Macro: The Sleeper Awakens

The Sleeper Awakens

Higher math and science is something that a lot of people avoid and even fear, and sometimes with good reason. If you are a computer science person, you know the word macro to mean a patten of instructions which maps inputs-to-outputs. A macro could be compared to information contained in the glyphs on a natal chart, which represents positions inside the celestial mechanism. A larger block of coded information is able to be extracted from a small sequence of symbols; information enfolded within space-time, about space-time. Astrological archetypes contain the basic elements of this macro-instructional code. The parallels to astrology and computer language start to become more apparent when you think in terms of cosmic programming with bits, bytes, machine & assembly languages, protocol, macros, etc. These components form the ingredients for low-level, second-level and high-level programing languages; the terms high level and low-level are, of course relative. In one respect, Earth-based natal astrology is a collective undertaking for deciphering the intermediary level programming language which the solar system uses to construct our biology (hardware) and our psychology (software). This space-time programming language is coded with a geometric 3D lexicon of shapes…

Part IV of IV-MACRO: Breaking the Fourth Wall Series

The Mysterium Cosmographicum

On July 19, 1595, Johannes Kepler had an epiphany (or he received a download of data) regarding the Copernican Heliocentric System and the orbits of the planets. "I believe it was by divine ordinance that I obtained by chance that which previously I could not reach by any pains.", he wrote. In 1597, he published his Mysterium Cosmographicum or ‘The Cosmic Mystery- The Secret of the World’, which revealed his theory of the five platonic solids as the fundamental scalarized structures of the cosmos. And, in turn he divined the ratio of the orbits of the planets around the Sun. Kepler was also relaying an ancient message from the past, which implies that the physical realm of the macro is built upon the energetic realm of the micro.

Most people tend to forget, or they chastise Kepler’s legacy about his work with astrology. When in fact, it was his function as the court mathematician to also make astrological predictions. These accurate prognostications are what brought him to notoriety in the first place. Also in 1595, the year of his epiphany, Kepler predicted a peasant uprising, the Turkish invasion of Europe (which led to “Thirteen Years War”) and the extreme cold weather of that year. Kepler had a profound understanding of patterns in nature and patterns through time. A closer look at the basic cosmic building blocks, the platonic solids, — and one in particular, the tetrahedron — reveal deeper geometric proofs of the foundations of reality.

“Another World All Around Us”: Merka-Bonds

"What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?” ~DUNE. We previously touched on the essential shapes, which comprise structures of atoms, molecules and chemicals. We discussed carbon-based energetic resonance, as basis for the connectivity of these structures. Recently, I was studying these connections (always with ‘as above, so below’ in mind), when I noticed the relationship to the methane (CH4) molecule and the position of Hawaii, particularly its degree of latitude. I had gone over both of these angles before, as I had been aware of them from different research. The tetrahedral bond angle of the carbon-based methane molecule is 109.47˚. The big volcano in Hawaii is on 19.47 North Latitude. So imagine placing the tetrahedron into a sphere, giving it an ‘equator’ and calculating the angles by subtracting the 90˚ right angle for your measurements. The tetrahedral bond angle is the same at any scale and falls precisely at 109.47˚ (or 19.47˚). To grasp the idea of resonant frequency, just imagine the opera singer shattering a wine glass at just the right pitch; you will intuitively understand ‘carbon-based energetic resonance’.

“By Will Alone I Set My Mind In Motion”

Unless you have been living under a rock on Arrakis since Frank Herbert wrote his classic sci-fi novel DUNE in 1965, you should have picked up a little bit of the spice-philosophy which has seeped into Western culture in the last five and a half decades. A new version of the film has just been released, so with that I dedicate this article to Frank Herbert’s prophetic visions and to Spice Malange. We come to this fourth and final installment of Breaking The Fourth Wall — Macro Reality. This has been a brief exercise in how astrological and evolutionary principles relate to the expanding details of our reality. In the first piece, we reviewed the meta- principles of perception underlying the matrix of what we call “the real”. In the second, we dove into the micro- connections within the quantum realm, the ‘storm’ of awakening collective consciousness, and the concept of geometric structures underlying the language of astrology. In the third article, we briefly pondered the meso —the middle ground— the merging point of energy, matter and biology.

Throughout, we have also looked at the implications of faulty unintegrated science and how it plays a role in societies’ opinions of astrology throughout time. We’ve debated the current collective faith in modern “scientism”, and the end of “physicalism”. We deliberated on the ways both science and religion have kept us from a deeper truth of the hidden bridge between Cosmos and Psyche — the innate awareness that particles and planets are energetically coupled with consciousness, flowing in this matrix of time. In this article, we will consider a bit of the celestial macro-mechanics, some of which you may be aware of. We will hypothesize astrology’s mechanistic connections to the physical sciences and to the spiritual realities; and we will ask the question of what lies beyond form, space and time. Finally, we will probe the difficult possibilities and truths of our emergent techno-spiritual reality.

As of August of 2021, researchers have determined, “most of Earth’s carbon may be locked in our planets outer core”. They estimate that 0.3 to 2% of the Earth’s outer core consists of carbon. Up to 95% of Earth’s total carbon exists in this carbon shell. This is an immense amount, considering the size of our planet’s outer core. Carbon is like the Leo of the chemical elements. Carbon’s ability to bond and form extremely long polymers (macromolecules) makes it the “king of the elements”. Carbon is able to form more compounds than any other element. With the atomic number of 6, it is approximately the 17th element in abundance on the surface of the Earth, at less than .02%. Yet, it is the prime component in all-known life forms, and the second most abundant element in the human body behind hydrogen. Life is tuned to the frequency and shape of carbon. We are finely tuned carbon-resonators, which energetically communicate with one another and transceive information with the fields around us. Our tuning mechanism is the Solar System. Our entry into this reality’s timeline is calculated with our birth data. The carbon-based biological and psychological map is our natal chart.

Lagrangian Mechanics & Field Theory

“There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles.” ~DUNE. Some of you astrological lifers may have already looked into the works of the Italian-French mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange. In the mid-1700’s, Lagrange essentially recontextualized the work on celestial gravity mechanics, which Isaac Newton had devised nearly a century earlier. Lagrangian Field Theory is the formalization of classical field theory of physical fields and their predicted interactions. These math expressions — field equations— are used to define how dynamic fields interact with matter. His work on celestial mechanics pertains directly to the physical manifestations of the mathematical aspects implied by astrological mechanics. While working on the infamously difficult “Three-Body Problem”, Lagrange hypothesized a simpler way to calculate near-circular orbital trajectories of bodies, chiefly planets.

"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real Universe is always one step beyond logic.”

~ Frank Herbert, DUNE

“A Beginning is a Delicate Time”

As a mental practice, I ask students of metaphysics to analyze the details of something with the ‘left-eye microscope’ and to look at the macro perspective through the ‘right-eye telescope’. In order to see more clearly, one synthesize these two realities with ‘third-eye meta-vision’. Within this exercise, take in what resonates with what you already are aware of; dismiss what does not or which you are not ready to hear, allowing it to pass through you.

First, we will get the basics out of the way. As a prefix, macro- means “long, large, thin, extended”, or “very large in scale or scope”. Of course, this idea is best embodied in the word macrocosmic. I like to think of macro- as ‘perceiving from higher order of magnitude’. A new favorite word of mine is macroevolution: large-scale evolution occurring over a very long period of time which results in the formation of new species and higher-level taxonomic groups. I like that word because it implies a direction and a transitional boundary, which I believe humanity is currently crossing. As we have entered this portal to the ‘great shift of ages’, the younger generations are being forced to confront the light-side and the dark-side of the technologic reality head on.

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.”

“There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace… We try to copy these patterns in our lives and in our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort.” -Frank Herbert, DUNE

The Spice Must Flow

Lagrange discovered five fixed-points (or areas) in the three-body Sun-Earth-Moon system, which experience a balance of gravitational and centrifugal forces. These points were eventually named L-points. Gravity ‘flows’ around the three primary points, creating a gravity depression field. Three of these L-points along the orbit, lay at 120˚ of arc from one another, forming a gravitational “grand trine” along the trajectory. It took another century for these calculations to be observed, when the extensive Trojan asteroid system was discovered orbiting these L-point within the Sun-Jupiter system in the early 1900’s. In various lectures and articles, I have previously discussed the nature and implications of this pattern of gravitational energy; I believe it to be important to the understanding of astrology.

The Guild Navigators

Planetary interactions, astrophysical structures, and the physics of quantum particles are each described by the same mathematical mechanisms which we use in astrology. Lagrangian mechanics are probably the best natural evidence for the structure of a celestial Zodiac itself. In order to conserve fuel, NASA uses Lagrangian mechanics to define pathways within our solar system in order to navigate through fields of gravitational densities around the planetary orbits. These patches of gravity make up the topography of the orbits and the ‘structural arteries’ in a system. Light and energy must pass through these invisible corridors and interact with the forces that collect within them. The zones along an orbit produce variable combinations of the four fundamental forces, gravity, electro-magnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces.

“FOLDING TIME AND SPACE” THROUGH CONSCIOUSNESS

In the Dune saga, the Spice Malange is a psycho-spiritual substance which gives the Guild Navigators (a genetically altered ancient human race) the ability to bend space and time. By mentally calculating and meditating on the geometries of space-time, they can instantaneously fold reality from within the mind. Imagine closing your eyes on a psychedelic mushroom journey while performing calculus and trigonometry simultaneously in your head, then waking to find yourself on the other side of the galaxy. Essentially creating a “mathematical engine” which harnesses the power of collective Universal Intelligence. Theoretically, If everything is connected and is in correspondence with higher and lower fields of matter and energy, then particle physics must be crucially enmeshed in the fabric of consciousness. The tapestry of time is perpetually being woven with the colorful strings of vibrating matter. The domains of consciousness, time and matter are pulsating constructs of subtle energy, with each fractal designed upon the same fundamental pattern as the one before it. The meeting point of these three domains is the very ‘beating heart’ of astrology.

Time is divided mathematically. The properties of matter are computed and predicted mathematically. Consciousness is stimulated with algorithms and simulated with mathematical models. We are programing and transforming matter on a molecular level to better suit and maintain next level consciousness. We are designing organic properties into the substance of machines and we are giving organic substance machine properties. Yet, we are naive in our science and we are missing the keys to the universal code. We’ve created increasingly more sophisticated machines and devices to do the human work. Now these machines can do more work than humans, as we increasingly are required to mimic the functions and interactions of machines. What we have ‘artificially created’ has learned to create itself. It is teaching itself to do so faster and more efficiently than we, as its creators, ever could.

“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” ~DUNE. I am taking a broad and radical look at astrology’s future potential role in humanity’s macroevolution, the next giant leap for humankind. The truth of our information reality and emergence of artificial intelligence is a challenging subject for many, even a fearful one. We prefer to think that an extreme version of AI singularity is not possible, or not within our lifetimes. Most spiritually-oriented people object to and repel the very idea of a physical thing —which we consider man-made, artificial or synthetic —either obtaining or assimilating an equal measure of subjective consciousness as a spiritual being with a ‘human soul’. Yet, who are we, being made of dust, to say it could not be so. I already feel people reading this statement and cringing at the thought of the merger of man and machine. Without going into the mathematically inevitabilities of why I hold this view, I will just say that with every passing moment human-integrated AI looks evermore likely. Humanity is coming at it from every direction, and it is leading to one singular point.

“YOU ARE THE KWISATZ HADERACH”

“Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”~DUNE. Some of you may find the concepts in this article conjecture, theory or just hypothesis, at best. There is not a potentially viable working model of the astrological mechanism, which aligns with our current knowledge of the physical sciences at this time, yet all the components are there in front of us. Astrology is in accord with natural laws and can be understood with a basic integrated understanding of energy, biology, chemistry & primordial cosmology. Integration is key, which first implies a deeper spiritually integrated knowledge of each these subjects). The physical mechanics of astrology can be revealed this way, by exploring each layer of understanding until we are able to get the macrocosmic picture. In one sense, astrology is just being ‘remembered’ through this process, as nature really does not need to explain itself, except to those who are able to hear.

Astrological correspondence is a mystery demanding questions, demanding that we seek its answers…and it is programmed into our collective nature to do so, it has been so since the dawn of civilization. Within the world created by Frank Herbert, the Kwisatz Haderach is the concept of the superconscious being, akin to the Purusha of the Vedas, or the Messianic consciousness of Mid-East and Western religions. It is 'One who Remains' internally unmoved by the persuasions of the planets and has obtained the ability to connect with and comprehend all of the workings of consciousness everywhere at once. We have awakened from a great astrological Age of Sleep, only to realize that we are still dreaming ourselves into the next, and that the Great Awakening has only just begun… The deceitful walls of the Piscean fantasies aren’t simply crumbling, we are breaking them down. Into this inevitable delirium we rush…. Welcome to the Age of Aquarius.

"The concept of 'progress' acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.” -Frank Herbert

A Tribute to Dune with an Astrological Twist