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Journey of the Psychic Being

Becoming, mixed media by David Shane Shelton

David Shane Shelton, MA, Indigenous Mind, Wisdom University, June 2012, Chartres, France

1841 Pearce Ct., San Marcos, Tx, jamiedave@grandecom.net, 512.754.0427

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Abstract

From the Akashic Field emerges not only our phenomenal realm but also the means to

which we emerge psychically. It is a purposeful and meaningful journey by which we

will birth a collective soul. The following pages will make an attempt to tell this story of

birth, development, growth and re-birth of our collective psyche. From the astrological

gleanings of the planetary archetypes we progress; from Pluto/Hades and emptiness to

Mercury/Hermes, revealing a gauge by which we can witness our own progress via its

reflective qualities, we attempt to find balance in our psyche and mend the distortions

within to eventually fly directly into the Sun and its gateway to a higher potentiality.

keywords: Akashic Field, astrology, psychic being, soul, consciousness, shadow, gods,

archetypes, planets, awareness

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Journey of the Psychic Being

Fire Up The Engines

We are, at present, on a great adventure. It is a sojourn with a fantastic ending,

potentially. It is no less than a quest of our spirit, the inner reflections, through a plane

of psychic development into what amounts to a higher resonance field and the birth of

a soul and greater articulation. But, first, the beginningthere came to be evolving

wave-patterns with external relations and inner reflections, an unarticulated basic

sensation[;] this inner reflection gains in articulation as the self-maintaining waves

acquire structure and complexity (Lazlo, 2007). This is the Akashic Field and the Earth is

hurtling through the vastness of space, as an evolving wave-pattern. But, this is only

part of the story.

Let us construct an imaginal astral-glider. In this astral-glider we have been

searching for (who knows how long) a gateway to a plane of higher resonance; and,

perhaps, we have found it in this Milky Way Galaxy. We do a fly over and, yes, there is a

planet there in the habitable zone; nice and green with a large body of water.

We bring the astral-glider around and come into line with the ecliptic of the solar

system. As spirit enters and passes through the veil from implicate to explicate order, it

seems to forget its origins as we become so wrapped up in our egos. A mere side effect

of the crossing of the veil, I presume. I am sure our momentum can carry us through

and that somewhere along the line we will remember our story and spirit will re-

emerge.
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It is a story of psychic development with archetypal sign posts in the form of the

orbiting planets. We begin from the emptiness of form at the outer planet and follow

the tornadic vortex inward toward the sun; each embedded within the next as the layers

of an onion. The sun is the destination as it represents a gateway of potential super-

consciousness. Now we proceed to the countdown and lift-off.

Embarkation

[F]or it is through [our] consciousness, through its transmutation and no longer

through a new bodily organism as a first instrumentation that the evolution can and

must be effected. There is, overall, the observation of the outward phenomena of

Natures progression, her surface evolution of being and of consciousness in the

physical birth and the body. But there is the other, the invisible factor; there is rebirth,

the progress of the soul by ascent from grade to grade of the evolving existence.

The psychic entity is still veiled. [A] time can arrive when the soul-entity is close to

the point at which it will emerge from behind the veil into the open. [T]he Daemon,

the Godhead within is on the point of emergence. (Ghosh, 89).

That being said, I want to present this psychic journey. It is noble at the very least.

In order to even partially communicate such an expedition, I will shuffle together the

perspectives of five voices who have been looking deeply into this story for much

longer than I and they will be called upon to assist me. They are Aurobindo Ghosh and

The Mother, Mirra Alfassa, who are going to help focus on the metaphysical aspect;

Richard Tarnas and David Frawley will provide the astrological leanings; and Ken Wilber,

finally, will help to bring in the various states of consciousness along the way.
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Pluto/Hades

Whether or not we doubt the authenticity of Plutos/Hades planetary status, its

influence upon the archetypal soup we operate within is unparalleled. Dr. Richard

Tarnas, to jump right into it, clearly states that Pluto is associated with the principle of

elemental power, depth; intensifies whatever it touches, ...with the primordial

instincts; violent purgatorial discharges of pent-up energies (Tarnas, 96). In transit it

adds a profound depth to the amplitude of our personal resonance; and depending

upon the facet of our nature it transits, can illuminate our complex personality in various

ways. Pluto can also create an equally profound distortion in this resonance field of

ours if we allow possession over our faculties through resistance or lack of presence.

Pluto/Hades is a dark god of the underworld in mythological circumstances. The

chi involved with this potent and abstract archetype is an anthropomorphized figure

formed to symbolize for our species and to more quickly identify and mentally map out

the ripple effect it produces as it disrupts our in-house programming in our brains.

Pluto represents the underworld and underground in all senses: elemental, demonic

(Tarnas, 96). We quantify it mentally. It is unfortunate we have attached ourselves to

the godly symbol and lost the depth of meaning. A glitch we can correct through

mindful study.

The word Pluto, the label, is but an identifier for the culture of Rome. The Greeks

before them labeled this archetype Hades; the Nords as Hel (although Fenris the wolf

and the chaos he brings to the psyche depicts greater darkness, in my opinion), and Set

in Egypt (darkest and most horrifying of the lot, you ask me). I find it interesting the

derivative of Pluto to be Plautus, a Greek reference to wealth the Romans adopted. To

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have associated wealth, or gold, even, with be-all-end-all of life rather than shadow

work and the darkness of the psyche stimulate a curiosity to the erroneous attachment

we have placed in the accumulation and use of gold entirely.

This brings me to the point I want to make on this outer-most planet. It is a

priority, I believe, we begin, if some have not already, to link this archetype with the very

contents of our unconsciousness once again, our shadows and repressed demons, the

terrifying reality that lurks beneath the surface of things (Tarnas, 96); finding ways to

project themselves, these facets of our inner working models, out into the phenomenal

world to get our attention. These are very animal-likeimpulses we find ourselves

immersed in without conscious awareness of Plutos/Hades influence and they can

leave us in mental darkness; yet also representing that healthy instinctuality from which

healingand a higher consciousness can ultimately emerge (Tarnas, 96). This is quite

important and relative, later, to the trickster (found in the archetype of Uranus), for

these shadows need to be brought forth to our conscious awareness and integrated

into our psychic model to find the true gold (lest the trickster use them to its

advantage). These shadows of our psyche add depth of meaning to our experiential

lives.

Neptune/Poseidon

Neptune/Poseidon , god of the Ocean and the Seas, pulls us into the realm of

our collective unconscious state; Neptune/Poseidon governs all non-ordinary states of

consciousness as well as the stream of consciousness and the oceanic depths of the

unconscious (Tarnas, 96). This non-ordinary state remains with us just under the
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surface of waves and the turmoil that is the phenomenal realm. Our unconsciousness

becomes a bit of a holding tank, a processing facility and a place of deep memory to

interact between worlds of subtle and gross realms. Neptune is associated with the

transcendent, spiritual, symbolic; with the subtle, intangible; with thereflections,

dreams and visions (Tarnas, 96). We pontificate and dialogue between realms on a

regular basis. Through our saline dreaming, both in delta and theta mental-wavelength

states, we see across the veil from our gross realm into the subtle as this archetype

dissolve[s] boundaries and structure in favor ofundifferentiated wholes (Tarnas, 96).

This is the land of faerie, the imaginal realm of dreams. This is where we realize the

Akashic Field surrounding us; where we remember from whence we came.

This dream state is held in the archetype of the Sea God. It is an ethereal quality

which has its light and dark as well. In the archaic-uroboric state, [there is] not yet [sin]

and [separation] from the primal embeddedness of the subconscious (Wilber, 96). On

the one hand it breathes through us as an amniotic fetal and infertile state of primary

fusion, [an] influx of inspiration to imagine potentialities of infinite sorts. A dark twist

can leave us stranded out in the ether with no grounding to the gross realm drowning

in the treacherous deep waters of the unconscious psyche, slipping into madness or

addiction and thus we are unable to manifest any karmic notions we might entertain

(Tarnas, 96). The problematic side of the Neptune archetypal principle: [it is] addictive,

escapist, narcissistic, [and is] illusory (Tarnas, 96).

The sons and daughters of this god appear as giants and cyclopes. Can these be

metaphors for our fears which lie dormant in this subconscious layer? [Y]ou have to

face innumerable difficulties which comefrom the subconscious, but rise to the surface
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and against which you have to struggle (Ghosh, 89). These mega-humanesque, yet

metaphorical beings of considerable might are, on a regular basis, rising from their

ocean abodes as our own shadow projections and attempt to enter, overtake and

otherwise thwart the goings-on of Mount Olympus or Asgard, our mental faculties, to

dethrone Jupiter/Zeus (see 2 planets below) and Odin, respectively. Neptune/Poseidon

shapes the awareness beyond the usual causal mechanisms. It merg[es] that which

was separate [and] is the archetypal principle of the multidimensional and the meta-

empirical, the metaphorical and multivalent (Tarnas, 96).

Uranus

The next orbiting sphere on our psychic journey, in our astral-glider, and in the

direction of our Earth is Uranus. Uranus, according to Dr. Richard Tarnas, is, as an

archetype, a misnomer. While it is named, in the progression of the planets, after the

Father of Saturn/Cronos, [e]veryquality that astrologers associate with the planet

Uranus seems to be reflected in the myth of Prometheus with striking poetic

exactitude. (Tarnas, 96). A more apt alias for the archetype contained in the

affectation upon our psyches of the ripples created in space via this planet is more

closely associated with Prometheus in Greek mythos, Loki from Nordic mythos, and

Coyote from various indigenous tribes of Turtle Island mythos. The archetype emotes

sudden breakthroughs and liberating events, Uranus transits are linked to

unpredictable and disruptive changes; hence [it] is often referred to as the cosmic

trickster (Tarnas, 96).

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It is not to say that those two have a mythological connection, Prometheus and

Uranus, but rather the archetype resonating from this particular planets orbit is closer

to that of Prometheus than Uranus as it affects our psychic body in its soul nurturing

with the enhancement of human autonomy, sudden inspiration from above, the

solar fire and light, intellectual and spiritual awakening (Tarnas, 96). This god

appears, for all intents-and-purposes, to us as a trickster as habitual leanings and tools

we have become attached to are subsequently altered so as not to serve any usefulness

in our lives. I would propose that this god merely helps us focus attention on these

qualities we have outgrown, as it is the awakener in our lives, and is truly making an

attempt to guide us to forego these antiquated concepts.

The soul is [the] spark of the Divine whichcomes down into the manifestation to

support its evolutions in the material world. It isan undifferentiated power of the

Divine Consciousness containing all possibilities which have not yet taken form, but to

which it is the function of evolution to give form. The psychic being is formed by the

soul in its evolution and the soul grows within the sheath of the psychic being by our

experiences (Ghosh, 89).

The affectations of all of the planets become twists and turns on the adventure in

the Tao, the Gordian knot-work of our experience. A labyrinth of the subtle wave

patterns produced by this planets wandering about the sun cause a particular impulse

to collapse and otherwise neglect existing systems, to allow room for new innovations

in their place. It contains the spark for the kindling, the karmic beginnings of the mind-

body and the vital-body to form; it is seen in the quantum leap of the electron to outer
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valences. This archetype open[s] us up to the possibility of a fundamentally new

relationship with the cosmos (Tarnas, 96).

This planet, that we shall continue to describe as Uranus (as it is commonly named,

after all), is the mystery which carries our psyche through or across the etheric veil from

the subtle realm to the gross, from sub-consciousness to a state of pre-consciousness,

what Ken Wilber describes as the archaic to typhonic/magic stages of psychic

development. This shift is Uranus archetypal manifestation via Prometheus as the

Promethean principle associated with Uranus comprises those aspects of creativity that

involvesudden unexpected awakenings and quantum leaps, the exciting impulse to

bring forth newshifts in the unfolding of reality (Tarnas, 96).

It has been mentioned the impulse this signature wave illuminates in us to

innovate new and discard the old; the positive spin, with mindfulness, of the task, allows

the awakening of the psyche. There must be a sense of non-attachment to systems

unable to support this awakening or we end up with emancipating consequences, as

Dr. Tarnas would say. It is not always an easy task to discern between what will lead to

awareness and what will inhibit.

Saturn/Cronos

Closer now than ever, we travel through Saturns/Cronos archetypal wake and,

thus, we are initiated into time/space, into a manifest form. The psychic bodys descent

into the physical body is necessarily a descent into darkness; and for a very long time

it must labour simply to bring a little consciousness into the material substance of the

body, before it can make use of it for the experience it has come for (Ghosh, 89). It is
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at this point in our development that we become aware of Saturns/Cronos power to

orient each bit of maya, illusion, into pigeon-holes to keep us oriented spatially. With

this new congealed sense we are no longer protected by that subconscious ignorance

(Wilber, 96) but also it gives the concentration, sense of detail, disciplinenecessary

to deal with the great challenges of life (Frawley, 2000).

With Saturn/Cronos, most vehemently, we are initiated into form that has but a

limited amount of second-hand ticks of the clock to properly orient itself before adieu

as this archetype is also the great God of Death (Frawley, 2000). The Saturn

archetype can express itself astradition but also as oppression, asmortality, as

gravity in the sense of heaviness and weight but alsoin the sense of seriousness and

dignity (Tarnas, 96).

Ken Wilber describes this early period of our corporeal nature and psychic body

interface as a Typhonic, [also Magic] time, the term was chosen to suggest a stage of

development wherein self and body are not yet clearly differentiated; a time of pre-

conscious awareness (Wilber, 96). It is as if we were but newborn babies, spiritually

speaking, making vain attempts to lift ourselves out of the Sea. And, I dare say, it has

taken us a good while to stretch out our limbs and form some mental cohesion of the

nature of existence and, I believe, we have but reached our teen-aged years of

awareness currently in this time of the Kali-Yuga.

If by some chance we could find ourselves synchronized with Nature, time seems

to blend into the background and we work more properly with the seasons. There is a

balance within us and between us, in this natural state, and the surrounding Akashic

field. However when confronted with schedules, due dates and the pressures of past
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and future tie-ins, we lose ourselves in the ever drowning tick-tock of the mechanism as

Saturn/Cronos is the principle limit structure, concrete manifestation, time, the

endings of things; gravity and gravitas with the tendency to confine and constrict,

to separate, to divide; character, karma, wisdom; factual concreteness, foundations,

boundaries, solidity, stability, superego (Tarnas, 96). We drown in our worries of not

being able to live up to the demands of our peers, the demands, now perceived, of time,

of Saturn/Cronos as we carry on unprotected from invasion by unconscious elements

and extra-somatic factors (Wilber, 96).

Jupiter/Zeus

In the orbit of Jupiter/Zeus, we find the eagle, as metaphor of our prophetic

journey, emerge. The eagle symbolically represents the development of the mental

framework and the mind that is the by-product of our intermingling the psychic body

and the physical thus a basic and profound expansion of consciousness [which]

allowed man to picture the future more clearly (Wilber, 96). The mind is a generated

field produced by our use (consciously or not) of our sixth-sense, the tool that is the

brain. Jupiter, Zeus, or Odin, however you want to culturally filter this archetype, this

god, opens up the flight of the mind allowing the serpent of the body to expand

outward in spirit to more cohesively participate in the Akashic field. All the while, there

is the psychic which supports the development, the growth of the being and gives this

continuity of consciousness (Ghosh, 89).

This Mythic consciousness, once we render the form of the god impotent (as

Jupiter/Zeus subdued Saturn/Cronos), is one of community consciousness and temporal

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consciousness (Wilber, 2001). And, it was, perhaps again, some Promethean sub-plot of

a spark which allowed us to further, more deeply enter the corporeal realm. Terrence

McKenna would suggest the use of psychedelics, whether incidental or intentional, to

have helped our species to create language which connected us together in order to

begin to get our proverbial feet under us. Ken Wilber suggests the emergence of

language to have allowed this consciousness expansion subsequently compelled by a

sense of heightened death seizure (Wilber, 96).

Self-awareness, as our psyche operates within this corporeal system at this point, is

a most powerful responsibility. This expansive awareness is representative of

Jupiters/Zeus archetype. It is the principle expansion, magnitude, to incorporate

that which is external; to experience success, abundance, excess; enthusiasm,

breadth of experience, philosophical and cultural aspiration, pride, [and] arrogance

(Tarnas, 96). Self-awareness, though, creates a dual sense of nature, and a

differentiation with nature; at this point in our development, quite a choice of just how

to interact with this other, exterior realm seems to have become one of our great

labors. There was not just a differentiation between ego and nature, but dissociation

and dissociation between mind and body (Wilber, 96).

We seem to have chosen to allow the ego to take center stage. We expanded fully

into the mind and in a superior stance, disconnected from the Akashic field, separated.

Mankind as a whole, ismoving closer to the super-conscious realms; it is a giant

step out of the subconscious sphere. But a stepthat also brought new terrors

revealing the deep cruelty potential of humans in the form of an id orgy, replete with
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destructive, murderous sadistic impulses, libido run riot (Wilber, 96). Thus, hubris is

exposed as this shadow side of the archetypal influences of Jupiter/Zeus.

Ceres/Demeter

Just before we arrive at the heir apparent to Jupiter/Zeus, we pause to

acknowledge a lost or forgotten gem of our psyche. There exists a gap between the

orbits of Jupiter/Zeus and Mars/Ares. It is a gap wide enough to accommodate an

orbiting planet of its own. In fact, there very well may have been such a planet as

evidenced by the ring of debris in this very orbit. The two planets Jupiter/Zeus and

Mars/Ares have acted in collusion to grind Ceres/Demeter to near dust. Or, due to the

gristmill effect, the material was entirely prevented from coalescing into a planet at all.

Amassing some one-third of the entirety of this debris is the dwarf planet Ceres/

Demeter. It is quite appropriately named as it represents our shattered and suppressed

feminine tucked away in the confines of the heart and the unconscious mind

(Pluto/Hades). Andthere is in the hearta [profound] mystic light which, if not what

we call intuitionhas yet a direct touch upon Truth and is nearer to the Divine than the

human intellect in its pride of knowledge (Ghosh, 89). The suppression is held in our

collective mythologies such as is told in the mythos of Persephone, a daughter stolen to

Erebos, to the underworld of our unconscious mind. Neptune/Poseidon, as well, has

been mythologized as having, to put it delicately, taken from Ceres/Demeter her grace

without honor. All of these mythologies pack away the matriarchy into the unconscious

to be re-discovered, re-membered.
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Still, the feminine offers tales of a more visceral quality in that she rewarded those

who remained connected to the land and without the greed of wealth the gift of

agriculture. Ceres/Demeter, when one sees beyond her mere form, can have,

potentially, the gift of immortality in the form of ambrosia, amrita, or soma (nectar of

the gods). This ambrosia, most likely, becomes a metaphor, in-and-of itself, meaning, in

modern terms, to have that unbearable lightness of being when we commune with the

gods; a joi de vie, a natural state of mind, synchronized and in resonance with the

cosmos. In this state there is no fear of death, and there is the realization of the eternal,

the purity of the psyche and connection with the journeys epicenter.

However, if one were to militarily invade a sacred grove, say, in the case of

Erysikhthon, and use vile speech upon her, she would impose upon such men a curse

that would leave them forever in hunger and thirst. Such men would never be sated

and would continually search for material things to attempt to fill this need. Thich Nhat

Hanh describes this as the hungry ghost of Tibetan lore and our modern society

projects this shadow of our unconscious mind onto our movie screens as zombies.

More, or less, I would connect this curse with the disconnect we have with both the

Feminine and with Nature. The ambrosia previously mentioned is what truly satiates the

psychic being and we produce it while in virtuous existence.

Ceres/Demeter bestowed us a gift, however. As it may very well have been a

necessary lay-over, our current psychic state that is, to experience the ego and develop

it with Her blessings. I believe that Ceres/Demeter, as any Mother would their children,

kicked us out of the nest to experience life and to grow unencumbered into psychic

adults. It is also key we ask Her to return now to walk alongside us. Finally, I find it an
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important note to make that we did not just up and repress the Divine Feminine, we

were granted independence from a loving Mother; not abandoned as we may very well

have believed.

Mars/Ares

We arrive at what could conceivably be looked upon as our modern condition with

Mars/Ares. It may well be thought of as our present state of mind, state of our psyche,

summation of our disconnects applied, et all. Archetypally representing either our

passions or our obsessions, depending on how mindfully we engage our lives, Mars

relates to ouremotional and vital capacity for self-projection (Frawley, 2000). The

psychic being remainsbehind the veil in our subliminal part: it acts on the surface;

[to] form part of the surface aggregatethe visible formationwhich we ordinarily

experienceas ourselves (Ghosh, 89).

And here stands our modern man which has paid a ticket for the ride and has

bought into sensory engagement; fully engaged in the heros quest but, what of our

dreams, our potential? Have we fully yet embraced the work of Dr. Jung, the work of Dr.

Grof? Whether we have become enchanted by Mars/Ares or whether we have become

afflicted, with the [rational] level we reach a stage of evolution where the separate self

is so complexthat, in breaking free of its earlier and subconscious ties to cosmos,

nature, and body, it could turn on these previous stages (Wilber, 96).

Meanwhile, Mars/Ares is our pony and is the principle of energetic force, the

impulse and capacity to assert,to have impact,to defend and offend; the tendency

to experience aggressiveness; to be combative, competitive, courageous, [and]

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vigorous (Tarnas, 96). Mars/Ares brings us to the modern era under the guise of

Western Civilization and its own Western ego[has] demonstrated not just an

awakened assertiveness, but a blind arrogance (Wilber, 96). Turns out the pony is

riding us, or else is running free rein. Granted we collectively, if not subconsciously,

decided to buy into the development of our egos, our rationale even as it began to

sever its own roots in a fantasy attempt to prove its absolute independence (Wilber,

96). Because in order for [the final differentiation] to occur, the self had to struggle

against its previous embeddedness and struggleagainst those factors that acted to

reduce consciousness to pre-personal impulses (Wilber, 96). We wrenched ourselves

loose of our Mother (at least that is what we keep telling ourselves).

Unfortunately, this newly concretized ego creates misunderstandings, arguments,

and litigation. In this regard Mars is the selfish will that does not take into account the

views and needs of others (Frawley, 2000). The psychic influencedoes not come up

to the surface quite pure; the ego intervenes, mixes with it, tries to use itto its own

profit, dwarfs its divinity, [and] distortsits self-expression (Ghosh, 89). We have

become akin to angst riddled teenagers rebelling. Well, now it is time we break open

the dam works of the ego and allow the movement of chi, an inner tornado of

movement, through mindful acts, and mindful, truly rational use of ego. Together we

seek out the missing pieces we temporarily put aside and re-member ourselves and

what we wanted to become. Whereas Mars/Ares tends to regard power as an end in

itself [,] it is really only a means (Frawley, 2000).

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Venus/Aphrodite

As we gather together we may find the strength to seek our potential in

Venus/Aphrodite. We are now on the brinkof the modern eraa proto-subjectivity of

consciousness. All that is needed is the decisive transformation in consciousness to set

the modern world (Wilber, 96). In our current state, our psychic distortions prevent us

from seeing anymore than the outward form of Venus/Aphrodite and its radiant light

mesmerizing our senses, stimulating our adrenal glands. Venus/Aphrodite, the

archetype rather than the literal planet (utilized as a spatial marker), shows our

affection and sense of harmony and it represents our aesthetic sense. However, an

afflicted Venusallows us to be taken in by appearances; we become inclined to be

vain, superficial and this can bethe self-indulgence that can destroy us (Frawley,

2000).

Correcting the distortions, re-integrating with nature and the animus (Feminine

aspects within), we see the more subtle layers of this truly radiant Venus/Aphrodite

archetype, or any of the before mentioned archetypes, emerge. Archetypes must be

formulated not as literal concretely definable entities but rather as dynamic

potentialitiesthat cannot be localizedto a specific dimension (Tarnas, 96). Each

archetype develops cooperatively with the mindful psychic body, each development

nested within the next, newer stage. However, without presence of mind, partial

developments are repressed (currently by ego) back to the unconscious, back to the

Pluto/Hades and Neptune/Poseidon realms of our psyche; these shadows of our Self

project outward onto our phenomenal realm, our reality.

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Mindfully turning towards Venus/Aphrodite, the two narrative tales egoic and

shadow are reunited in amore accurate interpretation of ones entire life text since

the ego has to accept authorship of the text of the shadow and accept ownership of

the communications coming from the shadowthus move toward autonomy and

integrityon the way to Unity (Wilber, 96). This seemingly enormous effort cannot be

done by force but only by charm and grace (Frawley, 2000). Becoming harmonious

with the rhythms of Nature one is in contact with the divine Consciousness, with the

Grace, and then everything iscoloured with the Presence- everything lives and

vibrates. One understands why things are as they are andparticipates in the general

movement (Ghosh, 89).

We must first move forward with intellectual curiosity and comprehension while

activating actual practice and realization for the self has to accept the death of its

present level, differentiate from that level, and thus transcend it to the next-higher

stage (Wilber, 96). Meditation, yogathese are actualized ancient practices which re-

connect the mind/body with its natural eco-field and the Akashic Field beyond by

synchronizing the frequencies of chi; meditation is designed tohalt mental-egoic

translations [, as if one were moving room to room in a building,] so that

transformations [, moving between floors of a building,] into the super-conscious realms

may begin (Wilber, 96).

All of these incarnations represent an archetype evoked in the kinetic wake

produced by Venus/Aphrodite. It is an archetype of beauty, yes, but beauty in the sense

of a balanced approach to life. Balance and harmony found in the falcon wings

stretched across the horizon. Balance found in the teamwork of men and women
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together with our surrounding eco-field. This directs us to our psychic beings

potential balance in spirit. This is the emptiness behind the form encased in

Venus/Aphrodite. And, once this balance is achieved we shall ascend to the Sun and

the super-consciousness it represents to our psychic journey. Once arrived on

Venus/Aphrodite fully, the next step is a quantum leap in awareness beyond which, I

must admit, I have no idea what it entails but seems most fitting and quite intriguing.

Mercury/Hermes

The archetype of Mercury/Hermes, finally, is one of our own reflection, a gauge by

which to test our current state of development, it would seem, for it is one which

enables us to give and receive information; to make sense of, [or] to grasp,to

transport, translate, transmit;[it is the] messenger of the gods (Tarnas, 96).

Mercury/Hermes shows all and tells all and is the most mutable of the planets[;] easily

takes [on] the nature of the other planets (Frawley, 2000); it acts in a similar fashion to

Indras Net as this jeweled net has at each knota crystal gem, which is connected to

all the other gems and reflects in itself all the others (Lama, 2005).

If in our psychic development we remain in a weak state, Mercury/Hermes will

reflect our childish immaturityand folly (Frawley, 2000). However, if the mind

orients itself toward the perception of truth,then it will see the falseness of the

external world and the reality of the inner consciousness as this archetype is one which

reflects whatever [is] consider[ed] to be reality (Frawley, 2000). In other words, we

create our reality, or at least co-create, and Mercury/Hermes reflects this, not only back

to us as reinforcement of our karmic actions, but also transmitting this into the solar
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gateway to the next higher plane, informing the next level of our progress (perhaps I

have not a true idea of what lies beyond).

As narcissistic as we have been, thus far, and as long as we abide by our sensory

input to further our development, the mirror will continue to reflect just that, egotistical

narcissism, and we will not be going very far. On the other hand, if we can begin to

truly assimilate the depth of meaning behind Venus/Aphrodite and look beyond the

senses then it is this reflection of consciousness that is the transmigrant of the illusory,

and also the agent in the experience of enlightenment (Shah-Kazemi, 2006). Basically,

our ego reflects an illusion, but our interior discipline produces a reflection from our ray

of consciousness (Shah-Kazemi, 2006). All we need is a spark, a beginning. And, Sri

Aurobindo believes this will be enough. It may be only at a certain moment a flash

which has passed through [our] whole being and [creates] a response, but that suffices

(Ghosh, 89). We make the change and we will see it, feel it reflected in the

Mercury/Hermes archetype as it reflects this energy back to us.

Sun

Our astral-glider cannot take us any further than this, as far as I know. So, we set

the controls for the heart of the sun, as our Pink Floyd colleagues may very well have

done it for us decades ago, and enter the gateway to birth the soul of our collective

making. The Sun, then, is that which is to rise above,integrate;[a] directed and

focused consciousness and self-awareness,[and] the trajectory of self-manifestation

(Tarnas, 96). This, then, is our trajectory. A trajectory of more expansive, deeper
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discovery and Steve Bhaerman believes the next phase of human evolution [will be

about] how human beings assemble into community (Bhaerman, 2009).

The winged disc of the Sun symbolize[s] the soul and its transcendence of time[;]

the cosmic person of gold. The human being is meant to manifest the Divine light on

Earth, to bring the light of truth into the material realm[;]this is inwardly the light of

the mind. It represents the soul, the causal bodywhose will is behind our fate

(Frawley, 2000). In order to transcend we descend to our interior, abstract spaces.

Ibn Arabi once said: interiorization [is] the path of transcendence, and applying here

the reflection principle, it could be said that the attainment of the center of the soul is

the attainment of that point of contact between the ray of light of the Absolute and

the mirror of the being of the individual (Shah-Kazemi, 2006).

When you want to know what your soul knows, you have to make an inner effort,

to be very attentive;you can discern something very subtlewhich knows and says

what it knows,it does not impose itself, it does not compel you to listen, for it is

without violence (Ghosh, 89). We will only travel as far as we have prepared to travel

for when one sees God, one is seeing an aspect of ones own eternal

receptivity/preparedness (Shah-Kazemi, 2006). It seems that only through the virtues,

such as servitude which more faithfully reflects the entity in its immutable non-

existence can we begin to transcend (Shah-Kazemi, 2006).

Moon

This is our story, the dnouement more or less, through the ages; this is but one

potential. The Moon indicates the past (Frawley, 2000). This is the archetype of the
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Moon, not the literal sphere we treasure, although it embodies this chi. The Moon

shows who we have been and what we bring with us from the past. It can show positive

resources from the past which give us greater consciousness in life, or it can show

negative influencesthat bind us to regressive patterns of behavior (Frawley, 2000).

The Moon has held open this book of us; held it for us to read at our leisure. It has been

available to us to read most every clear night.

If we would dare to step outside, stop for a moment to gaze up into the vast

blackness of the cosmos and gather in the light of the stars. And, there most every

night telling the story upon deaf ears, thus far, has been our long lost and forgotten

Mother in the Moon (beneath our feet, as well, in Earth). A Moon which represents the

matrix of being, the psychosomatic foundation of the self; the body and the soul,to

receive and reflect, the diffusely conscious and the unconscious, the anima,of the

diffusely visible and invisible holds this, our story, with such patience until the time

arrives, which is swiftly upon us, when we are ready to ponder such things (Tarnas, 96).

And, it was that very Moon told me in a song to share as best I could here; was Her

who told me to look through the form of Venus/Aphrodite to see the more

androgynous interior balance, the balanced equation of the psychic being in order to

complete our journey into the Sun.

Synopsis

Sotat tvam asi, thou art that, if this collective unfolding story of the psychic

being told by Aurobindo Ghosh and The Mother, Mirra Alfassa, interwoven with the

presentations of Tarnas, Frawley, and Wilber holds any water. I think it is important to
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remember, ultimately, that, as Joseph Campbell so eloquently put it, the godsare

metaphorspointing beyond themselves and leading one to an experience of ones own

identity with a mystery that transcends them (Campbell, 2011). These gods we have

embodied in the planets which orbit our inhabited space here on Earth merely reflect

the chi of each archetype, as does the suns light off of the planets themselves, in its

rippling wake of movement as if a pebble had plopped into water. Each god emerged

as we developed and could sense them and seeded the god which followed, one

remaining nested within the next and the light of each refract through us in various and

mysterious ways.

Martin Prechtel reveals this unfolding in his book Secrets of the Talking Jaguar.

Prechtel says that [we] began to realize how we humans pass through each stage of

creation,becoming mesmerized by ourabilities and positionuntil we are unable to

remember where we really came from and what being alive on this earth really entails;

he continues to say that [we] must renew the seeds, feeding the Gods by initiating the

people to remind them of who they really areas a human this moment (Prechtel, 98).

We now have this awareness that there is some secret to be remembered, not due

to this tiny bit of a paper, but people are starting to listen. I only just recently began to

listen and understand, and I have been seeking a long time. But, I also know, and I think

people who stumble across this quickly figure out that if the psychic entity had been

from the beginning unveiled and known to its ministers, not a secluded King in a

screened chamber, the human evolution would have been a rapid soul-out-flowering;

but the veil is thick and we know not the secret Light within us (Ghosh, 89). As each

seed of a god yields to the subsequent god, so, too, must we birth our hidden
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sacred egg the soul into the Light. The word soulmay mean [that] which we call

being, though the proper word would be rather a becoming and the psychic being,

fully formed and wholly awakened, becomes the conscious sheath of the soul around

which it is formed (Ghosh, 89). SoNamaste and safe journey through our "soular"

system.
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Video References

Ceres/Demeter in the asteroid belt:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)

Terrence McKenna: The Transformations of Language:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xfsBPy5Fp0 , @4min:50sec, @6min:50sec,

@8min:20sec.

Terence McKenna: Seeking the Stone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgQfC4WRg-g&feature=relmfu ,

@50min:00sec.