Ushering In the New Year
Dear Friends,
Welcome to the January 22, 2007 edition of the Satya Center newsletter. Warm greetings from your Editors, Curtis Lang and Jane Sherry.
We want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all of the talented writers, poets, historians, scientists & spiritual activists, artists, farmers and healers who have so generously allowed us to reprint and publish their stories, articles, poems, recipes and insights since our launch in November 2004.
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2007 Begins
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” wrote Charles Dickens in the opening sentence of his famous novel “A Tale of Two Cities”. The year is 1775. In Dickens’ story the French revolution provides a backdrop for an epic tale of aristocratic arrogance and painful self-recognition, followed by a bloody struggle for redemption which reveals the horrors of life in London and Paris, where undemocratic cultures based upon Darwinian struggle and egocentric worldviews distort the souls and lives of those at every level of the highly stratified social structure.
We also live in revolutionary times. A tidal wave of change is on the horizon.
2006 was the year the mainstream media discovered the concept of “peak oil”, and we began to realize that we are in the early stages of a permanent oil shortage which will transform every aspect of our Western oil based consumer culture.
In the West, ossified and out-of-touch political and economic elites continue to preach the old-time religion of Darwinian survival of the fittest and winner-take-all, viewing the spiritual horror of a war of all against all as the highest form of social organization possible to humankind.
In the East and South, emerging economic giants like India and China, Venezuela and Brazil, are waking up and demanding their fair share of the global economic and resource pie for themselves.
Meanwhile, the Great Powers of the East and West are jockeying for strategic advantage in a fluid and dynamic global chess game for control of dwindling hydrocarbon resources. This global chess game has the potential for engulfing the entire world in flames.
A rolling series of wars rocks the Middle East, threatening every government in the region with overthrow by either dissatisfied and disenfranchised Islamic fundamentalists or American proxies.
America’s war president and his colossal death machine are preparing to fight a series of global battles against the poor and the downtrodden in every area of the Third World, extending for decades into the future.
Journalists from many countries are reporting on preparations by Israel and America to unleash atomic weapons against Iran, a war crime that would place the lives of tens of millions in jeopardy throughout the Middle East and South Asia, thanks to the propensity for radioactive fallout to ride the winds.
2006 was the year the American mainstream media and politicians in Washington finally realized that global warming is a reality, and that we have only a few decades to implement a complete revolution in every aspect of our lives to avoid global catastrophe. Yet the American aristocracy retains a firm belief in the “magic of the marketplace”, and contends that co-operation and community are not the solutions to the problem. Instead high prices for oil, gas, food, water and other scarce resources will automatically create a new society in which the most deserving have the most resources and the least deserving will, regrettably but unavoidably, suffer agonies without end. Unsurprisingly, in this scenario the American aristocracy of corporate and political elites will enjoy continued privilege as a result of this free market, globalized revolution. At the point of a gun if need be.
On a cosmic level, it appears that nations, peoples and the entire human race are beginning to realize that nothing less than a total soul-deep transformation of our way of thinking, of our worldview, and of our approach to problem solving, community and conflict resolution can begin to address the crisis of our times.
Welcome to the 21st Century! And welcome to 2007.
The year began for us with a view of Comet McNaught, which was visible from our front lawn during the week of Curtis’ birthday, January 14, shining brightly in the West, low in the sky, near sunset. We thought it was an airplane at first, but it didn’t seem to move!
This dramatic sighting revealed the first major comet since Hale Bopp in 1997 – a comet that was later said to portend the death of Princess Diana. Historically, astrologers East and West have said that comets predict the downfall of the rich and famous, and especially of those who hold the reins of state in their manicured hands.
Thus comets often foretell times of revolution, times of turmoil, times when the existing order will be upended. For the rest of us, astrologers say that comets bring many blessings in the form of positive transformations, openings in ossified social structures that bring much needed fresh air and new faces into the corridors of power. Comets herald the advent of“people power”, as all of us suddenly find our voices and realize that we are not alone in our deep dissatisfaction with our society and with those who rule our political system and our corporations. Innovations in science, technology, the arts and sciences are also often seen in the wake of major comets.
For every individual working to achieve self-actualization, comets are said to coincide with doorways leading to accelerated soul growth and personal transformation. Comet McNaught appeared in the Western sign of Capricorn, so all of us born under that Zodiacal sign can expect unprecedented opportunities to achieve our highest spiritual goals this coming year, despite, and possibly as a result of, the vast upheavals in the world around us.
The theme of global revolution, cultural combustion and self-transformation in 2007 is dramatically reinforced by another cosmic energy signature, perhaps even more unusual than any comet in recent history.
This year, Pluto will pass across that point in the Zodiac known as the GalacticCenter, and by year’s end, Pluto will be joined at this area of deep space around which our entire solar system slowly revolves by the planet of Kings, Jupiter. As 2007 unfolds, Venus, the Sun, Mercury and the Moon will also pass across the conjunction of Pluto and the GalacticCenter.
The GalacticCenter is located some 27,000 light years away from Planet Earth, right at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.
The Earth and the rest of our solar system revolves around the Sun. The Sun and 100 billion other stars in our galaxy revolve around this
GalacticCenter.
Scientists are still investigating the extremely powerful gamma ray, hard X-ray, infrared, sub-millimeter and radio emissions from the GalacticCenter, which appears now to be a Black Hole the size of our sun but with a mass of 4 million times larger.
Some mystics believe the Galactic Center to be the “womb of the Universe”, the location of the Cosmic Architect. The extremely strong energy signatures propagating from this Source are thought by some to be the templates for the transforming structures of space and time that shape the evolution of our physical Universe, and for the ultra-high-frequency signals that promote the ascension of devoted individual souls to ever more elevated spiritual states of being.
In past cycles, the conjunction of Pluto with the Galactic Center has happened at times we can now see were germinal moments in history, when the seeds of remarkable social transformation were sown. These conjunctions occur approximately every 248 years, the period of Pluto’s long orbit around the Sun.
In 1759-60, the British enjoyed a series of remarkable victories over the French, who were threatening to invade their island kingdom, and dubbed the year “annus mirabilis”, the miracle year. This marked the rise of the British Empire to global supremacy.
In 1513-14 Columbus had just finished his last voyage to the new world. After Pope Leo X proclaimed the sale of indulgences in 1513 Martin Luther, a professor of at Wittenberg, began questioning the direction that the church was taking. About the year 1515 Luther experienced a spiritual awakening that led him to promulgate the doctrine that it is faith alone, “sola fides”, that brings salvation. This was in contradiction to the Papal doctrine of good works and faith, which Martin felt opened the door to abusive practices by the clergy, who were involved in performing rituals and offering indulgences to the faithful for money.
In 1267-68 Turkish power was on the rise, and would soon eject the Crusaders from the Holy Land.
Astrologers predict that the seeds of future political, economic, religious and cultural transformations of epochal magnitude are being sown now across the globe. On an individual level, those who engage in spiritual practices designed to elevate their minds to engage with Higher Mind, those who work to unite spiritual worlds with this material domain, those who desire fervently and work diligently to ground the Kingdom of Heaven on this earthly plane, will find doorways to higher worlds, higher mind, and higher self suddenly flung open for them. Lightworkers can expect a floodtide of high-frequency energy to accelerate their practice, and support their healing work.
Now is the time to expect miracles! Now is the time to create new worlds and new ways of relating to one another in the world. Now is the time to join with our brothers and sisters around the world and in higher realms to enjoy enhanced unity and community.
Fear not the revolution taking place around us. For it is an essential transformation, and we can be an essential part of it, working to insure that the coming years will eventually bring a harvest of change that will be for the best and highest good of all humankind and the entire web of life on planet Earth.
May 2007 bring you and yours the grace and guidance you need to achieve your highest spiritual goals!