A Light Touch

Succulent moments and fullness of feeling, as I offer some delicious words as my gift of gratitude to the beings that are nourishing me.

During my Chiron Return, I am being taught through my experiences that a light touch in most situations is the most powerful. The return of Chiron to the same position it occupied at birth, which happens for everyone at around 50 years of age, heralds an eighteen-month to two-year rite of passage.

Connection and the Ache of Disconnection

The sense of the ‘connectedness factor’ of one’s life increases dramatically during this period as you are confronted with a deep, often disturbing sense of disconnection and then, without warning—in the cascading flow of arising experience—moments of lucid and tangible connection to the juice of life.

During my recent working trip to England, I enjoyed some of the most profound consultations ever, coupled with spontaneous realizations of the Earth energies that make me feel plugged into this terrestrial body of magnetism and light.

Likewise, during my recent birthday celebrations, I have been able to appreciate the large number of people in this world with whom I have a connection and who I care about. This appreciation has not always been present in the obvious moments, nor necessarily available on demand, but rather has arisen in ‘the in-betweens’. In most cases, these surges of feeling into my heart are not facilitated by overt, dramatic, idealistic or adrenalin-based actions and situations, but through the subtle moments, the gaps, the pauses and the surrender of expectation and assumption. 

More Creative Options for Reality

I have a burgeoning sense that my personal journey is interconnected to the changing environment of this 2012 transition era, which is to say I suspect that the pendulum is swinging back towards the forces of light. Having deliberately cut myself off from the media and the internet in the last two months, the main stories have nevertheless still infiltrated my bubble of intimacy and I feel rather bored with the fake terrorists, the fake assassinations, the usual fake science stories and such like.

The agenda of fear is an artifice of the gross frequencies that are the other side of the coin of our need for a drama that is supplied to us… a theatre we turn up to watch. I feel that the human species will soon start to seek more compliance with life itself, which means society will express a greater noncompliance with the social engineers and autobots who seem to have been accorded far more attention than they deserve.

Enough of that, I need to catch the wave…

I recognize my responsibility, my constant challenge to engage with that which truly feels right in each moment, rather than with that which would please others or gain applause. ‘Tis subtle you see…

I could let words fall out of me on this for days, but I think Sha-woman Mimi from Blue Morpho Ayahuasca Center expresses the essence of I want to say in regards to the implicit power of the subtle refined energies as she sings this icaros. 

 

Icaros are a sound form of vibrational energy that alter or create new states of consciousness, allowing for change and transformation to take place. Icaros are a system of communication between shamans and the spirit world. Amazonian shamans use icaros to energetically manage all aspects of their work. Icaros are used for calling the tree spirits and cleansing and straightening energy, among other things. Shamans may each have hundreds of icaros that they utilize to do their work.

Subtle is truly powerful. True power is gentle, slow and sustained, as opposed to all of the exciting, obvious things that are supposed to rock our boats and impress us.

This song takes me back to Peru and the Ayahuasca experience; the beauty, bliss and the terror of the vastness within which we have our being. Ayahuasca asks us to trust the greater powers of creation, whilst being viscerally confronted with our resistance to truth. In some regards, the Chiron Return is like a ‘mild’ but drawn-out Ayahuasca trip, especially since I feel that the pineal gland is being stimulated, leading to fluctuating low-level surges of DMT being released into the system.

I will throw off some of the sombre and wear a sombrero…

Dynamic not Static

There is a caveat, or a fuller explanation, required when I speak of the importance of the light touch, as it may conjure the false idea that I think there is a need to fully embrace meekness; a blatantly humble serenity, somehow equated with a ‘maturity’; or a serious demeanour. However, this is not what I am saying…

For me, more than ever, I feel that life is a dance of passion and grace in the toroidal flow of life’s energies. The idea of assuming the mantle of eldership too soon is not only unappealing, it is unnecessary. The nobility of the soul for me is not truly expressed by the humility and projected wise face of the sombre Superego, for the soul swims between the shoreline of its social masque and out into the unfettered cosmic ocean, a reality not only more extraordinary than we imagine, but far more extraordinary than we can imagine.  

During the Chiron Return, one looks into the psyche and there are several elephants in the room. The elephants all want. This spectrum of desire springs from the hearth of the life force and all wants need to be honoured. Even if one cannot realize all desires, vitality requires one to keep the flame alive… this is a responsibility for being fully alive and embodying an essence of the extraordinary nature of existence.

Through the portal of intimate content—be that the personal details of my clients, or communion with my wife, friends, family and acquaintances—I feel more connection to a numinous context, one that allows for a more liberated existence.

Thank you all for your generosity of spirit during my transition into the next half century.

Reality is a Department Store

The environment of our world is full of floors and departments, offering all sorts of frequencies ... but is there an elephant in the store, or maybe a dinosaur? Something we thought was extinct just underneath the floorboards?

Reality gets compartmentalized by the information space we dwell in. We choose our space -- consciously to a degree, but largely subconsciously and unconsciously. The information space is the environment of information we are entranced by, which is not just what we read or watch, nor our conversations, but also the locality, with its encoded data, in which we move around.

There are many realities. Below is a simple hierarchy of forces, realities unto themselves, that shape our common experience. The numbers reveal the order of influential effect, but I have deliberately listed them in nonlinear fashion.

1. Astrology reveals the Cosmic influences that set the tone for reality. This is the most subtle, yet paradoxically the most powerful, of the forces listed. Cosmic force is so obvious as to be largely invisible to the modern human. The electromagnetic plasma field of space and our Solar Orb are fundamental to life; we only remember that the Cosmos is in charge when a visceral natural phenomenon ‘interrupts’ our information space—our everyday default life. From the potent Cosmic realm, energy is filtered down into manifestation through various levels of consciousness and mind, then more solidly through our emotive, desire-led, imagination-based feeling selves.

2. The totality of Earth the Noosphere/Planetary Lightbody is the transducer of the Cosmic energies from ‘above’ and the integration with social forces from ‘below’. Included within the totality of Earth's consciousness and its field is the reflective intelligence of the matrix, which responds to the totality of collective human energy with the decree, ‘Thy wish is my command’. This manifestation is in a creative and even conflictive relationship with the Cosmic. The totality arises from a dynamic blend of the Cosmic and total emotional output.

5. The obvious dominant social reality is materialism (aka economics, consumerism etc). Even though this increasingly gets interrupted by natural disasters, the life focus soon returns to economic considerations and the accompanying global media, scientism and politically based script of the world, which is encoded by default into all entertainment. Whilst within the information space of ‘normality’, this reality seems impenetrable and solid, something that can be lived within forever. This reality of materialism is still the strongest at present, but on a bigger scale of things it is relatively weak, which is to say, it is a temporary theatre that will change in the decades and years to come.

6. The Dark Force, though more dense, is hidden, as in a major conspiracy that is veiled from the public; it is not that obvious to most people, yet is actually at present gaining considerable power. This is essentially an occult force, rather than merely being a force of material greed, although obviously the edges between the two are blurred. It is debatable where the power balance of our society is. Is it within the materialistic-scientism values? Or in the values of an empire that is psychologically attuned to the frequency of ‘the strong shall use the weak and this is the divine way of things’ ?

4. The collective soul that permeates all humans. The counterculture and alternative movement that is opposing the Dark Forces and Materialism is growing in strength, but still at present in a slightly underdog position. How long will it take for this value system to reach the tipping point?

3. The whole human system and its relationship to nature and cosmic energy; this systemic reality of a self-organizing chaos directed by the evolutionary imperatives of survival and growth is an implicit power. In many ways this is existential. If we wake up here on this level of reality, we stand halfway in the existential zone where we see that life ‘Just Is’. Reality is what it is, not because there is no reason, but because all reasons are true and they all cancel each other out… but not quite. Life is not absolute neutrality, which would be truly existential in the nihilistic sense. The awakening here is that life is tilted towards benevolence and abundance -- this means we cannot find comfort in mere existentialism, but are pulled into response in order to meet the requirements of the life force. The life force is impulsed towards the benevolent abundance, which is to say, it evolves.

Each individual weaves their own tapestry of experience, their own kaleidoscopic information space, drawing from the menu of realities from the terrestrial department store.

Get Real

Always tricky this one. How does one ‘get real’? Everyone has a divine right to their reality; existence in its infinite wisdom always says YES to your reality to a lesser or greater degree of realization. 

Looking at the broader social reality, we can see that materialism (Uranus Enchantment) has peaked and is diminishing in the West, leaving an increasing vacuum for either Dark Forces (anchored in negative Jupiter Enchantment; ‘the conspiracy’, which like all realities is a self-perpetuating perception in the act of manifesting), or the alternative values (Neptune Enchantment) of humanitarian equality and -- sneaking into view -- the systemic reality (Pluto Enchantment).

Whilst the West is seeing a rot, elsewhere -- such as Brazil and the East -- materialism is gaining effectiveness to a degree. However, the caveat to the developing economies and their material abundance is that, in totality within the Earth's field, there is an evolutionary pressure (or so it would seem?) to shift beyond mere materialism. For materialism to keep working, the economic system needs to truly be a free market that allows for entrepreneurial endeavour, without inhibiting the demands of the market. The paradox is that the market force of alternative values undermines the market force of materialism.

What is in your basket?

Where will you place your focus and therefore conjure your information space?

How will you navigate the needs to be happy, healthy, vital and positive with the negative effects of a materialistic reality and the ‘public market of human needs’ that is struggling to adapt and transform?

We owe it to ourselves and to existence itself to enjoy life and to feed the environment with our enjoyment, whilst staying engaged with the systemic changes we see all around us.

I suggest it is time to ask more refined questions about the nature of life, reality, the great big dinosaur that seems to be stirring under our feet and how we manifest our shared experience.

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A Quick Prayer

Just adding to what I wrote yesterday -- this morning I have experienced how the earthquakes in Japan directly affect the whole Earth. Although we are two thousand miles away here on Lamma Island, Hong Kong, the air is electric and the Earth is fecund. The hills suddenly have far more blossom and are strongly fragrant, with a beautiful and exquisite perfume. I also do not remember hearing so much birdsong.

The painful irony of all that human suffering and death is that there is a massive release of repressed energy. 

Jupiter Square Pluto heralded the unfoldment of the protests in North Africa and Middle East, as well as this horrendously tragic earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which happened just before Uranus moved into Aries. The actual ingress of Uranus into Aries was expressed the day after the great quake by the explosion at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Note that Jupiter’s ingress into Aries corresponded with the Egyptian uprising.

The utter stupidity of nuclear power is once again (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl) clear to all but the most highly paid nuclear scientists and those who profit from the archaic energy business we presently have.

The full moon due this coming Saturday (Sunday morning, 20 March, 3.11am Tokyo time)  is worrying, with more shocks predicted in Japan. The Moon will be closer to Earth than it has been for some time -- this makes one think of more tsunami …. We need Divine Intervention. I will have faith in that, I think, for no reason other than Japan has suffered too much already.

All of this is obviously scary, with Uranus moving towards a close Square with Pluto this summer (just over a one degree orb), but more particularly with the full Square starting in 2012. The first exact Square will be  activated in June 2012 after the Solar Eclipse in May. 

I am concerned with false-flag terrorism (like 9-11) or similar at the London Olympics. Please may divine forces intervene.

This Chinese Rabbit Year is a mere taster for the Uranus-Square-Pluto Dragon year next year.

However...
The all-important positive effect of Uranus Square Pluto is radical transformation; a creative conflict between value systems with widespread public protest giving rise to counterculture, music, art, partying and community, as people oppose the ridiculous autocratic, blinkered, corrupted and lumbering mechanism of our social hierarchy. 

The love and peace sentiment, as well the cosmic awe (helped along with LSD) that was prevalent at the Uranus conjunction with Pluto in 1965/6 seeks its next level of sophistication, yet with an equally flamboyant and joyful expression.

Surprising turnarounds of what is expected will be commonplace. For example, with Jupiter Square Pluto and Uranus moving into Aries, we saw Italy beat France in the Rugby?

Chiron and Neptune’s move into Pisces bring a greater occurrence of denial about: 
1. How the world is manipulated and the extent that negative events are often (not always) orchestrated; 
2. The natural state of fundamental planetary change that is apparent at this time. 

In contrast, the other important aspect is a more readily available transcendence.

Transcendence can be avoidance, but it allows for us to be the peace we wish to see in the world. To be a living example of peace requires a transcendence and a sense of humour (even black humour and flippancy have a place), and yet an active engagement with life through an open heart—challenging!

The Chiron and Pisces Energy

Miraculous changes of energy are very possible through the transmission of collective human awareness, as it is able to change the total frequency of Planet Earth's energy field, which can then also be utilized by higher entities to intervene and minimize disaster. This is why prayer works.

I am sending a prayer to the Japanese spirit -- "Long life, prosperity and peace".

On Your Horizon ...

… and out of the ocean of possibilities, exist the opportunities you are going to respond to.

If you live in Hong Kong and are in the midst of a life change, then I can help you with a series of consultations that will ensure you get the best out of your transformation.

If things are ending, then other things are seeking to be born.

An astrology consultation reveals the energies we are co-creatively working with.

My consultations and life change programs are effective for those who are looking to engage consciously with their own life, with the finesse of understanding the specific energies that are available to them. To be conscious means to be willing and able to respond and adapt, to truly adjust to the energies of the moment. This is the life skill of utilizing surrender and will, acceptance and action, receiving and intention. The importance of an intuitive, feeling-based focus has to be balanced with some creative direction, as well as with an acknowledgement of the Master Intention, the life purpose.

Some people believe their life is totally fated and they require fortune telling. Others rally against the idea of any kind of fate or restriction of their will; these people are mostly hypnotized by the paradigm of scientism and materialism—they do not visit astrologers.

Within the alternative community are those who wish to be told they are destined to fulfill their potential through internal processing alone. I have found that this is not true—intention and action plays a part and, more accurately, so does the ability to respond to and navigate the situation at hand. This also involves being as aware as possible of the multiple options encoded into the unfolding energy.

My consultations are highly interactive and help you become more conscious of your life purpose, to see the truth that resides within you, in amongst the noise of doubt, confusion, emotional issues and lack of confidence. I help you understand the higher reasons behind the challenging emotions and life conditions.

My intention is to empower you with more confidence in your intuitive sense and your intentional power.

Although the feedback I get from single-session clients is positive, a major change requires more than one session. My astrologically based consultations have the advantage of being able to accelerate healing and transformation.

For more information, here is my website

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Go with the Flow into the Emerging Reality

 If you have come to the Crow to read about the Chinese New Year of the Rabbit, scroll down past these two blogs, which follow on from the Chinese Lunar Year evaluation and take you further down the rabbit hole.

Emotional navigation in 2011 and beyond, with the subsequent 2012 effect, as Chiron and Neptune move through Pisces: A whole systems approach

I have talked about the transit of Chiron and Neptune into Pisces being one of the key elements of understanding this year and the 2012 effect in the years to come. More transcendental and cosmic energies are piercing the Earth’s energy field, including both subtle and denser energies. In the physical realm, this is the increase of high-energy plasma within our Solar System that accounts for all our planets heating up, aka global warming, which is a separate issue from industrial pollution (and emotional pollution).

The resultant effect is dissolving fixed ideologies and fixed belief systems, including ‘scientism’, new age-ism and fundamental religion, as well as social structures such as governments, nation states, economies and legal and corporate structures. This creates the appearance of pure chaos.

However, what is gradually emerging behind the distraction of the data sphere, the information explosion, is a new highly complex and dynamic organizing force. This force is intelligent and whole—it is the planetary awakening of Earth as a living being, which includes all human artefact as well as the natural world.

The toroidal shape is the key contemplative symbol and the literal form of energy fields.

“Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. ... I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.”

Gottfried Leibniz, 1670

Our challenge is to go with the flow and yet become conscious of the holism, the intelligent direction that is leading humanity to change its frame of reference from the economic-political model of society to a new context where we recognize we live on a planet that traverses the cosmos. Herein lies the solution to the world’s problems—the energy crisis, the environmental crisis and the increasing emotional anxiety of our species.

The Niagara Falls of flowing information within our world has a direction—it is heading for a greater contextual coherence-into-form-manifestation