As we round up to Mid-Summer - When we look up to the heavens, we gain the impression that there is an active Cosmic Intelligence scintillating in the rising warmth - an impression of many beings living within each other, interwoven with light. Up above everything we perceive is illumined, permeated, with a ripening effulgent wisdom. Yet down below, deep within Mother Earth, we sense that in the blue darkness, everything is experienced as dim forces of will – a banked expansion that pushes up as growth.
Within this beaming activity there appears the extremely earnest countenance of Uriel, the Archangel of Summer – which arises as a glowing heat out of the pervading radiant Intelligence. We have the impression that this Being forms its body of light, out of this radiant Intelligence. And for this to happen at the height of Summer, the Elemental Spirits of the Earth must soar upwards. And as they do, they weave themselves into the shining Intelligence up above - & the shining Intelligence receives them into itself - And out of that gleaming radiance Uriel takes form. It is with great earnestness that this representative of the weaving Cosmic forces, seeking to embody himself in a vesture of light, appears in the time of Summer. The intelligence of Uriel arises from the working together of the Planetary forces, supported by the working of the fixed Stars of the Zodiac. The deeds accomplished by Uriel in the radiant light, preserves the thoughts of the Cosmos, in his thoughts.
The feeling comes: “You clouds of summer, radiant with Intelligence, in which are reflected up above the blue crystal-formations of the earth below, just as these blue crystal-formations mirror in turn the shining Intelligence of the summer clouds — out of your shining there appears in high summer, with earnest countenance, a concentrated Imagination of Cosmic Understanding… Through the power of attraction residing in the concentrated Cosmic Intelligence of Uriel, the silver forces (white) are drawn upwards, and in the light of this inwardly shining Intelligence, as seen from the Earth, they appear as radiant Sunlight, densifying into a glory of gold. One has the immediate feeling that the gleaming silver, streaming up from below, is received by the sunlit radiance above. And the earth-silver — the phrase is quite correct — is changed by Cosmic alchemy into the Cosmic gold which lives and weaves in the heights.”
With the sprouting, fruiting life, we can no longer speak of matter permeated by Spirit, as it is in Winter. We have to speak of Spirit woven thru with matter – with silver & gold. ~A Summary of THE ST. JOHN IMAGINATION, from ~the Four Seasons and the Archangels, Lecture 4, by Rudolf Steiner How can we apply these spiritual insights in our everyday life…? ~hag
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19 June 2026 - “Speaking with the Stars” To heighten your Summer mood, here are a few videos bringing in the attributes of Summer Solstice, Litha, Father’s Day & St. John’s -Tide    
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