Category Archives: Celestial Event

Holy Week

Celestial Event, Chicago Event, Festival, Speaking with the Stars

Rudolf Steiner speaks about the Mystery of Golgotha as a spiritual event that takes place on the stage of humanity. The events leading up to this mystery are a preparation for this sublime deed that stands at the center of attention for a living cosmos. The Earth is the spiritual center during the sacred Holy Week.

But this position is not arrived at simply because it is Palm Sunday on our calendar, it defined by a relational gesture occurring between Sun & Moon relative to Earth each year. Our task is to discern the meaning in this gesture by considering when in the course of the Holy Week it takes place.

Each year, the date of Easter is determined by the First Full Moon after the Sun crosses the celestial equator, which we refer to as the Vernal Equinox. (Palm Sunday, 11:30am) Easter does not immediately follow the Vernal Equinox, this would imply a dictatorial nature in the Sun. Rather, the Sun returns north of the celestial equator, & waits…The Sun waits for the Moon to arrive at Full phase, which means it stands opposite the Sun from the Earth, occurring for the first time in the year below the celestial equator. This Full Moon will always occur during the Holy Week, but it will be on a different day from one year to the next.

What does it mean when the Full Moon falls on the Wednesday of Holy Week?
What can it mean when that Full Storm Moon is totally eclipsed by the shadow of the Earth? (Lunar eclipse, March 23rd, 6:47am in Libra)

Come join our Easter-Tide Study throughout Holy Week
(Excerpts from “The Three Years” by Emil Bock)

Beginning: Palm Sunday March 20th, 2pm-4pm, (which is also the Vernal Equinox!)
then, M-F: March 21-26th, 7pm-9pm

And our Easter Festival: A Path to the Dawning, 4pm -6pm, Sunday March 27th

If you would like a copy of the text contact Hazel ReverseRitual@gmail.com

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

 

 

Cellestial Event – 2015 – Impetus to the Spirit

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Greetings on this New Moon in Gemini –

Throughout the month of June 2015, the two brightest planets in the night sky, Venus and Jupiter, converge.

The show starts in the West each night at twilight. http://earthsky.org/space/dont-miss-jaw-dropping-venusjupiter-encounter#.VYAekLP9KQw.twitter

 

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Eurythmy with Alison 

Friday June 19th…with the possibility of more sessions if there is interest ?

11am – 12:30pm

We will work with seasonal poetry, and some forms and indications from the ‘Calendar of the Soul’ as given by Steiner.

$12.00 for individual classes, but no one who has the will to do eurythmy will be turned away for lack of funds.

For more information contact Alison (312) 543-6136

 

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In the Summer-Tide, through ‘the great window of heaven’ we experience an interaction between humanity and the sun forces,  assisting us to develop an awareness of our ego. The summertime union between the sun and earth is actually a reunion between  the divine gods of the spiritual sun & their offspring, humankind.

We can contemplate this dynamic & bring it to life in our soul most strongly at this time.

 

Tuesday June 23rd – St. John’s Eve –7:30pm – 10pm

Bon-Fire Social Gathering

Pot-luck Dinner at the Home of Hazel & Chuck Ginsberg

 

Please Bring Food & Drink to Share in Community

RSVP by June 22 RudolfSteinerChicago@gmail.com

to receive address, important parking instructions & directions.

 

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Friday June 26th 2015, 7:30pm – 9:30pm

A Special St. John’s Open House at the Branch

 

Featuring: A legacy bestowed by Magda Lissau and Don Smith:

A treasure trove of Books from their personal library.

All sales to benefit Arcturus and The Rudolf Steiner Branch

 

Improvisational Music with Debbie Barford and friends

Group Eurythmy, Sun Wheel Craft

 

$10 donation & Snacks to Share Encouraged

(but no one will be turned away for lack of Cake or Cash!)

 

Celestial Events – Full Moon – June 2, 2015

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Greetings Star Stuff –

Tonight – June 2, 2015 – Watch for the Full Moon to group up with the planet Saturn and star Antares in the eastern sky at dusk.

As our Earth turns underneath the heavens tonight, look for this group to move westward across the nighttime sky.

The celestial threesome will climb highest aroundmidnight, and will sit low in the west at dawn, June 3.

In North America, we commonly call the June Full Moon the Strawberry or Honey Moon.

The Sun and Moon are opposite each other, Sun in Gemini, Moon in Sagittarius.

Mercury Rules Gemini, and it is currently Retrograde until June 11th.

Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus are also key players.

Jupiter is in a configuration with this Full Moon and it also rules Sagittarius.

Unlike Mercury, it is moving forward. This is a time to embrace the “big picture” of things,

as Jupiter, the benevolent King, is expansive.  By opening ourselves up to a broader perspective and by connecting the dots,  we can influence the changes that we need to make in how we think and learn.

Jupiter in Leo is about exploring, experiencing, and expanding through our self-expression.

Uranus is also influencing Jupiter with supportive energy, which can help provide insights as well as as expose us to new, unconventional, or revolutionary ideas and perspectives.

Combined with retrograde Mercury, this suggests recalibrating our mind through a new awareness of ourselves.

Saturn is also in Sagittarius in retrograde motion, which is a strong indicator of restructuring our personal beliefs and philosophies.

 

~Hazel Archer Ginsberg, “Speaking with the Stars” a project of the Central Regional Council

 

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Spring into Eurythmy with Alison

 

Friday June 5th …with the possibility of more sessions if there is interest ?

11am – 12:30pm

We will work with seasonal poetry, and some forms and indications from the ‘Calendar of the Soul’ as given by Steiner.

$12.00 for individual classes, but no one who has the will to do eurythmy will be turned away for lack of funds.

For more information contact Alison (312) 543-6136

 

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Upcoming Events – Mark your Calendars:

 

Tuesday June 23rd – St. John’s Eve – 7pm – 9pm

Bon-Fire Social Gathering

Pot-luck Dinner at the Home of Hazel & Chuck Ginsberg

Please Bring Food & Drink to Share in Community

RSVP by June 22

to receive address & directions. Or Call Hazel at 773-549-3026

 

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Friday June 26th 2015, 7:30pm – 9:30pm

A Special St. John’s Open House at the Branch

 Featuring: A legacy bestowed by Magda Lissau and Don Smith:

A treasure trove of Books from their personal library.

All sales to benefit Arcturus and The Rudolf Steiner Branch

Improvisational Music with Debbie Barford and friends

Group Eurythmy, Sun Wheel Craft

$10 donation & Snacks to Share Encouraged

(but no one will be turned away for lack of Cake or Cash!)

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Athena National Conference

July 30 – August 1, 2015, in Chicago

Impulses Working through Therapeutic Eurythmy

To Address Stress and Anxiety in our Time

With Ross Rentea MD

Coming from cosmic impulses Therapeutic Eurythmy can offer fundamental healing impulses to the pervasive, nearly epidemic challenges of stress and anxiety which can lame and undermine untold numbers of people.

This conference is geared primarily toward physicians and therapeutic eurythmists.

However, other eurythmists are also warmly invited to attend.

Questions? Contact Dale at (510) 339-2769

 

Buddah Moon

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Haiku’s, ants & worms

Buddha-like the Moon sitting

All have the same face

On Buddha’s birthday

Spring rain beneath a full moon,

On Buddha’s deathday

Enlightenment in the Lake

Another sunset

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The Buddha (whose name means: *The Awakened One* or *One who Knows*) is regarded as the ninth incarnation of Lord Vishnu. He was born in 563 BC on the Full Moon of May in Vaisakh. Traditionally, Buddha’s Birthday is known as Wesak or Visakah Puja (Buddhas Day).

Wesak, the major Buddhist festival of the year, celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha on one and the same day, when the Sun is in Taurus, and the Moon in Scorpio.

The Full Moon in May is a mystically auspicious time – This ‘Buddha Moon’ is considered to be the greatest moment of spiritual contact for the entire year.

Great polarities are said to be synthesized and consequently united at this festival.

Hope is revived in the world, and great seeds of beauty, truth, and goodness are planted within us — qualities needed for the unity of humankind.

Ancient Wisdom asserts that there will be a new coming of the World Avatar and those beings who assist them. But the reality set forth and embedded within this festival, is that WE, as a living unit called humanity, are to be that World Avatar, when we can live as “Christ in me”…

The Wesak Festival provides us each year with a reception of the tools of love and wisdom, to fulfill this ancient prophecy. What all the higher beings have done, we can do also, taking up our responsibility as the 10th hierarchy to radiate the Christ Impulse out to all the kingdoms of Earth -becoming like little suns – emanating rays from the very core of our “I”, through the vehicle of our bodies, from our purified hearts, and specifically from our forehead, where our third eye is located. This is the Bulls Eye of Taurus – the Sun of May – and the mystery of the transformative Scorpio Moon.

The Full Buddha Moon is exact at 12:42pm CST, on May 3rd 2015, we will see it rise over the Great Inland Sea of Chicago at 7:32pm, and it will set on May 4th at 6:13am.

 

~Hazel Archer Ginsberg

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May 8th & 9th, 2015

Rudolf Steiner Branch 4249 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago

Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul and the Christ Impulse

A Lecture and Seminar with Herbert Hagens

 

Friday, May 8, Lecture – 7pm –9pm The weekly verses in the Calendar of the Soul create a special dynamic for one’s meditative life during the course of the year. In his lecture, Herbert Hagens will speak about how working with the Calendar can awaken us to the Christ impulse and the development of ego-consciousness. We will focus in particular on the period between Easter and Whitsun. ($10 suggested donation)

 

Saturday, May 9, Seminar – 10am – 4:30pm (Lunch break: 12:30 – 2pm)  The seminar will allow us to explore in greater depth through conversation and artistic activity (eurythmy). We will also trace the relationship to the seasons and the major Christian festivals. Herbert will offer some basic guidelines for working with the verses through the course of the year and for setting the dates from one year to the next. ($25 suggested donation)

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Spring into Eurythmy with Alison Biagi

Location: Upstairs at the Branch

Days: 5 Fridays in May and perhaps into June, with a possible show of the work?

Dates: May 1st, May 8, May 15, May 22, May 29…

Time: 11am – 12:30pm

 

We will work with seasonal poetry, and some forms and indications from the ‘Calendar of the Soul’ as given by Steiner.

Financial Contribution: Recommended $50 for 5 sessions,  or $12.00 for individual classes, but no one who has the will to do eurythmy will be turned away for lack of funds.

Outfit: please wear something loose fitting and eurythmy shoes or socks.

For more information contact Alison (312) 543-6136

Celestial Event – March 2015 – Spring Equinox, New Moon, Total Solar Eclipse

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It’s time to marvel at the cosmic dance of Sun, Moon and Earth during the SPRING EQUINOX.

On March 20, 2015 the plane of Earth’s Equator passes the center of the Sun.

At that instant, the tilt of Earth’s axis doesn’t slant away from, or towards the Sun.

You could say the cosmos stands in equipoise.

 

The two annual equinoxes (Spring and Autumn) are the only times when the subsolar point—

the place on Earth’s surface where the center of the Sun is exactly overhead—is on the Equator, and, consequently, the Sun is at zenith over the Equator. The subsolar point crosses the equator, moving northward at the March equinox and southward at the September equinox.

 

To make this celestial event even more powerful, it is also a NEW MOON, aligning into a TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE! On this day, when the Center of the Sun and the Earth’s equator align, the New Moon will be in-between, blocking the Sun. The last time we had a solar eclipse on the Spring Equinox was 1662!

This unique occurrence is the beginning of a series of four March Equinox/Solar Eclipse occurrences that will happen at 19-year intervals this century, for the first time since the 1600s.

2015, 2034, 2053 and 2072 — each one of these years will see a solar eclipse — a process where our moon temporarily blocks the light of the mighty sun — coinciding with the first day of spring,

the day when the sun evenly distributes its light across the planet’s hemispheres.

Could it be an enhancement of the 4-fold Human Being?

And then dear friends on HOLY SATURDAY, the Full Moon after the Equinox we will experience a LUNAR ECLIPSE – 4 APRIL, 2015! -The 3rd in a series of 4 lunar eclipses (a Tetrad).

NASA research showed that this century, eclipses have a definite pattern – occurring four times every six months during definite periods. From 1600-1900, lunar eclipses didn’t have this pattern.

This pattern of lunar and solar eclipses – unique to our century- seems to be saying that we are defining the next 300 years NOW.

For insights on the spiritual significance of Eclipses from Rudolf Steiner, clink link:

http://www.anthroposophy.org/fileadmin/regions/central/Speaking_of_Eclipses_FINAL.pdf

 

 

Friday 20 March 2015 – New Moon –Spring Equinox

We gather to hold the light as Michaelic Warriors during the Solar Eclipse

4am – 6am at the Branch as part of the

Central Regional Council’s “Speaking with the Stars” Initiative.

Activities include:

Co-creating the Sun Seal in sun-flower seeds

Verse from Rudolf Steiner’s lecture on St John’s Gospel: “In the Primal Beginning was the Word”

A Vernal Imagination Meditation

Group Eurythmy: Hallelujah – 7-pointed Star withJohanna Rohde  

For more info. contact Festivals Coordinator Hazel ArcherGinsberg 773-549-3026