Family Affairs
January 20, 2005
http://cainer.com/ericfrancis/jan20.html
Dear Eric,
My daughter seems to be going through my childhood, with the
same insecurities / feelings I had (sometimes even the same sentences -- that
she has never heard me say in her earthly lifetime) although she has had a
vastly different upbringing. I was brought up by grandparents who should have
lived in Victorian times -- no love, no nothing -- big fat zero. Now, is this
an imprint on the brain, passed down to mother and child? I was reading that
scientists have discovered that if the mother -- and even ancestors -- went
through a period of anxiety, it showed up chemically in the child's make-up. We
know so little of the wonders of the brain and wouldn't that be great if we
could tap into our ancestors lives through stimulation of a particular neuron,
but I digress -- or is it something to do with the planets (I'm May 1958, she's
June 1993). Perhaps a bit of both. I certainly know it is nothing to do with
nurture!
I'm asking because I know you do the children's horoscopes,
and I was wondering if any other mothers had asked a similar question.
Thanks
Kay
Dear Kay,
A pioneer named Dr. Stanislov Grof has discovered some
unusual evidence of the phenomenon of information being passed from generation
to generation in his work, described in the excellent book The Holographic
Universe by Michael Talbot. But if you ask me, it's really simple: if all the
information that makes a human being can be passed from one generation to the
next, why shouldn't some memories get passed along as well?
Human DNA is the most astonishing computer ever conceived
of. I have no doubt at all that the memories, knowledge, teaching, experiences
and feelings of many prior generations are recorded in the DNA and passed from
generation to generation. Where these memories fade, there is a huge pool of
tribal memory behind them, a pool as big as the
Just because we don't see this in operation doesn't mean
it's not happening. In the old days we would assume that if someone came from a
family of shoemakers, they got the talent from growing up in the workshop and
watching dad pound away. But it's just as possible that the information went
from one generation to the next.
All kinds of interesting stories are documented with adopted
children who had no contact with their bio parents, who in essence followed in
their footsteps. There are many cultures that worship and respect the ancestors
with deep reverence for this and many other reason. Many cultures believe and
live as if the ancestors are still among us. They have plenty of evidence for
this, and if we would look, so, too, would we.
Neurologists are another branch of scientists that have
uncovered some unusual connections between parents and children that we might
not ordinarily think of. For example, in the book A General Theory of Love, the
authors discuss the effect of the fetus developing within the mother of the
body and constantly being subjected to both her emotions and the vibrations of
her voice. We are learning language before we are born, and we are tapping into
our mother emotionally because we are part of her.
Neurologically, we remain a "hot ball of clay" for
the next two years as the limbic system, the part of the brain that processes
emotion and contains memory, develops. During this time we are usually in the
environment of the family of origin and we are tuning our mind to their
frequencies like musicians tuning up before a show. This is as close to hard
wiring as we can get, which explains a lot about why the apple doesn't fall far
from the tree, and why family patterns and indeed all emotional patterns seem
so intractable.
Homeopathic medicine provides some clues as well. Dr. Samuel
Hahnemann, its discoverer, developed the theory of miasmas, which are
essentially disturbances and disease roots that are passed from one generation
to the next, energetically. It's not about genes (unknown at the time) or the
environment (too simple to account for the whole effect, as you are seeing) --
there is just simply an energetic transfer from parent to child, and also,
within communities. So a good homeopath can, if necessary, treat the unresolved
states of the parents that we may contain within us that are troubling us in
some way: as psychic disturbance or physical disease.
Last, there is karma to consider. There are a lot of ways to
look at this, but one way to see it is in the astrological chart. The
alignments between parents' and children's charts are astonishing and, once you
can see the symbols, astonishing and undeniable. The coding for this is somehow
contained in the temporal order; that is, the passage of time. But the picture
of the relationship between the generations is evident, as are many subtle
images of the roles that the children and parents play in one another's lives.
I feel that it's essential for anyone studying astrology to
look carefully at the charts of their parents, and to look at their own birth
chart as a transit experience in the lives of their parents. We are an
experience that happens to them, as much as they are an experience that happens
to us.
Heck, we're all happening to one another all the time.
I hope that opens up the subject a little bit.
We'll take a more complex and challenging question on this
subject next time.
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