A Birthday message to myself : “Selflessness Becomes Catharsis” - This is the Cosmic Communiqué for the Zodiac sign of Cancer (21 June 21 to 21 July) The fullness of the resplendent Summer with its lush, colorful gardens & flowering meadows, undulating like heat waves in a dream over the Earth, embraced in a mantle of warmth. I give myself up to the fullness of the motherly Sun, in order to Become, a sun mySelf. My soul a flaming glow blazing full of yearning for the open stillness of the wide starry sky.
Today as I prepare to leave for Mettabee Farm in Hilldale NY to be part of the ‘Lifecycles Course: Living the Cosmic Mysteries’ - & to be with my AAP cohort 5 friends - to celebrate my natal return - & to meet my logos-soul-brother Bill Trusiewicz - these words sound out to me from those heavenly heights: “Lose yourself to find yourself”. But how, after striving to bring our Higher ‘I’ in, can we lose ourselves - in order to find ourselves again in the ‘I’ of the World? Perhaps it’s by yielding our ego driven intellectual knowledge - This is the secret of the ‘Summer Mysteries: The transformation of our intellect, into the all encompassing warmth-bearing substance of Divine Will!
Seen from the aspect of Biography, this turning point, is mirrored after the middle of life, where the downward curve sets in – understood in July’s glyph of the crab, symbol of the constellation Cancer. (Here is an amazing video for this constellation in Eurythmy)
We are called to give up the armoring of materialism, which is a danger that lucks in the Summer feeling. Only when the crab reveals its spiritual secret can it bestow its wisdom to us.
This secret is transformation. The old & worn out reaches its completion, which is expressed in the involving spiral of the shell. – This narrowing passage of the spiral leads to an end, from which there is no escape – But - then we see that the new beginning of the evolving spiral is separated from the involving spiral by an abyss. How can we cross this abyss? Only by a courageous leap over the void! This archetypal motif always appears when what is old & exhausted reaches its end, & the new approaches, which can only be achieved thru new soul forces.
Today too this turning point, not only in the wheel of the year, but in the current world events spiraling out before us - This stream of the past, that carries the pit of death within it – This stream of materialistic understanding in formation of time, armored within a rigid structure, can only be overcome by a courageous leap. For from that rigid structure no new seeds of the future can emerge. These seeds must be developed by a completely new set of soul forces, into which streams the light of true spiritual knowledge. The time of Summer is especially appropriate for cultivating, with warmth, these new concept-seeds of thought, in order to shape new imaginations with which we can approach the metamorphic processes of our human nture. Thinking in pictures means following intuitively the Cosmic transformational processes in Nature - for Nature Herself - the great World Mother - is woven out of Cosmic Imaginations - & we are meant to add our human imaginations to these. Thru this - we form in our souls what we see in Nature especially right now - the ripening fruits - the fruitification of evolution - in order to bear the seeds of Summer into the Autumn & Winter.
This turning point of the year can stand before us a guiding motif: “Take into your soul, in Selfless-Devotion, the rich pictorial language of outer nature, & through it, try to solve the riddle of the world pictures of cosmic happenings. Through this you walk the path of alchemical transformation which leads to catharsis (purification). For catharsis means to be ready to humbly lay aside the proud thinking which has hardened & encrusted itself in modern intellectuality, in order to sacrifice it on the altar of the world spirit, so that it can transform itself into warming forces of will & imaginative world pictures. In doing this, we accomplish the demand of our age, which requires this sacrifice of us. And at the same time we accomplish the inner purification of our souls, which only in breaking through the rigid armour of intellectual thought can experience resurrection in the realm of creative world thoughts!”
We can cultivate thinking & make it mature thru developing qualities which seem not to be related at all to thinking – through devotion & insight – not so much thru logic - but when we observe this & that, & use processes in Nature to penetrate into its hidden mysteries. It is thru devotion - Devotion to questions of Nature - Devotion to our fellows in our attempt to understand complicated people, & thru an intensification of our attention to the beauty in the details, that we make our thinking astute. Little cultivation of insight & devotion makes us grumpy hypochondriacs. What is so very necessary for thinking does not at all depend on thinking. All self-centered-will, all self-seeking, has a destructive effect on thinking… Devotion, willingness for sacrifice with respect to the most insignificant objects & occurrences, has a favorable effect on one’s thinking & one’s mood.” ~Rudolf Steiner GA 130, lecture 2
~I walk the circuitous path of the unseen - from no-thing - I come to thought - to birth a becoming... ~hag
RUDOLF STEINER'S CALENDAR OF THE SOUL
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Tuesday, 8 July 2025
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