Franco Santoro's Blog: Astroshamanism, page 33
March 20, 2018
Spring with Spring!
Spring springs.
It springs to life, it arises, it causes emergence, it jumps up suddenly, it starts, it gives birth, it initiates…
You can either spring with Spring or be sprung by Spring.
If you spring with Spring, you are conscious of what you want and act, you ride the seasonal shift and take the initiative, go ahead, take the risk.
If you are sprung by Spring, you are not aware of what you want and react, you are the victim of circumstances, you are carried away by the seasonal shift.
You can either spring with Spring or be sprung by Spring.
SPRING with Spring!
March 16, 2018
The Wave
“Therefore whosoever hearest these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock: And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.” (Mathew 7:24-27)
Tidal waves and floods are common features in dreams. They often cause concern among people on the path, since it is easy to refer them to imminent catastrophic events.
Psychologically and esoterically water stands for the emotional realm. On a personal level floods and tsunamis may suggest a time of emotional upheaval, overwhelming feelings and radical cleansing. They may also indicate a rite of passage, initiation or multidimensional baptism or rebirth.
Everything is swept away and released so as to give space to a new course of life. Water is associated with the fourth dimension and the emotional body. From a limited third dimensional perception it is seen as water, yet from a multidimensional perspective water manifests as the fluidity of free time circulation, i.e. the fourth dimension of time.
Tidal waters and flood confront us with the denial of time space, which in the third dimension is perceived as linear. From a third dimensional perspective a flood is a disaster, while from a multidimensional perception it is part of the web of life. While there can be places where floods occur, there are also other places in time where it is dry.
The ego separated reality is imprisoned in a blocked sphere of time, based on constant denial of whatever exists beyond such configuration, which causes terror and fear. There is no way out of this terror, unless one moves further.
Fear of death is inevitable for whoever identifies solely with third dimensional reality. And this is also an inevitable fear since death of the physical body is inevitable. Yet fear of death or pain, once it is thoroughly explored, may also be the gateway into the fourth dimension and the understanding of our authentic nature.
The Wave is a warning that transformation is what each one here in this physical world is meant to face sooner or later. This warning is not new, since it has been received from the beginning of separation, with people continuing to die and suffer ever since. I
It is just the separate human mind that stubbornly refuses to accept this. Its separation from the sense of reality is such that it continues to regard death has a terrible event, an out of bound zone, to disregard, deny or forget about as much as possible. And it is this denial that continues to create massive shocks and pain, whenever death or simply the fear of death inevitably arrives.
With death the ego dream comes to its end, although it may be recycled again with the dream of reincarnation, which is the ego dejected version of immortal life. Dreams cannot continue forever and a general awakening is only a matter of time. Yet we can decide to wake up earlier if we wish to avoid further terror and pain.
“Tolerance for pain may be high, but it is not without limit. Eventually everyone begins to recognize, however dimly, that there must be a better way. As this recognition becomes more firmly established, it becomes a turning point. This ultimately reawakens spiritual vision, simultaneously weakening the investment in physical sight. The alternating investment in the two levels of perception is usually experienced as conflict, which can become very acute. But the outcome is as certain as God.” (ACIM, T22)
When the Wave comes, remember not to become emotional with fears, terror and concern. The Wave is a riding horse of freedom. We can master the Wave if we connect with the fifth dimension, which is the mental realm and air. The emotional and watery Wave of fear dissolves by connecting with the multidimensional mind.
The ego mind is based on separation and denial, and if we use that mind, when the emotional Wave comes, the inevitable result is terror and fear.
According to our human separated perception a physical wave may come or not, while at a multidimensional level of awareness waves come all the time. Hence it does not really make much difference. Healing, as I see it, involves bringing awareness to what is not seen and denied. Death, again happens all the time, yet it keeps being hidden, repressed or denied. The same applies to sex, which is the source of life. Hence there is no way into any higher or unseen realm, if I am not ready to acknowledge what is happening all the time in the visible world, if I refuse to face the practical source of my fears and denials in everyday life.
In certain times in history death becomes visible for everybody, especially when there are huge catastrophes, wars or natural disasters, like some of the recent events in 2011. Yet the greatest disasters in human history pale in comparison to natural death.
Natural death takes an average of 52 million lives every year. While you were reading this article, 144 people just died on this planet. Hence the wave is an ongoing development, it is just that we keep lliving in a world of dreams where we see it only when we wake up.
Forgiveness is letting go of our blocks to sight, out of the realisation that they do not serve us anymore. The Wave confronts us with the choice between misperception and salvation, pain and happiness, dream and reality.
February 28, 2018
February 18, 2018
Astroshamanic Healing & Soul Retrieval Training, Astroshamanic Healing Training
30 June – 6 July 2018, Astroshamanic Healing Training, with Franco Santoro.
With Franco Santoro.
This training is part of the Foundation Training in Astroshamanism and represents a full initiation to astroshamanic healing, soul retrieval and touch as tools for soul retrieval and multidimensional awareness.
This workshop involves a process of recapitulation and energy assessment of our human interactions, aimed at identifying and healing soul losses due to past relationships or engagements with ordinary reality.
Soul retrieval is based on the understanding that most painful issues we experience are due to the fact that significant parts of our souls are trapped or lost. When this is the case individuals sense that a vital part of themselves is missing, feel regularly stuck or in a vicious circle, at times experiencing severe disruption and misery in their life. The task is to identify and retrieve these missing parts, restoring them into the wholeness of the individual.
In astroshamanism the 12 signs of the zodiac strategically represent the complete setting of the soul. In traditional soul retrieval sessions the client usually remains passive and unconscious, while the practitioner does all the work. In Franco Santoro’s astroshamanic soul retrieval sessions, clients are fully present and directly involved in the process, while the practitioner supports and guides them. Soul retrieval here involves first the acknowledgement of the missing parts and their original separation, followed by their search and retrieval. Franco’s approach also aims at effectively restoring those parts, by returning luminous talents, allowing their harmonious integration in accordance with the client’s intention.
Participants will learn to use healing tools that allow them to continue the healing work autonomously after the workshop, providing a solid basis for more advanced practices.
The weekend workshops start at around 10:30 on Saturday and end on Sunday at around 6 pm. It is possible to arrive earlier. The training starts on Mondays and ends on Fridays at around 2 pm. It is possible to stay extra days and take part in further workshops of the Foundation Training in Astroshamanism for the whole month of July.
The event takes place at il Casale in Lunigiana, a light nature centre entirely surrounded by the Apuan Alps and the Appenine, brooks, on the Via Francigena in the historical territory of Lunigiana.
Casale in Lunigiana, Ronco
località Merizzo
Villafranca in Lunigiana 54028 (Massa, Italy)
Tel. 0187420736
How to get to Il Casale:
By car: take A15 (Autostrada della Cisa) Parma/La Spezia, exit at Pontremoli if you come from the North, or Aulla if from the South. Continue to Villafranca in Lunigiana, then to Merizzo (5,20 km). Once in Merizzo, use as reference the Church of the Archangel Michael. 50 metres after the church turn left at the little parking square then take the only path to the left. After one km you will reach our parking.
By train: you can arrive to Villafranca/Bagnone railway station with the line Milan-Livorno or La Spezia-Parma. Let us know your time of arrival and we will pick you up.
By plane: the closest airport is Pisa’s Galileo Galilei. Also the airports of Florence and Genoa are close.
Astroshamanic Healing & Soul Retrieval, Merizzo (Italy) 5-6 May 2018
5-6 May 2018, Merizzo (Massa, Italy), Astroshamanic Healing & Soul Retrieval, with Franco Santoro
Astroshamanic Healing involves a process of recapitulation and energy assessment of our human interactions, aimed at identifying and healing soul losses due to past relationships or engagements with ordinary reality.
Soul retrieval is based on the understanding that most painful issues we experience are due to the fact that significant parts of our souls are trapped or lost. When this is the case individuals sense that a vital part of themselves is missing, feel regularly stuck or in a vicious circle, at times experiencing severe disruption and misery in their life. The task is to identify and retrieve these missing parts, restoring them into the wholeness of the individual.
In astroshamanism the 12 signs of the zodiac strategically represent the complete setting of the soul. In traditional soul retrieval sessions the client usually remains passive and unconscious, while the practitioner does all the work. In Franco Santoro’s astroshamanic soul retrieval sessions, clients are fully present and directly involved in the process, while the practitioner supports and guides them. Soul retrieval here involves first the acknowledgement of the missing parts and their original separation, followed by their search and retrieval. Franco’s approach also aims at effectively restoring those parts, by returning luminous talents, allowing their harmonious integration in accordance with the client’s intention.
Participants will learn to use healing tools that allow them to continue the healing work autonomously after the workshop, providing a solid basis for more advanced practices.
For booking and information please click here or write to info@astroshamanism.org
The weekend workshops start at around 10:30 on Saturday and end on Sunday at around 6 pm. It is possible to arrive earlier. It is possible to stay extra days and take part in further days of deepening and retreat.
How to get to Il Casale:
By car: take A15 (Autostrada della Cisa) Parma/La Spezia, exit at Pontremoli if you come from the North, or Aulla if from the South. Continue to Villafranca in Lunigiana, then to Merizzo (5,20 km). Once in Merizzo, use as reference the Church of the Archangel Michael. 50 metres after the church turn left at the little parking square then take the only path to the left. After one km you will receive our parking.
By train: you can arrive to Villafranca/Bagnone railway station with the line Milan-Livorno or La Spezia-Parma. Let us know your time of arrival and we will pick you up.
By plane: the closest airport is Pisa’s Galileo Galilei. Also the airports of Florence and Genoa are close.
Astroshamanic Healing Touch & Theatre, 21-27 July 2018
21-27 July 2018, Astroshamanic Healing Touch & Theatre , with Franco Santoro
This training is part of the Foundation Training in Astroshamanism and represents a full initiation in astroshamanic healing arts, theatre, dance and astroshamanic touch as tools for soul retrieval and multidimensional awareness.
The training consists of two workshops:one introductory weekend (21-22 July 2018), which can be taken independently without attending the training workshops, and one training workshops (22-27 July 2018), which requires participation to the introductory weekend.
For details on astroshamanic dance & theatre click here.
For details on astroshamanic touch please click here.
Participants will experience advanced applications of Astroshamanic Theatre and Touch, in the beauty and warmth of the environment of Il Casale in Lunigiana (a natural pool is a four-minute walk from the house).
We will experience ways to realign with the sacredness of our nature, releasing wounds inherited by our ancestors and supporting the emergence of a planetary healing consciousness. We will learn various healing modalities in alignment with the astrological archetypes, developing trust both in giving and receiving. We will also experience the multidimensional features of relationships, employing techniques aimed at releasing grievances and intense feelings accumulated in our life, promoting forgiveness, transformation and unconditional love. The workshop is designed for people who intend to employ this work both for themselves and in their practice with others.
This workshop is also a first level certificate course in Astroshamanic Theatre & Dance.
For booking and information please click here or write to info@astroshamanism.org
The weekend workshops start at around 10:30 on Saturday and end on Sunday at around 6 pm. It is possible to arrive earlier. The training starts on Mondays and ends on Fridays at around 2 pm. It is possible to stay extra days and take part in further workshops.
How to get to Il Casale:
By car: take A15 (Autostrada della Cisa) Parma/La Spezia, exit at Pontremoli if you come from the North, or Aulla if from the South. Continue to Villafranca in Lunigiana, then to Merizzo (5,20 km). Once in Merizzo, use as reference the Church of the Archangel Michael. 50 metres after the church turn left at the little parking square then take the only path to the left. After one km you will receive our parking.
By train: you can arrive to Villafranca/Bagnone railway station with the line Milan-Livorno or La Spezia-Parma. Let us know your time of arrival and we will pick you up.
By plane: the closest airport is Pisa’s Galileo Galilei. Also the airports of Florence and Genoa are close.
February 6, 2018
Know who you are
Do you want to know who you are?
Yet if you want to know who you are, who is the “you” who wants to know who you are?
It is unlikely that you can find out who you are if you do not find out who wants to know who you are.
Wear a mask
Start by wearing a mask or a costume.
Wearing a mask or a costume allows you to have an explicit and direct experience of what it means not to be yourself.
This can be very useful because in this way you can better understand when you are not yourself and wear a mask and costume, even if you do not seem to wear a mask and a costume.
There are explicit masks and costumes, which you can clearly recognize in yourself and in others, because they are part of theatre, Carnival, fiction.
There are also hidden masks and costumes, which you are not able to recognize because it is not at all clear that these are roles, masks, theater, fiction. You forgot when you chose to play those roles, and then you confuse the roles with yourself.
The most honest masks and costumes are the obvious, explicit ones that you can choose to wear and then let go. Depraved masks, on the other hand, do not give you the possibility of choice, they take possession of your body, they remain on you for life, unless you recover your original ability to distinguish between who you really are and the mask you wear.
So to understand the above, start wearing a costume by choice, aware that it is a costume, which you can wear and remove when you want.
January 26, 2018
Fear of the unknown
Facing the unknown, unveiling the secrets of life and death, can be extremely hard and scaring, when you are on your own and alone.
The point is that most people relate with others just to avoid facing the unknown, adhering to fixed ideas whose purpose is to hide any access to the secrets of life and death
Then it is probably better to be on your own, alone, and in this solitude face the fear of the unknown, along with the fear of finally meeting other people who, like you, are doing the same.
January 25, 2018
2018
Course in Multidimensional Astrology by Skype, click here for details.
27 December 2017 – 2 January 2018, Merizzo (Massa, Italy), Astroshamanic Healing New Year Retreat, with Franco Santoro, click here for details.
4-5; 6-7 January 2018, Merizzo (Massa, Italy), The Great Leap of Talents, with Franco Santoro, click here for details.
4 February 2018, Quattro Castella (Reggio Emilia), Astrologia Multidimensionale e Sciamanesimo, with Franco Santoro.
10-11 February 2018, Merizzo (Massa), Astroshamanic Healing Carnival, with Franco Santoro, click here.
3-4 March 2018, Merizzo (Massa), Talents & Manifestation, with Franco Santoro.
24-25 March 2018; 25-30 March 2018, Merizzo (Massa, Italy), The Blessed Way of Passion: Training in Soul Retrieval and Astroshamanic Healing, with Franco Santoro, click here for information.
31 March – 2 April 2018, Merizzo (Massa, Italy), Easter Astroshamanic Retreat, with Franco Santoro, click here for information.
21-27 April 2018, Findhorn (Scotland), Being with the Spirit of Nature, with Franco Santoro and Sverre Koxvold, click here for details.
5-6 May 2017, Merizzo (Massa, Italy), Astroshamanic Healing, with Franco Santoro
30 June – 6 July 2018, Astroshamanic Healing Training, with Franco Santoro.
21-27 July 2018, Astroshamanic Healing Touch & Theatre , with Franco Santoro
If you wish to organise an astroshamanic event or workshop anywhere in the world, or for any information, please contact us or click here.
All programmes in Italy are held in English. For further details or information please contact info@astroshamanism.org
For a calendar of our past events, click here.
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