{"id":62229,"date":"2012-10-31T23:11:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T03:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=62229"},"modified":"2012-11-01T02:10:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T06:10:19","slug":"a-night-out-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/a-night-out-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"A Night out of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heather Fae Speaker at the grave of Sarah Christiana Krom at Old Tongore Cemetery in Tongore, NY (near the Ashokan Reservoir) in Ulster County, New York. Photo by Eric Francis \/ Book of Blue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s sometimes said — and I’ve said it a number of times here — that Scorpio time is when the veil between the worlds is the thinnest. Not everyone has a concept of what those veils are or how they work. You can think of them as an ‘outer’ experience of dimensions, where the psychic space that we share here on the physical plane adjoins a nearby nonphysical realm that we access, among other ways, in dreams.<\/p>\n

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Hurricane Sandy at peak intensity off of Florida on Oct. 25, 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is sometimes called the astral plane. There are a number of close-by regions, including the causal, mental and etheric realms. We are not divided from them by anything physical, though the body is the thing that most often seems to get in the way. At the center of it all is soul, that which illuminates all existence, despite how much clutter we put in the way.<\/p>\n

What is beyond the veil can be just as accurately thought of as inner realms that we contain and can access, if we’re open enough. It’s not the body that veils our awareness; it’s our belief in the supremacy of the body, or that it’s the only thing that actually exists. To investigate any other possibility is what’s usually described as a ‘spiritual path’. <\/p>\n

Legend, tradition and observation suggest that while the Sun is in Scorpio, the sign of death and transformation, the veils are thinner, which is another way of saying we have deeper access to ourselves. This is the time of year when we honor our dead (but still spiritually alive) ancestors. We can make contact with them; we can welcome them into our homes and our awareness; we can thank them and we can seek their help.<\/p>\n

In Western industrial society this is played out as Halloween — lawns are turned to bone yards, houses are decorated as if haunted, and it’s appropriate, for one night a year, to openly acknowledge the macabre fate that we all share.<\/p>\n

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In stark terms, we will all leave our bodies, which will likely be autopsied, buried in a box and left to rot in the ground, burned to ashes, or in rare cases, dumped into the sea. For one night a year, we can look at that, or consider it, even if it’s veiled in a fun tradition. It’s a very old tradition at that, one of the oldest we still celebrate in fact. In recent ancient times it was called Samhain (pronounced sah-wen<\/em>). I think it’s a healthy tradition, and it would be even better if we could openly celebrate the corresponding holiday in May, Beltane, which is the time to celebrate sexual union and the nearly universal erotic attraction of humans for one another and for nature.<\/p>\n

The two holidays work together: at this time of year, we acknowledge the final harvest and the impending winter, which in older times, many people did not survive. In the spring, we get a chance to celebrate the fact that we made it through a long, dark, cold night six months long.<\/p>\n

Tonight, those who have television or Internet are being shown images of another kind of death and transformation — the destruction that was brought to the shores of North America by a storm called Sandy<\/a>. The storm lasted from Oct. 22 through Oct. 31, with winds up to 110 mph. It made landfall three times, for the third and last time Monday night in Atlantic City, NJ. So far it’s known to have taken 165 lives. <\/p>\n

Tonight, people remain stranded by flood waters in their homes, if they’re lucky enough to have homes. Thousands were washed away and more than 100 burned in a little community called Breezy Point in Queens, where lots of New York City cops and firefighters live. Hundreds of thousands of people are wet, cold and hungry. We are getting a bold message that our experience here on Earth is transient and fragile. <\/p>\n

We’re also getting the message that how we treat the Earth is directly related to how the Earth treats us. While I am rating this event as having a high probability of being manipulated by scientific means, in any event it was aided by the melting of glaciers, the weakening of the Gulf Stream and the Jet Stream and rising ocean levels, all of which are the consequence of global warming. This is the second time in as many years that the East Coast has experienced a kind of ‘100-year flood’, and there have been a diversity of others — the first really strange one I remember (said to be a 100-year flood, with the first Planet Waves office in its path) happened in 1999<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This week, the message is getting through to even some of the thickest-headed people that climate change is real and that it has consequences. Remember that this storm comes after one of the hottest summers on record, which brought a massive drought in North America, and yet another year of wildfires.<\/p>\n

The world indeed is changing, and we are going along for the ride — at least for now. Remember, this is 2012, and we’ve been preparing for this shift in consciousness for a long time.<\/p>\n

In some traditions, the year ends at sundown on Oct. 31 and the new year begins at sunrise on Nov. 1. In this way, it’s the night out of time, a suspended moment when the veil between the worlds is the thinnest. We’re all a little closer to one another, in the spiritual sense; we are closer to our ancestors, and we’re closer to awareness of the consciousness of death — which is merely a reminder of change, and the delicate beauty of life. We have plenty to think about tonight, plenty to reflect on, and for which to be grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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