As we approach 2012 when many are speaking about the predictions of Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, the Mayan Calendar, the book of Revelations and many more, I like to remember two of the principles I learned from visionary activist, Caroline Casey:
‘It is better to create prophecy than live prediction’ and
‘Imagination lays the tracks for the Reality Train.’
Predictions are often based on the extrapolation of what would happen if we continued to feel, believe, think and act in a certain way: often leading to a low road scenario.
One place in which I experienced the results of creating prophecy instead of living the predicted path was in my native South Africa.
High road and low road scenarios were imagined and discussed by influential business and political leaders in the 1980’s. Instead of the predicted path of a bloodbath being the only way for the policy of apartheid to change, these leaders imagined what empowered change might look like, and boldly built tracks for the reality train of Mandela’s release, free and fair elections for all, and began imagining what a new South Africa might embody.
The Truth and Reconciliation Processes was put in place for people to tell their stories; to imagine what world they would be creating if they continued to live these stories; and to imagine what story they could start living that would help to create a better world.
Back to 2012 and instead of predictions, I propose that we create prophecy using the energy of these times. I propose that what we’ve read until now are low road scenarios. I’d like us to imagine high road scenarios.
To illustrate this I propose using a storystrology lens. Today we will look at two characters: archetypes. Each of these ‘characters’ is traveling through a different land, and as we know, when we travel through different places, we ‘shape-shift’ to both honor the place and to ‘fit in’ and be comfortable. Finally, I will invite you to imagine how these energies can be used in a potentially more balanced and constructive manner.
Our first character thrives on innovation and break through. The old has to be broken for the new to arise. Some say this creates chaos. Notice that energy, networks and technology are important to this revolutionary intuitive. This collage illustrates characteristics of our Promethean archetype.
This character is traveling through the land of pioneers and heroes: the land where bold, independent action is celebrated.
Meet our second character: the merciless change agent.
“What no longer serves, has to go!”
What makes this energy so frightening to many is that this change is fundamental – the caterpillar becomes the butterfly.
And this powerful change agent entered the Land of Traditional Manifestation in 2008 and will stay here until 2024.
Traditional strategies and stereotypes of success, performance and responsibilities are being investigated and transformed by this powerful change agent. This is also the land of BIG business, banks, government and traditional structures.
As you can see this sets a story of ‘Things are Changing in a BIG Way’. Visionaries like Teilhard de Jardin, Sri Auribindo, Peter Russell, and Barbara Marx Hubbard to mention but a few, have used their imaginations and the intuitive breakthroughs that arise out of deep silence to create a new reality track: a vision of a noosphere, a global brain, an interconnected world. If we can allow this transformation consciously with open hearts, we can create new structures, using technology and what we are discovering about energy, that will empower and enrich a far greater whole.
