PAN International Issue 57

PAN Provisional Astroshamanic News
International Edition, 10.11-4, 21 December 2006, Issue 57.
Editorial Director: Franco Santoro.
Cluny Hill College, Forres IV36 2RD, Moray, Scotland. (+44(0)1309-672289. + PAN@astroshamanism.org

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May the transition between 2006 and 2007 bring you Ecstasy, Peace and Love, with growing awareness that we are all part of the same Multidimensional Universe, blissfully united in the dancing Web of Life and Death, including everyone and everything, Past, Present and Future, Seen and Unseen, HAC and non-HAC.
Major blessings and hugs,
Franco & Sacred Cone Circle

What is Astroshamanism?

The bardo transition zone between 2006 and 2007 is splendidly marked by the peaceful departure of Eileen Caddy, who left her body on 13 December 2006 (see details below). Eileen’s luminous presence abides as a blessing signpost in the midpoint of the first decisive 12 years of the new millennium.
This Solstice at 0:23, on 22 December 2006 is most distinctive for it falls after the New Moon in Sagittarius, at 14:02 on 20 December 2006, conjunct the Galactic Centre and Pluto, and with the Moon transiting also in Capricorn. It is considered by some astrologers and healers as the most extraordinary Solstice ever experienced, an exceptional marker in the multidimensional shifting process of the next six years. These forthcoming years are supposed to ground the gateway between our human separated frequency (HAC), based on fear and pain, with the galactic web aligned with unity and love. This implies the retrieval of our original multidimensional body with the related awareness of alternative realities and celestial beings, who have always existed along with us, yet so far radically ignored. The process of retrieval involves passing through HAC barriers and gateways of bogus fear and turmoil, erected to support our reality based on separation. As more human beings are engaged in this passing those HAC obstructions will gradually fade away, allowing collective awareness to expand beyond its current limited horizons.
While we approach the portal of the next six-year cycle, we also enter the climax of the seasonal holidays. As the consensus reality celebrates its most glamorous rituals, with the Christmas HAC jubilation also come opportunities to reawaken the original spirit of the ancient mystery festivals. What about having a healing trance dance or multidimensional group voyage, an astroshamanic touch or even a most sensual primal embrace with your loved ones this Christmas? What could be a better gift than uncovering the gateway to your multidimensional self or having a PAN Christmas party in parallel universes and sharing this experience with your intimate friends?
In these times of third-dimensional turmoil, with imminent strategic crashes and upheavals, which may also hit in the forthcoming weeks, wherever you are at Christmas and New Year, the invitation is to focus primarily on your heart, aligning your belly and head centre. In this way you can shape a multidimensional vertical axis, with the heart as the linking agent, through which grievances and darkness, as well as blessings and luminosity can flow, as you simply exhale and inhale. In the tradition of the Sacred Cone Circle, and other recent revivals of ancient mystery schools, this is one of the leading practices of release from the illusion of separation, the bridging way between two colossal multidimensional universes, all bound to strategically merge and restore their original unity as ecstatic lovers. In this process the role played by the heart centre is the most vital. It seems as if only through the heart it is possible to significantly align with our Core Multidimensional Identity and become aware of what lies beyond the HAC realm of separation. Since the current HAC is in resolute denial of the multidimensional realms, our head centre and mind appear most unreliable and will in all probability still firmly resist any radical shift in awareness.
Please feel free to join the astroshamanic network in a multidimensional celebration of ecstasy, healing and forgiveness. If you are around at Findhorn for Christmas, something special may happen in the local astroshamanic visioning group. Although we still do not know whether it will be a public event or a secret gathering, you are invited to connect wherever you are.
From 27 December 2006 to 3 January 2007, right in the gap between 2006 and 2007, I am running the workshop Manifesting Honourable Intentions: Planetary Healing from Inside Out. This workshop, culminating with a Full Moon, is designed to fully embrace the multidimensional shift and align it with the development of honourable intentions. Honourable intentions are authentic wishes manifested into pragmatic goals and line up with your multidimensional purpose. This means that identifying and pursuing such intentions brings benefit to you and to the whole human and planetary environment. As you work with integrity to define and implement your genuine wishes, you also simultaneously serve the honourable intentions of others. For more details see calendar below.
Another special event here in the United Kingdom is Awakening Your Multidimensional Self: Astroshamanic Healing through Time and Space. Following Frankfurt and Rome, this workshop will take place in Edinburgh from 6 to 7 January 2007, and in London from 10 to 11 February 2007. The event is highly recommended for it embodies the main pioneering elements of astroshamanic work aligned with the contemporary shifts in human awareness. More details in the calendar below. Please also see the workshop report by Erik Mansson of this same event in Frankfurt.
The new year also features the beginning of the one-year Basic Course in Astroshamanism (in Italian), with the first introductory module taking place at Jesi (Italy) from 20 to 21 January 2007. For details, please contact Franco.
A traditional course at Findhorn is the Foundation Training in Astroshamanism (in English), with two modules: 17-24 February 2007, A Journey into the Inner Universe: and 24 February–3 March 2007, The Voyage through the Zodiac.
Seasonal and ecstatic blessings, Franco


Happy PAN Christmas! The period of the Christmas holidays includes the Saturnalia, which was the most popular Roman and Etruscan festival. Janus, the god of gateways, instituted the Saturnalia as yearly tribute to Saturn, marking the shift from the old to the New Year. A typical feature of this celebration was the suspension or reversal of HAC ordinary rules and social boundaries. For example, slaves were given freedom and their masters would serve them, marriage vows could be broken, amnesties were granted. Then, after the festival, everything went back to HAC normality. Christmas was placed in this specific time of the year mainly to divert the attention from the Saturnalia, whose liberating non-HAC energy still survives with New Year’s eve. Here in Scotland, the New Year’s eve is called Hogmanay and is more important than Christmas.
These seasonal holidays are associated with Pan, the god of pastoral life and vegetation. Yet Pan is obviously much more than that, otherwise PAN would not be PAN. Pan, as his horns obviously imply, is the god of the bona fide horny bit, the climax of libido, the apex of energy and the mystery bridging drive between HAC and non-HAC. Notorious for his insatiable sexual urge and affairs, including wild solitary masturbation, Pan is indeed an all-embracing god comprising all aspects of existence. His name means “all”, and was given to him by the gods to acknowledge the libido drive as the all-encompassing feature of the whole universe. Hence Pan is the Pagan god of everything and everyone, HAC and non-HAC, representing the Great Whole at all levels, from the most intense physical sensuality to the peaks of transcendental asceticism. To the people of ancient times Pan represented the all-embracing spirit of unity, blending the apparent polarities of the third-dimensional world, life and death, day and night, light and darkness. It is evident from archaeological evidence that Pan was the most popular god in Greek times. His horned statues could be found more abundantly than those of any other god. Yet, since Pan was the god of unity and multidimensionality, when the current HAC took over, there was no place for Pan anymore. This led the emerging new HAC cultures to demonise him. Hence, soon Pan became the devil and Satan himself.
There is only one legend about the death of a Greek god, and this is Pan. According to a popular story a seafarer sailing in Italy heard a voice calling three times “Tell them that Great Pan is dead”, followed by the sound of weeping coming from the sea. This mysterious message was accredited by many cultures of those times, and the voice widely spread that Pan was dead. There is also an enduring legend that Pan died at the exact moment of Jesus’ crucifixion. Pan’s alleged death was supposed to represent the end of Paganism or, more pragmatically, the separation from our Core Multidimensional Identity and the castration of our human original ecstatic nature. Pan is mythically located in the constellation of Capricorn and is the representation of Saturn, and the original inspirer of the Saturnalia. Pan is also associated with Semeyaza, the chief of the multidimensional shamanic voyagers called Watchers in the Book of Enoch.
Shamans and healers of ancient times would embody the spirit of Pan especially on the Winter Solstice, so as to preserve the balance between polarities and the alignment to the vertical axis, or Core Multidimensional Identity. The ancient Pagan custom to gather around an evergreen tree, revived with the current Christmas Tree, is connected with a less known, yet obvious, feature of Pan: i.e. Father Christmas or Santa Claus. “If a cosmic tree points the way to heaven for us every Christmas, Santa Claus undertakes the magical flight of a shaman. He is sometimes said to be responsible for erecting the Christmas tree sky pole himself. Descending vertically down the chimney, Santa Claus returns by the same route back to the roof. Our chimney, like the cosmic axis, carries him from one realm to another. […] His activity is focused on that critical night that was once the Winter Solstice”.[ii] Behind the modern image of Santa Claus, mainly originated in the late 30s by Coca Cola, there abides Pan and all the related shamanic traditions. Santa and Pan are alter egos, sharing the same nature in different contexts. Just move the n of Santa to the end and you get Satan! The legend reads that Pan died at the same moment as Jesus, obliquely implying that Pan is also born at the same time. Hence, watch out! And HAPPY PAN CHRISTMAS!
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Winter Multidimensional Portals and Upcoming Software Releases 2007-2012: The Winter Solstice, also called Sol Invictus and Gate of Heaven, is the most relevant time of the year according to many cultures. It is the lowest position reached by the Sun in the northern hemisphere, which also starts its cycle of ascension. This occasion was celebrated with major rituals and ceremonies in all ancient traditions. One of the assumptions here was that if rituals were not held, the Sun might not return and winter would continue eternally. The Winter Solstice indicated the birth of the new solar year and of all important heroes and gods: Jesus, Dionysus, Mithra, Quetzalcoatl, Apollo, Horus, Baal, Bel, Attis, Chango, Tammuz and many others. According to esoteric traditions there are two major gates: the Gate of Cancer (Gate of Men), which leads into the Human Arbitrary Configuration (HAC), the dimension based on separation, and the Gate of Capricorn (Gate of Heaven), the one leading to the dimension of unity. The Gate of Heaven opens up in the darkest time of the year and becomes truly visible only when our HAC identity, or third-dimensional ego, ceases to be the primary element of identification, and is replaced by the CMI (Core Multidimensional Identity). As long as I continue to identify myself with the little HAC mind there is no way I can move on into other realms. The HAC mind is strictly linked with our physical brain and its inevitable date of expiry, i.e. the death of the physical body. It is a robotic mind, a computer hardware whose functioning depends upon a HAC software. For ages this software, and its persistent updates, has held the monopoly of HAC. The Winter Solstice is the traditional time when software updates are released. This is also the time when unauthorised programmes and non-HAC configurations can potentially be released in HAC, opening up portals to our multidimensional nature. The next seven years (2007-2012) may strategically produce increased opportunities for activating portals and facilitating a transition between HAC and non-HAC.
In the forthcoming years we may enter into a transition time when on one side the HAC mind fades away, whereas on the other the non-HAC mind emerges. The HAC mind functions in a linear-way, i.e. a single track or space-time continuum, while the non-HAC mind is non-linear, i.e. on several tracks simultaneously and at a multidimensional level. The transition time appears to be strategically marked by the years 2007-2012, which we are about to enter. The outcome of this shift could generate a radically different perception, in which HAC, as we understand it now, will become a minor element of reference for many human beings, while other parallel realities will draw more attention and investment of resources. This means that the HAC updates produced via the physical, cultural, political and scientific changes occurring on this current Earth will be insignificant compared to the reawakening of the awareness of what is happening on alternative realities and Earths. This implies that such realities, once inaccessible, banned or ignored, will finally have a most direct impact in our lives. According to multidimensional sources this shift in consciousness will be triggered by a series of major disruptive crashes developing in HAC, especially in 2009 and 2011. Yet paradoxically these unprecedented events, rather than drawing attention to the physical HAC reality, will reawaken the awareness of multidimensional realms, unveiling what has been hidden for ages. What will happen in the outer HAC world, no matter how unsettling and sensational, is irrelevant compared to what will emerge at other levels and frequencies. This multidimensional shift is basically a swing in perception rather than an actual change in the way our world functions. Despite HAC’s monopoly and denial of parallel realities, the Earth has always been intimately connected with the multidimensionality of existence. Hence nothing is really going to change at that level. The shift concerns the reawakening of more human beings and their acknowledgment regarding the illusory and limited nature of the reality they previously considered to be the only reality, i.e. HAC. As a result HAC will gradually fade out like an old movie. The time comes when a movie, no matter how popular it has been, cannot be a hit anymore, simply because everybody has already seen it over and over again, and people get bored to death if they continue to do so. Of course, some will continue to watch the old movie believing that it is the only possible movie. The director may also decide to produce other remakes or updates, yet in this transition time brand new productions will emerge and more people will become aware of them.
In these strategic times of renewal, the folks who can more easily develop awareness of what lied beyond HAC are those who begin to prepare and train themselves in these transition years. Part of the preparation involves creating small circles and alternative configurations, living in direct and close connection with both the multidimensional realms and the so called nature kingdoms. These may be small enclaves, communities and groups living at the margin of HAC or within the heart of HAC itself, pursuing the lucid aim of reawakening their multidimensional nature. These groups would be connected in large networks, operating very closely, yet leaving large gaps among them, without the requirement of physically living in concentrated areas. The awareness of the multidimensional realms, the invisible worlds that have always been with us, is facilitated by the presence of gaps. The gaps are the multidimensional cleavages between HAC and non-HAC. They are areas of multidimensional traffic, alive with major activities, which are soon going to draw the awareness of those who will come round when they hear the sound of the wake up call.
For technical non-HAC details about the New Year ahead see:
http://www.lightworker.com/articles/2007.php

Awakening you Multidimensional Self in Frankfurt:
Workshop Report by Erik Mansson
For the second time I had the pleasure to organise an Astroshamanic workshop with Franco in Frankfurt. Last time was in May and during the evening presentation on the Friday prior to the workshop we were able to sit outside on our terrace overlooking the Frankfurt skyline. This time, six months later, it was completely dark and necessary to be inside, but nevertheless we could be reminded of the energy of the city through the skyscrapers being lightened in the evening and the airplanes on the horizon coming from and departing to all over the world from the busy Frankfurt airport. Thus, the city is not only the Eurocity hosting the European Central Bank, but also a major hub for long distance travel, which is a Sagittarius theme fitting both myself and my wife. Therefore, it was especially appropriate to start of this gathering in our own flat situated in sector 9 (the Sagittarius part) of Frankfurt.
On Saturday 25 November Franco greeted the 17 participants that had gathered for the first workshop in the Astroshamanic Gateway series that took place in the same youth hostel (Haus der Jugend) directly on the Main river where we also spent one day in May. However, this time we didn’t see the beautiful skyline and river view from the skyline-deck, but we had a room on the ground floor called Mars. Franco explained that this workshop is responding to something that is happening on the planet and in the universe with a shift in human awareness. Gateways are opening allowing for movement from one dimension to another and Frankfurt was chosen as the starting point because it is a very international place with a cocktail of different nationalities and a European city bringing the European Union together. Thus, it serves as a gateway between dimensions also on the ordinary level. He explained that the human body also is a gateway with two major openings (mouth and anus) and what comes in through the mouth completely transforms in the body before it is released in a new form through the opposite gateway. It was interesting for me to recognise that these two gateways (mouth = Taurus and anus = Scorpio) also represent my main focus of development to move from sector 2 to sector 8 dealing with my intestine problems along the way. Sector 9 (Sagittarius) is also significant to me as the third position enabling integration of the two opposite polarities.
In the first exercise we were invited to relate to our desires and especially things that could not be expressed in this reality. The purpose was to provide a process for release of suppressed excess desires in another dimension. What came to my mind was a sexual fantasy that I could allow to be fully expressed in an imaginary dimension that I went into. The most difficult part of the exercise was to stay with the desire when we were told to open our eyes, and Franco later explained the technique of projecting through our eyes what we have inside rather than to allow ourselves to be over flooded by impressions from the outside. Finally, I could balance my own excess by sharing it with a partner holding hands and simultaneously receive what she had in excess. For me it felt like going into the practise with too much Yang / male energy that I could exchange for some balancing Yin / female energy. In the sharing I first transformed to a delicate flower in a Chinese garden and moved on to become a Chinese lady expressing the beauty of the flower in a dance. In the next sequence I became an Indian temple dancer dancing with ecstasy full of pride in a long silk dress. The complete transformation was completed by the last image of a Pacific girl dancing with flowers in my hands and even if the dance was wilder than before I also felt more grounded.
In the afternoon it was time for a long trance dance and as we were an uneven number of participants Franco asked me to assist in accompanying the process. The participants were asked to start with an issue they were currently feeling drawing the energies that could resonate to their problems. In the second stage the dancers were moving into the gateway and the experience was left to them. At the end they were asked to return and to share their experiences starting with closed eyes reaching out to the nearest partner they could find. For me it was a new experience to assist and to follow the amazing range of different sounds that Franco produced and that created an amazing variety of resonance among the participants. What especially caught my attention was how certain groups of people with matching energies or polarities tended to find each other in the dance despite all having closed eyes. I particularly spotted that a mother and daughter ended up dancing together in the same corner and had a very intense sharing.
On Sunday we moved from sector 2 Taurus to sector 3 Gemini and the workshop took place in a dance studio for belly dance. The Gemini energy of communication and short-distance travel was very present because the studio was just next to the local railway station (Südbahnhof). Thus, also this time in Frankfurt it was not possible to find a room for the whole weekend but the change of environment became an integrated part of the experience.
Franco asked us to remain with our dreams from the night and the morning or whatever feeling we had and to go deeper into it. He explained that the station facilitated the exchange of energy and he asked us to send our energies to every train passing in order for it to be transmitted to any passenger in need of our excess energy.
In the first exercise on Sunday we were invited to connect to our higher self or our core multidimensional identity (CMI) in whatever position we were. In total we represented 16 different tracks going in all possible directions. Staying with this energy Franco asked us to connect to a desire or intent. Once this was established we were asked to connect to a place where the intent was already manifested. Again to make the numbers even I assisted Franco rather than to participate myself and could watch with fascination how he moved around the room like an artist to produce different effects, sounds and smells to stimulate the process. Afterwards he explained that he had been using all frequencies of sound possible in the workshop to make a strong impact and I could observe myself the triggering effect on the participants. This time the participants finished the exercise by sitting down with closed eyes and Franco put them together in pairs. Again I was amazed to observe how well the pairs were matched to facilitate the best possible exchange. As time started to run out for one girl with a train to catch Franco asked me to sit behind her taking over her role in the sharing. At first it felt a bit strange to come into the exercise like that changing from observer to participant in a process that was already under way. Why was I as a man dressed in black and being so different replacing an exchange between two blond girls who obviously had some connecting energies? When I received the feedback from my partner I understood that it was not by chance that I came in at that very moment. The reason was that I was sitting next to the daughter who had been working on an issue with her mother both of whom I had been studying in the trance dance the day before. The daughter I knew since before and the mother I just got to know and appreciate in this workshop. Thus, I immediately felt that I could naturally constitute the 3d polarity between mother and daughter. I later learnt that the mother had even hesitated to come this morning after she had learnt that her daughter had an issue with her. However, as I could see their respective points of view and feel the same appreciation and love towards both of them I could also act as a bridge bringing them together. This was for me a very strong and healing experience and it also felt naturally that in the group sharing my place in the ring was between the two of them. Afterwards Franco told that your healing is not only yours but also collective and therefore should ideally be shared. This was exactly what I felt. There was a healing taking place between mother and daughter and I was there to also share it, which was a wonderful experience.
Ahead of the last exercise Franco announced it to be the sexiest one and I wondered what could be so special still to come after so many great experiences. We were asked to make a connection with our higher self, spirit guide, guardian angel or whatever we call our most supporting inner force. The purpose was to receive guidance on ourselves and our potential enabling us to put aside / clean away all current ideas we have about ourselves. After establishing this vertical connection we were then asked to move to one side of the room and to walk across the room at a signal in order to meet our spirit guide also at the horizontal / 3-dimensional level. Although I could feel the contact quite strongly for my inner eye I didn’t see anything in the third dimension through my normal eyes. Therefore, I was walking very slowly across the room wondering what would come and if I would really be able to see something. As I approached, I noticed that all other people were ahead of me and that I deliberately was slow to enable a vision to come before I reached the other wall. In that moment Franco removed a curtain that was covering a full mirror wall of the dance studio. All of a sudden I saw myself in a new light watching my eyes through the mirror and realising that I could see something more than the normal me I have watched thousand times in a mirror. I could just laugh of positive surprise and got a new understanding of the eyes being the gateway to the soul. We were then asked to take our CMI with us into the circle of 13 i.e. myself at the centre surrounded by 12 parts.
While standing in the circle we were asked to close our eyes and wait to open our eyes again until Franco had redirected us and given a signal. When I opened my eyes looking into the eyes of a girl I was supposed to share with I realised I didn’t know much about her and we didn’t have the opportunity to do any joint exercises so far.
The first part of the sharing was touching hands with eyes closed. It was a very strong kinaesthetic experience that felt like communicating with body, soul and mind in parallel. Thereafter, we could open our eyes and watch each other in silence. For me this was the highlight of the weekend and a real peak experience. I felt deeply touched by this experience because for the first time in my life I met a person directly at the multidimensional level without knowing her before at ordinary level. Therefore, I could not just observe her from my higher self but also recognise that her higher self was present. It is not possible to describe in words my feelings of eternity, belonging together, love, warmth, happiness and harmony etc. It really felt that we were both part of something much greater, mutually supporting each other on our respective paths and recognising with compassion the troubles that encounter us in the 3-dimension. I could not have imagined any better ending of a great workshop than to experience a few moments of bliss like this. Afterwards, before leaving for her train, she thanked me several times for the strength I had given her. From my perspective the receiving was in itself so overwhelming that I could not consciously realise having given anything even if it was obviously the case as well.

Flight into Freedom: Eileen Caddy moved gracefully into the realm of the ancestors at 7.20 pm on 13 December 2006, with the departure triad of 9.7.5 (i.e. with Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Libra and Ascendant in Leo). Her health had been gradually fading and she had been cared for at home by family and friends over the past two and a half years. Eileen’s request is to celebrate her passing into the light. Eileen was born on 26 August 1917, with Sun in Virgo, Moon in Sagittarius and Ascendant in Scorpio (arrival triad 6.9.8). She lived an ordinary life until at 36 years old, while meditating in Glastonbury, she heard a voice inside her saying “Be still and I know that I am God”. This voice, which she called “the still small voice within” has guided her life ever since through developments she could never have thought. On several occasions Eileen has made it clear that she is nobody special; and everyone can hear this voice inside, because it is inside everyone, no matter who you are. Her life’s work has been to follow this voice, and to support others to hear their own inner voice. In 1962, with her husband Peter and her friend Dorothy Maclean, she began the Findhorn Community in north-east Scotland. They didn’t know they were starting a community at first. They were just trying to lead a God-centred life. Yet a community grew around them, and became famous, due to the books they published, containing the guidance Eileen received from her inner voice, and also because of the gardens they grew in semi-barren soil, in co-operation with the spirits of nature. For services to spiritual inquiry, Eileen was in 2004 awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) by Queen Elizaberh II. On the following web-pages you can read further information about her life and work:
Eileen's wishes regarding her departure are "my death to be a joyous celebration. I want all of you to know that I have given of my best in this lifetime. Whatever has come through me and has been published and translated into many languages, I give God the honour and glory, and feel so deeply grateful that God has been able to work in and through me to help many souls all over the world......if people want to pray or meditate, this I ask of them, to open fully to Christ - and to embrace themselves, the community, the world and me in unconditional love. When I die I would like everyone to give thanks for my release and wish me happy blessings on my journey........I would like only one spay of flowers, and would prefer a donation towards the 'Findhorn Elders' Fund'. Remember it is only my body being cremated, my spirit has gone on to higher dimensions. I will be with you in Spirit. Bless you all."
One of the most meaningful meetings I had with Eileen was in March 1999, when I decided to settle at Findhorn and serve in the Findhorn Foundation. On that occasion I asked her to speak on the issue of relationships and the way she coped when her husband Peter Caddy left. She said that at the beginning, since for many years she had regarded him as the other half, this was very hard and painful. She felt split, as if a part of her had died. There was no other choice than going within, asking God for help. This was a great test for her. It took some time, yet gradually she began to find balance, owning within what Peter had previously represented. She realised that Peter and all the possible parts she perceived outside where within her, that she was truly all and whole. She told other things, yet what deeply touched me was her simple, warm, energetic and peaceful presence. At that time I was facing painful issues concerning relationships and I was greatly empowered by this visit to Eileen. Yet the climax of this meeting came right at the end. Before leaving her home, as we exchanged a tender hug, she whispered something in my right ear. I did not expect this and was rather puzzled. I heard what she said and I perceived it as a most powerful initiatory statement, yet I could not understand its meaning. By the time I realised this, I was already out of her house. I felt very confused because I knew that Eileen had told me something extremely important, which I had understood with my heart, yet not at all with my head. Her words were still very clear and continued to resonate in my right ear. She said. “You are hole.” I continued to repeat that within, without getting any sense about what she could mean by hole. Was it an esoteric term or perhaps an anagram? Was it a cryptic reference to my role as a multidimensional gateway? Was it a subtle remark regarding the importance of holes, gaps and empty spaces, which apparently separate all visible forms? Then, all in a sudden, my mind clicked, Eileen said: “You are whole!” These words were the deepest and most direct true I needed to hear. They marked a radical shift in my life, and still widely resonate in my right ear, although from time to time I still get confused. It is the most intimate secret and the deepest truth I have been whispered by a human being. And beyond those words, there are no other words. Yes, YOU ARE WHOLE!

The answer to every question, every decision, every problem is within you. You have been told this many times and yet you still go around trying to find the answers without, asking advice and guidance from first one person then another, acting on the advice of one and then another. When things don't work out you blame someone else for giving you the wrong advice. You and you alone hold the answer within you, but unless you are willing to take that time to be alone with Me and seek the answer you will not find it. Cease relying on outer props and start to stand on your own feet, doing your own thinking, and knowing without a shadow of doubt that I AM within you. (Eileen Caddy)
Eileen’s official website: http://www.skyenergyportal.com/eileen%2Dcaddy/
Website of the Findhorn Foundation for last news: www.astroshamanism.org
Eileen on Guidance: http://www.cygnus-books.co.uk/features/guidance_eileen_caddy.htm

The North: The Winter Solstice marks the entrance into the North, the direction of Winter, which in the traditions of the Provisional Order involves the honouring of the Etnai Saike, the Quest for the Spirit People, the element Air, the mental realm and the mechanics of the power of Intention. It is a time of slowing down, when human beings can withdraw in contemplation, embracing their highest dreams and aspirations. Here we can easily come to a deeper understanding of our life, giving up outworn patterns, becoming receptive to wide visions, setting honourable intentions in preparation for upcoming glorious enterprises. The North is also a major time of healing connection between the visible and the unseen, body and spirit, HAC and non-HAC. The power of the North involves including all aspects of life and death at all levels, reaching the climax of our human perspective and awareness. Here we confront with a wider arena, spreading into the search for the original family, tribe, community, nation and universe. As we proceed in the quest, we realise that our true longing is relating with what is unseen, a reality from which HAC is separated. This split is the cause of all the pain and sufferance, guilt and grievances, as they are experienced in HAC. The North facilitates the emergence of the original multidimensional Spirit Tribe (Etnai) and the mythical reunion of Handor/Christ/Osiris, exemplified by light, void and empty spaces, with Rodnah/Mary Magdalene/Isis, represented by darkness, form and filled spaces. Epically, this is the only possible partnership. Here comes the realisation that the veritable motivation in forming relationships with lovers, partners, friends and communities is that of retrieving parts of ourselves so that we can ultimately and thoroughly embrace the mystery of the reunion.
As we progress through the path of the North we become aware of our ultimate multidimensional tribe and land. The awareness of this tribe is a customary experience for many people who work with shamanic journeys, especially on their first attempts. It is so nourishing to connect with it. There you can see all the people met in the outside world, all united, at peace, joyful, singing and playing together. This is the happy dream that we are determined to manifest. The multidimensional tribe is there, available at all times, beyond the gloomy veil of all insane tribes and families the ego illusion has generated in its forlorn attempt to escape from the power of love.
In the North we learn to release ancient tribal grievances and open up to the multidimensional, to the people who managed to move at another level. As a matter of fact, the disappearance, death or extinction of people, lineages and tribes from HAC, far from being a regretful occurrence, is a major triumph on the healing path. They continue to live and inspire us from other dimensions and parallel universes. They managed to take a quantum leap, to pierce the veil of this deceptive HAC location, to march ahead along the path of return. They are the beacons, the heralding magnets that draw us into the ecstatic love of our true inheritance. Thank you generous beings! Be with us and inspire our journey. Let the North be a time for nourishing our need of true spiritual community, for acknowledging the unseen members of the tribe, allowing them to firmly be with us.

The Heart of the Year: The entrance of the Sun in Capricorn marks the beginning of a superlative time for budgeting, organising and programming the year ahead. A traditional technique involves reviewing the whole year employing a frame of 12 days, which is also called the Heart of the Year. During each one of these 12 days you devote at least a quarter of an hour to examine one month of the past year starting from April 2006 and ending with March 2006. The purpose is that of identifying grievances, uncompleted plans and actions, and all that is still hanging on. If you use the Winter Solstice as a reference, this can be done from 20 to 31 December. Then for other 12 days, in this case as from 1 January, you programme the year ahead as regards all that you want to achieve. Here you can devote a quarter of an hour each day for each month starting from April 2007. Also the dreams of those days can provide important messages and it is useful to write them down. An alternative option, in line with most ancient traditions, is to use the 12 Days of Christmas. This is a popular children carol, with two levels of meaning: HAC and non-HAC. It appears to have originated from a Catholic catechism song written in England in the 16th century. It was meant as a strategic memory device aimed at replacing written material during times when Catholics were under persecution. Other sources associate the song to far more ancient times. The 12 Days were traditionally those from Christmas (25 December) to the Eve of the Epiphany or Twelfth Night (5 January), yet differences in calendar and customs also provide other time frames as, for example, the one given below starting from 26 December and ending on 6 January. These 12 days are also found in Vedic, Chinese, Pagan and European traditions. In folk traditions they are often meant to forecast the meteorological pattern of the 12 months of the coming year. Please find the lyrics of the song in this link: http://www.abcog.org/12days.htm
The forthcoming astroshamanic workshop Manifesting Honourable Intentions (from 27 December 2006 to 3 January 2007) will explore the dynamics of shamanic recapitulation and programming (see Calendar of Events).

A Letter from Göttingen: Dear Franco. I’m sending you my story and a feedback of the workshop in Frankfurt, as far as I can remember it. First of all, I enjoyed the weekend very much. And I also enjoyed the music. In my view you are a good "DJ". I felt a bit like in a disco. The music helped me to go into different energies and different situations that came up, so I could try out how to deal with them. You need to know first, that the day before I journeyed to find out about my own plan for this life: I spin strings between people. The journey I had during the workshop was a continuation of the string-journey. I went deeper into the experience of connecting people. That seemed to be the magic I can do. In the workshop I also confronted a healing issue. Every week I go the dentist and he doesn’t know what to do anymore, he cannot find anything wrong, yet I keep having a toothache. And I guess, it has to do with my father. I went through the gateway into the other dimension and I came out in the darkness. The darkness put pressure on me, it came from the right side. I had the feeling I cannot stand upright and if I would do it anyway, I will hit my head. So I became small, I kneeled down on the floor. I was a child, begging for mercy: ‘I’m only a child. What do you want from me?’ After a while the darkness became softer, felt a little bit of compassion. Then I was able to stand up again and I could move around, but not without the feeling of the need to duck. There was still pressure. I started to dance, at first with myself, then I invited the darkness to dance with me. It was very shy, but it agreed. But after a short time, it refused again, since dancing is not really its manner. I thought about other strategies to deal with darkness. I went into it to find out how it is. It’s not really bad, but uncomfortable. I wanted to accept it and I tried to hug it, for it was lonely. That’s difficult, and it didn’t change anything. Then I took paint and brush and coloured it with many different colours. That brought more light into the darkness and I felt more comfortable. But I found out, whatever I do, I cannot change the darkness into light or make it go away. When I realized that, I decided to dance again and just to dance and enjoy myself. One time the music changed in a way that caused fear, fear of keeping going. But very soon I found the courage to move on and the fear went away. I am courageous. That felt very good. Once I turned my head upside down and I saw myself looking into the face of a bat, which was also hanging upside down. I was surprised and wondering why she came. Obviously, she is an animal of the night and has her own strategies to find her way thru the darkness. I wanted to learn from her. I know, she sends out a sound and the echo gives her a picture of the surrounding. Well, what I could do, was feeling with my hands, if there is a hindrance. Not only by touching but also by feeling warmth. And only a few times I touched one of the other dancers. And sometimes there were moments when the toothache was not there anymore. But when I noticed that, it came back again. (And it is still there today.) The bat was there with me, encouraging me to keep going. (Excerpts of a report sent by Linda from Göttingen)

Binaries:

10.11 (Sun in Capricorn and Moon in Aquarius) is a mélange of cardinal earth and fixed air mixing Capricorn’s order, perseverance and responsibility with Aquarius’s genius, inventiveness and synergy. These are progressive folks far ahead their consensus time frame, yet fully grounded in their ordinary environment and capable of contributing major innovative tools. They have a genuine concern for the collective, easily involving in group activities and social achievements, and can become rather popular.
10.12 (Sun in Capricorn and Moon in Pisces) is a blend of cardinal earth and mutable water mixing Capricorn’s order, perseverance and responsibility with Pisces’s imagination, inspiration and unconditional service. This binary combines s solid sense of structure and down-to-earth ambitions with a compassionate and deeply emotional nature. Behind the layers of a disciplined and firm nature, these folks possess a profound empathy for the feelings of others and a generous attitude towards this planet, which they perceive in a wider perspective and with the awareness for the next generation to come.
10.1 (Sun in Capricorn and Moon in Aries) is a blend of cardinal earth and cardinal fire, integrating Capricorn’s aspiration, authority, commitment and integrity with Aries’s pioneering spirit, courage and straightforwardness. These are potent, influential and ambitious beings, capable of investing enormous amounts of energy to pursue their goals. They know how to move in the third-dimensional world in order to manifest their intentions, especially when it comes to take the initiative and set up the foundations for big projects.
10.2 (Sun in Capricorn and Moon in Taurus) integrates the Capricorn qualities with Taurus’s determination and pragmatism, giving shape to one of the most solid combinations. Folks aligned with this binary have an unbending intent, which they apply with resolute persistence until manifestation is accomplished. They are the archetypes of the strong manager or executive, firm, steadfast and relentless.
10.3 (Sun in Capricorn and Moon in Gemini) is a blend of cardinal earth and mutable air mixing Capricorn’s order, perseverance and responsibility with Gemini’s flexibility, versatility, eloquence and cleverness. These may be very ambitious folks, especially in the realm of the intellect. They easily and quickly assimilate and integrate what they learn, employing it in practical terms and putting it to effective use in accordance with their intent. Their gifts encompass the domain of communication, including public speaking and writing, organisation, advertising, networking, which they carry on superbly blending a seriousness and humour
10.4 (Sun in Capricorn and Moon in Cancer) is a blend of cardinal earth and cardinal water, integrating Capricorn’s aspiration, authority, commitment and integrity with Cancer’s sensitivity and nurturing qualities. These folks have a tough as well as tender nature, endowed with the capacity to draw, channel and give shape to the emotions of others, with a pragmatic interest for their well-being. They have a deep connection with their roots and family, from which they derive most of their resources and inspiration.

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.

10.11: King Juan Carlos (AS Taurus); Mohammed Ali (AS Leo); Cary Grant (AS Scorpio); Syd Barrett; Diane Keaton (AS Scorpio); Richard Nixon (AS Virgo); Pierre Cousteau
10.12: Elvis Presley (AS Sagittarius); Ava Gardner (AS Cancer); Martin Luther King (AS Taurus); Edgar Allan Poe (AS Scorpio); Sainte Therese de Lisieux; Paul Cezanne (AS Scorpio); Roland Topor; Simone de Beauvoir (AS Scorpio); J.R. Tolkien (AS Virgo); Patti Smith (AS Sagittarius); Moliére (AS Scorpio); Benjamin Franklyn; John Denver (AS Gemini); Sissi Spacek (AS Virgo); Adriano Celentano ; Ben Kingsley.
10.1: Al Capone (AS Pisces); Albert Schweitzer (AS Libra); Lorenzo dei Medici; Sade; Tom Baker; Konrad Adenauer.
10.2: Carlos Castaneda (AS Taurus); Richard Widmark; Michelle Mercier; Madame Pompadour (AS Aquarius).
10.3: Louis Pasteur (AS Libra); Jim Carrey; Johannes Kepler (AS Gemini); Michel Piccoli (AS Cancer); Joan Baez (AS Aries); Rowan Atkinson; Rudyard Kipling (AS Virgo); Julian Sands; Madame de Montespan; Sarah Miles (AS Virgo); Valentina Cortese (AS Cancer); Olivia Ruiz; Giulio Andreotti (AS Capricorn).
10.4: MIchael Schumacher (AS Taurus); Kristin Kreuk; Janis Joplin (AS Aquarius); Isaac Newton (AS Libra); Jimmy Page (AS Scoprio); Ramana Maharshi (AS Libra); Andrea Ferreol (AS Aquarius); Robert Duvall (AS Sagittarius).

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] E.C. Krupp, Beyond the Blue Horizon, quoted in Sacred Circle's Institute, “The North Gate” in Walking the Sacred Wheel: A Year's Journey of Initiation Around the Sacred Wheel: North Gate, p. 8.