Aura-Soma

This is a film review with a difference. It reviews the film Crash (Director: Paul Haggis; U.S. 2005) with the themes of the Equilibrium bottle B55 - the Christ combination in Aura-Soma.

The opening sequence features drifting lights, white and red, they are out of focus headlights and tail lights. This colour symbolism at the start of the film gave me a jolt to wake up and take notice. They are the colours of the Christ bottle in the Aura-Soma Equilibrium range, Clear over Red. The ideas that follow are the result of considering the film in relation to the teachings of Christ.

The narrative of the film is composed of brilliantly interwoven threads of lives, lives that cross and interact one fateful 24 hour period. The central theme of the film is anger and forgiveness (a strong Christ theme that is also expressed in the Lord’s Prayer “Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who have trespassed against us”. In a fairly subtle way the film shows that anger hurts the one who carries it. It is easy to strike out at the wrong person when you carry it. Either speak up in the moment against the trespass /wrongdoing, or forgive. Otherwise the anger continues and most likely erupts to hurt further innocents.

A lot of the anger in the story is caused by racism. The gunstore owner throws the Iraqi out of his shop for not understanding English well enough; the black thieves only rob whites; in the aftermath of the crash of the opening scene, the Hispanic and the Chinese ladies revert to attacking each other with racist taunts. It is hard to watch but brings into focus another key Christ theme; “Love your neighbour as yourself.” The film explores the way that judging and being judged affect us, how different people respond in different ways. It is fascinating how different characters are brought to their edges of pain. On the occasions when humanity wins through then there are truly moments of relief.

Strong secondary themes within the story are those of justice and fate. It is notable in the Tree of Life that the paths of Justice and the Wheel of Fortune (Fate) both point (albeit from a distance in the case of Justice) to the sphere of Netsach – the sphere of Feeling. Healing of feeling is an important part of the story too. Only after Sandra Bullock’s character acknowledges her anger does she come recognise her need for contact; the streetwise thief who initially has no empathy for his victims in the end comes to feel good in doing something positive for others.

Only one of the character interactions ends in tragedy and yet surprisingly it happens between two of the least offensive characters. On deeper thought though it is apparent that the habit of these two characters was not to confront the injustice of their fellows. It is yet another Christ theme. “Evil flourishes where good men do nothing”, the conclusion to draw seems to be “Have the courage to stand up”. Martin Luther King, a devout Christian lived this. As a human being he found the burden of being the figurehead for justice almost unbearable, he feared for his life, yet as a soldier of Christ he found strength to face the darkness and the danger. His observation was that it is only when man finds something he is willing to die for can he truly live.

It is a great film, the ingenuity of the story supported by the clever cutting between different threads of the plots make for a riveting watch. The message isn’t hammered home, different stories resolve in different ways, more or less neatly, the premise though is to do with justice and, underneath that, our common humanity - two things we innately hold to as children. Perhaps this is what we are being reminded of with the injunction “Be ye as little children in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”

The whole story is set to the backdrop of the Christmas season, yet another Christ resonance. The time to remember Christ and Christian values: forgiveness and human brother / sisterhood. The film closes with snow, a miracle in itself in LA. Snow the return of innocence to earth, all is made clean white virginal once more.

It is a film I would highly recommend for anyone working with 55, 98, 104, and to a lesser extent any further Red / Pink / Clear combinations as well as 8, 13, 10. The film ends with another interracial argument kicking off in the wake of another car crash. The camera spirals out as the snow falls. Flashpoints arise every day. Yet in this film we are shown the other side of the coin too, a day of redemption, second chances and turning points.

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I am often asked why is Aura-Soma so popular in Japan. Here is a thought. Some of the ideas beneath are not held be everybody in Japan, and Japan is changing. Nevertheless i think the ideas are true to the traditional Japanese way of life which all Japanese have been born into. The idea is inspired by some stonework i was admiring while staying in Kyoto earlier this month. I was on the edge of the city on a hillside close to the forest - the area has a traditional look. Here is the wall.

Every stone fits in Japan

These are not small stones! You will notice that every stone is uniquely shaped, retaining some originality. Yet as a whole this wall is tightly knit. If a stone were removed another could not be easily found to replace it. This says several important things about Japanese society.

First it says that great care has been taken in building this wall. Each stone has been placed with care and attention to detail, small adjustments have been made at the edges to ensure a tight fit. These are magenta qualities: care and attention to detail.

It would be much easier and quicker to mass-produce regularly shaped bricks. But in Japan things are valued for their unique quality. Originality of form is prized, respect for each other is paramount. I once asked a Japanese friend if she would wear a brace to change her teeth. She replied that teeth were a gift from her parents and should be respected as such. The wall is more important than the stone! No stone in the wall requires another to be different, each is accommodated as it is, or at least the chipping away happened so long ago that now there is no memory of things being any other way. This gives greatstrength to society, yet, at the same time, it is impossible for any stone to move without upsetting the whole.

This is true of individuals in Japanese society. They live in cities of millions and millions. Any day at any hour almost every train is full. People moving together. People are expected to give a huge amount to work: traditionally you should not go home if your boss is still in the office. Everyone should know their position in society and bow to everyone else accordingly. So where is the space for the individual? Not much on the outside is the answer. “The nail that sticks up will be hammered down” is a traditional Japanese proverb.

But here is where Aura-Soma has something to offer. It presents a non intrusive, gentle, private way to nurture and explore your inner world. You may not be free outside, but you can grow inside. Come to know your inner shape better; like the stone in the wall, find your uniqueness and bring it to life with consciousness. Mike Booth used to like to talk about making pots, that every so often a pot would be made under his hands on the wheel that seemed to sing. It had an inner quality of aliveness. Aura-Soma helps to bring that aliveness to each individual life, and in Japan, that has a very high value indeed.

This combination was created at 11.11am on the 22/4/2003. Its colours are Opalescent Pale Blue / Deep Magenta.

Opalescence

With the oplaescence in the top fraction has come something strikingly different from all the Equilibrium bottles that have preceded it. When looking through the top fraction into the light then this opalescence appears hazy - almost like the summer haze over a city. But, when viewing this fraction face on with the light being reflected back from it, it takes on an opalescent milky quality, mysterious, opaque yet luminescent. The opalescence has coincided with the introduction of the spagyrik crystal essences into the Aura-Soma products. These bring a radical deepening of the potential of the Aura-Soma products. Vicky Wall viewed the crystal energies as the key to the Re-New-All age as she called it. With this bottle certainly comes a rescue for a return to the solution to problems.

El Morya

The pale transparent blue of El Morya says “Thy Will Be Done through me.” This opalescent blue with its hint of substance is closely akin to the colour of El Morya and yet subtly different. Rather than being purely a transparent channel for the Higher Will it is more a stimulus to recognise what is our individual desire from the highest level. Deep within this created life in which we live is the creative impulse, the part of us that is one with the Creator and called forth this. The opalescence reminds me of the Primum Nebulae, the first substance of this universe, the birthing of the stars, the creation of space and time in which the drama of evolution has unfolded. It speaks of origins.

Returning to the solution

So the question this bottle stimulates is “What do I really want?” “To what is my original Yes?” And the “I” and the “my” pertain to my central “I”, the “I” that is one with the Source. Paradoxically the Deep Magenta in the base, which always represents the creative No-thing from which all is born and to which all returns, is less solid and impenetrable in this bottle. It is pale, more transparent, even as the top is more opaque. Something of the Unmanifest is becoming more conscious. “What do I really want?” And accompanying this can also be raised the questions “Why keep investing in things I do not want to continue? What situations in my life do I no longer wish to feed with my energy and my time?

The more deeply do we discover our innermost desire the more we come to a unity and peace within. I remember a line from the film City Slickers, one of the central characters is looking to find the way forwards in his life. He is advised, “You have to find the one thing.” At first he thinks he has to find something out there in the world but then he realises that the one thing is whatever the central most important thing for him is in his life. He learns that all other decisions and priorities follow from this one thing. Note the birth time of the bottle - certainly a 1 energy there!

Healing Division

In many ways the process of the previous bottle B102 Samael helped to prepare us to find the one thing. B102 was born with an awakening event, the attack on the Twin Towers, and precipitated a war, the War on Terror. The process of the time that followed asked us to determine where we stood in relation to War and Peace. From the initial proposition in autumn 2001 “You are either with us or with the terrorists” to the final days before the launch of war on Iraq we were asked where we stood, to stand up and be counted.

But Haniel has been born in the aftermath of the Iraq war. The bottle is a rescue for Peace, blue is peace and here is a Peace Rescue. Haniel was born, at the 11th minute of the 11th hour. In 1918 it was the 11th day of the 11th month that signalled the end of fighting a return to peace, though the unfair terms of this ceasefire were the seed for future conflict. Since then we have better learnt that winning the peace is more important than winning the war. We are now in the time on the world stage to create that Peace.

Winning the peace, this is our opportunity now. The gift of Haniel. To know our goal, our deepest desire, is a milestone on the journey to peace. But really it is no more than obtaining a map with the destination indicated, we still need to make the journey. I believe Haniel will support us to put our principles into practice.

Attitude

And the way to do that is with all the energy and awareness that we have, using our original force. Like a Samurai, swiftly and with full commitment. But our practice, our actions, will only be consistent as long as we re invoke our goal and this goal will only stand the test of time if it is in alignment with out deepest desire. Nourish the vision and practise it as consistently as possible. It is a time to implement our deepest desire. This puts me in mind of another Equilibrium bottle, B94, Archangel Michael, the dragon slayer, pale blue over pale yellow, for in this process of the implementation of the practice of our Higher Will we have to overcome the dragons of our lower nature, those of reluctance, doubt, laziness etc. (Incidentally 94 adds up to 13 as does 103.) As Trish and Will Hunter of Aura-Soma USA once said “Attitude is the sum total of our actions.” To forge an attitude we have to practice. Yet through practice the world is changed.

In the midst of life

The picture accompanying this article is the one of B103 that I so far like the best, appearing as it does in the midst of ordinary life. So it is with peace, here we are in the middle of life and here and now is the one place we can bring peace into being. In my peace meditations recently something new has happened in that, rather than trying to build up peace as a blue energy, I have experienced it more effortlessly by considering that peace is already everywhere existing, it is just a case of tuning into it. Perhaps this time of Haniel brings this possibility more tangibly to earth.

Summary

Entering the 100s in the Equilibrium sequence brings a new dimension into evolution, that of influx from a deeper level of the divine mind. 3 is creativity and so 103 is creativity from a deeper level. 102 was deep polarisation in the world. 103 can be creativity and synthesis, not just finding a new way but actually making it, creating it out of nothing. We are in the process of creation still. This is the gift.

This opalescent quality puts more onus on us individually to take responsibility for what we create. Whether we consciously choose it or not, we are creating with our life energy. And in the end it is what we put our energy to in practice that counts. How will you use your energy to bring into being the world?

I don’t know about you but the finding a basis on which to recommend the Archangeloi has been quite a long journey. This article shares with you the answer to which I have come.

The Archangeloi were created in 2003. From the start I felt that they were a very important part of the Aura-Soma system, however it has taken me a long time to integrate them into the product recommendations at the end of a consultation. The problem was that the 8 (now 9) Archangeloi we have in Aura-Soma relate very specifically to the bottles from 94 to 101 and now also 104. So it seemed to me that unless one of those nine bottles were present then there was no guidance on which Archangeloi, if any, would be appropriate.

However on my recent trip to Japan a basis for recommending Archangeloi emerged while sharing the Exploring the Archangels courses. It suddenly became clear that the Archangeloi are ideally suited to encourage the client’s future evolution.

So how can we identify which Archangeloi is the most suitable for the client’s next step? Of course the colours of the 4th bottle will give a very important indication but I believe they are not the only factor. Ideally the practitioner also has to consider the whole direction of the consultation, the themes and clues that have emerged through listening to the client’s story.

From all this some idea of what the client is moving towards will appear. This idea can then be compared to the key themes of each Archangeloi to assess which theme best fits the client’s future direction. The Archangeloi that is indicated can then be double-checked by comparing the colours in the client’s selection with those in the Archangel bottle(s) being considered for final confirmation.

To help you I include here a list of my current key ideas for each Archangeloi. There are of course more possibilities than listed below but for me these represent my current understanding of the essence of each Archangeloi.

Archangel Michael is an energy for integrity and for action.

Archangel Gabriel is an energy for letting go and letting flow.

Archangel Raphael is restoring, gently nourishing and opening for a new beginning.

Archangel Uriel nourishes an inner vision, connects us to our soul dreams.

Archangel Sandalphon is for entering into relationships, into commitments, into sharing and growing.

Archangel Tzadkiel is feminine, but also outgoing and dynamic, walking our truth upon the earth.

Archangel Metatron is deeply intense, it offers a turning point for the person. It is the closest to pure meditation.

Archangel Jophiel is energy for a new beginning, stepping out. It also helps us to express our truth to others.

Archangeloi Chamael helps us to face the difficult things, transcend our anger and rejection and let go.

It is fascinating to me that this Archangeloi function of addressing the future perfectly complements the roles of the other key products in Aura-Soma – the Equilibrium bottles, pomanders and quintessences. In the consultation recommendations the Equilibrium bottle brings energy for change to the client’s past – realising the gift from the challenge; the quintessence brings inspiration into the present; the pomander supports the “always” – the true aura colour at the centre of the self. Now we have the Archangeloi to stimulate the client’s future unfoldment. As Mike noted in his booklet on the Archangeloi, they stimulate the seeds of positive potential hidden within the aura. We can say that as we heal the past with the other three products we can now invite a meaningful and positive future too.

I hope you find this article helpful. If you wish to learn more about the Archangels and the Archangeloi then I recommend my course “Exploring the Archangels”. It goes more deeply into all of this and in addition gives much space and support for your own inner growth.

I received this bottle from Mike the day it was born - lucky i was standing outside in my garden as he was driving by. To my eyes this is a very soft combination, the misty quality of the two fractions giving the sense of a hidden depth in light rather than darkness. Olive is the colour to grow, to find our way, to live. Violet is healing, transformative, in this case transmuting even. As I looked into the base the first time I had a sense that something could be born from this violet depth, something could emerge from this mistiness, just as potential is born out of the Deep Magenta.

The bottle contains hidden complementary colours , yellow and violet. But where ordinarily these two might be opposed to each other, the olive allows for growth and reconciliation though. Growing towards the blue. A sense of our purpose from within.

Synchronicities

“Falling apart and going our own way.”

B105 was very much about cooperating and working together. In the few days just before this bottle was born it seemed that in my life some relationships particularly professional were falling apart, but, surprisingly and very refreshingly for me in what felt like a positive and freeing way.

I have come to realise that (some) other people get ahead by simply going forwards with what they want. My tendency has been to wait for permission and concensus. These last couple of days, leading up to the birth of this bottle I have been thinking it is time simply to go ahead with what I want. A very helpful thought for me in this has been:

“It is not that I am against the other (person or situation) I am simply for this (my own best interest).”

This thought is very different from that which was widespread following the birth of B102 and the attack on the Twin Towers, namely “You are either with us or with them (the terrorists).” Here a choice had to be made that did not allow for individual viewpoint. A thought that created a polarised world based on hierarchical loyalties. Notice how this new bottles colours are hidden within B102 Deep Olive / Deep Magenta.))

This new thought is a very empowering one and goes to the essence of the olive quality of stepping out into life. It takes courage and the willingness to go beyond the permission of another (blue) or the consensus of the group (orange / coral). It is striking that in the Colour Rose blue and orange appear as complementary colours top and bottom, but the Olive appears in the Colour Rose at 90 degrees to the Blue / Orange axis. In astrology this would be called the Grand Cross, it is a fundamental structure. Coincidentally I was speaking to the Australian distributor Marg Simon this morning and she said that for her olive is a horizontal leadership (not vertical) and, to me, the Olive in this Grand Cross shape in the Colour Rose would confirm that. The idea that we are all free to live our own lives with no one above us. From all this I find that Mike’s words on this Archangel being about personal empowerment resonate very strongly with my own experience.

Internationally at this time we have news of Kurds seeking the right to an independent country again. Also in Europe there is another attempt to create a larger European body and questions as to whether the people will be given the chance to vote on this. Both these items are instances of the tension between togetherness and individual sovereignty.

Meanwhile in our own home Daniel our son, now 3, has finally just got his own bedroom. He is just now moving from sleeping in our (the parents) room to having and sleeping in his own bedroom. Some nights here, some nights there. Finding his new balance between togetherness and independence.

A living example

One last thing. We have a new hero in the UK: Lewis Hamilton, a racing driver. Last night there was a TV programme about him during which one observation was made that has stayed in my memory. “He feels his ability to drive fast is a gift from God and he is going to use it.” His senior team colleague in the Mercedes McClaren team is Fernando Alonso. Alonso has been a world champion twice before. It is Hamilton’s first year at this top level of the sport. They say that this year Alonso found it a huge shock to be threatened, professionally, by his own junior colleague. But Hamilton has not held back. He has raced to win, not to come second. His action is breaking down the unspoken idea of hierarchy within the team. They say that the thing Alonso underestimated particularly was Lewis Hamilton’s sense of purpose. His purpose to be the best he can be, not against anyone else but for himself. Hamilton feels he has been given this gift and it is up to him to do everything he can to fulfil it.

This seems to me to be the key to this new energy. We all have gifts, we all have a life to live, it is up to us to honour and fulfil that. To do so is liberating. It is not against anyone else, it is for our potential.

Half way through a skiing holiday and a couple of thoughts about skiing and the Aura-Soma Equilibrium colour combinations; one from long ago and one from today.

Several years ago I was riding up a chairlift and saw beneath me a demonstration of fantastic skiing prowess. An elderly man travelling through a steep narrow pass, bumps lay across his path but he sailed through them, his back and upper body straight, his face at peace. All the while his legs beneath were riding the bumps, absorbing the ups and downs as his hips swung this way and that. It has ever since represented the goal for my skiing, effortless ease over the mountain. It has also become an example for the first Master combination B50 El Morya. Absorbing the bumps of life while remaining upright and at peace. This view in turn derives from an observation Kathi Beesley one of the first Swiss Aura-Soma teachers made about El Morya “It is only when we can accept the will of God that we can stand straight in life.” Just as this skier appeared to me, standing straight, perfectly upright, at peace, in the midst of the ride of life.

The second thought came today and in a way it follows from the previous observation. While comparing skiers today I noted that one of my companions has good technique but likes to remain in control. A second companion has less technique, less control, but attacks the slope and so travels faster. It struck me that the truly great skiers must have more than (just) perfect technique, they must hand over to the animal within them to do the skiing. A truly great skier must allow courage and instinct (not the head) to lead the way.

I am using B80 at the moment, a combination which I am coming to see as bringing spirit and matter into harmony. The number 8 represents the same and the sequence from 80 to 89 develops and explores this principle; it is a sequence which also contains a surprising amount of reds (and pinks) within it. It culminates with B89 the Red / Deep Magenta (Rescue). B89 also has the (original) Aura-Soma Tarot image showing a figure half lady and half lion upon it. This image represents the soul and the animal fully fused together – the last step of the potential of the 8 – harmony between spirit and matter.

My skiing project of this trip is to develop my skill in travelling though the snow bumps. I have found a little bumpy section I return to each day for a few practice runs. My vision is to ski according to my memory of the elderly El Morya man. The focus of my practice to reach this goal is to allow the mountain to ski me - let the bumps show me the way through my feet; let the animal in me respond to the mountain while I rest at ease. The qualities of B50 and B89 together.

Needless to say I am far, far from my vision but I am enjoying the ride!

A nice insight came to me yesterday while inroducing numbers in the Numerology class here in Moscow. As we finished sharing a pomander in class it struck me that at the start of every day of an Aura-Soma course we always make a circle (participants and teacher together) in the middle of the classroom in order to pass the pomander over each other’s backs. And i noticed that with this circle we are also creating the shape of the 0 - the zero.

The zero is the energy from which all things arise, and, at the start of the class, before any teaching has begun we honour that space from which all things will emerge. Moreover, since we always use pink pomander on the first day of all courses we are initiating that space with love. And I was then reminded that fundamental to Aura-Soma, its signature one could say, is Love and Light. So i thought “In this ritual of opening every Aura-Soma course there is contained the symbolic ritual of creating a zero field of love for light  - consciousness - to manifest.”

The final part of the thought, and the bit that I enjoyed the most, was that the first Equilibrium bottle to represent this message of Love and Light is the Clear (light) over Pink combination, and, most excitingly, the number of this bottle is B11. The energy of the number one - the beginning energy - magnified.  What better way to step out of the zero than with the energy of 1 doubled! And what better way to start an Aura-Soma course than to fill a zero with love in order for light to manifest!!

­My Japanese translator in Okayama this year, fresh to the Aura-Soma world but already a student of astrology, told me excitedly one evening that an interesting connection had just struck her. Coco Chanel was a Leo sun sign, her signature product was the perfume Chanel No. 5, and now she realised that 5 is the number of the Aura-Soma Equilibrium colour combination which signifies the Leo energy.

Her comment reminded me of another fact I had learnt years ago from my brother. Coco Chanel had been the one who had shocked the world when she disembarked from a transatlantic liner in the 1920’s. The crowd gasped, she was suntanned; brown, not white. The European ideal of sophistication was about to change. Being brown no longer meant you worked in the fields, it meant you had leisure and money to follow the sun.

And then these two items together led me to make a third connection. Coco Chanel was a Leo. Leo is the sign that is associated with the Sun. It is amazing to me that this lion - sun - woman should have been the one to lead people back out into the sunlight. Coco Chanel as a Leo sun person created a whole new cult of sun worshippers.

Vicky Wall

A word about Vicky Wall, the founder of the Aura-Soma system. She too was a Leo and, like Coco Chanel, a charismatic pioneer. Throughout her life she set precedents. Leaving home at an early age her achievements were her own. She was the first lady to be a member of the College of Surgical Chiropody. She also, remarkably, weaned herself of insulin in the managing of her diabetic condition. Remarkable in that nobody on such a high dosage of insulin had ever before managed to come off insulin entirely through diet management alone.

Her greatest achievement though, her enduring legacy, is surely the creation of the Aura-Soma Colour System. A Colour System she received in inspiration and which, since its birth in 1983, has now spread around the world. As I write today there are more than 44,000 students in more than 50 countries. Much can be found about her story and the Aura-Soma system elsewhere, the fascinating point here is the way that two Leos, Vicky Wall and Coco Chanel, each led people back into the light.

Into the Light

Coco Chanel led people into the sunlight in the 20^th century. Vicky Wall, as the founder of the Aura-Soma system, has led the way into a different kind of light for the 21^st century. It is the light of a spiritual consciousness. The Aura-Soma system awakens us to a soul awareness, a light of love and understanding, in which we may become whole and grow.

Vicky Wall and Coco Chanel, two pioneers, two ladies related to Number 5 (Vicky Wall’s most beloved colour combination was the Yellow / Red which carries the number 5 on its top), and two Leos who each invited the population at large to step into the light.

B5 Leo bottle "Sunrise, Sunset"

This item follows on from the ideas in the article entitled “The Value of Simplicity”. It explains more of my underlying view on the potential of th Aura-Soma Consultation. An understanding i reached during  a  course i taught during the occasion of a solar eclipse.

Last autumn in Japan one particular course I was presenting led me to a deeper view of the simple way in consultations. It was stimulated by the presence on this course of a lady who was having difficulty with accepting the Aura-Soma consultation. She came from a more traditional problem-solving counselling tradition; for a consultation to be effective the majority of attention had to be given to the problem. Try as I might (and I did with my second example consultation) I could not engage with the example students’ problems in a way that satisfied this particular student. This led to some soul searching for me that evening. However the following morning in feedback the striking thing was that both the students who had received consultations reported that they felt considerably different about the subject that had come up, deeply healed one could say, the first student indeed said that she felt free of this particular issue we had explored for the first time on 10 years. It was a great learning experience for me because, although challenging, it helped me to find a deeper articulation of the potential of Aura-Soma.

The Alchemy of Consciousness

By the end of the course my sense was that the healing that can come from the Aura-Soma consultation is ultimately not something that the practitioner gives the client, it is not something that occurs at the mental level between the practitioner and the client and it is not in the information that is shared per se. My conclusion at the end of this course was that the Aura-Soma consultation gives the opportunity for the gold within the person, and by that I mean a soul energy, the soul presence, to join with their personality story, the layers of consciousness that they habitually inhabit. The consultation, the selection of four bottles, is the opportunity for the client to receive an impulse from the soul level; and that this soul level, which I consider a golden energy, provides an alchemical moment. It can be likened to when water reaches a seed within the earth. The water enters the seed and something happens within the seed. A process is initiated which changes the content of the seed from a hard inert material into a growing living thing; something which opens from the inside. The waters interact with the material of the seed and life begins.

I feel it is that life process which the soul of the client, through the agency of their Aura-Soma colour selection, can trigger within the consciousness of the client during a consultation. I see the recommendations of Equilibrium, Pomander, Quintessence, Colour Essence etc. being as the water and nutrients that nourish this alchemical process, supporting the seed to grow, to become a reality in the client’s consciousness and life, and more than something that was merely talked about during a 90 minute consultation.

A different order of light

The interesting thing is that this course which stimulated this deeper view occurred during the period of a significant solar eclipse (October 2005). In my understanding a solar eclipse is an event that allows something new to be sown into world consciousness. A solar eclipse precipitates a moment of potential that is out of the normal order of things. Normally this state of potential occurs at night, in the hours of darkness. It is the time when generally speaking we sleep, we dream, the time we experience thoughts and emotions in a way that is less defined and controlled by our ego.

During a solar eclipse the moon creates a shadow of darkness that falls across the earth like a scar, gouging a space of nothingness in the biosphere. Into this nothingness (that would normally arise only when we are collectively asleep) a new seed can be sown directly into daily consciousness. That this course and new view coincided with the solar eclipse suggested to me that the opportunity offered by this world event was one of accessing a deeper state of being. Yellow ego meeting soul gold; that the Aura-Soma consultation is one way for this meeting to take place. This meeting of ego with soul results in the ego consciousness receiving an alchemical jolt, like water entering a seed; and from this meeting something new can grow in the person’s consciousness.

The role of the practitioner

As a practitioner I do not, and I believe should not, seek to stand between the person and their soul. What I can do is be an observer to the process, offering a helpful intention and a loving, open attention to the meeting. Often this meeting happens by- the-by, nearly always the consciousness of the client is focused on a story in their life, and yet still I believe the soul presence has come closer to the surface within them during this process. This is another way of saying what has been in the training from the beginning. The greater guide is within each person. Aura-Soma supports people to take responsibility for their own life. The soul has its own wisdom, it doesn’t need the knowledge of Aura-Soma. It is a simple thing, and in simplicity is great potential

A new Archangeloi has just been released by Aura-Soma Products. It is Archangeloi Chamael and it is connected to the Pink over Magenta colour combination B104. Though originally Mike Booth was given to understand there would only be 8, evolving times make for new possibilities, and the truth of the Aura-Soma system, as of life itself, is everything is always possible. Here is an idea to consider in relation to the significance and gifts of this latest Archangeloi.

Chamael is traditionally attributed to the sphere of Geburah in the Tree of Life. This sphere is on the feminine side of the Tree, the side of the Tree connected to the energy of saying “No”. The name Geburah means Strength. It is through Strength that discipline is developed. Vicky Wall for example said it was the severity of her experience with her step mother that tempered the steel of her soul. I mention this because we are currently in a time of severity. The Global Credit Crunch is a big “No” energy that is causing contraction. Geburah is under Binah in the Tree. Binah is the sphere of Saturn, and so Geburah is the agent or servant of contraction.

We can also notice that we are in the year 2008, and 08 is the bottle Yellow /Blue which is located on the path of Justice in the Tree. This makes another Chamael connection because Justice is one of the paths that flows into Geburah. The Credit Crunch is very much connected to this theme of Justice. Have we been living according to the truth? Have we been living according to our means? We have had a period of too much “Yes” and now in 2008 we are experiencing the correction of this.

Approaching Geburah from beneath is the Path of the Hanged Man – B12 Clear / Blue. When our world seems to be falling down around us then we need to find trust. Trust is what is lacking at the moment. Fear rules. If bankers would trust in each other then lending would start and expansion could begin again.

Chamael is the archangel of this sphere of Strength. The energy of the Archangeloi will support our ability to shine the light into this contracting energy. It can help us to find the positive essence within the challenge of saying “No”. Though I have used the example of the Credit Crunch which is affecting us collectively, this archangeloi will be equally helpful wherever we have to either give or receive a “No”; for example in relationships and love, when we either have to be the strong one, or stand in the face of strength.

Two examples from my current trip in Japan. The first is a lady whose partner has recently finished their long term relationship. She has been very upset. For her this archangel helps her to receive the No from her ex partner, accept and let go. The second example is a lady who chose B104 Chamael in the 3^rd position in her consultation. Her current theme is also strength, but this time the message for is to be as the agent of strength. Her story is that she takes on too much responsibility, always trying to finish everything perfectly, often making herself late for the next appointment, and having to take medicine each morning to give her the energy to get up and go. During the consultation we found she needs to learn to say “No.” “No” to what can’t be finished in time, freeing herself from the tyranny of having to complete everything. She is a part of life but not responsible for everything. By saying “No” to the outside, she is developing strength to be present, present to what is right for her and what she can truly give.

We are in a time of “No.” Archangeloi Chamael is a timely and welcome gift and support to develop our ability to stand in the face of and with the “No”.