An excerpt from the Lazaris book, The Sirius Connection: A Workbook The last time the Vortex of Sirius opened, Lemuria was created. During the '90s, it opened wide and full as it has not done in 90,000 years.

It is no accident that during the culminating weekend workshops of November, 1993, we spoke about vortexes opening. Then we talked of the Vortex of the Archetypes, the Vortex of the Future, and of the Vortex of Sirius — the Vortex of the Goddess. For in 1994, the Sirius Vortex opened not just cyclically as it always does, and not just a little bit as it has always done. The Vortex of Sirius, the Vortex of the Goddess, opened full and wide. And this event was played out in your heavens, there for all to see if you knew how to read the signs, how to read the celestial compasses.

Within your solar system, the opening of the Sirius Vortex was marked, its space held and its time measured, by the movements of one planet: Pluto.

Now when many of you think of this astrologically, you think: "OK, Pluto. It gives out a specific kind of energy. Pluto does this or that. It causes …"

Understand: Your planets are vortexes, too. They are celestial gateways to other dimensions and, potentially, to other worlds. As vortexes, they hold space and time. They hold energy in formation — they hold information that can influence. Planets do not "do." They do not cause. You create your own reality, sometimes by causing and most often by allowing. You "do." You cause. Planets can influence with the energy that flows through them.

The dance of the planets — the movement of the planets in relationship to each other — can reveal the tracings of energy waxing and waning, ebbing and flowing, within your Solar System and in your Universe. In this way, a planet is like a compass. It can point the way to the flow of energy, but it does not cause that flow.

For example, a standard compass has a needle that is responsive to the flow of energy called magnetic north. The needle will always point north. By understanding the dance — by understanding the movement of this needle in relationship to magnetic north — you can find your way. The needle traces the flow of energy called magnetic north. It is not because the needle points in a certain direction that a location suddenly becomes north. The needle did not cause the direction to be north. It is because the direction is already north that the needle pointed in that direction.

The dance or the movements and relationships of the planets are as compass needles pointing in the directions of particular kinds of energy and, in so doing, abstractly tracing — marking and measuring — the flows of that energy.

The dance of Pluto did not cause the opening of the Vortex of Sirius. Pluto's dance pointed, marked, measured, and traced. It heralded a grand event. It heralded an event that had not happened in over 90,000 years. Pluto, compass-like, pointed the way. It held the space and marked the time.

The dance of Pluto: Now Pluto is called the Planet of Death. It is called the Planet of Regeneration. It is also called the Planet of New Birth and of New Life. It does not cause or produce these things; it does not "do" these things. Yet, Pluto does point, mark, measure, and trace the energy that allows such things to more readily happen or to more easily be created. It holds the space and marks the times when the possibilities and the potentials for such energies — the energies of death, regeneration, new birth, and new life — are most present and available.

So when one speaks of death and rebirth, of regeneration, or of new life — when one speaks of transmutation, transformation, transcendence — as being Pluto or as being what Pluto represents, what one is really saying is that this physical illusion called a planet is pointing, marking, measuring, and tracing the presence of a specific kind of energy with distinct possibilities and potentials of death, regeneration, rebirth, and new life. What is being said is that this physical illusion called a planet is holding the space and marking the time of possible transmutation and transformation and of potential transcendence.

Now, Pluto is a phenomenal planet in that it has the capacity, due to the shape of its elliptical orbit, of moving inside the orbit of its neighbor, Neptune. Normally, Neptune is closer to the Sun and thus to the Earth. Pluto, located beyond Neptune, is farther away from both the Sun and the Earth. But because of the shape of its orbit, Pluto does, upon certain cycling, move inside the orbit of Neptune, therefore moving closer to the Sun and to the Earth than Neptune.

In 1978 Pluto entered inside the orbit of Neptune, coming closer to the Earth than it had been in two and a half centuries. In 1978 its orbit moved inside the orbit of Neptune. It was September 23rd, 1979, that we talked of the beginning of a New Age. It was no accident that we talked of it then, for when Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune, it pointed, marked, measured, and traced a time of death, of regeneration, of rebirth, of new life. It heralded what, for many, was the beginning of a New Spirituality.

Some people could only see the death aspect of it, but others could see the aspects of regeneration and rebirth, of new life. It is a time for transmutation, a time of transformation and transcendence — not that any other time is not, but this particular time is one of profound possibilities and potentials. Pluto moved within the orbit of Neptune in 1978. We began talking of a New Age and the New Spirituality on September 23, 1979.

Now Pluto stays inside the orbit of Neptune — at the closest point it has been in 250 years — until 1999, the end of this most monumental decade in history, the decade in which you will decide to create a future of dreams, to give birth to a Virgin Future, and to create a New World and a transcendent new life. Two magical decades, capped with the most monumental decade in history.

Now something else happened with Pluto.…

From the vantage point of Earth, there is a huge circle called the Zodiac, 360 degrees of arc, divided into 12 segments of 30 degrees each. In 1984, not only was Pluto within the orbit of Neptune — closer to the Earth than it's been in 250 years — but also it moved into the arc segment of the Zodiac at 210 degrees, which is the Sign of Scorpio, the Eighth House.

Now Scorpio, for those who are not that familiar with astrology, is the symbol for and the representation of death, regeneration, rebirth, new life. It is the "house" of transformation, transmutation, and potentially of transcendence.

Pluto is now within its rulership in the Eighth House of the Zodiac. Such placement and alignment speaks to increased intensity of an already intense energy. The needle of the compass is not just pointing, it's quivering and it's flashing. … {laughter} … Pluto entered 210 degrees and stayed in that 30 degrees of arc for ten years, moving into the 240-degree mark during 1994. For a decade from 1984 to 1994, it was within that arc, so intense in its energy of transcendence and transformation and transmutation — so intense in its pointing, marking, measuring and tracing of the energy of death, rebirth, regeneration and new life. Holding the space — within the orbit of Neptune and closer to the Earth than it had been in 250 years and within the House of its rulership — it suggested that something big could happen and would happen over those specific 10 years. And it did!

Now we look outside your solar system. Something else happened, and we look to the brightest star in your heavens. We look to Sirius.

Sirius is a star and a star system. As a star system, Sirius is composed of a bright star, called Sirius A, and around it, in an elliptical orbit — not a circular orbit, but an elliptical orbit —moves Sirius B, the dark star, the shadow star.

Now, because the orbit of Sirius B is elliptical, there is a certain time when Sirius A and Sirius B are the most separated from each other; there is a time when they are farthest apart. Likewise, there's a point when they are the closest together.

Sirius B has an orbit about Sirius A — a star about its star — that is 50.9 years. More easily said: 50+years. The movement of the Sirius system is such that during 1994, Sirius B moved into the position where it was closest to Sirius A. When Sirius A and Sirius B are the closest together — when they are "united" in wholeness, in completeness — it is called the Grand Union. During 1994, there was the Grand Union of Sirius.

So during 1994, there were two incredible astronomical and celestial occurrences. One can only happen every 250 years: Pluto, within the orbit of Neptune, within its rulership in the Eighth House or the House of Scorpio, is as close together with the Earth as it can be. The other can only happen every 50.9 years: the Grand Union of Sirius when Sirius A and Sirius B are as close to each other as they can be.

And on April 23, 1994, the Sirius system, 8.5 light years away, entered its Grand Union — and Pluto moved into exact alignment with it.

Such an astronomical and celestial event had not happened in more than 90,000 years; it could not have happened since then. And it will not happen again for another 90,000 years. The Vortex of the Goddess opened wide and full as it has not done in over 90,000 years.

The last time the Vortex opened, from the mists emerged a land, and upon the land a world stood out. There emerged Lemuria and a world of the mysteries and mysticism of the Goddess. In time, once its work was done and the seeds were scattered and planted through out the world, Lemuria would retreat into its mist and become the Land That Imagination Forgot. Yet it was out of the last Grand Opening of the Sirius Vortex over 90,000 years ago that the world of Lemuria began.

Yes, the Sirius Vortex — the Vortex of the Goddess through which all energy enters and leaves your Universe, through which all the Archetypal energy flows, through which your Higher Self's energy enters — opened wide and opened full. The Goddess blew a bubble of space and then filled that bubble with the fertile eggs and seeds of all growth.

This astronomical alignment — this celestial dance of planets and stars — can only happen every 90,000 years. It happened before; it happened again on April 23, 1994.

The Vortex opened full and wide, and there was a flood of Light — Light from the Imaginal Realm, from beyond the torus of space-time. That Light flooded into your Universe. And Information — the Light Information or information carried on Light —- flooded into your Universe.

Let it in: This is the energy that over 90,000 years ago produced an entire continent, a continent that came out of the mists and, in its time, would recede into the mists, becoming a Land That Imagination Forgot. Lemuria was literally there; it still is.

In the myriad of lifetimes that you've had, most of them began and ended, in your time-frame, between 80,000 years ago and a few decades ago. You have not had lifetimes that included the previous Grand Opening of Sirius. …

And you now have all the information you need to create a new world — all the information you need to make the choices that we all along said you would make. … You will choose a Future of Dreams.

There is help on the way … seriously and Siriusly. … {laughter} … There is the Love and Light of the Goddess. You are not alone.

With Love & Peace, Lazaris

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