ince ancient times Man has undergone
initiation ceremonies as a prelude to entering other life stages.
The Bible mentions the 3 score years and 10 and Shakespeare too
identifies these 7 ages of man, this dividing into sets of ten
year pieces or decamons, as being the key to the pathways of life,
and of preparation to enter them
Both astrology, numerology and the sister science of palmistry
are useful tools in the assessment of all change, remember these
changes mostly begin internally then permeate to the outer arenas
but certain conditions do exist where change is initiated from
the external world to that within, so any ritualistic ceremony
helps to smooth these changes into our lives.
The 4 aspects which show particularly on the life line in the hand:
spring, summer, autumn and winter concur with the child, adolescence,
maturity and old age stages, and were believed in ancient times
to be watched over by the 4 archangels who are thus described in
Revelations 4-6:7 “and around the throne, on each side of
it are 4 living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind, the
first living creature like a lion, the second like an ox, the third
with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like a flying
eagle”. These astrological symbols show; Leo as the Lion,
Taurus as the Bull, Aquarius, the only man in the zodiac, and the
Eagle, the ancient sign for Scorpio.
Christianity recognizes 7 separate sacraments and these align with
other belief systems in showing the spiritual powers of the 7 life
divisions into Decamons. If we link the 7 planets of traditional
astrology, the 7 main chakras, and the 7 deadly sins (which correspond
with these chakras), the 7 theosophical soul levels and the 7 types
of hand shape, and the 7 ages of man, we see a connection in the
weave of belief in all systems or religions. And if we ally these
rites to those aspects of change, we gain great insight and are
able to see that the ancients inner world was more in harmony to
their outer than we are today.
Primitive man had few concerns, mainly enough food, warmth and
shelter from the weather and wild animals, today we are essentially
the same creatures yet anthropologists tell us that every hour
3000 different signals bombard us in our complex lives, combining
to give us continual crippling stress, with attendant anxiety and
depression. There is a current epidemic of panic attacks never
seen before. So the celebration of these transitions have a value
as real to us as our stone age brethren.
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 It was first noticed by Flemish anthropologist A Van Gennep and
published in his landmark book “les rites de passage” in
1909, that these ancient rites contained a connection in location
or in time and they contained 3 phases; “preliminal,
liminal and postliminal” and that they showed movements
marked by ritual transitions. He then listed a whole basket
of situations where these transitions needed accompanying rites.
The Native American rite of brave to warrior was both a test of
the physical and the spiritual qualities. This is allied in the
west to the age to vote, get a tattoo or body piercing, or leaving
the family nest.
The linkage to transition, as mentioned by Carl Jung, Chief Sitting
Bull and Hans Eysenck seems most apparent at ages 7-14-21-28. Carl
Jung noted that age 35 was a time of spiritual difficulty. Astrologers
will put the date slightly forward with a Saturn return at age
30. Marriage guidance crisis figures peak at 32 years of age.
These inner times of change and crisis, echoed in the 7 Christian
traditions of: birth, baptism, first communion, confirmation, wedding,
first child and death were actually designed to be aligned to and
activate the 7 main chakras, and are covered by their ruling planets.
Time, movement and destiny show particularly well in the 7 major
lines of the handprint. Lifeline figure (1) Fate or destiny line
(2) Heart line (3) Head line (4) Venus girdle (5) Line of Mars
(6) and Relationship lines (7). Within the ranges of these lines
the whole life map is laid out, and can be sectioned easily into
the life plan.
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