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Help Along the Way (Jan/Feb 2012) Soul Over Matter top © 2011 Janis Yakopovic Article reprinted with author's permission.  Dearest Readers, He further We made it!!! It is now 2012! I am sure that everyone joins me in saying "GOODBYE" to 2011 – it was a very rough year! It seems to me that we held all of our deepest emotional "baggage" till the end of 2011 to let it go – and did we let it go! I know of no one, NO ONE – who did not have a rough year in all walks of their life – physically, mentally, spiritually, financially – and all of it mirrored some emotional baggage that we had to let go of. Some of these blockages were so deep that we did not even know that they were there, or did not want to know that they were there, hidden so deeply that we did not want to see them. So, now we are in 2012. What does this year hold for us?; I have read just about every book published on the year 2012, a year that spans the whole spectrum according to some writers, from utter chaos and war to 1000 years of peace, with not even a "blip" of bad tidings coming our way. Which one is it? I honestly don't think anyone knows. Remember the quotation in the Bible – that not even Jesus knew the day of Reckoning. That is what I believe, too. We have to continue to work on ourselves and on our environmental issues. God/Goddess knows that there is enough to go around, and to maintain a place of peace and harmony within Souls, regardless of the chaos outside of us. Top |
Remember, frequencies of the Golden Light are inundating us and our world, and replacing the old vibrational tones. This in itself is not easy. "Mind over matter" should be replaced with "Soul over matter," and we should strive to see with the eyes of the Soul, to hear with the ears of the Soul, to smell with the nose of our Soul, to feel with the fingers of the Soul, and to taste with the palate of our Soul. Also remember, that consciousness can be moved to any part of the body – and now is the time to move our consciousness to our Soul. This I know with all of my heart. If we can accomplish this, our perspective will become one with the Golden Light – regardless of the challenges we face or the things we see. "There is nothing but Light" my Great Master Teacher Senmut said to me once, and that is now the mantra for my Soul. There is nothing but Light! I believe with my Soul that THAT is our future no matter what the pundits may say.
I hope you had a great Holiday Season, and in the coming months, I'll be back with more alternative remedies for the challenges we face.
< > —Ma'at Seh, Janis Janis Yakopovic is a vibrational healer and facilitator of a regular gathering on the first Sunday of the Month at Mystic Valley, 3212 Laclede Sta., Rd., Maplewood, Mo. 63143, 314-645-3336 called, "Coping with Illness," where the trials and sucesses of overcoming chronic illnesses are shared. She is also well-versed in the preparation and use of essential oils through an ancient Egyptian modality. Contact her with questions on healing and other issues that arise at 314-645-8915 or write to her c/o Pathfinder, PO Box 300317, St. Louis, Mo. 63130. Top |
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Workshop coming up in March. . . The Navel – an Overlooked "Recycling" Center of the Body! top © by Vaishali This aricle has appeared in various publications. Excerpt reprinted with author's permission. Edited for brevity. Originally titled, "Contemplating the Navel." While a bit long, a worth-while read! Printed version is more complete. Some Personal History It all started when I was in my mid-twenties, with a small pain in the abdomen. Little did I know how this little pain would force me to make big changes in my life. The pain seemed concentrated in three points around the right ovary. It became most acute when I would bend over. The mystery pains gradually grew until they were bothering me all the time, regardless of posture or position. I did what most people would do when seeking to address something health related: I made an appointment with my doctor. He was a better listener than most doctors and took the time to do a physical examination. While examining the pelvis, he found that merely touching that area was enough to produce pain, so we agree to proceed with non-invasive testing. . . e.g., leaving bodily fluid in a cup, taking a blood sample, or an ultra sound test. . . . Everything we tried was inconclusive. Over the course of a year, the pain spread down the right leg and across the lower back. I pretty much just dragged my right leg around. My abdomen slowly swelled until there was a constant state of discomforting distention. My skin turned a pasty shade of gray with tiny bumps, the greatest concentration being on my back. I looked like a cross between Quasimodo and a heroin addict. Looking back on it now, I can understand that my skin looked this way because it was the only organ still detoxifying my entire body. I lived with a hot water bottle stuffed down my pants. It was the only thing I could do to help alleviate the non-stop pain that plagued the lower body. Due to my declining condition, my doctor suggested we try exploratory surgery. . . My doctor and I discussed best and worst possible scenarios so that I would be prepared. The worst case would be that they might have to start removing organs. We still suspected if there was a problem, (if you could have seen me, that would have been a no-brainer). . . it would be centered on the reproduction organs. . . I clearly remember the moment I regained consciousness in the recovery room. My doctor would not make eye contact with me, and I was thinking, "This can't be good." He said, "I have some good news and some bad news. I'll start with the good news. We did not take anything out; you still have all your organs." "Great!" I was thinking, "What could possibly be the bad news?" "The bad news is that every organ from your stomach to your colon is in crisis." He then took a quarter out of his pocket. "Your liver and small intestine are the worst. I could flip this quarter to determine which organ will shut down first, but most likely you are going to die from either the liver or small intestine shutting down, and I do not know why." My doctor referred me to a digestive specialist who acted like he was God's gift to the medical profession. He came into the room, looked at the chart, and said, "I am going to run a bunch of invasive tests, and then be prepared for me to tell you that there is nothing wrong with you." I was shocked! This man had not even examined me, yet he was dismissing me out of hand. "You have seen the surgery notes from my other doctor, haven't you? How can you say that?" I asked completely stunned by his insensitivity, arrogance, and confrontational attitude. "Is your other doctor a digestive specialist?" he spat out in a very aggressive and hostile tone. "No, he isn't," I answered. "I'd be surprised if your other doctor even knows where your liver is!" He snapped with no deference to cordiality or even superficial professional courtesy. He then proceeded to load up my arms with bags, hoses and bottles of fluid, told me to reschedule, and shoved me out the door. Looking back on it now, I can see that this specialist, unintentionally, did me the biggest favor of my life. I remember walking over to the nearest trashcan, opening my arms, and dumping all the medical paraphernalia unceremoniously into the garbage. I walked away thinking, "I am going to have to figure this out myself. These people do not know what they are doing." I am not advising other people to abandon their doctors, but for me it was the right choice. And it changed my life forever. I had for the most part accepted the terminal diagnosis, but as long as I was still alive, I wanted to try and minimize the excruciating pain I was in all the time. The pain of having your organs rotting out inside your body is horrible; it would make you want to jump off a building. . . . I would sometimes lay in bed in agony, unable to move, and just cry and whimper for hours. I had to train my roommates to be neutral to my suffering, as I could not deal with their reactions and my situation at the same time. Besides I knew their panicking was not going to do anything but increase my already 'through the ceiling' stress level. [Then] I heard about a rare Chinese form of internal organ massage called Chi Nei Tsang, and decided to try it. Fortunately for me, I stumbled into the office of Gilles Marin, the foremost master in this technique. He worked on me for about ten minutes and then said, "Okay, I am going to tell you what is wrong with you. I'm warning you now it is going to be extremely hard for you to hear, because you have been diagnosed as terminal and been through so much pain for so long. The problem with you is that you are not breathing correctly." My first thought was, "What [jerk]! If it was my breathing, I would have been dead long before now." Gilles explained that breathing is how we digest our emotions, thoughts and experiences, as well as supply oxygen to the body. "You have absorbed as much fear as a person can, and still be alive, but just barely alive." It is true my childhood was a succession of one highly traumatizing event after another. It was also true that after the exploratory surgery, I discovered that my live-in boyfriend was sleeping with the women who were supposed to be my good friends. The widespread, deep-seated betrayal was emotionally devastating. I remember thinking that they did not even have the courtesy to wait until I died. How rude can you get! I was also working for my boyfriend's parents, so when we split up, I was advised to find another job. This meant losing my health insurance and trying to find gainful employment while physically suffering from pain that some days would not even let me get out of bed. And worse, I now had a "pre-existing condition" which would preclude me from ever getting health insurance and probably another job. I had wanted to jump off a building to get out of the pain, but instead I inadvertently got thrown under the bus. Ain't life grand! My life was turning into a country western song. Even withstanding Gilles' accuracy about my history, which he could not possibly have known anything about, the idea that my breathing had anything to do with my present situation was just too foreign for me to accept. "You're not even working where it hurts," I told Gilles when he started back with the massage, just to show him he lacked the correct insight into my case. "I know. It hurts here, here and here," he said, touching the three painful spots around the right ovary that had started this whole wild ride. No doctor had ever been able to make sense of these three spots when they asked me where it hurt. And now, out of nowhere, this guy zeroes in on them without any guidance on my part. "How did you know that?" I asked completely stunned. Gilles explained: "The diaphragm in the body is designed to move downwards on the inhale. Yours is moving in exactly the opposite direction. Instead of going down, it is coming up. It is pulled up so high in the front of your body it is pinching off your liver meridian, cutting off your liver from desperately needed Chi, life force, energy. Your liver is hanging on by a thread now because the flow of energy has been choked off for so long. The result is the liver and the liver meridian are swollen and in crisis. The liver meridian comes closest to the surface of the skin where the most nerve endings are, and then dives back down here, here and here (those three spots). So that is where you would be experiencing the most pain. When you learn how to breathe correctly and bring the diaphragm back down, the flow of energy will be restored to your liver, and it will come right back, because there is nothing wrong with your liver. Your doctors were right about one thing, however, and that is you will die if you do not change how you breathe. But you do not have to die; there is still time. You can reverse this."top |
Click on the image for a larger view. About Chi Nei Tsang Chi Nei Tsang is designed to be self-administered, so I spent the next several years studying with Gilles. The first year of the recovery process was extremely intense. In addition to retraining the respiration and the actual physical manipulation of the internal organs, an emotional exorcism occurs. The massage is about purging the body of negative emotions and bringing consciousness back to the core of the body. . . For more than a year, I would have an emotional release exactly twenty-four hours following an appointment with Gilles. You could set your clocks by it. The day of the appointment I would feel great. . . Then the next day, I would be an emotional basket case. The fear would just start pouring out of me. I had to make arrangements to stay at home the next day, because I was so scared I literally could not function. I had to let the fear come up and release it, without repressing it again out of habit. During that first year I also experienced profound changes in the myofacial tissue that surrounds the internal organs. The tissue, responding to years of fear stimuli, had grown very tight and had a death grip around the organs. The combination of the breathing exercises and the emotional releases from organ manipulation caused the tissue to rip loose from the inside out, finally permitting the organs to relax. The sensation of the tissue tearing loose inside the body was a bizarre combination of blinding pain followed by the sweet bliss of relief. I spent so much time studying this internal organ massage and Chinese Medicine, I decided to become a certified practitioner to help other people regain quality of life as well. I gradually branched out and studied both Eastern Indian Ayurveda and Tibetan Ayurveda. These healing sciences are based on body types. Unlike the Western concept of the body, a mechanistic paradigm that sees all bodies as the same, Eastern systems see every person as unique. . . And it is imperative that one knows about the various body types, their strengths and weaknesses, in order to understand how to achieve and maintain optimal balance and health. . . The heart of the internal organ massage is the navel. That is the window to the health of the body. The ideal navel should be round, symmetrical and flat with a well defined rim, walls and a floor. Any distortions in this ideal round shape are due to stresses and toxins in the internal organs as well as poor or incorrect breathing patterns. The best way to get a good clear reading on the navel is to lie on the back, knees bent and the pelvis tilted slightly forward. Then, with the head resting flat, use a mirror to see what the navel looks like in this "at rest" position. If the head is lifted to see what the abdomen looks like, it will pull on the navel and the reading will not be accurate. Draw a line with your finger directly from wherever the navel is stretched, pulled or puffy out to the outer perimeter of the body. As you trace outward, your finger will lead you to the organ in question that is causing the navel to be misshapen. The most commonly distorted navels I saw looked like a mail box slot, with the navel . . .like a horizontal straight line. This line is pointing to the bottom of the floating ribs and indicates that the floating ribs are not moving in and out on the inhale and exhale. This lack of range of motion in the floating ribs is also going to affect the ascending and descending colon, as well as [limiting] the movement of the diaphragm. . . .When breathing, the movement of the floating ribs acts like a pump [helping move] undigested material up the ascending colon, across the transverse colon, and down the descending colon. The other most common distressed shape I examined, was the navel in a slot-like pattern with the straight line pointing vertically. This shape indicates stresses and pulling in both the diaphragm and the lower pelvis. In both of these cases, there was no longer a well-defined rim, walls or floor of the navel; the navel had taken on a horizontal shape or a vertical shape. The healthy and balanced features had been obliterated by the unresolved tensions held within the body. The navel is a powerful energy center. It is considered to be the recycling center. When starting the massage, the hands should rest right around the rim of the navel. Slowly and gently the fingers begin to make a sinking, spiraling motion downwards, with the stroke always ending towards the center of navel. The idea is to move the tension felt by the fingers into the navel, into the recycling center, so that the body can access it and recycle the energy into something more useful. Very gradually, the massaging motion is expanded to an area of about an inch to an inch and a half around the navel. Keep the massaging motion going into the center of the navel. The massaging action is timed with the breath. On the inhale hold the fingers firmly and breath into them, and then on the exhale, tilt the pelvis up a bit more and press into the abdomen. Think of the center of the navel as a vacuum cleaner that is constantly sucking in whatever you sweep into it. Always start as close to the rim of the navel as possible and move whatever tension you feel into the recycling center. Then slowly move outward, sweeping towards the center of the navel, into the energetic vacuum cleaner. There are other more advanced techniques that go deeper into the large intestine and liver, help release the floating ribs, and relax the psoas muscles, but this is the primary technique all others are built on. You cannot hurt yourself massaging your navel and breathing deeply into the pelvic floor. This action is powerfully detoxifying, so you may feel a bit light-headed at first. That's the toxins moving out. You may also find that your arms tire easily. If you have to stop and rest a bit before continuing, that's fine. This action is cumulative so any amount of time you put into relaxing the navel is beneficial. Twenty minutes a day is a good minimum. It does not matter if it is ten minutes at night and ten minutes in the morning, or two minutes ten times throughout the day. . . I like to do a bit of navel massage just prior to an acupuncture treatment, full body massage or chiropractic adjustment. It helps relax the body and opens it up from the center outwards. If I am experiencing any trouble falling asleep, it is a nice thing to do while waiting to fall asleep, since it sends a message of relaxation to the whole body. In the case of over-eating, navel massage is a great way to support digestion, plus it helps alleviate that over-stuffed and bloated feeling. We are all designed to breath into our pelvic floor. Ever watch how babies breathe? Their little abdomens move dramatically on the inhale and exhale. Babies breathe the way we are all designed to breathe; they have not yet learned to stuff their emotions. . . . One instant they are scared, the next happy and laughing. They digest their emotions fully, and then move on to the next moment. Adults do not do that. We are masters of holding and repressing. Breath also follows consciousness. When we breathe into the pelvic floor, we are consciously residing in the center of our being. As we grow from babies into toddlers, adolescence, then adulthood, we learn to protect ourselves from our emotions. When we move our awareness from our gut up into our heads to insulate ourselves from feeling life too intensely, that action literally hijacks the breath and diaphragm upwards with the flow of consciousness. Nature does not like a vacuum when we move out. The undigested emotions, perceptions and experiences that pushed us out, move in. When we learn to bring the breath and awareness back down into the body, these other energies move out. They have to. Our bodies are designed to house our awareness, not fragments of undigested life. The best way to see, feel and become aware of how much undigested life you carry around is to do the navel massage. When lying on your back, with the knees bent and the pelvis tilted slightly forward, place your palms directly over the navel. Everything under your hands, between the floating ribs and hip bones, is soft tissue. The only bone is the spine in the back. When massaged, soft tissue should just move gently out of the way. . . If you are rubbing your navel around the rim, or in the inch to inch and a half zone directly around the rim, and you come in contact with something hard, constrictive, or resistant, ask yourself, "What is this?" It is not the organs. They are soft tissue. It is nothing you ate either. By the time food gets into the lower digestive system, it is a liquid. So what is it? It is undigested life. It is undigested thoughts, feelings, emotions and perceptions. I guess we really are "full of it"!. . . >> Vaishali is the author of "Wisdom Rising" and "You Are What You Love." She is a columnist for the "The Huffington Post" and an international health & wellness speaker who has appeared on "The Dr. Oz Radio Show" and "Oprah.com." Vaishali hosts a weekly talk radio show "You Are What You Love"© on Contact Talk Radio Fri., 1-2pm PST/4-5 pm EST and on Sun. 11-noon PST/2-3pm EST. She shares her wisdom at www.purplev.com/mediakit, or email her, v@purplev.com. >> Vashali will present a workshop featuring "navel exercises" in March, 2012, at A Gathering Place (see ad, above). top |
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Adventures with Lucy My trip to Denver, Colorado top © 2011 by Lucy Moorman  Article reprinted with author's permission. Photos included were taken by Lucy Moorman during her Denver trip – [from top to bottom]; Bottom left, Indiana head sculpture; Top right, Denver skyline; Denver Botanic Garden; Deer in Rocky Mountain National Park; Red Rocks Park; Boulder Metaphysical Bookstore, Painted Piano. Last June, I had the chance to travel to Denver and I loved it. What's not to love? It's an easy and inexpensive direct flight on Frontier Airlines from St. Louis. Due to the altitude and it's proximity to the Rocky Mountains, Denver, known as the "Mile High City," has a welcoming and easy going vibe. People seem much less stressed there. Gazing at a beautiful majestic mountain while sitting in traffic can help keep things in perspective. All places have a certain energy or feel and Denver feels darn good. I was fortunate to stay at the downtown Four Seasons Hotel, a gorgeous, modern hotel with warm and genuinely helpful staff. The hotel was two blocks away from a major downtown shopping and restaurant attraction called 16th Street Mall. It's tree-lined and like much of Denver, green, no cars are allowed in the mall, just free shuttle buses that cruise the mile long stretch. There are lots of restaurants and I found healthy food at reasonable prices. I also loved the art and culture. Painted pianos decorated the streets with an open invitation for anyone to plop down and break into a tune which many folks did. The sky is beautiful and we had a wonderful view from our hotel window. The weather in June was great, no humidity and only a light jacket was needed. There was an occasional shower that evaporated before it reached the top of your head. As tourists, I loved the Denver Botanic Garden. Although it's much smaller than our own Missouri Botanical Garden, they packed a whole lot into the city space with statues and twenty six gardens where you can easily wander from one to another in a short time. Another major gem in Denver, the bookstores. The Tattered Cover was overflowing with people and offered everything and more in subject matter. One afternoon, we drove an hour away to explore Boulder – also a shopping mall called Pearl Street with entertainment and activities galore as well as many Buddha shops but what I was most impressed with was. . . yep, the bookstore, Boulder Bookstore, several floors of metaphysical and alternative health books. I could be lost for days. Not wanting to spend all our time in the city, we took off to Rocky Mountain National Park. Breathtaking, of course, with over 400 square miles of incredible scenery leaves plenty to do in this national park. The road to the top was closed for snow so we ventured to Bear Lake (we didn't see any bears but found some resting Elk) and had a nice hike surrounded by beautiful vistas. Ahhhh. A massage and soak in the hot tub at the Four Seasons later topped off the day. On another day, we took a short drive out to Red Rocks Park, known for its large red sandstone outcrops as well as a natural amphitheatre that has been made into an incredible outdoor concert venue. Many famous groups have performed there since 1941 such as U2, The Beatles, Sonny and Cher and hundreds of others. Denver is beautiful and full of heart. I'm sure I'll be back soon. Resources > www.fourseasons.com/Denver > www.botanicgardens.org > www.tatteredcover.com > www.boulderbookstore.com > www.redrocksonline.com Lucy Moorman is a massage and energy therapist in St. Louis. She is also a published writer and photographer and frequently writes about her travels and adventures, some of which have appeared in Pathfinder. >> Visit her at www.lucymoorman. com, www.EFTUniverse.com, or www.psych-k.com or call 314-308-6440. top   |
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Here's one way to handle Mars in the Sign of the Virgin. . . "Memo to Mars" © by Linda Chambers, Member of AAStl top Article reprinted with author's permission. Originally appeared in the AAStL Bulletin, Vol. 21, No. 4, 2011 On November 10, [2011] at 10:16 pm CST, the planet Mars entered the astrological sign of Virgo, inspiring me to imagine how Virgo's representative, Mercury, might welcome the Warrior Planet. . . | |
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TO: Mars FROM: Mercury DATE: November 10, 2011 SUBJECT: Welcome to the Sign of the Virgin Dear Mars: Welcome to Earth's Virgo sector of the Universe, which extends from 150 to 180 degrees from the Vernal Equinox along the Ecliptic. This is a gentle and thoughtful sector, so please check your swagger and your weapons at the door – thank you. You are scheduled for a 236-night stay, with a check-out time of 12:33 pm GMT on July 3, 2012. Your itinerary includes reversing your direction, as seen from Earth, at 173 degrees (23 degrees Virgo) on January 24, 2012 (GMT), and then resuming your forward motion at 153 degrees (3 degrees Virgo) on April 14, to reach 180 degrees (your entrance into the Libra sector) at your check-out time. Complimentary amenities include: linen service, a library, beautiful gardens for relaxation and meditation, and large natural areas with many paths for hiking, running, and nature study. For a fee, you may order specialty services which include: nutritious meals and snacks of your choice, laundering of personal items, therapeutic massage, medical care, and secretarial or accounting professionals. You can feel confident that you will receive exemplary service and assistance while in the Virgo sector. I hope you enjoy your extended stay in this healing location, where peace disturbance and coarse language are discouraged, and where the desire for solitude is respected. Your initiative, your boldness and your pioneering spirit are welcome and needed here during these critical months on Earth, as many of the planet's inhabitants are facing serious challenges with human labor issues, with getting their financial houses in order, in receiving healthy food and water, in finding relief from debilitating and fatal diseases, and in reducing consumption and pollution of finite natural resources. I look forward to working in tandem with you in making progress on these challenges, especially during my visits to your home, the Aries sector, from March 2 to March 23 and from April 16 to May 9, 2012, when I'll be bringing my thoughts, detailed facts, analysis, and communication to your many projects, bold new initiatives, competitive sports issues, and military and law enforcement actions. There is great potential for Earth to be a better place for all its living things following this period of our collaboration. Welcome Mars, to Virgo. Editor's notes: Mars in Virgo is particularly fond of crafting, tools of all kinds, and may be more brusque in manner than is typically Virgoan. Here, Mars is less willing to accept the aggression of others quietly, and is more willing to "stand up" for itself. Strengths include strategy and tactical maneuvering, although the Virgo's tender side may need some work. In any case, mental and physical vigor should be evident (may make good soldiers!), as well as a practical interest in health, and in keeping with Her more usual traits, a deep love of nature. . . Linda Chambers has been a student . . . of astrology for over 30 years, in St. Louis. Her natal Sun is in Virgo, Moon is in Aries, Ascendant is in Sagittarius, and 10th house Mars is in Libra. She serves on the board of the Astrological Association of St. Louis (AAStL) and will facilitate a group discussion of "Mars Visiting Virgo" at AAStL's monthly program on April 15, 2012. For more information visit www.AAStL.net. top | |
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An esoteric astrology perspective A Possible Explanation for a 10 Year Cycle in Astrology © by Rev. Bill Duvendack, member AAStL top Excerpt reprinted with author's permission. This was part of a presentation given at the AAStL earlier in 2011. |
 Table Headings Celestial Body >> Cycle (Avg.) Sun >> 365 days Moon >> 27.3 days Mercury >> 88 days Venus >> 225 days Mars >> 2 years Jupiter >> 12 years Saturn >> 29 years Chiron >> 51 years Uranus >> 84 years Neptune >> 165 years Pluto >> 248 years Table Note: Durations listed in the table are from "A Spiritual Approach to Astrology," by Myrna Lofthus. |
I believe most of us can identify cycles that occur during our lives that occur every 10 years. This occurrence happening enough times in my life propelled me to look for why this occurs from an astrological perspective. After all, it has been my experience that astrology can explain just about everything, if one has a deep enough understanding of it. As I looked at typical astrological cycles, however, logic and understanding began to disintegrate. My dilemma: Jupiter has a twelve year cycle, and the Mars cycle is substantially less,* so there was no assistance from the seven classical planets. And thus I continued my search. [*See under photo.] Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto did not yield results, either, for most of their cycles are outside of that time range, nor was Chiron of assistance. So, as I traveled through the planets of the solar system, without insight leading to an understanding of the 10 year cycle, I began to search outside the box, opening my mind to different ideas. This quest eventually led me in a very fruitful direction. After the planets in our solar system, there were very few things to explore that might provide clues . . .related to a 10 year cycle. The first things to note are the North and South Nodes of the Moon. While these two points are not physical bodies in space, they are potent enough that they have been worked with for centuries, and thus can give insight. When I researched them, I discovered that they have cycles that are approximately nine and a quarter years long! Finally, I felt like I was headed in the right direction. I wasn't quite there, but I felt like I was on the right track thinking outside the box. Another piece of the solar system's bag of clues concerns the asteroid belt. Most astrologers who work with asteroids use the main four asteroids in readings. 1 However, I decided to take more a macro perspective, instead of focusing on the four most common ones. One of the theories that I had learned about almost as far back as the second grade about was that a theory behind how the asteroid belt was formed was based on the idea that there had been a planet there that had been destroyed, and that the asteroids were all that remained of a planet located between Mars and Jupiter, collected there because they were the ones that couldn't escape the gravitational pull of Mars and Jupiter. My investigation of that theory led me into many areas – namely astronomy, cosmobiology, archaeology, and anthropology. I began looking at the prehistory of earth to see what our . . .ancestors knew . . . This is where I found my first substantial clue. In ancient Sumerian texts, it is indicated that there was known to be a planet named Tiamat. While its location was never disclosed, a simple jump of logic [could place] the planet . . . between Mars and Jupiter. Me being me, though, I wanted to know more about this. The next leg of the journey unfolded before me, as I discovered the works of Zecharia Sitchin. His 'Earth Chronicles' series led me in the direction of uncovering more of this 10 year cycle mystery. After becoming familiar with Sitchin's material, I was led to Immanuel Velikovsky, and his theories of the early years of the solar system. Finally, things seemed to be making sense . . . but I was still left with troubling questions. The main question that occupied my thoughts was: 'If this planet existed thousands, if not millions of years ago, how can it still be felt today?' So, then, I took a mental inventory of classical science teachings – going back to Newton, and coming forward to Einstein ["energy is neither created nor destroyed, it just changes form']. This gave me an understanding of how scientifically we view the universe. Then I began to branch out into more cutting edge scientific theories, such as the 'String Theory' and the 'M Theory'. These theories illustrated to me how science and metaphysics are intertwining in the modern world. While this filled in gaps, it still didn't answer certain questions. Namely, how could something that has been destroyed a long time ago still impact us? Finally, I got my answer! Pulsars! Pulsars are something of an anomaly, but for me, they were the final lynch pin in the equation. The whole premise of a pulsar is that it is a star that has collapsed and gone supernova, finally becoming a neutron star. Its rotational speed is accelerated, its physical size shrinks, but it still has its angular momentum 2. Once during every rotation, it shoots out a beam of radiation; hence the pulsing effect**. So thus, in effect, these pulses can be used as mile markers on a map. It finally clicked! [**Ed's: Pulsars can rotate more than a 100 times a second!] Here's the esoteric astrology theory behind 10 year cycles, as I have deduced it: Once upon a time there was a planet that existed between Mars and Jupiter, and its name was Tiamat. Roughly, it was [a terrestial-type planet] larger than Mars, but nowhere near as large as Jupiter. When it exploded, the entire solar system was peppered with the debris that escaped the gravitational pull of Mars and Jupiter. The remains of the planet became the asteroid belt. The reason that it affects us is that even though it has been gone for awhile, it that it still emits energetic rhythms. . . While it may seem like Tiamat has been long gone. . ., it hasn't really been gone for that long in the grand scheme of things, considering that our solar system is over 4 billion years old. To give more credence to this idea is the fact that an early name of Venus was 'the bearded one', because it was seen to have a tail when it went through the sky. . .on it now. To simplify, even though the physical body is gone, its orbit and effect on us are still present, sort of like a phantom transit. Following this line of reasoning through to its conclusion tells us that the more we as a species evolve, the less sway that Tiamat's phantom transits will have on us.< > Footnotes: 1. Ceres, Vesta, Pallas Athena, Juno 2. Conservation of angular momentum is one reason why a pulsar spins so fast. Editor's note: We may still have questions about the cause of a 10 year cycle and its effects. . . but it doesn't hurt to speculate! Rev Bill Duvendack is an internationally known astrologer and internationally published author. Bill is currently vice president of the Astrological Association of St Louis (AAStL), and frequently lectures at their monthly meetings. He is also a presenter at a variety of venues throughout the St. Louis metro area, and teaches classes on astrology and western mystery traditions at Pathways Metaphysical Resource center. In addition, he writes articles for various local publications, and has a column in the bulletin of the AAStL. >> Beginning in Jan. 2012, his horoscopes will move from The River's Edge magazine to the Pathways website. For more information, please visit his website: www.418ascendant.com. top  | |
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