26 April 2019 – “Speaking with the Stars”: Last-quarter Moon – exact at 5:18 pm CDT. Bella Luna rises very late tonight, around 2 am, in the center of the dim, boat-shape pattern of Capricornus. High above the Moon is Altair. The brightest “stars” far to Her right are Saturn, then brighter Jupiter.
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Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1721 – A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz. Many prominent mosques & schools in the city were destroyed, resulting in the deaths of over 250,000 people. At the time that it occurred, the earthquake was popularly interpreted as an omen of misfortune, or a demonstration of godly wrath. The destruction that the earthquake caused was a significant factor in the successful Ottoman takeover of Tabriz in 1722, as well as contributing to Tabriz’s economic difficulties during that period. It also caused the destruction of some of the city’s significant historical monuments.
1803 – Thousands of meteors fall from the skies in L’Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist. In the early afternoon a meteorite shower of more than 3000 fragments fell. Upon hearing of this event the French Academy of Sciences sent the young scientist Jean-Baptiste Biot to investigate that spectacular fall of stones. After painstaking work in the field he reported how these stones must undoubtedly be of extraterrestrial origin effectively gave birth to the science of meteoritics. The L’Aigle event was a real milestone in the understanding of meteorites & their origins because at that time the mere existence of meteorites was harshly debated, if they were recognized their origin was controversial.
1933 – The Gestapo, the secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established
1966 – The magnitude 5.1 earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia. Tashkent is destroyed & over 300 people are killed.
1986 – Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Ukraine
1989 – The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 2,300, injuring 22,000, & leaving as many as 180,000 homeless
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POD (Poem Of the Day)
~No fear is here
As I gather the serpents to my breast
Speaking their names I take their venom…
Burning with holy fire
Wrought with a kiss
I vomit the evil
Turning poison into medicine
Smelting my words into gold
I twine the snakes into my DNA –
Now death lives on my forehead
Side by side with light
~hag
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“According to Rudolf Steiner we prepare our souls most effectively for the meeting with the Etheric Christ if we live meditatively through the yearly cycle…
The calendar was an essential Rosicrucian impulse that is related to the events at Golgotha and furthered inner development.
It continued the work carried out by Rosicrucians for centuries on the more subtle processes in nature and in the course of the year:
‘Sacrifice” as ‘Sacred natural science.’
The Calendar and Soul Calendar constituted the metamorphosis of that work for use in modern times. It could offer support to ‘any person’ in ‘any situation,’ and could enhance human inner development in preparation for the experience of the reappearance in the etheric of the Christ being..”
~Rudolf Steiner and Christian Rosenkreutz By Peter Selg
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Tuesday 7 May 2019 in Ann Arbor Michigan
& also
Sat. 25 May 2019 – 7 pm – 9 pm in Chicago
Climbing Jacobs Ladder: Celebrating the Feast of Ascension
Leading Thoughts & original art-collage projections with Hazel Archer-Ginsberg
Eurythmy with Mary Ruud
Social Art with Nancy Melvin
$10 Donation & Snacks to Share Encouraged
Read about this year’s interesting ‘Easter Paradox’ – A Cosmic Wake Up Call: The Easter Paradox of 2019
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Sunday 19 May 2019, 2 pm – 4 pm- Social Sculpture Workshop around the ‘URPFLANZE’ with Victoria Martin. More details to follow
$20 for art supplies + Snacks to Share Encouraged
for more info. contact Hazel Archer-Ginsberg
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Whitsun: A Festival of United Soul Endeavor with Hazel Archer-Ginsberg
Sunday 2 June 2019 at the Branch 2 pm – 4 pm
also
10 am – 1 pm Saturday 8 June 2019 -4804 Sewanee Road, Nashville, TN 37220. for more info. contact Cathy Green cgreen@grasslandaquatics.com
also
12 Noon Potluck, Program 1 pm -4 pm Whitsunday 9 June 2019, In Knoxville, TN. for more info. contact William Rogers wmerogers@gmail.com
also
7 pm – 10 pm 11 June 2019, Ashville, TN. for more info. contact Marnie Muller
Eurythmy: AUM = A – I stand for myself, U- I stand for humanity, M – I stand for Life
Social Sculpture: Steiner’s ‘Blue Dot Exercise’: Through Art, the bridge between science & spirit, we warm the ‘I’, to open the heart, in support of healthy community.
Leading Thoughts with Hazel Archer-Ginsberg*
What are my gifts-What are my tools? How can I place them in right relationship within the social realm? How can I hone them to strengthen and enhance the world?
Enter the Labyrinth of Vitae Sophia: Human hearts, once warmed, can rise up to meet the source of wisdom, like flowers turning toward the sun.
Living into the Foundation Stone of Love: How can we take our individual Inner Whitsun & expand it, into what Steiner calls the “World Festival of Knowledge” a path leading from ‘Sprit Recollection’, to ‘Sprit Sensing’, to ‘Sprit Beholding’?
*Hazel Archer-Ginsberg is the founder of the website and blog Reverse Ritual – Understanding Anthroposophy through the Rhythms of the Year (www.reverseritual.com) She is an Essayist, Lecturer, Poet, Trans-denominational Minister, and “Anthroposopher.” She works as the Festivals Coordinator & Council Member of the Chicago Rudolf Steiner Branch as well as with the Traveling Speakers Program, and she serves on the Central Regional Council of the Anthroposophical Society.
Read about this year’s interesting ‘Easter Paradox’ – A Cosmic Wake Up Call: The Easter Paradox of 2019
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Dear Hazel,
Eight days after the Christ first appeared to His disciples after the crucifixion, which would be around 28 April, according to the ecclesiastical calendar this year of 2019, there was an event which involved the disciple Thomas. I would like to give the second half of chapter 20 of the Gospel of John, which first began with Mary’s experience at the empty tomb, in order to show that Christ was determined to keep His own. Here it is:
Jesus among His Disciples
19 So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and *said to them, “Peace be with you.” 20 And when He had said this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples then rejoiced when they saw the Lord. 21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” 22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them and *said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, their sins have been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been retained.”
24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples were saying to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the imprint of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.”
26 After eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus *came, the doors having been shut, and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.” 27 Then He *said to Thomas, “Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing.”28 Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!” 29 Jesus *said to him, “Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.”
Yes, this is the Gospel reading for this week in the Christian Community. Yesterday i got to hear it twice, once at the Children’s service & then in the Act of Consecration, both at which i served.
Then last night at the circle meeting I shared it with the group. It has been living deeply in me as well… John has given us a perfect synopsis of the mystery of Easter-Tide, all the elements even touching into the Ascension & Whitsun to come…Thanks for the affirmation.