Astrology: The Scheme Of Things  [Scheme: representation of the aspect of the heavenly bodies at a given time] –

Our story, history, has a timespan or timescale. How do we measure it?  As we’ve always done: we read the starclock. We make use of astrology /astronomy. For there is magic as well as logic in starlore. Both the Muses and the Magi are connected with astrology.

The  three wise men, the Magi, give support to astrology whilst priests decry it. The latter justify their views by quoting Isaiah:

“let your astrologers (habar shayamin) come forward; those stargazers who make predictions month by month ... surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up ...”

This is a condemnation. Yet it is at variance with the Book of Daniel, where astrologers (ashshaph/im) means enchanters and magicians.

Daniel himself is called ‘Chief Magician’; ‘Chief of magicians, enchanters, astrologers and diviners.’ he had ‘knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning and could understand visions and dreams of all kinds.

None of the passages in Daniel condemn astrology. Daniel is simply ‘ten times better’ than all his rivals. So it must be a form of astrology divorced from the ‘monthly prognostications’ which is acceptable. Nostradamus, in a warning verse, makes a similar distinction.

The timespan is the timescale of history. It is simply the length of time of the story we are living in. And the first thing that starlore tells us – as does the study of a clockface – is that time is a round. Whether we call it a circuit or a cycle is our choice.

There is a disagreement about the length of the timespan. Ancient and modern viewpoints are at great variance. Modern science theorises a span of millions of years, adding strings of zeroes to both ends of the human scale.

In such a framework our transitory lives are of little account. It is difficult, if not impossible, to fit our personal stories into a context which renders them ephemeral.

We need another option. And we have one embedded in starlore. But we must proceed with caution, for the scientists were not the first to confuse the issue.

Conventional (modern) astrology presents us with a cycle which spans 25,920 years, the time taken for the equinoxes to precess the full 360^o. This is a neat figure – too neat! It is divisible by 360 (72 times) and also represents 12 ‘ages’ of 2160 years.

Unfortunately the rate of precession appears to be variable. Measured at different times, it has yielded different results.

Even had this scheme not fluctuated, astrological ages of 2160 years do not accord with the facts of history.

Our true lead is the word ‘millennium’. It covers a period of 1000 years.

It is one day for Almighty God:

“For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by.” Psalm 90

“With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.” 2 Peter

History, like all stories, must have an author to give it authority:

“God saw all that he had made, and it was very good ... the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.” Genesis

These ‘days’ are significant enough to frame man’s days: “Six days shalt thou labour” Exodus

In such a scheme therefore, we have a ‘history’ which last for six ‘days’, each of a thousand years, totalling 6000 years.

What happens if we apply such a scheme? Where do we begin? According to ancient Jewish tradition, creation began in the first degree of Leo.

The First Age .......... Leo     Fire sign, ruled by the Sun  Opposite air sign, Aquarius ruled by Saturn

This is the sign of the Lion-King and the ‘Golden Age’. For Leo is ruled by the Sun and it’s metal is gold. Hence our first clues.

In that ancient world from whence the stories derive, they had their own prophets – who spoke of the return of the ‘golden age’. Even in the relatively recent age of Rome, Virgil spoke of it ('Fourth Eclogue').

Yet the ancients also associated the golden age with the rule of Saturn! Saturn’s rule is Law! In golden Eden the singular law was broken.

Add Saturn to the Sun and we have duality.

This duality is another major clue. For, in this first age, the Sun ruled on the outside (Golden Eden) and Saturn ruled on the inside (‘Keep the unwritten law!’)

The opposite sign to Leo in the zodiac is Aquarius, the modern ‘Water-pourer’, the ancient Phoenix, ruled by Saturn.

Our first clue, the periodicy of 1000 years, nearly reappears in the lifespans of the patriarchs.

The oldest man in the Bible, Methusaleh, lived for 969 years. [His father was Enoch who did not die but ‘walked with God’ after 365 (solar number) years. As he was born in 622, he must have left in the year 987 – just 13 years before the end of the first millennium.

Enoch gives his name (Phoenix = Pa Hanok = House of  Enoch) to the real Aquarian age. Enoch is a pivotal key in the whole mystery.

The Second Age: Cancer   water sign ruled by the Moon  opposite earth sign Capricorn ruled by Saturn

The next age of 1000 years belongs to the sign of Cancer, the modern crab, the ancient ship, ruled by the Moon. In the middle of this age, in the year 1657, when Noah was 601, he built his ark and the floodwaters came.

Cancer is a water sign and the Moon is associated with the metal, silver.

The sons of Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth, do not inherit the same longevity as their father. The lifespan of Shem is 600 years. Meat eating is permitted for the first time. These facts may be interdependent.

The Third Age: Gemini   air sign ruled by Mercury  opposite fire sign Sagittarius ruled by Jupiter

The third age comes under the sign of the twins, Gemini, and their ruler, Mercury – the messenger. In this period Moses brought down the written tablets of the law – a law now beome tenfold.

Lifespans are now down to familiar levels.

The Fourth Age:   Taurus   earth sign ruled by Venus  opposite water sign Scorpio ruled by Mars

The fourth age, is that of Taurus the bull.

The age begins with Soloman (the earthly temple builder) and sees the rise of Alexander the Great, who is the ‘bronze’ power of Daniel’s vision. Bronze is a mixture of copper and tin. Copper is the metal attributed to Venus.

The Fifth Age:         Aries   fire sign ruled by Mars  opposite air sign Libra ruled by Venus

The fifth age follows with a new calendar. The year 4001 (approximately) becomes 1 AD.

This is the age of Aries the ram, ruled by Mars, whose metal is iron. This is the age of the Romans, men of iron. Augustus becomes the first emperor in 27 BC.

Jesus heralds the inner law of love, for Venus rules the opposite sign.

The Sixth Age:       Pisces   water sign ruled by Jupiter  opposite earth sign Virgo ruled by Mercury

The sixth age completes the sequence of ‘six days’. It comes under the sign of Pisces the fish.

Pisces is traditionally ruled by Jupiter. But, as we have yet to note, five planets rule ten signs – two apiece. Half of all 12 signs are masculine, half are feminine.

Pisces is a feminine sign. Since Jupiter’s wife, Juno solves the feminine side of the equation, we can infer she rules this sign in her husband’s stead.

Juno’s surname is Moneta. She gives her name to ‘mint’ and ‘money’. For money was minted in her temple. Here we find the explanation for two Gospel tales.

Juno in Pisces = Money in Fish:

“Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin.” Matthew

“Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money-changers ... ‘It is written,’ he said to them, ‘my house will be called a house of prayer ... Matthew

Opposite Pisces, is Virgo, ruled by Mercury. It is an opposition of money to words (prayer = ask).

To accompany the fishes of Pisces (water sign), we have the loaves of Virgo (earth sign) which is indicated by Virgo’s principle star, Spica, which is an ‘ear of corn’.

The sixth age is our current age. We are seeing the end of it. What follows – the new millennium – is something else again. But we can see that matters have some circularity.

The New Age     The new age is sanctioned by the Bible. Jesus speaks of the ‘birthpangs’ and James implies it by reference to the old age – the end of the Piscean age.

The Four Fixed Signs The zodiacal signs of the ‘fixed cross’ (signs regarded as having a ‘fixed’ quality), Scorpio, Leo, Taurus and Aquarius can be followed round the zodiac in sequence.

They appear Biblically as Man, Lion, Ox and Eagle (Phoenix). The same order as the zodiac in the Book of Ezekiel.

“Ezekiel will come again to open up the chambers of the Merkaba (chariot).” Jewish tradition

As well as elemental values (earth, air, fire and water), all signs have ‘qualities’ or characteristics of mobility. Thus the four signs already mentioned are ‘fixed’. Four others are ‘moving’ and the remaining four are ‘mutable’ or ‘changeable’ (i.e. partly fixed, partly moving).

The four ‘fixed’ signs represent the chariot (wheel) in a stationary position. (The ‘arrival’ of the chariot inaugurates a new cycle).

So there is a dramatic difference to the fixed signs: they betoken fixed rules. The new age then, a fixed sign, betokens a time of firm rule.

“I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north – an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The centre of the fire looked like glowing metal, and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was that of a man, but each of them had four faces and wings ... their faces looked like this: each of the four had the face of a Man, and on the right side each had the face of an eagle, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle ...”

The Four Moving Signs Just as there are 4 fixed signs, so there are 4 moving signs. They are: Capricorn, ruled by Saturn/Libra, ruled by Venus/ Cancer, ruled by the Moon/ Aries, ruled by Mars. Biblically these are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The planetary rulers provide the key.

Cancer, Moon, White: “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow ... (sickle Moon?)

Aries, Mars, Red: “Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given ... a large sword.”

Libra, Venus, Black: “I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand.”

Capricorn, Saturn, Pale:  “I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind.”

The Four Changeable Signs There are, finally, four changeable signs:

Pisces, ruled by Jupiter/

Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter/

Virgo, ruled by Mercury /

Gemini, ruled by Mercury

Pisces and Virgo are both feminine signs and providers of fish and bread.

Sagittarius and Gemini are the masculine human signs. They are ruled by Jupiter and Mercury respectively: large and small, slow and fast, magister and minister.

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Where it comes from - what it means - where its going

In the last part of the section on astrology we looked at some of the basic meanings of money. A little more digging - down to the root - sounds a warning:

We are now in a position to say that where money comes from is the mint set up in Juno’s temple.

What money means is unexpected: its purpose is to ‘make to think’ ... and is rooted in the idea of warning!

Biblically money in the temple subverts prayer (ask: word). The question we are asked ‘to think’ about is where to put our trust - in God’s word or man’s money?

Since we’ve already established the power of words, we are left to ask: What will happen to money - where is it going?

Money is more intimately connected with the Piscean age than any other - an age, we have seen, that is over.

The end of money is therefore near. This is confirmed in The Book of James - who says:

“Now listen you rich people ... your wealth has rotted ... your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire.”

Money terminates at this time for another reason. It is connected as much with payment for labour as it is with the payment for goods.

And work - as we shall see - is also over.

We’ve looked at the roots of the money-tree. We should follow its growth into the twentieth - and twentyfirst - century.

Money begins as a warning. Then, made tangible, it is first coin: a piece of stamped metal used in commerce: currency.

Real Value

Is the value in the metal ... or in the stamp that validates it?  Is the value in the glitter ... or in the spell? As we’ve seen, money makes you think.

The metal (paper/plastic) of today’s coinage has no inherent value. Only the stamping/printing counts. And more than a token gesture is admitted to the power of the word. The ‘almighty’ dollar states: ‘In God we trust’. The British pound bears the letters: F.D. - Defender of the Faith. Will the Euro speak in a similar vein?

The key meaning given to money by the thesaurus on ‘WordPerfect’ software for word processors is: cash, which was originally a till or box to keep money in. It is connected with case - receptacle - and means to ‘hold’.

Money came with a warning. We forgot it. Money comes with spells. We ignore them.

Money now means something to hold on to - security?

But if the materials of modern money no longer have inherent value, and the truespells are voided in favour of glamorous colours, what worth can it have?

“I looked, and there before me was a black horse. Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard a voice ... a quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages ...”  (Revelation - a presage of economic woe).

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Hell

When the fire comes, Hell finally burns.

And if you think Hell to be an imaginary place, think again. Hell is named after Hel, or Hella, the daughter of Loki in Norse mythology. Loki built a city which he named after his own daughter. He built it as a place to hide, for that is the meaning of the cognate Anglo-Saxon, ‘helan’. This story bears a striking resemblance with the first city ever built: Enoch, which was named after the son of Cain and built by Cain himself – as a place to hide. 

(Whereas Adam and Eve covered their sins with shrubbery, Cain hid his greater sin – murder – with a ‘concrete overcoat’).

Cain’s city – Enoch – is counterfeit, as is Loki’s. They are the beginnings of Hell on earth.

What do we know of Hell? It’s cold. In our everyday speech we find the phrase, said of cities: “as cold as Hell”. And in northern mythology Hell is a cold place. So where do we get the ‘fires’ of Hell?

When it gets burnt down. And it doesn’t get burnt down until it gets built. And it takes 6,000 years to build – just like Heaven. For if we are not engaged in building Heaven on earth, we get conned into building it’s counterfeit: Hell.

And when Hell is complete, work ends. And the king of Hell takes over!

But let’s return to the phoenix-fire.

Phoenix comes from the Egyptian ‘Pa Hanok’ – the house of Enoch – but this time the true city. It is named after the first man not to die, the seventh after Adam.

Enoch holds the key. As Robert Graves says in ‘The White Goddess’: “I agree with Charles, Burkitt, oesterley, Box and other Biblical scholars that nobody can hope to understand the sayings of Jesus who has not read the Book of Enoch.”

Enoch ties us to the phoenix, which is linked to Glastonbury and its zodiac. Dr John Dee (who thought himself a returned Merlin) was astrologer royal to Elizabeth the first, and was the first in modern times to rediscover that lost zodiac. He also used a system of magic called Enochian. The threads twine and intertwine! Dee was also interested in the Lost Tribes of Israel as we must also be.

Enoch lived 365 years. This is the number of daylights in a year. It is a solar – golden – measure.

Longevity

If you think the idea of a man living for 365 years is preposterous, think again. The New Golden Age, the Millennium, lasts for 1000 years, as was originally intended at the creation of Adam.

Methusaleh lived for 969 years, for there was little illness – the consequence of fewer lies. Most of Enoch’s forebears (Adam-930, Seth-912, Enosh-905, Kenan-910, Mahalalel-895 and Jared-962) survived for similarly lengthy periods.

But with the coming of the flood, matters changed. Noah himself managed 950 years, but his descendants had their lifespans virtually halved (Shem-500, Arphaxad-403, Shelah-403 and Eber – from whence Hebrew – 430 years). Then again timespans were shortened (Peleg – ‘the world divided’ – 209, Reu-207, Serug-200 and Nahor-119 ).

Then came Terah, father of Abram – Abraham – at about 1948 AK, near the end of the second age.

By the time of the Psalms, we were down to three score years and ten. As the lies multiplied so too did the illnesses and weaknesses of man.

The True New Age, the Age of the Phoenix, is an Enochian Age and is to be compared with the Noachian era of the Flood. The letters here are like doublets: NOACHIAN – ENOCHIAN. And as the Lord Himself says of this end of era: “As it in the days of Noah …” (The Book of Enoch has references to Noah). They are baptisms of water and fire respectively.

As it was in the days of Noah: “The earth was corrupt and violent” (Genesis).

The New Age follows what Sun Bear in his ‘Black Dawn, Bright Day’ calls ‘the Cleansing’. As a Red Indian he has no axe to grind for Judao-Christianity. But he speaks, albeit allusively, of the same topic.

The End Of All Work

No work? Why not? Because everything has been built: the language of heaven and the concrete of hell. Check it out. And consult Virgil’s ‘Fourth Eclogue’.

“Six days shalt thou labour …” Alright, let’s go back to the beginning. What is work? Something the devil finds for idle hands. Something that dulls you: ‘all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’. But do you think that ‘idle’ means lazy? only in modern eyes. It didn’t used to do. There is another proverb which has fallen out of favour – perhaps because it gives the game away: ‘love is the fruit of idleness’. It’s not politically correct! Yet we still ‘work like the devil’ – putting more hours into a working week than we have done in many decades – for the devil knows his time is short.

We’ve been conned again. The root of the word, ‘idle’, gives us both ‘bright’ and ‘clear’: work dulls, idleness brightens! For what do we do when we are idle? Engage in ‘idle chatter’. To chatter is to talk or sing like a bird – which is the purpose of the language.

“cursed is the ground because of you ; through painful toil you will eat of it”

Does this mean that we will ‘bite the dust’ like the serpents that we are (albeit in part)? Painful toil – hard labour – WORK. We cursed ourselves to use our hands because we could not control our tongues! (The origin of sin). Eve’s version of God’s command (a very singular  law!) contradicts the serpent’s. Unfortunately it also embroiders on God’s actual words.

God effectively says “ABC”

The serpent asks “did God say CDE?”

Eve responds “no, BCD”.

Eden goes wrong with that first seed of doubt – the serpent poses the first question in the Bible – another exercise in grammar.

TOIL

“… through painful toil …”

Toil is effectively the ‘Tangled Web of Deception’ in a nutshell.

Through the meaning of the word ‘toil’ we are led to 1] Work/Labour  2] Entanglement and 3] Deception (snare)

Creation is under a curse. Nature is wild in tooth and claw. Why? God cursed us for our hastiness and slowed us down. Nature will never be tamed until we tame ourselves. If Daniel – in the lion’s den – and St Francis of Assisi could tame that wildness, could soothe the savage breast, it is demonstrably possible.

‘Work’ is over for those who have learned the lesson of the ages – the inner word of the spirit. For it is examination time.

Have we learned to tell our story straight – true? or have we let the weeds pull us down?

Why is our age corrupt and increasingly violent? Because our children are inarticulate: they have not been taught the language properly. But a New Age comes, a new age of no money, no work. Any more surprises? of course.

The True New Age is not an age of faith or reason. It is an age of intuition – an age of direct perception. No more Emperor’s new clothes, for the veils will be lifted.

Sorcery

Remember sorcery? Dark magic! The national lottery is sorcery by definition: ‘casting lots’. When the word appears in the New Testament it is a translation of the greek ‘pharmakeios’. This is the same word that is the root of our modern 'pharmaceuticals'. This kind of medicine is therefore sorcery. What do you expect to be dispensed in Hell?

If pharmaceutical medicine is sorcery what then do we make of the concept of ‘proscribed’ drugs and ‘prescribed’ ones? And what is drug abuse? The opposite of drug use? What indeed is a drug.         

Drug: any substance used in the composition of medicine. Root: old French, ‘drogue’ probably from the Dutch ‘droog’, dry: as if originally applied to dried herbs.

Herb: a plant the stem of which dries every year, as distinguished from a tree or shrub. Root: French ‘herbe’, Latin ‘herba’ akin to Greek ‘phorbe’, pasture; ‘pherbein’, to feed.

Medicine: anything applied for the cure or lessening of disease or pain: charm. So a drug is a dried herb used in medicine. But did you catch that last little tag? Medicine as a charm! A song! A soothing lullaby!

So a drug is a dried herb and a herb is a plant. What does The Whole Book say?

“I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth … They will be yours for food.” Genesis 1.29.

Since it is “not what goes into our mouths that harms us” (Gospels), we must “decide for ourselves what is right” (Gospels). So at what stage does food become sorcery? When it is cooked, dried? Hardly.

Food/medicine becomes sorcery when we think we can improve on what creation offers us – when we doctor substances, process them, purify them and curse them with incomprehensible names.

The sorcery lies in the artifice – and the purpose for which they are used.

If you drink a little “for your stomach’s sake”, fair enough. If you drink a lot to get raging, fighting drunk, not good. Bad – evil.

And here, at long last, we uncover the principle which divides good from bad: purpose.

If it is a natural plant with seed then we are sanctioned to consume it. The ‘poison in the weed’ (weed – plant with no useful purpose) is the wildness in us –

not what goes into our mouths. Which is why Jesus was not too concerned about eating food with dirty hands. He was concerned with inner cleanliness.

Hygiene

Which takes us in the direction of hygiene. The squeaky-clean society, the modern Pharisees, the Pontius Pilate’s of the age, they are the ones confounding the issue. Hygiene takes its name from Hygena the Greek goddess of health. Christians are not followers of foreign gods or goddesses.

Hygiene is a lie. Which is why Nostradamus speaks negatively of Louis Pasteur. (Not to mention the ‘lack of learning’ of the age). The real germs in the air are all the lies. For in swallowing a lie we cause a bodily reaction. Anger, for example, will burn inside to cause cancer, angina, arthritis etc.

Reinforce a lie and you reinforce a symptom. repeat ‘pain in the neck’ and you will get just that. What you say is what you get (see ‘Is Fate a mystery to you?). A collection of symptoms is called a disease. A new disease is a new combination of symptoms.

Lies kill. Everybody lies. It is the original sin. Check out those people who ‘don’t believe’ in original sin. Do they lie? of course they do. Sin means ‘to miss the mark’. Adam and Eve swallowed a lie. It stuck in Adam’s throat (Adam’s apple), but Eve conceived Cain, a murderer. The lie, swallowed, led to the birth of death.

Truths are blessings, lies are curses.

At which stage we’ve uncovered a number of the surprises in store for us. But there is the matter of many other prophecies to consider.

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