The Twelve Senses II (Astrology)

Building on the conversations around the Twelve Senses, various people (mainly materialists) had been asking me about causation within astrology and how it was possible that such remote objects as stars could have any physical effect on the body.  I explained that my studies in genetics suggested that really the stars were acting as markers for internal processes within the DNA (zodiac signs + basic genetic rhythms I II III), a clock if you like, as opposed to actually ''causing'' anything persay.  But the conversation proceeded to how as organisms we interact with our environment and I shared the idea that, depending on when we are born, we are children of the weather and the effect of that weather on the mood of the people around us i.e. Leos are Summer children and Aquarians are Winter children so they are socialised differently as people/society are behaving differently when their clocks are set.

I've been playing Life is Feudal: Forest Village recently, (as part of my shift from strategy games to management games due to changing business conditions and therefore different skills that need practising) and it demonstrates how our evolved background of survival in primitive conditions forces certain behaviour at certain times of the year:

• Aries - Individuals beginning to thaw from Winter, have energy to get outside and do stuff but before the sensuality of blooming spring, therefore can be quite '"Spartan''
• Taurus - Sensual, regarding the sights, smells, sounds and textures that suddenly flourish in Spring
• Gemini - Late Spring, Early Summer transition between the mania of Spring and the laziness of Summer
• Cancer - Summer storms, bottled up pressure suddenly released, relaxed afterwards while more pressure builds
• Leo - Lazy days of Summer explains the foundation of cat-like behaviour
• Virgo - Harvest
• Libra - Storage (figuring out how much we have of different foodstuffs, explains why they are so anal)
• Scorpio - Nights are getting long enough providing darkness for concealing Scorpion action...
• Sagittarius - Last (desperate) burst of energy, picking up the crumbs and last minute hunting before everyone is trapped by snowfall
• Capricorn - have we enough food to last for the Winter, if not I will eat you - seriously though there will be slaughter of something, goat or otherwise
• Aquarius - child trapped inside by Winter, has to use imagination/philosophy for fun way more than other children 
• Pisces - still trapped inside by Winter, more dreamy because more generally exhausted by Winter, huddled with other people (shoaling for warmth)

These are a few sketchy notes (so my post doesn't drag on beyond the few paragraphs allowed by the contemporary reader) but the standard question in response to this (kind of) materialist explanation is the problem with the Southern Hemisphere to which my first answer is that the South has only been populated by people who would use Northern Astrology for a relatively short period of time and could be extremely faulty, the other answer would probably involve the genetics of the northern people who colonised there (although that is far from fleshed out).  Obviously the best thing to do in this situation would be to use the astrological system of the actual people who live/lived in that area previously as they are way more likely to be accurate if astrology is most effective in a regional setting.  I want to be clear though that this conversation was had with materialists and esoteric beginners and the above is a way to get yourself thinking about astrology and not my personal final position on the subject which would be more idealist than materialist (i.e. esoteric genetics where the twin helix of DNA is our gateway into the nature of time and consciousness itself).

A question that interests me now is whether or not we can associate the Twelve Senses with the Twelve Zodiac Signs in this way (as the Sefer Yetzirah does) - is there any reason why a sense of tone would marry itself to Aries, or a sense of smell would marry itself to Scorpio? Are these Twelve Senses a function of time itself?

Tempography - Archetypal Situations

Observe and see how, in the winter, all the trees seem as though they had withered and shed all their leaves, except fourteen trees, which do not lose their foliage but retain the old foliage from two to three years till the new comes.

The Book of Enoch

Time is a landscape where going ''downhill'' towards significant events causes an increase in the number of synchronicities and an acceleration in the perceived motion of time and vice versa as we go ''uphill'' away from significant events and experience a slow-down.  These events (robust branching moments) are significant only in that they let you shift between different pre-existing variations of yourself that Raziel calls minotaurs.   In following on from the last post, how can we best describe ''the lay of the land'' - what factors give away the identity of the significant event and how best can we describe this tempography?

Archetypal characters are used throughout esoteric sciences in order to better understand people, to zoom in on the qualities of individuals in order to assist or heal them.  In the Metabolism of Time these archetypes are drawn from the endocrine system where a hypothetical fluctuation in the levels of, or cellular sensitivity towards, different hormones controls much of underlying ''mood'' - adrenaline types being more jumpy, insulin types being more sluggish, etc.  Most of the time we find archetypal characters are drawn towards or are involved in archetypal situations that suit the nature of that character e.g.  characters who are derived from the (foreign body recognition) immune system (of the cosmic being) are involved in constant analysis, blame and judgement and would do well to have a career in the justice system where their occupation will supply those situations as opposed to them pathologically acting out immunological reactions in their domestic life or otherwise seeking out and (mis)attributing blame in environments where it is inappropriate.

When you encounter an archetypal situation, there will be a ''guardian being'' or archetypal character of the corresponding nature residing there for instance in criminal justice situations you will encounter a police officer, or bailiff, or lawyer etc who you must provide ''passwords'' to in order to effectively navigate the situation.  Sometimes those characters are out of alignment and in ''the wrong position'' but most of the time nature finds its form in one way or another.

ARCHETYPAL SITUATIONS

Returning to the Metabolism of Time we see that the ''characterization'' of time which provides our archetypal situations requires an individual moment to be broken down into ten phases for the purpose of experience but that each moment although containing ten, takes on the nature of one e.g. each moment of ''analysis'' requires all ten phases but overall that period of time can be characterised as ''analysis''.  These phases are at the core of the nature of reality itself (Atziluth, the divine thought-process, if you like) and our genetics, our endocrine system, our personalities, etc are all expressions of the Metabolism of Time.   Each of these phases become archetypal characters, and then hosts (or tissues), as individuals differentiate and then conglomerate.

Returning to the idea of tempography, since the robust branching moment will, of necessity, be an archetypal situation and contain the appropriate guardian character the situation itself indicates the type of significant event i.e. the two variants of yourself that are linked at that moment.  In order to break this down along the lines of Raziel's Fourteen Minotaurs and to get into the nitty gritty, it is necessary to look at an exercise from the Sefer Yetzirah.

In the Sefer Yetzirah there are 7 Kingships of the Planets, which along with their transpositions make up these so-called minotaurs of the self.  They can be associated with the planets in several ways but the one that works best is this one:

• Wisdom/Ignorance- Saturn
• Wealth/Poverty - Jupiter
• Seed/Desolation - Mars
• Health/Disease - Sol
• Mastery/Slavery - Venus
• Peace/War - Mercury
• Beauty/Ugliness - Luna

On the Tree of Life there are 7 vertical paths (shaded purple) and therefore 7 positions for these Planetary Kingships and, by relating this to the Metabolism of Time*, we can look at the archetypal situations that are ''joined'' by such paths and thereby detect the underlying nature of the significance of the event, the type of synchroncities as you approach, and what timeline or minotaur can be successfully transferred to.

Lets finish up by attempting to apply this interpretation of Raziel's guidance to a ''practical'' situation!  For example then, I am wandering along the pre-existing timeline of the ''wealth minotaur'' of me (the Jupiterian version if you like), when I notice synchronicities increase and perceived time speeding up indicating that I am approaching a significant event and it is therefore possible to change lines.  This significant event has the archetypal situational nature of Remembering and Analysis of the Moment, the Mercurial path on the Tree of Life (and the Metabolism of Time), and has a guardian character who has similar physiognomy to the Mercurial character in superposition and in order to deal with this situation I must provide ''Mercurial'' passwords of one form or another.  Now, I must deal with the situation, or rather since the future already exists experience how ''I'' dealt with it, but where I am truly free is at the conclusion of this moment I can swap between my minotaurs, in this particular case I can swap between the wealthy minotaur and the peaceful minotaur.  We can also assume, for the sake of the next set of ''experiments'' that the type of synchronicities indicate the situational archetype that you are approaching at the moment.

Observe ye how the trees cover themselves with green leaves and bear fruit: wherefore give ye heed and know with regard to all His works, and recognize how He that liveth for ever hath made them so.  And all His works go on thus from year to year for ever, and all the tasks which they accomplish for Him, and their tasks change not, but according as God hath ordained so is it done.

The Book of Enoch

*The qabalistic issues with doing this relate to the ''mysteries of Daat'' - but for ease now consider the Depth of the West (or Yesod) the equivalent of the Altered Past, and Malkuth as the Actual Past or ''The Grand Moment'' - situational archetypes that relate to Luna the path that ''joins'' the Altered Past with the Actual Past are generally ''dream'' related.

Temporal Gradients

As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches going back and forth among the creatures.  The fire was bright, and out of the fire went lightning. And the living creatures went back and forth in appearance like a flash of lightning.

Ezekial's Vision

We watched three alien sci-fi movies over the last few days and all of them involved the Ezekial style UFO (wheels within wheels, etc) - Phoenix Forgotten, Attraction and Knowing.  Since we didn't pick those movies for their ship design it counts as a synchronicity I imagine.    Knowing is a Christian disaster movie about the end of the world with a theme of Determinism vs Free Will and I thought a re-watch might come in handy plus my partner had never seen it. At the same time I was directing and producing two short plays by Harold Pinter and shared the sound track from Sleuth which my partner pointed out was clearly pinched from Beethoven's 7th and then Beethoven's 7th was in Knowing!  Woah...

As magicians we are fairly used to this kind of synchronicity and we observe many of them throughout our careers.  One of the challenges of the 231 Gates Project - 2018 is that we are going to try and crack whether or not the nature of the synchronicities indicate the nature of the upcoming significant event and why.  As discussed in previous posts we believe that synchronicities increase in number as you approach a significant event and decrease as you leave one - and we are adding to this that we believe that the percieved forward motion of time seems to increase as you approach a significant event as well*.  Imagine the preexisting future like a rolling plain as you go uphill (away from a significant event) time slows and synchronicities decrease, and as you go downhill time speeds up and synchronicities increase. Generally magicians don't think about the de-synchronous (the reduction in the synchronicities as you leave an event - uphill) which is why you don't see this idea discussed anywhere, and often the magicians can mistake the synchronicity for the event itself.  The standard counter claim(s) to using synchronicities as some kind of measure or navigational aide would be a) you are only seeing the synchronous when you want to see it (confirmation bias), and in truth everything is in continuous synchronicity or b) there is no synchronicity only coincidence without any underlying meaning.

Last week I ended up in the top 1% of actors on IMDb (star rating) which was pretty crazy in terms of ''big magic'' considering where I started in 2015 (to put it in perspective I have moved up 1,500,000 positions this year).  Much like (pathwalking my way to) living in Edward Kelley's Tower it is certainly tempting to think of these kind of large results as the significant events of magic.  When I look back over my life though I can't think that the seemingly small inconsequential events that are somehow stuck in my memory are less significant and whether what sorcerers might consider ''big magic'' - in terms of power, wealth, attraction, etc - are really all that ''big'' in the grand scheme of things?    How are we measuring significance?  Is it even possible to measure significance from a presentist perspective?  Probably not as we can only truly measure it after the fact, after the life... but if Determinism is true then this life, and everything, has already happened and the future preexists. How do we measure that life - qualitatively or quantitatively?  Personal happiness?  Wealth?  Spread of genetics?  We need to know the answer to this, or at least have an understanding of the problems with finding an answer before we continue. 

We have a primitive understanding of a way of categorizing significance in the form of the Fourteen Minotaurs which are, in short, the archetypal life-paths of fourteen variants of you - the wise one, the foolish one, the rich one, the poor one, the healthy, the sick, etc - and we have talked before about the possibility of measuring these from a hypothetical median self but against what?  Each other?  Is there even such a thing as health, or beauty?  According to Raziel, if I can be so bold, the significance of an event lies only in its linkage of two different Minotaurs together - two different categories of you, its significant only in that you can change from one person to another, change the channel of yourself that you are watching and not significant in and of itself or against any benchmark of meaning.

What is this thing then that measures us without measure and kills us even though it doesn't exist?  My headaches because the world aches.
Fernando Pessoa

So lets analyse the synchronicities mentioned at the start of this post and reflect on what signifcant event could possibly be coming up.  They are all related to Ezekial, so can I expect an Ezekial-esque event to be approaching?  Can I be expecting another abduction type encounter with Raziel**?  Are these significant events significant because they serve as branching moments between two minotaurs if so which?   The problem with this line of reasoning is that the synchronicities could be mere happenstance and any ''abduction'' that happens is only because I am on my knees praying for it to happen and not that it was preordained.

Now as I looked at the creatures, behold a wheel was upon the Earth beside each living creature with its four faces.  The appearance of the wheels was like the colour of beryl and all four had the same likeness.  The appearance of their workings was, as it were, a wheel within a wheel.

Ezekial's Vision

*This is consistent with a kind of Doppler Effect for the perception of time.
**I had a dream last night, where Raziel was explaining time crystals to me - these are four dimensional time nuggets that contain the various coherent realisable timelines of an individual, or universe - I don't think they are the other state of matter previously announced this year?  I saw them in the dream, he held some in his hand, they were nugget looking things and they were orange, copper, or brass, they kept shifting colours within this range and whether they were metallic or not - is this golden beryl or the amber from Ezekial's vision?