DESCENT INTO FLESH

OUR  DESCENT  INTO  FLESH

Or our descent into Fish, hahahha.  Or our descent into the Worlds of dual appearances,  good and bad, we  must descend into the World of Creation. Why flesh?  Because  it is first formed in the World of Form in a gestating period of nine months in the fetal water of the mother’s womb, and the baby once out of its mother’s uterine watery home to be born into the World of matter keeps crying  out loud in protest, because  its spirit life is fully, ominously  threatened.  Its life in the Subtle World of the Spirit  has been taken away, put up in a backseat  still hovering over him  as a mantle  but now he must face the challenging  World of Matter alone.

I had a friend who has passed on, whose birth was a rather vigorous protest according to her, she had a dark blog called birthmark on her cheek to show for it, a sign she was stamped by her angel guide’s foot to push her out into this world, into her earthly journey.  She became a prominent healer of souls- in- their bodies, wrote a book about ‘Core Energy’ during her lifetime,  and now she’s back home where she belongs, or maybe she was sent again to assist.  

   

Kabbalistic  Teaching  and astrology say that the spirit of the human is at first pure and naive. So many of us humans  are born autistic, meaning pure and naïve,  though much of  autism  dissipates  in time of formation but still much of it remains in certain persons depending on the lunar cycle in their horoscope, and so I’ll touch on this early lunar cycle of autism  in this  posting  as we encounter the Blood Moon Tetrads  (meaning they come in fours, four is the number of tribulation  for the Jews in the ancient scriptures; the many super materialist Chinese dread the number 4 jumping  4^th to avoid it to go 5^th floor in their high-rise  elevators) in mid-April  stretching from 2014- 2015 when we see the Moon coming out reddish or pinkish at times.  Scary? Apocalyptic ?

 Perhaps, for a great cycle is ending and a new one is unfolding , however what we don’t know and understand is usually scary.  Know thyself then.  Be not afraid.  We will ride the waves of Change with the fire of divinity in us fully charged, protecting us.  The  fire in the ‘Burning Bush’ on Mt Sinai  had God’s  Voice calling unto Moses to remove his sandals  for he was treading on holy ground. The fire in the bush was not consuming the bush.

  So keep re-charging your batteries, your Link to the stars, and remove your dirty sandals for you are treading on Holy Ground.  The planet Earth has always been a hallowed ground for all of us. But in our ignorance if not greed, we abused it.  Show reverence for life, for all living things, entities especially the women and small children, especially the yet unborn.  Who knows, the Blood Moon will manifest as pinkish no longer reddish.
   

  But first things first, let us encounter  the Baby born in the flesh or body coming from the Spirit world.  Surprise?   That is, it has no other experience than the cosmic World of Creation wherein it was brought into being.  By studying fish in stream, real fish both non-symbolic and symbolic as my presentation of human evolution is fishy J  and by closely observing the natural water cycle (lunar cycle in our astrologic-mystic way as they co-exist in man), Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958) an Austrian-German  was able to solve basic problems of energy transformation.  He saw the modern man, without realizing it, was destroying the earth and sabotaging his own cultures by working against Nature .  All the prevailing energy generation -– from hydro-electric to nuclear fission –  produce harmful long-term effects on the environment and encourage disease. 

Schauberger had a clear vision of how fertility or lost divinity could be restored to earth.   He developed  a number of ingenious machines which could revolutionize  farming, forestry and aircraft propulsion, developing water purification systems and show how air and water --  could be harnessed  as fuels, discovering  implosive energy (as against explosive) and diamagnetism, most of which have yet to be developed. This is based on the book ‘Living Water’ by Olaf Alexndersson,  an electrical  engineer and active conservationist in Sweden.   This is the first book in English to describe Schauberger’s prophetic work, whose theories have staggering implications for the future of our technological world. BUT I am not expanding  on Schauberber’s inventions.  Not yet anyway. I am simply using him as a bridge to show much earlier bridges between Heaven and Earth that we have otherwise missed to appreciate and understand in our rush into developing  our own egoic intellectual capacity to invent technology by ignoring a Higher Authority called God, only to discover later that we had invented more destructive technological mechanisms  without knowing it.  Hopefully, our scientists employed or encouraged by superforces for "show of power" will learn from their mistakes before it's too late.  

Ancient Tradition says that the Universe had been created  filled  initially with three kinds of creatures.  Seen in terms of the four Worlds those ’below’ moved and had their being in the bottom of two Worlds, those of Formation and Action and had physical bodies., while  those ‘above’ moved into two middle Worlds of Creation and Formation and possessed bodies of those rarefied materialities.  The two classes we are told in the Kabbalah and astrology could not intrude into the others’ territory.  The third class of beings brought into existence were unique creatures because they could traverse the three lower Worlds.  This was mankind or humankind.  I prefer to combine the feminine with the masculine in one word -- human, since the word ‘mankind’ appears to stress the superiority of patriarchy over matriarchy that has been allowed to prevail through the past centuries .  And the Blood Moon in Tetrads is getting agitated so it seems with its reddish tincture as women and children  have become victims of criminal trafficking  and abused by the Other sex at this time of the Shift
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Halevi, our Jewish Kabbalistic astrologer says:  The topmost World was not at this point included in this plan because here was the Divine Zone into which only those who had experienced all levels of Existence could be admitted.  This was to be the prize for the most perfected in the great cosmic drama in which God should behold God. 

Thus it is said according to Haveli’s book Anatomy of Fate: Kabbalah and Astrology that Adam the image of God was called unto existence. And that out of Divine Will was created the cosmic Spirit of humanity.  The great Spiritual Adam, Tradition goes on to say, then divided, as it descended into the World of Forms, into the male and female soul.  In all the four Worlds  all the spirits that composed mankind pre-existed before they entered any physical bodies.  How can this be related astrologically?  Let us follow the sequence in detail from Tradition as we have witnessed it.

 Kabbalistic Tradition says that the spirit of a person is at first pure and naïve, that it has no other experience than the cosmic World of Creation wherein it was brought into being.  Here it resides with many others who are destined to work with it, until it requires to descend to the Subtle World or astral plane below into what is called the Treasure House of Souls.  It is not yet the highest realm of heaven. Here we are told  the spirit-soul is very reluctant to descend because it is quite happy where it is, but it is told that it was created for a special purpose and that it has to pass through the experience of physical existence in order to have a complete knowledge of all  the Worlds.  Reluctantly the entity descends into birth and soon loses its memory of its prenatal existence, although a few from time to time, do remember something about another life, another world as occasionally comes  out of the preoccupation of being physical in a physical world.

Taking it back to its astrological point of connection, it can be said that the moment of conception when the two physical parents mate, is when the biological vehicle of the fertilized cell is fused to the bottommost part of the Tree of the Spirit, the center point of the Tree of the Subtle Body and the topmost point of the Carnal Tree. Here the spirit and the soul are linked to the flesh. From there on the prenatal psyche is slowly immersed in cellular tissue, passing as it does during  gestation through all the evolutionary stages of mineral, plant and animal before it becomes a 

truly human body.

 Seen Kabbalistically, the physical body based on billions of years of refinement in terrestrial conditions, is slowly invested by the psyche or sidereal  body, which in turn is inhabited by the spirit.  The nine months gestation is a period of the most rapid changes, because the process is still largely involved in the World of Formation whose ‘metier’ is constant flow and rearrangement.  If the process were just under physical  law it would be a slow and crude elemental sequence – which the  formation of a child’s body is certainly not.  The whole operation, to be precise in Kabbalistic  terms, is one in which all three Worlds of Creation, Formation and Action participate.

When a person is born in a certain phase of the lunar cycle she/he will find maximum freedom and self-fulfillment by embodying the ideals of that lunar phase.  It’s the Moon he’s embodying  (remember ‘influencing’ is a weak word to call it)  as it goes through its cycles and  eclipses , that is reflecting the Light of the Sun to make us grow as a human species in a process called astrologically, the Phases of the Moon. Even though the truth to be found there is not everyone’s truth, it is nonetheless indispensable to his own well-being.  The phase directly opposite any phase indicates the antithesis of the native’s goals and attitudes.  Should he ever become fascinated with this phase and desert his own, which often happens, he will be out-of-phase, betrayed by himself.  The modern concept of neurosis refers to this out-of-phase lunar condition.

A neurotic or initially  severely autistic  person holds an unrealistic image of himself, and when it fails him in an Action he feels impotent, thwarted, resentful.  Later he will find his True self through transcending the lower levels of his ego but that takes a lot of discernment, a virtue of the soul or quality of the spirit that needs o be developed over many lifetimes.

 Astrologers should beware of Procustes’ bed! If your clients do not fit into the preconceived mould, don’t attempt to reshape them until they do.  This is not the place to explain the 28 phases of the Moon, that will require a seminar on the Moon’s lunar cycle, but suffice it to say that we can say, the Baby born is like the person who has gone into Phases 1-2-3 which starts with Pisces – the sign of the Fish, Neptune, Moon, Pluto rule this Mutable, Water, Universal phase.  Water acts as a moistening,  fecundating agent, thus the image of a growing baby in the mother’s fetus impacts upon us as feeding in a watery womb while in gestation.  As a baby we knew already how to swim in the Living Water of creation! Those of us who are afraid to swim may be perplexed but can learn why there’s fear of water as we seek more truth to our karmic past.  In the horoscope we can find our Moon Phase for this lifetime  after making a calculation of the distance of our natal sun, with natal moon, moving counterclockwise, etc.

 When we say in Kabbalistic Astrology that  “We are immersed in God,  and so there’s no separation,” we are simply speaking the truth of these early Moon Phases in the first decan of Aries, feeling  the thrust of the Pure Energy of Mars, signifying the explorer.  It is most timely for us to feel this Mars vibration at this time when Mars comes to a perigee, meaning moving much closer to the Earth now than in previous years, decades,  check the date.

Even as the two to four year old child explores, searches and experiences his surroundings, so should the native of Phase 2 reach out to the world …”He is neither immoral nor violent, but innocent…”  ( Wm Butler Years, poet and esotericist, see note at ther bottom of this webpage)  In his mind he senses no separation between God and Self, just as the two to four-year old has no awareness of separation between himself and his environment.  He and the environment are identical.  When in- phase, this type seems “more alive than any other. He is able to make a place for himself in every situation, never stopping to question whether he belongs or will be accepted.  He decides on this or that by no balance of reason, but by simple, instinctive, spontaneous response or expression. “  That is exactly how someone in our neighborhood manifested himself to us when we hardly knew him.

 We accidentally got together over an incident involving our housemaid who had a quarrel with his wife over garbage disposal.  This guy is in his mid-life, an executive in a well known corporation, he wanted a horoscope reading from us as soon as he found out we also do astrological work aside from other jobs.  I was surprised at his spontaneous enthusiasm for astrology, for generally people don’t act that way towards that kind of info.  He did surprise me as different, someone who’s probably  largely  autistic without  knowing  it  ….’’ He seems to be at home anywhere  because he never attempts to isolate himself from the totality of life,” based on his Phase 3 Moon after we charted his birthdate later, but he also has a character problem like an autistic child.  He failed to show his appreciation for the docu paperwork we did for his destiny pattern, etc.

  I remember a client who has this Phase 2 in her natal chart. She was visiting the Phil. at the time and was working with a staff at the UN in New York, doing things for humanity’s peace and well being.  But we usually don’t do the Moon Phase for everyone who has come to us for brthcharts, it takes so much effort and time after doing all the other basic papers.  No we need to write so the client can read them and moony-moony over the chart reading  with transits and dates given over difficulties and otherwise joys while in his private moments.  The work is some kind of amplification for the job of his guardian angel, a superbeing whisperer.
  

Studying the Luna Phases in Triads, we learn during gestation the situation is almost entirely fluid.  This is the New Moon in its First Quarter.  It is ruled by Godly instinct. The light of the Divine covers less than half  the surface of the lunar disc (Primary) but is increasing steadily (Waxing), which means that Character, the most natural way for the native  to behave, is at first taken for granted (phases 2-4)  but  consciously developed later on (Phases 5- 7).  At the First Triad,  Personality  as yet does not exist.  The surest guide to living is Action, and their finest trait is natural spontaneity.  True to phase, “the native discovers rather than creates meaning in this world, but always manages to advance one step further than anyone else.”  If you are Moon Phase 1 person, you regard life first as a near dream… like living in a  dream,  and “out of this world” as so much autism manifests to the in-the-know astrologer.

For Phase 1 native, the new child is protected and nourished by his parents. it freely partakes of its environment. When in-phase, he is a pure delight. When out-of-phase. he resembles an uncomfortable, spoiled baby, demanding constant attention and reassurance of its parents' love.  Unfortunately for natives of all instinctive phases (1-7 ), this childlike joy of being is not easily maintained in our present civilization.  If a native of Phase 1 strives for intellectual sophistication, competitive skill or any other form of self-aggrandizement, he will be living unauthenticalluy.he should exercise emotion and intellect in a purely passive manner to discern which qualities he will embody, as part of himself.  However, this plasticity or lack of aggression especially in the male, tends to be ridiculed in modern society, or in the least, passes as unappreciated.  

 You have  just left the higher realms to reincarnate on earth again, then as a “play period “(Phases 2- 4) and finally ‘‘as a task” (Phases 5-7); but always you “regard life as an adventure.”
  

Fire (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius) finds its purest expression in this first quarter of the Moon (that is, for Aries). It melts earth, evaporates  water and rarefies air, thus raising everything to a higher pitch of vibration through its warmth and restlessness.  As Aries Ascendant, Moon conjunct Mercury in Aries, I certainly feel driven by a flaming desire to impart, or share esoteric knowledge within limits.  I don’t belong to the First Triad, ruled by Mars; it’s a late Triad Moon in Aquarius, phase 27. I am a late bloomer. Natives of the First quarter Moon agitate the world around them while young in order to fan the flame of their own motivation.

 I know of a fairly good rich friend having Phase 4 who in her late thirties  built  a fortification covering two plus hectares of property inherited from her mother and called it “Field of Faith.”  She managed this spiritual center for some ten years in Cabuyao, Laguna, until  her mom died and she had to focus on caring for a growing family and an ailing father, a former central bank governor.  In any given situation these entities born under Moon Phases in Fire signs, or having Suns and other planets in Fire signs like Aries, Leo, Sagittarius take the lead by acting immediately upon the promptings of Instinct which is divinely inspired.  If they stop to question themselves, they will lose their inspiration and blunder in their work. “Action” will justify and occasionally condemn itself, but without the assistance of Intellect.  Ultimately natives of Fire wish to make their mark upon the world, but they should be interested more in the mark than in themselves.
   

The First Lunar quarter begins in innocence, but before long self-will appears and generates a strong individual ambition, leading eventually to complexity and conflict. At first the native assumes that the world (or someone in it) will take care of him, but once the Primary Tincture (divine Instinct) has closed at Phase 5, he prefers to look after himself. 

     

Providence, whose meaning is foresight, provides a clue to the life plan in the astrological horoscope.  This is the esoteric use of the birth chart.  So it is that when we look at a horoscope we are not just seeing the state of the sky, but the moment when the incarnated entity is projected into a world perfectly designed to receive and test its capability.  While some people may regard their fates as excessively difficult we must take a larger view than the usually small and totally sensual and personal outlook most of us hold.

 A person is much older than his body. For instance, if your mind is ready for this revelation, an Indian master called Babaji who is the teacher of Yogananda Phramahansa, author of 'Autobiography of a Yogi,' a classic, tells us his linear time age is five thousand years, in eternal time he is always twenty one.  In fact, there's no one in heaven who is old says a child, an NDE of four in his best-selling book about his Near-Death Experience, no one wears eyeglasses.  So we see, why some master souls are always young if it serves the purpose of their current incarnation.

At this point I"d like you to watch the video of a little girl who sings like a diva or a master opera singer, she actually shocks the judges and audience of a Dutch Talent Show by her exquisite singing voice and magnificent rendition of classical music. She's incredible to sing like that at a very young age, we say.  How did she develop such virtuosity? Who taught or trained her she is asked by the judges.  No one, she says, she is simply like that by no reason of intellect.  She must have been drilled, refined as a talent in other lifetimes before this time, and she was sent back to earth to prove to us that Eternity is here!! We have been transfigured into a New World of dazzling celestial beauty, power and marvelous place where saints dwell ? Angels are around us so they just seem to be moving around us in disguise, see them singing like this girl in Netherlands! And how about the other musical wonders discovered to be very young on TV talent contests in other countries? Likewise, our memory goes back before birth and will continue to fill our memory beyond death, however, our current life and the problems we have to solve, and the talents we have to develop are indicated in the birth chart of the current life. This is the real importance of the individual natal horoscope. 

Note:
Moon Phases as a study of Human Evolution is also based on a synthesis of humanistic astrology and schemata of Wm B. Yeats' book --  'A Vision'