PAN International, Issue 47

PAN International
Provisional Astroshamanic News
Blog Network Edition, 5.4-9, 20 July 2006, Issue 47. Editorial Director: Franco Santoro.
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Dear Friends,
This PAN is delivered right on the eve of my expedition to Italy for the Emilia Retreat, which is also the eve of the Sun’s Leo cycle. This issue includes a series of non-HAC articles, together with some ordinary controversial HAC features.
This summer is abundant with astroshamanic programmes, such as the penetrating Astroshamanic Touch Intensive or Emilia Retreat, from 23 to 30 July 2006; the sparkling Astroshamanic Italian Experience Week, with Irmgard Stadler, from 19 to 25 August 2006; the superb Sacred Theatre, with Sandra Lee Hughes, from 2 to 8 September 2006, the refreshing Astroshamanic Healing: Restoring Sacred Relationships, from 16 to 23 September 2006; and the unfathomable Latium Astroshamanic Retreat from 29 September to 1 October 2006, in the mystery Mountains of the Dukess at Corvaro near Rome.
Summer blessings, Franco


Astroshamanic Sky:[i] The Sun enters Leo at 23:10, on Saturday 22 July 2006. Mars enters Virgo at 18:54, on 22 July 2006. The Moon is in Cancer from 15:29, 22 July 2006 to 0:26, 25 July 2006, then it transits Leo until 11:37, 27 July 2006. The New Moon is at 4:32, on 25 July 2006 in 2° Leo 07’. The Moon moves through Virgo from 11:37, 27 July 2006 to 0:28, 30 July 2006, then it transits Libra until 13:09, 1 August 2006, and later in Scorpio until 23:14, 3 August 2006. The Moon will then move into Sagittarius until 5:21, 6 August 2006. Mercury is retrograde in Cancer until 29 July 2006.

APIS: APIS stands for Astroshamanic Provisional Intelligence Service. It is also the Latin for “bee” and the Egyptian Sacred Bull. Since ancient times the apis (bee) was regarded as a bridge between HAC and non-HAC, the visible world and the underworld. For details on the healing function of bees, please click here. Apis, the Holy Bull (the “santo toro” in Italian), was the most important of all ancient Egyptian sacred animals. He was regarded as the incarnation of Osiris or of Ptah. Apis was employed as an oracle, with his movements being interpreted as guidance and his presence believed to bless whoever was around. For further details on Apis, please click here. Apart from the above considerations, which you can optionally entertain with, APIS merely stands for Astroshamanic Provisional Intelligence Service and is also the name of a Bhi Jhinah from the Pahai Hartemian enclave of Surapis. APIS is entirely and obviously provisionally at the healing service of the Astroshamanic Net.The aim of APIS is to help creating a lively healing network, establishing non-HAC associations, contributing to the fortification of a planetary linkage between HAC and non-HAC, which is the bond between our provisional third-dimensional body and the multidimensional one, and experimenting with astroshamanic tools to generate verifiable result. Please be aware that you need to be a member of the Astroshamanic Net in order to take part in APIS. For details on how to join the Astroshamanic Net, please contact me or Liza at lizabehrendt@yahoo.com. If you would like to receive the Basic Directions for the Game of APIS, contact Franco.

New Moon in Leo: From 0:26, 25 July 2006 to 11:37, 27 July 2006 the Sun and the Moon are in Leo. The New Moon is at 4:32, on 25 July 2006 in 2° Leo 07’. This is the instant when Sun and Moon are precisely conjunct. With the New Moon the previous cycle ends and a further cycle commences. Each lunar cycle starts with the New Moon, reaches its climax with the Full Moon and ends with the next New Moon. The sign where the Moon is located at the initial New Moon determines the energy and Intent of the entire cycle. With this New Moon in Leo, the whole lunar cycle may be characterised by Leo or Sector 5 topics – such as self-expression, intention, play, creativity, performance, children, entertainment, etc. The current New Moon’s astrological sign (Leo) magnifies the expression of your uniqueness, the captivating force of the Sun, the golden quest for your authentic Intent and its open display on the stage of life.
At New Moon something is conceived: a project, an insight, an idea. The seed is there, yet it has not taken distinct form. The Moon is unseen, cloaked by the radiance of the Sun, and the seed abides hidden in the obscurity of consciousness. At this stage dreams, insights and relevant events may provide clues about the upcoming form.
The New Moon is an active phase, with the male energy being prevalent. It carries new awareness and a shift of perspective. This allows to establish intent and foundations for new projects or to release old cycles and grievances. Yet, since the whole scenario is vague, it may also be a time of vulnerability and uncertainty, which benefits from pauses, rest and reflection. The general questions here are: “What do I truly want?” or “What is my Intent?” With the current Leo New Moon other questions may be: “What do I choose to create? What have I chosen to create so far? What am I called to display on the stage of life? How can I express my inherited talents in the present? What can I generously and playfully dispense to the world? Shall I take the risk of embracing what I truly cherish right now?” On a New Moon questions require an honest answer, which is not conditioned by general or cultural ideas about what is desirable and strictly refers to one’s own uncontaminated awareness. Also, once the answer comes, Leo calls for direct exposure and accomplishment.
During each New Moon you have the opportunity of spontaneously gliding into the energy of your Intent. This may be strategically stimulated through specific ritual visionary experiences, such as the astroshamanic Basic Ritual of the Sacred Cone, the mystery enactment of the Sacrament of the Bridal Chamber[ii] or whatever you choose to do of your own playful accord. Here please be aware of your Intent, no matter whether it appears as an arrogant fantasy to your ordinary mind or the outer social environment. This is not the time to be pragmatic or to be concerned about how to accomplish things. It is the moment to open up to your pure Intent, as you fully envisage it with no limitations. Later, as the cycle progresses, there will be chances to refine the Intent, orienting it towards manifestation and understanding its practical implications.
For further details on this New Moon, see the binaries 5.5 and 5.6.

Leo: Leo is the sign which rules how we express and project our Intent into the world. In the Sacred Cone Circle Leo is placed in Sector 5, midway between the South and West Directions. Through the alignment to Sector 5 I playfully learn to connect with my Intent and radiate my unique creative way. The Leo cycle is a time of exposure, of standing in the light of the Sun and being on stage, releasing timidity and gleaming out one’s potential. It is about claiming your veritable Intent and confidently exalting your authentic Function in the world, regardless of whether this may appear as arrogant or preposterous. This solar Function does not refer to the perception of consensus reality. It refers to your spontaneous nature as it was originally conceived. It merely expresses who you are and have always been. To human separated perception, including that derived from spiritual conditioning, taking on and expressing your true power is the embodiment of megalomania and an act devoid of humility. Yet, as A Course in Miracles reads, “the ego does not understand humility, mistaking it for self-debasement. Humility consists of accepting your role in salvation and in taking no other. It is not humility to insist you cannot be the light of the world if that is the function God assigned to you. It is only arrogance that would assert this function cannot be for you, and arrogance is always of the ego.”[iii] Leo is concerned with the appearance rather than the content. This means that what I display outward is more important than what I believe it is happening in my self-consciousness. If I fully embrace my ecstatic vision, and exhibit it with enthusiasm and trust, no matter what seems to occur at an inner level, this is the message that I will deliver to the environment. In this sense Leo is a master in the art of acting, which is indeed one of the basic pillars of the Western shamanic traditions. Leo governs the unbending resolution to accomplish your highest aspirations. Hence, this New Moon provides major opportunities to boost your confidence in the areas that are truly significant for you, to face life with creativity and power, and to heed Ratusel’s[iv]classic advice: “Go and play!” (Excerpts from Franco Santoro, Astroshamanism Book One, Findhorn Press)

Binaries:

5.4 (Sun in Leo and Moon in Cancer) mixes Fixed Fire and Cardinal Water, integrating Leo’s generosity, vitality and leadership with Cancer’s nurturing and protective qualities. This is a strong and natural integration of the Sun and Moon principles since both luminaries are placed in their ruling signs. This produces warm, sensitive, generous and grounded beings, operating as amazing sources of attraction and trust. Relationships play an important role here, yet they are experienced with spontaneity and a solid sense of self-worth, which prevent wasting energy in strategies for receiving approval and recognition. These folks give it for granted that they are worthy of love, hence, the idea of looking for “someone who loves me” does not make much sense for them. All they want is someone upon whom they can pour their love and share their joyful power with. On the eve of the Leo New Moon, this tender and passionate encounter is imminent. Hence, open your heart and rejoice at the glorious proximity of the Beloved! Joyfully celebrate the majestic unveiling of the Bridal Chamber! In practical terms this is a direct invitation to gather all your confidence and solemnly, yet playfully, claim and exhibit the intimate connection with your most beloved partner. This is your birth right! This is what the Sun in Leo and the Moon in Cancer inescapably herald. And in the mere announcement of this fated reunion the ecstatic wedding is superbly manifested.

"Bridegrooms and brides belong to the bridal chamber. No one shall he able to see the bridegroom with the bride unless one becomes one." (Philip 82: 20-25)

“We grant our total consent in your choice to unveil, acknowledge and entirely inflate your authentic power and gifts. Nevertheless, you cannot insist on the assistance of your hallucinations”. (Paheka Rubhe Tabe Siniera, 5-4:1.

5.5: This New Moon is the combination 5.5, an exaltation of fixed fire. Those who resonate with this pattern radiate a potent, victorious and focused nature. In their outer expression they show an unlimited amount of generosity, cheerfulness, good spirit and vitality, while in their inner layers they may unveil an insistent magnetic authority, either conscious or unconscious, which is ruthlessly, yet elegantly, determined to hold and ground a specific Intent. Towering leadership, pride, status and dignity are palpable in all their basic features, which appear as inherited right from birth rather than acquired through growth. Their will and capacity to express power is incomparable, with their Intent being the central focal point in conjunction with a most profuse and royal sense of innocence.

5.6: This is a blend of Fixed Fire and Mutable Earth. Fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius) constitute the power and reservoir zones of their own element. 5.6 folks consolidate and accumulate the elemental force, which is then distributed by the mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces), the champions of mobility and integration. The shift from New Moon to the following Sun and Moon dynamic is a most crucial one, since it determines the orientation of the newborn lunar cycle. This is the moment where I come to terms with the preliminary stages of manifestation. Here there are two basic options: to reroute the energy generated by the New Moon into HAC perceptual routine, or to explore an alternative paradigm of reality based on the seed conscious Intent generated at New Moon. When the Sun and Moon are conjunct, the two polarities are united and unveil the third pole, which is the manifested evidence of their trinity union. Yet, as the lunar cycle progresses, the third pole is degraded to the split polarity of an arbitrary binary system, which is the foundation of HAC, i.e. human separated reality. Hence, in this current context, the Sun remaining in Leo and the Moon moving in Virgo exemplify this shift from unity to separation. A careful study of the 5.6 dynamic can shed light on the mechanics of human separated reality and on the implications of an alternative multi-dimensional shift. Yet, be aware that this is 5.6, which may also lead to a climax of radiant intricacies.
The pattern Sun in Leo and Moon in Virgo mixes Leo’s exuberant generosity, vitality and leadership with Virgo’s healing service, versatility, discrimination, precision and cautiousness. It comes right after the New Moon, following an apex of luminous creative power. Hence, this combination has the responsibility of getting down to work and implementing what was generated during the majestic encounter of Sun and Moon in Leo, acting out of pure and enlightened service, carrying out the original Intent.
Here the approach to service is radically different from the one typical of HAC. In Sector 5 service is not an act of duty or something you do for other people. It is not about working hard and sacrificing yourself in order to achieve ecstasy or whatever you wish for in the future. On the contrary, it is about first experiencing the climax of ecstasy and power, then spontaneously moving into service, perhaps without even being aware of the shift since ecstasy and power continue to be there. This is why Leo is followed by Virgo. The passion to work and serve is the direct result of the unio mystica of the Sun and Moon in Leo. Thus, after being unconditionally energized by the Sun, it comes natural for the Moon to swing to Virgo and serve at its best. When I am abundant with power, beauty, love and whatever is desirable, then there is no effort in giving and serving. Quite the reverse, I do it for the sheer pleasure of doing it, and I do not expect anything in return. Furthermore, I am grateful because I find an outlet and beings that thoroughly enjoy what they receive from me. Service is not a way to accomplish something in another dimension. It is a way of celebrating the inherent ecstasy of this present moment, and let if flow, expand, amplify and manifest in whatever surrounds me.
The New Moon in Leo is a time for radiant introspection and acknowledgment of the solar plexus, especially the aspects of its vital force that tend to be pushed aside or misused in human societies. The solar plexus - hara or manipura – is often regarded as the first form generated in the womb of the mother, the source from which everything else grows. It is the primal matrix of our multi-dimensional life, the trinity form engendered by both polarities (the father and mother’s seed), and the stellar centre operating as veritable energetic core identity, no matter whether I am aware of it or not. The more I move away from the solar plexus, the more I lose my own authentic radiance in the universe, the less I respond to the synergetic structure of the galaxy, and the more I detach myself from real life. The condition of being truly third-dimensionally alive abides in the alignment with the solar plexus, which is the zone that most humans are unable to utilize due to its incompatibility with consensus reality.
In many shamanic traditions the universe is experienced as a multi-dimensional web of life, consisting of copious layers. Here human perception of reality is merely a separated fragment of one of these layers. As a result, although they are part of a vaster reality, human beings access only a most limited and secluded definition of who they are. My shamanic lineage regards CMI as a diamond form similar to a double cone. This is the astroshamanic Sacred Cone, which is considered as the CMI itself. The solar plexus centre is described as the power zone of the lower cone, while the head centre refers to the higher cone, and the heart centre is the point in the middle, the bridging areas where the two cones meet and unveil their original trinity. According to various epic shamanic contexts, in the human race these centres are located in a peripheral, or strategically capricious, configuration (HAC), which is virtually separated from CMI, or Sacred Cone. Thus, humans are autistic energetic forms with edges that do not allow the transit of energy. This means that they can only refer to the energy available in their virtual configuration. This arbitrary configuration produces our human hallucinatory perception and the conviction that this is the only reality. The human solar plexus appears to be the centre closer to the original vibrations of the Sacred Cone. The head centre is the broadcasting system of human hallucinatory perception. As such, it functions as a routine loop script based on thought impulses strategically disjoined from the web of life. The human heart centre is a more vital zone, based on the echo of the original perception of unity. Yet, since the heart centre is arbitrary ruled and interpreted by the head centre, its primary pulsations are distorted by human prevailing hallucination.
The solar plexus is the basic source of energy for the entire HAC. As such it has to be accessed in an uncontaminated way, devoid of any distortion. Once I tap into the solar plexus I cannot help having a direct experience of the reality existing beyond human hallucination. Yet, the strategic aim of the hallucination is to render this experience as short and unconscious as possible. Entering fully in the solar plexus produces a perception that is incompatible with human consensus reality, while at the same time, and paradoxically, this energy is necessary to generate the hallucination itself.
The solar plexus is the source of our pristine vital energy and the access zone to CMI. Yet the ordinary inclination of human beings is to drive energy away from this centre. The link with the vital energy is manoeuvred by a rerouting device, which disconnects human perception from multi-dimensional non-HAC awareness and leads it into HAC consensus hallucinatory reality. The experiential features of this rerouting device are our most profound fears, terrors, misconceptions and denials, as well as our deepest and most frustrated cravings and desires. The desire element serves the purpose of accessing the energy required for generating the arbitrary reality, while the fear or denial bit ensures the parting from multi-dimensional reality, which is the basic premise for the survival of HAC. How do pragmatically human beings shift from multi-dimensional to consensus reality, from non-HAC to HAC? The answer is strategically exemplified by the shift from binary 5.5 to binary 5.6. In binary 5.5 both luminaries are in Leo and experience the highest climax of solar energy. In the disfunctonal development of binary 5.6, as the Moon moves in Virgo, the pressure of HAC takes over, leaving behind our solar multi-dimensional perception and boosting the emergence of human separated reality. Here this process is promoted by Virgo’s typical grievances: worry, criticism, guilt, unworthiness.
During the New Moon there is a tremendous upsurge of solar plexus awareness, and a momentary gap in the functioning of the energy rerouting device. Another major increase will occur with the next Full Moon, yet the energy at that stage will be directed by the process generated at the beginning of the lunar cycle. Hence, in the days following exact New Moon, it is vital to acknowledge what was truly powerful and significant at that time. Perhaps you can sit quietly and allow yourself to express this in whatever way feels appropriate for you: painting, writing, drawing, singing, speaking, etc. Binary 5.6, like other binaries preceding the New Moon, is the key operative element of the human rerouting device. Here, you are confronted with the opportunity of either succumbing to Virgo’s grievances or bypassing them and accessing non-HAC. Hence, if in the preceding days you have strenuously articulated the basic question (What is my Intent?), without being concerned about how to accomplish it, now you are called to take the first decisive steps for its manifestations. Yet, it is vital that you release all concerns and direct them towards your Intent. “Sector 6 deals with the stage of selection and assimilation in the cycle of Sectors around the Sacred Circle. It is a phase that requires an attentive work of discrimination between what is useful and what needs to be released. This involves filtering or storing the essence of every form, directing it towards the Intent, and discarding the rest. Here it is essential to focus on the resources that are extracted and their redeployment according to a conscious Intent, rather than on the wastes that are expelled. Otherwise, waste material is held on to, blocking the process of assimilation and the awareness of the Intent. Hence, being confronted with Virgo’s grievances during a binary 5.6 is part of the deal. What counts here is that I do not miss the other side of the deal.

5.7: This binary strengthens the solar plexus connection with CMI, the web of life, the activation of the original umbilical chord linking us to the ecstatic realms. Those who resonate with 5.7 are major resources of attraction and beauty. They may include show business stars, as well as all those in your life who generate irresistible attraction. 5.7 is merely the stage aimed at stimulating the relationship with the solar plexus centre, while 5.8 represents the crucial climax of such a connection. The attraction element in relationships is a controlled reflection of the multi-dimensional realms serving the purpose of filtering the energy required for generating HAC. Yet, once this energy is accessed, to guarantee the preservation of HAC, it is necessary to part from multi-dimensional reality.

5.8: The pattern Sun in Leo and Moon in Scorpio jumbles Leo’s generosity, vitality and leadership with Scorpio’s intensity, determination and passion. Those who resonate with this combination are extremely magnetic, and easily experience tremendous outburst of power and a highly charged energy system. Their success is based upon their capacity to direct strong emotions towards specific goals and the exercise of the inborn art of drawing and distributing energetic resources. They are relentlessly determined and at ease in all dramatic roles, with particular regard to controversial ones, and especially when they are at the centre of attention, which may be quite a customary occurrence.

5.9: This incandescent combination is a flaming mixture of Fixed and Mutable Fire. The pattern Sun in Leo and Moon in Sagittarius fuses Leo’s munificence, liveliness and headship with Sagittarius’s adventure, expansion, freedom and thirst for truth. Those who resonate with this combination are passionate voyagers, most adventurous leaders and game players, or Indiana Jones and Lawrence of Arabia types. They are constantly searching for new territories to explore, stretching into novel horizons, venturing through exciting risky games. Their overall structure is extremely optimistic, enthusiastic and abundant with energy. This allows them to channel copious energies and joyfully move beyond limitations in search of the plain truth. Since 5.9 follows 5.8, the joyful and ecstatic impulse of this blend of fire is tested by the navigation through the valley of darkness and in the best condition to face any challenge. Hence, if you find yourself resonating with this binary, you will summon the energy to gamble with life, out of the awareness that there is truly nothing to lose, with the only hazard being that of winning. This is also a major binary for fire rituals.
Fire rituals call upon the vital force of the Sun and the perception of the energy underlying all apparent forms. The fire element, as it is depicted in the symbol of the triangle with a top vertex, evokes the flow of energy towards the original intent or the process of manifestation from the perspective of the generating force. This implies rising energy above the confinement of fragmented reality and human separated perception, allowing it to align with the primal multi-dimensional identity. Here the conditions for rising above the inescapable friction between the bona fide horny bit and the rerouting device[v] mature. At this point I can exercise a crucial choice: the direct invitation of the Third Pole, which is indeed the CMI. This is a crucial stage in the re-enactment of the Epic. In the Exegesis on the Soul, a Gnostic text, it corresponds to the point when the soul, after having reached the apex of grievances, finds the courage to ask for help to the Father. And this is indeed the decisive moment.[vi] The fires of passion, previously burning and scorching horizontally, shift their sense of direction and involve the vertical axis, the original vertex, which was beforehand excluded both as spectator and as the director. At this stage the drama expands into an unexpected scenario, and the protagonists of the theatre production are systematically unveiled, until the original integrity of the game is restored and all separated pieces are retrieved. Yet, the first step in this development, as it is exemplified by 5.9, involves taking a fatal risk: completing the second stage of release (5.8). In practical terms this implies committing to definitely letting go of the attachment to grievances by stepping out of the confinement created by shame and secrecy, which is indeed what ultimately feeds separation and sustains the rerouting device. “Asking for help to the Father” is a vertical process that addresses the director and the spectators, not the actors. The function of the rerouting device is to prevent this possibility by focusing merely on the stage and limiting the interactions to the actors, with their setting and script. In the vertical process the actors join their binary forces and acknowledge themselves as one polarity. They cease the previous representation, inviting the public as well as the director to be exposed. This is the ultimate challenge, a risky business suitable for 5.9 folks. This is the first step in healing: connecting personal to collective human history. When this occurs, then humanity absurdly becomes the bona fide horny bit for the Father, or CMI, which is then drawn into HAC. This is the paradox. This is the ultimate joke producing a huge interminable laughter.
Total laughter is the medicine of 5.9. Here all cells of the body laugh, every tissue of your system vibrates with ecstasy, and this brings a state of unconceivable well-being. Laughter in its most expanded form is the loving orchestration of all your fragmented parts. In deep, authentic laughter separation annihilates. Total laughter emanates from the core of your being, which is epically Pahai, the nucleus of the Sacred Cone. It transfers vital power from CMI into HAC. This is why comic movies or shows are so popular and widely encouraged. Similarly to sex and other bona fide horny bit things, laughter is a way to tap into CMI, get the required energy and then reroute it into HAC. Yet, with total laughter things may work differently. It is impossible to totally laugh and reroute simultaneously. Hence, profound exposure to total laughter may disintegrate the rerouting device dynamics, as well as the bona fide horny bit. This, far from preserving HAC, may shatter it to pieces. The rerouting device breaks down. It actually disappears, and you find yourself somewhere else, which is indeed where you have always been.

“Laugh and the whole world laughs with you; weep and you sleep alone.” (Osho, Take It Easy)

The Epic of the Sacred Cone References:
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Celebrities: [vii] 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. In this PAN you can find online information on each celebrity by clicking on their names. In bold you find some relevant non-HAC folks.

5.4: Sylvie Vartan (AS Capricorn); Roman Polanski (AS Libra); Sean Penn (AS Sagittarius); Guy de Maupassant (AS Virgo); Claude Debussy (AS Leo); Emily Bronte (AS Scorpio); Mae West (AS Taurus).

5.5: Slobodan Milosevic (AS Taurus); Jean Piaget (AS Gemini); Oscar Romero (AS Cancer); Martin Sheen (AS Aquarius); Matthew Manning (AS Sagittarius); Peter O’Toole (AS Taurus); Max Heindel (AS Leo); Robert Graves (AS Leo).

5.6: Madonna (AS Virgo); Dustin Hoffman (AS Capricorn); Charles Bukowski (AS Libra); Princesse Anne (AS Libra); Rajiv Gandhi (AS Virgo); Riccardo Muti (AS Virgo).

5.7: Helena Blavatsky (AS Cancer); Fidel Castro (AS Gemini); Wim Wenders (AS Gemini); René Goscinny (AS Leo); Shimon Peres (AS Leo).

5.8: Alfred Hitchcock (AS Leo); Louis de Funes (Gemini); Rosanna Arquette (AS Sagittarius); Stanley Kubrick; Queen Mother Elisabeth (AS Gemini); Steve Martin (AS Leo); Salvatore Quasimodo (AS Leo); Karlheinz Stockhausen (AS Leo); Mikis Theodorakis.

5.9: Neil Armstrong (AS Gemini); Sri Aurobindo (AS Leo); Thomas Edward Lawrence (AS Leo); Ray Bradbury (AS Capricorn); Herman Melville (AS Capricorn).

The Bridal Chamber: One of the most captivating features of the Christian mysteries is the Sacrament of the Bridal Chamber, which in the Gospel of Philip represents the way to Christhood. The customary tantalising question here is “was this sacrament merely symbolic, or did it imply an actual sexual union?” Although the answer to this question makes a huge difference in conventional and religious terms, from the pure shamanic perspective it is entirely irrelevant. Here what counts is the experience rather than the symbolic elements used to describe the experience itself. In this respect whether it is the physical sexual intercourse, or any other metaphorical expression of sacred unions, such as the Holy Communion, the only pertinent question is: “does it serve the Intent of actually linking human separated reality, i.e. the Human Arbitrary Configuration (HAC) with the non-HAC ecstatic realms and the Core Multidimensional Identity (CMI)? Is this a pragmatic way or generating the Christ, or third pole? Does this bring healing to me, the others and the whole environment?” or, in a nutshell, “Does it serve the Intent connected with the Function?”
When the answer to such questions is “yes”, this evidently proves that through a specific configuration I have attained the desired outcome, yet it does not necessarily mean that the configuration is the outcome. Here I acknowledge that there were probably other elements of which I was not aware, and also envisage the possibility that the realisation of the desired result is the consequence of further methods I used before. I am not in a condition to identify the whole methodological sequence. All I have is the experience. As I gather more and more experiences, perhaps I will be able to get a vague idea of the dynamics involved. At that stage, it is likely that I will decide to establish a new configuration, a structured and effective way of achieving the desired results, a model that others can employ and imitate, and that I will do my best to promote. This is the point when the configuration gradually becomes the focus of attention, until it turns out to be more important than the experience it is supposed to produce. Here I get so involved with the configuration that I even forget about the experience. And this is exactly what happens on this HAC planet, where an arbitrary configuration rules sovereign upon a population of imitators. One of the greatest offences to consciousness is that human beings are expected to devote their life to an arbitrary configuration without getting anything in return.
I have lost touch of my Intent. All I have are HAC systems aimed at achieving something I desperately long for, yet of which I frankly do not have a clue. Indeed, nobody seems to care about truly getting that something. Although it is the driving urge in the HAC advertising structure, it remains undelivered. It is the primary source of energy, the device supplying the original arousal. Yet, once I am stirred up, HAC takes over, veiling the source, the bona fide horny bit. This keeps happening again and again, faster and faster, until I lose sight of the gap between the bona fide horny bit and HAC. Hence, I regard HAC as the horny one, which is unerringly what everybody seems to do on this boulder. Although I may have some timid reservations, who am I to challenge the whole advertising system? What happens if I am turned on by the bona fide horny bit without going through HAC? This is indeed a likely, though fatal, occurrence, which may lead me into deep troubles. Yes, for at that point, HAC will not arouse me anymore, at least not as it did before. And if HAC does not turn me on, this is a serious problem. I need to do something about it, which appears to be the most popular activity of folks here.
The first step is to differentiate between Intent and HAC. HAC is not the Intent, and when I focus only on one configuration I rule out other configurations, i.e. non-HAC. There are plenty of configurations, and all potentially lead to the desired results, as long as I do not confuse the desired result with the configuration. For example, one of the most largely advertised configurations is Relationships ®. Here it is given for granted that through this configuration I will achieve the desired result. This means that if I do not achieve the desired result there must be something wrong with me, certainly not with the configuration. Hence, I continue to insist with it until I do not remember anymore what I wanted to achieve with this configuration, what was the experience involved. All my focus and energy goes to the configuration. Thus, during this binary 5.7, having acquired the power of discrimination in 5.6, we face the glorious opportunity of differentiating between configuration and Intent. This is a major chance of retrieving our original source of power, for in 5.7 this power encounters its major challenge.
Take time to examine your relationships. Honestly ask yourself: “What is my Intent in this relationship?” Also ask your partner “What is your Intent in this relationship?” This question will stir up your solar plexus energy. It is your birthright to ask these questions. It is your life purpose to embrace the answer and make it your sole allegiance. And as you abandon yourself to this sacred embrace, methods fade away as submissive gatekeepers. Then the doors may open…

Solar Plexus: The solar plexus is the centre closer to our Core Multidimensional Identity (CMI). Please be aware that this is merely a strategic statement delivered in the context of Sector 5. Herewith I also mention that the human central identity appears to be located in a peripheral, or strategically capricious, configuration, which is virtually separated from CMI. I call this separated reality, the Human Arbitrary Configuration (HAC). Despite its separation HAC cannot survive without a direct link with CMI. This link is managed by the Provisional Order and includes what AFS Bogus labels as the bona fide horny bit. Since the existence of this link challenges its strategic denial, which is implicit in the nature of HAC, it follows that the linking device is paradoxically perceived both as the source of maximum attraction and aversion. This linking device is socially represented by the Provisional Order, to which a certain category of shamans belong. In the context of the physical body, according to the strategy of these 5 binary sequences, it resides in the solar plexus. Entering fully in the solar plexus allows access to sheer and uncontaminated ecstasy, whose nature is experientially undeniable. It is the peak of whatever is humanly desirable, i.e. what truly turns us on. Yet, since this experience of this peak is incompatible with HAC, the mechanics of its access are obscured in human awareness.
With 5.7 I definitely enter into the autumn cycle, which marks the start of the path of obscuration. It is a most controversial phase for it confronts with the experience of ecstasy, and its almost simultaneous denial. This development pragmatically manifests in human relationships based on solar plexus interaction, which includes all sentimental, creative, competitive, sensual and sexual rapports. According to my current speculation, the solar plexus is the source of our pristine vital energy and the access zone to CMI. Yet, the link with this source is obscured by a rerouting device, which disconnects human perception from multi-dimensional awareness and leads into consensus hallucinatory reality, or HAC.
Human relationships are shamanically aimed at strengthening the solar plexus connection with CMI, the web of life, the activation of the original umbilical chord linking us to the ecstatic realms. The attraction element in relationships is a controlled reflection of the multi-dimensional realms serving the purpose of filtering the energy required for generating HAC. Yet, once this energy is accessed, to guarantee the preservation of HAC, it is necessary to part from multi-dimensional reality (non-HAC).
In which way does the rerouting device operate in shifting human perception from non-HAC to HAC? This multifarious process develops through the confusion between symbolic and energetic level, i.e. level one and level two, or HAC and non-HAC respectively. The symbolic HAC level is the source of attraction, the bait that draws my attention to the solar plexus centre, the physical gate-way to the multi-dimensional realms. The energetic level is the multi-dimensional or ecstatic experience itself, devoid of any symbolic or advertising elements, i.e. the bona fide horny bit. The aim of the shamanic operator is to employ the symbolic HAC element in order to access, and relate with, the ecstatic realm, while the purpose of the rerouting device is to relate with the symbolic HAC element. Hence, the shift from multi-dimensional to HAC hallucinatory reality takes place when the focus becomes the relationship with the symbolic element, rather than the energy portrayed by the symbol. It is like receiving a telephone call from a most loving person and experiencing a climax of joy. The mobile phone is the tool that allows me to communicate with that person, yet it is not the person. I can also access that person through another telephone device and I can even meet her-him directly. Yet, these options are contrary to the programming of the rerouting device, whose aim is to induce the association of the loving person with that particular mobile phone. Hence, the mobile phone becomes the object of my relationship, the focus of my loving desire. This condition will inevitably cause some confusion, especially when I realise that I can also receive calls from other people or when the batteries run out.

The Provisional Order: Due to its controversial nature this article does not appear in this Blog edition of PAN. The article is only available to the Astroshamanic Net and to regular subscribers of PAN.

“What is the bridal chamber, if not the place of trust and consciousness in the embrace? It is an icon of Union, beyond all forms of possession; here is where the veil is torn from top to bottom; here is where some arise and awaken.” (Philip, 76)

“We are reborn by the Christ two by two. In his Breath, we experience a new embrace; we are no longer in duality, but in unity.” (Philip, 74)

The Sacred Embrace - Astroshamanic Touch: Due to its controversial nature this article does not appear in this Blog edition of PAN. The article is only available to the Astroshamanic Net and to regular subscribers of PAN.

ORIGINAL QUEST. The Original Quest: An Astroshamanic Healing Voyage of Soul Retrieval Into Space and Time is the workshop Franco has recently concluded in Cluny Hill College. 24 participants attended the workshop with representatives from all five continents, including the following countries: Austria, Brasil, Canada, Denmark, England, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Romania, Scotland, South Africa, USA. The preceding PAN features some basic details of the first days of the workshop. Herewith we include the remaining days.


Wednesday, 5 July 2006. In the morning the group operates in Cluny Garden with Sverre. Each participant places a plant in an area of the garden of their choice. This represents the grounding of their Intent. The afternoon is devoted to communication in gibberish, through a rather chaotic exercise which also involves the territory of Cluny and the work with a partner.

Thursday, 6 July 2006. The morning is free. The afternoon is the setting for a major time-voyage astroshamanic voyage, followed by the preparation of the Open Trance Dance in the evening. There are a total of 36 participants to the Trance Dance in the Ballroom. Participants interpret signs and directions. The sounds are mainly from the Persian tradition. Franco plays the tambourine, the harmonica and the gong. The gong itself is employed as medicine tool in the end. The dance concluded with a hilarious final gong beat by Valerio.

Friday, 7 July 2006. In the morning participants erect an art work in the garden, then later Franco provides details on how to continue this work once at home. The afternoon is the final completion, which develops mainly in the garden with a horizontal walking around the wider circle. During the walk participants publicly complete in their own way with the attention and availability of the whole group. Then at the Medicine Wheel, each one elects a stone.

Sacred Theatre Workshop: I look forward to the upcoming Sacred Theatre workshop with Franco at Findhorn 2-8 September and encourage each of you to attend. My preparations and explorations with Franco in January 2006 at Findhorn yielded much satisfaction and joy. During the workshop Franco will provide a variety of processes and experiences that are integral to our Sacred Theatre process. Sacred Theatre is an expression of individual growth as well as group and community concerns and as such remains a vital forum for the transmission of energy, image, intent and idea. The goal is to impart skills and experiences that will allow you to continue to create Sacred Theatre enactments and events within your own communities. No previous experience is required. The approach is that Sacred Theatre is our birthright - a process that comes naturally to each person. The workshop will offer opportunities to explore sacred theatre sources from Native American (The Uktena and The Iroquois Peacemaker), Ancient Greek (Persephone and Demeter) and Bible (The Song of Solomon) to deepen our experience with the form, function and intention of Sacred Theatre for the individual as well as within a community or a culture. We'll also engage in retrieving, creating and enacting our own sacred images, sounds and stories. The culmination will be the sharing of our creative process at Findhorn's Universal Hall. Sandra Lee Hughes.

Sophia Circle: Dear Franco, In March 2006 The Sophia Circle was formed here in Atlanta as a spontaneous and direct outcome of your workshop Manifesting Honorable Intentions. Our group meets here in Atlanta on the second Sunday of each month from 1-3 p.m. EST. The name of the group was inspired by a chapter on the significance of the Virgin Sophia in Christ's life in a book called The Goddess by Rudolph Steiner. I bought this book at the bookstore at the Park while attending your workshop in Jan. The Sophia Circle focuses its energy to support the following: At Risk Women and Children, at Risk Species - especially the Bees, the Mentally Ill - their loved ones and care-givers. There is a member of the Sophia Circle who needs support. She has a husband and three children ages: 20 months, 3 years and 14 years old. She has been diagnosed with liver cancer in the 4th stage. She is a being full of light with much wisdom and love. Her name is Gwyneth. Do you do healing at a distance or can you suggest methods of support for her? She resonates with your work. Two days before she discovered she was ill. The Sophia Circle called on animal guides as instructed in your book and a wild boar came to her. Sandra Lee Hughes.

PAN on-line: From 18 May 2006 you can find an abridged edition of the latest issue of PAN on-line at http://panissue.blogspot.com/. The Italian edition is available at http://panitalico.blogspot.com/

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Forthcoming Astroshamanic Events

For further details or information please see www.astroshamanism.org or contact Franco info@astroshamanism.org. In the Findhorn Foundation website you can find now a special page on astroshamanism at http://www.findhorn.org/events/astroshamanism.php
To book Findhorn Foundation workshops, please contact bookings@findhorn.org or Bookings, The Park, Findhorn IV36 3TZ, Scotland. Tel. +44(0)1309/691653. To book other workshops please contact the related address.

Ongoing events at Findhorn: Findhorn ASEPTIC Group meet every other week. Astroshamanic Trance Dances every week on Thursday, 7.45-9-45 pm. Astroshamanic workshops: monthly on Sunday, 2-5 pm.

Tolé (Italy), 23-30 July 2006 Advanced Emilia Summer Retreat: The Way of Astroshamanic Touch Click here for information or contact Franco at franco@astroshamanism.org

Findhorn, 19-25 August 2006: Settimana Astrosciamanica: Via delle Sacre Relazioni In Italian with Franco and Irmgard Stadler.

Findhorn, 2-8 September 2006: Sacred Theatre with Sandra Hughes and Franco.

Findhorn, 16-23 September 2006: Astroshamanic Healing: Restoring Sacred Relationships.

Corvaro (Rome), 29 September – 1 October 2006, Astroshamanic Retreat

Disclaimer: All information provided in PAN is presented solely for inspirational or recreational reading, and it is not meant to substitute the recipient’s direct experience and investigation. The information is also given to strategically exemplify the different features of astroshamanic cosmology and is not intended to reflect Franco’s opinion or astroshamanism in general. Franco does not necessarily endorse any of the ideas and views expressed in this literature, including his own.

[i] All times in PAN are given in GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).
[ii] The Sacrament of the Bridal Chamber is described in the Gospel of Philip and other Gnostic texts as the ultimate practice and the means to attain Christhood. This may be described as the final union of opposites, an ecstatic intercourse based on virginal innocence, which allows the soul to receive all its fragmented pieces and be released of grievances. The result of such a process is a condition of supreme power. "When you make the two, one...and you say, ‘Mountain, move away,’ it will move." (Thomas 11,2:106).
[iii] A Course in Miracles, Workbook, p. 102.
[iv] Ratusel is one of the most popular healing heroes of the Epic of the Sacred Cone, the strategic reference text of the astroshamanic lineage.
[v] See binaries 5.7 and 5.8.
[vi] In the Exegesis on the Soul, the Father, upon receiving the soul’s request for help, operates as follows: first, he makes the womb of the soul shift outward so that it can reawaken its power, i.e. it moves outside like a male genital organ. In this way she is protected from further contaminations from her lovers. Then, the Father sends a bridegroom, who is her original brother. The soul welcomes her bridegroom in the bridal chamber and they love each other with great passion. The fruit of their union are good and beautiful children. Finally, the soul regenerates and returns to her original state of unity.
[vii] 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.