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Astrology Notes: Astrology, Healing and the Evolution of Consciousness
Exerpt from:
"Musings of a Rogue Comet - Chiron, Planet of Healing"
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Chapter 1 ~ Meeting Chiron
A Personal Encounter
The quest for knowledge and understanding is invariably preceded and inspired by the direct experiences of life itself on a day-to-day basis. Experiences lead to questions that, in turn, lead to journeys and quests. This was certainly the case for me concerning Chiron. One might argue that personal experiences, being subjective in nature, are not the best basis upon which to build an objective appraisal of a given subject. However, as we shall see later in our explorations (and because all is consciousness), the line between the subjective and the objective is an illusion. The Seer, the Seeing and the Seen are One. Even in orthodox psychology, for example, it is acknowledged that psychologists' theories are heavily influenced by their own early life and subsequent life experiences. Less acknowledged, but equally true, is that the early lives of scientists influence their way of thinking, the specific areas of their interest and the theories they develop thereof. This is why we are interested in the personal lives of the great names in science, like Einstein, Edison and Feynman.
So let's begin at the beginning, as my personal introduction to Chiron through the various experiences of my life will necessarily throw light on our first introduction to Chiron's messages and meaning.
In the first half of 1992, I felt that I had reached an impassable barrier in my search for meaning in my life. I had spent the preceding 5 years, with the help of a spiritual school, pondering the questions of who I was, where I came from, where I was going and why I was here in this life. My beloved spiritual teacher had died several years before the time in question. After his death, the school he set up continued in the best way it could.
During this time, I felt as though I was in a vacuum. I felt alienated, alone and plagued by inexplicable sadness. I would often sit in cafés in Sydney, watching people go by, trying to understand the meaning of the feelings that plagued me. I felt like a stranger in this world-an alien. I felt that people in general, although on the surface of it busy, happy and enterprising, were really quite lost. I felt that the ways in which people escaped from and avoided their own inner emptiness and Pain were becoming increasingly sophisticated in the technological age. The reality of it, I felt, was that people were asleep, unaware of the existence of their true selves and their inherent potentials. In retrospect, I know now that the way I saw others at this time was a reflection of my own sense of inner meaninglessness, lack of direction and disconnection from my real Self. I felt that I was powerless to change any of it-myself or anything outside myself.
At the same time, though, I struggled to remain free from what I considered the curse of my own negativity, striving to become impartial to what I observed within me and outside me. The emptiness remained-a kind of acute Pain in the middle of me that fueled my Wish for Contact with life and for a sense of meaning.
In the midst of this acknowledgment of my situation and my powerlessness to do anything about it, I called out to the Universe for answers. I asked for help from whatever guidance there might be around me. I realize, in retrospect, that this was praying in the truest sense of the word. Not in the way we are taught in church, but praying from a very real acknowledgment of my smallness in the face of what I perceived about myself and about the world at large. I needed help. I was on my knees. In asking, I was handing power back to the Universe, so to speak.
During this time, I was already a practising astrologer. The emphasis of my astrological viewpoint was soul-centered. I sought to help others along their spiritual paths, aided by the tool of spiritual astrology. I had searched long and hard for the keys that would bring orthodox modern astrology alive again-an astrology that I considered to be cluttered with dead information and cold out-moded Saturnian structures. There was something missing that I could not put my finger on. Martin Schulman's books on karmic astrology were my bibles at this time. I felt that they offered an uncommon depth to the astrological view of why we are here.
Just before this time, during the first half of 1992, I was browsing through the astrology section of the Adyar Bookshop in Sydney, as was my wont, when a book literally fell off the shelf and landed at my feet. I laughed to myself, thinking, "What a cliché!" I picked up the book. It was called, "Chiron and the Healing Journey" by Melanie Reinhart. I had heard about the asteroids in astrology. (At the time, Chiron was considered an asteroid.) However, at this time, I didn't feel inclined to pursue the study of asteroids. I had enough planets on my plate, so to speak! So I put the book back on the shelf and forgot about it. The relevance of relating this event will become clear shortly.
Shortly after my aforementioned prayer to the Universe, I received a telephone call from a person with whom I was acquainted through the music industry. Her name was Rickie. We hadn't had much to do with each other up until this time, although I knew she was into 'psychic stuff' (as I put it to myself at the time). When she called, she said to me that she had been receiving messages for me. She wanted us to meet so that she could tell me what these messages were. She didn't say who they were from. We made a time to meet, which, due to our busy schedules, was not for several weeks. As I put the phone down, I had the sense that perhaps my calls for help had been heard. I eagerly awaited the planned meeting.
Two days before meeting with Rickie, I had a powerful dream. In this dream, I was holding a woman in my arms-perhaps it was a girl, my wife, my daughter, a lover, my mother. In any case, the form was definitely feminine. What was also clear was that she was dying in my arms. I remember, in the dream, feeling such anguish and Pain in the knowledge that she was dying. Then she died. The feelings of loss, Pain, anguish and despair were overwhelming. Still in the dream-state, however, I went within myself, following the Pain, deeper and deeper, towards its source, as though diving into deep, dark and cold waters. The closer I approached the source, the more unbearable the Pain. When I had gone so deep that I felt I could truly not bear any more Pain, the woman in my arms came alive again.
The Pain-the feelings of loss, anguish and despair-were transformed into joy, love, release and a sense of connection. I awoke with tears streaming down my face, fully conscious of the process that had taken place, my whole Being alive with new energy and life. I wrote the dream down, although to this day I can recall every detail. More about this in minute . . .
Two days later, I met with Rickie. She spoke to me about many things. She relayed messages that she had received from her 'channeled' guidance. Two things that she conveyed to me from her spiritual guides changed my life forever. Not that the things that she said were particularly earth shattering on their own, but it was the timing and context. What she told me acted as a catalyst for my current understandings to be transformed to another level of understanding. A quantum leap of consciousness and understanding took place from that time onwards.
Our meeting, I realize in retrospect, was a kind of initiation. If I had not been prepared, by my own 'work' on myself over a period of many years, it would not have been like this. It would have perhaps been no more that an interesting conversation. I understand now that our potential access to revelations or 'connections' to higher levels of consciousness and understanding is paralleled exactly by the amount of earthly experience we have had. Not only this, but it is also dependent on our efforts to assimilate and synthesize our experiences into a more unified understanding. Otherwise, new revelations can find no context within us.
Anyway, the first thing that Rickie told me was that I needed to know that the planets were alive-that they were living, with consciousness, purpose, karmic paths, etcetera, just like us. Well, not exactly like us, but like us on a different level and scale of livingness and consciousness. She indicated that we could have a conscious relationship with the planets-that we could communicate with them for our mutual evolution.
When she told me this, I felt something move within me. I don't really know how to describe it-it was a kind of recognition. I realized that something in me had known all along that this was so, i.e. that the planets were alive. My conditioning, education and upbringing, however, prevented such ideas from ever being believed or tested. Such ideas had not even been given space in my conscious thoughts.
The practical result of these revelations was that I almost immediately began searching for, exploring and sensing the reality of conscious contact with the planets. An expansion of awareness took place, which I found I could maintain for short periods. More about this shortly . . .
The second thing that Rickie told me at this meeting was that I needed to know about Chiron. Chiron, she told me, was the planet of the Wounded Healer. It was the planet, only recently discovered, that had to do with the Healing of our Wounds (physical, emotional, mental and spiritual). She told me that Chiron's message was that, by working consciously towards the Healing of our own Wounds, we could become Healers in the Service of others.
Up until this point, I had not calculated the position of Chiron in an astrological natal (birth) chart. When I calculated the current position of Chiron in relation to my natal horoscope, I found that Chiron was entering a transiting conjunction to my natal Uranus and my natal Sun. That is to say, it was currently coming back to the same place that Uranus and the Sun were in when I was born. I was confounded. Astrologically speaking, such a coincidence points to deeply relevant issues and connections being brought to the fore.
I began to piece together the puzzle . . . the book on Chiron falling out of the shelf, the call for help, the answer from Rickie, the dream, the meeting, the sensing of Contact with the living planets and the discovery of Chiron during a major Chiron transit to my natal horoscope. There was no way that all of this could have been just a coincidence. At the time, I hadn't yet been introduced to the idea of synchronicity.
To be continued . . . (in the next installment:
"Revelations")
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The first poem/inspiration:
You are a star child,
born of Love,
born of Light,
fashioned from star stuff...
You have a galaxy
inside you,
filled with
living planets, fiery comets
and spinning stars,
filled with
an eternal dance
of color, music and rhythm,
filled with
the Love, Light and Hope
of your Creator.
You are a Creator
in embryo,
an infant star traveler,
on a journey
towards Oneness.
Your destiny
is
to Shine...
(the Solar System)
>>
From Martin Lass' Poetry book: "Love Makes the Worlds Go Around - The Living Planets Speak"
http://www.martinlass.com/lovemakes.htm
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Martin Lass,
Astrologer
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Martin Lass
Professional Practising and Research Astrologer
Research Member of AFA (American Federation of Astrologers)
Member of ISAR (International Society for Astrological Research)
Certified practitioner of "The Collapse Process"(TM) of Dr. John Demartini (The Concourse of Wisdom School of Philosophy and Healing, Houston TX).
Martin Lass specializes in Chiron Astrology--the astrology of Healing--as well as actively researching the origins of astrology and astrology's wider metaphysical connections to every possible area of human endeavor and expression.
He writes for various trade journals, has authored numerous books (see below) and presents lectures/seminars/workshops worldwide on a variety of topics from astrology to healing to the connections between mythology, physics and metaphysics, to name a few.
Author of the three-volume book series, "Musings of a Rogue Comet - Chiron, Planet of Healing" and of "Love Makes the Worlds Go Around - The Living Planets Speak"
See:
www.martinlass.
com/chbk123.htm
Author of spiritually-based fiction and poetry
Professional musician (violinist), composer and entertainer
Book designer for Print-on-Demand (POD) printing process (primarily for self-publishers - e-books and trade paperbacks)
websites:
www.martinlass.
com/astrohome.htm
(astrology and healing site)
www.martinlass.
com(music site)
www.galactic
publications.
com
(PDF book design site)
email:
MartinLass7@aol.com
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