elvisalpha wrote:...the cosmic panorama surrounding us...
Elvis' quote [ just a part of it ] is the only one I am managing to post at this time. Reason being that 1) I found I would have been quoting each responder at least once-which could have made this the longest thread in Montalk history [grin] and 2) I am finding this thread to be the most interesting dicussion of astrology I have come across up to this moment.
His words there, quoted above, in the moment I read them, actually caused something to kick in, some kind of immediate shift within me that catapulted this person that is me, into a whole other dimensional perspective. The notion that there is order to this uni/multiverse actually made conscious sense, for at least a few split seconds. And combined with all that I have been reading here and in a few other places, I saw some interesting things in my mind's eye [funny, I thought I would **only** be responding, post-wise, to some mental ideas and concepts with my own written contribution - but something is actually happening to me right now that words cannot really describe accurately. But I will share what I can]:
I saw the cosmos (stars, constellations, planets, etc.) as being like some kind of enormous nighttime amusement park with order to it. Like the fun rides that are lit up at night, many of which rotate in various ways, sometimes rotations within rotations [ this is where I will interject and say that I reallly hope that makes some kind of sense to whoever may read this - because I know sometimes when people try to explain their dreams or musings or even such things as their mushroom trips to others or acoholic drunken epiphanies, that it can often sound ridiculous and at the very least can be quite annoying (concern re: judgement mixed in with humor I admit) ] Anyway............then I saw two pictures that I often see and believe to be memories of me being some kind of heavenly body...one seems to be during the birthing of a solar system somewhere with all kinds of marvelous gases and colors, etc., swirling around me and the other is of me being some sort of heavenly body again and I am existing in that way, in perfect harmony, with a "view" of the panorama of an older solar system. The view is sort of 3-D BUT there are aspects of how I am seeing, as that type of heavenly body, that I do not employ in this current 3-D human vehicle. These are just flashes rather than extended remembered moments. But at last, they seem to make more of a smidgen of sense and logic.
Seems I am being guided towards understanding, in a more intense way than before. Art Bell calls this period in time, "the Quickening," and it seems to be the appropriate terminology, from my own perspective right now.
The number 12....this has been coming up in resources for study I have been guided to very recently and as well I have also been very drawn to the number 13 relating to the moon cycles. I am only slightly familiar with how we went from a 13 month moon calendar perspective to the 12 month calandar (re: both the Julius and Augustus Ceasars), however, I feel somehow that in spite of that redesigning of the human perception of time that it was no ' accident.' In other words, that how it came about in history may have seemed cruel and selfish but THAT it came about was somehow part of the Cosmic plan of the Nameless Force and/or Consiousness that is often called, among other names, GOD. And that somehow the numbers 12 and 13 are, rather than being mutually exclusive, that both have a significant role in our existence. Maybe we will discover other numbers do to and perhaps someday we will better understand how to weave all of this knowledge together in a more effectively ordered way that makes sense to us.
What is commonly called "astrology,' as it is better and more accurately understood, may eventually explain much about not only individual human characteristics, but as well the chacteristics of other life forms including but not limited to, animals and plants and also other ' humanoid ' and perhaps
non-humanoid beings from other planets, dimensions and universes.
Now, well past the hour I started reading this thread, I am at the place of posting my originally intended chime in that I felt might be helpful...........the one I was considering before being immersed in the acceleration of concepts that rushed into my awareness as I was continuing to read the remainder of responses I had yet to view. What I am attempting to convey is that I knew what I wanted to contribute but I also realized my ego aspect was so excited about. When I noticed that, I made myself slow to a halt so I could complete reading the whole thread. I felt the urgent importance of doing this and believe/feel that I understand why (related to the experience I am having now as mentioned above).
So here is my originally intended chime in (following another check of the ego) and it does somehow, still feel relevant. I'd like, at this moment, to offer it in the hope that it will be additional helpful contribution:
Astrology, in general, had never really floated my boat. It had always seemed, to my limited understanding, very "mathematically incorrect." And I did not know why I felt that way because arithmetic/mathematics had never been a stong suit of mine. Give me a poem, essay or story to write anyday, over having to do math "problems," (smile).
No joke. I mean, who was I (?) to be making references to myself or anyone about math, in light of the poor relationship I had always had to anything but the most basic aspects of the subject...getting through advanced algebra as a pre-req to a college curriculum, calculating tips for waiters and waitressess, grocery store tax, etc....that's pretty much where the road ended for me.
But then I learned about, at least part of, the Vedic view/system of what astrology may have been intended to be for us - and I liked what I'd read that day. It expressed a much more sophisticated form of something I had been insisting upon for ages about astrology (because, I reasoned, its basic philosophy must be rooted in something more substantial - and hopefully not lost to us forever).
Finally, astrology, some aspects of what may have originally been intended anyway, began to make sense. And I now believe that it is not about limitations within personal relationships, life challenges or in any other way. But rather it is about opportunities for growth and wisdom wherever the challenges and limitations may appear to be:
"Charlatans have brought the ancient stellar science to its present disrepute. Astrology is too vast, both mathematically and philisophically, to be rightly grasped except by men of profound understanding...Man, in his human aspect, has to combat two sets of forces - first the tumults within his being...second, the outer disentegrating powers of nature...
"Astrology is the study of man's response to planetary stimuli. The stars have no conscious benevolence or animosity; they merely send forth positve and negative radiations. Of themselves, these do not help or harm humanity, but offer a lawful channel for the outward operation
of cause-effect equilibriums that each man has set into motion in the past.
"A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in matematical harmony with his individual karma...
"The message boldly blazoned across the heavens at the moment of birth is not meant to emphasize fate - the result of past good and evil - but to arouse man's will to escape from his universal thralldom. What he has done he can undo...he posesses spiritual resources which are not subject to planetary pressure...
"Superstitious awe of astrology makes one an automation, slavishly dependent on mechanical guidance. The wise man defeats his planets - which is to say, his past - by transferring his allegiance from the creation to the Creator. The more he realizes his unity with Spirit, the less he can be dominated by matter. The soul is ever free...It cannot be regimented by the stars."
"Autobiography of A Yogi"
By Paramahansa Yogananda
Chapter 16: Outwitting The Stars
Copywright 1946 Parmahanansa Yogananda
Copywright 1998 Self Realization Fellowship
Thirteenth Editon, 1998
Reprinted 2001