About the Gongs

Gaia: Earth in the solar year, season to season, it is our home tone. Approximate musical note is C#. Rules Earth's Yearly Seasonal Cycle. Character is Centering, grounding, balance.

Key Words: Nature, sustenance, material gain, creativity, concentration, remembrance, birth, youth, midlife, wisdom, and experience.

Basic Functions: Earth represents the ability to be comfortable in our body, and the homework we each must do. Provides the balance needed to complete our destiny successfully.

Hermes: Approximate musical note is C#, Rules: Gemini/Virgo, Character: Mind.

Key Words: libraryunication, concrete knowledge, reason, realism, analysis, intelligence, cunning, alertness, eloquence, discrimination, versatility, dexterity, conceptual ability, inventiveness.

Basic Functions: Activates our mind and reasoning faculty to promote knowledge, understanding, libraryunication, freedom of choice and synthesis.

Aphrodite: Approximate musical note is A, Rules: Taurus/Libra, Character: Relationships.

Key Words: Love, passion, desire, artistic sensibility, affection, harmony, beauty, magnetism, the feminine principal, cooperation, sociability, refinement, responsiveness.

Basic Functions: Increases our awareness of others, brings beauty, harmony, creativity and abundance, while opening us up to the power and potential of relationship.

Aries: Approximate musical note is D, Rules: Aries/Scorpio, Character: Passion.

Key Words: Self-assertion, survival, decisive, activity, desire, the masculine principle, physical initiative, energy, courage, originality, courage, action, determination power, virility, resolve.

Basic Functions: Propels you to take action, provides the courage necessary to remove obstacles in your path and to find new ways of self-expression. Protects and assures.

Poseidon: Approximate musical note is G#, Rules: Pisces, Character: Creativity/Bliss.

Key Words: Mystical, illusive, transcendental, inspiring, visionary, compassionate, sacrificial, e.s.p, psychic and cosmic awareness, spiritualism.

Basic Functions: To dissolve out-dated patterns and attachments in order to make room for growth. Neptune points out false projections and illusions, allowing us to reclaim our lost power. Helps us access the potential for intuition, inspiration and artistic creativity.

Hades: Approximate musical note is C#, Rules: Scorpio, Character: Transformation.

Key Words: Transmutation, integration, sexuality, illumination, transformation, liberation, potential, shadow, death and resurrection, rebirth, polarity.

Basic Functions: Growth and transcendence through conflict. Pluto breaks down the old into its component parts only to reassemble them on a new higher octave. Pluto rules the raising of kundalini, the major driving power of this ongoing process.

Chiron: Approximate musical note is D#, Rules: Virgo, Character: Initiation.

Key Words: Non-traditional healing methods, alchemy, vision, destiny, self-sacrifice, animal power, integrity, strength, compassion, wisdom, knowledge, dependability, unconventionality, craftiness.

Basic Functions: Chiron is the wounded healer, a catalyst to help us access our deepest wounds, so that we may move forward with strength, compassion and wisdom to achieve our true destiny.

Nibiru: Approximate musical note is E, Rules: Libra, Character: Evolution.

Key Words: Evolution, travel, connection, the gods, roots and origins, genetics, change, feelings, emotional longing and resolution, enlightenment, initiator, restoration.

Basic Functions: Nibiru crosses our lives and helps us to identify our emotional needs and longing, to achieve resolution, and enlightenment so that we can repair that which is not working and restore ourselves to balance.

Sedna: Approximate musical note is C, Rules: Harmonics with strong affinity to Pluto and Neptune.

Key Words: Sound, forgiveness, compassion, creativity, global view, water, transformation/transmigration, purging and purifying toxicity, right conduct and responsibility, non-linearity/non-duality.

Basic Functions: Sedna expands and challenges our ideas and assumptions about the very nature of the cosmos, opening us to new paradigms and non-duality, providing us with access into the deep layers of the personal and collective unconscious, our super conscious, and Universal intelligences.