September 7, Working with the Ancestors and the World Tree. The film Avatar suggests that we can reconnect with all of life through the World Tree.
If true, and the ancestral past and future of our genome (as well as a large part of life and all their future generations) is now in our hands, what is the work we have to do?
December 14, Moon, Sun & Stars: the unique Winter Solstice skies of 2010. Our annual talk on the significance of the current Winter Solstice / Milky Way alignment. We will also describe the dawn ceremony on St Edmund's Hill.
These talks are in the new Avalon Room, Glastonbury Experience, High St. Glastonbury. Start 7:30pm, £4.
December 4/5 Nicholas is also speaking on Avebury in London at the annual Gatekeeper Conference at Colet House, Talgarth Road. The talk is called Avebury: Keeper of Time. http://www.gatekeeper.org.uk/
THE GENERAL ELECTION! 06/05/2010
The charts for the opening and closing of polls in the British General
Election today (May 6th) show the great dissatisfaction and disillusionment of
the people of this country with their leaders; they also show a
significant bid by the people to assume more influence over the
government of the country, in their unwillingness to give a clear
mandate to any party.
Traditionally represented by the Moon, the
people's exceptional influence over the outcome of this particular
election is indicated by the Moon's presence in stubborn yet
unconventional Aquarius, at the very top of the chart for the opening
of polls, and trining its Ascendant. This strong Aquarian Moon shows
the people's desire for something different, while its opposition to
Mars indicates their recent anger; both planets are square to a hidden
and rather neglected twelfth house Sun, the planet traditionally
representing the ruling class. This fixed T-square shows that the
traditional powers that have governed the country for many years -
especially the landed classes whose power dates back to at least the
arrival of the Normans (shown by the Sun's rulership of the fourth
house, representing land and assets) - are now in a significant degree
of trouble. They are finding it extremely hard to convince the people
of their good intentions, a problem emphasised by the retrograde
position of Mercury as the ruler of the chart for the opening of
polls. This retrograde Mercury may be trine to Pluto, but its
effective invisibility in the twelfth house position indicates that in
spite of powerful vested interests in the media (such as Rupert
Murdoch), the media has actually been more of a spectator than a
manipulator in this election.
Venus on the Ascendant of the poll opening chart, trine to the Moon,
shows the key importance in many voters' minds of preserving the
recent prosperity and affluence of this country; as ruler of the sixth
house of health and work, this Venus specifically points to concern
about the health service and job protection. But its position in
Gemini in the twelfth house also suggests that secret deals may
already be underway between parties who know they will not be able to
hold power alone.
Have the British people been truly radicalised? The planetary signs
are that one phase of a process of significant change is currently
peaking. We have been experiencing a slow transit of radicalising
Uranus over the Moon's position in one of the founding charts of this
country, which is that for the coronation of William the Conqueror. As
the Saturn-Uranus opposition is now closely hitting this point, the
people are in a controlled form of revolt (Saturn's traditional
rigidity suggesting the structural limits to this eruption), and their
desire for some different model of government is clearly signalled.
However, the closing of polls chart indicates there is likely to be a
new and rather more painful stage in the process of popular change.
This is suggested by the striking closeness of the election Moon to
two little discussed planetary points - the Black Moon (a key point in
the Moon's orbit, shown as the black crescent over a cross) and
planetoid/ centaur Nessus (not shown here). The waning Moon's
conjunction with the Black Moon suggests that the people will not get
much of what they want as a result of this election, and will instead
be forced to undergo a collective process involving painful loss or
letting go (this is presumably linked with the impending cuts).
The
centaur Nessus's presence here suggests that the pain that may soon be
imposed on the British people can be traced to ancestral factors or
events from the distant past - what might be called our collective
karma. Yet the result of the painful processes initiated by the Black
Moon and Nessus should ultimately be the stimulation of new levels of
insight and wisdom, and this message is reinforced by the Moon's
closing conjunction with the current Chiron and Neptune conjunction.
For those who can respond wisely and objectively to the impersonal
processes of intensive collective change that are now underway, and
who can resist the impulse towards forms of denial or escapism, a new
phase of inner awakening will be the result, focussed on deep
attunement to the needs and wishes of our planet. |
The last few decades were a time of wonder and expansiveness for humanity. Incredible economic prosperity, new technological resources and increased levels of personal freedom offered millions of people, and Westerners in particular, the opportunity to live like gods. At the same time, we have been privileged to live in an era of extraordinary spiritual renewal, when many lost fragments of the ancient wisdom teachings are available to us again.  But at last we are recognizing that we have not used these blessings in a wise and responsible way, for the good of the planet and all the life forms it supports.
Since the beginning of the 21st century it has become patently obvious that the global capitalist economy is putting an impossible pressure upon the eco-system of our beautiful blue planet. The evidence of global crisis is all around us. Yet despite high-level inter-national conferences on questions such as carbon emissions and third world debt, despite shoring up our ailing banks and businesses, our leaders are caught tightly in the cogs of the money-making machine; they provide no clear guidance. This is a time, in other words, when we are in desperate need of men and women with true vision.
The message being received from those who act as planetary guides is that this current era is rapidly coming to its close. The time has come when we urgently need to prepare for a new aeon, a new world. But to achieve this, the human race will have to give up the present world, that is, lose its current dominance over nature, and create a life in balance with Life on Earth. The mass of humanity will have to face the initiatory ‘ordeal of the abyss’ as it is compelled to relinquish a mistaken, materialistic relationship to earth and matter. This crisis of consciousness will increase in the years leading up to and beyond 2012/13.
Our work is intended to support and strengthen those of us who have been receiving messages about the extreme urgency of this time. We will have to draw on our deepest sources of spiritual guidance if we are to navigate safely through the dangerous decades that lie ahead. To fulfill tasks of planetary guardianship and service, we will need to draw on the ancient wisdom of the hidden planetary elders, and work closely with the devic realms, which have been badly injured through our recent collective actions. Our work aims to clarify what you can do to help yourself and thus humanity return to the path of balance. Our work is designed to support you on your unique spiritual journey of dedication, service and self-initiation directed to that end. What we share is intended to help humanity walk through a major initiatory doorway, into a New Aeon. |
