Shamanic Egyptian Astrology
Ruby Falconer
Shamanic Egyptian Astrology interweaves the myths and stories of the Egyptian pantheon into the ancient language of astrology. The Egyptian pantheon are the great great grandparents of the Greek and Roman deities who are the archetypal basis of traditional western astrology. Traditional astrological symbolism is born of cultures shattered by the imbalance between the masculine and feminine polarities. The Egyptian archetypes - the neteru as they are called - are based in an earlier time when the true power of both feminine and masculine were equally celebrated. The result is a language of wholeness that speaks to our soul's memory of a time before our wounding. Now more than ever, in this time of dynamic transformation and change, it is incredibly important for us to move out of our wounds and embrace our wholeness. Shamanic Egyptian Astrology supports us in this quest.
Shamanic Egyptian Astrology is the co-creation of Ruby Falconer and Linda Star Wolf. For more information and to schedule readings contact Ruby Falconer at www.shamanicbreathwork.org or at 828-586-1810.
Egyptian Astrology for July
Month of Anubis, The Shaman King
In Shamanic Egyptian Astrology a particular neteru from the Egyptian pantheon has stepped forward to claim an association with the signs and planets that form the symbolic basis of western astrology. The fire sign Leo - July 22 - August 23 - is associated with Anubis the Shaman King.
Anubis, the jackal-headed god of ancient Egypt, is associated with two symbols of Shamanic Egyptian Astrology: Chiron, the planetary object representing our core childhood wounds, and Leo, the fire sign associated with creativity, generosity and leadership.
Anubis is the son of Osiris and Nephthys, husband and twin sister of Isis. In the story as it is historically passed down, Nephthys went to the palace of Isis and Osiris, dressed in her sister's garments, scented herself with her sister's perfume, and then waited for Osiris in the palace courtyard. Osiris came home and, assuming that the woman waiting for him in the darkened courtyard was his wife, made love to her. The result of their affair was Anubis. Knowing that she could not take her baby home to her husband, the Warrior King Set, Nephthys took the baby Anubis to the desert and left him there. Isis watched from afar and came forth to rescue her nephew, taking him home and raising him as her son.
In his guise as Chiron, Anubis's story is a tale of early childhood abandoment. In his form as the fire sign Leo, Anubis's story is about his reclamation of his essential inner sovereignty and his rise to his rightful place as a noble king. In the process of raising oneself out of the fragmentation and disintegration resulting from the wounds of childhood to true maturity, we find the representation of the Shaman King.
No one born on planet Earth escapes abandonment. Some are literally abandoned by their parents, others are emotionally or spiritually abandoned, either by their family, educational institutions, or churches and spiritual communities. We can all heal ourselves of the hurt and betrayal of our childhood and move into a mature acceptance of our path in life.
All that is required is an openness to the bigger picture and a willingness to perceive our wounds as gifts that allow us to claim our rightful soul's path. The story of Anubis as it is commonly related comes to us from the Greek and Roman historians who traveled and lived in Egypt late in it's cultural history. Their perception of these ancient myths was colored by the cultural lens through which they viewed the world. In some texts, Nephthys is called "corrupt" for her seduction of her sister's husband and her abandonment of her child. In truth, however, as has been revealed through direct downloads to my co-author, Linda Star Wolf, Anubis was never abandoned. A child needed to be born through the underworld king - Osiris - and the lunar goddess Nephthys. That child, Anubis, grew up to be a guide to the newly deceased and - with his mother Nephthys - the leader of the ritual of the renewal of the heart. He understood first-hand that in order to grow and become the person we are meant to be, in order to bring our light into the world, we must release our vicitimization and pain and step into the full light of day. We must allow our light to be seen by others, share it generously and without fear, and open to our solar pupose as a true child of the divine. Anubis is a symbol for all of us, showing us how we might discover and recover our true sovereignty, our inner nobility, in spite of - or perhaps because of - the abandonment and wounding we received in childhood. Now more than ever we need his message.
Highlights for the Month The month Anubis the Shaman King is the most intense of this year, bringing to culmination several transits that have been on-going over the last 22 months, since the fall of 2008.
Included are the following:
July 24 - the second exact square of Horus (Jupiter) and Osiris (Pluto). (These two will be in stationary square to each other over the next two weeks.)
July 26 - the fifth and final opposition of Sobek (Saturn) and Wadjet (Uranus).
August 3 - the third and final exact square of Horus (Jupiter) and Osiris (Pluto).
August 13 - Wadjet (Uranus) retrogrades back into the emmanation of Sothis (Pisces).
August 16 - the second of three exact oppositions between Horus (Jupiter) and Sobek (Saturn).
August 20 - Thoth (Mercury) retrogrades in the emmanation of Nekhbet (Virgo).
August 21 - the third and final exact square between Sobek (Saturn) and Osiris (Pluto).
The opposition of Sobek and Wadjet has provided a huge portal of transition for our planet that began in the fall of 2008. The square between Sobek and Osiris has accelerated this transformation since its beginning last winter. These three giants of astrology - Sobek, Wadjet and Osiris (Saturn, Uranus and Pluto) - have, over the last two months, been involved in a t-square with Horus - the New King and principle of expansion - amplifying the energy of their relationship.
A t-square is like a three-legged square table. As transiting planets move into relationship with the various elements of the t-square the imbalance described by the pattern is heightened. Horus (Jupiter) expands whatever he comes into contact with - in this case, the energy of the t-square. Throughout the month, first Set (Mars) and then Isis (Venus) also come into relationship with the three points of the t-square. All of this adds up to a very intense and unpredictable month.
Our planet is at a crossroads. We are beset by a range of uncertainty - from the economy to war to the environment. Many feel like we're teetering on the edge of disaster - and we are. This is an extremely important time in our pleanetary evolution. It is a dangerous time but there is also a tremendous opportunity for a breakthrough, out of the attitudes and assumptions that have bound us into ignorance and into a whole new way of being, both within our individual and collective consciousness and in practical reality upon the planet.
The last five days of July are historically known as the Epagomenal Days of ancient Egypt - "days out of time." These special days preceded the Egyptian New Year and corresponded with the annual flooding of the Nile River, an event necessary in order to insure a fertile harvest. In myth it is said that the five children of Nut and Geb - Isis, Osiris, Nephthys, Set and Horus the Elder - were each born on one of the days. In information downloaded to Linda Star Wolf, Anubis has come forth to tell us that he was born on the sixth day, that of the New Year. He is both a child of Nut and Geb, son of Osiris and Nephthys, and a brother to the five who stand at the pinacle of the Egyptian pantheon. The five become the six. How auspicious that these incredibly powerful transits come at this time of the Epagomenal Days, the newly acknowledged birth day of Anubis, and in the month of Anubis, the Shaman King.
The Old King is dying and the New King is being born. Birth is dangerous; we do not know if the baby will survive. Yet the potential for the future is rich and powerful. New Wadjet energy, full of kundalini life force, pours upon our planet and invites us to reach for new realms of expression and creativity. It is time for all of us to call upon Anubis and ask him to help us find our own Shaman King so that we can let go of abandonment and victimization and stand up as mature adults, creating our lives from an open heart firmly connected to our values. Nothing less will do.
