THE MYSTERY OF TIME

For nearly two months I was quiet and absent from roving in the Forest. “The Forest of Stars,” my blogger is where I love to ponder and express my thoughts on the ultimate concerns of Time. Until something in one of Facebook’s esoteric groups called “Astrology and Friends, Manila” caught my attention. In it, Resti Santiago, a prominently active Manila astrologer raised a question – what do you think of this? He cited a situation wherein the current chief executive of the land, Pinoy Aquino proclaimed in a speech given at a Bicol institute of learning in Legaspi that there’s no need for consulting horoscopes to get an appropriate forcasting regarding the disastrous effects of weather change. Then he mentioned a newly developed scientific procedure that can appropriately take care of the problem. The problem with that recommendation is that we are as confused as ever about the state of disastrous weather conditions when we see its negative effects on the economic states of many countries in the world which are currently collapsing.

Under the guidance of a global spirit who functions as the Lord Protector of the Shift now occurring as empowered by Climate Change, a leading Lightworker now acts as a messenger for urgent spiritual information. He has learned about a principle called the 2012 Gateway Trajectory. This states that the pattern of consciousness that you have on Dec 21st 2012 (a symbolic Mayan calendar date for that pattern of consciousness to begin,though I sense it has already commenced earlier) will influence your trajectory through experience for many thousands of years into the future.

The 2012 gateway is like a vortex you enter it from one side, passing through the eye of the vortex into a whole new set of multi-millennia cosmic cycles as given in the Mayan Calendar of nine stages bearing that pattern.

You may have adopted more challenges now to work through in this life so that you could create a pattern in the mind belt to make it easier for others to follow and heal their lives. You have borne those challenges not so much because you need the experience, but because other people need pioneers to resolve the issues that are important today. If you are currently working through a major life challenge and feel as though you’re going round in circles and getting nowhere stop and look for the gift in that challenge. The gift is that by loving yourself and others more, you can rise above the challenge and become more of who you really are. Thus the experience changes from one of a fearsome challenge to one of self-empowerment. The kind of challenge that is upsetting some of our fondest religious beliefs is that about Time – what if my child of five years was really my own mother in a previous lifetime, as the little angel said?

What if I face the challenge of supporting financially someone in this life who has returned to resolve an imbalance who has supported me in a previous lifetime when I hadn’t had the capacity to do so? And that someone is an autistic child for example who needs all the help I can give, now. Autism may also exist in apparently normal persons who are just different from others in terms of coping with life’s exigencies. Reincarnation suggests the returning of a cycle of time you enter in from one side through the eye of the vortex of a whole new set of multi-millennia cosmic cycles.

The notion of reincarnating souls coming back to live with those who are in a different age level has become the One mystery that casts us off our seat, or some miracle of soul recognition throws us in a spin, at this time of the Shift. At some magical moment, we reach a point during our personal growth and evolution where separation is no longer the path of choice for us. The signal that would ignite the experience of soul reunion would be our spiritual Awakening. Now, is the time during the Shift to face how to resolve the issue of who is returning to connect with us in consciousness, and in a nonphysical sense when perhaps too many physical relationships have failed us in the past having realized how we have been trapped in the deceptiveness of linear time as pitted against eternity's unconditional love. It shows that we have always been in God’s time --endless time, at the same time that we are limited in linear time for a divine reason/ Duality is the issue. Having developed the wisdom of a serpent, we aren't now easily deceived by dualism. It simply demonstrates that we have never been separated from the Pure Essence, the Source (God) of who we really are, being sparks of the Divine Flame. The way I see it, Astrology is the one scientific tool available that can resolve this question of Time and Space.


In general, Astrology is concerned with the meaning of time. In particular, it is concerned with the quality of time. ‘Whatever is born or done this moment of time has the qualities of this moment of time,’ as Jung made the point succinctly. That is why one moment differs from another. Everything in the universe which is born in that moment of time is in that pattern. This is what connects time and space. And every moment produces a new pattern, a new vibration. We need to ask ourselves just what do we mean by the term – ‘moment of time’ Into what division does this term fall? A day, an hour, a minute, a second?

To ask this question is not to be pedantic, says Gregory
Szanto in his remarkable book, The Marriage of Heaven and Earth, the Philosophy of Astrology/. In looking only at the differences between space and time, it is easy to fall into the trap of seeing only the effects rather than seeking the unity behind the manifest duality. The manifest duality is actually deceptive and thus causing the confusion in matters of belief systems. Time is not a duality but a unity. Space and time are the same thing on different levels. Space is form. It is the state of mundane existence.
Time is the force behind the form.

Each moment in time is a pattern in space. The Horoscope combines the two. It is vital to our understanding of time that we appreciate the basic fact that there is no such thing as a ‘moment of time.’ There’s a song “From moment to moment” which for me demonstrates the continuum of time. In astrology, I work with some clients who have understood this fact of the continuity of time and its effects on an individual or a state, so, they have learned to see the wholeness of their journey through a flowing lifestream by doing periodic consultations on their yearly transits, progressions, and annual solar returns of their birthday horoscopes. The same state of time continuum applies not only to individuals but to nations or countries in tandem with their top leader’s horoscope.

The division of the Zodiac into devans and degrees reveals a difficulty that tends to be misunderstood. Any division whether of time or space, is a matter of convenience. Just as there are no lines in nature but we make them up in order to contain what we see, so we divide time up so that we can think about it. For instance, the artist knows that his lines are artificial. They give form to an underlying content. They are a part of his art. Similarly, we should remember says Szanto that time as a measuring device is an artificial mental construct, and as such it is useful only so long as the reality behind it is appreciated. Szanto continues: “No harm is done provided we realize the artificiality of our terminology. It is useful and necessary to use these divisions just as it is useful and necessary to use lines in art.”

The astronomer has broken down his division of a second into 919,263,1770th part for greater accuracy. Perhaps this is the number of angels that could stand on a pin as said in a biblical story. As teenyweeny as that. The form can vary in levels and sizes, but the force behind it is the same. I have seen only some (I forgot to count) ten angels of gigantic size (actually giants)with long swords clasped on their chests,guarding the high tomb of a small man, named Napoleon Bonaparte, under the altar of the historic church Les Invalides in Paris. He is a beloved hero of the French people, who in his lifetime, ventured to conquer all of Europe but met his defeat at the hands of the British naval force led by Lord Nelson in the famous naval battle of Trafalgar. The Brits returned Nappleon's body after twenty long years, and ever since the French didn't want to speak English even if they knew a little, to others. I know because I had to use sign language to communicate with the gracious French nuns who took us in their convent as chosen by a commission to host for a few delegates to the Misere-Charleville world Festival of Puppetry at one time.

By thinking of the moment of time we make the wheel of time stop. It is like looking at a single shot in a reel of a film. But the danger of making the convenience for seeing the details clearly is that we forget that the wheel never stops. We are merely looking at a part of the motion, a piece of the tail that is being swallowed.

Both kinds of time, Kairos (derived from Chiron, the bridge connecting heaven and earth) and Kronos (chronological or linear time) are contained and combined in the Horoscope. The Horoscope is the intersection of the two in what, we for convenience, call a ‘moment of time.’ Kairos exists now and forever. It is a state. Kronos is limited time, like saying, you are old and I am young, in terms of years. However, at this time of the Shift, the Ascended masters are asking us to shift our view of time, and even suggest to count our birthdays backwards.

The scientist and the mystic see time in different ways. The scientist sees a temporal world bounded by linear time and space. The mystic sees eternity. Both are the same. The only difference is in the viewpoint. We are eternal when we are. Eternity is being. It is a self-realization that comes to us like the shock of a sudden experience when the blindness of St. Paul as Saul was taken away, and enabled him to see in a new way. Eternity. The universe is eternal. It is an endless pattern, a dance, a continual motion. It is only when we observe, as profound astrologers like Szanto says, that it becomes time. The whole universe is the outer manifestation of a moment of time. To understand the connection between eternity and time, inner and outer, we need to see three levels: the spiritual, the astral, and the physical. The eternal, spiritual level has been described in the T’an Ching:

In this moment, there is nothing which comes to be. In this moment there is nothing which ceases to be. Thus, there is no birth-and-death to be brought to an end. Wherefore the absolute tranquility (of nirvana) is the present moment. Though it is at this moment that there is no limit to this moment, and herein is eternal delight.

How then do we reach this state? How do we get in touch with Eternity? The difficulty has been stated by Meister Eckhart: ‘There is no greater obstacle to Union with God than Time.’ And in another way by Krishna to Arjuna: ‘I know, O Arjuna! All things in the past, the present and the future, but they do not know Me.’ We come into the intersection between the timeless and time, between the spiritual and physical levels, between the astral and the unconscious when a synchronicity happens. Jean Bolen writes about it as “the space between individuals and things, rather than being empty, must somehow “contain” a connecting link or be a transmission medium. Jung calls this the ‘collective unconscious.’ Occultists call it the astral plane.

If we recognize the relationship between the inner and outer, and the relationship between the moment and time as a whole, we shall understand the meaning in what occurs in the world. We can, as Szanto avers, if we choose, see the same thing as synchronicity or causation. For example, when we think of someone and at that precise moment that person telephones, or someone has a dream or vision of an event which is taking place elsewhere at that time. Alternatively, two different levels of time meet. Then there is a connection between one moment and the continuum of time. This also occurs when a person has a premonition of an event that happens in the future. What matters is to recognize the meaning behind the level.

These levels exist in all of us. We can experience any state in one of three ways: We can see the phenomenon as linear time or as eternity or as an intersection of the timeless and time. If we are to be whole, (or holy, hehe) we need to experience time on all levels. Rightly understood, it is this factor above all, which gives meaning to the astrological theory. Always bear in mind the danger of devaluing the material level. Either extreme is as dangerous as the other. The danger of devaluing mundane time is that we fail to understand the importance of the right time. And the physical world is based on mundane time. Each time has its own individual quality just as each person born, and each thing done, has the quality of that time. The key to understanding Astrology lies in understanding the way that time differs, just as the key to understanding spiritual reality lies in the understanding that time is united.

Something magical has happened to us in the span of fifty or more years as things are perceived to be shifting. A Paradigm Shift is happening, and it is caused by the drastic changes in the weather when time and timelessness are said to be meeting.

The art of prediction lies in the ability to get in touch with this state of eternal time versus linear time which are truly united.