Linea Van Horn, Astrologer at Large, is a Certified Astrologer through NCGR-PAA. She has studied astrology since 1984 and has been a professional, full-time astrologer since 1998. She is the founder and President of the thriving San Francisco Astrological Society, and served on NCGR boards both locally and nationally. She was employed at Astrology.com from 1998-2005 and as the Content Manager for The Astrologer, Inc. from 2005-2009. Linea currently devotes herself full-time to client sessions, teaching, writing, networking, and blogging in San Mateo, CA. She can be reached at or 650-315-2429.
Hi, I enjoyed this article very much. And I was struck by the words used – astrological signature for light workers. Have you an article about it yet ? If so, where might I find it? Many thanks, Jamie
thank you for your input on this Linea. i did a 2012 solstice puja at the baneshwar and sapt matrika temples a few days ago. sapt matrika mandir is dedicated to the 7 mothers or pleiadies about 3 or 4 km from the center of the universe baneshwar mandir. i live right inbetween the 2. you ought to come check it out sometime!
Dr. Mari — Thank you for your comment. While I am not personally aware of the ley line or energy axis you mention, the things you mention, such as structures that mirror the sky and intense electromagnetic energies, are exactly the features that identify sacred locations worldwide. There is a distinct connection between the North Star (center of our sky) and the Galactic Center (center of our galaxy). Orion marks the Milky Way on the opposite side — the Galactic Edge, if you will, as my friend and colleague Daniel Giamario has named it. It certainly sounds like the site you mention is designed to point to and celebrate these connections. Blessings to you and yours.
Great work Linea–on all fronts. Thank you.
are you familiar with Baneshwar, the temple in the middle of Narmada River in Maheshwar MP India? fully named Baneshwar Mahadev Mandir (Temple). if you could please inform me where it is written in the Vedic scriptures that a heavenly line – like an axis – from the North Star passes through this temple to the earth’s centre or variously according to the storyteller, it goes thru the galactic centre – the ‘Centre of the Universe’ is its commonly known name in English. there is also a strong connection to this place and the belt of Orion in my Guru tradition and a scientific energy test was ordered of this point which recorded electromagnetic energy levels off the charts – i believe 385,000 bovis units. i wonder if you might know about this or verify this axis or line?
Thanks everyone for your kind comments! I’m thrilled to have a new venue in which to share this information.
David — I first read about this alignment in 1998 in an article in Mountain Astrologer, but I can’t remember the fellow’s name right now who wrote it. Daniel Giamario and Bruce Scofield were on to it very early and piqued my interest. The alignment was getting underway at that time. It is peaking now, at maximum aperture, if you will, and then will close gradually. That’s why it’s important to act now to take advantage of the greatest opening. I’ll have suggestions for what that means in coming articles, but essentially it is this: Fear not! Release baggage and hangups. Be the best person you can be and plant really good seeds. This alignment is not directly related to the oscillation you speak of, but one of the precessional changes rarely mentioned occurs in declination (see my talk called “Declination: Why Should You Care?” at UAC!), which affects where on the horizon constellations rise and set, and how high they get in the sky. Right now, they are at their northernmost declination, or highest position possible. Gradually over the next 13000 years they will shift southward.
Joelle — there is a very mystical and ancient connection between the Pleiades and the Great Bear, although they are not near each other in the sky. The Great Bear does indeed mark the celestial north pole, around which all other stars rotate (see image in this month’s article). The Pleiades mark both the ecliptic or path of the sun/earth, as well as the Milky Way or our home galaxy. Thus they are both related to highly creative and cosmically important zones in the sky.
I have tons of information on the Milky Way and your questions have encouraged me to write that up, once I finish these pieces on the Galactic Alignment. Blessings, everyone, on this beautiful Weesak Moon. Till soon!
Linea, thank you for such a beautiful, enchanting piece of writing and for sharing this knowledge with love and enthusiasm.
I was already feeling very attunded to the great cosmic web on this Wesak Scorpio Full Moon – and especially after a liberating Beltanine ceremony – when I came across your article on the alignment and it just added to the wonder!
Its’s so exciting and you make it so with your love and your knowledge.
Linea – you are now in ‘my favourites’. Thank you!
Hi Linea,
Recent archaeological research has shown that the new and old world pyramids were all aligned to the Pleiades/Great Bear, probably because it appears stationery in the night sky and thus served as a fixed orientation point for their various astrological systems. There is a lot of lore about the individual stars of the Pleiades in those cultures that were attuned to it. Along with Venus Lucifer , some of them were regarded as portents of war.
Needless to say there’s also a lot of lore about the Milky Way. I look forward to your next post in Skywatch.
Joelle
Krittika
Linea,
Very nicely written. Leaves me thirsting for the next installment.
From your research, when did Earth’s 30 yr. transit of the GC begin?
Is this phenomena related in anyway, to the solar system’s oscilation
above & below the galactic plane? Thanking you so much in advance, for fielding these questions …if you have the time. David.
Linea,
I hope this gets to all those who need to see it!
This presentation just gets better and better.
Thank you.