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The Lunar Planner, and the Erection of the Holy Cross
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This entire web site is an educational resource for those interested in art-sciences including Astronomy, Planetary Synodic Cycles; Sidereal Astrology, Earth Resonances, Earth's Precession, Solar Cycles, Bio-Harmonics, Health, and the Evolution of Consciousness. Please Enjoy!
Planetary cycles create the evolutionary currents of growth occurring within ourselves and our lives. To know what these cycles of life are asking of us is to consciously participate in life from a place of personal empowerment and inner peace. In this awareness and attunement, we can walk the path leading to our highest fulfillment-- physically, emotionally and spiritually.
The Lunar Planner is an experiential tool teaching how to live in attunement to the natural Lunar Cycles--supplemented with sidereal astrology, mythology, star lore, and much more.
There are three parts to the Monthly Lunar Planner:
The Monthly "Lunar Calendar" and the "Lunar Planner Introduction" PDF downloads are FREE. These two documents will teach you how to live in attunement to the Lunar Cycles. (Links to these files can be found below.) A new "Lunar Calendar" is made available just before each New Moon. Use the Monthly Lunar Calendar like a daily journal while using the Lunar Planner Introduction as guide and you can quickly learn how to participate in harmony with the natural lunar spiral of growth and gain an entirely new understanding and perspective of your life experience.
The "Monthly Lunar Planner Commentary," also made available just before each New Moon, is available by subscription.
The rest of the Lunar Planner (and Holy Cross) web site including the "Lunar Planner Forum" is free and is available to everyone.
The Monthly Lunar Planner Commentary available on each New Moon (based in sidereal / star level astrology) is available for a small subscription fee--merely the price of one good Cappuccino per month.
I hope my existing visitors, as well as new visitors, find the subscription of value. After offering the monthly Lunar Planner Commentary for free for several years, I now ask for this small subscription fee to allow me the ability to continue to host and evolve what has become a rather voluminous web site.
The Lunar Planner Forum is an exciting addition to the Lunar Planner Web Site available to everyone--to subscribers and non-subscribers.
The Lunar Planner Forum is intended to be a fun and educational way for Lunar Planner visitors to learn from each other's experiences.
Discuss the Lunar Planner, Sidereal Astrology, Earth's Precessional Cycle of the Holy Cross, and all other Lunar Planner related topics--from bio-harmonics to the stars; private messaging for forum participants, and much more.
New subscribes have a seven-day trial period to explore the current Monthly Lunar Planner before committing to the 6-month subscription. You can also visit the Lunar Planner Archive (link below) to view previous issues of the Lunar Planner to get a feel for what the monthly lunar cycles are all about--a continuing story-line revealing the monthly energetics creating our evolutionary spiral of growth, articulated through sidereal star-level astrology, synodic astrology, and astronomical mythology-- the picture-language of the Greater Heavens.
TESTIMONIAL
Hi Nick,
I wanted to write you a note and let you know that you are the first subscription that I have ever signed up for on the internet since I have been using it. I have been so used to everything being free for so long in the 'wild-west' days of the web that I didn't really find anything I thought was worth paying for...
Until you !
I have been wanting to write you / speak with you for a while anyway because the level of your understanding is so profound that I wanted to connect a little more on where it is coming from. I had been aware of your work through another galactic astrologer friend of mine Norma Tarango years ago. She was sending me some of your work...and since I have found it online and I print it out and read it faithfully every month...
So this is to tell you that I think subscribing to your work is well worth it. Your level of understanding and galactic connectivity is profound and it has opened much understanding for me...so thank you !
Thank you again for your work and all that you carry ~
Nickki Lee Hill
New to this Site? See what the Lunar Planner can do for you via the "Table of Contents" below.
And of course, whether you subscribe to the Monthly Lunar Planner or not, the rest of this site is a FREE educational resource. So please feel welcome to explore.
May 5, 2008 - June 5, 2008
A few topics presented in this Month's Lunar Theme
Quote From the April 5-6 Lunar Planner:
"Our last lunar cycle was one about surrendering lesser levels of self, specifically any emotional-based attitudes that might keep us from accelerating with the dynamic energetic shifts upon us. This lunar cycle invites another required inner shift and it is a prelude leading into a principal evolutionary portal that opens in the following lunar cycle--a separating of the ways, which occurs on the solstice, with autonomous Pluto guarding the "Gate of God" in Earth's precessionally driven "Evolutionary Cycle of the Soul.""
Articles and other reference matterial are available to members and non-members.
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The Erection of the Holy Cross section has its own table of contents.
There are three parts to the Monthly Lunar Planner:
This printable document provides simple and empowering instructions on how to live in attunement to the natural lunar phases. Includes a detailed explanation of the characteristics of each lunar phase, how one lunar phase shifts to another, creating an experiential monthly rhythm of our personal growth.
The Lunar Planner Introduction is not something to just read, it is an experiential and participatory tool that can empower you to live in harmony and balance with your emotional and physical experience. To gain full benefit from the Lunar Planner, use it along with each month's lunar calendar on a daily basis: write down your experiences and feelings in each month's calendar, especially before and after each lunar phase shift. Noting and observing your experiences and feelings on a daily basis--in the context of the lunar phase characteristics as presented in this Introduction--is the key. Doing so quickly reveals how your life experience, inner feelings, and realizations already occur in tune with the lunar phases. As you observe the synchronicity between your life experience, inner feelings, and the changing lunar phases, you can then learn to consciously live attuned to the natural spiral of growth rather than just observe it, not only scheduling your activities within the lunar spiral of growth, but more importantly, embracing your life experience in its fullness, living in the present and thus gaining greater self-empowerment through the inner growth your life experience has to offer.

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The Introduction is a 7 page PDF file available to view or download (~200 kb). Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or newer is required to view a PDF file.
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The two page Lunar Calendar is posted just before each NEW MOON. The Lunar Calendar reveals the dates and times of each lunar phase shift and their changing characteristics. You can use the lunar calendar as a daily planner as well as a journal to record your experiences and feelings as the changing lunar phase occur.
Writing your experiences in the Lunar Calendar and correlating them with the changing lunar phases is the best way to learn how the lunar cycles and their changes phases work at an experiential level. Working with the Lunar Planner Introduction along with each month's lunar calendar can help you to become consciously aware of the lunar rhythm in your life and how to participate with it in empowerment. The Lunar Calendar goes hand-in-hand with the above Lunar Planner Introductory pdf file.
• The new "Journal Version" of the Lunar Calendar has all aspects removed, thus making room to use it as a journal. Writing your experiences in the Lunar Calendar and correlating them with the changing lunar phases is the best way to learn how the lunar cycle of growth works at an experiential level.
• An "Aspects Version" of the Lunar Calendar is still available to subscribers, It has the principal lunar aspects and other planetary cycles listed under each lunar phase, for those wishing to have this additional information.
The Lunar Calendar is a 2 page PDF file available to view or download (~100 kb).
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or newer (or an equivalent PDF viewer) is required to view a PDF file.
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The monthly Lunar Planner is based in star level, Sidereal Astrology and Synodic Astrology with unique and original Galactic Star Lore--the mythology (picture language) of the Greater Heavens. Each New Moon Theme articulates the cycles of growth unfolding in our lives. The theme of each lunar month weaves a story line of our evolutionary unfoldment and spiritual awakening. Each New Moon theme is posted just before each New Moon, along with the new month's Lunar Calendar.
Looking at the astrology of individual stars rather than that of mere astrological signs (whether tropical or sidereal), is like adjusting an out of focus camera lens into crystal clarity.
Although each lunar month's astrological commentary reveals the dynamics of the unfolding lunar theme and provides an embracing context to our experience, it is adjunct material. It is not necessary to read the monthly astrology to learn to live in attunement to the lunar calendar as offered in the above free Lunar Planner Introduction and by using each month's free Lunar Calendar. The monthly lunar theme is also a wonderful educational tool for the sidereal astrologer wishing to learn more about astronomy, synodic cycles, the fixed stars and their influence in astrology.
Living in attunement to the eight Lunar Phases
Sidereal Astrology and the Lunar Theme
Previous Lunar Months are found here, as well as all other articles. Links to other reference material are also found here. If you are on my e-mail list, you will receive a notification when New Moon issues, snippets, or new web pages become available.
Learn about Earth's Precession; the relationship between the tropical and sidereal zodiacs; the astrological ages, the intercession of the Holy Cross; measurement of the precessional rate, and introducing the Galactic Ayanamsa: Reckoning of the sidereal zodiak to the galactic axis of the Holy Cross. This approach is based on the sacred geometry of astrophysical spheres nesting within spheres (Earth's precessional orientation in the solar system and our solar system's current location and orientation in the galaxy), rather than merely on star locations as seen from Earth.
A retrograde period of a planet marks the time when we disengage from a planet's previous synodic cycle and engage in its next one. Learn more about these underlying cycles of growth--the musical score creating the symphony upon which we evolve. In addition to an introduction to Synodic Cycles, there are links to several articles about specific synodic cycles with the main planets as well as with the newly discover dwarf planets: Eris, Quaoar, Ixion, Orcus, etc.
Getting to know the heavens: This is a sky map of the heavens that shows the stars, constellations, and the sidereal signs. Visually learn how the stars and constellations interrelate and blend to create each sidereal sign. This is a wonderful tool for the novice or seasoned sidereal astrologer, for the astronomer, for the casual sky watcher, or simply for those wishing to know more of the Greater Heavens under which we live. The Sky Chart is also a wonderful reference for the material presented in each month's Lunar Planner.
Learn about the four primary Asteroids, the Centaurs, and the recently discovered "Dwarf Planets of the Kuiper Belt": The Friends of Pluto: Quaoar, Ixion, Varuna, Orcus and Eris, which was discovered on January 5, 2005 and is larger than Pluto.
There are two Venus Transit occurring in this millennium, also called a Venus Passage. The Venus Transit presently upon us comes in a pair, with each transit in the pair spaced eight years apart. One transit occurs on June 8, 2004 and the other on June 6, 2012. This is a rare once in a life time event. The last Venus Transit (pair) occurred 129.5 years ago in 1874 and 1882. The next pair will occur 113.5 years from this one, in 2117 and 2125.
During a Venus Transit, Venus lies directly in front of the Sun and in line with Earth, at which time Venus acts like a gravitational lens focusing the sun's rays through Venus onto Earth. Thus, the Venus Transit creates a condition where the harmonizing and beneficent resonances of Venus are highly focused (emblazoned) upon the Earth--inspiring a new level of Venusian qualities to permeate Earth and spread throughout human consciousness. This specific transit pair (2004-2012), because it coincides with the Holy Cross, strongly supports the reintegration and emergence of the Divine Feminine in our world--which desperately awaits the guidance and balance of the Goddess. Some researchers suggest the Venus transit is the basis for the Mayan Calendar.
This article explores the eight-year pentagonal cycle of Venus; how the retrogrades of Venus are created; the 243-year Venus Passage cycle; why the transits in this cycle come in pairs for a while and why they then become singular; the drift of this cycle through the zodiak; the star alignments of the 2004/2012 transits in the sidereal zodiak; the psychophysiology (mental-emotional-physical facets) of Venus in our lives; and the astrophysical resonances of Venus in light (color), sound, and brain wave frequencies.
Learn about the Venus Elongations and their correspondences with the Crescent and Balsamic Moons.
The Astronomy and the Astrology: In August 2003, Mars was closer to Earth than it has ever been in about 73,000 years. It appeared more than six times larger than normal and 85 times brighter--brighter than Jupiter. Learn about the significance and astronomy of this event, and about the future cycles of Mars.
There is an email that seems to circulate about this 2003 event, erroneously claiming it is occurring each year the email circulates; as well as a statement that Mars will appear larger than the moon - pretty silly eh?. Learn the facts here.
A reference list of books on Star Names, Star Lore, Sidereal Astrology, and associated topics.
Get Attuned: A planet does not merely resonate to one frequency, as is sometimes thought, it is a complex rotating dynamic system composed of many astrophysical parameters that together create a planet's unique "harmonic signature."
The entire composition created by all of the individual planetary harmonic signatures, as well as the cycles they create with each other, establishes the musical symphony of our solar system, the harmonic environment in which life on Earth evolves. Thus we are not separate from these harmonic resonances, our biological and neurological systems function in attunement to this astrophysical symphony. Each planetary harmonic signature thus resonates with its corresponding neurological aspect of our selves--our entire mental, emotional and physical composition--the science behind the astrology.
Each 15-minute audio meditation is meticulously designed to incorporate a planet's harmonic signature in a way that brings the listener through a profound inner journey. Get in touch with and resolve issues you may have surrounding a specific planetary quality, strength and harmonize that planetary quality within self and in your life.
The Star Catalog has 2 parts: It is a step-by-step instruction manual teaching how to create a Sidereal Astrology Chart, complete with fixed stars and deep-space objects.
The Star Catalog also lists the sidereal longitudes and latitudes of over 600 stars and deep-space objects in a unique format making it easy for the astrologer to add stars to any astrology chart .
Did you ever wonder where the planets and asteroids were in the heavens when you were born? This made to order chart of the sidereal heavens shows their actual location at the time of YOUR birth. Visually learn which stars conjoin your natal planets; and see where they reside in the constellations and sidereal signs. Learn about your Horizon Plane, Meridian, and Prime Vertical, how these great circles create your Personal (Natal Cross), and how it nests upon Earth's precessional Holy Cross--all creating your personal sacred geometry. This is your personal astronomy from which an astrology chart is derived. These great circles create your Ascendant, Descendant, Mid-heaven, Anti-Mid-heaven, Zenith, Nadir, East Point, and Vertex. Your Personalized Star Chart reveals exactly where these great circles and points lie in the heavens, and which stars and constellations they align with. This chart will provide insight into your greater self for years to come--and it prints as a beautiful high-resolution poster. You can also learn about the Great Circles and Personal Points in the Star Chart via this link.

The Holy Cross is not only a spiritual symbol, it is also the astronomical symbol for planet Earth. The cosmic significance of this symbol is that it marks the timing of a primary transition or turning in the natural evolutionary cycle of the Earth. hidden within this symbol is a map referring to a unique occurrence of a specific geometric relationship between Earth, the solar system, and our galaxy--an astrophysical event occurring NOW, within Earth's ~25,000 year, precessional cycle. The precessional movement of the Earth governs the evolutionary unfoldment of consciousness on Earth. This portal of evolutionary change, occurring now in the Cycle of the Holy Cross, propels Human Consciousness into Galactic (Unified Field) Awareness.
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Living in attunement to the Lunar Cycles cultivates a body-mind awareness where our attention shifts to the intuitive feeling side of self, where we learn to participate in harmony with the natural rhythm that governs our experiential world--in the power of the present. Cultivating our capacity to live in the present brings us the sensitivity to intimately trust in the natural tides of our experiential unfoldment.
Each lunar cycle unfolds in a natural progression, much like a seedling grows into a plant that flowers and bears fruit. The progression of each lunar cycle creates a natural spiral of growth. Knowing of this natural progression and where we reside in it on a daily basis allows us to relax and comfortably breathe in the unfoldment of our life experience--no matter what it is--in time and in tune with it. Rather than living in grief over the past and worry about the future, attempting to control and force outcomes in endless struggle, life becomes a graceful dance when we attune ourselves to this natural spiral of growth.
Using the Lunar Planner on a daily basis provides a way to participate in harmony with our own biological rhythms and with all of nature. It cultivates the capacity to embrace--in true compassion, in unconditional acceptance and understanding--the powerful transitions occurring in our lives and in the lives of those around us. We establish an inner peace that is in tune with life when we experience our lives unfolding like a musical score. Rather than fighting our daily experience, or attempting to force outcomes that are out of touch with our true path, we learn to embrace our experience in the unconditional acceptance that makes possible true inner change. We can then manifest in our outer world, and in our relations, the fullness we truly seek.
Complimenting the monthly Lunar Calendar is the Lunar Theme for each month. On each New Moon and moon aligns with specific stars in the heavens that provide unique cosmic qualities and that express throughout the lunar cycle. Observing New Moon and planetary alignments to specific stars and to the astronomical constellations of the entire heavens, beyond the bounds of the modern day astrological signs, reveals the transcendent currents and evolutionary themes that guide our experience. Astronomical (sidereal-based) Astrology is the interpretive exploration of these alignments as they are experienced and seen looking directly into the Heavens.
Mythology is the picture language of the Greater Heavens, the language of Astronomical Astrology. Mythological Star Lore articulates our human experience from within the greater perspective that we are evolving souls participating in the unfoldment of an embracing Creative Intelligence. Our daily experiences are seen in the context of this unfolding Intelligence supporting nothing less than our highest attainment and realization of Universal Love.
The tapestry of spiraling lunar themes, along with the themes of interweaving planetary alignments, eloquently reveals the greater story line that directs the evolutionary unfoldment of human consciousness and that molds our daily experience. Month by month, lunar chapter by lunar chapter, we come to see our experiences in a new light and clarity, as part of the unfoldment of a grand divine symphony.
Astronomical Sidereal Astrology and the Lunar Calendar are fundamental to the natural, experiential world. Because they are observances of thatwhich is occurring in the natural world, they serve as wonderful tools to get ourselves in tune with the very physical and grounded aspects of life--our real inner metamorphosis.
Living in experiential attunement to the unfolding lunar phases, with awareness of the monthly lunar themes that guide our lives, supports us to embrace our profound personal experiences and the global transitions occurring for all of humanity with far greater understanding and compassion. In this awareness, we find ourselves making conscious and responsible choices that help facilitate our personal transformation and spiritual awakening, and that manifest this inner awareness as true personal fulfillment in our daily lives.

The Sun changes sidereal signs around mid-month when looking from Earth as Earth orbits the Sun.
From the Sun's view (a heliocentric perspective), Earth resides in the opposite sign.
These times and those of other planetary aspects are also shown in each month's lunar calendar.
The changing phases of the Moon are the result of the interaction between the Sun, Earth and Moon. The Moon is the way, the RELATIONSHIP, between the Sun (the sphere of the Soul) and the Earth (the sphere of our incarnate personality). Living in concert with the changing phases of the Moon, (the experiential / emotional world) serves us to integrate Solar / Sol / Soul awareness into our physical lives. It turns (tunes) the key of our experiential / emotional world to open the door to the Golden Light of our Souls.
Like a musical score, this celestial unfoldment provides the currents that underlie and guide our participation in life's greater evolutionary symphony. Living in attunement to the natural astronomical cycles of life facilitates integration of the greater cosmic energies infusing into the Earth and ourselves--integration of the very Intelligence that is responsible for our spiritual awakening and that supports us to manifest our Divine Destiny.
Ascension is the embodiment of the totality of our soul essence--to infuse our higher vibrational light bodies into our incarnate forms--to incarnate fully and illuminate, and thus to live in quantum or unified galactic awareness (Soul-Source Aware). Ascension is the refinement of the vibrational mode of the body, not leaving the body. The vibrational mode of the body is tuned by the hydrogen atom, which composes the phosphodiester (light-bearing) circuitry or lattice that forms the double-stranded DNA molecule. The hydrogen atom is also the primary component of the intercellular water that makes up our bodies. The structure of this water, or lymph (which means living spring), is determined by the resonance of the hydrogen atom and its bonding angle which organizes water's molecular form.
Hydrogen is the Mother Element, the element of the Sun / Soul. The DNA is the "Urn of the Soul." Our soul intelligence, or subtle-energy light-body, expresses through the DNA. The current tuning of the DNA impedes the flow of consciousness, our soul intelligence only trickles through the DNA, not quite lighting it up. Thus, the double-stranded molecule functions in its lower-vibrational reflective mode of shadow and reflection, of bio-logic--the mentalization of life, where we use the reasoning process only comparing opposites to learn. This is why we perceive and experience a world a shadow and reflection--the world of duality. It is also why we continue to experience pain and struggle and live in disharmony, disease, degeneration, and death rather than in radiant health and unified awareness.
As the atomic mode of hydrogen is re-tuned, the DNA molecule begins to super-conduct consciousness. When this fully occurs, the DNA illuminates into one radiant spiral of light, which is the DNA's intended functional mode. We no longer experience a world of shadow and reflection but one of radiant light. We no longer function as bio-logical beings, but as unified bio-luminescent beings in galactic awareness (in God consciousness / cosmic consciousness). We realize (in epistemological awareness) rather than mentalize as we become self-realized beings of light in love.
The DNA's current dysfunctional mode, (I suggest) is not due to our own doing, having done something wrong, but is a function of the tuning of the astrophysical system in which we exist; i.e., Earth's orientation in our solar system and our solar system's orientation in our galaxy. In addition, the transition in the DNA functional modality from an unillumined to illumined mode is governed by the continually changing tuning of our evolutionary astrophysical system. See the Precessional Cycle of the Holy Cross.
As we move through this cycle, Earth's polar axis geometrically reorients in its evolutionary system--Earth's solar gravomagnetic field reorients in the unified field of galactic awareness. As this occurs, the atomic mode of hydrogen also reorients, or re-tunes (returns), to a galactic based resonance. Thus, our state of perceptual awareness is time-locked with Earth's precessional Cycle of the Holy Cross, which governs the evolutionary unfoldment of consciousness on Earth. The reorientation in our atomic modality causes a phenomenal acceleration of neurological and biological change within our selves. Facilitating this change in our atomic modality is the key to our physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing as we move through the primary evolutionary transition (opportunity) occurring NOW. Hence, the greater value of living in conscious attunement to the natural astrophysical evolutionary cycles.
Soul Infusion, and our subsequent return to unified-field awareness (Christ Consciousness), requires a proper neurological balance. Living in attunement to the solunar cycle is a primary key to help establish this balance. When achieved, a triangular corridor opens (the tuning of the key) in our neurological system (between the Pineal, Hypothalamus, and Pituitary) that allows the decent of the soul through the body.
During this process we must work to ground soul down through the mental and emotional layers (or aspects) of self and into the DNA, into our physical molecular structure. This allows the other bio-energy centres (chakras) to function at a soul-level resonance. This also allows new types of hormonal secretions from the brain's control centre (the pituitary) that support a refined biological process. The soul-level activation of the DNA awakens our latent future (galactic) coding which in turn allows our transmutation into our refined bio-luminescent form.
As we become soul aware, we become unified beings fully grounded in our bodies rather than being fragmented into apparently separate spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical aspects. In addition, we no longer experience a separation between the totality of our soul's experience (past lives) and our current lives--stretched out in time. We live from the experiential wisdom of our souls' total incarnate experience as the experiences of all of our incarnations coalesce into our embracing here and now awareness...
...a place found only within the deepest folds of our hearts.
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The stars would not be in the Heavens
if we were meant to walk in darkness.
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