ON PROPHECIES

I think it is best not to take prophecies literally. As an astrologer, I know that it is possible to predict the shape of events, their spirit-nature if you like, but how that actually unfolds in this reality is much harder to get right. For example, it was clear that the UK would be going through a meltdown and a rebirth around this time. It therefore made Brexit the most likely outcome (IMO) but you can never be certain. In fact, attempting to predict teaches us just how unpredictable the world is.

How we engage with prophecies I think depends on the literalness of the way we think. Our culture is literal, for science teaches us to be so. Things are either facts in the material world, or they do not exist. But this is just simple minds seeking simple certainties. There have always been many people, including indigenous people (who we easily idealise) who think like this, and always will be. But working with Spirit, we come to see that it is the dream and the dreaming that are real, and they are fluid things. And prophecy comes from the dream level.

So there was the 2012 Mayan prophecy that many people took literally as a sort of end of the world. It is first of all an expression of our alienation from our own imaginative roots, and from our own power, that we should get so engaged with the prophecy of another culture, and treat it as authoritative. But all the Mayan calendar was saying was that the world was coming to the end of a major cycle. What comes next is, as always, for us to dream into being. But the Mayan calendar is not our dreaming.

And it is the same with the union of the Eagle and the Condor. It is a beautiful prophecy, with two powerful symbols at its core, which are kind of masculine and feminine, north and south. The prophecy states that at this time, these 2 principles can come together again. Maybe they can, I don't know. One of the elders in this youtube video, Phil Lane, seems to take it quite literally and that will no doubt gain him followers, because many people want certainty. That apart, is this prophecy part of our dreaming?