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5th December 2010

There’s so much written about what the future will be like these days. Most of it seems to have an underpinning of panic.  It’s main message – how will we keep control? And therein lies the dilemma. We won’t. Control is the core ingredient in our old way of being. Control is something that we are rapidly losing a grip on, and for a very good reason.

In the 19th century it was fashionable to think of life as a great big machine that we could break down into little segments and study. In this way we discovered amazing things like cells and atoms.  If we could just find the tiniest bits of everything, we’d get control of them.  And that would of course make us masters of the universe and of our own destiny.

Life, however, has other plans for us.  Just as we feel we have the prize within our grasp, we are being re-routed onto a new quest.

Remember the existentialists?  They believed that we are alone in an uncaring universe.  In their world there is no beneficial forces, no synchronous support, no god, no love.  Moments of happiness are random events with no ultimate meaning.  They were the children of the machine.

Does that sound extreme?  It’s not.  It’s an invisible belief still sitting deeply within our conditioned minds.  I’m reading a book by ‘extraordinarily interesting thinker’ Charles Leadbeater, called Living On Thin Air.  The book is really good, and what struck me was this underlying assumption:

.. most people feel ensnared by the impersonal forces sweeping the global economy.

It’s the point at which we find it difficult to flow gracefully into our future.   When we feel threatened, our instinctive reaction is to try to get more control.  To Do Something!   And here is the shift point, the place where we jump between matrices.   When we wait, things become clear.  The apparently malefic reveals it’s beneficient nature.

When the beneficial nature of our predicament is clear, our way forward is creative, graceful and even fun.  When we move too soon we reinforce the 19th century notion that we are cogs in an uncaring machine who must struggle against the malefic forces in order to survive.  Not fun!

Tomorrow we have a New Moon conjunct The Great Attractor.  It’s probably the biggest ‘thing’ in the universe, with unimaginable gravitational forces.  It takes our past and spins it around in front of us, making it appear to be our future.  It bends light and time, confusing us about what is real.   It’s invisible.  To us.  And yet it is pulling us and loads of other galaxies towards it at tremendous speeds.  It’s a great attractor! (For those who are interested it’s in a fixed position in gate 5.3).

It’s so synchronous for us, because the New Moon is happening in a direct relationship to the Nodes which represent our past and our future.  The Great Attractor twists and turns them as if we are in a game of blind mans bluff.

Both Nodes are now transiting in the G Centre, which represents where we are headed in life.  Expect confusion about your life direction, your sense of identity, and your feelings about whether you are loved for who you are.

Expect confusion about whether you should be taking action or waiting for the shift to carry you forward.  Expect to feel that life is picking you up and carrying you somewhere.

And expect to struggle with whether this is a good thing or not.  Is life a random series of events, an uncaring machine?  Or an intelligent universe intimately attuned to your every thought and feeling?  You are a sacred being, creator of a series of sacred acts.   Rash and random actions should be avoided, they are not conducive to progress.  In fact, this New Moon is about clarifying the effect of past rash and random actions and how they’ve landed you in the mud.

Gate 5 is about Nourishment.  There is much here about our relationship with our parents and how we project that onto the larger picture – god and religion, mother earth, our governments – any maternal or paternal authority figures in our lives.  Without true nourishment we must struggle on alone in an uncaring universe where we survive on bravado rather than a true sense of belonging.   As we grow beyond that reality,  our past may just pop up in front of us so that we can see clearly where we have wrongly believed it to be our future.