Monthly Archives: July 2016

Toward the Future

Poetry, Remembering, Rudolf Steiner Quote

5 July 2016 – ASTRO-WEATHER – The orange-colored Mars is easy to spot in the south in the evenings, the brightest object in the heavens. To the upper right of Mars shines a pair of moderately bright stars. The higher of the two stars is Zubeneschamali, & the lower one, Zubenelgenubi, Arabic names meaning the “northern claw” & “southern claw” of the Scorpion.

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Ramadan ends at twilight

283 BC – Deathday of Demetrius I of Macedon

328 – The official opening of Constantine’s Bridge built over the Danube between Romania & Bulgaria by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius

815 BC – Birthday of Saints Cyril & Methodius – Brothers credited with devising the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet used to transcribe Old Church Slavonic, venerated with the title of “equal-to-apostles”. In 867, Pope Nicholas I (an earlier incarnation of Helmuth von Moltke, who died 100 years ago on June 18th) invited the brothers to Rome.

815 BC – Deathday of Hoseas, one of the Twelve Prophets of the Old Testament. Hosea is often seen as a “prophet of doom”, but underneath his message of destruction is a promise of restoration. The Talmud claims that he was the greatest prophet of his generation. The period of Hosea’s ministry extended to some sixty years & he was the only prophet of Israel of his time who left any written prophecy

1687 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica

1811 – Independence Day for Venezuela from Spain

1817 – Birthday of Carl Vogt a German scientist, philosopher & politician who published a number of notable works on zoology, geology & physiology,  rejecting the beliefs of Darwin

1827 – Emancipation Day of enslaved Africans in New York City

1892 – Andrew Beard was issued a patent for the rotary engine

1934 – “Bloody Thursday“: Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco

1935 – The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1962 – Independence Day for Algeria from France

1971 –The 26th Amendment lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon

1996 – Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell

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Destiny

“I bear within me what has been

I feel within me what is becoming

In willing, I carry both toward the future

Faith looks upon what has been

And is founded upon truth

Trust looks upon what will be

And is founded upon hope

Love embraces here and now

Eternal becoming

Eternal Being”

– Rudolf Steiner

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More thoughts gleaned from The “School of the Sounds”

During the Arcturus Summer Intensive “The Stars once Spoke”, Kim Snyder-Vine pointed out that no one had ever specifically asked Rudolf Steiner about the curative aspects of Speech Formation. Of course there is a connection with curative Eurythmy. And so I have decided it is about time to tune into Herr Dr. & experiment on myself by working with sound.

Many of you may know that I was recently diagnosed with a deformity in my spine which may have been there since birth, but has now become an issue. Yesterday I woke up with the thought that doing U would be helpful for my condition, so I will incorporate this sounding into my daily routine & keep you posted on this.

I am also feeling called to do something to activate & strengthen my memory.

Rudolf Steiner speaks about training our memory: “If we keep in mind the 3 basic principles:

  1. Concepts burden memory
  2. What is artistic educates memory
  3. Will activity grounds memory

Then we have the three golden rules for educating our memory.” ~A modern Art of Education 

This made me think, that memory has to do with the element of movement in us, the process in the etheric body that preserves the experiences & thoughts that have imprinted themselves in us. To ‘learn it by heart’ we need to set up a rhythm that enlivens the dead world of concepts.

The gift of the 3 pre-earthly deeds of Christ that form our humanness – the source of walking, speaking, thinking, must be taken hold of consciously as adults or they will vanish.

To re-awaken the awareness that speech moves on the breath, & in the pulsation of the blood, rouses elemental weaving  within us, as we walk & talk & think. Fully conscious repletion cultivates the will, building resolve. As an added bonus, Joy arises in me as an inner movement when I recite poetry, or sing, which refreshes my soul.

The central nervous system, which mirrors thoughts, is the one related to the etheric body. The spinal nervous system is the home of the astral body & the solar plexus is related to the ‘I’. The astral body, the light-bearing part of the soul, works thru the etheric body into the physical. The Logos lives as light in the astral body, & spoken word, (as well as singing, I would think) has its seat there. So speech practice accompanied by movement (especially walking with the swinging of the arms etc) can nourish & awaken the forces of thinking & remembering, because the breath is stimulated too, & the primary source of healing is found in the breath.

Let’s see where this takes us tomorrow

Until soon

Blessings and Peace ~Hazel Archer Ginsberg

 

We the People…

Poetry, Quote, Remembering, Speaking with the Stars, Summer
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“We can rise with the fire of freedom
Truth is the fire that burns our chains
& we can stop the fire of destruction
Healing is the fire running through our veins.”
~Starhawk

Dear Freinds – What opportunities open for us today with a New moon on The 4th of July…?

As the power of ‘The 4th ’ Reverberates in our Collective Consciousness –
Let’s Imagine Peace – Think Love & Activate Understanding – all the while envisioning that the “bombs bursting in air” are beautiful, gentle fireworks of Realization & Enlightenment, going off like light bulbs in American minds – Working towards a Global Inter-dependence Independence Day. A mutual dependency upon the independence of every nation & its people – Imagine everyone celebrating our differences with great admiration & respect…

Betsy-Ross sewing

Every July 4th I think of Betsy Ross; remember her?
I admire this enterprising woman, who led a very interesting life. She was actually disowned as a Quaker because she married an Episcopalian, who was later ironically killed while guarding a munitions dump.

So here she was this young widow, telling George Washington that she thought the 5 pointed-star would look much better on the flag then his idea of having 6- pointed stars – true story. I can just picture her sitting in the back room of the small upholstery business she ran by herself, with this mighty symbol, that she helped design, laid out on her sweet lap, sewing away.

Now I’m not much for nationalism with all its borders & power over others kind of patriotism, but I will admit that I love to see a well-made flag flapping in the breeze. All flags are cool – family crests with their ancient symbols, & especially those colorful banners you see on porches, shaped like butterflies or autumn leaves. I’m just a sucker for a glyph in the wind, but that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy a good flag burning – now don’t get me wrong I love America – I just think fire rituals are very powerful & impacting.

As a matter of fact, at the BBQ I went to on The 4th a few years ago, the wind blew the table cloth decorated with American flags into a candle where it caught fire & I was the 1st (& only one) to shout, Woo-hoo!  Yeah, burn the flag, burn the flag…I don’t think the Ginsberg’s totally get my sense of the dramatic…but I digress…

We all know what we’re talking about when we say ‘The 4th’ right – But when was the last time you stopped to think about what ‘The 4th’ is really all about. When I looked it up on the internet it gave me hit after hit on picnic ideas, & recipes for apple pie, hints on BBQ techniques, free patriotic screen savers, many downloadable versions of the “rockets’ red glare” with animated fireworks displays; & yet somehow they forgot to mention the fact that fireworks were a Chinese invention, an ancient art form that we took & made into gun powder. I’m serious, is baseball & burnt weiners all there is?

Does anyone want to give us some history here, or a brief overview of the meaning of Independence Day? I was never much good with all the details, the dates & names & such, exoteric history isn’t my strong point, but I’m always able to get the big picture, & it seems to me that The 4th is about freedom from oppression – ‘No taxation without representation’ & all that – The center point being the Declaration of Independence. When was the last time you read this important document of our countries origin? You can print it off the net.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are, Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…”

Now before we all jump up & start pledging allegiance here, let’s remember that these ‘founding fathers’ with all their Masonic symbolism & righteousness, denied women the right to vote, & considered the Native American people to be “savages”. There is a direct reference to them as such in the document itself, & they felt justified in the systematic genocide of these highly spiritual people in the name of gentrifying the frontier. And of course most of these men were slave owners, participating in the unjustifiable atrocity of buying & selling human beings, virtually destroying the royal kingdom of the African people, employing many hideous human rights violations, enslaving them, raping, beating or working them to death. Can these sickening offences ever truly be rectified? Such a bitter legacy to add to our melting pot.

The rest of the document goes on to give a laundry list of the crimes against the colonists by the king of Great Britain, whose name happens to be George the 3rd…! Who says history doesn’t repeat itself, many of these same crimes were perpetrated not so long ago by George Bush & his dynasty.

Have we gained independence from one tyranny all those years ago, only to allow it to happen again on a world scale? Having come through so much pain in the birth of our nation, it is now time to let go of the nationalism, so we can come to true Freedom…We must open our eyes to read the fine print of our birthright as human beings, reclaiming our rights to go forward as a united community of world people, in peaceful justice, in equity, with common sense & reason, with compassion…We need to, not just declare our independence, but our Inter-dependence.

We have a strong voice…this is our world…our sacred space & we can sing any reality we want to! And I don’t know about you, but I’d rather sing ‘America the beautiful’, or even something like, ‘”My Country, ‘Tis of Thee”, then the war worshiping ‘Star Spangled Banner’ any day…

So for our next song, I’ll get off the soap box, & let the power of the united rhythm in our collective heart-beat, be our anthem – to bring healing & forgiveness to the old wounds…& hope for the future…

Blessed Bee…
~hag

Check out these videos on Columbia The Goddess of America:

‘Let Freedom Ring -Reclaiming the Wisdom of Columbia – Folk Soul of America’.

Reclaiming the Wisdom of America

July 4th, 2016 – “Speaking with the Stars”: New Moon occurs at 10:01 a.m. CDT. At its new phase, the Moon crosses the sky with the Sun & so remains hidden in our star’s glare.

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If you ever thought the Sun’s distance controlled temperatures here on Earth, today should convince you otherwise. Earth reaches aphelion- its most distant point from the Sun at noon CDT. The Northern Hemisphere’s warm temperatures at this time of year arise because the Sun passes nearly overhead at noon; during winter, the Sun hangs low in the sky

Today at 3:49pm CDT, the dwarf planet Pluto comes to opposition– That’s when we on Earth pass more or less between the Sun & Pluto, placing this distant world opposite the Sun in our sky

When Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930, it was in front of the constellation Gemini. In the 86 years since then, the planet has traveled only a short distance around our sky, to appear in front of the constellation Sagittarius in 2016. Pluto’s entire orbit takes 248 years. Pluto will remain in front of Sagittarius until 2023

Also today: The ‘Juno probe’ is scheduled to enter orbit around Jupiter after a nearly five-year trek through deep space

Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day 

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY 

1054 – A supernova, called SN 1054, is seen by Chinese Song dynasty, Arab, & Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula

1744 – The Iroquois are forced to cede lands between the Allegheny Mountains & the Ohio River to the British colonies

We the People

1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress

When three presidents died on the Fourth of July, Americans saw the work of God - Los Angeles Times

1826 – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.

1831 – Deathday of former president James Monroe

1827 – Slavery is abolished in New York State

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1855 – In Brooklyn, New York City, the first edition of Walt Whitman‘s book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published

1862 – Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Confederate Army surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege

1863 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdraws from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg, signaling an end to the Southern invasion of the North

1886 – The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States

1914 – The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo

1918 – Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia & his family

1934 – Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb

1934 – Deathday of Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist & chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1941 – Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists & writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv

1941 – World War II: The Burning of the Riga synagogues with 300 Jews locked in the basement

1943 – World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history & the world’s largest tank battle, begins in Prokhorovka village

1950 – Radio Free Europe first broadcasts

1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act

~Mine is
A heart of ruby-red –
A Crimson hot
dark as murder on a Holy Day
pulsing sense organ.
Mine is a fist of emerald & gold –
the gnarled roots
of a rosewood burstingwith thorns
& bright blossoms
in the Sun…
~hag

 

 

 

I feel enchanted weaving

Rudolf Steiner Quote

July 3, 2016 – ASTRO- WEATHER : Although Saturn reached its peak exactly one month ago, it remains a lovely sight. It is on display among the background stars of southern Ophiuchus from nightfall until the start of morning twilight. You can find the planet in the southeast during evening twilight & highest in the south around 11 p.m.

1st 3 From Rudolf Steiner’s original indications from the Calendar of the Soul:

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Deathday of Cornelius – a Roman centurion who is considered to be the first Gentile to convert to the faith. Cornelius receives a vision in which an angel who instructs Cornelius to send the men of his household to Joppa, where they will find Simon Peter.

The conversion of Cornelius comes after a separate vision given to Simon Peter (Acts 10:10–16) himself. In the vision, Simon Peter sees all manner of beasts & birds being lowered from Heaven. A voice commands Simon Peter to eat. When he objects to eating unclean animals, the voice tells him not to call unclean that which God has cleansed.

When Cornelius’ men arrive, Simon Peter understands that through this vision the Lord commanded the Apostle to preach the Word of God to the Gentiles.

283 – Deathday of Anatolius. Prior to becoming one of the great lights of the Church, he enjoyed considerable prestige at Alexandria, & was credited with a rich knowledge of arithmetic, geometry, physics, rhetoric, dialectic, & astronomy. He was one of the foremost scholars of his day in Aristotelean philosophy.

Deathday of St. Norbert of Xanten, who avoided ordination to the priesthood & even declined an appointment as bishop. One day as he rode to Vreden, a thunderbolt struck him off his horse. After this near-fatal accident, his faith deepened, he renounced his appointment at Court & returned to Xanten to lead a life of penance. St Norbert was a great devotee of the Eucharist & Our Lady.

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1035 – William the Conqueror becomes the Duke of Normandy

1863 – The U.S. Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, PA, ended after three days. It was a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreated

 1940 – World War II: In order to stop the ships from falling into German hands the French fleet is bombarded by the British fleet causing the loss of three battleships, 1,200 sailors die.

1944 – World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration

1988 – United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.

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1988 – The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing a connection between Europe & Asia over the Bosphorus.

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 COTS 15Anne Stockton

Calendar of the Soul Fifteenth Week [July 03, 2016 – July 09, 2016]

I feel enchanted weaving

  Of spirit within outer glory.

  In dullness of the senses

  It has enwrapt my being

  In order to bestow the strength

  Which in its narrow bounds my I

  Is powerless to give itself.

~ Rudolf Steiner

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zodiac consonants

Continuing our overview in the “School of the Sounds”:

Here I will attempt to put together some correspondences for the Zodiac with holds the consonants, please feel free to add something I missed, or better yet, make it into a lovely chart or artful graphic 😉

It is my understanding, in Eurythmy anyway, that Rudolf Steiner liked to start with LEO, for he said you must begin everything with enthusiasm –

LEO: July 21-Aug. 21. Compassion, Freedom, Sense of Life. Sounds: T, D

VIRGO: Aug. 21 – Sept. 21. Courtesy, Tact of Heart, Steadiness of Feeling, Sense of Movement. Sounds: B. P

 LIBRA: Sept. 21 – Oct. 21. Contentment, Self-Composer, Sense of Balance. Sounds: CH,TS

 SCORPIO: Oct. 21 – Nov. 21. Patience, Understanding, Sense of Smell. Sounds: S, Z

SAGITTARIUS: Control of Speech & Thinking, Truth, Sense of Taste. Sounds: G. K

CAPRICORN: Dec. 21 – Jan. 21. Courage, Power of Redemption, Sense of Sight. Sound: L

AQUARIUS: Jan. 21 – Feb. 21. Discretion, Power of Meditation, Sense of Warmth, Sound: M

PISCES: Feb. 21 – March 21. Magnanimity, Love, Sense of Hearing, Sound: N

ARIES: March 21 – April 21. Devotion, Power of Sacrifice, Sense of Word, Sound: V

TAURUS: April 21 – May 21. Equilibrium, Progress, Sense of Thought, Sound: R

 GEMINI: May 21 – June 21. Perseverance, Faithfulness, Sense of Ego, Sound: H

 CANCER: June 21 – July 21. Unselfishness, Catharsis, Sense of Touch, Sound: F

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Tomorrow brings some thoughts on America’s Independence Day

Until soon

Blessings and Peace ~Hazel Archer Ginsberg

“You are now entering the school of the sounds”

Poetry, Remembering, Rudolf Steiner Quote, Summer

2 July 2016 – This day is the midpoint of the year. There are 182 days before & 182 days after. The exact time of the middle of the year is at noon.

summer triangle

Perhaps no month better epitomizes summer in the Northern Hemisphere than July. The Summer Triangle is on prominent display. The trio’s brightest member, Vega in the constellation Lyra the Harp, stands nearly overhead shortly after midnight. The asterism’s second-brightest star, Altair in Aquila the Eagle, then lies more than halfway from the southeastern horizon to the zenith. Deneb, the luminary of Cygnus the Swan, marks the Summer Triangle’s third corner. Although it is the dimmest star, it’s the brightest point of light in the northeastern sky.

Maria Heimsuchung – Rudolf Steiner lists this in his original Calendar of the Soul, as an ancient German Feast day celebrating the Visitation Of Mary to Elisabeth.

437 – Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over & ongoing dismemberment the Western Roman Empire.

1566 – Deathday of Nostradamus, French astrologer & author

1698 – Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine

1778 – Deathday of Procopius of Caesarea the last major historian of the ancient Western world. He Accompanied the Roman general Belisarius in the wars of the Emperor Justinian, writing the Wars (or Histories), the Buildings of Justinian & the celebrated (& infamous) Secret History discovered centuries later in the Vatican Library.

The Secret History reveals his deep disillusion with the emperor Justinian & his wife, Empress Theodora, as well as Belisarius, his former commander & patron, & Antonina, Belisarius’ wife. The anecdotes expose the secret springs of their public actions, as well as their private lives. Justinian is portrayed as cruel, venal, prodigal & incompetent; as for Theodora, the reader is treated to the most detailed & titillating portrayals of vulgarity & insatiable lust combined with shrewish & calculating mean-spiritedness:

“Often, even in the theatre, in the sight of all the people, she removed her costume and stood nude in their midst, except for a girdle about the groin: not that she was abashed at revealing that, too, to the audience, but because there was a law against appearing altogether naked on the stage, without at least this much of a fig-leaf. Covered thus with a ribbon, she would sink down to the stage floor and recline on her back. Slaves to whom the duty was entrusted would then scatter grains of barley from above into the calyx of this passion flower, whence geese, trained for the purpose, would next pick the grains one by one with their bills and eat.”

Her husband Justinian, meanwhile, was a monster whose head could suddenly vanish—at least according to this passage:

“And some of those who have been with Justinian at the palace late at night, men who were pure of spirit, have thought they saw a strange demoniac form taking his place. One man said that the Emperor suddenly rose from his throne and walked about, and indeed he was never wont to remain sitting for long, and immediately Justinian’s head vanished, while the rest of his body seemed to ebb and flow; whereat the beholder stood aghast and fearful, wondering if his eyes were deceiving him. But presently he perceived the vanished head filling out and joining the body again as strangely as it had left it.”

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1816 – The French frigate Méduse struck the Bank of Arguin & 151 people on board had to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case immortalised by Géricault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa

1822 – Thirty-five slaves are hanged in South Carolina, including Denmark Vesey, after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion

1839 – Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad

1897 – British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London

1900 – The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany

1921 – World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Imperial Germany

1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, sometimes called Operation Hummingbird, or in Germany, sometimes mockingly called Reichsmordwoche (Reich Murder Week), a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from June 30 to July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political executions. Leading members of the left-wing Strasserist faction of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), along with its figurehead, Gregor Strasser, were killed, as were prominent conservative anti-Nazis (such as former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher & Gustav Ritter von Kahr, who had suppressed Adolf Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch in 1923). Many of those killed were leaders of the Sturmabteilung (SA) – the paramilitary Brownshirts.

Hitler moved against the SA & its leader, Ernst Röhm because he saw the independence of the SA as a direct threat to his newly gained political power. Hitler was uncomfortable with Röhm’s outspoken support for a “second revolution” to redistribute wealth.

At least 85 people died during the purge, although the final death toll may have been in the hundreds, & more than a thousand perceived opponents were arrested. Most of the killings were carried out by the Schutzstaffel (SS) & the Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei), the regime’s secret police. The purge provided a legal grounding for the Nazi regime, as the German courts & cabinet quickly swept aside centuries of legal prohibition against extra-judicial killings to demonstrate their loyalty to the regime. The Night of the Long Knives was a turning point for the German government. It established Hitler as “the supreme judge of the German people,” as he put it in his July 13, 1934 speech to the Reichstag. “The New York Times”stated that Hitler had acted to crush a revolt & that SA leader Ernst Röhm had committed suicide.

1947 – World UFO Day, commemorating the supposed UFO crash at Roswell

1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places

1976 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.

2001 – The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted

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~O Soul of an ancient creature

Come here to drink at my pond

Let me caress your velvet horns of sense & reason

Implanted in your forehead like lightning rods to the sky…

O King, your dusty hoofs tramp a new trail

Worn smooth by my ritual dance to you…

~hag

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Greetings Friends, I’ve missed you!

I have been studying Speech Formation with Kim Synder-Vine this last week. She is a force of nature. When she spoke the consonants, in my mind’s eye I saw the animals of the Zodiac coming alive, like they were walking off Noah’s Ark.

“You are now entering the school of the sounds” She told us, from ~Rudolf Steiner – his Speech & Drama Course of 1924, where he describes the revelation of speech as relating to the Greek Gymnastics. Every time we speak, the words run, leap off the diaphragm, wrestle off the vocal cords, hit the discus of the tongue, to fly like the javelin out the mouth with intention toward the goal, landing the target like a shot-put.

We started out with Vowels – “Soundings of the Soul”, our inner reaction to life, the planets, their colors, our organs. Vowels rise up from the root chakra to the heart then thru the larynx to the mouth.

Ah – Venus, Green, Kidneys

A – Mars, Red, wakes up our nerve center, Gallbladder

E – Mercury, Yellow, Lungs (good for to vibrate for teeth & gums)

O – Jupiter, Orange, Liver

UU – Saturn, Blue, Spleen

AE – Moon, Silver/Purple, Reproductive Organs, reflective quality to the teeth & bones

AOU – Sun, Gold/White, Heart/Head

Then consonants (the constellations forming us) I will write out a chart for tomorrow.

We must see it before we say it, to Re-cite it,  before it becomes a concept, to let it stream forth, forming itself like an etheric arm reaching out into the world.

We did breath-work & placement in the mouth…KLSFM… Karl Let Sophie Fetch May. May Fetch Sophie & Let Karl Go!

“Hoom, Hahm, Hem, Him…Brooding Proofs…Droopy Troops…Gruesome Crooners…”

OUTBREATH – Declamation -spit it in the bucket – “Reforging Gales”…etc…Feelings into the will, (I feel it so I got to say it: Opera) connected to the Northern Mysteries.

INBREATH – Recitation, consonants, thinking into will, connected to the Southern Mysteries. “In the vast unmeasured world-wide spaces”…etc…

Hexameter – a health tonic from the Greeks, good for circulation, helps us speak the consonants.

I love the idea that we create a vacuum then fill it with cosmic substance…forming & letting go…

We started working with Lyric, Dramatic & Epic poetry & some speech chorus stuff with some Steiner & other verses…Iambic sonnets…

It’s been revealing to check-in to discover what my own propensities are. We were instructed to ‘Check Our Soul Mood’. I am by nature a Declamation ‘E’ type for sure…So I need to work on the more softer sounds of the Southern Mysteries…

Let’s explore Speech Formation further tomorrow…

Until soon

Blessings and Peace ~Hazel Archer Ginsberg