I have experienced a weird series of synchronistic bits of information and I decided since it is a timely subject to do a little bonus blog.
In The Sky Right Now Right now, from sun down to about 8pm if you go outside and you look to the west you will see two bright red stars and one that is a bit white in the night sky forming a triangle. Now, this intrigued me, I knew two of those were probably planets and one was Mars because of the red color. I had no idea what a second red star would be, however. Where I live with all of the light pollution it's very rare for me to notice any Star figures in the sky besides Orion's belt (my favorite and the most identifiable set of stars in a light polluted sky). I downloaded an app for my cellphone called Sky Map. I took my phone outside and held up the screen to the section of the sky and was shocked. The three stars forming the triangle are Saturn (the whitish star with the naked eye), Mars to the left and a star called Antares. Antares, it turns out, is called the Heart of the Scorpion as it lies in the astrological sign Scorpio. Further, Antares is also known as the Rival of Mars. Also, it's the 16th Brightest Star in the sky. I aimed my little phone upward a little bit more and I was shocked. Ophiuchus was just above Scorpio. The two planets, Saturn and Mars, were traveling right between these two constellations. I thought about that name, I've heard it a lot within the last month. I had just read an article about 13 astrological signs because the tilt of the Earth has changed since the Sumerians first picked out the 12 signs of the zodiac. Further, I had heard of it somewhere else... I was shocked when I realized it was in Graham Hancock's Magician's of the God's. Not only was I looking up into the heavens that a pillar at Gobekil Tepe showed...but I was also looking in the general vicinity of the Galactic Center of the Milky Way. For me, in my light polluted sky, I was amazed. Now, I could look up every evening and know where the heart of our galaxy lies! How fun! Again, and again through different areas of interest I found my attention being drawn to Scorpio and Ophiuchus. So let's explore what I've come across. The 13th Sign of the Zodiac Everyone knows what their Zodiac symbol is but NASA came out in what appears to be a page for children on January 13th of this year (2016) and decided to tell everyone that the Zodiac has shifted and that there are now 13 astrological signs. Why someone at NASA thought they should come out and make an authoritative statement about the Zodiac, I'm not sure. There are so many claiming a conspiracy at NASA at first I did not believe it until I found the article :(http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/starfinder2/en/). Apparently, in 2012 there were people who were talking about this subject. So it's not really new. The article gives credit to the Babylonian's saying that originally they noted that there were 13 zodiac signs but elected to leave one out. They did so in favor of having a constellation assigned to each of their 12 Lunar months. However, because the earth's axis has wobbled and the pole now points in a different direction the entire zodiac has shifted. So, according to the website Spirit Science here is the zodiac as we see it now: (http://thespiritscience.net/) Capriconr: Jan 20 - Feb 16 Aquarius: Feb 16th- March 11 Pisces: March 11- April 18 Aries: April 18- May 13th Taurus: May 13- June 21 Gemini: June 21- July 20 Cancer: July 20- Aug 10 Leo: Aug 10- Sept. 16 Virgo: Sept 16 - Oct 30 Libra: Oct 30 - Nov 23 Scorpio: Nov 23 - 29 Ophiuchus: Nov 29 - Dec 17 Sagittarius: Dec 17- Jan 20 Clearly, as you can see Ophiuchus is the added constellation. Gobekli Tepe I read the articles by Spirit Science and NASA the day after I had held up my phone to view Saturn and Mars pass between Ophiuchus and Scorpio. I was stunned, there was that strange familiar constellation. Where had it heard it before? I have mentioned this before but there is a pillar at Gobekli Tepe, pillar 43, that might depict a specific alignment between the pillar and a portion of the heavens. Paul Burley submitted an article to Graham Hancocks website on the phenomenon. Basically, the pillar represents an eighty year window between 1960-2040. On December 21st the sun rests on the outstretched wing of the bird depicted in the pillar which is also in alignment with the galactic center. Yes, I know this is awfully reminiscent of 2012. As a matter of fact when reviewing all of this information about Ophiuchus and Scoprio that date showed up often. 2012 represents what might have been the central point of that 80 year period between the Age of Pisces and the Age of Aquarius. In the pillar depiction is a series of three vultures, or birds, snakes and the scorpion. The birds, one a chick, one with wings outstretched and one depicted with a snake all coincide with shapes of the constellations in the area of the heavens where I was looking last night. This is all per Graham Hancock's Book Magicians of the Gods (pgs 321-323) The scorpion coincides with Scorpio but it's actually a small part of the constellation we know. The vulture with the outstretched wings coincides withe Saggitarius. The Vulture chick coincides with the head and claws of what we consider Scorpio today. Antares would actually be in this constellation. The bird with the snake coincides with Ophiuchus. An Pyramid Alignment I stumbled across this just today when watching a video on Ra-Ta, the Egypitian incarnation of Edgar Cacye. I didn't think the lecture I was watching on Youtube would have anything to do with this area in the sky. I will attach the video to the end of this post. Yet, strangely enough, this area depicting Ophiuchus and Scorpio is indicated during the time that Edgar Cacye says the Pyramid was built. There have been several authors (including Graham Hancock that have independently suggested the date of around 10,500 BC as the time when the Pyramid and Sphinx were built based on astronomical alignments). This exact area of the sky was also indicated by the Pyramid. On 12/21/10440 BC on the the Zenith and Nader axis. Yeah, I know the fact the December solstice was indicated again. Also, there is a connection with the three birds again when the Pyramid was built. In this case, a triangle was formed in the sky by three bird constellations. Those were Lyra (the hawk holding a lyre), Cygnus (swan) and Auilus (Eagle). They were directly above the pyramid as it was built. According to Edgar Cacye, the pyramid was to symbolize the involution of the spirit into flesh and evolution out of the flesh. The Pyramid contains a timeline that ends in 2038 and is a map for humanity, set in stone that could not be destroyed, as a testament to our purpose here on Earth. Here is that purpose in summary: "The premise put forth in the readings is that one of the ultimate goals in life is to somehow give expression to the souls individuality while we are in the Earth- thereby bringing Spirit into Earth. To this end each indivudal has the ability to manifest a unique vibration that somehow reflects the very image of the divine." pg 109 of Contemporary Cacye by Kevin Todeschi and Henry Reed. Scorpio Scorpio, the astrological sign that holds Antares, known as the Scorpion's Heart, is interesting. It's come up a few times in what I've read. First and foremost, as I mentioned, Scorpio is depicted as both a Scropion and as part of a vulture chick on the Gobekli Tepe Pillar. Astronomers refer to Scorpio as the Fish Hook. Yet, in Ancient Egypt it was most likely to represent the Heka-Staff or the Shepard's Crook. Both of these have significant meaning to the Egyptians. The Heka staff was one of the symbols of the Pharaoh. The Heka-Staff, basically, represents a spiritually awakened individual. More or less, according to John Van Auken, it represents someone with a fully functional Kundalini. The Kundalini is the energy that passes up the spine through the chakra's and it's known as the 'god force' of an individual. Also, we clearly associate the Shepard's Staff with both Moses and Yeshua (Jesus). Again, in both of these cases the suggestion is that this is a fully spiritually awakened individual. Ophiuchus Typically, Ophiuchus as a man holding a serpent by the head and tail (the snake is a constellation called Serpentarius). Strangely, the man is said to face opposite Orion. Which is true, because if you look up into the night sky to the right is Orion and to the left is Ophiuchus. The constellation is tied to several interesting Gods. The Greek's saw it as a man who learned the secret of immortality from snakes and so was struck dead by a lightening bolt before he could share it with the rest of humanity and placed among the stars. To the Sumerians it was the Annunaki God Enki which is fascinating in his own right as he was seen as one of two competing Gods for the Earth. He was the Lord of the Seas. His symbol was fish. The website Spirit Science connects Ophiuchus to Joseph in the bible (according to Edgar Cacye, interestingly enough, this was one of Yeshua's incarnations). There is actually ample evidence to suggest that Joseph was Imhotep in Egypt. Both were stewards to the Pharaoh during seven years of plenty and seven years of famine. (I suggest looking this up, it's a bit fascinating). If we don't look at the other information and just the image itself, we could say that Ophiuchus is the man who has tamed the Serpent. Which has an entire meaning of it's own. The serpent representing earthiness and temptation, being tamed has much the same meaning as the Heka-Staff or a person who is spiritually awakened. Also, it's interesting to note that in Wikipedia it's mentioned many cultures saw Ophiuchus trampling the Scorpion. The Scorpion, if you might remember, is connected to the Kiss of Death that Judas gave to Yeshua. Ophiuchus, the symbol when taken in it's entirely can be seen as taming his worldly nature and triumphing over Death. Birds So I mentioned, interestingly, that what emerged in the information that I came across is the theme of three birds. On the Pillar in Gobekli Tepe it could be seen as the chick, the bird with it's arms outstretched signifying where the sun in the galactic alignment on it's wing, and one holding a serpent. The second, is the significance of three bird constellations that if we hopped into a time machine we would have seen circling the tip of the pyramid as it was being built (which was over a hundred year period according to Cacye). John Van Auken explains that in Egypt the Soul, or Ba was depicted as birds. Souls that were not incarnate were depicted as having bird heads. The bird could also represent the Higher Self. Egyptian beliefs were focused on uniting the Ba (the soul) with the Ka (the human consciousness). The Ba, is the aspect of ourselves that always remains before the Throne of God or in heaven (I've explained before I see this as the Higher Self). Interestingly, Laird Scranton also talks about the Vultures at Gobekli Tepe. He connects the vultures to Goddesses. He ties Vultures to Isis and Nephthys but he gives no explanation for why there is a third vulture. A search provided that there is a third Vulture Goddess called Nekhebet but Laird does not mention her in his work and I'm not sure it would fit in with the cosmology he has worked out. She too is also associated with Isis and Nephthys but may be a later adaptation during the New Kingdom. In Egypt, both Isis and Nephthys are depicted as vultures. He also notes that Vultures are also tied to Large Breasted Eagles. He ties this in with Gobekli Tepe by saying Tebe might be etymologically significant. The word vulture is Tebe in Egyptian which is the root for the word Tebelu which means, "Moment when Humanity was restored to culture." (pg. 51-52 Point of Origin). The Serpent The following could be it's own post and in the future I might expand on this topic. I'm simply going to summarize what I have become aware of without quoting anyone. There is clearly, the suggestion that the Serpent is associated with Sin. Yet, the Serpent was actually considered a sign of abundance in Egypt. There were a few gods that were depicted as snakes that were benevolent. In the Egyptian Book of the Dead there was also Apep, who was considered evil. However, I think what seems to be most universal is that it represents a focus on material objects (abundance in a way) and material reality which is what caused the falling away from the connection with God/The Universal Source. After all, it was Eve's desire for a material object that caused "sin" in the bible. This is a very basic or primitive state of Spiritual Life. So, it represents an animal that slithers on its belly and is very Earthly all of it's life. From Snake To Bird What I noticed when studying the eight Neters of Egyptian mythology that within their names there were certain symbols. Serpent- Atum, the self created one is depicted as a serpent along with his daughter Tefnut. Birds- Shu has a chick in his name, Geb has a goose, and Horus has the Falcon. The reason I find this interesting is that these eight ancestors are associated with different stages of creation or matter. They might have even been connected to stages similar to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs with Horus representing self-actualization. Even more interesting is that in another metaphor creation consists of four stages: 1. The Dung Beetle (non-existence), 2. The Fish (or Snake which was mentioned in another part) (raising up of matter or mass/also depicted as the BenBen stone in the Atum myth), 3. The Jackal or Fox (matter in the state of reorganization) 4. The Goose (completed state). (Cosmological Origin of Myth and Symbol by Laird Scranton) Add to this that the Egyptians were the first ones to create the image of the Beanu bird- the Greeks called it a Phoenix- that rises up from it's own ashes...and Ancient Egypt definitely had a thing for birds as a symbol for Spirit and Spiritual Rebirth. Now, add to this Quetzalcoatl in North and South America. What is Quetzalcoatl? A serpent with wings. This is the combination of the Snake (worldly aspect) being given wings (heavenly aspect). In other words, a person who has combined their material and spiritual aspects. In the stories he didn't always have wings, however, there is a certain period in time when he receives his wings, which is in this eighty year time span. Conclusion Well, I've pretty much exhausted the little synchronicity experience I had in the last few days. I don't know if it means anything but it is fascinating that a constellation I had no idea about and received very little press has taken such prominence in my life. I find it interesting that Mars, associated with war or battle, is aligned with it's rival Antares and Saturn. I might investigate those three a bit deeper. I'm not sure if this has any meaning to people in the general population. For me, personally, it reminds me of the humbling nature of Creation. To me this is all happening comes at a very interesting time. I've reached a comfortable sense of Wholeness. My impressions working with my dreams and waking life is that I am imbuing more of my Spirit in the physical realm with the emphasis on the importance of individuality . I think John Van Auken said it best: "Our souls have traveled throughout the cosmos from the beginning of creation. Many of us, our souls, went through the initiations of these ancient mystery schools and temples during the thousands of years of descent into matter...As we reawaken the soul-self within us, we will remember and understand...This is one of the great aspects of this new era which we are entering, an Awakening- an Awakening like none other, where whole groups of souls rise to a more universal, eternal view of life, past and future." pg 4 Ancient Egyptian Mysticism.
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