Dear friends in all the hubbub around HWW I forgot to share Roy Sadler’s good thoughts & translation of the Calendar of the Soul for last week:
‘Dear Hazel,
I trust you and your dear friends have had an enlightening weekend.
May its thunder wave on into new opportunities for all of you.
With a long interest in Isis, your quest to unravel her mysteries led me
yesterday to read on the rsarchive Steiner’s 1917-18 Christmas & Epiphany
lectures. Wonderful! And it came to me at about 10.30pm GMT
at the time you were Lifting the veil on Isis and Sophia that maybe
they could be revealed in this week’s Soul Calendar verse
(in a turning point within it I was anyway not sure how to make).
Could this be a 21st century translation for the future of our spirit
and how we will endow it in ourselves?’
v22
The light from far and wide
lives on with inner power,
becomes the light of soul
and shines in depths of spirit
to free the fruits of Isis, mother of Sophia,
that from her cosmic self the human self
will ripen in the course of time.
and its mirror verse
at Allhallowtide
v31
The light from spirit depths
strives outwards like the sun,
becomes life’s strength of will
and shines in senses’ dullness
to free the energy that ripens
creative powers in the work
the human soul initiates.
with heartfelt wishes
for How We Will,
Roy Sadler
v23
In autumn haze
the senses’ lure fades;
a mist arising veils
the light’s revealing.
In widths of space I see
the autumn landscape fall asleep.
The summer’s yielded me her being
for me to reap.
and it’s mirror verse in the last week of October,
v30
In sunlight of my soul
the fruit of thought matures;
all feeling turns to sureness
of self-awareness.
In joy to sense
the autumn’s rousing of the spirit;
within me will the winter wake
the summer of the soul.
With my best wishes for your safe circle, and for my own and for everyone’s, and for our ability to embrace the mirror of each other and also strive to free the fruits of Isis and find the strength of will to work for our beleaguered world.
~Roy
6 September 2020 – “Speaking with the Stars“: The waning gibbous Moon rises at the end of twilight. Once she’s up, watch for fiery Mars, about a fist-width to the Moon’s lower left. Mars will come up about 30 or 40 minutes after Bella Luna. Over the Moon is the Great Square of Pegasus, balanced on one corner. The whole scene climbs higher as evening grows late
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POD (Poem Of the Day)
~The river flows on
Tall, thin reeds rock against the current
& the wet wind, like a woman, envelops me…
~hag
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost. ~ Gaston Bachelard
Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Deathday of Albinus a Platonist philosopher, who lived at Smyrna, pupil of Gaius the Platonist & teacher of Galen. A short tract by him, entitled Introduction to Plato’s dialogues, has survived. After explaining the nature of the Dialogue, which he compares to a Drama, he goes on to divide the Dialogues of Plato into four classes, logical, critical, physical, ethical, & mentions another division of them into Tetralogies, according to their subjects. He advises that the Alcibiades, Phaedo, Republic, & Timaeus, should be read in a series
1080 – Deathday of Magnus of Füssen, a missionary saint in southern Germany, also known as the Apostle of the Allgäu, a contemporary of Saint Gall & Saint Boniface
1522 – The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition, returns to Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world
1729 – Birthday of Moses Mendelssohn, a creative & eclectic thinker whose writings on metaphysics & aesthetics, political theory & theology, together with his Jewish heritage, placed him at the focal point of the German Enlightenment for over three decades
1847 – Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond & moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson & his family in Concord, Massachusetts
1860 – Birthday of Jane Addams, sociologist & author, Nobel Prize laureate – I have a soft spot for this powerful lady – I went to Jane Addams Jr. High & the Hull House museum is close to where I live in Chicago. Jane Addams life’s work still resonates in a big way today. Social worker, suffragette & activist are just some of the titles that apply to her. In 1889, Jane founded a social settlement called Hull House, which supported thousands of people each week – mainly immigrants, the poor & the dispossessed. It became a model for similar communities in the future.
Jane studied medicine as a young adult but decided that wasn’t her calling. She was inspired during a trip to London when she visited the world’s first settlement house, Toynbee Hall. Within months, she opened the doors to a similar facility in her hometown of Chicago.
Originally conceived to give immigrants & the poor access to the arts, Hull House evolved according to the community’s needs. Along the way, Jane also challenged corrupt local officials, investigated health issues and lobbied against unfair laws.
Jane was way ahead of her time, a person who was making inquiries & putting her money where her mouth was into figuring out enormous social problems. She made a lot of progress in ways that are still really resonant. The legacy started at Hull House lives on, from juvenile courts & labor laws to playgrounds & public sanitation. The Mother of Social Work set a standard for how to help others.
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Preparing for Michaelmas:
I watch the shadows lengthen. The angle of the sun, like the lance of Michael, a sunlit spear piercing awake my sleepy summer eyes, banishing the sulphur, activating the iron in my blood. Am I ready to do battle with the dragon within?
If spiritual science is allowed to live in us & extend its transforming influence to our heart-space, what enters us as thoughts, is then changed, into the substance of light, into the purest light of thought. And in the living enthusiasm of the heart, this light of thought then rays out from our hearts into the macrocosm, as light of the redeemed intelligence of Michael; as enlivened human thought, which can be re-united with the world-thoughts of the gods.
Heart-Thinking is the essence of Michaelmas, as the festival of Enlightenment; where we can learn to experience an unfolding of our inner initiative & a free, strong, courageous will, opposing our love of ease. Yes, it’s easy this time of year, to want to get cozy on the couch, to snuggle up with the dragon, flipping thru the channels, fighting over the remote…
But it is our job to strive to complete the never ending story, with the new Michaelic mysteries put forth by Rudolf Steiner, a true emissary of Michael, teaching us to count the human being as the 10th hierarchy. And so, work we must, as we stand once more on the edge of autumn.
See you there…
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The Central Regional Council Invites ALL to our Michaelmas Festival:
‘Courage Born of Wisdom’
Wednesday 23 September 2020 –On ZOOM – 7:15 pm CDT – 8:30 pm
CRC performs a telling of a tale from ancient Chaldea where EA gives birth to Marduk, precursor to Michael.
then “Wisdom Built herself a house*”…7 members of the various sections of the Anthroposophical Society will stand as Wisdom’s 7 Pillars to share how Courage was born from Wisdom leading to their work in the world.
Medical Section –Drs. Molly & Quentin McMullen
Social Science Section – Doug Wylie
Youth – Stephan Ambrose
BD – Rand Carter
Pedagogical –Michael Holdrege
3-Folding – Dorothy Hinkle-Uhlig
Eurythmy – Barbara Richardson
with a closing about the connection between Michael, The Christ & Anthroposophia!
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Our annual Michaelmas Festival & Youth Gathering 27 Sept. 2020 – 2 pm – 4 pm CDT
Joan d’Arc – PURIFYING FIRE: The Power behind the Will – 2 pm – 4 pm CDT
In person & online presentations
This years theme will be an exploration of the connection between Joan d’Arc & the Archangel Michael…
with special guests: Angela Foster from Atlanta & Mary Spalding
Including a performance of ‘The Passage” by Lucian Dante Lazar
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Michaelmas Saturday, 9/26 @2-4pm https://zoom.us/j/97955920156
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Michaelmas Sunday, 9/27 @2-4pm https://zoom.us/j/92376555749
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Sponsored by: The Rudolf Steiner Branch, Elderberries Biodynamic Outpost & 3-Fold Cultural Hub
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