April 2025 – Month of the Golden Metal Dragon – Geng Shen ⾦⿓
The Golden Metal Dragon – Daily Magic Hour
April 4 – May 5
Charles Burchfield
This 3rd month (April 4th to May 5th) is ruled by the Golden Metal Dragon or the Golden Shen Lung. There are three great spiritual dragons in Chinese cosmology and Shen-Lung is the Rain God who controls rain, wind, thunder and lightning. Dragons stand for the yang or the positively charged masculine forces and their sound is that of thunder.
The Chinese character for thunder is a dragon pictured under a raincloud. This golden rain dragon is associated with fertility and is known for creating sudden changes. Believing deeply in the fertilizing power of rain and sudden weather changes in the spring months, the Chinese held elaborate rituals to to avoid offending him, for if he grew angry or felt neglected, the result was bad weather, drought, floods, thunderstorms or illness. To placate him, they created clay dragon images and carried them around the region while reciting special incantations. It was a form of sympathetic magic. They believed “like attracts like.”
Although the spiritual Geng Metal Dragon energies can represent purity, intuition and precision, they can also be inflexible, unbending and combative with little regard for the feelings of others. This ruthlessness can result in a rapid rise to the power of authority, which is being demonstrated worldwide right now. Often it falls to the Metal Dragon to state the difficult truth that no one else will raise. This month, we must stay cognizant of the predicament we are in, and strive to maintain balance amid all of the contradictory chatter and fear surrounding us.
With all of the renewed interest in remote viewing online now and many of the practitioners referencing their use of the Magical Local Sidereal hour, I decided to bring back an article I wrote a few years ago about the subject. I’m sure many of you have forgotten about it, so it is a good time in this intuitive month of the dragon to remember that this time of heightened intuition is available to everyone, everyday! Also I did three interviews with remote viewers on my You Tube channel – https://www.youtube.com/c/InvisibleArchitecture/videos
While doing some research on sidereal time (star time,) I remembered years ago there was a lot of chatter about 1:30 pm sidereal time, being about a half hour of heightened intuition. I decided to investigate what had become of that phenomena. I was shocked to find it had been a 20 year research project with 22 studies and 1, 524 trials at Stanford Research Institute – SRI – famous for their Remote Viewing Programs and sponsored by the CIA.
The scientist who did this research was James Spottiswoode an American physicist who has carried out psi research, notably in remote viewing, with an emphasis on seeking physical correlates to psi performance. He worked with SRI remote viewing programs later at SAIC, where the program moved and at the Global Consciousness Project with their worldwide random generators network.
There are two types of time systems– solar – based on the sun’s movement and sideral – based on star’s movements. Sidereal time is used by astronomers and other scientists and researchers to keep track of celestial objects. It is based on a time scale of earth’s rotation in relation to fixed stars in the sky, and was used to discover the mysterious nature of such astral phenomenon as pulsars.
Astrolabe to measure Local Star (Sidereal) Time
Spottiswoode discovered significant data showing that remote viewing in sidereal time is directly correlated with success, or lack there of, based on our orientation to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. At a certain point during the day, our zenith, or the point in the sky directly above us, aligns with a particular point in the galaxy. Rather than measuring time based on the Earth’s orientation with the sun, one can measure time based on Earth’s orientation to this galactic point. Days measured in this sense are shorter than solar days by about 4 minutes, lagging by a little more than 1 day per year.
He found that there are peak times during the day when our orientation to the galactic center can enhance success with remote viewing and psychic ability. By examining the time of day when the sessions were being conducted, based on solar time, he kept finding discrepancies. But when organizing the data based on sidereal time, he found a correlation. At 13:30 local sidereal time (LST), the data showed that one would have 400 percent greater success in remote viewing. At this time, our planet is oriented with the Milky Way so that the galactic center is located directly on the horizon. This daily period of peak psychic cognition lasts for about three and a half hours, from 12:45 to 14:15 h LST. When the center of the galaxy is directly overhead, psychic cognition drops to its lowest point, between 17:30 and 20:00 LST.
I didn’t realize that this spike in intuition lasted for about three and a half hours! Looking at my current solar time, it is 11:50 but my local sidereal time is 1:44 am. They are not very near each other now, but will gradually move closer and closer. There are apps for cell phones that give you the LST. I use a free app called Local Sidereal Time – Scott Spiller is the creator.
Spottiswoode further discovered that during times of low geomagnetic activity, there was also an increase in telepathic experiences. Geomagnetism is due to interactions between the solar wind and the ionosphere, which causes fluctuations in our geomagnetic field. You can look up the current geomagnetic activity on the site Spaceweatherlive.com – They say the eomagnetic field is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels on days one and two (01 Apr, 02 Apr) and quiet levels on day three (03 Apr.). The next 3 days should be good for telepathic experiences!
