Message of Love from the Phoenix

I, myself, have faced adversity like so many others and have somehow, through universal love, overcome my own disillusionment. This something that I could not have done on my own and have to thank the universe for so many rebirths and the knowledge of what it was all about in my life. The challenge would seem to be renewing our faith somehow when the spirit has been crushed. We are all doing everything perfectly right at the perfect time. This is soul growth that we can't seem to control. The universe has other plans. The question we might ask ourselves, do we choose aliveness or deadness as we go through our process?

It is my hope that, all who happen upon this site, by chance or otherwise, come away with a better understanding about the power of the universe that lies within all of us. We are all searching for our own meaning and power outside of ourselves. I ask you, look within, it was there for you the whole time.

Thank-you for being part of my universal love. I am Phoenix, I have chosen this name because of the impact rebirth has had on my life. I wish you all the love in the world and send it to your for your many rebirths. It's the beauty in us all that rises again and again from the ashes.

Love and Light, Phoenix

It was more than 7 months ago that I wrote that. I wanted to talk about my ideas for my web site, my thoughts on astrology. A lot has happened since then. Indeed, a lot has happened since I first conceived this idea of the Gateway to Atlantis, at the time that Jupiter and Saturn were conjunct in 22 Taurus, on May 28, 2000. You may have heard something about it, how all the planets were amassing in one section of the zodiac, and that scientists as well as astrologers were predicting some awesome calamity to befall the world. Well, no calamity befell the world, but I wonder how many of you had personal calamities befall you? Did you lose a loved one? Break up with a spouse? Incur a financial setback? Or more positively, did you fall in love? Get married? Find a new job?

Think back on this past year. You see, a conjunction of planets (two planets at or near the same point in the zodiac) sometimes occurs synchronistically with important events in your life, particularly if the conjunction occurs near an important angle or planets in your natal birthchart. But for most a conjunction, particularly of the major planets, is a tranisitional point in your life in which a new cycle of experience begins. If you look closely, you may notice that some of what happened during that period was related in some way to closure of the previous 20 years of your life. This is because when two planets begin a new cycle, the cycle begins in the midst of the culmination of a previous cycle and is thus born of the events which marked it. In other ways, you will find changes occurred, and new people and circumstances entered your life. Out of the past, a new future emerges, even as the Phoenix arises from the ashes of death to be reborn.

This fall (2003), in a strange synchronicity, I chanced upon this book while browsing in a Border's bookstore. It intrigued me that it had the same name as I had chosen for this website, and it was copyrighted in the same year that I started this website, 2000, the year of the Jupiter Saturn conjunction. If you're interested in the story of Atlantis, then I recommend this book to you for an update on some of the latest ideas behind this land of myth and legend.

 From the Publisher
Gateway to Atlantis: The Search for the Source of a Lost Civilization

For two millennia the fate of Atlantis has fascinated philosophers, classicists, and explorers. They have debated its reality, they have consigned it to mythology, they have searched in vain for the kingdom behind the legend. Historian Andrew Collins has done more. In addition to meticulously examining centuries of literature on Atlantis, he has traveled oceans gathering evidence to support his conclusion that not only did Atlantis exist but remnants of the ancient empire survive today.

Collins's quest for Atlantis begins with a trail of clues left by Plato, and his journey takes him far beyond Crete and the Mediterranean, where scholars in recent times have placed the island kingdom. Collins finds signposts among the mummies in Egypt, in the wreckage of Roman vessels off the coasts of South and Central America, and in the African features of great stone heads in Mexico. His final destination has roused controversy among the experts, but he may indeed have found the land that history lost.