The mysterious nature of time

[3DMonkey]

And 3DM, I just wanted to throw this question at you for some insights, as you are deeply interested in the astrological disciplines.

Astrology is study of Time too, isn't it? Can you highlight how the motions of the planets and the stars impact the energies that flow into the life of an individual at various times/phases through the span of time on earth?

I would like to try to understand a bit, the correlation between time, freewill and predetermination.

I would say that the planets are subject to linear time as we are. (Interesting, I've not consciously contemplated what a planet is in time/space. Thank you for that). I do love astrology, but I am not one to view it much as the planets impacting us as much as I view it as the motions symmetrically reflecting the same inflow/outflow of intelligent energy that we experience.

Each planet has such a wonderfully unique set of traits- orbits, revolutions, rotations, etc. My main stress upon astrology is that it is just as complex as the formation of life itself, and CLUES to these complexities are useful and by no means, precisely accurate. I do so love astrology above all other practices, and I will say without a doubt that I could show you much about how it reveals the archetypical mind. I would love to do so. Perhaps your desire to understand the correlations has led your Higher Self to request you dive into Archetype studies. (I hope so, because if I haven't said it before, I LOVE archetype studies )

9.3 Questioner: The way that I understand the process of evolution is that our planetary population has a certain amount of time to progress. This is generally divided into three 25,000-year cycles. At the end of 75,000 years the planet progresses itself. What caused this situation to come about with the preciseness of the years in each cycle?
Ra: I am Ra. Visualize, if you will, the particular energy which, outward flowing and inward coagulating, formed the tiny realm of the creation governed by your Council of Saturn. Continue seeing the rhythm of this process. The living flow creates a rhythm which is as inevitable as one of your timepieces. Each of your planetary entities began the first cycle when the energy nexus was able in that environment to support such mind/body experiences. Thus, each of your planetary entities is on a different cyclical schedule as you might call it. The timing of these cycles is a measurement equal to a portion of intelligent energy.

This intelligent energy offers a type of clock. The cycles move as precisely as a clock strikes your hour. Thus, the gateway from intelligent energy to intelligent infinity opens regardless of circumstance on the striking of the hour.

19.20 Questioner: Is this then the root of what we call astrology?
Ra: I am Ra. This will be the last full question of this session.

The root of astrology, as you speak it, is one way of perceiving the primal distortions which may be predicted along probability/possibility lines given, shall we say, cosmic orientations and configurations at the time of the entrance into the physical/mental complex of the spirit and at the time of the physical/mental/spiritual complex into the illusion.

This then has the possibility of suggesting basic areas of distortion. There is no more than this. The part astrology plays is likened unto that of one root among many.

76.9 Questioner: Is there, in Ra’s opinion, any present day value for the use of the tarot as an aid in the evolutionary process?
Ra: I am Ra. We shall repeat information. It is appropriate to study one form of constructed and organized distortion of the archetypical mind in depth in order to arrive at the position of being able to become and to experience archetypes at will. You have three basic choices. You may choose astrology, the twelve signs, as you call these portions of your planet’s energy web, and what has been called the ten planets. You may choose the tarot with its twenty-two so-called Major Arcana. You may choose the study of the so-called Tree of Life with its ten Sephiroth and the twenty-two relationships between the stations.

It is well to investigate each discipline, not as a dilettante, but as one who seeks the touchstone, one who wishes to feel the pull of the magnet. One of these studies will be more attractive to the seeker. Let the seeker, then, investigate the archetypical mind using, basically, one of these three disciplines. After a period of study, the discipline mastered sufficiently, the seeker may then complete the more important step: that is, the moving beyond the written in order to express in an unique fashion its understanding, if you may again pardon the noun, of the archetypical mind.