THE NUMBER 13

Dear Friends,

Having an inner knowing in the destiny of humans based on the star system I can't have my inner peace until I am able to reach out to you and those who'd care to listen regarding the US elections of 2008. My interest in the US 2008 voting process has nothing to do with partisan politics as I am not an American citizen, but it simply stems from an inner knowledge of the Oneness of all life, an esoteric concept which happens to be a personal advocacy. I'd like to make a review of an article on the Sacred Feminine written by Meryl Ann Butler, author, artist and educator -- in whose veins run the blood of two American patriots: Payne and Wheeler, signers of the Articles of Confederation --the precursor to the US Constitution. In a while I will discuss the symbolic meaning of number 13 in the US Constitution in connection with the Sacred Feminine, "that life force within every sentient being, every man and woman, to create, to nourish and to intuit and be in cooperative relationships with others" I blogged about yesterday in another article.

If you view the competitive, hierarchical, technological and war-focused direction of America, you can see that the imbalances to do with its impending recession at this time which can affect all of us world-wide are largely caused by the overzealous glorification of masculine attributes that are very apparent. The awakening of the World's Mind to the understanding of the tragic loss of feminine leadership in our culture (American or Filipino) is underscored by the custom of avoiding thirteen in the numbering of floors in skyscrapers, hotel rooms, elevators, staircases, also racecars. You can see the ''fear" evoked by 13, which is the number of the Sacred Feminine. Somehow something rings like a tiny bell eliciting a mysterious fear deep inside the human psyche when people think of the number 13. They have no clear, rational or logical explanation for it. It simply resonates with a dread of a possible misfortune, like Friday the 13th? It may be due to an unconscious guilt of the latter patriarchal generations of the male-dominant sky-god religions for having put into oblivion the higher power of the divine Mother when it's only the Father who is always addressed in their prayers.

Thirteen is also associated with Jesus' birth through the Epiphany, the date when the Magi arrived with gifts, occurring thirteen days after Christmas on January 6th. He was the 13th in a circle of 12 disciples. He embraced grace (right brain/feminine) over the (left brain/patriarch) law of "an eye for an eye" to signifiy the replacing of karma with grace. In Luke, when Jesus healed the crippled woman on the Sabbath, which was forbidden by law, he showed that he followed a higher law -- the law of the heart. Again in reverence to the Sacred Mother. In Jesus' preference for teaching in parables, he quietly endorsed the power of oral myth and story, the feminine mode of imparting knowledge, as the means to embody the greater Truths. He was radical in his inclusion of women like his mother and Mary Magdalene in his ministry, a glimpse of the way he honored women. In its purest form, Christianity, which remains the religion of the American majority, represents a movement toward the recovery of the masculine/feminine equilibrium.

Back in ages of unrecorded time, the inhabitants of planet Earth were in close contact with the cosmic Universe, and the Mayan Calendar dates it at the 3rd storey of the human evolution pyramid labeled as 13 kinchiltuns, or familial cycle, 41,000,000 years ago. I have covered the Mayan Code in my previous blogs which can be scrolled back if the reader wishes to go into a deeper scrutiny of this ancient knowledge.

The Sacred Feminine was symbolized by female deities and earth goddesses-- something drastic happened to change that phenomenon, something to do with the Fall of Man, resulting in man’s disconnection or separation from the Creator and Cosmic Universe after an apocalyptic deluge, and later when human life was regained, covering millennia, we see that the earthly representatives of the Goddess were suppressed by the male-dominated, sky-god religions, leaving our world unbalanced and wracked with war. Now as we climb the 8th storey of the pyramid, called the Galactic cycle (1999-2011), the Sacred Feminine is back. She is back to restore the loss of the Earth's All-important Balance. At this point, I hear from a great distance the voice of Hillary Clinton joyously exclaiming, “We are back! America is back!” after it was announced that she had won the New Hampshire, Nevada and Florida early primaries in late January, this year. To show us how significant or meaningful the Sacred Feminine energy is to America's destiny you will observe that the number 13 of the Divine Feminine has figured prominently in American symbolism pertaining to its Constitution and the signers of the Declaration of Independence led by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, two of the American Founding Fathers who were said to belong to a mystery school, the Rosicrucians, and therefore knew about the ancient symbols of cosmology.

Jefferson, America's third president, was born April 13, 1743. In the original flag, the 13 colonies were represented by 13 stars forming a circle. The current US flag has 13 stripes. On both the obverse and reverse of the Great Seal of the United States (see the figures above) the number 13 is seen in abundance. There are 13 stars in the crest, 13 stripes in the shield, 13 letters in Annuti Coeptis, 13 letters in E Pluribus Unum and 13 courses of stone in the pyramid. The eagle (national bird) holds an olive branch with 13 leaves and 13 olives in its right talons, representing peace and the feminine, and 13 arrows in the left, representing war and the masculine. The gaze of the eagle, however, is firmly set upon the olive branches, indicating America's focus and destiny toward peace. But before one can achieve peace, America has to, if necessary, go to war. Two of Jefferson’s quotes invite us to reflect, on the occasion of April 2004, says Meryl Ann Butler, the month with the greatest loss of American lives since the Iraq war began:

A little rebellion now and then is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government..... I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

Thirteen is the number traditionally associated with the Divine Feminine. In ancient times there were "13 moonths" in a year since there are thirteen full moons, and thus, women have thirteen menstrual cycles, yearly. And also, we rejoice for the bonus in our paycheck, the 13th month pay, in December, a gift of the Divine Mother. The thirteenth letter of the alphabet is "M," a letter associated with many things feminine. including mother, mom, mama, mammary glands, and one of the most powerful feminine archetypes in the world, the Virgin "Mama" Mary. I know, you'd object since English is only one of many languages of humanity -- well, consider that English is the accepted "universal language" of the world, so there. You are either a universal type or you are not, with due respect.

To continue our discourse on the American symbolism: In its purest sense, American democracy is a reclamation of the balance, in the masculine and feminine dance, a waltz which has suffered from the imbalances of patriarchy or the rule of men, for the past 5,000 years. Let me bow for a brief exit now, to come back to blog about a woman named Hillary who is a frontrunner in these US Primary elections, and who I discovered in her astrological chart (and she may not know it) has the distinction of having been awarded with the high initiation symbol of “Isis Key” attributed to Isis, the Egyptian goddess in an ancient lifetime, and, in another medieval lifetime, a Knight of the Holy Grail.

Till then, G

THE SACRED FEMININE RISES AGAIN

Symbolized since in ages before recorded time by female deities and earth goddesses – and suppressed by the male-dominated, sky-god religions of history, leaving our world perilously unbalanced and wracked with war -- the Sacred Feminine is again on the rise. Women leaders are on the rise, not really to reverse history to herstory, but to restore balance between the masculine and feminine aspects of the human being before everything is lost in a world of seemingly unstoppable wars. To exalt the ‘Sacred Feminine’ or ‘Divine Feminine’ one may initially court the danger of clashing with the male ego at this time. But there is really no quarrel between the sexes about this need for the female to find its powerful voice Now, because we have arrived at a high point of our human evolution, the eighth story of the pyramid called the Galactic cycle of the Mayan calendar when the barriers are being dissolved so that the Light of infinity can break through to enable humans to see that God is Father and God is Mother. We now see one within the other, undivided in Oneness, and creating the All of creation. In other words, we now understand that the Divine Feminine is that life force found within every sentient being, every woman and man, to create, to nourish, to intuit and be in cooperative relationship to others.

Throughout history, men of wisdom have defined the Sacred Feminine with the qualities of wisdom, justice, beauty, and compassion. She is the irresistible power that destroys old forms and brings new ones into being. She is the unseen divine dimension of the soul to which we are connected through our instincts, our feelings, and the longing imagination of the heart. She is an invisible flow of energy that brings life into being, sustains and transforms it, and withdraws it into a hidden dimension for rebirth and regeneration. This part, I would call death and rebirth into another cycle of being as symbolized by the River of Life. The planet Venus embodies this flow of energy, in her Double Transit for instance, which came on June 8, 2004, and to return on June 6, 2012. Its cosmic significance has an impact on the soul preparation we have to make before the Universal cycle in the calendar which starts in Oct., 2011. The process is rhythmic, and rhythm is the primary characteristic of the Feminine. She is presented as the symbol of justice that inspires all human laws. She is the invisible spirit guiding human consciousness.

I just mentioned the Venus double transit of June 8, 2004, returning June 6, 2012, to call your attention to the astrological fact that nothing happens by accident. In April, 2004, it has been recorded as the time of the greatest loss of American lives since the Iraq war began, we’ll reflect on what Thomas Jefferson had to say regarding the rationale behind why America goes to war at certain times: A little rebellion now and then is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

People would tend to speak of America’s destiny as the “Policeman of the World.” Whether this is a well thought out idea or not, it is based on fact. Historically, the United States have waged and still are waging wars of liberation for severely troubled places of the planet. The reasons for going to war appear to justify her natural feeling for “mothering, nurturing, and preserving the peace” of her own great nation together with the world at large. The mother figure comes naturally to her because this is a Cancer Sun country, based on July 4, 1776, the day she won her Independence from Great Britain. Cancer is the sign of motherhood, and even the men of the family are mothers and put on aprons to attend to the kitchen even when the housewife is around. Both mother and father are hands- on parents in the American family, a beautiful, endearing domestic scene that is very appealing to families in other countries where the mother does all the work in the house. Apparently, there’s a great need for balancing the forces of the feminine and masculine in our world today, specifically, in countries where the women folk have remained in subordinate status to their menfolk, as indicated by the way they are robed and veiled in black, heavily hooded, by the way they are denied presence in social or public functions, and the right to advance in education, and government positions, reinforced by religious beliefs.

In the zodiac, death, transformation and the eagle, national bird of America, are all associated with the sign Scorpio. There are astrologers who have a reason to accept the time of approximately 2 p.m. on July 4, 1776, chart of its Independence Day making the constellation of Scorpio rising on the American horizon. American elections in early November, the pivotal point of democracy, fall during the annual zodiacal period of Scorpio, infusing the spirit of transformation in the voting process. At this time of the great Shift in the world’s mind, the American people are going to the polls in November, 2008, to elect their next president. A frontrunner among the Democratic candidates is a woman. If she wins the nomination for presidency in her party, and goes on to capture the presidency in November, 2008, can there be any doubt that this is the moment of transformation for America and the world ?