Birthing the Dream of Harmonic Convergence

by Dwayne Edward Rourke

Updated FEBRUARY 11, 2007.

 

Myth not only teaches and regulates, it heals and transforms. To enter into the mythical dimension is to enter into the time of primordial unity, a time when all things were and are in order.

Charle Ponce

On August 16, 1987, hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life, gathered at dawn at sacred sites throughout the planet in a ceremony called Harmonic Convergence. The ceremony fulfilled ancient prophecy from many world traditions as it united "sacred warriors of the heart" worldwide. Most prominent among these prophecies was that related to the return of the spirit of Feathered Serpent/ Quetzalcoatl, Mesoamerican symbol of culture created in peaceful attunement to cosmic order.

The prophetic moment of the return of this beneficent spiritual archetype to collective awareness had been determined through careful reference to the Mayan Sacred Calendar. Eventually, hundreds of thousands of people participated in its manifestation thus turning it into the largest globally synchronized sacred sites event of all time. Precisely at dawn, people everywhere gathered together in prayer, ceremony and the heart at sacred sites as diverse as Ayer's Rock, Mt.Shasta, Jericho Beach, Stonehenge, Teotihuacan, Giza, and Macchu Pichu. People came together in large groups, small groups, alone and in pairs. The visionary Dream of Harmonic Convergence in some way touched them all. It was, and still is, a Dream devoted to the peaceful transformation of culture to ensure the long-term sustainability of humanity and of the many species with which we share this rare planet.

As one who participated whole-heartedly in Harmonic Convergence and, more importantly, as one continuing to be devoted to its central intent, I offer up The Lightning Path as a practical means of advancing fulfillment of the Dream of Harmonic Convergence through divination of timely and appropriate action. Moon-cycle-step by Moon-cycle-step, the path's cyclic frame-of-reference provides concrete and immediate guidance aiding the birth of the Dream into concrete reality.

In the spirit of Feathered Serpent that rose up at Harmonic Convergence, The Lightning Path discloses a means of astrological/mythological attunement intended to facilitate the continued development of the seed of cultural transformation planted so dynamically into the collective imagination at that time. Central to this path is a sacred ritual calendar used by the Maya for thousands of years. Known as the Tzolkin (tzohl-KEEN), the calendar acts as a divinatory map of consciousness conveyed through 20 meaning-laden hieroglyphs and 13 sacred numbers. The Maya consider it to be a universal spiritual tool transmitting to humanity important cosmic messages emanating from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, what they refer to as Hunab Ku, the One Giver of Movement and Measure.

Traditional Maya to this day use the Tzolkin for the timing of spiritual activities and for the reckoning of personal destiny, much like one uses the Tarot, the Runes, or the I Ching. The Lightning Path revolutionizes this traditional use of the Tzolkin through a simple change in scale. Rather than using one hieroglyph per day for attunement, The Lightning Path utilizes one hieroglyph per Moon cycle (29.5 days). There are 13 of these Moon cycles in a complete Lunar year (29.5 days x 13 = 383.5 days).

The Lightning Path forms the basis of both a personal and a collective spiritual practice. It presents a revolutionary new way of "reading the cosmic wind" of Earth's endless journey through galactic space. It is meant to serve modern people meeting present-day challenges.

The Lightning Path astrologically assigns to every person on the planet, multiple domains of symbolism beginning with an inner "temple-of-birth" designated by the seventh Moon of the Lunar year of 13 Moons within which they were born.

On The Lightning Path twenty temples of the cosmic imagination reveal themselves as highly integrative maps of consciousness, applicable on many levels at once. Each map unites hieroglyphs and numbers into a seven-leveled pyramid of time. This pyramid of time is common to all twenty temples on The Lightning Path and is directly aligned to the universal human light body known as the chakra system, as shown shown in the following schematic diagram and in the poster image shown at left.      Core numerical structure of the pyramid temples of time of The Lightning Path

It takes twenty-one Solar years for all twenty temples of The Lightning Path to be revealed, one Moon cycle at a time. This is exactly one quarter of the eighty-four Solar years it takes for planet Uranus to orbit the Sun, hence, a natural resonance exists between the orbit of Uranus, and The Lightning Path. In fact, The Lightning Path is so named, because Uranus has long been associated with both lightning and with awakening -- what The Path is all about.

The thirteen numbers and twenty hieroglyphs of the Mayan Sacred Calendar (Tzolkin) combine to constellate two hundred and sixty codes of transformation. I have translated these codes into twenty poetic "invocations of sovereignty," in order to make them meaningful on a personal level. They assist us in aligning consciously and prayerfully with the ongoing serpent wave of transformation that is The Lightning Path.

Commencing with the New Moon on January 10, 2005, a new lunar year began. Because this year of thirteen Moons had, at the crowning seventh position, the hieroglyph IMIX (ee meesh'), significator of the Primordial Mother, the temple so revealed is called The Temple of Birth. Included here, and on the poster, is the invocation assigned to collective passage through that temple, January 10, 2005 to January 29, 2006:

I believe in myself. I am a pillar of cosmic consciousness. I am an Earth Healer, pulsing with the planetary whole. Walking the path of the spiritual warrior, I transform myself into ever more complete a vessel For life's mastery. I channel the nurturance and support of the primordial Mother. The breath of my spirit Drifts endlessly through Dreamtime, Carrying potent seeds to fertile ground. Intimacy is my ally. Death is my ally. I fulfill the Great Work.

One example of actualization of this invocation is seen in my promotion of an ongoing series of Equinox Ceremonies titled Axis of Equal during the third Moon cycle of this Lunar Year: I am an Earth Healer, pulsing with the planetary whole. Click here or on the image at left to find out more.

Another way in which I am bringing the invocation of sovereignty for the current lunar year to life is through a collaborative painting project with Teresa Wild. We envision our project to be broadly co-creative and invite you to join us in it. Click here for more information.

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If those of us who tread The Lightning Path are sincere in our intent to transform ourselves, and if we are successful in integrating deep into our psyches, its wild, Promethean spirit, we will have taken a major step toward birthing the Dream of Harmonic Convergence. Simultaneously, we will have liberated ourselves from the iron grip of materialism and militarism so firmly in control of so much of humanity's imagination at this time. We will have become a world-wide force for peaceful, Uranian revolution -- true warriors of the heart completing our part in the Great Work of transformation of human consciousness now so clearly before us all.

Collective entry into THE TEMPLE OF THE HEART begAns with the New Moon of January 29, 2006. With hieroglyph IX , significator of the passionate heart of the jaguar, at the commanding seventh position of this temple, all of us treading The Lightning Path were summoned to respond to life from the deepest recesses of our souls. The following poster served to assist us all in that quest and the invocation of sovereignty presented there was an invocation useful to each of us as we struggled to find our way home to the universal core of our common humanity.

The first line of the invocation accorded with the first Moon of the lunar year and each line thereafter had its own corresponding Moon, the New and Full Moon dates for which were included on the poster.

With the New Moon on February 17, 2007 an entirely new Lunar Year begins as we enter THE TEMPLE OF FINGERS AND TOES. This constitutes entry into a whole new "season" on The Lightning Path. As in the year now coming to a close, may the following invocation serve us all in finding our way home to our common humanity. Ho !

Dwayne Edward Rourke

Cumberland, BC, Canada

Lightning Path Moon Cycle 13 AHAU (Temple of Birth)

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