The 13th Zodiac sign

Let me introduce to you:

O P H I U C H U S

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the mystic of the Zodiac, ruling the sky from November 29 to December 18.

"Schlangenträger", the German name for it, meaning "the one who carries the snake".

The snake - written into our history, myths and books of ancient times. Snakes have always played a highly important role, no matter the religion or culture.

And just like the snake - Ophiuchus is quite mysteries.

Ophiuchus being associated with "wisdom, the god of medicine and the Builders“ shows a hero fighting with a reptile/snake.

People born under the sign of Ophiuchus are said to be born with immense spiritual gifts. They came here to be healers, possessing the depth of Scorpio and the optimism of Sagittarius. Ophiuchus comes in with a gift of turning poison into medicine (poison because it is located near the tail of Scorpio). People born during this time period are often otherwordly, shy and something special.

According to the belief of ancient Egypt, the soul needs to inhabit the energy of the 12 in order to incarnate on planet Earth. It needs to travel through every archetype and take something from it, to be allowed to being born here - being born through the sign of Cancer.

If we look to Dendera Temple, one of the oldest temples in Egypt, we get so see a lot of mysteries and hints about Astrology and Astronomy.

This image, being a recreation of the Zodiac wheel found on the ceiling in Dendera, has been one of the first discoveries hinting at the idea of there being 13 Zodiac signs.

When we look at the image more closely, we can see that all the Zodiac signs are arranged in a circular shape, apart from Cancer and Ophiuchus. Both are placed inside of the circle.

When Cancer represents the archetype through which we must enter, in oder to come here, does Ophiuchus not represent the archetype through which we leave this existence?

Well, how do we know it is not the other way around?

Because Ophiuchus is the 13th zodiac sign - and the number 13 is is the number of death of matter and the transformation into a new state of being.

Did we maybe never pay any attention to this zodiac sign, because it does not influence us here on this planet, until we pass?

But what does the snake symbolise?

Ever heard of Kundalini rising?

If we look into ancient text and imagery, we can often times find people illustrated with either a snake on their head or a halo around their head - symbolising a state of awakening. The rising of our god like, serpent, Kundalini energy.

Maybe Ophiuchus does not point to the physical death we need to go through but to the death of our ego, the death of our preception and the birth of a higher consciousness.

A consciousness that can travel out of this dimension and access higher dimensional realities.

Most of the time we think of another dimension as this place far far out into the universe, that we can enter through a portal.

But what if this portal exists in all of us, right here and now?

What if this portal just needs the perfect alignment of our inherent energy, supported by its surrounding energies, carried out through the frequency of sound, that will lift the limitations of our preception into a whole new way of perceiving?

What if another dimension is nothing else than a higher state of our own awareness?

A state in which the laws of our 3 dimensional world, do not apply anymore? A state in which we can trancend the laws of physic and influence matter around us?

Most people reading this, will either not understand what I am talking about or think I am nuts.

How can I make such wild statements about human consciousness and the laws of physics, when I have not studied any of it?

I have not studied them, but I have lived and experienced what I am talking about.

photo taken by myself of the ceiling of Dendera temple

In a group of 144 people, we traveled up the Nile, visiting Temple after temple at night.

What did we do in the temples? We sang.

We sat down, calmed our minds and started to sign together, creating a frequency you can only create when you unite with other souls.

And let me tell you, the states that I experienced through nothing else than meditation and singing, have transformed my personality forever more.

It made me aware of the limitations we place on ourselves. The limitations we all place on our minds. Our minds, that create our whole precieved reality.

Let us think back to the famous story, in which Jesus walks over water.

Something we all know is impossible due to our laws of physics.

.. But.. Is it?

What if we actually believed.. and I mean truly believed, being absolutely convinced, that the particles that we are interacting with are appearing according to what we think they will do?

And if we truly believe that we can walk on water and that we can actually change our perception of water being a liquid substance, one that in fact is solid and can carry us, then…

Think about what we could do then.

If we can influence the world around us through our perception and transform it into what we would like it to be.. what possibilities would open to us then? What does it say about meditating, manifesting, breathing, dancing or singing with each other? Think about what possibilities are out there. Think about the future you constantly create, formed through your every thought you think.

We are standing at a cross road as Humans. Every direction we look at is filled with chaos and disaster and the predictions of our future do not seem to look any better.

We either die out from Artifical intelligent Robots taking over, or from our own Earth slowly killing us one after another in multiple ways. Every now and then I also hear people speaking about a Meteorite hitting us and wiping the complete planet blank.

I personally don't think there is one single outcome for our future. I do believe the possibilities of what could unfold are shifting in every waking moment from one scenario to another. And that we, humanity as a hole, are the ones determining in what directions this whole play will go.

So let's stop predicting the worst outcome onto our future but instead let us start thinking about the best possible outcome. My flatmate recently stated that he dosent understand why there are so many movies about Dystopian futures out there but he can't think of any Utopian future that has ever been shown.

And I fully agree with him - why are we only focusing on the things that can go wrong and not onto the things that could go right?

Let's all focus on creating our own, personal version of Utopia and spread the word and the vision of this image.

If we all as a whole start believing in a positive outcome, we all will be blown away by how magically our future will unfold and how much control we always had about what is about to come.

Thank you for reading.

With love - Lola