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Window Display

Chicago Event, Festival, Rudolf Steiner Quote

Greetings Friends –

In an effort to beautify the Rudolf Steiner Branch, All are Welcome
to help us design & create a ‘Waldorf Inspired Nature scene’
for our storefront windows, celebrating SPRING!!!
4pm – 6:45pm on St. Patrick’s Day, Thursday March 17th 2016.
Bring your (non-denominational) Spring Treasures
(We will return them when we change the scene for each season)

Soup provided, side-dish or snacks to share encouraged!

“When Goethe was seven he built himself an altar to nature, taking his father’s music stand and placing on it plants from his father’s herbarium and also minerals and crowning it all with a little incense candle that he lit by focusing the beams of the morning sun with a burning-glass; an offering to the great god of nature, a rebellion against everything imposed on him by education”. ~Rudolf Steiner, Practical Advice to Teachers: Fourteen lectures given at the foundation of the Waldorf School, Stuttgart, from 21 August to 5 September 1919.
spring goddess watercolor

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Easter-Tide Study throughout Holy Week
Excerpts from “The Three Years” by Emil Bock
Beginning: Palm Sunday March 20th, 2pm-4pm,
then, M-F: March 21-26th, 7pm-9pm

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

Palm Sunday – The old Sun
Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem – The Prophesy fulfilled

Holy Monday
The fig tree, symbol of the old clairvoyance, cursed –
Moon-forces must be renewed -The cleansing of the Temple

Holy Tuesday (a Lunar Eclipse this year)
Conflict with opponents – bending the Mars sprit to His purposes
An Apocalyptic future revealed

Holy Wednesday
Mary Magdalene’s pre-burial anointing
Judas’s betrayal – the 2 sides of Mercury: Healer /Thief

Maundy Thursday (Last Supper)
Christ washes the feet of the disciples & administers to them
the new sacrament – King Jupiter’s benevolence

Good Friday
Love’s Sacrificial Death – the transformation of the Venus-principle
Thru the Sun-principle of Christ – the rending of the Temple Veil

Holy Saturday (The Harrowing of Hell)
Christ laid in the tomb is taken by the quake into the grave of the earth
Saturn darkness becomes Easter Light, healing the realm of the dead

Easter Sunday – The New Sun
The Octave of Resurrection – Mary Magdalene meets the Angels
& sees the ‘Gardener’ – The Risen One in His Spirit-Body

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Spring Tomasz-Alen-Kopera

Easter Festival: A Path to the Dawning
Sunday March 27th – 4pm -6pm (note the time change!)

Midwest Eurythmy Group to Perform ‘Hallelujah’ & the Easter Calendar
of the Soul Verse by Rudolf Steiner

Lecture: : Encountering the Inner Layers of the Earth as a Christian/Rosicrucian Initiation,
in relation to the Beatitudes and the 9-fold human being by Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Live Music: Clark Remington – Prelude and Fugue by Bach

Group Eurythmy: Hallelujah

$10 donation goes to the Midwest Eurhythmy Group –

Snacks to Share encouraged!

All events at The Rudolf Steiner Branch 4249 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago
For more info. Contact Hazel ReverseRitual@gmail.com

Our Annual All Souls

Our annual All Souls gatherings are a tradition held in gratitude  as we approach this threshold with loving attention & a warmed consciousness. As your Festivals Coordinator I value our time together as a community. And nothing could keep me from meeting these important milestones. I reach out today, after having oral surgery this week, for a little help with setting up the snacks & clean-up at the end. Thanks for your support. ~Hazel Archer Ginsberg

  Earthly Death / Cosmic Life
2pm – 4pm, Sunday November 8th 2015
Rudolf Steiner Branch
4249 North Lincoln Avenue
Chicago, IL 60618
 
Storytelling:
The Descent of Inanna
An archetype of the soul in the spirit world
 Singing
 Lemniscate Journey thru the Planetary Spheres & the Zodiac –
 Artistic Exploration – Which Wandering or Fixed Star calls to you?
 Didgeridoo
 Remembering those who have Crossed the Threshold  
 Contact Carolyn with the names of loved ones, 
who have died this year, To be read in the circle.
773-539-3688
 
 May my love BE for you
In the spirit-realm.
May my seeking soul find your soul.
May MY thinking of YOUR being
Ease your cold,
Ease your heat.
In this way, we shall be united;
I with you ,
You with me.  
 
The Hallelujah in Eurythmy
 
$10 Donation & Snacks to Share Encouraged
 For more info. contact Hazel Archer Ginsberg ReverseRitual@gmail.com

All Souls Festival – Earthly Death / Cosmic Life

Chicago Event
During this time of year the veils between the worlds are thin, & the spiritual realm beckons. Having forged the iron sword of Michael to strengthen our heart-thinking, we now have the courage to look beyond the veil of the material world, into the spirit realm, the place of our beginning, the time of our unborness, the place of our ending, when we shuffle off this mortal coil, only to begin again & yet again, as we strive toward the eternal…for every ending is a new beginning…
 
At All Hallows Eve, we stand at the cross quarter between Autumn Equinox & Winter Solstice, a time when great transformations are possible.
 
In the realities that Rudolf Steiner brings us in his many teachings on communicating with our dearly departed, working with the spiritual hierarchies & coming to know the Christ, we learn not only what the dead can teach us about living in the planetary spheres, but also what it means to be human in a spiritual sense.
 
We learn of the importance of working with the ‘so called dead’ & the angelic worlds, for both our own & for their development, as well as for the future evolution of the Earth.   
 
Storytelling: The Descent of Inanna
Lemniscate Journey thru the
Planetary Spheres & the Zodiac
Artistic Exploration
Eurythmy
Remembering those who have Crossed the Threshold
Singing
 
Contact Carolyn with the names of loved ones,who have died  this year.  To be read in the circle.  (773) 755-0596
 
$10 Donation & Snacks to Share Encouraged
 
For more info. contact Hazel Archer Ginsberg

 2pm – 4pm, Sunday November 8th 2015 

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

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

halloweencrone!!!

Michaelmas 2015- Meeting the Dragon Within –

Chicago Event,

Sunday September 27, 2015 During the Eclipse of the Harvest Moon 6:30pm at the Rudolf Steiner Branch

The Dragon is not found in the sense world. So where is he? The dragon lives within the human being. “…the outer cosmic conflict of Michael and the Dragon was transferred to the inner human being, because only in human nature could the Dragon now find his sphere of action.”

Steiner gives a picture of the dragon; on the one hand, writhing around in us, even coiling around the heart; but then — behind us, at the back of the head — the outer cosmic figure of Michael, radiant, towering, retaining his cosmic nature but reflecting it into our higher human nature, so that our etheric body reflects etherically the cosmic figure of Michael.

Then visible in the human head — but working down into the heart — we can feel the power of Michael, crushing the Dragon and causing our blood to flow down from the heart into the limbs. So we can put our will into action through heart-thinking. This is Gemüt – described as: ‘the mind warmed by a loving heart and stimulated by the soul’s imaginative power’.

This activated heart-thinking allows us to enter into a living relationship with the whole cosmos. Then, Steiner tells us, we will be able to find solutions to our social problems!

 Doors open at 6:30pm – with an Exhibition of Paintings on the theme bySophie
7pm – Upstairs: Welcome – Hazel Archer Ginsberg

‘Michaelmas Mood’ a Performance by theMidwest Eurythmy Group
‘Finding our Sun Task in an Age of Shadows’ – Robert Karp Co-Director of the Biodynamic Farming & Gardening Association

8:07pm – Eclipse Begins

The Well-Tempered Klavien by J.S. Bach played by Clark 

8:30pm – a tour by Sophie  of herMichaelmas Paintings

8:45pm – Break – Doors Re-Open for Eclipse Activities- Holding the Light as Michaelites

9pm – Doors Close – Upstairs: Group Eurythmy with Tish

Downstairs: Cosmic Harvest: The Michaelmas Eclipse – Hazel Archer Ginsberg

An Artistic Exploration of the Sun & Moon Seals with Sophie

Upstairs: Circles, Singing & Spirals with Nancy

 Small Group Exercise with Robert Karp

Verse for the Michaelic Age, ‘In the Primal Beginning’ Verse, The Foundation Stone Meditation  

11:27pm – Eclipse Ends

Refreshments – Your Donation goes to the Midwest Eurythmy Group – Snacks to Share Encouraged!

 This event is part of the Central Regional Council’s ‘Speaking with the Stars’ project, striving to empower us to ripen our speech, so we can work in a Michaelic way with the Spiritual Beings of the Stars.

Want to help with refreshments or clean up? For more info. contact Festivals Coordinator, Hazel Archer Ginsberg

 

As Above so Below

Chicago Event,

Greetings Friends –

The Final Chapter, of the Tetrad Series http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/27mar_tetrad/ which the Central Region of the Anthroposophical Society has been working with in our ‘Speaking with the Stars Project’ begins September 12-13, and ends at our Michaelmas Festival Sept. 27-28, 2015.

Join us at the Branch for our last Solar Eclipse Gathering Sunday September 13th 5:30am – 7am This New Moon Solar Eclipse in Virgo, is on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.

Together as we greet the Sunrise, with:

*The Hallelujah in Eurythmy, and other group eurythmy with Tish Pierce

*We will review parts of Steiner’s lecture “Human Questions and Cosmic Answers”, so that we can rise in our thinking to meet the spiritual significance of an eclipse

*We will work with the Foundation Stone Meditation, and other Verses.

 *Michaelmas Songs

*Paper Sculpting: Cutting out forms in paper is an astral activity, which relates to the starry realm, as opposed to the flowing out processes which could be called etheric. It is the process our body uses to shape itself.

Doing this form of art, can help us take hold of this development with consciousness, an especially important endeavor to do during the eclipse time.

Shared Potluck Breakfast to Follow.

For more info. Contact Hazel. For a brief summary of some leading thoughts on eclipses, here’s a link:  http://www.anthroposophy.org/fileadmin/regions/central/CRC_last_phase_of_the_tetrad_series.pdf

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YOU are invited to our upcoming Central Region conference: “Speaking with the Stars: ~Festive Resounding~” 

http://www.anthroposophy.org/fileadmin/branches/CRC_Festive_RESOUNDING_iNVITE_3.pdf Before the Anthroposophical Society’s Annual General Meeting in St. Louis, MO October 7-8, 2015 – On the exquisite grounds of the Sisters of Carondelet Motherhouse https://www.csjsl.org/motherhouse-services/take-a-tour.php

Dear CRC friends! This is a reminder that we need to provide the sisters of Carondelet with a final count of rooms and meals bySeptember 25.We have the opportunity to stay at The Carondelet Motherhouse through Sunday, for those planning to attend the national AGM, at great rates and unparalleled architecture.

The CRC Festive Resounding will include:

* A Journey through the Planetary Spheres

* Artistic Explorations

* Eurythmy with Raven Garland

* Storytelling and Singing

* An Overview and Sharing of Highlights from our Speaking

* Culminating on Thursday evening with a Showcase including:

Eurythmy, offerings from the Youth Initiative, and a Special Performance by Laurie Portocarrero!

Please submit your registration form ASAP (lodging is on a first-register basis). 

http://www.anthroposophy.org/fileadmin/regions/central/registration-SWTS_2015.pdf

Please call Alberto Loya at 734-395-0151, or any CRC representative, if you have any questions.

Link to the AGM: Engage! Meeting the Events of our Time (Anthroposophical Society in America)
As usual, we request your help in getting the word out!

See you in St. Louis!

The Central Regional Council: Dennis Dietzel, Marianne Fieber, Mary Louise Hershberger, Hazel Archer-Ginsberg and Alberto Loya, with Raven Garland