THE INVERTED TREE

Joselyn Godwin, author of “The Theosophical Enlightenment and Arktos: The Polar Myth”, endorses the book “Galactic Alignment” by John Major Jenkins, says she: “J M Jenkins is the most global and erudite voice of a swelling chorus of Galactic Alignment theorists ... “ Christine Rhone coauthor of Twelve-Tribe Nations adds: “Archeo-astronomy, art, and ancient gnosis from world traditions break through the limits of the zodiac to embrace the Galactic Center in a rediscovered vision of evolutionary cosmology.”

I am personally overwhelmed by John Major Jenkins book “Galactic Alignment” as it is a fascinating and scholarly exploration of ancient cosmologies which focuses on the spiritual destiny of humankind and the solstitial position of the Sun and the Center of our galaxy. I actually ignored the position of the Sun in its yearly, seasonal equinoxes and solstices in previous years of astrological research obviously sidestepping the cosmic principle of As Above so Below (for such was my limited mind) and the great significance of the slow precessional movement of the Sun and its solar system resulting in a complete cycle of the zodiac (26 thousand years) to form an alignment with the Galactic Center until I encountered this book, “Galactic Alignment” by John Major Jenkins. Then, wow, I felt galactically aligned at last!

The great changes we are witnessing today are shown to be mysteriously coordinated with cosmic movements that we wrongly thought the Ancients knew little or nothing about. The ancient Mayans knew so much of it that toppled all my previous knowledge of things as they wove their astronomical information of all-time into their sacred architectural and spiritual belief system. I tried comprehending their incredible craft coming from several sources, and when I was asked in my profile page of
Facebook to give a list of ten titles of books I had read in rapid recall, I instantly plunged into writing titles of books about the Mayan Code, Mayan Oracle, Mayan this, Mayan that, plus the Pleadian Agenda of which the Maya is a part. Oh, my head was spinning just being reminded of the galactic nuances ….I meant to put the Bible first on my list, but I thought what else could I say to accurately justify the existence and unconditional love of my God when thinking of the illumination I got from these books…?

And then the Galactic Alignment by John Major Jenkins brings us full circle into the re-membering and re-cognition of the wisdom of our own ancient origins – not only ranging from the Mayan, Egyptian, and Vedic traditions but also to the Celtic sacred topography, Medieval alchemy to the Kabbalah and Islam astrology -- integrating all metaphysical systems to the Whole Consciousness of creation, and initiating us into the mystery of mysteries like the discovery of the symbolic Inverted Tree ! (see image above) I join with a great leap of enthusiasm Moira Tims, author of “Beyond Prophecy and Predictions”, then Vincent Bridges, co-author of “A Moment to the End of Time” who sees no other book that can equal Jenkins clear connection between mythology and cosmology as it presents a sweeping look at the world’s esoteric traditions within the context of a central and powerfully compelling new idea that times of galactic alignment might also be times of transformation of consciousness.

A critical crossroad of our destiny has arrived when we are re-membering and re-connecting to the Ancients to discover the same cosmic harmony that inspired them in our planet’s deep past. The Galactic alignment is a rare astronomical event that brings the solstice sun into alignment with the center of the Milky Way galaxy every 12,960 years.

The subject under consideration here has everything to do with spiritual growth and human awakening, both individual and collective. This is a sublimation step by step process as seen in the Mayan Pyramid of world ages, wherein the raw energy at the root center is rarefied, stimulating the next higher level of the Pyramid into activity and so on up the spiritual and cultural levels of human development.

The central axis is a symbol of the World Axis as it exists in the individual human being. Our spines are microcosmic counterparts to the cosmic axis that runs from the center or root of the cosmos through the Earth and out into the vast expanse of infinite space. Think of the Galactic Center as the root of the cosmic tree. In this manner we can visualize a galactic chakra system stretching from the Galactic Center through distinct energy bands including the Earth extending out past the Pleiades into extragalactic space.

In Mayan cosmology, Jenkins has identified a precession-caused alignment to the Galactic Center. He also identified a precession-caused alignment to the Pleiades as we ascend to the zenith with the Sun. These are the two cosmologies that form the galactic cosmology created by Mesoamerican skywatchers who were fixated in two opposite sides of the sky. Why these locations? Because the Pleiades lie in the direction of the Galactic Anticenter so to Orion and Gemini, but the Pleiades have always been associated with higher consciousness. Mesoamerican cosmology is really about a Galactic Center-Galactic Anticenter alignment that is astronomically timed by precession to culminate between 1975 and 2240. The Pyramid of Kukulcan which encodes the Pleiadean cosmology is a marker pointing to an opening portal to the Galactic Anticenter. So too, Izapa is the place where the galactic cosmology was formulated, and its monuments are aligned, like geodetic markers to the source of the evolutionary energy.

We might prefer to see the Galactic Center as the crown in this model, and several writers make this assumption, even though the Galactic Center is clearly a root as it is the heart and hearth of creation and source of everything in our world. Why should the center be the crown? Is it our destination or our evolutionary point of origin? The paradox is that both conceptions are true. Shiva (crown) and Shakti (root) are ultimately one and come from the same place in a mystical and transcendental sense. One of Coomaraswamy’s essays was on the inverted tree. The kabbalistic Tree of Life is said to be an inverted tree, and Kether, the highest sephirah is really the root system. If we place our crowns in the Galactic Center, we might feel like we were rooted in an infinity beyond time and space, beyond our local galaxy, the Milky Way which is quite true. We are rooted in infinity, we dangle by our toes (or our heads) from it, according to Jenkins. Whichever conception one prefers has to do with whether what one favors is top-down or bottom- up management. Along with Jenkins, I favor associating the Galactic Center with the root center – the source of deep insight, renewal and evolutionary energy. This is uncanny, but when I projected my Solar Return chart based in Manila,to the year 2012 I find Mars which rules my Ascendant in Aries,
located in the nadir my natal 4th house (the house of Roots of the soul) involved in treble Grand Trines with other planets in the chart’s l1th-12th and 8th houses, with Sun-Moon in a significant conjunction between l1th and 12th houses, aligned with Jupiter and Dark Moon. Mars is symbolic of the sacred warrior in me. In my Facebook symbolic profile image I used the Galactic Center, at one time, then changed to the Inverted Tree recently for no apparent reason except that I was drawn to these images intuitively, magically...I hear the voice of the Great Mother returning... As you are trusting and receptive, I sustain you with the sweet wine of my many gifts...I bathe your seed essence with abundant life-force, for I Am the primal sound of creation, the potent energy and vibration of the undivided waters.