The Hero’s Journey Begins with the Scarlet Letter

by Patricia Awyan Lehman

Did author Nathaniel Hawthorn realize the underlying ‘hidden’ esoteric significance of his remarkable novel? Of course, he did, and you may want to read it again. In his fictional account, Hester Prynn is humiliated by her community when she is punished for having an affair with a married man. She is forced to wear a large Scarlet ‘A’ on her chest as a mark of her infidelity. She is ridiculed as an Adulteress.

Adulteress, Harlot, and Whore are words we use to denigrate women, and yet we hardly understand what we are referring to.

“Adultery derives from ad + altero, i.e. moving from one state to another, so changing a lot, so corrupting.”  ( www.reddit.com)

Harlot: “Middle English (denoting a vagabond or beggar, later a lecherous man or woman) from Old French harlot, Herlot ‘young man, knave, vagabond’.”  (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com)

And my favorite disparagement, the use of the word: WHORE.     Well we all know what this means, right?  

Not so fast.  Maybe our words: Harlet and Whore stem from a far more ancient understanding that was referenced in ancient Khemit (Egypt) by the Neteru, HAT-HOR  (Het-HOR) and HORus (Greek version of the Egyptian HERU/HRW) ?

Hathor is known today as the ‘goddess of love, dance and childbirth’. The ancients expressed these forces of nature as the creative feminine principle of the primordial WOMB that gives birth to Form, as Physical Matter.

The face of Hathor, as the seed of form, is born from the rays of the newborn Sun out of the womb of Nut, the cosmic cow or milky way, which forms the HT or Hat that contains the HR or Hor. The indented or formless seed of consciousness, as the scarab beetle, emerges from the leg of Nut through the stars to be contained within the darkness and boundaries of a new identification of the soul/Sol with its expression in physical form. Hathor’s face sits on the dual pillars of Boaz and Jachim representing our fall into polarity or separation consciousness. The ‘seed of form’ is birthed from angles or rays of light falling from the womb as waveform (fallen angels). Image from the first Hypostyle Hall at Dendera.

Spirit as the life force is released from the Lotus Flower (symbol of the harvested energy from the last cycle or journey or ‘spin’ of the seed) into the newly birthed physical form.

The name or label for Hathor is the square, depicting the place (Hat/Het) or womb that contains the HOR (HR), the Falcon, symbolizing the Alpha or Seed of consciousness. The HOR is our soul or SOL/sun/self, that is expressed here (during one stage of its journey through stages of evolving and devolving consciousness ) as the Falcon/Hawk or Eagle. The Womb, as the Hair of Hathor, is the Netert, Nut, the Cosmic Cow, or Milky Way and is also reflected as the Omega Symbol.  Nut gives birth to the Seed, the Alpha, the ‘A’, as the Face of Hathor.

The Heart of consciousness can express itself as the HOR, the Power of God, and/or as Source itself when it vibrates.  The result of this vibration is our first primal TONE as ‘A”, the Alpha or ‘seed of consciousness’.  When sparked into life through its germination…the seed or atom splits open with a crack of thunder, SOUND, and lightening, LIGHT, and the first breath emerges or sprouts as the SAH, the SINE or SUN WAVE. A tremendous amount of energy is released in the form of light and heat.The rays of light that mark this SAH/SUN or Sine Wave path around the sphere of our earth, are contained between the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer….as fallen angles generating a waveform dividing our day (light) and night (dark) cycles.

This serpent has a life of its own and germinates electromagnetically into a 7 fold expression of this breath of life as the 7 rays of the sun or ChakRAs within….mirrored as the 7 major planets, 7 seas, and 7 major land masses, 7 days in a week, seven sacred vowels. 7 colors in the visible light spectrum–and our 7 steps to heaven.

This is the great Cosmic Serpent that is utilized symbolically worldwide to mark Time and Space….as a perception of movement, and pulse of multi-hued vibration.  Hue-man emerges as separated aspects of the one consciousness.

“He (The Fool) is the spirit in search of experience…it’s subsidiary name was at one time the alchemist as depicting folly at the most insensate (unconscious) stage”. ~ Arthur Edward Waite, Co-Author, Rider-Waite Tarot Deck

This is the Hero’s Journey played out in cross cultural mythologies which can be likened to the path of the sun on the ecliptic.  In Egypt, it is the path that begins with Osiris , Ausser–or Wizzer (Wsjr), as he falls into ‘form’ in the Age of Taurus, which is played out on the ceiling of the great Hypostyle Hall at Dendera and on the spiraling Dendera Zodiac on the second floor. Osiris embarks on the journey into the depths of the night cycle and becomes bound (wrapped in his own wings or ‘mummified’) by a perception of being his physical form.

Osiris is the original Green Man–he is the land and the earth in his representation of mankind migrating through cycles of consciousness. He is the seed, self, sun and universe, enabling consciousness to express itself as a manifestation in the physical, earthly realm.  As such, he is associated with all phases of agricultural processes and to the symbolism of the tree of life. He is expressed as green in many depictions to represent these associations and their relationship to the fertility of the earth, his dual feminine aspect.   It is through the portal of our solar plexus, the Lion’s Gate, and our true heart center, that we traverse the dimensions from spirit to matter, from unity consciousness to individuated consciousness and back again.  

The seed is our Consciousness, and it requires sustenance through certain elements in order for it to grow. This is the Alchemical Journey. Parents combine their seeds in the womb of the mother, where the alchemical process begins when this seed is nurtured and transformed. Breaking free from the protective womb is a painful struggle.  As the new being emerges, it enters a new cycle in its weakest, most innocent form (The Fool in the Tarot deck). If that being emerges from its shell and embraces the light and nourishment from the elements of the earth, it can transform and grow into a great tree bearing fruit to feed another generation.

Hester Prynne is the Heroine who escapes the containment of the SINe wave.  Her affair with ArtHOR (Arthur) Dimmesdale, the Reverend, does not conform to the Rules (boundaries) of the System.  She travels outside the lines …and in so doing, gives birth to Pearl, ‘a treasure’.

The alchemical journey of man begins with the first breath….Sah (the Sine Wave of LIGHT). It spirals and bends to form the matrix of the mind.  The patterns created become our reference for marking time and space. Each movement is a vibration, creating a song of tones, colors and archetypal forces of nature (the Neteru).

Seshat is marking time and space.

Written and Oral Language develops as a form of communication between separated aspects of self as reflected by the story of the Tower of Babel.  Each letter reflects a frequency, or angle of light from from the breath of source itself.  Yes—this is the language of light.
The ancients left us a brilliant map of the nature of this reality as this eternal breath of life that was expressed by this language of light. This is what Abd’el Hakim Awyan termed the Suf Language, or Egyptian Hieroglyphics, which reflect the frequencies of the Neteru, each a vibrating aspect, archetype, or tone of the one purified source.

These angles (angels) of light and tone create the electromagnetic patterns that give shape to form.  This is expressed by the Neter, Seshat.  She is the ARCHitect of the sacred geometric ‘flow-ering’ patterns that combine to create our perception of form. 

Another feminine Neter of creation and weaving, Neith, was said to reweave the world on her loom daily. She is crowned by a symbol of the torus field.

“Her (Neith) name also may be interpreted as meaning water.  In time, this meaning led to her being considered as the personification of the primordial waters of creation. She is identified as a great mother goddess in this role as a creator.”
Plutarch (46 – 120 A.D.) 

 

In essence, it is Neith that represents the undulating, breathing, bending ‘serpent powered’ watery waveform that forms the Fabric of our reality…our illusion of the physical world (whorl-ed) known to the Hindus as Maya, the same expression used for water in Egypt today.

The tool that opens the path for this Current was known in ancient Egypt as the MER. 

The glyph for MER also meant ‘love’ and ‘beloved’ and became the root of the titles MERi, MERRI  or MARY.  This brings to mind another infamous Scarlet Woman; Mary Magdeline.  The ‘MAG de Line’ is secretly known by many today as a powerful pulsing geomagnetic current…. a FE-line or line of Fertility.  

Merry, Mary, Mari are all names that stem from the Egyptian Hieroglyph for the word ‘Mer’ which was used a tool for digging irrigation ditches as its symbol and yet was interpreted as ‘beloved’. This tool symbolically represents a ‘path opener’ for the flow…for the healing and nurturing the Seeds. Yes, agricultural processes were of supreme significance to the ancients for many reasons- and yet they also reflect how we cycle through ages and stages of birth, sustainability, growth, bearing fruit and renewal, as living bio-organic beings.

MER is also related to electromagnetism–as the vital life force of the universe, our planet and ourselves. Our word: ‘MERidian’ stems from this root, and can also refer to the geo-magnetic ley, dragon or song lines that form the electromagnetic flow of fertile energy that nurtures our planet.

The ‘Mary’ of any given tribe would have been considered the wisdom keeper and elder. Mother Mary opens a path for the New Sun/Son to be born as the HOR.The Prime MERidian once ran in North/South directions, through Giza where the ‘pyramidions’ were built to harness the magnetic spins at the crossing point of two major ley lines. The Prime Meridian passed through the ZERO Point –the place at the center of the earth’s land mass where time and space emerged metaphorically, as the sine wave pattern, or serpent created by the path of the sun.

Image by JIM ALISON

Tefnut, as  the visible and very FEline Sphinx looks to the east for the sun to rise on what was once the ancient Magnetic Equator.  Her gaze is marking the time of earth’s precession through the ages. This was the earth’s most powerful line of Fertility where structures were erected worldwide (Paracas, Easter Island, Ankhor Wat, Petra, Moenjo Daro, the Giza Pyramids, Tanis, Siwa and Ollantaytambo) to harness the electromagnetic spins in order to create powerful force fields.

The Aker illustrates the beginning of time and therefore, space, as these twin lions as Duaj and Sefer, (dual opposing charges/waveforms) one facing yesterday and one peering out toward tomorrow, as our HORizons of dawn and dusk. The end of time occurs when and where these FE-lines meet….on the ‘other side’. When waves traveling in opposite directions meet each other they form a new wave that looks like it is standing in place.This was the place, the ZERO POINT, where the four cardinal directions, four seasons, four sons of Horus, vibrated out, spiraling into a Sphere to form our perception of OM,  home, our land, the Earth.  However, this was before the Fall of our axis, altering the electromagnetic flow of the geomagnetic grid system.

As illustrated in the image above, the HOR (depicted by the hawk) is always perceived to be on the move!

And all of the above is mirrored below in the bio-organic processes and electromagnetic meridians within the human body, (to be addressed in a future article).

The Prime Meridian marker is moved from Giza to Paris (Per Isis) and then to Greenwich in the UK, as we migrated through the ages of time and our perception of space.   Is this the celebrated path of the Magdeline that was so recently alluded to in Dan Brown’s famous book and movie, the Da Vinci Code?

Ah yes!  There is much more to this story than has been told!  (Stay tuned for my article on the path of MERitaten, the daughter of Akhenaten.)

Anubis is the sprouting of the ‘seed’ from HER womb that creates the ‘matrix’ of this reality. He forms the ‘pattern’ ( patter being the root word for father) that creates the illusion of matter (root word for mother). He emerges from the pregnant belly of Tauret, riding the ‘Mer’…which creates the spiraling electromagnetic ‘meridian’ that forms our Torus (Tauret) field. He is our ’embalmer’, wrapping us in the veil (of forgetfulness) of Isis.

On the Dendera Zodiac, the beloved MER emerges from the center of the mouth of the womb (as Tauret, the pregnant Hippo Netert, associated with both Big Dipper and Draco, and known as the Eye of Ra) of the Circumpolar Stars (the never setting stars that spin around our pole star). The MER is the Alpha being ridden by the very ancient Egyptian Neter,  Anubis (Inpu), known as the Path Opener.  This occurs in the Age of Cancer, when Gods & Angels fall through the Silver Gate (Capricorn to Cancer) to become men—HUE-Men.

As the magnetic field spins and spirals as the waveform of forgetfulness, it creates the individuated archetypes, the angles/angels of light as Neteru (forces of Nature) reflected as tones that become our ALPHAbet, the building blocks of our written and oral language.

Known as the embalmer in the mummification process, Anubis, is the Alpha Dog,  wrapping us up in these electromagnetic fields of energy—our torus fields?  Is the mapping of the reflection in the stars on the Dendera Zodiac the guide Anubis leaves behind to show us the way back home? 

Of course, it is!   It is why we find ancient structures, stone circles, temples and other observation points worldwide that have been tracking the movement of the sun, moon, eclipses and stars for thousands of years.

Anubis uses an adze or tool shaped like the Big or Little Dipper, in ‘the opening of the mouth ceremony’ to release the soul or spirit of the deceased from its physical form to freedom, in heaven….the stars.

What ancient knowing have we forgotten?  Isn’t it time we figured this out? 

Hester Prynn could have been proud to wear the ALPHA, the symbol of the seed’s emergence, on her chest– as a mother who gives birth to form as the currency, the GOLD or waveform that creates and pervades our perception of this reality. This is the Force of creation, nurturing and healing in our world. It flowers to fractal patterns that form the Torus fields that contain the conscious reflected perception of itself.  …and they breathe and vibrate.  They contain all the unlimited potentials within the sea of primordial waters of fertility.

The HOR, or Whore as some would have it—is the path of the SUN that maps out the Hero’s Journey, our journey through ages and stages of conscious perception as human beings on earth.  The map is our mirror that we view as the eternal movement of the stars in our Heavens.

Where is the Hor? Where is Horus?  What Hour is it?   Where are you on this Path of Perception?

Nathaniel Hawthorn could have told you. 

When we hide the Holy Grail, our heart (our feminine knowing and intuition) firmly behind a veil, we allow our minds, the collective matrix, to keep our truths hidden. The denigration of the feminine heart in this devolving Patriarchal paradigm holds us hostage through agendas that stimulate fear and anger.  Hearts and minds are as separated as the two hemispheres of our brain.

Suppression of women, of the feminine heart within ALL of us has only served to create Chaos within our fields of perception.

Hester Prynne is a survivor!   She can be seen as Hawthorne’s literary idea of what happens when women break the rules of society and gain personal power. The restrictions that have been placed on our hearts hold us hostage in patriarchal patterns that manipulate us through our fears and anger.

“No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”            Chapter XX, ‘The Minister in a Maze’   Nathaniel Hawthorn

Hester Prynn is ridiculed for her ability to love outside the box…. the confinement of rules and boundaries. Maybe its time to open our chests and reveal our pulsing hearts as the real treasure within…to reclaim a power as the Lion’s heart of gold, the true Grail—the generative force of love that awakens the soul to its own knowing.

It is the young and innocent Art-HOR (Arthur) who pulls the SPEAR-it or Sword out of the Stone container of form.  And it is the Egyptian Neter, HORus, also our Hero,  who opens his heart and transmutes his polarity to transcend the physical as the ascended Osiris to fly into the rising Sun as the Falcon.

“She had not known the weight, until she felt the freedom.”  Nathaniel Hawthorn

The seed of our consciousness has come full circle…. or half circle as it were, with the tilt of the earth moving from our height of conscious awareness, when earth’s axis pointed to Vega in the Age of Leo, and then to Thuban in the Age of Taurus (when gods became men) and now to its Nadir at Polaris (the star positioned at the end of the Little Dipper).  It is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius! 

“The ancients refer to the coupled-ages of Pisces and Aquarius in the great year as the time for the FisherMan or Merman to return from the sea. The old legends say that he will teach the people how to heal and govern themselves.”   Mysteries of the Ages Revealed by Andrew Tomasi Raymond

The heart (spirit) is about to be released from its container.  Free at last. 

Free at last!

Fasten your seat belts….