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Mythic Prelude
Singing
a New Tun
This month's Mythic Prelude, replacing the old Astral Prelude, begins with the most exciting news of the month, from the Mayan calendar systems, as timed by Carl Johan Calleman. The Mayan calendar systems include, in addition to the familiar Tzolkin rounds of 260 days, galactic
cycles or Tuns of 360 days.
The tuns in the current sequence, which began
in 1999 and will end in the wondrous events of 2012,
are arranged in seven 360-day "Days",
or daylight periods -- when human evolution toward
the light is eased and accelerated -- which are
interspersed with 360-day "Nights" that impede
our collective soul progress because, Calleman
says, the Nights "carry a reaction against the evolution
of Galactic Consciousness".
To
see Calleman's tun cycle chart from 1999 through
2011, see 2012 Appendix 1.
The current
Night that began on Dec. 20, 2001 -- and was especially
dark this time because its outset coincided with
Mother Night in the western Earth calendar -- ends
on Dec. 14. The new
Day 3 in the next tun cycle begins on Dec. 15 and runs through Dec.
10, 2003. It will be a time when the mass awakening
of human beings on Earth can leap rapidly, as it
becomes more evident all the time that the inevitable
shift is underway. As more and more of us
awaken, there will be fewer and fewer unawakened
people on the planet, so sooner or later the existing
predatory systems of government, economy and separatist
religion will
simply complete their current round of fire sales
and go out of business, like companies that have
lost their markets and no longer provide a useful
service to the buyers.
This means that oppressive, freedom-destroying authorities will not have to be overthrown by unpleasant means. Revolution will not be necessary, much to the disappointment of those who will miss the dramatic and terrible images of tumbrils and the guillotine in Paris, and a host of Bolshevik bayonets in the streets of Petersburg. The power and control addicts will not have to be toppled and torn. They will simply drop off the charts because nobody's buying their Tun any more. They will eventually seem
to clear
like a head cold, and go away, though they will
still be here, only awakened now, and no longer
compelled to behave in ways that make them so much
more visible than everyone else.
So
the next question is: how best to use the new Tun
of Light that begins on Dec. 15 to further the awakening
of Earth's people? For a few clues we switch to
western astrology, and to the beautiful and powerful
trines (120° angles between planets) that rule
this month:
The
recurring trine between Saturn in
Gemini and Uranus in Aquarius is the second in the
set of three that first came four months ago in
August, and will come again
in June, 2003. The trine is exact on Dec. 16, Beethoven's
birthday. Its import is encouraging: tenacity and
perseverance, the productive marriage of Saturn's
spiritual teaching and the electronic entertainment
of Uranus in the sign and light show that Uranus
rules, in Aquarius. Our main target is to use the
exciting media of 21st century entertainment to
wake up a lot more human beings through moving and
thrilling stories of heroic spiritual actions by
conflict busters and peacemakers, who dissolve violent
force in love, generosity and comedy.
Jupiter
in Leo and Pluto in Sagittarius form another trine,
this one a harmonious balance between government
and popular will, and a promising time of what Reinhold
Ebertin called "an appreciation of the need
for social and religious regeneration, a brilliant
gift for organization, spiritual and intellectual
leadership". Power relationships will undergo
profound transformations, though the changes may
not be easy to see at the time.
A
third trine connects Neptune in Aquarius with the
Moon's North Node (Dragon's Head) in Gemini. This
is the Water Sprite Trickster combination, signifying
acts of deception and deals of dishonesty, cleverly
concealed under poetry and dance and stage smoke
effects. The opium cloud of illusions about what
is really happening is nothing new. The promising
news is that now awakened people need no longer
merely receive whatever sparkling clouds of fun
the illusion industries create. We are acquiring,
and will soon master, the means and skill to make
our own funclouds, which will be more entertaining
ones than the fear clouds that are being created
by official entertainment now. A caveat, though:
this Neptune-North Node trine, which is exact on
Dec. 1 and gradually fades until Jan. 20, will involve
so many awakened people in their individual soul
detox work that gathering light workers for ceremony
and communal ritual will be uncommonly difficult
now, and for some, discouraging. The main idea is
to focus on the inner work until mid-January, then
link up refreshed for outer work, remembering the
Dalai Lama's premise that "Without inner peace,
world peace is impossible".
One
of our tasks from now on is to find ways of making
peace and love more entertaining than war and hate,
so that we learn how to generate
and spread funclouds of pleasurable, vivid and delightful love
energy, through gatherings and festivals
with others, and always, no matter what else seems
to be going on, through the mastery of harmlessness
in our individual hearts.
At
the center of the New Moon of Dec. 4 is a solar
eclipse in the 12th degree of Sagittarius, symbolized
in the Sabian symbol of Topsy asserting herself
toward her mistress, and gaining liberation from
the straps of authorities and others that seek to
limit and weaken freedom. One good example of this
symbol in action is the recent refusal of New York
police officer Eduardo Cruz -- a member of his department's
Homeless Outreach Unit -- to arrest and jail a homeless
man during an anti-crime sweep targeting homeless
people. While some will argue that a cop is miscast
as Topsy, the point remains the same: that when
the people in uniform are assertively compassionate
enough to defy the ice sculptures in suits who make
the policies of control, then the granite is cracking.
The
prize comes into clearer view all the time, because
every day there are more awakened people on Earth,
and fewer who are still sleeping. Those who wake
up stay awake. Every day there are more of us and
fewer of them, until one day all of Earth's people
will be with us, awake in the light, burning with
love. With each passing day, time is more firmly
on our side. Keep holding that frequency.
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