Cancer/ Capricorn Eclipse theme

Prior to departing on my journey to Israel to follow the footsteps of Mary Magdalen's escape route from the biblical Holy Land I realized I had many astrological transits affecting me on the journey, shown clearly on my birth chart.   I wondered how these energies would play out.   I understood I would have the opportunity to learn spiritual lessons relating to my subconscious limiting motivations.  I also knew that I would have the opportunity to expand and grow beyond them.   What form would they take?

My supportive companion and driver of our Avis rent-a-car, Karen, travelled with me.  Having experienced for five days the peace, calm, beauty and tranquility of the country area of Sharona near the Sea of Galilee and being guided by and relaxing into Flow, we decided to head for Jerusalem.  We wanted to spend time here to experience the old city and to arrange our exit from Israel. I was the navigator.  I used an outdated map. Unwise!

We followed main route 60, and drove through beautiful fertile countryside straight into Palestinian territory, complete with huge steel barricaded open gates, beyond which was a steel and barbwire fence and control check point.   Karen instantly did a U turn to retrace our steps.  We found out later it was dangerous territory and we wouldn't have been allowed to enter anyway!

Our peace was disturbed!   I felt a slight tinge of fear in my stomach as we approached the high steel fence and an old pattern relating to 'fear of the consequences of making a mistake' momentary arose.  I was the navigator and responsible for the route! This was the remnant of an old fear/ control pattern arising and I could see it in all its glory!  I allowed Miss Capricorn control to temporarily take me over!

We found a major brand new highway on our updated Avis map that also had clearly marked the areas to avoid! "We must find a reputable travel agent when we get to Jerusalem" I said to Karen.  "We must organize (control) our exit!"

I was carrying this Capricornian energetic package when we arrived in Jerusalem.  Karen drives into cities by intuition and she stopped in beautiful King David Street in a select area of Jerusalem.  She easily found a park and then we found a hotel in which to spend the night. However I then started the control process again.  I wasn't allowing flow to guide!   No luck! Blockages every which way!  Resistance to flow attracts resistance!

Many Israelies advised us that we couldn't get into Egypt from Tel Aviv and that it was unwise to attempt the alternate route, that of driving into the Sinai desert from Eilat, a tourist city at the bottom end of Israel.  We were feeling we would have to by-pass Egypt or go to Rome first before entering Egypt.  Karen was observing quietly my fear based control process!     

The next morning I had a 'wake-up' dream.  My inner dream teacher always shows me where I am 'at' in my consciousness via my dreams.  I take note of them and do my best to decipher, and act upon, the messages.   They are usually symbolic and given to me in graphic and amusing detail, once I decode it!     This one indicated I was no longer stopping to 'smell the roses' and that I was lying to myself.  I needed to let go of the control 'lies' contained within an old belief system and allow Source/Flow to guide me instead.

I could see my psychological game so clearly now!   We leisurely ate breakfast and then enjoyed our walk into another area of the new city of Jerusalem.   And there, upstairs, was American Express travel Agency!   No hassle, no control! It appeared because we allowed ourselves to be guided by energetic flow.    We walked upstairs and met Tali who organises the visits to Israel and the Middle East for the Australian Army, Consulate and UN.   She knows Queensland well, and in particular Canungra, near where I live, and wants to buy a home on Mt. Tamborine!   A perfect Angel manifested when I gave up ego/personality control!

Within a few hours we had our trip to Egypt all arranged, from Tel Aviv airport direct into Cairo, eight nights in Egypt, four of which on a boat cruising down the Nile, stopping to visit temples on the way.    Two of the nights will be spent at the Isis hotel in Luxor, the area where the important temples we want to visit are situated, including and especially the Temple of Isis. Tali chose the hotel for us, saying it was the best value in Luxor and a hotel she personally liked.  We had no say in it!   

Mary Magdalen was possibly born of an Egyptian mother and was trained as a Priestess of Isis.  This means she was trained as a member of an esoteric order that was connected to the Essenes and the ancient Sirian mysteries that form part of the ancient Egyptian spiritual wisdom teachings. Isis was regarded as the Mother Goddess, the giver of life. Sirius is a stellar system situated around 13 degrees of Cancer, and is conjunct my Sun/Mercury.  I know it well!   I believe Mary returned to these ancient Egyptian temples en route to her departure and exile, hence our reason for visiting them.The Priestesses of Iris probably protected her.

So far we have visited the area around the Sea of Galilee where Yeshua (Jesus) taught and where he spent time alone with Mary Magdalen.   We then visited the Qumran caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.  These scrolls took over fifty years to be pieced together and translated.   Qumran is the place where I feel Mary Magdalen travelled to and sought refuge from the turmoils of Jerusalem.  She was given refuge by the Essenes, a break-away spiritual sect of Gnostics (a peace loving people who believed in direct inner knowing and living according to Natural Law) who lived in the area for possibly over 100 years but who were invaded by the Roman army around 69AD, some 36 years after the crucifixion.   

I had a vision the morning of our departure for Qumran that showed very clearly that Mary did go to the Essene community at Qumran and was provided with a camel to ride on her long journey into exile.  She needed this vehicle because she was either heavy with child or had a small infant to carry.

The scribes from that time stored their teachings in sealed clay jars in the high caves of Qumran whereby they were discovered nearly 2000 years later, in 1947, by a Bedouin shepherd.

We also visited a private beach on the Dead Sea and dangled our feet in the slimy, silky highly mineralised and therapeutic water. Kalia beach, associated with the Kalia kibbutz where we stayed for two nights, is situated very close to Qumran and, we found out later, in Palestinian territory.  It was very relaxing even though there were armed guards always present at the entrance/exit.

 It was interesting to see the hills of Jordan across the other side of the Dead Sea and to spend time at the lowest beach on planet Earth - 417 metres below sea level. We visited the old walled city in Jerusalem, saw where the crucifixion and resurrection took place then drove to Tel Aviv and prepared for our departure from Israel.

To be continued...