Franco Santoro's Blog: Astroshamanism, page 2
March 23, 2024
Online Easter Retreat, 30-31 March 2024
Full Moon in Libra
Full Moon in Libra with super penumbral eclipse on March 25, 2024. What to say to catch your attention? Let’s try this. Beware of what animates your most unspeakable passions in the shadows of your mind. This Aries Sun, fresh from the equinox, burns with impulsiveness, ready to devastate your most withstanding compromises, confronting you with whom you are on a level incomprehensible for this world. Most human beings spend their entire lives subservient to the social roles of consensus reality. The operating system of separation provides a number of models to which human beings conform, including alternative and rebellious models. What you believe to be is often a repetition of a script, played out over generations. The people you relate to, as well as the entire perception of the world around you, ultimately reside within you.
Ni ls-Aslak Valkeapää (born with Full Moon in Libra) writes:
“Maybe people only exist in my thoughts. Maybe the sky exists only in my mind. When will I wake up and to what?”
Other questions you can ask yourself: What I call “I” is it really me or a role I’m playing? What does it mean to be me?
Whatever the answer to these questions, what matters is asking them. If you can do so, you have already received most of the answer, although it may take some time to understand it.
This Full Moon is the first after the spring equinox, the most significant in the calendar of the Christian liturgy, as it serves to determine the dating of Easter, corresponding to the Sunday following the full moon day.
Treasure the experiences of light you have had throughout your life, do not allow them to be suffocated by the darkness of the flow of time, by the before and after. The before and after serve to highlight the experiences of light in-between. They are the void and the darkness that surround the fullness and the light, to give them prominence. Just as what you see with your eyes is visible thanks to the emptiness that highlights the contours of what is full, the miserable or shallow events of your life are the empty and dark background that allows you to identify the fullness of your luminous experiences. The only purpose of the darkness is to allow you to recognize the light. When you recognize it, it’s about showing this light, giving it form in material reality so that it can be perceived with the human senses. Only then can you be creative, otherwise you are just a robot.
You can act in two ways: out of survival and fear, in order to preserve the separate reality, or to open a gap and return to unity. This means recognizing that ordinary reality is temporary and that its only function is to show you the way to eternal realities. In the linearity of time, peace and happiness are always temporary, so the only certainty is that at some point you will lose everything.
“Time passes with surprising rapidity, and it does not matter much whether the end comes after a short or long time. The greatest happiness, the most beautiful love – everything – must end one day” observes Elisabeth Haich (born with full moon in Libra), first claiming “Oh time! Oh mortality! How long must I continue to suffer as a prisoner of your chains?” then later showing gratitude “since you never allowed me, not even for a moment, to enjoy temporal and passing happiness, this constant suffering has led me to find infinite eternity, eternal and divine being itself!”
March 20, 2024
The Sectors of the Astroshamanic Healing Grid at Cluny Hill
The Astroshamanic Healing Grid at Findhorn Foundation Cluny Hill, is a large Medicine Wheel, a network of invisible lines that divide Cluny Hill and its whole territory into a basic matrix of 12 sectors, representing 12 multidimensional realities associated with the zodiac signs. Each sector occupies a portion of 30 degrees and corresponds to an astrological sign. The Grid is also divided into further subdivisions, such as 36 Decanates and 144 Sub-Sectors or dwadashamsa.
The Astroshamanic Grid at Findhorn Foundation Cluny Hill, originally devised by Franco Santoro in 1999, has been used in thousands of events and workshops held since 1999 at the Findhorn Foundation.
Please find below a brief description of the Sectors as they are distributed in Cluny Hill:
Sector 1: Aries (Fire, Spring) incorporates Cluny Kitchen and the Still Room. These are areas full of activities and noise, with several metallic structures and tools (such as a well-displayed selection of knives). Cluny Kitchen is also characterised by a traditional prevalence of male cooks and focalisers.
Sector 2: Taurus (Earth, Spring) includes Cluny Dining Room, the Lounge and the Beech Tree Room. These are the most comfortable areas of the building. The external area of Taurus includes the Chakra Garden.
Sector 3: Gemini (Air, Spring) comprises the entrance hall, the major junction of the building, and a small part of the Lounge, which is occupied by tables with newspapers, magazines and leaflets. On the first floor Sector 3 encompasses the Cluny Library.
Sector 4: Cancer (Water, Summer) incorporates the main entrance, the ample outer stairs leading to the southern lawn, the beech trees, the swing and a large portion of the southern lawn. The lawn features some of Cluny’s most traditional spaces, such as the Spiral, the Medicine Wheel, the Menhir, the White Statue, the Panorama and the Spirit Tree.
Sector 5: Leo (Fire, Summer) includes Cluny Reception, which still reflects the times when Cluny Hill College was a hotel. In those years Dorothy Maclean, one of the three founders of the Findhorn Foundation, used to be the receptionist. The area of Leo also includes half of an adjacent office. This half is occupied by the desk and chair of the Cluny Focaliser, the manager of the campus. The other half, which is part of the Virgo area, includes the desk and chair of the bookkeeper and accountant. In the garden the area of Leo incorporates the celebrated Love Bench, a stone bench in the shape of a heart engraved with the word LOVE.
Sector 6: Virgo (Earth, Summer) includes Room 6, the shop, the Education Administration and College office and a portion of the office behind Reception. This portion includes the desk of the accountant, while the other part of the office is in Leo and comprises the desk area of the Cluny Focalisers.
Sector 7: Libra (Air, Autumn) includes the former tennis court, which emphasizes themes of relationship, and its pavilion, whose structure is that of the Libra scales. It consists of a small central area with two bathrooms and two group-rooms (Pavilion East and Pavilion West) on both sides. Also in the Libra area are the Ball Room (originally a meeting point for dancing couples), the Ladies and the Gentlemen toilets (the only two WCs in Cluny Hill College where the difference of gender applies) and the Guest Department office.
Sector 8: Scorpio (Water, Autumn) comprises the Peace Garden, a pool, formerly used as a swimming pool, which was filled with stones in recent years. Just below the Peace Garden is situated the Underground Chamber, the main area of release and transformation, a previous subterranean storage space, whose mysterious and obscure environment constitutes an ideal site for rituals of release and connection with the lower world. The Scorpio area is the main “compost zones” for release and transformation.
Sector 9: Sagittarius (Fire, Autumn) encompasses Cluny Sanctuary. When the building was erected in the early 1860s it was conceived as a chapel. In later years, it was transformed in a billiard room. When the Foundation purchased the building, the Sanctuary returned to its previous function. Cluny Sanctuary is open 24 hours for individual and group meditation. The only iconographic elements are a glass window depicting a large tree with root and branches, representing the shamanic tree and its three worlds, and a small red bulb. In 1982 the place was devastated by a fire, whose causes are still rather controversial. On that occasion there was also a simultaneous fire in the Cluny Dining Room. This blaze drew all the attention so that nobody was aware that also the Sanctuary was burning. The flames spontaneously exhausted themselves and when the members eventually entered the Sanctuary all they found were smoke and embers (the final stage of fire associated with Sagittarius). In its association with Sagittarius, Cluny Sanctuary strategically represents the gateway between ordinary and non-ordinary reality. Sagittarius is regarded as the stellar womb from which our galaxy was conceived and born. Hence, when the Sun transits Sagittarius there is potential for conceiving and giving birth to alternative configurations. Hence, Cluny Sanctuary is an ideal location for connective with a multi-dimensional setting.
Sector 10: Capricorn (Earth, Winter) includes the hillock of the Power Point, the highest location in the Cluny Hill territory. Since ancient times it is believed that this site was used for rituals. When the founders of the spiritual community, Eileen and Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean, were managing the Cluny Hill Hotel in the late 50s, they began to use the top of the hillock, which they named Power Point, as a site for receiving guidance and communicating with the Divine. This custom has continued and the area still plays a major role in the spiritual and esoteric geography of the Findhorn Community. The Power Point is traditionally accessed through a spiral path circumnavigating the hillock three times before reaching its summit. The hillock has also a couple of defensive bunkers and underground shelters carried over from past wars. The access to the Power Point zone is sheltered by a natural gate. Capricorn also includes the Cluny Main Stairs and hence comprises the chief ascending routes both outside and inside.
Sector 11: Aquarius (Air, Winter) covers most of the Annexe. When the building was the Cluny Hill Hydropathic Establishment, the Annexe was added as the area for health treatment, Turkish baths, shower stalls, toilets and all the water set-up for healing purposes. Although many water facilities were later converted into rooms by the Findhorn Foundation, the Annexe still preserves its healing and purification energy. The Healing Sanctuary or Bodhi Room (devoted to healing practices and massage), the sauna and the adjacent pool, the Sycamore Room (group room) and the showers are all in the area of Aquarius.
Sector 12: Pisces (Water, Winter) includes the east end part of the Annexe, with part of the Healing Sanctuary, the Maintenance workshop and room 99. It also comprises the linen room, the pantry, the fridge and freezer rooms.
The point in the middle, located in front of Porter’s Palace, represents the Centre and the crossing place of the Horizontal and Vertical Axis. This point is marked by a small dome ceiling painted in blu. The position of the Centre, upon which depended the whole arrangement of the Grid, was crucial. It was elected in 1999 after a long investigation and visionary process on the energetic patterns of Cluny Hill, and finalised following a very significant confirmation. Franco had already come to the conclusion that the small dome ceiling was the likely point to use as a Centre, but he still had some doubts and needed a more explicit confirmation. During one of his shifts at Cluny Hill Reception, he inwardly asked with determination to receive a signal in this regard. After a few seconds, a community member working in maintenance, who knew nothing about the work Franco was carrying out (kept strictly confidential at that stage), came rumbling down the corridor carrying a ladder, some brushes, a bucket of water and paint, exclaiming “I have had the vision to do it and I do it!”. Then he began to paint the dome ceiling, the exact spot chosen as the Centre. In brief, later we were told, he had long had a vision of painting a blue sky on the vault, but kept postponing it, also due to some reservations from a resident. The painting of the dome ceiling was the definitive confirmation.
The circumference and the whole area of the Circle corresponds to the Horizontal Axis, whereas the North-South line strategically refers both to the Horizontal areas of Sector 10 (Capricorn) – Sector 4 (Cancer) and to the Vertical Axis of Higher and Lower World respectively.
There are many ways to use the Grid and they all work equally well. Each model is good as long as you operate with integrity. For example, you can go on a shamanic walk, moving from the East point in a clockwise direction and exploring each Sector. You can stop and spend some time connecting with the Sectors of a specific element or with those Sectors that are particularly relevant in your life or according to your astrological chart. You can also move around the territory or building without a specific order until you find an area to which you feel drawn. This is generally indicated by a vibration in the body, a magnetic attraction, an image, a light, sound, or the simple decision to go to one place. Once you find that area you can stay there for a while. Before using the Grid it is good practice to express your Intent or ask a question. When you move through the territory of Cluny Hill, during a practice or any ordinary activity, you can pay attention to the whole environment and be especially aware when you see or experience something unusual. Notice where and who are the people and beings, seen and unseen, you meet, or which objects, plants and animals are more emphasized in your perception. Consider any significant experience that occurs to you and find its correspondence on the map.
The use of the territory as a healing site allows the horizon to take over its original role of Sacred Circle. In this way the area where you live and move becomes a geomantic field of wisdom and healing. Usually, when there is a strong and true connection or message, the same associations are repeated through different media or tools. Life is a Sacred Circle and nothing happens by chance. There are no idle thoughts or situations. Everything has meaning and provides information about where you come from, where you are and where you are going. With this work you can learn to pay attention and be alert to all that happens within and without you.
The boundaries of the Grid were first created underground (lower world), with the burying of small healing stones, then through the blessing of 12 big trees (higher world). It was kept unmarked with no explicit signs until 24 April 2010, during the “Being with the Spirit of Cluny Garden” week I held with Sverre Koxvold when 12 wood posts indicating the number, glyph and healing seal for each sign were placed. The markers were created by Richard Brockbank and installed by the 12 participants of the workshop.
The Grid functions as a Healing, or Power Points. Power points are areas where the physical, third-dimensional and ordinary realities meet with the spiritual, multidimensional or non-ordinary realities. Power points play various functions, mainly operating as gateways or gaps in or out of our perception of this world. Some power points were created or promoted by ancient cultures; or were the manifestation of events caused by nature spirits, multidimensional or unseen beings, while some are the result of recent human actions, which may either reactivate previous power points or create new ones. A major word of caution is required here: power points, sacred site, grids and alike do not necessarily serve a healing or luminous function. Many of them were/are created with dubious, selfish, demonic or even evil intentions, and were/are inspired by vicious or wicked entities, or by invisible beings neither innately evil nor innately good, such as jinns, genii, asuras, devas, etc.
Power points can be broadly divided into three categories:
1) Known power points: public spaces and holy sites used to perform rituals or sacred activities, for example temples, churches, chapels, dolmens, menhirs, stone circles, etc. All human traditions have sacred sites and ceremonial lands. Some of them are widely known, at least in the local environment, others are less known, as they have not been attended for ages or are only visited by few people. Others are basically unknown and belong to the following category.
2) Unknown power points: you may discover these places “by chance” or intuitively. Some common phenomena that may occur in such places are: feelings of unity with the environment, calmness and slowing down of time, expansion of the aura or a sense of being embraced by some larger presence, altered states of perception, loss of identification with the ego. Also, the feeling of being observed by somebody as you walk, for example, in a wood or by a river can often indicate that you are in a power point.
3) New Power Points: these are places that shamans, healers and devoted seekers have chosen for their healing work and to promote connections with the Divine, or for dysfunctional and evil purposes. For example, any place where regular and significant practices, were or have been held for a certain amount of time, especially if involving other people, can become a new power point.
Please be aware that these three categories are not absolute and may blend in many circumstances.
January 30, 2024
Restoring the Fragmented Heart, 20-21 April 2024, Bologna
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Address of the Centre: Centro Eleusi, Piazza La Veneta 20, Bologna
January 25, 2024
Podcasts
Franco Santoro and the Institutum Provisorium have offered a series of online courses and retreats with teachings and practices that are available on podcast. These courses offer audio materials, texts, images with dedicated selections and comments intended to guide you through short, medium or long-term reflection processes, visions and practices. These archived versions have been fully revised, corrected and often supplemented with extensive training materials. There are currently around 400 sessions. Below we list just a few. For information contact info@astroshamanism.org
A Course in Multidimensional Astrology (English version) This is a complete course in spiritual, experiential and multidimensional astrology consisting of three series, of five lessons each, for a total of 20 recorded podcast lessons lasting approximately 90 minutes and accompanied by extensive downloadable pdf texts containing the summary of the lesson, sheets and technical information, exercises and images. Click here for further information. 2021-22 Multidimensional First Aid Course: The 2021-22 Multidimensional First Aid Course focuses on the relationship with other dimensions, the liberation from dualism, the search for your true identity. This course is for those who are experientially aware that there are multiple dimensions beyond consensus reality. The purpose is to share healing tools aimed at retrieving your multidimensional nature and promoting forms of communication with luminous parallel realities, spirit helpers and ultimately with God. We explore the higher, lower, and medium features of multidimensional realities, employing references to different spiritual traditions, along with elements of multidimensional and experiential astrology. In particular, we employ the astroshamanic model of the binary system, whereby each encounter will adapt to the characteristics of the lunar cycle and the astrological signs of the Sun and Moon. The course includes a total of 22 podcast episodes of about 90 minutes each accompanied by extensive texts downloadable in pdf and additional audio material. The suggested time interval between one lesson and another is 14 days, so the course can be completed in a year, where there are no maximum limits. The lessons can also be followed without respecting the chronological order using the references of the present sun-lunar cycle. During the course it is also possible to share experiences, ask questions and be accompanied by a mentor. The course is bilingual (Italian and English). For info click here. Link di accesso alle lezioni/Access to lessonsA Course in Supernal Touch 2020-2021: The Supernal Touch (formerly Astroshamanic Touch) is a spiritual healing method aimed at soul retrieval, release of our separate perception of existence, and awakening of multidimensional sensuality. Through the sensitive use of contacts and postures, in full respect of the integrity of everyone, the touch releases conditioning and grievances, awakening the memory of one’s original intent, together with the strength and clarity to proceed brightly along the path of life. The Touch is articulated through the direct relationship with every aspect of our being, as represented by astrological symbolism, deriving from it physical sensations, emotions, intuitions that allow us to understand the essence of our potential and who we really are. This course also explores the sphere of human relationships from a shamanic and multidimensional perspective. The first Supernal Touch (formerly Astroshamanic Touch) course was held by Franco Santoro at the Findhorn Foundation in the north of Scotland as an intensive residential workshop from 22 February to 7 March 2003. In this channel we provide the recordings of some courses on the topic, starting with a one-year online course held in 2020-2021 and the Multidimensional First Aid, as from 12 October 2021 up to May 2022. The course is structured in a flexible way and adapted to different types of needs and allows participation in the short, medium, or long term, online, in person, in groups or individually. The last eleven sessions are held both in English and Italian, whereas the first 25 are in Italian only.
Link di accesso alle sessioni/Access to sessionsA Course in Spiritual Healing & Archetypes 2022-2023: This course experientially explores spirituality, mysticism and shamanism using references related to the archetypes of tarot and astrology. The intent of the course is to share information and recovery practices of our multidimensional nature, considering the vertical relationship with the spiritual world, together with the conflict or integration of the horizontal relationship with the material reality. For this purpose we will employ references to Western, Middle Eastern and Eastern spiritual and religious traditions. English and Italian are both used during the session. The use of these two languages, in addition to allowing speakers of both languages to take the course, also aims to promote multidimensional awareness and a related trance state. Every language creates a reality and using more than one language helps you not get trapped in one reality, which is the main feature of a separate reality. Essential information will be provided in English and Italian, even if what is said in one language can sometimes be slightly different from what is said in the other. Some pieces of music by authors or singers linked to the Binary of the session (Sun and Moon position) are often used, for strategic purposes and to trigger specific states of consciousness. References, including texts in both English and Italian, are provided in the podcast. HEALING SOUNDS & MUSIC: All of our CDs and MP3s are produced specifically for astroshamanic healing and energy work, as described in the Institute’s literature. The sounds promote deep relaxation and access to expanded states of consciousness, encouraging the revitalization and harmonization of the subtle energy centers of the body and the environment. This process tends to stimulate the release of resentments, toxins and blocked models, paving the way for profound transformational processes. These works can also be used to support a wide range of healing practices, according to one’s guidance or path and spiritual tradition, and include shamanic journeys and trance dance, body work and massage, supernal touch, active and passive meditation, healing rituals, healing and prayers. All of our CDs and MP3s are produced specifically for astroshamanic healing and energy work as described in the Institute’s literature. The sounds promote deep relaxation and access to expanded states of consciousness, encouraging the revitalization and harmonization of the subtle energy centers of the body and the environment. This process tends to stimulate the release of held grievances, toxins, and patterns, paving the way for profound transformational processes. These works can also be used to support a wide range of healing practices, according to one’s orientation or spiritual path and tradition, and include shamanic journeying and trance dance, bodywork and massage, supernal touch, active and passive meditation, healing and prayers.
Introductory course to Supernal Touch & multidimensional sensuality : (in English & Italian). The Supernal Touch is a spiritual healing method aimed at recovering the soul, releasing the separate perception of existence and awakening multidimensional sensuality. Through the sensitive use of contacts and postures, with full respect for the integrity of each individual, touch releases conditioning and resentments, reawakening the memory of one's original intent, together with the strength and clarity to proceed luminously along the path of life. Over the course of a series of meetings, online or in person, we will discover ways to use physical contact to promote states of expanded consciousness, recover parts of the soul, awaken talents and integrate them into everyday life. In these meetings we will work above all on the recognition, deciphering and energetic satisfaction of our desires and intentions, using knowledge expansion practices that involve sensualizations, postures, movements and physical contacts with your body and the environment. These meetings serve as an introduction to a one-year training.
The Astroshamanic Binary System: The aim of the course is to share tools for soul retrieval and spiritual or multidimensional healing, considering the vertical relationship with the spiritual world and God, together with the conflict or integration of the horizontal relationship with material reality. For this purpose we will refer to the Astroshamanic Binary System, and the related astrological archetypes, accompanied by references to Western, Middle Eastern and Eastern spiritual traditions. The course explores the 144 binaries combinations between Sun and Moon, and the Lunar cycles for one year, with a total of 12 series, each consisting of three sessions. See preliminary notes at the end. Per informazioni generali vedi / For general info on binaries see: https://astrosciamanesimo.org/library...
The Blessed Way of Passion 2005
Findhorn Foundation, Scotland, 22-28 October 2005, excerpts from THE BLESSED WAY OF PASSION: Astroshamanic Healing Touch, Soul Retrieval & sexual energy, with Franco Santoro. A special week devoted to the exploration of the ecstatic body and harmonization of its polarities. Participants will employ advanced applications of healing methods and receive an experiential introduction to astroshamanic bodywork and spirit medicines. This workshop involves intensive shamanic practices and is designed for participants open to physical contact. With sacred sounds, trance postures, astroshamanic touch, shapeshifting, Franco will share ways of channelling emotions and passion according to one’s life purpose.
Excerpts 1, Excerpts 1b, Excerpts 2, Excerpts 3, Excerpts 4.
The Blessed Way of Passion 2007, Findhorn Foundation (Scotland), 7-13 April 2007, The Blessed Way of Passion: Astroshamanic Healing Touch and Soul Retrieval, click here. Multidimensional Sexuality, 9-10 May 2020, online
(In English) Originally scheduled in Berlin before the pandemic spread, this workshop took place by Skype and reduced to two two-hour sessions. This audio is an excerpt of the first session. This is a unique workshop, which explores sexuality and intimate relationships from a multidimensional and shamanic perspective with the aim of healing connections with yourself, partners, relatives, friends, significant people in your life, as well as unseen forces and Spirit. Drawing from the astroshamanic healing approach, we will track and release blocks that inhibit the capacity to express our true sexuality, identifying the underlying issues that hinder relationships, promoting compassion, healing, peace and fulfilment. The workshop is designed for all types of individuals, sexually active or in chastity, encompassing singles or couples in intimate, platonic or spiritual connections. We will use soul retrieval practices in order to trace and restore fragmented parts of our being, identifying the hidden themes that subvert our sexual and relationship life, promoting ways of healing, realization and well-being. “For ages on our planet conflicts around sex issues have been a major cause of suffering, 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. From a multidimensional perspective, sex is a symbolic representation of the energy pervading the web of life, often described as an ongoing multidimensional intercourse between the earth and the sky, the seen and unseen. Many healers and also ordinary, yet highly sensitive, people stand on the threshold of this copulation, right at the point where polarities meet, between the ordinary and non-ordinary, day and night, life and death. Whether they know it or not, they are intensely tied to the essence of creation, stirring up the energy and using it to sustain the web of life. As they do so, they are involved in healing soul-fragmentation, which is the result of belief systems based on separation and the cause of all fears held in our culture. People who are aware of this healing process work at an archetypal or collective level, as opposed to the personal or self-centred levels most individuals operate from. As a result, they constantly move to different ways of perceiving and using sex energy. Due to the conventional denial and distortion of such themes, this can be unsettling for them and their relationships…” (read on at https://astroshamanism.org/sexuality-...) The Blessed Way of Passion 2020: (English & italiano) 4-5; 6-10; 11-13 April 2020, The Blessed Way of Passion, a classic astroshamanic workshop at the start of the pandemic. Astroshamanism: Findhorn Foundation Training 2005
Excerpts of workshop. Cluny Hill College, Forres (Scotland), 19-25 February 2005, FINDHORN FOUNDATION TRAINING in ASTROSHAMANISM, Week One: A Journey into the Inner Universe, 26 February – 4 March 2005, FINDHORN FOUNDATION TRAINING in ASTROSHAMANISM, Week Two, The Voyage Through the Zodiac, with Franco Santoro (co-focalisers: Katharina Kroeber & Astrid Gude).
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30 dicembre 2020 – 1° gennaio 2021, 16-18 (tenuto durante il locked down) con Franco Santoro. Un’opportunità ideale per promuovere consapevolezza e guarigione planetaria attraverso pratiche astrosciamaniche, meditazione, danza, contemplazione e vita comunitaria.
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(in English/italiano) 30 dicembre 2021 – 1° gennaio 2022, con Franco Santoro.
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Ritiro di ricapitolazione di fine anno/End of Year Recapitulation Retreat: 29 – 31 dicembre 2023, con Franco Santoro, in English & italiano, 291223, 301223, 311223.
Epiphany: seminar on Talents – Epifania: seminario sui talenti, 2024
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Manifesting Honourable Intentions, 30 January 2005, Findhorn (in English)
Manifesting Honourable Intentions, 27 December-3 January, Findhorn (in English)
Recapitulating SeX Files: A Brief Introduction to the Scorpio Mysteries, 13 November 2005, Findhorn (in English)
Original Quest, 7-13 July 2007, Findhorn (in English)
January 22, 2024
With a Little Help from Our Friends
The Institutum Provisorium, registered cultural association, (Provisional Institute) has reached its historical peak of coherence since for a few months we have found ourselves in the highest level of provisionality experienced so far. Although we had long prepared ourselves for such an eventuality, I openly admit that we are having a hard time. I write this with some uneasiness, because the institute has always found a way to solve its problems on its own, finding itself every time able to offer help to those who needed it. Now realistically, I can’t help but ask for help.
In this world, many organizations working on the path of multidimensional awareness have been experiencing serious impediments for some years. At the same time, we are aware that a state of emergency and malaise at an ordinary level is the smokescreen of a state of abundance and well-being at other levels. Paradoxically, the more we have material difficulties, the more we can be useful to others if we continue to respond to our true calling. This can happen, however, if we are transparent about the difficulties we encounter and allow others to help us, also allowing them to be helpful according to their calling.
For some months, this institute has found itself in multiple pragmatic difficulties. One of these concerns the deprivation of our operational headquarters and the consequent impossibility of carrying out our activities. Together with other serious economic and social collateral damage, this has given us a hard logistical and financial blow. This occurred in the context of an already rather critical scenario, in which we managed to carry on our work, albeit at the cost of considerable sacrifices.
The essence of our work is based on the belief that every aspect of existence is interconnected, so by transforming ourselves and helping others to do the same, we can fully awaken our true nature. This means that our daily actions, as well as our thoughts, affect the lives of everyone around us. In the dark global scenario of recent years, the ongoing transformation may appear rather disheartening. The luminous side is that our true nature is resilient. It can recover, get back up and start again. No one can hit as hard as human life does; therefore, it is not important how you hit, the important thing is to resist the blows. If you end up knocked down here you need to retrieve the strength to get back up. And if is not possible to get up alone, asking for or providing help is vital.
We believe that one of the best ways to get back on your feet in this world is to stay true to one’s values. Nothing can truly transform unless we commit ourselves more and more firmly to promoting light, each time finding new strategies in this regard. A comforting passage in A Course in Miracles, reads that a full commitment to the light is within everyone’s reach, while a total commitment to the darkness is impossible. “No one has ever lived who has not experienced a little light, so no one is able to totally deny the truth, even if he thinks he can.” So, the truth will undoubtedly triumph, but in the meantime what counts is strengthening our search, because any further delay is only destined to produce further suffering.
We intend to be useful and generous in offering our contribution in this world, correcting ourselves every time we miss the mark, operating in the most luminous way both in this and other realities, and helping others to do the same. This means counting on synergistic and divine help that goes far beyond personal capabilities. As the proverb says, “Help Yourself, God Helps You!”, helping oneself requires the honesty and humility to ask others for help if we are unable to do so.
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1) By donating to the Institute (any donation of any quantity is accepted with utmost gratitude).
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3) By purchasing audio courses, publications or subscribing to our podcast containing recordings of hundreds of courses and seminars, and four new events every month.
4) Organize a seminar for us in any location or provide us with contacts and references of places where we can hold seminars (preferably in locations no more than 100 km from Aulla or Bologna).
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6) By purchasing sacred objects, musical instruments, ritual costumes, various materials, and books on clearance from our library of more than 7000 volumes. For some books in Italian see https://www.facebook.com/media/set?set=a.10228348614654926&type=3, for books in English seeibri in inglese vedi https://www.facebook.com/media/set?set=a.10228348767018735&type=3, for various objects see https://www.facebook.com/media/set?set=a.10217383528534626&type=3 Only a few items are listed in these catalogues, so if you need something, please contact me.
7) By paying off any debts to us, if you are currently able to do so, if you have delayed or forgotten to pay the fees for some of our services or have received loans from us at times when you were in difficulty.
8.) Remembering us from time to time in your prayers or healing practices.
9) Contact us directly for any suggestions, proposals, assistance, insights you can offer us, as well as if we can be useful to you in any way.
For contributions and/or information, please contact us by email at info@astroshamanism.org
January 9, 2024
Multidimensional Astrology & Talents (online seminar), 3-4 February 2024
Multidimensional Astrology and Talents (online seminar), February 3-4, 2024
With Franco Santoro
This webinar intends to explore the authentic matrix of one’s being in order to research, awaken and manifest one’s actual potential and talents. It is a counter-current seminar, aimed at those who, aware of the pitfalls and deceptions of consensual reality, are determined to operate in this world effectively and sacredly and in full harmony with their true nature.
During the webinar we will use practices derived from astroshamanism and multidimensional astrology, inspired by the teachings of A Course in Miracles and other more ancient spiritual traditions. We will employ simple references to multidimensional astrology, without the need for prior knowledge or any astrological notions.
The seminar can ideally be complemented with an individual consultation (click here) intended to explore the participant’s specific issues with reference to their particular astrological and experiential framework.
The seminar can be followed by participating live on Skype (with an indicative time from 5pm to 6.30pm, to be confirmed precisely based on the availability of those registered) and/or listening to the recordings available on podcast. It is not a requirement to participate in the live broadcast.
The indicative cost is Euro 55.
For information and reservations, click here.
December 31, 2023
The New Year and the art of releasing the past
Once again, we find ourselves in the transition from one year to the next. Once the end of the 12th month is reached, everything starts again with month number 1, January.
The first month of the year takes its name from Janus, the most ancient divinity of the Italic traditions, associated with thresholds, portals, passages from one point to another, both physical and subtle, such as the transit from one dimension to another, and the beginnings of new ventures.
The transition from one year to another can be the repetition of the same cycle or a radical shift into another dimension. Perhaps, more realistically, it is a combination of both. Transition phases are most delicate healing processes. Luminous parts take shape and prepare to be born, however their gestation takes place in the darkness, while dynamics from the past continue to dominate in the external environment.
In moments of transition, a useful practice is recapitulation. Its premise is that past events block vital energy until they are finally processed and released. Otherwise, the past continues to be retained and recycled in the present. As human beings we are inclined to invest enormous energy in cultivating memories until, just like in a computer, memory runs out, and lives collapse, crumble or freeze.
Letting go of the past is no easy task. Many people justify their lives based only on the past. They say things like, “I was abused,” “They abandoned me,” etc. They use them to validate what is happening in the present. Other people take a totally different position. Being aware of how the past limits their freedom, they decide to erase it with an instant cleansing. They begin a careful task of eliminating everything that refers to the past: people, things, places, situations, etc.
The relationship with your partner is over! Then you burn all of their gifts, delete photos, emails and messages, and so on, until you can say you’ve finally cleaned up your past. Since the past as we perceive it is an illusion, erasing it can be as easy as trashing computer files. The moment you wake up from the dream, it will all be over. And yet, unless you have mastered the art of not falling asleep again, the past will leak out again and the only difference will be the actors and scenarios.
Letting go of the past does not necessarily mean erasing the past. Far from being erased, the past first of all needs to be recognized and honoured, then healed and, if it really isn’t needed, released. Releasing is not throwing the past into the dustbin and then trusting the local authority to get rid of it. Release is liberation, it is allowing the past to flow into the present, erasing fear and supporting bright elements, to bring blessings to the present and the future. Release is forgiveness, and as A Course in Miracles says, “Forgiveness is simply remembering only the loving thoughts you have given in the past and those that have been given to you. Everything else must be forgotten. Forgiveness is remembering selectively, not based on your selection.” (UCIM, T378).
The problem isn’t in the past, it’s staying stuck in the past. And this happens when you only consider the past, as well as when you deny it. You can pretend that a hostile person never existed, and erase all evidence of their presence. This can be effective temporarily if you are unable to cope with the situation, however if there are unresolved issues with that person they will recur in one way or another unless you choose to truly let them go. And if you don’t release those problems during your lifetime, well, those problems will likely be carried over into your “next life” or picked up by subsequent generations. I highlight these two options because I believe that the main obstacle to releasing the past is not the nature of the past itself, but how we perceive it. You can see yourself as a separate individual who faces personal problems throughout your life, and even in past and future lives, or you can recognize yourself as part of the collective, a larger planetary being, which includes all humanity, past, present and future.
In shamanism there is the notion of “erasing personal history”, but this is not the past, it is the illusory past created by our separate minds. Erasure then applies to the ego’s involvement with the past and its separate reality. The perception of separation from others and the world is the arbitrary configuration that needs to be abandoned in order to experience your true identity and access a much larger reality.
And it’s not an instant clean; it is a continuous and enduring process, gradually allowing the collective past to emerge, a realm in which all minds are united. In this case, personal thoughts, being separate, do not exist or are mere hallucinations. Shamans, more or less universally, receive most of their guidance from that realm and work intensively with the ancestors. They experience the past, present, and future as a temporal continuum through which they travel to gain knowledge and pursue their shamanic intentions. In many traditions, the whole life is based on this temporal continuum, in which the ancestors represent the main reference in cults and social practices. Any type of conflict that develops in the present is recognized in relation to the past, which is the matrix level. May we all be blessed by the bright past that shines into the most joyful present, radiates into the ecstatic future, and returns to the past, in an eternal circle of bliss and love.
Happy New Year!
December 24, 2023
Happy Holidays
There is only one Self, as well as one God, that you share with everyone. When you remember this, your separate self, along with the body and name that identifies it, and every other separate self, body and name, dissolve into nothingness. Death, conflict, guilt, suffering and all atrocities disappear forever. The only purpose of life in this world is to remind you that you are not a separate self. The Christmas holidays can be an opportunity to deeply ground this memory, to dissolve all illusions and falsehoods. “Let me not forget myself is nothing, but my Self is all” (ACIM W-358.1:7)
December 15, 2023
Epiphany online seminar on Talents, 6-7 January 2024
Epiphany online seminar on Talents, 6-7 January 2024
with Franco Santoro, 6-7 JANUARY 2024, THE WAY OF TALENTS, online seminar via Skype on the uniqueness of one’s material and spiritual path.
This seminar is aimed at those who wish to make a decisive leap in the discovery and manifestation of their potential and authentic purpose in life, working to bring concrete benefits to themselves, others and the environment.
Our ego, the attachment to the false idea we have of ourselves, prevents the expression of our true talents. This attachment generates fear about how others may react. However, the obstacle is not others. The obstacle is the false idea we have of them, including that of ourselves. Letting go of this idea is the only way to express our true potential and who we truly are, while also allowing others to do the same.
Expressing our talent means doing what we love. In this way work is no longer sacrifice, duty, compromise and effort. It is pure love, as is everything we do and are. Everything you need in life, including material goods, comes as a response to this love.
The seminar also aims to demonstrate how even seemingly insurmountable obstacles can be used to realize our biggest dreams. In any moment of life, including the darkest ones, we are never alone and there are immense forces willing to give us support, if only we are ready to receive it.
The event takes place during the Capricorn cycle, ideal for identifying one’s intentions in a pragmatic way, at the peak of the 12 Days of Christmas.
Participation in the end-of-year retreat is also recommended (click here).
The retreat takes place via Skype via two sessions, each lasting approximately 90 minutes, with a cost of Euro 50. The indicative time is from 5.30pm to 7pm. The event can also be followed by listening to the recordings and without participating live. The retreat can also be integrated with a specific consultation.
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