Dear Friends - The Healing thoughts of Mercury & the beauty gathering of Venus align with our Day-Star-Sun now - shedding their ‘Evening Star’ mantles to begin their reappearance as ‘Morning Stars’. These ‘inferior conjunctions’ (dancing closest to the Earth) of Mercury & Venus to the Sun, bring them together at the midpoint of their retrograde movement. We can open now to accept what they are bestowing – All the cosmic gifts they have gathered, are available to us, if, we will, to receive them from the spirit realm between human will & Divine Grace. So as our solar system’s 2 inner planets cozy up, quick thinking Mercury, messenger of the gods, as well as psycho-pomp, carrying the souls of the dead across the threshold, is thinking outside the box right now - whispering his secrets to Bright Venus, Goddess of Love, who reflects them back to us. We can remember that when the ‘Copernican revolution’ brought human thinking into a more materialistic modern science, changing from a Geocentric to a Heliocentric model, Mercury & Venus were switched! And it is up to us, in our ‘Speaking with the Stars’, to discover the occult reasons for this reversal. Now, as we develop the spiritual science of Astro-Sophy, we must learn to know, & work with these Beings, exploring how they are now blended – to bring us the loving thoughts of the gods. Venus is that sphere which wants to bring about the reintegration & harmonizing of humanity, with the spiritual realm, particularly thru the heart forces of reverence & devotion. Yes, in a traditional sense Venus is the planet of love. But how can we see this out of Spiritual Science instead of some pat sentimentality? The revolution/evolution that has occurred since the deed of Christ, takes the Love of Venus & the message of the gods into the sphere of the New Mysteries – a new transformational deed of love in which we must become the servant of the other - able to ask the Parzival Question – ‘Brother/Sister, what ails thee’? And then to apply the healing thinking necessary for transformation into a new wholeness. Will you tune in & take up this opportunity? ~hag  Here is the recording exploring the energies & various cultural expressions of the Vernal Equinox w/ MA - Reverberations from the 100-year Anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s Death – & the Lapis Exillis for the next Century by Hazel Archer - w/Lisa Dalton, including leading thoughts by Grand Master Richard Cloud from our offering Sunday 23 March 2025 - Enjoy!
RUDOLF STEINER'S CALENDAR OF THE SOUL
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
806 – The death-day of Harun al Raschid. Interesting that Rudolf Steiner speaks about this individuality in the Young Doctors Easter Course: Lecture IV, which Steiner gave at the time of the Easter Paradox in 1924. “…But now just think of the Court of Harun al Raschid, where ancient medicine flourished. The Old Mystery Wisdom, still preserved in tradition, was living in the existing knowledge concerning the being of man. There were two men at that court: Harun al Raschid himself, the organizer of the great academy of spiritual life which grew and developed under his influence; and another, who in earlier times had been an initiate. In the days of Harun al Raschid the initiation did not come to the surface. Harun al Raschid reincarnated as Lord Bacon of Verulam (1561–1626) and with his kind of thinking which was thoroughly steeped in Arabism, he renewed the natural-scientific thinking, from the West. Such was the path he took in his life between death and rebirth. If you would study Lord Bacon you would find how greatly medicine was influenced thereby. Indeed you would be amazed. The other man, the initiate, was reborn in the soul of Amos Comenius (1592–1670). Comenius’ life was one of aspiration towards the spirit, but he turned everything into intellectual conceptions. Again, another personality in Arabism — he did not live at exactly the same time as Harun al Raschid, but he played a part in the battle of Zeres de la Frontera — was reborn as Charles Darwin (1809–1882). And so the influences that are working in natural science and especially in medicine, are re-embodiments of ancient conceptions from which Christianity was excluded. Such conceptions did not constitute an evolution of Christianity, but Christianity was excluded as Arabism embraced Europe in its fold. Medicine itself was most of all affected in this sense.”
1830 – Birthday of Robert Hamerling – an Austrian poet and writer . He was one of the most widely read German-speaking authors of his time. His main works include the epic Ahasuerus in Rome (1865), which first made him known to a wide readership, and The King of Sion (1869). From Rudolf Steiner in: THE PRESENCE OF THE DEAD, GA 154, Appendix II. Robert Hammerling: Poet and Thinker, 26 April 1914, Berlin “Hamerling’s life and personality are an example of a soul growing out of and beyond its environment, and of an individuality’s development. He was the son of a poor weaver. Since they were completely impoverished, his parents were evicted from their home at a time when Hamerling was not yet capable of even saying “I.” His father was forced to go abroad while his mother remained in the Waldviertel area, in Schonau, with the young boy. There the child experienced the beauties of the Waldviertel region. A scene from that time remained always in his memory of an experience he believed actually gave him his own being. The seven-year-old boy was going down a hill. It was evening, and the sun was setting in the west. Something came toward him, golden, out of the golden sunshine, and Hamerling describes what was shining forth in the golden light as follows: Among the most significant memories of my boyhood, but also most difficult to convey, are the often strange moods that passed through my soul when I was a roaming boy. In part they came from the moment’s lively impressions and stimulation, usually from nature around me, in part they were waking dreams and premonitions. Speaking about himself, the mystic Jakob Böhme used to say that the higher meaning, the mystical life of the spirit was awakened in him miraculously at the moment when he was dreamily absorbed in gazing at a pewter bowl sparkling in the sunlight. 8 Perhaps every spiritual person has a pewter bowl like Böhme’s as the origin of his real inner awakening. I vividly recall a certain evening when I was about seven years old. I was going down a hill, and the sunset shone toward me like a miracle, a spiritual vision. It filled my heart with an unforgettably strange mood, with a presentiment that today seems to me like a calling, reflecting my future destiny. In high spirits, I hurried toward an unknown destination; yet, at the same time my soul was filled with a melancholy that made me want to cry. If that moment could have been explained out of the surrounding circumstances, if it had not been so completely unique, it would surely not have remained so indelibly in my memory. Thus, in the poet’s seventh year the poetic and spiritual muse drew near. At that time, the seed for everything that was later to become of this soul was laid into it from out of the cosmos, so to speak. The nice thing is that Hamerling ascribes his poetic calling to such an event, as if it were a miracle the cosmos itself performed on him. Because of his parents’ poverty, the boy had to be educated at the Cistercian monastery of Zwettl. 10 In return for his school lessons, he had to sing in the monastery choir. At that time, Hamerling was between ten and fourteen years old. He formed a close relationship to a strange personality at the monastery, namely, Father Hugo Traumihler, a person completely given over to mystical contemplation and a strict ascetic life. At that time the boy already possessed a thirst for the beauty of the cosmos and an urge to deepen his soul. You can imagine that he was inspired by the inner experiences Father Traumihler described from his inner contemplation of the secrets of the heart and soul. He was a mystic of a very elementary, primitive kind who nevertheless made a deep impression on Hamerling’s soul. But it is impossible to talk about the poet Hamerling without mentioning what was such a great part of his longing: the longing to be a great human being.”
1905 – Deathday of Jules Verne – prolific French author whose writings laid much of the foundation of modern science fiction. (a fav. of mine growing up)
UPCOMING! 29 March - Solar Eclipse
30 March - 100 year anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s Death - a Community Gifting for the Elementals
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