~J. Giulinni
~my words are forged in star-fire
that i may speak the language of earth
a sacrifice on the altar of angels…
~hag
3 October 2023 – “Speaking with the Stars”: The variable star Algol in Perseus is in the East around 9 pm CDT above Bella Luna. Algol is called the Demon Star because it changes brightness quite noticeably, even to the naked eye.
Sunrise: 6:58 A.M.
Sunset: 6:39 P.M.
Moonrise: 9:13 P.M.
Moonset: 11:59 A.M.
Moon Phase: Waning gibbous (78%)
Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
508 BC – Deathday of Lucretia an ancient Roman woman whose fate played a vital role in the transition of Roman government from the Roman Kingdom to the Roman Republic. She committed suicide after being raped by an Etruscan king’s son was the immediate cause of the anti-monarchist rebellion that overthrew the monarchy. As a result of its sheer impact, the rape itself became a major theme in European art & literature
Deathay of Jarius. The record of the daughter of Jairus is a combination of miracles of Jesus in the Gospels (Mark 5:21–43, Matthew 9:18–26, Luke 8:40–56) The story immediately follows the exorcism at Gerasa. Jairus, a patron or ruler of a Galilee synagogue, had asked Jesus to heal his 12-year-old daughter. As they were traveling to Jairus’ house, a sick woman in the crowd touched Jesus’ cloak & was healed of her sickness. Jesus turned round to the woman & says: “Take heart, daughter,” your faith has healed you. Go in peace.” Moments later, a messenger arrived with the news that Jairus’ daughter had died, & he was advised not to trouble Jesus any further. However, Jesus responded: Be not afraid, only believe. (Mark 5:36) Jesus continued to the house, where he informed all those present that the girl was not dead but asleep. He then went upstairs & restored the little girl to life. In Mark’s account, the Aramaic phrase “Talitha Koum” (transliterated into Greek as ταλιθα κουμ meaning, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”) is attributed to Jesus
Deathday of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, a Syrian Christian theologian & philosopher of the late 5th to early 6th century, the author of the set of works commonly referred to as the Corpus Areopagiticum or Corpus Dionysiacum, portraying himself as the Athenian convert of Paul of Tarsus mentioned in Acts 17:34 (Some of the people became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus) This attribution to the earliest decades of Christianity resulted in the work being given great authority in subsequent theological writing in both East & West. His works are mystical & show strong Neoplatonic influence. For example he uses Plotinus’ well-known analogy of a sculptor cutting away that which does not enhance the desired image.
In a letter addressed to Polycarp, pseudo-Dionysius asks “What have you to say about the solar eclipse which occurred when the Savior was put on the Cross? At the time the two of us were in Heliopolis and we both witnessed the extraordinary phenomenon of the moon hiding the sun at the time that was out of season for their coming together…. We saw the moon begin to hide the sun from the east, travel across to the other side of the sun, and return on its path so that the hiding and the restoration of the light did not take place in the same direction but rather in diametrically opposite directions.…” This is illustrated in an astronomical fresco in the main gallery of the Escorial Library, near Madrid, Spain, which shows Dionysius the Areopagite observing an eclipse at the time of Christ’s crucifixion.
Luke, 23-45 (It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour. 45The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn down the middle) We can notice a quadrant & an astrolabe in the hands of the amazed men!
287 AD – Deathday of Saint Candidus. The Golden Legend states that he was a commander of the Theban Legion, which was composed of Christians from Upper Egypt. He opposed Maximian, who had ordered them to harass the local Christians in his name, stating that “we are your soldiers, but we are also servants of the true God. We cannot renounce Him who is our Creator and Master, and also yours even though you reject Him.” Candidus, along with St. Maurice, the other staff officers & 6,600 soldiers, were martyred at the Swiss town of Saint Maurice-en-Valais
1226 – Deathday of Francis of Assisi, Italian friar & saint. Based on a study of the life of Francis of Assisi, Rudolf Steiner shows how the development of morality is based on the belief in the Divine at the bottom of every human soul, on the boundless love that springs from this belief, and on the hope for each human soul that it can find its way back to the Divine. Anthroposophical Ethics…St. Francis, Lecture III
1250 – Deathday of Gilbertus Anglicus. His major work, the Compendium Medicinae, written in Latin, running to seven books, is an attempt to provide a comprehensive encyclopedia of medical & surgical knowledge as it existed in his day. He quotes extensively from Roger of Palma, & acknowledges that his work is indebted to Greek physicians including Galen, Hippocrates & Theophilus Protospatharius, & Arab physicians such as Averroes & Avicenna.
1884 – Birthday of, Paul Foster Case, an American occultist, founder of Builders of the Adytum (B.O.T.A.), original member of Alpha et Omega, an organization that inherited the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Paul Foster Case played the organ in the Congregational Church, where his father was a deacon. In childhood, he started working to have lucid dreams. Rudyard Kipling, spurred his interest in their correspondence, confirming that such a phenomenon is possible, & can be developed.
Case became a member of the Order of Alpha et Omega, but he was distrustful of Enochian Magic. He explored certain practical ceremonial magic, with his sometime partner Moina Mathers.
Case was fascinated by the “New Thought” movement, he met William Walker Atkinson, & co-authored the modern literary mystification “The Kybalion”, as one of the anonymous “three wise men”.
Case studied various yoga’s & the karma of past lives, & was said to have worked with “the healer Dr. Fludd” who claimed that the Count Saint-Germain had sent him to be his teacher.
1990 – German Unity Day (Tag der Deutschen Einheit) commemorates German reunification when the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) joined the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), so that for the first time since 1945 there existed a single German state.
1995 – O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson & Ronald Goldman
2008 – The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act is signed by President George W. Bush – commonly referred to as a bailout of the U.S. financial system, is a law enacted in response to the subprime mortgage crisis authorizing the United States Secretary of the Treasury to spend up to $700 billion to purchase distressed assets, especially mortgage-backed securities, & supply cash directly to banks.
All Souls Festival – Election Day 7 November 2023
Community Prep-Stir / Potluck / Bon-fire
Celebrating: The Festival of the Dead, & Martinmas
6 – 8 pm at the Lucchesi-Archer-Ginsberg domicile
Please Bring Food & Drink to share, & a jar for the prep
RSVP Hazel@ReverseRitual.com
Save the Dates for Community Workings TBA:
| October 14 | Annular Solar Eclipse |
| October 21-22 | Orionids Meteor Shower Predicted Peak |
| October 23 | Venus at Greatest Western Elongation |
| October 28 | Full Hunter’s Moon and Partial Lunar Eclipse |
The 1st New Moon after the Autumnal Equinox – Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, annular solar eclipse
| Global Event: | Annular Solar Eclipse |
|---|---|
| Local Type: | Partial Solar Eclipse in Chicago, Illinois |
| Begins: | Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 10:37 am |
| Maximum: | Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 11:58 am 0.540 Magnitude |
| Ends: | Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 1:22 pm |
| Duration: | 2 hours, 45 minutes |
Lunar Eclipse Oct 28, 2023
Lunar Eclipse Mar 25, 2024
The reprise of the 2017 Great American Eclipse Monday, April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse
Lunar Eclipse Sep 18, 2024
Dear Hazel,
We had a Michaelmas conference at the Stourbridge Christian Community on ‘The formative Power Of The Word’,
with Eurythmy classes & wonderful talks ‘Man, speak, and you will reveal through yourself the becoming of the world’
‘The wielding, creating Word’, ‘The human being reveals himself in the vowels’, ‘Partaking in the world
through the power of the consonants’ and ‘The wielding Word speaking throught he zodiac’, with much about eurythmy, speech exercises and child speech development, by Wilberg Keller Roth. She is a medical GP in Basel
who has been teaching curative education, eurythmy and eurythmy therapy for many years across Europe including Dornach/Arlesheim. She and her husband, another doctor, are now exploring Penmaenmawr in Wales,
where Rudolf Steiner in 1923 gave his lectures on The Evolution of the World and of Humanity.
perhaps you might like to invite her to one of your festivals!
And what a wonderful learning experience you had at the Zinniker farm!
I grew up at Sunnyside Farm in Shropshire, a dairy farm. I loved the Ayrshire cows: as a little boy I watched them come into their shippons every evening and had nicknames for most of them, later even learnt to milk one by hand. My father was the son of a cotton merchant, but loving animals he trained to be a farmer.
He bought some Show Homer pigeons for me, made a shed for them and encouraged me to care for them. They are larger than racing pigeons and are bred not to fly but to win prizes for their appearance. We won many.
In 1959, when he was 50, he became chairman of the Shropshire NFU. In 1966 he sold the farm, moved to Shrewsbury and worked for a farm insurance company. I’d gone to Aberdeen University to study biology, failed my exams and came back to my birth town, living in my parents’ lovely house overlooking the river Severn, and luckily for me near Attingham Park where George Trevelyan, the guru of the New Age, hosted many wonderful events, introducing me to Anthroposophy, of which my parents knew nothing. They had no knowledge of biodynamics.
I moved to London in the seventies, did eurythmy and speech classes, and founded a recycling company. In 1983 I moved to Stourbridge. 2 years later my father had a stroke after a hip replacement operation brought a blood clot to his brain. He never stood again. I spent much of my time with my parents, pushing my father in his wheelchair to the Shrewsbury Quarry, a beautiful park encircled by the loop of the river Severn.
In February 1992 he died and 5 months later I went on a pigrimage to Siberia. In Irkutsk someone stole my shoulder bag with my passport and I could not continue into Mongolia. Coming back to Irkutsk with 2 injured people I met a doctor who said ‘Would you like to come with me to the Taiga rainforest and to Ptcheloferma (Bee Farm)… and there I met Lara. Her husband had recently died with leukemia and she had come with her 2 young children to be with her brother who had bought perhaps the first private Siberian farm. After 5 extraordinary months she and her children came with me to England. We married and she encouraged me to finally, in my early fifties, get a degree – in poetry and drama, in which I had a workshop with Volcano Theatre, with whom I then toured Europe from the west coast
of Ireland to eastern Romania in about 100 performances of The Town That Went Mad, an improvised version of Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood.
Today is the 239th anniversar of the first Englishman to take flight, my great, great, great grandfather, James Sadler.
On Ocober 4th 1984 we had a bicentenary celebration with a balloon flight from the same Oxford field.
I wrote a long poem of this and the flight I had 2 days later: THE EARTH AS ONE ORGANISM, SEEN FROM THE BALLOON SNOWFLAKE IN MEMORY OF THE FIRST ENGLISHMAN TO ASCEND INTO ITS WINDS
James Sadler: The Oxford balloon man history forgot – BBC News. (12 July 2014)
I should have sent this earlier. It’s probably too late for you to include him in your post today.
His 270th birthday was last February (exact date unknown). He died on 28th March 1828.
Best wishes for all your posts and your time at Zinniker Farm,
Roy
This was posted by Hazel after I sent it her on October 4th, prompted by her ‘Food for Thought’ from the Zinniker Farm Michaelmas festival to share a synopsis of the Michaelmas conference we had in Stourbridge, in the English West Midlands, and to look back at my farm childhood and reveal a little bit of my biography, having been contributing my Soul Calendar translations for more than 3 years now.
Dear Hazel,
We had a Michaelmas conference at the Stourbridge Christian Community on ‘The formative Power Of The Word’,
with Eurythmy classes & wonderful talks ‘Man, speak, and you will reveal through yourself the becoming of the world’
‘The wielding, creating Word’, ‘The human being reveals himself in the vowels’, ‘Partaking in the world
through the power of the consonants’ and ‘The wielding Word speaking throught he zodiac’, with much about eurythmy, speech exercises and child speech development, by Wilberg Keller Roth. She is a medical GP in Basel
who has been teaching curative education, eurythmy and eurythmy therapy for many years across Europe including Dornach/Arlesheim. She and her husband, another doctor, are now exploring Penmaenmawr in Wales,
where Rudolf Steiner in 1923 gave his lectures on The Evolution of the World and of Humanity.
perhaps you might like to invite her to one of your festivals!
And what a wonderful learning experience you had at the Zinniker farm!
I grew up at Sunnyside Farm in Shropshire, a dairy farm. I loved the Ayrshire cows: as a little boy I watched them come into their shippons every evening and had nicknames for most of them, later even learnt to milk one by hand. My father was the son of a cotton merchant, but loving animals he trained to be a farmer.
He bought some Show Homer pigeons for me, made a shed for them and encouraged me to care for them. They are larger than racing pigeons and are bred not to fly but to win prizes for their appearance. We won many.
In 1959, when he was 50, he became chairman of the Shropshire NFU. In 1966 he sold the farm, moved to Shrewsbury and worked for a farm insurance company. I’d gone to Aberdeen University to study biology, failed my exams and came back to my birth town, living in my parents’ lovely house overlooking the river Severn, and luckily for me near Attingham Park where George Trevelyan, the guru of the New Age, hosted many wonderful events, introducing me to Anthroposophy, of which my parents knew nothing. They had no knowledge of biodynamics.
I moved to London in the seventies, did eurythmy and speech classes, and founded a recycling company. In 1983 I moved to Stourbridge. 2 years later my father had a stroke after a hip replacement operation brought a blood clot to his brain. He never stood again. I spent much of my time with my parents, pushing my father in his wheelchair to the Shrewsbury Quarry, a beautiful park encircled by the loop of the river Severn.
In February 1992 he died and 5 months later I went on a pigrimage to Siberia. In Irkutsk someone stole my shoulder bag with my passport and I could not continue into Mongolia. Coming back to Irkutsk with 2 injured people I met a doctor who said ‘Would you like to come with me to the Taiga rainforest and to Ptcheloferma (Bee Farm)… and there I met Lara. Her husband had recently died with leukemia and she had come with her 2 young children to be with her brother who had bought perhaps the first private Siberian farm. After 5 extraordinary months she and her children came with me to England. We married and she encouraged me to finally, in my early fifties, get a degree – in poetry and drama, in which I had a workshop with Volcano Theatre, with whom I then toured Europe from the west coast
of Ireland to eastern Romania in about 100 performances of The Town That Went Mad, an improvised version of Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood.
Today is the 239th anniversar of the first Englishman to take flight, my great, great, great grandfather, James Sadler.
On Ocober 4th 1984 we had a bicentenary celebration with a balloon flight from the same Oxford field.
I wrote a long poem of this and the flight I had 2 days later: THE EARTH AS ONE ORGANISM, SEEN FROM THE BALLOON SNOWFLAKE IN MEMORY OF THE FIRST ENGLISHMAN TO ASCEND INTO ITS WINDS
James Sadler: The Oxford balloon man history forgot – BBC News. (12 July 2014)
I should have sent this earlier. It’s probably too late for you to include him in your post today.
His 270th birthday was last February (exact date unknown). He died on 28th March 1828.
Best wishes for all your posts and your time at Zinniker Farm,
Deathday of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, a Syrian Christian theologian & philosopher of the late 5th to early 6th century, the author of the set of works commonly referred to as the Corpus Areopagiticum or Corpus Dionysiacum, portraying himself as the Athenian convert of Paul of Tarsus mentioned in Acts 17:34
“I have often pointed out that Paul, the great apostle of Christianity, used his powerful, fiery gift of eloquence to teach Christianity to the people, but that at the same time he founded an esoteric school, the director of which was Dionysius, the Areopagite, mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. In this Christian Esoteric School at Athens which was directly founded by Paul himself, the purest Spiritual Science was taught. And now, having brought together the necessary material in the above observations, we shall be able to place before our souls what was taught there.
This school also taught that when we observe the human being standing before us in his waking state, we find him composed of physical body, ether body, astral body, and ego. It is of little importance that the names used were not exactly the same as those used today. Even at that time the stage of evolution at which humanity now stands was already predicated. This human being, consisting of these four members, has not always been as he now appears to us. If we wish to observe him composed of these four members only, then we must not observe him as he is today, but we must retrace our evolutionary steps back to the Lemurian period. It was at that time that the ego became united with the human being composed of physical, ether, and astral bodies. Thus one might truly say that then, in the real sense of the word, the human being consisted of physical, ether, and astral bodies, and ego.”
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA103/English/AP1962/19080519p01.html
I thought you would pggyback on his Quote about the Solar eclipse…
Yes, as the story goes, and it isn’t in Acts 17, when Paul describes to the Athenians about the day when the sky darkened and the ground shook, Dionysius remembered that he had recorded the event in his journal. He was living in Heliopolis, Egypt at the time as an astronomer. This was about 11 years ago in AD 33. So, he retrieves his journal in order to prove that Paul is right. The Athenians hope that Paul will return in order to learn more about the Resurrection. So, Dionysius was very helpful here. When Paul initiated him, it was like scales falling off his eyes, and he was now able to perceive the spiritual beings behind the planets. He would go on to teach about the Celestial Hierarchies, and this teaching would pass on to the monasteries, until pseudo-Dionysius wrote it out for the first time, c. 500.
Greetings,
from link,
a poem,
https://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.com/2013/01/dare-you-see-soul-at-white-heat-then.html
Dare you see a Soul at the “White Heat”?
Dare you see a Soul at the “White Heat”?
Then crouch within the door—
Red—is the Fire’s common tint—
But when the vivid Ore
Has vanquished Flame’s conditions—
It quivers from the Forge
Without a color, but the Light
Of unannointed Blaze—
Least Village, boasts its Blacksmith—
Whose Anvil’s even ring
Stands symbol for the finer Forge
That soundless tugs—within—
Refining these impatient Ores
With Hammers, and with Blaze
Until the designated Light
Repudiate the Forge—
namaste,mkyogi
Here is another version from Longfellow. The impression given is one of a great Michaelic figure. It was written in 1840, the year before the War in Heaven began. The Blacksmith is among his peers and admirers; a humble man, indeed.
https://poets.org/poem/village-blacksmith