Forget about the book. Let’s have a conversation. That’s all that’s left after all is said and done anyway: just you and me and the rest of our human brothers and sisters dialoguing our way through the problems and into solution-consciousness.
I’ll start and you just chime in whenever you feel like it.
Here’s the essence of my thoughts last fall when I tripped over something I wasn’t looking for while I was on a quest to find something else … this is a sequence of posts to one of my discussion groups where I share things like this so we can kick them around while I settle into a position to take on behalf of The Quintessential Ophiuchus …
[If you want to follow along with me, you can read the book I'm referring to too. There are downloads at the bottom of this page.]
November 1, 2010
- Mars transits the nubs where the claws of Scorpius the Scorpion were snipped to make the 12th Constellation Libra
- Moon transits Sextans beneath Alpha Leo, Regulus, the Royal Heart of the Lion
You know how it is — someone sends you a link to something they know you will like and you don’t get to it for 5 or 10 years … well, here is something I just got around to reading.
Mary Magdalene | Pistis Sophia
I am sharing this important Gnostic work with anyone interested in spiritual anthropology, Constellation Ophiuchus, Asclepius and Jesus as savior figures. It is GRS Mead’s second and most important edition of his work PISTIS SOPHIA. It’s pretty incredible, if you know how to grok the significance of it.
This book is not an easy read but the number of pages is deceptive. There isn’t a lot of content per-page. You may have to be on a quest for knowledge and thirsty as a parched camel for information about how things came to be, both in terms of how the ancient wisdom was lost to the new religion (Christianity) and what happened to the power and standing of the Divine Feminine on this planet.
If I hadn’t belaboured this question already over the past 10 years I would right now be confused as to whether to sob out my sorrow or be angry. As it is, I’m pretty much over it. But beginning at page 93 of the text I found yet more ammunition that supports my theories concerning the significance and relevance of Constellation Ophiuchus as I have come to grok it.
November 4, 2010 - UPDATE
- Mars still in Scorpius
- Moon transits Virgo in the Coma-Virgo X-Ray/Radio Galaxy Streaming
My overall and lasting impressions after reading Pistis Sophia almost twice (by the time I went back to highlight key passages) are as follows:
I don’t think it is out of the realm of reason to correlate the thirteenth aeon of Pistis Sophia with the 13th sign, that being Constellation Ophiuchus.
In all the time I have spent researching the roots of Constellation Ophiuchus, I have spent a lot of time being emotionally stuck between my Christian roots and my new gnosis concerning the esoteric and exoteric wisdom of world cultures (specifically the Egyptian and Greek in this case).
As a child I loved Jesus and my Bible stories; later in life as I embarked on my Goddess Spirituality path, I became angry at men. After discovering the abrupt and mysterious end of Goddess Spirituality and the abrupt and violent end of the path of Asclepius, God of Wisdom & Healing at the hands of the Christian Soldiers crusading for Christ, I was REALLY conflicted.
Currently reading ISIS UNVEILED (Blavatsky) and Pistis Sophia has opened my eyes and connected some vital dots for me in my virtual sky (no pun intended but the metaphor fits).
I now see how the pieces fit together so all may meet and kiss in grace and peace (to coin a phrase used in Pistis Sophia, however badly I have remembered it).
I now see that the third revival of Asclepius and the second coming of Christ are one and the same. As God of Wisdom & Healing, the savior role of Asclepius was implied and latent. For it to be actualized, he did have to be thrown under the bus by his successor-in-interest, Jesus of Nazareth.
So I concede, the 13th Constellation does have Christ properties.
However, as I maintained when I stopped writing my “book draft” – the Goddess is what is supposed to be there, not Asclepius, and not Jesus. Christianity abhorred the snake. Jesus walked under the banner of the lamb and the shepherd’s crook. Although the 5th, Creative, element certainly alludes to Christ, the energy in that slot is essentially feminine. So, I wondered how that would all work out.
All the elements combine in Constellation Ophiuchus so that none is left out, not Asclepius, not Goddess, not Jesus. The mysteries can all be answered in this section of the sky. I did not run across one reference that seemed to be a thread out of place in this cosmic tapestry spanning time and creation.
November 17, 2010
- Mars at the Heart of Ophiuchus
- Mercury in Ophiuchus separating from alignment with Alpha Scorpius, Antares the Heart of the Scorpion
- Moon in Pisces
I sure don’t know, but the Buddhists are in there somewhere. It sounds like Buddhism is the connecting thread that links the Oriental and Christian mythos through Gnosticism as a sort of meeting ground. There were apparently a variety of what I’m hearing described as “pre-Christian” or “Christian” sects long before Christianity as we know it was fully formed and the Bible put together by the “Church Fathers”. This is my current understanding (subject to correction and/or refinement).
So now, following along on our conversation thread that started with Pistis Sophia, I’m now seeing Ophiuchus in a “trans-personality” way. My grasp now is beyond the mythos of the man or the archetype. Exploring the Ophites, I can see clearly the relevance to the book The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom by Mark Amaru Pinkham.
Did everyone get that book? It really is interesting. I don’t seem to be able to stick with too many books these days. This book held my attention from first to last.
So here’s where I’m at with the book (I figured this out today): I started with a body of stars that included Asclepius, Imhotep and Thoth. I progressed to finding the Lost Great Goddess and a place in Constellation Ophiuchus for the Minoan Serpent Goddess of Crete. And now I’m seeing how the Christos, Jesus, Christ, and Mary (possibly Mary Magdalene too) have their place in Constellation Ophiuchus, carrying the water-lit torch for Goddess, the Hidden and Unnamed.
If you read the material on Ophites after reading Pistis Sophia and my book draft, you can see by now a recurrence of the same puzzle pieces over and over again, now turned from the legends of a man into icons and symbols for concepts and a living tree of life, floating in the air, flashing, and with a serpent wending its way through.
At this “beyond information” level, there is no characterizing or personalizing Ophiuchus. Ophiuchus means literally Serpent Holder or Serpent Bearer. When “Zeus placed Asclepius in the sky” he called the stars Ophiuchus, not Asclepius. I have always maintained there is a good reason why the writers of the books recorded it that way consistently. Some of the quoted resources I have drawn from I got out of the collected works of scholars and these same men now I find were Gnostics and — now I see — they were Ophites as well.
It’s not necessarily a man who is embedded in the sky but a book or a manual or a map, or maybe all of these, drawing from Atlantean, Egyptian, Greek/Greco-Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Buddhist, pre-Christian-Christian gnosis and it’s filed under the title OPHIUCHUS, a generic volumne, not Asclepius, a geo-centric, culture-specific age or hero.
That having been said, each representative of the collective archetype (“collective archetype” was one of the early phrases I wanted to use in my Ophiuchus book title) is a true hero or their mythos would not have survived to contribute a chapter to the book.
This is literally an Akashic Record. Akasha is Ether. Living Light. Read the definition of the Ophites’ concepts on the Emanations of Creation. Not that the Ophite version is THE RIGHT version (who knows?), but certainly the stars of Ophiuchus are up there so the Ophite version is probably not just “close to it”, but the definitive book to use in addressing the problems we face as we head into 2012. So in terms of a Decoder Ring, I would use the Ophite Diagram.
What do you all think about that?
That’s my current concept. Subject to change or refinement. This is how my whole book writing project has gone. Like a snake. It sheds its skin once every year or two and shows me brand new colors. I love it. It’s been a great path to be on.
December 2, 2010
- Sun in Ophiuchus aligned with Alpha Scorpius, Antares
- Mars in Ophiuchus aligned with Beta Ophiuchus, Cebalrai
- Moon in Constellation Virgo separating from conjunction with Alpha Virgo, Spica and applying to a conjunction with Venus in Virgo
When I get to the point of pulling all of this together to add to the infamous ‘book’ it is rumored I’m still writing, I will probably expect to find the following snippet here in this Blog about the Pistis Sophia.
I’m reading Blavatsky’s Isis Unveiled, the “abridged” version (thank Goddess someone wrote a “Cliff’s Notes” version for those of us who don’t have the viscera to go the distance anymore).
PART TWO: RELIGION, Chapter 23 The Vedas and the Bible
p. 218
Nearly all the prophecies about Christ are credited to the patriarchs and prophets. If a few of the latter may have existed as real personages, every one of the former is a myth. We will endeavor to prove it by [here's where my jaw hit the floor] the hidden interpretation of the zodiac and the relations of its signs to these antediluvian men.
[skip some paragraphs - get to the point]
p. 219
This stupendous conception [the true nature (according to HPB and her resources) of creation and the cycles of expansion and contraction] the ancients synthesized for the instruction of the common people into a single pictorial design–the zodiac, or celestial belt. Instead of the twelve signs now used, there were originally but ten known to the general public, viz.: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo-Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, and Pisces. These were exoteric. But in addition there were two mystical signs inserted, which none but initiates comprehended, viz.: at the middle or junction point where Libra now stands at the sign now called Scorpio, which follows Virgo. When it was found necessary to make them exoteric, these two secret signs were added under their present appellations as blinds, to conceal the true names which gave the key to the whole secret of creation and divulged the origin of “good and evil.”
June 26, 2011
- Sun in Constellation Gemini – yes, it’s me thinking again
- Moon
- conjunct Jupiter and Sheratan (Beta Aries) in Constellation Aries (Ecliptic coordinates)
- conjunct Jupiter and Hamal (Alpha Aries) in Constellation Aries (Equatorial coordinates)
I’m skimming and re-reading parts of Pistis Sophia this morning. It occurs to me I ought to enter my position in case anyone else is thinking of boarding this thought train I’m on and needs to know where it’s headed as we approach 12/21/2012.
For the record my position is that the material offered in Pistis Sophia is not the Alpha and Omega of it.
Perhaps it is up to Mary to elevate herself into the Thirteenth Aeon herself and be rid of the suppressors once and for all by eliminating the thought from her mind that she needs anyone’s permission, even Jesus’s to seek more Light and ascend into her own Aeon.
If her crime was that she wanted more Light so she could sit in the Divine Presence, perhaps being so long sojourned in Chaos she does not realize that Light and Divine Presence are within her own bosom. She may have only to decide she is fully there to actualize the final step of the process. Form follows Thought.
Rev. 06/26/2011
Downloads:
- Pistis Sophia – GRS Mead (982 kb) – Thorough investigative reporting demands we read the dry and taxing Introduction for context. There are many Ophidian treasures to be found there if you can stay awake and focused!
- Pistis Sophia – GRS Mead (Highlighted) (1.93 mb)
- Ophites – HP Blavatsky (32.2 kb)
- Ophites – Gnosis.org (68 kb)
- Ophites – Legge (1.9 mb)
- I also saved the Wikipedia page on the Ophites but after reading what they had to offer on the topic of Asclepius recently (like as of about 2 days ago–it’s paltry), I’m not sure I want to recommend Wikipedia as a source on this omni-sensitive topic. I found it useful as a springboard, but read and take as gospel at your own risk. :-X
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“a book or a manual or a map”
It just hit me this morning. It’s DNA. Ophiuchus is DNA.
About a week ago I finished reading Lee Carroll’s book, Kryon Book 12, The Twelve Layers of DNA (An Esoteric Study of the Mastery Within). It’s a mind-stretching book, and I have already lent it to someone, but it’s all consistent. The healing that is possible (and that some in history understood this), the knowledge, and the transformation. The two strands intertwined like serpents.
And so I couldn’t help googling Serpent and DNA, and I get this summary of a book called: Cosmic Serpent, The Origins of DNA and Knowledge. http://deoxy.org/narbystew.htm
Ok, so I’ll put this out there, too. When I was about 10, I had a recurring dream. It was all numbers and like I was figuring out a solution to a math problem in my head. I would get one step away from figuring it out. And I knew that the solution was the answer to everything, to solving the Universe. It was all very logical. I would always wake up one step away from that answer. I’d be hanging on to the dream, half lucid while my mom would ask me if I was ok, and I would answer with half numbers, half responses until I came out of it.
Could this be my answer?
Hi Meg
The whole of the Celestial Sphere is the DNA. Taking a look at the Sky Chart for the moment of your birth will help us determine which codons are turned on and off. So no, I don’t get that Ophiuchus is DNA but I see where you’re coming from.
The wonderful “Cosmic Serpent, The Origins of DNA and Knowledge” by Jeremy Narby, Ph.D. is on my Recommended Reading list. I will check both Startistics and Astronomologer to make sure it’s prominently listed – thanks for the reminder.
And LOL I think the answer to your math dream is 42 — at least according to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a perfectly delightful book and movie that never ceases to delight. \o/
Ok, so now I have to watch that movie again… it has been a long time!
I know so little about your areas of expertise….so thank you for letting me put things out there and “think out loud”. All part of the fun of it, yes?
And, more reading to do….:)
Absolutely. Hey – just because I sound like I know it all doesn’t mean I do. I’m trying to figure things out down here just like everybody else. I’ve simply been so focused on the so-called “13th Constellation” for so long that I have collected a lot of information on it and connected a lot of dots over the years. I always want to be open to correction, new ideas and new information. Thanks for participating in the conversation everyone else who is interested should be having. This affects all of us. \o/
Dear Meg,
It’s a bunch of months later and I’m re-replying to this comment. Yes. The Celestial Sphere can be seen as DNA as can Ophiuchus be seen as DNA. The concept of the Cosmic Serpent and DNA does seem to apply more to Ophiuchus than any of the other ‘signs’. AND yet the entire Celestial Sphere is a DNA pool.
As I said, I’m still working on figuring all of this out along with the rest of humanity — or at least those who are musing over the meaning of Constellation Ophiuchus.
You rock!!
\o/
I just had a little trouble commenting w the CAPTCHA, so I’m going to put this comment in pieces!
I seem to have a hard times these days putting what I “know” into words. But I’m “knowing” or maybe a better word is recognizing some connections as I read your book.
Ok, so the first thread of connection I am seeing is to a book I read a while back, called Earth Under Fire by Paul LaViolette. Paul is a physicist and systems scientist. (also a really nice guy, we have corresponded some)
In the first chapter of this book, he describes his discovery that the 12 signs of the Zodiac are an encrypted description of the principles of open systems creations physics, each describing a physics concept. The Tarot and the Sphinx provide the keys to putting the signs (concepts) in the correct order. There’s too much here for me to repeat, but as I reread this chapter, and his references to his other book, Creation of the Cosmos (which apparently describes the concepts in much more detail), it seems to me that you and he are exploring the same subject matter each from your own perspective.
The second thread of connection is the idea of the 12 + 1. Here’s a place where it is discussed:
http://www.earth-keeper.com/EKnews_11-25-08.htm
The idea being, that when we are able to synthesize the 12, that becomes the 13. I don’t know if I am saying that right. Maybe that the 13th emerges when we are ready to put the 12 together. So, the 13th sign emerges now (after 1987) and brings it all together. The message of healing, wisdom, rebirth without death. How perfect!
I am having that same feeling of, either I am crazy or this is really cool !
So here’s one quote from the channel referenced above. It is not talking about the signs of the Zodiac, but look at what it says “generically” about the 12 and the one:
“Yes, 13, but only one holding the full energy of the 12. So then were there manifested 12 that represented each of the 12 singular aspects of the one, and so the 12 surrounding the one in the center (my comment: the Galactic Center is in Ophiuchus, right? in between Sagittarius and Scorpio, and Paul in his book refers to the center of the physics concepts as in between Sagittarius and Scorpio), became in time a ceremonial and symbolic observance. Each one of the 12 then represented an aspect and an expression of each of the 12 … So then yes, each of the 12 is one twelfth of the one, the one containing the whole. In that way there are 12….But again we wish to be clear, the 13 is the one whole and the 12 parts of the whole. And the one is the carrier of the human paradigm, and that pattern is imbued within the Divine Mind of all mankind, as the soul is imprinted with it entering this experience. “
Hmmm. I have no comment on this lens perspective. I don’t make any attempt to intellectualize 13. It is what it is and I leave it at that.
You’re not crazy. Did you read Chapter 2. The Ophiuchus Family Tree ~ Celestial Branch? See especially the material quoted in the inset about the Mazzaloth.
Yes, I read that and it’s part of what sparked me thinking about the 13 being transformative. The quote about the 12+1 was about explaining crystal skulls…but interesting to me that it is a similar idea, that there is a 13th that brings it all together and synthesizes the 12.
I tend to have way too much in my brain, and it all fits together and makes sense…and the more this happens, the more I read and think and explore, so the more there is…it’s like an explosion in my being. Yet I know I haven’t scratched the surface.
I tend to read a little of everything, and I get ignited when I see these kinds of parallels. I know you already know they are everywhere!
I’ve read a lot of your book but I went back this morning to read it “cover to cover” I’m on Chapter 7.
You’re doing GREAT, Meg! Keep up the good work! \o/
Cool. I like being in good company. \o/
Sorry about that! The CAPTCHA was necessary to wave the spam-bots off.
If you are at the point where you can no longer put your understandings into words and you realize how little you know, congratulations. You have arrived. \o/
Yes, I’m there!! Yeah!!
Mary Magdalene is the Feminine Christ. She doesn’t need anyone’s permission to be the Light that She Is!
I figured that out just a nano-second before I found your comment, Celia. Well and authentically said. Thank you for the validation and for confirming we need not worry about this issue anymore.
THANK YOU.
\o/
And by the way, in case anyone is wondering, I had NO PLAN for the chapters as I began to add them to the Startistics blog site in an effort to just plain get the facts out. The chapter number 13 just happened to be in the right place at the right time. This is the way my whole path has gone. And as you know, when your numbers are running like this, you know you’re on track. I expect the energy of this information which is now fed completely into the Ophidian Current online to act as a closed circuit and as such activate both the serpent energy that streams throughout the planetary envelope but also the crystalline serpent energy latent in our computers which resides in the silicon wafers our cpu chips are made out of. These are known as mundane crystals. Any questions?