The events coming are truly significant! (lol)  I am continually healing these days.  I take ideas of what August 11, 1999 may be about from the internal experiences accompanying me on this healing journey.  How might I best share them with you and tell you about the significance I see?

One of the best references to what I see is found in the symbology of the movie " The Dark Crystal."  The sages in this movie have to merge with the Skeksis (ancient evil rulers) at the appointed time.  That time is almost upon us.  Those who think they can become enlightened by pointing the finger at others while waging wars all around or those who draw pretty circles of light without care of the realities around them and in them will soon die!  The darkest in us has to merge with the brightest in us.  Only then can a new day really be birthed.  Anything less now is the road to enslavement and a tyranny of our own making perhaps with chips in our heads (See the movie "The Matrix" and ponder).

To make the best of these days, opposing forces have to come together in recognition of their complimentarity and unity.  The alchemical cauldron facilitating the upholding of seeming paradox in our lives is the cross of the number four, the cross we bear, the four corners of the world, and now the grand crossing of signs in the heavens (Taurus, Leo, Aquarius, and Scorpio).  Let us carry this cross, that is also our body, with uprightness and the understanding that the burden is light, the yoke easy.

How can the opposites, the two unite?  By introducing a third, a mediating, facilitating force (e.g. the Christ between the two thieves on each side of him).  The four fixed signs of the Grand Cross provide the creative tension, through which this third quality can make itself felt on Earth.   William Butler Yates said something about a blood-dimmed tide being loosed upon the world.  The demons will indeed be let loose upon the world in the time to come, but they are not here to destroy.

They are here to awaken the sleeper (see the movie "Dune").  They reflect all that is not resolved, all that needs to be acknowledged and dealt with.  Only purity of heart can create for us a heaven on earth.  Can we open our eyes to all that is not pure in our lives without fear or judgement, grieve it, release it, and make amends?  Then we can find that new dawn, where the foreboding clouds of yesterday are just now disappearing on the horizon after their rain has blessed the earth with new life.

August 11th is a day where the dark meets the light, where day turns to darkness, yet light is all around in holy places such as Glastonbury Tor.  It is as simple as this.  Light is meeting dark, and for a moment the two merge.  I believe they must also merge in us for a full embrace of the glorious future that can be ours.  Can we reconcile what is in us and around us?  Can we love our enemies as a reflection of what we have disowned in us?

My sun sign is Leo, the sign of the sun.  My name is Georg and on the famous Russian icon of St. George is found a black sun with seven rays visible.  With seven comes the call of perfection.  This call ushers forth from the inner sun.  In the body, the heart is associated with that sign.  The heart beats perfectly our whole life long.  In the darkness of the body it holds its own and beckons us with every beat to take courage (a word derived from the French word for heart) to live.  This is the answer to the mystery of the coming August 11, 1999.

What courage is needed for the 11th day, the day of 11, the number of undeviating justice?  It is the day to face our accusers and know they were us.  It is the day to see our enemies and know they were us.  It is a day to forgive us, to forego all enmity, to embrace each other.  It is a day for love.  It is a day to let go of pains of old loves betrayed.  It is a day to love once again.  It is a day to know that neither in heaven nor on Earth there is an impure thought or deed, because all is perfect.

This is a time to release our burdens, to know we are not of the world, but of an earth upon which we all stand together.  The world says you may not have food to eat tomorrow and Y2K (another numerological 11) is coming.  Yes, judgement day is near, but who is judging?  We are.  Can we hold court where accuser and defendant shake hands in amity?  Can we forgive and let go of past grievances?  Can we come together to see what we may make of life?  No doubt we can!  Do we want to, that is the question?  What is your wish?  Dream big these days and your call will make it so!

Hold your head high and let the sun shine on you!  Why hide in shame of all the humiliation this world has known and taught us.  It is not the shame of modesty, but the shame of knowing we are wrong, imperfect, and a failure.  Why judge ourselves this way, when our heart beats perfectly for us a whole lifetime long?  Is this not strong evidence of our perfection?

Have we really made mistakes?  If we did, were they not also perfect?  If they were perfect and ultimately of our own making, then how could they be mistakes?  So what do we do with the world we have so perfectly created?

Do we worry about food?  The threat of this existed yesterday and yet we were fed again today, even with all the supposed mistakes we may have made, and if we were not, perhaps an end to our plight of hunger is a long awaited one. That time is coming.  If we destroy our home, the earth, there may not even be a bowl of rice to go around, and that will be the end.  Endings are new beginnings.  If that day is near, then is it not another good day?

And if we want another good day, let us clean up the messes we have created, make order out of the chaos of the world!  It is high time for hygiene.  Let the genie of the genius in our genes issue forth and create the hygiene of a clean and happy world.  How do we do this, when the challenges seem so daunting and overwhelming?  By listening to our tribal voice, by feeling our heartbeat.  Even on our difficult days, does the heart not continue to beat unfailingly?

Listen to the drum of your heartbeat.  Feel the love that is there.  It can transform and heal anything, even the broken hearted.   The heart's love is not a passive feeling.  It is a call to action.  Love is a feeling that can be felt in the pumping, the blood of our lives coursing through us.  Love is the braiding of an infinite moment.  Move on to Avalon and find the Holy Grail in the depth of your heart's calling!  That is what the voice within me says.  It moves me.  Be love, it says.  Be compassionate.  Love one another.  Bliss awaits thee!

Does this all sound unbelievable, like the ranting of a deluded madman?  If that is so, I leave you with a question.  When the sun is fully eclipsed above you in the umbral shadow of the moon that coming day of the (au-gust) August 11th, what happens to your shadow?

Sincerely,
Georg

PS:  An interesting and magnificent image of the eclipse...