CRUX
AND THE SOUTHERN GATE
Malvin Artley © 2003
I
was recently asked if I had any information about the Southern Cross (the
constellation known as Crux). Naturally, this set me on a whole train
of thought on astronomical matters initially, only to find later that
it tied in with one of my previous letters—the one on the Leo full moon
and Sirius. This is not one of my usual letters in that it is more on
astronomical matters than on astrological happenings. Instead, it is
about the local universe of which we are a small part and about one of
our fellow stellar Brethren of the Sirian system, which we know as Alpha
Centauri. Everyone who lives in the Southern Hemisphere is well familiar
with the ever-present Southern Cross in the night sky. But, as usual,
there is more to this set of stars than meets the eye and, together with
two of the stars in the constellation of The Centaur, form an important
point of reference and a meditative station for anyone living in the southern
climes.
Having
grown up in a fairly populated part of the States, my view of the night
sky was fairly obscured by all the artificial light in the neighborhood
of my childhood and by the humidity and atmospheric conditions in that
locale. I shall never forget, though, my first look at the night sky when
I initially came to Australia and finally got away from the city. Going
into the outback for the first time on a warm spring night I could only
stand there transfixed in awe of the sheer multitudes and clarity of the
stars stretched out before me, finally seeing with my own eyes constellations
that I could only read about before. Australians will know well what I
mean by this. You just cannot beat an outback sky, unless you live in
the desert southwest of the US or in other remote desert or mountainous
regions. The whole tapestry put me in mind of what the ancient astronomers
would have been able to see every night away from villages and campfires.
We miss out on so much in the cities in some respects.
Crux,
or the Southern Cross, is the brightest constellation in the southern
sky. It is also the smallest of the Western constellations. Together with
the Southern Gate it contains 5 of the 28 visibly brightest stars in the
sky, but more on that later. I am greeted by it every night when I walk
out my front door. In the southern winter it is almost directly overhead
in many parts of Australia, although people in the southern parts of the
US would only just be able to see it on the horizon in their summer. European
sailors have navigated by it for hundreds of years and have ascribed to
it the most glowing accounts, due to its luminosity and thus its value
as a navigational marker.
Crux
used to be included in the constellation of the Centaur, being then the
foot of the Centaur. It was separated from that constellation in the 1600s
and was given its own place in the sky. With the stars Alpha and Beta
Centauri it forms a pointer and a sort of clock hand in the heavens, indicating
the seasonal changes in the year. They point roughly toward the galactic
center in Sagittarius. In that capacity it performs the same function
as the Great Bear did to the astrologers of ancient China for the Northern
Hemisphere.
To
the Chinese the Southern Cross and many of the stars in the Centaur formed
their constellation of “The Arsenal”, the Cross being the “Arsenal Tower”,
or “Heavenly Tower”. The stars Alpha and Beta Centauri were near the entrance
into the Arsenal, and were known by themselves as “The Southern Gate”.
The Southern Gate and most of the Arsenal are in the 1st Chinese
lunar mansion, “The Horn”, and lay in a straight line of sight due south
of the magnificent star Spica in the constellation of Virgo. That star
marks the commencement of the Chinese Great Year of 12 years duration.
So, there is much about all these stars and groupings concerned with commencements,
gateways, directions and with preservation.
Of
course, the aboriginal peoples of Australia have revered the Cross from
time immemorial and have evolved many legends about it. The Boorung people
of modern day Victoria called the Southern Cross “Bunya”, the possum,
while the surrounding stars—specifically the Southern Gate and other stars
in the Centaur-- went to make up their “Tchingal”, the Emu. The Boorung
legend runs thus:
Two
brothers were chasing Tchingal, a very big and fast Emu from the spirit
world. Tchingal moved so quickly that he scared Bunya, who ran up and
hid in a tree. Bunya was also of the spirit world, but because of his
cowardice, was changed into a possum, which always hides in the tops of
trees (or in roof spaces in modern days). Tchingal and Bunya both escaped
the hunters and live today in the night sky for all to see. In the sky,
Tchingal is standing over Bunya, who cowers under Tchingal’s long neck.
Some of the stars around Tchingal are the spears that the hunters threw
at him. There are several variations upon this theme depending on which
tribe is telling the story.
It
is of interest to note the connection between the spears and the protective
nature of the Emu and the trees with the Arsenal of the Chinese system.
Arsenals are defensive, protective structures, too, although filled with
weaponry. Of course, a cowardly possum is probably not what we would call
the most flattering of symbols for such a magnificent grouping of stars.
Perhaps a more palatable legend for Westerners (whitefellas, to use the
aboriginal description of Westerners) would be that from the Noonuccal
people of what is today called Stradbroke Island in the Torres Straits.
It reads thus:
The
Southern Cross was a special creation of the All-Father, Biame. It is
a gum tree named Yaraando, which is called The Dreaming Tree of Life
and Death. The Stars of the Cross are said to be the eyes of a man
imprisoned in the tree, which blaze out through the darkness. The stars
of the Southern Gate are said to be two white cockatoos which tried to
follow the tree as it was lifted up to take its place in heaven. To the
Noonuccal people it is a visible symbol of the hereafter and of the All-Father.
I’ll bet I know which legend most of you will probably lean towards. We
should keep in mind that the planets and stars in the heavens name themselves
according to the nature of the people who connect with them.
When
we begin to take a look at some of the more scientific data about the
Southern Cross a very fascinating vista opens before us, for in this small
part of the night sky some of the most dazzling and incredible objects
are to be found. As was stated before, 3 of the stars in Crux are some
of the brightest visual stars in the sky. Acrux, or Alpha Crucis, is the
14th brightest star, lying at 370 light-years from us. It is
actually a binary system (2 stars), both stars of roughly the same size
each. They are massive B-type stars of between 15 to 20 times the mass
of our Sun. This is considered to be one of the very finest binaries in
the heavens and they are separated by a distance of roughly six times
the diameter of our solar system—a very bright solar system indeed.
Beta
Crucis is the 20th brightest star in the sky with a mass of
about 20 times our Sun. It is a pulsating star and lies at a distance
of 490 light-years. Just to put these distances in perspective our parent
system of Sirius is only a mere 10.8 light-years from us. The central
pivot of our local universe—Alcyone in the Pleiades—lies at a distance
of 400 light years. Gamma Crucis is a red giant star of about the same
size as Alpha and Beta Crucis and is the 28th brightest star
in the sky. It lies out at a distance of about 220 light years. Delta
Crucis is another star like Alpha and Beta weighing in at about 15 Suns
and at a distance of 570 light years. These are the 4 main stars which
form the points of the cross. They are magnificent specimens in and of
themselves. But wait, there’s more!
There
is a very interesting cluster in Crux called the “Jewel Box”. It is what
is termed a galactic cluster and is ranked among the finest objects in
the southern Milky Way. The 50 or so brightest stars in the cluster are
crammed into a space of no more than 25 light-years diameter. That would
be like having 50 stars much brighter than our recent Mars spectacular
ever-present in the night sky of one living in that part of the galaxy.
They would drown out all but the brighter stars in that part of the universe,
because some of those stars are more than 40 times the mass of our Sun,
making them some of the most massive and luminous stars in our galaxy.
To give some idea of brightness, the brightest of these stars is calculated
to be around 80,000 times more luminous than our Sun, if you can imagine
that. These stars are classed as supergiants and together form the core
of one of the youngest clusters of stars known to us.
Ironically,
just next to this brilliant sea of light lies one of the darkest and nearly
starless areas of the galaxy, the “Coal Sack” Nebula. Nebulae are known
as the birthplaces and graveyards of stars and planets—those areas of
the heavens which can be compared to the darkness of the womb prior to
birth and the grave after death. They are the places of gestation for
stellar life and also the nurseries for young stars and planets of all
types, as well as being the places where stars undergo their last gasps
of life. But, that matter then gets used to create planetary life after
the stars have thrown it off in death.
The
Coal Sack is possibly the nearest nebula to us and lies just east of Alpha
Crucis. It lies at a distance of 400-500 light years and is about 60-70
light-years in diameter. All of these stars just described and the Coal
Sack are found within the boundaries of Crux Australis, the Southern Cross.
Now, if we remember the aboriginal myth that called this constellation
part of the Dreaming Tree of Life and Death, then we would have
to take pause and wonder just what and how much the old fellas and their
ancestors really knew about that part of the sky.
Continuing
on with this, when we look at Beta Centauri--or Hadar, as it is also known—we
again find another massive blue star. This one weighs in at about 20 solar
masses and lies out at a distance of about 490 light-years. It is a binary
system with a much smaller companion, possibly a solar “moon”. It is the
10th brightest star in the sky. This forms a part of the Chinese
“Southern Gate” and is one of the pointers off the Southern Cross. It
should be duly noted at this point that none of the stars just described
is in any association with its constellational neighbors. All association
is strictly illusory and “a trick of the light”.
But
now we get to a star that we really will find of interest, for
it is not so unlike our own Sun and it is our closest stellar neighbor
in space—Alpha Centauri or Rigel Kentaurus. Alpha Centauri is the 3rd
brightest star in the sky, but it lies only 4.34 light years away. It
is of the same spectral class as our Sun and only slightly larger. The
surprise here is that it is actually a triple system, with two stars much
like our Sun and a much smaller white dwarf star. The dwarf star is called
Proxima Centauri and it orbits the main pair. Its mass is only 5%-15%
that of our Sun. The Alpha Centauri system is considered to be another
of the finest visual binaries in the heavens. The two main stars orbit
eachother at a period of close to 80 years. They are in an elliptical
orbit, varying at a distance of from 11 to 35 Astronomical Units (AU),
where an AU is the diameter of our solar system, and were closest together
(at periastron) in 1955.
The
3rd star, Proxima, takes about a half a million years to orbit
the other two. Its orbital radius is a staggering 1/6 of a light year.
It is also one of the faintest and least massive stars known to us. Added
to this, as well, is the fact that it is what is known as a flare star,
which means that it is highly unstable and evidences sudden changes in
luminosity, at which time it emits massive solar flares. As such, it is
a star in process of formation, and is thus in gestation. These flares
occur at unpredictable intervals and may vary at up to a magnitude, only
to return to normal in less than half an hour. It is among the most active
of the flare stars and holds the record for the greatest number of observed
outbursts. It almost puts one in mind of a fetus suddenly moving within
the womb.
The
Alpha Centauri system would have a very interesting planetary life and
constituency, due to the changes in gravitational pull exerted by the
binary pair. If we consider, though, that our Sun only appears as a bright
star at the edge of our own solar system, then the presence of the companion
star in the Centaurian system would almost go unnoticed, since the closest
approach by the main companion star would be some 15 times the distance
across our own solar system. The astrology of such a system would be most
fascinating to a dweller in that system, with 3 Suns to consider. Since
the two main Suns are very similar to our own it would give one pause
to wonder what sort of lives and humanities are evolving in that most
interesting of our sister solar systems.
I
had stated in the Leo full moon/Sirius letter that there were many solar
systems forming the greater Sirian system, with Sirius forming the focal
point, or center. It is very likely there are at least several dozens
of stars associated with that system, most of them smaller than our own.
But, there are at least 10 systems in close proximity to us which are
very much like our own solar system. Of these, Alpha Centauri is almost
certainly one. There are also two other systems close to us that are triple
systems, one of which is strongly suspected to have planets (61 Cygni).
So, when we look at the pointers at the side of the Southern Cross it
is no wonder we get drawn so strongly to them. The far one is our stellar
neighbor and a member of our greater heavenly Brotherhood--so we feel
at least a vague affinity to her.
I
know this is a lot of “hard science” information and that it will mean
little to some of you. It is more to make us all aware that we are far
from alone in our little piece of heaven. Most of the grand Beings ensouling
the massive stars in Crux and Beta Centauri have no compelling psychic
connection with our immediate solar system. But, in terms of cosmic distances,
even They are our close neighbors. It is analogous to living in a large
city where certain great personages stand out, but we have no immediate
relation to them, even though they will exert an influence on us in some
manner or another. The main players in our Earth evolution from a stellar
perspective are Sirius, the Great Bear, The Lesser Bear, the Pleiades,
Betelgeuse, Aldeberan, Regulus, Castor and Pollux, the constellation of
Draco (the Dragon), as well as the myriads of suns and their humanities
which go to make up the constellations of our Zodiac.
In
summary, we can see that there is so much locked away in the tiny constellation
of Crux and the Southern Gate. It is a place in the heavens of the most
intimate brotherhood, of the drama of life and death on a cosmic scale,
of the most fantastic Being and of the minutest solar Life. There are
a large number of Suns lesser than ours in that direction of space which
are evolving in ways we cannot comprehend. There are many humanities there
which would scarcely be recognizable as such to us as well as many that
would be quite similar. Yet, they are all Divine, all fulfilling their
own part in God’s Design and all one with us as a part of a greater Being.
It is no wonder the Torres Strait Islanders called that region of space
“The Dreaming Tree of Life and Death”. So, when we look upon the face
of the Cross and the Gate, remember what the aboriginal Elders imparted
to us regarding it. There is so much to explore—and so many lifetimes
to do so!
Imprisoned
in our bodies like the man imprisoned in the Yaraando tree, our Souls
gaze out upon the vastness of creation—Dreaming. The dreams of our Souls
are our own individual and collective Law. All moves and evolves, is born,
lives and dies, according to the Dreaming of Beings greater than us. And,
as reflections of God, we, too, dream. “….Life is but a dream”, as the
children’s song goes—hopefully, Merrily! Merrily!—definitely, Joyfully!—Joyfully!
For, life, as we know it, is but the sleep of our Souls. We are never
more alive than when we get taken back to rejoin our ancestors after shedding
our mortal coil. Just as we sleep each night and awaken refreshed in the
morning, our dreams but the dim reflection of the greater livingness we
experienced during the night hours, so our Souls re-awaken after our efforts
in life with renewed vigor for the Work of God’s Plan and with the sure
and certain knowledge of new qualities gained through our successful little
strivings in this earthly realm. Yes, all our dreams do come true,
eventually. May all your dreams come true as well!
Back
Virgo
and the Angels
Malvin
Artley © 2003
I
do not normally send out a new moon letter, but I just could not resist
this time, due to its falling near the perihelion of Mars on Tuesday.
I have been given over to musing upon the significance of Virgo and how
extra-planetary affairs are modifying the influence of this great zodiacal
sign the Sun has just entered. Virgo is one of the larger constellations
on the path of the Sun, encompassing some 40 degrees of arc, as does its
polar opposite, Pisces. There are also a number of features for this sign
that are given little notice by astrologers, but which have great significance,
as we shall see. But perhaps one of the most profound secrets of Virgo
that is generally little-known is that it is curiously connected with
a certain Angelic Hierarchy, and that Mars has been playing a big role
in the expansion and work of that kingdom of Nature of late, too. I can
only set out the barest of outlines regarding that vast Kingdom of Nature.
I will be able to give more detail in the next letter, though. With that,
let us begin.
This
new moon occurs on 28 Aug 2003 at 3:27 AM, AEST. The Sun and Moon will
be at the 5th degree of Virgo, rounded up. Its symbol is particularly
appropriate to the theme of this missive. It reads thus:
“A
Man becoming aware of Nature spirits and normally unseen spiritual agencies.”
Every
“dark” (new) moon has its own significance in the affairs of people. It
is a particularly human period in distinction to the full moon, which
is the spiritual high point of the month when the greatest Light is brought
to bear on our globe. The new moon is a time when the past and present
are aligned. It marks an opportunity for examination of the present situation
(whatever that may be) with respect to the past and with the aim of seeing
if the path we are on is proceeding according to plan and if there is
anything from the past which is calling out for restitution or correction
in the present. For that reason the new moon can be a dark time for people,
particularly if there are heavy currents of guilt and unresolved negativity
connected with the period of the year and sign in question. It can be
a period of ego-dissolution or of quiet introspection. People born on
a new moon can have a particular gift for being able to read the past
or with reading the akashic records—the sum-total of our planetary history.
The
new moon is also a time when the lower mind stands in the Light of the
higher Self and can either obscure it or come into alignment with it.
During the full moon, on the other hand, the mind is set aside altogether
while the Light of the Soul floods in (hopefully). The analogy of “losing
one’s mind” during the full moon is appropriate symbolism and is a further
illustration of why the psychiatric profession gets a step up during the
full moon period. Further, the new moon has a connection with the body
on whatever plane and means that the body and psyche are as one. This
can be either a positive or negative time, depending upon the orientation
of the person. It is a time when extra consideration can be given to matters
of health and the fitness of the body, which brings us to the theme of
this letter.
People
scarcely realize it, but there are evolutions and Hierarchies of Being
which parallel our own and exist simultaneously with us on this globe.
Some are not as advanced. Others are extremely advanced. The human kingdom
actually lies somewhere toward the lower end of the evolutionary scale,
much to our consternation. There are said to be 12 evolutions connected
with our world, of which ours is but one. I will not enumerate them here.
Perhaps I will as other letters come out. But, there is a particular evolution
which runs very much parallel to our own and which merges with the highest
aspect of every person at the very highest levels. This Hierarchy is called
“The Divine Builders”, or “The Burning Sons of Desire”, and it is ruled
by Virgo.
Let
us be very clear. As I enumerated the levels of humanity in the last letter,
we will be aware that the highest part of every person is what we might
call the Eternal Spirit or monadic essence in esoteric terms. For general
interest, there are said to be 60 billion human Spirits either on or connected
with our Earth. Clearly, only the smallest part of them is actually “living”
in physicality. Most of them are happily going about their business in
other realms or planes. But, there is also a much larger number of the
Angelic Host, all of which have their own Eternal Spirit. In fact, at
that level, there is no separation between the two evolutions. This evolution
is called the greater Devas, or Angels—the Army of the Voice, in Christian
terminology—and they outnumber humans 2:1. But, what function do these
Angels or Devas perform, and why do we not see them?
Humans
and Angels can be perceived as two polarities of the same thing. The human
Spirits are the masculine pole and the Angels/Devas are the feminine.
Essentially, the Devas provide us with the forms which we need and use,
much like a mother provides a body for her child. And, we humans set about
finding new uses for them—to evolve Self-consciousness through the agency
of our forms and thus fully express Love as our Maker intended. The Angels
produce the material world as we know it and it is given over to humanity
and the sub-human kingdoms to fully evolve that into a beacon of Love
in our local universe. The whole matter is quite mysterious and a little
difficult to understand. Suffice it to say that the Angelic realms are
passive to the Will of God, whereas we humans are active and rebellious
toward it. The Angels evolve by abiding strictly by God’s Law. We, on
the other hand, are like little children who always have to push boundaries
and test limits (and patience), but who cause our parents to evolve and
learn to love much more rapidly than they would alone. It is all a joyous
interchange and interplay. And, eventually, we all ideally grow into responsible
and productive adults.
Why
are we not aware of Angels, though? The fact is some people are. For most
of us, though, the reasons for that lie in the misuse of power that we
wrought in Atlantean times, when we knew and had interchange with the
Angelic realms. But, we abused the privilege and had our inner sight taken
away from us, largely for our own safety and the safety of the remainder
of the evolutions on our globe. There are many classes and types of Angels.
But, they all exist and work on subtle levels, so to the average person
they are invisible. The angelic hosts in their divisions are not unlike
the divisions of Nature as we known them. They range anywhere from the
tiniest of the Nature spirits which work with the care and maintenance
of all the subhuman kingdoms to the mightiest and most exalted of spiritual
Beings.
There
are also classes of devas who are of equal rank and development along
their line as the various grades of people in the world. Each has their
task and their purpose, their own consciousness and their own distinct
appearance. There is a special class of Angels who work specifically with
the production, care and maintenance of the human form. The important
thing to remember with all of them is that they are connected with forms
of all types and with the evolution of substance in tandem with the
evolution of consciousness in every part of Nature. In fact, one could
say that their function is to provide a suitable body to match the level
and quality of consciousness to any life.
I
was at an intensive some years back in San Diego and went to dinner with
a few of my colleagues. As we ordered our food two of us sat fascinated
with the behavior of the other two, because the other two people with
us were both Virgoans—one man and one woman. Their food had to be ordered
in a specific manner and exactly according to their tastes. When it arrived
both of the Virgoans proceeded to examine the food quite carefully, to
pick it to pieces as they ate it, seemingly to ensure that every bite
fit the bill and to comment on it more than is usual among other signs.
My other friend sat and watched them for a time and smiled at them like
the cat that ate the budgie. When the Virgoans asked her why she was smiling
at them, she commented that she found it amusing the way that the two
Virgoans at the table were fussing over their food while she and I could
have cared less so long as it was well prepared and edible. The Virgoans
were not amused and had a few comments to make to my other friend. Anyone
who has eaten regularly with Virgoans has sat there either with benign
amusement or with bitten tongue as the Virgoan goes through their obligatory
ritual.
The
point of the story is not to poke fun at Virgos, but to illustrate the
essence of the Virgo/Angelic connection (although it can be quite amusing).
I know I will get myself into trouble with my Virgoan friends, but I tell
the story with all affection toward them. (We’ll see if I get invited
to dinner with them!) The point of this is that, since the Angels work
with the care and refinement of bodies of all types, it is no wonder that
there should be such attention to detail with something even as simple
and basic as food. Since Virgo rules this kingdom it is small wonder that
Virgoans are so picky about details—and, we should add, rightly so.
The
task for any person born under a given Sun-sign is to incorporate the
functions of that sign to the fullest measure possible. People are apt
to forget that just because a person is a Leo, for instance, that person
is not automatically a leader. They are born as Leos to learn leadership
and to exemplify it as much as possible. On the same line of thought,
every Virgo has within them this attention to detail and the knowledge
somewhere within their psyche that purity in every aspect of living is
important. The Angels do not normally draw nigh to coarse people. They
do, however, draw close to all who seek to refine, to redeem and to build
according to divine Law, though.
It
is important, too, to realize that devas do not work in dense substance.
They work in the ethers of the various planes—i.e., the subtle grades
of matter on every plane. The particular class of Angels which Virgo rules
has a specific affinity and are most easily contacted through the finest
ethers—what scientists would classify as fine sub-atomic matter. It is
a curious thing to note that, even though we live in a world where we
have access to the most fantastic variety of foods, we have less vitality
than many of our forebears did. The reason for that is because we routinely
destroy much of the most refined essence in our food when we process it
and through over-cooking, we do not get out in the Sun enough or we do
it for too long and, we are tending to be a society of sedentary souls,
bathed in artificial light, exposed to all types of spurious and dangerous
radiations and eating a lot of the very things we should avoid. Food is
over-processed, micro-waved (which destroys the ether in food), irradiated
(which does the same as microwaves and worse), loaded with chemicals,
stripped of its most refined and potent qualities and then presented to
us as the most amazing thing since sliced bread. You even have to be careful
with sliced bread these days. All in the name of progress. It is enough
to make the Angels weep!
People
would be much better off if they learned to cook again and if they learned
to love their food as they cooked it. We would certainly take more care
with it. In the ritual of cooking is to be found communion with certain
types of devas, too. All Angels respond to ritual and are drawn to it
like a magnet. And what about the human interaction that is lost when
we do not take the time with eachother as we prepare food with our families
and friends and in the ritual of the family table? Love is built with
steady, sustained contact, not with hurried, splintered distraction and
sensory overload. Added to that is the fact that we do not know where
our food comes from when we eat fast food or eat out. How many different
cattle go into the making of a single hamburger, for example?--hundreds,
sometimes.
Is
there a magic formula for working with the Angels, especially in terms
of our bodies? Well, yes, there are magic formulae, but they are not for
us to know. There is good, sound horse-sense, though:
--Eat
only food that has contacted the Sun, and raw as much as is possible
--Get
outdoors and get the Sun on the upper body, especially between the shoulder
blades and on the forehead (with the eyes closed, of course), but away
from the hours of 10-3
--Use
plenty of pure water daily, internally and externally
--Avoid
all processed foods
--Give
yourself regular quiet time in natural surroundings and take time to experience
Nature
--Throw
out your microwave and use land-line phones as much as possible instead
of cell or mobile phones
--Get
off your tail and move it (exercise regularly).
--Rest
as fully as you can when given opportunity, for in rest we find the needed
repair and repose to fortify us for the next task at hand
Some
will say that the above is unrealistic, given our modern world and the
pace of it. The fact of the matter is that we live the way we desire to
in the West for the most part, not the way we have to. Everyone has their
story and a thousand and one reasons why things are the way they are in
their lives. Convenience is often another word for dependency and enslavement.
If we wish to become more attuned with the Angels who watch after us then
we have to approach them in their way, not ours, for our way is often
the way of recklessness, carelessness and ignorance.
At
the time of this new moon in particular we are presented with a unique
opportunity to reconnect with our bodies and to throw off a lot of psychic
refuse. Mars is causing excess heat in people’s systems and this causes
things to be burned away and cast off at an accelerated rate. This has
been the cause of a fair amount of discomfort for some people, causing
fevers, general lassitude and a feeling of being wholly uncomfortable
in one’s skin. Such things will dissipate quickly to normal levels as
Mars recedes back to its normal position over the next 6 weeks. It will
be especially important for all of us over the next weeks to keep things
moving and flushed out. In general, we could say that our systems have
been super-saturated over the past 2 months and, now the heat is taken
away, that things will begin to rapidly precipitate out since there is
no longer the excess heat there to support them. Watch for that sort of
thing on the world stage as well as at a personal level.
There
is a direct correspondence between the Hierarchy of Angels Virgo rules
and our own physical bodies, but only in the most refined essence of our
bodies. The Eternal Spirit is said to be the eye of God, just as our Souls
are said to be the eye of the Spirit. The function of every Spirit at
that level is to fully manifest the Will of God on Earth. This is why
They are called the Greater Builders. But, They are born out of the desire
of God to fully manifest the world as we know it, hence the name “Burning
Sons of Desire”. Here we can begin to see the reason why Virgoans have
been called “the work-horses of the zodiac”, so strong is the desire to
build the required and desired forms or work and so strong is the need
to painstakingly make the end product suit the need. We could all stand
to take a page from a Virgoan’s handbook every now and then. We should
also pay more attention to them when things do not seem quite right in
a certain piece of work, unless we know they are obsessing. The Devil
is in the detail, as we say.
So,
when we speak of Angels we also speak of ourselves, for always are we
the same as them in our highest Truth and Essence. Every Eternal Spirit
or Monad is a divine Architect for the Vision God has for this world.
And, when we enter the sign of Virgo every year we get a reminder and
an opportunity to build more carefully and more suitably with as much
of the highest good in our lives as we can exhibit and sense. Every Virgo
knows the truth in the words “There are no little things.” And, on Angel’s
wings comes the call and the certainty that every small detail is as divine
and relevant in its own way as is the largest of issues, for the manuscript
of God’s Plan is not done until every mark is correct and proof-read again
and again to insure the accuracy, potency and suitability of every word
and phrase. The Army of the Voice awaits the collective sounding of the
Herald each year to build anew and to redeem that which has been laid
amiss. Let our call be clear, sincere and unified within the great Brotherhood
of all Beings.
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