AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE

The march of technology and the ability to freely share information, which will move us towards a unity of consciousness and higher awareness, is now an unstoppable force. Now you can read books that will enlighten, empower and inform. Here's a few with the focus on Rosicrucian teachings. Use the toggle in the top right corner of the books to get to full screen view and read on at your leisure! Go to Scribd for more. Enjoy.


Teachings of an Initiate - Max Heindel

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Astrology - Rosicrucian Fellowship - Junior Astrology Course 10-19

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Astrology - Rosicrucian Fellowship - Senior Astrology Course 1-12

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CELESTIAL/TERRESTRIAL SYMBOLISM

This would be brilliant if it ended bang on 8.22 mins. Nonetheless, it's still perfect for a site entitled Cosmic Cipher! Enjoy

THE SEVEN SENSES

As those of you who read my website or follow my blogs, including the Cosmic Ordering one, will no doubt know by now, I am not a great fan of the way in which burgeoning awareness of the esoteric wisdoms has been turned into a commercial juggernaut. All these 'Join this site to manifest your way to millionaire, Rolex-owner status ' schemes leave me cold!

However, every now and again I happen across a site which could well be lumped in with all these other 'Get rich quick' sites but has that 'je ne sais quoi'- that certain 'I know not what' about it.

What I do know is that if ever there was a site where you can read what I described to a friend as:"Simple, straightforward, no nonsense, this is how it is, go do it, kinda stuff!" all in one place, then I may have just found it.

Witten in 2005 before the wave of 'The Secret' movie hit the web, it's a site that brings together all the ancient wisdoms, combines it with the modern knowledge coming out of the Quantum Mechanics/Theory arena and delivers it in a way that is very easy to read. If assimilated properly this knowledge can change what you attract into your life, and change the way you perceive the world around you. Here's a taste:

The Seven Senses

There is only one sense, the sense of feeling. All other senses are different forms of the same sense.

To see, hear, touch, smell or taste is to feel. All senses lead to feeling.

Looking is touching. The more you like something or someone, the more you look at it and the more you are mentally touching it. Different colors have different psychological, biological and spiritual effects on us.

Music moves people in ways that nothing else can. Different sound, beats, rhythm and harmony lead to different emotional journeys. Music can transport us to places we’ve never been to before and the sound of a sweet and gentle voice can melt your heart completely.

The statement “You reached out for my hand but end up touching my heart” shows that touching someone usually has more than a physical effect. By the nature of your touch, they can sense your strength, attitude, intention and emotion.

The way to man’s heart or emotions is through his stomach. The food that we eat requires more than nutritional value to satisfy us. We consume not just for our physical well being but also for our emotional well being. Some people tend to eat more when they feel anxiety. They psychologically feel that they are lacking something and therefore they need to fill up.

Smell is the attractant or repellent scent of love. The smell of others literally pull you towards or push you away from them. The scent of beautiful smelling flowers can create instant feelings of romance and serenity.

It is said that it isn’t most important how great a guy looks or what he says, but how he makes her feel. Everything that he does is to make her feel attracted to him. The same is also true for the guy being attracted to the girl.

As it is in the world of attraction, so is it in the entire universe.

All sensory stimulus are basically vibrations. Light waves, sound waves, tactile and chemical vibrations. The universe is one whole seamless sea of vibrations. Your five sense interprets the different levels of vibration into sight, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting.

The most primitive sense of perceiving vibrations is the sense of feeling. Vibrations have to be felt. That is why the invisible and the silent forces can only be perceived by feeling them.

Vibrations that are beyond the range of the five senses ability to detect can be perceived directly by our consciousness. All sensory input travels through our nervous system and gets processed by our brain and passed on to our consciousness, the higher energy aspect of our being. Our consciousness can perceive beyond the limits of our physical bodies that it is in phase with while we’re alive.

Thought vibrations are finer than any other vibrations in the physical world. Consciousness is most sensitive to thought vibrations.

There is a Universal Consciousness that permeates and connects everything in the universe. Therefore, our thoughts can literally affect the things around us.

Plants do not have eyes to see nor ears to hear but they respond to sunlight and music. When placed under a shade, they will grow towards where the light is shining through. When placed beside a stereo, they will bend towards it when the music is harmonious and away from it if the music is discordant.

Plants even respond to the thoughts of people. In the book Primary Perception, a plant registers bioelectrical activity when the author intended to burn it. It even displayed a response at a distance when he forgot to bring his wallet outside and decides to return home. When he replicated his steps, there was no response. The plant is able to differentiate between planned and spontaneous activity. This shows that plants and other living cell organisms can literally read our thoughts. Talking with trees is not that far fetched an idea after all.

The truth that all sense is one sense explains why when people lose one of their senses, they are able to make up for it with the rest. The other senses can take over the function of the lost sense so well that they can still go on living their lives normally. Sometimes it happens so well that a loss of one of their senses seem to be more advantageous to them than when they had it. Their compensating senses develop beyond the normal level of power that enables them to do amazing things.

Since all five senses lead to feeling, the reverse is also true. Feeling will also lead to all five senses. A blind person can see your face by feeling it. He can even see you better with his hands and his heart than you can see him with your eyes. His sense of feeling can see past appearance into a person’s true nature.

Knowing that all sensory stimulus are vibrations helps you to understand how cross sensory perception works. You can hear the loudness of color and see the brightness of sound. People can have good or bad tastes in art and music. You can taste what you smell and smell what you see. Dolphins see the ocean scape with sonar while bats see in darkness with echo. You can see the shape of a baby in a womb with ultrasound.

In fact, you could even think that all sense is seeing sense, all sense is hearing sense, all sense is touching sense, all sense is smelling sense, all sense is tasting sense and all sense is feeling sense. Since all sense is one sense, you can interpret one form of sensory data into another.

Everything is light, everything is sound, everything is touch, everything is smell, everything is taste and everything is feeling.

Seeing is feeling, hearing is feeling, touching is feeling, smelling is feeling, tasting is feeling.

There is an order of development of the five senses in the womb. The first to develop is sense of touch followed by sense of taste, sense of smell, sense of hearing and sense of sight. In the external world, the order of senses in terms of perceptual reach from closest to furthest range is touch, taste, smell, hearing and sight.

The sense of touch is the closest to the sense of feeling because it is an external form of feeling. The sixth sense is a sense of inner knowing and inner feeling. To know is to feel, to feel is to know. Knowing and feeling are one. How do you know something? You know it as an internal feeling. How do you know something to be true? You know it by how it feels.

We can look at a dog and know what it is without thinking the word “dog” in our head. If we look at a dog and we look at a spoon, we know through internal feelings or sensations, they are different things. They do not just look different but they also feel different. We internally register a different feeling from perceiving each one. Our sixth sense delivers that data to us. It is the sensory that is closest to what we are looking for, a frequency or energy.

You experience frequency, energy or vibration by feeling. There is an internal frequency or feeling for every mental phenomena you experience. All mental states are internal frequencies or feelings. It you can recreate the internal frequency, you can recreate the phenomena. There is a frequency of inspiration, passion, confidence, creativity etc.

Emotion or feeling is the closest thing to frequency or vibration that we can communicate to the universe with.

Feeling or frequency is how we communicate with things. This is how psychokinesis works. We put our mind in the mental state or frequency that is in synch with the object in order to move it. If you wanted to float an apple across the room, do you just tell the apple “Hey apple! I command you to float across the room!”? No. It is an internal frequency or feeling we think that moves it.

Understanding our sixth sense opens up our paranormal abilities. If you can perceive, you can also exert. Energy can move in two directions, in and out.

They say you can’t see God but you can feel him, He is like the wind. It begins with feeling, and then hearing, and then seeing. When you begin to feel his presence, you can hear his still small voice and then you shall see visions that he reveals to you. Usually all that takes place mentally in the realm of your imagination although it sometimes happen physically for some people too. The realm of the imagination is spiritual, therefore what takes place in it isn’t just make belief but it is also very real.

Since it is the nature of the universe to exist in sevens, there is a seventh sense. The seventh sense is thought perception.

Every place has a mental atmosphere which is made up of the collective thought waves of people that had passed through there. When you go into a place where people have been involved in the mental activity of reading, your thought waves will be entrained for reading. The same is true for mental atmospheres of dancing, relaxing, racing, worshiping or any activity.

Feeling is thought. To feel is to think. Feeling is a form of thinking. The sixth sense is to think by feeling. The sixth sense is the link between the first five and the seventh.

Emotion and thinking are symbiotic, one never exists without the other. Whenever one seems to exist without the other, it means the other is subconscious. Your thinking affects your emotion and your emotion affects your thinking. Everything is energy and it is Mind that moves energy. Emotion is energy in motion and since Mind is energy, emotion is mind moving itself.

Intuition is combined operation of the sixth and seventh senses. When you come into the presence of people, you can sense their energies and their thought waves. You can perceive whether they are weak or strong, dull or brilliant, good or evil, positive or negative. The same is true for the energies you project for others to sense as well.

Just like you can transmute the sense of hearing into the sense of seeing by making a three dimensional mental picture from the sounds of your environment, you can also transmute the sixth sense into the seventh sense by understanding what your feelings mean. Your intuition is most powerful when you are able to feel and understand what your feelings mean. You have to use your seventh sense to help your sixth sense.

As the sensory inputs of light, sound, touch, smell and taste are reproduced in your brain, so are the thought waves of your environment reproduced in your brain as well. When you are with wise people, you will tend to think wise thoughts. When you are with foolish people, you will tend to think foolish thoughts. The same is true in the presence of good or evil, strong or weak, positive or negative people.

Just like you can block out light by not looking and overpower one sound with a louder one, you can shut out negative thoughts by not thinking them or overpower them with positive ones.

To sense is to perceive. Perception is thought. All senses are thought.

Everything is Thought.

Thought is Mind in Motion. Thought is vibration and vibration is Energy. To sense is to experience Energy in motion or E-motion. When you touch something, your body feels energy behaving in a certain way and your mind interprets it as hard, soft, cold, warm, smooth, rough, etc. Externally experienced things are external E-motions. Internally experienced things are internal Emotions. Feeling is perception of emotion. An emotion can run without your conscious realization until you feel and become aware of it.

Everything is Emotion. All emotion is energy in motion. Feelings are everything.

Great stuff - and there's loads more - covering every aspect of the ancient wisdoms (Saturn) in a modern (Uranus) way. As I said recently, over on my CWF blog, there is no stopping an idea whose time has come and with the current astrological opposition of Saturn and Uranus we have reached a time of accelerated awakening to ancient truths. It's time for the global spread of knowledge like that written about above.

Because I really resonate to this writers style of delivery and know that he is delivering truths, I have no hesitation in recommending this to you. However, I value integrity above many other virtues, plus I understand the principle of giving freely with love. Therefore, I have no impulse or desire to trick you into buying something from an affiliate scheme just to make a fast 'buck'. So I will tell you that the link above is to this writers affiliate scheme. If you are happy to use it and decide to buy his book or join his membership for 29.95 dollars, it will reward me too. I trust that what is for me, will not pass me by.

If you prefer not to participate then this link will take you to another of his sites, where you can read a free online e-book.

My intent for you is to enjoy and prosper from this information.

THE ANCIENT WISDOM TEACHINGS & 2008/2010

Here's a video I made so you can read the ten ancient wisdom teachings accompanied by music.

WHAT'S IN A NAME- Barack Obama

Just as an observation and talking point for those interested in the possibility that our language holds more meaning than has hitherto been commonly supposed, I would like to postulate that Barack Obama's success and seemingly magnetic/charismatic hold over many people, may be attributed (at least in part) to his name.

Before anyone laughs me out of court or considers this to be hocus-pocus, it has long been a belief of the Chinese that the number 8 is propitious mainly because eight in Chinese is pronounced "ba" and sounds like the word for prosperity which is pronounced "fa". While people were intrigued, no one was particularly dismissive of the Chinese Government's decision to start the Olympic Games on the 8/8/08 at 8pm. Instead it appears to have been globally accepted as an ancient cultural belief that one should have respect for.

What is interesting to me is that the great Sanskrit 'sacred sounds' known as mantric 'seed syllables' are OM, HUM, HRIH, and AH and the sound AH appears in both B-ah and F-ah.

According to the fabulous book The World is Sound, Nada Brahma by Joachim-Ernst Berendt, all language arises from one source - sound - and mantras are sacred sounds of a single word, syllable or entire phrase. The syllable man means intelligence, or thinking and feeling whilst Tram is the helping and protective power. A man-tram spreads its wings over intelligence, thinking and feeling; over man. The Tibetan Buddhist Lama Anagarika Govinda calls mantras' 'mental tools, tools of the mind'. He speaks of the mantra as primordial sound and as being 'pre-linguistic*

Out of the four sacred seed syllables, the greatest mantra is said to be OM - indeed it has been said of this mantra that its power alone can bring enlightenment. According to Joachim-Ernst, OM is 'the ascent towards universality'. HUM 'is the descent of universality into the depth of the human heart'. HRIH kindles the 'upward leaping flame of inspiration and devotion' but AH, in contrast is 'the expression of wonder and direct awareness'.

Wayne Dyer also seems to be fascinated by the power of sound. He spoke at length about the power of the syllable AH in his 2003 book about Japa meditation called Getting in the Gap. He points out that "the sound AH within the name God ( G AH D) is the same sound around the world..... Allah ( AH-LL- AH), Jehovah ( Je ho v- AH) Krishna( Kri-sh-n-AH). RA (r- AH) Yahweh ( Y-AH way)"

Wayne comments that, when repeated as a mantra, this sound keeps us in a prolonged state of conscious contact with our Source. He also points out that it is the only sound that we can make with virtually no effort. It is the exhalation of breath, the sound one naturally makes in ecstasy.

"The name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous run into it and are safe" Proverb

In the beginning was Brahman, with whom was the Word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.

Br AH m AH

The first part of the Lords Prayer -Our Father who art in heaven is read as...AH f AH th AH who AH-rt in Heaven hallowed be thy name. That's a 4 times repetition of the sacred sound.

And so it was that I noticed that in the name Barack Obama, especially when pronounced by an American, we hear:

B- AH r AH k Ob AH mAH which is another 4 times repetition.

Could it possibly be that, unknown to Mr Obama, his name carries a very powerful overtone which, the more it is repeated and beamed around the world, is subtly affecting us all at the vibrational level.

Still unsure of the power of this syllable? Think of the word Amen - AHHHH men, or consider that when we see a new born baby, or someone in distress, how we automatically say AH as a symbol of our love, empathy and caring.

Notice too:

Nirvana= Nerv AH n AH
In Buddhism this translates as: The ineffable ultimate in which one has attained disinterested wisdom and compassion.
and in Hinduism; Emancipation from ignorance and the extinction of all attachment.
it also refers to: An ideal condition of rest, harmony, stability, or joy.

or look at the Sufi Mantra- LA ILAHA ILLA' LLAH or L-AH I- L-AH h AH I L AH l - AH- (There is no God but God)

This whole subject of sound as creator of our world, permeating into many dimensions, is far too complex to cover in one short post but I highly recommend that you read Nada Brahma. This book is truly life changing.

In order to entice you further here is some of the foreword written by Fritjof Capra Ph.D., physicist and systems theorist:

It has been said since ancient times that the nature of reality is much closer to music than to a machine, and this has been confirmed by many discoveries in modern science. The essence of a melody does not lie in its notes; it lies in the relationship between the notes, in the intervals,, frequencies and rhythms*. When a string is set vibrating we hear not only a single tone but also its overtones - an entire scale is sounded. Thus each note involves all others, just as each subatomic particle involves all others, according to current ideas in particle physics.

This book explores the ancient proposition that " the world is sound" - Nada Brahma in the classical Sanskrit of India - with countless examples from modern science, art, philosophy and from many spiritual traditions.....In a majestic sweep Joachim-Ernst Berendt takes the reader through the macro and microcosm, from the 'harmony of the spheres' to the songs of the dolphins and whales and other 'sounds of the seas', the entrainment of rhythmic patterns in human communication and the vibration of atoms and molecules. Berendt extends the notion of rhythm also to the' static rhythms' of crystals, the regular structural patterns of living organisms and the 'sacred geometry' encoded in Europe's great cathedrals. Thus planetary orbits, the shapes of leaves and bodies, churches and cloisters obey the laws of harmonics.

Capra ends by saying that

....the book has profound implications, not only for science and philosophy but also for our everyday lives and society.

What's in a name? Is it possible that the name Barack Obama could be one of even greater significance than anyone has yet supposed.

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Does anyone know of any other soul named Barack Obama - either living or deceased? Please write to me if you do. Note also that the name Obama is comprised solely of 'soft' sound - but then so is Bush!
*in other words it speaks directly to the Soul.
* And this too is the essence of Japa meditation

THE FRAUD OF THE CRYSTAL SKULLS

Those of us who live in the UK were recently treated to a fascinating programme, courtesy of Channel 5, revealing the background behind the legend of the 13 crystal skulls. If you didn't catch it, this subject has also been covered extensively in other countries and media outlets for decades and received a terrific boost in 1998, with the release of the book you see in the image to the left. The story is now rivalling the interest shown towards the legend of the Holy Grail and Bloodline in The da Vinci Code spurred on by the recent premiere of the latest Hollywood, Indiana Jones Blockbuster - Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

I won't waste time repeating the legend at length when you can read about it here however, I would just say that the Channel 5 documentary was not a fluffy bit of sensationalism, but a clear look at the known facts behind the myth.

As a very quick precis however, the story is this: There are thought to be 13 skulls left behind by our ancient ancestors for us to find. The crystal they are fashioned out of is thought to contain vital information, which we are not yet evolved enough to extract!

Legend has it that at some time in the future, when the world reaches a point of crisis, all of these 13 skulls will have been discovered and brought together, then they will, in unison, divulge their secret information to the human race. The crystal is thought to act like silicon microchips and have the ability to retain massive amounts of information. We just have to learn to access it.

The skulls are said to have been purposefully left by the Meso-American culture as they knew the 'end times' would come, although some think they may even be extra-terrestrial in origin. Whatever their source, the belief was that they certainly date back to antiquity. The programme revealed however that modern technology has detected the use of shaping and polishing techniques which mean the skulls could not possibly be older than the late 19th century. They also unearthed fairly damning evidence that the woman who claims to have found the first skull in 1924 must have been colluding in some kind of fraud with her adoptive father.

To astrologers who deal in correspondence, the timing is apt. This surge of interest has, as I say, come on the back of a film release and as Mars is currently opposing Neptune, the aspect we associate with hype, spin, film, denial, fakes, deceit, fraud - as well as crystal - it automatically leads one to be more aware of a propensity for a great fantasy to be emerging at this juncture; one that would capture people's imagination across the globe (Neptune is imagination without boundaries). It cannot go without notice to astrologers that Pluto was at 0 degrees Capricorn (a World Point - see my newsletter) a sign placing of 'the unearthing of ancient artifacts', at the time of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull's release.

Stories with correspondence to Mars/Neptune don't happen in isolation. Cycles themselves are not based on superstition or mystical nonsense but on precise intervals of space and time. Although none of the content of the documentary was new information, it coming to our screens at this juncture is all part of the 'sacred geometry' of life - everything that occurs in apparent linear time seems to happen in rhythmic and measurable intervals.

I mention that Mars and Neptune are in opposition, this means the two have cycled to be astronomically 180 degrees from each other which is half the distance of one cycle away from the point when they were together in celestial longitude at the 0 degrees or start point. Each complete cycle of any planetary relationship is set against the baseline of 360 degrees, which is the standard amount of degrees in a circle ( to find out why read here) .

If you look at recent news stories around the world, you will see a preponderance of one's that equate to Mars/Neptune - and this is known to occur at every major juncture of the cycle. I have found lots of stories about the exposure of fraud, lies and delusion in one morning paper alone. We could posit that the atmosphere in recent days and weeks, as the Mars/Neptune aspect perfected, has been 'Neptunian'. There has been a lot of uncertainty around oil and gas prices, explosions in a plastics factory, lots of floods and typhoons and even the situation in Zimbabwe is redolent of Mars/Neptune - the delusions of the President have spun out of control.

Does this mean that more things of a correspondence to these two planets are happening, or is it just that our psyche picks them out? Perhaps journalists are somehow compelled to write to report on these stories over all others, and therefore we focus on them more? We just don't know. All we do know for sure is that there is a correlation between the phases of planetary cycles and events on Earth, on the physical and mental levels - all the planes of manifestation; visible and invisible.

And so, when we look at the birthcharts of the main characters in this tale; Frederick Mitchell - Hedges and his adopted daughter Anna, it is interesting to note that both were born at specific phases in the Mars/Neptune cycle. In Anna's chart we see the Mars/Neptune trine (120 degrees) and in Frederick's, the Mars/Neptune opposition ( 180 degrees).

On the day that Anna says she found the first and most famous of the Crystal Skulls - the so called Mitchell- Hedges, Skull of Doom- in a Mayan pyramid in Lubaantun, Belize (then British Honduras) 1 Jan 1924, Mars was exactly square (90 degrees) to Neptune.

In other words a distinct Mars/Neptune pattern flows through out this entire legend.

Frederick and Anna have taken their secrets to the grave, but my opinion as an astrologer, combined with those of the experts interviewed on the Channel 5 programme (and having now read all the varying viewpoints on sites such as these Jane Walsh Mitchell-Hedges Website Phil Coppens Wiki and More from Jane Walsh) has to be that Anna and Frederick were colluding in what we will politely call a tall-tale.

In Anna's chart her Sun Uranus conjunction is ruled by Saturn in Pisces, which is itself ruled by Neptune and in a grand trine - Mars/Neptune/Saturn. In other words her reality was shaped strongly by her imagination. This is someone who could easily perpetuate an ancient myth and spin and weave it to create a definition, identity and role for herself. We know too that Anna had a sister who tragically drowned at the age of 7, her father died of gassing and her Mother died in childbirth. All these things are very Neptunian. Had the sister been killed by a car or her father died of cancer - they wouldn't correlate to Neptune.

The fact that on her own website it documents that Frederick Mitchell - Hedges was a complete stranger, who happened to take a liking to her, is something that would raise eyebrows amongst the child protection or social services today. Somehow though this obviously traumatised young female, still only ten years old, was allowed to be whisked away by him. Does nobody else think it strange that he insisted on buying the ten year old girl the finest silk underwear?

I would be extremely interested to have discovered what the real nature of the relationship between Frederick and Anna was. For, with all the shared Scorpio planets and the Venus/Pluto synastry between them, whilst one correlation of this could be their association with archeology and unearthing ancient artifacts and legends, sadly the other could point to something altogether more sinister and 'unsavoury'.

Whatever the truth it may also have stayed in the realm of fantasy and it obviously did little harm to the well being of Anna who lived to be 100 years old and, as far as we can tell, worshipped rather then feared her adventurous 'Father'. She must have made more than a decent living from her 'pay per view' method of showing the skull. She lived an exciting life which fed her Sun/Uranus conjunction, as her many lecture tours took her on lots of travels. So, as far as happy outcomes are concerned, it all seems good.

As is usual though, especially with the run up to 2012 approaching, many people get openly upset if an exciting myth or legend is challenged. They look at the video footage of Anna (known to her father as Sammy) lecturing and talking very persuasively about the legend and want to believe her - and actually so do I. However, the overwhelming evidence from the background history of Frederick and Anna, their charts, the chart of the discovery of the skull and even the chart of the release of the film, all point to one thing - and I'm afraid that is a fantasy, a myth and perhaps unbeknownst to Anna but maybe well known to Frederick, a scam that developed legs and hasn't stopped running since.

I have no doubt however that crystal does have certain special properties and is a 'substance of the future' - even skulls made in the late 19th Century could indeed be able to 'capture information' in its environment and as we live in a holographic universe that could include information about all that is, will be and ever has been. As an object delivered from the jungles of Belize, and part of 13 others that will all link up though, no, I don't accept or agree with it.

The present owner of the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull, Bill Homann, himself a very Neptunian sounding chap, has this message:

I believe the main message that the skull is trying to share with the world is for all of us to drop our egos and to work and support each other as if we are all one. That all living beings contribute to the whole and all are sacred. We are not separate from each other; we are all connected through love. Rather than live in our own single minded consciousness we need to embrace unity consciousness.

Now, that I do agree with but surely it's not the skull that is telling us that. Why, even Barack Obama is telling us that! It is our own ability to access ever higher states of consciousness and self awareness that is propelling us towards an awareness of unity - the same awareness that should be telling those with their eyes open that the Legend of the Crystal Skulls was, and is, a tale and a half!


Here is the chart data:

Anne-Marie Le Guillon Mitchell-Hedges born 1 Jan 1907, Port Colbourne, Canada
Found the skull on 1 Jan 1924 at Lubaantun, in British Honduras, now Belize (use Punta Gordo in chart databases if this location not known)
Frederick Mitchell-Hedges 22 Oct 1882 Buckinghamshire, UK (location not 100% but seemingly UK?)

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AUDIBLE BIOLOGY

Prepare to be amazed! I have watched this over and over again

SOUND IS VIBRATION - and vibration is life

The title says it all really. Watch these videos and combine this knowledge with the website I mentioned a few posts ago - Hans Kayser on harmonics - and my article on the Seven Universal Laws and you have 'The Secret'. As one author pointed out, even when you are dead, forces are interacting with your body causing it to vibrate in its decomposition to ashes!

LAW 3: Nothing rests; everything moves, everything vibrates

This video is part one of three. This particular series come with commentary but, for a fabulous (ear splitting) shorter video, please watch this one, below.



One of the explanations for how astrology 'works' has to be that the frequencies transmitted in the ethers, at the time of the formation of the embryo (culminating at birth) determine to what, and to whom, a person will have a natural resonance, or 'attunement' to throughout their life. These vibrational waves travelling across the Universe are (possibly) altered by the different locations of the planets and the angular distances between them and the Earth, at the location in question. In the final analysis everything is energy and we are all entangled in a giant matrix of it - light, colour, sound etc.

Looking at this video about resonance on You Tube, I was struck by the similarity of the opening shot to how the female human egg looks under the microscope just before the sperm is introduced in a procedure known as ICSI. This video also has more than one part. In subsequent ones, the perturbations of the sand/lycopodium, at certain brief junctures, mimic (to my eye) the embryo development as it divides before being implanted back into the woman's body in IVF treatment.

The obvious question here has to be, can the thought vibrations emanating from the people in any relationship to the embryo - not necessarily in proximity - have an effect on its development or viability? Can thoughts affect the outcome of IVF?

Moving on, here is a video that shows entrainment. Entrainment is a well known phenomenon that was first discovered when pendulum clocks, kept in close vicinity to each other, were noted to fall into a synchronous ticking motion. Nowadays the example most often given to show entrainment at work is the phenomenon of women sharing houses, or any living space, for a period of time. After a while their menstrual cycles will naturally fall into synchronisation.


Something else that I came across this week that dovetails nicely with this topic of vibration, especially in the thought world, is the work of Cell Biologist Dr Bruce Lipton.

We often believe that our children have inherited our traits and mannerisms and say, 'Oh it's in the genes' but Dr Lipton's research has shown that DNA doesn't control our biology, but the thoughts and signals from outside the cell do. He goes on to tell us .......

Epigenetic science demonstrates that the cell’s nucleus is a read-write hard disk, wherein gene software is programmed by the membrane’s response to environmental perceptions.

What this suggests to me is that, when you see your child do something and observe similarity to your own responses, they may actually have become entrained to your thought patterns and they are in synch with your beliefs and environmental circumstances. Consequently they grow up to be very similar.

You see this to some extent in the physical characteristics of adopted children. They often grow up to look uncannily like the non biological parents, something that cannot be explained away as just being similar mannerisms, or similar styles of clothing/haircuts.

Please remember I am no expert; I'm just thinking out loud here. This type of research is still in its early days and, as most things eventually do, turns established paradigms on their head. I sincerely doubt that Dr Lipton's work is being well received by the 'old school'.

This year, astrology wise, we have a Saturn/Uranus opposition. This speaks of significant break throughs (Uranus) in Science ( Saturn) and surprising changes (Uranus) to established beliefs and traditions (Saturn) especially in the area of information(Virgo) and waves (Pisces). As energy has a wave form I wonder what changes may arise to our established laws of physics?As Uranus in Pisces also corresponds to music, and Saturn in Virgo to the organisation of tones and composition, it may well be that there is some new information about how sound affects reality due to come to light - or at least being hotly debated (the opposition).

I'm just not sure about the truth at the heart of genetic research. However, watching the videos on cymatics (the study of vibration) above, one cannot help but see an obvious truth about creation - that we are all linked together via invisible sound frequencies.

In the beginning was the Word (sound).

When you look at the inter connectivity of the global village via the Internet it sounds incredibly analogous to one of Dr Lipton's observations about is discoveries in the area of cell communication.........

It was a transformational moment for me to discover that I am NOT a biochemical robot, but a spiritually controlled community of programmable cells who is now collaborating with other cell “communities”

Interesting times indeed!

WHAT ARE THE EARTHLINGS DOING?

This video is not the normal content for Cosmic Cipher but I find that there's something utterly fascinating about it and I wanted to share it with you. This week, 2nd May 15.12 GMT, will mark the 56th anniversary of the first commercial jet airline flight.

I find this video to be a stark reminder of just how far we have come and developed as a 'global village' in the past six decades. We, in the western world, couldn't be any more connected by transport, telephony, television or postal links and yet the irony is that the majority of people are still no nearer to being able to connect to what's really going on in their heart and openly express their true thoughts, feelings fears, hopes and wishes with their fellow planetary inhabitants. Just an observation!

Anyway here's the video and accompanying text and credit........



Millions of people move about planet Earth by airplane every day. Hundreds of thousands of airplane flights take place over the US every day. A dramatic graphical depiction of these flights was created by Aaron Koblin and is shown above. The movie depicts flight patterns that occurred over a few days in 2005 March. The count on the lower left shows the number of flights USA-related flights at the time listed on the lower right. The trails shown are not contrails but rather generated artificially by a computer algorithm. Major cities in North America and the USA are discernable. Inspection of the movie shows that some times of the day are busier than others, indicating that flights leave some destinations at times that are convenient for travelers. In terms of distance, flying to a distant location is much safer than driving to that location. Flying in an airplane, however, remains slightly more dangerous than driving to a nearby airport.

THE SECRET OF EXISTENCE

This is all we need to know. Contained within this absolutely wonderful site www.hanskayser.com is the real theory of everything! This has to be one of the best looking, most fascinating sites on the web. Kudo's to Helios design.

Check out the book within this site too. It's by Maryel Gardyne and called the Atom and The Octave. For example, chapter 7- Molecules:

We shall compare all atoms to notes, each with its own frequency and set of overtones which pulsate outward from its centre (the nucleus) in all directions as electrons or quanta in measurable but relative rhythms or beats. These pulsations will be of a spherical nature in space/time and quite balanced, unless interfered with by some neighbouring counter pulsations. By resonance, they exert influence far and wide in several octaves, both above and below their immediate...

What a find.

THE EMERALD TABLET

One of the most powerful and influential texts to have survived from ancient times is The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus. Also known as the Smaragdine Table, this work contains the philosophical idea that the pattern of the universe can only be comprehended when one recognises that all things on Earth and in Heaven are interlinked. Therefore those who gain a greater understanding of themselves will automatically have established a greater understanding of the entire nature of existence.

The text of the tablet states that the wisdom of the whole Universe is divided into three parts and, because Hermes understood them all, he was known by the title of 'Three times great' or Trismegistus.

The three areas are Alchemy, Astrology and Theurgy (a type of divine intervention or Magic). Interestingly there are parallels between the early practice of many secret societies e.g., The Eleusian Mystery schools, Martinism, Freemasonry, The Knights Templar and Rosicrucianism. Although each has its own history there is a fusion of beliefs that can all be traced back to the Hermetic (sealed) literature that formed the magical education of Egyptian Priests.

These societies were deemed 'secret' because the knowledge either had to be preserved from corruption by keeping it 'underground' and hidden (occulted) or in later times due to persecution. Also they were only open to those who were deemed suitable for instruction. Thus the knowledge was transmitted via word of mouth or ritual. Ritualism was used as profound knowledge was more easily absorbable to the mind in abstract form, but also because rituals evoked magical forces. If the knowledge was ever committed to the written form it was often veiled in allegory, symbolism and cipher to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.

Far from many of these organisations being sinister (although in modern times certain factions have quite patently corrupted the initial intention) the aim of Freemasonry and other mystery schools and societies was the organised sharing of spiritual and moral lessons in order to build up, and correctly know, the 'Temple of the spirit'. Again, if one could know how he was 'built' and what he was crafted from, he would know how the Universe was built around him.

The ancient term of 'thrice great' referring, as we say to the knowledge of Hermes, can be equated to the triangle within the circle of spirit and the square of matter - the triangle also representing three alchemical substances (Salt, Mercury and Sulphur) but also the 'Trinity' which formed the fundamental tenet of these societies; Brotherly love, Relief and Truth... Our Father (Mind) Son (Body/Man) and Holy spirit (Spirit/Soul) and in more recent times even Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. The whole undivided essence of God is said to belong equally to each part of the Trinity.

Throughout history the knowledge was passed from Master to Initiate only after one had proved their commitment to the cause of striving to perfect themselves and thereby contributing to wider society. Nowadays the mystery school teachings have come out from the 'closet' and are freely available but they will still mean little to the person who has not been initiated (or become self-versed) in the three areas of Alchemy, Astrology and Theurgy. Here, for example is the text from the Emerald Tablet:

VERBA SECRETORUM HERMETIS.

1. It is true, certain, and without falsehood, that whatever is below is like that which is above; and that which is above is like that which is below: to accomplish the one wonderful work.

2. As all things are derived from the One Only Thing, by the will and by the word of the One Only One who created it in His Mind, so all things owe their existence to this Unity by the order of Nature, and can be improved by Adaptation to that Mind.

3. Its Father is the Sun; its Mother is the Moon; the Wind carries it in its womb; and its nurse is the Earth.

4. This Thing is the Father of all perfect things in the world.

5. Its power is most perfect when it has again been changed into Earth.

6. Separate the Earth from the Fire, the subtle from the gross, but carefully and with great judgement and skill.

7. It ascends from earth to heaven, and descends again, new born, to the earth, taking unto itself thereby the power of the Above and the Below.

8. Thus the splendor of the whole world will be thine, and all darkness shall flee from thee.

9. This is the strongest of all powers, the Force of all forces, for it overcometh all subtle things and can penetrate all that is solid.

10. For thus was the world created, and rare combinations, and wonders of many kinds are wrought.

11. Hence I am called HERMES TRISMEGISTUS, having mastered the three parts of the wisdom of the whole world.

12. What I have to say about the masterpiece of the alchemical art, the Solar Work, is now ended.

In recent times the burgeoning interest in evoking 'magical forces' through control of the mind and will - such as via the Law of Attraction or Law of Correspondence - is opening people' s eyes and ears to the true nature of our Universe. To those who are willing to delve into the past, there are many secrets still to unfold. Attempts at understanding, or even just the openness to see the patterns and interconnectedness of man and his environment, is the first step to leading a more fulfilling and harmonious life.

If you would like to read more about Mystery schools, specifically Rosicrucianism and Kabbala please go here
Other translations of The Emerald Tablet
Essay - True Inititaion
My new video on The Kybalion - 7 Universal Laws

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THE VIBRATION OF TRUTH

There are so many people who I would like to chain to a chair and say 'Hey listen, and I mean really listen to these words' but I can't do that. Even if I could I wouldn't. I've long since learned that we all have to come to this knowledge and understanding in our own way and in our own time. If you have arrived here and just listened to this video, know that, even if you already knew the words in this video as truth, you were possibly meant to hear them again.

Notice too the particular quality and 'sound' of truth. It has it's own vibration and although this sounds really cliched, notice how and it really does speak to the heart and not the head. There are other people who can impart a very similar message but it just goes in one ear and out the other. We hear it but it doesn't resonate deep within.

The Universal Law states that one may change their mental vibrations by an act of attention. Where attention goes, energy flows. By deliberately placing our thoughts on the higher planes, i.e the positive, the good and what we know to be of value, then disengaging from people, situations and thoughts that bring us down, slowly, but surely, higher vibrations will replace the lower. This is known as the art of mental transmutation and it is in this place that miracles can and will occur.

APPLYING THE DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES IN 2008

The Doctrine of Signatures is, at heart, another term for the Hermetic Law of Correspondence. When talking to a Homeopath or Herbalist they are more likely to refer to the former term because the Doctrine of Signatures relates specifically to the similarity of plants and herbs (and their medicinal uses) to parts of the body i.e by careful observation one can learn the healing properties of a plant from some aspect of its 'nature' or place of growing.

In essence however since time immemorial all healers (and shamans) were herbalists, alchemists and astrologers. The fundamental framework of all three disciplines is anchored in the seven Hermetic Universal Laws, one of which is The Law of Correspondence - a law that was plainly visible to those with a spiritual eye.

Today we call mainstream healers, Medical Doctors. The herbs are combined with chemicals or the herbal properties are mimicked artificially and sold as Pharmaceuticals. Many of our Doctors in 2008 who are not also interested in alternative medicine sadly lack the 'spiritual eye' to notice correspondences.

For example The Doctrine of Signatures and Law of Correspondence philosophies postulate that in order to understand fever one should note the activity (correspondence) to volcanoes. An alternative healer when presented with fever or boils will ask about heat and what is angering the patient and causing them to erupt. Few Medical Doctors will make the immediate connections. The healer using Doctrine of Signatures will find a herb that has the properties of Mars and Pluto and administer either by sympathy (a little of the same will cure) or antipathy (a little of the opposite will cure i.e. find something to cool the body and emotions).

The non 'medical' astrologer, whilst not a healer of the physical body, will today 'treat' by helping the person to understand how they are intricately connected to the Cosmos. They will be advised that their fever is a symptom of Martian type correspondences that will either pass or intensify depending on action taken via free will. With a straightforward Mars/Pluto signature one could aim to 'bring to the surface' anything that has been internalised by talking suppressed emotions through, or by using martian type activities to redirect the energy.

The term Doctrine of Signatures is popularly ascribed to man called Paracelsus (1493-1541). However Paracelsus was a 'nom de plume'. Paracelsus was in fact the Swiss gentleman Phillippus Aureolus who later took the name Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim when he received a Baccalaureate in Medicine from the University of Vienna in 1510. Theophrastus subsequently adopted the surname of ParaCelsus as it breaks down into the words para -Celsus (beyond - Celsus).

Aulus Celsus was an medicinal 'encyclopedist' (25-50BC) and thanks to the tremendous dedication of Bill Thayer we can all read the translated work of Celsus' major treatise called De Medicina here)

As is usual when we look back through history we find that nothing is truly original in thought but simply an expanded or rewritten version of a previously known or perceived truth. It is clear that even prior to the time of Celsus the Law of Correspondence was already in use.

So when we read that in the early 1600's Jakob Bohme was responsible for the introduction of The Doctrine of Signatures via his book "Signatura Rerum; The Signature of all Things" we know that he was simply following Paracelsus and re-presenting esoteric knowledge that had been suppressed in the Dark Ages and was gradually finding it's way back to the light and into the printed word (but was still branded as heretical thought).

So how can The Doctrine help you in 2008? Well Saturn is passing through the sign of Virgo. As such the astrological symbolism (or correspondence) is that we will, as a collective, become more concerned about what we put into our bodies in the form of foodstuffs. We must pay more strict (SA) attention to our diet and daily habits (Virgo). One way to do this is to incorporate the ancient (Capricorn) truths (Pluto) into our lives.

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote, in Physiologie du Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendante, 1826:

"Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es." [Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are].

In an essay entitled Concerning Spiritualism and Materialism, 1863/4, Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach wrote:

"Der Mensch ist, was er ißt."

That translates into English as 'man is what he eats'. Neither Brillat-Savarin or Feuerbach meant their quotations to be taken literally. They were stating that that the food one eats has a bearing on what one's state of mind and health.

"Ninety per cent of the diseases known to man are caused by cheap foodstuffs. You are what you eat."

The following list of correspondences has been doing the rounds via e-mail recently and although I do not know the original source much of the information conforms to the Doctrine of Signatures/Law of Correspondence and you may like to alter your diet accordingly in light of this knowledge.

Foods and their correspondences:

CARROTS
A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye; and science now shows that carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

GRAPES
Many grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows that grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

TOMATOES*
A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart is red and has four chambers. All of the research shows tomatoes are indeed pure heart and blood food.

WALNUTS
A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper Cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds are on the nut just like the neo-cortex. We now know that walnuts help develop over 3 dozen neuro-transmitters for brain function.

KIDNEY BEANS
Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the Human kidneys.

CELERY
Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough Sodium in your diet the body pulls it from the bones, making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

SWEET POTATOES
Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycaemic index of diabetics.

ONIONS
Onions look like body cells. Today's research shows that onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes.

CITRUS FRUITS
Grapefruits, Oranges, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

PEANUTS
Listen up guys....Peanuts have a profound effect on the testicles and sexual libido. Peanuts were banned as a food for males by the church during the middle ages. Most people don't realize that arginine, the main component of Viagra, comes from peanuts.

Bananas, Cucumber, Zucchini and more target the size and strength of the male sexual organ.

and finally for the girls.....

OLIVES
Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.

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Disclaimer: Please note this is a copy of information and I can take no responsibility or vouch for the efficiency of these foodstuffs as curative substances.

*I would say that many people do not realise that, along with potatoes, aubergine (eggplant) and chillies, tomatoes are part of the nightshade family. Tibetan Doctors advise against eating anything from the nightshade family!

For an excellent book on this subject of the composite (merging) of The Law of Correspondence and Doctrine of Signatures please read Vitalism - The History of Herbalism, Homeopathy and Flower Essences by Matthew Wood.

* You are what you eat meaning taken from here

CAUGHT UP IN THE MATRIX

I don't normally like to post about the same subject twice but I just wanted to drop by to report that the synchronicities continue to flow in thick and fast with regard to my previous post on the Infinity Symbol, its origins and possible correlations.

Here is the most magnificent figure of eight picture sent by Claire from North Dakota. Meanwhile immersed 'in the flow' I just happened to trip across a book by someone called Hahn about Spin Echoes (used in Radiology and Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and he relates these echoes to the figure of eight, infinity shape.

Next stop on the coincidence trail was a paper from the Department of Philosophy at Newcastle University written by Melanie Purcell. It is entitled:

"What are the relationships between Infinity and Zero? The Implications of A Cyclic Universe and the Diagonally Woven Single Joined Thread Klein Bottle."

Here's just one extract from this totally fascinating paper:

What is of importance is that alchemy describes the process of a system. It describes the emergence of the universe as a process of transformation from a nonspatial nontemporal void into the physical spacetime reality of a cyclic universe. This process of transformation is common to all things. The interconnectedness of all things is realised through the structural transformations of process and like the effect of a bootstrap or in Sheldrake’s terminology a morphic resonance (see Sheldrake 1987) of formative causation, the very act of creation itself binds everything together as one, and provides access to the relationships between things.

In the alchemy of Newton we see that his interest was not only spiritual in inclination as he was fascinated by the properties of metals using alchemy to “‘probe the internal structure of its particle’, to find those “certain forces by which the particles of bodies...are either mutually impelled towards one another ... or are repelled and recede from one another”, for that, he said, “was the burden of philosophy’”(see Dobbs, 1975).

This article has some wonderful diagrams - and here are just two. If this subject has caught your imagination please do check out Melanie's work here

So there I was reading Newton's words about particles on Melanie's site when my inbox pinged and I opened a message from a reader called Rich. Rich was urging me to add Chaos Theory to the list of Universal Laws and pointing me to the following diagram which shows the shape of a P-Orbital; the wave like behaviour of an electron in an atom. Here's the shape of a P- Orbital:



Wow Rich! Thank you and....synchronous or what?!




I have heard of Chaos Theory but other than its association with Fractals and Zipfs Law, I'm no expert. However there is a pretty idiot proof primer on the subject here and I guess Rich could equally be referring to my experiencing ongoing synchronicities concerning the Analemma and infinity shapes, as he could be to my query about what the link is between all this information I keep coming across.

If you haven't got time to read about it, the essence of Chaos Theory is that in any mass of seemingly unrelated data there is actually an underlying order. However I don't know if it should be added to the Universal Laws because it is really just Science agreeing with what astrology and the ancient Laws and texts have revealed to us all along - that everything is part of the All; the great tapestry of Life in which each thread is part of a greater picture and every part affects the whole (even if we can't see the larger pattern). These days, however, it's not called a tapestry, it's known as The Matrix and finds its earth bound correspondence in The World Wide Web.

I'll be posting more astrology/esoteric/metaphysical based articles in 2008. If you want to make it a year where you get to grips with some of this Quantum Theory/Mechanics stuff (in layman's terms) and use it to change your life for the better I highly recommend you beg steal or borrow the book, The Divine Matrix By Gregg Braden. In this book he references this very same correspondence between the 'Web of Life' and the WWW and mentions, by way of analogy, how if you want a better connection with what's 'out there' you may need to look at what operating system you are using. Perhaps it's time for an update in 2008. Microsoft didn't call their system Windows by chance!

ZEITGEIST, INFINITY SYMBOL & THE SUN

All the wisdom of the ages is self-contained within the fundamental tenets of astrological practice. The study of Hermetic literature reveals the Universal Laws and through a study of symbolism, numerology and geometry one can begin to see the pattern running through all of creation.

As an astrologer I never dismiss coincidences. They are messages arriving via the unconscious. They are invisible threads that are trying to help us determine natures laws, patterns and harmony. Recently I have had a run of synchronicities and I'm quite baffled as to where they may be leading. I would like to discuss here how these 'coincidences' might fit together - although I freely admit it would take a much greater mind than I possess to make any practical sense of what is being brought to my door.

Firstly let me tell you that from a young age I have doodled spirals and the symbol for infinity and pondered on the meaning of them. Recently I read that the infinity symbol (above) is of unknown origin. This came to my notice within days of seeing the film Zeitgeist and writing about it in my previous post.

Those of you who have yet to see this not-for- profit movie may at this point like to read my previous post and perhaps then go on to view Part One of the movie*. Having done so (and ensure you have a comfortable seat because it is 20 minutes of compelling viewing) please contemplate the next image on this page, that 'coincidentally' also came to my attention this week.

This is an image known as the Analemma - a time lapse photograph of the annual passage of the Sun over Earth - rising to its highest declination North and then moving on down to its lowest declination South (from the Equator) as seen from a static position on Earth. In other words this is a visual depiction of the path of the Sun and the Solstice points. The curvature shows the Solstices - one of which we meet now 20th thru 23rd December 2007 as the Sun appears to stand still at 23.26 degrees of Southern declination. The other turning point occurs at the Summer Solstice in June.

It is important to know however that the visual turning point (Zeitgeist viewers take note) occurs on 25th December - Christmas Day. This is the date that day length visibly starts to change. To the ancients, who carefully tracked the daily position of any visible planet - but most especially the life-giving Sun - this symbol of time would surely have been noted. I'm sure archaeologists will have found regular occurrences of its appearance on cave walls and wood carvings as well as in Temples and other record and time-keeping artifacts. To my eyes it seems obvious that this is where the symbol for infinity must have arisen - infinity being a never ending factor (loop) of time and space.

It also seems clear to me that there would be some correspondence on Earth to this heavenly shape which looks like a figure 8 because the Sun was held in such reverence and worshipped as a God.

Obviously we know of the lines of the Tropics which match the solstices but surely our ancestors would have paid these latitudes and this symbol very special attention.

Let's have a recap on 'The Tropics'......The highest declination North of the Sun marks what we call the Tropic of Cancer around the Earth's sphere. The opposite declination marks the Tropic of Capricorn. If your astronomy and geography is not up to scratch, imagine holding a pen to a ball about halfway up from its midline and then turning the ball to trace a line around its circumference. The pen point would represent the Sun's position on the days it reaches its highest declination North and the ball would be the Earth. The same can be repeated for the other Tropic.

If you then stuck a map around the ball and squashed it out flat you would get a line from left to right. Here we can see this on a flat map of the globe. The line is always at 23 degrees and 26 minutes of latitude North and South, matching the Sun's highest declination at the Solstices. Therefore this red line is effectively the 'line of Christmas' projected onto the turning globe and is known as The Tropic of Capricorn


It would indeed be fascinating to see what Temples and artifacts lie in locations at this exact latitude (and those of the Tropic of Cancer The line of Easter.

LEMNISCATE
The proper name for the infinity symbol is known as the Lemniscus. How intriguing then that in anatomy this term is used for:
'A bundle of nerve fibers ascending from sensory nuclei in the spinal cord and the rhombencephalon to the thalamus'. This is the part of the body which amongst other things senses vibration.

In mathematics it refers to several things most well known being the Lemniscate of Bernoulli from the family of Cassini Curves, and the Lemniscate of Gerono and you might like to meditate on this applet here Interestingly the philosophers Goethe and Steiner both lectured extensively on the properties of the Lemniscate

Those of you who are less of a 'connect-the-dots' and 'no coincidences' type mind may have completely lost me now. For others all this information will be resonating strongly. What is the link between the sign in the heavens of the path of the Sun and its correspondence to terrestrial life and the mysteries of our existence? Let's continue to look. The infinity sign resembles the number 8. This number has always held occult significance. It relates to the sign of Scorpio, it is the number of pathways in the Buddhist faith, it is the atomic number of oxygen and in physics is known as a magic number ......

Surfing around the Internet I found this:

The number 8 represents infinity. It has the profile of the Mobius strip. In fact the Mobius strip -- a distorted one -- is a circle - The symbol of completion and wholeness. However the figure 8 contains 2 circles therefore 8 represents a completion, like the circle, but on a new level, or another octaves, an end and a beginning. The number of days in a week is 7, but the 8th day, say a Monday, is the beginning of a new week. In nature every 8th wave arriving at the the sea shore is bigger than the rest. In the same way, in music, the 8th note is another octave.

8 hertz, very interestingly, is the brainwave frequency healers and mystics most tune into. Furthermore, 8 hertz is Schumann's Resonance~the frequency of earth (earth vibration). Humans cannot survive without it. Astronauts need a 8 htz generator to maintain health. Life depends on that frequency, otherwise we would not buzz. It's a common alpha frequency meditators frequency slip into for so called 'expanded consciousness' .

8 also ties in closely with DNA groupings 8x8=64. 8x8=64 squares of the I-ching, and the 8x8=64 squares of a chess board (that represent the Universe.)

This continues to illicit synchronous connections because we have already seen that in anatomy the Lemnisci is the seat of vibration. Additionally, before finding this, I had never heard of a Mobius Strip but upon looking it up I see that it has correlations to the shape of interlocking DNA strands.

'Curiouser and curiouser' said Alice in Wonderland. Are the secrets of life and time locked up in the figure 8? Certainly without our Sun tracing this shape, life as we know it would not exist.

It is also possible that linear time was not even a concept familiar to our very ancient ancestors in the way we would automatically presume. All that they were probably aware of was cyclical time. The constant cycles of nature and the heavens.

As Pluto moves into Capricorn, our understanding of the nature of time is set to be transformed. I recently said that I believe this will come about as a result of the Particle Accelerator tests at Cern (see my previous post) I was therefore fascinated to find repeated references on the Internet to the Lemniscate, Enrico Fermi and methods of splitting the atom!

Whilst Physicists come at the problem from their own perspective Astrologers have always known that Science and Spirituality are closer than they have ever been and all 'roads' are leading to the same knowledge, albeit via a different route.

Nature laws and cycles, documented in esoteric and alchemical literature, contain the key that will one day unlock to the door of the temple of knowledge and reveal the mysteries of life. In my next post I will look at the some more symbols associated with the Sun/Earth correspondences.

Meanwhile you may like to visit my main blog Collaborate With Fate

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* Zeitgeist The Movie is in three parts onYou Tube. The entire 20 minute section of Part one can be seen by going here and pushing the movie player forward to start at 10 mins. You don't need to see the introduction or part 2 or 3
My thanks to someone called Jonz for this information on the number 8.
Images are from a fabulous site about Analemma phenomenon