"I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none.” (Ezekiel 22:30)
In
ancient times cities were built with high walls around them as defence
against enemies. If a part of the walls was destroyed the enemy could
easily access the city through that gap. Hence standing in the gap
required lot of courage because this was the most unprotected and
dangerous position.
In the above passage God was looking for someone to stand in the gap of the walls in Jerusalem
and build up the wall again, yet nobody showed up and the city was
later invaded by the Babylonians. The gap and the wall God is referring
to is obviously a multidimensional gap. And in this respect God may
still be looking.
Between Pisces and Aries there lies a gap, a Mighty Gap,
which is the quantum leap from one realm to another, a cross-road
leading either to a joyful radical redefinition of our nature or to yet
another forlorn change within the same looping story. And it is at this
gap that mankind seemingly continues to miss its chance of redemption as
cultures reach their apex and then fall again into darkness.
Pisces
represents both the peak of human consciousness and the bottom of
ignorance, just as Aries depicts both the beginning of a new age of
light and loss of awareness or going back to square one. In Christian
terms Aries stands as the resurrected Jesus, yet it is also the
crucifixion, the elimination of the physical Christ and his absence from
the outer world, which is the return to darkness for those who are
unable to see His light within.
Pisces
and Aries are respectively the last and the first of the 12 signs. The
12 signs are in shamanic terms the 12 fragmented parts of our soul or,
in Christian language, the 12 apostles.
With
Pisces the sequence of the signs is completed, which means that I have
had an experience of all 12 parts. This does not imply that these parts
have been fully retrieved and integrated. And even if I have managed to
regain them, I can still lose them again. The retrieval process is
exemplified by the sequence of numbers progressing from 1 (Aries), 2
(Taurus) and finally to 12 (Pisces). Yet when I reach 12 (Pisces), the
linear sequence is challenged, and instead of moving to 13, it goes back
to 1 (Aries).
In this Mighty Gap between Pisces and Aries there is a zone of dissolution. The traditional sequence cannot move further than 12 and there is no space for the 13th, which is bound to be sacrificed so that 1 can return and pave the way for another repetition of the previous cycle.
This
is the nature of our separated reality: an ongoing loop, the same soap
opera replicated over and over again, a dream of inevitable captivity
with no chance of liberation unless we wake up from the dream.
The 13th
is the sign of awakening, and as such it does not belong to the dream.
As soon as it emerges, I acknowledge the dream as a dream, and no
compromise is possible: either I embrace the 13th and get out of the dream, or I continue to sleep, as the 13th shifts into 1 (Aries). Here Aries represents both the 13th and the 1st.
The Ram rises as the Agnus Dei, the sacrificial Lamb of God that atones for the sins of mankind. It is Jesus Christ, the 13th sitting among the 12 apostles at the Last Supper.
In ancient numerology the number 12 represents the structure that makes up our 3rd-dimensional reality, or HAC, while number 13 is the portal to the multidimensional realm, or non-HAC. As such, the 13th
exemplifies the dissolution of ordinary reality and a radical paradigm
shift which shatters the conventional laws of the world. 13 is the
reawakening of a perception that drastically reveals the illusory nature
of our separated reality, threatening the survival of the ego.
This
is why the number 13 has been regarded with suspicious and fear
throughout the ages. There are abundant traditions and myths that
narrate about a 13th member of a group who is betrayed,
oppressed, sacrificed, killed or transfigured. The most known, besides
Jesus and his 12 apostles, are King Arthur and the 12 Knights of the Round Table, the god Baldur and the 12 deities of the Valhalla, Mithra, Philip II of Macedon, etc.
In
the zodiac signs the shift between each signs and their number is
sequential, i.e. 1-2-3-4-etc., up to 12 where the sequence stops and all
goes back to 1. It is in this shift that the mystery of the 13th
dwells. It is here that the unseen is provisionally unveiled and become
available only to those who have ears to hear and eyes to see.
On a pragmatic level, when I reach this strategic Gap, I
confront the opportunity of definitively leaving behind outworn
scripts, embracing the luminous story which longs to emerge, taking
pragmatic steps in this regard and finally leap. Mind the Gap!
© Franco Santoro, info@astroshamanism.org
Image: by Giovanni Paolo Panini
Image: by Giovanni Paolo Panini
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