Dawnings

 The Solar Eclipse looms, beckoning us onwards through the corridors between the worlds. Spirit and matter, matter and spirit, how does the whole come into being? Fascinating !
 
The mystics are discovering the importance of being human and the third dimensional humans are discovering the importance of becoming conscious. We are living forms on a living planet in a living Galaxy in a living Universe.
 
The mini vortex that has held us betwixt since March 4th, has revealed much to the inner self for those who are receptive. The second of the solar village valves opens and closes on the 19th March.

Then the Equinox grants us a moment in time, when all is seemingly in balance. We have a natural biological urge towards stasis and harmony.  It is a grand time to grant oneself the luxury of feeling at one with the world.  The Green Comet Lovejoy has been discovered in the Southern Hemisphere and the Moon and Venus can be seen waltzing in the heavens just after sunset. Classic!
 
These two March eclipses are also forming a vortex flanked by the ‘valves’ of the two eclipses on the same Virgo/Pisces matrix in late August/September.  It as if one particular line of energy is being re calibrated. The cosmic engineers seem to very efficient and organised.
 
With reference to esoterica – it’s all about spirit and matter, which is in a dialectical relationship in this world. The Trinary point seems to be our consciousness which influences our ability to interweave both the soul and the physical. ‘The lotus blossom has its roots in the mud’.
 
As the Aries Full Moon begins the new zodiac year on the 2nd/3rd of April, and we welcome a new Solar cycle, there’s lots to be aware of in terms of who/what we are as a species and as individuals. For some people it is, “I think, therefore I am”, for some it is “I feel therefore I am”, for some it is “I do, therefore I am”, for yet others it is, “ I know God therefore I am”. 

Perhaps the potential of the HuMan is the interweaving of all four. We certainly need to consciously access each of these aspects of being in our life experiences. The quantum leap in evolution that is our destiny, dharma and karma, may well take all we’ve got and are anyway.

We are on a bridge which we need to create as we go. It is a new spiritual Path ahead. The old precedents, mindsets and paradigms that seemed solid enough for our conceptual frameworks, our gauges of real/unreal and our beliefs about life, are dissolving behind us so fast that we seem to have moments of hanging in midair.
 
I am personally launching into the experience of global traveller for the first time. It means deciding what to take, what is the ‘me’ wherever I go, the choices of direction and destination. I realise this is a metaphor for the greater journey – that of Life. The Fool card in the Tarot depicts the soul with its kit bag heading off into the greater world. In the traditional Rider-Waite pack, a dog barks and leaps at its feet, reminding the HU integrating into the MAN that it will have instincts and physical needs and to be conscious of where it is going and what it is doing. Life is risky and yet it IS a grand adventure.
 
The emerging paradigm of the holographic Universe grants greater freedom of perspective. New ways of ‘optimal’ thinking takes us into the Trinary point beyond duality.* We humans, the fourth Kingdom in Nature, are expanding our horizons and realising the potential of this grand moment in time wherein the human species can and must direct its own evolution consciously and purposefully.
 
The Occultation of both Pluto and the Sun may seem auspicious in the old perceptions of time and space that saw the heavens as ominous and the human condition as fragile and powerless. We are more mature, educated, enlightened and aware these days. That brings with it an added sense of responsibility. ‘Awesome’ has become very Real!
 
What do we know of the essence of our true selves: what aspects of ourselves are being revealed as undeveloped, as wounded by life’s experiences, as restrictive on the journey ahead? We can and do and will grow, nurtured by both the inner and the outer revelations and changes that are affecting the very foundations of our physical lives and our inner cores of knowing and being.  

Here in the Land of Oz we are well acquainted with the phenomena of fire and how it regenerates many plant forms that do not seed unless they are burned. The gumnut blossoms pictured here are beautiful and their flower petals are soft and delicate to touch. Yet they flower on the hardy gums which survive in the harsh Australian summer. It is an appropriate vision on which to ponder.

The Grand Trine in Fire that is holding form in our solar village at present is a reminder of the healing properties of the fiery spirit which is expressing itself in our world. In the esoteric writings of the Tibetan Master DK, he speaks of ‘the burning ground’.* It describes a stage of initiation that is a required and necessary prelude to a great release. It is apt to focus on this now as the Grand Trine links Jupiter in Sagittarius, Saturn in Leo and Venus in Aries. These 3 planets link to Neptune forming a Kite – which is the release of new impulses of spirit from deep within the human species.

Hidden away in Pisces are three foci quietly moving into a major conjunction. They are Mercury, our humans cognitive minds; the Karmic North Node; and Uranus, the enlightener. Not many people can handle lightning through their bodies, but we hear the stories of people who do. Such is the power of Uranus for it is one of those ‘outer’ planets – a transpersonal one that influences entire generational soul groups. It has an interesting link to Sirius, the bright blue star we see at night. According to scientists, it takes 8.6 years for the Light from Sirius to reach our planet. Uranus has an approximately 8 year cycle. 8 is also the cosmic lemniscate depicting infinity and is often referred to as the number of the Christ. This all links together because what is hidden there in Pisces, is our Christing.

The Sojourn with ShaVrill (our original team from Shamballa), was held on Saturday just prior to the Full Moon Eclipse. We were advised to indulge in the ritual of washing our feet. We were instructed to literally scrub away the residue of the Path we have trodden until now and anoint our feet to find the Way through to the next Stage of The Path which is new, unknown and to be created as we go. Many of us did this and are wondering if this was the meaning behind the ritual recorded at the time of the Christ’s incarnation. It is a wonderfully releasing and nurturing physical, emotional, mental and spiritual experience.  This Grand trine in fire links directly to the Full Moon in Aries, the Easter Full Moon, the time of the releasing of the Christ seed and the resurrecting of our divinity within our planetary world. It may take a while to settle, to gestate, to surface and flower, but it eventually does.These two March Eclipses are like pillars that border a corridor between now and the September Eclipses in the same signs. The Virgo chrysalis holds deep within it the Pisces Christ seed.It may seem twee to remind ourselves to have Faith in the Will-To-Good that IS emerging within our human species. I feel intuitively that this Grand Trine now will burn the ground that will release the seeds at Easter. Much is hidden and much is to be revealed. Some, we may not like, but it is always good when Truth emerges for it stands on its own, unchallenged. It is easier to ‘cope’ when we KNOW we are dealing with reality. On a personal level, many will agree, that deception, and not knowing, is harder to process than the Truth.We do not always know how this Christing emerges – sometimes it is fiery, sometimes breezy, or perhaps gentle and kind. It is always wise, loving and brings miraculous healing. The gospels and writings we have as records of the Christ may be embellished, but his teachings are more important than any phenomena associated with the life of that Avatar. We tend to glamorise great beings and wise Teachers, and hold onto the often fabricated stories. We create religions around these events and people and in that, we may well be missing the essential Truth of their teachings.

* Reference: Esoteric Astrology – Vol 3, A Treatise on the Seven Rays. Page 357. Master DK through Alice A Bailey. Lucis Trust. 1979 Twelfth Edition.
** The edited version of the Annual Shamballa lecture, October 2006 is now available. See Consultancy Page. ***Chapter Five of Pendulum will be posted later tonight. It has been a great challenge for me personally and is much revised. It is superb timing. See Pendulum Page.