Thanks for that , Dan. Your point about our belly buttons bring to mind for me
a revelation I had many years ago, which I enjoy sharing every chance I get:
Every woman who is pregnant with a girl child is carrying not only her daughter
but the next generation as well, in the form of the nascent eggs in that fetus’
ovaries. Something wonderful!
Taylor Rockwell, PhD
On Jan 7, 2021, at 10:12 PM, Dan Cohen <danboothcohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When I was first introduced to Bert Hellinger and his Family Constellations,
the word Constellation was a loose translation of the German word Aufstellen,
which means arrangement or set up. In either case, they had nothing to do
with stars. Representation was a way of aligning one’s inner perception with
someone else, usually a family member of the person receiving their Family
Constellation.
For Hellinger, the essential figure in virtually every Constellation was the
client’s mother. She is the source of our life and if we cannot fully receive
from her, then our capacity to love is diminished. Hellinger’s Constellations
were alchemical, transforming the wounds of an adult- child who curses their
mother for failing them. They reestablish a loving connection embodied in
reverence for the eternal lifeforce that is pure motherly love.
Over 20 years of facilitating thousands of these processes, my
representations have evolved from role playing, to deep intuition, to
channeling ancestors and now perceiving and communicating into the infinite
information field that envelopes everything.
I keep asking, how? How does this work? I look to the latest experimental
science and the oldest myths for insight and theories. There is a common
connection: Light encodes consciousness; Information is the essential
property of the universe.
Looking at Mother from this perspective, the woman who birthed us and
ourselves as mother -however we embodied her - are merged with the archetypal
consciousness of Mother in all her manifestations. How we connect to her
influences how we are able to connect with our lifeforce, ancestral field and
spirit energies.
Every mother is a woman who have been impacted and influenced by her own
lineage and experience. Of those who endured the worst, not all behave nobly
or consistently, but all, involuntarily, because part of some deeper
assertion of life.
In this fall’s Science, Myth, Magic & Mystery class, celestial bodies
communicated with us. I did not make the class about starlight. Starlight
did. It communicated with us in representation. In our final class, the last
question we were left with was about the Mother – Mother Earth, the Moon, our
own mother, her wounds and wounding, our own embodiment of the energies of
creation and destruction, the Divine Feminine.
We did an exercise to asking each participant to tune-in to the archetypal,
spirit or ancestral resource that best supports their human journey. We
followed that with a collective Constellation on the theme of Mother: Full
Moon/New Moon.
Our bellies buttons are literally connected by a non-physical,
information-rich umbilical cord to everything, including the distant stars.
Multiple representatives felt starlight as their resource, including two who
remained silent throughout the process. Afterwards, they both said they felt
consciousness of blue light beaming to them from the Pleiades. One described
what she perceived:
“It's so important to keep the light alive. What I have seen was a circle of
blue light. Actually, there were creatures coming from another world, and
they were protecting us.” ~ D.T.
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Figure 1 The Beings of the Pleiades
The Wisdom of King Solomon, the Blessing Mother and the Death Mother in
Constellations
This inspired me to look at the archetype of Mother in myths and celestial
light. I went to the website of David Mathisen, a prolific researcher and
author who has published multiple volumes of books documenting that the great
myths of antiquity are based on the motions of specific stars and
constellations.
David Mathisen makes the astonishing claim that virtually all myths in all
cultures – are celestial metaphors. That is, the story and its characters
were told to ancient people by the constellations to teach them about the
spiritual wisdom.
Growing up, I was often told a story from the Hebrew Bible about how King
Solomon’s cleverness revealed the truth in a dispute between two women who
came to him arguing over who was a baby’s actual mother. To discover the real
mother’s identity, Solomon cleverly ordered the baby cut in two and half
given to each mother. The true mother broke down and begged the King to spare
the child and give it to the other, while the false mother agreed to kill the
infant. King Solomon, in his final verdict, declared that false mother’s
deceit and awarded the baby to his true mother.
David Mathisen goes to great lengths to show that the Bible story, and
versions of it that are thousands of years older come to humans directly by
starlight. He has assembled thousands of pages of documentation in multiple
volumes of books. He shows how this painting from 1649…
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Figure 3 Nicolaus Poussin: The Judgement of Solomon (1649)
Is taken directly from this array of constellations:
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Figure 4 The Wisdom of Solomon in Constellations. H.A. Rey (1952) Graphic by
Zsoka Scurtescu
In the story of King Solomon, the two mothers and the baby, the characters
are representatives of the Constellations in the night sky:
Hercules Swordsman
Northern Crown Baby
Boötes (herdsman) King Solomon
Virgo Blessing Mother
Pisces (not shown) Death Mother
This astronomical illustration of the night sky by H.A. Rey is drawn to
scale. Hercules is the swordsman holding his weapon above the living baby,
the Northern Crown. King Solomon is the constellation Boötes, the herdsman,
positioned in the middle. The true mother is the constellation Virgo,
reaching out her arm. Pisces is the false mother; she is not shown as this
constellation is the Zodiacal opposite of Virgo.
The Science, Myth, Magic & Mystery class was inspired by my lifelong study of
Johannes Kepler, the Renaissance’s greatest astrologer and the modern era’s
greatest astronomer. In 1618, he proved mathematically that the Earth orbited
the Sun, not the other way around. With this proof of the modern solar
system, humanity’s vast repository of star myths were discarded as falsified,
surviving only as astrology, which was deemed a pseudoscience by academics.
Four centuries later, Seeing with Your Heart is a way drawing from ancient
science to generate modern wisdom. Full moon and New ceremonies, honoring
celestial events such as eclipses and conjunctions, tuning-in, walking the
Field and standing in representation perception help us learn the hidden
architecture of human systems.
The star myth of the two mothers and the wise king teaches that motherhood
bestows life and also introduces the inevitability of death. The Mother
archetype includes the Blessing Mother who said to the king, “Give her the
living baby! Don’t kill him!” She wants to uplift and sustain life without
possessiveness. She endows the physical with the light of life.
The archetype also includes the Death Mother, she who suffered the loss of
her infant and became so blinded by guilt and grief that she reduced
existence to only physical attributes.
These two mothers exist within us. Sometimes we greedily grasp at the
physical, claiming ownership over what is not ours, ultimately killing our
true desires. At other times, we awaken to the truth of the spiritual realm
and nurture all life in its vulnerability.
Whether by the mycelium beneath our feet or by the distant stars, humans are
being called to reconnect our visible material world with the invisible
spiritual realm. Seeing with your heart opens the organ of perception to
receive these spiritual teachings.
Faces of the Moon
The shining face of the full moon
Mother gazing in our eyes.
We, her cherished baby
Pure, unblemished, wrapped in her light.
Come the new moon.
Full Moon Mother starved.
She’s gone.
Leaving us in darkness.
In our abandonment, she becomes our Death Mother.
Waxing and waning
We mimic her cycles.
Relationships rise and fall with the tides
Emotions peak and trough in waves.
Comes a time,
We pierce the illusion of childmind
See with stunned dismay that all moonlight is reflected.
The source of radiant light is within us.
We are radiant.
We are starlight.
We light the moon with our eyes.
From: <constellationtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Sarah Kerr
<sarahkerr@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: <constellationtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 12:02 AM
To: Constellation List <constellationtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [constellationtalk] Talking about the Field?
I'm looking for ways to talk about the Field and how to be in relationship
with it. It's such a wordless, felt experience for me that I'm struggling
with how to describe it in a piece of writing.
I can teach students to recognize and relate with the Field through
experiential exercises, but in this situation, I need to find language that
can transmit some of that to the reader.
Can anyone point me to books, articles, blog posts, etc that specifically
address the Field as we understand and collaborate with it in constellations?
Or could you share a bit about what and how you experience the Field, and how
you engage with it as a facilitator?
Many thanks
Sarah
Sarah Kerr, PhD
Death Doula & Ritual Healing Practitioner
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