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WESAK
The origins of this celebration are connected to agricultural notions
of time based on the moon. The previous New Moon before Wesak is the
Sun and Moon annual rendezvous in the earth sign of Taurus.
The image is, as the Moon gets pregnant reaching the water sign of
Scorpio, so our consciousness grows expanding within us.
This is the time of the year where the soil is removed and prepared to
be seeded. The concept of insemination is backed up by the mirroring
of the Sun and Moon, Father and Mother, in Earth and Water, blessing
man's yearly labor.
Wesak is about man's union with nature and with the stars. A
celebration of the divinity behind all manifestation: the infinite
intelligence that lives in all. This is the feast. Man acknowledging
his place. Honoring all living beings. All participants in the cycle
of life.
Buddha reached inside himself and lived the same process that lives in
nature. He opened himself, was fecund by divinity, and was made a
man-god.
In his honor, for centuries, in Tibet, Nepal, India and South Asia, it
is a time for meditation, and chanting. A powerful time of prayer and
devotion with a focus on healing and enlightenment for all beings.
Generosity and kindness are practiced in service of all living things.
As too are dancing, painting and dramatic reenactments.
And many rituals are performed.
In Malaysia it is good karma to release caged animals. Doves,
tortoises, frogs and birds are freed from small cages on the steps of
temples.
A good metaphor for us.
Opening the caged and limited view of ourselves, and letting that deep
connection with divinity free to manifest in us is one of the best
conscious actions we can perform during this Full Moon.
Stepping out of a cage implies remembering how to be free.
This might be frightening. The step toward regaining memory implies a
dark passage.
Are we proud of our evolution? Have we honored the life that sustains
us? Is humanity in harmony with Earth? Can we, the human race, take
full responsibility for our actions? How do we relate to the World?
Some metaphysical teachings say that during the May's Full Moon, each
year, masters of spiritual hierarchy, initiates, and aspirants gather
in the valley of the Himalayas. The meeting place is called the Wesak
Valley, in Tibet, and the reunion happens on both the spiritual and
physical level. It is said that it is a moment of collective
channeling, where spiritual forces of cosmic order descend to earth
and flow through humanity's body.
A brotherhood between Christ and Buddha is the axis of this powerful
collective encounter. It brings us the notion of higher forces and of
cosmic help.
We can help us.
The severe wound inflicted on the Tibetan nation is just a condensed
reflection of the rest of the world's reality. The wave of suffering
expands itself in a world more and more at war with itself.
In the context of Tibetan history, the celebration of Wesak is an
active process of identity preservation and consolidation. The makers
of tradition have saved ancient rituals that connect the past, the
present and the future.
Taking into account Tibet's political situation, remembering is political.
And ritual too, works within a political reality because it connects
us to one another, to the larger pattern of society and to the cosmos.
Thanks to the New Age movement, the Wesak Moon has become in the past
decades a global celebration. In many cities around the world
collective rituals, prayers, chanting and meditations are performed.
The synergetic nature of new age allows the merging of the occident
and the orient, favoring the concept of unity and global
responsibility. Wesak is therefore and also, a bridge to the other. It
implies the healing of the concept of otherness: the false idea of
separation, within ourselves, from each other, and from Spirit.
This global invitation is to use our individual power, to work, think,
act, as in as a group, for a group, as a power distributor. The
invitation is to forget about ourselves in the task of containing and
maintaining the energy of this sacred date for all humanity.
The word World means 'the age of man'.
Like in the figure of The World tarot Arcana, we are dancing in
celebration of what we really are and always have been, surrounded by
cosmic forces available to us all.
Wesak offers us the gift of continuity.
So invite yourself in. Participate in the collective dance. Get
connected. In doing so you are helping humanity to step out of the
cage.
You are helping the World to be free.
At today’s Scorpio Full Moon, the Sun, Moon and several centaur
planets form a fixed grand cross, i.e., a cross made up of two
oppositions and four squares. This takes place in the fixed signs
Taurus (the Sun), Leo (Elatus), Scorpio (the Moon and Chariklo) and
Aquarius (Nessus). That’s six ‘hard’ or 90-degree-based aspects working
together in formation, and the main thing they have in common is that
they are all in fixed signs. These are the signs that the Sun transits
in the middle of a season, when we get near one of the cross-quarter
days (such as Beltane). They have the stable energy of continuing what
we’ve started. It’s the energy of keep going rather than initiate
something new, or quit while you’re ahead.
 Full Moon brightened by God. Photo by Deepu. A grand cross can feel like being caught in a crosshairs; like there
is something significant to address in every direction. They can also
be stabilizing factors, but what is often focused on is the process of
change and growth itself.
Although Pluto, modern ruler of fixed sign Scorpio (now a dwarf
planet, and having some similarities to centaurs in terms of his
elongated orbit and high declination to the ecliptic) seems to deal
with the change/stability paradox quite nicely by being fixed in his
determination to bring about change. This is not change for its own
sake, but rather renewing dedication and commitment to evolution and
growth.
Another factor in this chart that supports this idea is the Aries
Point. The cross-quarters (the midpoints of the fixed signs) are
related to the Aries Point because they aspect it by 45 or 135 degrees
— relatives to the square aspect. So all of the planets in the grand
fixed cross are aspecting all of the cardinal points — the first
degrees of Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. This makes the chart an
enormous intersection between the public and private spheres of
existence.
Last year at this time, we experienced a New Moon precisely on
Beltane. If you recall, at that time there was no serious public talk
of an economic crisis — though this rates among the many times
astrologers ’should have noticed’ something was up, mainly due to the
Aries Point involvement of the Taurus midpoint. | |
