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Michaelmas 2015- Meeting the Dragon Within –

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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

 

Michaelmas Festival – Preparing to meet the Dragon Within

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Dear Friends – I greet you on this International Day of Peace.

In preparing for our Michaelmas Festival, during the Eclipse of the Harvest Moon on Sunday,  you may like to know that tomorrow, Wednesday Sept. 23rd2015, is the Autumnal Equinox, a milestone in the season of the harvest, when the Sun enters Libra, the sign of harmony & balance. Equinoxes are times of equilibrium, when the hours of daylight are equal to the hours of darkness. 

The 23rd is also Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which falls ten days after Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It is the dramatic culmination of the season of repentance which seeks to bring its own equilibrium. In the age of the Sentient Soul, when the Temple stood in Jerusalem, the High Priest effected atonement for the people through an elaborate ritual. Today, in our current age of the Consciousness Soul, each of us stands, alone, yet together, in a conscious community, working to be awake to our shared karma.

In the Autumn we rise in our thinking to meet Michael that we might have the courage to face ourselves in the coming dark.

Please Join us in Meeting the Dragon Within – Michaelmas 2015

Sunday September 27, 2015 During the Eclipse of the Harvest Moon Rudolf Steiner Branch 4249 N. Lincoln, Chicago, IL.  

 6:30pm – Exhibition of paintings on the theme by Sophie 

7pm -Performance by the Midwest Eurythmy Group: ‘Michaelmas Mood’

‘Finding our Sun Task in an Age of Shadows’ –

Guest Speaker: Robert Karp, Co-Director of the Biodynamic Farming & Gardening Association

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

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

Doors Re-Open for Eclipse Activities: Holding the Light as Michaelites:

9pm – The Michaelmas Eclipse, a Cosmic Harvest – Hazel Archer Ginsberg

 Group Eurythmy with Tish Pierce

 An Artistic Exploration of the Sun & Moon Seals with Sophie

Circles, Singing & Spirals with Nancy

 11pm – Eclipse Ends as we speak The Foundation Stone Meditation  

 $10 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. For more info. Contact Festivals Coordinator – Hazel Archer Ginsberg