The Chandra Symbols
Art by Olga Zelinskaya, Moon - knowing the truth.
One sunny late March day in 1983 in Kansas City, an astrologer called John Sandback was sitting in his parked car. In the space of four hours that afternoon he channelled 360 distinct images, each one symbolic of a particular degree of the zodiac. Evocative symbols that held keys and clues hinting at deeper celestial information.
John received the symbols mentally, one at a time, each faithfully scribed on a different piece of paper noting the sign and degree. The next day he put them in astrological order and the Chandra symbols were born, named for the spirit guide he worked with. Chandra, the Sanskrit word for moon.
On each full moon, sometimes before and often after, I like to muse upon its mystical Chandra codex. This other mother tongue as its light language was channelled. Let it blend with the blaze of moonlight creeping under my skin, its alchemy revealing another layer.
Today's full moon is at the 28th degree of Virgo and this is what it whispers. How it wonders. Why it presses and lingers long overhead.
"Autumn leaves pressed into a book.
The mind is a funny thing. It only sees what it expects to see. The mind programs itself, indoctrinates itself thoroughly and intensively in the fine art of imposing the familiar and the assumed upon all of life. This is a maddening way to operate, yet it does not register. Instead, you like it this way, prefer it, advocate it, simply because it is self-reinforcing and self-perpetuating. You are after elaborate confirmations and validations that the little self is perfectly fine just as it is. And you will be sure to get these. The transaction is guaranteed.
But there is an unknown self who cannot breathe in this atmosphere, who knocks at the door seeking entry and is not very pleased to be tuned out and pushed away and told that we are fine as we are and do not need to be stirred up by the voice of the rest of existence.”
~ Inside Degrees Elias Lonsdale
Words c. Kerrie Basha 2022