In Utterance 215: 141 of the Unas Pyramid Text, it states… “There is no star-god that has no companion; have you your companion?”
In 1969, the authors of Hamlet’s Mill made a controversial but interesting argument. They argued that all myths across all cultures were purely the transmission of astronomical data. Their book was specifically about the Precession of the Equinoxes. This idea was controversial; The scientific community didn’t believe that ancient cultures could have known about the stars and their movements, least of all the great cycles, barely understood by science today.
Though they rejected the idea that myths reflected anything more, we know that astronomical and astrological were, at one time, the same. The Sumerians said to be the cradle of civilization, kept and recorded in depth astronomical information. It formed the basis of their culture. The same can be said of the Mayan culture. This appeared in their calendar, buildings, structures, and codices. Sumerian gods and their satellites or lieutenants (the planets), later were reflected in Greek and Roman culture, the names of our planets still maintaining their god names. In virtually every culture, ranging from Nordic to Egyptian, cosmos, myth, culture, and ritual existed together. These were the times of the initiates and the priesthood. These characterized times of intense human spirituality, or what Rudolf Steiner would term Luciferic.
In 1919, Rudolf Steiner presented a lecture called the Archimonic Deception. In it, he explained the entities Arhimon, Christ and Lucifer. He claimed that these three entities controlled periods of time. Lucifer, according to the text, elevated humanity to a high spiritual plane; Arhimon, conversely, to a materialistic one. Christ, however, balanced these extremes. Steiner identified three key elements of the Arhimonic deception: extreme materialism (stemming from the Galileo-Copernicus worldview), political division among economic leaders, and a Christianity diluted with half-truths. He went on to describe the age we are currently in, which is ruled by Ahriman and the expected incarnation of Ahriman. This age, he says, began in the medieval ages.
Tycho Brahe’s 1583 solar system model prevailed for a century in medival times. Then, in the late 1600s, the Copernican model gained acceptance. In the Tyhchonic model heydays, spirit and science were still one. But its duration proved brief. The model lost its status after Tycho Brahe died, and his assistant Johannes Kepler used his data to formulate support for the heliocentric model.
Astrology and astronomy as one discipline existed up until the “Copernicus revolution”. During the Copernicus revolution, the idea that the Sun revolved around the Earth was challenged. This paradigm shift was so dramatic that it led to the scientific revolution. The scientific revolution was a time of questioning the mechanics of everything. The medievalist constantly posed the question, How does it work? And to reach an objective understanding of how things worked, a process of separating the spiritual from the material commenced. What followed was the age of Enlightenment, which focused on rationalism and empiricism. The age of Enlightenment saw the divorce of astrology from astronomy and alchemy from chemistry and medicine. A magic was lost. Spirituality was gone. In fact, divinatory, alchemical or spiritual elements were ridiculed and eventually discredited.
It would not be until the early 1900s lectures of Rudolf Steiner's that anyone would dare to question the Copernicus system. In fact, Steiner likely stood alone. He saw the Copernicus model as a view from a certain standpoint, but not an absolute truth. “There are people today who do not realize the one-sidedness of the Galileo-Copernian world-conception or who, at least, do not see its illusory character or are too easygoing to examine it.” Steiner did not admonish the illusion. He felt that Illusions are needed at times for man to grow. He hearkens back to the Ptolemaic model of our system to make this point, saying that it was a needed step, but also not the truth.
Steiner says that this Copernican illusion is of utmost interest to Ahriman. It is of utmost importance that people believe that chemistry, biology and other sciences are absolute truths and not points of view. He points out that science is a superstitious empiricism and is, in fact, a great illusion and deception. Today, we might call what he terms scientific superstition as scientism. And for this reason, Steiner called for a spiritual science based on natural science.
Arhimon's second means of deception is divisiveness and stirring up emotions that split people into groups that attack one another. Here, Stiener talks about political division, and points out that it was the priest or the initiate (rulers) in the Luciferic age that led the deception, but in the Arhimonic age, it is the economist who thinks in terms of banking that generates this division.
The third means of deception in the West, according to Steiner, is through Christianity. This is because he felt that the whole of Christianity is not known; it is only a half-truth.
A separate but related movement was occurring during the medieval age. Religion was being challenged. The control of the church over matters related to our spiritual growth was solely in the powerful hands of the catholic priest. Many felt this was abused. The Roman Catholic church chose the books to form the bible during the Council of Nicea. However, these books were only read by catholic priests and were not accessible to the average person. Salvation was in the hands of the Pope and the Catholic priests; the appointed spokespeople for God. Eventually, this led to the protestant reformation, a movement that challenged Catholic teachings. As the Protestant movement took hold, Protestantism sought to put the books of the bible into the hands of the average person. It was an attempt to have a personal understanding of the text and a personal relationship with God. In Lutheranism, some books were added back, but in the Church of England, more books were lost. Missing from the bible were all gnostic texts, as well as the book of Enoch. Removed was all connection with the feminine; Mary Magdalene, Ashara and any mention of female divinity previously included in Christianity. Also removed was the deep knowledge of the cosmos, the stars and planets and their prominence in the ancient daily life of cosmology and belief.
Briefly during the 16th century, there was also a re-emergence of ancient knowledge; hermeticism and gnosticism found their way back into study and consciousness. Initially, Hermeticism emerged during the first century around the time of Jesus and was a synthesis of Jewish and Christian mysticism, Hellenistic philosophy and Egyptian occultism. Hermes was the Greek equivalent of the Egyptian Thoth. This tradition’s emphasis was on spiritual alchemy. Gnostic beliefs also emerged during that time, seemingly linked to the ancient mystery school practices of ancient Egypt, Greece and going further back, Sumeria. A key element in all of these belief systems was the concept of “As above, so below”; all of them contained a mixture of astrology/astronomy, alchemy and magic.
Hermes was thought to be a heliocentrist; the focus was on the Sun emanating from the Egyptian pantheon of Sun worship. Later, it will be argued that Copernicus and Kepler’s ideas were a misunderstanding of the ideas of Hermes and Archemedies, which saw the Sun at the centre of the seven spheres, but not at the center of the cosmos. In the case of Kepler, there was an attempt to fit the cosmos into Christianity or Christianity into the Cosmos. Astrology, alchemy and magic during this time were at the heart of science, and some would argue that the alchemy sought by the medieval alchemist was solely about turning lead into gold. Others would argue that turning lead into gold was a metaphor for the transformation of the soul, hearkening back to ancient practices. These spiritual practices died or went underground during the Copernicus revolution. In describing a switching of the meaning of Mercury and Venus, Rudolf Steiner hinted that it was done by the medievalists to protect their true meaning, hinting that something had gone underground. These spiritual aspects of Hermetic and Gnostic thought, which were focused on the spiritual, were said to be carried forward in mystery schools and secret societies such as the Masons and the Rosicrucians.
It’s not altogether clear that the age of Christ was one of balance. History does not seem to demonstrate that balance. However, we know that, for example, the gnostic Christianity of the Cathars, who were said to be balanced, may have been a demonstration of this. Having been obliterated, text and believer during the Middle Ages, it is hard to know.
Nor is it clear that the coming age will be under complete control of Arhimon, but in Steiner’s psychic vision, it is something that began in the medieval age and will grow in strength. If Steiner is correct, the deception will deepen. Steiner's predictions on Arhimon included warnings on technology, electricity and the use of vaccines. Academics in science have piped up to steer followers of Steiner to recognize only his words on the evolutionary necessity of the deception, sweeping under the carpet the actual deception. But the fact that we are waking up to the deception is an indication that its time is no longer required.
To find the truth, he says that we need to realize that current science is an illusion and that the Christian religion is also an illusion, but the path to grasp reality is through the spirit. This is through the middle where both real science and real Christianity are found.
The heliocentric model: Science or Solar cosmology?
The alchemical pursuit of turning lead into gold, transformed into a scientific process. Alchemy became chemistry, astrology became astronomy and magic, some say, became physics. Galileo Galilei and Francis Bacon founded and furthered the idea of objective and empirical scientific methods. This represented important steps in measuring what we know or think we know. However, objectivity was soon lost. Modern-day science, perhaps without being aware of it, created a cosmology of the Sun with scientists as the priestess class, much like the Catholic Priests, holding the rights to knowledge, the rights to absolute truth and access to God. “Trust the Science” has become not only the mantra but the spell of dismissal for all other ideas, paradigms and exploration of truth. It can be argued that now in the 21st century, the heliocentric solar system and the scientific revolution emanating out of it form the basis of a religion that now informs our thinking. Scientism looks at science not as the discipline that Galileo, Francis Bacon and others of their time began to formulate, but as a discipline that separates the spiritual, objectively questions and is curious. Instead, scientism has become a religion, and heliocentrism has become our cosmology. As Steiner predicted, it has fallen prey to the Ahrimanic deception. Subject to the cost motives of the economist and bankers, and pushing us further and further into materialism.
Never trust the science! Always question. Examine everything about our cosmos through math, geometry, and common sense and then take what you learn and apply it to what you now know. Never be afraid of a paradigm shift. While uncomfortable at first, and disorienting for a while, it will always lead to greater understanding and lead you closer to the Truth. If Thoth/Hermes and the gnostics were correct, and as above is as below, we must review our understanding of our universe. Does scientism lead us to true understanding? On the other hand, does Catholicism, Protestantism, or even Heremtisicm in its current form? We must connect science back to truth. Then, taking the truths that we discover through our own exploration and examination, we must connect them back to spirituality. We must reach back even further and reincorporate lost dimensions of spirituality.
Connecting to spiritual growth through our understanding of the cosmos will lead to personal power. The truth of our solar system will give us access to a powerful truth, giving us access to our deepest transformation and transcendent.
A new cosmological truth…
The days of the Chaldeans and a Ptolemaic earth-centred view of our solar system are done, and the heliocentric model is also done. Both of these times were useful in our evolution; Steiner suggests that the time of the Copernicus system was a necessary step in helping us to develop further. The Tycho Brahe, as Steiner suggests, will take us into further development.
Simon Shack in the Tychos says, “Kepler’s ‘laws’ of planetary motion, with their odd elliptical orbits and variable speeds, are simply a mathematical construct to make astronomical data compatible with the Copernican model. The same is true for Einstein’s temporally warping time-space. To further quote Simon Shack, “As I see it, Kepler’s manipulative antics are destined to go down in history as the triumph of mathematical abstraction over empirical observation.”
These are the same sentiments that Rudolf Steiner made in the early 1900s. Steiner pointed out that the Copernicus system takes us into mathematical abstractions which not only distort our solar system but also distort our spiritual connection with it. In 1908, Rudolf Steiner made a prediction. Seeing the flaws in the Copernicus model, he prophetically reveals the following information. Speaking about Tycho Brahe, he said:
If one now wants to have a significant helper for what one is to research for the future of the twentieth century, someone, so to speak, who can advise one with regard to the supersensible world, if one needs impulses that are in there, then it is the individuality of Julian Apostata-Tycho de Brahe. It is not on the physical plan today, but it is actually always there and always gives information about those things which relate, namely, to the prophetic in relation to the twentieth century. 238“ (Lit.: GA 103)
Of the Copernicus model, Rudolf Steiner said:
The Sun is in the middle and the planets revolve around it in ellipses. In the near future, however, it will be realized that the view of the world of the stars held by Copernicus is much less correct than the earlier Ptolemaic view. ( 63 ) The view of the world held by the school of Copernicus and Kepler is very convenient, but as an explanation of the macrocosm, it is not the truth.
Steiner was not only a spiritual mystic, but also a polymath who, even in the late 1800’s early 1900’s fully understood the cracks in the Copernicus model both scientifically and spiritually. In terms of geometric errors, Steiner points out that the axis of the Earth would need to move or shift for the Earth's perspective of the stars not to move if we are moving at great distances, as the Copernicus model proposes. A slow wobble of the Earth was proposed to correct this, but this wobble doesn’t change the massive discrepancy in perspective that happens if the Earth is moving at a great distance and speed around the Sun. Yet we have all agreed to this fiction. Steiner understood that this fiction would not be seen or questioned for more than 100 years!
Spiritually, Steiner saw the Copernicus model as spiritually damaging. He espoused that the model disconnected us from our universe as both material and spiritual. He claimed that the Copernicus model upset the Chaldean order1 or occult order of the planets. This order, he shared, was highly connected to a spiritual path.
“The occult order of planets follows the ancient geocentric Ptolemaic system, in which the planets Mercury and Venus are reversed in the order compared to today's representations according to the heliocentric system: Moon - Mercury - Venus - Sun - Mars - Jupiter - Saturn
The occult order of the planets forms the basis for the so-called Chaldean or Ptolemaic order of the planets, which is still used today as the basis for the order of our weekdays. Rudolf Steiner pointed out several times that the order of Mercury and Venus had been exchanged during the Copernican times, and that this had been done deliberately by medieval occultists for reasons of secrecy.” In the Heliocentric model, the order changes to Sun - Moon - Mercury - Venus - Earth - Jupiter - Saturn. In this order, Venus and Mercury are switched. The order of the planets and this switch in the order of Venus and Mercury will be examined in depth in the chapter on spiritual development, and a new model, which surprisingly takes us back to the Thema Mundi, will be proposed.
Our Binary Star Solar System
A terma is a Buddhist term for something that is hidden but comes into our awareness or is discovered when our consciousness is ready. This can be anything, but in the world of astrology, this often happens when planets come into our view. This is the case for all of the modern planets, which we cannot see with our naked eye. In the 1700’s several asteroids came into telescopic view. They were the “feminine asteroids” Pallas, Ceres, Juno and Vesta, which seemed to bring a deeper understanding of the feminine. They appeared just as women's rights started to come into our social fabric. In 1781, Uranus appeared and seemed to bring with it the Industrial Revolution. In 1930, Pluto came into view through modern telescopes, and with Pluto emerged knowledge and use of nuclear technology. For science, these were just another astronomical body, but for astrology, they were symbolic of something deeper. Another layer, a shade of grey or a deeper understanding of life and its intricacies and meaning. These bodies come into awareness as our collective consciousness evolved and as societies evolved, bringing to our lives something that seemed to be missing, but was always there, ready to bloom, and in the case of Pluto, burst into existence.2 We have now approached a time where we are not just bringing new planetary objects into our awareness, but we are also learning more about the universe, star systems and galaxies. Technology has allowed us to peer further into the universe than we ever have in our known history. We have been able to send out probes and gather new data and insight on our planets, galaxies, stars, nebulae and so on. This allows us to learn something more about ourselves. Yet many of these new understandings have not yet been applied to astrology. We have been ready to embrace and seek to understand any new planetary or orbiting body that appears through our telescope or probe, but we have been less open, or perhaps it hasn’t occurred to us to take in our learnings about other solar systems and galaxies and apply them to our own. While this may seem easy, even perhaps a no-brainer, it requires that we look backward and question.
It requires that we also look inward to all that we know to incorporate new understandings and discard anything that no longer fits. This is the case with the Tychos.
One of the most interesting discoveries is that of binary star systems. We have learned, in fact, that if not most of the star systems close to our solar system are binary stars! A binary star system is a star system where two stars orbit each other in overlapping orbits. The most famous binary star system is Sirius A and Sirius B. Surprisingly, the Dogon tribe in Africa knew of Sirius B, though it can only be seen through a telescope. Sirius A and Sirius B are companion stars. Stars that travel together as partners in overlapping orbits.
Simon Shack’s Tychos model suggests that Mars is the companion star of the Sun. Simon Shack, in his book The Tychos, The Geoaxial Binary System3, has gone back to the Tychos model and modernized it. In his updated model, Simon takes into consideration a number of things that were unknown during Tycho Brahe’s lifetime. The first is binary star systems. As in Tychos’ original model, Mars and the Sun have overlapping cycles. But with the updated knowledge of binary stars, Simon explains that Mars and the Sun are in overlapping cycles like Sirius A and Sirius B. Shack discovered that the size and distance of Sirius A and Sirius B are the exact same proportion as our Sun and Mars, making the idea that Mars and the Sun could both be Suns not that far-fetched. This relationship between the Sun and Mars as viewed from Earth is a difficult one. The Sun has always been seen as life-giving, hence the predominance of solar beliefs and solar cultures. Mars has always been viewed as a difficult energy; one of war, disease or drought and challenge. A binary star relationship with these two stars causes us to question their energies and the purpose of those energies in our lives.
In the Heliocentric model of the universe, a combination of the theories of Copernicus, Kepler and Newton, we will discover that a war on Mars was fought and lost. Spiritually, however, heliocentrism has unintentionally put Mars in control of our lives. What we try to suppress grows and takes control of our lives in an effort for us to begin to pay attention to it. They were correct about one thing, however: understanding Mars is the key.
All planets are predictable except Mars. Mars has baffled astronomers for centuries. I say centuries because ancient skywatchers seemed to know. In particular, the Mayans recorded the cycles of Mars and recognized two cycles. One long and one short. This cycle was what made astronomers and astrologers call Mars a rogue planet or the maverick planet. And though Kepler proposed his Laws of planetary motion, mainly to explain Mars’ behaviour, in the end, it could not. To this day, we view Mars and all other planets in our solar system from the Copernican-Keplerian model. And though it is used, it exists with many unanswered questions. These questions disappear and are answered when using the TYCHOS model. Not only does the Tychos explain Mars's behaviour, but the Tychos model also perfectly explains many astronomical problems that have riddled and continue to riddle astronomers to this day.
Simon’s Tychos model also gives the Sun a 365-day orbit, meaning that, in fact, the Sun is orbiting around Earth and not the other way around. Earth does not, however, stand still, and Earth is not Flat! Earth has a small orbit that takes 25,344 years. The orbits of the Sun and Mars around the Earth orbit are what is called geoaxial, and the orbit of 25,344 years is also called the Great Year. In the heliocentric model, it’s called “precession of the equinoxes”. In the Tychos, the focus moves away from the solstice and equinoxes, connecting it back to the North Star. In so doing, we are able to better understand Earth's own cycles and ages.
The Tychos also helps us to understand retrograde behaviour and their function in our spiritual growth and evolution, as well as the moons and how they help us to connect to a resonance pattern with the moon as the central driveshaft.
In this book, we will dive into the astrological and spiritual meaning of the Tychos. For a deeper dive into this astronomy of the Tychos, it is worth purchasing The Tychos, The Geoaxial Binary System 4
To understand the Copernicus deception, some history of the inception of the Copernican lie is required. This will be covered in this first section. While it is not necessary to fully understand the math and geometry of the Tychos to dive into its significance, it is required that you understand enough to grasp why the model provides a new path for spiritual development. To that end, in the second section, we will explore the significant features of the Tychos. In the third section, we will explore how the Tychos relates to a path of spiritual development, examining the path of the seven spheres. In section four, we look at the Great Tychos year and the impact of larger cycles on the development of man and the Earth. Finally, we look at the sacred geometry that the Tychos creates, returning to the importance of geometry in cosmic patterns of the planets and their impact on spiritual growth.
In embracing the Tychos Geoaxial Model, we are not returning to a Geocentric model, but instead evolving to a true model in which all planetary bodies move. This is an evolution not just astronomically, but also astrologically and spiritually.
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