, and houses or segments in each chart. If, for example, the moon of one chart were ninety degrees from, or square to, another’s moon, this would indicate an emotionally incompatible relationship. The feelings of the two people would often be out of sync, and when they were expressed, they would usually irritate the other. Not all 144 possible synastric influences are equal. Some aspects, especially the ones that pertain to sexual attraction, express themselves much more quickly, often immediately, compared with mental, emotional, and spiritual connections. As such, many rush into relationships based on an immediate sexual attraction, but after a short period, sometimes after having a baby, find themselves in an unfortunate situation that is difficult to rectify. Even worse, they might fail to recognize how mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically impoverished is the relationship in which they find themselves. A family member of mine got into an impoverished relationship. Vibrationally, his was a physical attraction, while her attraction to him was financial, and encouraged by her mother. The woman with whom he had become enamored, a younger Capricorn, got pregnant, and they married shortly before their child’s birth. One year later, a second child was born, and they have remained together “for the kids.” In regard to their synastry however, I’ll share what kind of life they have, astrologically speaking. Saturn connections often suggest limitation, burdens, responsibility, and discipline, thus they should be considered carefully in synastry. His natal Saturn conjuncts his wife’s Mercury (burdensome demands and attitudes pertaining to her communication), conjuncts her Venus (he plays an overbearing father role and unconsciously subdues her ardor), and is square to her ascendant (a comparison that indicates that she is restrained, limited in expressing herself, and unconsciously resented by her husband, although this may not be unconscious to her). Her Saturn is in opposition or 180 degrees from his Pluto (indicating a very insecure relationship that lacks trust, one in which they look upon each other as threats). Jupiter aspects connote ways in which individuals expand or are constrained in expanding through education, philosophy, and spiritual matters. This couple is spiritually polar opposites. Jupiter opposite Jupiter indicates two fundamentally different views in philosophy, religion, and education. Her Jupiter is square his Mercury (so discussions just go in circles, and her spiritual expression is dissonant with his thinking), and square his Uranus (Jupiter is sanctimonious in this comparison, while there is an underlying sense of insecurity). This above family member, as are many others, is rather blind to the dynamics of the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual impoverishments in his life. His career, for which he works sixty-to- seventy-hour weeks, does assist in masking and offsetting the grim reality that both of them are unhappy, but that masking merely postpones a realization that they’re incompatible as a couple. In fact, even without an astrological assessment, everyone in my family wishes that he would divorce her. I’d like to see them divorce for her sake, as she will remain spiritually suppressed until she moves on. However, such an action could be counterproductive if they have not become clear about why their frequency patterns drew them to each other to begin with, and, if An openness to astrology assists in progressing rapidly with identifying and transcending beliefs that precipitate anguish in our life. The above fellow is surely in denial and unwilling to recognize that his life is a reflection of a frequency pattern that he has been clinging to for his identity. Synastry helps reveal that which fascinates us. If we are fascinated with learning, then the nature of the law of frequency or attraction has no choice but to bring us more to learn. The idea of “seek and you will find” is like saying that joy is experienced through the need or desire for joy. We do not uncover joy while looking for it. Likewise, when we are fascinated with seeking spirit or the underlying animating force in the perceived universe, this propels us to seek more. We look in the mirror and say, “I seek,” so the mirror reflects back, “I seek.” The perception of lack reflects back more perceived lack. As discussed in chapter one, we attract to ourselves what we give, producing a continuous cycle of regiving for our giving. In the relationship example above, the male, without being conscious of this, is drawn to being partnered with someone who is more a rebellious, troubled daughter than a spouse. His wife, on the other hand, is drawn to being partnered with a magisterial daddy whom she can deceive and perpetually annoy (her eighth house Scorpio Neptune squares his Mars). Only when they transcend the beliefs that they cling to that are manifested through the frequencies that attract these dysfunctional behaviors will they be able to move on to a more compatible partnership. Synastry is a great way to understand the nature of astrology. Doing astrological comparisons between relatives and friends, even as a parlor novelty, using easy-to-use books, such as Martin Schulman’s Karmic Relationships, engenders profound fun. For example, you may look at the interesting aspects between a person’s south lunar node and any planet of another person. This comparison indicates a beneath-the-surface feeling of d ebt to the south-node person. For instance, a person’s Venus conjunct another’s south node suggests that the Venus will be a sex slave to the node, an aspect sought out by pimps. The Venus would not know why he or she felt compelled to service the node person’s every sexual whim in a way that compliments the house characteristics that Venus rules in the ind ebted person’s chart. Another example would be a sun, which rules the fourth house, conjunct a partner’s south node. In this case, the sun person would feel that he or she was vitally ind ebted to supply and maintain fourth-house characteristics, such as a house and home for the node person. As shown through the birth data of several of my past relationships, one of the aspects that I continually attracted to myself was females whose sun conjuncted my Venus. That is to say, six out of seven of my significant relationships were with women who were born during a solar day within seven degrees of my natal Venus. This connotes a feminized aspect or seeking to be a feminized male. No amount of “Iron John” or “Men are from Mars” seminars will help this person be the masculine, dominant partner in the relationship. This Sun–Venus conjunction surely allowed me to experience deep levels of sensitivity with my partners, yet the underlying vibrational block to being the masculine partner manifested feelings of not being good enough. Those feelings, whose painful reflections were to allow me to see and heal myself, instead led my partner or me to dissolve the relationship before fully understanding the reflection. Relationships express aspects, such as the above Sun–Venus synastry, in different ways. We must look at the whole chart. In Florida, I met a couple with a female Sun conjunct male Venus configuration. They adjusted to its vibration in a clever, albeit bizarre way. The woman worked as a dance-club performer. From the position of her sun being opposite Saturn, I knew even before meeting her that she was, as she said in a Southern accent, “born white, and . . . going to stay white” in reference to having a shady seat at the restaurant where we met. People who have the sun in an adverse aspect to Saturn generally do not care for sunshine, like many goths. The agreement to meet was set up to discuss favorable times to gamble, but before the conversation got focused, I got an earful of other stuff: for instance, how she liked men, but not men with too much testosterone. Concerning her partner’s Venus conjunct her sun, she was proud to say that her husband had a full orchidectomy—that is, he was a male with a pseudo-vagina, which had been purchased during a Cancun vacation. When she mentioned this, my first thought was Matthew 19:12: “Blessed is the man who has been castrated.” Maybe the fellow now thinks he has a foolproof Get into Heaven Card as the passage indicates. I enjoy discussions about astrology and out of curiosity often expound on various aspects of someone’s chart, yet never allude explicitly to my being an astrologer. My interests focus on researching subjects related to ontosophy, the understanding of real being. Astrology is a superb tool for There are many stories involving so-called enlightened men, such as G. I. Gurdjieff, whose literature suggested that he was very keen on astrology. Gurdjieff was not an astrologer per se. Apollonius of Tyana, also not an astrologer, was so fond of the subject that it was said, in Philostratus’ “Apollonius of Tyana,” that Apollonius had seven rings named after the seven stars, which he wore on the days of the week that bore their name. I assume that the seven stars refer to the seven celestial lights (sun, moon,and planets) known at that time. The seven days of the week, in Latin, Spanish, and astrology are: lunae/lunes/moon, martis/martes/Mars, mercurii/miércoles/Mercury, jovis/jueves/Jupiter, veneris/viernes/Venus, saturni/sábado/Saturn, and solis/domingo/sun. Whether or not one is an astrologer, Theosophists say that one should not do charts for ordinary people. I’ve observed that sheeple, those people who blindly follow the groupthink of society, indeed have charts that are more difficult to translate. This is perhaps because their lives are so hollow. For instance, the groupthink says competition should be glorified, that competitive values are the vital force of heroes. However, for those without strong Mars aspects, competitiveness is not a prominent characteristic. Instead of being labeled as girly men, male sheeple collectively spend billions of dollars on competitive entertainment, diversions that obscure much of their charts, thereby undermining their spiritual purpose. Denying astrology is a denial of spirit and the principle of reflectivity. Extraordinary people allow their charts to reflect more of their natal frequencies, because their astrological frequencies are not so obscured by beliefs . I found it quite amusing that the famous yogi Paramahansa Yogananda, although he said that one can go beyond the personal astrology chart, a typical “I will not be deterred” Capricornian statement, followed exactly the vibrational characteristics of his own birth planets (January 5, 1893). JV Marco
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A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
a time for war, and a time for peace.” —Eccl. 3
relationships less in relative distance than the particles within the volumes of many atoms.
Unemancipated people strive to ensure the survival of their perceived beliefs and fears. Beliefs do not want to interact with anything that is true. Truth uncovers beliefs, and to recognize a belief is to transcend that belief. Nonetheless, from Genesis to Revelation and from Aristotle to Brohm, the influences that the planets have on us are woven through even their myths and beliefs.
between the celestial and humankind. Vedic literature mentions astrology thousands of years before the Christian disruption of this heavenly art. In Job 38:31–33, God asks,
As we approach full-spectrum consciousness and emancipate ourselves from the myths of our faith-based ancestors, we must unequivocally dissolve the Christian holidays, such as Christmas, as soon as possible. Not Yule, mind you, the ancient celebration of the winter solstice or Dies Natalis Solis Invictos, which for those in the Northern Hemisphere is when the Sun stands still at its farthest point south of the equator and then is reborn. This birth of the sun is one of my favorite festive times of the year. The lights, the bells, the stockings hung from hearths, holly wreaths (symbolizing the cycle of life), wassail, candles, the mystery and joy of gift-giving all appear to predate Christianity’s absorption of the various pagan feasts, including Jul, Saturnia, Brumalia, and Mithras into its orthodoxy.
of the outer.
changes apparent direction—and two are synonymous with the equinoxes, when day and night are equal in duration. Among many pagans, these days are called Ostara (spring equinox), Litha (the summer solstice), Mabon (the fall equinox), and Yule (the winter solstice). Ostara, sometimes called Eostar, is now associated with Easter in the Christian scheme. The great feast of Litha, which is opposite Yule, is a nonholiday for most, although it falls a couple of weeks before the U.S. Independence Day. Mabon has merged into local Ocktober fests. The twelve days of Yule, which begins on the solstice, were taken over by the twelve days of Christmas, which are now almost entirely forgotten (or confused with the last twelve days of holiday shopping) in favor of a single day of Christmas on December 25. Among past and contemporary freethought pagans, both Yule and Litha are celebrated over a twelve-day period. The ancient Naga were said to wear red hats during the twelve-day summer solstice celebrations. For them, the summer solstice was the bottom gate of the natural mandala. At that time of the year, they could see ahead forty-six days, towards Lughnasadh (or loaf-mass, the celebration of the first harvest at the beginning of August), and behind forty-six days, from Beltane (or May Day, when the herds were taken from their winter pastures to their summer pastures). In addition, there was an intimate connection with the Mid-Heaven or Medium Coeli.
October 31. The real Samhain, for magickal and shamanic purposes, when the veil between the living and the dead is said to be thin, actually occurs around November 6, or fifteen degrees Scorpio. Imbolc, which has been Christianized to Candlemas and the date of February 2 (popularly known as Groundhog Day in the U.S.), really takes place around February 4, or fifteen degrees Aquarius. Beltane has been secularized into May Day, celebrated on May 1, yet the true Beltane arrives about May 5. And Lughnasadh, the celebration of the waning sun, falls, according to nature’s calendar, on about August 6. The fifteenth degree of Scorpio, Aquarius, Taurus, and Leo represent the fixed corner cross of the mandala of the solar year.
conditions on the nature of river, we lose our access to and our recognition of spirit. Religions such as Christianity, along with their instruments of propaganda, such as the Gregorian calendar, step between us and our direct experience of spirit.
stagnates within our bodies. Keep in mind that up to the first breath taken after individual birth, the unborn’s characteristics and energy is intimately connected with the host carrier or mother. In other words, for astrological purposes, a human being is not a human being until it stands alone, that is, the moment of its first breath.
also can prognosticate human or social activities. Often, however, novice astrologers misinterpret or altogether fail to catch major events in the lives of individuals, or the collective, because these novices look at only a few aspects instead of observing the full geometric pattern.
liberation from the judgments, prejudices, and religious morals that plague and contribute to an inferior humanity. When an astrologer masters astrology competently, that astrologer is no longer biased towards other human beings. Let me repeat. A competent astrologer is one who has reached, through a course of study, a release of most or all illiberalism towards others. It is quite a metanoia. For an example, after doing several charts or cosmographs for people who claimed to have been sexually abused as children, I noticed that eight out of eight had at least three adverse aspects in the fifth or eighth houses, or with the rulers of those houses, and all had an afflicted Mars or Pluto influence involved. This is far from conclusive, yet it led me to wonder: Do victims of sexual abuse vibrationally attract the abusers to them?
attempt to control unacceptable social behavior through an “it’s OK to be dishonest strategy” encourages powerlessness and theocratic social conformity, not empowerment. The twelve steps are a detour that maintains sleep, not a path towards awakening. With the exception of steps eight, nine, and ten, these Christian-based twelve steps are direct barriers to full-spectrum consciousness and the love that we are. Surrendering to imagined powers outside oneself sustains delusion. An astrological-based, non-Christian therapy program, on the other hand, can be a path of honesty and participation with spirit.
As we get deeper into the information and consciousness age, shedding our antiquated beliefs and false concepts, astrologers will play an increasingly important and essential role in the social structure of our collective civilization, a civilization in which many will witness the birthing of human beingness. For just as the Age of the Bull passed into the Age of the Ram, and Aries retired for Pisces, we are now at the threshold of the Age of Aquarius, and the bimillennium of humanity. The fish of religious delusions has been hooked and is fighting its last fight, splashing vigorously, with its final strength and breaths, trying to hold onto the beliefs that it feels it needs for its identity. But the Era of Humanism is now dawning. Ruled by Uranus, it will come more suddenly than the slow changes of the past. If Christianity and the Abrahamic religions are not abandoned, the negative side of Aquarius could very well bring the end of civilization. Drive-by shootings, perverse revolutions, faith-based psychotherapy, and superficial emotions are some negative characteristics of Aquarius.
separated, very well may attract to themselves the same impoverishing type of relationship all over again.
discerning our interconnection with others—how the macrocosm interacts with the microcosm, the “as above, so below.” Astrology is also a significant specialty for those interested in magick.