The Dolmen
The DOLMEN (formerly The Menhir) is the current events page for Nemeta. The word menhir refers to a single standing stone erected at sacred sites all across Europe and the Levant in ancient times dating from 6000 BCE and earlier. From Breton French, men-, stone and –hir, long. By contrast a dolmen is a table stone, shelter, or portal constructed of several stones.
As before, The Dolmen announces and tracks new posts, related topics of interest, timely events, and ongoing activities.
Mission Statement
Nemeta is a modern Mystery School with two objectives: Preserve and advance the legacy of Gnosticism with its centerpiece, the sacred narrative of the Sophia, the Fallen Goddess Scenario, and restore the Humanities. The nexus of the Mysteries and Humanities is not incidental or contrived. The evidence of both prehistory and history shows that it was the illumined teachers of the Gnostic network who introduced literacy and fostered the arts and sciences of civilization, as well as practical and artisanal crafts.
Participation in Nemeta can be compared to constructing a circle of standing stones like the one at Callanish in the Scottish Hebrides (below).
The unitary goal of self-initiation today is consecration, literally working with (con-) the primordial ground of power, the Sacred. That ground is literally beneath your feet and in the sky around you, both in the biosphere and the starry cosmos beyond. The mother planet is the immediate and accessible source of all human perception, emotion, aspiration, moral-creative power and intention. To be consecrated is to be based there. The truth that makes life worth living on our own terms and for others as well, those living today and who will live in the future, grows from the experience of unity in the mother source, the ground of beauty and freedom.
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Welcome Message for Nemeta 3.0
Summer Solstice 2025:
First of all, thank you for your patience and continuing support. The revamping, editing, and reorganization of Nemeta has been ongoing since November 2024. It’s been a long haul and there are still some loose ends, anomalies, and IT glitches to correct. But all in all I am pleased with the new look, elimination of bells and whistles, and improved access to Courses and unit-pages. Some material is still on private for final reworking.
The first impression I had when 3.0 went online was how different the “curriculum panel” (C-panel) looks. When I scanned the titles I wondered in some instances if I had seen those units before — overlooking that I had written them in the first place! The new layout actually refreshed my attention to the material. Also, to my surprise I saw that each unit in a course carries the new C-panel at the bottom. This was a brilliant innovation coming from the resident tech wizard, Lord Michael in Mexico. So, for instance, if I look at a unit in the commentaries on the Hag Hammadi Codices, I find at the bottom a unit-for-unit link to the other material in that course. I don’t have to return to the course landing page to use the C-panel. Splendid improvement among others.
Previously, The Menhir often carried the special feature of Celestial Mantique where I would describe current celestial events and call the shifts. These entries were indicated by the plaque:
Going forward, these entries will appear in the block Celestial Mantique in 11 Skywatching, not here on this free-access page. In the first unit in that block (in preparation), titled CM June 2025, you will find the commentary below — a duplication in this one instance. Hereafter, those units will appear in that block, exclusively for faculty members, and they will be titled for each month. When there is new content in the unit, I will announce it here and provide a direct link for it.
CELESTIAL MANTIQUE
CM June 2025
Backtracking for a moment, I noted that the kick-off of the last shift around the 28th of May was signalled by the sunset crescent in the horns of the Bull, or just beyond, in the Milky Way. It was difficult to call this shift, or not immediately obvious, and so I was tempted to call it unassigned. It could have been Bhudevi-Tara again, or Idris, with the latter with an undertone of the former. You know how it goes with close boundaries in the observation. I myself could not get a clear reading on the shift. Perhaps my celestial bandwidth has been exhausted lately due to working on the revision of Nemeta and the new platform, Celestics.org.
Coming ahead to the current shift, we have the new moon @ 96 at the feet of the Twins on June 25th at around 11 AM. Due to it being early in the last day, it was visible on the next day, June 26 from here in northern Spain.
It was a very thin crescent sitting right at the head stars of the Twins which mark the upper arm or prong of the Celestial Anchor. Definitely, the shift goes to Idris but what are we to make of the exact alignment to the Anchor as well?
On that question, Ceridwen pointed me to the meticulous catalogue work of Dolma going back to DWW50 The Unassigned Shift in 2022 when I noted a similar occurrence.
Excerpt from JLL DWW 50 “The Unassigned Shift”
Here in Galicia, northern Spain, the first sight of the sunset crescent would have been possible following the new moon at 3 h on Wednesday the 29th: that is, on Thursday evening around 8 PM at separation of 18 degrees or so, but conditions did not permit sighting. Technically, the shift would go to Idris a second time: moon at the head of the Twins.
However, the moon quickly slid into the space between Twins and Crab, formerly the Lesser Void, now associated with the Celestial Anchor, an area which has no Dakini correlation. Viewers to the west in the US would have seen it somewhat later sliding into the Crab, implying Tantra Mother.
I am unable to detect any frequency or thematic cue for this shift so far. Perhaps by the first quarter on the 7th July something will come into definition. Until then I am calling it the unassigned shift…….
The current event is obviously not unassigned, but again, how does the alignment to the Celestial Anchor play into it? I can’t say at the moment. I am reticent to attribute anything specific to this anomaly. I would prefer to err on the side of caution than suggest a theme or trope to characterize the omen.
For the record, the longitude for the Anchor is 115 – 120, 25 – 30 Cancer. Within this span of five degrees 117 is central and this is the exact longitude of Procyon in Canis Minor, the tip of the Anchor. Monoceros, the Unicorn, sits right below Canis Minor in the Milky Way with Sirius and Mirzam at the prong of the lower arm. Consistent with the FGS, Monoceros becomes the Stork and its central star, delta, stands at 110 aligned to the head-star of Castor, the upper Twin. ECL 110 or 20 Cancer identifies the nest of the Stork where the plasmic plume eruption of Sophia’s plunge terminated in the third galactic arm. In short, the location of the solar system.
You might wonder, how, after so many eons, can the solar system still be in the same place where the plume terminated and Sophia landed? This is due to two factors. First, the galactic limb as a whole is turning like a pinwheel and doing so, it carries the SS with it in a kind of holding pattern, like a plane in delay circling an airport before it lands.
Second, what we see in the sky as signatures of the constellations are immense configurations spread on a scale that far exceeds human perception. The scale of the constellation patterns is exponentially higher than the scale of local, terrestrial space. Not merely to the power of 10, but to 1000s. The difference in scale produces the effect of freezing the optics of the higher-magnitude display. We do not see the movements of its composite stars, nor our movement relative to them within the galactic arm, due to the display being revealed on that immense scale of magnitude relative to the scale of human perception.
§ That is a preview of the first unit in the block on Celestial Mantique in Skywatching. More material for the remainder of this month and coming months, each with its own unit, can be found there.
Some courses are on a private setting whilst we edit the landing pages.
The Menhir is now archived:
The Dolmen: Course Curriculum
- THE DOLMEN 2025