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Roughly sixteen square city blocks in size, the Haight-Ashbury is technically
bound on the north by Fulton Street with Jefferson Airplane's landmark
black-gold mansion [now classic ivory-white.] The southern edge at Buena Vista
Park and east area along Divisadero Street is connected to the ancient Temple of
Saturn, similar in frequency and ambiance to the last scene of
The Matrix Revolutions,
a smoky quartz vibration. The entry park to Haight territory represents the
treaty Neo established
between The Architect and The Oracle. In alchemical terms, The Architect
is lead ore and The Oracle is copper. During the Summer of Love phenomena, many
structures were formulated in California [and the world over] based on a perfect
binary solution for Venus and Saturn.
"But just as the work of transforming lead into gold was in many cases a chemical symbolism for a spiritual transformation of man himself, so the immortality to be conferred by the elixir was not always the literally everlasting life but rather the transportation of consciousness into a state beyond time." - Alan Watts
Astrologers prepared for dramatic aspects to effect California, and specifically Los Angeles, during 1965 and 1966. The good news concerned future oriented movements in California, far ahead of everyone else in America. Certain dynamics for a new vision, for the coming century especially, were based on the conjunction between Uranus and Pluto in Virgo. Virgo is the zodiacal sign California and L.A. were "born" under, so most astrologers expected an extreme energy shift. The bad news involved the possible earthquake, towering inferno, or part of the coastline breaking off* and falling into the Pacific Ocean.
Several paranormal events have been verified in early Haight, south of Masonic, common within the traditional pre-quake Victorian blueprint. In many respects, the structure of the phenomena is akin to serial North Beach installments, fundamental to the Bohemian lifestyle of many Golden Gate poets, artists, and filmmakers. San Francisco landmark homes of Big Brother and the Holding Company, at the corner of Page & Broderick, the Grateful Dead on Ashbury, Jefferson Airplane on Divisadero and later Fulton, and The Charlatans, are exemplary of modern style cultivated in vibrant San Francisco ambiance. Stain glass door and window remnants, and traditional hand carved wood embellishments of classic pre-quake City life, still endure as examples of "real" San Francisco history.
A tone of the prevailing pilgrim mindset during America's search for El Dorado,
Utopia, and Shangri La increased after the loss of Camelot. The
Seven Ancient Temples of San
Francisco [SF2
page] provide basic energy management maps of
Northern California. San Francisco is the key. Built on seven ancient hills, in
keeping with Le Plongeon's [and others] theory, the City energy grid corresponds
with myths, prophecy, and rumors that re-surfaced in the Edgar Cayce readings.
Predictions include Atlantis rising, in sync with 60s Virgo* planetary
alignment, and suggest San Francisco may be a post-Lemurian, Mayan, or Atlantean
site. Several points of evidence support the theory that the West Coast of
the United States once belonged to a different land mass.
Hopi and
Havasupai
believe
the phenomenon is handed down from Anasazi ["people
of the blue-green waters."]
These Native American legends
are
two thousand years old.
Descendents of the Anasazi [Ancient Ones] predicted an underground West Coast culture thread would be stimulated during the cultural changes, prompting both physical and spiritual exchanges with the Hopi near the Grand Canyon. Hollywood picked up on the influence [Easy Rider] and infused the high soul powers of Native Americans in some provocative movie scripts in the current millennium. The link/prophecy that binds Mt. Shasta in Northern California with The Sacred Mountain in Arizona is also evident in the Strawberry Hill locale, above the waterfalls, looking out to the ocean. The power of the Strawberry Hill Deva [Temple dedicated to Neptune/Poseidon, the Earth Shaker] is transformative, an experience to be absorbed first hand. The event is both internal and objective. The environment feels like a place designed for earthquake prediction. Recognition of our interdependence with the nature world via second sight activates psyche ties with sacred animals known for sensitivity to land tremors, such as horses. The feeling strongly resembles the presence of the shaman in the caves at Lascaux, France.
Golden Gate Park provides the western border of the mystic triangle in San Francisco. The Children's Park & carousel have always been favorites. The Stanyon path leads straight to the Golden Gate Park Carousel with its rare prancers, jumpers, and museum quality chariots. Lest we forget, Summer of Love local bands opened The Carousel Ballroom during the last half of the decade. Hippie Hill, the Polo Field, and Strawberry Hill are within this sector. Haight Street has always attracted the shaman, elf, and mage. During the cultural revolution, members of the extended community [hobbits, dwarves, (orcs - sometimes known as blue meanies), and other races] were drawn to San Francisco for unique, varied, and sundry reasons. Haight-Ashbury mystic, author, and magus, Ophiel, penned books about astral projection and creative visualization, two of them published in the mid-60s, when he lived in his Page Street hideaway a block from Haight Street. True to his reclusive hermit character, Ophiel welcomed those who knocked on his door though he was rarely seen in public - classic Saturn-Jupiter social behavior.
The mystique that begins at Market Street, well known for various space-and-time warp phenomenon sites [including Neal Cassady's old pad], stretches up the Haight Street hill. Haight Street connects with Divisadero, at the base of what is traditionally the beginning of 'The Haight,' the intersection near the Both/and (where you could just walk in anytime and hear Monk, John Lee Hooker, and John Handy as they practiced for the evening show), Thelma's Soul Food [Rodney Albin lived next door], and other cool places.
Haight Street proceeds up, passing Buena Vista-Corona Heights Park. Cross Central and you'll see an instant karma Ziggy Marley mural on the corner. Continue on into the wrap of 1090 Page Street [Big Brother & The Holding Company - the house no longer stands] residential zone, straight into the heart of "the Haight." The corner of Haight and Masonic, once The Psychedelic Shop [later the Holistic Center for metaphysical study] and across the street where Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream shop is now, was once The Drug Store Cafe. Later the name changed to the Drog Store Cafe after LSD went into prohibition status. Further on most head shops were open, The Print Mint, and Straight Theatre, etc. Now there is a stone wall mural where the Straight Theatre once existed. Across the street, 1711 Haight Street is still open, the shop where I once did counseling and readings for tourists passing through Haight-Ashbury wonderland. It felt like Middle-earth! On the road to Stanyon Street pedestrian entry to Golden Gate Park* are Sun [Straight Theatre @ Shrader], nebulous Mercury Temple zoned near Quicksilver's rehearsal hall, and Digger's Free Store.
Gabriel's Feed, near Sun and Mercury temples is where the infamous "international bust," happened during one of Gabriel's renown community dinners. He welcomed all in the community to regularly scheduled, public [same night each week] celebrations of the unequaled spaghetti repast. Although this location is marked on the map, it is not a sacred and ancient temple in a traditional sense of the word. The reminiscent scrapbook should honor this event nevertheless, since Gabriel's Feed nurtured so many of San Francisco's finest - as well as the culturally devout, international community. Refer to The Diggers for the stories about the Panhandle in Golden Gate Park during The Summer of Love. Kezar Stadium and the Polo Fields top the sunshine venue list north of the Stanyan Street 'doorway.' -Left, Vesta Temple spirit, by Solomon
Bill Graham Poster: Big Brother & the Holding Co., Pink Floyd
and Richie HavensSantana, Who, Ike and Tina Turner - Fillmore West
The Wilderness Conference - Sierra Club
The Festival Spirit
"Let Tellus, fertile in fruits and herds, present Ceres with a crown of wheat
stalks; let the healthy waters and breezes of Jupiter nourish the offspring."
- Horace, Carm. Saec. 29- 32GO New Orleans, The Crescent City
for update about the current construction news
Research 'energy readings' of people, places, and things -traditional domain of
the metaphysical elite - blossomed overnight to awaken pedestrian interest.
Thorough, sophisticated, even technically measured observation skills evolved to
the level of a social science, with it's own local colour, fashion, and hip
lexicon that still works. Higher skull senses [ESP and radar] phased into
systems previously dedicated to the standard five. Physical and second sight,
vital for forged locks on the texture of visual fields, still train attention on
the microcosm as an infinitely rich and complex network. Focus on unearthed
formulae that balance macrocosm and microcosm are now rooted in the mainstream.
changed in a dramatic sense as loudspeakers drowned out the birdsong in the
trees up and down the street. They were not 'disturbing the peace' according to
'authorities.' 
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