Cosmic Healing II

Taoist Star Practices and their Effect on Human Awareness

1) Water - Kan (+)

2) Earth - Kun ( - )

3) Wood - Chen (+)

4) Wood - Sun ( - )

5) Earth (+)( - )

6) Metal - Chien (+)

7) Metal - Tui ( - )

8) Earth - Ken (+)

9) Fire - Li ( - )

Vega

Polaris

Polaris/North Star

In this way the connection with the Universal Light is deeply integrated in the brain and the
glands within the skull (Crystal Room/Palace, see Fig 5.5). Each of the stars has a con-
nection with the lower planetary world (five planets, sun and moon) and with the higher
vibrational world of the five elements and the pakua. According to the oracle texts of the
Han Dynasty, each of the Big Dipper stars has a unique earthly manifestation in the ani-
mal and plant kingdom. The seven star principle is not unique to the Big Dipper. It can also
be found back in the Pleiades, the Vermilion Bird and other constellations.
In one type of Taoist astrology the numbers 1 to 9 and the 9 energies of the pakua (8
directions and the center) were used as a form of numerology connected to the seven
stars of the Big Dipper, Polaris and Vega. Since the star Vega, related to number 1 was
known as a star related to destruction, it was not connected to the Crystal Room.

Vega

Fig. 5.4 North Star, Vega, Big Dipper and Five Elements

In Taoism, the nine stars of the true Dipper are used. There are the seven familiar ones
and two hidden or invisible ones. According to one source these stars hold the embryonic
essence (Ching) and actualizing spirit (Shen). One T’ang practice which is still used these
days in China is the practice through the nine stars of the Dipper while visualizing the star
Alcor and holding the breath. Just as the principle of counter planets in Chinese astrology
and the modern astronomical theory that quasars and black holes might be functioning
together, some Taoists believed that there are nine black stars underlying the nine Big
Dipper stars.