More About the Seven Pleromic Powers

The Lion Path began with fourteen initial sessions because it is from these fourteen powers that the seven pleromic powers are formed. Each pleromic power is, in fact, formed from a pair of two distinct halves or components that must be brought into harmonious partnership as we walk the Path. Every pleromic power is one of the seven basic powers that, in total, form the physical/psychological basis of any being-whether or not that being is currently in a molecular form, or if s/he is between incarnations and dwelling in the bardo. And each of the seven powers of the pleroma has an unconscious (feminine) and a conscious (male) component.

In Lynn Andrew's marvelous book Jaguar Woman, her shamaness mentor, Zoila, speaks to her about the sacred inner twins that dwell within each one of us when she is describing the special relationship between the conscious and the unconscious faculties of our minds. She explains that whereas the subconscious mind is the storehouse for all the knowledge we possess, the conscious mind, though it is a great life tool, has little access to all the wisdom contained in the subconscious.

Nevertheless, both are equally important and necessary in any being's self-development. For although the feminine and unconscious powers have infinite knowledge, it remains buried and inactive unless our male and conscious powers learn to work with it and to pull out whatever portions of its knowledge they need. And it is necessary to be aware that although the powers rooted in the unconscious are deemed "feminine" and those rooted in conscious awareness "masculine", this should not be understood as supporting the old and defunct prejudice that women are "irrational" and men "logical". Every person, whether male or female, has these set of fourteen complementary powers within them, and in the vast majority of people, the seven conscious powers and their seven unconscious counterparts are out of balance and not in complete accord with one another. Therefore everyone on the Path, man or woman, has to respect, cherish and understand both sides of their nature and to learn how to join those sacred twins in a harmonious and lasting partnership.

Although the conscious and the unconscious minds both "eat" or absorb experiences, they differ in that the unconscious mind eats everything, and the conscious mind only what it needs to remain rational. In other words, the conscious mind has constructed self-protective barriers which screen out experiences and feelings that lie beyond the parameters of the rational world-view it has constructed to interpret its experiences. It is a necessary part of anyone's self-development that this should be so-otherwise we should be endlessly and meaninglessly caught in a morass of subconscious confusion. The key to handling our male powers and the conscious world-view they have constructed is to realize that this world-view is a necessary but temporary platform from which we live and grow. We will one day outgrow that platform and move on to a richer and deeper understanding of the world, dismantling our previous platform and its limitations, yet constructing yet another and more complex platform of conscious awareness as we do so.

This happens because the contents of our subconscious and our conscious minds cannot and do not remain forever isolated from one another and constantly fight for the balance of one's consciousness, as they translate knowledge between the unconscious and conscious realms. The male part of one's psyche controls the conscious parts or halves of the pleromic powers, and translates messages from the conscious realm into a form of language the subconscious mind can absorb. The female part of one's psyche counterbalances this process by translating messages from the subconscious mind so that they can be received in the conscious mind. This process of the interchange of knowledge between the conscious and subconscious minds is usually most intense during dreams and vision quests. But it is now being greatly stimulated by the new moon sessions taking place between November 2004 and November 2006.

It may be helpful as we all undergo this process to understand something of the seven pairs of powers and how they normally tend to work against each other but can be brought into harmony or fruitful partnership.

1.Pleromic Mercury:
The two halves of this pleromic power are Mercury, or the conscious mind, and its unconscious component, Vulcan, which runs all the physiological processes of the body, maintains health, and creates unconscious-i.e. automatically followed-routines and mental habits which govern how we conduct our daily lives. Mercury, the conscious mind, is neither an automatic nor an unconscious power-it is the conscious ability to examine and question our own thoughts, as well as the ability to reason out new ways of doing things. Either of these powers may disrupt the other at different moments of life. Excessive skepticism from the conscious mind may prevent us from accessing the inherently magical power of Vulcan we carry within us; or Vulcan may frustrate the best side of one's Mercury - we may become workaholics who lose the ability to communicate with others. If, however, we learn to harmoniously merge these powers and bring them together in a lasting, harmonious partnership, the power of Pleromic Mercury comes into being, and that brings a Lion Path initiate constant, conscious awareness of the connection between his or her molecular, earthly body and the higher body of nonmolecular substance that dwells in the bardo. This in turn opens the way to learn how to shift the focus of consciousness between one's body on earth and higher body at will-i.e. how to undertake shamanic journeys and to move in and out of the physical body, as well as ultimately traveling between earth's bardo-realm and the bardos of other worlds.

2. Pleromic Moon:
Pleromic Moon is formed when one's Moon or personality-our personal pattern of conscious reactions to events that take place in everyday life, is united with the unconscious, potential power of Sothis-a power that lies dormant unless a spiritual path is undertaken. The power of Sothis is our seed-like but unique higher potential-the ability we hold within us to become, over time, superlatively skilled in an infinity of ways that may not, at our current level of development, seem at all possible or feasible to us. Once these two powers are joined, the sky's the limit, as we will find ourselves able to undertake all kinds of things we imagined to be impossible before.

3. Pleromic Venus:
This power is formed by the union of one's personal Venus and Pan powers. Venus is the desire to create harmony, and the power of attraction, governing our likes and dislikes, which we have little or no conscious control over. Love is blind, as they say, and so is hate. We feel strong likes or dislikes for certain people or things, without necessarily having any rational basis for doing so. If one tries to rationalize why one loves one person, and not another, it is usually not possible to do so. Women are sometimes called capricious, because they are said to like or dislike without reason, but men are as vulnerable to sudden and apparently irrational love. The Venus power within us usually exerts itself from an unconscious level, exuding an automatic magnetism to get what one wants.
Pan is the conscious half of the Pleromic Venus power. Pan is the power to bring what one desires or thinks beautiful into manifestation; it governs our conscious criteria for liking things, our ability to formulate aesthetic standards and to acquire and collect the objects and/or people around us that conform to these standards. To take an everyday example of how Pan acts in our lives, we all exercise the power of Pan when we design our homes, gardens and living spaces. Again, either of these powers can thwart the expression of the other. The problem with Pan, in relation to Venus, is that it is often what we have been taught consciously to think we should like, rather than what we really like at a deeper unconscious level.

A typical Pan/Venus conflict in a life might be that of an artistic person who is very creative and happiest when working on an artistic hobby, but who feels that working at what they love full time would not bring them enough financial remuneration. So most of their life is spent working at a conventional job, doing something that brings them a steady income, house, social approbation and respectability etc. On the other hand, a misapplied Venus power tends to indolence, lack of discipline and steady purpose. The positive side of Pan is staying power, discipline and learning how to manifest beauty. If the two powers are combined harmoniously, a person can become wonderfully creative, be uniquely themselves in their creativity, as what they create comes from the unconscious wellspring of what they truly love or like (Venus). Also, when Venus and Pan are harmoniously united, the outer circumstances of life take on a richer inner quality-there is never just an appearance of decorum without real harmony and happiness. The power of Pan, on its best level, is the ability to go directly and consciously after what we want and to bring it towards us. When we unite it with Venus, we can bring what we truly and lastingly desire into our lives.

4. Pleromic Sun:
This power is formed when its two components, the Sun and Horus, are harmoniously united. In Egyptian mythology, Horus, the dark Sun, is the power that protects us from and goes to war against cosmic evil. It is the conscious half of the Pleromic Sun power, a part of us which lies dormant in the subconscious until spiritual development is activated, and which cannot be subdued by or subverted to evil purposes. If a person were to fall off the Path, that power would be instantly returned to dormancy, remaining as no more than a seed of potential deeply hidden within them. The Sun, or one's higher self, is the unconscious counterpart to the Horus power. One's solar power, the unfallen self-nature buried deeply within one's subconscious, can languish indefinitely throughout many lives, virtually dormant, and not capable of much influencing the lower self. The inner Sun within us all might be compared to the fabled Sleeping Beauty, the princess put into a long sleep under an evil spell, and Horus to the dark prince who overcomes the spell of the wicked sorceress and awakens the beauty with a kiss.


The solar power within us, however, is not simply a weak and hapless victim, as a superficial reading of the fairy tale might imply. Though the Sun princess was cursed with death by an evil fairy, her inherent immortality is suggested by the intervention of another fairy, one who mitigated the curse to sleep for a hundred years, with eventual rescue. The fairy tale affirms the imperishable nature of the higher self-it cannot be destroyed, and the Sun princess awakens with all her youth, beauty and powers intact.

What does the union of the solar self with the Horus power within us mean in terms of the Path? Remember that although the solar power is intrinsically the higher self, it can nevertheless succumb to forms of subtle contamination as we negotiate life on earth. It is the power that makes us vulnerable through vanity, pride, gratuitous self-assurance. As one begins to awaken on a spiritual path, the power of one's inner Sun begins to radiate and to glow strongly, both on the inner and the outer planes of life. We become firmer in our purposes, more self-confident, increasingly able to make our wishes and our presence felt, to have our needs prevail with others. As this occurs, we can easily begin to slip into unconscious pride and start pushing others around, justifying it as "being what they need". Also we can begin to attract hangers-on, people who have not yet a firm enough grasp on their own spiritual development, and who either think your "light" will rub off on them (and become unconsciously parasitic) or who are a little envious and try to push you off course. On the inner planes, we start to attract all kinds of negative entities, simply by the light we are giving off.

All this can be corrected and set to rights by awakening the power of Horus within us and joining its power with that of the Sun. The Horus power restores us, purges us from unconsciously acquired contamination of our higher natures. Horus, the power of supremely focussed self-consciousness, gives off a light of its own-a light that is so illuminating, piercing and transcendent that we can only get a distorted glimpse of it here, where it appears to us to be an utter darkness, a force that causes all negative entities to flee in the opposite direction. So once the force of Horus, the dark Sun, is allied with the light of one's own personal Sun, an automatic and constant psychic shield and protection goes up around you-no negative entities or other parasites can get near you. But before you earn this shield, you have to face the initiation of Horus-first this power awakens you by pushing you into situations where you must face yourself fairly and squarely, without self-deception, re-assess your motives and re-align yourself with your highest ideals. The light of Horus pouring through your Sun will chase away the shadows of pride and hubris, enabling your light to shine forth once again in a purer and even more concentrated way.

5. Pleromic Jupiter:
This power is formed by the union of the powers of Jupiter (i.e. of our consciously determined beliefs, our ability to philosophize about and to construct a view of the world that is consistent with our conscious ideals) and of Neptune (the power of belief that is acquired through the unconscious or subconscious mind). It is easy to see that these two powers might and do work against each other before they are harmoniously united. The hypnotically sown beliefs imbibed through the power of Neptune are subtly and gradually acquired, partially by constantly reinforced social cues as to how one should behave or what one should believe, and they can override what we consciously think we believe. On the other hand, the good side of Neptune is compassionate imagination and complete empathy with another-understanding what another is truly feeling or going through. This can easily be thrust aside by a misapplied Jupiter-a bigoted sense of self-righteousness and a harsh, rigid belief system.

Yet when these two powers harmoniously merge with one another, Pleromic Jupiter is formed and our attitudes to life and abilities are drastically transformed for the better. Religious faith spirals up to a much higher level, to religare, actually re-connecting with a higher level of reality. If before we had faith in the unseen, now we have a lasting connection with it. Faith is no longer necessary - the presence of the unseen good is constantly there and constantly felt. Our powers to heal others will greatly increase, for the healing power of Jupiter, merged with the power to be at one with others (Neptune), means that, when healing, we can gently contact them at an extra-dimensional level and give a huge influx of healing and restorative power. On the other hand, we will become much wiser, humbler healers, not so easily falling into the trap of trying to heal those who do not want to be healed, or of trying to force them where they are not yet ready to go. We will be able to perceive far more accurately where people are coming from, what people truly need and want, and just how much or how little help or healing they are currently ready for.

6. Pleromic Saturn:
This power is formed by amalgamating two difficult to align powers: one's personal Saturn-karma and habits-and one's Uranus, or the power of free will. When one exercises free choice, chooses to do one thing instead of another, it is an act of conscious will and freedom. Habits, on the other hand, relate to karma, to the kinds of habits of reacting to events in certain ways that are chosen over and over again. These reactions can become an almost automatic response, thus imprisoning us and taking away freedom of choice. It is one's Saturn that can be unconscious imprisonment in the past, whereas Uranus is the conscious half of Pleromic Saturn's energy-the kind that enables one to create new and innovative ways of doing things. The dilemma between the two can seem insoluble, yet it is not. For, as we go further and further on the Path, we dissolve more and more karma, which creates a vacuum that attracts increasing freedom and choice. And when Saturn and Uranus are harmoniously united in the power of Pleromic Saturn, they work well together. A good Saturn becomes an unconscious and automatic response of integrity; yet, it is never inflexibly rigid and stupid, combined as it is with the lightning-like insight and ability to turn around if the situation requires handling something unexpected [and the unexpected can never be excluded from reality] of Uranus. Combine these powers, and we can intuitively grasp the right thing to do in any situation and accomplish it. Pleromic Saturn enables us to act with lasting and good consequences, for we risk little or no bad karma (generating eventual self-imprisonment and limitation) if we combine consistent integrity with effortless and ego-less flexibility.

7. Pleromic Mars:
This power is formed when the powers of Mars, that of conscious desires, and Pluto, the morass of subconscious desires we carry within, are harmoniously joined. It is easy to see that deeply rooted psychological fears may prevent us from going after what we are consciously desirous of achieving. Even more treacherously, if we begin an enterprise with conscious idealistic motives, we might just be undertaking it for far more subtle and unconscious reasons, ones that may have little to do with, or are actively against our spiritual ideals. If, however, we join the forces of our conscious and unconscious will in a harmonious and loving way, the power of Pleromic Mars is formed. What will this mean in our lives? When Pleromic Mars forms, we acquire a great shamanic power. We can accomplish a great deal, relatively quickly and effortlessly, because whenever we consciously want or go after anything, then all the forces of one's subconscious desires are supporting that effort. One's will becomes like a sharp sword that can cut through obstacles expertly. There will also be an ability to foresee and anticipate potential obstacles or those who can help us achieve our goals at a great distance, and to experience an unprecedented mental clarity. For to understand what one truly wants and desires is to have great insight into oneself, and to see oneself clearly is to become luminous and transparent. When we are so ourselves, the rest of the world becomes likewise to us, and with piercing insight into ourselves, we are not easily deceived by appearances or misled by false logic or lies.


As this stage of the Lion Path is teaching us, the key difficulty for any person on a spiritual quest, is to harmoniously join the male and female sides of the seven pleromic powers within themselves. Once this has been done, the seven powers naturally and easily begin to amalgamate and with each other, work together instead of being constantly trapped in a perennial fight against each other, gaining and then losing momentary ascendancy, but never at rest or at peace. Once the seven have become one, once they know that in union with each other, they each and every one of them have unprecedented fulfillment, a new and lasting destiny pattern has been forged, one that will lead every Lion Path initiate to the world of their deepest heart's desire.

In Lynn Andrew's sequel book, Crystal Woman, she undergoes a shamanic ritual of incredible power in which she eats first the psychic substance of her male sacred twin, and then of her female twin. As she digests them both, she feels them come together in a closer union than ever before. This comes about through the power of the Rainbow Serpent that asks her to eat of itself, as it, the sacred serpent, has already eaten her, i.e. spiritually digested her and re-formed her.

The great power of the Rainbow Serpent (activated initially worldwide in the Lion Path session of the Uranus square power in 2004) is now working its transformative magic upon all beings participating in the earth's Lion Path. At that time, each initiate was graced by the indelible presence of the Rainbow Serpent, embedding its freeing and destiny-changing power within each part of our psyches. As we undergo the current Lion Path Cycles (the 2004-2006 Cycles of Will, Love, Wisdom and Harmony - see Lion Path update of May 2005), the pleromic powers will blossom and strengthen in an unprecedented fashion. For each and every Lion Path initiate upon earth this will ultimately mean the attainment of a higher body and vehicle that will ultimately enable them to reach the world where their deepest soul desires can be fulfilled. And even during our lives on earth, we will find ourselves to be in a state of much greater personal happiness than before, as we begin awakening to the joy that we are rapidly ceasing to be our own worst enemies.

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