from ego to endowment

from Quest for the Zodiac by John Lash

"It is one thing to have an endowment, and another to claim it....we must know what we are receiving and we must receive it consciously, gratefully...

Viewed in the stellar dimension human fate is a shared adventure.  From the entire species we each inherit gifts that have been prepared long in advance by unknown ancestors.  We receive this legacy as self-initiating instruments of a higher continuity, rather than self-seeking egos."

language of destiny

The words desire and destiny when broken down into their parts literally mean that which comes from the constellations (stars).  Our desires are given to us, it is up to us how we handle them.
"What you desire in life does not belong on the realm of needs....when reading real sky zodiac we are reading our desiderata (destiny), our destiny is written in the stars, it cannot be read in conventional astrology....  Conventional astrology is  a psychological profiling tool...[It] ignores the stars, for our ultimate purpose we need to look at the real stars."  John Lash

http://www.metahistory.org/SkyLore/skyloremp3/CT%205%20The%20Language%20of%20Destiny.mp3

quest for the zodiac

John Lash has begun a new study course on Celestics or forensic astrology.  It is star based i.e. based on the actual positions of the constellations in the sky unlike other modern versions of astrology, surprisingly.  It has been a long time dream of mine to study this subject matter with John Lash and here it is! and free and online. I can study in the comfort of my own delightful home and even have stellarium to assist when it's too cloudy  here in misty Avalon to see the starry sky.  He starts from the beginning and carefully takes us through the language and concepts so that we can think about it for ourselves.  It's also very entertaining.

There are three genres of Celestic Science:
astronomy or the naming of stars
astrology or the language of stars
astrolegy or divination by reading the stars
I studied astronomy of sorts at university as part of a physics degree and also astrology for years but never felt that I was getting the knowledge I was looking for, now I feel that I am on that journey at last.  A lot of threads are quite suddenly coming together, it's a very exciting moment to be in.