Reconnecting to the Wisdom of the Wise Ones - Join the Dots and Connect - Full Moon December 12th, 2019

On December 12th, 2019 the Moon will be full in the sign of Gemini.   Full Moons are our harvest times – a time when we can examine in full light what we have in our goodies pot.   Is it a good harvest?  What do we want to keep from our harvest and what can we let go of so that we have room to plant some new seeds at the next New Moon?

It’s election day in the UK and interestingly both main candidates have their Sun in Gemini.   My guess is Boris will take it.   And across the sea the USA is gearing up for its own elections next year, as well as an impeachment.   However, weird as it may seem to us in the UK, unless the Democrats pull an amazing opposition candidate out of the bag, I’m not sure that will make any difference to Trump’s re-election. 

We are closer than ever to the new cycles of 2020 and we are also approaching eclipse season with the upcoming two lunar cycles; remember eclipses are like new and full moons on steroids. The line-up in the sign of Capricorn is growing as Jupiter leaves his sprawling mansion home of Sagittarius and hits the austerity buffers in his one bedroom portakabin in Capricorn.   Big reality check!  The question is – how big will the challenges of 2020 and its new cycles be? 

So this Full Moon is in Gemini – an Air sign, whose main activity is one of connection.   Gemini’s job is to gather information – all types of information and the more the better.   Gemini then networks its socks off connecting people, ideas and concepts.   Gemini is curious to ‘know’ about everything, whilst leaving Virgo to decide if the ‘knowing’ has any use or not, and Sagittarius to work out whether it has any higher meaning.   So, if you want to know a little about a lot, just go find a Gemini.  So let’s start doing Gemini and join the dots.   In part one I talked about the wisdom held by ancient civilisations that somehow we have lost, the field of energy that surrounds us and ‘connects’ us and how we need to be adaptable and versatile in order to be able to live in the ‘new normal’ of our changing world.   Lots of Gemini words in this paragraph – connect, adaptable, versatile, changing.   All things that Gemini loves to do.

Cycles of conflict appear to be ramping up around us – we can feel it!  If ever we needed the wisdom of the wise it’s now.  Early man found that if he co-operated with others he could achieve more than he could on his own.  So he learned to live in communities, became civilized and then created large civilisations.   However, it seems that civilisations and empires all have life cycles of their own.  So why did some of these ancient civilisations, who seem to have been carriers of ancient wisdom, not survive?   Was it climate change, was it war or did they become greedy and shallow and just forget all the ancient wisdom that had served them so well?  This is all the stuff that sparks Gemini curiosity.

The Chacoan civilization of New Mexico represents an early history of indigenous ‘Ancestral Puebloans’.  Whilst not one of the most  ancient civilizations, the Chacoans built epic works of public architecture in the high altitude, semi-arid desert, not an easy area for everyday survival.   This was an advanced level of civilization and perhaps the high altitude was for observatories to mark the progression of the Sun.   Roads and buildings were angled towards the positions of the Sun and Moon at the solstices, equinoxes and lunar standstills.   But, sources of timber for building appeared to disappear at the peak of the Chacoan civilization, either due to drought or deforestation, making it necessary to travel long distances to gather building material.   Perhaps this was the reason for the eventual abandonment of the area – they just could not survive there.

The Sphinx is an iconic feature of Egyptian civilisation.   It was carved out of the natural earth in situ.   We have been told that erosion on the statue is wind caused, but geologists now say it is from water.   This means that it was hewn at a time when there was more rain, which actually means that it must have been in place during the last ice age and the erosion occurred as the earth warmed.   This puts its age at around 8 to 12,000 years as opposed to the 4,500 years that has always been claimed.   So, maybe the civilization of Ancient Egypt began at a much earlier time than our history books show us.  Its downfall links with many of the issues we can see around us now – costly and devastating wars as well as civil war, lack of good leadership, climatic shifts with colder weather bringing famine and low rainfall leaving the levels of the Nile low and loss of cultural features as Christianity spread. 

Let’s also look at Catalahoyuk and Gobekli Tepe in Turkey.   Gobekli Tepe dates back some 12,000 years and was a religious temple site rather than an inhabited city.   It was more an astronomical observatory, where the progressions of the Sun and Moon were observed.   Catalahoyuk, however, not too far away from Gobekli Tepe, was more residential and dates back at least some 9,000 years ago.   It seems that the inhabitants at the end lived in fairly crowded conditions and, from injuries to excavated skeletons, it appears that life became quite violent.   The proximity of Gobekli Tepe points to an advanced cosmic knowledge, but excavations to go further into this civilization had to be halted because of the proximity to the Syrian border – so we don’t know why this civilization did not continue.

About three hours from Lima in Peru can be found the most ancient civilization of the Americas, Caral – a civilization which probably ended around 5,000 years ago.   This again was a technologically advanced civilization organized around the workings of the cosmos and containing six pyramids.  This was a peaceful and highly religious, sacred city. But what ended this civilization?  Again we don’t know, but maybe disease brought in by later explorers.

The Minoan culture of Ancient Greece flourished around 4,000 years ago.  A sophisticated civilization with its own form of writing and successful as a maritime trading nation, it was notable for its large and elaborate palaces, up to four stories high, which featured elaborate plumbing systems.  Most of the Minoan sites were abandoned a thousand years before Christ.  The reasons for their demise are still debated.  There is evidence of fire and destruction, as well as earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis, which suggests the demise came from a mix of climate and natural disasters, together with competition for wealth, which weakened the Minoan society.

Moving across to the Indus Valley between India and Pakistan, Mohenjo Daro was a highly advanced civilization dating back to at least 5,000 years ago.  Houses had brick built bathrooms and many had toilets.   Waste water went into sewers and cisterns and wells held public supplies of drinking water.  At its peak Mohenjo Daro was home to some 40,000 people, but again we don’t fully know why the civilization died out.   Clearly a highly advanced and ancient civilization, this could have been because of flooding or disease.   However, ancient Sanskrit texts describe chariots or flying machines called Vimanas, which perhaps were actually anti gravitic vehicles, as well as a weapon which is highly reminiscent of a nuclear bomb.     Passages in ancient Indian texts of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita mention a weapon called the Brahmastra – a fiery weapon that created a fireball, able to threaten the world with destruction – a weapon of last resort and a single projectile charged with all the power of the universe.   At Mohenjo Daro an area of skeletons was found, all in postures of flight.  It was said that birds turned white in the sky, water boiled and there was white-hot smoke as bright as a thousand Suns.  It is said that the end of Mohenjo Daro was tied to a war between the Aryans and the Dravidians, with a seven day warning given to the city’s inhabitants to leave.   We know that the inventor of the nuclear bomb dropped at Hiroshima, Oppenheimer, studied the Mahabharata and when asked how he felt afterwards about exploding the first atom bomb on earth, he replied “not first atomic bomb, but first atomic bomb in modern times’!

There are Biblical references also to nuclear warfare – “Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger.  The Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them” Psalms 21.9.   “Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire” Isaiah 29.6.    “And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty” 2 Kings 1:12

So what can we deduce from this?   What connections can we make?  Many ancient civilisations were clearly more highly advanced than we thought.  But civilization it seems, just like climate is cyclic.   Why do they end?   Clearly a number of reasons – war, disease, climate change/deforestation, greed, extremes of climate e.g.volcanoes/earthquakes, cultural changes.   Do civilisations reach a certain level of knowledge and then either thrive or die?  Is there something that allows society to reach a certain level of advanced level on a technological level, but then, if the more spiritual side gets lost, society begins to fracture, particularly if there is a lack of cooperation, selfishness and greed.

As I said at the last New Moon we have the impending perfect storm of different crises – global debt, peak use of fossil fuels and planetary resources, destruction of the planet, climate change, elite rich and growing poor, threatening and bullying behavior, discontent and violence.   We have planetary cycles the like of which have not been seen for a long time.  What connections can we make to help us to negotiate these crises, avoid the tipping point of disaster and be able to adapt to the changes that we need to make?  This is such a crucial period where we can choose to learn from the lessons of past civilisatons and their inability to adapt and co-operate.

This Full Moon is in Gemini.  Geminis want to connect and connections are made in many different ways.   Our own society lived in harmony with the cosmos until modern science got in the way and the old views were ridiculed.   The first new cycle of change will occur in the sign of Capricorn where we have a large planetary line-up building.   Capricorn is a sign of realism, of responsibility and of hard work.   So we must firstly be realistic and we must take responsibility for our part in this.   This is not ‘la la’ Netflix land.   This current Full Moon is telling us what to do – connect and learn.   If we continue to live in a state of separation and ‘dog eat dog’ survival of the fittest we won’t make it through.

We are not meant to be separate.   Nature is not separate – it is co-operative and connected with its surroundings.  The cosmos is not separate – we are part of it, as though we are one of its cells.   Gemini is a ‘mental’ sign and we badly need a shift in our thinking.    Where is the broken part of the chain?   How do we affect our own world?

In the late 1800’s there was a suggestion of a field that connects everyone.  Ancient wisdom says we are connected, whilst modern science dictates we are separate.  This invisible field is a bridge between our inner and outer worlds and it is also holographic in nature, which means that each fragment is a mirror of the whole.  This Full Moon is in dynamic aspect to the planet Neptune.  Neptune speaks of invisible connections where we cross the veil, as well as use our intuition.   Neptune is the area of our spiritual beliefs, which hold a power that can cross the field and influence many.   Just look at people who have done such a thing – people like Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa as forces for good and Adolf Hitler at the other end of the scale.

So, is this field electro magnetic in nature?    Photons are elementary particles which are the quantum of the electromagnetic field that surrounds us.  Experiments have shown that human DNA can influence photons and conversely photons can influence DNA.  Think about this – this means that the world we live in influences the way we live, but we also hold the power to influence the outside world.  Human emotion changes the shape of DNA and DNA can change matter – so human emotion can change and influence matter.  That’s why visualization and the power of prayer both work – all in the invisible realm of Neptune.

We are intrinsically enmeshed with our world and human emotions can produce effects that defy the conventional laws of physics.  There is an intelligence in our DNA which holds a message that crosses science and spirituality.  Experiments have shown that the heart’s magnetic field can be measured several feet away from the body.   Its electrical field is about 60 times greater in amplitude than the activity generated by the brain.   So, it’s how we really feel that is important – what is truly heartfelt..

We have never needed more the integration of our current knowledge with the ancient wisdom and ancient teachings so that we can connect to something bigger, because right now we are missing something.   As new cycles approach rapidly we must take personal responsibility, take time to connect with our hearts and take time to connect with each other to understand that the energy we give out has the power to have both positive and negative influences on those around us, who in turn can connect with those around them.   Gemini is the sign of adaptability and flexibility.   Gemini is versatile and actually likes change and the challenge of keeping many more balls than desirable juggled up in the air.   And, with Gemini’s ruler Mercury in expansive and exploring Jupiter, there is no better time than now to survey the bigger picture and see where flexibility and adaptability is needed in your own life.