March 4th
March 4, 2010
Today is March 4th, or as my music teacher mother would say about today:
Class Recordings: Meeting the Archetypes
January 17, 2010
Recordings are now available for all the sessions in the class, Meeting the Archetype on the Road. If you are interested in listening to all of them, email me at anne@stariel.com with the word Archetype in the subject header. I’ll send you a bill via Paypal, which you can pay from your bank or with a credit card and I’ll send you the password and link that unlocks the downloads.
The cost for the whole series is $45.00. If you’d like to listen to a sample, check out the podcast called Knowing Pluto, in the drop-down list under Podcasts.
Here’s the link to the recordings
Jan-Feb Utube forecast
January 17, 2010
Here’s the forecast for Jan-Feb. It got posted after the earthquake in Haiti, which is not really a part of the astrological pattern described… we’d need to look at the chart for Haiti to see how Uranus and Mars got empowered in this picture. What I WILL say about the quake, is there is a lot of power manipulation behind the scene. The two that I can see peeking through are elevating the USAID into a major coordinator for disasters for one, and the second is what I perceive as unconscionable racism by Gates, who is delaying life-saving health for “security” concerns–fearing people who need food and water will cause riots when it appears, and allowing the situation to get much worse because of these xenophobic fears… a repeat of the Katrina upside-down priorities.
The Future creates the past?
December 20, 2009
Well, more like the future crystalizes the past via the moment of the present. Wow. Check out this fabulous physics article at Technology Review
As an astrologer, I sometimes tell people our future is pulling us toward it. This is a different tweak on the idea, which combines the concept of multiple future possibilities which “condense” into actuality. (Which is why astrologers see possibilities, strong possibilities, or weak possibilities, and can characterize the energy footprint of those possibilities, but the details are being created by the sequence of NOWs between the present and the future event.)
Anne
Video: Beversdorf Briefing
December 1, 2009
Less than 10 minutes to look ahead at trends for late Nov-December and early January.
New IONS Podcast
November 28, 2009
Look under the PODCAST heading on the menu bar for the entire series of IONS lectures for 09. The podcasts for Mark Sebasta’s Shamanism and Shapeshifting into a New Era is up, as well as October’s Mary Mansfield, Bridging Science and Spirit.
Podcast: Knowing Pluto
November 1, 2009
This is the 5th lecture in the class series on “Meeting the Archetype on the Road”. It is about Pluto, which is a major player in the archetypal energy soup we are swimming in between 2008 and 2012 and beyond. If you would like the recordings for the rest of the class series, please contact me directly at anne@stariel.com . The series will be available shortly on these pages.
November Energies
November 1, 2009
I’ve been asked to say a few words about the astro-energy we’re traveling thru this month. Here’s what I can say… First, I’m not comfortable making specific world-oriented “predictions”. A great “mundane” (meaning “about the world”) astrologer, Judy Johns assidiously collected birth data of all country leaders, of countries, watched CNN non-stop for defining events, and was really quite good at making specific predictions. Asking me for world predictions is kinda like asking a psychiatrist to do brain surgery… they both have MDs and deal with the brain but….
That said, what I CAN do is describe the aroma of the energy soup we’re all traveling through, and I can tell you, there’s a lot of jalapeno in this soup! Thursday, the 29th, Saturn entered tropical Libra, creating an even more tense pattern with Pluto.
Saturn is the “fear things won’t be the way I think they SHOULD be” planet, and Pluto is the energy of “fear of loss of control.” Additionally, each of these planets ramps up fears in general, so there is an increased generalized tension having to do with fears that the world is running out of control in a way you don’t personally like. Since this is a very strong energy pattern, and it WILL be impacting many people, we are likely to see public acting out of this fear pattern. Sometimes this can take the form of outside agencies promising that taking certain socially disruptive (or even violent) action will help restore the status quo. The problem is, this is inchoate energy. There is no single focus of discontent. There is simply a large number of people who are strongly unhappy about their own idiosyncratic issue. We’ve seen this lack of focus in the “Tea Party” movement, where largish numbers of people gather to protest… well, to protest almost as many things as there are people standing there.
This Saturn/Pluto/fear energy pattern doesn’t affect everyone directly, but each of us will be standing in the general energy “soup” and watching others react as this energy pattern gets stronger and stronger through the month of November.
If these energies do happen to affect you personally, you will be aware that things in your own life are moving in a direction you believe is WRONG, and as much as you may try to control the situation, you can’t. Pluto’s purpose here is to get you out of the rut that has so completely stunted your vision that you literally can’t see beyond it. If you are in one of these crisis-like situations my advice, going against every grain of passion in you, is not to fight the situation. Winning will cost you more than surrender. And surrender will lead you to your own personal Elysian Fields once you leave the rut that’s binding you.
After writing this to the group who requested it, someone wrote me privately asking when the Elysian Fields come, how we get there, and how we recognize them. First, the “Elysian Fields” as a metaphor is a bit hyperbolic. Generally what I hear is “That was the most difficult thing I’ve ever lived through, but I have to say I’m not sorry it happened. As a result, I got shifted into a whole different place in life that I could never have imagined before all that, and which is a much better, happier, and more authentic place for me.” (The “Elysian Fields” doesn’t mean “happily ever after”.)
The metaphorical Elysian Fields comes after the surrender. We’re dealing with situations that are literally beyond both our control and our understanding. One effect is to push us into an area where our horizons are expanded, and we can see new possibilities. The path to the Elysian Fields is deliberately and (with Saturn’s help) with discipline, to recognize when we’re in the obsessed fighting state and do anything possible to find one activity that brings joy. Maybe it’s walking by the creek. Maybe it’s staring at the moon or dancing with friends. It’s not about something that gives you escape, or that your automatic pilot thinks is joyful (like ice cream or just another mystery novel, or even an expensive cup of coffee). The key is the experience of joy, not the “rule” that something ought to bring it.
So if you’re in the depths of a personal Pluto-Saturn crisis, drop the struggle, surrender the battle, and make your spiritual path the immediate, present-tense experience of joy.
Podcast: Sabian Symbols and Saros Cycle
October 30, 2009
Here is the podcast for my September Lecture at the Astrological Society of Austin.
Sabian Symbols can be used to determine one’s life path and direction, and to fine-tune goals and resources for each year of your life. The lecture offers background on the symbols and uses audience charts to demonstrate the process.
Saros Cycles are based on eclipse patterns. Your prenatal eclipse will “present” certain personality and event situations for your life. What makes this so amazing is that the interpretation of the prenatal eclipse is based on the chart for the first eclipse of that Saros Eclipse cycle—which could be almost 2000 years ago! What a thought–an event 1500 years ago, or 900 years ago (or whatever is the original eclipse in your own case) is actually affecting your life today. Again… audience charts provide examples.
Sabian Symbols and Saros Cycle: Lecture by Anne Beversdorf for ASA [98:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadHealth Care Worries
October 13, 2009
Just a few words here on health care worries in this country as opposed to others—say Sweden and Great Britain specifically.
I have clients all over the world, who educate me on different perspectives, quite without meaning to.
In this country, a health care crisis in the family ALWAYS means financial pressure, if not a full-blown financial crisis. This is so pervasive that we are quite unable to think in terms of health crises without thinking financial crisis.
Recently a young man from Sweden called me with concerns about the financial crisis he was experiencing. He mentioned how difficult the past year had been, including the multiple bypass surgery of his unusually young father. I sympathized with him on his father’s health and the additional financial pressure this must have brought to him. His reaction was total surprise. He said there was no financial burden at all—it was all covered by national health. He was concerned about his father’s health, and it was a stressful year, but his father has recovered now and is doing better than he had been for years. He just mentioned it because it was an emotional stress.
I was shocked! In this country a family with limited resources would have been bankrupted by a multiple bypass episode (if, indeed, they even managed to get the surgery… chances are they would have just waited for the heart attack to kill the father). But this man was solely concerned about his father’s health. Not the financial life-or-death of the family.
What a Dickensian world we live in. (Where is Charles Dickens now, when we need him!) We could write story after story of families remortgaging homes, falling behind, being thrown out on the streets in futile attempts to pay for medical care to save the life of a parent, or a child. I had been so immersed in this Dickensian culture that the very idea that a dire health crisis would have no effect on an impoverished family was inconceivable to me until my client pointed it out.
I have had clients from England with similar stories… total freedom from financial catastrophe caused by medical expenses. I know this freedom exists in ALL the industrialized countries of the world except for ours. And yet I was still so embedded in our cultural assumption that WE have the best of everything here that I was shocked when my clients, in their intimate and personal tales of worry were entirely free of the fear of the catastrophic effects of getting life-saving health care.
My god—when are we going to wake up!
Newsletter 6
September 30, 2009
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Secrets of Sabian Symbols and Saros Cycle Symbols.
(This article first appeared in The Mountain Astrologer in the 90’s. It still stands as both an interesting way to understand astrology and as a practical tool requiring no charts or heavy calculations.)
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The 2012 Global Mind Shift
September 6, 2009
Consciousness Changes at the End of the Mayan Fifth Age
According to the Mayan Calendar, we are already in the period of time leading to the close of the Fifth World Age. And according to the evidence of your senses, we are clearly living in a time of profound global change. Forgetting for a moment all the apocalyptic hysteria, what might we expect from this shift? A world age shift doesn’t happen overnight. Despite having an “end date” in mind (and there is scholarly argument about this exact date), the years preceding that date imply the ending of the old age, and the new date is only the beginning of the new. What can we realistically expect to change?
First, we need to understand the nature of the “old age”. According to Mayan cosmology, the existing world age began approximately 3000 BCE. Interestingly, this coincides closely to our consensus western understanding of “world history”. Most contemporary historians still look to ancient Sumeria for the beginning of writing. Interestingly, this was also in the 4th millennia BCE—the beginning date for the current Mayan world age. In fact, some fundamentalist Christians claim that the entire world began somewhere within that same era. In this sense, they’re not too different from historians, who claim that non-written records of the past are unreliable and therefore don’t qualify to be called “history”. These “undocumented” versions of the past are called “prehistory”. Of course, this assumes that written records are more accurate than oral histories, which is just another result of intellectual dependence on what can be pinned down to a physical source.
Not coincidentally, the earliest Sumerian records were records of trade—the records of buying, selling, and making (or losing) money. It seems reasonable to characterize this age of “written history” and “buying and selling” as an age of materialism. Even our science has been based on what can be seen, measured, and touched, and the extent of materialism has been growing ever more dense during this world age.
Scientific materialism has become the dominant world view witin ithin the last two hundred years. This paradigm enshrines the materialistic worldview into the sole source of Truth. Let’s explore our recent history to track this theme. Until the mid 19th century, for example, anyone who thought about the world and how it physically worked was called a “philosopher”, not a “scientist”. Those who thought about the physical world were called “natural philosophers.” But since natural philosophers were holistic thinkers, meaning their thoughts included the unseen world of thoughts, of forces like “gravity”, the idea of what held the stars in the sky, their thinking soon ran them into collision with the power of the Church in the western world. The church as an institution can be dated back to the middle of the first millennium CE. It’s a pretty new part of the existing world age, and historically had a lot to do with buying and selling and making money, as well as gathering worldly power into its own purvue.
The Church and Natural Philosophy collided in a way that concretized the materializing trends of this world age. How did this happen? The Church claimed all authority over unseen things. Natural philosophers were relegated to measuring the HOW of the natural world, but were prohibited from addressing any questions of WHY it worked. The WHY was only the province of religion. This division led to a divorce between philosophy (holistic) and “science” (physically measureable world). Therefore Galileo could LOOK at planets through his telescope, but was prohibited from offering an interpretation of what he saw. A natural philosopher who continued to philosophize about the whys and the unseen interconnections of the natural world was at risk of torture and death by the Inquisition (which was not dissolved as an arm of the church until late in the 19th century!). This was a profound shaping of how the scientific mind works. The message was loud and clear: “Think about more than the measurements and you may be tortured to death.”
This led to what Stephen Schwartz (via Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) called the “Grand Material Worldview”, or the “The Materialist MegaParadigm”. A paradigm is the shape within which all thinking must fit in order to be considered “acceptable” thinking. The current Materialist MegaParadigm posits that
- The mind is a result of physiological processes.
- Each consciousness is a discrete entity
- Organic evolution has no specific goal
- There is only one time-space continuum, providing for only one reality. (ref. Stephen Schwartz, The Secret Vaults of Time, p. 269.
The resulting of this thinking is the tautology, repeated by many “scientific thinkers” of our time: “If it’s unseen, it’s not science. I’ll stake my life on that.” (This is pure PTSD [post-traumatic-stress-disorder] on the part of rational thinkers, caused by latent memories of the Church’s promise: “If you offer thoughts about the nonphysical you may be tortured to death.”)
But the fifth world, the world of the material, is coming to a close. We are leaving behind the divorce between science and Nature. We are leaving behind the divorce between This and That; Self and Other. The new paradigm sees the universe as a whole, full of promise and mystery, and guided by what is good for all.
THIS is what is shifting in our shift of ages. The material world is beginning to reflect our dawning realization that the Materialist MegaParidigm is tattered and broken. The infrastructure lies in tatters and the megalopoly of buying and selling is disintegrating around us, but the new paradigm hasn’t yet birthed our “new world”.
Wayne Dyer tells us “a change of thought precedes a change in society”. Obviously, the structures of society have not yet accepted a new paradigm. Those people whom Ray and Anderson (authors of The Cultural Creatives: How 50 million people are changing the world) call the “cultural creatives” are already aware of the new paradigm. Their values and impetus toward change actually pull society in the direction of the new paradigm. While the bureaucratic structures of society may be resisting this change,just as obviously, the system is breaking. We are likely to reorganize ourselves around what the cultural creatives would recognize as the dawning paradigm. New breakthroughs in physics are leading the way to a new way of understanding the world around us—a way in which the previously materialistic and deterministic interpretations are expanded and eventually discarded. These new breakthroughs show us a new way of envisioning our environment in which thoughts, previously unthinkable, are forming a new organizing principle. Here are a few of them.
- The mind is separate from the body. The brain is the vehicle for the mind in the physical world, but the mind exists independently. Mind may be the preeminent operating principle in the universe. (Oddly, this is not a new idea. The Corpus Hermeticus states that the first creation of God was The (universal) Mind.)
- Everything is connected. The entire universe is a single organism, and the fate of any part affects the whole.
- Organic evolution is shaped by the Mind of the Universe for the goal of the universe’s well-being (e.g. the well being of all, since all parts of the universe share in the wellbeing of the entire cosmos).
- There are multiple, overlapping time-space continuums, and time is a dimension in which may be able to move as easily as one does in space. In fact, time itself has many qualities, and is not simply the strictly linear ticking of seconds that we once thought it was. (Pre-clock cultures already recognize this.)
What will be the results of this kind of paradigm shift? Clearly there are many more than I could list or you’d wish to read, but just to get your juices flowing here are some results of such a paradigm shift:
- People will realize that all their actions affect all others. Actions causing pain to any part of the cosmos will cause pain to the individual taking the action. Therefore testing cosmetics on animals would be unthinkable. Not watering your plants (or planting things that don’t naturally grow in your environment) would be unthinkable. These would be things that cause pain to living beings. Conversely, caring for and nurturing and giving joy to any living being adds to the joy quotient of the universe, and the person taking the action quite literally would feel this increase in joy.
- Government organizations would truly focus on the good of the all, because pain in any part of the world would truly and immediately affect the lives of leaders and lawmakers, and the positive results for others would bring joy to the actors.
- Short-term gain at the cost of long-term suffering would not be possible, since the long-term suffering will cause a ripple of pain in the universe.
- The health of the planet, the solar system, the galaxy, would all be important. (Space junk may not be a viable way to decommission old satellites.)
- The exploration of the entire cosmos may be possible through meditational and psychic means. These means will become acceptable tools for discovery.
- The holographic link between every part of the cosmos (physicist Nassim Haramein’s new black hole theories) provide evidence for the psychic link between all of us.
These are just a few thoughts about where the new metaparadigm might take us. As we remove ourselves from a strictly materialistic “truth detector”, we will become open to other ways of knowing, honoring the information gained during meditation, holotropic work, and other altered states of being. Our understanding of the nature of reality itself would expand from only what can be measured by instruments of our devising, to include valuing the metaphysical and wisdom experiences of those whose contributions to the world increase its well-being for the long term.
If the Mayan ages do shift within the next several years, we can’t expect this new Meta-Paradigm to emerge, full-blown, from the chaos of the dissolving world. Children being born today will be lucky to see the beginnings of a new social structure based on these concepts. Still, it seems reasonable and consistent with current patterns of change to anticipate this kind of intellectual and consciousness revolution to become ever more apparent as we cross the divide of anciently-measured world ages. And as we move into this ever-more-chaotic period of changes, it is useful and comforting to have a sense of where we may land when we reach the other shore.
Beversdorf Briefing video 2
September 2, 2009
Beversdorf Briefing: A quick update on astrological energies affecting us this year.
Newsletter 5
August 29, 2009
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Spiral visualization to manifest change
August 29, 2009
The ONE is The Many. VANDORN (see http://www.lightweavings.com)
Here’s what happened to me, and here is the visualization that was created/resulted from what happened. The resulting visualization I have shared with clients and friends and which has created dramatic results–so I’m sharing it with you now.
For those of you who want to cut to the chase, I’ll tell you the technique first. For those of you who want to understand how it came about, the “backstory” will follow.
Manifesting change with spiral energy.
- First, imagine and feel fully the situation you are in now–the situation you want to change. Feel the limits to your sense of possibility–allow yourself to stretch to the limits of your beliefs until you bump against the ceiling of “this is just wishful thinking” and then settle into a place that you absolutely and deeply feel is possible.
- Now imagine a HUGE (and insulated) electrical wire with a live and open end spiraling up your body. In my experience, and counter-intuitively for me, this wire travels up your body in a counter-clockwise direction. But don’t worry a lot. Just allow the wire to spiral up your body without worrying which way it goes.
- Spiral the live wire up your body to about solar plexus level, and grab the loose end with your left hand. See the ’sparks’ of live electricity coming from the end of the wire.
- Now fully imagine the situation you’d like to bring into your life, without worrying about whether you believe it is possible. Imagine it as fully as you can, with the feelings and details that would be in place when this happens.
- With the desired situation in mind, imagine another huge electrical wire spiraling down from above your head. Some people see this as counterclockwise also, others see it as clockwise. Allow whatever feels right for you. Let this wire spiral down til it reaches your solar plexus.
- Reach out and grab the downward spiraling live wire with your right hand and “see” the ’sparks’ of live electricity at the end of the wire.
- Now it’s time to bridge the gap. Imagining bringing your current situation to meet your desired situation–so the desired situation becomes the current one, bring the two live wires together til they join. Watch the shielding move over the join until they are seamlessly connected.
- Check your body for any physical reactions. Some people feel a jolt, some people feel a rush of energy, some feel a “click”. This is telling you that the connection is made. If you don’t feel the jolt, don’t go “cut” the wire. Live with the new alignment for a while.
- I’ll repeat here, whether you do or do not feel an energy surge, do NOT repeat the process. Repeating it implies that you’ve cut the existing connection, because how can you bridge these wires if they haven’t been separated. You can remember the experience of joining them, but do not repeat the exercise.
- Wait and see!
Backstory: How this came about.
In June I realized that not only was the monthly income I received from astrology not enough to cover my expenses, but that in my mind I couldn’t imagine how it would reach a point where that was possible. I needed to increase my income by half again… for example from 2000/mo to 3000/mo gross income. I realized that one part of the problem was my failure to feel the possibility was real, so I set to work on changing that. What happened inside me was energetic and visceral, not visual at all. What it felt like was twisting, writhing inside my skin to shed an old energy form and to bring (the twisting) a new understanding into connection with my old limits to “cross the bridge” from an old way of thinking to a new way of thinking. When “it” happened, I felt an energetic click. The immediate result was more focused energy on my work, my clients. Now, two months later, I can say it definitely worked. The first month was a success–I succeeded with the additional half-again income. The second month (not yet over) is already 10 percent higher than the previous month. So yes, it worked.
Then I set about trying to figure out how to tell someone else what I did. The twisting and writhing on the inside and the click of something joining (it felt like the click of one of those light sticks that you have to twist until something clicks and the light turns 0n) was really hard to describe, so I wanted to develop a visualization that contained the elements of my experience in a visual form.
At this time I was reading a lot of new physics about the power of spin–the spiral, the vortex that many are now saying is the creative energy within the universe. I could see the correspondence in my experience of “twisting” on the inside, so I started playing with idea of spirals, and of energy… and the electrical wire came to mind. From there it was automatic to see the old way coming up from the earth, the root chakras and the new way from above the crown chakra. I suppose if you are left handed you might want to shift the handedness of the patterns, but I leave that to your instincts to try (instincts are visceral, not mental/intellectual).
I tried the new technique on myself, with the goal of bridging the gap between what I believed was the love that could come my way, and the love that I want to come my way in life. Within days I had a totally unexpected heart-healing experience that echoed back hundreds of years and forward through many experiences in this lifetime, and made me feel re-embraced by my “tribe”. (I’ll write about this later). So I can see that the visualization technique also works.
Now the only thing left is for you to use it.
I wish you the very best of love, life, and wholeness!
Musings.. Aquarian Age?
August 12, 2009
I’ve been observing stuff and have a bunch of questions in my head with no clear answers. So here are the ponderings, and perhaps someone out there can add some thoughts which will make things come clear to me.
What I’ve noticed is how very many people I encounter have something to offer—wisdom through experience, teachings, techniques for life, and even land and property, a home, etc. Me too. People tell me about the class they are teaching, the land they want to turn into an intentional living community (kinda upscale adult version of what we used to call communes… but this time thought through a bit more). Everyone wants others to come to THEM for wisdom, community, etc., and at the same time these folks aren’t wanting to go somewhere else.
There’s a Leo/Aquarius polarity here: Leo is the king, the leader. Aquarius is the coordinator, the community itself. People are coming up with Aquarian goals but wanting to be the Leo personality. (Leos love having company more than Being company.) There’s another polarity here, which is about giving and receiving. Everyone is offering something, everyone resists receiving what others offer. (Obviously I’m exaggerating.)
I can’t begin to tell you how many friends and clients tell me they want to open some kind of wisdom/learning “center”. They aren’t telling me they want to work at a center someone else is running. Of course, if someone were to offer…
What interests me here is the upswelling of wanting to share meaningfulness. If a certain way of looking at life has helped you, it’s great to want to share it. This is really a nice thing. I also wonder if more and more people now are actually getting great insight, so these wisdom experiences may not be as rare as they once were. I don’t know. I’ve surely been hearing more about them, and more frequently, each year.
I guess at some level I’m hoping that those of us with something to share would think in terms of coming together, so it’s not MY wisdom/healing center, or YOUR wisdom/healing center, but instead is an organic tide of sharing. I don’t know how to help this tide to rise. The skills necessary for running a business are not the same skills as those of a person seeking to share his or her wisdom or healing skills, and even if one person had all the requisite skills, taking time to run a business takes time away from sharing one’s wisdom.
At one level, it may be the “too many chiefs and not enough indians” syndrome, though I don’t believe that. I think I may be running into more chiefs than indians. And every chief will attract a different “tribe”.
OK… those are things I’m thinking about. Love to hear from others here.
Pictures uploaded on Part 4.
August 9, 2009
For a while it wasn’t possible to upload pictures to wordpress files, but that feature bug has been repaired, so now, if you want to read the conclusion to the article series Joyful Anticipation:Converging Trends towards a Changing Future (and how to get where we want to go) the pictures are now up. Click here to get there.
Times A-Changin’ (1960’s and now)
August 1, 2009
Sometimes I can be gob-smacked by the totally obvious. It’s happened again. About how this era is echoing and growing the themes of the 60’s. Yes, we can see the unpopular war, new idealism for politics again, mass movements of a populist nature coming up against powerful established interests willing to do anything at all to crush the movements.
These are all themes we share with the 60’s, and both periods are characterized by the conflicts of hard astrological aspects between Uranus, Saturn, and Pluto. And we can see that many of the social issues of that time are in front of us again. Even health care for everyone, as a bookend to the 1960’s Medicare legislation that now no-one wants to give up.
But what is the larger picture? When these aspects move around the circle for another round of events, it’s typical to see the same issue come up. But there is a deeper theme.
Remember the old line “Never trust anyone over 30.”??? WHY was that a theme? What was it about passing the Saturn Return that made people untrustworthy to young people? Well, that’s the time people settle down to responsibilities. More importantly, to the youth of that time, 30 was the point at which people sold out their ideals in favor of money and security. They “sold out”.
Anderson and Ray, in their fabulous book, The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World point out how many of the “weird new ideas” of the 1960’s and early 70’s are totally mainstream now. Back then, Yoga was “like really WEIRD man”. Now there’s a yoga studio in every strip mall. Meditation, organic food, eco-consciousness, even mind-altering experiences are part of mainstream reality and have merged into a new conciousness. If you want to open a new yoga studio, you’d better put your advertising on recycled paper (or no paper) using eco-friendly (or electronic) ink, and you’d better serve carefully selected herbal teas and bottled water in your snack bar. These trends got started in the 60’s, but they are very much alive today.
But what was the big deal about the “sell-outs”? It was putting materialism over consciousness. Putting matter above spirit, soul, conscience. That was the big deal. Selling out your conscience for power and money. Now, in the 60’s, these change-producing planets were in mutable signs. They could change feelings but they didn’t change the whole world. Now our changes are coming in Cardinal signs… and at zero cardinal at that! Why is this important? Zero degree of a Cardinal sign is considered to be the degree that brings matters to WORLD attention. Pluto is dancing around zero Capricorn. Saturn is moving toward zero Libra, and Uranus is moving up on zero Aries. This change will be forced on the world at large.
So what is the most pressing problem in the world today? The staggering greed of rampant capitalism, which created “consumers” out of citizens. This gluttony of overconsumption on the part of the rich (which includes the entire western world) and of businesses who sold out conscience in every way to grab as much money as they could in any possible way, has now brought the world economy into a tailspin. Again, we are seeing the sell-out of values for money. And this time we’re seeing it on a vast scale.
Those who were young people in the 60’s did their own sell-out. They grew up to lead companies through this time of exponential greed. And it’s interesting to think about the “over 30″ expiration date. It’s at age 29 that we experience our first Saturn Return, and decide how we want to spend our adult life. Young people from the 60’s are now beginning to experience their Second Saturn Return… and we are now deciding how we want to spend the rest of our lives. Let’s hope we can all stick together, old, middle-years, and young people, to reduce the materialism of our culture and bring spirit, soul, and conscience back into our world.
Out with the anti-materialism of the past, which brought us hippies and communes, and IN with the anti-materialism of now, which says that ALL of us need to live in a smaller footprint, with respect and reverence for all the natural forms of life on this living earth–including our fellow human beings.
Joyful Anticipation Part Four WITH PICTURES
July 26, 2009
The pictures were one of the highlights of the lecture this article was based on–and particularly the pictures in part four–so it is with HUGE relief and pleasure to have the software bug fixed and offer Part Four WITH PICTURES, below (and also under “articles”).
Joyful Anticipation:
Converging Trends towards a Changing Future
(and how to get where we want to go)
Anne Beversdorf
June 2009
(Part Four: Synthesis. How do the destructive and creative trends combine to make a perfect “caterpillar goo” of new possibilities, and what these might be.)
This is the exciting part. We are changing our image of the cosmos itself, and when we change our understanding, our deepest approach to the world, the world itself changes.
Figure 10: The Cosmos (NASA photo)
“Imagine…” says Richard Tarnas in his groundbreaking book, Cosmos and Psyche, “that you are a deep souled, subtly mysterious cosmos of great spiritual beauty and creative intelligence. And imagine that you are being approached by two different…suitors, who seek to know you.
Figure 11: NASA photo of a distant galaxy
“To whom would you open your deepest secrets?… Would you open most deeply to the suitor…who approached you as if you were essentially lacking in intelligence and purpose, as though you had no interior dimension to speak of, no spiritual capacity or value; who thus saw you as fundamentally inferior to himself…who related to you as though your existence were valuable primarily to the extent to which he could develop and exploit your resources to satisfy his various needs; and whose motivation for knowing you was ultimately driven by a desire for increased intellectual mastery, predictive certainty, and predictive control over you for his own self-enhancement?
Figure 12: Saturn—NASA photo
“Or would you, the cosmos, open yourself most deeply to that suitor who viewed you as being at least as intelligent and noble, as worthy a being, as permeated with mind and soul, as imbued with moral aspiration and purpose, as endowed with spiritual and mysterious depths as he?”
Richard Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche, pg. 39
Figure 13: NASA photo of cosmos—Stars and Galaxies
The answer to Tarnas’ rhetorical question is clear. Despite Dick Cheney and his minions, most people today know that treating conscious beings with respect for their very essence—with namaste—is far more effective for learning their deepest secrets than is treating conscious beings as something that can be exploited and abused. The only real question is whether the cosmos itself is a conscious being, and even this question is being answered differently in recently decades.
Ever since James Lovelock envisioned the earth as Gaia, we began to seriously consider the earth herself as a conscious, living entity. To those with this mindset, that awareness can extend into infinity itself. For some, understand the vast consciousness of the infinite space and time of the multiverse itself is as close an understanding of the concept of God that can be reached. Truly, this envisioning of God-ness (goodness) being everywhere and everywhen is a change of vast proportions. As more people sense this new conception of the universe, the way humans treat each other, animals, plants, the earth, and the cosmos itself will change—and is changing.
Let’s look at some of the vast emotional, spiritual, conceptual and, yes, material changes that are placing us firmly on a path to a new world.
Signals on the Path to Change
- Time Unhinged: TIME itself–or our understanding of it—is changing. This is a note of significance when we consider the Mayan 2012 prophecy of “the end of Time as we know it.” In what ways can we see this shift?
- The PEAR’s Random Number Generator experiments. PEAR, the former research lab at Princeton (Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research) is quite famous for many researches involving their random number generators. They have demonstrated that whenever vast numbers of people are simultaneously focused in the same thing, random number generators no longer produce random numbers. This was observed for televised Superbowls (except for TV ads, when numbers reverted to random for the duration), for international events such as the wedding of Diana and Prince Charles, the funeral of Princess Diana, the OJ Simpson televised car chase, and then, most spectacularly BEFORE the bombing of the World Trade Center Towers and BEFORE the tsunami of December 1995. In those cases the random number generators ceased to generate random numbers up to A DAY before the event. For one thing, this speaks to the ability of consciousness to operate outside of the timing of events. For another thing, it speaks to the consciousness of humans to change the functioning of physical equipment. (To drift a bit from the TIME topic, but to make this even more WOWIE, Gregg Braden points out that these mass-consciousness events also have measurably strengthened Earth’s electromagnetic grid in the earth’s stratosphere—the energetic system that protects us from dangerous cosmic energy bombardments.)
- Delayed Choice Experiments: A series of experiences have suggested the possibility that a decision made AFTER the fact can actually change the results of an experiment already performed. Originally an extension of the particle-wave experiments with a double-slit and a photon, it appeared that if, after the experiment was complete, if you looked for a particle of light you found the particle, but if you looked for a wave you found a wave. Later this experiment was changed to change the charge of a subatomic particle going through an electromagnetically sealed box. A charged particle going through the box could be changed from positive to negative (or vice-versa) by flipping a switch in the box before sending the particle through. However, it was discovered that the particle would also change polarity if the switch were flipped AFTER the particle went through, even though it had no physical connection with the switching device or its energy. The PEAR’s lab reported time-delayed experiments completed AFTER the printout of random numbers from their famous random number generating computers. Groups were told to meditate on changing the numbers on printouts for particular past time periods to make them show a majority of odd numbers or a majority of even numbers. When the experiments were completed, the papers (previously never seen by human eyes) were examined, and they indeed showed a shift in the direction the focus group intended. In once sense, this appears to demonstrate that current actions can change past results, but in my opinion, it actually shows that ALL time is simultaneous, and the focus group’s efforts, in a larger sense, was actually synchronous (because ALL time is synchronous). And in a further set of experiments, Larry Dossey reports a similar results with medical tests: If, after a medical test, but before the results have been read, a group prays for a particular result, there is a statistically valid shift in the percentage of outcomes to match the prayers. In other words, if several people had blood tests for leukemia, and after the blood was drawn and the test completed a group prayed for no leukemia in those patients, there was a statistically higher percentage of healthy results as compared to a control group without prayers. (The specific leukemia example is made up—the tests were more complex and for different illnesses).
- Half-Past Human Language predictor. The Half-Past Human web project has been running ALL internet language through computer counters, counting how many times various words and kinds or words are introduced into the WWW, on average, each day. Then they’ve been analyzing the words that defy the averages over a small group of days. They have found that the unconscious increase of certain types of words are actually predictive of upcoming world events. For instance, if there is a sudden and significant above-average use of words like floods and tsumani and other watery-disaster words, there is a high correlation to an event of that type occurring in the world in the next few days. Google Half Past Human to find out more about this site!
- The WHETHER MAP of the Arlington Institute. This project from the futurist research group, the Arlington Institute, is a voluntary collection site for dreams, intuitions, etc. They are tracking future events on the basis of a finding a confluence of intuitions/dreams peaking before significant world events. It’s a new project, but Arlington Institute head, John Peterson reports that there is a significant correlation for some kinds of events. On the other hand, Larry Dossey reports that horrible disasters seem to have FEWER than normal precognitive “hits”. In fact, the “test your ESP” web sites show a market decrease in people’s ability to test well just prior to major disasters. Apparently horrible future events on the subconscious awareness horizon set off warnings to people to shut down their awareness abilities! I suppose that dramatic drops in ESP scores could themselves become predictive of world disasters—but then, of course, we’d not be able to predict the nature of the disaster because we’d be shut down!
- Sheldrake’s Morphogenetic Fields. This is the theory behind the “hundredth monkey” syndrome. Sheldrake has amassed a ton of evidence that once a newmeme enters the awarness field of a specific animal, and once it affects a significant number of individuals in that group, it suddenly becomes part of the awareness pattern of the entire group. In the hundredth monkey example, washing tubers entered the field –what Sheldrake calls the morphogenetic field—of “monkeyness”, so that once enough monkeys started learning it by example, other monkeys, I suppose you could say, “intuited it” or “downloaded it” from the field of monkeyness! I think similar things have happened to techniques like Reiki and the whole field of hands-on energy work, where once people had to be trained, but now more and more people are simply downloading the techniques from their own intuitive awareness—or from the field of “humanness”. What does this have to do with Time? Once something has entered the field, there is no time lag between the knowers and the non-knowers becoming knowers. Once the need is there, so is the information.
- The Knowing Field of Family Constellation work. Sheldrake once said of this, “I developed the theory of morphogenetic fields, but this is the first time I’ve knowingly been inside of one.” In the experiential healing work developed by Bert Hellinger, strangers are asked to step in to represent people, often dead for generations, about whom they know nothing at all. In the service of healing living people, it appears that the ancestors step into these strangers, demonstrating their own need for healing. In doing dozens of these constellation healing sessions, it seems that the healing that takes place actually affects those long-dead ancestors, which shifts the living descendants into a different modality—we could almost call it a parallel universe, in which the family issues have been modified and corrected to some extent. The experiences of watching others reflect one’s own family dynamic, and of representing someone else’s family members and thereby feeling emotional issues new and unfamiliar to oneself is profound. It stretches one’s own humanity and suggests strongly that our ideas of time and space, of the known and unknowable, are sadly restricted. (for more information about this process, go to www.stariel2.com and click on Family Constellations.)
- Superfluids, Super-conductors, Coherence. This sudden-ness of transmission in the morphogenetic field is a lot like the Bose-Einstein condensate we discussed in part 3… where at a certain point in the development of a superconductor, ALL the molecues immediately reach the high-spin state. For a condensate of Hydrogen, it only takes 3% to reach superconductor status. At this point, the group (molecules, monkeys, humans) are said to reach Coherence. At this point, messages, whether simply the energy output of a superconductor or new information or understanding in animals and humans, saturate the entire group. In a coherent group of atoms (superconductor), there is more energy put out by the group than is required to power them.
Figure 14: Tarot Card. We must enter our new reality with the trust, innocence and confidence of the Tarot’s FOOL.
- How does Coherence affect human beings? The Heartmath Institute has actually measured coherence in individuals. It is a state that comes about when one’s heart rate is regular—characterized by a smooth sine wave rather than a jagged line of irregular peaks and valleys. When one lives in this state of coherence, whether for 5 minutes or a full lifetime, health improves dramatically, peace of mind improves, and the state of joyful anticipation is a given. In this state, the electromagnetic field of the heart increases, so that the coherent individual is actually sending out these waves of joyful anticipation to everyone within reach of this highly extended field of energy. For an individual, being in a state of coherence is characterized by
- Excited Relaxation
- Joy
- Hope
- Optimism.
And this state of coherence actually produces specific results:
- Health
- Happiness
- High Creativity
- Increased Productivity
A group of people in Coherence are in a state of Resonance. Resonance is characterized by:
- Harmony
- Optimism
- Joy
- Creativity
And Resonance produces these results in a group:
- Cooperation
- Peace
- Creative Solutions
- Increased Energy
- Social Responsiveness
- Obviously, these are qualities that we need. Equally obviously, if we can create a resonance field in which these qualities are actually infiltrating our immediate environments, these qualities can spread. It’s one thing to say we can develop these qualities in one or two people. It’s quite another to realize that, quite literally, each person who develops coherence will resonate with others and contribute to the instant shift to a unified field of consciousness.
Our Changing Consciousness Changes Worlds
When we talk about a unified field of consciousness, or a “global mind”, we aren’t talking about becoming zombies or mindless automatons controlled by a central authority. We’re talking, on a global level, of something we’ve seen many times in small communities. At a time in history when communities were small and relatively unchanging, when you knew your neighbors and indeed, the whole community, if one person’s house burned down everyone knew about. Not only did the whole community know, but the whole community cared. And within minutes the community would pitch in, first trying to put out the fire, then offering food, shelter, and then time and labor to rebuild the home. This kind of resonance wasn’t dictated from the community officials: it was a participatory and automatic response. It was a recognition of the essential brotherhood of humanity.
Our world today is getting smaller and smaller. Just today, as I write this, the emotions and experiences of individuals in Iran, have been shared with the entire world because individuals there blogged and twittered to other individuals who, in turn, volunteered to share these communications with the rest of the world because the Iranian government had shut down regular news and communications channels. This was an organic and resonant response of people all over the world to try to help other human beings who were trying to reach out. As we continue to reach coherence within ourselves and resonance with each other, we will (without any Pollyanna stuff here) naturally become a world in which the cares of others are important enough to us to naturally and organically reach out: where the health of children, the safety of earth’s animals and plants, the care for earth itself speaks so deeply to us that each of us comes together with others to nurture this tiny speck in our galaxy.
When all is said and done, no one can deny that we’re in a period of huge change. When we consider how many malfunctioning systems may totally break down over the next several years, it is easy to become frightened. It’s also easy to get frightened considering the big roller-coasters at the amusement parks. Fear is a very uncomfortable end of a scale that begins with anticipation and continues with excitement. Most roller-coaster riders feel excitement, not fear. I suggest that we look at the next years with a deliberate attitude of Joyful Anticipation.
Tadpoles and Caterpillars
What can we expect? As all these markers of change come together in the Perfect Shift, we quite literally are unable to imagine what will result from it. We aren’t like the tadpole, swimming around in the pond as the fish shape grows legs and turns into a frog. We are in the position of the caterpillar, who, once it’s eaten itself into a stupor splits itself open for the last time to reveal a cocoon and then just trusts, as only caterpillars can trust.
Figure 15: Monarch caterpillar
The thing we forget about caterpillars is that they don’t “grow” wings. A tadpole may grow legs, but the caterpillar experiences a less gradual and more drastic metamorphosis. First, it splits open and sheds its skin for a last time to reveal the chrysalis.
Figure 16: Monarch Chrysalis
Inside the chrysalis, the amino acids and cells of the caterpillar become an amino acid “soup” of imaginal cells, which are almost like stem cells. The caterpillar’s insides literally melt down into soup: “caterpillar goo” and reform themselves into the butterfly. The chrysalis is almost like a black box. Inside this black box are processes we can’t see or completely understand, but they take place anyway, disintegrating the caterpillar totally before it becomes a butterfly.
Figure 17: Mature Monarch Chrysalis
Applying this metaphor to society during this period of huge change, we can see our society splitting itself open to reveal the black box of the chrysalis. We can’t SEE what’s going on inside, but this “caterpillar goo” is also destined to become a butterfly.
Figures 18 and 19: Monarch Butterflies.
When I was a child, I would go through cycles of what I now recognize as depression. To me, at the time, all I knew was that it was a cycle of turning inward that was often very painful. But somehow I knew that if I mined that darkness instead of turning away from it, I would find some tremendous “aha!” that would lift the darkness and light my way for months. I remember entering the slide into darkness and reminding myself to be excited, because I could get something valuable there. Now I think of these slides into disarray as “caterpillar goo”. The old structure (psychological or physical or structural or societal) is dissolving into a soup of amino acids and imaginal cells. Out of this soup will emerge the free and beautiful butterfly.
The Power of Awareness
The changes taking place in our world now are physical, structural, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual. As we understand and experience the world in different ways, we are literally creating a New world.
Even scientific and technological changes can contribute to this shift in perception and concurrent shift in reality. In a remarkable book by Glenda Green (You Are Truly Loved), a master remarks that (I’m paraphrasing here) “Ever since humans discovered fire, they started down a course that equated energy, heat, and power with an act of destruction [burning resources]. The result of this has been war, and destruction of every kind. But it IS possible to get energy, heat, power from love—from sources of attraction instead of destruction. The moment humans turn to this source of power, the destructive nature of humanity will vanish in an instant, and humanity will find that love and attraction are the most powerful energy of all.” I think it’s quite instructive to examine the “source of power”, and it’s quite likely that the language equating energy power with power over others is not an accident, so that when power comes from attraction rather than destruction, a great shift is an obvious result. The shift is from the “love of power” to the “power of love.”
Ancient Prophecies
This time period contains a confluence of ancient prophecies regarding a shift between one world age and another. From the Hindus’ Kali Yuga (age of darkness, the end of a cycle, which is followed by a new Golden Age), to Hopi prophecies of a new world age, to the Mayan prophecies reflected in the flat-out ending of their calendar, representing the “end of time as we know it”, we are seeing a message repeated again and again. In addition, we are at the end of multiple cycles of astronomical time: We are at the end of a 248 year period represented by the cycle of Pluto (the last time Pluto was at this position was in the years of discord and unease leading up to the American Revolution); the end of the precessional age of Pisces, a 26,000 year cycle bringing our galaxy to a recognizable “point” in the circle of the galaxy, and a 215 million year cycle represented by the turning of the galaxy to align our sun quite exactly with the Galactic Center (the black hole power point which is the power source for our galaxy just as the sun the power source for our solar system).
Figure 20: The Milky Way. Photograph taken in Hawaii by Wally Pacholka (www.AstroPics.com)
Humans have long recognized the importance of these cyclical changes. We still celebrate the solstices and equinoxes that mark the turnings of the seasons. It is fascinating that the highly likely date for the end of the Mayan calendar 12/21/2012, is also the day after the winter solstice—the day the “sun stands still” for three days as it does every winter solstice, as it begins its movement back to a higher position in the sky. It’s this movement upward in the sky that makes the days finally longer than the nights again. The ancients recognized this as the Returning of the Light. It’s also interesting that this date, 12/21/2012, is the exact date when the sun will be dead-center in the trough of the Milky Way galaxy. This 12/21/2012 position is marked by South-American monuments. If you can imagine a football goalpost made of massive stones, on each winter solstice the sun shines exactly through the center of this goalpost. In the Milky Way, there is one spot where stars are few and far between. This is what is seen as the “trough”. For the last 15 years or so, it has been possible to see, each solstice, the trough of the Milky Way move into the goalpost “viewfinder”. It is well within the goalposts now, but on 12/21/2012 the day AFTER the solstice, the sun will be dead center in this trough. This means energy of the Galactic Center will be transmitted directly to the Sun without the interference of other stars in the galaxy. It is our Sun’s “day in the Sun”! According to John Majors Jenkins, this is a once in 215 million year event.
Let’s go back to combine some previous discussions here: Remember Nassim Haramein’s new mathematical theories proving that black holes are CREATIVE points: condensations of all the information in the universe. Remember his point that every being contains a black hole energy: We are ALL holographic creative points in this universe. Now think of Heartmath’s coherence patterns and the resonance these coherence points create.
And now, for the cherry on top, think of the Galactic Center’s energy reaching our solar system directly in December of 2012. This is a resonance moment in the clock of our galaxy. Moments of extremely high resonance create changes in our magnetosphere that are very protective to Gaia herself (and thereby to the interdependent creatures and lives living in Gaia’s space). It seems to me that our job is to increase our coherence, increase our resonance fields, so that we can create the joyful and peaceful new age by our own efforts. This is “create our own reality” time.
Are there disharmonious elements on earth? Of course. Will there be in 2012? Of course there will be. But disharmony, hate and fear are NOT creative principles. They can’t create anything at all. They can only destroy. We are in a “birthing the new world” process… and as a wisewoman once said, “all births are accompanied with blood and pain, and the new child is greeted with great joy”. I suggest that one tool in the process of creating a resonance field of Joyful Anticipation is to understand that the disharmony in the world today is the unavoidable pain of labor as we move to the future.
I do want to say something about this “create your own reality” thing. On a superficial level I am highly suspicious of anything that suggests our tiny little wills are wise enough to demand multi-million dollar mansions and expensive cars and still be in harmony with the needs of our planet. To me this kind of demand-for-gratification may work, but I don’t know if it’s wise. On the other hand, I do think there is strong evidence that when we all stop demanding, but simply LIVE IN an attitude of Joyful Anticipation—expecting plenty for all, harmony with nature, energy sources that supply our needs without endangering earth and its creatures, we can create the environment that nurtures this infant we wish to birth. Think of it: the largeness of one’s home or price tag on the car makes NO difference at all to the child in the womb. But the attitude and emotions of the mother and others in the environment clearly do help nurture the child-to-be. We CAN affect our future—each one of us, acting individually.
Why Each Of Us Matters
- We can add to coherence, or we can add to fear.
- Our individual “energy systems” create the world each of us lives in.
- Our individual energy system fields have a resonant effect on our environment.
- Our coherent creative energy is being multiplied by our sun’s alignment to the black hole at the creative center of the galaxy.
- We are at the cutting edge of the most powerful creative time shift in millennia. Each of us is “the butterfly’s wings” capable of causing subtle shifts that magnify positive change in the entire multiverse.
Figure 21: Chinese pictogram: CHAOS– “Before a great vision can become reality, there may be
difficulty. Before a person begins a great endeavor, they may encounter chaos. As a new plant
breaks the ground with great difficulty, foreshadowing the huge tree, so must we sometimes push
against difficulty in bringing forth our dreams. Out of Chaos, Brilliant Stars are Born”
I Ching Hexagram #3
So how do we nurture an attitude of Joyful Anticipation? It may be simple, but it’s also one of the greatest spiritual challenges of our time—and probably the most rewarding to master.
The steps are easy:
- Remember that Joyful Anticipation is the attitude needed at the chaotic boundary of change.
- The change itself is just “caterpillar goo”!
SO….
DON’T WORRY
- and don’t worry about your worrying!
- It’s all OK.
- Everything is a beautiful part of the unfolding.
OK. That may sound too easy. Here are a few more tips:
- Attitudes are Habits.
- Habits are Decisions.
- Deciding to change deep habits is a profound spiritual practice. To change habits:
- Notice your thoughts.
- Notice your body tensions.
- CHOOSE uplifting thoughts.
- CHOOSE physical non-resistance.
- REPEAT
- Change your Habits, Change the World.
Figure 22: Butterflies, All Together.