10.7 - Capricorn/Libra

10/07 (115)

10.7 (Sun in Capricorn and Moon in Libra) is a mix of cardinal earth and cardinal air, blending Capricorn’s discipline, focus, manifestation and maturity with Libra’s harmony, grace and balance. This combination generates an attitude of deep concern for the dynamic of human or 3D relationships, and their healing management based on clear contracts and agreements. Reliability, commitment, determination, perseverance and the capacity to work relentlessly in order to implement specific goals, proceed well-balanced, enhancing a solid sense of grace and beauty in those who are inspired by this binary.

Rocky rounded hills.

“This is the place where relationships are clear and full of integrity.”

I see a double rocky chalice.

“Here there is no space for emotional and subtle manipulations.

Conditions are established by the two parties, who commit to honour them, making of this commitment their supreme act of love and harmony.

Establish clear conditions in every relationship and honour only what is established.

Avoid heeding what purports to be given for granted.

Be vigilant regarding whatever secretly slips imposing its non-agreed presence.

Honour the agreements taken in the light and all sacred intentions.

Take not of all agreements.

Encourage this attitude everywhere and claim commitment within and without you.”

090199: Colline rocciose arrotondate. “Questo è il luogo in cui le relazioni sono integre e chiare”. Vedo un calice doppio roccioso. “Qui non c’è spazio per l’emotività e le manipolazioni sottili. Le condizioni sono stabilite dalle due parti che si impegnano a rispettarle e fanno di questo rispetto il loro atto di amore e armonia. Stabilisci condizioni chiare in ogni rapporto e dai energia solo a ciò che viene stabilito. Evita di avvallare ciò che pretende di mostrarsi come scontato. Vigila riguardo tutto ciò che celatamente si insinua per imporre la sua presenza non richiesta o accordata. Rispetta i patti presi alla luce del sole e tutti gli intenti sacri. Trascrivi gli accordi. Incoraggia questa attitudine ovunque e richiedi impegno dentro e fuori di te”.

You will find below a list of celebrities having 10.7 in their natal charts. Click on a name to display a biography and the detailed associated natal chart.

David SPANGLER: born with Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Libra and Ascendant in Scorpio (10.7.8), he is one of the major inspiring historical pillars of the Findhorn community and the original New Age movement. Philosopher, educator and author of many books, he was co-director of the Findhorn Foundation from 1970 to 1973. When he was seven years old he had a mystical experience, which he describes as “dissolving into an oceanic feeling of oneness and infinite connectedness.” Spangler discriminates between the state of unity and the manifest worlds unfolding from the state of unity itself. The physical reality is part of those manifested world, which by comparison to the physical realm may appear as dimensions of unity, although they are merely part of an itinerary leading to oneness. For Spangler, through the manifest world one can reach the domain of oneness and vice versa. The primal domain of oneness is called the Beloved. A major focus of Spangler’s research has been what he describes as “the intermediate state between undifferentiated oneness and the specificity of our particular nature”, which can be compared to the astroshamanic gap between HAC and CMI, via non-HAC. 

Swami VIVEKANANDA (10.7.10)

Edgard VARESE (10.7.4)

Jude LAW
Mel GIBSON
DALIDA
Françoise HARDY
Nicolas CAGE
Jeanne d'ARC
Eliza DUSHKU
Gilles DELEUZE
Humphrey BOGART
Olivier MARTINEZ
Arnaud BINARD
Jérôme KERVIEL
Patrick DEMPSEY
Tia CARRERE
Sylvie TESTUD
Jonathan DAVIS
KID ROCK
Luc FERRY
Edwige FENECH
Chet BAKER
Anne-Marie CARRIERE
Bradley COOPER
Richard CLAYDERMAN
Valentin MONTAND
Anouar EL-SADATE
Clifford OLSON
Berthe MORISOT
Patrice DREVET
Estella WARREN
Jacques ANQUETIL
Thierry BRETON
DIFOOL
Sarah SHAHI
Bernard THIBAULT
Jodie MARSH
Paul AMAR
Nicolas CHASSAGNE groupe KYO
CESAR
ALEXANDRE Ier de RUSSIE
César BALDACCINI
Danica McKELLAR
Dominique ROCHETEAU
Dyan CANNON
Michael NESMITH
Tippi HEDREN
Sulamith WULFING
Mary HIGGINS CLARK
Heather O'ROURKE
Elsa EINSTEIN
Deanna YUSOFF
Sergio LEONE
Duane HANSON
Dany DAUBERSON
Robert PALMER
Yannick STOPYRA
Stanley WILLIAMS
Diane TELL
Andy SUMMERS
Mia TYLER
Kerwin MATHEWS
Diego Della VALLE
Claude Roy KIRK
Jim REID
Sadruddin AGA KHAN
Shari LEWIS
David RUFFIN
Jean VUARNET
KIRO (CINEMA BIZARRE)
William AYACHE
Ervin NYIREGYHAZI
Jean-Baptiste FAURE
Melissa RIVERS
Russ TAMBLYN
Fabiana LUPERINI
Vanessa FERLITO
Marilù TOLO
Charles-Armand-René de la TREMOILLE
Cédric SOUBIRON
Natalie GOLDBERG
Tito SCHIPA
Hugo LLORIS
Ben JOHNSON
Simon FANSHAWE
Marcelo RIOS
Pat RAFTER
Mark O'TOOLE
Guy MADISON
Catherine MENGUE
Didier DAURAT
Douglas COUPLAND
Alain MIMOUN
Rob MARIANO
Ann MAGNUSON
James CAIRD
Guy THOMAS
Christiane AMANPOUR
Jim BAKKER
Kylie BAX
Prospero GALLINARI
Memona HINTERMANN
Jean-Pierre BERTHET
Bernard SUMNER
PANAMA JACK
Francis WURTZ
Fernando LAMAS
Yohana COBO
Carl ZUCKMAYER
Riccardo BAUER
Heidi Van De VIJVER
Del SHANNON
William GLADSTONE
Grace BUMBRY
André LE GALL
Sheree NORTH
Christian FITTIPALDI
SAPHO
Göran PERSSON
Maria MANDEL
Juliana CARNEIRO da CUNHA
Jorge RISI
Richard BURNS
William PICKERING
Antoine FURETIERE
Gérard BERLINER
Pierre SEMARD
Vincent RIOU
Diego MONTOYA
Heinrich NORDHOFF
Jeff JUDEN
Pierre-Charles KRIEG
Maurice DE WAELE
Peter Tom WILLIS
Jacques DYNAM
John BOORMAN
Michael WILDING Jr.
Giovanni PASCOLI
Albert BAERTSOEN
Diego Leon Montoya SANCHEZ
Giuseppe PULIE
Frank GLAHN
Paul MERCEY
Tony ANHOLT
Théo LEFEVRE
Gérald MOSSE
Barbara GOALEN
Josep GUARDIOLA
Robert QUINE
Nana PATEKAR
Kim COATES
Enzo SACCHI
Fred WARD
Marcel ROGEMONT
Pierre LAUJON
O'Kelly ISLEY
Kurt JOOSS
EL ESPARTEO
Eugène CARRIERE
Léon CUFFAUT
Joseph LOSEY
Martin John O'NEILL
Sam WYCHE
Aiko NAKAMURA
Matthias PLATZECK
Janine DARCEY
Maurice RHEIMS
Louis de ROUVROY, DUC de SAINT-SIMON
Michel BERNARD
PIE VI
Toni GLOVER
Jean TARNEAUD
Jean-Claude BARCLAY
Ludwig RUDOLPH
Léa SILHOL
Herman CLOSSON
Jacob Ludwig Carl GRIMM
Marcel JOLLER
Dominique VIVANT-DENON
Benjamin DARVILL
Charles SANNIE
Marie PAYEN
Link BAKER
Henri PAUCOT
Herbert PAUELS
Sri SUMANGALA
Kimberley LOCKE
Giorgio TOZZI
Morvan LEBESQUE
Roy Wilson HOWARD
Carl KARCHER
Daniel HEYDON
Jackie PARKER
Kid GAVILAN
Claude CASTAING
Roger LELOUP
Phil UPCHURCH
Alexandra RIPLEY
Mickaël GERARD
Jean-Aimé TOUPANE
Arthur MORRIS
Jean-Michel COUVE
Saul RAISIN
Christian CANTWELL
Billy BUTTERFIELD
Christophe PERILLAT
Eleanor MONDALE
Peter ARNO
Capitaine John SMITH
Magnus GUSTAFSSON
Alberto PIMENTA
Helen KLEEB
Jason SASSER
Ed FLANDERS
Fritz LEIBER
Pietro METASTASIO
Gaetano LATILLA
Gérard VERGEZ
Walter HILL
Herb GARDNER
Adam GUZINSKI
Eamonn WALKER
Olin C. WILSON
Dick MARTY
IGNACE de LOYOLA
Xavier VALLAT
Liya KEBEDE
Monique WATTEAU
Denise BOMBARDIER
Willem van OTTERLOO
Hubert PIERLOT
Paul BECHARD
 Ronald PERELMAN
Bruno GUILLAIN
Daniel P. MATTHEWS
Albert SEZARY
David NYHAN
Jorma KAUKONEN
Angelica GARNETT
Marcel MARECHAL
Matt MOLLOY
Martha WASH
Svetlana KHORKINA
ESTHERO
Olivier BAROUX
Elizabeth KOSTOVA
Caster SEMENYA
Cyril MONTANA
Renaud ECALLE
Chris JAKUBAUSKAS
Pierre BERNARD-REYMOND
Lance REDDICK

KANMAUNT

The Nation of Kanmaunt is located in the North of the Handorian State of Kortex (aka Haxar). The capital is Konerant, whose traditional plaid consists of green, brown and yellow stripes. It is associated with the Binary 10.7 (Capricorn-Libra).

PTU associated with 10.7

10-7-1 RUSSIA, Kostroma Oblast: Kostroma

10-7-2 RUSSIA, Kostroma Oblast: Buy

10-7-3 RUSSIA, Ivanovo Oblast: Ivanovo

10-7-4 RUSSIA, Ivanovo Oblast: Kineshma

10-7-5 RUSSIA, Ivanovo Oblast: Shuya

10-7-6 RUSSIA, Vladimir Oblast: Vladimir; Bogolyubovo; Suzdal

10-7-7 RUSSIA, Vladimir Oblast: Gus-Khrustalny

10-7-8 RUSSIA, Yaroslavl Oblast: Pereslavl-Zalessky

10-7-9 RUSSIA, Yaroslavl Oblast: Rostov

10-7-10 RUSSIA, Yaroslavl Oblast: Yaroslavl

10-7-11 RUSSIA, Ryazan Oblast: Ryazan

10-7-12 RUSSIA, Ryazan Oblast: Skopin

10.6 - Capricorn/Virgo

10/06 (114)

 

10.6 (Sun in Capricorn and Moon in Virgo) is a blend of cardinal earth and mutable earth, integrating Capricorn’s aspiration, authority, commitment and integrity with Virgo’s adaptability, efficiency and service. This binary provides a most logical, pragmatic and analytical perception, capable of devising structures both in their general outline and details. 10.6 can factually ascend up to major peak of consciousness preserving the physical memory and giving to concrete forms of such achievements. Expressing its best when given specific and pragmatic tasks to accomplish, it is a master in dispensing healing in the third dimension.

Vision:

I firmly unite with my Spirit Guide, refusing to be affected by obligation, anxieties, limitations and fears.

The only allegiance if towards the Spirit Guide.

My heart expands and I experience peace and security, while around me I still perceive the image and sounds of demons.

I ask the Guide to summon the template of 10.6. The Guide tells me that I do not need to do it now, that I can dwell in the connection with him/her.

“When you are connected with your Guide, you send a clear message to the Sacred Circle and all its parts and templates. Therefore it is not necessary to summon specific parts and get affected by their disputes. Stay in silence and avoid giving energy to what is useless. In this way you allow the Guide to operate. It is as simple as breathing. Breathing, like the Guide, happens spontaneously, yet you may not aware of it.”

In the Lower World it is very windy, sand and dust hits the rocks. I sit on a rock and wait quietly.

I receive a potion, which I drink.

A weird being flies and then lands close to the rock. It is not a bird, though it has wings. It is very weird, a sort of trembling cartoon.

It speaks about the demons of 10.6, yet I am uninterested and detached about what it says.

I sense the Sacred Cone in my heart and I become aware that this winged being wants to move through the cone. I invite it to do so.

The glyph portrays the entrance of the winged being. The being is sector 10 and the cone is Sector 6.

“Every time you notice disharmony regarding your shamanic work, alone or in a group, remember that the conditions of exchange invite you to write down or draw a description of what happened. When you do so balance is restored.”

You will find below a list of celebrities having 10.6 in their natal charts. Click on a name to display a biography and the detailed associated natal chart. Also books, music and movies suggestions are given when applicable.

Alan WATTS: was born in Kent (England) on 6 January 1915 with Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Virgo and Ascendant in Sagittarius (10.6.9). Philosopher, writer, speaker, author of more than twenty books, Watts is a milestone in the investigation of the true nature of reality and non-ordinary dimensions. Well-known autodidact, playful, outsider and eager spiritual researcher, he experimented with Eastern traditions, Christianity, psychedelic drugs, ecology, mysiticism and art. His main concern was to create bridges (between East and West, spirit and body, etc.) and to move beyond the boundaries of consensus reality. He believed that life is a marvelous game based on what he called: 'the hide and seek' and 'now you see it now you don't'. Please find below some quotes:

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

I owe my solitude to other people.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

MAHESH YOGI (10.6)

Founded and developed the Transcendental Meditation technique. During the 1960s and early 1970s practitioners of the technique began to be seen as part of the then current "counter-culture" phenomenon. Also during that time, a number of celebrities that included The Beatles, the Beach Boys, (including singer Mike Love, who became a TM teacher) and singer-songwriter Donovan, who befriended Maharishi and put his picture on the back cover of his A Gift from a Flower to a Garden album, learned the technique. Comedian Andy Kaufman and magician Doug Henning were also students of Maharishi. Clint Eastwood and David Lynch are two notable directors who have practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique. In October 1975 he appeared on the front cover of the famous US magazine Time.

David LYNCH (10.6.8)

Stephen HAWKING (10.6)

Susan SONTAG (10.6)

Lawrence ALMA-TADEMA (10.6) painter

AALIYAH (10.6), singer, dancer

JAY KAY (10.6) English funk musician, lead singer of the band Jamiroquai

Eddie VEDDER (10.6) lead vocal of the band Pearl Jam

Dolly PARTON (10.6.6) American country singer

MEL C (10.6.6) English singer (Spice Girls)

NEK (10.6), Italian singer

Jules SUPERVIELLE (10.6) French poet, writer

Tycho BRAHE (10.6.11) Danish astronomer, astrologer, alchemist
Oliver HARDY
Kate BOSWORTH
Michel ONFRAY
Malcolm YOUNG
Philippe STARCK
Pascal NOUMA
Andy KAUFMAN
Betty WHITE
Jérôme LE BANNER
Bebe NEUWIRTH
Rachel NICHOLS
Anne BARBAULT
Dave MURRAY (10.6) English singer (Iron Maiden)

Sakis ROUVAS (10.6) Greek singer
LEMMY (10.6.10) English singer
Yukio MISHIMA
Thomas BANGALTER
Stephen STILLS
Etty HILLESUM
Valérie PAYET
FOUAD II d'EGYPTE
Daniel FILIPACCHI
Alexander HAMILTON
Alain AFFLELOU
Sergi BRUGUERA
Didi SCHACKMAN
Burton CUMMINGS
Christophe MIOSSEC
Franz-Olivier GIESBERT
Tim MATHESON
Marisa SIKETA
Sal MINEO
Carla BRUNI SARKOZY
Paul-Henri MATHIEU
Josh EVANS
Santo VERSACE
Noel EDMONDS
Maggie SMITH
André LABARRERE
Michele ALBORETO
Paola PEZZO
Yvette MIMIEUX
Joseph JOFFRE
Erin GRAY
Melanie CHISHOLM
Louis CHEDID
Jack LORD
Noel REDDING
Tony DREYFUS
Ray SIMPSON
Charles Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE
SINE
Alexander PETOFI
Michelle STANLEY
Jean FOURNET-FAYARD
Marjoe GORTNER
Marianne OSWALD
Marie DORVAL
Petra YARED
Basile BOLI
Ruth SLENCZYNSKA
Gwen VERDON
Guillermo CORIA
Bo DIDDLEY
Meredith MONROE
Georges MARCHAL
Mark VALLEY
Helmut SCHMIDT
Raymond McGINLEY
Jimmy GRIMES
Mariangel RUIZ
José Luis de VILLALONGA
Mickey HARGITAY
George MARTIN
Charles RENOUVIER
Marty CONLON
William BENDIX
Michel DERNIES
Louis Charles BREGUET
Steven SODERBERGH
Sam SHEPPARD (1923)
Óscar Andrés Rodríguez MARADIAGA
Camille GUERIN
Guido WESTERWELLE
Marie-Josée NEUVILLE
Charles ADDAMS
Erin GREY
Ryuichi SAKAMOTO
Arlette GINIOUX
Antoine RIBOUD
Jean-Claude BETON
Gaston GALLIMARD
Fabio BENCIVENGA
Ami DOLENZ
Hélène HALPHEN
Azali ASSOUMANI
Curtis FLOOD
Ashmit PATEL
Jack MILROY
Raoul CLERY
Jacques-Nicolas LEMMENS
Tarso MARQUES
Louis-Guy de GUERAPIN de VAUREAL
Ágnes SZAVAY
Gert-Jan THEUNISSE
Walter SCAVOLINI
Jose GRECO
Renato BRUSON
Jean GAVEN
Helena KAREL
Lucretia MOTT
Jason MARSDEN
Tapani KUNINGAS
Augustin DUMAY
Antoine HOUDAR de LA MOTTE
Mina AGOSSI
Xavier BIZARD
Nicole MOSSOUX
Pierre-Henri SIMON
Allan McNISH
Colin CLIVE
Gary SANDY
David HOROWITZ
Felipe ROSE
David CHRISTIE
David JOHANSEN
Cruz BUSTAMANTE
Nick ANDERSON
Riyo MORI
Cab CALLOWAY
Georges GREY
Jean-Jacques ROUX
John LILLY
John J. PERSHING
Roger WAGNER
Lilian JEGOU
Edouard CHASSAIGNAC
Lynne THIGPEN
Emile FAMECHON
Johann Heinrich PESTALOZZI
Ben DAVIS (basketball)
Michael VIRTUE
Masahiro MATSUOKA
Pierre-Édouard LEMONTEY
Hirofumi ARAI
Mehmet Ali AGCA
Tassos PAPADOPOULOS
Emile LAHOUD
Harlan COBEN
Antoine-Vincent ARNAULT
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine SUARD
Leonel FERNANDEZ
Bernard MICHEL
Harry M. MILLER
Philippe HAREL
William MASTERS
Junichiro KOIZUMI
Alvin Lewis FAST
Jean COX
Frank BOUGH
Claude-Emmanuel de PASTORET
Michael CURTIZ
David READ
Paulo Fernando da Costa LACERDA
Didier VERMEERSCH
Charles Frédéric LAUTH
Eddie CHEEVER
Maria de LANNOY
Marcel-Edmond NAEGELEN
Jerry GRANT
Stephen DECATUR
Peter DAVIS
GIBA
Piercarlo GHINZANI
Antoine BONNET
Gaspar de JOVELLANOS
Christian DECOCQ
David WOLPER
Ian KILMINSTER
Ludovic HALEVY
André BAUGE
Gyude BRYANT
Jim GANTNER
Caleb FOLLOWILL
Susumu FUJITA
Gabriel GABRIO
Charles BASSETT
Pablo CUEVAS
Wallace BERRY
Antonio de la TORRE
Philip LEVINE
Lelio COLISTA
YU (CINEMA BIZARRE)
Jean-Jacques DELBO
Colin MORGAN
Manu PAYET
David ARROYO
Yohann DINIZ
Regina KING
Yvonne CHOQUET-BRUHAT
Zélie MARTIN
Yazid SABEG
Hugh McELHENNY
Aldo CAPITINI
Trent FORD
Marcel JANSSENS
Roger SWERTS
Albert MOCKEL
Zöe SALMON
Alex MERAZ
Noël COPIN
Lucy PUNCH
L'WREN SCOTT
Víctor VALDES
Laura MAYNE
Ryan YERDON
Michaela KOCIANOVA
Edip AKBAYRAM
John DIGWEED
David BLUE
Christine TRUMAN
Tony JUDT
Joseph FESCH

Associations with the PTU

10-6-1 RUSSIA, Stavropol Krai: Stavropol

10-6-2 RUSSIA, Stavropol Krai: Pyatigorsk

10-6-3 RUSSIA, Ingushetia: Magas

10-6-4 RUSSIA, North Ossetia-Alania: Vladikavkaz

10-6-5 RUSSIA, Kabardino-Balkaria: Nalchik

10-6-6 RUSSIA, Kabardino-Balkaria: Prokhladny

10-6-7 RUSSIA, Karachay-Cherkessia: Cherkessk

10-6-8 RUSSIA, Krasnodar Krai: Krasnodar

10-6-9 RUSSIA, Krasnodar Krai: Novorossiysk

10-6-10 RUSSIA, Krasnodar Krai: Sochi

10-6-11 RUSSIA, Krasnodar Krai: Gelendzhik

10-6-12 RUSSIA, Adygea: Maykop

XULKAS

The Nation of Xulkas is located in the South of the Handorian State of Kortex (aka Haxar). The capital is Fulkas, whose traditional plaid comprises three types of green, plus stripes of blue and yellow. The main Cone Squad is Fulkadulkas. It is associated with the Binary 10.6 (Capricorn-Virgo).

10.5 - Capricorn/Leo

10.4 - Capricorn/Cancer

Astroshamanic Templates (Paheka) and their Binary Network (by Franco Santoro)

Human beings are perceivers, but the world that they perceive is an illusion: an illusion created by the description that was told to them from the moment they were born. So in essence, the world that their reason wants to sustain is the world created by a description and its dogmatic and inviolable rules, which their reason learns to accept and defend. (Carlos Castaneda, The Wheel of Time, p. 133)

 

Totem Spirits, and the equivalent term astroshamanic templates, or Paheka, play a central role in the whole astroshamanic healing cosmology. They literally constitute the core matrix from which all human perception and experience originate.

In general, the term template, or templet, a diminutive of the Latin templum (temple), is employed to describe a mechanical pattern used to reproduce shapes, or the molecular structure of a compound utilized as a prototype for the production of another compound.

In computer terminology templates are predesigned formats for text and graphics on which also web pages can be based. Their function is to enforce a standard layout, which affects multiple pages or specific content regions. When the template is changed, any page or region that refers to that template is also automatically changed.

In astroshamanism template is used as a synonym of Totem Spirit, Paheka, archetype, deva, etc. The advantage of the term template, as I see it, is that, unlike most traditional words, is devoid of romantic connotations and appears more neutral and rigorously pragmatic.

The astrological equivalents of templates are the twelve zodiac signs and the seven traditional planets, which are very powerful references, yet often misleading because of the biased associations they cause. Whatever the case, in this article I will use the term template, which you can always substitute with some of the terms mentioned above if you do not feel comfortable with it. 

Astroshamanic templates literally represent the patterns of reproduction that shape our entire human perception of reality. They are the generators of the collective dream that keeps our world trapped into what can be described as a simulation grid. “All welfare and adversity that come to man and the other creatures come through the Seven and the Twelve” reads the Bundahishn (a classic account of Zoroastrian cosmology) “for the twelve signs of the Zodiac and the seven planets rule the fate of the world and direct it.” 

In the astroshamanic cosmogony the above state of affairs is called the Human Arbitrary Configuration (HAC), which is strategically caused by the Paheka Rubhe (the web generated by the 144 combinations of the twelve astroshamanic templates). Whatever is perceived in our world is the result of this web, which appears to operate with an intention of separation. The only way to change the effects of this situation is to access the templates and modify their programme (intention). When the programme in the template is customized, all the elements of our reality that refer to that template are also inevitably changed.

The extreme disadvantage here is that templates abide beyond the reality that they generate, i.e. our human configuration (HAC). And since HAC is based on separation templates remain virtually inaccessible, thus precluding any prospect of real change. The aim of the current HAC is essentially to prevent the connection with templates by annihilating any possibility of escape from its separated reality.

Yet, within HAC there exist however few extraordinary options for escape, which are either part of the acknowledged, though secret, structure of the configuration itself, or the result of system failures. This is the realm of the Provisional Order, or Provordo Etnai (see previous articles), and of shamans. The situation is ideally depicted in the movie The Matrix, where Morpheus and his crew can enter and exit the Matrix (HAC) at will, causing failures in its programme, while the men with the black suit operate as a sort of HAC antivirus software. They can also transit to and fro HAC, yet they do so in order to eradicate threats to the system and prevent illicit escapes.

The characteristic of shamans is their ability to move in and out of ordinary reality, yet similarly to Morpheus and the men in black they do so either to promote unity or preserve separation. Paradoxically, yet perhaps more accurately, shamans also play a third function, which serves the interests of both parties. Yet, this is most contentious and we will not to go into it here. What I would like to address instead are some more pragmatic features of the work with templates.

In practical terms shamans are aware of how changes truly manifest in the ordinary visible reality. Their connection with templates is purely pragmatic. This means that their association far from being dictated by beliefs is based upon direct experience and tangible results.

Shamans produce changes in HAC by establishing a connection with alternative or parallel realities, and namely with the templates that originate such realities. For example, if in our ordinary reality (HAC) there is a conflict between two individuals, the commonplace way of dealing with it is to operate within HAC itself, i.e. by directly involving the related parties and finding ways to solve their conflict. This is certainly legitimate, and at times the conflict can be solved in this way, as long as the templates contemplate that possibility. Yet this is not always the case, and often the conflict escalates or, even worst, is repressed or disguised. A shamanic alternative is to operate on the templates themselves and give less emphasis on the outer conflict.

Here the shaman refers to the conflict or whatever happens in the ordinary reality similarly to how a typographer considers printed material. Here outer reality is merely the result of a printing process, which is determined by typesetting. Before the advent of digital publishing, typesetting of printed material was operated by compositors working by hand or with machines. Yet, although things have evolved, the general principle of typesetting is still the same. It involves the arrangement of glyphs, images and other pieces of text to make up a template, and the successive printing or transfer of that template onto paper or other media.

It is the template that produces the printed material. Yet, since it is the printed material that catches all the attention, the understanding of how printed matter is generated is often lost for most folks and remains the realm of typography or desk top publishing.

Once the shaman has identified the features of an issue occurring in ordinary reality the next step involves tracing the template that is producing the issue. Here part of the work consists of facing the template and understanding why it generates that issue, which purpose it serves in the universe and, if this is coherent with the shaman’s intention then customizing the template.

The arrangements in which the letters of the alphabet can be placed are immeasurable, yet there are only 26 letters (in the English alphabet). There are many copies of a given printed material, and they can be published in various formats or type paper, yet in the end there is only one template. Similarly, there are countless expressions of the issues we face in life, yet there are only very few templates.

The main characteristic of working with templates is the awareness that there is nothing personal or private, and that everything is part of the collective. Many events in our life seem to relate only to our private life and to the lives of those we get involved with. Yet, when we become aware of templates, we realise that what seems to happen to us is indeed happening on a much wider scale. When I deal with issues only at a personal level, I cut off from the vaster reality where this issue truly belongs. When I open up to the collective I realize that I am not alone and that I can receive support from a wider spectrum of forces. This is indeed the first step in shamanic healing: translating personal history into collective history. Before moving beyond the ordinary reality and accessing the template, I need to take the first decisive step of mending the separation between myself and my environment.

I need to realize that the level of fragmentation of the ordinary reality is of great magnitude. Not only there is a huge separation between outer and inner reality. There is also massive separation within the outer reality itself. This easily causes us to see our experiences with all their feelings, processes and emotions as separate from the experiences of other human beings, not to mention animals, plants or minerals. Before even attempting to access the template, we need to become experientially aware of the collective implications of all apparent personal processes. We need to feel at one with the outer reality for once we access the subtle realms of the templates we will confront far more complex dimensions. There is no way we can approach the templates unless we are ready to question our human illusory perception and, though provisionally, let go of it.

“Human beings are perceivers, but the world that they perceive is an illusion: an illusion created by the description that was told to them from the moment they were born. So in essence, the world that their reason wants to sustain is the world created by a description and its dogmatic and inviolable rules, which their reason learns to accept and defend. (Carlos Castaneda, The Wheel of Time, p. 133)

Templates abide beyond the perception of our illusive world based on linear time and third-dimensional space. At their level of awareness all times and spaces exist simultaneously. Moreover what seem to be serious problems from our human perspective appear totally different from the templates’ perspectives. The understanding of templates is virtually unattainable for our limited human minds, yet glimpses of comprehension are accessible when we use easier definitions of templates.

Templates are models which reproduce an enormous variety of shapes. The appearance of the shape changes, yet it keeps its essential structure. For example, if the template is a circle, I can reproduce many circles and paint them in different colours, yet they will always be circles. The same applies to triangles. In the astroshamanic cosmology there are 12 major templates. Each of these templates possesses its own characteristics. Each template consists of a specific story that constantly repeats itself. It is like the remake of a movie. The actors and the environment change, yet the story remains the same, although there may be some minor variations. There are 12 basic stories. Everything proceeds undisturbed until the story goes according to the script. The purpose of the template is to reproduce the same structure, yet allowing trivial alternatives in the content.

Since the most ancient times of human history, the teachings around the basic templates have been transmitted through the work of a few individuals or esoteric groups. The number, the form, the name and the function of these templates changes according to the strategies involved. Astroshamanism employs the astrological language as a model of reference and considers 12 templates whose associations are akin to those of the 12 zodiacal signs and their ruling planets. The first step in working with templates involves acknowledging each one of them, separately, in the same way children learn the alphabet. Each letter is identified and associated with the sound it produces, then later letters will be put together to create words and sentences. The first step in this process involves creating binaries, combinations between two templates, which is what this blog will explore.

For details on the characteristics of each template see the following books:
Franco Santoro, Astroshamanism: A Journey Into the Inner Universe; Astroshamanism: The Voyage Through the Zodiac; Iniziazione all'astrosciamanesimo, Findhorn Press, 2003

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