Here is an informative article about NuKua, FuHsi and the creation of cosmic and terrestrial order:
http://www.templestudy.com/2008/09/17/nuwa-and-fuxi-in-chinese-mythology-compass-square/
thank you, Angela!
Monday, September 24, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
HANDBOOK OF CHINESE MYTHOLOGY
There is a wealth of information for most people if they can
read the entries from the
Handbook of Chinese Mythology.
It is Free Online at Scrib'd.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/48075524/yang-an-
handbook-of-chinese-mythology-ingles
The elemental rulers are the Five August Emperors, and
there is a separate god to function in each element as well.
read the entries from the
Handbook of Chinese Mythology.
It is Free Online at Scrib'd.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/48075524/yang-an-
handbook-of-chinese-mythology-ingles
The elemental rulers are the Five August Emperors, and
there is a separate god to function in each element as well.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
VEGA STAR INFORMATION
Vega – Lyra – Uttarashada
Uttarashada is the nakshatra that precedes Sravana. It is the place where the star Vega can be found, but it is not as important as it was 5000 years ago! It is superseded by the stars at the part of Sagittarius that lies near Capricorn. “Uttarashada, the pinnacle of solar energy, is represented in the celestial firmament by four bright stars which the ancients saw as resembling an elephant's tusk. In modern astronomy, they are known as Sigma-Sagittarii (Ascell�), Tau-Sagittarii, Phi-Sagittari/& Zeta-Sagittarii (Nunki). These four stars lie in the end portion of the astronomical constellation of Sagittarius. However, it must be noted that this asterism's influence extends into the first ten degrees of the zodiacal sign of Capricorn as well. Nunki, having a Visual magnitude of 2.07, is the brightest among them. According to the legend, these stars correspond to the celestial area where the godly forces got their final victory over the demonic forces.“ http://socionix.com/misc/astro/21%20Uttarashada.htm
It is considered to be ‘feminine’ though its’ planetary and astrological rulers are ‘masculine’. While this seems to ‘bother’ some astrologers, remember that there were goddesses associated with this area of the sky through Vega. Vega is not the primary star for a predictive nakshatra in modern Jyotish since the advent of the 27 lunar mansion system, replaced the older 28 nakshatra system. Vega and the other stars of Uttarashada belong to the Kshatriya (warrior) caste. It is the caste of royalty and leadership. The star Vega is a Heavenly Princess in China.
The symbol is an elephant’s tusk, the planetary ruler is the Sun and the animal is a mongoose.
AQUILA STAR INFORMATION
shared by Demetria:
Altair – Aquila – Sravana
Altair – Aquila – Sravana
Altair is the alpha star of Aquila, the Eagle. The constellation Aquila is called Garuda in India. It is part of the 21st or 22nd nakshatra Sravana, or Çravana: “the Listener, the Ear, the sense of hearing, a listening device; a lame person, one who limps.” It is of the caste Mleccha, “outcast” or “orphan”. This pertains to the caste of the working classes of India who did manual labor. Altair is an orphan cowherd peasant with an old ox in the Chinese legend of the Double Seven Festival. Altair, along with beta & gamma Aquilae form ‘The Drum’, a Chinese asterism.
Keywords: Friendly, easy-going, organized, persevering, patient, shrewd, thoughtful, listens, receptive, generous, self-sacrificing, achieves success in the end.
The current position (2012) for Altair in astrology is 1degree 49 minutes of Aquarius. It is considered to be a passive masculine nakshatra.
Altair is the Star of Learning. The goddess Sarasvati (music, speech, literacy, wisdom, logic, counselors, technicians, education, etc.) is associated with Altair. Vishnu is the god Altair is assigned to; along with beta and gamma Aquilae, they are considered to be the footprints of Lord Vishnu in the sky (limping) during his avatar incarnation as Vamana. It is also known as Açvattha, “The Fig Tree, or the Pipal; this is the type of tree that the Buddha sat under while meditating when he received enlightenment. The planetary ruler is Soma the Moon. The symbol for this asterism is the arrow or the trident. The animal is the monkey.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
DOUBLE SEVEN FESTIVAL
Learn the story of the Herdsman (the star Altair) and the Weaver Maid (the star Vega) along with traditional customs for the timeof the Seventh Moon of the Seventh Month which is thought of as Chinese Valentine's Day.
Here is a bit about the astronomy associated with the Double Seven Festival, which is also known as the Magpie Festival. Here is more about the Magpie Bridge, and why you do not usually see magpies on the Double Seven Festival.
Another version of the story includes more details. This version includes beautiful traditional illustrations. Here you can read the origin, schedule, and poem about the festival.
This Wikipedia article includes a few variations of the story.
Here is a bit about the astronomy associated with the Double Seven Festival, which is also known as the Magpie Festival. Here is more about the Magpie Bridge, and why you do not usually see magpies on the Double Seven Festival.
Another version of the story includes more details. This version includes beautiful traditional illustrations. Here you can read the origin, schedule, and poem about the festival.
This Wikipedia article includes a few variations of the story.
Thursday, August 9, 2012
POLE REVERSAL
Mitch Battros recently published an article about Magnetic Pole Reversals and Possible Crustal Displacement in his e-newsletter, "Earth Changes Media."
He says here is a debate if Earth has experienced a severe tilt in its past - perhaps up to 90° which goes far beyond a better known tilt called "Earth's precession". Sometimes referred to as 'precession of the equinoxes', rotation of the Earth's axis which shifts between a tilt of 22.1° and 24.5° and back again, taking approximately 41,000 years to complete a full rotation.
Currently, the Earth's tilt is at 23.44° which is roughly halfway between its extreme values.
Scientists have found evidence that the Earth might have actually rolled several degrees in the past, completely shifting continents i.e. Canada in the southern hemisphere.
Hard scientific evidence has come forth confirming Earth's magnetic field is weakening. This is important for two reasons. 1) A weakened magnetic field allows charged particle events such as solar flares, coronal mass ejections (CME), coronal hole filament, gamma rays, and galactic cosmic rays to produce enhanced consequences to extreme weather events which includes earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes etc.
2) The second major consequence of a weakened magnetic field is its identification as the 'precursor' to a magnetic pole shift. It is estimated that Earth's magnetic field reverses every few thousand years at low latitudes and every 10,000 years at high latitudes. It is believed we are far enough along the cycle that many living today will witness the bouncing back and forth of magnetic north and it swings reaching latitudes below 30°. Magnetic north can also move east and west longitudes.
historical magnetic field reversals indicate during the period of Earth's magnetic field reduction will be in flux for several years before a full magnetic flip will incur.
He says here is a debate if Earth has experienced a severe tilt in its past - perhaps up to 90° which goes far beyond a better known tilt called "Earth's precession". Sometimes referred to as 'precession of the equinoxes', rotation of the Earth's axis which shifts between a tilt of 22.1° and 24.5° and back again, taking approximately 41,000 years to complete a full rotation.
Currently, the Earth's tilt is at 23.44° which is roughly halfway between its extreme values.
Scientists have found evidence that the Earth might have actually rolled several degrees in the past, completely shifting continents i.e. Canada in the southern hemisphere.
Hard scientific evidence has come forth confirming Earth's magnetic field is weakening. This is important for two reasons. 1) A weakened magnetic field allows charged particle events such as solar flares, coronal mass ejections (CME), coronal hole filament, gamma rays, and galactic cosmic rays to produce enhanced consequences to extreme weather events which includes earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes etc.
2) The second major consequence of a weakened magnetic field is its identification as the 'precursor' to a magnetic pole shift. It is estimated that Earth's magnetic field reverses every few thousand years at low latitudes and every 10,000 years at high latitudes. It is believed we are far enough along the cycle that many living today will witness the bouncing back and forth of magnetic north and it swings reaching latitudes below 30°. Magnetic north can also move east and west longitudes.
historical magnetic field reversals indicate during the period of Earth's magnetic field reduction will be in flux for several years before a full magnetic flip will incur.
UNITING YIN WITH YANG
This difficulty is illustrated by the process of trying to bring together opposing poles of magnets.
No matter how hard you try to push together the poles of the magnet, they continue to fly apart.
What is the solution?
Is there one?
Please feel free to comment.
This is a good meditation on the metaphor of this situation in our lives, our beings, and our world,
No matter how hard you try to push together the poles of the magnet, they continue to fly apart.
What is the solution?
Is there one?
Please feel free to comment.
This is a good meditation on the metaphor of this situation in our lives, our beings, and our world,
Thursday, August 2, 2012
YIN & YANG
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Dragons
Nu Kua takes the form of a dragon.
September 29, the day of our 2012 FOI, Goddess Festival, is a festival of St. Michael the Archangel, who has mastery over the dragon power and dragon paths.
The May 20 eclipse also involves dragons. Here is information compiled from Aluna Joy's newsletter about the eclipse, which will have an energetic impact on throughout 2012:
The path of this eclipse, in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, is midway between Mount Fuji and Mount Shasta. These are two locations where the Eclipse path crosses the Great Male Dragon energy, the planetary Plumed Serpent Line which goes on through Mexico.
Solar eclipses will have great impact for those along its path for nearly a year. The eclipse will create a doorway between where we were, and were we are going. The Sun will reboot and begin transmitting a new program
In the path of this total solar eclipse, our dimension will begin an entire reboot of its operating system on our Earth. As the sun is blocked by your moon, in this very still, no-time place, a new operation system will be created and uploaded into your body as well as your world, solar system and universe. Remember that this is a universal shift and recalibration . . . not just a planetary one. This new operating system will begin to spread across the Earth over some time (a month or two)
Our Great Central Sun (Alcyone in the Pleiades) , our Sun and Moon will create a unique Heavenly Alignment and Grand Void of New Potiential.
September 29, the day of our 2012 FOI, Goddess Festival, is a festival of St. Michael the Archangel, who has mastery over the dragon power and dragon paths.
The May 20 eclipse also involves dragons. Here is information compiled from Aluna Joy's newsletter about the eclipse, which will have an energetic impact on throughout 2012:
The path of this eclipse, in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, is midway between Mount Fuji and Mount Shasta. These are two locations where the Eclipse path crosses the Great Male Dragon energy, the planetary Plumed Serpent Line which goes on through Mexico.
Solar eclipses will have great impact for those along its path for nearly a year. The eclipse will create a doorway between where we were, and were we are going. The Sun will reboot and begin transmitting a new program
In the path of this total solar eclipse, our dimension will begin an entire reboot of its operating system on our Earth. As the sun is blocked by your moon, in this very still, no-time place, a new operation system will be created and uploaded into your body as well as your world, solar system and universe. Remember that this is a universal shift and recalibration . . . not just a planetary one. This new operating system will begin to spread across the Earth over some time (a month or two)
Our Great Central Sun (Alcyone in the Pleiades) , our Sun and Moon will create a unique Heavenly Alignment and Grand Void of New Potiential.
Friday, March 23, 2012
NU KUA: INTRODUCTION
here is good basic level material introducing us to the Chinese Goddess, Nu Kua.
Read the essay by clicking here.
Read the essay by clicking here.
NU KUA ESSAYS
thanks to Demetria for submitting these:
Nu
Kua: Dragon Mother of the Gods, Frog Goddess of the Ancients
The Gods
and Goddesses of China
To the
Chinese, creation was an act of bringing order out of chaos. One myth
tells of two beings, Hu (emperor of the northern sea) and Shu (emperor of the
southern sea) who met quite a lot on the territory of the emperor of the
center, Hun-tun. Hun-tun was unusual because he did not have any orifices
for seeing, hearing, eating or breathing. Hu and Shu decided to fix
Hu-tun at the rate of one orifice a day, they created openings for
Hun-tun. Hun-tun (Chaos) died on the seventh day. At his death, the
world came into existence. The combined names of Shu and Hu mean
lightning. When lightning or an illumination of Light falls upon Chaos,
life is created. The 7 openings are also linked in Chinese thought with
the mystical seven openings of the heart, the mark of a righteous man.
A story of the creation of humanity tells the myth of the Goddess
Nu-kua. Even after Heaven and Earth were split, there were still no
humans. Nu-kua modeled some out of yellow earth, but soon got tired of
this process. Then she dipped a rope into the mud and dragged it around
so drops fell off. Traditionally it is said that those beings she modeled
became the noble and rich, while the drops became the humble and the poor.” http://www.scns.com/earthen/other/seanachaidh/godchina.html
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“In Chinese cosmogonic art during the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220
C.E.) two royal creator deities were depicted holding architectural implements
that were used in the formation of heaven and earth--the compass and set-square
(see Yves Bonnefoy, comp., Asian Mythologies [Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1993], 234-35). In a funerary context these beings served as
"doorkeepers" or "guardians of boundaries" who "marked
the division between inner and outer" spaces (cf. Gen. 3:24; Ex. 26:31). The
depiction of these deities signified "transfer to another realm." As
early as the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C.E.) the Chinese compass and
square "symbolized fixed standards and rules that impose order on unruly
matter." The Chinese deity who was shown holding the compass was
associated with bringing "ordered space out of the chaos of the
flood" (cf. the Hebrew concept) while the other, who held the square, was
"credited with the invention of kingship" (Mark E. Lewis, The Flood
Myths of Early China [Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006],
125-27).”
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The Great
Mother Electrodynamic in China - Sun Crow or Ocean Dragon Divinity? - An excellent article that explores Nu Wa
from the Naga Kanya connections of India and Tibet to the Harappan Valley to
Central Asia and back east to Japan. It
explores her connection to jade and various Chinese cultures from 6000 BCE to
today. The author, Millennium Twain,
explains Nu Wa/Na Ga as the Shakti part of Kundalini serpent energy… also, her
connection to the glyph we call the letter ‘T’.
Great artifact photos, too!
The Twain article is referenced by this blogspot: “Phoenix
Qi”.
From Frog (蛙) to Nuwa (娲)
and Back Again: The Roots of Creation Myths (by Ye Shuxian, photos & commentary
by Millennium Twain)
This book is very good and it is free online! It comes to us through the auspices of
Millennium Twain, the author of the above-mentioned article on Nu Wa and the
Sun Crow. Mr. Twain adds his addendum re:
the goddess constellations of frog and dragon and the Japanese cultural ‘take’
on Nu Wa to the work of Dr. Ye Shuxian.
Richly illustrated with many photographs of natural formations,
antiquities, etc., this is a must read for anyone who wants to know more about
this Neolithic goddess who embodies frog, snake, silkworm, and dragon through
the ages.
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