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 HAUMEA Early in the 21st Century a new group of Dwarf Planets were discovered that have meanings we will need to understand before 2012. Haumea is one of them. Haumea is the Hawaiian goddess of Mother Nature. She gives fertility, wild food, growth and fire to the islands of Hawaii. This beautiful painting is by Isa Maria. www.isamaria.com Haumea the Dwarf Planet and the Dispute in Which Two Men Claimed Her. The circumstances surrounding a planet`s discovery tell us a lot about the meaning of that planet in astrology and the meaning of the planet Haumea was beautifully obvious right from the beginning of her emergence into the collective consciousness of the 21st century. She announced herself with the brightest of light and a discovery story involving 2 groups of men (astronomers) both claiming her as their own and therefore revealing some of her meaning. Haumea cannot be `owned` by man, even though she may be controlled or `netted` for a while. Haumea the planet was discovered by the astronomer Mike Brown around Christmas of 2004. He gave her the nickname Santa and started making the detailed observations necessary. He should really have announced her to the world in July 2005, but he had to take paternity leave instead. Haumea was also discovered in July 2005 by a team of Spanish astronomers headed by Jose-Luis Ortiz. They were examining data collected in 2003 when they had their Eureka moment, but unlike the Mike Brown team, they made a few quick enquiries and then went for immediate registration with the official committee. This meant the discovery was technically theirs. Unfortunately the `quick enquires` had meant they accessed the publicly available web logs of the Mike Brown team, so he accused them of stealing his data with no previous awareness of Haumea; an accusation the Ortiz team denies. Because the official naming department couldn`t sort this out they decided eventually to say that Haumea had been discovered in Spain but they did not give anyone`s name as official discoverer. So no one man could claim her as his own and this fact is very important to understanding her meaning. Both the American and the Spanish team had put forward names but unfortunately the Spanish choice had to be discounted because they had chosen a Spanish underworld goddess, and underworld names could only be linked to a different part of the solar system. The naming department must have been relieved that this meant they could go with the American name; the guy in charge of this committee said the controversy was the worst in 400 years.(1) This same chap also expressed amazement that Haumea hadn`t been found before(2) and this is where I say it was always going to happen like this. Behold the mystery of astrology! Haumea was so bright she could be seen with even a junior telescope. Why is it that all those astronomers in all those centuries didn`t spot her and then two spot her at the same time? Isn`t it funny how planets just can`t be seen until the time is right and then they coincidently emerge to tell us something about coming change on planet Earth. Haumea picked the circumstances and the year of her discovery, Mike Brown and Jose-Luiz Ortiz were simply pawns in her game. Why the Name Haumea Was Chosen. Haumea has two moons that were discovered in 2005 using a big telescope on Hawaii and it was during this time that the name was chosen by a chap on the American team.(3) The planet was known to be made of solid rock and the Hawaiian goddess of that name has close associations with stone. It was also recognised that the planet had been hit by something big that had knocked lumps of rocky ice from her body. These surround her orbit and two of them are even big enough to be moons. In Hawaiian myth Haumea is the mother of many other deities that are formed from pieces of her body. Haumea is also the Hawaiian goddess of childbirth and Mike Brown was prevented from announcing Haumea`s discovery because his wife went into labour and gave birth to their daughter. These things by themselves make the choice of name appropriate, but there was significantly and coincidently much more to come! President Obama and a Hawaiian Planet. When the suggestion was put forward for the name Haumea, no one could have dreamed that 2 years later, just as the name was finally being announced, a young mixed race senator would run for the office of President of the United States of America and win. President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. Astrology needed to symbolise the changes that happen when the world`s most important superpower changes it`s leader, so sure enough the strange hand of fate worked it`s magic. Synchronous with the arrival of a Hawaiian president was the arrival of a Hawaiian planet! There are 8 Main Islands of Hawaii, and the Planet Has Been Smashed Into 8. Haumea is the strangest object found to date in the solar system. She is shaped like a cigar and actually spins end over end, completing a full circuit in just 4 hours. Another strange feature is a red spot on her icy surface.(4) The discovery team reported that planet Haumea must have been in a catastrophic collision at some point.(4a) They had found 5 small parts of the planet plus 2 moons all in her orbit and these bits were remarkable because they are so shiny. Even more remarkable is the co-incidence that this means there are 8 pieces of Haumea the planet. There are also 8 main islands of Hawaii, the American state. HAUMEA THE GODDESS OF HAWAIIAN MYTH Haumea has several different guises, all to do with creating or giving birth. In one she is a human, confusingly called `Papa` and married to a guy called Wakea. She is thought to be the first woman on Hawaii and therefore original mother and ancestor to the royal family who always inter-bred to maintain their pure bloodline. According to Beckworth, she is also the feminine principle or goddess who creates the islands of Hawaii. The 8 islands are all volcanoes along a fault line, some of which still erupt. When they do the lava spews out, which then cools and adds to the landmass. The fire within the volcano is Haumea in her Fire goddess form called Pele. The old Hawaiians have watched the process of land being formed from volcanoes and it has provided them with a wonderful metaphor or model for understanding how the Earth was created. They equate the fire with Spirit, which is exactly right in spiritual terms. So then they see that Earth is formed out of Fire. The old Islanders said that the Islands rose up as the body of Spirit. They were the material form of spiritual force……. and this means that land has an animate nature.(5) Hawaiian Creation Chant The Hawaiians did not write to record their history, it was told in chants which were learnt more seriously than the western world learns it`s nursery rhymes. They had an important one called the Creation chant, which has many different versions on the 8 main islands. One striking feature is how well they all describe evolution from slime and tiny sea creatures through to larger marine life and mammals. A translation by the last Hawaiian Queen in 1897 says, “Curious students will notice in this chant analogies between its accounts of the creation and that given by modern science or sacred scripture.”(6) She also made the point that “The ancient Hawaiians were astronomers, and the terms used appertained to the heavens, the stars, terrestrial science, and the gods.” The chant is very long but basically says that the primordial soup was readied and then came `time` which supported the Earth and held the Heavens. There is much reference to Yin (feminine) and Yang (masculine) producing all manner of things living and the god/dessess or spirit which pre-exist mankind and are bought into being in their earthly guises - such as surf, octopuses, strife, boils and deep holes. The Hawaiians believe that sacred spirit or deity exists in all things. Haumea is called different names from Lailai to Papa showing that she can take on many different guises, morphing from old woman to young girl and becoming her own daughter or granddaughter. We are told that as Haumea she is great and fearless and has 8 different forms ranging from a shark to a goddess or spirit and a human woman. (There`s number 8 again!) Haumea gave birth to children from her brain amidst slime and they would become chiefs, islands or human babies. So to put it in a nutshell she is Mother Nature and yin energy personified into anything. There are long lists of things that are yin or feminine in nature, or yang and masculine, and these are almost the same as the notes that I use to teach these concepts in astrology! Her fabled husband Wakea, became `false` to her and out of jealousy tried to re-order the natural rhythms she had established; moving the Moon`s days around and using taboo to stop her crossing her threshold.(7) I see this as symbolizing how man and science tries to control nature. The Importance of a Star Cluster Called the Pleiades The group of stars called the Pleiades were important to the Hawaiians who celebrated their appearance in May and November.(8) The Hawaiian name for `new year`, Makahiki, was the same as that for `year`, which came from the name for the Pleiades. Haumea as Goddess of Fertility in Wild Plants and Forest In one particular Island myth we are told that Haumea`s priestesses were privileged to be given a supply of wild food when famine befell the rest of the land. The implication here is that if we are sufficiently knowledgeable about the food that nature naturally supplies then we will be able to eat when mass produced agriculture fails. In one myth a net thrown over her kills Haumea and this same net is used during a Makahiki festival, which shakes food over the land to encourage good crops. The meaning being that wild food and plants are killed to grow farmed foods. The guy who throws the net over Haumea is called Kaulu, whose name means `growth in plants`. Myth says that he withdraws crops from the land and for some reason this forces Haumea to produce wild food because the soil will not just remain barren, one of god/desses has to provide. Apparently Haumea had wanted to vent her anger by withholding her wild food but it HAS to be provided when cultivated crops are not available at certain time of the year. This shows that although Haumea is destroyer and guardian of wild growth she can be killed by being `netted` or controlled and will have to succumb to some conditions.(9) However Haumea`s myths aren`t always about wild food. In some she was possessed a magic stick called Makalei that could attract seafood and was associated with a tree of never-failing food supply.(10) Haumea as Goddess of Childbirth and Fire The Hawaiians were told through myth that Haumea could secure a painless childbirth. She was also talked of in the Hawaiian Book of Medicine as being able to prevent a Caesarean birth. She would use chants incantations and herbal medicine to procure a natural birth. Haumea herself was continually growing old and then being re-born and this could describe the process whereby the volcanic islands of the Pacific are born, sink into the sea and then new ones well up again. As the volcanoes gave birth so easily, so could Haumea make this happen for humans. Haumea was the whole world to them in one form or another and in fact all the myths describe Haumea as being and doing everything that their island home does. One or two myths call her the goddess of underground heat. This alludes to the red heat inside the Earth that spills from the volcanoes and the contents of the uterus. It is said in one myth that the fire goddess Pele was born from between Haumea`s thighs. Others in the Pele family were born from parts of Haumea`s body. Pele was the goddess who lived in volcanoes and sent floods of lava to burn everything; she was said to influence those whose lives were filled with burning anger against their fellow men. Pele was in constant combat with one of her sisters, the ocean. Another sister was called Hi‘iaka and born in the shape of an egg that was cherished as Pele's favorite. The Layers of the Multiverse Compared to Hawaiian Culture The Hawaiian culture and history is deeply suggestive of hierarchy and `layers` of significance. Their verbal mythology, handed from Clan Chief to Clan Chief in the form of sacred chants, contains long lists of who-begat-who with emphasis on sacred incestuous lineage. They had a heavily demarcated class system of servant families, commoners, upper class and royalty. They had a sacred Creation Chant that talked of clearly defined `Eras` and their spiritual understanding of the other realms included dimensions of sky gods, earthly spirits and mischief makers, household gods, the home of the spirits of the ancestors and finally the underworld. Haumea herself had several rebirths, reappearing as her own daughter and then granddaughter; each time marrying her son-in-law and grand-son-in-law. WHAT HAS HAUMEA COME TO TELL US OF IN THE 21st CENTURY? Hawaiian Spiritual Concept Has Now Been Proven Scientifically. Science has now proven that the particles in an atom don`t have solid bits, they are made up of some kind of energetic force that whizzes so fast it seems solid; like the spokes of a bicycle seem solid when they turn fast. This force pervades and exists in all things giving them dynamic life or energy. It is mysterious and they call it `dark`. In spiritual understanding this energetic force is that of the element of Fire. This element holds spirit, deity, gnosis and what we understand to be god/desses or the Holy Spirit. The Hawaiian`s have always expressed this belief through their mythology but also through the way they lived their lives. They had abject, absolute, unquestioning conviction and faith in this as the meaning of life. In the same way that their volcanic islands arose out of the sea and fire at the centre of the Earth, the material body was formed out of `spirit` or energy. This has to be why Haumea has emerged into world consciousness. She is an astrological symbol that points out that science is identifying a fundamental of our existence here on Earth, when the spiritual beliefs of the Polynesians knew it all along! “Behind the (Papa and Wakea legend) is the Polynesian mythical conception of a dark formless spirit world presided over by the female element, and a world of form born out of the spirit world and to which it again returns, made visible and active in this human life through light as the impregnating male element.”(11) That single sentence is actually breathtaking in it`s absolute accuracy of the New World scientific and spiritual vision of 2008. However, it was written in 1940! Haumea Cycles, Rhythms and the Moon The ancient Hawaiian indigenous people hallowed the Moon and the lunar cycle was of paramount importance for planting and harvesting. Every day of the cycle had a different meaning with associated instructions and this was ruled over by the aristocracy and the sacred laws of taboo. Each Hawaiian knew exactly where the Moon was on that day and just what that meant. According to Clive Ruggles, the importance placed on the position of the Moon and agriculture is still practised today. The weight of the Moon and it`s gravity are so strong that as it passes over the surface of the Earth all the water in the oceans is pulled towards it in big hump. Even the Earth`s crust and core is pulled out of alignment by 5% as the Moon swings by on her 29 day journey around it. This cycle and rhythm is fundamental to our existence and spiritual well-being and yet we have all tuned it out and tuned in to street lamps, microwaves and mobile phone masts. I predict the old Hawaiian ways are going to be important in the coming century. Haumea as Nature and Sacred Earth It is difficult for us in western culture to even begin to understand the Hawaiian spiritual concept. And yet it more accurately reflects the true composition and nature of life on Earth and in the Cosmos than our monotheist (one god) separatist culture does. An Hawaiian cultural historian says this: “Hawaiian culture evolved in close partnership with it`s natural environment. Thus Hawaiian culture does not have a clear dividing line of where culture ends and nature begins. In a traditional Hawaiian context, nature and culture are one and the same, there is no division between the two.”(12) They had such a healthy relationship with their land and nature they themselves were healthy and so was their land. In the West we are either poisoning our land, or piling concrete on it. We intensively rear poor chickens so that thousands are crammed into appalling conditions with no space or light. They are so weak they cannot even stand up and they have no feathers from stress and standing in their own excreta. Supermarkets proudly sell their bodies for £2. We don`t understand that what we do to chickens and our land affects our spiritual well being. That we should ensure physical well-being for the landscape, it`s inhabitants and it`s consumers. We do not have balance and compatibility with nature. I think this something we will have to learn. Thankfully, I see the first early stirrings of a return to Haumea. A professional gardener called Andy recently admitted that at the height of the growing season in May he could HEAR the grass grow. How fantastic that he was sensitive enough to hear it, and brave enough to admit it! A company called Lunar Organics (www.lunarorganics.com) have produced a calender which advises gardeners on gardening according to the position of the Moon in order to work in harmony with nature. As we move towards 2012 it is imperative that we take on these values and return to loving nature. I will leave you to think about it! "Behind (the Haumea legend) is a Polynesian mythical conception of a dark formless spirit world presided over by the female element, and a world of form born out of the spirit world and to which it again returns, made visible and active in this human life through light as the impregnating male element.” BECKWORTH, M. Hawaiian Mythology (1940) Alison Chester-Lambert © 2009 THIS ARTICLE IS TAKEN FROM A FORTHCOMING BOOK ON THE DWARF PLANETS CALLED `STARRY MESSENGERS` To reserve a copy leave your e-mail address on the contact page. References: (1) COURTLAND, R. (19/9/2008), Controversial Dwarf Planet Finally Named Haumea; New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14759-controversial-dwarf-planet-finally-named-haumea.html (2) McKEE, M. (29/7/2005), New World Found in Outer Solar System; New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7751-new-world-found-in-outer-solar-system.html (3) BROWN, M. (2006) Haumea; Cal Tech. http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/2003EL61/ (4) SCHILLING, G. (15/10/2008) Dwarf Planet`s Body Parts Litter the Solar System; New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14954 (4a) BROWN, M. ibid. (5) BECKWORTH, M. (1940) Hawaiian Mythology; Sacred Texts: http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hm/hm21.htm (accessed 31/1/2009) (6) LILIUOKALANI, Queen of Hawaii, (1897) An Account of the Creation of the World According to Hawaiian Tradition. Sacred Texts: http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/lku/lku01.htm (accessed 3/2/2008) (7) LILIUOKALANI. Ibid. (8) RUGGLES, C. Ancient Astronomy. Santa Barbara U.S.A.: ABC-CLIO pp178. (9) BECKWORTH, M. ibid. pp 304 (10) BECKWORTH, M. Ibid. pp 279 (11) BECKWORTH, M. Ibid. pp 306 (12) MALY, K. (2001) An Overview of The Hawaiian Cultural Landscape. Kumupono. http://kumupono.com/Hawaiian%20Cultural%Landscape.pdf.) |
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