Archive for May, 2009

The lunation period beginning with the new moon on May 24th and culminating with the full moon on June 7th, as read from Washington D.C., points out the following developments in the U.S.:

The new moon falling in the 12th house points, on the one hand, to an increase in crime, and trouble in connection to hospitals and prisons, and on the other hand, to possible legislative developments that aim to benefit the poor and improve housing conditions, especially in impoverished locations. These legislative developments, however, will likely be held back or up-staged, and by full moon, conditions of crime and poverty along with poor conditions in hospitals and prisons will only have worsened. Crime appears linked to deaths by contaminated drugs, or poisoning. There may also be deaths in the country linked to contaminated foods.

The new moon chart shows sudden and unexpected developments in Government circles that will require careful management. These appear linked to international relations and trade that will loom up in importance by full moon. These developments are also connected to problems in big business, the stock market, public expenditures and government bailouts. On a positive note, the entire lunation period favors the areas of publishing and entertainments.

The Chinese chart made for the lunation period shows a continuing tendency in the country to worry. The entire summer period, according to the Chinese chart for the summer, has very strong indications of a general condition of anxiety in the country. The lunation chart, in addition, points to a growing spirit of intolerance and shows the need to cultivate calm reflection to remedy poor planning and bad decision making. This is a weak period for business, and people in general are being competitive. The Chinese chart also shows distinct indications of romance. Romance in an atmosphere of intolerance makes for a dangerous atmosphere. Relationships, including marriages are vulnerable. Nonetheless, this is a favorable time for people to get married.

The Chinese chart reduced to an I Ching hexagram gives us hexagram 27, The Corners of the Mouth, line 6. The hexagram’s image is that of a dragon in a deep pool. It tells us to hold to the good and keep far away from evil actions. Pay attention to providing nourishment, and be mindful of your words. The 6th line advises us to persevere despite difficulties. The advice for those in positions of power is to nourish others impartially. Recognition of responsibilities will being good fortune.

T. Raphael Simons will be on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show this Fall. Check back for the official show date coming soon.

More about T. Raphael Simons…

T. Raphael Simons is a psychic reader, astrologer (Western and Chinese forms), feng shui expert, hypnotherapist and life coach and is  available for consultations and counseling in person and by telephone. Author of Feng Shui, Step by Step, Feng Shui Strategies for Business Success: Arranging Your Office for Success and Prosperity, and The Feng Shui of Love, his interest in the metaphysical sciences and arts began in 1970, he first learned to read Tarot cards in 1971 and took up reading them professionally in 1977. From there he studied astrology for seven years with Ivy Jacobson beginning in 1980. In 1988 he took up the study of Chinese astrology and fengshui with Terry Lee in New York and has been practicing and teaching Chinese astrology and fengshui ever since. He also trained in channeling in New York with the medium Alex Murray. Since 1999 Raphael has been a member of OBOD (the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids), the most ancient bardic and druid order in the UK in which he was elected a full member in the Druid grade. Raphael has been living in Durham, North Carolina since 2003, moving to NC from New York City. Originally trained as a musician, he taught music at Princeton University and Oberlin College. More info at: www.psychicarts.net

Food, Inc., a new film coming out on June 12th explores the questions that many of us have had on our minds which is, How Safe is the Food that We Eat and Where Does it Come From? and What Do we really know about our local supermarkets, since everything is trucked in from somewhere else? In this age of thinking global and acting local,  an awareness has returned to shopping at the local Farmer’s Market for better quality and healthier fruits and vegetables, but is this enough?

Considering the fact that the great majority of food consumed comes in prepackaged forms of some kind, questions are now being brought to public focus including: What is being done to those foods to allow them to stay “fresh” for so long? Homeopathic doctors and other experts have been explaining for decades that many illnesses we experience, which are now on an epidemic level, are caused in part by the foods we eat. Diseases such as diabetes, auto-immune system illnesses, arthritis, asthma and many more are symptoms of food allergies and food intolerance. Combine that with the overwhelming substitution of natural products being replaced by high fructose corn syrup in more products than most consumers are aware of, along with questionable care practices regarding food and we’re at a critical point in the food chain.

The trailer of the Food Inc movie describes….

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Join the Lunchbox Brigade.  Sign the petition at the Food Inc Movie site which states: “”We believe that federally funded nutrition programs should provide all children with the healthy food they deserve. This includes low fat and safe dairy, fresh fruits and vegetables, and whole grains. Schools should be soda and junk-food-free zones and serve food that complements and furthers parents’ efforts to feed their children healthfully.”

Please urge Congress to make healthy food a reality at all schools across the country. By signing the petition, you pledge to make healthy food a priority and are asking your representatives to do the same. The petition will be hand-delivered to Congress this June.

Support healthy eating in schools by signing the Child Nutrition Act Reauthorization petition.

Stephanie South is the author of 2012: Biography of a Time Traveler, which is the authorized biography of José Arguelles, the man who first introduced the date December 21, 2012 into mass consciousness with The Mayan Factor. The initiator of the Harmonic Convergence global peace meditation of 1987, Arguelles is also the founder of the annual Whole Earth Festival (1970) in California, and one of the originators of the Earth Day concept.

Recently, I had the opportunity to ask Stephanie some questions about the 2012 book, Jose’ Arguelles and what’s to come in 2012.  Enjoy the interview between Stephanie and I, presented here below….   All the best, *~Kala~*

KA: Stephanie, how did you meet and become involved with Jose’ Arguelles?

SS: In hindsight, it was purely a matter of destiny. As it actually happened a man I had been involved with who was the head of Padmasambhava Center in Portland, Oregon invited me to the 28th annual Whole Earth Festival in 1998. He had a strong intuition to go there to specifically honor Jose as being a terton, or ¨hidden treasure finder¨ in Tibetan terms.  This meant the discoverer of hidden or lost teachings. This was all new to me as at the time I did not know what a terton was, nor had I heard of Jose Arguelles. As it turned out, Jose had started the Whole Earth Festival in 1970 as a prelude to the first Earth Day.

After hearing Jose speak about time and synchronicity, something clicked inside of me and I immediately began to study his works. A few years later, I began to assist him in editing and organizational work, but it wasn´t until 2002 that this entire process began.

KA: At the age of 14, Jose Arguelles experienced what he describes as a life altering vision while on the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico. Can you explain what he learned during this time?

SS: He learned that there was a higher mind behind the world of appearance. He experienced the cosmic essence behind ¨things.¨  While standing at the top of the pyramid he understood that the minds that conceived of and created these amazing pyramid structures were vastly different than the minds that created modern civilization. He vowed to find what this knowledge was and bring it back to the modern world.

KA: What theory do you ascribe to as to how the Mayan people created such elaborate calendars?

SS: I think they could create such elaborate calendars because they were operating with a different perception of time than how we think of it. They did not have telescopes or any other astrological equipment, yet they knew the movement and position of different stars and were able to calculate large cycles both in the future and in the past. This was due to an advanced mathematical system that underlies calendars. I  highly recommend reading Jose Arguelles´ book, The Mayan Factor for more information about this.

KA: Can you briefly explain Jose’s theories on the Harmonic Convergence as well as what we can expect on December 21, 2012…

SS: For Jose, the Harmonic Convergence of 1987 was the fulfillment of a prophecy that opened a 25-year portal leading to the Harmonic Convergence of 2012. This was a prophecy of Quetzalcoatl that defined a cycle of time that began in 843 AD and ended on August 16, 1987.

Jose received the dates for the Harmonic Convergence in the early 1970s from Tony Shearer, a Lakota journalist and poet. Then in 1983 Jose had an amazing vision of an ¨Earth Surrender Rite¨, which would become known as the Harmonic Convergence.

The Harmonic Convergence marked the first time that human beings simultaneously coordinated their prayers, meditations and ceremonies at sacred sites around the planet. Many didn´t even know why, but they felt a type of magnetic pull. It resulted in the largest unified moment of collective synchronization.

According to Jose, the Harmonic Convergence of 2012 is all about collective synchronization and the shift of timing frequencies opening us into a harmonious new cycle.

KA:  Arguelles discusses the “telepathic nature of time”. Explain this concept as well as his theory that humanity is living in “artificial time” and how this is affecting our environment and civilization as a whole.

SS: The simplest way to understand the ¨telepathic nature of time¨ is through the experience of synchronicity.  Synchronicity is the key. Jose discovered that time is actually a frequency—the frequency of synchronization.  So when we experience synchronicity, like when someone calls that you were just thinking about, this is a direct experience of the telepathic nature of time. This means that your inner experience and your outer experience were in alignment or synchronized in that moment.

According to the Law of Time, which Jose discovered in 1989, synchronicity is our natural state. What keeps us from experiencing synchronicity all the time is that we are living in artificial time.

Artificial time, he discovered, is created by two instruments: the mechanical clock and the Gregorian calendar, with its irregular measure.  Together, these two instruments create a timing frequency known as the 12:60 (12-month calendar, 60 minute clock). This is artificial time. The whole of our civilization runs on this frequency unconsciously. But the rest of nature lives in natural time. The frequency of natural time is 13:20 (based on the harmonic mathematics of the Mayan calendar). In this frequency time is art and synchronicity and telepathy are the norm. Jose has discovered that we can shift to the 13:20 frequency by learning to live again according to the cycles of nature.  The 13 Moon, 28-day calendar is the main instrument he advocates to shift frequencies.

KA:  What is the Noosphere II Project?

SS: The Noosphere II Project is an experiment in time to aid in a positive planetary shift in frequency.  Noosphere can be likened to the sphere of mind of the planet. It is also the name given for the coming stage of evolution. So the Noosphere II project is an experiment of different meditations and visualizations to actually realize and bring about this next stage. It is about the cultivation of the mind and exercises in maintaining a lucid state of continuing consciousness within the natural 13:20 timing frequency. Part of this project involves large group meditations, particularly on the rainbow bridge around the earth. See http://www.lawoftime.org/law/rainbow.html

KA: Jose Arguelles discusses the Law of Time and the 13 Moon Calendar that we should follow. How can we begin to live following the 13 Moon Calendar while also needing to function in the current time frame set for work, school etc?

SS: You can just begin to follow it along with the Gregorian calendar. All the 13-Moon, 28 day calendars have the Gregorian dates, so you just find the Gregorian date and then pay attention also to the 13 moon date of the day. Remember that the Maya used many calendars simultaneously (up to 17!).  It is all about synchronicity.

The 13-Moon, 28-day calendar is like a lens to shift your frequency and perception of time. It basically gives you a portal to another experience of  reality. The mathematics behind this calendar are the mathematics of the fourth dimension.  It´s a good experiment to try following it for one moon (28 days) and note any shifts in your perceptions and increase of synchronicities that might occur.

KA: Has the Law of Time affected the current world Economic Crisis?

SS: According to the Law of Time, the economic crisis is a function of a system based on artificial time. Nothing artificial can last. The main distinction of the Law of Time is that we are shifting the paradigm from ¨time is money¨ to ¨time is art.¨ The question is, how do we make a positive transition to a new system in alignment with the laws of nature so there is abundance and equality for all?

KA: Through your study and work with Jose Arguelles, what have you learned and what would you advise people to do to shift their consciousness before 2012 and after?

SS: I feel Jose´s life is powerful example of holding to your inner vision and dream even though the world may be telling you otherwise. The main thing I have learned from Jose is the importance of discipline, focus and the cultivation of the mind. Through the training of the mind, we are able to experience more easily the rich textured meaning of this reality as well as other realities. Jose has brought through many ¨time science¨ tools that, when studied and applied, have palpable effects on the mind and consciousness.

My advice to others through this time of transition is to find your joy—find what connects you most directly with your essence–this is where the treasure lies. Also it is so important that each of us take full responsibility for ourselves and our reality. This means no longer blaming others for anything. And also forgiving everyone for everything, including ourselves!  Everything we see in the outer world is a manifestation of our collective inner world, so as each of us shifts our inner world, then our outer world changes!  Also I highly recommend a vegetarian, vegan or raw vegan diet to help raise our frequency along with living in the natural cycles of time.

KA: Tell us more about you and your work.

SS: Currently I am working with Jose on completing the Book of the Timespace, volume V of the Cosmic History Chronicles. I am also working on the Star Travelers13-Moon Almanac of Synchronicity. This is an easy-to-use introduction to the 13-Moon, 28-day calendar that people can follow day-to-day along with the Gregorian calendar to begin to increase their synchronicity and shift their frequency. This should be available in about 6 weeks at www.lawoftime.org.

More about Stephanie South….

Stephanie South is a former journalist and coauthor of the seven volume series, Cosmic History Chronicles, of which the first four have been published. She is currently working on the fifth volume, Book of the Timespace. She met Jose Arguelles in 1998 after a series of dreams in which he was demonstrating time travel and telepathy. Soonafter, she began a systematic study of his work on the Law of Time. She is currently working with him on the Noosphere II Project, an investigation into the nature of time and cosmic states of consciousness. She is also working on the Star Traveler´s 13-Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, available soon at www.lawoftime.org.  More info at:  http://www.south-timetraveler.com/

Much of what you see all around you is a physical manifestation or creation of your internal thought processes and the vibes of those who share your space. If what you see around you gives you a feeling of anger, depression, or resentment, use those feelings as your guide to make changes for the better. By using the tools in our books and tools along with the power of intention, you can begin to change what you are experiencing.

If you want to achieve something, you must clear out the maybes and cant’s from your stated goal. You cannot allow yourself the luxury of a negative thought, because those doubts will become an intention to manifest what you don’t want. When you strive to be clear and confident with your intention, your goal will manifest much more easily. But when you are conflicted in your thoughts, you will manifest obstacles. What we focus on in our mind’s eye is ultimately reflected back to us in our experience of reality.

Whenever you want to set a new goal for yourself, start by setting your intention with a clear affirmation and visualization. Take the time to become clear about what you want, but then simply declare it. Say to the universe, “Here is my goal. Make it so.” Do not think you can tell the universe exactly how and when your goal will be achieved; you cannot.

We all use affirmations every day, both positive, like “I can do that,” and negative, like “I cannot do that because I’m too weak, dumb, fat, skinny, poor, and so forth,” or any of the hundreds of other reasons we come up with for why we aren’t living the life we want and deserve. Ever since we first started living together, we have found that setting aside a time each morning for repeating positive affirmations helps to undo the effects of negative affirmations and helps us to become aware when we are lapsing into using them. As the philosopher G.I. Gurdijeff said, “When falling asleep wakes you up, you know you are making progress.”

Intend that your goal manifest in a manner that is for your highest good and greatest joy. This is very important, as intentions that are created out of desperation, fear of failure, or ego issues will backfire. You may get what you want, but it will disappoint. Alternatively, you may get the exact opposite of what you want. But intentions that are genuinely made for your highest good and greatest joy tend to manifest in a positive way.

Whether you have been looking for your soul mate, respect, contentment, romance, fun, financial security, a job you love, self-esteem, and the best life possible for you, affirmations and visualizations can be an important part of your campaign to achieve your goals. If done regularly and with sincerity, you may soon be surprised at the changes you see starting to occur in your life. It is important that you be kind to yourself as well as to others.

As you become more self-aware from your affirmations and meditations you will naturally be more conscious of that which may hold you in disharmony, and that which empowers you. Know that you can only work on yourself, and cannot force another person to heal or to change. You can help them connect with tools to create their own healing and personal spiritual evolution.  (c) Amy Zerner & Monte Farber.
Listen to the interview with Kala and Amy Zerner and Monte Farber on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show. The show airs on August 7th, 2009.

More About Amy Zerner and Monte Farber:

Internationally known self-help author Monte Farber’s inspiring guidance and empathic insights impact everyone he encounters. Amy Zerner’s exquisite, one-of-a-kind spiritual couture creations and collaged fabric paintings exude her profound intuition and deep connection with archetypal stories and healing energies. For more than thirty years they’ve combined their deep love for each other with the work of inner exploration and self-discovery to build The Enchanted World of Amy Zerner and Monte Farber: popular books, card decks, and oracles that have helped millions answer questions, find deeper meaning, and follow their own spiritual paths.

Together they’ve made their love for each other a work of art and their art the work of their lives, with over two million books in print in fourteen languages. Their other best-selling titles include The Chakra Meditation Kit, The Tarot Discovery Kit, Karma Cards, The Enchanted Spellboard, Secrets of the Fortune Bell, Little Reminders: Love & Relationships, Little Reminders: The Law of Attraction, Goddess, Guide Me!, The Animal Powers Meditation Kit, Astrology Gems, True Love Tarot, The Instant Tarot Reader, The Psychic Circle, Wish Upon A Star, The Pathfinder Psychic Talking Board, The Truth Fairy, Spirit of the Ancestors Altar Kit, Vibe-Away!, The Mystic Messenger, The Breathe Easy Deck, The Healing Deck, and The Ghostwriter Automatic Writing Kit.  More info at: www.TheEnchantedWorld.com

In the wake of Dan Brown’s bestseller, some people insisted that it was pure fiction, while others asked, “What remains when the fiction is stripped away from The Da Vinci Code.” What remains, I believe, is the belief of the earliest Christians that Jesus embodied the Sacred Bridegroom from the ancient mythologies and that Mary Magdalene was his spouse. This belief appears at the core of the Gospels and was later embellished by authors of the Gnostic texts discovered in Egypt, texts that unabashedly proclaim Mary Magdalene as beloved disciple and intimate companion, even “consort,” of Jesus.

My personal conviction that Jesus was married and that he and his wife modeled the hieros gamos (literally, “sacred marriage”) as the “archetypal divine couple” rests on the Passion narrative in the canonical Gospels, beginning with the anointing of Jesus by a woman, an event followed by his torture, death, and resurrection. This powerful sequence closely paralleled in numerous ancient mythologies and liturgies of pagan “bridegroom gods” similarly sacrificed and resurrected at the vernal equinox.

As Jesus was reclining at the banquet table in the town of Bethany, a woman carrying an alabaster jar of precious ointment approached him. She broke the jar open and anointed Jesus with its contents, precious unguent of nard. Then, as her tears fell on his feet, she dried them with her hair. This passionate story was so poignant that it survived for a generation in oral tradition and is one of only four stories included in all four canonical Gospels.

What was it about the story of this anointing by a woman that was so powerful, so unforgettable? Jesus himself proclaimed that wherever this story was told, it would be told “in memory of her.” And yet, most people do not even remember her name!

Over the years, the unnamed woman became identified with Mary Magdalene and was branded a prostitute, a slander derived from the association of the anointing with pagan rites of the sacred King. Later legends tell of the journey of the “Bride in Exile,” another familiar archetype from ancient mythologies and Micah 4: 8-10. Mary Magdalene brings the Holy Grail to the shores of Gaul, arriving in about 42 A.D. with her friends and family in a boat with no oars, fleeing persecution in Judea. With them is a pre-adolescent child, between the ages of nine and twelve whose name Sarah means “Princess” in Hebrew, yet legend declares that she is a servant. Was she, like Cinderella, really a princess from a faraway land? This legend lies at the core of the bloodline heresy that cannot be proven with facts, but echoes poignantly throughout medieval European folklore and art—the myth that a royal child descended from Jesus and Mary Magdalene survived. The “lost princess” belongs in the realm of mythology, a story too dangerous to be told as fact, but one that contrives to confirm the marriage of the “Christ-couple” at the heart of the Christian mythology.

The “sacred union,” tragically lost in the cradle of Christianity, was to have been our birthright in the Western world.  In reclaiming this union of the “Archetypal Bride and Bridegroom,” we bring waters of Spirit and Truth to heal the wasteland.  Margaret Starbird Copyright 2005  All rights reserved

Listen to the interview with Kala and Margaret Starbird as they discuss her new book, 14 Steps to Awaken the Sacred Feminine, The DaVinci Code, the Divine Feminine, and Angels and Demons on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show here: http://exploreyourspirit.com/Media/shows1.shtml#STARBIRD

More about Margaret Starbird….

Margaret Starbird holds BA and MA degrees from the University of Maryland and did graduate study Christian Albrechts Universität in Kiel, Germany, and at Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, TN. A “cradle” Roman Catholic, Starbird taught Scripture classes for adults and CCD for many years and currently presents lectures and retreats centered on the Sacred Feminine in Christianity. She has been interviewed for numerous TV documentaries both in the USA and in Britain and is the author of several widely acclaimed books about the  Sacred Feminine in Christian tradition: The Woman with the Alabaster Jar (1993), and The Goddess in the Gospels: Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine (1998), both cited by Dan Brown as significant sources in his best-selling thriller The Da Vinci Code.  Her newest book, Mary Magdalene, Bride in Exile, was published in 2005. Her other titles include Magdalene’s Lost Legacy and The Feminine Face of Christianity, both published in 2003, and a forthcoming book co-authored with a Jungian therapist, Joan Norton:  14 Steps to Awaken the Sacred Feminine. Starbird and her husband of forty years have five grown children and reside in Washington State.  More info at: www.margaretstarbird.net