MAY AND JUNE 2012 MOON MAGAZINE

MAY AND JUNE 2012 MOON MAGAZINE SACRED EARTH RETREATS© Before printing this, please consider the environment! Note: This magazine is intended for the sharing of information about the Moon, the Earth and our evolution. Feel free to pass it on, or if you want to be removed from the circulation list, please send an email reply to info@arthurianschool.com with the word “unsubscribe” in the heading. Thank you. Note: SACRED EARTH RETREATS© is not linked to any specific belief, religion or system. It embraces all ways; knowing that we are all connected through the Oneness of Love. It advocates peace for all beings and holds the Earth and all of Nature sacred. It upholds the concept of self-empowerment for all. For more information see our website www.arthurianschool.com Hi everyone! A RUNWAY OF EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE We are still on a runway of evolutionary change - as we rapidly shape shift, one by one, through the time locks of 2012. Racing towards a hallmark date of 21 December 2012. RELENTLESS! This process has been relentless- hardly one process has completed as the next one begins. We have seen it with the powerful Wesak full moon on the 5th May, followed by the 20th May solar eclipse and then the coming 6 June Venus eclipse. Our bodies have been hammered by what one could call star planes of existence colliding and merging with those on the planet- often happening at night and in our dream state- sometimes in the day. And so the process for the body has been to bring out whatever needs healing or shifting- a very physical process to complete just as Mother Earth is also healing her imbalances and making way for new paradigms and ways of being. As if wearing a new coat, she is ready to receive her next level of upgrade- and we are going with it! BENCHMARKS We are having to “raise our game”! To be more aware and present than ever before. But this is a permanent process that requires us to sustain that higher level of awareness as our new way of being. Deep negative emotional and mental conditionings have to go and make way for the new. What is hidden can only but be revealed as all the veils of denser energies are falling away. Where you set your bench mark of consciousness is where you need to stay – there is no falling back into old habits- we are forced to keep reaching higher and higher. EXHAUSTION AND FATIGUE It is quite normal to feel exhausted and emotionally drained from time to time. The intensity will pass gradually as our bodies get closer and closer to our goal to become lighter and less dense just like the Earth. More light is coming into the planet and we are very much affected by it. Have you noticed how different you feel from day to day? Often there seems to be no logical reason for it - at all. It just shows you how rapidly we are all changing. NEW OPPORTUNTIES But at the same time we have an incredible opportunity to achieve levels of healing and awareness that have never been possible on this planet! There is so much support and possibilities to explore. If you allow your soul to guide you there. Make the most of these opportunities and, where necessary, ask for help. This is a journey we have chosen to do together – and together it will be! We are now one huge global community. With blessings of Love Elizabeth SACRED EARTH RETREATS© PRINGLE BAY www.arthurianschool.com info@arthurianschool.com telephone: (0027) 28 273 8277 international 028 273 8277 local mobile: (0027) 783716343 international 0783716343 local “Revitalise and Enlighten your Life with the Moon” OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELF HEALING SELF DOUBT AND SELF SABOTAGE The world is changing rapidly and we are having to rely more and more on our own intuition and inner knowing. We have to learn to trust that inner voice and ourselves. Yet there are deep patterns in our consciousness that sabotage and stop us from doing this. These patterns still sabotage our belief in ourselves and stop us from being in our true power. We are so used to the negative effects of this inner saboteur that we hardly notice it is there- we just mostly feel it as self-doubt and low self-esteem. But now is time to pay attention, become more aware and change it! So much more is possible at this time for self healing- we just have to do focus and the inner work. One way of identifying this pattern of self- sabotage is to focus on that inner voice that is often called THE INNER CRITIC. This elusive voice was born after some difficult experience in our very early childhood that created a split of our inner self. The split happened between the part of us that intuitively knew something was true and another part -called the Inner Critic - that was caught up in fear and took on the opposite negative judgement or criticism of an authority figure - family member, school teacher, etc. This caused us to doubt ourselves as a conditioned response. Nagged by instant self- doubt, it is impossible to create any true measure of lasting success- the sabotaging inner critic will make sure that whatever we try to create will fail or at least be less than what we are capable of. It is a recurring pattern that needs to be removed from our old fear conditioning. Here are some helpful questions to help you work through a process to understand how your specific Inner Critic operates in your life and what kind of devastation it causes. A helpful way to study the Inner Critic is to see how it manifests itself on the outside in the form of someone or some situation where we are criticised. Write down the following questions on a blank piece of paper and then sit quietly and write down any answers that come as instant thoughts to you- a bit like a brain storming session. With time you will find more and more thoughts coming to you and you will be able to unravel the pattern that gets triggered inside - a huge change already! You are becoming aware and can choose to strengthen the intuitive voice instead of the inner critic or saboteur. This simple process has been very beneficial for me and I am very grateful to share it. PROCESS QUESTIONS: 1. SITUATION: Think of a recent or past experience where you felt uncomfortable or unsafe because you felt criticised by someone or a situation. Try to imagine that you are in that situation and once again experiencing it. 2. FEELINGS: What feelings came up when this situation occurred. 3. BODY: Where in your body did you feel any sensations. 4. THOUGHTS: What thoughts came up in you that were defensive or negative. 5. MEMORIES: Try to remember what it reminds you of - old memories triggered as a child or younger you. 6. CONDITIONED BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSE: How did you respond- you may have withdrawn or tried to fight back or accommodate. This behaviour has become a coping strategy that you instinctively use each time a similar situation arises. 7. PAY OFF: What was the pay off. Your coping strategy was used when you were helpless and to help your fear and discomfort go away - so the pay off may be that the attention was taken away from you, or you got what you needed in some way in order to be safe. 8. COST: But what was the cost of your response. With all coping strategies there is always a cost – this cost could be e.g. that you became isolated from others, or unable to give voice to your needs, or lost love, or felt bad about yourself. MEDITATION: 1. Once you have written down some answers. take yourself back to the experience again and imagine that you, the grown up who has survived the fearful situation during that time, is able to connect with and support your inner child/the younger you. 2. Tell that part of yourself who was in fear that she/he is safe now because you are there. 3. Call on your Intuitive Self to also support your inner child/younger you. 4. Explain to your inner child/younger you that they are wonderful and that they can trust themselves instead of the negative judgements of the person intimidating and criticising them. 5. Explain that only an opinion that is loving, supportive and encouraging is true and worth listening to. 6. Imagine holding the inner child/younger you in your arms and comforting them - thank them for coming back to you and into your heart. 7. Know that you have changed and are more complete. WITH LOVE TEACHINGS AND ARTICLES MORE ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITIES AND LONG TERM EFFECTS OF THE 20 MAY 2012 ECLIPSE: THE EFFECT OF SOLAR ECLIPSES Solar Eclipses have a profound effect on the Earth’s subtle energy grids and ley lines. All powerful events that occur on Earth leave energetic memory imprints in the Earth’s energy grids. These can become amplified and perpetuated by the energy flow through the grids, which is fed by the movements of the Sun, Moon and planets overhead. Powerful negative imprints, such as war, misuse of power or emotional trauma can block or damage the energy flow in a particular region of the planet, causing the energy to become distorted. Eclipses provides opportunities to release these negative energy imprints and enable new, positive patterns to become encoded into the Earth grids. Hamish Miller, the late renowned UK dowser, found that, as an Eclipse shadow passes overhead, the Earth’s subtle energy lines power down to almost nothing, becoming indiscernible to dowsing; then as the Sun’s light returns, the grids spring back into life. This is a bit like deleting an old computer programme, loading a new one, and then re-booting the system. THE ECLIPSE OF 20 MAY 2012 This Eclipse begins west of Hong Kong, then passes north of Taiwan and over Tokyo and Mount Fuji. It arcs up just south of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska at Maximum Eclipse (at 23:47 Universal Time), then makes a landfall at the northernmost edge of the San Andreas Fault. It passes over Mount Shasta, then crosses Nevada, Utah and New Mexico, and ends just inside Texas The eclipse on 20th May will release the energetic ‘thought-forms’ and patriarchal archetypes of at least the last 5,125¼ years, and probably the last 25,626 years of the Galactic Great Year. The Eclipse will release negative imprints left from the misaligned expression of male power in the Pacific Ocean grids. In the Pacific Ocean grids, the misaligned use of male power expressed itself in some of the most horrendous battles of World War II, particularly in such important energy points as Midway Island, which lies right at the very heart centre of the North Pacific grid; similarly at Iwo Jima and Hawaii itself, with the bombing of Pearl Harbour. The imbalances in the grid were deeply aggravated by the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And of course more recently, due to the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima power plant. From 1946 to 1958, the United States conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, a pivotal anchor point in the North Pacific Grid. The total yield of the 67 tests was the equivalent of more than 7,000 Hiroshima bombs! At the Aleutians Islands, in 1969 the United States detonated a one megaton nuclear weapon at Amchitka Island – the small band of protesters who sailed out there to try to prevent this were responsible for birthing the Greenpeace environmental movement. As the eclipse releases these old patterns, held within the grids, it will bring the possibility for seeding a new expression of male power that is fully aligned with the heart and the spiritual will, and so enable collective healing at a personal and global level. This will mark the beginning of a whole new paradigm of consciousness! THE PLEIADES The significance of this Eclipse is further enhanced by the exact conjunction of the Sun and Moon with the Pleiades. This well known cluster of stars, above Taurus, has held a significant position in world mythology throughout the Ages. To the Maya, the Pleiades represent the handful of maize seeds from which the original humans were born. While the old patriarchal patterns of the last 5125¼ years are being released by the Eclipse, hidden behind the eclipsing Sun, the Pleiades will be planting the seeds of the new consciousness that will begin to birth the new 5125¼ year cycle, that begins after 21st December 2012, as the Solstice Sun emerges from the centre of the Galactic Equator, which the Maya perceived as the ‘womb of Creation’. This Eclipse marks the ‘point of no return’ on our journey towards the December Solstice 2012. The more we are each able to release emotional attachments, thoughts and ideologies that hold us back from experiencing full conscious awareness of our connection with the Oneness of all Life, the smoother the transition will be for us. The May Eclipse brings a golden opportunity to create Right Relations in all aspects of our lives and stand fully in the power of who we truly are and what we truly believe. (extracts by Marcus Mason see http://www.heavenandearthastrology.blogspot.com/) WHERE DO WE COME FROM? - a Pleiades creation story? An aspect worth pondering on is the impact and meaning of the lining up of the Sun, Moon and Pleiades stars that also happens during the 20 MAY ECLIPSE and incredibly powerful time for the Earth. THE PLEIADES It is relatively easy to locate the Pleiades in the night sky. Find the well known Orion constellation and follow the row of three stars forming Orion’s Belt to the closest and brightest star in our heavens, Sirius. Now follow the three “belt” stars of Orion in the opposite direction and you will see a bright slightly yellowish star called Aldebaran. Keep going in the same direction and following an imaginary straight line, and you will find a small cluster of stars that is sometimes only visible as a collective blur- the Pleiades. Many say that the Pleiades hold one of the world’s greatest ancient secrets – that takes us back to the little known world of the Ancients. MYTHS AROUND THE PLEIADES There are many, many recorded myths about the Pleiades. There is virtually no ancient culture that does not make reference to them or depict them in their art! Despite their relative small size in the sky, these Seven Sisters - as they are often affectionately called - seem to have distant and important connections that are only resurfacing now for us to understand in a totally new and much more empowering way. AFRICA The Pleiades were and still are also commonly observed by the peoples of Africa. A South African missionary, Georg Schmidt wrote in 1837 about the Pleiades: “At the return of the Pleiades, these native (people) celebrate an anniversary as soon as these stars appear above the eastern horizon. Mothers will lift their little ones in their arms and …. teach them to stretch their little hands towards them. The people will assemble to dance and sing according to the old custom of their ancestors.” To the San Bushmen, the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades or “Kanandura” are a group of stars thrown into the sky by God. Another tribe - the Shona - calls the Pleiades Chinyamunomwe (the Seven). The Zulu, Sotho and Tswana people believed these stars die in the winter dusk and are reborn in the rainy season when they reappear in the evening sky. In Mali the fishing season starts when these stars leave the night sky. THE SUMERIANS A civilisation that seemed obsessed with the Pleiades was the ancient Sumerians who lived in the area of the Persian Gulf (now Iraq) where some of the relics are over 4000 years old. In most of the scroll seals, steles and reliefs, the 7 star constellation is clearly visible and given a lot of prominence. The Hawaiians also have a name for the Pleiades: Makali'i. There is even a sacred day for ceremony in the months of October and November when the Seven Sisters are directly over Hawaii. The creation story of the Aborigine is often portrayed in paintings and show the story of the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades, and the part they played in the creation of them as humans. The paintings speak of the metaphor of how they had come to be with the Aborigine tribe, then how they had been chased, and had "fled into the skies. The Maoris have a very similar creation story. Their name Matariki for the Pleiades is very similar to the Hawaiians name and they have created a New Year harvest festival around the Pleiades that exists to this day. THE PLEIADES RECORDED AS TEMPLES AND PYRAMIDS IN STONE But what is probably the most fascinating for me, is that is it now being shown that ancient civilisations such as the Mayans, Aztecs and Egyptians, not only depicted these stars in their artefacts and art, but plotted and built the stars of the Pleiades as actual temples or pyramids on Earth! It is well known that the ancient Maya, Aztecs and Egyptians all had similar religious beliefs – they all believed they came from the stars. The Maya claimed a celestial “ship” arrived from the stars carrying a king or god king whereas the ancient Egyptians were inspired to believe in gods that “sailed” down from the stars. THE MAYAN PYRAMID CENTRE OF TIKAL IN GUATEMALE One of the most interesting ancient sites I have recently visited, is TIKAL in Guatemale- thought to be the earliest pyramid site of the Maya. It has now been shown that the original layout of this pyramid/temple site exactly corresponds to the layout of the seven main stars of the Pleiades star system, called the Seven Sisters! Coincidence? I doubt it. It is as if these ancient sites – built with absolute precision and skill- have been laying dormant and are now being reawakened at a time when we as a humanity is ready to once again remember our true origins and who we really are! Maybe the 20 May alignment of the Pleiades with the Sun and the Moon will do just that- help us reach forward to THINK MORE DEEPLY ABOUT OUR TRUE ORIGINS and to be more connected to the stars than we have ever allowed ourselves to do until now… Blessings ELIZABETH (please also see Wayne Herschel - Hidden Records, Dean Liprini in his book Pathways of the Sun, KRYON BOOK TWELVE) TIWANAKU BOLIVIA - ANOTHER STORY OF OUR ANCIENT STAR CONNECTONS? Tiwanaku Archeological Complex: The prehistoric city of Tiwanaku is located on the southern shore of the famous Lake Titicaca along the border between Bolivia and Peru. The most recent heyday of this city was between A.D. 500 and 950 when religious artifacts from the city spread across the southern Andes. But when the conquering Inca arrived in the mid-fifteenth century, the site had been mysteriously abandoned for half a millennium. But even after its abandonment, Tiwanaku continued to be an important religious site for the local people and it later became incorporated into Inca mythology as the birthplace of mankind and the Inca built their own structures alongside the ruins. Of all the ruins in Central and South America, Tiwanaku has especially been a magnet for strange theories. In the early twentieth century, Austrian astronomer H.S. Bellamy insisted that the metropolis was a result of one of Earth's former moons crashing furiously into the ground. It was considered absurd to think that a civilization could actually flourish as high as 13,000 feet above sea level. In the late 1960s, writer Erich von Daniken concluded from his research that aliens set up a base at Tiwanaku and erected the great monuments using their extraterrestrial technology. He used as evidence a biblical interpretation that the prophet Ezekiel had been abducted by these same cosmic beings. (http://www.archaeology.org) Whatever its origins, Tiwanaku remains an integral locale in the religious lives of Andean people of modern Bolivia. At present it is thought that creators and bearers of Tiwanaku culture (this pronunciation is said to be the closest to the original) were the forefathers of the present day Indian nation Aymara — the second largest population among the native/indigenous people of South America. Similar to the present day Bolivians, residents of the ancient Tiwanaku empire were not aggressive. They conquered new subjects not by using weapons, but by authority, preaching the peaceful coexistence of tribes that are engaged in constructive labour. That is why in ancient Aymara tombs there are almost no weapons, but rather an abundance of diverse implements. Thousands of tourists pass through the site each year, many to watch the sun rise on the summer solstice. On 21 June, the winter solstice for the southern hemisphere, the great festival of Aymara New Year (Machaj Mara) is celebrated at Tiwanaku. The festival draws as many as 5,000 people from around the world. The main event is sunrise, when the rays of the rising sun shine through the temple entrance on the eastern side of the complex. Locals wear colourful ceremonial clothing for the event, and visitors are welcomed to join the party, which includes drinking singani, chewing coca and dancing until dawn. Local artisans hold a fair to coincide with the celebration. History & Context of TIWANAKU Nestled in a Bolivian highland valley 13,000 feet above sea level, the broad altiplano of Tiwanaku is defined on three sides by mountain ranges and on the fourth by Lake Titicaca. Approximately in the middle of the valley are a series of large mounds and small platforms marking the centrE of the city of Tiwanaku, occupied ca. A.D. 500-950. A dense scatter of ash and pottery and other artifacts is witness to the fact that a large population once lived around these monuments. For half a millennium, Tiwanaku artefacts -mostly religious in nature -were part of the southern Andes culture. By the time the Inca came to Tiwanaku around the middle of the fifteenth century, it had been abandoned for hundreds of years. But even in ruins, Tiwanaku posed a greater challenge to the Inka Empire than any of the indigenous groups it fought during its conquests. Clearly, here was a civilization far older than theirs! And so the Inca claimed, that their creator deity, Viracocha, made the first peoples of the Andes from clay and then the first Inca, whom he then sent to Cuzco to found the empire. The silent monoliths were proof of Viracocha's creations. The first Spanish chroniclers were amazed by the size and antiquity of the structures at Tiwanaku, and for the next few centuries a number of notable observers travelled to visit what became known as the "American Stonehenge" or the "Baalbek of the New World." Puma Punku Archeological Complex Across the railroad tracks south of the main Tiwanaku site is the archaeological site of Puma Punku (Gateway of the Puma). This complex arouses more questions then answers with scientists - the most important question — what was its hierarchical relationship with Tiwanaku? Was it subject to Tiwanaku? Competitive? Or independent? According to huge stone blocks of the former Pyramid temple in Puma Punku one can easily guess that its master builders must have possessed immense power and mobilisation of power. Otherwise how could one arrange sculpturing of these blocks that weigh 30-130 tons (!!!) and moving them from stone quarries 10-12 kilometers away? Often parallels are drawn between these figures and Moai at Easter Island. UPCOMING SACRED EARTH RETREATS AND EVENTS Please see the exciting new retreat in Hawaii for 21 December 2012! Learn to live with spiritual intent. SACRED EARTH RETREATS © PRINGLE BAY www.arthurianschool.com info@arthurianschool.com telephone: (0027) 28 273 8277 international- 028 273 8277 local mobile: (0027) 783716343 international- 0783716343 local This magazine’s stated intention is to be for the Highest Good of All and to harm no one.