Thursday, October 19, 2006

PAN International Issue 53

PAN Provisional Astroshamanic News
Core Network Edition, 8.8-1, 21 October 2006, Issue 53. Editorial Director: Franco Santoro.
Cluny Hill College, Forres IV36 2RD, Moray, Scotland. (+44(0)1309-672289. + PAN@astroshamanism.org

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What is Astroshamanism?

This 53rd issue of PAN heralds the forthcoming entrance of the Sun in Scorpio (Sector 8), announcing the voyage into the deep autumnal mysteries of death and regeneration. The Scorpio energy is outstandingly boosted on Tuesday, 24 October 2006, when six planets will be simultaneously treading on that sign. This is a most suitable time for activating major transformation and release processes, including the unbending dedication to, and implementation of, profound ancestral passions and desires. That day is particularly appropriate for release healing practices, such as the Basic Ritual of the Sacred Cone, both at an individual and collective level. On that occasion within the astroshamanic network we are promoting a series of ceremonies and meetings. If you feel drawn, please join us and then share any vision or experience you receive in the process.
Thw Scorpio cycle offers increased opportunities for letting go of secret and grieving stories that continue to cause damage in the personal and collective environment. The first step in releasing is acknowledging, being transparent. This is the most delicate step, as well as the most powerful. It involves taking the risk of facing the issue, of giving it shape, of honestly recapitulating it and challenging denials. This is the first step in healing because it is the gateway to healing. It is a most courageous and decisive enterprise for this step does not provide the perception that healing is actually taking place. This is the challenge. Healing is indeed copiously occurring, yet at a level which is beyond my perception. Hence releasing is an act of trust, and this trust is more easily available when the release is preceded by an Intent. The protocol of the Basic Ritual of the Sacred Cone involves first focusing on an Intent and then proceeding to the Release stage, followed by the third stage of integration and healing.
The current PAN covers the captivating eve leading to Samhain, which for Celtic and other ancient cultures represented the end of the old year and the start of the new. This festival, lasting from sunset on 31 October to sunset on 1 November, is regarded as a time when the veil between the ordinary separated reality, or Human Arbitrary Configuration (HAC), and other bordering dimensions is thinner. On this occasion it was believed that ancestors could return and celebrate with their tribe and families. For ancient people Samhain was primarily an official HAC-free zone, a point outside ordinary time and perception in which the artificial order of life would unveil its gaps and crash. This is what indiscriminately happens at the moment of death, as well as during sleep and other non-ordinary states of consciousness. In this respect Samhain and Scorpio, with all their seemingly obnoxious references to mortality, shed light on the golden gateway of liberation, the bridge between HAC (the reality based on separation) and the Core Multidimensional Identity (CMI), i.e. the galactic centre, the realm of unity, or web of life.
Scorpio is the custodian of the mysteries of what we truly are beyond the identification with the physical body. This identification inescapably expires through death, yet the awareness of death for Scorpio is at work at all times since it abides right at the threshold of the multidimensional gateway. The awareness of these mysteries has been guarded in most restricted circles and maintained in brotherhoods and sisterhoods, such as the Provisional Order, who made it almost inaccessible to initiates and definitely out of bound for the bulk of ordinary mankind. It seems as if now a time has come for allowing a strategic part of this awareness to flow into the ordinary HAC world. Yet it has to be made clear that this unveiling appears to have cyclically happened on this planet and is more part of a loop script dynamic rather than the result of evolutionary processes. According to the game tactics employed by some esoteric orders who guard the access to the multidimensional threshold this time is identified by the years from 2000 to 2012, and in particular 2007-2012 (see full details in PAN issue 52 and some minor references in the article below, titled Approaching the Gateway Zone).
As a result of the above developments most forthcoming astroshamanic events will take a closer and unprecedented experiential look into the mysteries of space-time gateways and our multidimensional nature. An innovative workshop, titled Awakening Your Multidimensional Self: Astroshamanic Healing through Time and Space (see details in the calendar below), will be held in several European cities with the aim of activating and promoting multidimensional reawakening in highly populated zones, with particular regards to political, cultural and financial centres. The first workshop takes place on 25-26 November 2006 in Frankfurt (Germany), organized by Holistic Dialogue (emansson@hotmail.com), the second in Rome (16-17 December 2007), then Edinburgh (5-7 January 2007), London (10-11 February 2007) and other European cities.
Please contact me if you wish to know more about any aspect of astroshamanic work. If you are drawn by some of the themes dealt with in PAN I invite you to take part in forthcoming astroshamanic events, courses, trainings, group or individual sessions. If you want to verify whether astroshamanism is the right thing for you and can truly serve you, please feel free to contact me and arrange a free appointment.
With profuse love and admiration of your unique multidimensional nature, Franco

PAN is available free to anyone who has attended astroshamanic events/sessions or simply wishes to receive it. If you find PAN useful, inspiring, appealing or perhaps even revealing, any donation (small, medium or big) would be greatly appreciated (for further details contact PAN@astroshamanism.org). Donations will encourage us to continue on this path and possibly further develop PAN. Donations will also support our project of creating an Astroshamanic Healing centre. The total amount of donations received so far in more than one year is £ 100 (all given by the same donor, to whom we are very grateful). We are open to receive contributions also from other donors.

Approaching the Gateway Zone. The Human Arbitrary Configuration (HAC), i.e. human ordinary reality, is bound by linear time and cause-effect patterns. This means that HAC inhabitants (i.e. ordinary human beings) define themselves according to what they have been in the past. What they are now depends on what they have been ten, twenty or thirty years or even ten, twenty or thirty minutes later. Whatever they experience now is the result of things happened in linear time, the effect of a later cause. A multidimensional being, i.e. an astroshaman or anyone open to non-HAC, alternatively, bases his identity in terms of who she is shape-shifting into, and not on who he has been in the past. Non-HAC transcends linear time and all related ordinary individualities, it is devoid of causes and is based on effects, or rather causes and effects are not based on linear time, which means that something happening today may be caused by something happening in one year. A multidimensional being is therefore able to move beyond HAC, enjoying free circulation through infinite configurations, shape-shifting in any form at will, and being able in any moment to choose where to emerge or disappear both in time and space. For ages on this HAC planet this capacity has only be available to an insignificant minority of intrepid shamans and most marginal folks who had the guts to venture through the terrifying boundaries that separate HAC from non-HAC. Since this frontier zone is extremely dangerous, most of them were annihilated in their endeavour, they were locked in the gap, trapped in a frightening limbo from which they may never return. In the Epic of the Sacred Cone this limbo zone is the Paheka Rubhe. The strategic context of the current HAC linear time involves the possibility of an easier access to non-HAC. The years from 2007 to 2012 appear crucial in this respect. These six years (related to the last six signs, from Libra to Pisces) sustain the labour for the emergence of the multidimensional body out of the final dissolution of the individual body. This radical shift from individual to multidimensional, which the years from 2007 to 2012 are alleged to implement, entails becoming fully aware that HAC is a gateway meant either to facilitate or to block the birthing of multidimensional awareness. The process of facilitation involves acquiring experiential and operative identification with larger collective and multidimensional bodies. The novelty of this development is that the identification moves beyond the confinement of HAC linear time, embracing parallel realities, unseen spaces and whatever has been split so far from human consciousness up to the complete alignment with the Core Multidimensional Identity (CMI). This means that it will be a multidimensional phenomenon, potentially releasing our HAC state of detention and opening up the gates from linear into non-linear time. Reactivating our multidimensional body and moving beyond the confinement of our HAC identities may be a more available opportunity for those who are determined to take a quantum leap. Astroshamanism is strategically and playfully embracing this enterprise. (Franco Santoro)


Mindfulness at work, claiming the multidimensional self at the work place by Valérie Saintot

Valérie is French, married to a swede, they live in Germany and are the parent of a boy of 3 years and a half. As a convinced European she works in European arenas for the last 12 years. She is living in Frankfurt for 7 years. Besides her work she is active in the field of personal and spiritual development, hosting groups and leading seminars.

After choosing the business world as my daily playground, I have chosen to try and live a business life where I care for both my professional performance and my spiritual practice. Working for a European institution was since my late teenage and early adulthood answering to a deep desire to contribute to the European peace project and the building of a political ideal born in post WWII times.
I have the chance to have already been able to work in two European institutions, once at the start of my career in Luxembourg 12 years ago and now in Frankfurt for the last seven years. In itself this is not so special. I explain all this as it underlines my quest for making peace and unity a daily reality also in the work place. After a visioning process to receive clear guidance on my way of fulfilling my life mission in the present phase of my life, I was shown the path of mindfulness as a mean to bring this peace into my work place or at least in a small corner of my work place as it is always useful to create a platform out of which one can lead by example.
Between the vision and its manifestation, three years of aborted and misunderstood attempts had to take place before a positive response was given to my request of having a dedicated room for meditation practices. This happened the last working day of last year. I got a phone call telling me that Room NN in building MM was free and I could use it for meditation practices. Very ego comforting to have a vision but very much ego frightening to have the chance to give it a shape! After having physically externalise my paralysis provoked by the simple thought of having to move forward with this project, I lost my voice for one week while leading a four-day Sylvester retreat. It is only one month later that I could really start acting upon this marvellous opportunity. I finally committed to materialize this vision and started to gather some more strength. I could find colleagues ready to financially and morally support this project. We needed to buy mats and cushions, put a class offer together, and inform all our colleagues. This last aspect of informing everybody was very essential to me as I wanted to live up to an important value for me namely transparency. When the colleague from the premises department called somewhat perplex how he should name this room on the sign outside in the corridor, I simply said “meditation room”. The next challenge was the drafting of the first e-mail to all 1300 colleagues. I was practicing myself for a while mindfulness, following the very well thought through model of Jon Kabat-Zinn, a medical doctor from the University of Massachusetts (http://www.umassmed.edu/cfm/). I decided to follow his approach and also explained that meditation was not for the fainthearted. The e-mail was short, not very sexy and rather low profile. Once I had clicked on the send button I just left my desk animated by a high level of insecurity. When I came back 45 min later I could simply not believe my eyes, e-mails declaring interest for this initiative were raining on my computer screen (20% of the colleagues asked to be kept informed). Amazed by this demonstration of attention for such activities we started to consider ways of managing this interest, knowing that our precious meditation room is only 23 m2 big…Ten months later we are running our third program, offering six classes a week with an attendance rate of 30-40 persons a week across the six classes. Participants are mainly beginners in the field of body mind and soul awakening but are very curious and motivated. I keep for another occasion the description of the practices in our classes, the needs we meet with this offer and the overall theme of work life balance. I would be happy to be in contact with others who may want to share in more details on this topic (mindfulness at work & spirituality in the work place). Always ready to give support and feedback to those of you who may consider a similar adventure. You may visit the website supporting this initiative at the following address www.mindfulnessatwork.org. Valérie Saintot, Frankfurt, Germany.

What Will We Tell Them? by Carol Day
When they take us back into the arms of our maker, what will we tell them? When we have breathed our last breath in the bodies of our current identities and we return, what will we say? When they look us in the eyes with those angelic smiling faces glowing upon us and within us, will we really smile back? Will we be pleased? Will we have got it? Will they be pleased? Will anybody think anything?
As far as I can remember, it will all seem like a dream. As far as I remember all this pain will be irrelevant. As far as I remember, there is no war up there, only service and light. As far as I can remember, it will be like giving birth. You forget the pain and then you decide to do it again anyway. Or like a fairground ride, you feel more complete for having braved it.
But now I am tired of braving it, tired of doing it again and again. And I see through the veils. I am with my higher self, I know my different star groupings, I know the archetypes that sweep through me. I know the rules of this game. I know that we are meant to untie it all, not be foiled by the drama, detach ourselves and keep loving. I know that I can walk this tight-rope if I wish. I have tapped into the layers and I have gathered enough know-how and skills to keep myself alive. I know that what I am living here holds all the symbols and metaphors of the multi-dimensional reality. I know there are clues and props everywhere to support me in my learning. I know it is one big symphony of humming genius and I just have to keep on going. Keep pressing forward. Keep moving without being distracted. Keep my heart wide-open and keep strolling merrily on.
But, as Vladimir says, ‘I can’t go on.’
There is something profoundly missing. It is joy. It’s not fun right now. It’s getting more and more like the more aware I get, the less I am here. And I can’t remember this being the agreement. I search my library of past-lives to recall. I guess I do remember. In Egypt and Lemuria. There was a sense of being so utterly connected to something else. The disaster areas were when the connections got broken off. When the controlling took over and the systems collapsed. It’s taken all this time to correct it all again. All this time and diligence to work towards realignment. I have been so focused, and meanwhile the stage show of life continues. But in the backdrop my higher self is ticking away. And you know what, it’s not just in this life. It’s in all the rest too.
Every step that I take in this life now has a profound effect upon the rest. Every movement I make towards peace and alliance and bringing the truth to the surface, corrects the past and the present. It’s like steering a ship with the most excruciating storms, and a crew that drifts in and out, losing awareness and concentration on the true task. It’s like thinking in a dense cell with no lights. It is hard work, man. And there’s no encouragement on this level. No encouragement when you’re in it. The moments of distraction and inspiration and acts of love and friendship are beautiful. But when you are on your own, in the night, or in the street and truly connecting, adhoc, never when you plan, with all the characters in your karmic history shouting through the airwaves for your attention, leading you like a magnetised zombie to the unknown port of a strangled intuition, to make that connection, say that word, write that line, acknowledge that truth and weld it into the script. Man, it’s hard. It’s a responsibility which weighs far heavier than anything imaginable. It’s the true and only bloody reason for you being here.
I am fed up of it. J’en ai marre. I am so worn down by it. It is just rubbish to be so in it. To ask for truth all my life and end up with this. It’s heavy. It’s too much.
I suppose the truth is, that when it’s kept quiet, when it’s unconscious, when it’s kept under a hat and not broadcast, aired or valued, that’s when it becomes too much. That’s when the joy is squashed out of it. The only way out is to be perfectly loud about this. To create with this. To be so outspoken and inconsolable about it, that I have to make it energise me rather than de-energise me. My ancestors applaud. Get it out.
These players in different times and places. Do you know them too? The characters of your multi-dimensional self, splintered through time, posted by karma, can you describe them, can you hear what they are saying? Can we write with them and through them? Can we hear what they are trying to say?
I ask my soul for guidance. There is a single voice to guide this project. There are many players. The title is The Restoration Project. We can start right now. It is ready.
It is a book but it is a reality too.

Bardo: Scorpio holds much of the awareness of the gap between life, death and rebirth. This intermediate zone is what in Tibetan is called bardo, which literally means “that which lies between”, or “gap”. The bardo, which in Sanskrit is called antarabhava, is not only the interval after death. It encompasses all kinds of suspension in life, such as moments of frustration, uncertainty, crisis, and also dreams, fantasies, etc. The Bardo Thodol (literally: "liberation through hearing in the intermediate state”), mainly known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, differentiates the intermediate states between lives into three bardos: the chikhai bardo or "bardo of the moment of death", the chonyid bardo or "bardo of the experiencing of reality" and the sidpa bardo or "bardo of rebirth", which correspond astroshamanically to the three Levels.[ii] The chikhai bardo involves the experience of the "clear light of reality", which is the nearest possible approximation to the Core Multidimensional Identity (CMI). The chonyid bardo features visions of various high spirit forms, while the sidpa bardo includes karmically incited hallucinations which may eventually result in rebirth. The Bardo Thodol also refers to three other bardos: the kye ne bardo or “bardo of life” or ordinary awareness, the milam bardo, or “bardo of dream” (all mental activities during sleep), and the samtem bardo, or “bardo of meditation” (all types of meditative or expanded consciousness conditions). All bardos provide most powerful opportunities for liberation and enlightenment. Bardos are available permanently throughout both life and death. They are transitional state between HAC and CMI. The bona fide aim of astroshamanic work is to provide training for effectively navigating in the bardo labyrinth.
The general way for ordinary human beings to access the bardo and CMI is through unconsciousness, which is what happens regularly as part of their daily routine. This is because the connection with CMI is essential for the survival of any other possible identity and reality, no matter how bogus it is. Hence, all individuals, in order to function, necessitate a recurrent rapport with the CMI, just as they need to eat, drink, breath and sleep. Yet, while eating, drinking, breathing and sleeping are usually conscious or accepted activities, devoid of any opposition or denial from HAC, this is not the case for the rapport with CMI. Since HAC is based on the conscious denial of CMI, it follows that human beings, although they constantly experience it, do not have any clue about what CMI is simply because this experience is unconscious.
Human separated reality is a huge complex organisation with a copious amount of departments and specialisations. In this context, although strategically undisclosed, a most cryptic area deals with all affairs related with the bardo. This domain is herewith tactically and epically defined as the Provisional Order. The function of the Provisional Order is to serve both the interests of CMI and HAC. As such, the Provisional Order is a most controversial and classified system. It is indeed the domain of shamans.
The whole human paradigm strategically sustains the perception of a separate reality, purging away the awareness of other realities. It is like a multi-sensory virtual theatre piece. The enactment of this play is the result of the interaction of many factors. These factors allow the play to be visible on stage, though they are mainly excluded from the main focus of attention, which is merely the stage. Shamans have access to all stages of theatre production. They are aware of what exists behind the stage curtains. At the same time they know that their role is quite exceptional.
Shamans perceive the links with other realities, while this does not apply to most of the other characters they meet on the path. Moreover, they play at least three parts at the same time, i.e. the role in the separated reality, or HAC, in the multi-dimensional realm, or CMI, and in the bardo, or Provisional Order. This may generate confusion and misunderstanding in their rapport with ordinary human beings. The Provisional Order operates in conjunction with the consensus reality (HAC) that governs human perception, which is strategically based on the denial of the multi-dimensional reality and whatever comes before or after physical life. In this respect it appears as the most cherished ally of conventional reality as well as the greatest threat. The Provisional Order holds the memory between birth, death and rebirth. (Franco Santoro)


Binaries:

8.8: This is the combination of the New Moon in Scorpio. It is a pattern that obviously amplifies all major Scorpio features, generating most passionate, determined, secretive, powerful and magnetic folks.
8.9: This is a blend of Fixed Water and Mutable Fire. The pattern Sun in Scorpio and Moon in Sagittarius fuses Scorpio’s intensity, depth, magnetism and passion with Sagittarius’s adventure, expansion, freedom and thirst for truth. Those who resonate with this combination are most determined beings, abundant with integrity and zeal for truth, able to endure major enterprises in order to reach their target, which is usually of an idealistic or spiritual nature. Their nature thrives with potential enthusiasm for all aspects of life, especially those involving mystery and controversies. Loyal, stern, ardent and forthright about their beliefs, they can go to extreme lengths to hit their ultimate target.
8.10: It is a blend of Fixed Water and Cardinal Earth. The pattern Sun in Scorpio and Moon in Capricorn integrates Scorpio’s intensity, depth, magnetism and passion with Capricorn’s ambition, discipline, practicability and determination. Those who resonate with this combination are most purposeful and committed beings, hard-working and passionate, able to direct abundant energies for the defiant manifestation of enduring intentions. Loyal to their cause, tough, tenacious, stern, they figure out as natural leaders and may pursue any intent they set themselves with ruthless resolution.
8.11: This is a blend of Fixed Water and Fixed Air. The pattern Sun in Scorpio and Moon in Aquarius integrates Scorpio’s intensity, depth, magnetism and passion with Aquarius’s originality, rebelliousness and collective consciousness. Those who resonate with this combination are major enigmas in the Human Arbitrary Configuration, able to cover the widest spans of frequencies, penetrating the darkest scenarios as well as ascending proscribed peaks. While being involved in daily activities, they appear to abide in other realms, covertly hinting the connection with arcane sources and emanating a depth that very few can comprehend. Light and darkness, death and life merge in this binary, allowing them to dispense unpredictable gifts and bewildering shifts within rigid structures. Here the most dramatic tragedies may become major hilarious comedies or vice versa, cultivating the capacity of embracing the paradox and tapping into the matrix of the Game. Italian actor and director Roberto Benigni (8.11.10) and most of his movies provide a classic example of this pattern. With 8.11 the Moon enters the First Quarter phase, when the Moon square the Sun. This is traditionally a time to focus on making the necessary changes and adjustments so that the Intent activate with the New Moon can be implemented. It is a crucial moment, for what is set in motion now will develop through the rest of the lunar cycle.
8.12: It is a blend of Fixed Water and Mutable Water. The pattern Sun in Scorpio and Moon in Pisces integrates Scorpio’s intensity, depth, magnetism and passion with Pisces’s deep intuitions, imagination, compassion, healing and inspiration. Those who resonate with this combination are most inspiring and imaginative beings, ready to surrender themselves to the waves of passion and achieving major multi-dimensional accomplishments with unbending determination. Their creativity reaches amazing peaks and depth, benefiting from dramatic overtones and romantic fantasies. Intensely emotional and compassionate, they are champions of empathy and dedicated healing, endowed with a profound understanding of human nature and ready to venture to the bottom of situations that trigger their spiritual motivation. All binaries terminating with 12 entail the attainment of a provisional state of unity, a blessing before returning to the binaries based on 1. 8.12 and 8.1 constitute the Scorpio multi-dimensional gateway. They include the border zone, the gap between the bona fide horny bit (the direct link with CMI) and the consciousness diverting mechanism (the rerouting device aimed at shifting perception from multi-dimensional awareness to HAC).
8.1: This is a blend of Fixed Water and Cardinal Fire. The pattern Sun in Scorpio and Moon in Aries blends Scorpio’s intensity, depth, magnetism and passion with Aries’s courage, assertiveness and pioneering spirit. Those who resonate with this combination are extremely focused being, ready to do whatever in order to achieve specific tasks, often rather impulsive, yet adamant in their endeavour and forcefulness. When their passion and sense of mission is at work, they lay aside everything else, without being distracted and showing no concern for those who are not aligned with their assignment. Admired for their courage and their totality, 8.1 beings are natural shamanic warriors, rash and enduring in their healing enterprises, the kind of folks to rely upon in moments of sheer emergency. 8.1 incorporates the warrior shamanic spirit of the female mysteries, the Amazon and Women Who Run With Wolves type, yet astroshamanically applied to both genders.
All combinations involving the Moon in Aries are crucial in the astroshamanic healing recycling process of grievances. All the network of relationships elaborated during the zodiac cycle reaches its climax in the gap zone between Pisces and Aries, the moment when from 12 I go back to square 1. This gap is exemplified by the “bardo of death”, which is indeed the climax of life. The goal of any relationship is reaching this climax, which is the most potent of all for at that stage the Human Arbitrary Configuration (HAC) is swept away and dies. Hence for HAC (Human Arbitrary Configuration) the climax is tantamount to death, because it marks the end of the relationship, the shift from 3D (3rd dimension) to 4D (4th dimension). This is an unacceptable development for HAC since HAC is based on the denial of 4D. Hence the aim of a sacred relationship is to encourage a conscious climax and offer as much support as possible to ensure a powerful voyage through the bardo of death. It follows that the most important moment in a relationship is not the honeymoon, the first meeting, the “falling in love” stage or any evidence of 3D unity. The crucial and decisive stage occurs when there is a 3D separation, i.e. when the relationship comes to a 3D end because a partner leaves, dies, etc. Here the relationship is tested in its original integrity, whether it is aimed at supporting the bardo or not. Unfortunately in ordinary relationships 3D separation from a partner is regarded as the most disgraceful event and a failure in the relationship itself. And due to this state of affair human relationships are the major productive fields for grievances and collective wounds. All 3D relationships are bound to end with a 3D separation. If this inevitable outcome is denied and does not receive conscious attention, this will generate grievances. Hence sacred relationships, as I see them, are based upon the acceptance of the bardo and aimed at healing the gap between 3D and 4D.

Celebrities: 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 some celebrities by clicking on their names.

8.8 Whoopi Goldberg (AS Aquarius); Ennio Morricone (AS Leo); Cristoforo Colombo, Louis Malle (AS Virgo); Bjork (AS Scorpio); Kim Wilde (AS Cancer), Bram Stoker; Adam Ant; Leif Garrett; Paul Hindemith.
8.9 Picasso (AS Leo); Salvatore Adamo (AS Virgo); Rock Hudson (AS Virgo); Paracelsus (AS Capricorn); Antares (AS Libra); Charles Bronson (AS Capricorn); Carl Sagan (AS Taurus); Michel Gauquelin (AS Leo); Danny De Vito (AS Sagittarius); Billy Graham (AS Aries); Stephanie Clement (AS Taurus); Gene Clark (AS Capricorn); Mario Soldati (AS Virgo); Cleo Laine.
8.10 Bernard-Henry Levy (AS Leo); Sophie Marceau (AS Virgo); Bryan Adams; Indira Gandhi (AS Leo); Robert Kennedy (AS Taurus); Simone Weber (AS Capricorn); Paul Joseph Goebbels (AS Leo); Burt Lancaster (AS Sagittarius); Marsilio Ficino (AS Aquarius); Robert Musil (AS Libra); George Eliot (AS Scorpio); George Patton; Helen Reddy.
8.11 Voltaire (AS Gemini); Albert Camus (AS Virgo); Neil Young (AS Libra); Roberto Benigni (AS Capricorn); James Cook (AS Capricorn); Jeff Buckley (AS Leo); Dylan Thomas (AS Cancer).
8.12 Coluche (AS Taurus); Grace Kelly (AS Scorpio); Hilary Clinton (AS Gemini); Stéphane Audran (AS Virgo); Marie Curie (AS Capricorn); Diego Maradona; Martin Scorsese (AS Leo); Eros Ramazzotti (AS Sagittarius); Laura Bush (AS Taurus); Robert Louis Stevenson (AS Aquarius);
8.1 Charles De Gaulle (AS Libra); Alain Delon (AS Libra); Bill Gates (AS Cancer); Annie Girardot (AS Virgo); Jamie Lee Curtis (AS Sagittarius); Linda Evans (AS Scorpio); Martin Luther (AS Leo); Sarah Bernhardt (AS Cancer); Benvenuto Cellini (AS Cancer); Saint Augustin (AS Gemini).

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

Epic State References: The sign of Scorpio and Sector 8 are epically related with the State of Friaan, the 8th State of the Handorian State System.[iii] This is the largest state of the System, an immense articulation of terrains resonating the loving fury of the Handorians. According to the astroshamanic system of the 144 binary rapports, or Paheka Rubhe[iv] the following are the nations associated with the binaries of this PAN.
8.8 is associated with Friaan, one of the 12 nations of the State of Friaan. This nation - together with Turian (8.2), Hurzang (8.2) and portions of Kobar (8.1) and Triman (8.3) – is part of the original territory of the State of Friaan, which later developed as the largest State of the Handorian State System. The capital (Frian) is also the largest capital district.
8.9 is associated with Nedhan, one of the 12 nations of the State of Friaan. This nation, being a realm of shamanic voyagers and navigators, plays a special role in the Provisional Order.
8.10 is associated with Skota, one of the 12 nations of the State of Friaan. Skota is quite a mysterious and remote dark land even to Friaan standards. Its name has evident affinities with Scotland, a word deriving from the Latin for an Irish tribal name (Scotti) whose origins are rather uncertain. Scotia (Σκωτία) is a Greek word signifying “darkness”, which appears to be a possible etymology.
8.11 is associated with Varhan, one of the 12 nations of the State of Friaan. This nation is the largest nation of the Handorian State System, after the nation of Friaan (8.8). The nations of the State of Friaan are huge compared to those of other states. Considering that most of the Frianian territory has consistent developments also below its surface, this makes the State of Friaan like quite a totally different realm. Indeed there was a time in which Friaan and Handor were two entirely separate entities, one (Friaan) incorporating the Moon’s power and the other (Handor) resonating with the Sun’s. Varhan is a recent assimilation in the State of Friaan. It stands out as a most unfathomable zone, with intense and erratic shifts of brightness and obscurity. It used to operate as one of the four Directional Reservoirs, aimed at storing darkness for Game-related purposes. Since the incorporation of the reservoirs into the Handorian State System, Varhan has gone through novel developments, yet it still holds a most prominent role in the Handorian sexual energy supply and distribution system.
8.12 is associated with Helgol, one of the 12 nations of the State of Friaan. Helgol is a remote mythic island, which was basically uncharted and out of bound in the Low and Middle Handorian Age. It was incorporated in the State of Friaan only in the third epoch of the High Handorian Age.
8.1 is associated with Kobar, one of the 12 nations of the State of Friaan. Kobar is a nation of outstanding warriors, strenuous and implacable historical defenders of the northern Handorian borders. The most celebrated feature in Kobar is a huge sacred pine tree, called the Great Tree of Kobar. Kobar also hosts the original headquarters of the Kobarian Forces, whose function is to protect the Sacred Cone Circle.



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] see Franco Santoro, Astroshamanism: A Journey Into the Inner Universe, pp.26-28)
[iii] 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.

[iv] According to the Epic of the Sacred Cone, the current ordinary human DNA is limited to 2 sectors due to the block caused by the Paheka Rubhe. Such term, which can be translated as the Binary Net of Totem Spirits, indicates the 144 combinations of the 12 Paheka or Totem Spirits’ double polarities that prevent the expansion of human perception. Undoing these combinations and re-establishing the 12-sector system is one of the strategic tasks of astroshamanic work.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

PAN International Issue 52

PAN Provisional Astroshamanic News
Core Network Edition, 7.7-12, 7 October 2006, Issue 52. Editorial Director: Franco Santoro.
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What is Astroshamanism?

At exactly thirty years of linear age astroshamanism is about to celebrate a rite of passage of its own. After three decades of intense healing work, filled with underground and open enterprises, astroshamanism is paving the way for bringing its unique and enchanting gifts to the planet. This PAN unofficially and timidly heralds a series of radical shifts in astroshamanism. As a matter of fact these changes merely concern the way in which so far this work has been presented in consensus reality, i.e. its structure, workshops, literature, people, and themes. There is indeed no significant modification as regards how astroshamanism has functioned at an inner, deeper or non-HAC level. Hence all forthcoming developments involve the emergence in HAC of elements which have so far mainly been kept under a strategic veil of conformity. This PAN perhaps imperceptibly sketches the silhouette of such elements, which will more vividly transpire in forthcoming issues, especially as from 2007. Some of these points focus on the non-HAC cartography of the stellar environment, voyaging through multidimensional gateways into the time-space firmament, travelling immense distances in an instant, exploring parallel universes, shifting into non-linear time, reawakening our original nature as star people, transmuting the dormant separated reality of this planet, as most human beings perceive it. Although the above implications may appear rather sensational, they have always been conveyed by the term astroshamanism itself, as well as by all major ancient and uncontaminated shamanic traditions. Indeed, the oldest ceremonies that we know are all related to the stars and the access to multidimensional gateways. Multidimensional gateways are special entrances, through which beings come to, or leave, this planet out of their own will and choice. These portals constitute the intentional access to what may be described as immortality, enlightenment, liberation, ecstasy or anything all captive terrestrial seekers have hunted for ages. They are the ultimate stopover of the human spiritual quest and the revelation points of the three HAC’s supreme pranks, i.e. death, sex and time, whose mastery and architecture is exemplified by, what I describe as, the Provisional Order (see references in the article below titled Advanced West and the Provisional Order).
In the Provisional Order, as well as in many traditions (such as the Hopi and Incas), the first 12 years of the current millennium are described as a strategic time of awesome disruption, where all previous HAC structures will be torn apart, dissected and composted for new multidimensional configurations to emerge. This implies the reactivation of the human multidimensional body, which means that some souls, purposefully trained to be part of the process, may gain a radically different perspective regarding birth, death, sex, time and the sense of life in general. The first six years of the current millennium (associated with the first six signs of the zodiac, from Aries to Virgo) support the composting of the individual body as fertiliser for the multidimensional body. The next six years (related to the last six signs, from Libra to Pisces) sustain the labour for the emergence of the multidimensional body out of the final dissolution of the individual body. Here the individual body is a mere educational device, a strategic foetus, galactic manure... This radical shift from individual to multidimensional, which the years from 2007 to 2012 are alleged to implement, entails becoming fully aware that HAC is a gateway meant either to facilitate or to block the birthing of multidimensional awareness. The process of facilitation involves acquiring experiential and operative identification with larger collective and multidimensional bodies in a gradual development ranging from groups of 3, 13, 17, communities, nations, continents, planets, solar systems, universes and multiverses. The novelty of this development, which previously occurred only within the captivity of this separated reality, is that the identification moves beyond the confinement of HAC linear time, embracing parallel realities, unseen spaces and whatever has been split so far from human consciousness up to the complete alignment with the Core Multidimensional Identity (CMI). This means that it will be a multidimensional phenomenon, potentially releasing our HAC state of detention and opening up the gates from linear into non-linear time.
There are two types of time: HAC time and non-HAC time. The first is linear separated time, ruled by causes and effects. The second is non-linear circular time, entirely based on effects and devoid of causes. In circular time it is possible to affect events happened in the past and also influence the future. In this non-HAC time the origin of something happening today can be an event happening in one year. This is a most paradoxical scenario, which only multidimensional bodies are able to master. Multimensional beings are capable of stepping out of linear time, embracing the spiralling flow, ceasing to be bound by HAC and therefore escaping from the clutch of human death and pain.
Significant developments on the astroshamanic healing front are in preparation and activation during the autumn and winter season. New training schemes, such as the Astroshamanic Practitioner Training and the Astroshamanic Gateways Series, are being introduced. The Operative Training in Astroshamanism, which is one of the most effective astroshamanic tools for experientially learning about HAC and non-HAC time, will receive a wider impulse and distribution (if you wish to know more details about this successful distant training programme please contact training@astroshamanism.org). Another decisive step involves the execution of a visioning process (AIC Visioning Project) aimed at creating an astroshamanic institute and intentional community (see details below).
The next astroshamanic workshops held in Edinburgh, Frankfurt, London, Rome and other relevant European cities will introduce some of these themes as an anticipation of the Astroshamanic Gateway Series, an innovative training programme expected to be launched in summer 2007 (see details below).
In the meantime I am operating in Italy where I have recently concluded the Latium Astroshamanic Retreat in the astounding setting of the mystery Mountains of the Dukess at Corvaro near L’Aquila (The Eagle), the capital of Abruzzo, organized by Associazione Culturale Terra di Luce. Corvaro is a small medieval village thriving with features typical of traditional multidimensional portals. Here from 15 to 21 June 2007, I will hold a workshop titles the Grand Original Quest, a special week (in English and Italian), meant as a basic prologue to the Astroshamanic Gateways Series, and as an ASEPTIC week (i.e. a course aimed at training individuals or groups in carrying out shamanic healing tasks in urban or nature places, including sacred sites). From 21 to 28 July 2007 (exact date still to be confirmed) I will hold the Emilia Advanced Retreat, (in English and Italian), which will be the first official module of the Astroshamanic Practitioner Training and the Astroshamanic Gateways Series.
As for this current autumn-fall season, from 7 to 8 October 2006, on the Full Moon in Aries, I am running an extraordinary week-end on Astroshamanic Touch in an ancient villa in Jesi, the natal place of Frederick II, near Ancona, organized by Letizia Mocheggiani (+39/34489231998 or zone25@tele2.it). Next, from 25 to 26 November 2006, a pioneering workshop in Frankfurt, titled Awakening Your Multidimensional Self: Astroshamanic Healing through Time and Space (see details in the calendar below) organized by Holistic Dialogue (emansson@hotmail.com). The same workshop will also be held in Edinburgh (5-7 January 2007) and Rome (16-17 December 2007).
Please contact me if you wish to know more about any aspect of astroshamanic work or if you feel that you can contribute with your skills and resources in any way. If you are drawn by some of the themes dealt with in PAN I invite you to take part in forthcoming astroshamanic events, courses, trainings, group or individual sessions. If you want to verify whether astroshamanism is the right thing for you and can truly serve you, please feel free to contact me and arrange a free appointment.
With abundant love and appreciation of your unique multidimensional nature, Franco



The West: As the Sun firmly establishes itself in Libra, the autumn season is grounded, paving the way to the West. The West is generally associated with transformation and death, as in the English expression “to go west” (to die). West is the place of twilight, heralding darkness, the completion of a cycle, the bridging passage from wake to sleep. At this stage the ordinary environment portrayed by the Human Arbitrary Configuration (HAC) begins to fade out until it eventually vanishes. Here I face the inexorable surfacing of an alternative reality, emerging from the debris of HAC. The West is a major cleavage between HAC and non-HAC, the hollow space, the Valley of the Void, the linking agent and the golden bridge to the Core Multidimensional Identity (CMI). The West is part of the multidimensional gateways or stargates traditionally accessible for initiates in HAC. These portals vary in number and, according to the structure of reference may be 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 36, 144, etc. The Grey Sphere, or Sphere of Light and Darkness, one of the three multidimensional spheres or multiverses (sets of many universes) of the cosmology depicted in the Epic of the Sacred Cone,[ii] comprises a huge and apparently infinite number of parallel universes, which can be entered into or exited out of through multidimensional gateways.
From the perspective of HAC the West appears as an area of overwhelming trepidation and supreme fright. As a result a veil of arbitrary obscurity is set up by HAC to preserve its precarious sanity. As the vaults of heaven progressively fluctuate into escalating shadiness, and the forms of nature seemingly die, a spell of darkness and decease descends in the western horizon. It is an initiatory death known as the Valley of the Void, the Way of the Spiritual Warrior, or shamanic death. Being aware of, and accepting, the strategy of initiatory death, and the rebirth that follows as a natural development, makes it easier to accelerate profound mutations without activating HAC’s fiction of suffering pain or loss. The leading challenge in the West is to learn to die well to what no longer serves and be open to receive what truly supports the Intent connected with the Function. Relevant questions here are:
What does in my life want or need to die?
What ways of being in the world do not serve my current Intent?
What no longer serves me, my loving companions and the community where I live, the planet, the universe and multiverse?
If this autumn or fall were the last season of my life, what would I do? How would I connect with all my relationships?
When I see the world solely through the perspective of my personal identity or the culture I apparently belong to, I let HAC rule as the centre of the universe. This attitude may be useful in the early years spent on this planet, in order to build boundaries and a robust strategic HAC structure. If this stage deteriorates into a deification of my HAC individuality, relationship, family, country, people, etc., as something separate, then the entire significance of the strategy is lost. This is a rather controversial zone which can cause major confusion, if I lose track of my relationship with CMI and get entangled in HAC’s splintered thought system.

The ego is insane. In fear it stands beyond the Everywhere, apart from all, in separation from the Infinite. In its insanity it thinks it has become a victor over God Himself. And in its terrible autonomy it the Will of God has been destroyed. It dreams of punishment, and trembles at the figures in its dreams; its enemies, who seek to murder it before it can ensure its safety by attacking them. (A Course in Miracles, Workbook, p. 467)

The West is a place of steady retraction where changes are experienced in the nature of social relationships as well as in dreams, shamanic journeys and connections with alternative worlds. The connection with the Totem Spirits and power animals of the West provides crucial energy to traverse this major time of transformation. Facing the topic of death and sex is another relevant feature as it gives major insights that open cleavages into HAC’s capriciousness. Visiting cemeteries, honouring people or relatives who have left their body, living each day as if it were the last, writing a strategic or actual testament, taking care of terminally ill people, saying good-bye to our friends and relatives are just examples of connection with death. As for the association with sex, the West calls for a multidimensional sexuality aimed at reawakening and liberating our authentic nature, investigating the mysteries of shapeshifting and stargates, serving a planetary healing function, releasing thick layers of devastating shame and shattering non-sense. The second stage of the Astroshamanic Basic Ritual is closely related to the West, and it may be useful to practice it regularly during this time of the year. In order to receive something new, I am asked to relinquish what is old and no longer needed. Release, death and sex are a fundamental part of the cycle of nature at all levels. In shamanic work it is imperative to be aware of these crucial stages which are regularly feared, misunderstood or bottled up by HAC.
On the western path I need also to be open to receive the assistance available from CMI. While this path unfolds, HAC senses that the structure of its hallucination is threatened and its reactions may become extremely severe. Certain situations in life may appear confused, fearful, earnest, precarious, painful or sad. And yet, a major transformation is occurring and marvellous blessings blossom. Trust is required. Be with your CMI and simply carry on the task of releasing Graha. Go on with your practices, being aware that the rewards of your work are at hand. Allow yourself to be nourished by a new perception and accept the support that is there for you to receive even in the bleakest circumstances.
For further details on the topic of shamanic death, and also other types of death, please see the following articles: “Shamanic Death” by Bruce Luther in http://realmagick.com/articles/08/1508.htm;
“The Specter of Death in Shamanism and Zen” in http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/bodhidharma/death.html; “Shamanic Death” in http://www.shamanscave.com/articles/contemporary_shamanism/shamanic_death;
“The Italian way of death” by Camille Paglia in http://www.salon.com/weekly/paglia960805.html;
“A brief history of Western death” by Gary Kamiya in http://www.salon.com/weekly/history960805.html;
“Thanatos” by Iona Miller in http://zero-point.tripod.com/pantheon/Thanatos.html


Advanced West and the Provisional Order: The West comprises Sector 7 (Libra), Sector 8 (Scorpio) and Sector 9 (Sagittarius). These three autumnal zodiac signs play a most vital role in the overall release process. They do exemplify the three stages of the Basic Ritual of the Sacred Cone: Intent, Release and Integration. These can be more competently defined as HAC1, HAC2 and CMI. As you are probably aware HAC stands for Human Arbitrary Configuration. Many definitions and ideas could be articulated as regards the nature of HAC. To put it very concisely and straightforward HAC’s disposition and task merely involve hacking. HAC1 and HAC2 are the result of this hacking, while CMI is the cleavage, or linking agent. In the first and the second stage the two polarities are purely involved with their interactions and jammed by their projections. In the first two stages they bring them all to a climax. Whenever there is a climax HAC reaches the bona fide horny bit (HB), piercing HAC’s edges and moving beyond in order to access the energy it requires to preserve its existence. The end of the second stage of the Basic Ritual is the apex of HB. By the way, do you ever feel horny while celebrating the first two stages of the Basic Ritual of the Sacred Cone? Well, it’s not that you have to, yet if you have never been and you are not satisfied about the Ritual, there is a pragmatic explanation here: you are not entering into HB, which is indeed the fundamental requisite of the practice. Accessing and ritually implementing HB is the sine qua non for accessing the third stage. With the third stage the trickiest part sets off. This is the point when the HAC’s consciousness rerouting device is activated. HAC is very keen in accessing HB, as long as this process remains classified. Beyond HB lies CMI, from which HAC receives all the energy. Yet, since HAC is based on the occultation of CMI, it will do its best to divert the third stage, which is actually the unveiling of CMI. In the Basic Ritual the miracle of the third stage occurs once the two polarities (HAC1 & HAC2), upon whose conflicting relationship HAC is founded, have experienced all possible climaxes and reach a level of such exhaustion that either they succumb or uncover another option. When they do succumb, after an unconscious incubation time, they continue to play the preceding game for another long shift. This may continue over and over again until they swing their focus toward the other option. This option is CMI. This is definitely true love from the West perspective. It is a love that sets off once the two parties stop gazing at each other and start looking together in the other optional direction.
In the West and Libra I access what the Italian illuminate singer Franco Battiato in the CD Dieci Stratagemmi calls “la porta dello spavento supremo” (the gate of the supreme fright), where “tutto si dissolverà” (all will be dissolved), i.e. all HAC will be dissolved. This implies facing the baffling alignment with my multi-dimensional relationship status, encompassing all partners past, present and future seen in their collective perspective. This means being involved simultaneously with all the relationships that have developed on the planet, not to mention other planets and universes. Hence, it follows that in this gap zone all my HAC relationships melt away in order to unveil their matrix. If I remain attached to the HAC definition of my relationships the unbearable terror and fright that follows will cause shock and unconsciousness. On the contrary, if am available to take a conscious leap through the gate, a novel configuration will unveil itself. Then I may spontaneously enter into an intimate rapport dynamic with whomever I meet or even think of. This is the paradoxical condition of a shaman in Libra, for shamans are the dwellers of the gap, the guardians of the link between HAC and CMI, which is an out of bound territory, the Sacred Cone operational chamber and its devoted workforce, i.e. the Provisional Order (Provordo). There is a link for each Sector. In Sector 7 every character in HAC is a fragment of a wider being residing in CMI, who also comprises an infinite number of duplicates living in countless parallel alternative HACs.
How important is to keep a promise! And this is one with a wider being. This perspective defies HAC routine logic. This is the Provisional Order (Provordo). The ProvOrdo is an arbitrary configuration. As such it is similar to HAC. It is separated and unreal, just as HAC is separated and unreal. What differs is that Provordo is a purposefully generated configuration, an arbitrary intentional configuration (AIC) aimed at accessing CMI, as well as HAC. It is an alternative to HAC, coexisting in HAC itself, which means that it is not meant to replace HAC or to conflict with it in any way. On the contrary Provordo and HAC are in full mutual agreement as regards their inner mechanics. Provordo is the linking stargate agent between HAC and CMI. HAC is an emanation of CMI, which means that HAC's existence entirely depends on CMI. Yet HAC is a separated setting based on the strategic denial of other parallel configurations and paradoxically of CMI itself. Thus, it follows that the mechanics of Provordo as linking gateway agent requires a strict censorship, yet in a way that doesn't prevent the functioning of Provordo itself. This means that access to Provordo is out of bound as long as it does not interfere with HAC. The movement from HAC to CMI via Provordo, and v.v., is an inevitable dynamic, yet it remains unconscious in HAC due to its consciousness diverting mechanism (CDM). There are exceptions though. In this respect it is possible to identify three categories of Provordo, which in the Sagdhanatabe are called "badanas". These include human alien and misfit beings, together with well-integrated HAC representatives. This is indeed the staff of Provordo, with obvious conscious access to Provordo itself. These folks are well-acquainted with the nature of multidimensional gateways, parallel universes and the infinite alternative geography that surrounds and penetrates HAC.
Photo: the Orion nebula.

Soul Retrieval by Carol Day
This article was written by Carol during the recent workshop Astroshamanic Healing & Soul Retrieval: Restoring Sacred Relationships.

Take these broken pieces and hold me by the hand. Take these broken pieces and let them make a world for you. Take these fragments as your own. Own them. These pieces that have been haunting me for years, jeering at me with the languid smile of separation, tormenting me in dreams, holing the threads of the sane lucid fabric of my timely masterpiece. Have them. Need them. I cannot hope to cling onto them. For it is only in knowing that they are yours as well as mine that I can be truly restored.
Teach me the notes of your lost song. Let me feel it vibrate in you. As I touch the agony of your wounded reality so lovingly sealed in the canopy of your body, let me understand it through the guise of an equal fleshed soul. Let me find this song through the wonder of my senses and let it come alive for me. For your melody resuscitates the parts of me that have forgotten how to sing.
Show me the miracle of the emotional realm. Show me how my kingdom can melt out of me. Hold my hand. Let yourself show. Let your longing to swim out of yourself go. Open the door inside you where the frightened part is housed. Hear my knock. Hear my knock. I won’t go away. I am standing here with the force of the oceans at my back. I am standing here with love and devotion for this petrified gap you have held onto so long through the aeons of quantifying-seduced time. The time has come. Only this moment matters.
In the rationale of our sequential consciousness, birthed from the creativity of the incredible whole to which we truly belong, we have agreed to come here now. In the story of the love that chose to implode in order to experience itself we are experiencing ourselves here. Through the mind-blowing intricacies of metamorphic time and space which human consciousness only scarcely dares to comprehend, we have managed to twist ourselves into the holding of a true vocation. Our souls meet in the sunny chamber of a pending-autumnal afternoon. The part which truly understands, the enlightened angel, has agreed to meet the part which has been mashed up. The part that has been mashed up can finally express its horror.
When they meet, the result is electric. It is like a river with banks bursting. It is an electrical current of water and light whose energy is motion. The part that screams, that has been locked into a story, locked behind this door, so frightened to show itself for to feel anything ever again is too painful, is amazed. Amazed at the glory of being held by a force so caring, patient and wise. A part apparently so alien. A part apparently unmeetable in the acceptance of another reality. Yet when it lets itself touch this hand of love it feels itself remember. It joins in again.
And that is all I really know. That feeling of relief when I am again included. Like the child lonely in the playground who is asked to join in a game. I feel so touched and happy. For I so much want to be a part of the whole. And I wonder how it all happens, how these stories work. How the cinemas are run in the game of perception that I have chosen to play. I wonder how it can all be. How you and I can play this game of soul-retrieval and it be a million miles away from going to the shops and buying tea-bags and milk and taking the kids to the park and all that stuff that goes on.
Then I wonder if it is really so far away. If going to the shops and buying teabags is a soul-retrieval in its way and I need those teabags like I need the angel. I wonder if it is all simply a matter of consciousness and intent and how we choose to value our lives. I think about tribes, ritualistic life, the turning of the seasons, the way the sun communicates and how the moon fades away and then comes back again. I think about the imagination of my childhood and how it all made perfect sense then. How play gave everything such meaning.
I sense the characters in my carousel of moments in this life, all life, moments in time and space, consciousness of frequencies running through us from so many throngs of existence. How they are all there and how they too crave to belong. I notice how writing itself is a soul-retrieval. I think about communication and what you communicated to me there in that room right then, with the sun shining in through the window, how we held the space in reverance and how in my body I felt truth. How something is so obviously cleared, and it has been acknowledged. It inspires me to remember. It inspires me to remember that I feel these moments of truth all the time yet forget to hold onto them because I forget that the whole of my life, the whole reason for being here, is in itself a Soul Retrieval.

AIC Visioning Project: In an astroshamanic summit held in the Healing Sanctuary at Cluny Hill College on 24 September 2006, the AIC Visioning Project was officially launched by the Findhorn ASEPTIC group. Franco explained that for 13 years he had held a vision of creating some kind of visible structure which holds and represents astroshamanic work. He explained that he now felt clearly that it is time to work on manifesting this vision. The aim is to produce something tangible, with Franco as a reference, but which is able to continue in his absence. Such a structure would serve to provide a visible form that protects deeper aspects of the work within. Many options can be considered, including a community, centre, a network, a training programme. It may even be that Astroshamanism could collaborate with another, sympathetic discipline. Hence the envisaged structure does not necessarily have Astroshamanism as the basic focus and can encompass other methods, yet sharing the same essential intent and function. The purpose of this structure is to serve both the planetary and multidimensional environment with a specialised focus. Franco explained that such a structure should have a worldwide reference and could be centred anywhere - though Franco’s personal preference is within Europe. A group of people is now needed to invest energy in creating a clear vision for the way ahead. Franco suggested that the Autumn is an ideal time for such an enterprise. The ASEPTIC group then undertook a journeying exercise to determine the process by which a vision for the proposed astroshamanic structure could be delivered. The experiences of each member are as follows:
Celia: Working through the sectors in pairs – seeking a vision from each totem spirit. Working with the phases of the moon. Also a group of 12 journeying together - each working with one sector. Also working with trees and plants to receive visions and using APIS.
Jane: An experience of a process of evolution from individuality to unity - breathing-in fragmented parts and breathing-out unity.
Rossana: Working in pairs, involving some kind of commitment to a process and including individual and collective healing work. Working on releasing stuck energy within the ASEPTIC group and increasing the heart connection between members.
Sean: Walking in the dunes as a whole group, a number of members, or by himself.
Geline: Connected to an ancient order in a parallel universe who offered assistance. Action could include tapping into this order and other shape-shifting exercises to bring information. Partner work should be included. She felt it was important to work with the energies of Capricorn and Leo. Also that people all over the world who are doing Astroshamanism should have the opportunity of being involved in creating the vision – possibly via some kind of joint event/s held at the same time.
Naomi: Saw a mountain and a lake. Performing rituals in synchronicity with the moon cycle. Using trance dance with a clear intent of creating a vision. Involvement should be wider than just the ASEPTIC. Saturn and Capricorn energies were present.
Elaine: A research project aimed at proving the value of Astroshamanism, using research findings to attract funding. A worldwide internet-based tarot card game.
Franco: Realised that each of the seven ASEPTIC members present represented one of the seven directions and that his role was one of bringing together the different visions. He saw three levels of activity: 1) Non-HAC – A practice which honours the fact that at some level the vision is already manifested. 2) HAC – a practical action/s. 2) Synthesis – a collective practice. He elaborated, with input from the Group, as follows:
Non-HAC practice: Each member decides their own practice. It is very important that this is done 12 times, connecting to all 12 sectors. Ideally this should follow the cycle of the moon, starting this Monday or Tuesday with Scorpio.
HAC practice: Anything practical eg. writing a report, or creating something.
Collective Practice: Before going to sleep at night:
· opening the seven directions
· proclaiming the intent of bringing-forth a clear vision
· reviewing the events of the day and dedicating their energy to the highest in relation to manifesting the ‘Asroshamanic structure’
· closing the directions and going to sleep.
This could take anything from a couple of minutes to an hour, depending on the time available and should also be done 12 times. Franco also encouraged working in pairs to do healing work, with the intent directed to the creation of a vision. Public events and APIS will also be directed towards the vision. Such events will occur at Full Moon, New Moon, equinoxes, solstices and mid-seasonal festivals. Franco suggested that reports from practice should be shared via email. This would best be done by a synopsis at the end of the period, with only very strong experiences reported straightaway. Final reports should clearly identify which ‘information’ came from which sector. Franco sought guidance on a template which members can use to connect with our collective intent. He received the image of the Sacred Cone.
Participation in the AIC Visioning Project is open to all astroshamanic trainees, associates and also to whoever feels intimately close to astroshamanic work or other disciplines sharing the same basic intent. Participation does not necessarily entail commitment to the outcome of the AIC Visioning Project. The degree of participation in the Project and any related development is at the participant’s discretion. If you decide to be involved in the first part of the AIC Visioning Project, please connect with Franco since all participants in this enterprise need to be formally acknowledged. This will also allow them to receive related notices and information. Participation in the AIC Visioning Project entails use of the three practices described below. Please contact franco@astroshamanism.org if you intend to join the AIC Visioning Project.

Binaries:

7.1: This pattern blends Libra’s balance, gentleness, harmony and diplomacy with Aries’s courage, assertiveness and pioneering spirit. Those who resonate with this combination emanate the brisk energy of the Full Moon and an extroverted, enthusiastic and confident nature. Behind a graceful, balanced and friendly layer, they may display a forceful and impulsive nature. 7.1 resonate with the authentic spirit of soldiers sent in war zones in order to preserve peace or with the vehement lawyer fighting for a righteous justice cause, and with any brave and task force enterprise involving conflict resolutions, negotiations and harmony.

7.2 is a mix of cardinal Air and fixed Earth. This pattern blends Libra’s equality, art, grace and concord with Taurus’s determination, sensuality, practical talents and purpose. Those who resonate with this combination are most attractive folks, with a spontaneous capacity to administer and balance their energy in order to achieve goals, which may often be artistic, cultural and spiritual. Their attitude is generally easygoing, calm and tactful, aimed at manifesting, yet without missing the pleasure and the beauty of the interaction with the human and natural environment. In relationships they tend to favour lasting, peaceful and sensual connections.

7.3 is a mix of cardinal Air and mutable Air. This pattern blends Libra’s balance, gentleness, refinement and harmony with Gemini’s flexibility, communication and dexterity. Those who resonate with this combination are champions in transmission, expression and fluency. They integrate the friendly and diplomatic nature of Libra with an intellectual urge and thirst for information. This allows them to play a major role in healing enterprises involving networking and communication.

7.4 integrates cardinal Air and cardinal Water, blending Libra’s justice, mildness, elegance and harmony with Cancer’s sensitivity, nurturing spirit and passion. 7.4 folks have a natural capacity to align with the needs and desires of groups and the public in generale, enabling them to supply the best in most situations.

7.5 mixes cardinal Air and fixed Fire, integrating Libra’s courtesy, friendliness and grace with Leo’s warmth, loyalty, generosity and leadership. These folks have a natural attitude of playfulness and spontaneous confidence in all matters concerning human relationships. They shine in their passionate attempt to reconcile opposites and promote loving balance and respect.

7.6 is a mix of cardinal Air and mutable Earth. This pattern blends Libra’s balance, grace and diplomacy with Virgo’s discrimination, intelligence and practical sense. Helpful, tactful, refined and exquisite, these folks are devoted to their practical values and those who resonate with them.

Celebrities: 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.

7.1: Giuseppe Verdi (AS Pisces), Heinrich Himmler (AS Aquarius), Luciano Pavarotti (AS Leo), Gore Vidal (AS Scorpio), Martina Navratilova (AS Aries), John Coltrane (AS Pisces), Enrico Fermi (AS Taurus), Howard Hewitt (AS Capricorn), Lanza del Vasto (AS Sagittarius), Edward Kennedy (AS Virgo), Heather Locklear (AS Aries), Linda Hardy, Sarah Ferguson (AS Scorpio), Stefano Dionisi (AS Scorpio), Lori del Santo (AS Leo), Josephine Charlotte (AS Scorpio), Ashley Hamilton (AS Aries), Pierre Cosso, Buster Keaton (AS Taurus), Dolly Buster, Anthony Kavanagh, Tony Braxton.

7.2: Sigourney Weaver (AS Taurus); Chico – Gipsy Kings (AS Virgo), St. Francis of Assisi (AS Pisces), Anita Ekberg, King Richard III (AS Scorpio), Angie Dickinson (AS Taurus), F. Scott Fitzgerald (AS Aquarius), Jaime Bergman, Ammachi (AS Scorpio), Michelangelo Antonioni (AS Gemini), George Westinghouse (AS Sagittarius), Denis Diderot (AS Pisces), Walter Matthau, Pierre Clementi, Ottavia Piccolo, Paolo Rossi (AS Capricorn), George Peppard (AS Gemini), Enzo Cerusico (AS Virgo), Steve Reich (AS Taurus).

7.3: Brigitte Bardot (AS Sagittarius), Roger Moore (AS Leo), Vladimir Poutine (AS Scorpio), Pelé (AS Virgo), Jeane Manson, Le Corbusier (AS Gemini), Groucho Marx (AS Virgo), Mike Rutherford / Genesis (AS Taurus), Vasco Pratolini (AS Sagittarius), Maurizio Gucci (AS Cancer).

7.4: Olivia Newton-John (AS Virgo); Annie Besant (AS Aries); Charlton Heston (AS Scorpio); Kaspar Hauser (AS Libra); Nico (AS Aries); Paul Simon (AS Virgo); Edmond de Rotschild (AS Sagittarius); Henri Bergson; Joseph Desiré Mobutu; Graham Greene (AS Scorpio).

7.5: Catherine Deneuve (AS Capricorn); Mahatma Gandhi (AS Libra); Oscar Wilde (AS Virgo); Margaret Thatcher (AS Scorpio); William the Conqueror.

7.6: Deepak Chopra (AS Pisces); Marcello Mastroianni (AS Sagittarius); Dino Buzzati (AS Leo); Deborah Kerr (AS Libra); William Faulkner (AS Cancer); Horatio Nelson (AS Scorpio); Andreas Vollenweider.

The Epic of the Sacred Cone References:
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Epic State References: The sign of Libra and Sector 7 are epically related with the Grand State of Hanmar, the 7th State of the Handorian State System.[iii] 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. Information on most nations of the Grand State of Hanmar is currently classifies. Hence I provide below only some notes on 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3.

7.1 is associated with Maikal, one of the 12 nations of the Grand State of Hanmar. This is a most concise reference, which also reflects the straightforward and genuine nature of the Maikal folks, whose national motto is “Maikal is Maikal”.
7.2 is associated with Tarrin, one of the 12 nations of the Grand State of Hanmar. The nation of Tarrin is the southern-east outpost of the Hanmarian State Territory and a recent incorporation following the Handorian hostilities with the Realm of Kopolia. This nation is associated with most controversial features of the Handorian past, which required long ages to be thoroughly released and healed.
7.3 is associated with a nation located at the extreme periphery of the State of Hanmar and or the Handorian State System itself. Frankly I do not know its name, and I simply refer to it as 7.3, yet this nation does certainly have a name. The point is that in 7.3 they are absorbed in establishing communication and being as transparent as possible that their name is not so important. Yet again, they do have their name, and next time I go there I will find out what that is.
The remaining nations are Utrak (7.4), Susihar (7.5) and Vezian (7.6), with the latter being still the most controversial and classified.


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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] See: Franco Santoro, Astroshamanism: A Journey through the Inner Universe, Findhorn Press.
[iii] 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.