PAN International Issue 51

PAN Provisional Astroshamanic News
Core Network Edition, 7.7-12, 23 September 2006, Issue 51. Editorial Director: Franco Santoro.
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This PAN heralds the Autumn - Fall Equinox and the mysteries of the West, direction of the spiritual warrior, the emotional 4th dimensional body and transformation. The following edition is sent right in the midst of Astroshamanic Healing: Restoring Sacred Relationships, a most pioneering and transformative one-week workshop started on 16 September and ending on the Autumn Equinox at Findhorn. This events is attended by 14 participants, all already familiar with astroshamanic work and most of them long term associates. The early days of this workshop were marked by the introductory accompaniment of Italian melodies and songs, such as La Cura (The Cure) by Franco Battiato, which had a profound visionary and healing effect on the group. This workshop, like other one-week astroshamanic workshops, will soon be widely available in other parts of the world, both in a two-day and one-week format. In this respect, since I am about to plan the Astroshamanic International Diary for 2007, if you are interested to organize workshops in your area please let me know at your earliest convenience.
Several events are held during the Autumn Equinox time worldwide, such as the International Day of Peace Vigil (see info below) and the Astroshamanic Healing Trance Dance on 21 September and a special celebrations on 23 September both at the Park and Cluny Hill College.
Most forthcoming astroshamanic events take place in Italy, such as the Latium Astroshamanic Retreat from 29 September to 1 October 2006, in the mystery Mountains of the Dukess at Corvaro near Rome organized by Associazione Culturale Terra di Luce (+39/0746.306529 or 3478853271). Then from 7 to 8 October 2006, an extraordinary week-end on Astroshamanic Touch in Jesi, the natal place of Frederick II, near Ancona, organized by Letizia Mocheggiani (+39/34489231998 or zone25@tele2.it) and on the Full Moon in Aries. Next, from 25 to 26 November, a pioneering workshop in Frankfurt, titled Awakening Your Multidimensional Self organized by Holistic Dialogue (emansson@hotmail.com).
Significant developments on the astroshamanic healing front are in preparation and activation during the autumn season. After 13 years of intense astroshamanic teaching it is time for a radical shift in emphasis, which as I see it will first mainly develop at a visionary level, before being grounded in HAC with the next seasons to come. New training schemes, such as the Astroshamanic Practitioner Training (see below), are being introduced, and more prominence will be given to astroshamanic distance healing sessions and training (see article below). Another decisive development involves the execution of a visionary process aimed at creating an astroshamanic institute and intentional community (see details below).
With abundant love and appreciation of your unique multidimensional nature,
Franco

Love Relationships: I regard the term “love” as one of those words with the major potential of confusion. Whenever I hear or read it, unless there is further clarification, I have no clues about what it truly means according to the speaker or writer. The ancient Greek language employs four different words for “love”: eros (sexual desire), philia (love and affection between friends), storge (related to the love between parents and children) and agape (unconditional love or the love of God). This latter term is used in the New Testament’s commandment of “love thy neighbour”. Whereas the first three types of love are based on some form of reciprocity or conditions, agape is impartial, unconditional and devoid of any obligation.
From the astroshamanic perspective there are two basic kinds of love relationships in the human reality: those based on the perception of separation and inspired by the Human Arbitrary Configuration (HAC), and those aimed at unveiling our Core Multi-dimensional Identity (CMI), i.e. the Spirit Guide or nature based on unity.[ii] The first kind of relationship consists in employing a human being as the unconscious projection of relevant missing pieces of CMI. What happens here is that, as I feel uncompleted and unhappy due to my separation from CMI - I catch at someone with whom I can experience a surrogate unity with CMI. When most people talk about love they usually refer to this kind of relationship, which is inevitably bound to nourish a malicious circle of guilt and harassment. On the one hand it satisfies my bona fide horny need for unity and love, and this gives me a temporary sense of relief. On the other, via the consciousness rerouting device, it strengthens the adherence to HAC. This builds up through the increasing dependence from my partners, the exclusive need to be with them, the fear to lose them and the, more or less conscious, realisation that because of them I am breaking up my relationship with CMI. As a consequence the sense of separation is reawakened, together with the related guilt and pain, which is indeed the original cause for the creation of the relationship itself. As it is such guilt that scares me more than anything else, and my partners contribute to recollect it, then I will hate or attack them, or find a way to break the relationship.
Due to an underlying sense of guilt, all such arbitrary relationships are based on fear. This is why they are painful or change so often. When fear abides in a relationship, then there is no space for love and what is left is guilt. I have had many experiences of special relationships, both in my life and through my shamanic work. I have had preposterous expectations regarding my relationships, transforming my partners into idols or demons. I felt uncompleted, a meaningless fragment cut off from the puzzle of life. I needed another piece to stick to, so as to complete myself. When I found it, I would then be in anguish as I knew that sooner or later it would disappear, die or leave me, or that I would disappear, die or leave it. In the desperate attempt to procrastinate the inevitable, I have employed all kinds of compromise, manipulation, game, fight and trick. I have done that due to the fear of losing my hold to that piece as I had lost that to CMI. I did not realise that this original loss had been a choice of mine and that I could decide otherwise.
Power is based on my capacity to choose. There is absolutely nothing wrong or bad in being in an arbitrary relationship based on separation, as long as this is the result of my conscious choice. It is only through direct experience that I understand more about myself and life. And it is not at all possible to judge from the outside what is truly happening in a relationship, whether it is arbitrary or non-arbitrary. The only way is to delve into the relationship, to have an uncompromising experience. In this respect, and from a pure multidimensional perspective, all relationships are holy and what I have been writing before does not make much sense. What appears to be an arbitrary, addictive and so called co-dependent relationship may indeed be a major gate of transformation or bliss. Nobody can judge what is going on in a relationship. All relationships eventually serve a sacred purpose, which is represented by the liberal coexistence of the Games of Separation and the Game of Unity. Again, as long as I am aware of which game I am playing and also in as much as I can choose which one to play, I am in a position of power. Power is based on awareness and choice. All choices are powerful as long as there is awareness about them.
A relationship based on separation according to ACIM “is based on differences, where each one thinks the other has what he has not. “They come together, each to complete himself and rob the other. They stay until they think that there is nothing left to steal, and then move on. And so they wander through a world of strangers, unlike themselves, living with their bodies perhaps under a common roof and yet a world apart”.[iii] A relationship based on unity has a different foundation. “Each one has looked within and seen no lack. Accepting his completion, he would extend it by joining with another, whole as himself. He sees no difference between these selves, for differences are only of the body. Therefore, he looks on nothing he would take. He denies not his own reality because it is the truth. Just under Heaven does he stand, but close enough not to return to earth.”[iv]
The sole reality of the universe is unity and, although according to the hallucination of separation I appear as split, I am inevitably connected with whoever and whatever I perceive by a web of projections. Those on whom I project my shamanic forms or Totem Spirits (Paheka), do the same with theirs. However, no one is able to understand how he receives the projections of others until he has had a complete experience of how his projections manipulate the lives of other people. I am the only inhabitant of my mind and all I perceive outside is just a part of that mind.
All those I meet in my life are projected components of the wholeness from which I have separated myself, and every single relationship is a path to that wholeness. Here it is a question of pragmatically accepting with no reservation that “your partner is doing exactly what your energies, unconscious though they may be, are manipulating the partner into doing or saying. And you have to take full responsibility of this without saying, ‘Well, hey - Come on. He’s doing something too.’ What he’s doing in his movie, in his reality experience, doesn’t make any difference. It’s what he’s doing in your movie that carries the message from your Shadow. You have to begin by taking 100 percent responsibility for that - not 50 per cent or half and half - or the insight will never come. Only when you do take full responsibility (without any blame) for your partner’s behavior, for your partner’s speech and actions, only then are you in the place of power where you can begin to experience the manipulation of your partner by your Shadow side. You can then begin to bring the energy back to live comfortably in your own life. Then it no longer has to manipulate your partner into getting its messages to you or doing whatever it is that may be causing the problems between you, causing the barriers or the feelings of separation”.[v]

Astroshamanic Distance Sessions and Training: Following numerous requests I have decided to start offering regular distance astroshamanic sessions. This is feasible because astroshamanism involves operating with the multidimensional body, which does not require the physical HAC bodies to be present in the same environment in order for a session to work. In the past three years I have carefully experimented with a series of long distance sessions so as to test their effectiveness. The results have been remarkable and at times extraordinary. For certain people this method is even far more powerful and effective than ordinary individual sessions. Moreover distance sessions have proved to be most successful also for medium and long term healing work, as well as extensive training and formation. In this latter context I can rely on a 13-year experience with the distant learning modules of the Operative Training in Astroshamanism, which demonstrate, despite all HAC prejudices and conditioning, that long distance shamanic tuition is as effective as training through workshops and direct physical HAC connection with a mentor. Here the ideal formula, which I strongly recommend, is to combine distance training with participation to workshops. The advantage of distance training is that is stimulates the capacity to count on the shamanic body, the rapport with one’s guides and the multidimensional relationship with the mentor, including the faculty to receive teachings through dreams, voyages and other non-HAC methods of communication. In addition the growing low-cost availability and effectiveness of ordinary long distance communication tools, such as telephone, e-mails, internet, web-cam, etc. allows abundant opportunities of remote interaction also in a HAC context.
Astroshamanism promotes the reawakening of the multidimensional body and deep intimate connections unconditioned by HAC. The experiential assumption is that it is possible to connect physically with people who, according to HAC, are distant and not apparently present in their physical body. From a multidimensional perspective distance is always the result of a choice, and it is never something that happens to us, which on the contrary are the basic implications of HAC and the cause of most pain in this configuration.
The aims of distance sessions and training are the same of ordinary individual sessions or workshops, i.e. reawakening, identifying, supporting and implementing the connection with the Core Multidimensional Identity, or Spirit Guide, detecting and employing tools to discover and manifest your higher potentials both at a multidimensional and ordinary reality level, healing and releasing blocks that prevent the above aims.

Distance sessions - How do they work and how to arrange them.
Distance sessions involve a preliminary telephone consultation, followed by an astroshamanic healing practice adapted to the specific issue of the client and a successive telephone consultation aimed at examining the results of the experience. At the end we will discuss together what emerged in the session and what tools are available in order to achieve the most beneficial outcome. Each session is autonomous and is geared according to the specific issue and intent of the client. In a distant healing session I combine modalities such as astroshamanic touch, circle release work, trance divination, core multidimensional alignment, soul retrieval, connection with spirit helpers and ancestors, space-time voyage and integration of parallel universes. If the client finds it helpful, it is also possible to have two additional sessions and even to start a specific training programme. Before arranging for a distance session, it would be ideal to get a copy of my CD Drumming for the Astroshamanic Voyage or the special CD with the long distance routine of Mediterranean Shamanic Drumming on Frame Drum in Vertical S9. Fees for a distance session are the same as an ordinary session. Each 60-75 minute astroshamanic session is Euro 70 (£ 45) or Euro 168 for a cycle of three sessions, which is Euro 56 (£ 36) per session. I am also available to offer bursaries and work with financial constraints. In this respect I welcome contributions to the Astroshamanic Bursary Fund, which can allow those unable to afford the cost of a session to benefit from this healing service. If you wish to arrange an astroshamanic distance session or training, please contact me to make an appointment at info@astroshamanism.org

Dreamwork: Hello Franco, I would like to acknowledge that I have met you in many dreams and have received your guidance, I know that we do not often meet in HAC but I appreciate your support in non HAC. The last dream I remember was very recently and it was a full moon group and we were meeting in an old church or castle ruin. We were all lying on a rubble ground journeying with blankets over us and suddenly I felt very scared and felt something hit me , I looked up and the whole group felt scared, at this point you said to me the only way to deal with dark energies is to put a part of yourself into the darkest place, you then took a small mirror out of your pocket and threw it into a really dark room and you ran into this room, the group followed you and we waited, just then we looked up and saw many HAC people staring down at us from a stone balcony and I realised the dark energies were these people feeling scared of what we were doing as they didnt understand us they had been throwing stones. There was then a Healing moment as I spoke to the people and explained how there misunderstandings can hurt and that we were not a threat but Love. Love and Blessings to you Franco, Donna

Vision for a Shamanic Healing Institute and Community: One of the top aspects of the current HAC developments in the astroshamanic context involves holding a vision for manifesting, or contributing to, an independent body with its own identity, mission statement and funding system. Its specific focus would encompass the elements typical of astroshamanic work with primary emphasis reserved to shamanic healing and the reawakening of our multidimensional nature. This could be a healing or retreat centre, an intentional community, an institute or training centre, an organisation or charity, an association or society of practitioners, a healing network, etc. This would be the official strategic template for an Astroshamanic Intentional Configuration (AIC) aiming at consistently applying the advanced aspects of shamanic practices, promoting healing at an individual, collective and multidimensional level. This could potentially happen wherever in the world there is energy, man-womanpower, or guidance to make it happen. My Intent is to give form to a visible structure in HAC in co-operation with other similarly inspired friends. I also welcome fruitful co-operation with other organisations not necessarily related with astroshamanism, yet sharing the same focus, basic purpose and integrity. In this respect I am open to the creation of alliances with practitioners from other fields and the establishment of a wider organisation, institute or network. The first stage of this project involves gathering those who are potentially interested and collectively work in order to receive guidance about the best course of action. I envisage the autumn and winter season as the ideal scenario for this preliminary stage. The degree of participation to this enterprise may include different levels of involvement. For some it might be a full time venture, for others it could be a part time contribution, some may offer technical, visionary, professional, financial or spiritual support. All forms of participation and support are most welcomed regardless of their degree or apparent value. I invite whoever feels drawn and wishes to receive further details to connect with me at the earliest convenience.
Thrilling times lie ahead and I am delighted to be co-visioning and co-creating with whoever feels drawn to join me in this venture.
If you resonate with this project also technical and financial contributions are greatly appreciated (for further details contact info@astroshamanism.org). Donations for this project can be paid by cheque or through the following accounts: (In British Pounds) IBAN: GB 02 RBOS 8320 1400 1614 41. B.I.C.: RBOS GB 2L; (In Euro) IBAN: IT 94 Z 03002 02404 000065025434. B.I.C.: BROMITR1B06.

The Astroshamanic Practitioner Training: I regard it as a fabulous gift the opportunity to work astroshamanically with people both at a HAC and non-HAC level. This I wish to acknowledge, since what has developed so far in the astroshamanic realm is part of a vision, which appeared most remote and unachievable only 13 years ago. Hence, I express my gratitude to each one of you for your unique contribution. Energised and grounded by past and present achievements, it is my intent to encourage and implement more expansive elements of the original astroshamanic vision. As part of such developments a most relevant role is played by the Astroshamanic Practitioners Training (APT). Together with supporting individuals and groups to reawaken, identify and manifest their own unique healing potentials, and also to promote collective healing events and networks, together with healing activities involving the planetary environment and its geographical entities, it is my intention to form astroshamanic practitioners and mentors fully qualified to implement the unique characteristics of astroshamanic work. In this respect, following two years of preparatory modules, I have decided to thoroughly set in motion a specific scheme of training, i.e. the Astroshamanic Practitioners Training (APT). If you are interested in the APT, please let me know at your earliest convenience so that we can arrange an interview to assess your specific situation. I include the following information only as a general indication.
The Astroshamanic Practitioners Training (APT) is a formation process aimed at training and qualifying individuals with a genuine intent to practice astroshamanism, express their healing potential and become proficient astroshamanic practitioners. The APT consists of a general charter (Astroshamanic Intentional Configuration, or AIC) applied to all trainees, and a specialised curriculum based on specific individual talents.
The APT includes three independent units: a two-year Foundation Course, a two-year Accreditation Course and a one-year Practice Training with the direct supervision of Franco. APT is still currently in its preparatory and provisional, structure, which comprises a series of required and auxiliary modules, integrated by individual training and practice under Franco’s mentoring. The Basic and Intermediary First Level of the Operative Training in Astroshamanism, which can also be taken during the Foundation Course, is a requirement for participation, as well as an interview and a series of introductory sessions with Franco. The Foundation Course is an independent structure aimed at honestly clarifying the trainee’s authentic purpose and potential, which may not necessarily be that of continuing with the Accreditation Course or of becoming an astroshamanic practitioner. Admission to the Accreditation Course is based on thorough assessment of the trainee motivation and is at Franco’s discretion. The first step in this process is the completion of the Foundation Course. This includes a specific syllabus, which involves both distance and direct training.
Only the APT is officially aimed at forming astroshamanic practitioners and mentors. The APT involves a minimum of five years of training and if the student, according to Franco, the student him/herself and a specific visionary attunement, has the required skills and calling or vision, he-she can be accredited to run or facilitate astroshamanic workshops and to operate as astroshamanic practitioner or mentor. During the APT the student may operate as assistant, and be involved in complementary trainings, such as the ASEPTIC, with various levels of commitments according to his-her progress, his-her visions and Franco's indications. Astroshamanic practice requires the alignment and initiation to a specific lineage of healing and service. Astroshamanic formation is also aimed at training shamanic practitioners who wish to draw inspiration from this work, integrate it with other methods, support other lineages and traditions, or develop their own method, without necessarily becoming astroshamanic practitioners.
This information is merely given as a basic indication. Due to the previous mainly unconfigured nature of astroshamanic work, some trainees have employed different formation systems. As a result certain cases need to be considered separately. If you are interested to verify your situation and see if the APT is the right thing for you, please contact me at your convenience. Admission to the APT requires an interview and a series of individual sessions. During the interview we will discuss the above details, including the curriculum, visionary and financial elements. The deadline for admission to the first semester of APT is 21 December 2006.

Jesi, Federico II and Castel del Monte: After the retreat in Corvaro and a few days in Bologna, I move to Jesi, where from 7 to 8 October I am holding the first part of a Course in Astroshamanic Touch organized by Letizia Moccheggiani. This course is in Italian, yet if you intend to take part and do not speak Italian, I can provide basic translation in English, Spanish, French or German. This course is also recommended for those who already attended previous workshops or courses on Astroshamanic Touch. Every workshop introduces additional elements and is a major opportunity for practicing both in a new environmental context and a different seasonal cycle or binary. Participants to previous Astroshamanic Touch courses are entitled to a reduction. This workshop purposefully takes place in the area of Jesi, which is a most meaningful location with major implications for the practice of Astroshamanic Touch.
Jesi is a fascinating place in the Marche, a hilly and florid region in central-eastern Italy. An impressive feature of Jesi is its belt of 14th century massive walls, strengthened with buttresses and impenetrable towers, and topped by houses. In Jesi there is also the mysterious Chiesa della Morte (Death's Church) and an ancient abbey built on three levels. Jesi is also the birthplace of the Medieval Hohenstaufen, the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. He was known as Stupor Mundi (the amazement of the world) for his epic multi-dimensional deeds and non-HAC character. He often made most outrageous statements on religion and morality, and as a result was excommunicated on various occasions. He openly supported and practiced non-HAC extravagant sexual practices. He spoke nine langauges and was patron of poets, artist and shamans. He called Jesi his special city, its very name seeming to recall that of Jesus. Frederick II plays a major role in the crucial stages of the definition of the Sacred Cone, astroshamanism and its non-HAC implications. This controversial monarch and his multidimensional context have also had a profound effect in the early stages of the Sacred Cone Circle.
Frederick II is intimately associated to Castel del Monte, his massive 13th century multi-dimensional equilateral eight-sided esoteric and initiatory castle and preferred residence. For five years I was involved with an intense multidimensional and astroshamanic healing concerning this fascinating castle, which was very familiar for me already in my childhood. In those years I also worked together with a special group of people, with whom I operated at Castel del Monte on several occasions. The castle is a major multidimensional temple and sacred cone unit, with a special emphasis on release. The castle is a climax of the direction West and Sector 8 (eight sides, eight rooms on each floor, eight eight-sided towers, and eight medieval sophisticated toilets). the shape of the castle is a bible of esoteric, astrological and geometric interpretations.
. On 19 August 1997 I had a most startling experience at Castelfiorentino in Puglia, which is the castle where Frederick II died. On that occasion I relived the whole scene of his death, performing a ritual with a group of energisers, with whom I previously spent one week of non-HAC work at Castel del Monte, and singing a special chant. As we were performing a ritual about death and rebirth, at Castelfiorentino I was asked to sing a song about the subject. My mind couldn’t remember any, but my heart did. Therefore, I replied that I would let my heart sing and create a song. A beautiful tune was channelled through my voice and everybody sang in tears and love. The people there thought it was some sort of Native American chant, although the song was created right in that moment and with “made-up” words.
Photo: Franco at Castel del Monte in 1996.



Eris: As reported in the previous PAN, one month ago the International Astronomical Union (IAU) declared that Pluto is no longer a planet and defined it as a dwarf planet. According to IAU there are now 8 planets and 3 dwarf planets Ceres, Pluto and 2003 UB313. This latter dwarf planet, which is actually the cause of Pluto’s relegation has now been given an official name, i.e. Eris, after the Greek goddess of discord. In mythology, Eris caused a quarrel among goddesses that lead to the Trojan War. Eris has a moon, and this too now has an official name: Dysnomia, the daughter of Eris known as the spirit of lawlessness. Astronomers opposed to Pluto's demotion have launched a petition to try to get it reinstated.

GaiaField Meditation and Prayer Vigil: From 3.30-4.30pm GMT September 21, 2006, groups at the Findhorn Community, Scotland, Auroville, India, and the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, USA will join together in sacred ceremony to honour the International Day of Peace. The groups will be linked via a web broadcast to be shown on a large screen at each of the three venues. Online participants will hear streaming audio and view synchronized visuals to aid in centring and grounding during the meditation.
Facilitators from the three venues will lead us in an invocation, chanting, meditation, and prayer. The presentation will also include a vision for future global meditation events, including a depiction of a world map showing the location of participants to support the self-recognition of the growing “GaiaField.”
This event will take place alongside thousands of similar gatherings of men and women from all faith traditions
as part of the International Day of Peace Vigil, the largest annual global meditation and prayer event. For further info click here.

Binaries:

7.7: This New Moon is the combination 7.7, a climax of cardinal air. Those who resonate with this pattern are natural artists, diplomats and partners. They possess a very harmonious disposition, enabling them to operate as skilful mediators and peacemakers, perceiving the points of accord between conflicting. Their strength lies in the capacity to achieve balance and providing most impartial judgments or evaluations. They operate at their best when their refined and aesthetic qualities are acknowledged and valued.

7.8: This is a blend of cardinal Air and fixed Water. This pattern mixes Libra’s balance, gentleness, harmony and diplomacy with Scorpio’s intensity, passion and ultimate transformation. Those who resonate with this combination are capable of delving into the most abysmal and extreme life situations, while at the same time easily managing to retrieve balance and lightness. They can show a docile, compromising and accommodating attitude, shrouding a most passionate and forceful nature underneath. Their typical inclination promotes the refinement and channelling of strong emotions into artistic and aesthetic forms. On an energetic level the combination 7.8 may operate both as powerful booster and ruthless reaper of relationships. It promotes release to attachments based on fear and separation, through the test of death or “sex”, while opening up to extraordinary opportunities residing beyond ordinary human perception. A significant feature of 7.8 is that of enabling access the hidden agenda of human relationships.

7.9: This is a mix of cardinal Air and mutable Fire. This pattern blends Libra’s balance, gentleness, harmony and diplomacy with Sagittarius’s sense of direction, expansion, enthusiasm, freedom and search for truth. Those who resonate with this combination[vi] are romantic crusaders and seekers. When the target is a relationship, all goes well until the target is a target. The 7.9 breed is fond of moving about, being adventurous and facing challenges. In this respect 7.9 is prepared to track the most perilous and stretched itineraries in order to meet one’s beloved. Yet, what is frequently revealed once the target is hit, is that they are more in love with the quest for the beloved rather than the beloved him-herself. This gives them a natural talent for piercing HAC’s relationship mechanic, genuinely aligning their search on the Bona Fide Horny Bit (HB) and the subsequent Core Multidimensional Identity (CMI). As fellow travellers on the quest they make excellent partners, provided that the quest itself is the authentic target and not the fellow traveller. Their hearts are expansive, generous and unbiased, holding the luminous vision of an inexorable happy ending, which may totally defy HAC’s ordinary umderstanding. Outgoing, passionate, and fundamentally loyal, 7.9 cherishes an inborn reverence for universal love, which may be disheartened by a narrow focus on a one-to-one relationship. 7.9 is perennially on the move, possessed by a romance with life itself and in constant intercourse with truth.
With 7.9 the Moon is 30° to 60° from the Sun, with exact Crescent Moon occurring when the Sun and the Moon are 45° apart. The first details of the potential of the New Moon in Libra begin to emerge. It is a receptive phase, aimed at gathering information and getting ready to take action along with the Intent established or perceived during New Moon. If your Intent had a CMI flavour, this is the moment when it comes to terms with HAC. The question here is: “How can I translate my Intent into a strategy that integrates both CMI and HAC?” Other more specific 7.9 questions may be: “What relationships allow me to openly support this Intent and expand its horizon? What is the true target of my relationships? How can I practically express enthusiasm, energy, good spirit and creative force in my relationship with others and the environment?” On the release front, the question is “In which way can I release and heal the grievances in the relationships that appear to block my expansion and search for truth?” In this crescent phase of the Moon there is a major impulse for grounding and third-dimensional action. This is a time of digestion, assessment and wider perspective in the field of relationships and all themes related with Sector 7.

7.10: This is a mix of cardinal Air and cardinal Earth. This pattern blends Libra’s balance, gentleness, harmony and diplomacy with Capricorn’s ambition, discipline and determination. Those who resonate with this combination are capable to achieve outstanding results through the harmonious blending of their artistic, extrovert and uninhibited nature with discipline, hard work and determination. They combine the social and graceful Libran approach with the rigorous ambition of Capricorn, which is a guarantee for manifesting prolific results and climbing the ladder of public success. They can be master in manipulating or controlling people and resources, yet in a way that potentially allows all parties to equally benefit. 7.10 require a solid structure and boundaries in order to reveal its authentic talents and emotions, especially as regards relationships. In this field, when the right conditions are at work, they prove to be most loyal and reliable, capable of formidable endurance, patience and commitment. Somehow 7.10 may draw benefits from rigid applications of HAC as strategic shelters to implement its CMI potentials.

7.11: This binary mixes cardinal Air and fixed Air. This pattern blends Libra’s balance, gentleness, harmony and diplomacy with Capricorn’s ambition, discipline and determination. Those who resonate with this combination[vii] have abundant resources to offer in any social, gregarious, community and synergetic environment. 7.11 mixes the friendliness, co-operative and emotionally balanced nature of Libra with the original, independent and break-through quality of Aquarius. Since the two signs are in a trine aspect they spontaneously fit together, promoting opportunity of precious healing service whenever there is clarity of intent and alignment with CMI. Here the Sector 11 bit is beneficial to Sector 7 for it prevents stagnation, compromises and vicious circles to prevail in crucial Libra zones such as relationships, partnerships, diplomacy and artistic expression. 7.11 is an ideal force in the context of sharing circles, group networks (including internet and e-mail services) and all alternative highly evolved forms of communication. 7.11 folks may tend to fall in love with ideals, great causes and the underdog, yet they may be far more emotionally distant when it comes to those close to them.
7.11 also relates with unpredictable developments in relationships with people, sudden changes, crisis and unexpected events, as well as miracles and luminous synergetic effects. 7.11 incorporates the profound awareness of the web of life and of how each relationships fits in a wider context. This implies the existential realisation that there are no private or personal relationships, that all human rapport are strictly linked to the collective. Hence one of the primary impulses of 7.11 is to shatter the HAC’s relationships, operating as disrupting agent of whatever becomes crystallised and cut off from the web of life. Although this course of action may cause shock and fatal crashes from the HAC perspective, the underlying CMI aim is to liberate graha arising from personal relationships with their matrix binary reference via the collective.
Also 7.11 is associated with whatever disturb HAC’s conventional capricious logic in relationship to gender and the binary system itself By the way, as I was writing this text at Cluny Hill College, a woman with a rather unusual face greeted me with a lot of affection, saying: “Do you remember me? I had a session with you two years ago.” I may not recollect the names of those to whom I give sessions, yet I can always remember them when I see their faces. Yet, in this case, I couldn’t remember this woman at all, despite the fact that her face was quite out of the ordinary. Then the following day, as I was still trying hard to retrieve my memory, I met her again and she told me that she had a session with me before having surgery, which brought a series of radical changes in her HAC. When she had that session with me she was actually a man.

Celebrities: [viii] 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.

7.7: Romy Schneider (AS Gemini); Arthur Rimbaud (AS Libra); Sting (AS Leo); Bruce Springsteen (AS Gemini); André Barbault (AS Aquarius); Allan Kardec (AS Taurus); Pope Paul VI (AS Cancer); Martin Heidegger (AS Sagittarius); Dwight D. Eisenhower (AS Gemini); Jerry Lee Lewis (AS Aquarius); Lech Walesa (AS Virgo); Derek Jacobi (AS Virgo); Romano Mussolini (AS Cancer):

7.8: Romina Power (AS Sagittarius); Pedro Almodovar (AS Gemini); Julie Andrews (AS Virgo); Truman Capote (AS Aquarius); Jimmy Carter (AS Libra); Jacques Tati (AS Virgo); Louis Lumiere (AS Leo).

7.9 Friedrich Nietzsche (AS Scorpio) Christopher Reeve (AS Leo); Jeff Goldblum (AS Cancer); Franz Liszt (AS Leo); Bob Geldof (AS Sagittarius); Tim Robbins (AS Virgo); Montgomery Clift (AS Virgo); Patti Davis (AS Aquarius); Alain Fournier (AS Virgo); Hilary Duff; Bam Margera; Tommy Lee (AS Sagittarius); Sylvia Browne (AS Aquarius); Neriah Davis; Sean Lennon (AS Leo); Ami Jo Johnson (AS Capricorn); Vanessa Marcil; Lene Nystrom; Pamela Tiffin (AS Taurus); James Caviezel; Luc Jouret; Art Buchwald; Naomi Watts.

7.10 Monica Bellucci (AS Capricorn); Matt Damon (AS Aquarius); Michael Douglas (AS Scorpio); Sylvia Kristel (AS Virgo); Joan Fontaine (AS Libra); Pope John Paul I (AS Sagittarius); Robert Rauschenberg (AS Sagittarius); Susan Sarandon (AS Capricorn); Jennifer Nicole Freeman; Umberto Boccioni (AS Pisces); Emperor Charlemagne; Zucchero (AS Aries); Jennifer Rush (AS Libra); Fran Drescher; Silvana Pampanini (AS Cancer); Johnny Carson (AS Scorpio); Blu Cantrell; Joseph Plateau (AS Cancer); Marc Levy; Italo Calvino (AS Scorpio); Girolamo Savonarola (AS Pisces); Sandra Bookman (AS Aquarius); Rumi; Eugenio Montale; Edward VI (AS Virgo); Thomas Moore (AS Scorpio); Jaya Prakash Narayan (AS Leo).

7.11 John Lennon (AS Aries); Nolwenn Leroy (AS Capricorn); Viggo Mortensen; Stephen Arroyo (AS Aries); Valeria Golino (AS Scorpio); Michel Foucault (AS Scorpio); Philippe Noiret (AS Gemini); Mickey Rooney (AS Sagittarius); Winston Churchill (AS Virgo); Arthur Miller (AS Libra); Timothy Leary (AS Sagittarius); George Gershwin (AS Sagittarius); Eminem; Ioan Gruffudd; Ashlee Simpson.

7.12: Silvio Berlusconi (AS Virgo); Rita Hayworth (AS Taurus); Klaus Kinski (AS Cancer); Aleister Crowley (AS Leo); Yves Montand (AS Leo); Marlo Morgan (AS Leo); Chuck Berry (AS Scorpio); Alfred Dreyfus (AS Aquarius).

Friedrich Nietzsche: This prominent and infamous German philosopher is one of the most influential HAC public iconoclasts. His writings and life are a vivid description of the interaction between CMI and HAC via the bona fide horny bit. Nietzsche has Sun in Libra and Moon in Sagittarius, thus embracing the 7.9 binary. His Ascendant in Scorpio also abundantly stresses 7.8 and 8.9. Nietzsche sustained that the aim of human existence is establish the connection with the Übermensch (superman), whose task is unveiling what lies behind HAC. The Übermensch is able to move into the deepest passions, yet with the capacity of directing them towards authentic values, which are those that come out of his direct experience and not the consensus reality or mass conformity. Nietzsche maintained that all humans are triggered by the will to power. This is not the power over others, it is the capacity to exercise power over oneself, the power required to manifest one’s genuine creativity. Please find below some quotations from his works:

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
That the value of the world lies in our interpretation (that other interpretations than merely human ones are perhaps somewhere possible); That previous interpretations have been perspective valuations by virtue of which we can survive in life, i.e., in the will to power, for the growth of power; that every elevation of man brings with it the overcoming of narrower interpretations; that every strengthening and increase of power opens up new perspectives and means believing in new horizons this idea permeates my writings. The world with which we are concerned is false, i.e., is not a fact but a fable and approximation on the basis of a meager sum of observations; it is "in flux," as something in a state of becoming, as a falsehood always changing but never getting near the truth: for there is no "truth."
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.
You look up because you want to be exalted. And I look down, because I am exalted.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Love is not consolation. It is light.

For some essays and astrological information on Nietzsche, see the following web-pages:
http://www.esotericastrologer.org/EA%20Essays/EAessaysMDR37Nietzsche.htm
http://mars.ark.com/~gero/nietzsch.html
http://www.swan.ac.uk/german/fns/98/doctrine.htm

The Epic of the Sacred Cone References:
Please click here for reports on other binaries and nations of the Handorian States.

The sign of Libra and Sector 7 are epically related with the Grand State of Hanmar, the 7th State of the Handorian State System.[ix] At this point you may ask why this State, unlike others, is called Grand. Well, the issue is rather thorny here. By some means, Hanmar represents the other half of Handor, a kind of replacement for Rodnah. In pristine times of yore it was indeed a separate entity, which was then incorporated in the Handorian State System. Hence, the Grand State of Hanmar constitutes the informal sister of Handor. Yet Handor, being the 13th, is not a State, and this causes some complications upon which I do not intend to indulge.

7.7 – Baubar: This is the central nation of the Grand State of Hanmar, incorporating the State Capital Region of Bahul. The emblem of Baubar is the Hanmarian Bear, which looks a bit like a HAC teddy bear.

7.8 – Abades: This nation is most notorious for it was once and, should you get to Abades in a dysfunctional frame of time, it can still be a major Graha proliferation zone. Handorians are not used to employ swear words, yet if they were, the saying “Go to Abades!” would surely be one of the direst insults. What emerged in Abades appeared as the most staggering Graha a mind could conceive. This is absolutely baffling for in Hanmar and in all the remaining Handorian States, apart from Friaan, there are supposed to be no Graha. At least, this is the official version, as it is also the legitimate account that the presence of Graha in Abades is merely a postulation resulting from the multifarious dynamics of the Game. A similar situation applies to the Nation of Rotlan (8.7) in the State of Friaan. The binaries 7.8 and 8.7 are most controversial for they evoke what is probably the cruellest episode ever occurred in the Handorian scenario: the heinous rapport between Friaan and Hanmar. Hence, working with 7.8 involves coming to terms with the innermost wound in the Libra sphere of relationships. Please bear in mind here that in the current Handorian setting recollections of this wound are most likely merely available in the Abadesian National Archives and in the Franandarg, the colossal documentation centre of the Handorian States System. Paradoxically Abades is at present a most popular and trendy resort for multi-dimensional honey-moons. I prefer to keep the whole topic of Abades still cryptic, also because in order to emerge it needs the close presence of one or more human beings opposed to my present polarity. Hence, if you and I are genuinely interested, whenever the above conditions apply, please do ask, and we may give it a try.

7.9 – Alfamar: This nation is one of the major inspirer of the multi-dimensional crusade into the Ultimate Frontier. Incidentally, the Ultimate Frontier[x] is the bona fide horny bit as it is perceived from the opposite perspective, which is that of those abiding beyond the HAC zone, such as Handorians and other non-HAC folks.

7.10 – Mirvak: This nation occupies the elevated North-West zone of Hanmar, which is the most mountainous area of the Hanmarian territory. The area comprises the Dulkan ranges in the north and the Hanmirian ranges in the south. Between the two mountain systems lies the wide cleavage of the Mirvak plateau.

7.11 - Hamnur. The capital of Hamnur is Hardhar, which receives its name from the homonymous national hero. The legends around Hardhar are the subject of many Trudeh Etnaie Korah, the popular ballads of the ProvOrdo Etnai. The following ballad, briefly narrating Hardhar’s enterprises, is in sacred idiom and, as it is often the case with this language, the attempt of translating it is in itself an enterprise[xi]
Hardhar had been roaming for ages in search of Etnai, his beloved. One day, as he was venturing in the barren rounded mountains of the Hanmirian ranges, he caught sight of the lights of a remote village in the far distant horizon. From that moment Hardhar began to track and climb in that direction. It took him many days to reach the ultimate rounded Dulkan mount, the closest elevated point before the village. He paused on the top of the mountain for one day and night, contemplating the vast landscape stretching beyond the Dulkan ranges. A deep golden thread of loving passion soothingly pierced his heart, which to Hardhar was the indisputable confirmation that he had found his beloved. Then the overwhelming amorous fantasy that for ages had populated his heart suddenly emerged from the minute hollow caused by the golden thread. They merrily descended into the valley and surrounded the entire perimeter of the township. They chanted and sung vigorously until the village shape-shifted into an exquisite girl. At that point Hardhar realised that she was Etnai. He stretched his arm and joined the girl’s hand. They came closer and closer until it was dark. Their hands remained united throughout the night. Together they went into the place of dreams and ecstasy. In that space they exchanged their loving vows. They woke up at dawn in sheer deep silence. Hardhar gently looked at her bare body from top to bottom and then from bottom to top. Again he gazed at her as she was putting on her clothes and garments. These were the houses, the huts, the streets, the people, the trees and animals of the village. The village was the clothing of Etnai. Hence, Etnai became the village, for the village was Etnai. Hardhar promised to remain in the village until the time of the calling. He went into the main square and publicly proclaimed his availability to serve until the time of the calling. Hardhar worked hard and did all that was needed. Although he was an outlander, everybody in the village was fond of him. Hardhar is very popular for he is transparent like a crystal. This transparency was not always easy to understand. One day the chief of the village decides to give him his daughter as spouse. This came as a shock to Hardhar for he already had Etnai as a partner. His nights were sleepless and tormented. He was tempted to run away from the village. He then asked Etnai if this was a sign that the time of the calling had come. “You are the only one who can decide when the time of the calling comes, and when it is honourable for you to leave. Until you are here, my dear, please know that I will always be your beloved. My body comprises all the village and you move around its entire territory as you attend to your work. Please take care of the chief’s daughter and do not be confused by the abundant shades of my garments. What solely count are our vows.” Hardhar then married the chief’s daughter. He loved her tenderly, as he also loved all the people and whatever was in the village. It was in this way that Hardhar continued to live until the time of the calling. And by the way, the name of the chief’s daughter was Etnai.
This is another variation of the same story: “Hardhar wanders for years all over the vast territories of the Hanmarian hemisphere. He looks for his beloved. The lover he has been guided to serve. All he knows about her is the name: Etnai.[xii] He also knows that she abides somewhere in the North. Unceasingly he wanders, days and nights. Then one day he reaches the summit of a valley. From there he sees a large village. “This is Etnai!” He goes to the village. At the gate they ask him what is the purpose of his visit. “I am here to serve you” he replies. He works hard and does all that is needed. The village is his lover. With her he spends all his time. Hardhar is joyful. He has reached his goal. He serves so beautifully. Although he is an outlander, the villagers are fond of him. Hardhar is very popular. All that he does is simply to love Etnai. She is his lover. The lover he has been guided to serve. One day the Chief decides to give him his daughter as spouse. Her name is Etnai... Well, this is the way of Hardhar. His lover is Etnai, the People, the village, the spouse...

[i] All times in PAN are given in GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).
[ii] For further information on all the terms in italic and the general topic, please see most binary reports as from 5.7.
[iii] A Course in Miracles, Text, p. 467.
[iv] A Course in Miracles, Text, p. 467.
[v] Edwin C. Steinbrecher, The Inner Guide Meditation: A Transformational Journey to Enlightenment and Awareness, Aquarian Press, p. 139.
[vi] Astrologically there is strong resonance with this combination when it reflects in the position of your Sun and Moon in sign and house (for example, Sun in Libra or 7th and Moon in Sagittarius or 9th house). If your Moon is in Sagittarius or 9th house, or conjunct Jupiter, this binary may offer opportunities for interacting with the Sun and experiencing one or all the stages of the Basic Ritual (Intent, Release, Receiving) as applied to 7.9.
[vii] 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 and house (for example, Sun in Libra or 7th and Moon in Aries or 1st house). If your Moon is in Aries or 1st house, or conjunct Mars, this binary may offer opportunities for interacting with the Sun and experiencing one or all the stages of the Basic Ritual (Intent, Release, Receiving) as applied to 7.1.
[viii] 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.
[ix] The Handorian State System is a mythical matrix reality aimed at integrating 3rd-dimensional perception with multidimensional states of consciousness. Its functions sustain both the undoing of separation and its preservation. These functions, although apparently contradictory when expressed through conventional languages, constitute the foundations of the ecstatic multidimensional realms existing beyond human limited perception. The Handorian State System consists of 12 States, each composed of 12 Nations, and one Central State, called Handor. The strategic counterpart of Handor is Rodnah.

[x] For references on the Ultimate Frontier see the Appendix in Franco Santoro, Astroshamanism Book One: A Journey Through the Inner Universe.
[xi] The story could be translated in many ways and this is just an amateurish attempt. Please be aware that in sacred idiom there is no true reference to gender. This means that all subjects involved could be defined as men or women or both.
[xii] In the Prokumauna language Etnai means something like “people”, large “community” or “tribe”.