A sign that I'm on the mend: I've had time and space and energy and desire-to-reconnect enough to catch up on some blog reading and commenting last night and today.
How can this be grounding?
Just now, visiting
was it the Pagan remark? , I followed a link to an Australian web site and an article titled
The June 2004 Transit of Venus, A Unique Harmony Event.
Mention Venus transit, and I'm there. The skeptic in me never adopted the pentacle as a personal religious symbol until I learned its origin: it's a two-dimensional plot of the
eight-year Venus cycle.
OK, I said those many years ago,
now I can begin to understand why this symbol is sacred, and to source it to antiquity and not some made-up-recently, cool-and-groovy, let's-call-it-ours creative moment.
About the second of the paired 2004-2012 Venus Transits (you'll just have to read the article):
...several of the surviving Mayan manuscripts also refer to Venus as a Sister Planet of Earth. And Mayan prophecy states that the renewed world of new consciousness will be born on the occasion of the Venus Passage across the Sun of 6th June 2012.
Ah, so perhaps I wasn't a fool mumbling foolishness when
I called for a new thought-form to counter the Apocalypse/Armageddon
nightmare crap.
At the time, I questioned what we should call this great future event: The Awakening? The Cosmic Fresh Start? The Great Evolving?
Now I'm thinking
The New Consciousness for The Renewed World. Perhaps I can track down the source of this prophecy. Perhaps there's a better translation of an ancient, or even contemporary, way of talking about this. I've heard forever about the end of the Mayan calendar, and somewhere along the line began to suspect and even hope that certainly there was something (wonderful) to replace or restart said calendar. Now I learn that the concept of Renewed World and New Consciousness were there all along.
Wonderful! As
She Who Makes the Pagan Remarks says, a propos the upcoming Venus Transit:
...while considering the state of the world the fear and sense of doom I normally have has been replaced with a sense of hope, positive energy and even calm.
Yes! Hope!
Enough from me. Go read
Richard Giles on the June 8th Venus Transit. Let's pray/meditate/dance/drum/chant/breathe/do magic to align ourselves with this cosmic energetic opportunity to create "a shift in consciousness regarding the scope and nature of the world."
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