Monthly Archives: June 2016

Stellar is the golden seed from which the corn arises

June 22, 2016Chicago Event, Festival, Poetry, Quote, Remembering~hag

22 June 2016 –

Saturn reached its peak earlier this month, when it appeared opposite the Sun, & our view of the ringed planet remains spectacular. It is on display nearly all night among the background stars of southern Ophiuchus, hanging in the southeastern sky as darkness falls & climbing highest in the south around 11:30 p.m

Feast of St. Thomas More, “a man for all seasons,” literary scholar, lawyer, father of 4 & chancellor of England. He would not support Henry VIII’s divorce & remarriage. Beheaded on Tower Hill, London, 1535

1527 Deathday of Niccolo Macchiavelli – “The Prince”

1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe

1805 – Birthday of Giuseppe Mazzini, an Italian politician, journalist & activist for the unification of Italy spearheading the Italian revolutionary movement. Freemason – Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy. Rudolf Steiner speaks of him as a Hibernian initiate with Garibaldi & Cavour

1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, & Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears

1941 –Hitler invades the Russia in Operation Barbarossa

1942 – Pledge of Allegiance formally adopted by Congress

1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, & spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act & the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency

1978 – Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered by American astronomer James W. Christy

1990 – Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.

2002 – An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes northwestern Iran killing 261 people & injuring 1,300 others

2010 – Deathday of Ekkehard Meffert anthroposophist who studied geology, geography, philosophy (with a thesis on Cusa), Education, politics & history. Best known for his biography of Mathilde Scholl, one of the first esoteric students of Rudolf Steiner

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Wolfgang Harms

~Stellar is the golden seed from which the corn arises,

Earthly is the Sun on the hill from which spirals day…

My body nourishes some unfolding time & purpose

My heart lifts like the Moon

& power quivers on the water…

I shine bronze & gold

& silver in the mirror of the unveiled Isis…

Today

The fixed stars & the circling planets are glad…

~hag

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“He Must Increase but I Must Decrease.” (John 3:30)

John the Baptist – born in the light of the Summer Sun, just after the Solstice, six months before Jesus, whose birth is celebrated just after the Winter Solstice.

Along with references to the light of the Sun, there are many lamp & fire symbols in the Old Testament that prepare the way for the Christ, in which this being appeared in ‘flames of fire’ & ‘clouds of glory’, such as the burning bush (Exodus 3), & the refiner’s fire (Malachi 3:2)

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path”(Psalm 119:105)

Solomon compares prayer with a lamp, & teaching with light, (Proverbs 6:23) “like the shining of the sun, burns evermore, and leads to eternal rest.”

Rabbis were often called “Lamps of the Law,” & David was “The Lamp of Israel” (2 Samuel 21:17). Compare the remarkable parallel spoken of in the prototype of the Baptist: “Then stood up Elias the prophet, as fire, and his word was kindled like a lamp” (Ecclesiasticus 48:1). This speaks to the promised light which was to appear, & Elias as the torchbearer who kindles the lamb to light the bridegroom’s way.

“He was not the Light, but came to bear witness to the Light” (John 1:8). Here we see the distinction between the lamp (John the Baptist) & the Light (The Christ)

2 Peter 1:19 tells us: “We also have the message of the prophets, which has been confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to this message, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.”

John the Baptist, as the Forerunner of the Christ, is the flame signal of the Messiah, the last Old Testament form of the pillar of fire, or the candlestick in the temple. “He was the burning and shining lamp (λύχνος, not φῶς) and there was nothing you wanted more than to bask for a while in that light”. (John 5:35) Here we experience the Baptist as Christōsphoros, the harbinger of the Christ-Light (Φωσφόρος) – the “Light-Bearer”,.

“John replies in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.” (John 1:23)

“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.” (Matthew 6:22). We also find that, under the symbol of lamps of fire, the messengers of God, are repeatedly set forth (Matthew 5:14-16; Matthew 25:1-8; Revelation 1:20; Philippians 2:15).

Like the call of conscience from John the Baptist, the need arises to let the light of the higher ego shine into our being.

Let us seek to know the will forces that through our deeds become part of the earth’s being, & make straight the path to the New Jerusalem.

(See also these references: John 1:5, John 1:7, John 1:8, John 1:9; & compare John 3:19-21, John 8:12; John 9:5; John 12:46)

Until soon

Blessings and Peace ~Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Come join us:

Sunday June 26^th, 2pm – 4pm

at the Rudolf Steiner Branch 4249 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago IL. 60618. MAP

He Must Increase but I Must Decrease– Exploring the Mysteries of Midsummer with special guest Robert Karp – Co-Director of the Biodynamic Association.

How do we stand wakefully within the sublime mysteries of Summer and St. John’s tide?

Who is the mysterious archangel of Midsummer described by Rudolf Steiner, and what is his relationship to John the Baptist?

Can we trace his influence in modern culture, in modern America? What transformation does he seek to bring into our souls and into our communities?

These are some of the questions we will explore in this talk and, in a series of social-artistic exercises that will be incorporated into the talk.

Please Bring your Journal & Eurythmy shoes if you have them

Dulcimer music by Dr. Elaine Wagner

Rudolf Steiner’s Summer Mantra – read by Elisabeth Swisher

Labyrinth Dance with Hazel Archer Ginsberg

For more info. Contact Hazel ReverseRitual@gmail.com

Tipping Point

June 21, 2016Chicago Event, Festival, Poetry, Remembering, Summer~hag

21 June 2016 – International Yoga Day

1002 – Birthday of Pope Leo IX, a German aristocrat & a powerful ruler of central Italy while holding the papacy. His citing of the Donation of Constantine in a letter to the Patriarch of Constantinople brought about the Great Schism between the Catholic & Orthodox churches.

1205 – Deathday of Enrico Dandolo, Duke of Venice, infamous for his role in the Fourth Crusade & the Sack of Constantinople in which he, at age ninety & blind, led the Venetian contingent. Rudolf Steiner speaks of him as being possessed by an Ahrimanic spirit (today there is a popular video game named after him)

1667 – Dutch surrender New Amsterdam to the British – it’s renamed it New York

1898 – The United States captures Guam from Spain

1900 – Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France & Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi

1914 – Deathday of Bertha von Suttner a Czech-Austrian pacifist & novelist. In 1905 she was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1930 – Deathday of a Ludwig Noll, German physician & friend of Rudolf Steiner. Noll was a pioneer of Anthroposophic medicine. He was head of the German section of the Theosophical Society in 1911, then became medical advisor with Rudolf Steiner in 1914, applying his esoteric training to homeopathy. The Kassel Ludwig Noll Hospital is named for him.

1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens.

1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney & Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan

1970 – Penn Central Transportation Company declares bankruptcy, largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date

2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight

2006 – Pluto‘s newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.

2009 – Greenland assumes self-rule.

2012 – A boat carrying more than 200 refugees capsized in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java & Christmas Island, killing 187 people

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Dear Faireyland Friends –

The Solstice Doorway of Light will stand open for 3 days – So we have time & space to celebrate the Sun, giver of life – So we can think, how, each second, the Sun transforms four million tons of itself into light – Giving itself over, to become energy, that we take in with every meal. All life, has been feasting on the Sun’s energy stored in the form of wheat or reindeer, as each day the Sun dies & is reborn as the vitality of Earth.

Every child needs to learn this simple truth: She is the energy of the Sun! And it’s our job to organize life on earth so that every face shines with the same radiant de-light.

Can we as human beings learn that generosity is not only possible, but required? Look to the center of the solar system for our role model, a magnificent stellar bounteousness, pouring forth free energy, every day, without stop – without complaint, or the slightest hesitation. This is the way of the universe. This is the way of life. And this is the way in which each of us joins the cosmological lineage, accepting the Sun’s gift of energy, & transforming it into creative action that will enable society & all life on earth to flourish.

Throughout time, the Solstices have been honored as power points. Twice each year we move into a window in space-time when the Sun & Earth communicate in their extremes, & energy is exchanged in a dance of light & dark – a Tipping Point in consciousness, in the service of evolution…(Unlike the Equinoxes -which are all about perfect balance-the Solstices are a Tipping Point – toward or away from The Light)

The Summer & Winter Solstices are key reference points in our solar year, marking the changing light. What would it be like to pay attention to where the light comes in to your room everyday, so bright & early now, & then watching its changing position thru-out the year? Where do the rays glance at Michaelmas time? At the Winter Solstice…?

So dearly beloved – take a moment in the next few days to Stop…with the Sun…Close your eyes…& Look Up… consciously absorbing the photonic energy generously generated by the loving heart of our central star – Tiny rays of intelligence from the Mind of the Divine, translated thru the Sun – Spiritual Beings beaming all around us, especially now…

At our current point in the long cycles of Earth-time, the Summer Solstice aligns
with THE GALACTIC EDGE…of our known world…it is a time when we can tune into information ‘from a galaxy far, far away’… Could this Edge be the source of new ideas for changing the game on earth…? Here we can pause, with the Sun, to open the door to this expanded consciousness…

Will you walk thru this door with me…?

The Turning of the Ages in this sense is not just the movement from epoch to epoch, a 2,500 year cycle, it is a much longer round – a 26,000 year cycle, associated with the Precession of the Equinoxes.

Why am I bringing this up? Because the power of this shift from one 26,000 year cycle to another is most profoundly felt at the Solstices…

Does anyone else hear this strange music?

~Sun your number is 1

Multiplied by Billions

I am 1 too

With a thousand longings for unity

Before the after

An exaltation of now

In the timelessness of 1

Where I walk without flinching

Thru the burning cathedral of the Summer-Tide –

My bank of wild grass

Ever majestic & full of music

An eternal fire of renewal, pressing life

Against my skin & lips & soul

…See you there…

~hag
Blessings Beloved Ones – You are my Sunshine…

Xox

~Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Come join us:

Sunday June 26^th, 2pm – 4pm

at the Rudolf Steiner Branch 4249 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago IL. 60618. MAP

He Must Increase but I Must Decrease– Exploring the Mysteries of Midsummer with special guest Robert Karp – Co-Director of the Biodynamic Association.

How do we stand wakefully within the sublime mysteries of Summer and St. John’s tide?

Who is the mysterious archangel of Midsummer described by Rudolf Steiner, and what is his relationship to John the Baptist?

Can we trace his influence in modern culture, in modern America? What transformation does he seek to bring into our souls and into our communities?

These are some of the questions we will explore in this talk and, in a series of social-artistic exercises that will be incorporated into the talk.

Please Bring your Journal & Eurythmy shoes if you have them

Dulcimer music by Dr. Elaine Wagner

Rudolf Steiner’s Summer Mantra – read by Elisabeth Swisher

Labyrinth Dance with Hazel Archer Ginsberg

For more info. Contact Hazel ReverseRitual@gmail.com

“In the Summer the Earth is more given up to the atmosphere surrounding it. Humanity too is given up to the wide cosmic expanse. In the Summer he feels himself united with the Upper Gods. Man waited for the Midsummer season — the time when the Sun is at the zenith of its power — in order, at this season, and in certain places he regarded as sacred, to establish contact. He availed himself of his natural connection in Summer with the whole etheric environment, in order out of his deepest feelings, to make an offering: the thoughts that had been revealed by the Upper Gods to man were now offered back up to them in upward-streaming feelings.” ~Rudolf Steiner

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Rudolf Steiner Branch of The Anthroposophical Society, 4249 North Lincoln Avenue. Chicago, IL 60618 (map)

Check out our Web site! Chicago, IL (Anthroposophical Society in America)

The God has gone into the grain The Sun is on the water

June 20, 2016Insight, Poetry, Remembering, Summer~hag

20 June 2016 – Summer Solstice – A solstice happens when the sun’s zenith is at its furthest point from the equator. Today, it reaches its northernmost point & the Earth’s North Pole tilts directly towards the sun.

It’s also known as the northern solstice because it occurs when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere.

‘Solstice’ (Latin: ‘solstitium’) means ‘sun-stopping’. The point on the horizon where the sun appears to rise & set, stops & reverses direction after this day. On the solstice, the sun does not rise precisely in the east, but rises to the north of east & sets to the north of west, making it visible in the sky for a longer period of time.

Although the June solstice marks the first day of astronomical summer, it’s technically Mid-Summer

451 – Flavius Aetius’ battles Attila the Hun

940 – Gerbert of Aurilac, later Pope Sylvester II, Scientist, Pope, Wizard, –He traveled to Spain to study the lost quadrivium of the liberal arts: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, & music. His efforts to introduce Arabic numbers & the new art of algebra to Europe met with limited success; in fact, he was accused of practicing “dangerous Saracen magic”.

The accusations of black magic did not end with his death. A thirteen century manuscript denounced Gerbert as “the best necromancer in France, whom the demons of the air readily obeyed in all that he required of them by day & night because of the great sacrifices he offered them.”

But all of this was really part of the political skirmishing that brought down Charlemagne’s Holy Roman Empire, showing the nature of the medieval papacy, & the legend of the last emperor -The Abacus verses the Cross, a tangled relationship between religion, science & politics in the medieval world

1819 – The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool. It is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic

1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

1887 – Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opens in Bombay

1895 – The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula & the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened

1943 – The Detroit race riot breaks out & continues for three more days

1945 – The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun & his team of Nazi rocket scientists to America

1948 – Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut

1970 – Deathday of Herbert Hahn – Waldorf teacher, writer & Anthroposophist. Best known for his book ‘Folk Souls Of Europe & ‘Notes from Memory’, about the founding of the Esoteric Youth Circle

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(Summer Solstice/Litha poem) St. JOHN’S EVE in the tropic of cancer

Hot horns of light
Frame the dreaded Forerunner…
Wild Pan the Baptist
With wort & rue in his pouch
Locusts & raw honey on his breath,
Anoints the mistletoe
In the oak-grove.

The God has gone into the grain
The Sun is on the water
The edge of the rioting rose
Begins to melt
Its scent is heavy on the heat
Stealing the breath
From the hot mouth of God

Her infer-red ruby steams
The magnetic stains of light
To guide the Summer-Tide Soul
Into the labyrinth
Where the Oak King crests
And gives way
To the Dark Holly Twin

The hissing serpent
A round writhing egg
Christens the honey moon with mead

Awaken the gate
Meditate the laurel grail
And St. John’s spear
Under Canopus squared
A packsaddle beam
Capping an arch
As Argo sails the dipper flock
From the top of severity
To the mount of the manger

Pin a tail on the donkey
Put a fence around the goat

~hag

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“At Midsummer the earth’s soul becomes pious. The warmth that flames through the atmosphere is like a mighty sacrificial fire on the wings of which the soul soars upwards towards the sun…” ~Emil Bock

Summer Solstice comes at the precise moment when the sun’s power is at its peak. Solstice means ‘sun stands still’ since the sun rises & sets in the same spot for a few days. Here in the northern hemisphere, this is the longest day & shortest night of the year. From now on, the days will get shorter. This phenomenon is a direct result of the Earth-Sun relationship. After peaking, the Sun begins to wane, & the journey into the harvest season begins.

It has always been an important solar event throughout the evolution of humankind. The axis of Stonehenge & the Temple of the Sun in Mexico are both oriented in the direction of the Midsummer sunrise.

In even earlier times, the sun was perceived in its shinning prime & glory –giver of light & heat and life, as the effulgent force of the Feminine –a passionate aspect of the versatile Great Mother, who issues forth & supports all life.

The Solar Goddess was known in many ancient cultures & Her Priestess’ were highly regarded as healers & Psychopomps – Spiritual guides, initiating supplicants into the mysteries hidden behind the blinding light & fire of the solar disk. They used the 1st mirrors or lenses to harness the sun, to start the altar fires & to cauterize wounds for healing.

During the time of the ancient Egyptians, Sirius, the Dog Star rose on the Summer Solstice, heralding the beginning of their new year, just before the season of the Nile’s flooding.

The sun itself was deemed to be the all-seeing, all knowing, all powerful eye; but It was also known to be the “scorching eye of Ra” burning away the shadows, like a laser in the hands of a surgeon, cutting away disease, a power not to be taken (pardon the pun) lightly.

Probably the most ancient source of the Solar Force known to humanity is an Egyptian lion-headed Goddess called Sekhmet. She displays all the passion of the noonday-sun at its peak, burning away all that does not serve, rousing us to dance our true power, in the magic ritual of our transformation.

Solar energy & its radiations are said to be the cause of evolution itself, reminding us that we can take an active role in our evolutionary process by aligning ourselves with this Solar Power, plugging in directly to the source of ourselves, to the source of action & passion.

But remember, at this time of the zenith, the brightest light casts the deepest shadow.

In our time now, we strive toward a renewal of these mysteries – To transform the unbridled passions into purpose & guided action. The Summer Solstice brings our inner selves into harmony with our cosmic being, & reminds us of the Sun’s connection to The Christ – which is now united with the earth.

We lift up our hearts to meet ‘the heights & widths of the universe’, where we feel ‘Not I, but Christ in me’. To say as John the Baptist said “He must increase, but I must decrease.” We respond to the summertime call for a yearly ‘metanoia’ by reviewing our deeds, looking with courage to the errors of the past, enduring all the pain self-knowledge brings, so we can take on the tasks that will bring healing to ourselves & to the earth, & so that someday, with hearts lifted, we may say: Yes I, and Christ in me!

Until soon

Blessings and Peace ~Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Mid-Summers Eve

June 19, 2016Insight, Poetry, Remembering, Speaking with the Stars, Summer~hag

19 June 2016 – Happy Father’s Day

On June 19, 1910, the governor of Washington proclaimed the nation’s first “Father’s Day.” However, it was not until 1972, 58 years after President Woodrow Wilson made Mother’s Day official, that the day became a nationwide holiday in the United States.

The “Mother’s Day” we celebrate today has its origins in the peace-and-reconciliation campaigns of the post-Civil War era.

The campaign to celebrate the nation’s fathers did not meet with the same enthusiasm. On July 5, 1908, a West Virginia church sponsored the nation’s first event explicitly in honor of fathers, a Sunday sermon in memory of the 362 men who had died in the previous December’s explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines. Slowly, the holiday spread.

However, many men continued to disdain the day. So struggling retailers & advertisers redoubled their efforts to make Father’s Day a “second Christmas” for men, promoting goods such as neckties, hats, socks, pipes & tobacco, golf clubs & other sporting goods, & greeting cards. When World War II began, advertisers began to argue that celebrating Father’s Day was a way to honor American troops & support the war effort. By the end of the war, Father’s Day may not have been a federal holiday, but it was a national institution.

In 1972, in the middle of a hard-fought presidential re-election campaign, Richard Nixon signed a proclamation making Father’s Day a federal holiday at last. Today, economists estimate that Americans spend more than $1 billion each year on Father’s Day gifts.

May all Father’s be like a beneficent protector king, compassionate, helpful & wise.

325 – 1^st Council of Nicea concludes & promulgates the Nicene Creed

1566 – Birthday of James VI of Scotland & I of England, son of Mary, Queen of Scots; inspirer of William Shakespeare, Jacob Boehme, & Jacob Balde & the “Golden Age” of Elizabethan literature & drama. He sponsored the translation of the Bible that was named after him: the Authorised King James Version

1623 – Birthday of Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher & child prodigy.

1844 – Deathday of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, defender of Goethean science, a French naturalist who established the principle of “unity of composition”. His scientific views had a transcendental flavor.

1862 – The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.

1867 – Deathday of Maximillian I. Seeking to legitimize French rule in the Americas, Napoleon III invited Maximilian to establish a new Mexican monarchy for him. Many foreign governments refused to recognize Maximilian’s claim or regime. His self-declared empire collapsed, & he was executed by the Mexican government.

1917 – The solar eclipse of June 19, 1917

1936 – The solar eclipse of June 19, 1936

1953 – Julius & Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York

1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate

2012 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requests asylum in London’s Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army

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Doris Dumphy

Calendar of the Soul Thirteenth Week [June 19, 2016 – June 25, 2016]

And when I live in senses’ heights,

There flames up deep within my soul

Out of the spirit’s fiery worlds

The gods’ own word of truth:

In spirit sources seek expectantly

To find your spirit kinship.

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Tomorrow 20 June 2016, is the Summer Solstice, exact 5:34pm CDT.

Astrologically the Summer Solstice, the height of the Sun, corresponds to the entry of the Sun into the sign of Cancer, which is interestingly a water sign governed by the moon. And this year, on Summer Solstice we will also experience the Full Moon! So tonight is the eve of what is traditionally called the Honey Moon or Strawberry Moon.

Cancer symbolizes the moving waters of our inner life, our moods & cycles, our instincts & intuition – our juiciness! It holds the force & power of our imagination, our emotions, our roots. A reflective, passive, cyclic force, this sign marks the intimate inner world of our personal & family bonds, as well as our larger collective family.

The Festival of Summer Solstice is sometimes called Midsummer’s Eve & it is celebrated like other ‘holy days’ on the Eve, starting at twilight, when the power is most concentrated.

Midsummer’s Eve is a magical time to communicate with the plant & fairy spirits, as it is the time of the herb harvest. All plants gathered this night are considered exceptionally potent for healing & ritual purposes.

St. John’s Wort & other healing herbs are placed around the home for protection as they dry. Since it is a solar herb, it is used to bring the power of the sun to people who suffer from depression. They are also thrown into the Midsummer bonfire, & when the coals have cooled down the ashes are mixed with water & sprinkled on the fields, the 4 corners of the home, & the on the head or feet of the children.

Royal fern seeds gathered at midnight on the eve are said to make you invisible; rub the blossoms on your eyelids to see the wee folk, which will also make you wealthy & wise, but be sure to carry a bit of rue in your pocket or you might be ‘pixie-led’. Can’t find the rue, then turn your jacket inside out & follow the old ‘Ley-Lines’, which will keep you from getting lost in fairy land.

Divination on matters of love are especially powerful on Midsummer’s Eve. Young women place yarrow or other herbs & flowers native to their part of the world peaking at this time, under their pillows, to dream of their future mates.

The ancient Druids celebrated the Summer Solstice as the Wedding of Heaven & Earth. The Goddess manifests as Mother Earth & the God as the Sun King.

More lore tomorrow

Until soon

Blessings and Peace ~Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Upward Streaming

June 18, 2016Chicago Event, Festival, Insight, Quote, Remembering, Rudolf Steiner Quote, Speaking with the Stars, Summer~hag

18 June 2016

Near the Solstice, the twilight lingers well past 9 o’clock. The waxing Gibbous Moon, climbing into the southeast before sunset, is joined by Saturn as it starts to darken between 9 & 9:30 PM. They’ll track low in the southern skies, due south just before midnight. To their lower right is the red star Antares, while the much brighter Mars is well to the right.

Rudolf Steiner

Feast Day of Archangel Uriel

1178 – Five Canterbury monks see the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon’s distance from the Earth are a result of this collision

1812 – War of 1812 began when the U.S. declares war on Great Britain, Canada, & Ireland

1815 –The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte

Antonie Wierz

1865 – Deathday of Antonie Wierz – Belgian romantic painter & sculptor

1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote

1900 – Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats & their families

1901 – Birthday of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov of Russia

1916 – Death day of Helmuth von Moltke, said by Steiner to have been Pope Nicholas I.

1924 – Rudolf Steiner travels to Koberwitz & Lauenstein to give the curative pedagogy lectures

1929 – Deathday of Michael Bauer – German teacher, author , lecturer, president after Carl Unger of the Anthroposophical Society

1940 – Appeal of 18 June by Charles de Gaulle

1971 – President Richard Nixon declares that illegal drugs are “public enemy number one”, which becomes popularized as the “War on Drugs“.

1979 – In Vienna, President Jimmy Carter & Leonid Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)

1983 –Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space

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Richard Redgrave

~ Weaving garlands of onion & hibiscus,

Succulent moon dew pooling

In the golden cleft

Of my warrior heart

I am a thought made manifest

~hag

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Part 8 on the ST. JOHN IMAGINATION

“The teachers in the Mysteries said: “Every year at Midsummer, a solemn offering must be made to the Upper Gods in gratitude for the thoughts they vouchsafe to humanity; for if this is not done, it is all too easy for the Luciferic powers to invade man’s thinking and he is then permeated by these powers.

He can avoid this if every Summer he is mindful of how the Upper Gods have given him these thoughts, and at the Midsummer season lets his thoughts flow back again, as it were, to the Gods.” In this way the men of olden times tried to safeguard themselves from Luciferic influences.

The leaders of the Mysteries called together their pupils and enacted that solemn rite at the culmination of which the thoughts that had been revealed by the Upper Gods were now offered up to them in upward-streaming feelings.

The external rite consisted in solemn words being spoken into rising smoke which was thus set into waves. This act was merely meant to signify that the offering made by man’s inmost soul to the Upper Gods was being inscribed into an outer medium — the rising smoke — through form-creating words.

The words of the prayer inscribed into the rising smoke the feelings which the soul desired to send upwards to the Gods as an offering for the thoughts they had revealed.” ~Rudolf Steiner, The Spiritual Communion of Mankind http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/19221223p01.html#sthash.wBDzuZDX.dpuf

“…Now, humanity must learn to know the etheric and astral elements outside himself. This he can do only through the reverent deepening of spiritual science…

This is what Anthroposophy intends when it speaks of a renewal of the festivals…

We must come once more to an inner understanding of what the cycle of the year can mean to man in this connection; it can then be something even loftier than it was for man long ago”…~Rudolf Steiner, The Cycle of the Year as Breathing-Process of the Earth http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA223/English/AP1984/19230403p01.html

Until soon

Blessings and Peace ~Hazel Archer Ginsberg

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Moonday June 20, 2016 – It’s Summer Solstice & The Full Honey-Moon!!!

So come join our : St. John’s Tide Bon-Fire Social Gathering

7pm – 9pm

Pot-Luck Dinner in the backyard of Hazel & Chuck Ginsberg

Please Bring Food & Drink to Share in Community

RSVP ReverseRitual@gmail.com by TODAY for address & directions

PS. there’s a Cub Game that night so be sure to come in for a sticker to put in your car.

If it’s storming – stay home & celebrate

Sunday June 26^th, 2pm -4pm

He Must Increase but I Must Decrease– Exploring the Mysteries of Midsummer

with special guest Robert Karp, Co-Director of the Biodynamic Association.

How do we stand wakefully within the sublime mysteries of summer and St. John’s tide? Who is the mysterious archangel of Midsummer described by Rudolf Steiner and what is his relationship to John the Baptist? Can we trace his influence in modern culture, in modern America? What transformation does he seek to bring into our souls and into our communities?

These are some of the questions we will explore in this talk and, in a series of social-artistic exercises that will be incorporated into the talk.

Dulcimer music by Dr. Elaine Wagner.

Labyrinth Dance with ~hag

More details coming soon. For more info. Contact Hazel ReverseRitual@gmail.com

Cognitive Ritual

~Confessions of a Modern Rosicrucian

Monthly Archives: June 2016

Stellar is the golden seed from which the corn arises

Tipping Point

The God has gone into the grain The Sun is on the water

Mid-Summers Eve

Upward Streaming

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