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NASA has announced a deal with SpaceX and Boeing to build space taxis to shuttle astronauts to the International Space Station. This deal will end NASA’s reliance on expensive Russian crew transport by 2017. The cost was a whopping $71 million per seat. However, the rising tensions in Ukraine may have also been a factor in the push for U.S. contracts.
It’s still not clear which company is going to get to command the first mission to carry humans into low-Earth orbit on a spacecraft, but according to NASA, the vehicles chosen will either be Boeing’s CST-100 or SpaceX’s Dragon. The total potential contract value is $4.2 billion for Boeing and $2.6 billion for SpaceX.
NASA also considered a bid from privately owned Sierra Nevada Corp. but went with Boeing and SpaceX instead. It should be noted that Boeing and SpaceX have won most of NASA’s development funds.
SpaceX already has a $1.3 billion NASA contract to fly cargo to the space station. SpaceX will now upgrade its Dragon freighter and is expected to launch on top of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket to the orbiting outpost this week, according to Space.com. It will be packed with more than 5,000 lbs of materials for the crew – including the first ever 3D printer in space.
NASA also has a $1.9 billion contract for resupply missions with Orbital Sciences Corp.
Here’s a video of what could potentially be the first ever space taxi, the SpaceX Dragon, for reference:
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This is what we have done for Astrotheme's visitors, trying to use everyday words devoid of technical jargon, with no historical or specialised argumentation, and with the only aim to reach to as many persons as possible, yet without proselytizing. Just a few judgments coming from experience, a pragmatic vision of this tool for knowledge, which is what astrology is all about.
For the illustration of this non-technical article, it became rapidly obvious that astronomy images are needed... The staggering sight of certain galaxies or nebulae is not only splendid but enables to open one's mind towards... more consciousness and a more intense feeling of being alive.
Of course, the purpose is not to convince. Indeed, in politics as well as in spirituality, to change direction is a complex issue. As far as the quite bizarre field of astrology is concerned, irrational behaviours occur quickly, usually with a little disdainful smile from those who, obviously, have been beyond the naive propensity to believe anything, to dream blissfully, and to delude themselves about a necessarily silly system because it offers off the beaten path possibilities, which other human disciplines do not.
The list of the authors of scornful smiles towards astrology is quite long, just as long as the list of more open-minded people who, either have tried themselves to learn this tool which astrology is – which, like psychology or history, is not a science – and became convinced that it works or at least has some degree of efficiency, or because they no time or no interest, leave the door open, thinking "finally, why not?", after all, one does not know much, would it be solely in the area of the spouting of the thought – WHO handles thought at the moment it emerges... - or about physical laws for which the 21th century is mere prehistory, as all scientists know. Indeed, life is evolution, knowledge is not static, and the only mistake which must not be made is to gorge oneself with certainties, including that which consists in associating "too good" results with absolute scientific impossibility.
I believe that my experience is quite similar to that of everybody, i.e. that of a person who, a priori, before discovering it, was "against" astrology and considered it... crap meant for gullible people, or in the best case, an idle fancy with a tinge of poetry in which all the intellectual energy spent was finally used to create a nice virtual world and arouse pleasure.
Paradoxically enough, relatively few astrologers are interested in astronomy. This is not my case. I even dreamed I would become an astronomer when I was small, and nowadays I feel the need to have a telescope at home, even though... I seldom use it because, unfortunately, the sky above the region of Paris is too polluted.
As I flicked through the pages, I was a bit amused to see the natal charts of historical personages, quite rigorous rules, an apparently sound functioning, and I thought that for once, I ought to read an astrology book, and at least, this one does not seem too naive.
In addition, there were a few recipes for the compatibility of couples, and since I was in love of one of my school comrades, in that Terminale C class (In the French education system, the last year of secondary school with a maths option), I thought, well, I am going to have fun and see whether, according to astrology, my compatibility with this beautiful brunette, the sight of whom would pierce my heart, is good or not!
With a good dose of scepticism and quite negative preconceptions, I started to learn to erect a natal chart, interpret it, and become initiated into all the predictive techniques, synastry, and other relishes having the charm of that which is unknown.
Since this article is not a book, it is necessary to get to the heart of the matter. Actually, I realised quickly that among the concepts of signs, houses, planets, houses in signs, planets in signs, rulership, aspects, nature of the planets, etc. it would take some time before being rewarded, venturing into uncertain territory alone, and interpreting charts without opening astrology books every thirty seconds.
Indeed, to my view, the first obstacle for anyone willing to get an idea about astrology is the huge contrast between serious astrology on the one hand, and on the other hand, the ordinary media and its horoscopes by signs or by decans – which are of no value, it is necessary to say so, absolute void, and the biggest hoax because a natal chart cannot be reduced to the position of the Sun in one of the zodiacal signs. Absurd columns with equally stupid predictions – here again, and it is difficult to refrain from giving names, be it to quote people who saw Kerry as the winner of the American elections in Telestar (A popular French television weekly) or in other magazines, or in general a little bit everywhere because it cannot be repeated often enough that there are two types of astrology, that of horoscopes in magazines which are nonsense, a mere commercial lottery. From this perspective, it is easier to understand the disdainful smiles of those mentioned earlier, and I particularly think of Guy Carlier (A French TV presenter and humorist), whom I nevertheless find quite pleasant, and of Alain Gillot-Pétré (He was a French TV meteo presenter), a declared enemy of astrologers. I remember for instance a TV programme featuring Paco Rabanne (He became famous as a fashion designer. He is not an astrologer but a weird visionary, also quite nice), and gorgeous Elisabeth Tessier (A professional French astrologer whom the late President François Mitterrand consulted. The thesis she defended at La Sorbonne University was the subject of a hot controversy) who was castigated by Guy Carlier... Thus, there is a big discrepancy between junk astrology and genuine astrology. The latter consists in extracting information from an exact natal chart based on a date of birth and location, and whenever possible a time of birth, and to deduct relevant results from this chart.
The weird and unique feeling of infinity which emerges from the sky when one gazes into space is one of the numerous methods for starting a meditation on the purpose of one's life.
Therefore, a lot of time is required because without learning by rote numerous dozens of basic notions, it is very difficult not to get lost. Of course, one can have fun, but if one expects some degree of proficiency or just wants to be able to follow the rules of this tool, one will have to spend several months studying.
I shall briefly address a few other obstacles which claim so-called scientific bases and may prompt doubts, discouraging people who are curious about astrology even before they get a chance to start studying it. I think for instance of such a statement as "astrology is bullshit since everyone knows that owing to the precession of the equinoxes, and when one says that the Sun is in Aries although in fact, it's been a long time since it has left this constellation." This is obviously stupid because by definition, in astrology, signs do not represent the constellations bearing the same name, but they refer to the immutable cycle of the seasons. Thus, the sign of Aries corresponds to the spring equinox in the Northern hemisphere, and not to the stretch of space occupied by the constellation of Aries.
But I will not elaborate any further on these technical details because they are not the focus of this article, the purpose of which is only to give a testimony and to state that astrology works, in the light of an experience and a practice which cover a span of thirty years plus.
So, after a few weeks, astrology became clearer for me. Actually, I understood that finally, there were three essential functions and a fourth one as the wild card, if I may say so. First, there is the astrology which analyses the personality, the character, the motivations, the typology, and the behaviour. Then, there is a second astrology, well-known, which checks the past and analyses the present by superimposing the positions of the planets at a given period on the planets of the natal chart, using various techniques such as transits, solar revolutions, progressions, etc. Lastly, there is the astrology which compares two charts in order to understand the relations between two individuals who may be more or less compatible.
After the feeling of infinite in space, the questioning about... whatever pre-existed automatically arises. The sensation of the infinity of time, the research of the causes, and the voyage back beyond them necessarily makes a normally constituted human being feel dizzy. Such vertigo arouses a stronger desire to understand the meaning of all this and therefore, the commencement of spiritual quest.
For all four sections, it is clear that people don't have the same propensity to "believe" or not. Many people have no problem acknowledging that astrological portraits are mind-boggling because they are so accurate. I leave out the cases which present no problems, i.e. most of them, or the cases of people of good faith, again the majority, and I address only the case of sceptical people.
Regarding forecasts, it is slightly more delicate. Recalcitrant people are usually more numerous, and there are even some astrologers who want to limit astrology to the functions of personality analysis and are adamant about this. The good-looking and talented Françoise Hardy (A famous French composer and singer of the '60s. She authored a book on astrology) is one of those people. The other sections of astrology seem too risky or difficult to them, unless they deem them... impossible for x reasons known to themselves only.
Regarding couple's compatibility, also referred to as synastry, the subject is less known and better accepted because if one considers that astrology can analyse the personality, why couldn't it analyse two personalities and see if those two get along well or not...
Astrology is a mere set of efficient techniques for those who practice it and those who seek advice from it. However, although astrology and spirituality are disjoint, questions on human being, which the former necessarily indirectly arises, create... a bridge towards the quest for Reality.
Let's get back to astrology learning. Once the two obstacles mentioned above are overcome, i.e. the venom of the ignorant mass and its bitter judgment, castigating with a conceited smile any effort made towards the shameful direction in which astrology is, and the fact that many long months will have to be spent to understand and master the concepts and the rules – actually, in my view, this is not enough, and I believe that after a whole year of reading and practice, one gets a good idea. After 5 years, one is able to make a few interpretations, after 15 years, one has good bases, and after 30 years, although one still keeps on learning, one has some good reflexes which enable to avoid making mistakes. It is after this period that amazement starts...
Bewilderment starts with the portraits. The hurdle lies in establishing the hierarchy of values and discarding whatever is superfluous. Indeed, the beginner tends to look at tons of details and get lost in a whole set of numerous meanings. Once this difficulty is solved, it is true that, if the sceptical person has paid the price and dedicated his time to learning, he usually loses his incredulity and the self-satisfied smile of the person who cannot be taken for a ride...
Having said this, unless one is particularly sensitive and vulnerable, getting to know oneself better, or having an idea about the meteorology, is rather helpful for evolving more rapidly. So, astrology would not be useless.
This is precisely what happened to me after a few months. Then, if one does not want to stop while on such a good path, one buys books and learn... during years. To me, astrology is a tool, and not a religion or something important. It is one discipline among others, such as history or psychology. Of course, it is more helpful and somehow prompts to ask questions upstream. This is what constitutes its charm, even though in no circumstances, does it answer these questions.
Astrology is anything except a spiritual path, a religion, or a moral code. It is just a tool which enables to understand our personality, our compatibility with people, and, with caution, to forecast climates, the meteorology of our evolution.
Some people have understood that astrology worked well and prefer… to avoid predictions. However, they are very few. There is indeed the auto-suggestion issue whereby the very fear of an unfortunate event might trigger it. Although there may be some truth in it, the amount of risk is minimal.
Regarding this last point, my opinion is simple: forecasts work fine, provided that two major conditions, absolutely impossible to ignore, are met:
This recalls the nice philosophical tale of Samarkand which can be summed up as follows: a Vizier walks across the city to work at the Sultan's palace. He sees an ominous woman dressed in black, the sight of whom makes his blood curdle... As she gets nearer, he notices her glare and her expression and understands that she is Death. He is in a state of terror and thinks that she is coming to take him... more below
Regarding minor, or "average" events, caution is required. There is a "scattering" of results, as if some people were more or less sensitive to certain transits etc. There are evidences that astrology should not be thrown out the window. The effects of very important forces at play are practically always noticeable. This is something I have observed on thousands, or perhaps tens of thousands cases, and each time, it is mind blowing because it completely rules out a vision at random of the period concerned. One must experience it to believe it: it is the number of disconcerting facts, totally incompatible with coincidence, which prompts to understand that one is not wasting time with this discipline. If one remains humble enough to accept that for less important events, or forces at play, there is some degree of uncertainty, and that one deals with probabilities of more or less favourable tendencies regarding such or such point, then, one remains on the safe side.
Does it mean that astrology is deterministic and fatalistic? No, definitely. Everything unfolds as if there was a "tendency", some sort of more or less imposed, yet partial, structure. It seems that free will enables to react differently to the planetary climates undergone, and as the old saying goes, "The stars impel but do not compel". Many questions obviously arise on this subject, but the purpose of these lines is to share my practical experience, in all simplicity, without starting to give a structured explanation for each concept addressed, which would require several books.
Thus, he is terrified and starts to run like a madman to the palace, where he arrives out of breath to see the Sultan. "What's wrong with you my friend?" said the Sultan. "My Lordship, I saw Death! She came to fetch me, I am very sure... I don't want to die, I am too young, I have a family. Would you allow me to take a dozen days off and go somewhere very far because I don't want her to find me, I don't want to die!" "No problem", answered the generous and nice sultan. "You have always been loyal and reliable. Go to Samarkand, it is such a beautiful city, it will take your mind off things.
In plain words, it means that the astrological natal chart is fundamental. Predictive techniques use two charts, the natal chart, which represents our personality, our earthly self with its usual features: affectivity, intellect, capacity of action, inter-personal capacity, vitality, sexuality, behaviour, psychological facets, blockages, etc.
The Vizier sets off straight away with a few servants, a dozen camels. During four days and four nights, he hastily heads towards mythical Samarkand, fleeing the woman in black and running away from what he believes to be his fateful destiny. After four days, he eventually reaches Samarkand, a splendid city bathing in an extraordinarily beautiful light... He quickly takes a bath, changes clothes, and, without taking any rest, he gets out to have a mint tea and visit the city.
Let's take a concrete predictive case using transits for instance. One of the rules of thumb for predictions is to understand that transiting influences will fully manifest only if they are also found in the natal chart. Let's consider the difficult case of a transit of Uranus squaring natal Mars, with Mars in the 2nd House in Aries, and Uranus in the 11th House in Capricorn. These two planets are the most energetic ones, and at some time, their square triggers a blow-up in terms of behaviours or events, because the balance is too hard to maintain by the chart owner and meant to explode since the vibration does not correspond to his nature. Therefore, this explosive transit indicates that there is a probability that the financial area, or the way one earns a living, undergoes a very strong and unexpected jolt when the transit becomes exact or during Uranus' various passages as it retrogrades and squares natal Mars. This jolt may involve friends – it would be necessary to look at the rulerships. Now, there are two alternatives: if Uranus and Mars are connected in the natal chart, transiting Uranus will resonate with the natal chart, and it is most likely that important events, or the way they are felt by the chart owner, will be strongly experienced. The other alternative is that Uranus and Mars are not linked to each other in the natal chart, in which case it is clear that the effects of transiting Uranus, though violent, will have a less significant impact than in the first case.
The sun lights up the picturesque narrow streets, females are good-looking, and the shadows stretching their darker shape at this time of the afternoon increase the charm of the mythical city. The Vizier walks, deliriously happy to have escaped his fate. As he strolls and looks aside, he does not watch his steps and bumps into somebody! He immediately turns around and, to his stupefaction...
Provided these two conditions are met, i.e. some level of analogy with the natal chart, and caution whenever the influences at play are not very strong, astrology never disappoints, or almost never, as far as predictions are concerned.
Regarding couple's compatibility, there are very important rules. It is not because a synastry is exceptionally good that it means, on the one hand, that one will fall in fall, and on the other hand, that the relationship will be successful. Let me explain:
When one analyses the chart of a couple, one actually analyses three charts: the natal chart of each partner and the chart of the relationship. The latter is compared to the two natal charts and assessed using various possible techniques (composite chart, mid-space / mid-time chart, mutual planets-houses interactions, etc.). In addition of course, one must take into account the planetary climate of each partner, which is not simple.
In couple's compatibility, here are the principles that must be borne in mind:
Firstly, a fantastic compatibility between two persons never implies that they will fall in love with each other. Indeed, synastry only reflects how easy a relationship is in various areas. Conversely, a disastrous synastry does not mean that two persons will not fall in love with each other!
It is important to highlight the above because a host of visitors wonder and sometimes e-mail us asking "I met with so and so, our rate was 80% but nothing happened, the relationship has not materialised, etc.", which is normal! Astrology, at least synastry, is unable to determine whether two persons will love each other. Love eludes the comparison of charts!
Once again, if and only if, a relationship has already started, synastry will tell whether it will flow smoothly or not. In my view, that's already quite considerable!
A gorgeous and very pale lady, all dressed in black, stares at him with an almost astonished look and said, "Well, well, it's you, you are early. I did not expect you before several days yet." As she takes him by the hand, the Vizier, in a state of complete terror and at the same time strangely resigned, does not resist and follows Death, in great distress and without any possibility to rebel.
Let's imagine that this gentleman meets a lady with whom the compatibility is extraordinarily good. What would happen?
If he falls in love, and his feelings are reciprocated, the odds are that things will not develop smoothly. Actually, because the synastry is good, which is the hypothesis we have chosen, in order that his destiny unfolds according to his natal chart, certain obstacles will crop up. Such hurdles probably obey some necessity in terms of evolution etc., but this is another topic... Nevertheless, the relationship is most likely to be pleasant and easy. The rest of the context will have to be assessed: what are the active transits of the moment for both partners, what is the natal chart of the lady in question, etc.
As we can see, a relationship is a whole entity, a juxtaposition of five factors which already form a whole when taken separately: two natal charts, two forecasts or current planetary climates, and one synastry or couple report.
The analysis of these five factors is the only process which enables to understand and offer predictions about what is to follow, and even then... solely if the magical spark is born between them. Regarding the spark, let's say that transits enable to forecast whether the chart owner is likely to fall in love during the considered period.
It is true that one can try to bail out of what is deemed ineluctable, especially during loaded periods such as under Uranus' tensed transits. However, as one believes that one is escaping one's fate, one might also jump into it with one's feet together even faster!
My experience, once again with regard to this third section – since we have already addressed personality analysis and predictions – is that astrology works, provided that the natal chart is taken into account along with transits, progressions and solar revolution influences.
Which experience? It is simple. When one is interested in this tool, one quite quickly makes interpretations, thousands of charts in several years. Therefore, each time one gets the confirmation that "heavy" or major events occur according to the rules used, and that in most cases, portraits are quite accurate although of course, certain scattered charts are much more difficult to interpret than others. One also knows that humility is a must and that for lighter things, i.e. minor aspects, less important or fast transits, one really deals only with probabilities, but... that's already quite appreciable.
The last section, that of mundane forecast, is unrewarding. I will not enter into the details of the methods used, and I will only say that once again, my experience is quite a pessimistic one. Individual astrology offers results ranging from satisfactory to very satisfactory, but mundane astrology seems risky to me and, to state it clearly, not yet perfected enough.
There may be a fifth section, that of prediction of success for business companies, projects, etc. The principle is to take the exact date of creation of a project as its moment of birth and cast a chart exactly as it is done for a human being. This method can also be applied to an animal, why not.
As expounded in this article, my experience prompts me to think that there are two types of outer events: the fundamental ones, which are very rare through a lifetime, and the others. The former seem to bear some form of determinism affecting the way events unfold, because the way we experience them in our inner self is a different thing and gives our free will every latitude in making decisions, including that to grant them importance or not.
Actually, if one ponders a little bit more, for every case, the same questions apply because the exact date and time are not really significant. The same holds true also for the birth of a country, etc.
As a result, examples are not easy to study, even though they are interesting for the astrologer as a matter of curiosity. I believe that great caution is needed in this area.
Getting back to the example given at the beginning of this article, you may want to ask about the young lady, "So, was she compatible with you?" According to the analysis of the time, no! And actually, nothing happened, except in my head. Thus, astrology started to work well in those remote days despite the sadness of the conclusion.
More seriously, the purpose of these lines is to say that the irrational refusal of some people, be they scientists or not, to consider that there might be something accurate in this discipline constitutes a real sign of laughable blockages on their part.
These questions would take us too far… Nevertheless, the Samarkand tale is a classic which tends to show the limits of free will in the field of real experiences. It is important to add that, as far as death is concerned, even though there are techniques which try to determine its date, no serious astrologer will claim to be able to do so. Why? Because, and it cannot be reiterated strongly enough, astrology describes a climate and probabilities, and nothing else. I would also add that this is at the same helpful, crucial, and an excellent thing. Nothing would be worse than absolute fate and shutting the door on hope.
Here, I have talked about concrete topics and experience, and not at all about the "why". Actually, being a scientist myself, in the beginning, what I wanted to know above all was whether astrology worked.
Over 35 years of experience have answered my question although after six months or one year, I already got the answer, thus positive, just in case some visitors would directly start to read from this point on.
The topic of why it works is completely different. Here are my impressions, given in a personal capacity: at first, I would consider astrology to be a small square of life, a bit like a helpful discipline, but without –let's say, directly – spiritual connotation.
It is efficient, useful, but it offers no answer to the real questions of life, under no circumstances. What are we, what are we made of, what is Reality? Beneath thought, feelings, sensations, there is the consciousness of being, which is the only real thing, upstream. The intellect is unable to understand itself. A blind man cannot describe the colour red. Similarly, the intellect can but go round in circles when it comes to asking "who am I?", since we are not our thought and we are upstream of it or... of them, because one can rather talk about thoughts in the plural, which are like bees continuously buzzing, with an actor behind who undergoes and at the same time has the illusion of control... Of course, there is a link between these thoughts and our consciousness to exist, but... I should stop here... This is just to show that astrology answers none of these questions, that its field applies to the earthly sphere, to human psychology, to the explanation of behaviour, to the cautious forecast of the meteorology of events, and to the assessment of the smoothness, if any, of a relationship in a couple.
There is also the topic of the astrologer who analyses his future. Can he really change it? The wisest answer is that yes, one can strengthen the periods of invulnerability and thus, one's successes etc. One can also be careful and thus lessen the impact of risky periods, for practically all events.
Second reflection: we know only four forces in the universe: strong interactions (the cohesion forces of atomic nuclei), weak interactions (the cohesion forces of nuclei and particles), gravitational forces, and electro-magnetic forces. We are able neither to define the consciousness of being, nor to give a definition of thought and of ourselves. To imagine giving an answer to the whys of the functioning of astrology would require a better understanding of these two planes: the first one is that of physics, which is not as advanced as it is believed to be. The second plane is that of knowledge of human nature, which does not seem too advanced either...
The first answer is that indeed, there is no known physical explanation as of today.
There are statistics, sometimes disputed, and astrologers' experience dating back to the dawn of time – and the different schools, etc. which I have not addressed here of course – which are dismissed by detractors of astrology who are so stupidly and mechanically indoctrinated with their own certainties that they self-intoxicate themselves with their own rubbishes when... they do not act in bad faith.
Regarding major events, which can probably be counted on the fingers of the two hands throughout a lifetime, I think that the astrologer himself cannot avoid a few compulsory chapters of his destiny. This may be found disgruntling or laughable, but those who make numerous predictions are aware that it is difficult, or practically impossible, to escape very powerful configurations, be they harmonious or tricky. It should be borne in mind that what is tricky brings about awareness whereas on the contrary, what is felt as nice often yields spiritual numbness. Nothing is good, and nothing is bad; there is only a succession of tests, happy or unfortunate, and the will, or lack of, to increase one's consciousness of existing with them.
Some detractors of astrology, perhaps less obtuse than others, may imagine, during a too short-lived stroke of intuition, that not all astrologers are in a complete fog, not all malevolent, not all interested in power or money, and even that the majority do not waste their time, simply because hands-on experience has shown them the evidence, that is does work, provided due caution is observed as mentioned earlier.
Therefore, for these people, the following problem remains: "Well, let's suppose that it works and that there is some truth in it, but since there are no explanations to it, it cannot work, can it?"
A logical mind would answer back "It works of course. It is not because we don't know yet why, that it can't work, since on the contrary experience proves that it does work..."
Besides, the fact that one possesses a few assets like knowledge of astrology, or the mere fact of seeking advice from it, is part of the protections which can be found in the natal chart. The person who never doubts anything, who remains narrow-minded and keeps on his superior smile in front of concealed knowledge –astrology is not the only one – this person usually has several tensions in fixed signs in his natal chart. Indeed, fixed signs are excellent and often endow with a strong will and persuasion power, to the detriment however of open-mindedness, or rather, the swiftness to precisely adjust to whatever is new to him. Once adjustment is achieved, he will become a fierce defendant of the very cause which he fought in the first place, at least in the best cases (smile).
Astrology works although we still don't have its explanation in terms of forces. My opinion is that it will come. It constitutes an interesting subject, but not a fundamental one. The main point is to avoid talking nonsense and to be pragmatic. It seems to me that being open-minded is the only correct attitude.
Although one can live without astrology, its offers much help to those who practice it or to those who seek advice from it. It is already very appreciable. Indeed, although astrology claims neither to give an answer about the purpose of life, nor to be absolutely reliable, and in spite of the fact that the explanation of its functioning is unknown... it nevertheless delivers obvious results.
This is what justifies its practice. To my view, the only good attitudes are, either to use it with caution if it is helpful on a punctual basis or more, or to ignore it and ask "Why not, but in any case, I am not interested." The only totally ridiculous attitude is to display the self-satisfied smile of those who cannot be taken for a ride...
Is a Dutch saying which literally means 'Bringing it to a head', making the bomb burst. But you can take it even more literally, and at least partially translate it as 'Floating on the Spits'. Given the preferences of most of the dutch audience, SP!TS is the newspaper founded years ago by Frits Spits, a famous radio DJ from the seventies and eighties.'Want to see how you can float on a newspaper?
According to the header they are powered by NewNews, and sometimes lost in translation by us [That would be me @ now].
According to this header from todays paper, they have their big ears pointing upwards, so let's listen to what the stars are saying for me. I mean, this would safely be considered a quotation, but doing it for all twelve signs of the zodiac would probably be called plagiarism, which to us Dutch has a far more playful meaning, because of the Dutch word 'plagen' which means 'to tease':
For those of you who don't speak Dutch, let me explain how this sounds, and how come I am quoting it. I don't normally read newspapers, am more of a incidental headhunter than a serial killer. My friend Leo however is an addict: he reads all the dutch train papers every day, and even brings his non-training colleagues their own copies. He read me this out loud this morning, when I was already in an A-positive mood:
It is an ideal day if you need to fulfil a delicate assignment, if you wish to claim what is rightfully yours, or if you wish to rethink your strategy. Don't worry, your partners in communication will completely understand you.
Now this already felt awfully good when he read it, but as the day progressed I got inspired to formulate two stories for tonight, one about industrial espionage (delicate assignment as I later realised), and about my most ardent desire, which yes, I DO think I am entirely entitled to. Then as the day proceeded, a dirty little bug had me chasing it all around the R&D room, frequently having to combine my strengths with those of my able-bodied colleagues, to rethink our strategy..... which happened
More on that later, first I have to deliver a crashed laptop to the hardware-specialist, and I thank God (and myself) that my luck is such that the laptop isn't mine..... but Melanie's.
Love your Stars,
Dre
"Déjà Vu" is a common intuitive experience that has happened to many of us. The expression is derived from the French, meaning "already seen." When it occurs, it seems to spark our memory of a place we have already been, a person we have already seen, or an act we have already done. It is a signal to pay special attention to what is taking place, perhaps to receive a specific lesson in a certain area or complete what is not yet finished.
In “Second Sight” I describe many theories to explain déjà vu: a memory of a dream, a precognition, a coincidental overlapping of events or even a past life experience in which we rekindle ancient alliances. What matters is that it draws us closer to the mystical. It is an offering, an opportunity for additional knowledge about ourselves and others.
During a trip to Africa, Carl Jung described a feeling of déjà vu when he viewed a slim, black man leaning on a spear looking down at his train as it made a turn around a steep cliff on the way to Nairobi. He writes, "I had the feeling that I had already experienced this moment and had always known this world." Although this world and this man were something alien to him, he saw the whole thing as perfectly natural. He called this a recognition of what was "immemorially known."
In Western culture, we are brought up to consider anyone who isn't an immediate member of our circle of friends and family to be a stranger. Yet at times, you meet people whom you feel as if you have known for years. You can talk to them about anything and they understand. You laugh easily with them. The tone of their voice, the way they take their coffee, all seem commonplace. It isn't that they remind you of someone else or that their qualities are simply endearing. You relate to them not as strangers, but as people with whom you have shared history, members of the same tribe.
A patient of mine named Shannon knew that she was going to marry her husband the day that they met. She had dated a lot of men following her divorce, but none of them felt right. Then, she met Bob. There was something about the way he smiled, the glint of his hair, his voice and the shape of his hands, that made her think that they had known each other before. After talking it was clear that their paths had never crossed, but after their first lunch date, they became inseparable. What Shannon and Bob immediately felt for each other was more than just physical chemistry. It was a natural compatibility and a depth of intimacy that usually emerges after couples are together for many years. They were married two months after they met and have been together now for ten years.
I’m often asked how to tell the difference between a feeling of déjà-vu when we first meet someone and an attraction stemming from an addictive obsession. Some addiction specialists say that whenever you meet someone and an explosion of fireworks go off, this is a sign not of true love, but of one neurosis meeting another. They suggest that you run as fast as you can in the opposite direction.
Based upon my work with the recovering community, I agree that there is a strong tendency among addicts and some non-addicts to try to "fix" themselves with love and sex, rushing prematurely into relationships inspired only by intense physical attraction. They often have nothing to do with déjà-vu, but stem rather from a basic emptiness that longs to be filled. There is no true bond between the people involved, they hardly know each other, and these partnership attempts fail miserably when the pink glow of newness wears off.
The fact that an encounter feels compelling or immediate doesn't necessarily mean that it is healthy or unhealthy. The experience of déjà vu must always be approached discerningly. However, mostly déjà-vu experiences are not obsessive or compulsive. They rather convey a quality that is quiet and solid..
The possibility of having a déjà vu is inherent in partnerships of all kinds, particularly the more intimate ones. It can occur in business, friendships and family, often leading to pivotal outcomes that can impact the direction of our life.
There are situations that are glitches in time, when the rules bend and the mystery takes hold. Enchanted moments that sparkle. These are deja-vus. They can take place anywhere, at any time and with anyone. Your real estate agent might show you a house that feels so familiar and right, you instantly know it is yours. Or perhaps you are in a restaurant and sense an inexplicable kinship with a woman sitting in the back corner booth. Don't let these possibilities pass you by. Take notice; investigate. There is no way of predicting where each might lead or what it will teach you. Summoning the courage to take a chance and act on synchronicities, to have faith in what is not yet visible, will make the experience your own.
Adapted from Second Sight: An Intuitive Psychiatrist Tells Her Story and Show You How to Tap Your Own Inner Wisdom (Three Rivers Press, 2010) by Judith Orloff MD
I am an “Alice-o-phile”. I adore Alice in Wonderland and have forever and ever. My basement stairwell is painted as a Rabbit Hole and I have a collection of Alice art and copies of Alice because early on, I understood the message of Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass at an archetypal level.
Alice is our escort into the many absurd notions, ideas, politics and policies, beliefs and attitudes that underlie society and the way we see “reality”. And oh how long and absurd this list is of beliefs we are so convinced are true, important, real, and urgent. Why just the other day, I overheard a woman at the gym say to her friend, “I’ve got to hurry. If I don’t get this report in to my colleagues, the business deal we’ve been working on will be toast.”
“That’s absurd,” I thought. “If that report were so important – if you were so important to the business deal - what on earth are you doing at the gym?” Silly, silly girl – and now, I thought, she is going to rush away from the gym in a state of “It’s all about ME-ness”. An “Alice moment”, if there ever was one – and there are plenty in my world because I see so much “through the Looking Glass”. (Seeing through the Looking Glass requires that you reverse what you’re looking at, viewing everything through its opposite. If something appears complicated, see it as simple. People always look for “something”. Note this classic line from A through the LG: “I wish I could see nothing as well as you can.” Brilliant…)
We live in a world that is completely in love with going in the wrong direction. For example, we live in a society that completely trusts the rational mind to structure and order “reality”. (For starters, just look at what the rational mind has produced: wars, weapons, bio-destructive forces, environmental disasters, politics of deceit, religious corruption, false gods and bogus religious myths, bizarre notions of what’s real and what isn’t – like the doctrine of creationism in this, the 21st century, though civilization is much older than 21 centuries.) The absurdity of what we believe to be true and yet, how we behave as a “civilized” people is incomprehensible – much less how we go about negotiating our definition of being civilized. But enough of that…you get the picture.
Let’s jump back into Lewis Carroll and his magic. He delighted in satirizing the love affair that members of Victorian society had with themselves and, in particular, their addiction to snobbery. He looked at what the upper class could not bear to examine about themselves, which was, in essence, their own lavish lifestyles, attitudes, and well maintained prejudices about the way the world was and simply had to remain in order to keep them happy. But it is precisely this addiction to one’s personal enclosed comfort zone that positions a person to become exactly what he or she believes an elite lifestyle and privilege protects a person from becoming: close-minded, irrational, unyielding, unrealistic, and completely out of touch with the world at large. To say this another way: The more a person has to lose in life, the less likely that person is to welcome change or to embrace the vast world of the imagination.
Social and political revolutions have always been initiated at the grass roots level because those at the “top” have the most to lose. They see no reason for society to change, because from where they are sitting (Wall Street), everything looks just fine. Those who can envision energy technology, for instance, and have urged the auto and other industries for decades now to invest in energy technologies, have done so for several reasons, among them these two: First, they can see the handwriting on the decline of the oil-based economic wall. That is, we have to move in the direction of alternative fuels. But secondly, these visionaries simply can imagine the impossible. These are the people who are not afraid to take a risk and go where others have not yet gone in thought, in action, and yes, in investment in financial resources.
Carl Jung adored the realm of the imagination. He may well be the master explorer of our age of this domain. For him, the imagination contained the passageways to the psyche and the inner voices of our archetypes. Active imagination was an essential tool that he introduced, establishing a form of communication between the conscious and unconscious self. Right there we have something to imagine as impossible: opening a portal of communication between your conscious and unconscious self. That may be getting ahead of yourself a bit, but such a mega-thought does qualify for imagining the impossible, if you have never, in fact, considered undertaking such an endeavor.
Imagining the impossible – what a delicious and positively enchanting notion. And yet, the realm of the imagination is a fully and completely threatening place to suggest to a person who fears the loss of the familiar. As children, the world of the imagination is an acceptable playground because children are not yet rational creatures and a child’s imagination is considered cute – to an extent. Children are supposed to have imaginations – for a while. Technically speaking, if one can say such a thing, the psychic boundaries of children are still porous; therefore, they are subject to the “hallucinations” of the imagination. These include, for example, imaginary playmates and perhaps seeing the occasional fairy or sprite. Dark spirits may even show up. But a child is likely to be told that these nonphysical visitors are not “real”, they are merely “imaginary”. Thus, early on the lines in the sand are clearly drawn: What comes from the mind is “real”; what comes from the imagination is, well, imaginary. Not real. A poof of a thing, no more than a whimsical passing thought form.
Now granted the mind has “poofs” all the time, ideas that run through it this way and that, but because such thoughts come from the mind, these are not the same type of “imaginary” thoughts because…well…because they can perhaps wear the label of “practical” or “provable” or “conventional”. A value is made apparent very quickly to baby humans: If you are going to delve into the impossible, just make sure it’s the “practical impossible” and that your ideas can solve problems or increase production or profits somewhere. Having ideas just for the fun of having ideas is well, impractical! A waste of imaginary income – not that a person imagines or visualizes income….well, perhaps people do. But do such thoughts really qualify for “imagining” or just wishing? That question leads us to this most important question: Do people really know how to fall down the Rabbit Hole? It’s an art, after all, and not an accident.
The Art of Falling Down The Rabbit Hole
I’m an expert on falling down the Rabbit Hole. I live in the world of the imagination and the impossible. I rely upon the imagination to fill me with ideas on a continual basis. If I lived in the ordinary world, I would disintegrate in short order because the ordinary world is a place filled with reasons why ideas can’t succeed and with the wounds of failure and painful memories of the past that keep reminding people that they should live fearful lives instead of inspiring ones. In fact, even while writing this, a friend called for a business-related matter but in warming up to our meeting, he asked what I was doing. I told him I was writing a piece based on Alice in Wonderland. He asked if I liked the movie. I said, “Not really, and I suspect Lewis Carroll would not have cared for it either. Alice was meant to be enchanted in Wonderland and not be disappointed by characters who were defeated by an angry Red Queen.” He asked me why I loved Alice so much and I carried on and on about my many reasons and even brought the wisdom of Alice into the nonsense of the politics of Washington – which was not all that difficult. But after all that, he said, “I have an idea,” and off we went into the realm of the imagination, into the world of what is waiting to be created, ideas just waiting for a chance to incarnate.
Falling down the Rabbit Hole requires the capacity to “let go” and allow your imagination to take flight, giving form and vision to possibilities and impossibilities – before you let your mind tell you they are absurd, ridiculous, too expensive, and then that final blow, “What will people say?” What do you care what people say? I never have – and that is the great secret of the Rabbit Hole. You simply have to get over your fear of what other people think. For what possible reasons do you care what other people think?
Now to be clear – I am speaking of creative ideas, not of running out on my responsibilities, incurring huge debts, shooting up drugs, or deciding on a life of theft. So let’s be realistic about what I am speaking about when I speak about not caring about what other people think. I still have my head on straight and my feet firmly planted on the ground – but not my imagination. That part of me is given full reign to go off to places known and unknown to me. My target is the realm of ideas, original thought, creativity, and accessing the deep resources of your soul from which springs your “charism” or your “unique creative grace.” Visionaries and creative geniuses know this inner sanctuary, as do great poets, writers, and pioneers of science and medicine. This is where Emily Dickenson dwelled as well as Shakespeare, Mozart, Bach, Einstein, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. They all fell down their unique Rabbit Holes. They imagined worlds that did not yet exist and their lives became devoted to incarnating those worlds. I have no doubt that they imagined far more than six impossible things before breakfast every morning.
It’s easy to tell who has what it takes to sojourn down their Rabbit Holes. Within seconds of conversing with people, they say something that reveals whether they are courageous or frightened, or whether they essentially travel backwards all the time. They soon reveal whether they have the stamina of spirit to explore the unknown in their life or whether most of their decisions are aimed at keeping everything the same as it always has been. Backward travelers will never be able to find their Rabbit Holes. They have to be content with reading Lewis Carroll and simply wishing their life could be different. They will find it difficult to penetrate into the realm of the imagination, as there is a profound difference between wishing and imagining.
Wishing Versus The Power of The Imagination
Wishing has little, if any, real power. It’s musing at best and a passing thought or fancy in its weakest form. A wish is a temporary enchantment that lacks the backbone and substance to attract creative life force or power.
Imagination, on the other hand, takes effort, energy, and generates a substantial amount of emotional and psychic response once you make contact with a great idea. Merging with a unique vision is the same as having an unfamiliar download of grace rush through your system. In an instant, it penetrates into your intellect, your emotions, your mind, your vocabulary; your archetypal dynamics adjust themselves to new symbolic content – shifting your understanding of the cosmos. You can feel the power of that idea – that vision – take hold of you as it runs through your blood like a new drug, making its way into your neurology. And then it’s locked into your psyche. It’s yours. The download is complete and you are on a high that is unexplainable to anyone who has never been swept away by the thrill of contact with the realm of original thought. This is a love affair unlike anything on earth because it isn’t of the earth. But it soon will be – that becomes your task as the vessel of the imagination.
Original thought implodes someone who won’t do what’s required to be a container and vessel of that which others cannot see or comprehend. You have to be someone who can handle being misunderstood or keeping your own creative company or handling a vision others cannot understand. You have to be strong enough to believe alone – and for a long time – in what others cannot imagine. Many people have been able to do that, but most people cannot stand alone in the demanding realm of the imagination. So they live in the lesser world of fantasies and musings.
What if you really could fall down the Rabbit Hole? Would you? Doesn’t it tempt you even a little – or perhaps more than a little? Wouldn’t you love to let yourself go and tumble into your own great unknown – the unknown that is your own unimagined life that you could imagine if you fell down the Rabbit Hole? You know you would.
You could tell yourself this is just a game, so let’s just say this is just a game. Okay – falling down the Rabbit Hole is just a game. (But what if it isn’t? I had to say that – I just had to.)
Falling down your Rabbit Hole requires that you dwell in the world of your imagination. But really dwell in it. Nurture it. And here’s the challenging part: You have to do what your creativity calls for, in order to bring forth the ideas you are imagining. They won’t just fall from the sky. Books, for example, don’t write themselves. Great discoveries in medicine just don’t happen. Poets actually sweat over their poems even though they’ve been completely saturated with the grace of imagination. You must understand that you form a working partnership with your imagination. Consider that one never forms a working partnership with a wish – how absurd is that? Fairy tales always lead a person to believe that a “wish” alone does all the work. Now really – a wish and a bunch of fairies – and people believe this more than they believe in mystical consciousness. And you talk about absurd????? Anyway – on to the impossible – which is utterly possible.
Believing in Six Impossible Things Per Day
This could be the most fun exercise I have ever given you, by the way. Do NOT answer these questions rapidly. Answering rapidly is an indication that you do not want to give reflective thought to these questions which – let me point out – you have never been asked before. Therefore, you can’t possibly know the correct response right off the top of your head. These questions require reflection. And they are questions in search of responses versus “answers”.
1) Define what’s
impossible versus what’s possible for you. You’ve said to yourself,
“That’s impossible.” What were you talking about when you said that
and why was “that” – whatever that was – impossible? Too risky? Too
much money? Would you risk looking foolish?
2) What’s the key
difference between what you see as possible versus impossible? In
particular, you are to carry this description all the way to the point
of including “consequences”. That is, what would be the consequences
of the things in your life that you declared were impossible – because
in identifying the consequences, you are naming what you are really
afraid of experiencing?
3) Everyone travels backwards because
everyone has a history. The object now is to determine this: How often
each day do you travel backwards in time? All day? Most of the day?
Occasionally?
4) Are most of your decisions aimed at keeping your
life as it is or introducing change? What is your rationale for your
decisions: Safety or new experiences and adventure?
5) Do you tend
to dismiss the creative ideas of others, looking for why new ideas of
suggestions won’t work as opposed to why they could work?
6) Is
there some part of your life that you would like to move forward that
would be assisted by believing in six impossible things?
Imagining Six Impossible Things
Start anywhere. Or you can build all six impossible ideas around a strategy, all supporting the desire to break through something. Imagine something in your life that you would like to be other than the way it is. Imagine something absurd, for instance, or you doing something you have never done before. For example, imagine yourself wearing something you’ve always wanted to wear, or imagine yourself speaking to a neighbor that you really do want to meet, or imagine yourself climbing a tree.
Here’s the real point of this exercise: Holding these imaginings is symbolic of the White Queen in Alice – pure new thought. Consider the Red Queen the aggressive part of your mind that will come to do battle with pure thought, pure imaginings, pure creativity. The Red Queen will always try to destroy a creative gift as the Red Queen represents the opposition of the collective unconscious as well as your external world and your own inner saboteur, so you must meet that force on your inner battlefield. If you can grasp that, then you can understand that the object of imagining the impossible is a multileveled discipline that introduces you to the power of your imagination and creativity as well as to your inner saboteur.
But imagining is ultimately not enough. You have to do more than just imagine. You have to act on something that you imagine. You have to bring it forth and give it life. The “impossible” requires vigilance and dedicated attention and constant courageous choices as well as a willingness to allow your life to change in “impossible” directions – directions transcendent of north, south, east, and west. Imagine that.
How often should you make a list of six impossible things? That all depends on how daring you are and how bold an imagination you have. In this regard, there are no rules. You decide. My list is endless.
Just go for it. Enter the realm of impossibilities. One of the most delicious lines Emily Dickenson ever wrote was: Dwell in impossibilities. She obviously resided down the Rabbit Hole. It’s no wonder she is my favorite poetess.
Love,
Caroline
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At the risk of sounding repetitive once again, "relationship" in all forms is up for deep and significant review during the month of April. The energy alignments in March were indeed "vibrational upgrades" and now in April we will feel the deepest call to observe our inner relationship within every aspect of our lives.
Sounds heavy and in truth deep personal review is a journey that requires time and due diligence. Every aspect of our outer lives is a form of relationship for we are "in relationship" to and with everything. Our body, our work, our friends, our family, our emotions, thoughts, and beliefs. Many have been feeling the pull to withdraw and recalibrate since the equinox on March 21st. There is never just one event or timing, but we do like to give a linear timeline to how we are feeling our way through our lives.
The codes of light received during the month of March created a deeper level of awareness and change, where everything felt different yet seemingly looked the same - a place of having to bridge points of reference that are deeper than ever before. The perception we hold of ourselves as we straddle our 3D/5D relationship has indeed required a renewed commitment to our ascension process.
Our sense of time is changing dramatically as it has over the past several years. I've certainly felt the bubble of time wrap around me the past couple of weeks, feeling quiet and wanting only to just be and not do. We are integrating great waves of higher frequency and it is now a time to observe everything in our outer lives as an indicator of our inner vibrational relationship and partnership.
April is a month of intense energy that will effectively reformat our inner relationship within our heart space, and will in turn create opportunity to see more clearly the outer relationships and partnerships we are currently experiencing. The question of "how am I feeling in this moment" is the most profound key to understanding the vibrational match we have with the thought or feeling of the people in our lives. We are constantly redefining in this new energy what feels good and uplifting, through the filter of our old beliefs or perceptions of who we are and who or what we are a vibrational match too.
Within the context of our relationships we often project our beliefs of what it is supposed to look like and feel like based on our experiences and expectations. We do this with all forms of relationships. April will intensify the part of any projection that is holding a vibrational match that is an old pattern or belief we have held about ourselves and those in our lives. This timing will be a profound opportunity to see what is continuing to show up as being old and outmoded or something new and joyful. It is easy to fall into harsh personal criticism when old patterns appear to still be part of our now - but in is simply another opportunity to choose to change and let go.
The inner review through our heart will allow the old judgments to be less charged with emotional baggage and offer a clearer vision of the tremendous opportunity each moment holds for clearing the way for new feelings of joy as we re-evaluate and release any sense of limitation or fear.
Our lightbody is holding the new frequency and vibration codes and is threading the new energy slowly into our physical, emotional, mental and spirit bodies. This can feel overwhelming and physically draining. Many I have spoken too and worked with are complaining of fatigue, body pain, headaches, stomach upsets and a sense of feeling disconnected. Brain fog and the inability to put our thoughts into a recognizable form are also occurring.
We are transforming many layers of our personal reality as the integration waves continue to bring forward a sense of urgency or feeling stuck. Polarity once again at it greatest teaching tool. Our response or reaction to the integration will be a key component of how we manifest the hidden teaching held within our thoughts. We are evolving quickly and shaking free old collective perceptions and patterns. April is a month of action but at a deep inner level where we must be present and mindful of the emotional triggers that can move us deeper into our evolutionary impulse.
It is important to remember that everything that is present in our current everyday lives is a symptom or symbol of our vibration and frequency. Nothing is being experienced that isn't a direct correlation to our thoughts and beliefs. We are digging deeper and deeper into the unaddressed core aspects of our relationships within our divine blueprint. It takes great courage to cleanse and reveal to ourselves the masters we truly are and accept the responsibility that we alone create and change.
Our heart is our greatest teacher and wisdom keeper. It nourishes and supports the truth of our soul journey without judgment and points us in the direction of moving forward. The action of April will be to observe our thoughts and feelings as if under a powerful microscope. The moment we observe ourselves in relationship to our reality, we effect change - by the mere point of observation. April asks the question "what do you truly want" and then offers the energy to take the steps to bring the vibrational match of our intention into our reality. We know what we want by how it feels - if it feels uplifting, joyful and allowing it is a vibrational match to our heart. If it feels anything less than that - then we have a magnificent opportunity to take whatever action or steps feel right - without judgment or blame.
We are greatly influenced by the cosmic alignments of each month. In April, there we have Mercury Retrograde from April 17th to May 11th. This alignment supports the deep internal review and the pull to feel quiet and contemplative. Many will feel the need for a course correction as the deep creates the impetus for new conclusions.
The New Moon on April 14th and the Full Moon on April 28th both foster a time to explore and dive deeply into our emotions and calibrate the opportunity to expand further into our true transformation.
Kind, Gentle and Allowing is the once again the operative energy for this month of change and growth. It is important to take whatever measures necessary to feel supported as we embrace more light within our consciousness. Much learning is occurring as we surf our relationships and as always the most important relationship we have is with ourselves.
The pulsing waves of divine feminine light are merging deeply within each of us creating a platform for the perfected balance of sacred feminine and sacred masucline frequency and vibration. This platform or foundation is held within everything person, place or thing upon our beloved Mother Earth and is encapsulating the internal individual changes with that of the collective. Our universe is always expanding as are we, even if it feels during this month of review like we are contracting. Focus on your personal expansion, knowing we are loved and honoured for the courage it takes to be the masters we truly are.
Every relationship is changing at this monumental time and each one offers us a window of deep understanding. Enjoy the coming days of review and focus on the intention to feel joy and expansion.
Remember that laughter is the quickest way to feel our soul and a smile given or received- the kiss of an angel. We are all connected in this magnificent timing and journey together.
Keep Shining your Gorgeous Light !
With Love and Blessings in Service
Shala
Copyright © Shala Mata 2009
I am Kuthumi-Agrippa and I come forward upon the solar rays of
love and wisdom to greet each of you at this time and to bring unto you
the blessings of transcendence, abundance, truth and trust. Greetings
beloved ones.
And it is with great joy and pleasure in our
hearts that we may gather with each of you at this present time as we
celebrate this reconnection of lights, hearts, minds, bodies and souls.
2012 is not far off. The time is upon you for all of you to move beyond the delusions of your current world. Your world is filled with many levels of illusion. This has created many aspects of pain and sorrow as you know already, therefore, one of our intentions in our transmission to each of you this evening is to perform a clearing of the collective money matrix. This will release the embedded false beliefs and attitudes regarding this form of energy. Why would we do this now? Because it is the fear of lack of money which causes many to remain trapped within systems of delusion.
The principles of life span across many, many worlds, many dimensions and one of the ways that all of you will recognise how it is to bring these powerful new energies into formation and manifestation is by applying the Principles of Partnership. These principles reveal to you the importance of collaboration and how it empowers the grids of light and humanity.
Every time you join your forces of light, of love and intention, the energy grows beyond your ability to imagine it. It creates a system fixed within a fluid grid, therefore, it is a new fixed system, which has been applied through the understanding of the principles and laws of nature, life and the universe, which result in a strengthening of the fluids which run through your body, through the earth and through the ethers. These fluids are in your blood, and every other bodily fluid you come into contact with.
Now this might startle you a little, but it is important that you know that all over your world, everywhere that you go every single day, you are physically touching another person's DNA; not just one, but many, many other people's DNA. Now think of this. If you are touching their DNA as a result of the bodily fluids that have been left behind upon structures, and all sorts of other items in your world, you are then tapping into the energy held within that DNA, and, how do most people in the world feel about life, feel about money, partnerships, principles and working together? It is filled with fear. This is not to say that you now all have to develop a serious case of OCD and keep on washing your hands or your body every few minutes - no.
With the energies we bring forth to you this evening, we are creating a powerful coning of protection around all of you, blocking those impulses and imprints contained within the DNA of the bodily fluids you come into contact with every single day. Now what will happen is where your DNA imprints are left behind, it will send a shockwave, of sorts, through the bodies of those touching it. It will cause an automatic internal activation of the inner desire to rise above the mundane, the illusional and the forms which have trapped humanity in this mistaken identity as such.
Every single flow of light coming to you is absorbed by your body; it is absorbed into your chakras and into every living organism around you. This is how powerful energy is. Everything stores information and energy it is exposed to. Your world is exposed to billions upon billions of impulses every 60 seconds of life. It is impossible on a human level to even comprehend what that means, however, I say this not to instill fear, I say it to bring awareness so that you can become more aware of how these energies influence you, how energy influences you, period.
Therefore, what you think, what you feel, see, touch, taste and say affects everything consciously and unconsciously. This is one of the most important reasons why we are working with all of you in the manner we are. We are trying to help you gain the greater understanding of all the forms of energy influencing humanity. This is one of the very important reasons why you are urged to get to know yourself. When you know yourself, you are able to recognise false imprinting and rise above it.
Therefore, through the energies of this 22:2 activation, the Master Architects of the Universe gather with each of you, their collective energy form a magnificent crystal grid around you and we extend this grid to embrace all of you.
It is a fluid grid communicating to every single aspect of you, urging you, inspiring you and motivating you to step across the abyss and to venture into the unknown worlds. Precious ones, these unknown worlds are nothing to fear. The only reason why they are unknown is because you have been limited in your self-knowledge and, therefore, in the knowing that what lies beyond the three-dimensional barriers of the human world is a great opportunity, a great, grand world filled with many worlds, many vistas of incredible potential. Within these worlds are even more worlds of powerful creative energy. These creative energies are coming to meet you, flowing into all your major and minor chakras, creating a magnificent symphony of new sound, the orchestra playing this symphony with grace and ease for it understands the principles of these other worlds.
So, precious ones, we are calling to all of you to gather together in numbers, to drop your lower ego, to leave your fear behind and to look into the eyes and hearts of your fellow brothers and sisters who travel along the Pathway of the Authentic Ones seeking, as do you, desiring freedom, desiring liberation of soul and spirit, so that harmony can be created, peace instilled within the hearts and minds of all who live. This cannot be done if those of you who walk this path go against one another.
When you compete against each other, when you gossip about each other, when you say negative things about your fellow brother or sister upon the path, you are breaking the grid. You are dismantling the weave connected to you and to the rest of the grid. Those who stand in strength and power, honouring the sacredness of these partnerships, you strengthen the light coming toward you.
Some of you may recall what was considered a very harsh delivery approximately two years ago where I spoke of this. The power and force with which I delivered this message was for a very important reason, and that is because sadly in the world, which Lightworkers occupy and work within, is filled with many levels of lower ego; many negative energies. This can and will no longer be tolerated, and this is why we are saying there is no more time to waste. There is no time to sit on the fence and observe which side is scoring the highest points. Choose now and step into that power.
Between this date of the 22nd of February of the Christ year 2010 and the 21st of December of the Christ year 2010, when we bring forth the energies which prepare for the next four ascension gates coming at the end of December 2010 and the beginning of January 2011, people will have to choose. It is now or it is never, and we speak primarily of those who are vacillating, those who are sitting on the fence waiting for someone to push them; so here the push comes. These energies come forth through the powerful grids of light which have been built to date, the powerful systems of co-creation which has bonded you together through your hearts, through your intentions, through your love and through your light, not only for Mother Earth but for yourself, for those who mean the world to you, and for those whom you have never met yet can feel through the essence of your being.
We have added to the energies that will be activated in Egypt in the next 32 days. These energies contain the emerald vibrations of new divine and physical abundance. On the 4th of April, in other words the fourth of the fourth (4:4), we ask all of you to connect through your hearts, through your soul and your spirit to those who will be physically in Egypt, and it matters not what time of your day or night you do this, for the energies will be held in their full force for the duration of those 24 hours.
As we bring forth the almighty new Emerald Flame of divine and physical abundance, all who will be physically present in the lands of Egypt will have this activated in all seven major chakras. These frequencies will speak to all the dimensions of the world. Those of you who will not physically be travelling to the lands of Egypt, you are the guardians of those who agreed prior to this incarnation to stand as those mechanisms, drawing that energy in. We will extend the energies to Russia, at which time an almighty Golden Flame will be anchored on the seventh of the seventh (7:7). And when we extend the energies to Turkey, an incredibly beautiful Platinum and Mother-of-pearl flame will be anchored on the tenth of the tenth (10:10) 2010.
These three flames, these new flames, have been created by the almighty Elohim of All That Is. St Germain himself has added the final touches, the energies which contain these almighty vibrations, and will be handing them to those who have been assigned to carry them. The Emerald Flame embodies millions and millions of minute networks of light, of love, and creativity.
As you stand within the presence of the almighty and powerful Master Alchemists, you are being asked now to open your heart, your mind, your body, your soul and your spirit and to receive the call to service, to receive the light of the Principles of Partnership and to extend your energy and your willingness, if that is your choice, to unite as an almighty body embodying these incredibly powerful new energies.
I, Lord Kuthumi-Agrippa, King of the Solar Archangels, now announce to all of you, and my channel does not even know this yet, this is her surprise, I, in my energy form of Kuthumi-Agrippa specifically, King of the Solar Archangels, have chosen this channel to be the only human form through which I will channel in the future. The energy of Kuthumi, as others know it, will continue to be channelled through a variety of systems, however, this grid, this signature, has been assigned specifically to her so that we can assign the light of those powerful forces of love to each and every one of you.
This activation is opening the doors to some of the most profound and powerful energies you have ever been exposed to. It is at this time that we call forth to the Quantum Goddess, we call forth to the Goddesses of the New World, to the Gods who walk alongside them and we ask you now to rise, to awaken and to lead, for all of you are leaders - love each other.
In the not too distant future, we will also be releasing the powerful light of the Quantum Goddess. This too is held in the form of a physical woman. Her light has been building for five years and in the not too distant future you will be introduced to her energy as well. She is a physical human being. As this energy reaches out to her, we trust she feels the vibrations and we ask all of you now to extend your love, to extend your light to this sister of the path so that all obstacles may be removed, so that the Quantum God can come to stand with her too, and in so doing, manifesting the presence of the Triple Goddess and the Triple God, the Quantum Goddess and the Quantum God, anchored firmly within all your seven major and minor chakras.
This divine light, precious ones, is an amplification of the original pathways which the Gods and Goddesses walked. All of you are a Goddess or a God, a priest or a priestess, whatever resonates with you, but we have called for this almighty celebration at this time to ensure that these energies are held within the purest hearts willing to support the grids, to collaborate as a powerful form and force of divine light and love.
Now that we have released this information to you, we ask you to open your inner world to receive the empowering pulsations coming forth and we call to the sister of the Triple Goddess who stands as her guardian, you beloved sister, you are to open the portals of power within your own body.
Every one of you females who are listening, goddesses, open your sacral chakra, for now it is that the Triple Goddess begins to pour the holy waters of life into your sacral chakra. All males currently hearing us, you are the Gods; open your base chakras to receive the powerful pulsations coming from Mother Earth.
Goddesses, open your third eye, Gods open your crown chakra; breath in deeply, exhaling fully, as we now begin to release to you an energy you have never experienced before, the energies which shall now dismantle the money matrix of the old world, the matrix which has shackled people to their false beliefs and fears of this energy.
Breathe in deeply, exhaling fully, and now I want all of you to continue emitting unconditional love to one another and to feed the powerful crystal fluid grid of the principles of partnership. We want you to join hearts, to join hands, to connect your minds and to open your spirits to receive each other.
Archangel Michael now steps in and with the magnificent blue ray he brings forth, he amplifies these energies. St Germain, sending the pulsations of the brand-new emerald green light ray to each of you preparing for that which shall come upon the 4th of April of the Christ year 2010. Breathe this emerald light in, extending it out to your fellow brothers and sisters of this particular network, this community, this family of Lightweavers. We shall hold the energy amongst this group for now, building it, sending it deep into the very core of your inner self, dismantling all the attachments to the old paradigm money matrix.
As you feel these energies course through your body, imagine the cells of your body opening, your DNA and the atoms inside of you releasing the outdated perceptions, attitudes, fears and beliefs around money and partnership.
I want you now to imagine the almighty presences of Father/Mother God descending upon you, filling you with their light, with their extraordinary vision; open your mind, surrender, let go.
I want you to consider for a moment why it is you are trapped within a matrix which has resulted in either lack of finances, lack of love and lack of healthy partnerships (all forms of partnership). Most of this is because of your programming. The majority of your fears and your inhibitions are programming stored inside of you. It is through the repetitive programming that you have been led to believe that you are trapped in a situation, be it a financially challenging one, or challenges around relationships, however it is even more than that - it is being trapped within a mindset which tells you, you can’t do something, or be your true self.
Every time you tell yourself you can’t, you are reaffirming the old ways; you are strengthening the old paradigm matrices. It is your mind imprisoning you, therefore, in order for us to clear the collective money matrix, you need to clear the fear inside and for you, as the core group at this time holding this energy, we ask you to please put in the effort to observe your mind and every time you tell yourself you cannot do something, ask yourself ‘why?’ What makes that true?
Perhaps the fact is that there is a lack of finances, or there is a lack of love, or an absence of skills or tools required, but that does not mean to say it need be like that for eternity. These new energies are unlike anything humanity has ever been exposed to before therefore, as we have said before, there is absolutely no point of reference for your lower ego, and that is what creates an additional fear, because it cannot compare it to anything and nothing compares to these powerful new energies.
Now take another deep breath in and as you exhale, release every subconscious need inside of you to hold onto the fears which you identify with purely because your lower ego recognizes them as familiar.
Take another deep breath in and as you relax, we now create a magnificent spiral of energies which we now spin into your crown chakra, moving it through all of your chakras down your spine, out through your base chakra and into Mother Earth. These energies bring the universal codes of release creating the new systems which imprint the atoms of your body. These atoms emit pulsations communicating to the molecules of your body, communicates to the DNA, and to the cells and into life all around you.
These energies which we are creating are forming a magnificent new body of light around you; this body of light is protecting you from the fears of the lower ego and when the lower ego reacts, this body will allow you to tap into a dimension of higher self-awareness enabling you to release this unnecessary fear, any negative fear or emotion, which you now know is simply part of the old matrix, simply your lower ego’s point of reference.
So, precious ones, as we stand within this world of powerful new light, the Elohim of Grace and Peace gather with us. The almighty Master Architects of the Universe open their energy to receive and welcome you, and if it is your wish and if it is your will to step beyond the abyss, to move into that which is completely unknown to you; if you are willing to stand with us and create a new fluid grid of energy regarding money, regarding the Principles of Partnership, the energies which call all of those who are awakening to service, then come with us, step into the light, follow the energy which the Master Architects are now extending to you.
As you step into this light, there are conings of energy entering your chakras from the front and from behind. This is being projected to you by the Triple Goddess and the Triple God. The energies of the Quantum Goddess and the Quantum God step in. The Quantum Goddess touches your third eye, the Quantum God touches your sacral chakra, activating the doorways to Heaven through the graceful acceptance of what is, as it is, knowing that what is in the future, is and will be different to what is now, for you are being held within this light to recognize that all your fears and all restrictions that you place upon yourself are truly self-imposed. Even if they have been projected by those in your external world, you have chosen to hold onto them, you have chosen to abide by those false laws and rules.
Now you are being given permission to let it all go. You are being given permission to step into a completely new frequency and consciously choose to no longer abide by the ridiculous, deluded systems which have been set in place, which have falsely led you to believe that there are certain things you cannot experience, may not do and cannot have as a part of your life.
Therefore, as we amplify the energies even more, the Elohim comes to stand with you. I, Kuthumi-Agrippa, King of the Solar Archangels, now bring my League of Solar Archangels to gather around you as we amplify the energies even more. Breathe into your bodies exhaling fully as we send these divine pulsations triggering through all of your chakras. As it triggers through the chakras, it opens these dimensional portals and we want you now to release every single person coming to mind whom you recognize as being the projector of that which you have falsely attached yourself to as being a law in your life - and release it, let it go.
I, Kuthumi-Agrippa now send golden lightning waves of energy into your body. These lightning waves penetrate all the way to the centre of your atoms, releasing you from the negative attachments to the old world, and I want you now to imagine all of those cords, which are attached to the old paradigm collective money matrix now being incinerated, releasing you. All those negative attachments that have held you bound to the old world's Principles of Partnership, of collaboration, of relationship, of union, of communion; release it, let it go. For there is strength in numbers and we are calling you in your numbers now. This is your call to service, to come forth, to bring these energies, to release your self from the old, to bring it in and to manifest it within your physical reality.
I, Kuthumi-Agrippa, now stand behind you, pounding these energies into the powerful systems that are now being activated along your spinal cord, sent through your central nervous system, releasing the language of the higher order of the worlds, opening you to the Tenfold Universe where the fluid energy of all energy exists. The Tenfold Fluid Universe holds the keys to your future, the keys to all of that which you need, all of that which brings you freedom; freedom of spirit, freedom of your physical body to move and be as it wishes, freedom to love, freedom to give, freedom to receive and freedom to be authentic.
Take a deep breath in, hold your breath to the count of six, exhaling and relaxing.
Now we want you to take all these powerful energies that have been harnessed within this core group hearing our words now, and we want all of you now to extend this energy out to the rest of the world, shattering that collective money matrix of the old paradigm. In so doing we release the grip of those who rule the world through greed, through fear and through ignorance. Now extend this energy to shatter the old paradigm matrices around partnership; all forms of partnership. And we also disconnect those energy cords through which those of ignorant minds and greedy hearts take from those who have been led to believe they are poor in mind, in body and in their physical realities.
Take a deep breath in and as you exhale push this energy out even further. See it seeping into Mother Earth's body, filling every atom of her body with the same energy.
Now, precious ones, this very powerful energy which we have created, which you have accepted, needs to continue with its spiral light for the next 17 minutes during which time, ideally, we ask if you can sit in silence or within a peaceful environment, we will complete the process during that time. For now simply relax and know that the energies which are coming through to you are all new; energies the world has not seen before. It makes it unique and it is through you responding to your call to service that you have come to receive these great gifts and blessings.
As you are held within this powerful energy grid, we want you now to give thanks to all of those who have witnessed this magnificent resurrection of this pure, powerful part of you and the amalgamation of all of your powerful lights, setting the new foundation upon which you will create alongside the almighty Master Architects of your Universe.
And so, precious ones, it is official; a new grid has been created, a grid of fluid love, fluid light, fluid intention, an almighty powerful source of creativity and nothing can stop it. Your union as this powerful core group of light will ensure this, and as your group grows, as your connections to your fellow brothers and sisters walking the path of light strengthens, so this energy will strengthen and it will break down every false system greedily governing worlds, manipulating them and you will see them fall.
Over the years to come, more specifically from now leading up to approximately 2013, many of the economic systems of your world will fall, especially those major corporations who have chosen to take it upon themselves to rule the world, so to speak. No man or woman in their lower ego can ever rule the world. It is only through the reunion and return to the inner sense of the higher ego that a human man or a human woman will be granted access to those worlds which truly embody power; power which creates the miraculous systems which reform worlds, and so it is, precious ones, that the cities of light will be resurrected.
Mark this day on your spiritual calendar as being the day when the grids were laid for the cities of light to resurrect; you are a part of this, share this light, share this love with everyone whom you know. Encourage those whom you feel are connected to this energy, and who are open to this energy to join the fluid forces of light and reform the world as such, reform your inner world and never forget how much we love you, how firmly we stand alongside you and that not one nanosecond of what you feel, think or do ever goes unobserved. There is no judgment; there is observation and response to your calls, your intentions, your questions and your pleas for help, protection and guidance.
Know, precious ones, that it is done; that these energies have now been anchored on Earth as they are in Heaven. You are the Earth Angels, the gods and the goddesses of the earth world, incarnated in human form to perform a very specific role, to reunite with each other at this time so as to bring into manifestation this grand plan, and this grand plan is open to any human being who is motivated by pure soul, pure intention and with the desire to unite with the powers of light and love, to collaborate with fellow brothers and sisters on the Pathway of the Authentic Ones and to build a new world based on a different motivation.
On the 4th of April we will crack a level of the dark forces’ stronghold; we have been working up to this for seven years. All of you are a part of this, you have been prepared for this and we will conduct a specific transmission for that day specifically. We will ensure that it is pre-recorded so that all of you can attune on the day and be a part of the delivery prior to that date.
So hold on to your bootstraps, everyone; this is the ride of your life and we trust you will enjoy it for you have, of course, chosen the pathway of extreme adventurers.
Now take another deep breath in, exhaling fully. Give thanks to yourself for honouring your call to service, for being present at this point in time embracing the powerful light that you are, the almighty embodiment of love which you are and share it, spread it by leading by example. Be who you are and if you don’t know who you are, take the steps to find yourself. You might just see that in actual fact all that you are is beside yourself.
Know that there is never a moment that you walk alone. We are with you in every way, always. May all that brings you peace, harmony, health and happiness meet you in the core of your being, and may all always be well in your world.
I, Kuthumi-Agrippa, King of the Solar Archangels, enfold you in my wings, holding you close to my heart and reassuring you always that you are safe, nurtured and protected. Allow all your needs to be met. Be at peace, treasured Lightworkers; your reward is with you. Adonai. This information may be shared with other sources on strict conditions that no information is altered or deleted or used for monetary gain, and the source of the information be acknowledged. To find out more about Michelle & The Lightweaver please visit www.thelightweaver.org
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