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Heather Montgomery's avatar

I’m a little beside myself after reading this. I have Sun/Chiron conjunction at Aries 22°/23° and came across structural astrology not long after the eclipse. I received Wenner’s book 2 weeks ago and agree, my observations so far in considering the black luminaries helps me go deeper into my own understanding of the luminaries. I’m looking forward to learning how to work with this approach, as I couldn’t agree more with the idea that general astrology misses the ‘soul’ and integration of the shadow. Perhaps this is what Pluto in Aquarius will bring, an evolved approach with shadow and astrology?

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Ysette Guevara's avatar

Ooh! Someone else whose brain I can pic with regard to the black luminaries! I hope you stay in touch so we can nerd out. I really can't wait for her next book. My SN is conj your Sun/Chiron. Exciting times!

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Heather Montgomery's avatar

Thank you and yes, I would love to stay in touch. It seems like kismet!

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Brooke Kelly's avatar

Hello, Heather, and welcome. I couldn't help but notice you mention that you have your Sun cnj Chiron. I have been taking a course with the Quantum Planet World folks called Mayan Time and Magic and this has brought me back to my own Chiron/Alpha Omega. I have a t-square with C/AO being the handles are my Venus/Sun cazimi opp Mars. Also, I have C/AO to the third power as my teacher likes to point out. I am saying Alpha Omega as per Ellias Lonsdale. This side of Chiron named Alpha Omega defined as this: “…… this new planet changes time or conception of time. Alpha Omega directly brings in a time current flowing from future through present into the past. This time current has been called various names such as the dream time, but it is best understood as a power from a future world, sending back a living impulse to assist the present time world to organically open towards the future. The primary purpose of Alpha Omega is to restore the balance in timing and rhythm, so that the much livelier and more deeply energized future currents can bring their gifts into present time, thereby significantly heightening the active will of humanity" Since dear C/AO has been in the forefront with all these portals we have been in since the Aries Equinox, I am sure you have been going through a major initiation. And adding in Ellias's energetic take, this portal you are in I am wondering if it has led you to this Structural Astrology? Well, I love synchronicities :)

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Heather Montgomery's avatar

This is incredible information. A friend gifted me a session/reading with her for my birthday and I shared an extremely mysterious story that happened to me around the Libra solar eclipse last year. The background is regarding a gothic riddle written in the Cosmati pavement of Westminster Abby. In 2012, I watched a documentary about this pavement as they had just removed the carpet which had been covering the floor for a very long time. The presenter said that nobody understood what the pavement was about or what any of it meant. I was living in Colorado at the time of watching it and was fascinated that they mentioned a riddle written around the edges of the pavement which is meant to reveal ‘when the world ends.’ Perhaps more playing into 2012 fears, I dove right in and literally solved the riddle in less than 10 minutes. It was as if the answer just suddenly came to me and therefore, I assumed someone else would soon figure it out. Since the 12th century, this pavement/mosaic is the holy ground where the monarch sits on the throne during coronation and is anointed in a private ritual/ceremony. In the pavement there are planets and intricate patterns in tiles, it’s really quite something and feels like it holds a lot of mysterious information. Honestly, this begs for a longer telling, but to cut a long story short, during the Libra Equinox I delivered the answer of the riddle 11 years later to a philosophical geometer who is currently writing a preeminent book on the pavement and it’s philosophical meaning. I was attending a workshop at Dartington Hall (Totnes UK) where he was teaching us how to draw some of the patterns of the pavement’s tiles and I suddenly remembered the riddle and asked him if he was going to talk about it. He somewhat dismissed the riddle (maybe due to time and relevance) saying he didn’t really know what it meant. Essentially, the answer to the riddle confirmed the philosophical theory he had been uncovering in the geometric patterns on the floor. Spoiler, the answer has to do with merging heaven and earth (not the end of the world). I will never forget the look on everyone’s face when I mentioned that I had solved the riddle 11 years earlier and then shared the answer with the group. It literally felt like I had reached through time to deliver the message to him which he then said he would like to give me credit in his book for solving it! I had no idea he was working on an in depth book of the floor and no idea the answer was unknown at this point. The most mysterious part is that I never knew at the time of solving the riddle that I would ever live in England, I was confused by the answer as it didn’t really relate to ‘the end of the world’ and I had no interest (yet) in drawing geometry. I can literally track this mystery over the whole time span with transits of Chiron, my natal NN (Sag 03°), Mercury and Jupiter. In fact, I was literally gobsmacked by the improbability of it all and I experienced a very disorienting feeling about the nature of time, were we living life backwards in a way? What is past, present and future when it all may be happening in a single moment! As Plato says, time is just the moving image of eternity. My friend mentioned that the nature of Chiron has very much to do with jumping time, bridging past and future and now your message is helping me understand a much greater context and significance of this event. Perhaps the answer to this riddle is very important for reviving an old mystery school teaching? Like ancient stories needed for a future world are being revealed again in the current time (like you described above)! I was simply the messenger and felt like I was honouring something significant through a very unconscious motivation. It IS a struggle for me to sit with the mystery but wow, it is something when some clarity comes in. Thank you for sharing this with me.

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Brooke Kelly's avatar

Wow! I love this. Never a coincidence, right? I would love to hear more about this, this revival of old mystery school teachings. So many teachers are saying "we need new stories" or possibly buried stories that were more of the truth than what we have been fed. Thank you so much for this powerful share.

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The Circular Temple's avatar

Welcome to The Circular Temple Heather :) I hope you continue to enjoy what we publish here, and encourage you to consider contributing some articles yourself. We're always open to fresh ideas.

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Heather Montgomery's avatar

Thank you, and it would be an honour to share. What a great and well researched community.

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Brooke Kelly's avatar

Ysette, this is so beautiful. I am not familiar with structural astrology and although Paul has thrown a few mentions here an there and definitely gave me a run down on the Black Moon and the Black Sun, I never followed much further. However, your interaction with the eclipse energy I can connect with. I had watched an interview Pam Gregory had with Dr. Alex Ling and he mentioned the Hum he was hosting on the Eclipse and his structured frequency induced water that I did purchase. I prepared for the eclipse with my son (he tolerates me lol) We held ceremony and when it came time, we hummed in tune with those that were participating around the world. I felt the switch. What a powerful day it was. Thank you for sharing how it impacted you and your husband.

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Ysette Guevara's avatar

Oh, what a beautiful eclipse experience you had!! I tried ignoring the Structural Astrology stuff because I felt like I was already juggling so many topics, but I capitulated last fall. Now John wants to learn, too!

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