By Roxana Muise
Copyright March 1996

As I looked out over the lake to the east, the rising Sun is visible only through holes in the morning clouds. As it is a little misty over the lake, the effect is like a gentle spotlight being shown on different areas of the shore. If I were physically present on one of the places being so illuminated, I would feel as though the Sun was shining only on me. I’d feel the warmth on my skin, and sense the brightness around me, and as I looked out away from where I stood, it would appear to me that the rest of the lake was bathed in mist.

Back to where my body actually is. I see several such illuminated spots from my vantage points on the west side of the lake. In my reverie, I see a possible scenario: Suppose I see a truck driving very fast along the shoreline road. I look farther along that road and around a bend I can see that a large tree has fallen across the road. Then I look back at the truck, and notice that the driver, a man in his forties can’t see the part of the road that is blocked by the tree, and is still speeding along the road. It’s early morning, and there is no traffic. Possibly the tree has only just fallen. He is most probably feeling the magic of the peaceful morning, enjoying the beauty of the drive, and is not aware that there is a possible danger ahead.

From my vantage point and my knowledge of the road and the speed of the truck, I’m pretty sure that here is a possible disaster about to take place. Where am I? I’m out of linear space/time. I’m seeing a wave and a particle of information and energy at the same time, and I’m forecasting its next possible position based upon my inherent unconscious knowledge of the physics of velocity and mass. I’m not predicting - there’s no certainty involved here. If I were able to contact the truck driver and warn him about the dangerous condition ahead, he would take steps to change his behavior to avoid a possible crash.

Even though I am unable to warn the driver, he might just feel the need to slow down. Through the driver’s past experience, seeing a blind curve ahead might trigger the automatic behavior of lifting the foot off the accelerator and positioning that same foot over the brake pedal - "just in case." Maybe the driver feels the pressure of a future possibility that we sometimes call a premonition - another way of saying that a part of him is extending out from the particle position of his body into a wave of possibility.

This morning’s reverie helps me to understand the character of the time/space connection. Indeed, they are so completely intertwined that I can no longer consider time and space separately. I think and feel that this is an important distinction, and a part of the shift in consciousness that we, on the Earth are experiencing.

We calculate linear time in duration, and geometric space in parcels. Our measured space takes on 3 dimensions: height, width and depth. Our linear perception of time has 3 parts: past, present and future - but only one dimension: now, and only one direction: forward. When I look out across the lake, space and time merge together, and I can see where the truck probably was, where it is as a particle in the now, and where it will be in its probable future.

Philosophers of the past proposed that time is a Whole, and that in our physical bodies, we are limited to being a particle - only able to experience one compartmentalized piece of space and time which we call "here and now", only able to move in one temporal direction. Through our non-physical components, we can move out of linear time. We can re-member the past, and dream of the future. We can be as waves, perceiving patterns and cycles that don’t exactly repeat, but dance familiar dances that fill us with experiences that help us to prepare for our next set of choices.

Each one of us points of consciousness in a body is a bi-polar instrument that enables us to process space/time. Our input and output devices, our senses ⁽¹⁾, are polarized to collect memory (yin), and to spit out information (yang) once we process it. The processor, then, is the membrane between -- the mind/spirit/soul/psyche - that elusive combination of our non-physical consciousness. In astrology, we equate the process to fixed and cardinal and the mutable membrane between.

We use those senses on many different levels of space/time, in fractal dimensions of condensed and expanded self-similar patterns, unique to each individual. In astrology we call them techniques of derivative perspectives, such as harmonics and progressions. We fine-tune our senses to the potential qualities of time/space that creates a spectrum of meaning to our interpretations.

Astrology is the most unique of all the world views. As a tool, it allows us to see time in a larger context than just the particle of a moment, and to unite waves of time to the whole of our Earth ⁽²⁾. We can lift ourselves above linear time and compartmentalized space, and embrace a wholeness that frees us from fatalistic control, and allows us to be more conscious of our potential of choice. We can use astrology as a tool in our comprehension of the properties of chaos.

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¹       Robert Rivlin and Karen Gravelle chronicled seventeen senses in their book Deciphering the Senses, Simon & Schuster,
        1984. Now it estimated that there are hundreds of different senses, or ways of perceiving.

²       Two techniques that enable this perspective are: Astro*Carto*Graphy and the yearly 45 Degree Graphic Ephemeris.
         This article was originally published in Continuum by the Jim Lewis Slayden Foundation, February 1997

* Mnemosyne - memory - mother of the Muses - Titaness