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Ezine of the Sacred Cone Circle, 17 February 2011, Issue 100
Cluny Hill College, Forres IV36 2RD, Scotland. (+44(0)1309-672289.
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Issue 100 – One Hundred
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16 February 2011
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IN THIS ISSUE
Sexuality, Holism & ShamanismFull Moon in LeoPisces – ZodiacAstroshamanicHealing®Touch& Primal EmbraceMoon/ Pisces - TarotHealing Relationships:Your Mind Holds the Keys
And more
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Findhorn (UK)
26 February –
13 March 2011
Findhorn (UK)
19-25 March 2011
Findhorn (UK)
16-23 April 2011
Findhorn (UK)
30 April - 6 May 2011
Findhorn (UK)
18–25 June 2011
Assisi (Italy)
15-20 July 2011
Findhorn (UK)
30 July-5 August 2011
Findhorn (UK)
13-19 August 2011
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Welcome to PAN issue 100!
We celebrate this issue by announcing our first Month-long Astroshamanic Training at Findhorn (26 February – 25 March 2011) and our opening programmes on
Our programmes are addressed to those who intend to embrace their ecstatic multidimensional nature and run free with it, releasing their fears, opening their hearts with integrity and joining loving forces with other fabulous people on the path.
We will place emphasis on crucial themes, such as relationships, sexuality, community, resources, creativity, life and death. We will address them from a grounded holistic perspective, employing healing tools and learning by direct pragmatic experience.
In this PAN you can find a selection of articles recently published in our blog Astroshamans at http://astroshamanic.blogspot.com. Your comments are what we treasure most. Please leave your comments at the end of any article you read in our blog. Also just a couple of words will be much appreciated, or you can also tick one of the reaction options. You are also invited to answer a poll, which you can find in the right column of our blog.
Blessings, Franco
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Sexuality, Holistic Awareness and Shamanism:All You Wanted to Know About How to Do It Multidimensionally, But Didn’t Dare to Ask For ages on our planet conflicts around sex issues have been a major cause of sufferance, addiction and frustration. As we move into a path of rapid spiritual reawakening it is vital to acknowledge these wounds and strenuously promote ways to heal them.
Holistic Awareness is based on the experience that all aspects of life are intimately related and part of the same whole. According to a holistic perspective there is no separation and we can find our sense of purpose only if we acknowledge the wider reality in which we exist. This reality also includes what lies beyond our ordinary perception and can effectively deepen the awareness of who we truly are; our multidimensional identity.
Holistically each human being, no matter how conditioned or unaware, is an inherent part of the web of life. This means that together with their separated personality, they experience the interaction with a multidimensional identity, which is their true self.
When more individuals join together with the intent of giving creative space to their multidimensional nature, they amplify the access to the web of life and the unity of consciousness, creating the conditions for radical healing shifts in human values.
Photo by Michele Mossop
Foundation Training in Astroshamanism(26 February – 13 March 2011)I would like to invite you to join the ninth edition of the Findhorn Foundation Training in Astroshamanism, in Cluny Hill College (Scotland), which this year can also be expanded in the Month-long Astroshamanic Training (see below) Read on…Full Moon in Leo – 18 February 2011 By Franco Santoro
Full Moon in Leo: This is traditionally a most visionary and theatrical Full Moon, the radiant bearer of spectacular breakthrough and inventive ideas.
The Full Moon is exact on 18 February 2011 at 8:35 GMT in 29° Leo 20’, so that the previous night will express most of its potential. The effects, as for all full moons, will begin two days before and end two days after.
The two days preceding a full moon can challenge the perspective of ordinary reality and are ideal to release pent-up emotions and excess energies. The function here is to bring balance between the areas where the Sun and the Moon are. With the Aquarius-Leo axis, the integration is between group and individual consciousness.
During a Full Moon the sexual energy reaches its climax, making the whole body a vast erogenous zone eager to express and act out. This is one of the reasons why the Full Moon has always been regarded as the best time for dynamic group rituals and trance dances.
Pisces - Astroshamanic Voyage into the Zodiac
By Franco Santoro
 Within the cycle of the year, Pisces is crucial for it represents the culmination of the gestation of any intent or process set in motion in the preceding months, as from the spring equinox in 2010.
It is a very delicate period, in which new talents and gifts take solid shape and prepare for their outer emergence, yet in a context where we may still be unable to acknowledge and see what is actually emerging.
This requires focus, care and alertness so as to embrace the opportunity of giving fruitful conscious birth to what truly aligns with our authentic potential, including the current planetary transformational shift. Each one of us is dealing with a specific element in this wider process of delivery. Here I want to underline that these elements gain considerable clarity, perspective and definition when they move from our personal limbo out into the collective. We can become truly aware of our emerging gifts and talents when we allow them to be visible and acknowledgeable by others, instead of breeding them in isolation.
 Among the numerous applications of astroshamanic work, AstroshamanicHealing®Touch & Primal Embrace are some of the most controversial and captivating. This is because they straightforwardly challenge our human perception of physical reality, delving into its unseen matrix and retrieving the awareness of the amazing realms that abide beyond.
AstroshamanicHealing®Touch is a unique way for understanding and working with the boundaries between ordinary and non-ordinary reality, moving beyond separation and uncovering the links with the ecstatic nature of the web of life. It is an extraordinary multidimensional approach to spiritual healing bodywork, woven from the wisdom of ancient traditions and more recent paths of liberation.
AstroshamanicHealing®Touch utilises the dynamics of shamanic trance to create deep energetic states of harmony in the body, soul and spirit. Through the sensitive and empowering use of ritual strokes, contact and postures, operated according to clear boundaries and in alignment with the planetary rhythms, this approach works on the multidimensional sexual body, reawakening the remembrance of our original nature and purpose.
An Astroshamanic Voyage into the Tarot
By Franco Santoro
 The Moon is the eighteenth trump of the Major Arcana, which in most traditional decks is associated with Pisces. In the Rider Waite Tarot the card depicts a dog and a wolf baying at the Moon, while a crayfish emerges out of the water and takes its first step on a pathway leading beyond a large gateway of two towers. The landscape is dark and gloomy, with a waxing and rather frowning Moon shining with sixteen chief rays and sixteen secondary rays, and shedding drops of luminous dew.
In the The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, A.E. Waite describes the Moon as the representation of life of the imagination apart from life of the spirit. The setting looks desolate and obscure, illuminated only by the light of the Moon, which is the result of a reflection and therefore illusory and easily misleading.
This light illuminates and triggers our animal and unconscious nature, the lunatic (from the Latin luna, “Moon”) side, represented by the dog, the wolf and, as Waite puts it, “that which comes up out of the deeps, the nameless and hideous tendency which is even lower than the savage beast. It strives to attain manifestation, symbolized by crawling from the abyss of water to the land, but as a rule it sinks back whence it came.”
Despite this noticeable anguish, the Moon is a zone of major power and a great learning path, if one is not swept away by the intense emotional turmoil that this trump can potentially manifest. This is an area where the structure of the ordinary world and all the illusions that characterise this separated reality simply crush and melt away. Yet the alternatives may be insanity, addiction, despair and the most dramatic forms of psychic disturbance, unless the individual is firmly grounded on the healing path.
Month-long Astroshamanic Training at Findhorn
For those who would like to stay on after completing the Findhorn Foundation Training in Astroshamanism and participate in the Astroshamanic Practitioner Training Intensive, we are offering a month-long option which includes:
· 26 February - 11 March: Findhorn Foundation Training in Astroshamanism. Click here for details.
· 12 - 18 March: Integration Week: Being in the Findhorn Community and taking part in activities such as gardening, sacred dances, singing, nature walks, meditation and individual sessions with Franco... and associates.
19 - 25 March, Astroshamanic Practitioner Training Intensive. Click here for details.
Income related price (click here for more information): £1585.
Includes 28 nights accommodation and all meals.
Healing Relationships – Part One:
by Franco Santoro
 When approaching the theme of relationships from a spiritual and multidimensional perspective a most relevant question is:
Who and what is truly relating in a relationship?
If, as most spiritual seekers appear to concur, we are not physical bodies, then a relationship between two human beings, no matter how it comes into sight for us, has very little to do with the interactions between two physical bodies.
Relationships are not about meeting particular persons, as we identify them by their physical body, name, role and outer behaviour.
Summer Retreats in Italy
Assisi (Italy), 15-20 July 2011, The Sensuality of the Void: - Holistic Awareness and AstroshamanicHealing® Retreat. CLICK HERE
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PAN, Issue 99, 16 January 2011
 | PAN Provisional Astroshamanic Net Ezine of the Sacred Cone Circle, 16 January 2011, Issue 99 Cluny Hill College, Forres IV36 2RD, Scotland. (+44(0)1309-672289. |
Issue 99 | 16 January 2011 |
IN THIS ISSUE And more  Click on the highlighted links for more information Jesi (Italy), 22-23 January 2011 AstroshamanicHealing® Findhorn (UK) 12-18 February 2011 Findhorn (UK) 26 February – 13 March 2011 Findhorn (UK) 19-25 March 2011 Jesi (Italy), Findhorn (UK) 16-23 April 2011 Findhorn (UK) 30 April - 6 May 2011 Jesi (Italy), 4-5 June 2011 AstroshamanicHealing® Findhorn (UK) 18 – 25 June 2011 Fabriano (Italy 5-10 July 2011 Assisi (Italy 15-20 July 2011 Findhorn (UK) 30 July-5 August 2011 Findhorn (UK) 13-19 August 2011  | Welcome to PAN issue 99, reaching you with tenacious Blessings on the newly born Year. In this PAN you can find a selection of articles from our Astroshamanism Facebook page and Astroshamanism Blog. Click on the highlighted links for more information or to read on.  I wish you a most immaculate New Year, in its full nothingness and emptiness, ready to be filled with abundant beauty and blessings. And yet a major blessing here may involve simply recognising and accepting nothingness, without frantically rushing into crowding it with something out of the fear of being or doing nothing. If I am afraid of being nothing, of questioning who I am, including my intention and the meaning of life, whatever I am or do will inevitably be based upon this fear. As a result this will generate more fear and all the related misery. Hence the top blessing I wish for ourselves is that we can take at least one day to be or do nothing, refraining from the burning urge to be or do something. On that day we can choose to directly face nothingness, confronting our fears, as well as our courage, allowing ourselves to listen to whatever is genuinely there once we release all that robotic being and doing. This is the seed of nothing which has the potential of becoming a new luminous something, a something that truly makes a difference in our world. Yet, for the time being, let us embrace and celebrate nothingness. Following a long series of major celebrations and special events, with Solstice, Christmas, New Year, eclipses, at last some time to celebrate nothing, including a day entirely devoted to nothing, i.e. 16 January, Nothing Day. This un-event was first observed in 1973. Apart from a few lines (see here) there is nothing about Nothing Day, which is coherent. Nothing describes the absence of anything or more colloquially the lack of anything relevant. And yet nothing features prominently on the spiritual healing path. The first lesson of A Course in Miracles starts with the word nothing, while the Introduction to this 1249-page work points out that it can all be summed up very simply in eight words (with nothing being used twice): Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists Read more… about nothing …or more ideally read nothing… In astroshamanism nothing is the realm of the Bhi Jinah. These are strategic non-beings that populate nothingness. Their aim is drawing the attention to the reality of such nothingness and making human beings aware of the connection and unity that exists among everyone and everything. See article Bhi Jinah – The Nothing People The best thing would be to do nothing on 16 January, Nothing Day, so as to be coherent. Yet if you really cannot help doing something, you might join our group meditation or audio session on 16 January, though I definitely do not recommend it (for more information click here). What I do recommend though, if you are passionate about nothing, as well as a wee bit of something, is to consider our upcoming calendar of astroshamanic events (see details below or click here). Image: Sheer Nothingness by Polar Mike Foundation Training in Astroshamanism(26 February – 13 March 2011)I would like to invite you to join the ninth edition of the Findhorn Foundation Training in Astroshamanism, in Cluny Hill College (Scotland), which this year can also be expanded in one-month astroshamanic practitioner training, the One-Month Astroshamanic Training. Read on…The Astroshamanic Circle In astroshamanism astrology is used as a strategic system aimed at expanding our perception and moving beyond the parameters of consensus reality. The basic experiential assumption here is that everyday reality, or life as we conventionally know it, is merely an interpretation that has been hammered into us since we were born. This interpretation is so intransigent that the experience of alternate realities and paradigms is not regarded as a factual possibility, and can only be demoted in the realm of fiction, fantasies or what are generally considered superstitions, such as astrology. Click here to read the whole article.Image: Provordo Jesi Astroshamanic CircleThe Healing Power of Books, Music and Movies Unless we become aware of our own creative power and authentic nature, books, music, cinema and other media drastically shape our reality and perception of the world. Their obvious and subtle information enters into our mind and creates specific effects, which then define the paradigms of our life. As a result, if you are on the path of spiritual reawakening it can be very helpful to bring awareness to what you read, watch or listen to. Read on…Illustration © 2006 by Mini Grey, Horn Book MagazineIn our Astroshamanic Shop and in the blog Astroshamanic Bookshelf you will find various recommendations on books, music and movies. An important part of those pages is devoted to the classification of works in accordance to astrological correspondences. In the Astroshamanic Shop in the categories Astrology, Cinema, and Dance & Music in the column on the right (Browse by categories) you can find sections for each zodiac sign with related list of books, movies and music. Such indications are only meant to provide some examples and are under ongoing construction. You may notice that some works apply to more than one sign. This means that they have characteristics related with various signs. All books, movies and music can be ordered directly from this blog via Amazon. Click here to access our Astroshamanic Shop or click here or any of the banners below (according to your country) to make any order through Amazon. If you do so this will help us support our Astroshamanic Research Fund.    Movies associated with AquariusAquarius movies encompass all the basic themes of the sign, such as inventiveness, originality, freedom, revolution, catastrophes, independence, emancipation, communities, utopia, brother/sisterhood, friendship, innovation. It also includes films dealing with angels, aeronautics, space voyages, most science fiction and movies with strong elements of unpredictability, surprise, shocks, originality and outrageousness. Click here for a basic list. Summer Retreats in Italy We will hold two retreats this year: one in Assisi (15-20 July 2011) and the other near Fabriano (5-10 July 2011). These retreats are aimed at purposefully promoting the emergence of a healing collective consciousness and the release of dysfunctional patterns. All retreats in Italy are held in Italian and English (with ongoing translation by Franco in both languages) and are open to participants with previous experience of astroshamanic work. For details click here. We also hold a large selection of programmes in Italy, such as the course on AstroshamanicHealing® and many other events organised by Provordo Astroshamanic Healing Centre (for information contact letizia@astroshamanism.org). ASTROSHAMANIC TOP CHARTMusic plays a most important part in spiritual healing and astroshamanic work. In this realm there is abundant music purposefully produced with a healing intent, such as shamanic, trance states and meditative music (click here for our series of CDs). There is also healing music produced mainly for commercial reasons, with widespread distribution. Their messages are at times hidden between the lines or integrated with conventional themes, and yet this music can be very significant because it reaches huge amounts of people… Click here for our monthly top chart.Basic Ritual of the Sacred ConeThe three-stage Astroshamanic Basic Ritual of the Sacred Cone (Pahai Eneghe Urit), constitutes the basic foundation of astroshamanic work. In this article Franco provides full details on this practice also offering a series of visionary comments. Click here to read the article.(by Elaine Silverfire) In Reality things are upside down. This is what Alice discovered when she slipped from Dreamland and found herself on a Reality programme for three months. Read on… NEWS in FACEBOOK and BLOGGER Please be aware that PAN is sent in a most reduced format and at random times. Please refer to our Blogs and Facebook page if you wish to be updated about our work. The links are the following: Astroshamanic Blog: http://astroshamanic.blogspot.com/ Main page in English: http://www.facebook.com/Astroshamanism On Franco Santoro: http://www.facebook.com/Santoro.ukhttp://www.facebook.com/Santoro.uk Astroshamanic Bookshelf: http://astrobookshelf.blogspot.com/ Blog Astrosciamanico (in Italian): http://astrosciamanesimo.blogspot.com/ Page in Italian: http://www.facebook.com/Astrosciamanesimo Page in Spanish: http://www.facebook.com/Astrochamanismo Page on Astroshamanic Trance Dance: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55727467487&ref=ts Page on Cluny Garden: http://www.facebook.com/ClunyGarden?ref=ts Page on Astroshamanic Arts: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Astroshamanic-Arts/170792096295128 Page on Astroshamanic Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=74889361162&ref=mf © 2011 Franco Santoro, PAN (Provisional Astroshamanic Net). All rights reserved. You are most welcome to use short extracts from PAN provided you give mention in the credits. Feel completely free to quote, yet ideally please drop us a line to inform us about it. If you wish to reproduce a more substantial amount from PAN, including images, or use this material for commercial purposes, please contact us at PAN@astroshamanism.org. Sacred Cone Circle Franco Santoro Findhorn Foundation Cluny Hill College Forres IV36 2RD Moray, Scotland +44 (0)1309 672289 |
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