Dawnings

We begin the weekend here in Ozland on Saturday morning of the 22nd November, with storms raging along the East Coast and unseasonably cold winds with high humidity. Strange weather patterns indeed. By 9.45 am, the Sun will have entered Sagittarius AEDT. In Melbourne, a Capricorn Ascendant and Virgo Moon will greet the Day.

Here in Rye, we shall be celebrating an Inter-Faith festival with ceremonies, workshops, dancing and music, market stalls and children’s activities. The weekend’s offerings on the foreshore will be fascinating and bring lots of life to a community well aware of its delightful diversity of cultures and beliefs. This is appropriate timing as we prepare to farewell Pluto’s 15 year journey through Sagittarius which nudged us into the next evolutionary cycle whereby spirituality will emerge as a natural expression of the human. Many folk are retrieving their own direct connection with spirit and wanting to share what they are discovering. 

The role of religions was to maintain that connection through a long Age of a dispersed humanity. Each faith and belief (religion) emerged from its own cultural context. The essence uniting us all is the natural and instinctive drive towards what we call ‘the spiritual’. As we develop our intuitive selves we shall sense and know more and more directly and in tune with nature and our selves.  

On the 23rd (Sunday AEDT) Mercury will activate itself anew in Sagittarius – and we can talk about the last few weeks and seeing ahead into the future. Watch the media people fall over themselves and each other to keep up as the pace quickens. Do keep track of those ideas tumbling through the ethers and record them for us all – we shall need them. Communications may be inspired and inspiring.

On Thursday 27th November at precisely 12.03 pm, Pluto will enter Capricorn [ pluto-ingress-capricorn ] where it shall preside (with dignity and integrity) until 2024/6. The presence of Mercury and Sun in Sagittarius at this ingress heralds a revival of the classical folksy – in fashions, music, festivals, dance and song. Practical futuristic development and scientific innovation will be created from active mental planes and simplicity will replace the glamour and complexities of the past few decades. Markets will replace large shopping malls and bartering will emerge as necessity calls forth more realistic survival plans.

In Melbourne, an Aquarian Ascendant will serve us well – it is here that a local group are championing the need for an Australian Charter of Human Rights. The people will challenge the Scorpionic Business interests and the issues of water and the sea will be in our sights. The stellium of Jupiter, Venus and Pluto in Capricorn in the Aquarian ruled 11th house reinforces the Government by and for and with the people.  Community organisations and groups will feature strongly for the decade ahead. Local Councils will need to revise planning permits to create communities of dwellings which enhance sustainability and self sufficiency rather than developers estates which are often isolating and impractical.  Support community groups which serve the people, renovate and maintain community buildings and co-operatives for food growing and support; community banks and voluntary organisations will be busy. There will be more migration out of cities into rural areas where decentralisation will develop larger and more beneficial townships. [For localised charts and insights into house placement - adjust for your own time zones. ]

For our beautiful little planet – a long cycle of Reformation, Renaissance and Revolution begins in earnest. Those who have rarely considered responsible and ethical behaviour will be embarking on a crash (?) course. Those who love the adventure of responsive human creation, development and community organisation – will thrive. According to the Urantia books and the Keys of Enoch, ours is a Creation Universe of immense diversity and therefore Relativity is vital. Equality is of the Absolute which is why we are described as equal in the ‘sight of God’. We shall become more aware of this when Saturn moves into Libra late in 2009.

Life will not be boring – it is a celestial offering of stupendous potential. 

These next few decades will challenge everything we know about humanity, about civilisation and governance, about living on a planet and about our Purpose in being here and now.  If you want to know how you fit into this grand scenario, ask yourself what is important to you and what vitalises you in body, heart, mind and spirit. Integrity utilises the ability to be true to the essential self. Whatever sense and vision we have developed over the past two decades will be well seeded – conscious or not. Now, we get to actualise – to implement and to create and build anew. Nature is changing of its own accord and the planet itself is ‘initiating’ its new cycle. Many people are choosing, now, to experience and co-create with nature with a developed consciousness and physicality launching into a quantum leap of evolution. Some aspects (forms) will slowly dissolve, some will disintegrate (quite suddenly) as if the glue has worn out, some will simply cease to function as the new cosmic frequencies streaming into our world attract and repel in the everlasting dance of life. Some will prepare for sleep and withdrawal – tired from a long and demanding life cycle. Faith is simply, the knowing that new Light upon the Waters of Life is the gift of the eternal spirit of creation of which we are active and aware fragments. The miracle (gift) is that we get to experience being whole and alive – with an added bonus of consciousness.

I am reminded here of an experience way back in the mid 1980’s. I ventured to Fossil beach in Mt. Martha with my then teenage daughter and son. The wintry day had created stormy clouds through which streams of light emerged to shine on the sea. We stood on ancient rocks, surrounded by fossilised creatures millions of years old. I commented that such a sight, ”reminded me of God”. My daughter chuckled: “it IS God”. My son stared at us both then at the scene and stated simply: “It is sunlight on the water and lots of old rocks”. All 3 of us were expressing our perception and experience of a dynamic world. All 3 were correct. There is no need for comparison, competition, right nor wrong. Life IS.   

These next few years we will be witnessing the completion of a few cycles – some on a magnitude difficult to grasp.  We are sophisticated and learned enough these days to know of these greater cycles from our own calculations. The more personalised prophesies and descriptions are found in vague records and hidden in legends and stories, in religious texts and ‘sacred’ documents. Risa describes these cycles – some involving many thousands of years. 

I have been contemplating the subject of Love and wisdom which is our Solar Village theme, the beautiful blue 2nd Ray and the challenge of forgiveness.  Learning to forgive the person – whilst retaining the wisdom of seeing clearly what is nurturing of our own souls and life – is quite a process.  The Saturn/Uranus opposition brings to the light, why our most recent Avatar on Urth taught us about loving, compassion and forgiveness.

The New Moon at 5 degrees Sagittarius [Friday 28 November at 3.54 am AEDT] will revive our optimism and foresight. We will be able to see a little further across wider horizons as we surface from the intensity of Scorpio. The hymn, Blake’s Jerusalem, flickers through my mind.

This is what it is all about – reviving our passion for Life, for the liberty to embrace life, for the vision that can see life: eternal, dynamic and oh so precious.

May the mysteries continue to intrigue the mind, love revive the heart, and our little wills be one with the essence of God’s unfolding magnificence. 

Dance on …

With grateful Blessings,

* Quote for the week:

“Living on earth is not cheap – but we do get a free trip around the Sun every year.”

* An hour of joyful fun: Adam Hills   Ah! I do appreciate the comedians!

* Channel 2: ABC Compass program on Sunday night (23rd Nov) at 10.10 pm will explore the various apocalyptic predictions of these current times and why people are drawn to these.

The Full Moon on the night before last, was glorious. It was a warm night here in Melbourne town, 22 degrees, and as I put my crystals out to grow in its energy field, I stayed in the garden breathing the sea mists and the scent of the emerging roses and blossoms. The bright light of the moon illuminated the otherwise darkened landscape and I delighted in the balmy warmth. 
It is what I loved about Hawaii when I was there last year – the external temperatures and elements were so comfortable for the human body.  

Yesterday – in the late afternoon, a fellow student of life (Soula) and I ventured along the wild coast directly in line with the Antarctic. We could see the storm clouds gathering, the surfers were out catching the full moon waves, Cape Schanck was lit up in the setting sun.

We spun and danced, we did some yoga longevity exercises, we chanted, decreed and invoked. We delighted in the spirit of creation and prayed for blessings to be sent around the planet through the oceans and the grid. We aligned with Shamballa and the network of caring folk around the planet.

The sun streaming through the clouds presented us with some stunning vistas.

As the rain began, we wandered back to our little mobile vehicles. A lone seagull flew and trotted with us, its feet cut off by some horrific circumstance. It managed to tiptoe on its stalks, mostly flying to take the pressure of its painful stumps.

At the carpark, as we stood drinking in the last of the light upon the water, we turned to discover a double rainbow in the clouds opposite the sun, where the moon would be rising.

All this was magical – nature doing its artistic and creative, dynamic dance in a vital world.

* [ For another splendid display watch the early evening skies towards the South East to see Venus and Jupiter moving closer together until December! You may also catch a few falling stars for your wish pocket.Spaceweather.]

I pondered in the wee small hours of this morn, about the challenge of living in a temporary corporeal body, a material world and an evolving species. Risa had written about the mysteries of Scorpio, the Kali Yuga cycle, and the new emerging 6th sub-root race. I felt the awkward pain of the seagull and its aloneness and I empathised with its struggle. I marvelled at how it knew of our compassion and love for it and how it stayed with us as long as it could, basking in our caring energies. I chuckled over the magnificent rainbow which had emerged even brighter in the evening sunset stormy clouds. It stretched across the more gentle and protected Bay where the moon would be rising – our Covenant!  Hope. 

Yes, nature is magical and it definitely can and does manifest with and for us. It can also be vicious, violent and challenging. The weakest aspects of ourselves and our species are vulnerable to the predatory instincts of the animal within and mongst us. Spiders and snakes, insects, viral diseases: greed and lust for power, the sabotaging and nastiness, the meanest of spirits, the self deception and justifications for what is simply – animal behaviour. The combination of growing minds and these instincts has led us into pathways of planned violence and warfare, of torture and not so subtle avarice, of lies and spin and corruption. We betray ourselves and each other. It is not surprising that our mindset as been: ‘Surival of the Fittest’.

I was sent one of those Anonymous quotes during the week:

“Good Judgment (Wisdom) comes from experience;

Experience comes from Bad judgement!”

Saturn in Virgo is about patterns, crystallised and magnificent, energy matrices captured in time and space. In our emotional/psychological selves it is often about judgement. In retrospect we see more clearly. If we nurture our ability to evaluate and review, then wisdom is the result and the outcome of an evolving human awareness. It is often a whoops and ouch experience being spirits in matter. Thank Creation for time and for a sense of humour! 

The planet Mars is, to me, often the tracker and tickler of  what energises us. In Scorpio, it brings out our lower urges and instincts. It leaves Scorpio for the more cheerful and optimistic visionary Galactical energies of Sagittarius on Monday 17th November. That day, the same pattern emerges as was there for the Full Moon last night: an envelope formation embracing a mystical rectangle, sextiles to Mercury in Scorpio, a Grand Trine in water created by a rapidly passing Moon in Cancer, and another Yod. Briefly, at around 10.40 am, a Cardinal T square peaks at a Libran midheaven. The theme this time is about Purpose, feeling for and with the ordinary masses, homes and family life, and the need to take care of ourselves and each other. The elemental shift is from ‘nature’ to how we respond and express our own natures. The old instinctual fearful core paradigm of ‘conquer nature or it will destroy us’ has dominated our (un)consciousness for an Aeon. The new theme emerging is about evolving to a more cooperative and loving understanding of the essential nature of Life itself.  Pattern repeats 17 Nov 08

The universal geometric designs are stunningly portrayed with cyclical precision and awesome accuracy. How this dynamic and diversified world and universe is created and keeps running is a great mystery. As science shifts its focus from the material, mechanical models (what makes it tick) to the essence of LIFE (what makes it live ?) … we shall indeed, be in the realm of true knowledge. 

Ahead for this next week, we have much upon which to ponder, much to discuss and resolve, much to explore and create, to sort and cleanse and reorganise. relax and rest and give yourself time to integrate the new energies of hope, courage and love. Another shift occurs next week.

The G20 Summit will be a battle between the old and the new, between the lure of fear, insecurity and control up against the challenge to maturity of clear, caring and creative thinking. Venus in Capricorn will be concerned about the civilisations and the people. Mars in Sagittarius will want to play with the wildness of it all and be inspired.  On a more personal level, it will be interesting seeing how rapidly we can shift from instinct to intuition!

Self awareness and honesty about the ‘lowest’ of our drives, urges and motives are bubbling to the surface for us to recognise and own. We SEE this daily in the news, the thought forms and the hype. We are responsible for our evolution. HU-man (spirit in matter) is a great challenge. We dwell in a living matrix of energies that attract and repel. We dance the dance of Life.

Our spiritual consciousness is expanding. The confrontations that occur as we become aware of our selves, and of each other, are testament to the experience of initiation known as ‘The Dweller on the Threshold’ – our shadow or instinctual, mostly unconscious selves – which may direct our behaviour and determine our choices. Our task as we evolve, is to see clearly, and overcome the temptation to pretend that we have not seen.  Moreso, to be willing to act upon those nudges of conscience and inner whisperings of our Higher intuitive selves and our gradually strengthening compassionate, caring and loving hearts.

Judith Gayle in Planet Waves weekly newsletter to subsribers wrote about the lure of the darkness that has immobilised our spirits. She cites Jerry Kamplosky’s work: Love is letting Go of Fear and of deleting the words from our hearts, minds and vocabularies which stifle love and keep us in the ‘undertow’ of fear, hate and darkness. 

Oh, I expect that those caught in the undertow will continue to tell us all the things we can’t do, all the changes we can’t make — but the last months have given us victory after victory, changing history and changing our minds about what can be done. There will always be challenges on planet Terra, but we can be confident in our ability to face it with courage and hope and intellect and heart.

That is the new thing, here at last. Love IS letting go of fear. And we’ve chosen again.

This IS the emerging of the the essential ‘Spiritual Warrior triumphant’.

The question to keep asking oneself within the Bigger Picture of an evolving humanity, is an evolution of the Golden Rule: yes, to consider how we would want others to treat us and to be thou likewise. Then, by extension, to consider how we want humanity to be and to live.

Blessings along The Way,

We are Here and Now. Each day fills up with a quickened pace of inner growth and outer activity which commands our ability to be flexible and responsive. We came into incarnation at this time – for this. We are strong souls and courageous beings.

On Monday Night, Denton on the ABC program, Enough Rope, interviewed Imran Kahn. This was an enlightening experience – to watch a man relaxed and sure enough to be transparent, honest and to speak from the heart and soul with integrity. To this he added his clarity of mind. I wondered if chance could nudge him to lead the United Nations.

On Tuesday SBS Insight program explored the increasing violence amongst the youth. It occurred to me that we are still entrenched in a punitive/reward mentality. It doesn’t work very well at all. The goalposts keep shifting and the carrots keep changing and, by the time we manage to catch one, are often stale. Appropriately, next tuesday’s forum is about Greed.

I pondered on the attachment to money that has been entangled in this punishment/reward system: those with it assume they deserve it and those without feel they are being punished. Our major world religions teach the nature of a wrathful God and credits in heaven for ‘good deeds’ according to often incomprehensible and unrealistic doctrines. The norms and values of a changing world create much confusion: do we head for the rewards and shy away from the punitive? What if it all switches suddenly and how do we know which way to jump next?

LaRouche is recommending we “revive the Peace of Westphalia agreement”. We need to stablise the world monetary system and share equitably. No more speculation on changing values and currency rates, each nation has its sovereignty, the world’s resources are for us all to share. The charging of interest is to be minimal to cover basic costs only. People with money can live on their own money – not the interest!  Imagine a global world where imperialist exploitation is a nightmare from the past!

On Thursday we had the third and final of the USA debates. Obi One won. Is there still any decision to be made? I cruise around the net and discover some interesting forums and videos discussing the older generation and the old way of thinking - reluctant to change. Oh dear!

It’s the same witnessing the condition of nature and the planetary world environment – isn’t it obvious and common sense to take care of it?

The punitive/reward system kicks back on us: Saturn in Virgo is supercritical – then it turns inwards and we are punishing ourselves and rewarding ourselves and on it all goes.

How can anyone be open, honest and admit mistakes and errors if (s)he is afraid of punishment?

How can we even begin to think creatively and seek solutions if we cannot see where we have erred – or that we are being called to respond with a welcome sense of fair play, clarity and vision? Triaka Smith has devoted years to the solution of Sovereign and United Diversity. The world leaders seem quite naiive and uneducated compared with the obvious solutions emerging from the grass roots of the peoples that inhabit our world and share daily lives.

These are serious times: the energies from Sirius stream forth activating a maturing phase and a Pluto connecting with the Galactic Centre tweaks our evolutionary agenda. Jonathan Cainer predicted this fall out when the portend of Comet Holmes streaked across our skies. 

Uranus in Pisces is gearing up for the first of 5 oppositions to Saturn – producing a quantum leap effect across time and space – I played my Forest Gump CD and sang away whilst checking the year’s records in preparation for the Tax Return. It all seemed surreal – part of me a teenager again in the 1960’s and reviving the passion and another part of me heading for 60 rounds of the sun and wondering why I pay tax for our community development when it is now being used to shore up banks – the same banks that robbed me of my home in 1990. It’s all happening again – to a much larger group of people all over the world. I have squeaked and shouted and sulked and warned folk and the media for years. They have perpetuated the punitive/reward myth of: “foolish people deserve to lose”. 

I understand why so many remain unconscious and choose the way of the herd  – wherever it is going – without asking why. Uncertainty and insecurity has presented a lonely Path in the past. Now, false wealth and false stability show themselves to be flimsy illusions. Disappointment and grief will dissolve social aspirations until folk truly know themselves once again. Handing over our power to those less informed, less evolved and less enlightened – is lazy spirituality.  

“How low will we (humanity) have to go?” ask the journos. The media needs to awaken to the truth of being human and dissolve the paradigms of creating what is marketable. It is not about “how low can we go?” – many of us are far ahead of that anxiety. We know from experience, that when the going gets tough … we shall have to rise to the occasion: to work and live together as groups and teams of cheery folk to build, create and share without the lure of wealth. We shall have to forgo profit mongering to keep our businesses afloat and continue to employ more people and share the resources. We shall have to end careers of financial manipulation and sharemarkets designed to give more to those who already have. We shall have to grow healthy food and car pool and give away what we no longer need. We shall have to share meals, shelter and clothing without the elitist fashioning and status symbols that defined (labelled) us in the past. We shall need to infuse quality into our creations and service, integrity in our worldly affairs and honesty in our relationships.  We shall need to be inventive and improvise: to focus on the essential and the essence of what we offer and receive. The glossy, glamorous and superfluous are already being eroded by the winds of necessity. We shall need to simplify and clarify. We shall need to know the truth intuitively amidst the chaos of disturbing confusion and diverting spin.

I watch as a top Banker in Australia announces “there is no evidence of a link between high salaries paid to Executives and the current world financial crises”. Mars is in Scorpio and those that ‘have’ are holding on like crazy. Denial and delusion are thickening like treacle in midair.

Saturn in Virgo guides us now: We shall need to be diligent – to empty the old and to clean the container of ourselves, (our civilisations) and our lives before refilling it.

Eric’s (Planet Waves October 10th) on The Capricorn Point was heart and gut wrenching whilst managing to enthral the mind: 

One way to understand what we have been put through the past decade — if you need to understand — is considering the concept of what I call shadow loyalty. This is a kind of covert loyalty directed at people who take from us, abuse us and generally disrupt our lives. It is a copy of the secret loyalty we felt for our caregivers who frequently did the same things to us. Contained in that shadow loyalty is a need to be accepted by people who are robbing us, and the fear of being cast off, a tribal wound that I’ll come back to when we explore the forthcoming Chiron-Neptune conjunction in Aquarius.

For now, let’s see where Pluto in Capricorn fits the picture. As we can see, a force we don’t understand is going to rip through the power structure, rendering it nearly ineffective until it transforms itself…..

We’re transitioning into the beginning of a crucial era, in fact meeting this thing we’ve been calling 2012. In addition to a major change in the Mayan calendar (the end of the 13th baktun), the planetary astrology builds to a rapid crescendo between now and then, complete with social upheavals that will make the Sixties feel like a rehearsal for the high school pageant.

Change is not comfortable for most people. We would rather have things be just so, and we’ll do almost anything to keep them that way, including deny our own growth, health, liberty and sanity. We will stay with people who we don’t love or barely care about. We will keep jobs we hate. Most of all, we will refuse to face our pain. We’ll do all of this for the illusion of stability. Or maybe it’s preserving the illusion of stability that protects us from the scourge of freedom.

Risa explores the progressing World Initiation:

Eradication of Poverty, UNMDG, World Bank, Pluto in Capricorn
Friday at the United Nations is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Do we know how to eradicate poverty? The following are organizations with the goal of reducing poverty in our world. The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (UNMDG, an acronym) have, as its primary objective, the eradication of poverty. The World Bank, established Dec. 27th, 1945, after WW II, was created with the stated goal of reducing poverty and assisting developing nations through the creation of sustainable infrastructures. The present economic crisis, a worldwide crisis, in its reorientation of monies and resources, will eventually allow our world to become a world of sharing equally among all peoples.
That is a long way off. But the continued disabling of the present unsustainable economic structures marks the beginning. When Pluto re-enters Capricorn (November 26, 2008, 5:03 pm, Pacific time, Thanksgiving eve and continuing until 2024), nothing will stop the tide from moving relentlessly toward this goal of first, destruction of the old ways of being and later, the creation of a world of sharing and equalizing resources for all of humanity. We must all be prepared for this very long time of restructuring of humanity’s resources and way of life.
(And… )
As the weeks toward the elections unfold, energies build toward the Saturn in Virgo opposite Uranus in Pisces transit (in the sky), an unsettling planetary situation, which also, along with the v/c, occurs on Election Day. These energies will affect all of humanity. This is the very same (though in opposite signs) transit that created the music, drugs, runaways, the Haight, free speech and the hippies of the 1960s—a radical and sovereign state (of mind, body and emotions) unto itself.

What these times mean esoterically is that humanity will move to the next kingdom, the Kingdom of the Soul, and that in these times of crisis we will see the emerging of this Kingdom …

Kelly Hunter invites us to dance the fiery dance of spirited beings … Here and Now. Her description of the Full Moon is exciting.

We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust
The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance. – Rumi

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be, and dance your heart out.

MOON FULL OF STRANGE FIRE

I come to you with strange fire.
I make an offering of love.
The incense of my soul is burned by the fire in my blood.
I come with a softer answer to the questions that lie in your path.
I want to harbor you from the anger, find a refuge from the wrath.
This is a message, message of love,
Love that moves from the inside out, love that never grows tired.
I come to you with strange fire…   – Indigo Girls

Thanks Kelly!

[Ah yes!  I am content. I am glad to have chosen to study and prepare myself to assist the hatching, matching and despatching of souls through the service of 7th Ray expressed in the sacred role of Celebrancy. I watered the thirsty garden drying rapidly under the Australian burning sun and hailed Venus and Mars in Scorpio over the ocean and the Full golden Moon in Aries/Sun Libra in an Indigo sky over the Bay.  It was a powerful and magical evening. I 'grok' the waiting and the fullness! I am glad to be human and here, Now! ]

This weekend will be lighter – Mercury has resumed forward direction in Libra and a Grand Trine in Air forms with the Moon in Gemini. Free the Mind! By Sunday, Venus enters Sagittarius and we can let our inner flames ignite. By Sunday evening, the Moon is in Cancer so those who need to flow with the waters of life and perhaps curl up in a doona and watch some nostalgic movies will find those healing tears can be released at last.  A Yod forms then, linking Saturn in Virgo and peaking at the Node in Aquarius. We (humanity) are heading to a vastly different human landscape. The Aquarian Age is referred to as the Age of Knowledge – I wonder if humanity will learn what being truly human actually is – we have a couple of thousand years to find out. I hope we will like ourselves more and love our children and our planet.

By Wednesday 23rd the Sun will have entered Scorpio and the Moon in Leo will be stimulating our hearts. Our emotions intensify. It’s all about energy.
 
May the Spirit grow strong within you and the Light shine brightly upon the Path ahead and may courage grow within your hearts.

Be the Lighted Soul!

Blessings,

*Photo: Wind Dune by Rhys Jones (c) 2008

 The Total Solar Eclipse in Leo is at 8.11 pm on Friday 1st August here on the East coast of Ozland. Mercury is just ahead of the Sun and new Moon. Venus in Leo is opposite Neptune in Aquarius. The blessings from Sirius are streaming forth through Leo into our own Solar Village Light – our Sun and hence into our own hearts. Drink it in!

What do we love about ourselves and how does what we love about being ‘me’ fit into the larger family group of humanity?
Where on our natal chart is our moon and what house (area of experience) is illuminated by Leo (the heart of Life – the Sun)?

Our family and ancestral groups have in the past, deeply affected the way we see ourselves and how we are ‘supposed’ to shine – usually to fulfill a social agenda.  We are a social species and we want so much to have others love in us what we love in ourselves. And we want people to love what we love. For over two thousand years we have been taught to Know and Love ourselves and henceforth each other – and Life.

This Eclipse will highlight our disillusionment about the world – about humanity especially.  Hiding within this disappointment is a feeling that we have have ‘missed the mark’ and detoured from Eden. We humans have overdosed on a punishment /reward mentality, designed to shape and mould our uniqueness into a socially acceptable way of being. The root of this discomfort is an innate (dis)belief in our place in Creation, the Universe, the Grand design of Life itself. Many of our inherited religious and scientific teachings and doctrines perpetuate toxic thinking. Too many of our laws and societal norms confirm a presumption of original sin. We question our own right to exist. We compete with each other for life’s blessings.

There is enough to share and there are solutions to our problems.  A truly heartfelt courage is now called for.

Our financial system is based on ‘credit’ – a word which is also defined as ‘worth’. A quantum leap of evolution could take place if we all simply lived within our means and refused to go into debt. The ‘value’ of all we have created would be eclipsed by the reality of a relative usefulness. 

“See the Lilies of the Field – they toil not nor do they spin …” 

Nature has a wonderful way of living and being all of its own accord: a flower, a tree, a butterfly, a bird, a cat – they all just are – beautifully adorned, supremely designed and each having its time and space to shine.

i.e. Until humanity comes along and kills the bees, pollutes the waters, devastates the land, fast tracks the growing of the animals for consumption and robs the flowers and plant kingdoms of their natural essence.

Why?

Humans are learning to ‘create beyond what is’ and that invariably involves a projection of ego in some way or another. We want to build and create in the image of the Creator – of life itself. Our cities and lifestyles have lost the delight of living in the push to prove how we can improve. Intellect predominates. It safisfieth not. There is more to learn  - Consciousness. 

Over the last few decades, ‘ego’ has become a negative word. Yet, without the ego, we are unable to know ourselves. The ego creates a defense system designed to protect our individuality.  Letting it go seems to invite self annihilation and we are frantic to hold onto whatever it is that enables us to be different, separate and with something unique to offer.

My Shamballa training taught me that the ego protects this uniqueness and that our task is to embrace and consciously, purposefully, develop our individuality to contribute to a greater whole : A daffodil is ostentatious, a peacock shows itself to the world in all its glory, the sun shines unabashed. Each has its part to play and each contributes to the whole.

This nakedness and transparency of the soul shining forth is a major discovery in this world. Here, on Urth, in a planetary world of continually changing diversity, each blade of grass, each leaf, each flower, each soul each human – is different yet connected with a grouping of some kind or another. It is an intricately designed, precariously balanced and fascinating, symbiotic system. It works.

At this stage in the planet’s unfolding evolution, we are also growing beyond the original tribal, racial and familial groups that previously defined us. The fundamentalism within us seeks a stable base – definitive laws, creeds and beliefs that shape our outer world so that we feel safe enough to exist and perhaps to live creatively. The extent to which we have ‘sold out our souls’ for security and acceptance is being highlighted over this month. It is time to retrieve our Love of Life. 

In people we admire, we seek out the characteristics we think we can emulate. The relatively recent phenomena of fame and celebrity glamour – reflect our desire to have someone shine on behalf of and for us. The truth is – each of us has a profound responsibility in each incarnation – to discover, nurture and fulfill at least some our potential in the unique being that we are for a fleeting moment in time.  

Finding that core of energy that flows forth naturally, the spark of the divine which emanates as light and love to the world – is a noble task.

This Eclipse on the 1st August, is when the moon (emotional patterns and programming which helped us create a self identity) moves between our Urth (Diversity and active intelligence) and the Sun (Loving Wisdom and Wise Love). The later Eclipse on 16th August will unveil more for the species of humanity and its spiritual purpose.

If what we feel about ourselves and how we express that in the world, is not glowing naturally, the world is lesser. Our world needs us to love ourselves and each other and life generally.

When any of us truly knows within the heart and soul, that we are part of and carry the seed within us, of all creation and life, then we do indeed glow.

It is called presence and it is our original innocence. It is worthy. When we truly know it and feel it, we can ‘wear our crowns lightly’.   

Self awareness and the Love of Life – of loving being our unique selves for this lifetime – sparks this conscious presence.

And the world is better for this.

* Pic of the Vigil of Lights at Seaford in January 2008.

Risa’s site describes the esoteric perspective of the Eclipses and the regal role of Leo.

Planet Waves ‘How to become Unstuck’, provides an interesting essay on the Aquarian role and the personal in the group. Eric’s daily Blog for the Eclipse describes in detail, the Nodes and Eclipses and is a brilliant summary for Baby Boomer students of Life. For the younger ones (X and Y generations) much is revealed about the current collective consciousness you have inherited and bear witness to today. The Way forward can therefore become clearer for us all.

Shine forth !

 The Wesak Taurus Sun/ Full Moon in Scorpio is on Sunday evening at 8.25 pm AEST.

Essentially, this week /weekend – provides us with an opportunity to finetune our commitment and expression in the world. The more we can align our own being with the Grander purpose and respond to the world need, the more fulfilled and conscious our lives become.

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A more comprehensive file is available on the Shamballa School Page. This provides the actual charts.

* This weekend is hosting the Australian Summit. Yay!

[Excellent timing for Australia’s Summit. My own personal suggestion is that we create an official 'Tithing' column in our accounting and taxation system. This will enable us all to voluntarily direct 10% of our income to a social area of need. It may be environment, education, health, welfare, sport, the arts, social reform, community aid, animal welfare, food production, agricultural reform, transport reform and so on. Essentially, this will reduce our Gross Income by 10% whilst boosting various streams of societal development. It will also facilitate a sense of active involvement in the fiscal policies and management of our Australian society ]

May Light stream forth into minds

and Love stream forth into hearts,

and the power of collective will,

restore, manifest and preserve the Divine Plan for Urth:

The Plan? That this planetary world gradually and surely, become a Sacred planet.

Blessing and Blessed Be …

Posting re the Full Moon in Taurus, Sun Scorpio(Friday 26th October): Pluto aligns with the Galactic Centre (Sunday 28th October).

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*** October 24th is United Nations Day – 62 years old! Joyous appreciation for our only form of World Government created for all peoples, creeds, cultures, races, nations and lands in our beautiful planetary world.

*** Annual Shamballa Lecture: Summary and Review … is now available as a file. See Books Page -tab.  [posted Thursday 25th October]

Blessings!

The Full Moon Eclipse August 28th: Sun in Virgo, Moon in Pisces.

Recovering and resurrecting the sacred Divine within.

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Blessings!

Blog posting about Yod, and Grand Trines in Fire: monetary upheavals, revelations, honesty and Venus retrograde.

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Blessings!

Latest posting on Sirius/Galactic Centre; honouring Steve Bracks; earth changes; monetary upheaval; Full Moon in Aquarius.  

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Blessings!

 It started around 1967 – a spontaneous outburst of revolutionary enthusiasm for a world of Love and celebration of Life. A mass cultural Renaissance that led to Woodstock – spurned on by global music and the urgency of a world being once again led into futile war.

Then by 1987, the Quiet Revolution united, inspired directly by intuitive awareness and a network of soul-awake humans dedicated to the earth itself as well as humanity. Jose Arguelles led the project with the fusing of science and spirituality and empowered millions to anchor the Grid of Light upon the planet, that all may benefit from an expanding consciousness. This was the Harmonic Convergence.

Now, in 2007, Shelley Yates uses the internet and brings forth the third externalisation of what has been a fourth dimensional network of Light.  www.firethegrid.com/index.htm

What actually is ‘The Grid?’

A century ago, Nikola Tessla theorised that a gridwork of energies runs through the surface of the planet. On a fourth dimensional plane, a Collective Consciousness exists which is faithfully enhanced and strengthened each Full and New Moon, each alignment and Gateway by intrepid Lightworkers who join across the world, nurturing and anchoring in the Light of Mind, the Love in the heart and the encouragement of empowerment through our own free will. Most are directly inspired and guided through their own intuitive awareness which links heaven and earth. Many more are involved in prayer groups, meditation groups and ashrams. A larger group are those who want to learn how to do this and who are magnetically drawn to participate and join those who celebrate being alive and being awake.
Carl Jung’s work on the Collective Unconscious provides a framework for understanding how humanity as a whole, as a species, is able to ‘link in’ or ‘tune in’ to a collective base of information and knowledge, of awareness and wisdom. Most people own to inspiration and ideas filtering through to their intellects from this plane, through dreams, through meditation and through day-dreaming states of awareness. Perhaps our conscience also comes from this realm – there is much for us to discover.

The Grid has been firmly anchored into the surface of the planet. It is a new grid, of Light and of inspiration for the entire planetary world. Perhaps, as we are now aligning with the Galactic Core; perhaps, because of the urgent need to awaken a sleepy populace entrenched in treadmill lives and the density of distracting materialism, perhaps because of the planets obvious distress – then now is the time to activate the Grid.

On Tuesday Evening , July 17th at 9.11 pm AEST, groups and individuals along the Eastern Coast of Australia will be picking up the wave which starts in New Zealand. The time is co-ordinated so that the Grid is fired simultaneously. It will be at 11.11 am Greenwich Time. The Moon will be conjunct Venus at the Sphinx point of 0 degrees Virgo. This implies an evolutionary theme is activating.

Our task is simple: to align with our Highest sense of Being, and our heartfelt love of our planetary world and to invoke the energies of the Cosmos, that which is in harmony with the Creative Impulse of Life itself. Drawing it down through our own beings, into the core of the earth, then breathing this energy back to the surface and along the Grid, we will be activating the energetic networks that connect us across our global world.

This conscious, purposeful and co-ordinated project is embracing of all beings – uniting us as souls beyond any beliefs, creeds, cultures, races, ancestral lines or localities.

It is our planet and our world and we are sovereign Here and Now. We are responsible for our world. We are alive in it and on it. This group project is an opportunity to share and own this reality, imbuing the planet with Love and with the Light of Mind.

May Light, Love and our collective power, restore, manifest and preserve the Divine Plan for Earth.