Og's Christmas Cracker

Dear Friend - As we pass through the portals of another New Year, 2010, I, like you, am contemplating the 12 months that lie ahead, observing the messages and synchronicities that add a little spice to the Christmas left-overs. Using the analogy of ship-board life - it seems that "we" are set forth upon a journey together, a journey that WE HAVE TO MAKE. Navigators sail "by the Stars", trusting the hand of Providence, envisioning the welcome at journey's end, whether the context is Drake's circumnavigation of the World, Star Ship Enterprise with Captain Kirk, Spock, "Beam me up" Scotty, "Bones", etc., or, "Round the Horne" with Kenneth Williams..!?

There will be questioning, doubts, and "issues", within our complex selves, and between us, as we have not yet achieved Perfection, though one might expect bold rather than bland ;- rough edges on distinctive "specimens"(you and I), that achieve a polish as they are tumbled together along the way. The motivation for the journey? Well, the "place" we are heading for is an evolutionary leap ahead of the "place" we have been for the last few thousand years. And we are turning homeward vastly enriched by our extended "posting"on "Spaceship Earth". (We are already "there", but we are not able, yet, to see this.)



Another analogy, to explain why we have been so often guests on this blue-white marble/marvel which careers through space at 19 miles per second:- here, and here only, can be found priceless "PEARLS" of great beauty. We don our diving suit ( the physical body), and descend into the murky depths. Creatures, known and unknown , some with bright Lures to tempt our interest, some vast and essentially benign, call to us or loom up in the darkened deep. By the light on our brow we discern the pearl-bearing shells, and, for a while lose ourselves in pursuit of these. Remembering, then , the "crew" above, (our guides, friends and companions in Spirit), we tug upon the guide rope, and, in response, are drawn back to the surface to survey and assess the treasures we have secured, then to enjoy a healthy span of Shore Leave:- rest, review, contemplation of our "dive", perhaps to plan another immersion once we are ready and the tides are right, for us.



Random things, found in Christmas Crackers, that might amuse:-



Alexander the Great to Diogenes, the "minimalist" Cynic Philosopher (sitting in his Barrel.) -" Is there anything I can do for you - I have a fair bit of clout around the place these days ?". Diogenes to Alexander:- "As a matter of fact, dear boy, you could stand aside, you are in the way of the Sun".



From John Hurt, Actor;- " I am only alive out of curiousity. I am very curious about where we are all marching".



Drake's Drum - from the well known poem ( try not to see this as being old-hat, chauvinistic, nationalistic nonsense, but as an invocation of what we might call the Spirit of Albion - enounced, perhaps, in the style of Sir George Trevelyan -who knew a thing or two about the power of the Spoken Word) :-



"Take my Drum to England

and hang it by the Shore.

Strike it when your powder's running low.

And if the Dons sight Devon

I'll quit the Port of Heaven

And drum them up the Channel

As we drummed them long ago".



Shiveringly good stuff.



When will Time end? 2012- or not ? Time will tell.... However, David Tennant the latest "Dr. Who" (a Time Lord), came to the end of his Time, on BBC T.V. on 1 January. Interestingly, our dining room clock stopped just after this climactic televisual event- as well as light bulbs and fuses popping off with unusual abandon over the last few days. What can it all mean ?? If this continues much longer I will be communicating before long from the 5th dimension, having indeed transcended Time.



As to the "Production" which is Life on Earth, and a phrase which has always intrigued me, since boyhood, from Shakespeare :- "All the World's a Stage, and all the men and women merely Players..." Quite so, though we tend to over-identify with the roles we have chosen and take it all too seriously at times. Do we, then, having completed our part in this great Production, get out of costume and back to our "true" selves on the other side of that great Stage Door?.



The Coming Buddha - "Maitreya"- the word is plural (I am told) meaning "FRIENDS" - that's you and I, all of us together, folks. How Aquarian is that?



Peter Deunov, Bulgarian sage, in his last communication before dying to this world, let it be known that he "saw" that we, in our Solar System, had been travelling, as he put it, through a vast area of the universe that had been contaminated with the debris, physical and Astral/Psychic, of a Galaxy long since destroyed, but that, quite soon, we would be emerging into a much clearer and "healthier" region, whereupon conditions would be much improved, as we become able to live as we were intended - in a new Golden Age, or similar. Good. V. similar to other prophecies and Insights concerning the next stage for Homo (showing glimmerings of) Sapiens.

Some would say that the next "label" could be "Homo Translucens". Look forward to it.





Forthcoming;- next session of Totnes Astrology Group (for those that need it/can get here!)

is on FRIDAY 15 JANUARY, 2010, 7.30 - 9.15 p.m. £10.00 . Subject:- there are several items to cover - The SOLAR ECLIPSE, 15 Jan ; JUPITER -now moving from Aquarius to Pisces; the SATURN-PLUTO square - How has it been, so far?



And;- at LUPTON HOUSE, Brixham Road, Churston Ferrers (between Paignton and Brixham here in South Devon) on Sunday 21 March (at the Spring Equinox);-



"THE JOURNEY" - an Itinerary for the Age of Aquarius, 1-5 P.M. £30.00.



Tel. 01803 867145 for info/details/to say hello. Totnes Astrology Group meets at 6, Plymouth Road, Totnes. My E-Mail : dave@starlynx.plus.com.



MANY THANKS for your kind attention. I wish you Joy in 2010 .



from OG . (aka David Matthews).