Translated from the Israeli magazine "Haim acherim"
Translation by Michal Ricardo

Soul Astrologer
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As a boy, even in his wildest dreams, Jeffrey Wolf Green, an astrologer of the school of the evolution of the soul, could not have guessed what the stars had in store for him. His winding path of initiation trained him well for his destiny as a guide for evolution. His student Maurice Fernandez met him for a talk

By Maurice Fernandez

"We do not live just to survive; we are here to change ourselves." This is the premise that guides the American astrologer Jeffrey Wolf Green, and is also the basis of his significant contribution to the study of astrology and the human soul. During the last twenty years Green gave more than 16,000 astrological consultations, wrote four books, and during the last two years he trained part of the next generation that will increase the spreading of the "Astrology of the Evolution of the Soul."
Green uses astrology as an key tool in understanding life processes on the personal level and the collective level. Astrology ceases to be a tool that reflects dry personality characteristics that rule whether one has luck in life, or alternatively a tool used for forecasts only. From this standpoint, astrology exposes (but does not determine) the existence of cause and effect. That is, every event that takes place is not accidental but fulfills a role in the evolution of the soul from one lifetime to the next. From this we deduce that whatever is described in an astrological chart is a dynamic, rather than a static existence, or in other words, an existence that can be always improved and developed. Through chart analysis according to this way of seeing it is possible to understand the reasons that led each soul to the present, and thus receive a clearer state of conditions that enables each one to choose better in relation to a given situation. Jeffrey Green was also influenced by the work of the wonderful astrologer Dane Rudhyar, a pioneer who gave astrology a philosophical, spiritual and evolutional character as early as the thirties. The use of the astrological tool during those times was one-dimensional and based on narrow, binding definitions. Green continued with Rudhyar's spirit, and received through dreams all this knowledge for developing a practical method that identifies more deeply the evolutional process of the soul via astrology. These days, learning centers for astrology and the evolution of the soul are opened in Europe, in the United States and in Israel (in India shortly). These centers are run by Green and his students, usually in a modest, intimate atmosphere, and mostly in private houses. The idea is to allow flexibility in the spreading of the syllabus, so as to be able to comply with every initiative everywhere in the world.
Steven Forest, an American Astrologer himself, said about Green: "Jeffrey received many insights through dreams, material that presumably was received intuitively. Mystics and visionaries are always a bit dangerous, since they do not always verify and balance all their saying as science can verify and balance itself. Nonetheless, intuitions can be confirmed; you can check whether they are convincing, and one of the things for which I respect Jeffrey very much is that he does that. Many people claimed to have received messages from God, and led many into trouble because of this. Jeffrey is not one of them. Where would we go without mystics? Where would the soul of our creations disappear? Everything would turn into dry figures."

Black Sheep

The uniqueness of Green is apparent at first sight. In his outer appearance he looks like a funny hybrid between a gentle Indian woman and a wild animal. He was born in Hollywood, California, the eldest son in a poor family of five. His father was an artist who had to give up his art to support his young family after his return from the war against the Japanese in the forties. Jeffrey was exposed to severe abuse, psychological and physical, from his mother. It became so bad that he and his brother were transferred to an orphanage. Later they were brought back to the family. "I was the black sheep," he tells. "My parents didn't care for me." He spent most of his school days at sea and used to surf a lot. A strong sense of alienation accompanied him most of the time, and he became an alcoholic. One fatal night when he was drunk he crushed with his car into someone else's car and the two started to exchange blows. "He decided to be tough, and I almost killed him," he says. It was during the Vietnam War, so he was presented with two options: to go to jail or enlist into the fleet. He decided to enlist. In Vietnam, Green, an 18 year-old guy, was exposed to life at its ugliest, and went into a state of continuous trauma. "Life made no sense to me; even the idea of God made no sense. I had a very close friend during the war. One day we were bombed and he was reading the Bible when this happened. He got a direct hit, and all that was left when I returned was pieces of flesh and a blood covered Bible. I too had the shared illusion that God is perfect, and did not understand how he allowed such a thing to happen, especially when someone was reading his book… At the age of eighteen this is completely senseless. And so I erased God from my life."
He survived emotionally the whole period through drugs. One day, a month before his evacuation from Vietnam, he was looking for drugs in a nearby village. He reached the foot of a hill that had steps climbing to the top. At the top of the hill he found a Buddhist monastery. One of the monks approached him, but they could not communicate because of the language barrier. Still, he stayed near the monk for a stretch of eighteen hours. According to him the monk held his consciousness and hypnotized him. The results of this encounter were revealed only when he returned to the United State. He had to complete six more months to finish his army service. "I had no clue how I would go through this emotionally; I was exhausted," he says. But surprisingly, because of his typing skills, he was posted for office work, and his commander supported him and allowed him to sleep at home. "By accident," he rented a house adjacent to the ashram of the Yogi Yogananda, who was between the first to bring Yoga to the United States at the beginning of the century, and so he found himself every evening going to spend hours in the Ashram, and according to his words, "this was part of the influence of the Buddhist monk, who telepathically transmitted to me seeds of new consciousness."

Running with Wolves

At the end of the service his adjustment problems grew worse; he could not enter close spaces and used to sleep on the roof of his house. He decided to travel and found himself in the center of Mexico. There he joined a group of hippies and lived with them in a commune a three days walk from any inhabited place. As a typical Sagittarian he used to roam for long hours in nature, until one day he ran into a Shaman of the Navaho tribe: "Again, he did not speak English and at that time I did not speak his language," he says. "But like the monk in Vietnam he held my consciousness and told me telepathically, 'Brother, follow me,' so I did!"
He spent six months close to the Shaman, who, initiated him into the secret of Peyote, that cactus that brings about an irreversible change in consciousness, if you learn to use it in a very specific way known to very experienced shamans alone. With the help of Peyote many barriers in consciousness fall and a direct perception of insights is made possible. Unlike drugs, this is not about illusions or imagination, but direct perception of the truth. This is how shamans teach. One day, while he was roaming in nature, he met a pack of wolves, and due to the use of Peyote he found himself telepathically connecting with the head of the pack. In their non-verbal conversation he asked whether he could join the pack and was answered in the affirmative. Thus he spent about three weeks with the wolves, and made a pact with them that lasts to this day (he then added the name Wolf to his name). According to him he can communicate with other animals as well. Today Jeffrey Green is a father of four children and transmits his knowledge through his books and lectures. I met him for the first time in 1993, after reading his first book about astrology and the evolution of the soul. I sent him a letter to thank him and to my surprise received an answer almost without delay. Since then we are in a continuous personal and professional contact, and in 1996 I even invited him to give lectures in Tel Aviv. Besides the fact that with his arrival in the airport the Ministry of Interior officials wanted to deport him back on no reasonable grounds (probably they are not keen on Peyote) the encounter with Israeli astrologers was especially intense. Last year we formally inaugurated the Astrology and Evolution of the Soul Learning center in Tel Aviv.

From Bitterness to Compassion

Recently we met in an astrological convention in Denver, Colorado, where we held this conversation. I asked him how practicing astrology and the evolution of the soul affected his life.
"With all the traumas I experienced during childhood, Vietnam and others, I became a bitter person," he says. "I didn't want anything to do with people or society. I became a monk. I was in a Buddhist monastery; I lived in Nepal for a time. But God had probably other intentions. The point is that through my practice of astrology I became much more compassionate towards the human condition, and developed a wish to help and contribute. When you are exposed to the intimacy of people, you see them differently. You can understand the pain, and in this context understand the different behavior and the reactions of every person."

What is the meaning of astrology spiritually?
"Astrology is the symbolic language of God. We have to use it to see our existence as objectively as possible and to understand existence in general. Today, with the changing of ages, astrology develops, and all this innovative knowledge will turn it into a very useful tool. The evolution of the soul will be a central theme in the discipline of astrology. In Arizona there is already a college financed by the government that also includes in its curriculum Evolutionary Astrology. I was also invited to lecture in Bombay, India, before the community of Vedic (an Indian method) astrologers. In the past century many disciplines from the East inspired the ways of thinking of the Western world. Now the movement starts to go both ways."

We are marching towards the Age of Aquarius, and most of us expect more spiritual awareness. Even so, in retrospect, the Age of Pisces, which represents the spirit, was completely chaotic, and very improper use was made in it of the spirit (persecution on religious grounds). There is some expectation for redemption in the new age. Are we deluding ourselves that things will really change?
"During the current Age of Aquarius the world will return to function according to natural laws. So it was during the last Age of Aquarius (approximately 25,000 years ago). This does not mean there won't be cars or shopping malls, but each person will act in cooperation with natural laws. This is possible even in the modern world. Even so, it will not happen through collective, spontaneous enlightenment; many people come with the expectation that one clear day everyone will meditate, realize the truth, and wars will end. This is the superficial and delusional aspect of the course of the new age. Transformations will take place through survival necessity. We will have no other choice but to change, since the human species will face unprecedented dangers, mostly natural disaster, new diseases and religious-international terror. These three things will lead to the changes needed for a higher awareness."

Do you think there is more love today than two thousand years ago?
"I would say there is less today."

And do you think there will be more love in the near future?
"Again, it seems this will happen after humankind will experience disasters. Disasters are needed to eliminate all that is redundant. After them, the human species will connect with what really matters in life and will learn to remove all that is insignificant. People will learn to channel with the soul, heart and space, and not with the existing nonsense. In times of threat there is no time to deal with superficiality and nonsense!"
We are in a process of globalization, in which we witness for example military interference of the United States in Kossovo.
Do you think it is power play, or is there hope in it for a better future?
"It is a good sign for a better future, in which there will be no more place for tyranical regimes. In twenty years there will be no such regimes."

The Human Origin from Africa

Most of the world is still immersed in chaos. Africa for example is dying before our eyes from Aids, massacres and natural disasters. They pay for all the mistakes of the Western colonial world and for waste of resources. Why this fate? What is the karma of Africa?
"Africa is the source of the human species. From it came the first seeds that later spread over the whole planet. From this we derive that everything that happens in Africa reflects in a primal way the condition of the human species. This actually reflects the closing of the circle that the human species is going through - the collapse of systems for the sake of the renewal that will follow. In Africa begin and take place all the phenomena that come to teach the human species about choices, both good and not good. This is at the foundation of the issue."

Many claim that Africa is going through this karma because of use of black magic and voodoo...
"But this is true for every culture at every time. In every corner of the world there have been recorded throughout history improper uses of power, and every culture or group will have to put to right the distortions they caused. Faulty use of power or magic is not unique to Africa. What happens now in Africa reflects a process that applies to the whole human species."

In Afghanistan there is one of the most extreme forms of patriarchal takeover. Women go through inconceivable tortures, such as the custom of acid baths as punishment for suspicion for being unfaithful to her husband. But this is an extreme expression of the war between the sexes. Why are men so angry with women?
"About 8,000 years ago the patriarchal age took over the matriarchal age. The patriarchal age developed when men imagined themselves as God, because they discovered they give the semen that will turn into a baby. Prior to that women were adored for their ability to conceive and create. In the patriarchal age there was a separation between spirit and the body. Woman who represents the body and sexuality became the symbol of man's spiritual downfall or his temptation, and thus deserving punishment. All religions that see God as a masculine image and stand for man's supremacy, including Judaism, Islam and Christianity, see women as inferior."

But Judaism, Christianity and Islam started after the transition from the patriarchal to matriarchal age; they did not initiate this transition.
"They did not initiate it, but were very much influenced by it. Look, the bottom line is that in the patriarchal age God is presented as a perfect entity, as opposed to a developing entity. Now, from this perfect God came all this anger against imperfection that exists in the world. Humankind has no tolerance towards imperfection, so anger and blame are having a riot. From this starting point men who consider themselves as closer to God allow themselves to subdue women, rape them and perform female circumcision. They think of women as an obstacle on their way to perfection. But the starting point is that if God is perfect, what is then the source of imperfection?"

Even Jesus who brought back the spirit of the matriarchal age had twelve men disciples!
"Jesus brought knowledge from matriarchal times in certain senses only. He did this by putting natural laws before ego laws. He said for instant: 'treat others the way you want to be treated.' But Jesus really spoke of a masculine God; he spoke of the father, not the mother."

He started many revolutions, but not in this aspect...
"His revolution is expressed in that 85% of his followers were woman, many of whom whores. He confronted the hypocrite morals. For example in the matter of that woman who was unfaithful to her husband, that the whole community wanted to stone to death, he said: 'He who has never sinned, let him cast the first stone.' Nobody moved. He saved her through compassion and humanity. This was a very revolutionary step in those days. He brought back the spirit of matriarchal times by being forgiving towards imperfection."

Transparency

With the union between the sexes, do you believe that the human race will mutate and become androgynous?
"No. Because in that case an entity could fertilize itself and reproduce its own genetic structure. This goes against all the laws of survival. In order for every species or race to survive in the long run, it is important to merge different entities, because the immune system of the offspring develops through the combination of the different genes."

What happens to the soul between lifetimes?
"When the soul leaves the body, it enters what is called the astral dimension. This dimension is very versatile, and each soul experiences it according to its level of evolution. The astral dimension is very similar to our world, only it doesn't have buildings, roads, cars and shopping malls... another difference is that the light in that dimension is internal and does not come from the sun. The density is much more rare; everything seems more transparent.
"When the soul leaves the body, its first experience is the reconstruction of the last lifetime and all the preceding incarnations. This is in order to understand the karma and build the content of the next lifetime. In general there are seven astral dimensions: three connected to a reality of time and space, three others belonging to a non-relative reality, and one transitional. The shortest time a soul could be outside a body is seven days, and the longest - about a thousand years... those who reincarnate in a short time usually experienced death at an early age the past lifetime."

And what happens at the end of the general experience on Earth?
"After the soul has exhausted all the wishes dictated by life on Earth, it keeps incarnating in all other six universes. Earth and those like it (such as Sirius and the Pleiades) have relatively high density. The dimension following Earth is a dimension where the soul can create any reality by will power with complete cooperation with the will of God (God as a supreme power unidentified with a specific gender)."

Do you estimate that the new age will be heralded by a prophet?
"Not in physical manifestation."

You use the term Daemon Soul (as opposed to demon). What does it mean precisely?
"Daemon is a Latin word which means a human soul that merged with the whole of nature, and especially with animals and plants. This is because the emotional body and the nervous system of animals and plants are similar to that of humans. When this blending takes place, such a soul becomes the messenger of God. The Christian Church during medieval times distorted this term to demon for the purpose of ascribing these souls to the devil and persecuting them."

What do you propose to people in the street in the twenty-first century?
"Smile and be happy."

Yes, but how to be happy?
"Demonstrate a very sincere wish to know God and the truth, do as much as possible to connect with a higher power in a direct experience. Then connect the personal wish with the power of the supreme will, develop the awareness of what that supreme power wants to create through the soul, and just do it. This is happiness!"