What did our forefathers know that we’ve not been told?
(I’ve postponed sharing this information because I feel
inadequate to carry a message involving history. Now I realize all I am to do is tell what I
was shown and the hunches that followed.
You discern if any of the images and messages resonate with you.)
The weekend of this fall’s autumn equinox, I awoke seeing
the Pleiades, the star cluster I look forward to in winter’s sky. These seven
stars shown so clearly I thought I was outside.
I was elated until I realized I was in bed in the middle of the night.
Then I was shown another scene. Against a gray background, black silhouettes
of telescopes revolved around me. I sensed I was seeing an astronomy tower of
old. Then I was shown the Liberty Bell
and Ben Franklin came to my mind.
I lay in bed wondering if these things were linked. I knew nothing about Ben Franklin beyond his
experiment with the kite and key.
The day prior I had just confided in a long distance friend
that I’ve never been able to comprehend what I read. Because of this I have
felt mentally inferior all my life.
Being able to memorize facts for tests, I did well academically but retained
little regarding history. I now know I
learn through experience something for which our education system was not set up.
This particular morning, I noted what I was shown along with
my first impressions then I went to the internet. In the seconds it took to type a few words
and click search, I realized this information somehow fit together but I had no
idea what it meant.
The first reference that got my attention regarded the
Liberty Bell. Called the Independence
Bell in Ben Franklin’s day, it was rung when he went to England to express
the colonists’ grievances to the King. This
was just one of eight times Franklin crossed the
Atlantic in his life long before the speed and
ease of today’s travels.
I was stunned to learn Ben Franklin only went through 2nd
grade yet became a printer, scientist, inventor, statesman, politician, author
and the country’s first post master. He
started a fire department, organized the first library and became the Minister
to France. He learned five languages and played three
musical instruments. This man called the
First American whose many discoveries are integral to our lives today had an
immense curiosity and willingness to ask questions.
I felt a particular affinity for Franklin upon learning he authored “Poor
Richard’s Almanac” a precursor to the present “Farmer’s Almanac.” This
inexpensive paperback in the last two years has become my gardening Bible with
its charts for planting based on planetary and moon influences.
Most intriguing was information regarding Franklin’s belief in other beings in the
stars.
His interest
in the Native Americans, as well as legends of the Iroquois confederacy
resulted in one of his
best-selling pamphlets, the Iroquois creation story of Sky Woman. This story describes Sky Woman’s coming to
Earth and birthing the human race. Reading
this brought tears to my eyes.
I thought of the many Atlantic crossings Ben Franklin made
and wondered if his openness to Native American belief was somewhat influenced
by his own personal encounters with star beings during those eight long
crossings? Was he imbued with heightened creative energy from
the stars? What messages might he have
received influencing his discoveries, attitude and knowledge?
I then read that Franklin
developed relationships with the members of the Lunar Society, a small group of
men in England
who met on the Monday nearest the full moon to discuss new scientific ideas, technology,
innovation, metaphysics and philosophy.
These men became the fathers of the Industrial Revolution.
Was it by coincidence, intention or grace that these men met each month
on a Monday, the day of the week derived from Moon Day. They supposedly met near the full
moon so it would light their way home. What
inspiration or illumination came from meeting beneath the energy of the moon
near its fullest and then walking home by its light?
I found myself wondering what our forefathers knew that
we’ve not been told?
Where did the Pleiades fit into what I was shown?
In May 2011, two long distance friends visiting me shared how
some Native Americans thought certain souls came to Earth from this star system.
This stirred my interest and I began to look for them in winter’s night sky. My first personal experience with the Pleiades
was in January (2012) after my partner and I held a ritual at one of the
starting points of the Trail of Tears. As we returned to our car, I happened to
look up and saw the Pleiades overhead. I
sensed we were being quietly watched over from these stars above us.
The particular morning of my on-line search I found “in the
ancient world, in places of great power and influence, monuments were built
aligned with the Pleiades. The Washington
Monument is aligned with
the Pleiades.”
I found sites suggesting that the whole of Washington D.C.
is laid out based on aligning buildings and monuments with certain star
systems. Sites I later came across insisted
this held demonic intent.
What I thought more interesting is that in today’s culture,
the word star evokes actors,
musicians and athletes not heavenly bodies of light. Those interested in the heavens stars tend to
fall into groups: Scientists and investors seeking to exploit bodies in space for
minerals necessary for our technological devices, those looking to the star’s
for Earth’s salvation, those looking to the heavens for religious salvation and
those who are simply curious as to the night sky. Many I fear live ignorant of the stars as I
have until recently.
I concluded my morning’s search, my mind a tangle of
information and feeling a mix of pressure around wanting to get whatever the
message was ‘just right’ and curious as to these things shown to me.
The next morning I was given more of the story. I saw what looked like a photo of a doorway,
specifically the floor at the threshold. This was followed by a slowly spinning
mandala of five-pointed stars outlined in black. One star was in the center and
each point was connected to the point of another star. The turning image looked like something from
the Southwestern Hopi.
I watched and knew I was being shown that the turning stars
offer a threshold for our entering a new space and time.
The next morning, I sat on the sofa wrapped in a fog, coffee
in hand, watching sunlight climb the trees. The Liberty Bell was on my
mind. Something felt missing regarding
this piece of what I had been shown.
Not being one to read the news, I picked up the weekend’s paper
to distract myself or so I thought. As I
opened the local section, my breath was taken.
On page two was a small photo of a bell, a replica of the Liberty Bell
being rung at a local celebration of Constitution Week. The week prior had been the 225th
anniversary of the adoption of the US Constitution.
Before work, I delved into sites regarding the constitution
and became even more mentally laden with information. Each day that week I read about the
Constitution yet nothing I read felt intuitively right in relation to what I
had been shown.
Days later as Jerry walked through the room I asked, “Does
the Liberty Bell mean anything to you?”
He only responded, “What does a bell do?”
In that moment I knew. A bell sounds a
tone and in a tone I also saw at one. The first thing I had read
was of the bell’s being rung when Ben Franklin went to England
representing the colonies. Were the
people “at one” then or more so than we seem today? The bell did crack after all. Was this symbolic of the challenge even then of
being unified while maintaining and honoring individual differences?
I wondered, ‘If a bell makes a tone, can one be constructed
to make specific tones?’ (I had totally forgotten of hearing church hand bell
groups long ago.)
I searched on-line and learned the Liberty Bell made in London was made to sound
E flat. I wondered if E flat in
particular evoked a particular feeling or mood.
I searched E flat and found it is often associated with bold, heroic music.
In one week, I had visions and intuitions regarding the Pleiades and
astronomers of old, the Liberty Bell and Ben Franklin, a threshold and the
turning stars, Constitution Week and a heroic tone. What did I make of this?
It is heroic the founding fathers convened to discuss, debate
and ultimately craft a document that held a vision for America and that
families set out for the unknown by crossing the watery threshold of the
Atlantic with the starry night sky for navigation.
Those before us won independence from England and
became the builders of the outer structures in which our leaders convene. They crafted
the political structure under which we’re governed and about which there’s such
division today.
It is equally heroic that we as Souls have gathered at this
time. Like those before us, we too stand
at a threshold to the unknown with assistance from the stars. We have the opportunity to build a new
structure born in independence yet requiring something possibly more evolved
than independence.
These times call for a new heroism founded in the curiosity
of Ben Franklin and the willingness to ask questions without knowing the
answers. Who among us is willing to be that curious, to suspend what we cling
to and the beliefs we adhere to and dig deeper to ask more and better
questions?
These times call for a heroism that doesn’t reactively
vilify those who look or believe contrary to us. We may celebrate Constitution Week, yet
reacting in fear, judgment and anger suggests our constitution’s weak, our
personal inner constitution. These times
call for an inner structure of courage, compassion and awareness.
The tone that sounds today isn’t that of a bell but the
greater conversation. We each have the opportunity
to consciously set our individual tone which impacts the greater tone.
The Founding Fathers gained independence and created literal
and political structures. We’ve the opportunity
to more fully realize our interdependence and support a new relational
structure, one that joins the inner with the outer and realizes our
interconnectedness with one another, Nature and all of Earth.
Just as the stars were with our founders, they are with us
assisting in the opportunity to use free will in relation to our hearts, minds and
voices as we stand at a threshold to a new paradigm.
-Dawn, The Good News
Muse 20 December 2012
