The Great Rebranding that Created Western Patriarchy
This is the story of the Great Rebranding that created the patriarchy, and tried to turn women into second class citizens, one step up from livestock and dogs, and generally equal with horses. The events stretch from 500BC up to 1930 when Pluto was discovered. Like all serious conspiracies, their unraveling occurred because later generations believed their own advertising and pushed society out of balance, off the road and into a ditch.
At the core of this story is how and why the symbols of the twelve Signs of the Zodiac were changed. The original symbols served as a celestial blackboard for teaching generations of children about how to find food and manage resources in the proper seasons. The Signs were changed to serve the politics and religion that supported the patriarchy.
Does this matter in our modern society? More people know their astrological Sign than their blood type, and the symbols they are relating to were designed to keep women down and steal their money and power! So yes, it matters!
The other part of the story is how the Sacred Geometry connecting the celestial bodies to the seasons was broken. They built a symbolic wall that penned women into very restricted roles, while damaging the practice of Astrology for centuries by degrading its central philosophical tool.
That began to shift in 1920 when women demanded the vote. Then ten years later Pluto was discovered and a group of male Astrologers tried to break the geometry even more. Up to then men had a good run, doing whatever they wanted, like Adam in the Garden of Eden, before Eve showed up. But when the first modern computers were introduced In the 1940’s everything began changing because women were better typists. When the DaVinci Code was published people started believing that maybe there was a patriarchal conspiracy behind their troubles. Then twenty years later the Movie Barbie became a bright pink, billion dollar, anti-patriarchal manifesto, hidden, as they say in the movie, behind a giggle.
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New Book from Old Material Created for the International Feng Shui Guild Conference
Why does the Bagua most people use only have eight sides when the other systems are based on twelve? There are twelve Animal Years, twelve meridians, twelve periods of midday and midnight, which physicians analyze through the patient’s twelve pulses. That is because the Emperor only allowed the common people to use the eight part map shaped like a tortoise shell because it would keep his subjects in their place. That was the bagua that came to the west after the cultural revolution destroyed their institutes of higher learning.
Knowledge is power so we are sharing the system used in the Royal Court and by Western Geomancers. It is remarkably effective for analyzing space and making precise corrections. Since Bagua means eight parts, we call this the Euro-Bagua, or the Terra Map. This book was compiled from chapters about how to use the maps in three of our books from our certification course, so please pardon the odd formatting. We call this a Woman’s Bagua because while men often abhor complexity, women embrace it. The eight part map is dominated by masculine angles, but the angles in the twelve part map are balanced, allowing for a harmonious flow of energy between the polarities, in the same way that women more easily manage the two sides of life.
6" x 9", 164 pages, ISBN 979-8-3153733-77-8 $19.95
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