Shadows on the Wall of the Cave

There is a group of us who have been getting together for two decades now to discuss what WERE deemed Conspiracy Theories. It was clear this past week however that everything we had researched and explored was no longer a theory but had been more than demonstrated after all this time to be unfortunately unescapably correct. However, our Western Media, (which most people still believe is unbiased news when it is actually a well-paid PR arm), have painted and skewed the information into 24 hour cycle well-lit glossy sound bites. Much like the Frankenfood that is packaged and sold to us as HEALTHY, what seems to be information about our world is no more than a great PR campaign. When we compared the data that our group have quietly collected these past two decades to the events as reported during this same time frame and look at the world as it is TODAY and compare it to when we started in the 90’s, the alarm is deafening.

As a result, some in our group have succumbed to a deep depression. The more we researched the more futile life seemed.

So this week we made a decision.

If we continue to focus on our research into Vaccinations, Big Pharma, Food Additives, uninvited Fluoride, Invading Refugees, Climate Change, TPP, the UN One World Government, Aliens, Monsanto, Wall Street, 9/11 etc etc. then we will miss out on the incredible beauty and wonder of this life that IS still abundant. Perhaps we have to look a little harder but it is STILL there. I know it is. I see it in a sunset, the roar of the ocean, the tree as it bends in the breeze, the certainty of a mountain and the chuckles that I get from my grandson. Those small things give me hope.

And then there is what is happening in our own backyard in terms of poverty, malnutrition, poor education and domestic violence to name but a few – yes in our own backyard. How can I even consider worrying about these large concerns in the world when Australia has so much to do to look after its own?

So where to begin.

Our little group agreed that we could not stop what was happening in the world. Our research has demonstrated that the fundamentals of life and how we humans organize it has not changed in thousands of years. Everything told/sold to us via history books, school and the paid media is skewed and packaged to market a particular perspective to ultimately achieve an end gain. However it was also recognized and acknowledged by our group that this strategy of being able to paint reality into rainbows of colors to suit ourselves is actually key in human nature not to mention in business. And if we are all very honest and strip back our stories, culture and personal bullshit, it is clear that we each well know how to employ this strategy.

(I’ve said a mouthful here and stated it in very general terms. I know. I will revisit this in greater detail down the track one day.)

My first question for myself was this: “Why does any of this bother me?” Well I want our children - yours and mine - to have the best lives possible and I want them to benefit from the wisdom we have collected as a result of our experiences. Of course, I myself never listened to my parents and vowed to find my own way so naturally my apples don't fall far from the tree. smile emoticon

To be frank - I'm afraid for them. I'm deeply afraid for them. And I feel a responsibility to have an influence on their future if at all possible. After all, I was an instrument that brought them here right?

So every generation fears for the one to come. How am I any different?

I'm not.

I had chosen a different path for myself in this quest to improve conditions on this planet for the future generations to come. My platform for educational reform in every area of Australia from the desert to the ocean was number one. However my political career ended before it began four weeks ago. I remain horrified with this current trend of trolling other human beings. To me, everything in life is an iceberg. We only ever see 1% above the water. And in politics it’s the same way. We can surmise but we truly don’t know the back door deals that go on. We don’t see most of the work done on our behalf. All we see is the sell. All we see is the carefully constructed slideshow.

To successfully survive in politics you need to focus on the game instead of the people. 5 PMs in 5 years says a whole lot doesn’t it? Each one of those three ex PMs were intelligent, decent, hard working people who endlessly contributed to community and the good of our nation in their own way. Each one of them was destroyed by a media who had become paid publicists for international corporate agendas. Why would anyone want to play THAT game? How could you dedicate yourself to public service and work towards reforms for the benefit of our nation when you could only ever expect to be trolled by lemmings who would rather be sold a glossy lie than comprehend and appreciate an inconvenient truth? And NO I don’t believe that politics needs to be delivered in a glossy package. I believe in humanity and the down to earth appreciation of those of us who contribute to our community, society, country and planet on a daily basis.

I believe that by virtue of the international corporate structure, we are Countries without Borders. We are told what to export, who to exchange with and how to govern. We are sold the illusion that we have rights. Let’s face it - we have none. We are no longer citizens but consumers. At every point we are set up to consume. At every point we are trained to trust. We trust that when we switch on a lightbulb there is power, when we turn on a tap there is water, when we buy food it is safe to eat and when we brake in our car it will stop. We trust biopsies and surgeries and pharmaceuticals. We trust vitamins, supplements, chiropractors and personal trainers. We trust other people to heal us, feed us, clothe us, raise and teach our children, protect our family and look after our parents. We trust that needles are filled with good things that once injected into our children and ourselves will protect us from disease. We trust that no one else can access our on line files, passwords or track us via the camera or satellite on our phones, tablets and computers.

Everything is a smaller part of something bigger after all. We don't know what's coming around the corner. We won't know until we get there. Living is easier with eyes closed and much better than living in fear of all that we think that we know. Yes I am beyond mortified about this trend of trolling and all that seems to be wrong with this world. However, perhaps the data that I receive as a result of my observation and not participation, can be leveraged into a greater understanding of who I am while surrounded by this quagmire, instead of feeling so disillusioned about humanity. After all everything is a reflection of everything else right?

Everywhere you look, there is a not for profit entity building awareness, creating community programs, connecting people and rewriting the laws of exchange. Ordinary everyday people working together to build what they believe is a better life for someone. Let’s celebrate the ingenious ways that humanity always seems to find in any challenge that presents itself. Let’s celebrate how no matter what is going on in the world, there is always someone trying to better the world for someone else in their own small way.

I am daring to believe that as much it yes this is a bullshit life it is also a strikingly beautiful one. Plato's shadows on the walls of the caves are OUR own creation.

We get to choose what they look like.

The reality we each see is up to us.

Pattern

We each have a pattern where we seek to resolve tension between what we want and what we perceive we have by bringing other people into our story.

The telling of the tale gives us the opportunity to create characters and colours which in turn influence the person brought in to then provide energy in the form of a supportive emotion which in turn feeds us and gives us temporary relief.

It doesn't benefit us long term.

It is like taking a Panadol where the liver is irritated and this takes the focus off the physical pain for a moment to provide what we believe is relief when it is simply toxic distraction. We all do this as it is a necessary Human Behaviour strategy in specific circumstances.

However it doesn't help it only prolongs the agony. The best way to assist is to NOT resolve the tension and simply feel it instead of trying to make it go away.

By your actions and perceptions you have created this tension for a reason. A very sound reason. Tension forms a critical part of the creative process. Without it there is no movement no energy. Tension is life itself with all it's pushing and pulling.

To make a decision in times when you simply cannot find the mental thread that will pull you out of the abyss the best strategy is to go to nature. It doesn't resolve tension. When you open yourself up to your very own nature in the mirror if the world around you, it flows through you and you get the opportunity to reconnect to your own wisdom.

Go outside.
Sit quietly with a notebook or your phone.
Ask your heart what it wants and just write everything down.

Most of it in the beginning with be a detox of characters that you have identified with in your various stories. Honour them and note it all down. Then make the declaration to yourself that you surrender to nature and you seek guidance from your own wisdom.

And let the words flow through you........

Weeds

Knowing nothing about a garden and wanting it done quickly I planted small plants without laying lime to balance pH, rocks, compost, fertiliser and straw. I wanted a fast quick fix. I wanted a sugar hit. So naturally of course some plants thrived and some died with plenty of weeds growing in the spaces between the plants. As the soil was healthy it also attracted weeds to grow. Now I have to spend more time digging weeding and fertilising and it is more challenging doing that around the plants than if I had laid a strong deep considered foundation from the beginning.

When I started my business 25 years ago I really knew nothing about business. I had performed my whole life as a singer and musician and apart two short stints working in the shop of my parents Shell Service Station on weekends and then for the Commonweal Bank as a teller and clerk, I had only ever worked in the music industry. I began to play piano at the age of three, from the age of eight was playing for the school morning assemblies, church organ on the weekends and singing, composing, arranging and directing the school and church choirs. My business knowledge was limited yet my desire to create a new option for performers in Queensland was stronger. I wanted it set up as quickly as possible so launched straight into it without systems or adequate knowledge. I winged it with hard work and determination. 

Very quickly weeds grew in the fertile soil of our business and we experienced many challenges that perhaps could have been avoided if we had installed deeper foundations in the first place. After 25 years we are still attracting those me weeds. Why? 

The basic alignments of values of true two business directors seem to be vastly at odds. Are they really or is my perception tainted by the culture from my parents in their own unique vision of relationship? Probably. Definitely. Maybe. 

I as a director have this opportunity to reframe my perceptions of my past to rewrite my own story of story. I am just as loved and wanted and believed in by my parents. They recognised my talents for organisation and gave me free reign. They felt no need to protect me as t hey trusted that I had an intelligence that could manage challenges well. I was left alone by the pedophile priests and I created projects and systems from a very young age. I was nurtured as a leader and a visionary by them. Hazel, Ron, Jenny, Eric, John, Michael, Millie and Kathleen all loved and valued me for being me without any changes. So have my kids and my friends. If I allow my old story to run my life then I devalue their love.

My professional team see my strength and vision and support that. My personal team see my heart and value that. I have been grown in two garden beds my entire life. I have opportunities that few have end from an early age and this will never stop.

What I need is time did space to heal physically and emotionally without being bound by obligation and criticism and ridicule and judgement. 

Wow so much to work on here 

Is the Glass half empty or half full?

Is the Glass half empty or half full? 


The optimist says the glass is half full. 
The pessimist says the glass is half empty. 
The project manager/engineer says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. 
The realist says the glass contains half the required amount of liquid for it to overflow. 
And the cynic... wonders who drank the other half. 
The school teacher says it's not about whether the glass is half empty or half full, it's whether there is something in the glass at all. Anyway... 

Create Your Own Culture

"We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world." 


— Terence McKenna

Crazy for You

In the next suburb west from my family home is an old tumbledown mental institution. We used to go on Sunday drives through it, checking out the broken windowed architecture of a dumping group of what society referred to as "refuse".

Driving these through grounds, sounds weird, however I could almost "feel" the anguish, torment, terror and hopelessness of the patients - patient in their captivity only due to being heavily drugged.

Contraversially and without academic qualification, I do not believe that is appropriate to label someone as Mentally Ill.

How many people do we all know whose thoughts and feelings and sensations live outside of the acceptable societal paradigm? How any of them have been labelled genius and innovative for pushing the boundaries and seeking to breath life into absurdity?

What If?

What if there was no peace? 
What if there was no war? 

What if these two words were simply words with letters grouped together? 
Once judged and filtered by each individual belief system they took on a meaning based on perception.

What if there was no poverty?
What if there was no wealth?

Looking for the Truth

Everyone has their version of the truth. Authors, philosophers, scientists, teachers - literally thousands of minds mapping out a scenario for humanity so that they can understand the "truth" - well their version of it anyway. Seriously - I have no friggin idea - no clue. All I know is that I have been studying the words of others in various OLOGIES for most of my life - and I STILL DON"T KNOW.

Chasing Answers

My first sentence as a baby was the question “How?”. I have grown up NEEDING to know. Chasing answers like butterflies has been second nature. My entire life has been “Making it Happen” instead of “I wonder what may happen?” OR "Wow look at what is happening?". 

Collecting books, opinions, stories, evidence, people and experiences, my obsession with knowledge has transformed from a need to a choice to a black hole of possibilities. Being a raging Life Voyeur and throwing discussion subjects in the air and watching dinner party guests embrace the opinion challenge is my way of appreciating this ancient pattern of mine and keeping black holes open instead of closed off in one person’s certainty. I don’t wish to delete my pattern of “wanting to know”. I choose merely to value it for what it is and remain open to everyone’s “story”.

A Tale Of Two Nicki's

Don't we all swim between the flags of tangible and intangible
Don't we all tell a tale about why and what and why not?
There is always a reason, an excuse and a story.
I hide behind my systems - big story for me - big label - major tool. 
But it's not WHO I am. 
It is part of HOW I AM.

A Bedtime Story

Doing these Activations, I am swamped by questions - questions about everything - gradually unravelling the magic carpet that I thought was me. I wrote this to one of the characters in my own personal story - ME. :-)

What is my value?

What is my purpose?

Why am I here?

Why is my space filled with you - who is actually NOT here physically in my space?

Harden The F**k Up!

Bridget Jones - great movie - best line ever - Hurry the F**k Up Bridget!!!
I have bastardised it a little by adapting it to suit my own personal kick up the pants whenever required. :-)


Norma Cousins said - “The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself – but that force is not independent of the belief system, which can translate
expectations into physiological change. Nothing is more wondrous about the fifteen
billion neurons in the human brain than the ability to convert thoughts, hopes, ideas
and attitudes into chemical substances. Everything begins, therefore, with belief.
What we believe is the most powerful option of all.”

Just Driving!

My beloved brand new Peugot was waiting for me at home after five weeks of being a New Yorker pedestrian. I hop in, turn the key, and nothing happens. Shit the battery has gone dead! Roadside Assist arrive within the hour to start my car and it is recommended that I drive for at least an hour to charge the battery. 


So off I go on a mini suburban jaunt just me and my car. Over the freeway, up the hill, down into the semi rural valley until it begins to cough and splutter and make unfamiliar noises. I stop but keep the engine running - nothing smells, the engine isn't smoking - ok I'll turn around and return home. 

The penultimate global brand

Hronia Polla to me – a ninth generation skip celebrating my Greek name day and pondering my insatiable addiction to all things Mediterranean. 


I’m the first “Nichola” in my anglo saxon family but not the last – thanks to my son Niko. Family legend “has it” that my newly married parents lived with their Italian employers family for a while and over the ensuing months the Italian nonna was especially concerned that no pregnancy seemed forthcoming. So she snuck into their room while they were both at work and conducted an ancient fertility spell over the marital bed and 10 months later I was born – and then named after Nicholo – her son. 

The Law Of No Freaking Clue

Each day I venture out into cyber space and take an expedition into unknown places. I can go anywhere I choose simply by typing letters in some sort of order and following threads and links that take me on my journey. I can access information and knowledge from a variety of sources around the globe – Media, Government, Academic, Business, Personal Blogs, Studios and Museums. Therefore I have been collecting research and data from all of these sources as well as teachers, books, media and DVDs – both commercial and academic.

Time Control Magic

I am a self confessed control freak - my life's work in fact.

The theme for me this week has been the acceleration of time and the lesson of releasing my control of control and the magic of the surrender to the time quickening and the free falling into the void of no control. If I evaluate my communications since Monday, I have referred to TIME, CONTROL and MAGIC literally hundreds of times and in every area of my life.

World Right Now

What’s really happening in our world right now?

some would say that it seems as if the world is going crazy.

Or evolving at a faster rate?

Or the Mayan Calendar is true and as we gravitate to 2012, life alters.

Or Global Warming is killing us.

Or the world is on the verge of a deeper financial collapse?

Or humanity is on the edge of Armageddon.

There are thousands of conspiracy theories out there.

I read countless articles and books each week about looming issues that will change our world forever. I believe that every word is correct and true according to the perspective of each author.

What’s really happening in our world right now? Is it any different to how it’s always been?

There is a large market for Personal Development globally. Does this mean that as an entity, humanity is raising its awareness? Awareness of what? If we shine a torch in a darkened room, whatever the light falls upon is what we see first. It doesn’t necessarily mean that lit item is the only item in our darkened room. Similarly, our awareness of personal development may be focused on something that organized religions may have in the past.

The greater the awareness of people on a value or an aspect - the greater current reality of another value or aspect will be fractured and broken down. The matrix is balanced mathematically so if one side goes up - naturally another side will go down to counter balance.

So as more information is released, the more personal development (so called) that people study, the more we transform the matrix. This is similar to in the movie Back to The Future when Marty went back in time, it had an effect on the future. Same thing.

Dr John F Demartini speaks of this in his work. His Demartini Method process works on your personal vibration - which when balanced - seeing the charge in yourself or another as part of the reflection process - this has a non local affect because it shifts the energy in the matrix and it readjusts accordingly. This is why when you collapse someone you are charged about, it transforms the relationship - one way or the other. The matrix is real - not just some science fiction movie - and NOW we are beginning to see the effects of this heightened awareness. To balance the breakdown of our charges, of COURSE the financial matrix will readjust! Naturally our bodies will also shift energetically as the traditional paradigms no longer apply.

ADJUSTMENT is only GOOD or BAD according to your values and belief system. Seriously it is just an adjustment and even deeper, there is nothing to adjust as it simply always is.

All the predictions and prophecies and doom and gloom conspiracy theories that abound are basically made up - meaning - filtered and communicated according to one perspective. Giving attention and power to fear adds to the creation. To counter balance, we have the choice of looking at the opposing and balancing POSITIVE possibilities and highlighting them. However, the more we publish the POSITIVE, the more the atoms will readjust to the NEGATIVE to balance - an effective balancing act.

So what does this mean ultimately?
Is life evolving at a faster rate as we empower or disempower our current reality - creating and destroying at the same time?

Or are layers and cycles and seasons simply duplicating and repeating squeezing 2000 years into 1000, 1000 into 500, 500 into 250, 250 into 125, 125 into 62.5, 62.5 into 31.25, 31.25 into 15.625, 15.625 into 7.8125, 7.8125 into 3.90625, 3.90625 into 1.953125, 1.953125 into .9765625, .9765625 into .48828125 , .48828125 into .244140625, .244140625 into .1220703125 - until the great cycle of create and destroy of 2000 years is over in the blink of an eye.

How do we know that this isn't happening right now in another season, another cycle, another measurement, another paradigm?

The simple answer is that we do NOT know and we are making this stuff up - literally!!!

So therefore is there a challenge that needs a definitive solution?

What’s really happening in our world right now?

A Real Skip

In relative terms, our country is pre embryonic. As history has shown, any country can be invaded and populated by scores of other cultures and civilizations before the die is cast and a people are born. Then the cycle continues, the cast is broken, and another breed, another choice is offered.

We are lucky enough, all of us, to be witness to the planting of the seeds. Australia could be leading the way with ONE people, ONE race, and a GLOBAL culture. We are in the throes of a great opportunity to learn from each and every culture, an Australian way of life, while being guided and advised by the latest original Australians. Our Indigenous peoples, as scattered and fractured and depleted as they seem, were themselves once refugees in this country, and now face the eternal choice made by generations of every culture and country watching the dissemination of their way of life.

We all must embrace the varying racial influences just as much as we need to accept each other and ourselves. It’s just another ripple in the never-ending tide. We’re all a part of the flow. Sometimes you need to let go of the past in order to embrace the future. The children cannot absolve the sins of the fathers. Our job is to understand the lessons and seek each other as a part of the one whole.

My ancestry is so basic compared to that of my children. The whispers in my bones echo from Irish convicts and wealthy English gentry – American Naval adventurers and Welsh servants – Celtic Princes and Yorkshire musicians. Illiterate and illegitimate. Passionate and Desperate. Oversexed and Underfinanced. Overindulgent and Underdeveloped. One generation later, however, the blood of my children flows from a far more exotic Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and Central European pool.

After a storm, the colors of a rainbow glow in pure brilliance.

And so it continues, another spice is added to the pot. We all make a shift and extend space to include another shade, another smell, and another taste. Where other races in other places and times have experienced war and suffering, surely we have the benefit of their history lesson combined with our intelligence and compassion. Where is the benefit of needlessly fighting with and within ourselves?

We will only survive and prosper TOGETHER. We all have something to lose and something to gain. But isn’t life a whole series of profits and losses – positive and negative.

My children – Our children can be part of the answer.

Ignorance is a true Educational opportunity isnt it?

My Own Age Of Aquarius

I met my first Aquarian person half way through my life. Until that point, I was predominantly surrounded by fire and earth signs (seriously) and had no connection with that star sign whatsoever.

Yet now, I am surrounded by my own age of Aquarius in many ways.

My star sign sun is in Capricorn however my rising star is in Aquarius so with each passing year I seem to become far more independent, focused on freedom and revolutionary - far away from the earthy Capricorn girl so attached to hearth, home and tradition.

The piece of CRM software that I labored over for years, and led me to many scrapes with the programmer yet became the lifeblood for my businesses is called Aquarius. I have no idea where the name came from. I opened my mouth and the word came out and somehow it just seemed to fit this new innovative way to manage and revolutionize a music industry business.

At this time in my life, I look around my social circles and see that the majority of my close friends are Aquarians (at last count no less than 25). My life completely changed with each of two Aquarian men that turned my world upside down. Sure my heart took a beating but it also opened, stretched and bought itself a whole new wardrobe. :-)

In my dreams in 2010 (the year for vivid dreaming so it seems), all I see is water. I am pouring water into urns and pots which then become waterfalls on the earth expressing, releasing and redistributing water across the earth.

Finding myself in my own age of Aquarius as it pumps through my blood, runs my enterprise, steals my heart, stands in my social mirror and haunts my dreams, I realize I have no understanding of the legend that we are living in the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. I mean it was a great song in the musical Hair, but what will it actually mean for us?

In order for me to get a handle on what the Age of Aquarius will look like for humanity, I gathered a little background on the previous ages to give me a bigger picture. Looking at the religious beliefs and artistic depictions in these times, clearly these astrological symbols are closely linked to each age.

The Age of Gemini (c.6000 - c.4000) corresponded to the flourishing period of early Hinduism. It was under this sign that Rama, the seventh incarnation of Vishnu was manifested by the birth of the two pair of brothers: Rama and Lakshmana on the one hand, Satrughna and Bharata on the other. Rama Himself had twin sons: Lav and Kush (in harmony with the name of the constellation where the Sun was at that time.) Lav went to Russia from this we get the name of Slav. The other son, Kush went to China, hence we get the name Kushan. These two divine principles were also incarnated as Buddha and Mahavira, then as Adi Shankaracharya and Gnyaneshwara.

The Age of Taurus (c.4000 - c.2000 B.C.).
The aeon governing this age was Krishna, the eight Avatar, the Lord of the cows (Govinda.) The age stayed under the sign of the bull (Apis, or sacred bull Mnevis of Helipolis, identified to Ra), of the holy cow (Hathor in Egypt, surahbhi or Kamadhenu in India or may be worshipped in many spiritual cultures), or the golden calf in the polytheistic beliefs (see Exodus 32:4), preceding the Judaic monotheism. Krishna was said to have lived at the end of Dvapara Yuga (Encyclopaedia Universalis, Paris 1968, vol. 9, p.711) considered by some to have ended in the year 3102 B.C. (Zimmer, quoted work.)

The Age of Aries (c.2000 - 1 B.C.) was characterized by the establishment of the monotheistic Judaism through great spiritual personalities like Abraham (19th century B.C.) and Moses (13th century B.C.). Generally, this period was dominated by the manifestation of the universal principle of the spiritual master (Adi Guru Dattatreya.) Indeed, before the Christian era, Zarathustra incarnated (7th or 6th or even 10th century according to some opinions), Confucius and Lao-Tse (6th century), Socrates (5th century), alongside with the two great Jewish prophets (see chapt. X.) The symbol of the ram (or the Passover lamb) appeared as an object of sacrifice instead of worship, as a reaction against the belief of the previous age. That could be illustrated by the cult of Mithra who stabbed the mythological bull.

The Age of Pisces (A.D. 1 - c.2000) during which Christianity appeared and spread out. The fish was known to have been the secret sign used by the early Christians to identify each other. The Greek word Ichtus (=fish) was made up of the following phrase capitals (acrostic): Iesous Christos Theou Uios Soter (=Jesus Christ Son of God, the Saviour.) In Hinduism it was also the symbol of the Saviour (Vishnu's first incarnation in the shape of a fish saved Manu from the flood)...Similar to Mahavishnu, Jesus represented the ninth Avatar, who opened the Agnya chakra within the Cosmic Being.

The Age of Aquarius (c.2000 ) starts at the dawn of Satya Yuga. The beginning of this age was estimated by various calculations around the year 2000. Some astrologers believe that mankind will step out of the mystical age of Pisces right into the luminous age of Aquarius between 2000 and 2050, which means the end of superstitions and of dogmatic religions .

Pluto, the mightiest of the planets, is the master of Scorpio until the beginning of the year 1995 and afterwards it will enter Sagittarius. It awakens the old demons to exorcize them completely and this cleansing will bring all the mud from the depths to the surface. The energy will serve to purify man, if it is well used; being perverted it will turn against him. Pluto in Scorpio indicates a token of life, death, rebirth. Then, it will enter Sagittarius, symbol of superior spirit, of metaphysical abstraction, of fundamental seeking.

The other three heavy planets will leave one after another Capricornus to enter Aquarius: Saturn in 1991, Uranus in 1996 and Neptune in 1999 indicating the entering of mankind into the age of Aquarius, generating a new awareness, a new spiritual order. In 1996 Uranus will enter Aquarius whose master it is. Thus, the dominion of materialism and selfishness will come to an end, leading at the same time towards a new society characterized by benevolence and universal integration. This will means the abolishing of the old concepts and the vanishing of any physical and spiritual frontiers.

If Pisces is a sign of water, Aquarius is much more so. Considering the last ages of the cycle, the transition from the zodiacal names of mammals to those of the aquatic beings can be interpreted as the tendency of returning to the Primordial Ocean along the regressive branch of the ellipse, meaning the absorption (dissolution) back into the Original Atom from where the cycle had started. The Age of Aquarius is interpreted as the water of life pouring upon the people (the Kundalini), of the Spirit, of the Holy Ghost, in sign of harmony between the human microcosm and the divine macrocosm.

I can see the Aquarian astrological symbol already at work as it certainly appears that our Age is seemingly shifting out of one paradigm and into another just as the Water bearer pours water from one vessel into another.

Somehow all this Aquarian experience in my life over the past decade is connecting my human to my divine in the same fashion.

Where you are living in your own age of Aquarius!

What's the deal with nine?

What is the significance of the number nine?
My old favourite 432 = 4 + 3 + 2 = 9. So why are numbers so significant?

The number nine is a most remarkable number in many respects. All who study the occult sciences holds it in great reverence; and in mathematical science it possesses properties and powers, which are found in no other number. It is the last of the digits, and thus marks the end; and is significant of the conclusion of a matter. Likewise nine added or deducted from any number gives a figure with the numerical total unchanged. It is akin to the number six, six being the sum of its factors (3x3=9, and 3+3=6), and is thus significant of the end of man, and the summation of all man's works.

In Roman Catholic Europe, when the Angelus tolls (at morning, noon, and evening), it ring 3+3+3 and then 9 times, in celebration of the Virgin's conception of the Savior.

In ancient Greece, 9 was the number of the Muses, patron goddesses of the arts. They were the daughters of Mnemosyne ("memory"), the source of imagination, which in turn is the carrier of archetypal, elementary ideas to artistic, realization in the field of space-time.

The number 9, that is to say, relates traditionally to the Great Goddess of Many Names (Devi, Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte, Artemis, Venus, etc.) as matrix of the cosmic process, whether in the macrocosm or in a microcosmic field of manifestation.

It is to be noticed, by the way, that 1+6+5+6 = 18, which is twice 9, while 4+3+2=9: 9 being a number traditionally associated with the Goddess Mother of the World and its gods. In India the number of recited names in a litany of this goddess is 108. 1_-0_8=99, while 108 x 4-432.

The ancient Greeks noticed the movement of nine planets around the Sun.

The Ennead, or nine-pointed star, is an ancient and sacred symbol. It comprises three trinities. The Egyptian, Celtic, Greek and Christian myths all have an ennead of nine gods and goddesses, representing the entire archetypal range of principles.

The tail feathers number nine, the number of degrees in the Chapter, Council, and Commandery of the York Rite of Freemasonry.

In traditional worldwide number lore, nine, or thrice three, was referred to as “the horizon” symbolizing the ultimate, the maximum, “the whole nine yards”. This class will look at the ways people have revered the number nine and its principles through their arts, crafts, architecture, literature, mathematics, mythology, religion and folk-sayings, from "cloud nine" and a pagoda’s nine levels to a cat’s nine lives. Casual attire: no need to “dress to the nines”.

Nine was considered sacred and not assigned a numerical equivalent to any letter in the Chaldean alphabet. It takes nine calendar months to bring a baby into the world from its initial conception. Nine carried a special significance for ancient Chinese regarding odd numbers as being masculine and even numbers as being feminine. "Nine", which is the largest single digit number was taken to mean the "ultimate masculine" and was, therefore, symbolic of the supreme sovereignty of the emperor. For this reason, the number "nine" (or its multiples) is often employed in palace structures and designs.

"The Ennead "flows around the other numbers within the Dekad like an ocean." Nichomachus of Gerasa" Multiplying by nine reveals mirror symmetry among numbers. If any number is multiplied by nine the resulting digits always add to nine. For example 2 x 9 = 18; 3 x 9 = 27, 4 x 9 = 36 and so on.

Thus, the Hebrews referred to nine as the symbol of immutable Truth.

The magic square is also considered sacred and full of power in the Islamic, Tibetan, Buddhist, Celtic, Indian and Jewish traditions. A magic square is when each number is used only once, but the horizontal, vertical and diagonal sums are all equal. The Chinese have patterned their architectural temples along the harmonious principles of the magic square.

In Indian philosophy the number nine is closely associated with the process of creation in the cosmic time cycle. The entire cosmic cycle consists of three phases -- creation, preservation and dissolution. Each of these three parts split into triads (3x3=9) brings the numerical order to nine.

Gurdjieff also uses it, called the Enneagram. This system is very old, and is believed to have originated with the Sufis in the Middle East. It groups people into nine types ('ennea' is Greek for the number nine.) The system teaches that people in a given type often behave and react in similar ways.

A Symbol of Truth, Source of Magic and Power and a System that categorises Human Behaviour - NINE certainly packs a punch as a number.

Watch your life this week and observe how much nine plays a part!