Open Ear EchoStar Speaking w/ the Medici family; Birth & Death-day of Johannes Schöner; Czar Ivan the Terrible; Franz Brentano; Arnold Böcklin; Sergei O. Prokofieff; Arturo Toscanini; Buckminster Fuller –
POD (Poem Of the Day) ~My song raps itself around
16 January 2025 - “Speaking with the Stars”: The waning gibbous Moon courts Regulus, the brightest star in Leo the Lion- the punctuation mark at the bottom of a pattern of stars known as the Sickle that looks like a backward question mark. Below is the view of 4 bright planets in our January sky. FYI: Uranus & Neptune are there as well, we just can’t see them with the naked eye - So we have to add their attributes into our imaginative cognition when we live into the current cosmic inscription. All these planets scoop along the path of the Sun travels (the green line on the EarthSky chart). Brilliant Venus dazzles in dark skies in the west, with the steady golden light of Saturn nearby. They are closest to each other on the evenings of January 17 & 18. High overhead is bright Jupiter, & visible all night is the red planet Mars.
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1412 – The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy
1477 – Birthday AND Deathday (1547 ) of Johannes Schöner, a renowned German polymath. He was a priest, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, cosmographer, cartographer, mathematician, globe &scientific instrument maker & editor/ publisher of scientific tests. He published of Copernicus’ “De revolutionibus” in Nürnberg in 1543. He enjoyed a European wide reputation as an innovative & influential globe maker & cosmographer- as one of the continent’s leading & most authoritative astrologers.
1547 – Ivan IV of Russia a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible becomes Czar of Russia
1838 – Birthday of Franz Brentano an influential German philosopher, psychologist, & priest whose work strongly influenced not only students Edmund Husserl, Sigmund Freud, Kazimierz Twardowski, Alexius Meinong, Carl Stumpf, Anton Marty, Christian von Ehrenfels, and Tomáš Masaryk, but many others whose work would follow &make use of his original ideas & concepts. Rudolf Steiner recalls the obituary he gave of Brentano as part of his lecture The Case for Anthroposophy where he also speaks about the Separation of the ‘Psychological from the Non-Psychological’ in Franz Brentano.
1901 – Deathday of Arnold Böcklin a Swiss symbolist painter. Rudolf Steiner speaks about him in an incarnation as an Arthurian Knight 1909 – Ernest Shackleton‘s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. 1919 – Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring Prohibition 1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard 1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the Führerbunker
1954 – Birthday of Sergei O. Prokofieff – a Russian Anthroposopher - Born in Moscow, to an artistic family: His mother, Sofia Feinberg, was a writer; his father, Oleg Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a sculptor - & his grandfather & namesake, was the famous composer Sergei Prokofiev . At the age of fourteen, S.O.P. became acquainted with Spiritual Science, it was a destiny moment that became his life’s work. He studied painting & art history at the Moscow University of Applied Sciences. When he was 26, while living in Soviet Russia, he wrote his first book: “Rudolf Steiner and the Foundation of the New Mysteries”. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he was a co-founder of the Anthroposophical Society in Russia. At Easter 2001, he became a member of the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical Society in Dornach, Switzerland. S.O.P. was a prolific author – At its core of his work was a deep Esoteric Christology, inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual-scientific research. His treasure trove of writings encompass a Mysetry School -
He was the 1st to confirm my connection with the New Isis. And his dedication to the 1st Class Lessons became my key, & the birthed in me a true knowing. He decodes the living reality of the ‘New Mysteries’, revealing the relationship of the Christ-Sophia in this Michael age, with Rudolf Steiner & Christian Rosenkreutz - which we as human beings are called to explore & develop - That the Earth May Become a Sun.
Today I speak these Prokofieff Quotes out loud today:
May we take up this task to co-create Anthroposophia, this Being of Human Wisdom, within ourselves, & in true community, to serve the world. Thank you dear Sergei for your continued inspiration. ~hag
1957 – Deathday of Arturo Toscanini an Italian conductor, renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail & sonority, & his photographic memory.] He was at various times the music director of La Scala Milan, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, & the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Later in his career he was appointed the first music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra (1937–54), & this led to his becoming a household name through his radio & television broadcasts & many recordings. 1969 – Soviet spacecraft perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, & the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk
1970 – Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects
All are invited to the Fellowship of Preparation Makers' annual gathering, to be held this year in Viroqua, WI - During the powerful Cross-Quarter time between Winter Solstice & Spring Equinox – I’ll open the way on that Thursday Night, after the Lunar New Year of the Green Wood Snake… Hope to see you there Xox ~hag .:.
If you want to support the Biodynamic Farming done on Zinniker Farm, you are invited to become a paid subscriber, with all donations going directly to the farm
Greetings Friend, you currently a free subscriber to Cognitive Ritual. Thank you for receiving my workings freely offered. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. ALL donations go to support Zinniker Farm - The oldest Biodynamic Farm in America! Together we can spiritualize the Universe. XOX ~hag
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Thursday, 16 January 2025
Open Ear Echo
Monday, 13 January 2025
What is in your Basket?
January Story (adapted from an Italian legend my Strega Nona used to tell) It was early in the year still cold & biting was the wind. A poor mother & her sweet daughter Ella lived in a small cottage outside the city near the great woods. One morning, Ella put on her warmest winter clothes & went with her basket to look for a morsel of food for her good mother. Ella asked everywhere for a crust of bread or a bit of carrot, but no one could spare a bite. Ella did not want to take an empty basket home, so she went into the woods to look for nuts & roots hidden under the snow. On the way she found a little mouse whose tail was caught under a stone. Ella gently freed him, & the mouse said, ‘Thank you kind child, I have been trapped here for a long time. May good fortune find you’. Then he scampered away through the frosty forest. As she wandered on, she noticed a tree whose branches were so weighed down with snow, she thought they would break. So she shook the tree until it could stand up straight again. ‘Oh my,’ said the tree, ‘that feels much better, thank you dear child, may good fortune find you.’ Ella went on through the forest, & saw a little robin shivering from the cold. She picked the robin up & wrapped her carefully in her warm woolen hat until the robin stopped shivering. ‘Thank you dear child,’ sang the robin, ‘I feel warm enough to fly now. May good fortune find you.’ The bird flapped her wings & flew toward to cloud covered sun. Ella had now walked deep into the woods where she knew a hazelnut tree grew. ‘Perhaps I will find nuts here,’ she thought to herself. So she started to dig under the snow, & sure enough her hard work payed off for she did indeed find nuts enough to fill her basket. As she was digging here & there, a kind old man with a long white beard appeared dressed all in white. He spoke to her with a voice as warm as light. ‘I am the Grandfather of the Year. My 4 sons & I have seen how thoughtful you are. My children each have a question for you.’ One brother came all dressed in light green. He smiled at Ella & asked her, ‘What is Spring like dear child?’ Ella answered, ‘Oh Spring is fresh & new & full of crocuses & daffodils & baby birds. I love Spring!’ The green brother smiled at Ella & nodded. Then a second brother came all dressed in yellow, & asked, ‘What is Summer like dear child?’ ‘Oh,’ said Ella, ‘Summer is a time to run & play in sunshine, plant a garden of flowers, & chase butterflies & fireflies. I love Summer!’ The yellow brother smiled & nodded. Then a third brother appeared dressed in orange & reds. He asked Ella, ‘What is Autumn like dear child?’ ‘Autumn,’ said Ella, ‘is full of dancing leaves like flames, apples & pumpkins, & it is harvest time. I love Autumn!’ The orange & red brother smiled & nodded. Then the Grandfather of the Year’s 4th son appeared all dressed in pale blues. ‘What is Winter like dear child,’ he asked. ‘Winter snow sparkles like the stars’, replied Ella. ‘Our cheeks get rosy as we make snowmen, & we light candles in the house, & read books. I love Winter!’ This blue brother also smiled & nodded. Then the 4 brothers & the Grandfather of the Year who stood before her, disappeared. Ella thought she had been dreaming, but when she looked in her basket of old nuts, they had turned into gold, frankincense & myrrh! When she returned home, her mother rejoiced. They shared these riches with all who asked & were never poor & hungry again! ~Grandma GoodWitch
13 January 2025 - “Speaking with the Stars” : Comet Atlas will reach perihelion – its closest point to the Sun – Today on this Full Wolf Moon - near the Red planet Mars & the Gemini’s twin stars, Castor & Pollux. Mars was closest to Earth yesterday 12 January - on my half b-day! And Mars will reach opposition on January 15-16. What’s more, Bella Luna will occult – or pass in front of – Mars.
Comet ATLAS might be the brightest comet of 2025. But it will be challenging to spot since it is so close to the Sun.
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1090 – Birthday of Bernard of Clairvaux, Mystic, Theologian, Co-Founder of the Order of the Templars
1497 – Deathday of St. Veronica of Milan. Being very poor & having no formal education, she attempted, , to teach herself to read. While making this effort one night, the Virgin Mary appeared to Veronica, &taught her in the form of three mystical letters: The first signified purity of intention; the second, abhorrence of murmuring or criticism; the third, daily meditation on the Passion. By the first she learned to begin her daily duties for no human motive, but for God alone; by the second, to carry out what she had begun by attending to her own affairs, never judging her neighbor, but praying for those who did wrong; by the third she was enabled to forget her own pains & sorrows in those of her Lord, & to weep hourly, but silently, over the memory of His wrongs. Veronica became accustomed to nearly constant apparitions & religious ecstasies. She saw scenes from the life of Christ, yet these never interrupted her work. She joined an Augustinian lay order at the convent of Saint Martha in Milan at the age of 22. This community was very poor; Veronica’s job was to beg in the streets of the city for food. She received a vision of Christ in 1494, & was given a message for Pope Alexander VI, so she traveled to Rome to deliver it. After a six-month illness, Veronica died on the date she had predicted, 13 January 1497.
Tjugondag jul (“Twentieth Day Yule”), or Tjugondag Knut (“Twentieth Day Knut”), a traditional festival celebrated in Sweden & Finland on 13 January. Christmas trees are taken down on Tjugondag jul, & the candies &cookies that decorated the tree are eaten. In Sweden, the feast held during this event is called a Knut’s party (Julgransplundring, literally “Christmas tree plundering”)
1898 – Émile Zola’s J’accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair – an open letter published in the newspaper L’Aurore where Zola spoke about President of France Félix Faure & accused the government of anti-Semitism & the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus, a French Army General Staff officer who was sentenced to lifelong penal servitude for espionage. Zola pointed out judicial errors & lack of serious evidence. The letter was printed on the front page of the newspaper & caused a stir in France & abroad. Zola was prosecuted for libel & found guilty. To avoid imprisonment, he fled to England, returning home in June 1899. As a result of the popularity of the letter, even in the English-speaking world, J’accuse! has become a common generic expression of outrage & accusation against someone powerful.
1915 – The Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of L’Aquila in Italy with a maximum intensity of XI (Extreme), killing over 32,610 people. 2001 – An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 1800
POD (Poem Of the Day) ~light slides thru my fingers - as i clutch the air - then the chorus begins...the empty shells of trees fill with color - the curtain of serpents parts - time stands still - then rolls backwards - & i know - it is day... ~hag .:.
All are invited to the Fellowship of Preparation Makers' annual gathering, to be held this year in Viroqua, WI - During the powerful Cross-Quarter time between Winter Solstice & Spring Equinox – I’ll open the way on that Thursday Night, after the Lunar New Year of the Green Wood Snake… Hope to see you there Xox ~hag .:.
If you want to support the Biodynamic Farming done on Zinniker Farm, you are invited to become a paid subscriber, with all donations going directly to the farm
Greetings Friend, you currently a free subscriber to Cognitive Ritual. Thank you for receiving my workings freely offered. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. ALL donations go to support Zinniker Farm - The oldest Biodynamic Farm in America! Together we can spiritualize the Universe. XOX ~hag
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