What were you doing when Jupiter was impacted last month?
From Science@NASA: “The date was July 19, 2009. Amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley was photographing Jupiter from his backyard observatory in Murrumbateman, Australia, when something odd caught his eye.
‘My attention was fixed on the Great Red Spot, which was setting beautifully over Jupiter’s horizon,” recalls Wesley. “I almost didn’t notice the dark blemish near Jupiter’s south pole, and when I did, I put it out of my mind.’
It’s just another dark storm on Jupiter.
‘That’s what I thought at first, but something about the dark mark puzzled me, it didn’t look right, and I couldn’t stop stealing glances at it.’”
Slowly, Jupiter’s rotation turned the blemish toward Earth, Wesley got a better look at it, and the truth struck him like a thunderbolt.
It was an impact mark. Something hit the giant planet!
I went back to my own journal to see what was ‘expanding’ in my life at that time: I was hearing the Harmony of the Spheres just the evening before.
July 18, 2009
I began hearing the tones again—The Song of the Goddesses making themselves heard by me. I listened to the peaceful flute-like intonations. Yes, I have been asked to go to Kepler’s study and work on the Harmonies of the Spheres…I will…
To me they sound flute-like, not like sirens. But as I think of how we wet a finger and rub the rim of a crystal glass, I can understand the ‘siren-like’ quality being used here to describe these sounds. However, they are a song—a song of the Goddesses to the spiritual center. Earth, Kepler defined as being a sixth—a minor, sad-like song due to the ‘Earth’s misery and famine.’ Amazingly synchronizing with this study is that it was on the phase and signature of tomorrow—on July 19th—that Kepler had had his miraculous discovery which led him to his theory of the Harmony of the Sphere’s: A Modern Pocahontas, keyword ‘Compatibility’ and the interpretation by Jones: When positive the degree is high skill in bringing older or neglected reality to the service of fresher and more vital self-fulfillments. My daughter, Heather, was born on this day and she is this symbol from my mother’s perspective–tenacious, courageous, unafraid to be herself, to promote her ideas and to stand firm in her own truths. And yet at core she seeks to oversee, to bring compatibility amongst divergent factors, people, and ideas. This, too, was what Kepler saw—the Universe in 9-part harmony—a song in Time and Space—from divergent planetary bodies all singing their unique and individual songs to the solar center around which they revolved… [He] had shifted the focus of celestial harmony from the Earth to the Sun: “Henceforth it is no longer a harmony made for the benefit of our planet, but the song which the cosmos sings to its lord and centre, the Solar Logos“.
July 19, 2009
There was a beautiful scene awaiting me in the pre-dawn sky—Mother Moon and Venus, side by side–as I walked out onto my patio in the early, predawn hour. I inhaled the beauty of the moment with soulful exclamation. I sat and soon discovered there were other stars in this lightly cloud-covered dome of darkness. First one made itself known and then another. They were aligned in an arc reaching outward and upward on either side of the two ladies. I received the message simply and clearly that there is to be a seven based also on the placement of the moon in our charts—it took the captivating essence of these two ladies to allow me to catch and behold their message to me. It explained why I had been up and outdoors so effortlessly. As I watched and beheld, a song arose in my heart from seemingly nowhere, “Blue skies of Hawaii smile on this our wedding day. I do; I do….love you; love you.. with all my heart.” I thought of my home there. I thought of Mother living there even now. I thought of her gift of financial assistance to me which she’d called to tell me yesterday—beginning with her desire for me to have my special dress for my talk and then concern over the rest of the costs… Then a plane looming low and large made its way through the scene above and as it approached, the low and powerful humming of its engines increased. I watched it sail over where I sat and as it did the bright white landing lights beneath its belly came on—another moment noticed. It was a scene that drew me to the night sky on April 11, 2005 when Ron and I had met—this scene was similar to that portrayed on APOD for that ‘moment in time.’
My heart was still bringing new songs to my attention—they were the children’s lullabies which I’d written. Heather’s first—for this was in fact her birthday! Little Lady dressed in pink… And I thought of how her song is a rainbow song. How last night the seven portrayed themselves to me as rainbow spectrums on either side of the one that we are at birth. We really do create our own worlds… Why are there so many songs about rainbows and what’s on the other side? Rainbows are visions and only illusions. Rainbows have nothing to hide… So we’ve been told and some choose to believe it. I think their wrong wait and see. Someday we’ll find it, the rainbow connection—the lovers, the dreamers and me. And it’s true isn’t it? We are a rainbow—each of us in our realm and spectrum of being. And the heavens are as well…
By now I’d gone in to check the time and had returned. There was a pink horizon making its way to our world, as it does each morning… a spectrum of light to awaken the sleeping world. A bird had joined me in my lullabies. He sat on a wire and chirped along with my memories. Why does a bird sing? Because it has a song. So many sweet feelings and impressions fell upon my heart and mind as I sat and watched the sunrise. I thought of conference—how elated I am over the thought to meet the other members of the Assembly. I recalled reading last night before bed about the first of the Ibn Gabirol Squares: Health.
The Nature of Health (in Time and Space)
Above all else, health is a matter of self-continuance and thus is a consideration of the time factor in in everyday existence. It is the most fundamental assurance of continuance which is the one truly common characteristic of any manifestation of life at any level. Also and inescapably this self-continuance involves every creature’s need for interaction with other of its kind. This interaction is the space factor of health. It is this time/space factor that provides a sense of order to the mind right down through inanimate nature even down to molecular structures. Marc Edmund Jones in The Ibn Gabirol Magical Squares: Patterns of Consciousness
And so perhaps that means that Time is the personal and individual aspect of health and Space is the collective and relational aspect of health. Relating that concept to the concretization of self in the Cross model, the Star model then naturally follows as the involvement in service to the world. Spiritual health precedes any good that we can be to self and/or in the world at large. The matrix that we are—of Sun and Moon, of maleness and femaleness, of experience evolving us into wise stewards—these are the components of good health. Not so much balance as aptitude and attitude… My having spent so much time in seclusion—writing and learning and developing the who that I know myself now to be—has been time well-invested in ‘good’ health. Now the call is to be that in the world, to form new relationships and to broaden the Space of my health to others. The teeter-totter of this desire versus the upcoming opportunity to begin experiencing the space-factor has me excited—an unhurried eagerness…
And so as I sat enjoying the spectacular morning feast, I thought of my talk—how its significance speaks to me on every side… Adding yesterday post-nap, the introduction of the spectrum of relationships which are to be ours and which emanate out from us as we, the egg or ring-pass-not, come into existence. Kepler and his Harmony of the Spheres—and how this very day and signature is the anniversary of his first realization of such a concept, having himself drawn a diagram which suddenly took on new, fresh meaning and opened the portal of his understanding.
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/kepler.html#cm
Kepler's 'Miracle'
On 19th July 1595 (NS), a sudden revelation changed the course of Kepler’s life. In preparation for a geometry class he had drawn a figure on the blackboard of an equilateral triangle within a circle with a second circle inscribed within it. He realised that the ratio of the two circles replicated the ratio of the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. In a flash of inspiration, he saw the orbits of all the planets around the Sun arranged so that regular geometric figures would fit neatly between them. He tested this intuition using two-dimensional plane figures — the triangle, square, pentagon, etc. — but this didn’t work. As space is three-dimensional, he went on to experiment with three-dimensional geometric solids.
Also see the YouTube presentation Harmony of the Spheres http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EFZuzgcIzY And, I’ve found another article on Kepler and the man who was his inspiration—Nicolas of Cusa–which I will include a significant portion of here: http://www.keplersdiscovery.com/Harmonies.html#Mag
Who was this “Nicholas of Cusa,” and how did he influence Kepler’s thought?
A renaissance-era statesman, mathematician and philosopher, Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) enjoins readers to investigate the world in the spirit of “learned ignorance.” A motivating theme in On Learned Ignorance is the idea that the human mind never obtains a precise portrait of the world since it knows all things by relation.
“Every inquiry is comparative and uses the method of proportion,” he writes. “Perhaps this is why Pythagoras insisted that all things are constituted and understood through the power of numbers.” (Bond translation, p. 88) Yet even though we know all things by “likeness,” we can resolve our knowledge of truth down to finer and finer elements by investigating the world of our minds and of phenomena in the spirit of “learned ignorance.”
Says Cusa: “Wherefore it follows, that, except for God, all positable things differ. Therefore, one motion cannot be equal to another; nor can one motion be the measure of another, since, necessarily, the measure, and the thing measured differ. Although these points will be of use to you regarding an infinite number of things, nevertheless, if you transfer them to astronomy, you will recognize that the art of calculating lacks precision, since it presupposes that the motion of all the other planets can be measured by reference to the motion of the sun. … And since no two places agree precisely in time and setting, it is evident that judgments about the stars are, in their specificity, far from precise…” In Cusa’s view, non-uniformity in shape and motion is the condition rendering the universe susceptible to knowledge. Because the human mind knows all things “by relation,” if motions and shapes were uniform or “perfect” humankind would never be able to know the world.
Kepler’s Investigation into The Harmony of the World
In Greek, the word harmonia means “congruent,” or “fitting together.” The Greek words for “harmony” (harmonia) and “number” (arithmos) both derive from the Indo-European root (a)ri, recognizable in such English words as rite and rhythm. In Vedic India, rta meant unity or cosmic order.
Kepler considered the Harmonices Mundi (The Harmony of the World, 1619) his greatest work. The text relates his findings about the concept of congruence with respect to diverse categories of the physical domain: regularities in three-dimensional geometry, the relationships among different species of magnitude, the principles of consonance in music, and the organization of the Solar System. “On the regular figures, the harmonic proportions they create, their source, their classes, their order, and their distinction into knowability and representability.” (The Harmony of the World, Book I)
-
Investigated auditory space through experimentation.
-
Sought to determine all of the possible harmonic ratios for sound, and to inquire as to their causes in the domain of geometry and mathematics.
-
Questioned if there truly were a “unit” or the “one” common to all the harmonic divisions of the string? Did there exist a smallest interval or “common factor” from which each other harmony could be constructed? Kepler found that there was not.
-
Sought harmonic proportions in the Solar System.
-
Asked if the greatest and least distances between a planet and the Sun might approximate any of the harmonic ratios, but found they did not.
-
Looked at the speed of the planets at the points where they move fastest and slowest, noting that movement represents a better analogue to harmonic vibration than distance.
-
Found that planets did seem to approximate harmonies with respect to their own orbits. The maximum and minimum speeds of Saturn differed by an almost perfect 4/5 ratio (a major third). The extreme motions of Jupiter differed by a 5/6 ratio (a minor third in auditory space). The orbits of Mars, the Earth, and Venus approximated the following harmonies: 2/3 (called a “diapente”) for Mars; 15/16 for Earth, or the difference between mi and fa; and 24/25 for Venus.
-
Examined the ratios between the fastest or slowest speed of a planet and slowest or fastest speed of its neighbors.
-
Discerned harmonies in each case with discrepancies smaller than a “diesis,” or 24/25, the smallest harmonic interval that a human ear can discern.
-
Discovered that harmonic relationships structure the characteristics of the planetary orbits individually, and their relationship to one another. The only interval with a deviation from harmony larger than 24/25 is the diverging motion of Mars and Jupiter which is off by 18/19.
-
Wondered, Why is this so? Kepler, writing in 1619, did not know of the existence of the asteroid belt, in the region of interplanetary space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid belt would not discovered until 1801. The gap in Kepler’s theory of the harmonic theory of the planetary orbits represented by the asteroid belt seems to indicate that he had discovered something consequential about the ordering of our Solar System.
I cannot begin to express the gratitude I feel for finding these articles (and there are many more!) to explain the necessity—the ‘beautiful necessity’—that we retain these discovered ‘inharmonies’ which allow for our continual increase of wisdom and knowledge! Those who would temper what we know in order to bring convenience to the mind’s fallacious need to grasp onto something to ‘make their world right’ will forever be the true enemy of the awakening consciousness of mankind. Thank God that Kepler would not do so! Thank God that he left his work saying, I do not know why there is an inexplicable inharmony between Mars and Jupiter… Thank God to Tycho Brahe who would not hide the discrepancy of Mar’s orbit—for had he done so, Kepler would never have discovered the elliptical orbit of the planets. Thank God that Copernicus would not that the Earth be considered the center of the universe! Thank God that Columbus would not believe that the world was flat. But mostly, thank God that Eve would not still her hand from the forbidden fruit—and rather that she and Adam tarry outside the garden in order to discover the beauty of that which was yet unknown to them. Thank God for all adventurers and discoverers—thank God for the spirit of man that asks Why? as well as Why not?
Life often hands us lemons. It’s odd, but one of my all time favorite Christmas stocking stuffers was lemon soap on a rope. Grandma always tucked one inside for me. I loved to smell it—it was so wonderful! I hated to see its size diminish into nothingness in the weeks that followed the holidays. But I knew that there would be another one to follow the next year. Life was certain like that—in my youth. Then Grandma passed and Life handed me its own lemons—also attached to a rope around the neck, it seemed. An overly-analytical mind, I suppose I was curious as to why Life’s lemons never seemed to fade away—instead they seemed to accumulate! The burdens of life kept growing until I could no longer stand up under them. All attempts were destined, it seemed, to failure…
But I had another childhood activity that captivated me. It seemed to counter-balance the lemon affliction. I was forever searching for four leaf clovers. As a young child, I would sit alone on Grandma’s lawn, searching meticulously for one to appear before my gaze. And I did find my first four leaf clover there! It was such a joy! I had just known it could be done! After that one experience, I knew that there was always the possibility that I would find more. Many years later—down on my luck and reminiscing over those days of my early childhood—longing for simpler times and less complexity of life issues, I stood outside on my sister’s lawn in Orlando, Florida, having taken a walk earlier with my niece and conversing at a soul-level with her, now found myself pensive and sorrowful–figurative lemons hanging round my neck—to which I subconsciously found myself bending over and again searching for the illusive four-leaf clover. I needed a ‘real’ one as a sign for hope. I would spend the next three years, at odd and curious times, rejoined with that quest—always without success–but silently hoping that now might be the right time and space…
After dedicating my book in San Diego, we trekked up the California coastline through the redwood forests. Certainly I will find it here—now—after such a glorious and momentous occasion! But alas, though the clovers were huge and begging for attention, no four-leaf clover was to be found. Ron returned home. I stayed and visited with my brother and his family. Another niece—this one a twin—had need of a four-leaf clover… I could feel her pain—a young, searching pain—combined with an ensuing choral performance deadline. She had ‘need’ for consoling—and yet also had the distancing of youth which will not allow for the wisdom of age to teach or reach. Our youth spend too much time in such isolation… Teaching moments are rare and usually overlooked. We, as parents, often try to force our wisdom—which, of course, is a waste of energy. Seek first to understand, then to be understood. There it was that I found myself, as the aunt—understanding and perceiving her need for understanding, but without recourse to bring the desired healing touch. In such a case, all that can be done is to hold ‘love’ in one’s heart and soul, and there love will always find a way…
I found myself outside and looking down at the grass, my memory of the hunt for the four leaf clover returned again. Why not! My soul exclaimed. All things are possible! Certainly in this expansive field of green a four leaf clover must grow. I believe that I will find it. It will be my message of unspoken love to ears that cannot open because of pain, but of eyes that can see and a hope that resides for understanding… I began my search. Within moments I held the four leaf clover in my hands. Then a phone call. Ron was suffering, too, from his own set of misconceptions… He needs a four leaf clover, too! As we talked, I continued my search… Another four-leaf clover lay in my hands. Then another and another. In total, I found seven four leaf clovers that day. I made a short home-made video of them and it is now on YouTube: Seven Four-Leaf Clovers by Saijin. It was a miraculous moment—worth waiting the six years for!
During those six years I discovered most concretely the world that I have created. This world lacks only one thing now—sharing and companionship with others. I am entering my seventh year. It began with a Plutonian encounter. I spent three of those years suffering in self-destruction. It was the Tower Card of my life experience. Pluto held me by my toes, upside down and shook me with every ounce of His strength, Who do you want to be? Do you want to destroy yourself and all those you love? Do you? Then do it! Keep on doing it until you….don’t want to anymore…. Until the pain you cause yourself and others becomes so great that you simply cannot do it anymore. Now, good, there you are empty—you have no more energy to destroy! Well done, good and faithful captive! Here is your reward—a lump of coal once, it now shines—but what spectrum would you create—towards what light will you direct this crystal of light? Who would you now be? Go! Make it happen! Create!
And at such a time as this a new friend appeared in my life—one who assisted me as I ventured forth—one who could guide, direct, and inspire as I chose what path of light I would follow. This friend caused me always to turn back within to ask myself, Who do you want to be? Who are you? Who do you want to become? And I would return with new ideas and new plans—many of which were failed attempts—as I came to know more and more about this rebirthing process of light from within. Relationships were restored—for I learned quickly that they were those things which had mattered most and which required my utmost attention. They were healing for me and for the others involved. Stability and much reflection and meditation. Much time spent alone. Creative endeavors—mostly writing—ensued. I became reclusive. I slowed down. I thought much, read much, learned much, and shared very little. I knew I was in a process and had not much yet to say to others. I was a babe learning to crawl and then to walk. Many times I fell down on my face—mistakes were made, but no longer were others blamed for them. I accepted full responsibility for myself—for my actions and my inactions. I recognized my worst adversary—self, angry—and self, depressed—and I learned to recognize these as my shadows asking for equal healing. They were an important part of the promise of greater wholeness. Shadow work became very important.
A long story short—the healing period, which is ever-on-going—in the main comprised the next three years. That period of time also encompassed my change in geographical location. I spent the past two years of that time coming out of my quiet-phase, but still reclusive rather than socially engaged. It was the period of time when I wrote what I had to say, when I told what I had found—it was time to begin communicating the treasures I had unburied in self and in the treasures of learning I had discovered in my book-learning… Kepler, Jung, Leo, Rudhyar, Jones, Wheeler, Blavatsky and others….
Where the path leads from here, I cannot see—only that always the next footstep will be given. I’ve learned to trust again, to hope again, to love again. I believe again…in self and in the holy desires that lie at the center of all other souls with whom I come into contact. I know honor and respect and loyalty—for I am aware of their counterparts and have disarmed them in the shadow-work of love. The battle, as life, is on-going so that I might know concretely and at any time the I am that I choose to be. Always choice guards the way to my creative self-expression. For now, I know peace—the peace which passeth understanding… the unconditional love of Mother Earth and Father Sun, being heir to their wisdom and knowledge, their direction and guidance and their constant encouragement to make something of myself that I have even yet to dream of creating…
And in the Moment of Totality, like the Magician of the Tarot, I can make it all disappear, as did Anna. I can return it all to the Point of All Possibilities and recreate, rejuvenate and transfigure myself. I can ask again Who would I be? Who Am I? and create anew Who I am. July 31st, the day I address the Assembly will be such a day for me. It is the day that I take the Health of Time and add to it the Health of Space. I will find my plussage and I will share my plussage with others—those of the seen and the unseen fellowship—the Laya Center within which I have part and portion in the Work. I am grateful for the opportunity. I come bearing gifts, and their companionship is that gift which I have long sought. Having experienced it illimitably in spirit, I shall now have the opportunity of fulfillment in the flesh. I am so looking forward to that day! It will be one full cycle of the Total Solar Eclipse from August 1, 2008—a cycle which coincides with my sister’s birthday. My hope is that my future steps of creation will include the renewal and recreation of that relationship, as well. We are so very much alike—she representing my counterpart of discovery in earthly familial relationship. As Cusa taught, oppositions “apply only to those things that admit of a greater and a lesser,” — “never to the absolutely maximum, for it is above all opposition.”
And so I know that harmony lies in the equanimity of understanding, the harmonizing of opposites, the understanding brought to bear on two different realms and their relation of unity with one another. For man’s scientific understanding would insist that man can know of no absolutes, yet it is foolishness unto God, for the Universe grants that knowledge which supersedes man’s learning—where all things are one—where all things are possible—and where in union with that I am that It is—even mortal man may know harmony, truth, understanding, and love. The Spheres sing the Song of the Goddess—a lullaby—calling us all to that place of reunion, of comfort—a place called family. And so it is that both my sister and I share the same five-fold star pattern of symbolism in the Sabian symbols—only oriented differently. She is my objective and I am her synchronizing influence. She came to light my path and I came to synchronize with hers. Therein will the harmony be found. The stars will never be our explanation—only our confirmation. And like Kepler’s flash of inspiration, as well as in the Solar eclipse when the Moon covered the Sun—it—that spirit of love–bursts forth in a moment of Totality.
One of the attributes of Divinity is the ability to make lemonade of lemons. My friend, Elaine, suggested more: Why not make lemon-bars! They taste so much yummier! And recently my son, Travis, with whom I am blessed to share more learning-and-teaching moments than most because we share an apartment together, told me, Hey Mom! There’s a new album out—You’re gonna love it! It’s called, When Life Hands You Lemons, Paint that Shit Gold!
Isn’t life grand! Isn’t life wonderful! Isn’t life beautiful! Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet, but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat…
Why?
Why not add a spoonful of sugar? Why not paint that shit gold?
All things are possible for those who believe. I believe that, do you? Do you see a snow-covered bridge or a rainbow beneath your light of consciousness? Do you see lemons or gold? Do you see harmony or dissonance? The choice, now and forever, is your to make. How do you see your world?
The Five Goddesses singing their lullaby. What Child is this that lay to rest?
We will become whatever we desire to become, for that is the mother’s wish for the child of her creation, the desire of the son of a son, the Father’s heir to the kingdom. We decide and they will guide. We are divine creators by birthright. Allow the divinity within you to speak. Open your eyes and your ears that you might hear their song of harmony in your soul. Sing your song—not because of any reason other than this: That there is within you a song to be sung. May it be one of harmony and of home—of unity and of love—of fellowship in both the seen and the unseen worlds.
I suppose the most significant thing about today is that I have a somewhat new and exciting understanding about the ‘day’ or cycle of each phase we are given. Today, for some reason, what is paramount on my mind is that it isn’t ever really about figuring out a conclusion. It truly is about the flux—first this way and then that way—in order to continually be able to have better and more thoroughly understandable viewpoints of that with which we are dealing in our daily lives. Yet, like the blind men and the elephant who each held fastly to different parts of the beast, we are so very emphatically designed to think that we have ‘the’ true reality that we are forever either jumping to conclusions and making proclamations of our ‘truth’ or we are vacillating and never able to determine a thing. So, today, what strikes me as new and wonderful is that we could just relax into knowing that we are just ‘fluxing’. Back to the Future, the movie, had this machine—the Flux Capacitor! What a wonderful concept! What a wonderful word of synchronicity in describing what I’m getting new today: The Flux Capacitor is in fact our Day!
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet
Saijin is a writer, poet and lyricist–and now a travel website owner!–as well as the mother of six. After writing Saijin’s Journey Begins, a pre-teen book about the synchronistic events in a young girl’s life, Saijin launched TellingTouch, a website devoted to the preservation and publication of family histories and journaling. She then turned her attention to researching esoteric principles and writings through personal and academic studies for her works: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES IN SABIAN SYMBOLOGY and HEALING OUR SHADOW-SELVES. As an avid life-long student of spirituality, metaphysics and a diversity of New Age disciplines, Saijin utilizes her passion for research and writing to share her findings with others. Assisting and encouraging others to get the most out of each and every day is her heartfelt mission. With over twenty-five years of working with adults and youth in mentoring and teaching capacities in private, business, academic and religious arenas, Saijin now turns to share her gifts of enthusiasm, inspiration, encouragement and mentoring to all those who are ready to step into a fuller experience of life and its gifts of wisdom and conscious awakening. – Ed.
