PAN International, Issue 44

PAN INTERNATIONAL
Provisional Astroshamanic News
An Abridged Edition of PAN, 3.7-12, 5 June 2006, Issue 44. Editorial Director: Franco Santoro
Cluny Hill College, Forres IV36 2RD, Moray, Scotland. (+44(0)1309-672289. + PAN@astroshamanism.org

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts. (Céline, 3.12.7)

Dear Friends,
Welcome to the Full Moon issue of PAN, which I deliver right at the end of my expedition to South Africa. The upcoming Full Moon features the Sun in Gemini and the Moon in Sagittarius, and the binary 3.9, emphasizing the themes of multidimensional communication and all related binary conflicts. This is a superlative setting to reinforce the connection with the Core Multidimensional Identity and retrieve the awareness that has been lost as a result of separation. In the Epic of the Sacred Cone this full moon binary is associated with Bunós, one of the 12 nations of the Handorian State of Tudor. Bunós people, similarly to other Handorians, are an extended large family, where all is shared and, as it is shared, it proliferates and inflates. They are mostly esteemed for their multidimensional highway building skills, their intrepid passion to explore uncharted territories, their lightness, humour and the daring competence to create links between HAC and non-HAC. On a Full Moon Sun and Moon reach their maximum distance from each other. This is a highly charged moment in which the conflicting pulse between the two polarities reaches its apex. This stimulates the desire to retrieve and challenge the separated parts, and whoever or whatever we project it upon. It is a time of cathartic copulation between sky and earth, light and darkness, and all polarities. These days are ideal to deal with multidimensional conflict resolutions (see controversial article below), releasing pent-up emotions related with separation. During full moon the female energy is prevalent and the basic trend involves being receptive to relationships, yet at a multidimensional level.
On a Gemini-Sagittarius full moon it is possible to copiously stretch the scope of any ritual setting. Therefore, no matter where you are or whether you are alone or in company, you can join a much wider network. I will hold an astroshamanic healing trance dance at Cluny Hill College on that occasion, which will also be a filmed astroshamanic trance dance. Please feel free to join either by physically taking part or by organising a ritual wherever you are on Sunday 11 June 2006. Astroshamanic healing entails re-awakening our fourth-dimensional body and linking it with our HAC physical body. The fourth-dimensional body consists of emotional substance, which strategically intensifies at full moons. Emotions inspired by unity travel fast both in time and space, releasing Graha and promoting blessings. I do wish you with all my heart a most ecstatic dance.
This issue is dense of controversial and significant bits. Please see the summary for references.
Also please be aware the Handorian States references are now available in a separate page (click here to reach it, perhaps).
Following my courses in South Africa, the next astroshamanic workshop at Findhorn will be the Original Quest from 1 to 7 July 2006. This will be followed by the Emilia Summer Retreat or Astroshamanic Touch Intensive in Italy, from 24 to 30 July, which is the event I most recommend this year. The human environment, the location of the retreat and its non-HAC references offers the opportunity for me to deal with cutting edge themes that I still cannot address in my workshops in Scotland.
Blessings,
Franco

PAN 44 Summary

· Astroshamanic Sky
· Multidimensional Conflict Resolution
· The Grange (South Africa)
· Astroshamanic Touch
· The Three Bunos (from The Epic of the Sacred Cone)
· Binaries: 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12
· Celebrities: Pujol (the farting shaman), Ginsberg, Conan Doyle, Céline.
· Epic of the Sacred Cone References
· Core Network News
· Calendar of Events

Astroshamanic Sky:[i] From 9:08, 5 June 2006, the Moon is in Libra. From 20:41, 7 June 2006 to 5:05, 10 June 2006, it moves in Scorpio. Then it transits in Sagittarius until 10:19, 12 June 2006. Next it moves in Capricorn until 13:32, 14 June 2006, and then in Aquarius up to 16:05, 16 June 2006, when it will shift in Pisces until 18:54, 18 June 2006. The Sun continues to be in Gemini until 12:26, 21 June 2006. On 11 June 2006, at 18:04, it will be Full Moon in 20° Sagittarius 41’. The Last Quarter is on 18 June 2006, at 14:09.

Multidimensional Conflict Resolutions: A Full Moon is a climax of conflicts. On a Full Moon conflicts are not meant to be resolved, they are designed to explode and be ritually performed on the stage of HAC. In HAC conflicts provide healing outlets for tensions pertaining to non-HAC dimensions and beings. In HAC everything is based on conflicts between polarity (male and female, day and night, positive and negative) and there is no way in which this can be changed since this is what HAC is all about. The purpose of HAC is to develop and express conflicts. Hence trying to change this state of affair is a most forlorn and ludicrous venture. Unless I am fully aware of non-HAC multidimensional disputes, limiting the resolution of conflicts to HAC is merely a bogus harmonising activity aimed at secretly rerouting conflicts. It follows that all HAC oriented conflict resolutions end up generating further conflicts. Here there is ultimately no substantial diversity between peace negotiations and wars, brutal arguments and non-violent communication, as long as all this is limited to HAC and excludes non-HAC. The emphasis in HAC conflict resolutions is on the outer end of the conflict, i.e. the outcome. The aim is to reach the outer conclusion of the conflict, while at the same time covertly recycling and boosting the inner conflict into future outer manifestations. Outer conflicts are fruits coming from seeds and roots of conflict, which persistently continue their existence no matter what appears to occur in the outer reality. This is an obvious process in all HAC biological dynamics and cycles of nature. In spring the fruits gradually emerge and grow from plants. In summer they reach full growth and maturity. In autumn they decay, are consumed or stocked up in stores for future consumption. In winter plants are devoid of fruits and all nature is barren. Yet in spring the fruits emerge again and the cycle continues. During this yearly cycle, although the fruit was not permanently visible, the seed and roots were always there. Fruits are the outcome of unseen seeds and roots, just as HAC conflicts are the outgrowth of non-HAC sources. From a shamanic perspective all conflicts emanate from non-HAC. These conflicts are not readily visible, being hidden from HAC perception. From the shamanic perspective all HAC beings are projections of non-HAC entities, whether they are aware of it or not. HAC is the screen for non-HAC activities, just like what appears on television is the projection of events broadcasted from another location. In shamanic societies awareness of HAC and non-HAC has always been present. Hence in such cultures all major attention in life is towards establishing and preserving links between HAC and non-HAC. This is, or perhaps was, the function of such cultures. I write “was” because most of these cultures are being swallowed by current HAC-dominated cultures, including most aspects of modern spirituality.
Africa, and southern Africa in particular, is the area where our first ancestors emerged from their non-HAC underground settlements and transformed into HAC beings. Consequently this continent still preserves traces of this original memory, which reflect in the customs of some of its cultures. In many African traditions rituals, ceremonies and practices are used to acknowledge and support the link between HAC and non-HAC. These practices are often misunderstood by HAC conditioned observers, who interpret them according to their HAC paradigms. The basic principle underlying many African rituals is that HAC is a provisional condition with a limited duration just like a dream or a movie. This is one of the reasons why they do not bother much about HAC technology, development or evolution. These are all HAC western concepts, which do (or did) not make any sense here. The major concern for these cultures is to establish a connection between HAC and non-HAC, between the dream and the dreamer, the play and the screenplay. Hence what counts primarily is the awareness of the web of life and the multidimensional realm. Non-HAC perception is so deep and obvious in African cultures that they do not even have the theory and concepts to explain it. This is because it is part of their direct experience and biological response to life. It is not a belief system that needs to be communicated through teachings or books. As a result these cultures have never felt the need to document their knowledge for this was written on the earth, the sky, our bodies and whatever exists. The basic understanding is that HAC and non-HAC are entirely aligned and this attitude reflects in all situations. This is particularly the case when dealing with conflicts and grievances.
A typical practice common in many African tribes is to silently whisper grievances whenever you meet people with whom there are conflicts. Instead of directly expressing anger or other strong feelings towards these individuals, emotions are released at a subtle level. This is based on the assumption that HAC beings are not responsible for grievances. Grievances emanate from the ancestral spirit realm and need to be dealt with at that level. The Dagara African shaman Malidoma Somé refers to ash circles, employed for conflict resolution. First a release ritual is celebrated in front of the community, where similarly to the Basic Ritual of the Sacred Cone, each party of the binary can express its side without interruption. Then they retire to a sacred space created by a circle of ash (for the Dagara ash means protection). In this place ancestors and spirits are formally present. When the two persons in conflict access the ash circle, each one takes a mouthful of water (representing peace) from one of two bowls. After spitting the water out, they face one another and scream at each other wildly, without using any physical violence. Through this process non-HAC components are given the overt invitation to emerge and produce a major catharsis. The ritual ends with the two throwing the remaining water in the bowls on each other. The whole community is also totally involved in the process since conflicts are never seen as personal issues. All types of conflicts have an impact both at a collective and multidimensional level. Similar rituals are employed in many other African tribes and shamanic cultures around the world.
The same attitude applies to death, which in most African cultures is devoid of most conventional HAC elements. Funerals are major rituals of connection between HAC and non-HAC. The departed is regarded as a being joining the non-HAC realm of ancestors, which is the highest spiritual reference in Africa. The expression of grief by the community has nothing to do with ordinary HAC sadness for the death of someone. Grief here serves an energetic function and its aim is to support the spirit of the departed. “A spirit who is not passionately grieved feels anger and disappointment,” writes Malidoma Some “as if their right to be completely dead has been stolen from them. So it would be improper for a villager to display the kind of restraint and solemnity seen at Western funerals.” Public release of grief is cleansing and plays a vital role for the whole community to the extent that “people look forward to shedding tears the same way they look forward to their next meal”. People who cannot cry or express their pain are considered dangerous or ill as they have lost the connection with their non-HAC side. “It takes millions of tears to produce a flood capable of washing the dead to the realm of the ancestors, so refraining from weeping wrongs the dead. Rhythm and chanting crack open that part of the self that holds grief under control. But grief unleashed without the help of ritual drummers, musicians, and chanters runs the risk of producing another death. It is a force without a container. To the dead, it is useless energy, like food that is wasted while people go hungry. [...] When activated, emotion has a ceiling it must reach. At its apex, grief turns the body into a vessel of chaos. But it is just such a climatic chaos that can cleanse both the person and his or her spirit”.[ii]
For such tribal people the awareness that HAC conflicts and painful events serve a non-HAC function is so obvious and ingrained that it does not make any sense to talk about that. So far only very few shamans (such as Malidoma Somé and Credo Mutwa) have spoken out certain truths in HAC terms and, as a result, have encountered a lot of opposition from their tribes and also caused major controversies in HAC.

The Grange: I am about to conclude my second two-week astroshamanic expedition in South Africa. In this part of the globe it is the peak of autumn, with temperatures ranging from -1 to 23 degrees Celsius in a single day. For the traveller from the North the passage to the southern hemisphere unveils a totally new scenario in the sky. The Sun reaches its zenith in the North and, together with the Moon and other planets, moves in an anticlockwise direction, while at night the firmament is populated by other constellations. Also the magnetic fields function the other way around: for example, if I release the water from a sink here it moves counter-clockwise, while in the northern hemisphere it travels in a clockwise direction. Another feature, which applies to South Africa in particular, is that it is the area where the first human ancestors emerged from their underground settlements and began their journey on the surface of planet Earth. South Africa is a land intimately related with my past and with the strategic HAC game of reincarnation. According to this arbitrary perspective this appears to be the place where I spent my last three lives. South Africa is a land of shamans. Among them Credo Mutwa stands as one of the most popular and controversial. He is a Zulu sangoma (shaman) regarded as one of the greatest treasure of African oral traditions. For further information see the following links: www.metatech.org/credo_mutwa.html or http://www.credomutwa.com/
I am staying at The Grange, a magnificent healing centre located on the highest part (1700 m.) of the vast interior plateau known as Highveld. The place is managed by two great souls and natural teachers (Fay and Michael), who have run the Grange for more than 40 years. It is a large property full of multidimensional constructions, immersed in nature and also close to the heart of the South African HAC marketplace.
I have run here a two-day Astroshamanic Trance Dance and Drumming workshops and a four-day course on Astroshamanic Touch (AT), which started right on the New Moon in Gemini. Altogether we were 12 on both workshops and most amazing people. This allowed each one to represent a Sector and to boost the dynamics of AT. It was also the required number for activating The Henge to astroshamanic healing purposes. The Henge is one of the most remarkable healing places and non-HAC settings I have had the honour to work in. It is a Sacred Cone Circle consisting of 16 pillars, built with traditional local bricks, one for each Sector and Direction. One year ago I had the precious opportunity to celebrate a series of public rituals at The Henge, which had just been completed. This time I was amazed to see startling developments. First I found the sand in the inner part of the circle replaced by tender grass. Secondly, Fay and Michael, my loving hosts and enlightened founders of The Grange, had decided to put tiles on each pillar with laminated astroshamanic information on the sectors taken from my second book. The tiles were formally installed during a ritual performed exactly at 12 o’clock. Each of the 12 participants incorporated a Sector and activated the related pillar by attaching the associated tile. Then each one received guidance from the Sector and shared it with the rest of the group.
The next development at The Henge, according to Fay and Michael, may involve depicting the logos of the 12 Spirit Totems and attaching them to the pillars. I sense an intimate connection between this Sacred Circle and the Astroshamanic Healing Sheet created at Findhorn. I realise that the most spectacular construction purposefully aligned with astroshamanic healing currently resides in South Africa. In the Appenine Mountains of Central Italy back in 1997, together with some friends, I created a wide astroshamanic healing circle covering a circumference of 3 km and with 16 temple zones each one identified by a tree and a wooden plate depicting the related Totem Spirit. Similar circles were also created in other places I visited in Europe, yet I perceive The Henge as being the most impressive. Surprisingly there is nothing of this sort at Findhorn yet. So far I have been reluctant to manifest a visible sacred circle there. The guidance I received was to first set this circle on a special astroshamanic map, which I drew in 2000. My feeling was to keep the Sacred Cone Circle at a subtle level, without giving it visible form in the outer environment, at least for some time. During the workshop I held with Sverre on the Spirit of Cluny Garden two weeks ago ago, I received guidance to explore the possibility of creating a visible Sacred Cone Circle around Cluny. A guidance I received a decade ago actually referred to the creation of Sacred Cone Circles around the world. The creation of such circles is intimately connected with AT, a practice I am gradually and vigilantly unveiling.
The time I spent in South Africa has been most inspiring. The reconnection with this ancient land has given me more clarity regarding the development of this work, its healing implications and some forthcoming radical steps I intend to take in the future. I realised that it was much easier for me here to address several most controversial topics and experientially refer to some major non-HAC themes that I am unable to bring up at Findhorn. I am also grateful to Fay and Michael for the beauty and loving energy they have created at The Grange, which is indeed one of the most impressive healing centres I have ever seen. They tenderly supported me during all my staying. Being in their company was sheer delight!

Astroshamanic Touch (AT): Astroshamanism is based on the experiential awareness that we are all part of a vast multi-dimensional universe, that our physical body is the energetic smaller scale reproduction of a vaster body, which is an inherent part of the divine network of life. Astroshamanic Touch (AT) is a multidimensional ecstatic bodywork application of astroshamanism meant as an explicit tool for bridging HAC and non-HAC, physical with non-physical. In AT physical contact aims at grounding the solar system, the stellar firmament and the multi-dimensional universe in the cells, organs and tissues of the physical body. AT involves whatever exists on the physical plane (human beings, animals, plants and minerals) and in more subtle realms, including the void (or Bhi Jinah), who is indeed the basic ingredient, the bona fide horniest bit. AT is an orgasmic touch, aimed at generating ecstatic love sustained by honourable healing intentions.
AT constitutes the most precious and genuine part of my work. It is the essence I have been nurturing since I moved my first steps, the most exquisite gift I have received from the spirit realm, as I feel and see it. It is also the part that has met with more intricacies, misapprehension and obstacles. This is the case for all that tends to remain hidden in the obscurity of human deepest longings. Every workshop on AT is a further advancement in the unveiling of this arcane ecstatic knowledge, each time disclosing a layer, gradually revealing its primal beauty. This is what I perceive happened in this four-day African course at The Grange. It is the longest course I have officially devoted so far to AT, after the three-day course in Turin last December. More will follow. The next opportunity is the Emilia Retreat (a one-week workshop), which is indeed the event this year that I more strongly recommend. It is a unique workshop with the ideal environment and conditions for thoroughly experiencing AT and its healing implications. Please let me know at your earliest convenience if you are interested to take part.

The Three Bunos: The Full Moon in Sagittarius on 11 June 2006, heralds and manifests the emergence of copious legendary stories. What tags along is a most abridged version of one of such extraordinary stories, which I herewith decide to provisionally unveil. This I do as a way to pay tribute to Gemini, the area where the Sun is taking its resolute steps. As you have probably already read, Gemini, or Sector 3, is epically related to the lissom lands of the Handorian State of Tudor. The homonymous capital, located in close proximity to the hyper-metropolitan State of Hartem, hosts a foremost team of the Sacred Cone Interstate Tournament. Tudor is also the residence of multi-dimensional lovers, the access to everlasting romance as it may be dreamt about on Earth. Tudor is one of the first states that I remember. My early memories were related with its lands and glorious heroes, such as Naxor, Zlim, Bunós, Hanfran, Nain, Salinger. These champions were so prominent that they seemed to overshadow those of the other States.
This story is about the Nation of Bunós, epically associated to the Full Moon in Sagittarius. Before you even consider reading what follows, please be aware that you are dealing with a most provisional, condensed and forlorn translation of a largely temporary, compacted, derisory, imprecise and despondent account of the original version of the story. Nevertheless, with all my heart, I do wish that its appraisal will be healing and beneficial. Here it goes.
Once in a Northern hemisphere village 12 children gathered to play nascondino al contrario, i.e. “hide and seek in reverse”. In this version of the traditional tag game, one person is IT and hides, while the rest of the children look for IT. When one child sees IT, then he or she silently hides without being seen. The new IT will be the last one who discovers the hidden children. The children had recently devised this variation of the game and were very excited to try it out for the first time. It was the apex of spring, and this provided a considerable amount of daylight to play for several hours. Yet, in order to assure further time of visibility, they convened to play on a Full Moon. Although they were most likely unaware, on that day the Sun was in Gemini and the Moon in Sagittarius. The chief advocate of this game was a clever child nicknamed Buno. Hence, all children agreed that he was to take the role of IT in the first round. As soon as the game started and Buno was given the signal to hide, he dashed towards the southern lower quarters of the village. This was the medieval zone originated from a pristine Roman perimeter. It was an area filled with narrow ways and stairs: a superlative place to hole up. As Buno was darting downward through the old quarter, his sight was attracted by a tiny arched gate admitting into a descending corridor. He entered the gate and began to move down. The corridor was quite intricate and with abundant possibilities for hiding. After some scrutiny, Buno was drawn by a long series of steps leading to various store rooms. Although it was all rather dim and grimy, a great sense of order appeared to dominate the place. Each store room had an identification number and diligent details regarding its owner and content. There was one exception though. This was an entry that could hardly be seen. It did not even look like a door. Besides being of the same colour of the adjacent walls, it did not have any bolt or handle. Buno, after pausing for a few seconds, promptly pushed the door. He then found himself in a small corridor leading to another door. This one was huge and really looked like a door. Buno tried to open it, yet with no avail. It was so heavy. Perhaps there was even something occluding it on the other side. Consequently Buno chose to remain in the semi-obscurity of the corridor. This proved to be an excellent hiding place. The child remained there undisturbed for almost one hour, until he was later caught by one his two best friends. Far from being disturbed about this, Buno was very content for they could join forces to open the heavy door. No way! It was still too weighty. Later, also Buno’s second friend arrived. Now the three friends were all in the same place. This was quite a common occasion, for the three children were truly great friends. They spent so much time together, that the other children, as well as all the villagers, called them the Three Bunós. This time they felt that they could open the door. And they did. Then they moved through hand in hand. Once they were on the other side, suddenly everything became so brilliant that they could hardly keep their eyes open. Then, they began to detect some forms around them, until they finally realize that they were in a totally different environment. This place had nothing to do with their village. First of all, instead of being spring it was autumn. In point of fact, it was also spring. I know that this may appear rather bizarre, yet it was both autumn and spring at the same time. Moreover, sky, vegetation, landscape, people, costumes, language, buildings, everything was totally different. Of course, this appeared to them very odd. Yet, to be truly honest, the weirdest thing for the children was not that of being in this new-found world. It was the fact that, as soon as they realised to be in that environment, they almost forgot about where they had previously lived in. Far from being scared, thrilled or curious, they felt confident and at ease. It was as if nothing special had really happened. This looked rather strange for them. The children were also surprised to notice not to be at all concerned to return to the village and meet again their friends, relatives and parents. Again, to be more precise, they were not truly surprised. They rather felt that they should be surprised, yet indeed they were surprised that they were not. The most dominant perception was that of having always been in this place and that nothing particularly special had happened. After a few minutes they found out to be in the Realm of Bunós, one of the most potent Nations of the Handorian State of Tudor. They even realised that they were actually the Three Kings of Bunós, i.e. the main authorities of the place. This was indeed too much, yet it was really how it was. As a matter of fact, for a series of reasons that would be excessively complex to elucidate, besides being Kings, they were also Queens. Here I abstain from mentioning other even more peculiar features of their life in Bunós, and move towards a conclusion. To put it briefly, they spent several decades ruling and experiencing all kinds of ventures. They were so absorbed with their Nation that they forgot about their original village. To be more accurate, it is not that they really forgot. They simply did not deem the village worth of any attention. Then, to cut a prolonged story short, one day, which I presume was the Bunósian equivalent of a Full Moon with Sun in Gemini and Moon in Sagittarius, they happened to find themselves in front of that heavy door again. They did unlock it with ease and then also opened the other door, which still did not look like a door. To their sheer amazement they found themselves in their Northern hemisphere village. The most startling fact was that nobody appeared to have noticed anything about their long absence. In actual fact it was that same Full Moon day in spring and they were still in the hide and seek game. It was already night though, and the Moon was shining in the firmament at the height of the village bell tower. This was the moment convened as the end of the game. All the remaining children searched everywhere for the three Bunós, yet with no success. When they finally met them in the main square, there was of course a lot of curiosity regarding their mysterious hiding place. The three Bunós decided to keep the whole story secret. After a few days they also began to avoid talking about their story even among themselves. Later they started to feel quite awkward and embarrassed. These feelings grew to such an extent that they began to meet less and less, until they totally ceased to see each other. After a while they all went to live in different villages. Many decades elapsed. The children became boys and next men and later old men. Then one day, they all simultaneously decided to return to their native village, which had now developed into a town. On that day, obviously in spring and with a Full Moon with Sun in Gemini and Moon in Sagittarius, they all happened to find themselves in the southern old quarters, and precisely, after having passed the door that did not look like a door, in the corridor in front of the heavy door…


Binaries:

3.7 (Sun in Gemini and Moon in Libra) blends Mutable Air with Cardinal Air, integrating Gemini’s lightness, dexterity and flexibility with Libra’s balance and harmony. Those who resonate with this combination[iii] are lighthearted, charming and influential beings. They are geniuses in the realm of communication, which they employ to promote diplomatic connections, agreements and most expanded networks.
3.8 (Sun in Gemini and Moon in Scorpio) combines Mutable Air and Fixed Water, integrating Gemini’s communication, sociability and humour with Scorpio’s intensity, passion and power. This combination provides mental agility mixed with forceful and emotional magnetism. Active, fast, penetrating and total, they are excellent at pursuing projects that require extreme focus, yet for a small duration of time.
3.9 (Sun in Gemini and Moon in Sagittarius) This is the Full Moon binary combining the Gemini qualities with Sagittarius’s adventurous spirit and expansive nature. These folks are major travellers and pilots in the multidimensional realms, moving swiftly along the web of life with the capacity of effectively documenting their enterprises.
3.10 (Sun in Gemini and Moon in Capricorn) combines Mutable Air with Cardinal Earth, blending Gemini’s sociability and lightness with Capricorn’s ambition, discipline and integrity. This configuration facilitates the definition of agreements and contracts, both among human beings and non-ordinary entities. In particular, the emphasis is on contracts aimed at manifesting tangible third-dimensional results in the sphere of communication. Here what counts is to refer the peripheral projection of the contract to its central emanation. In human terms it involves allowing non-ordinary and matrix beings to be part of contractual human decisions.
3.11 (Sun in Gemini and Moon in Aquarius) combines Mutable Air with Fixed Air, integrating Gemini’s versatility and lightness with Aquarius’s genius, independence and synergy. This configuration amplifies the Air element and its synergic properties, promoting breakthroughs in the relationship between HAC and non-HAC. In particular, it is much easier to generate gaps in the limits of conventional communication and reach remote or apparently inaccessible individuals, beings, locations or states of consciousness. For example, I call someone by mistake, who in that moment was desperately trying to connect with me but had lost my telephone number, or I turn on the television and the first thing I see is my power animal, who through an ordinary documentary communicates relevant information. This combination, though airy, is also related with the subtle vibrations of the mineral world and their stimulation. On this binary system, astroshamanic healing stones, such as the Trevilian Stones, are often blessed by water and activated.
3.12 (Sun in Gemini and Moon in Pisces) combines Mutable Air with Mutable Water, integrating Gemini’s mental dexterity with Pisces’s compassion, imagination and shape-shifting. These beings easily operate as bridge between HAC and non-HAC in the realm of communication and information. They are extremely receptive, versatile and sensitive, with the capacity to shine in many operative fields of life.

Celebrities: [iv] In this section please find lists of celebrities related to the above binaries. If available also the Ascendant (AS) is given in brackets. The AS may create an additional binary with either the Sun or Moon, or also provide clues about the integration zone between Sun and Moon.

3.7: George Bush (AS Virgo); Horst Tappert (AS Scorpio); Alice Bailey (AS Leo); Josephine Baker (AS Virgo); Joseph Pujol (AS Capricorn); Alois Alzheimer (AS Gemini); Tony Curtis (AS Cancer); Henry Kissinger (AS Gemini); Norman Vincent Peale (AS Cancer).

3.8: Johnny Hallyday (AS Virgo); John Wayne; Ron Wood; Isadora Duncan (AS Aries); Marguerite Yourcenar (AS Leo); Miles Davis (AS Gemini); Thomas Moore (AS Scorpio); Mario Cuomo (AS Leo); Enzo Siciliano (AS Capricorn).

3.9: Judy Garland (AS Cancer); Prince de Monaco Ranieri III (AS Gemini); Donald Trump (AS Leo); Federico Garcia Lorca (AS Pisces); Elisabeth Huppert (AS Sagittarius); Hugo Pratt (AS Sagittarius); Dante Alighieri; Patch Adams (AS Sagittarius); Cosimo de Medicis (AS Capricorn); James Belushi.

3.10: Charles Aznavour (AS Capricorn); Dean Martin (AS Pisces); Raffaella Carrà (AS Libra); Gustave Coubert (AS Taurus); Suzi Quatro (AS Taurus); Jane Russell (AS Cancer); Demis Roussos (AS Libra); Rainer Werner Fassbinder (AS Pisces); Muhammar Khadafi.

3.11: Marylin Monroe (AS Leo); Richard Wagner (AS Gemini); Jean Pauil Sartre (AS Sagittarius); Georges Marchais (AS Taurus); Arthur Conan Doyle (AS Gemini); Willian Butler Yeats (AS Capricorn); Jean Pierre Chabrol (AS Libra); Kathleen Turner; Chick Corea.

3.12: Francoise Sagan (AS Virgo); Prince (AS Scorpio); Louis Ferdinand Celine (AS Libra); Blaise Pascal (AS Cancer); Rupert Everett; Allen Ginsberg (AS Pisces); Gayatri Devi (AS Cancer).
Joseph Pujol: born in Marseilles on 1 June 1857, with the airy binary Sun in Gemini and Moon in Libra plus grounding Ascendant in Capricorn, le Pétomane (French for “Fartist”), as he was widely known, was a professional farter, anal shaman and entertainer most popular in Victorian times. He had the astounding power of breathing in air by his anus, just as HAC people breathe in by the mouth. Then through the air contained in his intestines, he could at will reproduce all sorts of sound. Some of the highlights of his theatre performances involved playing a flute through a rubber tube in his anus and farting sound effects of cannon fire and thunderstorms. Another popular number became the popular rhyme, which Pujol himself composed, about the old farm and all its animals, which he punctuated with the usual anal renditions of the animals' sounds. These sounds are also traditionally played every Monday at Findhorn during the Experience Week. In that instance the rendition of the animals’ sounds is both oral and, thanks to the contribution of Cluny Hill College food, anal. His performance were so amusing that often people in the audience literally fainted and needed medical assistance from laughing so hard.
http://www.robotnut.com/hi/pujol.htm
http://www.gettingit.com/artucle/402
http://www.answers.com/topic/le-p-tomane

Allen Ginsberg: born on 3 June 1926, with Sun in Gemini, Moon and Ascendant in Pisces, he was one of the major American beat poets, particularly known for Howl, whose opening are: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness". He was also involved with Tibetan Buddhism.
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/ginsberg.htm
http://www.allenginsberg.org/

Arthur Conan Doyle, born in Edinburgh on 22 May 1859, with Sun in Gemini, Moon in Aquarius and Ascendant in Gemini, he was most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes. He was also involved with spiritualism and wrote books such as The Coming of the Fairies, where he reproduced photographs of fairies and supported their existence, and The History of Spiritualism.
http://www.sherlockholmesonline.org/
http://www.siracd.com/

Louis Céline: born on 27 May 1894, with Sun in Gemini, Moon in Pisces and Ascendant in Libra, Celine was a French writer and doctor, author of controversial novels, such as Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan. His works contain major non-HAC elements and depict a nihilistic realistic world filled with chaos, inertia, pessimism, deformities and disintegration.
Those who talk about the future are scoundrels. It is the present that matters. To evoke one's posterity is to make a speech to maggots.
Neptune has finally wed Venus - even Gods can't screw around forever.

The Epic of the Sacred Cone References - The Handorian State of Tudor:
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[i] All times in PAN are given in GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).
[ii] Malidoma Patrice Somé, Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman.
[iii] Astroshamanically we resonate with all combinations and can express them by simply attuning to their frequency. Astrologically there is a strong connection with this binary when it reflects in the position of your Sun and Moon in sign, house, ruling planets, nodes, transits, angles-Sun or Moon combinations.
[iv] This information is given as a general reference, which is not meant to pigeon-hole celebrities with their Sun and Moon’s positions. Besides these there are many other elements that play a major role.