Anarchistbanjo's World

Continuing our study of the astral planes we will first consider the spiritual planes which cover the entire northern hemisphere from the lowest level to the highest. But everything in the spiritual planes has a north magnetic or expanding nature. Objects or events within the spiritual planes do not want to mix and mingle. They begin as archetypal objects and events and want to remain that way.

They may gradually work their way down to the lower levels but for the most part the spiritual planes represent future probable events. Things that may happen in the future if they ever work their way down and find their missing south magnetic half. This can be long term future as in thousands of years from now, or it could be a timeline for a life. Also it might be things that could possibly manifest in the coming year if they can be balanced with their counterpart as I’ve mentioned.

To understand the astral planes we need to understand that there is a part of our awareness that is within our physical body and other parts of us that leave our physical body and travel through the astral planes while we are asleep and dreaming. These astral bodies go to specific locations within the astral planes where they are needed. Where important events are getting ready to manifest as physical events or to shape possible future events.

I’m taking a detour here but this is important to understand as well. We are all broken and we are seeking or should be seeking to become whole again! This brokenness exists in physical life and in the astral and it takes different forms in each. First we will talk about normal ego awareness of the physical body and physical reality. It is an illusion!

To be even more specific normal ego awareness which we have of daily events is often not even ego awareness which implies a unity. The awareness of most people operates through valences or masks that we wear according to the situation we find ourselves in. So we act, think and exist as a parent when we are dealing with our children; then we change masks or valences and act, think and become like the children we once were in dealing with our own parents. Then we again change masks and become someone else when we are with our lover or our friends. Then we again change masks and become someone else entirely at work! And we don’t even realize that we are shifting from one state of awareness into another!

In the astral we don’t have masks or valences, but we do have astral bodies that exist in different levels. The astral body in one level might not know anything about the astral body that exists in another level. I remember a dream where my dreaming body encountered another of my astral bodies that was lying down asleep. And of course I had a third awareness that was watching the whole thing!

So both in physical life and in our astral life we seek the integration and harmonization of all our parts both physically and astrally!

Now our astral bodies may journey during the night as we sleep and they will be charged with the energy that we have generated during the day. They will be drawn to the proper place to discharge that energy within the earth’s astral planes. That is what our dream is, the discharging of that energy and the resultant reaction.

Now I will be saying this over and over as we go along, so you will gradually become familiar with how the astral is manipulated by the lunar and solar cycles. Don’t get too excited if you don’t get it right away. It will gradually unfold for you as we go along.

From the time of the New Moon to the 1st quarter when our astral bodies journey at night they will travel to the Spiritual Planes because that is where the heavy activity is. The same is true from the lunar 3rd quarter to the New Moon the heavy activity will be in the Spiritual Planes and that is where your dream time astral body will go. So in general the week before and after the New Moon will consist of heavy activity within the Spiritual Planes and that is where you will go in your dreams. I will explore this more deeply when we talk about the lunar and solar cycles. Right now we are just finding our way around the astral planes.

So during one half of the lunar cycle our dreaming astral body is working in the Spiritual Planes and during the other half of the lunar cycle it is working in the Magickal Planes trying to get both ends to meet so things can physically manifest! Remember that each part needs its opposite counterpart in order to physically manifest.