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Greetings –

There have been some technical difficulties here on wordpress, my daily blogs have not been sent out via email as they usually are. So this is a test to see if it has gone thru. It’s also an opportunity for you to check out below the posts you missed.

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Thanks

~~Hazel Archer Ginsberg 

 

What does not serve we burn- Thru the ashes we will learn

‘Carry wakefully Sun’s Glowing’

I hear the words that shatter space

Do you bee-lieve?

Birth of The BVM

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Our Westering Daystar

 

What does not serve we burn- Thru the ashes we will learn

12 September 2016 – Astro-Weather: Mercury will pass very close to the Sun in the sky as its orbit carries it between the Sun & Earth.

This occurs once in every synodic cycle of the planet (116 days), & marks the end of Mercury’s appearance in the evening sky & its transition to become a morning star over the next few weeks.

At closest approach, the Sun will outshine Mercury making it totally unobservable for several weeks while it is lost in the Sun’s glare.

Mercury will also pass perigee – the time when it is closest to the Earth – at around the same time, since it will lie on exactly the same side of the Sun as the Earth in the Solar System.

for a more esoteric take see this from the Astrosophy Research Center

Also tonight the Moon shines straight under Altair at dusk. A finger-width above Altair is Tarazed, Gamma Aquilae. The name “Tarazed” comes for the Persian for “balance beam,” referring to the pattern it makes with Altair & fainter Beta Aquilae on Altair’s other side.

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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.~ Martin Luther King

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

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The Feast of the Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary

In Our Lady’s time, Aramaic was the spoken language. In Hebrew, the name Mary is Miryam, Meaning:  “Bitter Sea,” “Myrrh of the Sea”, “The Enlightened One,” “The Light Giver,” & especially “Star of the Sea”= Stella Maris.

One of the local traditions holds that this feast day was commemorated in Vienna by the creation of a new kind of pastry shaped in the form of a half-moon (the croissant) The feast is also a counterpart to the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus.

The entry in the Roman Martyrology about the feast: The Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a day on which the inexpressible love of the Mother of God for her Holy Child is recalled, and the eyes of the faithful are directed to the figure of the Mother of the Redeemer, for them to invoke with devotion

1492 – Birthday of Lorenzo de’ Medici

1740 – Birthday of J.H. Jung-Stilling, German poet & mystic, his nom de plume Stilling, derived from the characterization of German Pietists as “the still people in the countryside” Stillings acquaintance with Goethe at the University of Strasbourg ripened into friendship, & it was thru Goethe’s influence & assistance that Stilling’s first work, was put to paper & published (without Jung’s knowledge) in 1777.

1857 – The SS Central America sinks east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning 426 passengers & crew. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the California Gold Rush

1933 – Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction

1938 – Adolf Hitler demands autonomy & self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia

1940 – Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.

1940 – An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people & injures over 200

1942 – World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers & Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life

1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny

1959 – The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon

1962 – President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade

1974 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, ‘Messiah’ of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years

1977 – South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody

1992 – NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space

2003 – The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103

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~What does not serve we burn

Thru the ashes we will learn

~hag

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Most folks can remember where they were, on that September morning, 15 years & counting ago.

It was autumn, & the new school year had just started. The Perseid meteor showers had been weak in 2001. Yet Michaelmas was on my mind. My husband & I had slept late that day. My morning mediation was scattered, distracted. I went into the kitchen to make breakfast, my daughter, who was not yet 2 years old, was playing up in her room, when the phone Rang. It was my friend Rowan. She was crying & whispering, ‘Turn on your TV’ she said. I laughed & said ‘Rowan what is it? You know we don’t watch the tube”. She said ‘O Hazel, honey just turn it on’.

We were in shock. I don’t have to go into what we all felt at that moment.

We tuned off the TV & I called to see if school was still in session. The folks at the Chicago Waldorf School said, yes, stressing how we all needed to keep the media away from the young ones. In a daze I got the girl ready for our parent/child class. While the children played, the parents sat, quiet, nodding to each other, holding the sacred space for the innocents, speaking only with our eyes about what we had seen.

When I got home my husband said the 2nd tower was hit -The horrendous images repeating in an endless loop.

For many days after, when I would take my girl for walks, or where ever I was, at work, at the market, I felt a deepened connection to my fellow human beings. People looked each other in the eye. Folks were kind, helpful, really considerate, even in traffic, brothers & sisters bonded by this world altering event.

We were all united that day.

In trying to make sense of it all, I thought, perhaps this horrible tragedy would become a catalyst for true change. I saw it as a loosening of our collective etheric bodies, providing an opportunity for the angels to work with us, opening humanity to a threshold experience, an initiation, preparing us for the brotherhood of the next epoch.

Remember how still, & quiet it was under clear blue skies in those 1st few days, after it happened, when all the air traffic was halted? Peaceful, heightened, open.

But soon the shock & vulnerable open eyed connection gave way to patriotic rhetoric; hateful & boiling it radiated out infecting the planet with fear. And anyone not jumping on the war wagon was called trader/unpatriotic/’conspiracy theory’ quack, & roundly silenced.

Lies became truth. Phantoms became reality. Blood was exchanged for oil. Corporations became people. Our civil liberties were bought & sold. Homeland security invaded our right to privacy -The human soul oppressed by systematic illusion.

Never mind that VP Dick Cheney was running the largest war-games exercises at the same time as the ‘attacks’. Never mind the connection of the Saudi’s with the Bush dynasty. Never mind the mind, for thinking had been outlawed.

You probably don’t remember, but in November 2001, the Leonid meteor storm gave us a record high display. It began on Sunday morning, Nov. 18-19, when Earth glided into a dust cloud shed by comet Tempel-Tuttle (the comet cycle began in 1666)

The fallout from 9/11 will continue…& perhaps with time, more truths will surface that will bring change & healing…AND there is always help from the ever present spiritual world, if we look for it. Michael will continue to pour his cosmic iron into our blood – but it is up to us to use it to fight the dragon.

“For once, therefore, a man woke up and saw that what mattered was not to proclaim democracy but to see the full reality, not to follow slogans, but to see things as they are. This would be particularly important today, for people would then realize that the events which reign with such blood and terror over the whole of humanity are guided and directed from just a few centers. People will never realize this if they persist in the delusion that nation is fighting nation, and allow the European and American Press to lull them to sleep over the kinds of relations that are said to exist between nations.” ~Rudolf Steiner, Fall of the Spirits of Darkness, : Lecture 14: Into the Future, Dornach, 28 October 1917

With love

~Hazel Archer Ginsberg 

‘Carry wakefully Sun’s Glowing’

11 September 2016 –

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Astro-Weather: The Moon is just about equidistant from Altair, & Mars.

Asteroid 2 Pallas the second-largest object orbiting between Mars & Jupiter remains in the evening sky.  You can find it in the dim constellation Equuleus the Little Horse, which lies just west of its big cousin, Pegasus, climbing nearly two-thirds of the way to the zenith in the southern sky around 10 pm CDT.

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“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”~Benjamin Franklin

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Birthday of Abraham, ancestor of the Semitic Hebrews & Arabs

354 – Deathday of  Saints Protus & Hyacinth mentioned in “Depositio Martyrum

1826 – Captain William Morgan, an ex-freemason is arrested in Batavia, New York for ‘debt’ after declaring that he would publish The Mysteries of Free Masonry. This sets into motion the events that led to his mysterious disappearance

1830 – Anti-Masonic Party convention; one of the first American political party conventions

1851 – Christiana Resistance: Escaped slaves stand against their former owner in armed resistance in Christiana, Pennsylvania, creating a rallying cry for the abolitionist movement

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1893 – Parliament of the World’s Religions opens in Chicago, where Swami Vivekananda delivers his speech on fanaticism, tolerance & the truth inherent in all religions

1897 –Menelik II of Ethiopia captures Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom

1919 – U.S. Marines invade Honduras

1921 – Nahalal, the first Jewish settlement in Palestine, as part of a Zionist plan to colonize Palestine creating a Jewish state, later to be called Israel

1932 – Deathday of Fritz Lemmermayer an Austrian writer, journalist & closest childhood friend of Rudolf Steiner in Vienna. Fritz was a passionate anti-materialist, he wanted to devote his life to the creation & maintenance of spiritual values.

In 1883 he completed his novel “The Alchemist”. Rudolf Steiner met Lemmermayer again in 1886 in the circle of the poet Marie Eugenie delle Grazie.  An extensive correspondence attests to the close friendship between the two (see GA 38 ).

In ” My Life ” Steiner says: Fritz Lemmermayer, with whom I was later on terms of intimate friendship, I came to know at one of delle Grazie’s afternoons. A highly noteworthy man. Whatever interested him he expressed with inwardly measured dignity. In his outward appearance he resembled equally the musician Rubinstein and the actor Lewinsky. With Hebbel he developed almost a cult. He had definite views on art and life born out of the sagacious understanding of the heart, and these were unusually fixed. He had written the interesting and profound romance, Der Alchemist(3), and much besides that was characterized by beauty and depth. He knew how to consider the least things in life from the view-point of the most vital. I recall how I once saw him in his charming little room in a side-street in Vienna together with other friends. He had planned his meal: two soft-boiled eggs, to be cooked in an instantaneous boiler, together with bread. He remarked with much emphasis while the water was heating to boil the eggs for us: “This will be delicious!” In a later phase of my life I shall again have occasion to speak of him (see GA 028, p 141f )

Lemmermayer & Steiner joined the ranks of the Viennese artist circle in the house of the protestant priest Alfred Formey. In 1891 Lemmermayer was vice president of Schrifstellerbundes Iduna , named after Iduna , the Norse goddess of youth & immortality a counterweight against the currents of naturalism.

Lemmermayer  became a member of the Anthroposophical Society  in 1920. He Steiner on many trips through Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Holland & England.  This led to his 1929 published memories,  where he spoke about Rudolf Steiner, Robert Hamerling & other personalities of the Austrian intellectual life of the 80s. In addition, Lemmermayer published in the weekly ” Das Goetheanum “.

1940 – George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer

1941 – Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon

1941 – Charles Lindbergh’s Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews & the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany

1943 – World War II: Start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk & Lida by the Nazis

1950 – Korean War: President Harry S. Truman approved military operations north of the 38th parallel

1954 – Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 1 hurricane, causing significant damage & 129 deaths

1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state, 129 people die

1968 – Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers &six crew

1973 – Deathday of Salvador Guillermo a Chilean physician & politician, known as the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections. Allende’s involvement in Chilean political life spanned a period of nearly forty years. As a member of the Socialist Party, he was a senator, deputy & cabinet minister. In 1970, he won the presidency. Allende adopted a policy of nationalization of industries & collectivisation; due to these & other factors, increasingly strained relations lead to his death. On 11 September 1973, the military moved to oust Allende in a coup d’état sponsored by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). As troops surrounded La Moneda Palace, he gave his last speech vowing not to resign. He was assassinated by the CIA assault rifle attack.

Following Allende’s death, General Augusto Pinochet declined to return authority to the civilian government, & Chile was later ruled by a military junta that was in power up until 1990, ending almost four decades of Chilean democratic rule. The military junta that took over dissolved the Congress of Chile & began a persecution of alleged dissidents, in which thousands of Allende’s supporters were kidnapped, tortured, and murdered.

1974 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers & two crew.

1976 – A bomb planted by Zvonko Bušić is found at New York’s Grand Central Terminal

1978 – Janet Parker is the last person to die of smallpox, in a laboratory-associated outbreak

1982 – The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel’s 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra & Shatila refugee camps

1988 – The St. Jean Bosco massacre takes place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

1992 – Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates the Hawaiian islands of Kauai & Oahu

9/11 – 2001 – Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, & a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members of al-Qaeda? Over 2,996 people are killed, many suffer illness associated with the clean up

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Calendar of the Soul Twenty-fifth Week [September 11, 2016 – September 17, 2016]

   I can belong now to myself

  And shining spread my inner light

  Into the dark of space and time.

  Toward sleep is urging all creation,

  But inmost soul must stay awake

  And carry wakefully sun’s glowing

  Into the winter’s icy flowing.

~Rudolf Steiner

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heart-of-the-rose-by-sir-edward-coley-burne-jones-1833-98Sir Edward Coley

Spiritual epiphany alert! 
Yes, my dear bundles of rumbling DNA

Uncanny revelations are imminent!
Hope you don’t mind being shaken awake
in the middle of your regularly scheduled life…
It doesn’t matter if you’re a true believer
or a work-a-day TV viewer — YOU
will soon be invited
to have one of your logical certainties torn out
by the roots & replaced with a throbbing vision
of cosmic hoopla…
Brace yourself for the most pungent enlightenment

you’ve had since your last mudwrestle
with an angel…

…for Long-standing versions of reality
are mutating…Stories that have remained fixed
are about to acquire unexpected wrinkles…
& from the crack in the godhead
new possibilities are pouring forth…

&…there’s something You can do
to ensure that the new versions of the old vision
are more empowering than the overlay:

  1. Escape the cramped quarters of your own mind…
    2. Slip away from the corners you’ve been backed into…
    3. Stop telling the convoluted stories ‘they’ concocted
    to rationalize why you should be afraid…
    4. Get out of the loop & escape into the big,
    fresh places that will rejuvenate
    your eyes and heart…& for the foreseeable future,
    5. take on the demeanor & spirit of a noble warrior
    with high integrity & a fluid sense
    of humor…What I pray is that we won’t be satisfied with mediocre
    half-truths; that it is ok be focused
    on cutting out waste, fraud, & delusion; that
    it’s ok to be itchy to know more about the unacknowledged
    games that are being played…Frustration, I hope,
    will be our holy fuel…Unsweetened lemonade,
    I trust, will be our rejuvenating drink…
    These are blessings, my friend, not curses..!
    I pray that you’ll pick one of those itchy scabs
    until it bleeds
    so the healing process can start over —
    the right way this time…See…there goes that misplaced acceptance of
    warped chunks of complications…Here comes
    an opportunity to make a break for bubbly responsibility

True Human Freedom…
To take advantage, we’ll need to travel much lighter –
So please peel off your heart-armor – polish your sun-shield
Power the rust off your sword

Wipe that forty-pound sneer of doubt off your face –

Bury your broken-down theories by the wayside,
& donate all your unnecessary props
to the birds & the bees – Strip down –
for where we’re going, all you’ll need are
your good looks & a big fresh attitude…

I end this 9/11 epiphany with:

THE “AMERICAN” or “THREEFOLD” VERSE sent by Rudolf Steiner to Ralph Courtney, a pioneer of Anthroposophy in North America for the Threefold Group in New York City, which later established the Threefold Community in Spring Valley (now Chestnut Ridge). This verse for the American spirit speaks of the inner unity of human beings and of support from the spiritual world for our efforts:

May our feeling penetrate
To the center of our hearts –
And seek, in love, to unite with those who share our goals
And with the spirits who look down benevolently
on our hearts earnest strivings Sending us strength from realms of light
to illuminate our love.

In Peace & Good Will

~Hazel Archer Ginsberg 

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Michaelmas Festival: 7pm -9pm, Friday 30 September, 2016 at The Rudolf Steiner Branch 4249 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago

Heart-Thinking: Michael Beckoning

Piano & Voice – Kristen & David Wray performing Nacht und Träume + Ganymed– By Franz Schubert

Activating Heart-Thinking– Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Copper Rod Eurythmy: ALL

Grimm’s Tale “The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs” by Laura Donkel

Harvest Songs-Singing with Elisabeth Swisher:  ALL

Verse for the Michaelic Age:  ALL

$10 Donation & Snacks to Share Encouraged

 For more info. Contact Festivals Coordinator Hazel Archer GinsbergHazel@ReverseRitual.com

 

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10 September 2016 – Astro-Weather: This evening the Moon shines over the Sagittarius Teapot, about the size of your fist at arm’s length, tipping & pouring to the right

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If you look overhead as darkness falls anytime this week, your eyes will fall on the brilliant star Vega in the constellation Lyra the Harp. Vega is the brightest member of the prominent Summer Triangle asterism. The Triangle’s second-brightest star, Altair in Aquila the Eagle, lies southeast of Vega. The asterism’s dimmest member, Deneb in Cygnus the Swan, stands east-northeast of Vega.

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“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”~Eden Phillpotts, “A Shadow Passes,” 1918

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

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720 – Death/Feast Day of Aubert of Avranches According to legend, in 708 he had a vision in which the Archangel Michael instructed him to build an oratory on the rocky tidal island at the mouth of the Couesnon. Aubert did not pay attention to this vision at first, until in exasperation Michael appeared to him again, this time driving his finger into Aubert’s skull & ordering him to complete the task again. Michael is said to have appeared to him a total of three times. After this the oratory was built.

The relic of Aubert’s skull, complete with hole where the archangel’s finger pierced it, can still be seen at the Saint-Gervais Basilica in Avranches.

1305 – Death/Feast Day of Nicholas of Tolentino, known as the Patron of Holy Souls, was an Italian saint &mystic. There are many tales & legends which relate to Nicholas. One says the devil once beat him with a stick, which was then displayed for years in his church. In another, Nicholas, a vegetarian, was served a roasted fowl, for which he made the sign of the cross, & it flew out a window. Nine passengers on a ship going down at sea once asked Nicholas’ aid, & he appeared in the sky, wearing the black Augustinian habit, radiating golden light, holding a lily in his left hand, & with his right hand, he quelled the storm. An apparition of the saint, it is said, once saved the burning palace of the Doge of Venice by throwing a piece of blessed bread on the flames. He was also reported to have resurrected over one hundred dead children, including several who had drowned together.

1509 – An earthquake known as “The Lesser Judgment Day” hits Constantinople killing over 2,000

1721 – The Treaty of Nystadt was signed ending the twenty-one year Great Northern War between Russia & Sweden. Rudolf Steiner speaks about the significance of this in GA 119 Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 6: Experiences of Initiation in the Northern Mysteries

1898 – Deathday of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I, Queen of Hungary & Queen consort of Croatia and Bohemia.

While travelling in Geneva in she was stabbed to death by an Italian anarchist named Luigi Lucheni who selected her because he had missed his chance to assassinate Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans, & wanted to kill the next member of royalty that he saw. Elisabeth was the longest serving Empress-consort of Austria, at 44 years.

1919 – Austria & the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia & Yugoslavia

1933 – Deathday of A.W. Sellin, Anthroposopher & Fremason

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1935 – Birthday of Mary Oliver, poet & author

1943 – World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome

2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland

World Suicide Prevention Day

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~I hear the words that shatter space
My tongue curls around the tone
Of crystals rising
In the oblique angle
Of the autumning sun…
There
The Archangel beckons…

~hag

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veil-michael-roundArild Rosenkrantz

Michaelic thoughts on the eve of 9/11

Michael is, & has been, the genius & leader of humanity through all the many transformations of our consciousness. Rudolf Steiner taught us to view him as the ‘Guardian of Cosmic Intelligence’, governing the cosmic thoughts of the hierarchies, which formed the plan of the universe before the beginning of time. And in this capacity as a Sun-Being, he is the closest servant & trail blazer of The Christ, called the ‘Logos’ in the Gospel of John, which indicates the sphere of origin where the thinking & speech of God are still one.

The spirit-body of the Christ-Being is the creative primal thoughts of God, thoughts that we can call cosmic intelligence. And Michael as Guardian of Cosmic Intelligence, is the herald & helper of the Christ, Bearing the Christ Being to humanity.

Michael sees to it that on every level of evolution, the right things are always accomplished, so that, finally, this cosmic intelligence can shine forth directly from the human spirit.

The name Michael is a question, for it means ‘Who is like god’? He is in our time, the countenance of Christ, & is preparing to become the countenance for human beings.

This goal will be attained when the sunlight of divine thought finds direct entry into human souls; when humanity is no longer a shadow darkened by head-thinking alone.

We are all participants in this new Michaelic age.

Thinking & willing with you

In warmth of Soul

~Hazel Archer Ginsberg 

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Michaelmas Festival: 7pm -9pm, Friday 30 September, 2016 at The Rudolf Steiner Branch 4249 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago

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Heart-Thinking: Michael Beckoning

Piano & Voice – Kristen & David Wray performing Nacht und Träume + Ganymed– By Franz Schubert

Activating Heart-Thinking– Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Copper Rod Eurythmy: ALL

Grimm’s Tale “The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs” by Laura Donkel

Harvest Songs-Singing with Elisabeth Swisher:  ALL

Verse for the Michaelic Age:  ALL

$10 Donation & Snacks to Share Encouraged

 For more info. Contact Festivals Coordinator Hazel Archer Ginsberg Hazel@ReverseRitual.com

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9 September 2016 – Astro-Weather:

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First Quarter Moon arrives this morning at 8:49am CDT & shines over Mars at dusk. The Saturn-Mars-Antares triangle, the emblem of this summer’s evening sky, continues to morph. In the coming days & weeks Saturn & Antares will continue to move farther toward the lower right, while Mars hangs back and fades. By mid-autumn Saturn and Antares will be gone.

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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1828 – Birthday of Leo Tolstoy

1901 – Deathday of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter & illustrator

1945 – Plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki – the 2nd act of genocide ordered for testing purposes by President Harry Truman

1954 – The 6.7 M earthquake shakes northern Algeria. At least 6,243 people were killed

1965 – Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, leaving 76 dead 12 billion dollars in damages

1974 – Richard Nixon resigned as President following the Watergate scandal

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sea-sape-luisa-barretoLuísa Barreto

My POD (Poem Of the Day)

~The flood makes moist

The fertile shore

Revealing Divine debris

~hag

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Bee-Loved

The path of The Melissae draws inspiration from a unique, more ancient spring than most. (Perhaps extra-terrestrial, is a better word, for it is more cosmic than earthly) It is an arcane discipline, a vein – an underground working – difficult to trace but easy to bring into our time now, once encountered.

The Melissae utilize ancient methodologies made new, to move into liminal zones, in-between places of ‘neither-niether’ – using various zsound vibrations – Practicing the Apis-Codex: a guide to living in right relationship with the Path of Pollen. Here, specific meditations & ceremonial observations that revolve around the Lemniscatic Volatus, the Dance of Infinite Flight, are imparted & utilized to move between worlds – to step outside & beyond the circles of time. Within these Reverse Ritual practices & accompanying ceremonial workings, a path is laid, leading to physical & metaphysical health; & simultaneously a pilgrimage is made towards a vital & radiant life after death.

This work follows the traditional awareness of the bee as an intermediary, a messenger from those peripheral realms of human awareness where perceptions of the super-sensible world are revealed. The bee carries a signal or frequency that enables transformation; it empowers the sterile to become fertile & initiates the process of regeneration.

The bee, in this context, represents an interlocutor between our immediate mundane awareness & the ‘deep space’ of human cognizance.

Here is a link to Rudolf Steiner’s book “Bees” that has profoundly changed my life http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA351/English/SGP1975/NinBee_index.html

Do you bee-lieve?

With Blessings & Peace ~Hazel Archer Ginsberg