According to Astro-theologian Michael Tsarion there is a great story of the human race that lies mostly buried in the unconscious slumber of men and women, although the story line continues to unfold as every hour passes upon the Earth. It is the story of humans and the natural world in which we live. It is not history or even her-story, it's our story.
Tsarion says that thousands of years ago, in the great society of Egypt that birthed the legendary Stellar and Lunar cults, men and women lived together as equals. They spent their lives striving for balance within themselves and with each other. To them the human body and consciousness were sacred and the inner questions of who and what they were reflected outward in their everyday lives. Living on the earth was a spiritual act and what we today consider mundane and ordinary, everyday reality, was understood by them to be infused with psychic energy and rich with personal meaning. In their understanding, that which was created within the human psyche was partially reflected outward in the material world.
The cycles of the human body and the cycles of nature were revered and studied in great depth as a means of divination and insight into their individual quests for clarity and understanding. The way they lived together and interacted was symbolic of their inward journey through the great challenges of life on the path to wisdom.
Today, most of us realize that we are out of balance within ourselves, with each other and with the planet. Other forces and other agendas have cut off the feminine and have driven reverence for the cycles of life and nature into a place of suspicion and domination. Without the wisdom of the other the male principle continues to divide and conquer the planet, paving it over for the mechanical progeny of his wounded ego.
The way we now reflect outward, the way we create our habitat here on this Earth, is an indicator of our internal crisis of spirit. Some believe that in prayer or by studying indigenous traditions we might gain clues as to what's not working within ourselves.
Although we are on the right track in thinking that something must change, we are still mostly looking up to an inflated male ego creation (God) as the one who can force a solution. According to Tsarion the missing piece was left behind 10,000 years ago in the Garden of Eden. In the subsequent rewriting of this myth, the new authors condemned nature and the feminine principle. The liberating knowledge of the male and female was twisted into punishing retribution of the knowledge of good and evil. Women and nature were vilified and everyone was thrown out of balance, out of the Garden. It seems like the game was and still is about cutting off the male from the female and the human being from nature. All of our related psychic stress and searching is then covered up by artificial doses of material substitutions, religious dogma and rules.
But fortunately, the human spirit is strong. Most of us want to reconnect. We just don't know where to start. Tsarion says the place to start is right here at home. Where we live. Inside and out. We have made an intellectual journey back to where we started 10,000 years ago — now it's time to get our house back in order.
