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Totem Spirits correspond astrologically to planets or
constellations, and mythically to the gods or heroes of the various
civilizations that have developed or arrived on this planet. To the first
inhabitants on Earth, they appeared in their purest form. With the reinforcement
of the process of separation, these archetypes assumed frozen manifestations
and complex patterns that then multiplied abundantly in countless subsidiary
types. They all started from one, the fragmented into 12 (Core Templates), 144 (Binary Templates), 1728 (Ternary Templates), etc.
Astroshamanic Core Templates literally represent the
patterns of reproduction that shape our entire human perception of reality.
They are the generators of the collective dream that keeps our world trapped
into what can be described as a simulated grid of projections.
The natures of Templates are in themselves neutral.
Their characteristics change according to the degree of our projections. They
may appear as allies or enemies, pleasant or unpleasant, loving or hateful,
etc.
If your relationship with a Core Template is
disturbed, it can manifest in your life with grieving traits (Graha). These aspects are projected on
all people or situations that seem to cause fear, repulsion, obsession, hate,
dependence, addiction and all kinds of grievance, as they are perceived by the
ego.
By isolating, hating or repressing these contexts, we
fight or suffocate dangerous zones that end up being amplified in our inner
world and will eventually find expressions in outside life. Repression becomes
like a magnet that draws outer screens upon which we project all our inner or
non-ordinary undesired contents.
Projections in the realm of ordinary relationships are
the outcome of our interaction with Spirits. Here the positive contents of a
Totem Spirit are projected onto a specific human being in the outer world. We
see something that exists within, or in another dimension, through the
projection of someone that is outside in the ordinary reality.
When the projection is pleasant and supportive, this
condition causes feelings of well-being and satisfaction. Yet, if we lose sight
of the real source of emanation, we are bound to experience pain, disruption or
misery when the projection changes or comes to an end.
As long as unconscious projection is taking
place, everyone in your outer world is literally some part of yourself
functioning as the perceived ego of the other - all are actors in the movie you
are starring in, taking their positive and negative roles to fit your
particular movie script. Your current ego (what you presently consider yourself
to be) acts as a membrane between the forces flowing out of you onto your world
and the forces flowing back onto and into you from the other projecting
entities in your personal reality. Until you can experience how your projecting
energies are affecting others, you will never understand how their projections
are affecting you in turn.[2]
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What counts is the use we make, and the awareness we
have, of projections. Following this premise, whatever I perceive out in the
world, no matter how apparently beautiful or ugly, becomes a screen or detector
about something which exists within me or on another level of awareness. This creates
a web of projections which is indeed the Web of Life.
We are all connected by a web which is invisible to
ordinary human eyes. Every form that exists, from atom to organism and to the
whole universe itself, is connected and determined by a vacuum of invisible
units.
I have spent some time experiencing and classifying
specific categories of projections. In astroshamanism they are called Template Detectors and their function is
showing us from the outside the state of particular areas in our perception as
represented by each Astroshamanic Template. For example, your mother, father-in-law,
father of your business-partner, third brother or sister of your partner, or
the mother of the mother of your father, etc. are all detectors of Sector 4,
which relates to your roots, past, childhood, home, intimacy and Moon side.
Energy detectors have nothing to do with the nature of
the persons themselves or the way other people consider or judge them. They are
only related to the way we project on them. This scheme of detectors comprises
virtually anyone or anything: from your closest relations up to a distant third
cousin or even the dog of your neighbour and the car of your sister’s employer.
It is a useful device to bring awareness as regards projections and to help the
mind to get acquainted with the multidimensional nature of relationships.
All people and situations that move into the screen of
our life - past, present and future - have a specific location in the inner
world, or a template parallel universe. The way in which we perceive them shows
us the quality of relationship with specific Totem Spirits and their related
Sectors.
In astrology, people, objects, and all the categories
of physical reality that operate as Sector detectors can be strategically spotted
in the natal chart through the system of the derived houses.[3] According
to this approach, the astrological chart provides all the basic information
regarding the ordinary, visible as well as the non-ordinary, invisible world.
If the table below you can find a basic outline of ordinary visible forms used as template detectors. The first column indicates each of the 12 Astroshamanic Core Template, the second column provides some keywords about its feature, while the third column lists some examples of people associated with them as template detectors. These people, as they are met in dreams, thoughts or in the outer
reality, operate as detectors for the corresponding Template.
TABLE OF TEMPLATE DETECTORS
TEMPLATE
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MAIN FEATURES
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EXAMPLES OF TEMPLATE DETECTORS
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1
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Personality,
mask, identity, point of view, physical body, outer appearance, energy,
desire, attraction, emergence, beginning, war, surgery, head and eyes. Aries,
Mars.
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Paternal
grandmother, maternal grandfather, 5th son/daughter, ex-partner of partner,
friends of 1st brother/sister, 6th brother/sister.
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2
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Resources,
material possessions, money, talents, values, means of sustenance, sense of
self-worth, food, garden, furniture, land, ears, neck, mouth, throat. Taurus,
Venus, Earth.
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5th
brother/sister of mother, partner of 2nd brother/sister of mother, friends of
mother, 2nd brother/sister of father, 5th brother/sister of mother, mother of
friends.
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3
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Communication,
education, language, ordinary mind,
perception, information, brothers and sisters in general, press, mail,
short journeys, transports, neighbours, car, bike, telephone, market, shop,
hands, arms, lungs, shoulders. Gemini, Mercury.
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1st
brother/sister of maternal grandfather or of paternal grandmother, 1st
brother/sister, 6th son/daughter, partner of 3rd son/daughter, friends of 1st
son/daughter, 1st son/daughter of friends.
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4
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Past, home,
home town and country, mother, real estate, roots, childhood, household
items, memory, hotel, laundry, stomach, breast. Cancer, Moon.
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3rd
brother/sister of father, mother of paternal grandmother or of maternal
grandfather, father of paternal grandfather or of maternal grandmother.
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5
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Creativity,
love affairs, sons in general, pleasure, entertainment, play, actors,
celebrities, monarchs, heart, spine. Leo, Sun.
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2nd
brother/sister, partner of 4th son/daughter, 1st and 7th son/daughter,
friends of partner, partners of friends, 2nd brother/sister of paternal
grandmother.
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6
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Health,
service, servants, healing, work, efficiency, fellow workers, hygiene,
nutrition, domestic animals, employees, clients, patients, craftsmen,
secretary, diet, intestine. Virgo, Mercury, Ceres, Vesta, Chiron.
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1st and 7th
brother/sister of mother, 4th brother/sister of father, partner of 1st
brother/sister of father.
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7
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Relationships,
contracts, marriage, wife or husband, business partner or rival, love, social
life, beauty, cosmetics, arts, co-operation, jewels, diplomacy, open enemies,
shadow, kidneys, lower back. Libra, Venus, Juno, Pallas.
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Partner,
ex-partner, paternal grandfather, maternal grandmother, 2nd son/daughter, 3rd
brother/sister, 1st son/daughter of 1st brother/sister, room mate.
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8
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Transformation,
release, rebirth, death, funerals, sex, finance, tax, legacies, shared
feelings, occultism, banking and insurance, other people’s money and
resources, psychotherapy, secrets, crisis, genitals, anus. Scorpio, Pluto,
Mars.
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Partner of
2nd brother/sister of father, 2nd brother/sister of mother, 5th
brother/sister of father.
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9
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High
education, religion, wisdom, philosophy, beliefs, spiritual masters, law,
long journeys, sons of sons and brothers in law in general, gambling, wealth,
fortune, sport, Guide, thigh, liver. Sagittarius, Jupiter.
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3rd
son/daughter, 1st brother/sister of partner, partner of 1st
brother/sister, 4th brother/sister,
2nd son/daughter of 1st brother/sister, friends of friends.
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10
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Objectives,
ambitions, profession, career, reputation, social status, father,
authorities, employers, restriction, loss, misfortune, debts, budgeting, old
age, delay, bones, teeth, knee. Capricorn, Saturn.
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Partner of
mother, father of paternal grandmother or of maternal grandfather, mother of
maternal grandmother, mother of partner, 3rd brother/sister of mother, 6th
brother/sister of father, 1st son/daughter of 1st brother/sister of mother.
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11
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Social
groups, organisations, shared ideals, television, radio, computer, synergy,
communities, associations, groups, friends, sons in law in general, divorce,
freedom, ankle, circulation, lower leg. Aquarius, Uranus, Saturn.
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4th
son/daughter, partner of 1st son/daughter, 5th brother/sister, 1st
son/daughter of 2nd son/daughter or 3rd brother/sister, 2nd son/daughter of
1st son/daughter or 2nd brother/sister.
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12
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Imagination,
dreams, visions, other dimensions, meditation, inner life, secret enemies,
spies, retirement, prisons, hospitals, wild animals, feet. Pisces, Neptune,
Jupiter.
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1st and 7th
brother/sister of father, partner of 1st brother/sister of mother, 4th
brother/sister of mother, 1st brother/sister of mother of partner.
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(to be continued)
For further information on the above topic please refer to Astroshamanism Book One: A Journey into the
Inner Universe [4], pp.104-120 and our articles found in http://astroshamanic.blogspot.com
All astroshamanic workshops examine astroshamanic templates, and especially:
the One-Month Findhorn Foundation Training in Holistic Awareness and Astroshamanism
Restoring the Fragmented Heart: Soul Retrieval and the Way of Sacred Relationships and all retreats in Italy.
[1] This is the term used in the
Epic of the Sacred Cone. See our
booklet The Compendium of the Epic of the
Sacred Cone: A Concise Epitome, 2012.
[2] Edwin C.
Steinbrecher, The Inner Guide Meditation:
A Spiritual Technology for the 21st Century, Samuel Weiser, 1988, pp.
19-21.
[3]
The technique of derived houses consists
of examining each of the 12 astrological houses as the Ascendant of a further
cycle of 12 houses, making a total of 144 houses. This traditional method was
introduced by Eudes Picard (see: Eudes Picard, Astrologie Judiciare, Leymarié, Paris, 1936). It has also been used
by Edwin C. Steinbrecher (see Steinbrecher, op. cit.), though with some
differences in the allocation of houses.
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