A hike on Vasquez Rocks in Aqua Dolce, California last week was just what I needed to release the structure of the city and reconnect to Great Mystery. The unsound television training of my youth once again let me down for the Captain named Kirk was nowhere to be found, but what I did find was much more profound. It would seem ancient star seekers once trekked these grounds.
Synchronicity often streaks through astrological readings I record for clients from these places of power and, sure enough, as I was describing the evolutionary alchemy of Scorpio as the Snake who sheds her skin, I was led to an ancient painting of a serpent.
Synchronicity often streaks through astrological readings I record for clients from these places of power and, sure enough, as I was describing the evolutionary alchemy of Scorpio as the Snake who sheds her skin, I was led to an ancient painting of a serpent.
A neighboring plaque said these pictographs were painted in 500 AD by hunter-gatherers archeologists call Tatavium. I later discovered the local Chumash tribe called them Aliklik, but all I could do at the time was bow to the snake and respectfully say, “I was just talking about you, slick.” Then my attention was urgently drawn to the figure on the far right. "Go directly to Stick Man. Do not pass Thunderbird-Fish-Man-Thing. Do not collect $200."
What was it with Stick Man? Was it that he seemed to be accompanied by a ringed planet? Was it the strange white rakish glyph above that seemed to be painted at a different time? Was it that, on closer inspection, this Stick Man seemed to have four legs? None of the above. It took me a minute, but I realized that this glyph was another synchronicity smiling at my Scorpio rap. I realized that Stick Man could be a different way to draw Scorpius.
What was it with Stick Man? Was it that he seemed to be accompanied by a ringed planet? Was it the strange white rakish glyph above that seemed to be painted at a different time? Was it that, on closer inspection, this Stick Man seemed to have four legs? None of the above. It took me a minute, but I realized that this glyph was another synchronicity smiling at my Scorpio rap. I realized that Stick Man could be a different way to draw Scorpius.
The two brightest stars of the Scorpion are Antares (the Heart) and Shaula (the Stinger). If the constellation was drawn by connecting these two stars directly, a relatively straight line would result. You can see how Stick Man overlays quite nicely onto Scorpius.
There is something very special about this Scorpion... its tail points directly to the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. In fact, there are only two constellations of the Zodiac have pointers (the Arrow of the archer and the tail of the Scorpion) and they are both aimed towards Galactic Center. Is this not a demonstrations that the Ancients knew much more than we give them credit for? How could the creators of the Zodiac possibly have known about something that wasn't discovered by modern science until the 20th Century?
Good question, but symbols and myths from civilizations around the globe make this suggestion again and again. Take the Mayan symbol of Hunab Ku, for example. "Modern Maya Daykeeper Hunbatz Men calls Hunab Ku 'The Only Giver of Movement and Measure,' the Universal Consciousness and prime organizer of our Galaxy."
Modern astronomy teaches that there is a super massive black hole found at the center of all spiral galaxies, including the Milky Way. Does the vortex geometry of Hunab Ku not suggest the Mayans were hip to this knowledge?
Modern astronomy teaches that there is a super massive black hole found at the center of all spiral galaxies, including the Milky Way. Does the vortex geometry of Hunab Ku not suggest the Mayans were hip to this knowledge?
To believe or not to believe, that is the question. And the best questions cannot be answered. Mayan Monuments, Myths, and Stelae suggest Hunab Ku was located right where modern science knows Galactic Center to be now. If the Mayans knew, and the Ancient creators of the Zodiac knew, why not the Aliklik? If Stick Man is indeed their representation of Scorpius, then perhaps that circle to its left on these Vasquez Rocks pictographs is a marker for Galactic Center.
Or perhaps not. Perhaps I'm just reaching. And television training suggests I might get in trouble for being illogical at the very rocks where the above scene was shot... Bad Vulcan!
Love, Planets, and Mystery,
Gemini Brett
www.MoreThanAstrology.com
Love, Planets, and Mystery,
Gemini Brett
www.MoreThanAstrology.com
P.S. - Stick Man might be an Aliklik version of Squatter Man, which was drawn all over the globe and has been reproduced in the laboratory by plasma physicist Anthony L. Peratt. I looked into that mystery a bit during my Songs in the Key of Seas presentation, which you can view here.