Topic: Sabian Symbols oracle

Montalk first introduced me to this website back in 2002, and admittedly at the time I was like Oh come on now!  That's such bunk.  An internet random oracle generator?!  It's not going to work.  Oracles only work with cards that you're holding, or psychic people that you're talking to face to face or at least through a phone, things like that.  Stuff that you're touching and in actual physical/personal proximity of in some way.  But an electronic computer generated "oracle" is contradictory. 

Well, let me tell you...it works!  So I take it all back!  big_smile

The actual oracle:
http://www.sabiansymbols.com/page.asp?id=968

The home page:
http://www.sabiansymbols.com/

Recently it's worked for me so freakishly well that I went and purchased the book by Lynda Hill (author of the website link above) from amazon.  The book has all 360 oracle wisdoms in expanded form as well as the birthday chart, 42 oracle cards and the background explanation on where the sabian symbols originated and its ancient links.  I got mine for about $14, it was very worth it. 

Some personal examples of how I know it has validity, starting with today's incident which prompted this posting:

Recently I pulled out of a temp assignment that I'd been at for about 2 months.  Nothing negative, just a case of them running out of valid work for me to do and me deciding it was a good time to go.  I wanted some time off this summer anyway to kick around and relax, enjoy the warm weather.  So I did, and this has been the first week of my nice vacation.  I decided to ask the oracle for some insight into this time period that I have off, see what it has to say about it all.  I started with the oracle deck.  Shuffling the red deck of astrological signs, I intended that the right card jump out of the deck at me.  Several kept popping up out of the deck as I shuffled, but I waited until it was just one, and one only.  When that happened I opened my eyes and pulled the card out and looked at it.  Sagittarius.  Okay, and I put it aside.  Then I shuffled the blue deck which is the numbers 1 - 30.  Same intention....that the right card jump out of the deck at me.  When it did it was a "1."  So Sagittarius 1.  I looked up the expanded meaning in the Sabian symbols book I bought from Amazon and contemplated it in terms of how it fits into this time period.  (It totally does, but I won't get into boring personal back story about why.)

So then for good measure I decided to hop online and see what the electronic version of the oracle had to say about the same thing.  (see link above.)  I cleared my mind, focused on my question, with the passing thought going through my mind that "You KNOW you're going to get Sagittarius 1 again! haha!"  then clicked on the galaxy....

And got Sagittarius 1.  So I got it twice.  !!!

There are 360 possibilities that the electronic version could have chosen, but it chose that one.  Even more outstanding is that in order to get Sagittarius 1 from the cards it required first picking a card from one deck of 12, then another deck of 30, together creating the combination of Sagittarius 1.  So the odds of getting it twice in a row, both ways is something like 1 in 130,000 or something, if I remember correctly what Tom said.

So, not a coincidence.  No folks, we are NOT alone here!  Stuff is watching us!  lol
 
Another example:

Last weekend I was going to take a road trip up north.  But the day before leaving I realized I had anxiety.  Every time I pendulum dowsed it I didn't get a "No" that I shouldn't go, just kept getting "Maybe," so the anxiety wasn't that it was wrong to go necessarily.  So what is it?  I began wondering if there was something I should do before I leave.....hey, maybe try that new relaxation "rebirthing" breathing from the book that my friend from NR sent me?  (has to do with generating prana and calming anxiety, and a whole bunch of other stuff.)   But first, let's hop over to Sabian Symbols, see what it has to say about it all.   I did, focused clearly and intently on it all, then clicked on the galaxy, and got....

Leo 9:  "Glass blowers shape beautiful forms with their controlled breathing" 

Keywords: [picking out the ones that applied specifically]  "Prana....breathing method.  Breath meditations.  Rebirthing..."

Okay, THAT made me flip out!  But in a good way!  haha  Again, there are 360 imageries to choose from, and that's the one I got.  Specifically citing breathing methods and Rebirthing?!?!  After I'd been wondering if I should do the rebirthing breathing??!  Amazing!  (I decided in the end to not go on my trip, for particular reasons.)

There are other examples where it matched up in freakish ways, but those are two interesting examples.  There's something about this oracle that is pretty uncannily accurate when it comes to assessing a situation.  They were channeled back in 1925.  Here's the story, reprinting from the book:



"360 Degrees of Wisdom" by Lynda Hill wrote:

One day in San Diego in 1925 (unfortunately the date was not recorded), not far from the harbor, astrologer Marc Edmund Jones assisted spiritualist-medium Elsie Wheeler into his car.  Elsie was afflicted with severe arthritis, making any movement very difficult and most likely painful.  Marc's car made its way from the house on India Avenue where Elsie lived up the sloping hills to Balboa Park.....Mark Edmund Jones wrote that they found a place where they could be surrounded by the vibrations of modern American life but would not be disturbed by passers-by.  Also, as Elsie was unable to walk, they could not be moved from the car. 

Marc Edmund Jones wrote in his book The Sabian Symbols in Astrology (first published in 1953), "Miss Elsie Wheeler was very anxious to start...it was necessary to provide uninterrupted hours, with a problem of inevitable fatigue to be taken into account.   She had to be carried, no others could be present and conditions in general had to enable her to function in her accustomed manner.   Balboa Park in San Diego offered a spot where a driveway was a matter of a very few years from one of the city's busiest traffic intersections, fortuitously meeting the necessity that work of this sort be done in the turmoil of some metropolitan or other unusually dense aggregation of people active in the business of being.   There was a screen of trees and bushes, and during the day no one would show any interest in a car parked here for a few hours."

Marc had a set of 360 3"x5" cardboard cards that he had prepared.   These were blank except for a small notation of the sign and number on one side (i.e., Aries 1, Aries 2, up to Pisces 30).   Marc would shuffle the cards and place one in front of Elsie, neither of them knowing the sign or number on the card.   Marc wrote about this:  "One card was put face down before the medium, and she reported the picture she saw by inward vision.  This was noted hurriedly in pencil on the card itself."  During the whole process, Marc kept shuffling the cards.  Hence, the Sabian Oracle clairvoyantly came through Elsie's psychically attuned mind completely at random (i.e., not in zodiac order Aries 1, Aries 2, Aries 3, etc.)  They did ninety Symbols, took a break, did another ninety, had lunch and a short drive, then did another ninety and finished the last ninety at the end of the day.

That the entire set of Sabian Symbols was visualized and recorded in one day is a truly extraordinary feat!   If the process of visualizing and recording the Symbols took four hours in the morning and four hours in the afternoon, on average 45 Symbols would have to have been visualized per hour, or one every minute and a half.  Elsie Wheeler was obviously tapping into another level of consciousness.

The Magic Behind the "Experiment"

Marc Edmund Jones believed that Elsie Wheeler had tapped into what he called the "ancient mind matrix" of the Sabian alchemists of ancient Mesopotamia.  Jones wrote that "...psychism seems to deal with [a] sort of group identity, or with an intelligence which is immortal in the fact that it can be revivified and consulted at will."

Marc said that there was a presence and cooperation "on the invisible side of life" of one of the Brothers of the ancient Sabian occult sect.  At the end of the day, when the entire Oracle had been completed, Marc sensed something was wrong with one of the Symbols, and asked Elsie to do that particular one again.  He felt this so strongly that it occurred to him that he was being guided by something, so he asked Elsie if "the Brother" was there.   Upon hearing that he was, Marc asked her what he was doing, to which she responded that he was "standing with his arms folded."  Marc then said, "Ask him why he didn't correct that."  Elsie responded, "He says that is up to you."  It appears that on all levels, a higher kind of "consciousness" or "intelligence" was operating.

[...] The Sabian people were an ancient were an ancient race of alchemists, living in Harran, a city on the banks of the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia, where astrology is said to have originated.  Harran existed from the third millennium BC to the thirteenth century AD.  It was the repository for the philosophy of the ancient Chaldeans, who were among the founders of astrology.  The Sabians were alchemists who were into talismanic magic and hermeticism.

There's more, but that's the basic gist for anybody who's curious.  Maybe not everybody will have the same mind blowing freakish luck with it all that I have, but then again I had a lot of luck with the Tarot when I used to do that, with the same cards flying out of the deck repeatedly at me and the way that I was able to figure out how to read the cards before reading the how-to book etc. etc., among other interesting Tarot escapades.  So not sure if it hinges on the person who's doing it or not and having a natural bent for the occult wink but I suspect that most people will have luck with this.   There are 360 oracle images/situations to pick from and it's uncannily accurate....

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!"  - Anonymous
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I got that link a while ago and tried to put it to the test it once. Came up with a good question, focused, got an awesome answer, and then repeated it expecting to see another random card pop-up, but I got the exact same card. Pretty cool.

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I've had the Sabian Symbols book by Dane Rudhyar for several years,
but I've never tried to use it as an oracle.  Might give this a try.

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Wow... neat smile  It seems to give pretty relevant responses to me!!  Here's a few thoughts I tried on it:

First I wondered if staying with my boyfriend (you guys know czyx wink is the right thing to do, and just thought about us being happy together

pulled this:

  VIRGO 12
A BRIDE WITH HER VEIL SNATCHED AWAY

There may be a feeling that somebody is not quite ready to give themselves completely to the situation, but they do not really have much choice. If one doesn't go willingly, then they'll be pushed forward - finally taking the plunge. There can be an unveiling of one's true identity. Proving oneself with no excuses and no presence. Time to break down any walls that are keeping people from relating on a deep level.

Secret motives revealed. Unveiling and exposing. The desire for privacy.

The Caution: Stubbornly refusing to accept new directions in life. Failing to commit. Not coming up with what one promised.

it does seem to fit, so THEN

I thought about all the health problems happening with my family and just about timmy being sick and wanting to be there for him, and my grandma in the hospital and wanting to be there for her, and my dad being scared about going into surgery and a bit how it is a struggle to want to be there for others and also want to focus on my own needs - (yes, thats sort of selfish, shh)

  VIRGO 13
A POWERFUL STATESMAN OVERCOMES A STATE OF POLITICAL HYSTERIA

You may find that your situation is getting out of control as those around you get carried away with the energy of the situation. It is through the power of your personality that you can resolve the situation and bring back a state of equilibrium to all involved.

The power to sway the mob. Having the charisma and talent to turn a situation around. Mind control. Political savvy. Knowing what to say and when to say it.

The Caution: Misusing charismatic energy to sway others to personal advantage.

THEN

thought about my trip to san fran and my hesitation about going, not feeing prepared basically.., and got:


  GEMINI 9
A MEDIEVAL ARCHER STANDS WITH THE EASE OF ONE WHOLLY SURE OF HIMSELF, BOW IN HAND, HIS QUIVER FILLED WITH ARROWS

You need to arm yourself before hunting for what you want. Your situation is one that requires skill, focus and knowledge There is no need to rush forward and hope for the best, this will only leave you feeling inadequate when you do find something. Compose yourself for a moment and realize that you have the ammunition and the sure marksmanship.

Make a strategy and then hit the target. Being armed and ready. Getting to the point.

The Caution: Going into battle unprepared. Overconfidence in a mission. Coming from a position of attack

Good find Lyra (and Montalk).  At least it worked for me!  Czyx tried asking it if he was gonna get laid last night... and he thought his answer was less fitting
I don't remember the card but it said something about all being well if the crow didn't caw too loudly - i can't remember the words but it basically told him to take it easy.  And he did... and it was right! wink

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I am impressed!
The question was  more or less  “me, what to do?”
Response was +-
“Be my own temple, be more grounded, unity the right and left thinking(or was brain?),
yoga and work out”
I work out, but lately was doing the minimum, a shaman also told me to do more...
(I “got” some +- type of fibromyalgia/CFS, that why less work out, but have been improving)

I was going to take a snapshot from the picture, but click the wrong button
and another answer comes:
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/6381/85505470zh9.png

A shaman also told me that everything will be fine, fixed...
Too much problems/failures pressure/stress of the modern life took
me a toll, so I kicked all out, found Noble Realms, learn a lot and improve.

From the heat/pressure the carbon turns into diamond, that is were the
negs shoots on their foot.

Bye, Pictus

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That's cool that it's worked out for others too.  smile   Especially yours Pictus, with how it advised you to work out more, and you're somebody who normally works out everyday and needs to, but had only done the minimum lately.  It's WEIRD how it can match up like that! 

In the Sabian Symbols book by Lynda Hill that I just bought, she talks about the different ways you can use the book to get a reading.  You can do the cards, then look up what you get in the book, like I had done with the Sagittarius 1 mentioned earlier.  You can open the book to a random place and see what you get.  You can also think of a number between 1 and 360, then look up what the symbol is.

So for fun I decided to find out what the Sabian oracle had to say about my infamous number 141..  ( http://www.in2worlds.net/numbersightings )  It's not a positive number for me, and I've learned that others have this number too, and it's negative for them.  It was featured in the mind control movie "Fight Club" as mentioned here http://forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic. … 96&p=2 (another example in Fight Club which it looks like I forgot to mention there is that in the scene towards the end where Edward Norton is running around the city like a wacknut then tries to turn himself into police, the number on the interrogation room is.....141.  It clearly says it when you're watching the movie.)

So I looked at what oracle # 141 is out of 360.  Here are the highlights:

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Intoxicated Chickens Dizzily Flap their Wings Trying to Fly

Oracle:  This Symbol can indicate somebody actually losing their sense of reality, or their sensible mind....There is possibly an attempt to do too much too soon.  Perhaps you have not thoroughly planned what you want to achieve.  Trying to accomplish something a little too eagerly and  before the proper training has been completed can get you nowhere, no matter how much energy and enthusiasm is expended.   Making a list of long and short term goals will help to clarify your ideas.  Soon things will improve and you can laugh about the mishaps and mistakes that were made when you started out.  Being confused or "intoxicated" can be solved relatively easily, with some constraint. 

Keywords:  False courage.  Inexperience.  Trying to do something beyond the bounds of experience or possibility.  Getting "out of it" in order to escape something.  Getting all worked up over tiny or illusive prospects.  Alcohol and drugs and the allure of escapism.  Drinking binges.  Ecstasy.  Hangovers.  Attempting to do the impossible.

Caution:  ...Inability to ground things in reality...losing reality....mindlessness that confuses or misleads.  Going too far too fast.  Forgetting who or where you are.

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In light of what goes on in "Fight Club" where 141 is prominently featured, and in light of 141 being the number assigned to my mind controlled, substance abusing "agent provocateur/manchurian candidate" brother back then, running around in life being a criminal "in order to prove to 'them' that he's ready for the next level," (his story matching what's talked about in this article here:  http://www.rumormillnews.com/operation.htm which i talk about in my book) and how it always pops up for me now during times when I'm off track in life, making bad choices or when negative interference is in the works, I thought this was REALLY "!!!"  I mean, it fits so accurately that it's a bit scary.

Yes, at this point it's safe to say that there's something higher at work with these oracle symbols.  Also, the implications of how the number 141 was assigned to my brother, or appeared in Fight Club, matching up to an oracle channeled back in 1925 also shows something about the nature of reality, and "things lining up."  The connected web of it all, outside of time......

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!"  - Anonymous
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"I get by with a little help from my (higher density) friends."
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Hi Guys

By serendipity, I ended up at this page and had great delight in reading people's responses to my online Oracle. I thought I should add a few lines to the discussion and joined the forum.

I've had the Oracle online since 1996 or so, so it's been around for a while and it's steadily building momentum. I love it that lyra is enjoying the book and cards so much and getting a lot out of them. BTW, I saw Fight Club when it came out and usually don't like violence or that kind of movie, but was completely taken by it. It left quite an impression on me, something I didn't expect to happen... so, I was interested that you pointed out the 141 thing. The 'Intoxicated Chickens" of Leo 21 is an interesting one, particularly for fighting, trying to fly, waving one's arms around, taking drugs and alcohol, things getting out of hand, etc. It's also where Saturn has been transiting lately... but that's more on the astrological side of things. Speaking of which, the degree of the Moon just now is Scorpio 11: A Drowning Man is Being Rescued, the degree that is mentioned above by Pictus. Life is so curious.

Lyra said

'Yes, at this point it's safe to say that there's something higher at work with these oracle symbols.  Also, the implications of how the number 141 was assigned to my brother, or appeared in Fight Club, matching up to an oracle channeled back in 1925 also shows something about the nature of reality, and "things lining up."  The connected web of it all, outside of time......'

My take on this is that we live in a hologram and the zodiac provides the energy and colour to our lives and the degrees of the zodiac have 'tick point's that are described by the Sabian Symbols (and, I'm sure, other things). It's like the zodiac is the aura of the earth and the Sabian Symbols describe each degree around the circle.

The fact that they came through a spiritualist medium in 1925 is astounding, particularly when one realises she had no conscious knowledge of astrology, nor knew which degrees of the zodiac she was scribing. The entire thing was 'channelled' in one day, which means if it was done in an 8 hour day, she saw a 'symbol' (word phrase) every minute and a half. Also of note is that she was crippled by arthritis and confined to a wheelchair and in a 'home for the incurables' in St. Louis for around 30 years before moving to San Diego and then going on to give birth to the Sabian Symbols.

All amazing stuff.... also, consider that astrology actually was given birth in the area that the original Sabian alchemists lived in the middle east - they were said to be the energy force that came 'through' the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler.

BTW, I was very, very skeptical of many things myself. However, I've found that with the acceptance that all life is a holographic experience, we discover that many things are possible, that many things won't make sense, but seems to be more like some wonderful large scientific experiment that we're living in. smile

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Thanks, Lyra for pointing me to the Sabian Symbols oracle website.  It was fun and so on the mark.  And thanks Lynda for sharing your thoughts, experiences and a paradigm shift of thinking
of the world as a hologram.  Now I just have to figure out what does it mean to live in a hologram world.

I wonder if the fact that Elsie was in chronic pain if that just didn't put her in a totally different quantum space.  I know people in chronic pain, and it's like they just live in another world in order not to experience physically the pain and suffering of their bodies. Hmm, I love having new things to think about.  T.

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Thanks for posting Lynda!

That is just too cool to see the author of the book and website, the subjects of this thread, making a guest appearance!  So many books and articles are excerpted here at NR, most of us probably don't stop to think that the authors may stumble onto it, let alone sign up to post a response.  !  I know I didn't, so that was quite a surprise!

But this oracle really is pretty uncanny.   I have more personal stories with it all, more than just what I mentioned here, but the latest one took the cake and made me realize I really should pass this along to people and bring more attention to it.   I enjoyed your story in the book about your affinity with the mid-east when you visited there with a tour years ago, and the way you felt like you were "home" when you were in Petra in Jordan...not realizing that it was built by the Sabian alchemists' ancestors from Mesopotamia, the Nabateans.  Maybe you were one of them in a past life, and are continuing the work in this life...

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!"  - Anonymous
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"I get by with a little help from my (higher density) friends."
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Hi lyra

It was my pleasure to contribute. Your stories were inspiring and wonderful. For those visiting this Board who may not know, the thing with the Sabian Oracle is that you can watch as the planets go through the degrees, as well as using it as an oracle. You can look up the position of the moon (say) and you'll notice things happening around you that reflect that Symbol. Using the Symbols in horoscopes is incredibly revealing - absolutely amazingly apt. For instance, Princess Diana's North Node degree is Leo 29: A Mermaid Has Climbed to the Rocky Shore of a Bleak Coast; She Awaits the Prince Who Will Bring Her Immortality - pretty apt! Not only did she become a 'princess', she was often photographed in her swimming costume; in boats, by pools, in the water, on the beach. I could go on and on with examples!

Yes, Petra in Jordan, absolutely it was an amazing journey to go there. Something very wonderful is happening with these Symbols.

Also, in reply to ideascubed, I also have to figure out what it is to live in a holographic world! I get glimpses of it and then it becomes rather blurry again. The mystery! It's all a mystery.

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This website is...WOW! I have no words to express my appreciation and the sheer accuracy of it. So before I go on with my little story that just happened about 2 minutes ago, I must thank lyra for posting it and of course, lynda, who is the author/creator of this fine website and everyone who posted their results here on this thread! big_smile

Ok, I logged on NR to see what's cooking and saw this thread and smiled because I said to myself "wow, this is fun and exciting!" So I was playing around with it, asking the oracle questions, all types of questions both serious and silly. My last question that I have always wondered was this little romantic encounter I had 2 years ago- both of us had practically the same background, same age, interests, likes/dislikes, etc. I knew it was too good to be true and it went away. So after discovering NR 2 years ago and reading "The Alien Love Bite" by Eve Lorgen, I catagorized that experienced to what she wrote in her book. Of course I was upset (but relieved to know how and my ways of guarding myself in the future) to know I was toyed with. I wanted to make sure it was a love bite, so I mentally asked that question "was that experience an alien love bite?" and here is my result:

ARIES 14
A SERPENT COILING NEAR A MAN AND A WOMAN

There is likely to be a lot of tense emotion around relationships. This can be a confusion of tension, fear and passion. Something or someone may be trying to come between you and a beloved. This can be a person, an event or an emotion. Maybe you need to let go and find new depths to your ways of relating and relationships.

Enticement. Allurement. The revelation of archetypal knowledge that may not be 'socially acceptable'.

The Caution: Feeling guilty about being afraid to express your feelings. Basic instincts and sexual energy.

What's spooky strange about it was that this happened in the beginning of april, which is the time of Aries. Just everything in this answer is right to the tee. Yup...WOW! And if this whole thing isn't accurate, then I don't know what is.

Thank you Lynda for creating this site and the material. This is truly amazing stuff!  And welcome to NR smile

"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
– Carlos Castaneda

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Hey Proto

Ha, more interesting stuff. AND I must point out that I'd been thinking about that degree for the last few days. It's been on my mind a lot... so there's another synchronicity.  The Alien Love Bite sounds fascinating - shades of Adam and Eve and the Serpent in the Garden of Eden!

Fun stuff!

Greetings from DownUnder
Lynda

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Thanks for your site/efforts Lynda !

Mind boggling!!

Also thank you Lyra for posting this!!!

BTW, Googling the word Nabateans gives many interesting info...

Bye, Pictus

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I got stuck on thinking about the holographic world, and I couldn't understand it at all.  So, I found this about holograms and how it applies to the brain and everything.  It's kind of long, but very thought provoking.

Lynda, if you have an opportunity, what did you mean by a "holographic world"?  Lyra, any thoughts?

http://twm.co.nz/hologram.html

The Universe as a Hologram
by Michael Talbot
Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm?

In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist  Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. You did not hear about it on the evening news. In fact, unless you are in the habit of reading scientific journals you probably have never even heard Aspect's name, though there are some who believe his discovery may change the face of science.
Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn't matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart. Somehow each particle always seems to know what the other is doing. The problem with this feat is that it violates Einstein's long-held tenet that no communication can travel faster than the speed of light. Since traveling faster than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking the time barrier, this daunting prospect has caused some physicists to try to come up with elaborate ways to explain away Aspect's findings. But it has inspired others to offer even more radical explanations.


University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, believes Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram.
To understand why Bohm makes this startling assertion, one must first understand a little about holograms. A hologram is a three- dimensional photograph made with the aid of a laser. To make a hologram, the object to be photographed is first bathed in the light of a laser beam. Then a second laser beam is bounced off the reflected light of the first and the resulting interference pattern (the area where the two laser beams commingle) is captured on film. When the film is developed, it looks like a meaningless swirl of light and dark lines. But as soon as the developed film is illuminated by another laser beam, a three-dimensional image of the original object appears.
The three-dimensionality of such images is not the only remarkable characteristic of holograms. If a hologram of a rose is cut in half and then illuminated by a laser, each half will still be found to contain the entire image of the rose. Indeed, even if the halves are divided again, each snippet of film will always be found to contain a smaller but intact version of the original image. Unlike normal photographs, every part of a hologram contains all the information possessed by the whole.
The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram provides us with an entirely new way of understanding organization and order. For most of its history, Western science has labored under the bias that the best way to understand a physical phenomenon, whether a frog or an atom, is to dissect it and study its respective parts. A hologram teaches us that some things in the universe may not lend themselves to this approach. If we try to take apart something constructed holographically, we will not get the pieces of which it is made, we will only get smaller wholes.
This insight suggested to Bohm another way of understanding Aspect's discovery. Bohm believes the reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth, but because their separateness is an illusion. He argues that at some deeper level of reality such particles are not individual entities, but are actually extensions of the same fundamental something.
To enable people to better visualize what he means, Bohm offers the following illustration. Imagine an aquarium containing a fish. Imagine also that you are unable to see the aquarium directly and your knowledge about it and what it contains comes from two television cameras, one directed at the aquarium's front and the other directed at its side. As you stare at the two television monitors, you might assume that the fish on each of the screens are separate entities. After all, because the cameras are set at different angles, each of the images will be slightly different. But as you continue to watch the two fish, you will eventually become aware that there is a certain relationship between them. When one turns, the other also makes a slightly different but corresponding turn; when one faces the front, the other always faces toward the side. If you remain unaware of the full scope of the situation, you might even conclude that the fish must be instantaneously communicating with one another, but this is clearly not the case.
This, says Bohm, is precisely what is going on between the subatomic particles in Aspect's experiment. According to Bohm, the apparent faster-than-light connection between subatomic particles is really telling us that there is a deeper level of reality we are not privy to, a more complex dimension beyond our own that is analogous to the aquarium. And, he adds, we view objects such as subatomic particles as separate from one another because we are seeing only a portion of their reality. Such particles are not separate "parts", but facets of a deeper and more underlying unity that is ultimately as holographic and indivisible as the previously mentioned rose. And since everything in physical reality is comprised of these "eidolons", the universe is itself a projection, a hologram.
In addition to its phantomlike nature, such a universe would possess other rather startling features. If the apparent separateness of subatomic particles is illusory, it means that at a deeper level of reality all things in the universe are infinitely interconnected.The electrons in a carbon atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic particles that comprise every salmon that swims, every heart that beats, and every star that shimmers in the sky. Everything interpenetrates everything, and although human nature may seek to categorize and pigeonhole and subdivide, the various phenomena of the universe, all apportionments are of necessity artificial and all of nature is ultimately a seamless web.
In a holographic universe, even time and space could no longer be viewed as fundamentals. .................

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Re: Sabian Symbols oracle

I was thinking about my 18 year old while I was at the oracle.  Smart, funny, and a young lady who is trying to find herself, whilst trying my patience.

I would have to say this oracle's response was on the mark.  The terrible two's have nothing on the angst of emerging adulthood.........Fortunately, 25-26 year's old is only 7 or 8 years away, and peace, sanity and experience shall reign............once again. 



CANCER 5
AT A RAILROAD CROSSING, AN AUTOMOBILE IS WRECKED BY A TRAIN



This Symbols sounds worse than it often is: but there is a need for caution. The individual's ideas will not survive in a collision with the more powerful collective. This is not a time to be insisting bravely that you should be considered. The collective has too much momentum and will not stop. If someone pits themselves and their energies against society, sooner or later they are going to lose.
Not looking to the consequences of one's actions. Running against the grain of others. Cars, trains. Individual rights. Rebelling.

The Caution: Recklessness. Being prepared to sacrifice other individuals for the sake of larger gains. Working until one drops.