posted August 27, 2005 03:44 AM              

Foreword

Like Peter Pan's shadow, curiosity about astral compatibility follows the astrologer "second from the right and straight on till morning." At every gathering, someone is sure to demand an answer to a question such as: "How does Sagittarius get along with Pisces?" Typically, on radio and television shows, in newspaper interviews, the astrological professional is invariably confronted with: "My husband is a Leo and I'm an Aquarian. Is that why we fight so much?" -or: "What's the best sign for Gemini to marry?"
Everyone wants to know the ground rules in the game of mixing and matching Sun Signs. I've even found myself helpless in a dental chair, having a tooth extracted, while the attending doctor remarked, "Not that I believe in astrology, but what are my chances with a Capricorn woman ?"
Now, those of you who were once young (and, I hope, still are) know that Tinker Bell told Peter: "Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in faeries,' there is a faerie somewhere who falls down dead." Likewise, everytime someone says, "I don't believe in the stars," there is a human relationship somewhere that falls down dead because of a lack of understanding that could have been gained from a basic knowledge of astrology - and that's not make-believe. It's a fact. There's nothing mysterious about the oldest art and science in the world, unless you choose to call the miracles of love and tolerance that result from using it "mysterious." Semantics aside, it works, whatever you call it.
As for those familiar characters in Neverland, Peter Pan and Wendy, although I've used some of their remarks throughout this book to symbolize, at various times, certain characteristics of all twelve astrological signs, Peter's personal Natal Sun was in the Mutable Air Element of Gemini when he was created. Oh, yes! Peter was a Sun Sign Gemini-even though I use particular quotes of his to symbolize other signs in the book, a Sun Sign Gemini he was, who desired never to grow up, searching for something he never quite found, forever destined to be sure only of his own shadow, never of another human being - until, we trust, through eventual enlightenment, he learned at last the lesson of love.
Wendy was clearly a Cancerian-motherly, possessive, gentle and imaginative, trying out her wings in a flight of fancy under the Full Moon, as Moon Maidens often do. No strong Sun Sign harmony between them, you see, so they quarreled now and then, and each heard a different drummer. Wendy ended up in the final chapter as nearly all Cancerians do, safe and secure. No matter how wistfully her heart longed to fly again, she chose home, marriage and children as her ultimate dreams; while Peter, like nearly all Geminis, continued his eternal search for a brighter rainbow, somewhere beyond. . . still obsessed by twin desires, longing to settle down with Wendy, yet longing just as fiercely to remain free - and true to himself.

3But the Moon was surely in Aquarius when Wendy was born, in trine (harmonious) Luminary aspect to Peter's Gemini Sun, which is why she flew away with him in the first place. . . and promised to return to clean his house every spring.

It's worth all the time and trouble it takes to compare two horoscopes for compatibility, because when you find a trined, sextiled or conjuncted relationship between two Sun Signs - and also a trined, sextiled or conjuncted relationship between the mutual Sun and Moon Signs (the signs transited by the Sun and the Moon at the time of both births) - plus a positive interchange of the signs on the Ascendents with the Luminaries -love then takes on a deeper dimension. All love is capable of energizing wishes into reality, but love between two people whose personal auras have thus harmoniously blended creates the kind of vibration poets write about, and can manifest marvelous magic.

Wandering through the millions of couples on Earth who are attempting to achieve (or have achieved) satisfying contentment and fulfillment togetherand those who are still struggling through heavy sexual karmic testing -are those rare ones esoterically called "Soul Mates" . . . or "Twin Souls."

It sometimes happens that a man and a woman meet and instantly recognize the other half of themselves behind the eyes of each other. The eyes have been rightly called "the windows of the soul." Even their voices are familiar to each other's ears, like a remembered chord of music. These are two who immediately sense the unalterable fact that they have been -are - and must always be One; even though they might have fought against their fate for centuries and struggled in vain to escape their linked destiny. Almost from the first moment they meet and gaze upon each other, their spirits rush together in joyful recognition, ignoring all convention and custom, all social rules of behavior, driven by an inner knowing too overwhelming to be denied. Inexplicably, often without a word being spoken, they know that only through each other can they hope to find Wholeness - only when they're together can they both be Complete in every way.
Somehow, they feel Immortal, and they are . . . for this level of love can bestow the beginning knowledge of the attainIQent of several-centuries-Iongevity in the same flesh body on the Earth plane, as well as the accomplishment of changing flesh bodies (the Temples of the soul) in a fully conscious state, without the "coma" called death. The solution to the problem of the "over-population" which rises to the mind as a result of such achievement by everyone on Earth must wait till a forthcoming book for a detailed discussion.
Neither will I attempt to detail the origin and ultimate destiny of Twin Souls here, since I've done so in another forthcoming book, called Gooobers, to be published in the near future. But there is so much burning curiosity concerning the subject of Soul Mates or Twin Souls, it bears some explanation here, however incomplete.
A man and a yvoman who are Soul Mates hardly need to speak the words "I
love you," knowing as surely as they do that they must belong to each other whether in this present incarnation (lifetime) -or (due to karmic complications) at the end of many more centuries. The words in the marriage ceremony "those which God hath joined together, let no man put asunder" refer to such as these. Yet this warning is unnecessary, simply symbolic ritual, for no man can break the tie between Twin Souls, not even themselves. Nor can any energy in the Universe. The Force that created them is all-powerful and indestructible. The bond may be weakened, their final union and consummation delayed, but they cannot be separated permanently. There can be no end to the kind of happiness they may claim - when they wish to do so - on a timetable dictated by the Free Will choice of the Higher Angels of their own selves. (The Superconscious or Supraconscious of each.)
This kind of instant magnetic attraction is often called "love at first sight," which is no accident of fate, but very real. It's more than curious coincidence that Twin Souls, out of the whole huge world, should be drawn together at the appointed time. The crossing of their paths has been predestined on a Higher Level of Awareness. Certain spiritual energies are at work to bring about their meetings, as surely as the migration of birds and the return of comets are governed by a similar Universal Law. Their coming-together is controlled by the workings of Karma, which is but the sum total of Causes set into motion in the Past - and these determine infallibly the conditions of the Present. When the time comes for Twin Souls to incarnate, they are sent to Earth, clothed in flesh (again, the bodies being the Temples of the soul) through particular Time-Energy Forces, at the moment in Earth Time when certain planetary configurations create the proper conditions. These Time-Energy Forces are electro-magnetic in nature, yet more complex than this.
None of us can control the eventual results of the Causes we've initiated or set into motion in our past lives, although we can control our re-actions to the results such past Causes bring into the present lifetime. The "Free Will" to change these karmic events is possessed by the Higher Self, and we may attain such power by learning to tune into or communicate with the Higher Self (Supraconscious). But "Free Will" on a conscious level can only be realized in the Future-since, in the ever-moving stream called the Present, we are setting into motion, through actions we currently initiate and through our re-actions to past Causes - the future conditions we will inevitably meet.
As for which particular planetary influences in the nativities (horoscopes or birth charts) of two people reveal to an astrologer the indication that these are Twin Souls, they are too intricate to comprehensively explain in this book, in their entire scope - and must await another volume planned concerning this and related subjects. But assuming that such planetary influences are present in the respective charts of lovers, a destiny is revealed in which the two will meet involuntarily - and cannot be separated, even through the experience of death - except for temporary intervals of Earth Time in the present life, for the purpose of karmic soul-testing. During these periods of being apart, however brief or however extended, both persons are lonely, empty and incomplete. Yet even throughout any such temporary spaces in their togetherness, there's a constant, pulsing astral communication between them - for even then, they are linked by a cord that connects them over the miles.

A woman I know was recently in a state of emotional anxiety, desperately needing communication with the man she loved (a Twin Sou!), who was out of the country. There was no way they could reach each other by phone or letter. One night, as she was lying in her bed in the dark, sensing his presence strongly but frustrated at being unable to see or hear or touch him, she cried out aloud, involuntarily, "Oh, why can't you hear me call you ?" Suddenly the lamp on the desk across the room snapped on. At the same moment, a large paper daisy he had given her months before dropped to the floor. Astonished, she sat up in bed, stared at the lamp and the fallen daisy and spoke aloud again. "If it was really you who turned on the light, can you give me a sign you're actually here in your astral body by turning it off now?" Instantly, the switch on the lamp audibly clicked off, leaving the room in darkness - then immediately snapped back on, filling the room with light. Before the incident, the lamp had been off for several hours, so this was no failure of electrical power.
There was absolutely no scientific explanation for what occurred. Neither the bulb nor the switch was loose, and there was nothing wrong with the connection or the socket. All this was thoroughly checked. As for the daisy, it had remained securely in its place, fastened above a picture on the wall, for many months, until that unexpected moment. Such "miracles" are easily explained by the laws of metaphysics. The woman's Twin Soul had felt her need, and answered it, guided astrally by both their Higher Selves, through the silvery-blue cord connecting them, a thread of light actually visible to the physical vision of a trained psychic or sensitive. Later she learned that he was anxiously trying to reach her at exactly the same hour. Those who love faithfully, and who understand how to use the cord of electrical energy that binds them together, don't need Western Union, the post office or the telephone company to communicate. They're always in touch through their astral "eastern-union." There have been countless such occurrences between two people in of love relationships - parent and child, close friends, husbands and wives. . and lovers.

We still hear the shouts of science: "Give us the facts, the facts, the facts!" Astronomy and science, each unable to see the great metaphysical forest of knowledge through the trees of lower mathematics and physics, sans the "meta," while metaphysics could explain so many mysteries. "Meta" is a Greek word meaning, simply, "beyond." Beyond the fiction of Fact lies Truth? Einstein was aware. Yes, Abstract Al knew. Someday very soon in this dawning Aquarian Age, the discovery of instruments sensitive enough to measure the tremendous energy of love's magnetic force field will demonstrate how its electrical impulses can interrupt Nature's laws (but not adversely), reverse gravity (and also reverse the aging process, through cell regeneration), increase telepathic communion and cause many other miraculous manifestations, including conscious recall of former incarnations, which will finally convince skeptical science. Yes, love can do all this, if the desire is strong enough, and the motive unselfish-where enough faith and enough will are exerted. It happens every day.
It's been frequently observed, by witnesses of credibility, that a ninetypound woman can lift the wheels of a two-ton truck if her child is caught beneath it - a complete reversal of the laws of physics but in absolute accord with the laws of meta-physics. Love is far more than an emotion or a feeling. Love is a positive electrical impulse. Science has not yet developed equipment delicate or sophisticated enough to detect these impulses; nevertheless, they do exist. "Scientists" didn't believe in electronic radio waves either until they could be measured. . . . yet they were there all along. As H. T. Buckle wrote, in his History of Civilization in England: ". . . according to the ordinary course of affairs, a few generations pass away, then comes a period when these very truths are looked upon as commonplace facts; and a little later, there comes another period in which they are declared to be necessary, and even the dullest intellect wonders how they could ever have been denied."

During the weary search for one's own Twin Soul, there will be many side trips, many relationships that at first appear to be genuine, then fade into disinterest and boredom. Even when the Soul Mate is at last discovered, there are often many complications and testings of worthiness which cause temporary pain. Only in continually and consistently practicing tolerance and forgiveness can the hurt be alleviated. To return pain for pain only creates the future certainty of a like reaction, of more pain, through the workings of karmic cause and effect.
Sometimes, it seems that the problems of two people who love each other are hopeless, the wall that separates them too high to ever surmount. But their problems would all dissolve, simply disappear, if they would only touch hands
or hearts - or minds - or even touch noses - and whisper just one word: "magic!" For love is magic, the secret power all who love possess without realizing it. No matter how great the injury, or how bitter the words, love will erase it all, as if it had never been. But not without the desire and effort to do so on the part of the one who has inflicted the pain - not without the quality of forgiveness on the part of the one who's been deeply hurt. Desire, effort and forgiveness, intermingled, are necessary to release love's force and power.

The fabled search for the Holy Grail is a dual quest. On a material or Earth level, it concerns the actual cup from which the Nazarene drank at the Last Supper, claimed by the ancients to have been buried near where the druidic priests (descended from the Essenes) held their mystic rites - its discovery imminent in the Age of the Water Bearer.
On a higher, mystical level, the successful conclusion of the search for the Holy Grail is reached, for each human, at the time of reunion with the Twin Soul. For only when all lonely and separated Twin Souls are at last joyously reunited, will the pieces of Life's jigsaw puzzle form themselves into a whole and complete picture within the Universe. Legend whispers that it shall be during the dawning of the Age of Aquarius when the fourteen pieces of the soul of Osiris - scattered when his body was cut into fourteen pieces by his brother, Set (causing the Earth's first Sun-Set) - will come together in one man, "with all his scattered pieces whole." One man, who will be reunited with his own Twin Soul, Isis, after millions of weary years of searching, and countless uncomprehending incarnations spent together in the past.
At the same time, the long-ago-sundered Twin Souls of Set and his Nepenthys will be rejoined, to fulfill their destiny of discovering together the Grail of the N8.2Iarene, through the blending of their auras. Then, says legend, through the miracle of mutual forgiveness for that long-ago crime, Set and his brother, Osiris-along with Isis and her sister, Nepenthys, will in some way, together, find the lost records of Atlantis. . . . . as well as the burial place of Osiris, which contains the records of the building of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh by Osiris (not by Cheops, as falsely believed down through the ages). When these great and holy events manifest themselves, following the recognition of these four (and one other) of the true identity of their own Higher Selves-many more Twin Souls will suddenly recognize each other. Then we shall at least begin to realize our blessed birthright, as supplicated in those singing lines of the Lord's Prayer: "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on Earth, as it is in Heaven" (as above, so below), changing the pattern of the Trinity of Solar, Stellar and Lunar energies in the cosmos.

Those who love deeply, and who are truly mated with the other half of themselves, have no desire to initiate wars, or to dominate others. As the devotion of Romeo and Juliet, even in death, had the power to dissolve the enmity and reconcile the differences between the warring Capulets and Montagues, so shall the ecstatic blending of all Twin Soul lovers have the same power to unite mankind and womankind, all Earthlings in permanent Peace and Good. Pax et Bonum. It's not a coincidence (nothing is) that the man who initiated at least a beginning gesture toward Peace in the Middle East, Anwar Sadat, is a genuinely happily mated man, with a woman by his side who reflects the goals of his Higher Self-as is Menachem Begin, of Israel, who at least initi~ly welcomed the gesture in an equal spirit of good will and sincerity. Nor was it coincidence that Hitler was a lonely, unloved man.
Jesus-the carpenter from Nazareth? He was not alone. He was not unloved by woman. Although it is only a beginning, Scorpio Reverend William Phipps's fine and meticulously researched book The Sexuality of Jesus (Harper & Row, 1973), to be republished by Harper & Row in 1979 under the title Did Jesus Love?, sheds needed enlightenment upon that long-hidden mystery of Jesus and his own Twin Soul. For he was only a man, albeit a highly evolved one - and she, only a woman. Even as you.
The doctrine of divinity, like the doctrine of patriotism, is a negative vibration, placing one man, one woman, one nation, above all others. Jesus, the Christ? Yes, he was more than human, a different entity, but no different, no more super human or divine than each man and woman may rise to become during those too rare and brief periods of tuning in to the individual Supraconscious. Anwar, the Christ.. Menachem, the Christ.. Ruth, the Christ . . . Robert, the Christ. . . Thelma, the Christ. . Michel, the Christ. . Susan, the Christ. . Arthur, the Christ. . and so on, including your own name. Christ is simply another term for the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit, which can enter into anyone. We are all sons and daughters of God-and of His Mate, His own Twin Soul. How could our Creator not have His counterpart? The polarity of positive-negative, masculine-feminine, exists in all dimensions, on all levels of awareness, within the galaxies of Heaven - and upon the Hell on Earth (as it is presently manifest). Jesus himself never claimed he was divine. "What I have done, you can do also - and more. . . . . go thou and do likewise. . . . . . be it done unto you according to your faith. . . . . ." These are not claims of spiritual exclusivity, only reminders that what was being demonstrated were manifestations of the "divine" within each of us, miracles we all could perform - though not without sacrifice, not without certain disciplines to bring mind, body and emotions under control. Strange, that the word "discipline" contains the word "disciple." Or perhaps. . . not strange at all.

The predicted cataclysms, should they come, should we be unable to prevent them, have been set into motion by many forces of darkness. . . . by the underground testing of immense destructive energies. . . . by the negative vibrations of the current waves of sexual promiscuity and lewdness in magazines and film, abusing and degrading sex to its lowest level. . . . the gorging greed for financial gain. . . . the selfish refusal to share our money, our food or our love with one another. "If everyone ate simply, everyone would eat." The need for sex, like the need for food, is a burning hunger all over the world. But sharing our love does not mean sharing our bodies in sensual group sexual experience. Gluttony is not the answer, to either kind of hunger.
Sex is not a sin; only the mis-use of its energy is a sin against the Higher Angel of one's own Self. Sexual union is the ecstasy of "deep" discovered by those who love, symbolic of a man and woman's blending with the Universe and all of Nature, in Oneness. It's a simple matter of priorities. You fall in love first-with your eyes. Then with your mind, then with your heart (emotions). By now your soul has joined the experience - whether you realize it or not, you've "fallen in love" spiritually-and it's time to fall in love with your body.
It doesn't work when you take these steps in reverse. For only the eyes know how to lead you into the mind of the one they gaze upon. Only the mind knows how to lead you into the heart of the one with whom you've found a mental affinity. Only the heart knows how to lead you into union with the soul of the one you love. And the soul is well aware. . oh! well aware, believe me . . of how to lead you, then, into the ecstasy of Oneness called sexual mating - becoming "one flesh."
But if you begin with the body. . . . . . the body knows not where to lead you, except into more and more sensations of the flesh, which by themselves have no power to fulfill love's yearning or feed love~s deeper hunger - sensations that must, by certain physiological laws, eventually cause the body to become immune to sensation, needing ever more and more stimulation-until finally, like a drug, the tolerance level for even this is reached, and there is oblivion of all feeling. Using the body as an instrument for sex alone, without love, is like listening to a symphony on stereophonic equipment but using only one speaker.

Yes, it is time for a Messiah. A Wayshower, who will once again remind us of the basic lessons of love he taught before, so soon forgotten. For it makes no difference how far an individual or a nation has fallen into error; love will bring a renewed dedication to humanity. Just as it makes no difference how far away someone has gone, for love will bring a return. As poet Emmet Fox noted, when it is projected with sufficient intensity, there is no distance that love cannot span, no illness - moral, mental, emotional or spiritual- that love cannot heal. No victory that love cannot win. Love is concentrated kinetic energy, the most awesome force in Nature... and beyond Her.
If only you could love deeply enough and sustain love long enough, you could become the source of your own miracles, as powerful as the ancient "gods and goddesses." There is no dream you couldn't turn into a reality, no law you can't change, no situation you can't reverse - if only you could love enough.
Loving enough is not easy. Loving enough doesn't mean loving only those who love you, who are kind and considerate and generous. Loving enough means also loving those who "say all manner of evil against you," who hate you and actively demonstrate that hatred, who seemingly lack all compassion and sensitivity. Anyone can return the love of those who love him - or her. There's little glory or power in that kind of love. Weare incarnated in these flesh bodies on Earth to learn love's deeper, more difficult lesson ofloving the unlovable. In this accomplishment lies all the force and energy of true passion. More often than not, it's a painful effort, but the rewards, when it's mastered, are . . . beyond imagining. Never mind unnecessary religious "canonization" -you, too, can become a "saint" - if you can love enough.
In astrological terms, for a Lion and a Ram to love, for a Bull and a Goat to
love - is nearly effortless. But for a Ram to achieve harmony with a Crab - the Lion with the Scorpion - the Bull with the Water Bearer - these demonstrate a higher love. Love Signs will attempt to guide those who are fortunate enough
to be united with their own compatible Sun Signs - and also show the way to tolerance and harmony for those whose present karmic destiny has decreed the soul-testing of being involved in relationships with people of conflicting Sun Signs.
Even between two individuals whose Sun and Moon Signs harmonize, there are always some planets in their mutual nativities which clash, causing periodic friction and tension. To overcome this is to become tuned in to the pulsing frequency of the Higher Self, to begin the climb up the pathway to enlightenment . . . to walk in magic, showered with miracles. Like a bottomless cup, the Holy Grail of those who love is never empty. In the Neverland mathematics of metaphysics, you see - the more miracles we give away to others, the more we have left for you and me. WhoI among us is not, at times, unlovable? And are not these the very times when we secretly yearn and need to be loved the most? Oh! the magic of receiving kindness in return from one to whom we have been un-kind. . . the miracle of hearing, when we have said: "I'm sorry I said such cruel things," the answer: "What cruel things? I didn't hear them."
Then the heart bursts with joy and our cup runneth over. For this most ancient alchemy secret of all is such a simple secret.

If it was negative, it didn't happen-except in the world of illusion.
And so, may the Force. . . of Love. . . be with you. May it prevent the predicted cataclysms of Nature, as well as the personal cataclysms of separation and divorce, through its prisms of Light.