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Hail, and welcome to
the Universal Festival Calendar for January, 2010.
It's Jump Time,
as Jean Houston entitled her new book on Shaping Your Future in a World
of Radical Change. As you know if you're a regular reader of the UFC,
the Summer of 2010 is likely to be the time when the Shift accelerates, the
old order begins to disintegrate, the indelicate matter hits the fan, the
bills come due, and the Lords of Karma lift their majestic arms and scan the
assembly before they gesture for silence and suggest what is now to come.
In
The Crosses of 2010,
you can explore in detail what is most likely to ensue this summer as the
planets that rule politics and government, economy and finance, electronic
technologies, communications media, military organizations and religious
bodies all align in "difficult" 180° oppositions exacerbated by a 90° square
to Pluto, whose role -- as the mining engineer of global transformation, who
works in the dark, digging under the castle walls until they crack and begin
to fall -- is no less sweepingly, unstoppably effective for his being hidden
in undisclosed locations everywhere.
This is The Year. Yes,
the rebuilding of the planet we aim to create may well begin when many
people expect it, in 2012. But the time for the clearing of the field is now
and in the months ahead. One of the main challenges we shall face here will
be to write and talk about the coming events in ways that arouse as little
fear as possible. This is the best we can expect, as some fear in some
people is inevitable when change comes as fast and as urgent as it will this
year, triggering everything from nervous denial to stark terror among those
who hope, against all hope and beyond all reason, that it will all somehow
sort itself out, or even that we can go back to The Way It Was before 2008.
We can't. We won't.
The Summer of 2010 will try the sanity of some and the faith and patience of
the rest. The weeks from the June solstice to the middle of August,
especially in the weeks from July 24 to August 7, will show what happens
when we as individuals, and the great institutions we create, try to respond
to inevitable new events by circling the wagons, arming ourselves to the
teeth, digging in our heels and defending our turf, refusing all compromise
and cooperation, and otherwise aligning against others rather than with
them. This is how it's likely to be in mid-2010, as governments and
political parties, corporations and churches, armies and ideologues are all
implacably determined to get their way, even if their way is the only thing
left when the thunder fades and the air no longer smells like sulphur. Has
this happened in our history before? Yes, on the limited, local scale of
nations and cultures, but not yet until now on a planetary, even galactic
scale. That's why we have myths like the Khemitian story of how the Children
of Nut were born. For a dramatic retelling of this scene, you can see
The Game of Chance
on this site.
This tale of Ra's
obstinacy in refusing to allow the Mother netert Nut to give birth, no
matter how unendurable her agony, no matter how many other divine beings
feel her suffering and long to relieve it, could hardly be more apt now, as
it tells of the misery that an authoritarian figure may inflict on deities
and men when he refuses to see what is now obvious and unavoidable to
everyone else.
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Ra's position made perfect sense to him. Of course the
number of days in the Earth year had to be 360, the
magic master number that contains 22 multiples from 2 to
180, encodes all geometry and physical space, and
affirms that the world is not only orderly, but has an
order that is elegant and musical. But Thoth, Ra's
brother, had a better grasp of numbers and well as
letters, and knew that a 365.25-day year may look less
beautiful, but it does have the practical advantage of
describing the actual rhythm of life on the ground. In
running the cosmic dice game that tricked Ra
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into adding
five days to the calendar, and thus finally allowing Nut to give
birth to the five "epagomenal" neters (Osiris, Isis, Set, Nephthys
and Horus "the Elder"), Thoth found a subtle rather than forceful
way to get a controlling male figure to relax his rod and accept the
unavoidable reality that power must now be shared, and unsustainable
conditions now have to be addressed for the sake of everyone's
survival. As so often happens in the world's history and myths, the
trickster who knows how to make the game playful can accomplish
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We're clearly playing
a similar scenario now, and we have an opportunity, all of us, awakening
together, to see that it's time to graduate from old, negative notions that
have never brought us any good, and embrace the new, empowering insights
that wait for us to see and use them.
Which of the two
irreconcilable postures will we affirm? Will be go on believing, no matter
how high the price and how horrid the pain, that the world must always be
this way, and that "human nature" must always be corrupt, cruel, vicious and
sinful? If we do, then we will almost certainly see the year ahead as a
prolonged siege, a grim ordeal of defending what we think we know and love.
Or -- if our
individual power to attract and manifest what we want may in fact be much
greater than our forebears ever imagined, then has our collective
power to intend and realize a new world already begun to take shape in our
creating of new intentional communities and in our learning the craft of
ceremonies of intention? What if we're able to tune up now to a
morphogenetic resonance that will get us in the same key and the same score
much sooner than anyone thought possible? What if "human nature" is only a
habit or belief that we can change? What if the world we bring into being
is, as the drummer in Rumi's Full Moon, Bilal saw it, not iron, but
"workable, like wax?" If we do, then the transition will be much easier.
In the meantime, as
we've seen in the UFC preludes for
November and
December 2009
-- and as we'll keep seeing as my
Living by the Moon
tour continues through early May -- our best strategy is to learn the
practice of intention, and to learn better how it works, and how it doesn't.
Have you ever met anyone who gained what he or she wanted by using The
Secret? Neither have I. This manual of manifestation for materialists
doesn't work, because those who think they're going to get the house, the
car, the boat and the lover just by wishing for them haven't begun to
understand that attracting what we want requires much more than mere wishful
thinking. In this universe, we gain our ends through exchanges of energy. An
intention has a price that can be much steeper than money and dearer than
sweat or time because it requires that we give up long-held beliefs that
have been blocking us for decades, even for a lifetime. I had to learn this
the hard way in the week before my tour began.
Last summer, when I was
pitching my events to bookstores, I set the intention that by Oct. 31, I’d
have $3,000 in the bank to cover initial tour expenses. Then, as always, I
put the intention out of my mind so that it could ripen in peace, and do its
work. By
mid-October, I was wondering what had gone wrong. Not only was new money not
coming in from clients who were asking about readings but not committing to
them and sending payment, but my money was running out. I was staying in a
$7 a night hotel room in Pisac, Peru – not a hardship, as one can get a nice
$7 room there at the delightful Hospedaje Beho. But by now, not only was
$3,000 looking next to impossible, but I wondered where I’d get $14 to pay
the airport shuttle bus from LaGuardia to Manhattan. I wondered if I’d have
to start calling family and friends to hit them up for a few hundred bucks
to cover me until the tour got underway.
The fear started
blinding me to opportunity. When I met Ron LaPlace and Akiyah Clements, who
were in Pisac from Calgary to teach the Flower of Life to a group of 20
people, I told them how wonderful the Flower of Life class had been when I
took it in Tokyo in 1995. But the obvious opportunity they represented did
not hit me. Under normal conditions, when I’m not stuck in fear, I’d see at
once that in a group of 20 people on a journey of discovery, in Peru or
Sinai or any transformative place, there are ten astrology readings waiting
to be done.
The next day I was at a
Alfredo’s Café, showing the owner how astrocartography works, and how he
could earn a good commission on my readings. We agreed to set up some
readings in May, when I got back to Peru -- but the lady who walked over and
joined me was ready now. Loretta Mohl of the Canadian College of
Healing Arts had overheard us, and wanted to do an exchange. I read her
astrocartography, and the next day I’d get an energy healing session at the
Paz y Luz hotel, where Loretta was about to do, of course, the Flower of
Life class. Did the obvious opportunity hit me now, on the second pass? No.
The next day, after Loretta
worked on me and some of my fear
lifted, the light finally went
on. Ron, Akiyah and I agreed
that I’d read their
astrocartographs in exchange for
their class, and over the next
few days I did ten readings that
brought in $1200. This
apparently magnetized the money
that was waiting in the ether
from clients who were suddenly
ready to make their move. Other
money came in from other places,
and on Oct. 31 I had, you
guessed it, $3,000 in the bank.
My intention had
come right through, right on time, but the price of it had been icy and
stark. To gain what I wanted, I had to surrender, and give up my illusion
that God, the universe, whoever delivers these things, will not support my
aims, and that I can’t simply trust the abundance that I can see coming to
others much more easily than to myself. Many of us will have to trade in
these terms as the year goes along, to frame the right words for the deal,
even sing them. Time to tune those pipes. Keep Holding That Frequency.
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The Chiron - Neptune Conjunction of 2009 - 2012:
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For Prelude
(November, 2008)
and
Acts 1 and 2
(April - December, 2009), see
UFC Index
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2012:
The End of . . . What?
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