WEEKEND ASTEROID FLYBY: This Sunday, a house-sized asteroid named “2014 RC” will fly through the Earth-Moon system almost inside the orbit of geosynchronous satellites. At closest approach, Sept. 7th at 18:18 UTC, the 20-meter-wide space rock will pass just 40,000 km over New Zealand. This diagram from NASA shows the geometry of the encounter:
There is no danger of a collision with Earth.
Asteroid 2014 RC was discovered on the night of August 31 by the Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, Arizona, and independently detected the next night by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope, located on the summit of Haleakalā on Maui, Hawaii. Follow-up observations quickly confirmed the orbit of 2014 RC: it comes from just beyond the orbit of Mars.
The close appproach of this space rock offers researchers an opportunity for point-blank studies of a near-Earth asteroid. Even amateur astronomers will be able to track it. Around the time of closest approach, it will brighten to magnitude +11.5 as it zips through the constellation Pisces. This means it will be invisible to the naked eye but a relatively easy target for backyard telescopes equipped with CCD cameras
Today is a day for looking at what you are doing in your life particularly in terms of what you feel is your occupation. This does not have to mean ‘job’ in the sense of a 9 to 5, rather what is it you do each day to keep yourself busy, how is it that you define yourself when others ask what do you do. Then think long and hard and feel what kind of fulfillment you are getting from it. Having done that, it is time then to spend a moment and just know what it is that all of this is telling you. Is there something more for you to do? Is there somewhere else you can take it? Is there the need to make a change? These can be scary questions, but it is time to ask them. Change is in the air right now, and it is well to be at one with whether or not you need to make a change or move more deeply into what you are doing.
The theme for these days is Is this the Beginning or Is This The End. This can be summarized in the Japanese word A-WA-RAY (Romanized as AWARE). This word signifies the bittersweetness of things that are transient coming to an end, but hidden within this is the expectation of something new. This is how things are right now. There is sorrow in what is passing, perhaps memories of the joys that came with some of it, but at the same time, there is a looking to the future, towards what is to come, and with that, beyond the term and moving into meaning, the possibilities of creation for oneself.
Overall Color: Red Orange
You can be questioning yourself on all levels these days as friends begin to look like strangers and what has interested you in the past loses all its appeal. As a result, there can be some emotional fluctuations that can leave you feeling totally washed out. This is a time of new beginnings and new endings. That is what you are responding to. This is a time for joy, likewise a time for grief. Allow the feelings to flow through you, and know they are washing clean your vision even as the path becomes more distinct. You can find your body doing odd things right now, and it is best to honor what it is saying to you. You are responding to what is going on energetically on all levels, and you must recognize that and take care of all your levels – physical, emotion, mental, and spiritual. You will be feeling also a new kinship with your many bodies, and this can leave you uncertain as to where your body actually starts or ends. These days you can be seeing more and hearing more and feeling more. It as though you are out of touch with something that you should have remembered, should have known. Information is coming in on new levels right now and if you cannot accept how it is presented to you, it is possible that you can miss out on a message or a sign. You will be finding yourself right now being bombarded, or so it might seem, by déjà vu, by synchronicities, etc. Trust your intuition and its promptings. You are aware of things on many levels and in many dimensions, but the filter of the physical can blind you to some of theses. It is the intuition that sees through all filters and is always in contact with the Universal Consciousness. So right now, connection is very important. It is a good time to meditate on the connections that anchor you and those that liberate you. It is important to know the difference. Energetically things are moving forward apace as they will until the end of the year. There are crises that are beginning to be developed. You will need your strength and your connectedness to deal with these things as many can challenge your most deeply held assumptions and wishes. This is a good time right now to make sure that you stay hydrated. Water is very important. The source and quality of your water is likewise important.
(NOTE: For those of you who are doing or receiving energetic or spiritual work and even through courses of meditation, it is important right now to realize that the effects will be more immediate and wide-spectrum than before. Therefore it is going to be of utmost importance to allow yourself adequate time to reengage with the physical world before leaving a session.)
On the larger scale, more beginnings and ends. Some can be quite dramatic, even violent. You will be seeing some of this in the movements that Gaia is making as she works on establishing a new balance, one which will align her more intimately with not only the Solar System and our neighborhood of planets, but with the galaxy as a whole. There can be some interesting storm systems crossing the globe. These will come out of nothing, and while some will disappear just as mysteriously, others will grow into real threats. There is land movement in the area of Tibet and Nepal. Things will be happening in the Himalayas which can cause people to believe that some new Buddha or suchlike has arrived. You will hear hints of strange lights and flashes being seen in the area. Places with large populations of people are going to be targeted these days for odd events. Again, travel can be disrupted. There will be some new energetic movement on the Sun that will affect electronics on the Earth. Be prepared and back up. People are needing to learn the importance of communication other than via electronics, and at this time, as well as the into the end of the year, there will be some interesting lessons in that area. Politically there is much going on as some countries are finding that their leaders are not adequate to the tasks that the people are calling for. This can lead to some popular uprisings, and even though those in power might wish to align with one or another as a way of proving their power, this will not work. More news of health related items will be coming forth. If you are told to pop a pill, do your research. Remember, there are no side effects, just effects. Finances are shaky, but there is some information that is coming out that will cause a lot of people to re-think the whole concept of wealth and just what money means. There is more movement towards the development of self-sustaining communities. Some people can see these as threatening and there is the possibility that this country might take some steps to curtail what is going on. There will be more and more indication of the militarization of the police, however as the year progresses, you will find that the people are not going to accept that role for their police. Moreover there will be those within the ranks of the police who will choose to go against the trend towards more and more strong armed tactics. There will be some curious discoveries made in the area of ancient civilizations, particularly Atlantis and Lemuria. You will find also as we move towards the end of the year, that there will be publication of some curious devices that can only be dated to some antediluvian peoples of great knowledge. More and more crystals are becoming active. It is time to talk to yours, also it is well to listen to what they have to say.
A Picture of AN Energetic Stallion in the backyard last night:
This is a day of contrasts. You will be seeing this as you go in and out of your activities. If something is cold, then it will be accompanied by something warm. If you find that things are too bright, then right overt there is the dark. In conversation, there will be many ups and downs, many things hidden and many things stated. To know the truth, it will be important to look below the surface, to be sensitive to the innuendo. This is a day also foir looking with, for those contrasts within yourself. Take a moment to reflect on what they mean and wherein lies the balance.
Have you ever had dreams of being in school? Some people recall classroom settings in their dreams which may indicate that a multidimensional aspect of themselves is learning more about our cosmic existence. Many people recall the actual cosmic syllabus taught by beings of other dimensions, and many of those people are our starseed children.
Is it possible that a part of us goes to school when we dream in order to prepare for living in a multidimensional reality? If so, then the ability to do these things and more may already be latent within us, waiting for us to merge with the remembrance of this information:
1. Quantum Physics, the Holographic Nature of the Universe
2. The Non Linear Nature of Time and Space
3. The awareness and sentience to all sentience/life
4. Levitation Abilities and skills, offworld
5. Understanding the special geometry of thought
6. How to operate in a multidimensional reality
7. How to communicate, interpret and interact with other interdimensional and other non human species
8. Out of Body training
9. Telekenesis
10. Telepathy and mind melds
11. Multidimensional Ecology
12. Manifestation, direct thought, and emotion
13. Healing skills and working with energy
14. True history of man’s origins and information your own star heritage
15. Time Travel and Teleportation
16. The true nature of the Source and Universal Spirituality
17. Remote Influencing
Some of our younger generation are already remembering what they have been taught in spaceship school, however most do not remember at this time. Children as young as two and three years old are remembering being taken into spaceships, going to high level school, and being returned into their bodies within a blink of an eye, as if hardly any time was lost here on Earth.
They have been told that they need to be taught these things so that they can teach the adults on the planet. This confirms what we have heard about paying close attention to our children, for they just may have something that we need to know. Some adults today have been going to school for many years since they were children and one day they will also begin to have a remembrance of all of this material flooding in.
Cathy, a 9 year old from Northern Europe, has this to say about what is happening on the planet:
“The light orbs are sent here to protect us. My little brother has a blue orb to protect him. Something will happen in the next 5 years to this planet (2102-2017). I am here to tell my family “WAKE UP”; everyone is sleeping! 50% of people on the planet are STARSEEDS. But many get lost, only 20% will remember who they are. Children are programmed, the teachers just push the keys. The stress of modern living extinguishes their inner core; their light. It’s like a virus, we lost the knowledge we had in the beginning.”
Everything is possible, we just need to believe it.
~ Cathy, Age 9
Everyone born beyond the year 2000 is a Homo Noeticus according to a young lady in Mary Rodwell’s video below. These children will help those of humanity to choose to upgrade their DNA from Homo Sapien to Homo Noeticus status, and the Homo Novis humans are the ones who will bridge the gap between the two, lifting them up. Transcending fear is the most important thing in making the transition.
In this video, Crystal, a 7 year old, describes the New Earth and says that some will go to the New Earth in jelly like pods and then will return to the old Earth to change what is happening here. This New Earth is not in this galaxy. This is all in preparation for a new species of human that has been created.
The video also confirms that DNA can be re-programmed by human language and speech. It seems to me that this is what we need more people to come forth to do, to speak the language that re-programs or activates our dormant DNA to allow us to be the multidimensional beings that we are. Then we can in turn teach others how to do this.
Not only that, but when our DNA is activated, it allows travel outside of time through stargates or wormholes, which would allow connection to different areas of the Universe where information and healing can be received outside of space and time. DNA attracts this information and passes it on to our consciousness. Is this the true meaning of “everything we need to know can be found within”?
We are in for some exciting changes in our reality and capabilities and human beings. Those who have been on an awakening path know that something is happening to us that will allow us to go within and return with amazing and miraculous knowledge, skills, and healing.
The current school curriculum will no longer be necessary or appropriate and will immediately become null and void for those who have this DNA upgrade, and this will cause a split in humanity due to the differences in consciousness.
The Human species has begun an evolutionary leap that is exponentially more abrupt than any known previous leaps – and it is happening to you. It is the work of the Shamans to help us navigate this extreme course.
The prophecies of my Q’ero shaman lineage speak of the evolutionary leap that humanity is undergoing at this time. And this evolutionary leap is unprecedented not only because of our current level of awareness and understanding as a species, but also because the overall trajectory of all previous evolutionary leaps is exponential. This means that each leap has happened sooner and quicker than the previous. My teachers speak of the fact that this leap isn’t just happening from one generation to the next, but within our generation.
Modern science and medicine is barely scratching the surface of the possibility that we can change our existing DNA and bodies within one lifetime. But modern science is only coming to a full understanding of just 5% of the known or theoretical Universe. The other 95% of everything is “dark” or unknown, and currently un-measurable.
Shamans not only see into that unknown, but actually have techniques to work with it and apply it to facilitate change in the 5% known experience. We see that the 95% of “dark energy and matter” as modern science calls it, and causay as the Q’ero call it, informs the 5% of the energy and matter that make up our conscious and sensory experiences. It is essentially a working and changeable blueprint for reality.
With this understanding, we can see that the evolutionary leap in our human bodies and minds as a species is and has been preceded by accelerating changes in the energetic blueprint that are being facilitated in many humans right now. And it is helpful not only to know that this is possible, but to help explain and deal with the implications in the most graceful way possible.
With all evolutionary leaps, one can only imagine that it comes with a certain amount of upheaval, shedding of many facets of the old paradigm, and varying degrees of discomfort, confusion, and even downright fear. It is our work as shamans to help humanity through it all with healing, vision, comforting, clarity, and even celebration.
The main thing to remember is that the you that is 95% of who you really are is not limited to this lifetime, this body, this mind, and this story- or perhaps even this planet or this Universe. In the English language, the you the feels like you and comprises your conscious awareness, personality, and tons of information and “coding” is called the Soul. In Sanskrit you’re called the Aura and Chakras, in Italian your called the Anima. Every language has a name for the you that is really you. So physical life and death, bodies, brains, and DNA are all relatively and extremely temporary vehicles by which you play in the theater of the Universe once again, and again, and again, and again.
Shamans understand that evolution and expansion are very desired aspects of the consciousness within and throughout all aspects of this theater for the simple reason that boredom is worse than annihilation. In other words we, or consciousness in general and in all forms and formless, keep evolving in to greater and greater complexity to keep it interesting and to see where we can take it through the creative process. And of course as a part of it all there are fits and starts, fear and back peddling, dead ends, destruction and construction, millennium of rest, and exhilaration filled leaps and bounds.
So if you are feeling like the old ways of looking at things and doing things is no longer cutting it, and/or you know children and adults that do not fit our current understanding, lifestyle, and constructs, then you are likely witnessing the evolutionary leap in progress. You may also being experiencing nothing short of the personal and collective revolution/upheaval that often accompanies such leaps, and which often comes with the extremes of feelings and emotions such as fear, pain, love, and pleasure. And to the extent that you can allow your mind to go along with it, to blow open and expand, to accept the unknown and the unknowable, to surrender to the inevitable evolution of who you really are and all that comes with it, then you may actually enjoy this part of the ride.
Call on your shamans to help you gracefully and quickly jettison any unnecessary baggage and stories that will no longer be necessary or useful in the new paradigm, and that would only hurt worse to be ripped away the hard way. And together let’s align the 95% blueprint with the ideal vision that we manifest by dreaming it into being as co-creators of the Universe(s).
As the school year begins, Common Core standards and tests are taking a beating in education research, while public support for the standards continues to plummet.
The standards have been promoted as “research and evidence-based.” National Reviewreports, however, that a Common Core validation committee member said, “It was pretty clear from the start that nobody thought there was sufficient evidence for any of the standards.”
While the expert depicted the process as “inclusive” of various opinions, they noted that this alone does not meet the bar to constitute “sufficient research evidence.”
This committee member was not alone in his observations. Two UC Santa Barbara professors, Lorraine M. McDonnell and M. Stephen Weatherford, argued in a 2013 paper that Common Core’s producers were well aware of their research’s shortcomings: “They chose to downplay them because they would complicate the agenda at a time when a policy window was opening but might not be open for long.”
Last week, Jason Richwine at National Review Onlinedelved into a compendium of Common Research, and identified just two papers out of 60 that presented research on the standards’ effect on test scores. The studies were tenuous at best and openly admitted the narrow nature of their findings.
In addition to the research behind the supposed benefits of imposing nationwide standards, Common Core’s suggested content is also under scrutiny. Supporters argue that suggested content in Common Core is irrelevant, since the standards allow schools to choose their own curricula. But opponents contend that the new standards and the tests created for them will inevitably shape a national curriculum.
A new study, authored in part by Sandra Stotsky, one of the only validation committee members who refused to sign off on the standards, attacks Common Core’s approach to U.S. history.
Stotsky said that the Common Core program “dramatically reduces the amount of classic American literature and poetry students will read in favor of non-fiction or so-called ‘informational texts.’”
Common Core authors also call for reading historical documents out of context to encourage an unbiased reading. Stotsky’s study vigorously disagrees with this approach, which it characterizes as an attempt to “shoehorn little bits and pieces of decontextualized U.S. history texts.”
Meanwhile, one historic anti-Common Core vote has been reversed: A Florida school board revoked its decision to opt out of Common Core-aligned testing Tuesday. After the initial decision to dump the tests, school officials lashed out at the vote and insisted it would wreak havoc on the school system.
Anti-Common Core parents at both the original vote and at Tuesday’s meeting attended dressed in red to signify their protest. After the testing was reinstated, one parent declared, “8:30 in the morning, I’m looking at a room full of red. They will not be deterred.”
Since 45 states adopted the standards in 2011, enticed by the promise of federal Race to the Top funds, five states with conservative governors have repealed the standards or instituted a review of them.
…it now seems increasingly likely that the Flight 370 aircraft has, indeed, been delivered to a rogue nation where it is being transformed into a weapon. Whoever took control of Flight 370 now has a massive stealth weapon which an incredibly long flight range. This aircraft can now be outfitted with nuclear weapons and dispatched to almost any desirable target anywhere in the world, including cities like New York and Washington D.C., unfortunately.
Today, U.S. intelligence officials repeated my warning almost word for word.
As Bill Gertz of the Free Beacon is now reporting, 11 commercial airliners have gone missing in Tripoli, and U.S. intelligence officials are now openly warning that those jets could be weaponized to launch terrorism attack on U.S. cities.
“…western intelligence agencies recently issued a warning that the jets could be used in terrorist attacks across North Africa,” reports the Free Beacon. “Intelligence reports …included a warning that one or more of the aircraft could be used in an attack later this month on the date marking the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against New York and Washington, said U.S. officials familiar with the reports.
U.S. intelligence warning an almost exact copy of Health Ranger story from March
Read that again and you will see that the military intelligence warning is almost a word-for-word description of what I wrote here on Natural News over five months ago, including the exact sequence and names of two U.S. cities.
When I first wrote my story earlier this year, I remember being criticized for suggesting such “wild conspiracy theories.” (Only incredibly stupid people use the phrase “conspiracy theory” as a flippant condemnation because, of course, all terrorist attacks are conspiracies by definition.)
As Natural News readers have since learned, a huge number of things I write about here on Natural News are months or years ahead of their time. They sometimes seem strange or unusual at first glance, but more often than not they turn out to be very credible and almost prophetic.
Intelligence officials are concerned about jetliner attacks on 9/11
“The official said the aircraft are a serious counterterrorism concern because reports of terrorist control over the Libyan airliners come three weeks before the 13th anniversary of 9/11 attacks and the second anniversary of the Libyan terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi,” reports the Free Beacon.
There are numerous ways in which a commercial aircraft could be outfitted with weapons and launched against major U.S. cities. I will not detail them here for obvious reasons, but as a qualified aircraft pilot and a high-IQ laboratory director, I can immediately think of at least five specific airborne threat tactics which the U.S. needs to defend against. I hope they’ve thought of them all and are taking necessary precautions. Although in all seriousness, there are some attack scenarios which are virtually impossible to stop.
Aircraft squawk identifiers, for example, can easily be spoofed. That’s not any sort of top secret information: every qualified pilot knows this. In nearly all aircraft, in fact, the pilot simply types in whatever squawk code he wants. It’s a four-digit code, and “1200” is a generic VFR squawk code used by hundreds of general aviation aircraft on any given day. Unfortunately, an inbound jetliner with evil intent could quite readily request traffic vectors for a large U.S. airport and actually be guided right into the final approach glide slope by air traffic control.
I’m not sure there are any security measures in place to detect terror intentions in time to stop the aircraft from deploying weapons above U.S. cities. I do know the U.S. military will scramble fighter jets to escort suspicious aircraft, but even their engagement protocols might actually make things worse in some circumstance. For example, what if the commercial jet is loaded with “dirty bomb” radioactive waste material? Shooting down the jet would only cause those materials to be dispersed into the air, potentially worsening the incident rather than de-escalating it.
As U.S. intelligence authorities no doubt realize, if a flight crew of terrorists is willing to die in order to deliver their weapons, there is not much which can be done to stop them. You can’t force an aircraft to land unless you physically shoot out the engines, in which case you are risking a massive explosion of the entire aircraft and whatever might be onboard. Shooting out the engines, after all, will often result in a fiery explosion for the simple reason that all the jet fuel is stored in the wings. And those wings aren’t bulletproof. At best, the U.S. military might hope to shoot down an enemy aircraft over a relatively uninhabited area, but such outcomes necessitate early detection and confirmation of the threat.
MH370 plus 11 more commercial jets are now missing
So what we have now is a grand total of 12 large commercial aircraft that have gone missing (that’s MH370 plus 11 more that have gone missing from Tripoli). We have terrorist organizations around the world that are openly seeking to destroy America. On top of that, certain nations and terror groups obviously have easy access to weapons materials from several different fronts (biological, chemical, nuclear, etc.).
Senior military intelligence believes U.S. cities might be targeted by these weaponized aircraft on September 11. I don’t think they have any specific intelligence claiming such attacks will take place, but they recognize the threat (as do I). With twelve jets, twelve U.S. cities could be simultaneously targeted by whatever weapons of mass destruction the terrorists can come up with. If only half of those attacks made it through, a six-city attack would still be absolutely devastating to America (which is what the terrorists want).
Because of flight path proximity, the most likely cities to be targeted by terrorists flying commercial jets would reside on the East Coast of the United States. Therefore, it’s only logical to conclude that the most likely city targets would include New York, Washington D.C., Boston, Miami, Philadelphia and so on.
Be careful on 9/11
Whatever your plans for the next couple of weeks, be cautious on 9/11. This is a date on which terrorists wish to strike America because of the psychological impact of the date. Striking on precisely 9/11 sends a message that the United States can’t even stop terrorists on the most likely day of terror.
Hopefully nothing bad will happen on 9/11, and I’m not trying to scare anyone away from existing plans. But if you have a choice, you might be wise to consider staying out of East Coast cities on that day, just in case.
Or, if you really have to be in the city, double check your own preparedness supplies. Do you have potassium iodide or iodine supplies in case of nuclear terrorism? Do you have a face mask in case of chemical or biological terrorism? Do you have food, water and medicine supplies at home? These are wise things to keep prepared at all times — but especially so when the likelihood of a terrorism attack is heightened for any reason.
Right now, you’ve got about a week to get prepared before 9/11, just in case. I’m not suggesting anyone panic, but right now would be a good time to double check your preparedness lists and make plans to go out and acquire anything you’re missing before the coming weekend.
Stay safe by staying prepared for all emergencies
Personally, I believe it is only a matter of time before a large U.S. city is hit with a devastating terrorism weapon. I hope and pray such violence never takes place, but I also know that there are horrendously evil people (and nations) in our world, and I know that America has many enemies which are trying to destroy her.
I am sending extra prayers to all the crew aboard America’s nuclear sub fleet, because those subs stand as the last-ditch defense against global nuclear war. The very fact that we have stealth subs cruising around the oceans, carrying nuclear-tipped ICBMs, is a powerful deterrent to America’s enemies. And if we didn’t have those subs, we would be in a far worse strategic situation right now. As a person who is “anti war,” I am also strongly “pro nuclear submarines” because it is those subs that help prevent wars from taking place by forcing America’s enemies to consider the devastating cost of retaliation.
Stay safe, everybody. The idea of 12 missing commercial airliners in the hands of terror groups who hate America should be more than enough cause for you to double check your preparedness plans before 9/11.
Can you feel it – the change in the air? It is as though overnight everything shifted and rearranged itself. What is going on? Today brings many questions and few answers. These questions are to make you take notice and take action. The energies are flowing more freely and even more chaotically right now, and it is important that you are grounded and centered in WHO you are. This is a time for direction so step back from the day and take a moment to meditate, to journal, to go within. You are needing a firm foundation right now, and you know what that is, but it takes some activity on your part to establish it. Pay attention to signs today and be open to your dream messages.
The moon is void of course this morning and will be entering Sagittarius shortly, where it will then be applying to make the 1st quarter Moon by tomorrow morning.
The sun is meanwhile applying to oppose Chiron this week. Since I rarely mention Chiron it might be a good day to discuss the chirotic archetype.
It’s good to know a few basic things about the story of Chiron…
Chiron was a centaur and a masterful healer and teacher of the healing arts (including astrology!). Centaurs were wild and often unpredictable creatures, half man and half horse, and mostly ruled by their lower halves (though there were also highly civilized centaurs..they were rare!). Centaurs were known to crash parties, and to be completely unruly savages. Chiron stood out among them because of his birth…he was an immortal, given his horse half by his father Cronos (Saturn).
As the story goes, Chiron was accidentally wounded during a fight between the centaurs and one of his students, Heracles. The fight was caused in large part because of alcohol (wine). Though Chiron had nothing to do with the fight, he was accidentally wounded in the thigh by one of Heracles poisoned arrows (which had venomous blood from the hydra on the tip). Injured by his own student with a mortal poison, Chiron was suddenly in a precarious position….he would now have to live forever (immortal) with an incurable suffering (the mortal poison of the hydra).
Chiron decides that he will offer himself up in the place of Prometheus and trade his immortality for Prometheus’ life. Prometheus (for those who don’t know the story) had been chained by the gods to the side of a cliff for stealing the fire of the gods on behalf of humanity. The gods agree to Chiron’s offer, and after Prometheus is set free they also decide to release Chiron into the heavens and make him into a constellation (an important signal for all astrologers!).
At the heart of this story is an incredible teaching that gets lost with all the hype about the phrase “wounded healer.” This phrase should be put onto the temporary “ban list” of astrological jargon. Because the real message of this story is about chaos versus reason, about guilt and innocence by association, and the division between the gods and humanity or between mortality and immortality.
First Chiron is a centaur. He belongs to a class of half men and half animals. They are unpredictable…sometimes highly civilized, and other times, especially around alcohol, highly volatile. Like the image of the centaur in the Sagittarius constellation, centaurs are an image of the basic human dilemma…the primitive qualities of instinct, hunger, and the death and sex drive (the libido we might say), versus the “higher” rational faculties. The Sagittarian dilemma is almost always about the desire to expand and evolve “upward” against the lower aspects of animal nature…hence the Sagittarian relationship to religion, higher philosophy, and travel, as well as the classic Sagittarian hedonism or “party animal” side. Chiron is an immortal in the centaurs midst…we might say he is somewhat “above” the classic daily dilemmas of centaurs. And yet, once wine is involved (the classic centaur downfall) and the other centaurs go bananas, Chiron is accidentally wounded. He is brought “down” by their comparative “lower” qualities. It doesn’t seem fair at all. And in fact, it’s his own student that ignorantly shot him (can we see the symbolic resonance with the Gospel stories here?!). Doubly unfair!
But here’s the thing about “fairness.” Life isn’t always fair. Not even to the gods. And all this talk about wounded healing doesn’t mean much unless we can grasp this part of the myth. LIfe isn’t always fair…not even for the gods.
Prometheus is another great example of the unfairness of life. By all accounts he thought it was “unfair” that the gods should have higher knowledge (fire) and the humans should be left out in the dark. So he steals the fire and brings it to the people, but he’s punished by the gods as a result. Prometheus is therefore the perfect mythic character for Chiron to take the place of, specifically because Prometheus is a human who didn’t believe it was fair that the gods were “higher up” than the humans, while Chiron, an immortal and a god, is someone who needs something that only a human like Prometheus has….the ability and willingness to die for something “higher” than himself.
The message of the story of Chiron, who is placed into the sky as a constellation after trading his godhood for Prometheus’ life, is again that life is not first and foremost about fairness. Nor is it as simple as humans striving toward the perfection of the gods. We learn by Chiron’s situation that there is something about mortality, something about the “poison of the hydra” (an image of deep humanity), that can set even a god free from the burdens of his immortality (normally THE coveted prize!).
This story isn’t working on us unless it offends something of our higher sensibilities…unless it squashes something of our spiritual ambition, points to an all together human place that nags on painfully…a place we keep trying to fix, evolve, or enlighten…
With Chiron its this exact spot…this point where we feel most flawed, truly “less than” some image of the gods, that we have to start imagining as the entry point for what the gods most desire.
A quick example: I have Chiron in Taurus, right on my ascendant. For me it’s always been the feeling that my concern with how I look, physically, appearance wise, and whether or not I have a socially pleasing (Venus ruled) persona is a kind of lesser or lower quality about me…like my desire to look and appear pleasing is a tremendous curse or vanity that I simply can’t get rid of…
I once had an ayahuasca ceremony where I had a visionary experience with Chiron in Taurus on my Ascendant…the gist of the message was pretty simple: this is something you’re not going to change about yourself. You’ll find more peace if you accept it and then do your best to look and appear socially pleasing. The nagging feeling that you ARENT these things (that you aren’t socially/physically pleasing) won’t necessarily go away, nor will your feeling that you should not be preoccupied with such subjects…but your sense of humor about all of this will grow, your ability to suffer the suffering of it with more creativity will grow, and you’ll naturally help others to deal with the same complex situation.
This is what we astrologers mean by “wounded healer,” I think. It’s not that you’re MORE special because of your suffering, or not that you first must suffer before you become some kind of enlightened being. No. We need to let this kind of jibber jabber go. Wounded healing is a phrase that implies paradox. There is something about you that is NOT as high as it should be…and yet it’s in exactly this “lower” place that the GODS need something from you. In truth, the gods need and want to care about things like social and physical appearance. In truth the gods need vanity and recklessness and all our other “lower animal” faults. We’re so quick to say, “it’s the heart that matters, not what’s on the outside.” But this cliche misses the Chirotic mark (which looks like a skeleton key, by the way!). For Chiron there is nothing under the human sun that may not be necessary or valuable for the sake of the healing of the gods or for the god/human relationship. We’re always so quick to think it’s about the healing of the humans TOWARD the divine or TOWARD the gods. Chiron is a fantastic reminder, a revolution in the field of archetypal awareness, that the healing can flow in reverse. The gods frequently go “lower” in order to get something they need for the sake of their own healing, or release. Chiron’s death creates a NEW archetypal awareness…in much the same way the death and resurrection of Christ in the gospel stories creates a new religious paradigm…not of final “divine” redemption for humans from their “sins,” (too bad its been twisted that way! just like the ‘wounded healer’ twisting of Chiron!) but of the death of a god whose healing could only come through human mortality, chaos, and complexity. The real gospel message is that a sickly god was healed through an entirely human situation, including a brutal human death. That same god, resurrected like Chiron, becomes a new myth that goes directly into the stars….in fact the birth of the highly chirotic Jesus was heralded by eastern astrologers who followed a “star” to his birth place.
To close…as the Sun moves to oppose Chiron this week, look at your life and look at where you feel most “human,” most lowly, most in need of some “higher” quality. Imagine that it’s in this exact place that a wounded GOD is receiving a HUMAN healing. I know for me, and I suspect for many people, this sickly god is rather Christian in nature. Regardless, how can we allow this sickly god to receive its human healing…no longer fighting so intensely with this aspect of our humanity?
Prayer: Help me to reconcile the god in me to the humanity in me. Not through some kind of hedonistic extreme, but through a gentle, persistent, good humored and imaginative acceptance of all that resides in the depths of my soul.
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