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JOAN GRANT - THE VISIONARY
Joan Grant (1907-1989) is widely known and respected for her work involving reincarnation and the use of past life recall to identify and heal residual energies causing current life phobias and emotional disabilities. Joan was a prolific writer having produced many books based upon her own past lifetimes including the 1937 best selling Winged pharaoh as well as several children's books.
Joan's referred to her psychic gift as "far memory" which was originally taught to her in an Egyptian lifetime as a pharaoh's daughter who spent ten years in a temple being trained to recall the past. Joan's ancient gift allowed her to recall in great detail centuries of her own past lifetimes and eventually she drew a correlation between some of her past life traumas with her own current life phobias. She further perfected the far memory technique by ‘shifting the level of consciousness' between sleeping and waking so she could dictate her impressions allowing them to be put into writing. Joan recognized that once a past life trauma could be recalled and understood current life phobias and/or emotional disabilities could be healed. Enhancing this ability was Joan's extensive psychiatric training while working with a psychiatrist during the war years.
All of this extraordinary past life training and current life experience would become invaluable when Joan met and married her third husband Dr. Denys Kelsey. Kelsey was a psychiatrist who had begun using hypnosis as a healing tool. He believed that the use of hypnosis combined with Joan's knowledge of reincarnation and ability to resonate with the past lives of others (sometimes with aid of Psychometry) would be invaluable in curing those who suffered from trauma induced fears and phobias because once the original source was identified, the "reason" could be integrated by the current life personality and then diffused. Working as a team they were able to help many people with this unique version of psychotherapy. Here's an example...
One of Dr. Kelsey's patients was a young man suffering from severe anxiety. The anxiety had escalated to the point where the young man was suicidal. One day, Joan decided to delve into the young man's past lifetimes on her own and when Dr. Kelsey returned home later that day he was confronted by a very distressed, pain riddled Joan who was in the midst of past life recall on behalf of the young man. When questioned she told Kelsey -
" I can feel the blood clots in the tooth sockets ... It was bad enough during the first two days, after he pulled out all her teeth, but then the taste got worse and worse, not only dead blood but pus. Then the fever started ... and she died on the fourth day."
Upon examination Joan revealed that the "woman" in that past lifetime had beautiful teeth that had been pulled out with nail pincers by her jealous husband. That "woman" was the young man in a past incarnation.
Everything began to fit together when Dr. Kelsey remembered that in an earlier session with the young man, he revealed that his anxiety started after an incident in a bar when someone threatened him saying, "I'm going to kick your teeth in!" When the young man was told about Joan's experience and findings on his behalf he accepted the past life explanation with no problem. His anxiety disappeared and did not recur.
Joan Grant's "far memory" work used in humanitarian capacity to help others is an absolute example of metaphysics at it's best!
Joan's chart shows the sign of Aquarius on the 9th House Cusp with no planetary or asteroid signature "in house." The role of Aquarius on this cusp is to "externalize consciousness" which is exactly what Joan did by using her finely tuned abilities to tap into past lives in order to aid others in overcoming present life phobias based in residual energies from past life trauma and drama. In true Aquarian fashion, Joan was a very human counselor who used extraordinary means.
Usually, the Aquarian signature indicates sensory information that comes in a series of psychic flashes but Joan's process of reception could be likened more to watching a scene in a movie. The involvement of the 9th House ruler Uranus is key in understanding Joan's finely tuned abilities. In this case, the 9th House receiving "antennae" is finely tuned by a configuration known as a T-Square consisting of the 9th House ruler Uranus (occupying Capricorn) in the 7th House opposed Neptune (occupying Cancer) in the 1st House and both square the Moon (occupying Aries) in the 11th House. The Uranus/Neptune opposition occurs in angular houses which is a very strong combination signature for intuitive/psychic sensitivity. It also indicates a "direct line" to the Astral Plane where collective information is stored. The individual is a type of "remote viewer" who can tap into the Akashic and experience or view "playback" of different periods of time. It is also important to note that the planet Mars is conjunct Uranus and also opposed Neptune. These combined energies further show an uncanny ability to decipher psychosomatic ailments or other mysterious and hard to diagnose mental or physical ailments. This made it easier for Joan to access the "root" causes of a currently held debilitating problems.
In a T-Square the "opposing energies" are filtered through the apex planet which in this case is the goal seeking and pioneering 11th House Arien Moon. The apex planet indicates how the energies involved will manifest. The Lunar/Uranian contact shows a strong desire to throw over the conditions of "the past" thus creating a "clean slate" for the future. The Lunar/Neptunian contact expresses powerful mediumistic tendencies buoyed by astral influences from different etheric planes and spaces in time. These energies combined not only show Joan's capacity to tap into her own past lives but also into the lives of others with the goal of "cleaning the slate" or manifesting a cure for current issues.
Not surprisingly, the South Node which represents past lifetimes is in Capricorn in the 8th House. This is a very mystical combination which is known in esoteric circles as the "Gate Out" or the "Capricorn Gate of Death." It signifies the soul's exit from the Earth Plane and subsequent "life review" before moving on. This life review consists not only of the what was learned and experienced in the recent lifetime but of all past lifetimes. Joan's South Node is in an out-of-sign conjunction with the 9th House Cusp. This is very significant with regards to Joan's psychic /sensory visions concerning reincarnation. A conjunction represents combined energies so basically this aspect made it easy for her to receive psychic impressions via the 9th House that filtered in from the nether regions as the veil of death was lifted via the 8th House Capricornian South Node and the information was made available. The 9th House Cusp itself is an Anaretic or Karmic degree indicating "master level" with regards to all 9th House propositions. This not only includes Joan's soul desire to "publish" writings (a 9th House venue) in the current lifetime but also her soul willingness in choosing this particular lifetime to speak her "truth" about her gift of recall since her soul essence had reached cumulative mastery regarding her abilities.
For a full delineation of Joan Grant's chart please visit the Essayettes section of this website. For FULL information about the fascinating life of Joan Grant please visit her official website www.JoanGrant.net.
All quotes for this Astro-Historical review of Joan Grant from Mysteries of Mind, Space and Time Vol. 11.