INDIGENOUS GRAVITY
Promoting the regenerative authority of Indigenous Star Knowledge, power and control, can become a proven supplement and cure to the harmful ideologies that hold up the structures of illness that perpetuate environmental devastation and the societal and cognitive behavioral roots of narcissistic industrial language. Indigenous knowledges share archetypes that lived with the land and still do. A war between tribes is on a much smaller scale than between countries, religions, races, and sexes. Be-cause when we localize and become present in the here and now, we reduce the worry- the warry, of the future, and instead learn from the revenge of the past, and adapt our systems of trade (language is a form of trading information & emotion). Sadly, there are too many dictators ruining the imperative of world safety, so we must learn how to conduct our evolution in the most creatively peaceful ways:
Native American Flag ~ Painting by Coyote Mcdonald in Albuquerque/Apache/Tewa/Hopi, NM
As a socially constructed “white” person/persin, my identity is commanded by a prompt of homogenized European language tactics, connected to a toxic legacy of thievery and gaslighting. Since I have mostly Euro DNA and a privileged upbringing, I cannot identify as a First Nations person of this country, and in the past, I thought I could call myself race-nonconforming -but I had to reconstruct my ideals in order to realize why it’s better to conform to the human race, and acknowledge my toxic white-privileged status among it, due to epidermal & ethnic racism, along with species-centrism. Skin color is directly targeted in a sickened-by-supremacists society, and skin color is more noticeable than gender, so one cannot “un-conform” to what color they are unless they change their skin color. Gender-Nonconforming is more unnoticeable, such as being androgynous, intersex, and transgender- because sometimes people simply cannot tell if somebody is female or male, as much as you can tell what color they are. So, to non-conform to my racial skin color is mostly impossible, unless I want to spend a bunch of money trying to change what I look like, which others have done (fake transracial, different than “mixed race”) -and I don’t feel like doing that.
I try my best not to appropriate as much as possible, although a lot of white culture is stolen from B.I.P.O.C. history and regurgitated, since the white race was invented/birthed later on in our species history (English is a young language; it’s still in a process of transformation). I seek to make my culture a reimagi-nation of what “white” is, surrendering to the truth of history, and what it “means” to be responsible for an ancestral legacy, instead of being ignorant of it. Be-cause our genetic skin tone showed up later in human history than the gene of darker melanation, too many of us assumed we hierarchically evolved, when we simply evolved in tandem with the Earth’s species. Since we perceived ourselves as a better-than evolution, simply due to skin color and higher disease exposure tolerance (thus higher white blood cell counts) we paradoxically created a mutation of auto-immune disorder by imposing a world order of racism that harms our species collective evolution.
Anthropologists have proven that blue eyes occurred before lighter skin did, and that as little as ~8,000 years ago white skin started showing up. Evolutionary adaptation is not one dimensionally linear. Cardio gets stronger when the whole body runs or dances (the heart capacity), the mind gets healthier when it comprehends a holistic diversity of information; reading, scry, social skills, emotional intelligence, healthy consumption, exercise habits etc. So to say white skinned is “more evolved” in a supremacist pathway makes no sense, because healthy evolution simply is not based on the epidermis alone; humans are so much more intricate than their skin color. Personally, I think we started developing lighter skin as a warning from the Earth and Sky, and many of us misread it:
There will be a time, where the whitest thing in the sky (the Sun), will get too wise; to bright and old, for us to live here, unless we increase our ozone intelligence, sustainable transportation & translation systems. Being the warning to our species of this celestial truth, we paradoxically increased it’s danger by centering ourselves instead of us simply being a chapter in the story of all Earth’s species. We are dealing with both natural (what we prepare for) and human-caused (what we prevent) climate changes and pole shifts:
Image from the Climate Control Journal
We were supposed to show up as a reminder of this fate; that the sacrifices to the sun, and the spaceships coded to fly away from it, show us our way through the dark; through the great mystery of the unknown. Some first peoples disagreed on the occurrence of Albinism (where whiteness descends from), as studies have cited that different tribes considered them with varying levels of acceptance and discrimination. Some were treated in a way of sacrifice and social outcast, and some were married into tribes and treated no different. Migrations to Europe occurred prior to the development of light skin, but as settlements up North expanded, the light skin gene did also, and eventually became the majority in Europe.
White supremacy is likely due to unresolved feelings of unacceptance and jealousy in regard to the perceptions of first peoples, and projected anger about being burned personally by the sun (sensitive skin), as another form of the warning. We burned our own witches first (pagan discrimination), just like the Sun burns us with it’s whiteness; part of the warning to all of humanity, reminding us we all bleed red when the oxygen hits. We needed to “know thyself,” but instead we became obsessed with our appearances of domination, instead of learning the truth about who we are to the world; the holistic systemic constructs of what we are as a species, and the balance of the 4 corners of our DNA, coinciding with the sacred 4 directions of worldly navigation.
The Sun will not stop burning, but perhaps we will engineer a way to slow its burn (sky oil/sunscreen- was that not our ozone layer)? We must develop the tools and adaptations to the inevitable, inherent Sun expansion, just as the Native Americans made sunscreen out of Aspen tree bark. We must make ethical machines to carry us into the sky societies and build another Earth on Mars and beyond (while our desire of dominance led us to make toxic machines). Some of us will stay here and die with the planet that birthed us (unless Venus was where we were first, and we somehow got to Earth after it burned, like pollen in the wind). There’s is a reason why Babylonians considered Venus the first planet astrologically, and it was not until Greco-Roman Tropical expansion that it was changed to a norm of Mars as the “first house planet.”
Chinese mythos have categorized Mars as a planet that signifies the “fall of emperors.” More specifically, some metaphysical Chinese lore associates Mars with fire, as one of the five elements in Daoism, and called it 火星 = “Fire Planet/Star,” the name it still holds today in some contexts. However, “another, more ancient Chinese name for the planet Mars, is Yinghuo 荧惑, according to Master Lü’s Spring and Autumn Annals 吕氏春秋 and the Records of the Grand Historian 史记: ying describes the dim, flickering light of a distant fire,” but the word “ying” actually has many different characters associated with it according to context. For example, 英 (yīng) translates to "flower, petal, brave, hero", or 颖 (yǐng) as "clever", or 影 (yǐng) as "image, shadow", as well as 应or 應 (yīŋg) as "should/ought," “answer,” or "response," and other forms pronounced similarly. Some consider it a gender-neutral name, despite it’s relation to “yin;” the feminine/dark part of the Ying-Yang in some forms of Asian spirituality. While “yin” also translates to “the North side of a mountain top, or “the backside” and the unconscious/subconscious as opposed to the front-facing side, and aware consciousness, and huó (活) indicates a form of the word “life” (huoli = vitality). Given the gravity of definitions, Yǐŋghuó has a greater potential to expand.
I personally prefer the diverse context that the ancient/rooted name for Mars provides in the Chinese interpretations. Of course, not all Chinese people agree on politics, but the space to argue and explore the possibilities is more creatively debatable, due to the format of their language libertas, while the actual discussion of solutions is more important than imposing conflict itself. If we only view Mars as a form of conflict energy and inflammation, then its power becomes limited to gravitationally impose only that. We must infer the opposite while also preparing for the war to reach Mars. So, the gravity gears to an inevitable inflammatory action involved (what Venus actually goes through as a planet), since someday Earth will be like that, as all life grows old, even the Sun, but we can we pushback the Sun’s expansion with ethical technologies and prevent world wide disease.
Although we need the martial warning, since our world is on the cusp of realizing that this planet will not last forever, it shows us that we need to develop habits that both increase Earth’s longevity, while preparing for it’s death at the same time, like we would a person. Despite our need to change, we get stuck in chronically inflamed patterns, while the newfound need to adapt is due to something our species and other species have all dealt with since ancient times: the experience of fear when a loved one is dying, and the will to learn why the ends near us, and the desire to know how to avoid them and expand longevity.
There are a variety of Indigenous Aboriginal Star Knowledges that can help us re-connect to a younger Earth, as gravity is tied to a plethora of cultural astrologies in general- and having to construct my sentence that way shows a main point in critical race theory: if the main, or regular astrology or culture is based on the white-constructed themes (Greek/Roman/Bible Mythos), and everything else is other or categorized as “older,” (people get old, but our ideas don’t always die), and considered different than what is supposed to be the normal or current culture we are used to -then we’re erasing the possibility & specificity of ancestral knowledges. We cannot learn from the past if we destroy what leads us into the future. If we view society as a blank slate starting from a colonized, white-dominant center, instead of one that is indigenous to the land we are on, where all 4 directions are balancing out akin to how the 4 strands of our DNA does, than we are living in a construct founded in genocide, narcissism, and lies covering up lost truths. To be-lie-ve or to have bee-leaf? That is the question we leave with.
Instead of actionable respect for the space that was already occupied, with the development of relationships over time, Europeans were convinced that killing, poisoning, and renovating what did not need to be renovated as fast as possible, was the only way for them to feel powerful and meaningful in the world. The quote “kill the Indian, save the man” also meant “kill the lifeforms, save the materials”- as if they were two different things that could live without the other! Now the whole world suffers because if you kill the life, the land dies too- if you kill Earth based cultures, Earth dies too. The connection to ways of maintaining a healthy land, having honor and mercy, was removed or minimized.
Then, the pollution of death, and the plastic of pain became the demon polarity equal to the gods of industry and profit; it all became hell, literally formed from the Hellenistic period -when Rome battled Egypt and Greece, and then sought globalization. Northern European Runes appeared after Southern Europeans sought to battle Northern Europeans, so the Hellenistic period is older than Runic language. Hellenization started to occur around 2,360 years ago in 336 BCE (Before Common Era), and Runic was developed in 1-250 CE (Common Era, a.k.a. “AD” or After the Death of christ). Runes are about 1,800 years old, but Egyptian hieroglyphs have been dated back to 3400 BCE, which is about 5,425 years old. As mentioned latter, lower amounts of melanin appeared later in human evolution as human species migrated over the Earth.
Despite some laws today, “American Indians” have been misnamed. A mistake made by the Europeans whom thought they were from Asia- when their DNA has actually been proven to be unique to this land, and even though there are traits from Asia and Africa, their ancestors did not ONLY cross the Bering Strait, as some studies have recently found proof of their history here before that theory was proven. The population of this country has gone through a series of migration cycles. Regardless of their DNA, their cultures have been here much longer and were/are more sustainable than the industrial pollutions of American colonization, both mental and environmental.
The homogenization of language, along with economy and industry, has been the main contributor to the destruction of our ozone layer, forests, and species kinship, which thus has led to chemtrails; making a faux ozone to replace the natural one, despite the poisons in their mixtures. Re-creating a natural ozone layer, like indigenous revitalization, is a safer and longer way to rebuild the planet, and to ethically develop culture for outer space terraformation. Some cities and states offer free tree-planting programs for reforestation, and others have developed giant city air filters (smog towers), but there are so many more solutions besides those that we must to integrate into normality.
The tactics of domination included language change as a major aspect- language is like land-gauge, how we gauge what to do upon the land with symbols and sounds. Similar to how the wind creates canyons, our language creates the paths of society in the physical world- the connection from the minds of thinking, to the bodies of doing, the stories, the holidays, and the structure of “employee” and “boss” are all constructs of language design meant to command influence the cognitive behavior that eventually commands the physical. The ancient or indigenous languages used more muscles of the throat, lungs, mouth and vocal cords, so they could copy animal communication, connect to wind whistles, and engage in mental states with forms of tone chanting and vocal-c0listening, as an internal focus and telepathic art, with more Earth based cognition, but we are losing this ability by using homogenized colonial languages and misinformed technological programming to voice us instead. Earth is dying naturally and because of human ignorance and narcissisms that must be reversed, like reforestation.
Words sound too much like wars, wards, and the world. Palabras (word for “words” in Spanish), is akin to parables. Chinese does not have similar phonetic patterns as the latter, although reference parables is somewhat closer: The 丹田 dāntián translates to “life force” in Chinese Tai Chi ~ Qi Gong, and the word for “word” is 单词 “dāncí.” Their sigils are connected to holistic health symbolism and energy science; English does not have the same density.
The word for brain cell is “nEuron” (ethnocentric) in English. In Chinese it is 神经元 shénjīng yuán, which is 3 sigils: divine-origin (神), warp-thread (经), in “a matrix (元).” Which is different than their word for Chinese: 中国人 zhōngguó rén, or their word for “ethnicity:” 种族 zhǒngzú, and is barely similar by one sigil: 中: flag/drum/arrow in the center of a target, and 神: divine origin- but the similarity is not as blunt as the assertion of “Euro” in the word itself.
In Arabic, the word for “neuron” happens to be خلية عصبية khaliat easabia; “kalimat” defines as “word or speech” and “easabia” translates as the “nerve system.” Their word for “Arab” is very similar to what English cites them as: عربي (arah-biun), and their word for “ethnicity” is عِرق (alquon), while “people” is الناس (alnaas). So again, the phonetic tie to the word is not ethnically self-centered or narcissistic, as we see in English’s overt self-preferencing system.
We assert our skin color in this language; right, rite, write, witness, whiteness, while, why, whilst, wired- along with fairness (fair skin, fairgrounds, fairness). We even say the language’s prefixation at the end of many of it's words: spelling/spellENG, thinking/thinkENG etc. When the prefix is also used for the words “engine and engage (ENG-age).” This language was crafted and imposed with violence; it's not an indigenous European language, as we colonized ourselves (burned our own pagan witches first) and then went on to colonize others, as English is still an evolving language (so we can change it's narc-bias over time with the initiative to change language curriculums). To engage ourselves with the indigenous practices we are rooted come from; to die-out narcissistic patterns, is a cognitive and spiritual commitment, while combining that with the latest evidence of crises intervention for safe futurism, as the best way to connect and guide our instincts to intuition for healthy generations.
The following paragraph refers to the Indigenous people of what hasn’t always been called “America,” but Aztlán. To study their ways with the intent of repair, rather than gaslighting genocide and their experiences, so we can aid in the reconciliation of a “United States” that is controlled by the people first at home to it, rather than to commonly unify to English only standards, and instead our entire species standards, as leaders learning within a world of learning leaders. Relinquish the controlling of ideas in minds/mines, that have no reason other than domination despite holistic truth- which has been America’s standard for far too long.
For the Lakota, what is known as the Aries constellation, in line with a few other stars, is also known as the Dried Willow constellation. The Lakota people have around 7 different words relating to “Willow” because it is such a sacred tree, as they use it for medicine, bows and arrows, and mix the inside powder of the bark with smoking tobacco. There is also a Lakota Animal constellation of various star lines, including the Taurus constellation. The constellation called Great Circle-Black Hills, consists of Pleiades, Rigel, Sirius, Procyon, Castor-Pollux, and Capella stars, which have Lakota names too. 8 out of the 12 stars of the Gemini constellation make their Mahto Tipila (Bear’s Lodge) constellation, or colonially, the “Devil’s Tower” (which tribes find to be a very disrespectful name), because it’s supposed to relate to a sacred place on Earth/Makȟówaŋča. Many people believe that Mahto Tipila was once a giant tree, and is now an ancient tree-stump- or is a reminder of such.
“The Wyoming State Parks Department were conducting photographic seismic readings below the tower, when they discovered an incredibly large petrified root system below the tower." It does not explicitly make the claim that the popular, mystic rock structure was a giant tree at one point; it leaves it up to readers to make the extrapolation.” (USA Today Fact Check)
For the Mayans, there are several calendars used for their tracking systems. The planet Venus was especially important for indicating lucid dreaming cycles in connection to the timing of warfare- when to merge the seemingly opposing orders. Venus is also popularly known as a planet of partnership, beauty, values, balance, aesthetic, money making or trade, and art making- and it orbits in a fractal design relating the “Golden Mean,” “Pentacle” symbol, and a rose, further explaining why it tends to represent trade, balance, beauty and love. However this gets conflated with the overproduction of aesthetic principles, rather than the healthy balance that the actual vibration geometrically formulates.
Many astrologers refer to Venus as a “money indicator,” but due to massive economic inequality, that can be a classist perspective, especially when looking to Pluto, Jupiter, and Saturn as the energies that control how Venus realm allocates. Other cultural star gravities allocate differently due to their average faith and reliance on their environment’s natural surroundings, being connected to the sky. The Mayans simultaneously use their Tzolkin Calendar (260 days- a bit more than the 24 hour Venus cycle), together with their Haab Sun Calendar (360 days- a bit less than the 24 hour Sun calendar) to track the correlation plans for a balanced society.
There are different versions of Mayan astrology that people can refer to, just as there are different versions astrology in general. Jose Argüelles was known to have taken ancient Mayan astrology and recreated it into a new model, and that information can be found at The Foundation for The Law of Time. Various Indigenous Mayans believe that Argüelles appropriated their cultural into some kind of neoliberal pyramid scheme that people buy information from. Personally, I don’t think Argüelles meant to appropriate Mayan traditions with his research specifically with the intention to make a buck, but he did reorganize them, and the people whom inherited it after his death are profiting from it- and I don’t find that justified to the actual Mayan people in full.
In my journey, I have found my sign from Argüelles Starroot calculator and its description from Astro-Dream-Advisor, to have aided my context of self- but it truly does ignore the reality of appropriation and who is making the most out of the organization. Part of the toxicity in our society is the massive amount of cognitive dissonance from being forced into certain regimes that provide an over-consumptive paralyzation of “choice,” due to the overwhelming privleges some have, that others work so hard to achieve or die for. Similar to Argüelles, there are others that have studied “traditional” Mayan astrology, such as Vajra Fatih Keçelioglu, born and raised in Turkey, but studied with some of the Mayan people, and runs the website MyMayanSign.com and YouTube channel, where descriptions are explained and monetized by Fatih.
Kenneth Johnson, from California, was initiated as a Mayan “aj q’ij ~ daykeeper” in November of 2017, and explains the Mayan signs and teachings he learned, on his website Jaguar Wisdom. Not all nations of the Mayan people would agree with such efforts, since non-Mayan people are profiting from the information they’ve learned from Mayans with their site readings and teachings (including from me since I have paid for a reading by them)- but a percentage of Fatih’s profits actually do go to real Mayan communities, as he donates to the Meso Foundation, and Kenneth Johnson has a deep connection to Mayan communities as well, since he was actually initiated as a daykeeper by them. I refuse to go to such lengths before I seek to change the way my toxic privilege affects the indigenous world view. I’d rather be a listener via indigenous wisdom, and cognize how it fits into to what my ancestry has imparted upon me over time, so I can inspire to change the design of future legacies raised in such privilege.
This site, sacredroad.org, is the Saq’be (which translates as “the road”), an Organization for Mayan and Indigenous Spiritual Studies, and has been the closest Mayan Astrology source I’ve found in English, that is visibly most connected to the actual Mayan peoples in it’s presentation, as it is an actual non-profit meant to support them- so I donated there too. Their site also categorizes me as the Knife sign (Tijax/Etz’nab). There are various other sites that would tell you your Mayan astrology sign with explanation, but a solidarity traded reading from a Mayan member, or actually studying with the Mayan people, is an even better way. However, they are forced to fight the toxicolonial lumberjacks destroying their rainforest, while murdering, raping, and trafficking their people- so learning with them is also about learning what toxic-privilege systems have put them through.
I’d use these resources out of curiosity, but only with the discernment between appropriation and reparation. To take the information for yourself without at least thanking or supporting the Mayan community in spirit or materially, is inevitably appropriation- and if you plan to use that information to help bring liberation to the actual Mayan people, then be sure to make that a part of your way of life, to be ethical in your acknowledgement. Identifying as a White Rhythmic Dog through the Argüelles version of Mayan astrology has helped me heal, probably because I allowed my subconscious to put full faith in that description of me, as a placebo effect, while I’ve also experienced the humiliation of having found their way to be more fulfilling than the legacy passed down by more recent ancestors; trying to find the balance in the spiritual emotional satisfaction and the societal rejection in revealing those emotions in certain ways.
In my personal experience, I’ve truly had memorable dreams and spiritual life events line up with the days of my personal Tzolkin calendar. All on the same day, I watched an anime called Children Who Chase Lost Voices- (which features a journey to find something like Quetzalcoatl), kicked out an abusive alcoholic roommate, and found a wandering Husky dog named Sunka (Shoon-Ka) which translates to “Dog” in Lakota (who coincidentally belonged to somebody I knew and looked up to). It wasn’t till later on that day, after all that had happened, that I found out it was my Tzolkin birthday. Another time, I had a very memorable dream that also taught me a lesson about life and death, strategy and acceptance, as two giant figures made out of light pink came out of two obelisk, pinkish-grey stones, and taught me symbolic ideas- then I looked out the window in my dream, and noticed a Deer outside. After I had woken up and checked the calendar, I saw it was the time of the Mayan Deer Trecana. That dream sadly ended as a nightmare showing me my fears- but it gave me a warning about somebody close to me; sometimes anger is a genetic chronic disease.
I was told that we are all “indigenous” to Earth, but some of us create reality away from Earth due to fear and desire to rule over the future. Studying an indigenous worldview has helped me find myself as a person, because it led me to clarify my root causes, and especially my karmic pain.
In other Mayan astro calculations, my adult day sign is the Obsidian point or Knife, which is ironically a deep black color (like the pupil of an eye), in contrast to being in the “White” direction (polarity), from my other Mayan sign- like a Yin-Yang. I’ve used the tone of “Rhythmic” to further solidify being a spoken-word artist, singer and dancer. I laugh at the spelling of “Dog” backwards and being named after a goddess at birth, and further I ponder how different the meaning of “White” is when comparing the indigenous version to the toxicolonial script: “white” representing the direction of the “North” in Mayan astrology, and in the privilege of toxicolonial society, I am also a “white persin” via toxic standards of “race.” While I support the human race, our creation of the epidermal-ethnic “races” destroyed our species kinship and has sparked the inflammation of a collective auto-immune disease.
Indigenous astrology has helped me with my mental health issues as I learn to understand notions of “truth” more completely. Indigenous cultures see mental health as a shamanic issue, aiding people with ceremonial plant medicines, enchantments and ritual instructions, as well a collective perspective of their place in community, a practice of intervention- compared to colonial society’s “give em’ a pill and some therapy” (therapist; the-rapist without space), type chronic industrial complex that does not intervene on disease root causes, and does not dive deep enough into the roots of a person’s soul on Earth. The caduceus was stolen and turned into a dollar sign ($), unless we use our actions to turn wealth into health.
Astrology can have a healing effect or a harmful effect- and I’ve experienced both. Faith is an art of mastering your own sense of power, self-consciousness, and respecting that of others, while learning from past and present experiences. Seeking to understand and heal what was once Indigenous within me is the point of learning about Indigenous astrology, and other cultural star stories, while also dedicating myself to the authority of Indigenous people, through my harm-reduction legacy work, allyship practice, and to reveal how my recent ancestors’ designs of toxicolonialism has harmed many other generations, and that it needs to be put to rest, reformed, resigned, and reunited with an indigenous world view.
The truth proves that the Indigenous plight has become a hard path because of toxicolonialism and (mostly white and male) supremacies (not the same as leadership) poisoning the land. The Earth has been dying from pollution, extinction, and disease, because of the illnesses of greed, narcissism, and the chronic dissatisfaction and ignorance those diseases breed. That is why I also find that using faith within Indigenous Economics, Language, Governance and Star Knowledge systems, will inspire actions more aligned with environmental ethics, and help us heal the pain caused by intergenerational systems of slavery, trafficking and unhealthy habits- because it helps us recognize the root-causes of issues and their pathology by resurrecting ruins, researching sustainability, and clarifying the sanity of our species relations.
