Ophiuchus

Dancing through the End of Time

by Raymond Mardyks ©1997, 2009

Do you ever get the feeling that there is a missing piece to the puzzle? The Earth orbits around the Sun in a year's time. This is usually measured by twelve months in a year and the twelve signs of the zodiac. Neither of these are based on theactual stars that we see in the night sky. When we do consider the stars and the constellations, we recognize that the Sun appears to move through thirteen, not twelve constellations of stars every year. Who is the mysterious thirteenth constellation and why doesn't he have a "sign"?

This intriguing constellation is called Ophiuchus. The name simply means "Serpent Holder" in Latin. The image in the sky that represents him is of a naked man with a large serpent coiled around his lower body. This human form holds the upper and lower portions of the Serpent in his two hands. His eyes look toward the head of Serpens, the Serpent. One of Ophiuchus' feet is on the back of Scorpius, the Scorpion. It rests just above Antares, the red star in the Scorpion's heart. His other foot is precariously and dangerously close to the stinger in the Scorpion's tail. Near this foot and the stinger is the center of our Galaxy.

Ophiuchus is identified by his relationship to an archetypal being called the Serpent. This is the same Serpent that appears in the Bible's Garden of Eden story. He is also the Aztec "Quetzalcoatl" and Maya "Kukulcan". Many people influenced by Christianity tend toward negating the archetypal energies of the Serpent and associate it with evil. In contrast, the Maya, Hindu and other indigenous cultures have traditions that honor the Serpent and its energy. Especially since the 1960s, teachings about "serpent energy" have come mostly from India and Native cultures. Where would the New Age be without healing, yoga, crystals, meditation and respecting the Earth Mother?

Those of us who have journeyed on a spiritual path toward healing, wholeness or enlightenment have encountered the Serpent, possibly as healing energy or the awakening Kundalini. The stars of Ophiuchus invite us to awaken to our individual relationship to this archetypal being. Are we struggling with the Serpent? Are we in denial or fear or trying to manipulate its energy? Or are we dancing with it in a state of unconditional love and trust?

From our perspective here on the Earth, the Sun passes through the constellation of Ophiuchus every year between November 22nd and December 25th. Many of us recognize this as the "Holiday Season". The Christmas holiday celebrates the birth of Christ. "Christ" consciousness as well as "galactic" consciousness, when achieved within a human body, are astrologically represented by the constellation of Ophiuchus. Remember that there are twelve disciples with the Christ as there are twelve signs of the zodiac with Ophiuchus. What is unique about Ophiuchus is that it is the onlyconstellation in human form that resides in the direction of the center of our Milky Way Galaxy! In galactic astrology, the center of the Galaxy is analogous to the higher self or the Jungian Self, with the Sun symbolic of the center of the conscious ego.

Since the late 1930s, all the major planets have astrologically passed through Ophiuchus' area of the sky; all but one. Pluto began its journey through Ophiuchus and the Serpent around 1990. This is when the World Wide Web came into manifestation. Notice how Ophiuchus is encountering the Serpent with his two hands. Consider how a web surfer on a keyboard, a texting teenager, an electrified musician, a DJ and an energy healer all work with the connecting energy through their two hands! Pluto will complete its journey through Ophiuchus around 2012, the date many of us recognize as the end of a major Maya calendar cycle. The Maya calendar is based in galactic astrology. These are cycles involving the stars and are not limited to the planets and signs of our solar system.

Due to a 26,000-year cycle called the precession of the equinox, the March equinox appears to move from one constellation to another. Currently it is shifting from Pisces, the Fish toward the Water Bearer, Aquarius. Remember these are constellations and not the same as the signs! This astrological technique also applies to the movement of the two solstices which occur in June and December. These also indicate archetypal shifts. When an equinox or solstice "enters" a new constellation, it signals a "New Age". What may be most significant about Ophiuchus is the fact that the December solstices, since 1937, have been in his area of the sky. Ophiuchus is the archetype of the current New Age.

The equinoxes and the solstices form a cross in the sky that rotates in 26,000 years. Every 6500 years, either the equinoxes or the solstices are aligned with the equator of our Galaxy. The equator of our Galaxy is what we are looking at when we see the stars of the Milky Way on a dark, clear night. What may be one of the most influential astrological events in the history of humanity occurred 1998-2001. This galactic alignment from September 1998 through September 2001 marked the time of a new influx of galactic energy into the Earth and the beginning of a galactic initiation that will be complete in the thirteen years from then until 2012.

To get a picture of what "galactic" may mean for us as human beings, let's think about the characters in Star Trek andStar Wars. They have the capacity to travel the stars of our Galaxy. They are interacting with other galactic citizens and are a part of a galactic "federation" that includes civilizations from other star systems. The time period of Star Trek, 200-300 years in the future, is astrologically marked by the December solstice reaching an astrological alignment (conjunction) with the center of our Galaxy. This time period includes the completion of the 6000-year long Jewish calendar and Biblical chronology cycle in 2240 CE.

What is to occur within our lifetime is that humanity will begin to become a galactic race of beings, realizing and embodying the full potential of Ophiuchus. This can be understood as being a whole human being relating consciously with others. According to the sidereal zodiac, the Age of Aquarius will begin in a future time about 200-300 years from now. How can we have "harmony and understanding" when we have yet to make peace with our own "inner alien" and awaken to our extraterrestrials origins?

Working consciously with the energy of the Serpent enables us to heal and become whole. This involves integrating any shadow projections that we unconsciously externalize toward others. After healing our own tendency toward fragmentation and separation, we are invited to truly wake-up and be with the other beings who share our multidimensional world with us. What we are about to co-create with the Earth is beyond anything that we can possibly imagine at this time. You are invited to be present in each and every moment and share in the dance through the end of time.

Raymond Mardyks is an artist, musician and galactic astrologer specializing in archetypal, galactic, stellar and Maya/Venus/Pleiadian astrology. He is the author of the channeled book, Sedona Starseed: A Galactic Initiationand co-author of Maya Calendar: Voice of the Galaxy. He is presently working on translating the Book of Light aka theDresden Codex. This is the oldest known book written in the Americas and is the authentic Maya source document for the Maya calendar and 2012 "prophecies".

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