Sabbath and the Center

This Sabbath we celebrate the 5X5 of the 49 day count from freedom to revelation. This is the same place in the count of the omakim/depths whether you count from Chesed down or Kingdom up. What is significant is that this year it is on the Sabbath. The kamea of Nogah/venus show us the 49 and the 25 in the very center which is the Source. It is also the 5X5 of the sphere of meadim/mars. Notice the number in the center of the kamea of Meadim= thirteen. The mekubalim will understand the significance of this. The value of the numbers in Meadim explain that this has been a “special” place. No wonder the Pawnee called it the True morning star. Each evening it is seen “up” at zenith. Since the work of the mekubalim has been to “lower” the seat of the Source from the eighth sphere within what ancient gedolim would call the “primum mobile”(ophanim) from the realm of the fixed stars and that of the movement of these stars called precession. The seventy-two names are 72X5=360 - quinarie segments of the fixed stars that are as a grand clock mapping the slow wobble of the sacred earth. A new star is now in the twenty second quinarie as of the beginning of the kibbutz golios in 5750. The sacred teomin/twins have been moving through this segment since the circle of the Arizal and the appearance of the Sepher HaZohar; about 500 years.The rabbis knew exactly when the seat of the source could be lowered into the seven planetary spheres called heavens using the star clock of the seventytwo. This Sabbath and even now we can “see” the “up” of “up” (called “knife wing” by the Zuni) as as a sign of the “Center”. It has always been about the Sabbath.

The Bundle of life The lev

The lev/heart of Earth of Esther the queen is rotation(one of three movements of the earth and the 3 realms from the sepher yetzira) which gives day and night, the yom vlailah, and is all wrapped up in Yom echad = Sunday and the first fiftytwo words of torah. Those initiated in this lev/heart are in the “bundle of life” of the Mother Earth. The ancient Tibetans foresaw that their twenty-fifth Chief of Shambhala,(from the book "The Way of Shambhala") the name of their Yerushalyim, would bring the global peace. this one is called the Rudra chakrin, the wrathful one with the wheel. Those counting the omer will notice the “25” is in the center of the kamea of Nogah/venus and the counting chart of 49 days of omer. This is eternity of eternity - fourth of the fourth of the omakim/depths which is the direction “UP”. Rud-Ra means red ra/thunder and we can look up now all evening in the temperate latitudes and see the red one(planet mars) at Zenith - at “UP”! Very Pashat. The “25” is the 5X5 kamea of Meadim, the red one. Most people only know this chief from the kelippah of Greco-roman myths - the husk level of wrath and war. The Sepher Yetzirah tells us this chief in essence is “wealth”. This Hebrew name of the planet contains the word for red and human=adam, like the adam qadmon both male and female. The native American Pawnee saw the red one as the true morning star and the peacemaker. The Levanah/moon, the holy white one, the Grandmother, who can eclipse the sun of Chesed(but not the river), is Power/strength and boundary. The Torah tells us to use this one as boundary of cycle and time in our calendar. She now completes the “North” which aggadah tells us was left incomplete at the creation.
Zachor Shabbat! This Yom Echad-sunday

Dance of the Omakim/depths

People around the globe are counting the forty-nine from redemption to revelation. The counting of the omer, the seed. The repeated seven directions/faces of the cube of space give us the 7X7 and the kamea or grid of Nogah/Venus(above left). It is all about the center and our relationship to the Sabbath in our lives. As a theme of this blog there has been a foundational change in the world of the mekubal in this olam/world. We are awakening the center Source(ayin of 5-770=the Source) of all that is into our physical creation and hence a global soul awakening is the nature of the turns of the Mother earth now. Much debate has occurred about the sephirot and the directions and the planetary chiefs that they represent as we count the forty-nine from redemption to revelation. The traditional Tree of the omakim/depths gives Nogah/venus to Netzach and the direction “up”, While Kochab/mercury is associated with Hod and the direction “down”. People familiar with aboriginal shamanic practice and worldview will see something different here since neither of the planetary visible globes Venus or Mercury can ever be “up” or ‘down” by themselves since they are always near the globe of the sun being within the orbit of Earth. Only the outer planetary chiefs mars,Jupiter and Saturn are visible directly “up” at zenith by themselves in the night sky. These therefore were especially regarded in the ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian and Native American cultures because of this ability to appear at zenith by themselves. Since we have entered the forty year period of global awakening in 5750/1990 the visible “planetary” chiefs could be rearranged with the directional omakim/depths=sephirot to better understand where we are now in relationship to center/Sabbath. The little book called the Sepher Yetzirah is a great key for the mekubalim without any dogma or mention of any particular obligatory belief system. It is creed-less like the core Jewish teachings and experiential at it’s root. The Sepher tells us about the five continuum worldview, where the center is by Name and that we need to “lower” the Center/Source into this olam/world. Beautiful in the simplicity. For earth centered folks now we can easily see that the “Three” realms that the Sepher Yetzira tell us the world is built upon are the three special movements of the planet Mother earth - rotation=lev/heart being(soul); orbit=gilgul/wheel time; and precession wobble=Tali/sky space. Zachor Shabbat- remember the Sabbath and the Source of omak/depth(direction), this Pesach Sunday!