Dawnings

 It is Australia Day tomorrow in the Land of Oz.  We have a national holiday.  People head for the bush, the beach, the local park or just stay home and potter happily with the family.  Barb b ques will be fired up, friends and family gather for feast, fellowship and fun.  Lots of talk about the weather because in Australia the climatic conditions and nature affect us every day and it is therefore an immediate topic of conversation.  We somehow set the environmental parameters common to us all before we venture into more individual and personal discussion.  How we feel about the weather indicates our current mood and and responses to the world.  There may be brief chatter about politics, the current cultural challenges and the year ahead.  This is the last public holiday we have until March.  The year gets going after this weekend – the kiddies return to school, workplaces beckon and the busy world swings slowly into activity.

Yes, there are plenty of organised events.  Some of these involve such strange behaviour as flag- raising and the shooting of cannons.  Nationalism is an extension of the Cancerian protective loyalty towards one’s own territory and tribe.  Patriotism provides an outlet for the passionate need to feel ‘we belong’ and are ‘in the right place at the right time’. In these modern times, (thanks to satellites and telescopes, the WWW, TV and enhanced mobility), humanity is becoming aware of being one planet in a solar village on the edge of a galaxy.  We are slowly transforming that patriotism and reapplying it to being earth-centric and human-centric.  I wonder what the symbol and ceremony for The Urth and its inhabitants would be?  There – now you have an interesting topic for the tradtional ‘Debate of the Day’.  Even the kiddies can join in!

The incoming stream of Universal energy referred to as the 7th Ray is often entitled, the Ray of Ceremony and Order.  It is called this, because it energises the process of synergy – where the whole become more than the sum of its parts.  Its effect is to sweep all the various disparate parts that share a common Purpose, into one inclusive whole which is then gifted an official status and honoured with a tone of spiritual dignity.  All involved therein are blessed with the Holy Sprinkles from that conceptual energetic field.  We then scatter to our own lives, carrying something of the Whole within us.  A bit like perceiving us all as being individual humans yet all containing deep within, a spark of the Divine.

Tomorrow around Midday AEDT,  Neptune and Mercury are conjunct in Aquarius.  Both are opposed by Saturn in Leo.  It is a grand opportunity to express our deeper spiritual wishes, dreams and ideals.  I hope the Saturnian reserve does not keep people from speaking their truth. The Neptune/Mercury Conjunct hilights the etheric bubble we live in on this island nation-continent. The local aborigines refer to it as The Dreamtime.  It is very real and seems to come from within the Land itself.   Some writers and researchers believe this continent is part of the original Land of Mu from the Lemurian Legends.

I thought of it on Monday night as I watched comet McNaught showing off her magnificent tail against an indigo sky and flanked by a golden sliver of moon on one side and the Southern Cross – (the star formation on our flag) – on the other.  This land does indeed take one into the next plane of thought and awareness.  May the space and place of Australia be gifted with this celestial blessing as the Light streams into our Minds and the Love is slowly growing in our hearts.   May our collective Will emerge – in Time!

* photo of Uluru by Gwen Jessup *** Update Thursday evening. Environmentalist Tim Flannery named Australian of the Year! Encouraging interview with him on ABC 7.30 report tonight.  The movie ‘The Castle’ and now Tim Flannery:  “Tell them they’re dreaming…!” A good man, a true scientist, a fine leader. Good on ya mate!