THE TOWER

But aren’t we already enlightened? Many of my friends in the so-called generic “circle of light” societies may want to ask. Many of them, in fact, can be considered “Lightworkers” in their own subtle ways although they may not know it. One can actually find them among the listings of Facebook members doing lightwork like performing ritual healing ceremonies, soul- dancing to the tune of their drum drums during Full Moon mostly (Equinoxes, and Solstices not yet well known) intoning chants of love, peace and bliss for the world, calling on to Bathala (God in Pilipino) to bless today’s distressed humanity. The most advanced economy in the world has recently discovered an extensive poverty. For suchness is necessary so proud humanity may attain enlightenment. As the ancient Greeks say: pride precedes a fall. Be sure to look at the balloons flying at the bottom.

The Elite (powers-that-be that control the world) would debunk astrology as prominent astrologer Barbara Hand Clow claims, while using it as a tool to predict human behavior to perpetrate their power games. This is definitely a sign that we exist in the realm of duality where spirit and matter precariously co-exist and where extremely ambitious materialists would be seen using spiritual techniques as power to further their ends. However, their number is diminishing as more photon light of the higher dimensions is increasing. We still can observe how some global-political powers use astrology to stay one step ahead.

Ms Clow defines Astrology as the highest art for analyzing human behavior, and smart people use it. I agree it’s God’s Art – in all its sacred geometry, divine magnificence, photonic radiance, and vibratory orderliness. For myself, I have worded my own view of astrology as a marriage of science, mysticism, and art. Such a view of forces, affirms physicist Fritjof Capra, (it looks like Fritjof Capra and me are in galactic alignment in this, ahem) – that this viewpoint is so characteristic of Eastern mysticism which regards motion and change as essential and intrinsic properties of all things. I then become a scientist as I was in a prior lifetime :)) In the Eastern view, as in the view of modern physics, everything in the universe is connected to everything else and no part of it is fundamental. For this reason, fundamentalist religions are now getting worried with the spread of new age, rather Now age teachings. But they need not be, and they should rejoice and welcome the fact that both physicists and mystics realize the impossibility of fully explaining any phenomenon, and yet it becomes a paradox again, that they are concerned with ‘absolute knowledge involving the understanding of the totality of Life.’

Physicists are seen to be satisfied with approximate understanding of nature. The Eastern mystics, on the other hand, are not interested in approximate, or ‘relative’ knowledge. They are concerned with ‘absolute’ knowledge involving the understanding of the totality of Life, I may sound redundant but it’s necessary for clarity. The Eastern sages, however, are generally not interested in explaining things, but rather obtaining a direct non-intellectual experience of the unity of all things. This was Buddha’s attitude who answered all questions about life’s meaning, the origin of the world, or the nature of nirvana, with a ‘noble silence.’

The notion of ‘all in each and each in all’ has found its most extensive elaboration
in Mahayana Buddhism which is often considered to be the final culmination of Buddhist thought. It is based on the Avatamsaka Sutra, traditionally believed to have been delivered by the Buddha while he was in deep meditation after his Awakening. This voluminous sutra which has not been translated into any Western language, describes in great detail how the world is perceived in the enlightened state of consciousness when the ‘solid outlines of individuality melt away and the feeling of finiteness no longer oppresses us.’ My source: The Tao of Physics, by F. Capra.

It tells the story of a young pilgrim, Sudhana and gives the most vivid account of his mystical experience of the universe, which appears to him as a perfect network of mutual relations, where all things interact with each other, like the planets in the Fall Equinox (Sept-Oct-Nov 2010) chart which we will discuss in a while. The Tower is a metaphorical image of the universe, drawn in such a way that each of the towers contains, in itself all the others. The sutra, paraphrased by D.T. Suzuki, uses the image of a magnificently decorated tower to convey Sudhana’s experience:

The Tower is as wide and spacious as the sky itself. The ground is paved with (innumerable) precious stones of all kinds, and there are within the Tower (innumerable) palaces, porches, windows, staircases, railings, and passages, all of which are made of seven kinds of precious gems…

And within the Tower, spacious and exquisitely ornamented, there are also hundreds of thousands… of towers, each one of which is as exquisitely ornamented as the main Tower itself and as spacious as the sky. And all these towers, beyond calculation in number, stand not at all in one another’s way; each preserves its individual existence in perfect harmony with all the rest. There is a sense of perfect intermingling and yet of perfect orderliness. Sudhana, the young pilgrim, sees himself in all the towers as well as in each single tower, where all is contained in one and each contains all.

The Tower in this passage is a metaphor for the universe itself, and the perfect mutual interfusion of its parts is known in Mahayana Buddhism as ‘interpenetration.’ Space and time are also seen as interpenetrating. This experience of interpenetration can be seen as a mystical vision of the complete ‘bootstrap’ situation according to the Tao of Physics by Fritjop Capra, where all phenomena in the universe is harmoniously interrelated. In such a state of consciousness, the realm of the intellect, says Fritjof Capra, is transcended and causal explanations become unnecessary, being replaced by direct experience. Likewise, when someone asks: Do you believe in Astrology? The answer would be: Do you believe in experience?

Our focus in this study of phenomenology is on God’s creation itself which lends to experience, Myth, Metaphor, Math, Magic, and Mirrors. Focus on the seasons and lunar cycles, goes back to more than 10,000 years ago when the ancient seers discovered ways to balance our consciousness by showing how to use the potentiality of each season with intention. What is the Intention of the Creator when the universe was made? Divine Intent or the divine plan is the main concern of Astrology. “All rotating things, “ says Chang Tsai with reference to the heavens, “ have a spontaneous force and thus their motion is not imposed on them from outside,” but from within the I Am that I Am Presence. And these are the Laws of the Universe/ In the I Ching, we read: The natural laws are not forces external to things, but represent the harmony of movement immanent in them. This harmony of movement immanent in the lunar cycles for instance, can be utilized to master our emotions very effectively, because the Moon or the lunar cycles are in charge of our feelings. But we'll tackle that later.

We’d like to look at how the Elite might be planning events for us during the Mayan Calendar, and they offer tips on how to live better amidst these difficult transformative times. How have we gotten to these critical junctures? Why are 1999 through 2011 so critical for the survival of our species?

In Barbara H Clow’s book Catastrophobia,(2001)she theorizes that we are afflicted with a crippling species-level, post-traumatic stress syndrome that she calls “catastrophobia” This trauma developed 11,500 years ago as the result of a great cosmic catastrophe in our solar system. This malaise in the collective psyche of our species deepened during thousands of years after the 9500 BC cataclysm when our ancestors endured starvation and horrific environmental stress. Something like this is happening again at this time of Great Shift in consciousness. Before this time, during the Regional Underworld – 100,000 BC through AD 2011, Earth was the Garden of Eden. We experienced harmony and oneness in our planet. Then the Fall of man from grace happened as explained in the Bible or holy scriptures, coinciding with the Mayan Calendar’s aforementioned event. Then catastrophic events separated us from Nature and these are deeply buried in our minds over the eons. Just like adults who once endured early childhood-abuses that they have largely forgotten, we must heal ourselves by recovering these memories and understanding how they have changed us.

FALL EQUINOX, Sept 22, 2010

The Fall Equinox has arrived and we begin by reviewing our 2010 Spring Equinox (March- April- May) intentions which we seeded in Spring to fulfill during the 4 seasons. In our country, we know only of 2 seasons, the dry and wet seasons, but in spirit the Intentions seeded during the Spring Equinox are the same and made to grow till end of year. Less stressful as it maybe for us Pinoys since we have no Winter, just maybe, we are more favored with less stressful climate, hahahah, because as part of the ASEAN economic developing countries, we have less wants to fulfill than the people in the west, perhaps. But not being favored in a physical manner can drive also many of us to leave wanting to be more physically endowed by migrating to America, and other western countries. But not anymore as a sense of fear of poverty is now pervading the globe. During the Summer Solstice, the time is to birth these ideas into recognizable form. The Fall Equinox (Aug- Sept- Oct 2010) is the time to flesh out, balance, and assess those creations and to weed out those that are not just working. Then the Winter Solstice is the time to enter into deep contemplation, to imagine how our personal creations assist others and the planet to evolve.

Usually, the Sun moving into Libra (Sept-Oct.) just wants to have a nice party and experience tra- la-la-la harmony. But not this year !! With the Sun coming into an exact square to Pluto in Capricorn, and to Saturn in conjunct, a few hours after Moon goes into Aries and opposes Sun in Cardinal Libra, a Full Moon that squares newly direct Pluto close to the Galactic Center, you have the entire galaxy in revolt!

It’s time for us to seriously (implying that we have not been serious) evaluate Earth’s organizational systems, and how We the People react to them. Systems (ruled by cardinal signs Libra and Capricorn) don’t function anymore when people lose their faith in them. The Fall Equinox predicts great changes, and the worst thing you can do is to resist and do nothing. All over the world we have been witnessing the chaotic uproar of people massing in the streets of Central American countries like Ecuador toppling a government for depriving them of their pensions. The same problem arises in ritzy Paris and Washington DC. In Karachi, Mumbai, and other places, people are crying for more jobs, changes in the way government is handling the economy that’s breaking down. And when a government decides to make cuts in the budget to solve the money crisis, the Sun in usually indecisive Libra shouts – “Make decisions and act against such stupid moves!” The Fall Equinox chart suggests things are so difficult that masses of people are just too stressed out not to move and demand for their rights. You want to be part of the movement and demand new things that work, as politicians as far as possible milk the public treasury. There are three or four T-squares of planets configured in the zodiac map of the Fall equinox denoting great difficulties to be overcome.

The Sun conjunct Saturn in Libra denotes that people will be moving out of houses they don’t own, dead-end jobs, and lifeless relationships as Sun opposes Moon in Aries. With Jupiter and Uranus clutched together in 27-28 Pisces for months, people tend to be uncommonly clever and fond of study but led astray by totally wrong principles undermining even the most ingeniously built mental constructions. Uranus-Jupiter paired denotes a remarkable but shifty luck (Jupiter is great luck and Uranus is sudden change), and like his knowledge, the native’s body can be warped by some blemish or his health sapped by some illness.

Diseases abound like dengue fever in the Philippines at this time. Cholera epidemic threatens Haiti. Cardiac arrest and diabetes are common due to a rich diet of processed food mostly dependent on toxic substances and sugar. Total ruin threatens the health, as the need for prudence will never be overstressed as multiple media techniques arise to confuse young people who are turning more crazy over computer games than studying; drinking and carousing in evening outings. Blind confidence can never be discouraged enough in some elected top leaders who are propped up by a mass media propaganda machine that is highly selective of what news to release.

Learning to understand planetary pairings seems to be the point at this time of the Fall Equinox 2010, as we near 2011. When Mercury conjunct Saturn are traveling together they carry on a long discussion about the meaning of each one – Saturn focuses on core identity, while Mercury struggles to verbalize and conceptualize what it might be – Who am I? Why am I here? What am I supposed to do in the world? In Libra, how can I offer my skills for peace and harmony? Discussions about planetary pairings are usually very confusing. During natal readings, they can be time-consuming Catch 22’s since living with them has been enigmatic for the person getting the reading. They are confusing because they are very subtle especially during the time of the New Moon as the lords of the sky (karmic board) are giving us a higher dose of “pairing medicine,” which connotes a higher level of testing one’s choices to make. Do I take the high road of virtue, or the low road of crime in relationships ? Also, because working in pairs can help us remember how to function in community, forcing us to face the East-West impasse.

Saturn (integrity) square North Node (purpose for coming in this incarnation) already indicates a karmic crisis. So the persons who are inspired by the enigmatic pairing of Mercury and Saturn in Libra are going to be impelled to let go of old security (Cancer) and adopt new forms and structures (Capricorn) in the community. The old order giving way to a new order...

Mars conjunct Venus in Scorpio are in the middle of a very interesting dance that involves three conjunctions in Libra, and Scorpio which have inspired deep potential for sexual and relationship harmonics. Their negative potential is to cause you to be so excessively androgynous (he/she) that you lose your full feminine and masculine powers as renowned astrologer Barbara H Clow attests. The positive side is that when you are in your feminine mode you are very strong, and when in masculine mode you are less male becoming more feminine—and becoming intuitive and magnetic. Ha,haha, laughter from the side comes, coming from the male of the species themselves. Now, people may understand the real difference between male and female, and not fear it as the process of transformation and Becoming unfolds with the female becoming more male, but not to lose the Balance as this is well orchestrated,
and the male becoming more female, and thus learn to relate to each other through fairness and sharing...we'll hear more about such changes in the beingness of men from a fundamentalist religion that keeps the women fully veiled...as we move nearer into the 4th dimension, Isis the goddess will be Unveiled.

And with Neptune conjoined to Chiron paired a few minutes apart in 26 Aquarius,this is the main "prep team" for the Universal Underworld time acceleration of March 9, 2011, which started back in 2008. This pair works to heal the past-traumatic-stress-disorders in the past ages of our existence stimulated by the current Galactic higher energy frequencies...triggering "erotic timelessness." We leave our blocks of the past behind to slide into the Neptunian bliss of of the Chirotic "Now" of No time.

Wow, isn’t that mighty interesting? The pairing of Mars-Venus in transformative Scorpio would bring the solution to the Old Gender Imbalance in the world, where the male is considered superior to the female, and the New Moon in Scorpio will give way to a clear harmonic relationship between the sexes which ought to inspire male/female balance in the planetary system. This is the desired BALANCE of the universe at this time as humanity moves away from the Galactic into the Universal plane of the evolutionary pyramid with the Mayan Calendar ending a great cycle of 26,000 years and beginning a new one.

Look up to the Tower again which is as wide and spacious as the sky. Imagine yourself reaching for the hand of the lovely angelic being reaching her hand out to you from the clouds where the turrets and minarets and spires of the towers are hidden... the One becoming the many, and the many returning back to the One.

Comments:
M.J. Hi Georgie, AMEN TO THIS.
A.A. How very beautiful, thanks for sharing.

FREE WILL AND KARMA

To continue the discussion on the Law of free will I’d like now to incorporate the Law of cause and effect or karma to bring a deeper harmony to the practical circumstances in which we find ourselves in these difficult times of transition from the old cycle to a new one.

Child of the Sun with all your golden flowery petals unfolding, why did you come to Earth? You are being called to wakefulness, to your place in the new myth. A great miracle is coming for planet Earth, and the time is now. A new consciousness will be created by the children of the Sun as they ascend with the Earth to a new place among the stars. Your being a Child connotes innocence, not ignorance, though you are getting old... In your awakened state, when asked about your age, you now can say, I am as old as the universe and young as the morning sun, and it's true. Photon light is increasing within you that makes you glow from within to without as you immerse in the joyful ocean of soaring frequencies in this realm where there is only love.

Open your world to the Great Mystery, according to the Mayan Oracle. You are the miracle of the new myth unfolding. You came to Earth with a purpose, a plan, a master “blueprint” encoded in your feelings. Live in harmony with that plan. From now on there are no more road maps as alarming landslides that swallow up villages, floodings, oil spills, an unexplained spread of a chemical sludge polluting rivers threatening disease, melting ice glaciers, rising sea levels are changing land zones on earth, no more ideologies, no more philosophies.

From here on, your direction comes straight from the universe, day by day, moment by moment.

This is the path of innocence, the path of trust. It means not trying to control the outcome. The entire universe is made of love. Give and receive. If you are not fully receiving the gifts offered by the universe, you can short-circuit your connection with the natural spirals of growth. Give freely and unconditionally without attachment to how your gift is received. Offer this gift unconditionally. Trust in the situation at hand.

Know that, like the pull of the heavenly bodies, love is neither taken away from you nor given by someone who may be here and gone tomorrow, but love is discovered and allowed.

No one is without love, for love is the force that holds universes together.

But this love is not to be mistaken with the kind dramatized in movies that deal in sex and violence as created by the ugly reality of human trafficking victimizing women and children or deadly drug trafficking, more criminal assaults on women arise signifying this is the time of horrifying darkness before the dawn.Trust your steering mechanism of heart-knowing. Trust the transformational processes that are at work as you ascend with Earth to higher vibrations. Listen to the universe as it speaks the voice of the collective present. See how your past has brought you into the present and how the present catapults you into the future.

Remember, you are always at choice. If you hold memories of wounds relating to unfinished emotional issues you are being asked to interact with individuals, situations or memories -- these feelings are requesting to go into healing and release now. Affirm: Through you, Gaia, I am also transformed! I am awakening to the return of divine love and light. As we awaken, we are healed and together our petals open ecstatically to the new Sun of Flowers (see image above) But we feel discouraged and overwhelmed by the current world situation as the dark forces are making their last hurrah to block us from entering the new frequencies of the golden octave now allowing us to make the quantum leap that will catapult the Earth into a new spiral of being.

So let us return to the idea that we have the right to have any experiences we want. Why is the mind of the anti-christ or dark forces so appealing to anyone? What does the mind of anti-christ offer us? The anti-christ is any entity or any belief system that gives a denial of the cosmic Christ within you, or a denial that you are advancing in the path of cosmic Christhood when you are. It offers us the experience of total separation from oneness. And why on Earth would this be appealing to us?

Well, as I already said (Kim Michaels is back), there are experiences you cannot have, some things you cannot do, while you see yourself as an extension of your I Am Presence. Let us look at these experiences in more detail:

*When you see yourself as an extension of the Presence, you cannot do anything without considering the consequences for other people. The Law of free will requires total responsibility. So there are some actions you could never do, for example, you could not be a Viking (as Kim Michaels talks for his people as a Dane) or a 21st century terrorist who’s likely to be supported by drug cartels (as I speak for everyone) if you see yourself as an extension of God. As Kim says, going into separation makes it possible to do what you want and ignore the consequences it has for others. Yet the mind of the anti-christ offers you a deeper layer – namely the conviction that your selfish acts are not selfish according to the highest authority. The worst thing you can do on Earth is to kill another human being, so it takes the highest authority for you to feel that your killing is justified and only the reality that gives you this justification which is why the Crusades could kill and still see themselves as doing God’s work.

*As the ascended masters have said, you are responsible for the choices you make and you cannot escape the consequences. Yet the mind of the anti-christ offers you the experience that you can indeed avoid the consequences of your actions. The crusaders knew that killing was forbidden by God. Yet when they were killing in the name of God they were convinced that God would not punish them for doing it.

*Another aspect is that when you think you are a separate being and when you focus on the material consequences of your actions you cannot get away with this. As I have said, you can never escape the consequences of your choices, because your choices are made based on a separate sense of self, and you will experience life through that separate sense of self. Yet the mind of anti-christ offers you the illusion that if you can avoid physical consequences there are no consequences that affect you.

*As the masters have said, God has given you completely free will, but God has also given you absolute responsibility for your choices. The primary appeal of the mind of anti-christ offers you the illusion of presenting you as a powerless being who is the victim of forces beyond your control. Thus, there is nothing you can do with your own power, meaning you really can’t help feeling powerless. You are not truly responsible for the outer situation. And thus you are not responsible for your state of mind.

The Victim Consciousness simply has to go.

It is the victim mindset that make us susceptible to the false path to salvation. The Conscious You is an extension of God's being,meaning it is also beyond conditions. So the only "condition" the Conscious You must fulfill in order to ascend is that it must return to the state of innocence, the state of being without conditions. It must therefore shed the conditions it has come to accept by using the illusions of the mindset of the anti-christ to define a separate self.

*The mind of anti-christ is based on a duality, so it has its built-in contradictions, meaning it can justify many types of behavior. For example: some people want to be victims and feel powerless, whereas others want ultimate power. The mind of anti-christ offers you the illusion that you can actually define what is right and wrong in the ultimate sense. If you are defining right and wrong you can always define it so that you are right and that denies you your responsibility to connect to the reality of Christ. Which really means that your free will is not free, while you think that you have ultimate freedom.

The masters teach that the forces of evil began when a group of angels under the leadership of Lucifer decided to rebel against God’s plan for the universe.

These angels were especially in disagreement with free will, and ever since they fell, they have been trying to manipulate our free will in order to prove God wrong. In other words, the angels thought God was wrong for giving all beings free will, because it made it possible for beings could be lost. So the angels wanted authority to override our free will and thus force someone to be saved.

In Maitreya’s book, he explains the concept of a series of spheres, about the angels who were not actually in the spiritual realm. They were in a sphere that had not yet ascended but was close to the ascension point. And it was because the angels refused to transcend the sense of self as being important in that sphere that they fell.

The masters have also explained through Kim Michaels that a part of the equation was that these angels had not truly overcome the desire to be more than other beings in their sphere. They had been given high positions only in the hope that by having this experience they would overcome the desire to be better than others. Some of them did not, so when the sphere ascended, they refused to let go of the sense of superiority and thus fell into the next sphere.

If you think about this, you will see that free will actually works against the idea that some beings are more important than others.

If all have the opportunity to increase their self-awareness to the level of a Creator, then no one can do permanently better than others. Do you see the Catch-22 here? Beings who have a desire to feel better than others simply cannot let go of the identity as separate beings. Only when beings are separate that it is possible to impose a value judgment and say that some beings are right and some are wrong. Yet if you cannot let go of the separate self, you cannot rise in self-awareness of being at a certain level. Meaning that those who are willing to let go as the separate self will then surpass you in God’s realm. This is exactly what happened to the angels who were not willing to transcend and became the new leaders. As Jesus said, “The first shall be last, and the last shall be first.” .