tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49299799100170058342024-03-18T06:07:56.390-07:00Montreal Theosophy Projectancient wisdom for today's worldMark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.comBlogger433125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-42467913954766964922024-03-16T17:51:00.000-07:002024-03-18T06:06:37.940-07:00Astrology: Spring Equinox, March 19, 2024 - Part 2 - Chart<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhizxfpOJXlLLKB2eJtuBgcTKTMe-ztwqP_Bf24Kr8p0QpdWVyp2jOtNub1QsFdO_ijw8DRPHxscUC9xVWx3xDQfE2Rk8N2_W05aSoGbAwqHv8V8Iuz8TTe-qeVw5IrR7eOZRL50Wtc54Vl13V5jq28nBhSpC2Rs37D0BsUQOIa7KvFW2A6lO1rOgI6kTo/s485/merm1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="485" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhizxfpOJXlLLKB2eJtuBgcTKTMe-ztwqP_Bf24Kr8p0QpdWVyp2jOtNub1QsFdO_ijw8DRPHxscUC9xVWx3xDQfE2Rk8N2_W05aSoGbAwqHv8V8Iuz8TTe-qeVw5IrR7eOZRL50Wtc54Vl13V5jq28nBhSpC2Rs37D0BsUQOIa7KvFW2A6lO1rOgI6kTo/w400-h263/merm1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Sink or Swim</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b> </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Just a week before the year's first eclipse, as we enter a very positive period of the year, with three strong Jupiter aspects, </span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Apr 20 – <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2024/03/astrology-jupiter-conjunct-uranus-april.html">Jupiter conjunct Uranus</a>, May 23 – Jupiter
sextile Neptune,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Jun 02 – Jupiter
trine Pluto, with <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/06/astrology-jupiter-sextile-saturn-june.html">Jupiter sextile Saturn</a> still in orb, the chart itself is quite simple and striking.<br /></span></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>1- Moon, Sun, Pluto triangle of potential</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>We have a tight Moon in Cancer-Pluto in Aquarius opposition, on the cusp of the sign, which gives added energy. There was also a Moon-Pluto opposition in last year's Summer chart, which was quite a tumultuous season. It is in positive trine and sextile aspects to the Sun, which is conjunct to Neptune, forming a strong triangle of potential, which gives the aspect pattern exceptional support for dealing with the opposition.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK503reAqD98dF3MIa5zMXznXmySLrowEhjhjhp9Wwrwu2WS_RMFG423x6HlIZxBbX2rTqliVGyvXxhWFaVfcEyKjL9-gNzx00jdcv02c9Hlnci_NEoUPjDbuCHG4TPUOe30GjQqr35I-Lyhhbj3JZJeTPCPh9iiSMpNA1fdFetoPfhEMlTFYDTauxFy8/s600/merm11.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="600" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK503reAqD98dF3MIa5zMXznXmySLrowEhjhjhp9Wwrwu2WS_RMFG423x6HlIZxBbX2rTqliVGyvXxhWFaVfcEyKjL9-gNzx00jdcv02c9Hlnci_NEoUPjDbuCHG4TPUOe30GjQqr35I-Lyhhbj3JZJeTPCPh9iiSMpNA1fdFetoPfhEMlTFYDTauxFy8/s320/merm11.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Moon
opposition Pluto </b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>An
issue from the past, or something hidden may come up, or one could lose something. Intensity in one's personal
relationships and/or some sort of inner emotional turmoil is possible. </span></span><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></p>
<h5 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-style: normal;">Sun sextile Pluto </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><span>Opportunities to find or renew something lost, and to gain some power
are possible. There energy and drive to accomplish things.</span></span></h5><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></p>
<h5 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-style: normal;">Sun trine Moon </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><span>Achievement
is smooth. Recuperative powers are increased. The possibility of some form of recognition or validation for what
you do may come. It’s a good time to mend relationship problems and to
surround yourself with people.</span></span></h5><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Sun</span></b><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>conjunct </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Neptune</span></b><b><span> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span> </span></b><span>There is a strong desire
for peace and harmony and perhaps some sense that one has to make sacrifices
for that end. One may behave in an impractical manner, or be vulnerable
to deception or betrayal. There can be illusions and confusion, or it can
be a very inspired.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf7wimfBDJHmirVWw2qZpYyRhpGU9Nm6UDovm-cId8T1ptjpkWk1csBFTty7bRapHqgiFa_Quv55rtnHZCl9MgutqZbS69qX8F2h8lPpMgeVVehsH9hyphenhyphencKQt3gEog7ehM3wqOXBqJ3kFNmQaNO1LRQoBUnX-Qgae0xk4fw01-CIZtkuyht-p3YOLNWyFU/s1102/spring_equinox_2024_hn.77724.249493.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="748" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf7wimfBDJHmirVWw2qZpYyRhpGU9Nm6UDovm-cId8T1ptjpkWk1csBFTty7bRapHqgiFa_Quv55rtnHZCl9MgutqZbS69qX8F2h8lPpMgeVVehsH9hyphenhyphencKQt3gEog7ehM3wqOXBqJ3kFNmQaNO1LRQoBUnX-Qgae0xk4fw01-CIZtkuyht-p3YOLNWyFU/w271-h400/spring_equinox_2024_hn.77724.249493.png" width="271" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>2- Mars square Uranus.</b></span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mars square Uranus was exact on March 9. It can be quite volatile and effects can start to be felt roughly two weeks before March 9 and lasting until two weeks after. Downside: violent manifestations. Upshot: Mars energy can be used positively, or good time to learn to deal with it. It's nature is rebellious, restless, impulsive. It can bring accidents, sudden changes and fluctuating energy.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>3- Venus, which is conjunct with Saturn, is sextile to the oncoming <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2024/03/astrology-jupiter-conjunct-uranus-april.html">Jupiter conjunct Uranus</a>.<br /></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: purple;">Venus sextile Jupiter</span></b><span> This is a
cooperative, happy influence. Consideration for others, cheerfulness, and a
positive attitude towards relationships are themes now.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: purple;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQFDPxLoe1lcd6Ng9H5P8yuDnpQrFo3kZC8VQoOJLbBhOtOKBZ28rTowQncRH5APTr5OK1Djhyvc1Tova4eNcgaLKXiezxSlt9hQsbN_oLRnWJqD33zX5K0-CyuxSKkc8BJ96ERSZt8uO7b1dRDDbW4I9JDMx5wqnzgDu-nUgYYdYEj0fiWz1J95CUe2Y/s1068/merm4.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1068" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQFDPxLoe1lcd6Ng9H5P8yuDnpQrFo3kZC8VQoOJLbBhOtOKBZ28rTowQncRH5APTr5OK1Djhyvc1Tova4eNcgaLKXiezxSlt9hQsbN_oLRnWJqD33zX5K0-CyuxSKkc8BJ96ERSZt8uO7b1dRDDbW4I9JDMx5wqnzgDu-nUgYYdYEj0fiWz1J95CUe2Y/s320/merm4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Venus
conjunct Saturn</span></b><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Relationships are stabilized and
steady, although feelings are expressed reservedly, formally, or
sparingly. Problems in
personal relationships that have been swept under the carpet may surface
now, and we are ready to face them. Support from older people or authority figures may
come. Renewed ties to old
friends are possible. </span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>Jupiter conjunct Uranus</b>, brings of feeling of high spirits, ready to discover, explore, and
innovate. This transit is exciting, futuristic, and original. The need for
progressive change becomes glaringly apparent under this influence. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6F-WQNIImSmtBBDQg3o6aGY1aiKCKP3ftkaXjJdPB4fertRE8zkZAXCyKvi8cPHy0veCSoeoOtEKRorfe7t350PYTSaal8Jcl2uNJ9GwR33sUS3ucyVhe9pHrsORE6_s8xP7tgn_7PxswlFILMas_TqU_J3XtIHow5_lw2nbUyTEHk8tOwV9ANnoTdm8/s1400/merm5.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1400" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6F-WQNIImSmtBBDQg3o6aGY1aiKCKP3ftkaXjJdPB4fertRE8zkZAXCyKvi8cPHy0veCSoeoOtEKRorfe7t350PYTSaal8Jcl2uNJ9GwR33sUS3ucyVhe9pHrsORE6_s8xP7tgn_7PxswlFILMas_TqU_J3XtIHow5_lw2nbUyTEHk8tOwV9ANnoTdm8/s320/merm5.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Summary</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Coming off a volatile Mars square Uranus on March 9, we begin the astrological new year moving into Aries with some very positive aspects.<b> </b>The striking Moon opposite Pluto aspect signals some emotional turmoil, relationship tensions, but there are strong motivations for resolving past difficulties. Moon in Cancer gives a strong focus on families issues. The chart has five planets in water signs, so overall, the chart brings an emotional, introspective focus, a deep dive into the unconscious, as it were. Only Mercury is in a fire sign, Aries, so there should still be some outspoken intellectual sharpness. The Mars square Uranus aspect could still have an influence for another week, and the volatile Mars square Pluto will bring </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">some tensions to </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the beginning of June in an otherwise very favorable period. Venus in Pisces inspires one to be </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">all-embracing, forgive and understand in a very stable and responsible manner, thus further reinforcing the potential for dealing with anxieties, as we enter a more optimistic, adventuresome period.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLz7DOnCQHlKtfxIaHCBVJqIaW2TgMmGluQ3g5BSdFmcp3chAu6d4JIOoGscsK7-FNayLZX7yyufo7pPUdBxhlzRVl8Ar6kSphdU_3yNpYPgFotKC6objRBI1x5FJ6Wl0DnO2_rWxapBbBFX1R2b7pgqbYYeNnD9U6FTI3zvcqGCJ_A-Hif6TAmZeISug/s600/merm3.webp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="600" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLz7DOnCQHlKtfxIaHCBVJqIaW2TgMmGluQ3g5BSdFmcp3chAu6d4JIOoGscsK7-FNayLZX7yyufo7pPUdBxhlzRVl8Ar6kSphdU_3yNpYPgFotKC6objRBI1x5FJ6Wl0DnO2_rWxapBbBFX1R2b7pgqbYYeNnD9U6FTI3zvcqGCJ_A-Hif6TAmZeISug/s320/merm3.webp" width="320" /></a></div>Prognostic </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The chart is strongly geared to resolving past issues or conflicts, healing traumas or discovering or recovering something or someone from the past. There is a significant amount of combative Mars energy of a volatile potential. There is also a potential to enjoy an optimistic, cheerful, cooperative, progressive period where projects of social change can enter the picture.<b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Major Spring Aspects</b></span><p></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mar 25 – Lunar <b>Eclipse
</b>in Libra</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Apr 01 – <b>Mercury</b>
Retrograde in Aries</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Apr 08 – Solar <b>Eclipse</b>
in Aries</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Apr 20 – <b>Jupiter</b>
conjunct <b>Uranus</b></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Apr 25 – <b>Mercury</b>
direct</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">May 23 – <b>Jupiter</b>
sextile <b>Neptune</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">May 25</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> –</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <b>Jupiter </b>in <b>Gemini </b>until June 9, 2025</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Jun 02 – <b>Jupiter</b>
trine <b>Pluto</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Jun 10 – <b>Neptune</b> sextile <b>Pluto</b>
in orb not exact until 2026</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Jun 11 – <span> </span><b>Mars</b>
square <b>Pluto</b> (Aquarius) *</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>References</b><br /><a href="https://cafeastrology.com/thisweekinastrology.html">https://cafeastrology.com/thisweekinastrology.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://twitter.com/WukongReborn/status/1768778291568156824">Part 1 <br /></a></b></span></span></div></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-90744762646240603942024-03-15T15:08:00.000-07:002024-03-18T06:07:24.358-07:00Astrology: Spring Equinox, March 19, 2024 - Part 1 - Review<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibMOJfNYkwJWw3d2jB82HWh23vzZ4yIUNyXOSiXD5LDq544W9QgV1jOycWB4zCk3pA2osrGzsF1KEqnscJWxMTMF5IQUhDhQCZqYQORrugIBuPgMuIpIl_j91J70fc_W2DaBblOHPRC_ICDl689reLeUH8iu4kxhf6Ns-_DAw2z8rgvVq9yXQUuqf7Sbg/s640/wonka4.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibMOJfNYkwJWw3d2jB82HWh23vzZ4yIUNyXOSiXD5LDq544W9QgV1jOycWB4zCk3pA2osrGzsF1KEqnscJWxMTMF5IQUhDhQCZqYQORrugIBuPgMuIpIl_j91J70fc_W2DaBblOHPRC_ICDl689reLeUH8iu4kxhf6Ns-_DAw2z8rgvVq9yXQUuqf7Sbg/w400-h225/wonka4.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For the <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/12/astrology-winter-solstice-december-21_17.html">Winter prognostic</a>, I wrote:</span><p></p>
<h4 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Overall, passions can run high with a need for exotic escapism,
with psychological insecurities accompanied by deceit and abuse. Volatile
confrontations are possible, with possibilities for introspection into
unresolved past difficulties bringing personal change. Channeling these
energies into creative pursuits can bring good results. Despite the unusual,
passionate fascinations and partnerships, there is a general sense of
efficiency, practical organization, with articulate open communication. It is a
good time for laying the groundwork and negotiating for productive solutions,
and resolving personal difficulties, but it can be difficult to finalize
lasting agreements.</span></span></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">One <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2024/02/29/glasgow-willy-wonka-experience-unites-the-internet-in-laughter/?sh=35aed4e55c32">curious incident</a> occurred on February 24 in Glasgow, Scotland,
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy%27s_Chocolate_Experience">The Willy Chocolate Experience</a>, which became a viral internet sensation, could be
said to encapsulate the first part of the prognostic. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A striking song that conveys a sense of personal introspection, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Was_I_Made_For%3F"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">B</span></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Was_I_Made_For%3F">illie Eilish's - What Was I Made For? </a>from the Barbie film, won a Grammy and an Oscar.</span>
</p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cW8VLC9nnTo" width="320" youtube-src-id="cW8VLC9nnTo"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Moreover, two films dealing with the legacy of World War Two, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_(film)">Oppenheimer</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_and_the_Heron">The Boy and the Heron</a>, received best film Oscar nods, with </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killers_of_the_Flower_Moon_(film)">Killers of the Flower Moon</a>, a film that deals with past social traumas and injustices, receiving ten Oscar nominations, perhaps reflecting some important themes in the current US Pluto return. </span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Around
the time of the intense Winter Solstice, a Prague university experienced one of the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/22/us/5-things-to-know-for-dec-22-israel-border-crisis-extreme-weather-prague-shooting-rudy-giuliani/index.html">deadliest mass shooting </a>the Czech
Republic has seen in
decades. The
new year witnessed a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/02/asia/japan-earthquake-tsunami-warnings-tuesday-intl-hnk/index.html">massive earthquake in Japan</a>,
<cite><span> </span></cite>along Japan’s western
coast of a 7.5 magnitude. The quake shook the Noto
Peninsula in the central prefecture of Ishikawa
collapsing buildings, sparking fires and triggering tsunami alerts as far away
as eastern Russia.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXbtsYX68kYYKl9ZosBR5hnprhq0uBc_sHHcpmRJaKZcaqyNnKU20S44cRrss2mZ2lwJfWCkW-9_bNF9vfB7I__2dxAjOEK5Xpvjb7AOg9pioZD55z-mBmEouxyAa7InjladzEzrf2Nskaq2MPWgogrRKKbkYa9QRivzQ6qV2PKQUK2VALBkhSkOMcj3g/s1400/wonka12.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXbtsYX68kYYKl9ZosBR5hnprhq0uBc_sHHcpmRJaKZcaqyNnKU20S44cRrss2mZ2lwJfWCkW-9_bNF9vfB7I__2dxAjOEK5Xpvjb7AOg9pioZD55z-mBmEouxyAa7InjladzEzrf2Nskaq2MPWgogrRKKbkYa9QRivzQ6qV2PKQUK2VALBkhSkOMcj3g/w200-h200/wonka12.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Pluto returned to Aquarius on <b>January 21<sup>st</sup></b>, and there was a<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/23/us/5-things-to-know-for-jan-23-2024-race-israeli-hostages-immigration-stock-market-china-earthquake/index.html"> major e</a></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/23/us/5-things-to-know-for-jan-23-2024-race-israeli-hostages-immigration-stock-market-china-earthquake/index.html">arthquake in China</a>, snowstorms in the US, and a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/22/us/5-things-to-know-for-jan-22-presidential-race-roe-v-wade-winter-storms-israeli-hostages-indias-new-temple/index.html">new temple for Ram </a>in India was inaugurated. </span><span>A difficult <b>Mars square Uranus aspect occurred on March
9 </b>and </span><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/12/haitis-prime-minister-ariel-henry-has-resigned-guyana-president">Haiti’s PM Ariel Henry tenders resignation</a> as country descends into gang-faction chaos, </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/03/15/sudan-urgent-action-needed-hunger-crisis">Sudan is being reprimanded</a> for blocking Humanitarian Aid amidst a hunger crisis, </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">with <a href="https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_223446.htm">Sweden officially becoming</a> a member of Nato. <br /></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhwYV4Zx_B-JB2Z5UTaNd3-L3grbRCMuSSSlXBGtHECbGQPn047uyF2pJpiC69KbYqsfL3tbHw-44tObbTfLz6AmFaVoD0WjDZSwkndpzBo27XEDgTbkEBAeo9QkWOzKJMTpnv7To3imwuJy_H0wVm0sQQqjdX0tBjPqOhdrOFYvnDMjMxXFVKNTHfIeM/s1600/wonka2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhwYV4Zx_B-JB2Z5UTaNd3-L3grbRCMuSSSlXBGtHECbGQPn047uyF2pJpiC69KbYqsfL3tbHw-44tObbTfLz6AmFaVoD0WjDZSwkndpzBo27XEDgTbkEBAeo9QkWOzKJMTpnv7To3imwuJy_H0wVm0sQQqjdX0tBjPqOhdrOFYvnDMjMxXFVKNTHfIeM/w320-h181/wonka2.jpg" width="320" /></a></b>With <b>Pluto in Aquarius</b>
on <b>January 21</b>, we’ll see the beginning of a more favorable period, a
precursor to 2025, which begins an optimistic 10-year phase in the <b>20-year
Jupiter-Saturn</b> cycle. Optimistic does not necessarily mean peaceful. It can
signal a gung-ho conquest energy as well as cooperative, peace-building trends.
Moving into <b>April 20, </b>a trio of jovial aspects highlight this
period: <b>Jupiter</b> conjunct <b>Uranus, Jupiter</b> sextile <b>Neptune,
Jupiter</b> trine <b>Pluto. </b>But beginning in <b>August</b>, the rest of the
year will be more difficult, culminating in an intense mutable <b><a href="https://astrologyking.com/grand-cross/">Grand Cross</a></b> at the <b>Winter
Solstice</b>. I see this as a final adjustment phase before entering a
distinctly new and positive phase in 2025.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>PS-</b> No doubt a lot of new age spiritual awakening enthusiasts can
interpret the upcoming positive aspects mystically, but I just stick to the down-to-earth,
concrete, fact-based data.</span></p><p><b><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2024/03/astrology-spring-equinox-march-19-2024_16.html"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Part 2 </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></a></b></p><p></p>
Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-24468032878503837812024-03-10T09:36:00.000-07:002024-03-12T09:38:44.706-07:00Astrology: Jupiter conjunct Uranus April 20, 2024<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZpzc1t3Annm65hP2gfPOUC6eN0A7rjC08DPDTFPPDSgpmiZpoATCQvp1mNK11HGYTMYLUPNKTOgP8ySH9h3TOEYYYEVl3yCxtH9GPv790ZRvTa5TqpQ-5w8KwMZ5UzqsglXvk6n2k2UOLO_iKJuB4ucfs-Jsfutyr9JqEEMHyOV8Ky3gfSLwa43YLtbE/s300/dune3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZpzc1t3Annm65hP2gfPOUC6eN0A7rjC08DPDTFPPDSgpmiZpoATCQvp1mNK11HGYTMYLUPNKTOgP8ySH9h3TOEYYYEVl3yCxtH9GPv790ZRvTa5TqpQ-5w8KwMZ5UzqsglXvk6n2k2UOLO_iKJuB4ucfs-Jsfutyr9JqEEMHyOV8Ky3gfSLwa43YLtbE/w400-h224/dune3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">After <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/03/astrology-pluto-in-capricorn-march-23.html">Pluto's return to Aquarius on January 21</a>, we are now entering the influence of a major positive aspect for 2024. According to Robert Hand: </span><p></p><p><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>'you will strive now for a kind of freedom you have never known before.' 'you will seek in every way to express what it means to be young and free'. 'The most negative aspect of this transit is reluctance to live up to your responsibilities'. 'You find it very hard to accept sordid or unjust conditions'; 'you may become involved in a reform movement or group that works to change social conditions'. 'It may mean a sudden break or opportunity from an entirely unexpected quarter-a sudden promotion for example, a sudden windfall or a sudden encounter with someone who proves to be beneficial to you'. 'you can expect a sudden broadening of the scope of your life and the opportunity to encounter life from a new, richer and broader perspective. This may come about through a major transforming event or through a series of minor ones that collectively have a large impact. (Planets in Transit, 298)<br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWO44fn7JIkYW35rgtAPUUO80vJZHC1ea0sRVdRXnrASFp5jpiTCPReZzGq7FRy4BJecJHtRIzDuaXeq3xNVmXYZpHF39kTu_AZNfZ-53R8_67sa76dypc2gjmlnqxuuRdEnuONIeMIg3UHLJRRJFkQLwHVTtQmW1N89gs_EwTloOdk1t468hqIT8EibU/s1222/dune4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">Text below, an abridged version of an article by</span> </span></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://masteringthezodiac.com/sidereal-astrologer" target="_blank">Athen Chimenti</a>, <a href="https://masteringthezodiac.com/uranus-jupiter-transit">25 February 2024</a></span></span></div><p></p><p></p><div class="article">
<h2></h2><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuoeSiyJK1V3l-beO9XTTrbY1btJd-38s8SZ2DH4u6VSEkxiGmwetMg6zzCE9tk0LLTywNBeaFewpa7Fo02_xGU5i_S5cyPRQ3JKM-mR6HB8lvYH-fECl6O1JdJz6GulCW5ai0vWjHzLUE4sUXT8OmKtOxetcElluiUeorrj67Jcyil7_4Jc3V8I_bWwA/s780/dune6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="780" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuoeSiyJK1V3l-beO9XTTrbY1btJd-38s8SZ2DH4u6VSEkxiGmwetMg6zzCE9tk0LLTywNBeaFewpa7Fo02_xGU5i_S5cyPRQ3JKM-mR6HB8lvYH-fECl6O1JdJz6GulCW5ai0vWjHzLUE4sUXT8OmKtOxetcElluiUeorrj67Jcyil7_4Jc3V8I_bWwA/w400-h225/dune6.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As
we stand on the brink of Uranus's entry into Taurus, we move towards a
dynamic planetary alignment: Jupiter conjunct Uranus. The conjunction takes place on April 20th 2024 signaling groundbreaking shifts to the collective consciousness.</span><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Jupiter and Uranus are only conjunct around <span style="color: #990000;"><b>once every 14 years.</b></span>
Jupiter symbolizes growth, opportunity, and the broader aspects of
existence, while Uranus represents sudden changes and disruptions. Their
conjunction in the sign of Taurus—a sign associated with stability and
material resources—suggests an upcoming fusion of stability and change
that could manifest as a wave of technological and social reforms. What
does this mean for us on Earth? Think of it as a cosmic push towards
progress. Where Jupiter expands, Uranus revolutionizes.<b><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><span style="color: #073763;">It's a call to
embrace the new while recognizing the value of tradition and
sustainability that Taurus represents.</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This is a time to be open to breakthroughs. Whether in
personal growth, professional paths, or spiritual journeys, the
Jupiter-Uranus conjunction is your cue to reach for innovation while
staying grounded in the earthy pragmatism of Taurus.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://masteringthezodiac.com/jupiter-in-astrology"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://masteringthezodiac.com/jupiter-in-astrology"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZnx5vEmIPEZ1qdDVMansoVbDhRRHw7D4afEvnfL6qmO_JbrerCwxsPTJYnb9QMf9I6Mu6WbSdEofFGUDMDrJ_4Fz-PqClCcdq8n57fqT-vj4HIVDIkSIfFBPsYoli3ChlBcJ26hjRkjGdGc2cdBGoXeENJVCeQqVn49b4d9jUjXCGO6v0a98jDynCEr0/s1500/dune1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1019" data-original-width="1500" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZnx5vEmIPEZ1qdDVMansoVbDhRRHw7D4afEvnfL6qmO_JbrerCwxsPTJYnb9QMf9I6Mu6WbSdEofFGUDMDrJ_4Fz-PqClCcdq8n57fqT-vj4HIVDIkSIfFBPsYoli3ChlBcJ26hjRkjGdGc2cdBGoXeENJVCeQqVn49b4d9jUjXCGO6v0a98jDynCEr0/w400-h271/dune1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Jupiter
in Taurus promises the opportunity for abundance, but not without
effort. Taurus, known for its steadfast nature, turns Jupiter's usual
quick gains into long-term investments. It's a time when growth is best
achieved through persistence and a methodical approach. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Jupiter in Taurus also brings a renewed focus on the material
world. <span style="color: #660000;"><b>This period may see a heightened interest in environmental
concerns, economic stability, and the cultivation of resources. As
Taurus values the senses, this transit could also herald a period where
the arts and sensory experiences flourish.</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #274e13;"></span></span></p><h2></h2><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2vEbQFobUGJ4x4t-jyAIdkJn-JrUhsYE6y2-DFz5BrkNESX692f2RFKDmG8hfx4lY69xEmefTiqt6kJx0wFczF5r6Ee065cZzHuQQUaxH3-uNntYDgtnsEFxf4YCPbC3Pcbubepjpx-TOjeN54wXkHA7j8aOJnUB3lT4sdrque3Ez2j1Q8qE514JTNTs/s780/dune10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="780" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2vEbQFobUGJ4x4t-jyAIdkJn-JrUhsYE6y2-DFz5BrkNESX692f2RFKDmG8hfx4lY69xEmefTiqt6kJx0wFczF5r6Ee065cZzHuQQUaxH3-uNntYDgtnsEFxf4YCPbC3Pcbubepjpx-TOjeN54wXkHA7j8aOJnUB3lT4sdrque3Ez2j1Q8qE514JTNTs/w400-h225/dune10.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Uranus is the planet that shakes up the status quo,
and in Taurus, it challenges our fundamental concepts of security,
comfort, and value.The energy of Uranus is electric and
unpredictable. In the sign of the bull, known for its love of stability,
we're faced with the paradox of change in the realm of the
unchangeable. It's a cosmic contradiction that promises to revolutionize
our approach to finances, the environment, and our values. <span style="color: #073763;"><b>During
Uranus's transit through Taurus, we can expect disruptions in the
financial sector—cryptocurrency and alternative banking could come to
the forefront. There's also a potential for groundbreaking advancements
in how we manage natural resources.</b></span></span><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYb3FAHfD2Wi-xuW5WiqJ8dq7C8vrYDsDAJEqLrus39QGJ7ojNOhMztBYajA45BB2gU3-y4wtJs_h7QMHlKKMWxoLFzBmVEN_KVIHJb6W3K0HAX10L2Y9-fCRC2RJw6Z7rcTypJhei-wfCuEUiqDzm5919Pp9-TjgGQmMaEe0iKSlw_bJb_VbqJ31t8qU/s639/dune5.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="639" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYb3FAHfD2Wi-xuW5WiqJ8dq7C8vrYDsDAJEqLrus39QGJ7ojNOhMztBYajA45BB2gU3-y4wtJs_h7QMHlKKMWxoLFzBmVEN_KVIHJb6W3K0HAX10L2Y9-fCRC2RJw6Z7rcTypJhei-wfCuEUiqDzm5919Pp9-TjgGQmMaEe0iKSlw_bJb_VbqJ31t8qU/w400-h225/dune5.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmwR5DJxoy8sAP6wC7SGm3JPpgJkj7yJPFvN-qXIFCa022dBy8e8BhG73GviAGF-7e4tJ6RIUBuEQBTev0WcPbydOHQ0oVHKdf_P-0qxWcCjnfQBPhhQ9lBUUsbnqTEKQuG0EWH06-CBTPlWVE93qijkJiUNemIZOh_UuPcxlcOvSINWWTQTTJ8IldMlI/s300/jupiteruranus.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><span style="color: #274e13;"><b></b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>There is a strong likelihood
that humanity starts to use technology to get back in touch with nature.
A large push towards using technology for agriculture, natural energy,
and environmentalism are all very likely during this period -
accelerating the growth from prior years</b>. </span>It is a great time for using
innovative techniques for becoming more self-reliant individually and
societally.</span></p></div></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-34523047770549760162024-02-28T07:33:00.000-08:002024-03-06T15:06:15.180-08:00Introduction to the Voice of the Silence H. P. Blavatsky 1/4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe681jEjlo9ne0nBagjk4EQIICYCPMbo6FQbvAl4GL6PAfaCGeZ-yoYMvua9tMeXlcgOoeBAUxBr5xiCiW4sy1CUCOvquii7PE1HKv1BwKvEHrTmx4VSj5U3_JHewcx_qajWp7rVTQ9bTIftXjmm-cSBpGePDm9pm1QFGF0kf94k_2zifCSXC1RNuF8x4/s1200/LotusFlower-1200x640.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1200" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe681jEjlo9ne0nBagjk4EQIICYCPMbo6FQbvAl4GL6PAfaCGeZ-yoYMvua9tMeXlcgOoeBAUxBr5xiCiW4sy1CUCOvquii7PE1HKv1BwKvEHrTmx4VSj5U3_JHewcx_qajWp7rVTQ9bTIftXjmm-cSBpGePDm9pm1QFGF0kf94k_2zifCSXC1RNuF8x4/w400-h214/LotusFlower-1200x640.webp" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Blavatsky's <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/The_Voice_of_the_Silence_(book)">The Voice of the Silence</a> has established itself a classic of spiritual guidance, providing inspiration to many since it's publication in 1889. It contains many <a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2018/10/blavatskys-influence-and-blavatsky_26.html">Hinduistic and Buddhistic</a> elements, see </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-bhagavad-gita-theosophical.html">Bhagavad Gita - Theosophical Bibliography</a>, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2022/02/patanjalis-yoga-sutras-theosophical.html">Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras,</a></span> <span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">
<a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2021/09/blavatsky-book-review-buddhism-of-h-p.html">Buddhism of H. P. Blavatsky, Henk J. Spierenbur</a>. For a full commentary, see </span><a href="https://universaltheosophy.com/mca/exploring-the-voice-of-the-silence/">https://universaltheosophy.com/mca/exploring-the-voice-of-the-silence/</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In 1927 the staff of the 9th Panchen Lama <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thubten_Choekyi_Nyima,_9th_Panchen_Lama" title="Thubten Choekyi Nyima, 9th Panchen Lama"><span style="color: blue;">Tub-ten Cho-gyi Nyima</span></a> helped
Theosophists put out the "Peking Edition" of The Voice of the
Silence and he wrote a short dedication. (Blavatsky H.P. <i>The Voice
of the Silence</i>, ed. Alice Cleather and Basil Crump. Peking:
Chinese Buddhist Research Society, 1927. – P. 113). Zen Buddhism scholar <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._T._Suzuki" title="D. T. Suzuki"><span style="color: blue;">D. T.
Suzuki</span></a> wrote: “The Voice of the Silence is true Mahayanistic doctrine.
Undoubtedly, Madame Blavatsky had in some way been initiated into the deeper
side of Mahayana teachings and then gave out what she deemed wise to the
Western world as theosophy." (“The Eastern Buddhist” vol. V no.4 July
1931). The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Dalai_Lama" title="14th Dalai Lama"><span style="color: blue;">14th Dalai Lama</span></a> Tenzin Gyatso wrote:"I
believe that this book has strongly influenced many sincere seekers and
aspirants to the wisdom and compassion of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva" title="Bodhisattva"><span style="color: blue;">Bodhisattva</span></a> Path."
(Blavatsky Helena <i>The Voice of the Silence</i>. Centenary edition.
Santa Barbara:
Concord Grove Press, 1989. // Foreword by the 14th Dalai Lama). </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk6dZnu5zwqhIbzW79rvsXv-8YErlhWiABRHJ27_juHmrreYGlS7p4MByK9haNUpGe2hruxCWUK4zWIU7Hu70YzggWwvuTuDOEaTOekOS4f8kHKvPguBVKB18VUGcslly3_hO5_QGNPzQ_lDh2C8YVvZECxVAfXel74GsU0Y4HK6-lQmMDBwF8ueaENo0/s1200/a4.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk6dZnu5zwqhIbzW79rvsXv-8YErlhWiABRHJ27_juHmrreYGlS7p4MByK9haNUpGe2hruxCWUK4zWIU7Hu70YzggWwvuTuDOEaTOekOS4f8kHKvPguBVKB18VUGcslly3_hO5_QGNPzQ_lDh2C8YVvZECxVAfXel74GsU0Y4HK6-lQmMDBwF8ueaENo0/s320/a4.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Preface</b></span><p></p>
<p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>1- The</i><i> following pages are derived from “The Book of the
Golden Precepts,” one of the works put into the hands of mystic students
in the East. The knowledge of them is obligatory in that school, the
teachings of which are accepted by many Theosophists. Therefore, as I
know many of these Precepts by heart, the work of translating has been
relatively an easy task for me. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When she later left the Theosophical Society, Mabel Collins began to
maintain that she had written the book entirely of her own inspiration
and volition, to which HPB replied in a circulated letter of 1889:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“If she is the <i>sole author of Light on the Path</i>, how comes it that she, ignorant of Sanskrit and having never seen the <i>Golden Precepts</i>, could use so many sentences bodily enshrined in that <i>purely Occult work</i>?
. . . “Before the voice can speak in the presence of the Masters it
must have lost its power to wound.” . . . “Seek in the heart the source
of evil and expunge it.” These are aphorisms as old as the <i>Book of the Golden Precepts</i>, from which they radiated – “on the walls” – and thence into <i>Light on the Path</i>.” (Blavatsky, CollectedWritings (Extracts from “Lucifer,”“Light,”and Elsewhere) vol. XI, pp. 313-30.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;"></span></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_zcknp9DTaPLFdhjJgLyFCv_Hp0BdfpyeyxLZRZE78qdUZiVOClAUDkrO0tpdJlSHUzcy8cD1Y3kCxaSOvRbCXfQ82-4WhvISN8vrql3IcOarmFRxJdwfMVJx1MBVtISoHrR6UtokJSfSchEtxeGH4Z3SPioKzLlq8_OAGXIKYainXRJ-09Lh_P4dpP8/s762/yogaaa.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="762" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_zcknp9DTaPLFdhjJgLyFCv_Hp0BdfpyeyxLZRZE78qdUZiVOClAUDkrO0tpdJlSHUzcy8cD1Y3kCxaSOvRbCXfQ82-4WhvISN8vrql3IcOarmFRxJdwfMVJx1MBVtISoHrR6UtokJSfSchEtxeGH4Z3SPioKzLlq8_OAGXIKYainXRJ-09Lh_P4dpP8/s320/yogaaa.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></i></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">2- It is well known that, in India, the methods of psychic
development differ with the Gurus (teachers or masters), not only
because of their belonging to different schools of philosophy, of which
there are six, but because every Guru has his own system, which he
generally keeps very secret. But beyond the Himalayas the method in the
Esoteric Schools does not differ, unless the Guru is simply a Lama, but
little more learned than those he teaches. </span></i></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the former countries these three Universes were allegorized, in
exoteric teachings, by the three trinities emanating from the Central
eternal germ and forming with it a Supreme Unity: the <i>initial</i>, the <i>manifested</i>, and the <i>Creative</i> Triad, or the three in One. The last is but the symbol, in its concrete expression, of the first <i>ideal</i>
two. Hence Esoteric philosophy passes over the necessarianism of this
purely metaphysical conception, and calls the first one, only, the Ever
Existing. This is the view of every one of the six great schools of
Indian philosophy — the <i>six principles of that unit body of</i> Wisdom <i>of which the</i> “<i>gnosis</i>,” the <i>hidden</i> knowledge, is the seventh. (Blavatsky, Helena, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. I, p. 278)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgemcrCMdZnl_IVSvB764VOghlB4U28hrbGU97F0j15y6Y3JnRWobArIzFqUZaB8DvEtid3EiAZVddk1uVzUCNPMHNGkgSLiBY5a04L9rPDuHkqm9F9bIQYdQR-vCmnH1MBjBPpFYhq36fkC6PqdvtYS3kzDdcVWCNDvnB5-9mXrHvb3OBi_eInPjO-x8s/s496/a2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="214" data-original-width="496" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgemcrCMdZnl_IVSvB764VOghlB4U28hrbGU97F0j15y6Y3JnRWobArIzFqUZaB8DvEtid3EiAZVddk1uVzUCNPMHNGkgSLiBY5a04L9rPDuHkqm9F9bIQYdQR-vCmnH1MBjBPpFYhq36fkC6PqdvtYS3kzDdcVWCNDvnB5-9mXrHvb3OBi_eInPjO-x8s/s320/a2.jpg" width="320" /></a></i></span></div><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>3- The work from which I here translate forms part of the same series as that from which the “Stanzas” of the </i><i>Book of Dzyan</i><i> were taken, on which the </i><i>Secret Doctrine</i><i> is based. Together with the great mystic work called </i><i>Paramârtha</i><i>, which, the legend of </i><i>Nâgârjuna</i><i>
tells us, was delivered to the great Arhat by the Nâgas or “Serpents”
(in truth a name given to the ancient Initiates), the “Book of the
Golden Precepts” claims the same origin. </i></span><p></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“The allegory that regarded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagarjuna">Nâgârjuna</a>’s “Paramârtha” as a gift from the <i>Nâgas</i>
(Serpents) shows that he received his teachings from the secret school
of adepts, and that the real tenets are therefore kept secret.” —
(Blavatsy, Helena<i>. </i><i>Theosophical Glossary</i>, <b>Mâdhyamikas</b><i>)</i></span></p>
<p></p>
<p></p><div class="yiv8104189162"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Blavatsky, Collected Writings, 14, 285:</span></div><div class="yiv8104189162"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br class="yiv8104189162" clear="none" /></span></div><div class="yiv8104189162" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="yiv8104189162" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Nāgārjuna [a “mythological” personage “without any real existence,” the learned German scholar thinks] received the <span class="yiv8104189162">book Paramārtha</span>, or according to others, the book <i class="yiv8104189162"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddh%C4%81vata%E1%B9%83saka_S%C5%ABtra">Avatamsaka</a></i>, from the <span class="yiv8104189162">Nāgas, fabulous creatures of the nature of serpents, who occupy a place among the beings superior to man, </span>and are regarded as protectors of the law of the Buddha. To these spiritual beings Śākyamumi is said to have taught a more philosophical religious system than to men, who were not sufficiently advanced to understand it at the time of his appearance.*</span></div><div class="yiv8104189162" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></div><div class="yiv8104189162" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="yiv8104189162" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="yiv8104189162" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">*<i class="yiv8104189162"> </i></span><i class="yiv8104189162">Buddhism in Tibet</i>, p. 31. [London, Trübner, 1863; also London, Susil Gupta,</span></div><div class="yiv8104189162" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="yiv8104189162" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">1968. <span class="yiv8104189162">Paramārtha means the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prajnaparamita"><i class="yiv8104189162">Prajnā-Pāramitā Sūtras</i></a>.</span>]</span></div><p></p>
<p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt02pP4LBX85hH_pe8-k1v5U8-vjRUWTMvmfjg8UMHskYiTPbQk2UlyOexd2j5q64Tlz2W2xNipfD-CFcOMWrllrABhOyqXAHib1CsSHkyYcDIWdx1Rr51aP6tfi7KA1NiOxNjrzmRrcInYNM1_TwVIyJnoPYAiJWeVKhu-ITuBx5raj6GR2Kv8dU61Uk/s624/a3.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="624" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt02pP4LBX85hH_pe8-k1v5U8-vjRUWTMvmfjg8UMHskYiTPbQk2UlyOexd2j5q64Tlz2W2xNipfD-CFcOMWrllrABhOyqXAHib1CsSHkyYcDIWdx1Rr51aP6tfi7KA1NiOxNjrzmRrcInYNM1_TwVIyJnoPYAiJWeVKhu-ITuBx5raj6GR2Kv8dU61Uk/s320/a3.jpeg" width="320" /></a></i></span></div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>4- Yet its maxims and ideas, however noble and original, are often found under different forms in Sanskrit works, such as the </i><i>Jñâneśvari</i><i>,
that superb mystic treatise in which Krishna describes to Arjuna in
glowing colours the condition of a fully illumined Yogi; and again in
certain Upanishads. This is but natural, since most, if not all, of the
greatest Arhats, the first followers of Gautama Buddha were Hindus and
Âryans, not Mongolians, especially those who emigrated into Tibet. The
works left by Âryâsanga alone are very numerous. </i></span><p></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The <i><b>Dnyaneshwari</b></i>, also referred to as <i><b>Jnaneshwari</b></i> or <i><b>Bhavartha Deepika</b></i> is a commentary on the <u><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita"><i>Bhagavad Gita</i></a></u> written by the Marathi saint and poet <u><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnyaneshwar">Dnyaneshwar</a></u>
in 1290 CE. Dnyaneshwar (born 1275) lived a short life of 21 years, and
this commentary is notable to have been composed in his teens. The text
is the oldest surviving literary work in the Marathi language, one that
inspired major Bhakti movement saint-poets such as Eknath and Tukaram
of the Varkari (Vithoba) tradition.The <i>Dnyaneshwari</i> interprets the <i>Bhagavad Gita</i>
in the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Hinduism.The philosophical depth of
the text has been praised for its aesthetic as well as scholarly value<i>.</i><i> </i>(<i>Dnyandev</i>; Pradhan, Vitthal Ganesh (1987), Lambert, Hester Marjorie (ed.), <i>Dnyaneshwari : Bhāvārthadipikā</i>, State University of New York Press, p. x-xi)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asanga"><b>Asaṅga</b></a> (fl. 4th century C.E.) was “one of the most important
spiritual figures” of Mahayana Buddhism and the “founder of the
Yogachara school”. Traditionally, he and his half-brother <u><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasubandhu">Vasubandhu</a></u> are regarded as the major classical Indian Sanskrit exponents of Mahayana Abhidharma, <i>Vijñanavada</i> (awareness only) thought and Mahayana teachings on the bodhisattva path. (Asanga, <i>The Bodhisattva Path to Unsurpassed Enlightenment: A Complete Translation of the Bodhisattvabhumi,</i> Shambhala Publications, 2016, Translator’s introduction.)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOYoI27ruEE-qWWd9DdQ2rkMjpGYqQwWdOmtmQrEuQh1A_8G1VTqZrhR0upOfypFILhtKgfvZZlTV0tx5qLZAm3oDBPsh-qHnn990wFjpGpaLskjIOMWgGu8JX24Lyd4QhrbGEpV-IQ-UUrSJQ3AGioSATz8q_9jRHUFiFgWqpTV0mSAIDvWrFp30JBsk/s1200/a8.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1058" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOYoI27ruEE-qWWd9DdQ2rkMjpGYqQwWdOmtmQrEuQh1A_8G1VTqZrhR0upOfypFILhtKgfvZZlTV0tx5qLZAm3oDBPsh-qHnn990wFjpGpaLskjIOMWgGu8JX24Lyd4QhrbGEpV-IQ-UUrSJQ3AGioSATz8q_9jRHUFiFgWqpTV0mSAIDvWrFp30JBsk/s320/a8.jpg" width="282" /></a></i></span></div><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>5- The original </i><i>Precepts</i><i> are engraved on thin
oblong squares; copies very often on discs. These discs, or plates, are
generally preserved on the altars of the temples attached to centres
where the so-called “contemplative” or Mahâyâna (Yogâchâra) schools are
established. They are written variously, sometimes in Tibetan but mostly
in ideographs. The sacerdotal language (Senzar), besides an alphabet of
its own, may be rendered in several modes of writing in cypher
characters, which partake more of the nature of ideographs than of
syllables. Another method (</i><i>lug</i><i>, in Tibetan) is to use
the numerals and colours, each of which corresponds to a letter of the
Tibetan alphabet (thirty simple and seventy-four compound letters) thus
forming a complete cryptographic alphabet. </i></span><p></p>
<p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>When the ideographs are used there is a definite mode of reading
the text; as in this case the symbols and signs used in astrology,
namely the twelve zodiacal animals and the seven primary colours, each a
triplet in shade, </i><i>i.e.</i><i> the light, the primary, and the
dark — stand for the thirty-three letters of the simple alphabet, for
words and sentences. For in this method, the twelve “animals” five times
repeated and coupled with the five elements and the seven colours,
furnish a whole alphabet composed of sixty sacred letters and twelve
signs. </i></span></p>
<p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;"></span></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMYTfgAXa9AvbN6LgEtoPyz4Hbar8Rd9jdGV1YpdpR0Ygkpnmw1oNzVMyMfo2pej6i4sNGGhqRVhaI8zaW60DrqtvNyLyV8sI27QacTzmh98Z7dEEEedzgPS669CJt0ggeGNDc310YkKzczaisuHxXzAsUpEEjdKS5PnWxluY0-TLPcy1KIxgeXsk3gg8/s929/a6.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="821" data-original-width="929" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMYTfgAXa9AvbN6LgEtoPyz4Hbar8Rd9jdGV1YpdpR0Ygkpnmw1oNzVMyMfo2pej6i4sNGGhqRVhaI8zaW60DrqtvNyLyV8sI27QacTzmh98Z7dEEEedzgPS669CJt0ggeGNDc310YkKzczaisuHxXzAsUpEEjdKS5PnWxluY0-TLPcy1KIxgeXsk3gg8/s320/a6.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></i></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">6- The Book of the Golden Precepts — some of which are
pre-Buddhistic while others belong to a later date — contains about
ninety distinct little treatises. Of these I learnt thirty-nine by
heart, years ago. To translate the rest, I should have to resort to
notes scattered among a too large number of papers and memoranda
collected for the last twenty years and never put in order, to make of
it by any means an easy task. Nor could they be all translated and given
to a world too selfish and too much attached to objects of sense to be
in any way prepared to receive such exalted ethics in the right spirit.
For, unless a man perseveres seriously in the pursuit of self-knowledge,
he will never lend a willing ear to advice of this nature. </span></i></span><p></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Memorization is a significant part of a monk’s daily schedule, and
mainly serves three purposes: memorizing philosophical texts for debate,
memorizing prayers and rituals, and memorizing practical,
advice-oriented texts. Each monk is free to choose how much he
emphasizes any of these three. (Ven. Tenzin Gache (Brian Roiter<i>)</i> <a href="https://fpmt.org/mandala/online-features/memorization-beneficial-exercise-for-the-mind/">Memorization: Beneficial Exercise for the Mind</a>)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i></i></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWMaxSw3u1u5_R0VnKCbGsu7CBdH9quuxyOeAD3jP1CNoo052_eblmksEuMNFpYy6_JcOhyphenhyphenHdJ7t28NdhN3DOO5G6YLQ9BJTCppW4b-DRlEul7OgXJBie2MEQVagfcFPH_fL_usDHHjXzq7BK8bCJW5x1qAGL1KqW2SFOpJVSsBToRDjzKOE9LyT0zsIU/s817/a7.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="817" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWMaxSw3u1u5_R0VnKCbGsu7CBdH9quuxyOeAD3jP1CNoo052_eblmksEuMNFpYy6_JcOhyphenhyphenHdJ7t28NdhN3DOO5G6YLQ9BJTCppW4b-DRlEul7OgXJBie2MEQVagfcFPH_fL_usDHHjXzq7BK8bCJW5x1qAGL1KqW2SFOpJVSsBToRDjzKOE9LyT0zsIU/s320/a7.png" width="320" /></a></i></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>7- And yet such ethics fill volumes upon volumes in Eastern
literature, especially in the Upanishads. “Kill out all desire of life,”
says Krishna to Arjuna. That desire lingers only in the body, the
vehicle of the embodied Self, not in the SELF which is “eternal,
indestructible, which kills not nor is it killed” (</i><i>Katha Upanishad</i><i>). “Kill out sensation,” teaches </i><i>Sutta Nipâta</i><i>; “look alike on pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat.” Again, “Seek shelter in the eternal alone” (</i><i>ibid</i><i>)</i><i>.</i><i> “Destroy the sense of separateness,” repeats Krishna under every form. “The Mind (</i><i>Manas</i><i>) which follows the rambling senses, makes the Soul (</i><i>Buddhi</i><i>) as helpless as the boat which the wind leads astray upon the waters” </i>(<i>Bhagavadgîtâ</i><i> </i>II. 70).</span><i> </i></span><p></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Below are some passages that are similar to the passages Blavatsky quotes :</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So knowing the supreme,<br />
And sustaining the self with Self,<br />
Slay the foe whose form is desire,<br />
So hard to conquer, Arjuna. (B.G., 3.43)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The seer (Atman, Self) is not born, nor does he die,<br />
He does not originate from anybody, nor does he become anybody,<br />
Eternal, ancient one, he remains eternal,<br />
he is not killed, even though the body is killed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If the killer thinks that he kills,<br />
if the killed thinks that he is killed,<br />
they do not understand;<br />
for this one does not kill, nor is that one killed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Self (Atman), smaller than small, greater than great,<br />
is hidden in the heart of each creature,<br />
Free from avarice, free from grief, peaceful and content,<br />
he sees the supreme glory of Atman.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>(Katha Upanishad, 1.2.18-1.2.20)</i></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Detached from thoughts of sense-desire, all fetters overpassed,
delight-in-being quite destroyed—who in the deep sinks not. (SN 1.9 177)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Though one is touched by Worldly Dharmas (honour and dishonour, blame
and praise, happiness, dissatisfaction) yet one’s mind does never
waver, griefless, spotless and secure: this is a supreme good omen. (SN
2.4, 271)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Victory brings hate, because the defeated man is unhappy. He who
surrenders victory and defeat, this man finds joy. (Dhammapada 15, 201)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhW7pXUsrWDEEmykua3abBabaaqkZuQRdMeyrXJZgOJIxZxtL1z5KhSE5_F480goQxC74VXBkjuH1N4qabxxpf52Dn1bl_ZjTd4Kv8pf0pD6A_58MYvi6AY0X8JqtOBXhxeyskGzG4m-InSHCEAktXwgBf43UGw_YXbhZJenZ5cYKtgPSfy91f_z5VlMo/s1024/blavatskyThe_Voice_of_the_Silence.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="1024" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhW7pXUsrWDEEmykua3abBabaaqkZuQRdMeyrXJZgOJIxZxtL1z5KhSE5_F480goQxC74VXBkjuH1N4qabxxpf52Dn1bl_ZjTd4Kv8pf0pD6A_58MYvi6AY0X8JqtOBXhxeyskGzG4m-InSHCEAktXwgBf43UGw_YXbhZJenZ5cYKtgPSfy91f_z5VlMo/w400-h260/blavatskyThe_Voice_of_the_Silence.jpg" width="400" /></a></i></span></div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>8- Therefore it has been thought better to make a judicious
selection only from those treatises which will best suit the few real
mystics in the Theosophical Society, and which are sure to answer their
needs. It is only these who will appreciate these words of
Krishna-Christos, the “Higher Self”: — </i></span><p></p>
<p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>“Sages do not grieve for the living nor the dead. Never did I not
exist, nor you, nor these rulers of men; nor will any one of us ever
hereafter cease to be.” (</i><i>Bhagavadgîtâ</i><i> II. 27). </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #0b5394;"></span></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #0b5394;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDMR8ZT7x0z8MV1mlZKCrmFC_0sazkx1VHGtSqsD94BpUBGN5UHzIQcH1IKboqRpDKV4xKhuCOGlK7R-DYd2fHvC_m5m6pyJlIk_LjMltqnk6qD0_dEMjcGmPttkcj8VEctCoDgq70B56V_Mslf56mX8kQG_krFbS3loOPwwqlU1Rho7b8V-PdxbJR4RU/s319/a9_Avatamsaka_sutra_(c.1400)_-_BL_Or._7377.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="220" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDMR8ZT7x0z8MV1mlZKCrmFC_0sazkx1VHGtSqsD94BpUBGN5UHzIQcH1IKboqRpDKV4xKhuCOGlK7R-DYd2fHvC_m5m6pyJlIk_LjMltqnk6qD0_dEMjcGmPttkcj8VEctCoDgq70B56V_Mslf56mX8kQG_krFbS3loOPwwqlU1Rho7b8V-PdxbJR4RU/s1600/a9_Avatamsaka_sutra_(c.1400)_-_BL_Or._7377.jpg" width="220" /></a></span></i></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #0b5394;">9-In this translation, I have done my best to preserve the
poetical beauty of language and imagery which characterise the original.
How far this effort has been successful, is for the reader to judge. —
“H.P.B.” </span></i></span><p></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The language does make liberal use of traditional metaphors from
eastern poetics, and has many similarities in style to the Stanzas of
Dzyan from the Secret Doctrine (see for example, <a href="https://www.theosophy.world/sites/default/files/ebooks/StanzasOfDzyan_HPBlavatsky.pdf">Stanza 7 in book I</a>).
It’s safe to say that some of the classic Theosophical suggested texts
have similar ideas to the Voice of the Silence: Baghavad Gita, Yoga Sutras, Light on the
Path, Dhammapada, and I think that they can be considered complementary for the study of this text. For a Mahayana text close in spirit, Santideva’s
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattvacary%C4%81vat%C4%81ra">Bodhisattvacharyavarta</a> can be mentioned. Of course Blavatsky contributed
to an extensive study of eastern spiritual texts through The
Theosophist and elsewhere, in parallel with Max Muller and others. For
example, in her Gems from the East, she cites the following :</span></p>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Cūla Kamma Vibhaṅga Sutta (The Discourse on the Lesser Analysis of Karma) (MN 135)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1000.htm">Dhammapada</a> (KN 2)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mahāmangala Sutta (KN 1,5)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1029.htm">Sutta Nipata</a> (KN 5)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Vasala Sutta (The Discourse on Outcastes) (Sn 1.7)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Vāsettha Sutta (MN 98)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Udānavarga: A Collection of Verses from the Buddhist Canon</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sutra Of The 42 Chapters (or Sutra Of The 42 Sections)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Saddharma-Pundarîka (The Lotus of the True Law)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Rigveda</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Upanishads: Kaṭha (marked by index K), Maitrâyana Brâhmana (MB),
Brihadâranyaka (B), Mundaka (M), Svetâsvatara (S), Khândogya (Kh).</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/vp/index.htm">The Vishnu Purana</a></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/ordinancesofmanu00manu">The Ordinances of Manu</a> (Laws of Manu)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mahabharata ( Book 5, section <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/index.htm">Sanatsugâtîya</a>; Book 12, section Mokshadharma; Book 14, section <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/index.htm">Anugîtâ</a>)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Javidan Khirad</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/apracticalgramm00wellgoog">A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language, </a>by Dr. Charles Wells, London (1880)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2024/02/introductiont-to-voice-of-silence-h-p.html"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Part 2 </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></a></b></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-44181359383102145872024-02-23T15:50:00.000-08:002024-03-09T18:21:14.338-08:00Introductiont to The Voice of the Silence - H. P. Blavatsky 2/4<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigHNbcfLAq_vWjruLVFTGQO04iZ-SnjqOn9g2PeJNpa0gvT-VgnyvhxRd1ieajRpLlt8qxpUNEvoMANyhF6n1wJEZI_gPMtTJK2nG_O20HWcYnLnzAlxnYcyTnGUA89W1qDDZ-_nhRvaIyteInOCnyNanRVOTrkgkyy3aeLNg29M0s07ANwAN1gnFyqaA/s700/voice3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="700" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigHNbcfLAq_vWjruLVFTGQO04iZ-SnjqOn9g2PeJNpa0gvT-VgnyvhxRd1ieajRpLlt8qxpUNEvoMANyhF6n1wJEZI_gPMtTJK2nG_O20HWcYnLnzAlxnYcyTnGUA89W1qDDZ-_nhRvaIyteInOCnyNanRVOTrkgkyy3aeLNg29M0s07ANwAN1gnFyqaA/w640-h238/voice3.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA"><br /></span></b></span><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">The Voice of the Silence is divided in <a href="https://universaltheosophy.com/mca/exploring-the-voice-of-the-silence/">three sections</a>, called 'fragments', and since the first section is the most complex, with notions of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%81da_yoga">Nada Yoga</a>, it has been thought preferable to present the second section to begin with, and the second fragment begins with a chela, having went through the experiences in the first fragment, delivering more introductory teachings. This section, entitled The Two Paths, can broadly be considered similar to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yana_(Buddhism)">Pratyeka and Bodhisattva paths</a> as explained in Mahayana Buddhism. Further elaborated, one can also draw parallels with the three vehicles of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahayana">Mahayana Buddhism</a>, Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana, which could be said to roughly be related to sections 2, 3 and 1 respectively. Indeed, the three sections could be said to have correspondences with the <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-three-stages-of-christian-mysticism.html">three stages </a>of Christian Mysticism, Purgative, Illuminative, Unitive, or the <span style="color: #0b5394;"><u>t</u></span><a href="http://islamicblessings.com/upload/Candles%20Of%20Spirit.pdf">hree stages</a> in Sufism, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Takhliya, Tahliya, Tajliya or Purification, Beautification, Magnification, (although the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Doors">Four Doors </a>are more common).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrvlRDpnUbQwCigt7remWNBTt2Z4PycKfMV64Y-hfyOc_gQH2gyg2N-KkIXPiFGMLW1kK5jxlNdcFcL2knTIUCxdEe0FuKqIijws7mAfgpDfsbK629DEY5LjRnYzPZH_CVm4E67YqMs39vp04OfNdPQ6YoLePD9R-T-bbbsehTAXbO13DqoNP0yN54LQg/s600/voice2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="600" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrvlRDpnUbQwCigt7remWNBTt2Z4PycKfMV64Y-hfyOc_gQH2gyg2N-KkIXPiFGMLW1kK5jxlNdcFcL2knTIUCxdEe0FuKqIijws7mAfgpDfsbK629DEY5LjRnYzPZH_CVm4E67YqMs39vp04OfNdPQ6YoLePD9R-T-bbbsehTAXbO13DqoNP0yN54LQg/s320/voice2.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Section 1</span></b><span lang="EN-CA"> <b>(Stanzas 101-108) </b>presents the notions of the <span style="color: #990000;"><b>Doctrine of the Eye and the Doctrine of the
Heart, the exoteric and esoteric paths</b>. </span>It also presents the notion of <span style="color: #0b5394;">Alaya,</span>
the World Soul, (see<a href=" https://blavatskytheosophy.com/alaya-the-universal-soul/"> https://blavatskytheosophy.com/alaya-the-universal-soul/</a> )
a fundamental theosophical concept. </span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Section 2</span></b><span lang="EN-CA"><b> (109-122)
</b>continues to explain the exoteric and esoteric concepts, while contrasting
<b><span style="color: #38761d;">ignorance and wisdom</span>,</b> as well as <span style="color: #990000;"><b>humility and pride.</b></span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Section 3</span></b><span lang="EN-CA"> <b>(123-136)</b> deals with the problems of selfishness, inaction, quietism, and
isolationism on the spiritual path. It gives the following advice:<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b> Love all
beings. Do not neglect your parents. Non-action does not mean inaction. The lamp burns bright when wick and old are clean. One can face physical
agitation and still have a tranquil mind. Solitary forest asceticism is not the
way to final liberation. Physical punishment and conquering physical vices are
not the final steps. After reaching enlightenment, one has a duty to reach out
to others. Kind actions give merit while failing to do acts of charity is a
fault. Self-Knowledge comes through good deeds and actions. </b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Section 4 </span></b><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-weight: normal;"><b>(137-146) </b>teaches to <span style="color: #990000;"><b>have patience, as one who fears
no failure, courts no success; fix your Soul's gaze upon the star whose ray you
are. Have perseverance as one who for evermore endures; sow with the seeds of
merit the fields of future harvests; accept the woes of birth; step out from
sunlight into shade, to make more room for others.</b></span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-weight: normal;">Through the pain of karmic retribution, we can weave
<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>the three vestures (<a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2020/03/theosophy-and-trikaya-1-nirmanakaya.html">Buddhist Trikaya</a>): Nirmânakâya, Sambhogakâya, and Dharmakâya. </b></span>The way of the
Bodhisattvas of the "Secret Heart is explained:To live to benefit mankind
is the first step; to practise the <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2015/11/blavatsky-and-six-perfections-paramitas.html"><b>six virtues (Paramitas)</b> </a>is the second. To don the
Nirmânakâya robe is to forego eternal bliss for Self, to help on man's
salvation. To reach Nirvâna's bliss, but to renounce it, is the supreme, the
final step — the highest on Renunciation's Path. </span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi154YvtI89ykZshpYKdQlHQ7LW48Fd1IWs0KB8uvBa8AZOW7XP8FQZf1GuKtO830C23TUkWcBSBo_hZ0LrsiBnvvZXsCOz42XVzjVpynASc2FrtC8OA599aiPJcMzlP9U_i_-zRijOWMwO9-HoFvS6CBszveqVy1vIJWIAEqu36h9Vhr3Gthidr45kulo/s400/voice11.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="400" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi154YvtI89ykZshpYKdQlHQ7LW48Fd1IWs0KB8uvBa8AZOW7XP8FQZf1GuKtO830C23TUkWcBSBo_hZ0LrsiBnvvZXsCOz42XVzjVpynASc2FrtC8OA599aiPJcMzlP9U_i_-zRijOWMwO9-HoFvS6CBszveqVy1vIJWIAEqu36h9Vhr3Gthidr45kulo/s320/voice11.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Section 5 </span></b><span lang="EN-CA"> <b>(147- 163)</b> <span>teaches</span> that if one does not feel ready
for the esoteric path, then one can pursue the exoteric path, accumulate merit
and wait for the chance to pursue the secret path in future lives. One is also
advised to accept the law of Karma and be patient with your fate. One is
advised to be kind and helpful to one’s colleagues because we are linked to
them through many incarnations.</span></span><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>‘’'Tis from the bud
of Renunciation of the Self, that springeth the sweet fruit of final Liberation’’.
</b></span>It is said to be a mistake to avoid helping others out of fear of succumbing to
temptations, while living in seclusion. One has to actively pursues one’s
duties in life, following the wheel of life, enduring pleasure and pain,
purifying your karma and gaining merit and spiritual development for future
incarnations.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">If one cannot
pursue the path with tireless heroic energy, one can pursue a humbler course by
doing one’s best to live and promote the spiritual path. <span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>‘’Be, O Lanoo, like
them. Give light and comfort to the toiling pilgrim, and seek out him who knows
still less than thou; who in his wretched desolation sits starving for the
bread of Wisdom and the bread which feeds the shadow, without a Teacher, hope
or consolation, and — let him hear the Law.’’</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTXb2IJ5QZrhi-_OEPPOcNM4yy0N8yaNYY2hn1NU68qsM-1Xc72xe5w7oZEh5FZvBQ4SLGJ7Hh0bmTjrXqFU1zmo536zq-YTgw9MZuitNmmRErUBy1knjr9_tEKOaqY-rKSsVHpnPI5eH0x_Am9JJzEczo97tmJoBHqz6HrwUHneMBYg4HC603jj9xmrM/s320/voice7.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="216" data-original-width="320" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTXb2IJ5QZrhi-_OEPPOcNM4yy0N8yaNYY2hn1NU68qsM-1Xc72xe5w7oZEh5FZvBQ4SLGJ7Hh0bmTjrXqFU1zmo536zq-YTgw9MZuitNmmRErUBy1knjr9_tEKOaqY-rKSsVHpnPI5eH0x_Am9JJzEczo97tmJoBHqz6HrwUHneMBYg4HC603jj9xmrM/s1600/voice7.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">The <span>Srotâpatti stage is the first stage on the
path and one enters it with humility. Through devotion, one may gain <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2019/05/theosophy-basics-siddhis.html"><b>Siddhis</b></a> that one had in previous births. One needs to be humble to acquire wisdom, and
even humbler when one acquires whatever level of wisdom one can attain, and
this comes with a great deal of equanimity. </span></span></span><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Section 6</span></b><span lang="EN-CA"> <b>(164-178) </b>deals with the combat between the lower self and the
higher Self, the quest for Nirvana and more on the Nirmanakaya vesture. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #990000;"><b>Restrain the lower
Self by the Divine self. Restrain the Divine by the Eternal. Great is the
slayer of desire. Greater is one who has slain the very knowledge of desire. Guard
the Lower self lest it soil the Higher self. The way to final freedom is within
your<span class="sc">self</span>. That way begins and ends outside of the lower
self.</b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">He who has Wisdom
is honoured by all men. Arhans and Sages of the boundless Vision are
exceedingly rare.<b> </b>No Arhan, becomes
one in that birth when one begins to
long for final liberation. Not one recruit can ever be refused the right to
enter on the Path that leads toward the field of Battle. ‘’For, either he shall win, or he
shall fall.<span> </span>Yea, if he conquers, Nirvâna
shall be his’’; and in him will men honour a Buddha.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>‘’And if he falls,
e'en then he does not fall in vain; the enemies he slew in the last battle will
not return to life in the next birth that will be his.’’</b></span> If one would reach
Nirvâna, or the Nirmanakaya state, let not the fruit of action and inaction be your
motive. A Bodhisattva who chooses the Nirmanakaya vesture is called,
"thrice Honoured." </span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJMralrDsTRFL3crO0gYJHGEfwa0GThoSV_v38T3jGdYL2L897c1gYB0F4oHG3ZvN3ueEVwUHb074yFjzFtoXCVKy2KeeSkIA6Z5wN2pU8etpZXQp7ykSjFjPP4EZ_nIL1IwvFJJAvGkNKTMizk8dbvlp6wt8tqxyoKdtvUFcsHYc-mWFfrkr02hRr30M/s1200/mahayana5.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJMralrDsTRFL3crO0gYJHGEfwa0GThoSV_v38T3jGdYL2L897c1gYB0F4oHG3ZvN3ueEVwUHb074yFjzFtoXCVKy2KeeSkIA6Z5wN2pU8etpZXQp7ykSjFjPP4EZ_nIL1IwvFJJAvGkNKTMizk8dbvlp6wt8tqxyoKdtvUFcsHYc-mWFfrkr02hRr30M/w266-h400/mahayana5.jpg" width="266" /></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Section 7</span></b><span lang="EN-CA"> <b>(179-195) </b>is a general summary of the Pratyeka path
and the Bodhisattva path. The Pratyeka path is the path of liberation where one
enters the Dharmakaya state and Nirvana. The concern is mainly with personal
salvation only. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">The Bodhisattva
path is the path of renunciation, the path of woe, the secret path where or of
pity and boundless compassion for suffering humanity, one delays entering the
Nirvana state to continue working for the salvation of the world. One enters
Nirvana after countless kalpas, (at the Maha-Pralaya at the end of the seventh
round).<span style="color: #38761d;"><b> "Sweet are the fruits of Rest and Liberation for the sake of <i>Self</i>;
but sweeter still the fruits of long and bitter duty. Aye, Renunciation for the
sake of others, of suffering fellow men." </b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/"> Part 1</a></b></span></span></span></p>
Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-8997272207554427052024-02-04T14:38:00.000-08:002024-02-06T16:33:17.983-08:00Through the Gates of Gold 3 Mabel Collins Chapter 4 <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMVWDB4w0FVEXzdviWLhkc_lhhjdU94v3YsbQ4_wcwT5j_k_EHPEdIFta-LPWotkHmsTww8V25PJ1M0OtRx55HgQpJye2VHxCJCpqE91MK2mjLkw-PY0DDkVM7FB6BpgfucLNI6rS7-5l6P-s-slPSCoz4Hu8sJ_nujjBR7sDrNbc1aGGGyNlYGLYMaAg/s400/gog13.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="400" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMVWDB4w0FVEXzdviWLhkc_lhhjdU94v3YsbQ4_wcwT5j_k_EHPEdIFta-LPWotkHmsTww8V25PJ1M0OtRx55HgQpJye2VHxCJCpqE91MK2mjLkw-PY0DDkVM7FB6BpgfucLNI6rS7-5l6P-s-slPSCoz4Hu8sJ_nujjBR7sDrNbc1aGGGyNlYGLYMaAg/w400-h295/gog13.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Chapter 4 The Meaning of Pain</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></b></span>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA">Through the Gatesof Gold : A Fragment of Thought</span><span lang="EN-CA"> is a wonderful, profound, eloquent work, the study of which offers
many insights and valuable seeds of inspiration… Intimately linked with that
well-regarded spiritual classic, <a href="http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/lightpat/lightpat.htm"><span>Light
on the Path</span></a>, and they are often packaged together; indeed, studying this
text in relation to corresponding passages in <span>Light on the Path</span> is recommended, and in general, can be viewed
as a good introduction to that more demanding text. We are also indebted to
<a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/Mabel_Collins">Mabel Collins</a> for a third theosophical classic, <span><a href="http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/books/white-lo/white-1.htm">The Idyll of the White Lotus</a></span>, of which T. Subba Row has written
a remarkable<a href="http://hpb.narod.ru/commentsidyll.htm"> commentary</a>, nigh indispensable for unlocking the profundities of
that fascinating work.<br />
</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA">Information on Mabel Collins and the possible
original author of this work:<br />
<a href="http://blavatskyarchives.com/sisson1.htm"><span color="windowtext">http://blavatskyarchives.com/sisson1.htm</span></a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_(Jerusalem)">Golden Gate</a>,
is a semi-legendary Jerusalem gate with mystical symbolic import. Taken
up by Christian culture, appearing in 19th c. hymns, adopted with full
mystical meaning in Theosophy, Mabel Collins,Through the Gates of Gold,
and continues to seen in popular culture, for example with a 2015 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gates_of_Gold">Los Lobos album</a>. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">For the world history of this symbol see, Architecture, Mysticism and Myth, by W.R. Lethaby, [1892] Chapter 8, <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/earth/amm/amm11.htm">The Golden Gate of the Sun. </a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"> </span></span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Part 1</span></b><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span lang="FR">The answer may at first sight seem to be that he
primarily desires pleasure, and so is willing to continue on that battlefield
where it wages war with pain for the possession of him, hoping always that
pleasure will win the victory and take him home to herself. This is but the
external aspect of the man's state. <span style="color: #990000;">In himself he knows well that pain is
co-ruler with pleasure, and that though the war wages always it never will be
won. </span>The superficial observer concludes that man submits to the inevitable. But
that is a fallacy not worthy of discussion. A little serious thought shows us
that man does not exist at all except by exercise of his positive qualities; it
is but logical to suppose that he chooses the state he will live in by the
exercise of those same qualities. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Part
2</span></b><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span><span style="color: #0b5394;">That
place is the central point of existence, where there is a permanent spot of
life as there is in the midst of the heart of man. It is by the equal
development of that, — first by the recognition of it, and then by its equal
development upon the many radiating lines of experience, — that man is at last
enabled to reach the Golden Gate and lift the latch. The process is the gradual
recognition of the god in himself; the goal is reached when that godhood is
consciously restored to its right glory</span>. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span><b><span lang="EN-CA"></span></b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5KCQV1j5pTMWXFV7_lZke_5LZpclL9yqhvvWoCww_8PI7jh1ZFZWBLDwGtUIhnrTyvN-bSYFTgE6dWGQirU_-N6hxRDFZFa9TtePWzz8VuGLW7DCA_AcYb5WQEFrB0GH970HzYWCymZbLWig63bLCVTmce2UzxdRtIzgUeqI77aTSoZRZxHosqdDAAS8/s259/gog12.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5KCQV1j5pTMWXFV7_lZke_5LZpclL9yqhvvWoCww_8PI7jh1ZFZWBLDwGtUIhnrTyvN-bSYFTgE6dWGQirU_-N6hxRDFZFa9TtePWzz8VuGLW7DCA_AcYb5WQEFrB0GH970HzYWCymZbLWig63bLCVTmce2UzxdRtIzgUeqI77aTSoZRZxHosqdDAAS8/w400-h300/gog12.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Part 3</span></b><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span style="color: #38761d;">To remain still amid life and its changes, and
stand firmly on the chosen spot, is a feat which can only be accomplished by
the man who has confidence in himself and in his destiny. </span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Otherwise
the hurrying forms of life, the rushing tide of men, the great floods of
thought, must inevitably carry him with them, and then he will lose that place
of consciousness whence it was possible to start on the great enterprise. For
it <span>must</span> be done knowingly, and
without pressure from without, — this act of the new-born man. All the great
ones of the earth have possessed this confidence, and have stood firmly on that
place which was to them the one solid spot in the universe. To each man this
place is of necessity different. Each man must find his own earth and his own
heaven. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Pain
and pleasure stand apart and separate, as do the two sexes; and it is in the
merging, the making the two into one, that joy and deep sensation and profound
peace are obtained. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Where
there is neither male nor female, neither pain nor pleasure, there is the god
in man dominant, and then is life real. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcS2J86i008zkxKDoStQAeaifKRDGPkTE-p9OAmpGzYDCTDiSaVqgvhKAttkfFJZLUE5L-qB_uFeSnl24gO6YmBaTkv5LmOCt0dFTtMlaOmeoFE3_VyOvCB-qw4eb4JpootattoQO1DkXNlbmaOa5-eMHxRxFUqiLA5aGjXS8FnNfAsACXs5Wa-87jJt4/s400/gog14.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="265" data-original-width="400" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcS2J86i008zkxKDoStQAeaifKRDGPkTE-p9OAmpGzYDCTDiSaVqgvhKAttkfFJZLUE5L-qB_uFeSnl24gO6YmBaTkv5LmOCt0dFTtMlaOmeoFE3_VyOvCB-qw4eb4JpootattoQO1DkXNlbmaOa5-eMHxRxFUqiLA5aGjXS8FnNfAsACXs5Wa-87jJt4/w400-h265/gog14.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br />Part 4</b><span lang="EN-CA"> <span style="color: #990000;">For the noble soul of the man, that potential
king which is within us all, knows full well that this household idol may be
cast down and destroyed at any moment, — that it is without finality in itself,
without any real and absolute life. And he has been content in his possession,
forgetting that anything possessed can only by the immutable laws of life be
held temporarily. </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">He has forgotten that the infinite is his only friend; he has
forgotten that in its glory is his only home, — that it alone can be his god.
There he feels as if he is homeless; but that amid the sacrifices he offers to
his own especial idol there is for him a brief resting-place; and for this he
clings passionately to it.</span></span></span><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #38761d;">For that man does indeed hold within him the infinite, and that the ocean
is really in the cup, is an incontestable truth; but it is only so because the
cup is absolutely non-existent. It is merely an experience of the infinite,
having no permanence, liable to be shattered at any instant.”</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">It is in the
claiming of reality and permanence for the four walls of his personality, that
man makes the vast blunder which plunges him into a prolonged series of
unfortunate incidents, and intensifies continually the existence of his
favorite forms of sensation. Pleasure and pain become to him more real than the
great ocean of which he is a part and where his home is; he perpetually knocks
himself painfully against these walls where he feels, and his tiny self oscillates
within his chosen prison.</span></span></p>
</div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-34175047132257137332024-01-01T13:28:00.000-08:002024-01-20T06:34:13.271-08:00Astrology: The year ahead, 2024<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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on <b>August 19</b> marks the one quarter mark of the <b>Jupiter-Saturn</b> cycle begun in 2020. I see the first five years of
this cycle as a period of transition and adjustment. It can be a good time to
reflect on all that has happened, notably: the Covid pandemic, the US capitol
building riots, the Russian-Ukraine and Israel-Palestine wars. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With <b>Pluto in Aquarius</b> on <b>January 21</b>, we’ll
see the beginning of a more favorable period, a precursor to 2025, which begins
an optimistic 10-year phase in the <b>20-year
Jupiter-Saturn</b> cycle. Optimistic does not necessarily mean peaceful. It can signal a gung-ho conquest energy as well as cooperative, peace-building trends. Moving into <b>April 20, </b>a trio of jovial aspects highlight this period: </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Jupiter</b>
conjunct <b>Uranus,</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> Jupiter</b>
sextile <b>Neptune, </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Jupiter</b>
trine <b>Pluto. </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But beginning in <b>August</b>,
the rest of the year will be more difficult, culminating in an intense mutable <b><a href="https://astrologyking.com/grand-cross/">Grand Cross</a></b> at the <b>Winter Solstice</b>. I see this as a final adjustment phase before
entering a distinctly new and positive phase in 2025.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We’ll have an eclipse phase in <b>March</b> and <b>September</b>. <b>Mercury retrograde</b> for 3 weeks in <b>April, August</b>, and <b>November/December</b>. The month-long volatile <b>Mars </b>aspects </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">(*)</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> will be more
spread out this year (I suspect that three consecutive volatile Mars aspects over last Summer played an important factor in triggering the tensions that provoked the Israel-Palestine war) , with one in <b>March,
June, August</b>, and <b>November</b>.<b> February, April, May </b>and<b> July </b>look to be the most favorable periods
this year.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Jan 21 –<span> </span><b>Pluto</b> in <b>Aquarius</b></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Feb 27 – <span> </span><b>Mars</b> (Aquarius) square <b>Jupiter</b> (Taurus)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mar 09 – <b>Mars</b> square <b>Uranus</b> (Taurus)*</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mar 25 – Lunar <b>Eclipse
</b>in Libra</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Apr 01 – <b>Mercury</b>
Retrograde in Aries</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Apr 08 – Solar <b>Eclipse</b>
in Aries</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Apr 20 – <b>Jupiter</b>
conjunct <b>Uranus</b></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Apr 25 – <b>Mercury</b>
direct</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">May 23 – <b>Jupiter</b>
sextile <b>Neptune</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">May 25</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> –</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <b>Jupiter </b>in <b>Gemini </b>until June 9, 2025</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Jun 02 – <b>Jupiter</b>
trine <b>Pluto</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Jun 10 – <b>Neptune</b> sextile <b>Pluto</b>
in orb not exact until 2026</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Jun 11 – <span> </span><b>Mars</b>
square <b>Pluto</b> (Aquarius) *</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Aug 05 – <span> </span><b>Mercury</b> Retrograde: in Virgo</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Aug 16 – <span> </span><b>Mars</b> (Gemini)
square <b>Saturn</b> (Pisces) *</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Aug 19 – <b>Jupiter</b>
square <b>Saturn</b> 1 of 3</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Aug 24 – <span> </span><b>Uranus</b> sextile <b>Neptune</b>, in orb not exact
until 2025</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Aug 28 – <span> </span><b>Mercury</b> direct</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sept 02 –<span> </span><b>Pluto</b> in <b>Capricorn</b></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sept 17 – Lunar <b>Eclipse</b>
in Pisces</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Oct 02 – Solar <b>Eclipse</b>
at in Libra</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Oct 26 – <span> </span><b>Neptune</b> sextile <b>Pluto</b>
out of orb</span></div>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Nov 03 – <span> </span><b>Mars</b> (Cancer) opposition <b>Pluto</b> (Capricorn)
*</span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Nov 16 – <b>Uranus</b>
sextile <b>Neptune</b>
out of orb</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Nov 19 –<span> </span><b>Pluto</b> in <b>Aquarius</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Nov 25 – <span> </span><b>Mercury</b> retrograde in Sagittarius</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Dec 15 –<span> </span><b>Mercury</b> direct</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Dec 24 – <b>Jupiter</b>
square <b>Saturn </b>2 of 3</span></div>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From Astrology with Andy: From July
of 2025 until February of 2027, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto will be getting
along splendidly. By that I mean that Uranus and Pluto will be in a trine
(120-degree) aspect to each other while simultaneously sextile (60 degrees away
from) Neptune. The three of them will be
speaking the same language and supporting one another.<span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">While they will bring major
global shifts, they will do so like a well-rehearsed orchestra (as opposed to,
say, an out-of-tune electric guitar). In fact, I think that a lot of the
ugliness that will emerge as Pluto wraps up its transit of Capricorn (and
especially in the US, where
this also coincides with the United
States’ Pluto return) will begin to be
cleaned up during this 2024 – 2026 period.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">see: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.yogajournal.com/lifestyle/astrology/astrology-2024/ ">https://www.yogajournal.com/lifestyle/astrology/astrology-2024/ </a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-71541436021146712972023-12-26T02:01:00.000-08:002023-12-31T06:27:29.467-08:00Astrology: The Year 2023 in Review<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6_sAZqvQNv7Lr5JLOsFOQBIiiG5n6_UtumHeZnyN_PmtWYT9F2vSJwlHOJe8q3CgPX2BY8r2APCB6wMoU63M62FDDr24zSIy8denGcyWVCosJSvp7fJeFXLYvNI_M4rinPD0iLlg2HyWr49-TngAjx4EMSAtQSS4FePTgWYTvoEQtCOgr0AzHHdxZE3U/s1200/year--2023.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6_sAZqvQNv7Lr5JLOsFOQBIiiG5n6_UtumHeZnyN_PmtWYT9F2vSJwlHOJe8q3CgPX2BY8r2APCB6wMoU63M62FDDr24zSIy8denGcyWVCosJSvp7fJeFXLYvNI_M4rinPD0iLlg2HyWr49-TngAjx4EMSAtQSS4FePTgWYTvoEQtCOgr0AzHHdxZE3U/w400-h200/year--2023.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br />March 7 <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/03/astrology-saturn-in-pisces-march-7-2023.html">Saturn
enters Pisces</a> </b> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>brought a lessening of restrictions and more discipline in
holistic views</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>March 24 <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/03/astrology-pluto-in-capricorn-march-23.html">Pluto
enters Aquarius</a></b> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>brought a foretaste of more socially-conscious power
structures</span></span></div>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>April
20 <a href="https://astrologyking.com/solar-eclipse-april-2023/">Total Solar
Eclipse in Aries</a></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Highlighted
Pluto control issues </span></span></p>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">May 5 <a href="https://astrologyking.com/full-moon-may-2023-lunar-eclipse/">Lunar
Eclipse in Scorpio</a></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Highlighted the volatile
nature of social change </span></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">May 16 <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/05/astrology-jupiter-in-taurus-may-16-2023.html">Jupiter
enters Taurus</a></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Brought a slower, more
practical outlook </span></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">May 17 <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/05/astrology-jupiter-square-pluto-may-17.html">Jupiter
square Pluto</a></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Increased ambitious
tendencies, with problems of dogmatism and fanaticism </span></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">June 11 Pluto Retrograde
re-enters Capricorn</span></h3>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Favours more conservative,
strict, rigid tendencies </span></span></h3>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>June 19 <a href="https://astrologyking.com/jupiter-sextile-saturn/">Jupiter in Taurus
sextiles Saturn in Pisces</a></b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span>Brings a period of focused, balanced productivity</span></span><span></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Winter Review</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7SktWqHCgcoQ98vioajXgnj_K7aR31iWdpagX3cgq3Nzu3QT_df2QSuJ3NFtt9qH2yrI-OA5nvJSm_6EILcuf3J-D6yTniC0PVdxftK6hHgfzNllOU8PHvz7RWRdAqAvmIMyuo-KbLugac383vaiqIXrJYmlKNk2OsquxJD-zs3U7XZUOQ7l0I2r-Dqk/s1980/gretathunberg1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1320" data-original-width="1980" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7SktWqHCgcoQ98vioajXgnj_K7aR31iWdpagX3cgq3Nzu3QT_df2QSuJ3NFtt9qH2yrI-OA5nvJSm_6EILcuf3J-D6yTniC0PVdxftK6hHgfzNllOU8PHvz7RWRdAqAvmIMyuo-KbLugac383vaiqIXrJYmlKNk2OsquxJD-zs3U7XZUOQ7l0I2r-Dqk/s320/gretathunberg1.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>To
give a few examples of how that general mood played out, we have <b><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/trending/after-andrew-tate-gets-arrested-greta-thunberg-rests-twitter-feud-by-schooling-him-one-last-time-over-recycling-465917">Greta
Thunberg</a></span></b>, who was involved in some curious incidents over the
semester. There was a <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/andrew-tate-attempt-greta-thunberg-burn-backfires-owns-him-twitter-1769925.">curious
Twitter exchange</a> with MMA practioner David Tate. There was also a most
curious<a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/was-greta-thunberg-arrest-staged">
‘staged police detention’ theory</a>, and an equally curious <a href="https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/01/20/these-reporters-tried-to-goad-greta-thunberg-she-wasnt-having-any-of-it">exchange
with Rebel News reporters </a>at the <span class="c-caption"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">World Economic Forum in Davos (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.</span></b>
Curiouser and curiouser indeed, although I do think the police have improved
their Greta removal techniques in a recent <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/greta-thunberg-detained-in-norway-during-protest/">Norway
protest.</a></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="u-color--black"><span>Moreover, the ever-quixotic <b><span style="color: #990000;">Peter Gabriel</span></b>, ended speculation about an oft-announced new
album by releasing <a href="https://www.stereogum.com/2216015/peter-gabriel-playing-for-time/music/">first
new material in over two decades</a>. No exact date release date for the album
has been given, but three songs have been released so far, all released on the
day of the full moon</span></span><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span>. Additionally, <b><span style="color: #990000;">Prince
Harry</span></b> released <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/did-the-bbc-describe-prince-harrys-book-as-weirdest-book-written-by-a-royal/">his
autobiography</a>, which could quite possibly be the weirdest book ever written
by a royal. In the <b><span style="color: #990000;">US</span></b><b><span style="color: #990000;">,</span></b> another president has been leaving <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/biden-classified-documents-search-1.6733120">his
files at home</a>.</span></span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span>Although not as numerous and dramatic as the previous
semester, there were still a few significant protests, notably in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/15/peru-declares-state-of-emergency-in-lima-after-weeks-of-protests">Peru
</a>(over deposition of former president Castillo),</span></span><span> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64279349">Israel</a> (over
80,000 Israelis protest against Supreme Court reform), <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/08/jair-bolsonaro-supporters-storm-brazils-presidential-palace-and-supreme-court">Brazil
</a>(Bolsonaro supporters), <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/france-nationwide-strikes-pensions-1.6770345">France
</a>(retirement age pension eligibility), and <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/mitsotakis-faces-greeces-biggest-protests-since-eurozone-crisis-athens-rallies-prime-minister-civil-liberties-epp/">Greece
</a>(major train derailment). <span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m">In
<b><span style="color: #990000;">Canada</span></b><b><span style="color: #990000;">,</span></b> the results of an inquiry into the Ottawa trucker convoy
occupation revealed <a href="https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/lack-of-communication-defined-city-of-ottawa-s-response-to-freedom-convoy-audit-finds-1.6265444">a
comedy of errors</a>.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>March 7 <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/03/astrology-saturn-in-pisces-march-7-2023.html">Saturn
enters Pisces</a></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m">A rare <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/04/the-green-comet-how-to-see-a-once-in-50000-years-event-in-australias-night-skies">50,
000 year-cycle comet</a> appeared in the skies and a major earthquake rocked <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/survivors-ever-fewer-earthquake-rubble-turkey-syria-2023-02-12/">Turkey
and Syria</a>. </span>As <span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/03/astrology-saturn-in-pisces-march-7-2023.html">Saturn
entered Pisces</a></span><b><span style="color: #38761d;"> on March 7</span></b>, <span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00">200 countries agreed to a
legally-binding treaty, the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/04/world/un-oceans-treaty-biodiversity-climate-intl/index.html">UN
High Seas Treaty</a>, to protect marine life in international waters,
which cover around half of the planet’s surface, have long been essentially
lawless. There was also some recent heavy flooding in <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/03/12/atmospheric-rivers-explained-california-flooding-snow">California</a>
and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/14/australia/queensland-australia-flood-crocodiles-climate-intl/index.html">Australia</a>,
as well as a major storm, cyclone Freddy, in <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/cyclone-freddy-among-africas-deadliest-storms-2023-03-15/">Malawi</a>.</span></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Spring Review</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcMuvYsYFYvpJflglT5OmITMpP6D0v4h1wRkUTwIud6UUe5dIHLL1NCUv6WR5KVYY-7mAOGSxwJOln-aZ67BBWH1Pqn-51LdJbC6qJCoNk9ksJ0HOIouVOr8vX6l2PG2l4kKF_oOerwF7CabXW1hgLecAEEFBCzvkXLS2zhEa3whHtnaBFPeY5HO5CO6w/s500/wiztornad5.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="329" data-original-width="500" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcMuvYsYFYvpJflglT5OmITMpP6D0v4h1wRkUTwIud6UUe5dIHLL1NCUv6WR5KVYY-7mAOGSxwJOln-aZ67BBWH1Pqn-51LdJbC6qJCoNk9ksJ0HOIouVOr8vX6l2PG2l4kKF_oOerwF7CabXW1hgLecAEEFBCzvkXLS2zhEa3whHtnaBFPeY5HO5CO6w/s320/wiztornad5.jpeg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>March 24<span> </span><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/03/astrology-pluto-in-capricorn-march-23.html">Pluto
enters Aquarius</a></b></span><p></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Near the Spring equinox, March
21, Russia and China
had an important meeting, <a href="https://theweek.com/briefing/daily-briefing/1021996/10-things-you-need-to-know-today-march-22-2023"><span>Xi,Putin reaffirm partnership in 2nd day of talks</span></a>.
and there was an <a href="https://cnn.com/2023/03/21/asia/afghan-earthquake-intl/index.html"><span>e</span></a><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><span><a href="https://cnn.com/2023/03/21/asia/afghan-earthquake-intl/index.html">arthquake
in Pakistan and Afghanistan</a>. For </span></span>March 24, <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/03/astrology-pluto-in-capricorn-march-23.html"><span>Pluto entered Aquarius</span></a>, there were<a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/9595336/arkansas-illinois-indiana-tornado-deaths/"><span> major tornadoes in </span></a><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/9595336/arkansas-illinois-indiana-tornado-deaths/"><span>midwestern, southern U.S</span></a>, and <span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><span>ex-<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/04/trump-arrested-arraigned-takeaways/11594611002/">US
president </a></span></span><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/staff/2646678001/phillip-m-bailey/"><span>Donald Trump was arrested</span></a>. <span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span>Also, there were <a href="https://theweek.com/us/1022108/10-things-you-need-to-know-today-march-25-2023">U.S.airstrikes
on Iranian targets in Syria</a>. </span></span></span></div>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>April 20 <a href="https://astrologyking.com/solar-eclipse-april-2023/">Total
Solar Eclipse in Aries</a></b></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There was a civil war <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/new-fighting-rattles-sudans-capital-residents-try-flee-2023-04-20/"><span> flare-up in Sudan </span></a>that began a week
earlier. Moreover, a rocket ship <a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/spacex-rocket-explosion-illustrates-elon-musk-s-successful-failure-formula-1.6365313"><span>blew up</span></a>. Super Heavy's 33 powerful Raport
engines malfunctioned on ascent. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span>Some more positive events
during this period include, on </span></span><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span>April 10, <span>S<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/10/saudi-arabia-makes-peace-proposal-for-yemen-after-houthi-talks">audi
Arabia</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/10/saudi-arabia-makes-peace-proposal-for-yemen-after-houthi-talks">
makes peace proposal for Yemen</a> after Houthi talks and on </span>April 15<span>, in Canada, </span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>May
5 <a href="https://astrologyking.com/full-moon-may-2023-lunar-eclipse/"><span>Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio</span></a></b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>For
the <span>May 5</span> Lunar Eclipse in
Scorpio,</span><span lang="EN"> the
<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/canada-who-pandemic-no-longer-emergency-1.6833775">end of the COVID emergency</a> was
declared, and there was a<b> </b><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/allen-texas-shooting-victims-names-who-died-cho-family-daniela-sofia-mendoza/">shooting incident in Allen, Texas</a></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><b><span>May 17 Jupiter square Pluto</span></b></span><b><span></span></b></span></p>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0">May 20 Mars opposite Pluto</span></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="x193iq5wxeuuglix13faqbex1vvkbsx1xmvt09x1lliihqx1s928wvxhkezsox1gmr53xx1cpjm7ix1fgartyx1943h6xxudqn12x3x7a5mx6prxxfxvq8zenxo1l8bmxzsf02ux1yc453h">May 22 Mars square
Jupiter</span></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span>Some typical events could include a terrible <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-65793257">India train crash</a>
and widespread <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-more-than-400-wildfires-still-active-in-canada/">forest
fires in Canada</a>. For more examples, all of the main news events for <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/us/five-things-may-25-trnd/index.html">May
25 </a>could correlate to these aspects. The <a href="https://www.act.nato.int/article/resource-conference-2023/">Nato Resource
Conference</a> was held in Ottawa
on <b>May 23-25, 2023.</b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span></span></span></span></p>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>June 11 Pluto
Retrograde re-enters Capricorn</b></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>W<span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0">e've seen an <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/09/nova-kakhovka-dam-ukraine-counteroffensive-unlikely-to-be-derailed.html">escalation
in the Russia-Ukraine war </a>and an<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65863396"> indictment of an
ex-US president</a>. </span></span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><span lang="EN">Some spectacular water disasters,
a<a href="https://greekreporter.com/2023/06/23/obama-on-the-titanic-sub-and-the-greek-migrant-boat-disaster/"> Greek migrant boat sinking</a> with 700 casualties on <b>June 14</b>, and
a <b>Sub-Marine </b>exploring the Titanic wreckage had an accident causing five
fatalities, <b>June 18.</b> These could be related to </span></span><span class="r-18u37iz"><span lang="EN"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SaturnInPisces?src=hashtag_click"><span style="color: #00ba7c;">Saturn In Pisces</span></a></span></span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><span lang="EN">, also Pluto on cusp of Aquarius
& Capricorn, I would relate it also to <b>Mars square Uranus, June 26</b>,
& fading <b>Mars opposite Pluto-</b>themes: meltdowns, watery depths,
unusual, tragic</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><span lang="EN"></span></span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>June 19 <a href="https://astrologyking.com/jupiter-sextile-saturn/">Jupiter in Taurus
sextiles Saturn in Pisces</a></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span>Nato works on</span></span><span><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/search/label/NATO%20meeting%20fails%20to%20approve%20first%20defense%20plans%20since%20Cold%20War"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><b> </b></span>first
defense plans since Cold War</a>. </span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><span lang="EN"> Another <b>Saturn in Pisces</b>
related-theme of water regulation awareness occurred on <b>July 11 </b>when a
growing list of countries have also <b>called for a<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/11/seafood-industry-joins-chorus-of-groups-calling-for-a-halt-to-deep-sea-mining-plans"> </a></b><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/11/seafood-industry-joins-chorus-of-groups-calling-for-a-halt-to-deep-sea-mining-plans">halt to deep-sea mining</a>,
at a key moment for the fledgling industry as the International Seabed
Authority (ISA) meets to determine rules for mining</span></span></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><span lang="EN"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4tH7_oC428DRor5zMzMehruAI9O9KPkXf9RfL7fbFhGog0KjLwW4-gBrHkWGyhDKqrZbl3OuTB84Bm_kSDnYbCHyjYi4_4cL1qwB1d_bcysF8cNL_QSuJ6ibtp4yofjyOS8fUabO8v9w3-hvHzR257J8hmcYP4gRbl8fJWKjKNQXBIUL4R2WEKBuasZg/s680/bennett.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="680" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4tH7_oC428DRor5zMzMehruAI9O9KPkXf9RfL7fbFhGog0KjLwW4-gBrHkWGyhDKqrZbl3OuTB84Bm_kSDnYbCHyjYi4_4cL1qwB1d_bcysF8cNL_QSuJ6ibtp4yofjyOS8fUabO8v9w3-hvHzR257J8hmcYP4gRbl8fJWKjKNQXBIUL4R2WEKBuasZg/s320/bennett.png" width="320" /></a></div>Summer Review </span></span></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><span lang="EN"><br /></span></span></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><b><span>June 26</span></b></span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span> <b>Mars square Uranus</b></span></span><span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span>Around <b>June 24</b>, reports began to emerge of <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65962771">major militia conflicts in Sudan</a>,
which broke out in April.</span></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span></span></span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><b><span>July 20 Mars opposite Saturn</span></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><span>A third very volatile month-long Mars aspect in a row occurred with was
<b>Mars opposite Saturn, July 20</b>. Circumstances or people tend to thwart
our will, feelings of resentment or frustration; difficult to assert ourselves;
action & expressing our urges blocked; difficult to complete tasks. There
was also <b>Sun opposite Pluto, July 21</b>, bringing issues of power and competition.</span></span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span>Various incidents around that time included: A<b> mass
shooting in Australia</b>, a third <b>indictment for Donald Trump</b>, a big <b>Tornado
</b>in South Carolina, a UPS and <b>Hollywood writer’s strike</b> occurred, as
well as <b>major Russian attacks</b> <b>in Ukraine</b> and a big <b>heat wave </b>in
the US.</span></span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/us/5-things-to-know-for-july-20-auckland-shooting-trump-tornado-ups-netflix/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/us/5-things-to-know-for-july-20-auckland-shooting-trump-tornado-ups-netflix/index.html</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/21/us/5-things-to-know-for-july-21-ukraine-extreme-heat-strikes-ai-e-cigarettes/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/21/us/5-things-to-know-for-july-21-ukraine-extreme-heat-strikes-ai-e-cigarettes/index.html</a></span></span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>On July 17, </span></b><span>Russia</span><span> suspended its participation in a crucial deal that
allowed the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/17/europe/russia-ukraine-grain-deal-intl/index.html ">export of Ukrainian grain</a>, once again raising fears over global
food supplies and scuppering a rare diplomatic breakthrough to emerge from Moscow’s war in Ukraine. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/graphics/CANADA-WILDFIRE/HISTORIC/znvnzebmavl/"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span>Record Forest Fire outbreaks in Canada</span><b><span> </span></b></span></a><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span>were announced, <b>July 24. </b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span>There was a <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/blindsided-hours-coup-niger-us-diplomats-said-country-was-stable-rcna99708">military coup in Niger</a> <b>on July
25. </b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span>On <b>August 4, </b><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/14/africa/ethiopia-explosion-finote-selam-intl/index.html">Ethiopia declared a state of emergenc</a><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/14/africa/ethiopia-explosion-finote-selam-intl/index.html">y</a> due to militia conflicts.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span></span></span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><b><span>We lost several important musicians:</span></b></span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span>Singer and social rights activist <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/tony-bennett-racism-civil-rights-mlk-rcna95575"><b>Tony Bennett </b></a>passed
away on <b>July 21. </b>Singer and social rights activist<b> <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/sinead-oconnor-death-a-life-in-activism-b1097080.html">Sinéad O’Connor</a> </b>passed
away on <b>July 27. </b></span></span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><span>Singer/songwriter and social activist <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/music/rodriguez-sugar-man-protest-music-freedom-truth-in-america-1.6931249"><b>Sixto
Rodriguez </b></a>passed away on <b>August 9</b>. </span><b><span><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/robbie-robertson-singer-storyteller-influencer-roots-six-nations-1.6934152">Robbie Robertson</a></span></b></span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><span>, the string-bending guitarist and principal songwriter of The Band,
and indigenous rights supporter passed away on <b>August 9</b>.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span>There were a lot of interesting cultural events over
the Summer that had Theosophical connections:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><b><span>OZ: A New Musical freeFall Theatre Company</span></b></span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><span> Florida Musical about<b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/freefalltheatre/posts/pfbid02iGCyNrh5jb9tMe8DmQHUDA3hKjafsPHCag7wvwuux2pMegXANL6XtxNRqB73ZuoZl">L. Frank Baum with Matilda Joslyn Gage</a></b>, good run. </span></span><span class="r-18u37iz"><b><span><a href="http://greydogtales.com/blog/fawcett-saga-1-lovecraft-book-dzyan/">Indiana Jones</a></span></b></span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><b><span> </span></b></span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><span>and the Dial of Destiny was released. </span></span><span class="r-18u37iz"><b><span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_and_the_Heron">HayaoMiyazaki</a></span></b></span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><b><span>'</span></b></span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><span>s fantasy epic </span></span><span class="r-18u37iz"><span>The Boy and the Heron. </span><a href="https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/film/barbie-movie-wizard-of-oz-tiktok-theory-935689-20230717"><b><span>Barbie</span></b></a></span><span class="r-18u37iz"><span> film has <b>Gnostic Wizard of
Oz elements. </b></span></span><a href="https://religionnews.com/2023/07/12/oppenheimer_gita/"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><b><span>Oppenheimer film</span></b></span></a><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><span>, he was into the Bhagavad Gita.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><span>Several major esoteric theosophical painting
exhibitions:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><b><span><a href="https://widewalls.ch/magazine/occult-art">Embracing the Esoteric</a>-</span></b></span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc00"><span>Inside Mystical Realm of Occult Art June 19,2023 Eli Anapur Museo
Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Rubens Chagall Miró Munch Dalí Kandinsky Ernst. </span></span><span>In <a href="https://artreview.com/just-the-two-of-us-the-rise-of-the-blockbuster-dialogue-exhibition/">London</a>, another exhibition that brings
together two artists in dialogue opened at the Tate Modern. <a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/hilma-af-klint-piet-mondrian"><b>Hilma
af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life</b></a><b>. </b></span><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/transcendental-painting-group/"><b><span>“Another World:
Transcendental Painting Group</span></b></a><span><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/transcendental-painting-group/">,
1938–1945” </a>opened for the final stop of its multi-museum tour at the Los
Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, where it will remain through June. The current<b> <a href="https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/who-was-charmion-von-wiegand-geometric-abstraction-spiritual-art-1234664456/1920s-and-1930s/">Charmion vonWiegand</a> </b>show at the Kunstmuseum Basel is her first solo institutional show</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #7f6000;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #7f6000;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFsYn7qooDHighJMoMk5zafvWKYG5LKXKJsZ1bfQKfHMKGtdDh9LOoDn1oZsKUlk4CLQmH4i996G0qVud0Kt5Ap_xckTwl9hrQaaWOQepw1de4X-YEwwOcKMkMSv-J4Xz4flq3Zay-gnHXrAX-3emH1-ItKWLFtVcEpCwMRKXvngl6aP1n5cVSxHz_7ZY/s2400/supernova.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="2400" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFsYn7qooDHighJMoMk5zafvWKYG5LKXKJsZ1bfQKfHMKGtdDh9LOoDn1oZsKUlk4CLQmH4i996G0qVud0Kt5Ap_xckTwl9hrQaaWOQepw1de4X-YEwwOcKMkMSv-J4Xz4flq3Zay-gnHXrAX-3emH1-ItKWLFtVcEpCwMRKXvngl6aP1n5cVSxHz_7ZY/w400-h225/supernova.webp" width="400" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #7f6000;">Fall Review</span></b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijidr-bcqeeor-qvutc0r-poiln30"><b>October
8 Mars square Pluto</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="r-18u37iz"><span>The oncoming Russia-Ukraine conflict was easier to
predict, because the buildup was highly mediatized. I think that this is the
first time that I was surprised at what occurred in the semester, as I didn't
really see <span style="color: #990000;">a Sun opposite Neptune (a T-Square with
a Moon square to it)</span> as particularly volatile (although I do find that
difficult Moon aspects can be powerful in event charts). Although the Hamas
attack occurred a day before </span></span><span class="css-1qaijidr-bcqeeor-qvutc0r-poiln30"><span>an
exact <span style="color: #990000;">Mars square Pluto on October 8,</span> a
volatile aspect where pretty much anything can happen.</span></span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="r-18u37iz"><span>Perhaps the meaning of '<span style="color: #0b5394;">conflicts
of a more deceptive, illusory, fantastical nature could occur'</span> could be
related to the surprise, unforeseen nature of the attack (regardless of whether
it was really that unforeseeable). Moreover, a very surreptitious, mobile and
swift attack on a <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/israeli-palestinian-conflict-hamas-gaza-supernova-music-festival-what-is-the-supernova-festival-that-was-attacked-by-hamas-4466454">rave
music festival</a> could be considered to fit with the Sun opposite Neptune aspect. </span></span><span class="css-1qaijidr-bcqeeor-qvutc0r-poiln3r-b88u0q"><span>It
was a strange</span></span><span class="css-1qaijidr-bcqeeor-qvutc0r-poiln3"><span> </span></span><span class="css-1qaijidr-bcqeeor-qvutc0r-poiln3r-b88u0q"><span>twist
of fate</span></span><span class="css-1qaijidr-bcqeeor-qvutc0r-poiln3"><span> that a German-Israeli woman with esoteric interests, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/shani-louk-friends-family-describe-german-israel-who-was-killed-2023-11">Shani
Louk</a>, would become an iconic figure in the Hamas-Israel war, her final IG
post had Hermetic axiom '</span></span><span class="css-1qaijidr-bcqeeor-qvutc0r-poiln3r-b88u0q"><span>As</span></span><span class="css-1qaijidr-bcqeeor-qvutc0r-poiln3"><span> </span></span><span class="css-1qaijidr-bcqeeor-qvutc0r-poiln3r-b88u0q"><span>above</span></span><span class="css-1qaijidr-bcqeeor-qvutc0r-poiln3"><span>, so
below'. A "convinced pacifist", she refused to undergo compulsory
military service</span></span><span class="r-18u37iz"><span>. Moreover, '<span style="color: #0b5394;"> seeing through any illusions,
smokescreens, halls of mirrors, moon mist and gaslight' </span>could correspond
to the complicated<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/09/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-war-explained-mime-intl/index.html">
history of the Israel-Palestine conflict</a> in general and the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-11-30/antisemitism-islamophobia-rise-around-world-amid-israel-hamas-conflict">massive
Anti-Semitic and Islamophobia sentiments</a> that the outbreak provoked.
There's also the underground tunnel network apparently being used in Palestine.</span></span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="r-18u37iz">Another possible effect of the Mars square Pluto aspect was a <a href="https://reliefweb.int/disaster/eq-2023-000184-afg">major Earthquake in
Afghanistan.</a> Two more events in Canada, related to problems in
discerning identity, with longstanding links to past events occurred around the
same time.</span> Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there were <a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-india-tensions-how-we-got-here-and-what-s-at-stake-1.6589053">"credible
allegations" of Indian involvement</a> in the murder of Sikh activist
Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was gunned down outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C.. and a <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/search/label/Canada’s%20recent%20Nazi%20blunder%20raises%20uncomfortable%20questions%20about%20troubling%20aspects%20of%20Ukraine’s%20past%20–%20and%20present.">former
Nazi was somehow applauded</a> in Canadian parliament in the presence of Ukraine
president Volodymyr Zelensky. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijidr-bcqeeor-qvutc0r-poiln30"><b><span>Oct 14 <span> </span>New Moon
Solar Eclipse in Libra </span></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijidr-bcqeeor-qvutc0r-poiln30"><span>(Mars
in Scorpio, water domicile,fully resourced to strive after desires; Venus in
Virgo, scrutinize interactions, pinpoint problems, researching solutions).</span></span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin3-25_cdMGJWcG6rEljNunOAIFMPSgz7-o2ed_4GPdtVOXRV2WRBuaqLOnUYN-8z-mPFNwsoC-iqPmkXNGXHzh4j3hJRtug3rbUhVdVjRS7NNz9Hp2TOU1tMVB5lKvKV0bGfDMnBatUiePt-C6XXTKdsGQm-NwA0C6gk6opFi5DBBTaIo39cQIZaNnQU/s1400/redslippers2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="1400" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin3-25_cdMGJWcG6rEljNunOAIFMPSgz7-o2ed_4GPdtVOXRV2WRBuaqLOnUYN-8z-mPFNwsoC-iqPmkXNGXHzh4j3hJRtug3rbUhVdVjRS7NNz9Hp2TOU1tMVB5lKvKV0bGfDMnBatUiePt-C6XXTKdsGQm-NwA0C6gk6opFi5DBBTaIo39cQIZaNnQU/s320/redslippers2.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Also
in this amazing two-week period, <a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/elections/election-results-october-and-november-2023/">elections
</a>in <span style="color: #38761d;">Poland</span><span style="color: #38761d;">, Switzerland
and New Zealand </span>brought
in right-wing governments, with a left-wing candidate coming in in <span style="color: #38761d;">Argentina</span>.
In
the area of artistic fantastical mysteries, on October 14, the long, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/wizard-oz-stolen-ruby-slippers-judy-garland-f2bd6d4455a9821c311d1d0a03f6d77a">mysterious
saga of the theft of the red slippers</a> from The Wizard of Oz film came to a
conclusion as the accused pleaded guilty, but with many unanswered questions
remaining.<span class="css-1qaijidr-bcqeeor-qvutc0r-poiln3"> Moreover, the
litigation that delayed <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/11/wizard-of-oz-dorothy-dress-lawsuit-auction.html">Dorothy's
dress</a> has been cleared up (sort of) and now the dress can go to auction
(maybe). One of my astrological questions this year was, after years of
announcements of imminent release, will a<a href="https://twitter.com/itspetergabriel/status/1730558044637938101"> new </a></span><a href="https://twitter.com/itspetergabriel/status/1730558044637938101"><span class="css-1qaijidr-bcqeeor-qvutc0r-poiln3r-b88u0q">Peter Gabriel</span></a><span class="css-1qaijidr-bcqeeor-qvutc0r-poiln3"><a href="https://twitter.com/itspetergabriel/status/1730558044637938101"> album </a>finally
happen? It did. And it hit no. 1. Coincidentally, a very astrological release
scheme, which was punctually maintained up to December 1. Morevoer, the Vancouver Art Gallery
has declared that 10 oil sketches supposedly done by the Group of Seven’s
J.E.H. MacDonald and donated to the gallery in 2015 <a href="https://t.co/0hHEzsvCAA">are fake.</a></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLzZrM-ADwa559U0c4Ps_TP6QI5ebW3zb1eHnVWEBScw-WTV8s-XN3uEzA5AOlk4t2klTLPZcAjLQ0xMGs83D2LsEOc3LjORLE4jTOD6ZxApfZbT7QqGAc6LV5P3zw-v4XeuXiztwdQZwB_Y2bfBJNQfBq7daROKW9eW70NzLBdg9P6yr6sl4pz3t3Z0Q/s355/gabriel3.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="355" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLzZrM-ADwa559U0c4Ps_TP6QI5ebW3zb1eHnVWEBScw-WTV8s-XN3uEzA5AOlk4t2klTLPZcAjLQ0xMGs83D2LsEOc3LjORLE4jTOD6ZxApfZbT7QqGAc6LV5P3zw-v4XeuXiztwdQZwB_Y2bfBJNQfBq7daROKW9eW70NzLBdg9P6yr6sl4pz3t3Z0Q/w200-h200/gabriel3.webp" width="200" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The
COP 28 meeting was marked by controversy and confusion as, ' many countries
walked away from the talks frustrated at the lack of a clear call for a
fossil-fuel “<a href="https://www.blogger.com/">phase-out</a>” this decade –
and at a “<a href="https://www.blogger.com/">litany of loopholes</a>” in the
text that might enable the production and consumption of coal, oil and gas to
continue, although a last-minute <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">breakthrough
agreement was achieved</a>, with "nearly every country in the world has
agreed to “transition away from fossil fuels” – the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">main driver</a> of climate change.'One has to
wonder about the timing of finalizing an agreement on the beginning of a
Mercury retrograde period, <b>December 13</b>.
Coincidentally, at the same time, US Congress voted to launch an <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">impeachment inquiry</a> against the
president. </span></span><p></p>
Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-10219839647594143952023-12-24T14:56:00.000-08:002023-12-25T04:24:19.420-08:00Top 12 posts of 2023<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/02/10-great-spiritual-thinkers-on.html"></a></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGAt_Q8DB_P49p4SwheeBO_1yRj9aNW8JwdxKeniiK_kgodf7P_j6Bn7yrpjYd__bVAEwuGiLV3xB5252SKOKaL3-_OTENt9uKkbO7SRDHY07tIAOwl_rfsOer1vVMXiYT22E6sgfgoacEtgFLi1gTfYXUxCCPNQAxD6reRIuepygUJHv4aa7FZU-WMYI/s290/top2023d.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="174" data-original-width="290" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGAt_Q8DB_P49p4SwheeBO_1yRj9aNW8JwdxKeniiK_kgodf7P_j6Bn7yrpjYd__bVAEwuGiLV3xB5252SKOKaL3-_OTENt9uKkbO7SRDHY07tIAOwl_rfsOer1vVMXiYT22E6sgfgoacEtgFLi1gTfYXUxCCPNQAxD6reRIuepygUJHv4aa7FZU-WMYI/w400-h240/top2023d.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span><p></p><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>10th Anniversay 2014-2023 <br /></b></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In 2023, we put more emphasis on astrology, expanding our quarterly charts by including a review of the previous semester and adding posts for major aspects. This was well-received. We've continued with our series on Universal Brother and Sisterhood. We now have posts on 9 important thinkers of the 20th century who have championed this ideal. With a somewhat more narrow focus this year, and a greater number of posts on Blavatsky News, I think that we still managed to present a respectable diversity of topics. The readers have spoken. Thank you for the interest and support. Next year looks to be a little quieter, as we try to re-organize and evaluate our archives of posts accumulated over the years. We have just completed 10 years of posting an average of 44 posts annually, consequently, we now have 440 posts available. It seems like we started blogging only yesterday. So much has happened in the world since then. Time flies!<br /></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></b></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">1- 10 Great Spiritual Thinkers on Universal Brother and Sisterhood
</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/02/10-great-spiritual-thinkers-on.html">https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/02/10-great-spiritual-thinkers-on.html</a><span> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>2- </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">30 quotes about Universal Brother and Sisterhood
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/01/20-quotes-about-universal-brother-and.html">https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/01/20-quotes-about-universal-brother-and.html</a><span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>3- </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Symbolism of the Lotus and the Lily</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-symbolism-of-lotus-and-lily.html">https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-symbolism-of-lotus-and-lily.html</a><span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>4- </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">William Q Judge on Universal Brother/sisterhood</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/07/william-q-judge-on-universal-brotherhood.html ">https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/07/william-q-judge-on-universal-brotherhood.html<span> </span></a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>5- </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silent - Occultist Motto, Kabalist Axiom</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/04/know-dare-will-keep-silent-occultist.html">https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/04/know-dare-will-keep-silent-occultist.html</a><span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>6- </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Esoteric Aspects of Vice
</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/04/esoteric-aspects-of-vice.html">https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/04/esoteric-aspects-of-vice.html</a><span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">7- The Spiritual Mystical, Esoteric Meaning of the Resurrection - Anna Kingsford </span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spiritual-mystical-esoteric-meaning.html">https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spiritual-mystical-esoteric-meaning.html</a><span> <br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>8-</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Esoteric Aspects of War
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/07/esoteric-aspects-of-war.html">https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/07/esoteric-aspects-of-war.html</a><span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>9- Rumi on the Secret Doctrine of Spiritual Evolution: Stone, Plant, Animal, Human</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/10/rumi-on-secret-doctrine-of-spiritual.html">https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/10/rumi-on-secret-doctrine-of-spiritual.html</a><span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>10-</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Alan Hovhaness on Universal Brother/Sisterhood
</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/01/alan-hovhaness-on-universal.html">https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/01/alan-hovhaness-on-universal.html</a><span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span></span><b>11- Book Review: Youssef Ishaghpour - Orson Welles, cinéaste, une caméra visible I
</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/11/book-review-youssef-ishaghpour-orson.html">https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/11/book-review-youssef-ishaghpour-orson.html</a><span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>12-</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Astrological Symbolism: Aries, part 1
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/05/astrological-symbolism-aries-part-1.html">https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/05/astrological-symbolism-aries-part-1.html</a><span> </span></span></span></div>
Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-12733870554061444162023-12-23T13:54:00.000-08:002023-12-23T14:12:58.220-08:00The Anugita and the Sevenfold Principle<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a name="page_285"><span style="color: green;"></span></a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: green;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU1Y5Srse95eJtIsqHTwI22ItQDt7iQZV6zbAOgD0qNeWwrAaaczhSKr3hexdNVfOJAZEFXgjZiP69LhE36TU4p2MF_JaNa2_YvuUVIMfSuNZtS8QNiPTQuvH4jS09uX86xL_YPHup2vP7cbw_wvwGxAz7KD_1H4ZZTnYSpAHQ5fRZlR2EMG23TbHS0QA/s762/yogaaa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="762" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU1Y5Srse95eJtIsqHTwI22ItQDt7iQZV6zbAOgD0qNeWwrAaaczhSKr3hexdNVfOJAZEFXgjZiP69LhE36TU4p2MF_JaNa2_YvuUVIMfSuNZtS8QNiPTQuvH4jS09uX86xL_YPHup2vP7cbw_wvwGxAz7KD_1H4ZZTnYSpAHQ5fRZlR2EMG23TbHS0QA/s320/yogaaa.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></span></span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a name="page_285"><span>When the adventurous pilgrim resolves to enter the great forest, who knows what wonders they may encounter there? As the Anu Gita states: </span></a></span><a name="page_285"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>'In that forest are seven large trees ,
seven fruits, and seven guests; seven hermitages, seven (forms of)
concentration, and seven (forms of) initiation.' Moreover there '</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>always dwell seven females there</span>'. One may also encounter '<span>the seven perfect sages, together with their chiefs'. It is said that '</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>these
seven rays follow after this same sun. Hills and mountains also are
there collected together, and rivers and streams flowing with water
produced from the Brahman.' The following passage is from chapter 12 of the Anu Gita </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">(</span></span><span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFKashinath_T_Telang1882">Kashinath T Telang (1882). Max Muller (ed.). </cite></span></a><a class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bhagavadgtwiths01telagoog" rel="nofollow">The Bhagavadgîtâ: With the Sanatsugâtîya and the Anugîtâ</a>. Clarendon Press)</div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: green;">p. 285</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> The Brâhma<i>n</i>a said:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I have crossed beyond that very impassable place, in which fancies are the gadflies and mosquitoes <a name="fr_1368"></a><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1363">3</a>,
in which grief and joy are cold and heat, in which delusion is the
blinding darkness, in which avarice is the beasts of prey and reptiles,
in which desire and anger are the obstructors, the way to which consists
in worldly objects, and is to be crossed by one singly <a name="fr_1369"></a><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1364">4</a>. And I have entered the great forest <a name="fr_1370"></a><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1365">5</a>.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1373">285:3</a> Cf. as to all this Gîtâ, <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0814.htm#page_101">p. 101</a>.
</span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1374">285:4</a> This is not the forest spoken of before. but what has been before called the 'impassable place,' but which also at <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#page_286">p. 286</a> is by implication called a forest, viz. the course of worldly life.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1375">285:5</a>
Viz. the </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8c65XeYfnzoyVPWX1ENrIkRXDw-sU-Ho4WUEJVZHSWtr9nV0g3L_eqOTSiBdoKFeaF_QYULj6au9f6vyVbniUlSjJHcTlEja4ouYN6lMhyphenhyphenEaFOhbxFdAOGYmso3V6BexjTnFneCfjJ7Xe7XpE-UlRd0e_IUSs1aOAAIyoazZTCMprg4sufpVM0XvBlng/s2513/forest3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2513" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8c65XeYfnzoyVPWX1ENrIkRXDw-sU-Ho4WUEJVZHSWtr9nV0g3L_eqOTSiBdoKFeaF_QYULj6au9f6vyVbniUlSjJHcTlEja4ouYN6lMhyphenhyphenEaFOhbxFdAOGYmso3V6BexjTnFneCfjJ7Xe7XpE-UlRd0e_IUSs1aOAAIyoazZTCMprg4sufpVM0XvBlng/s320/forest3.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">1. eye, </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">2. ear, </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">3. tongue, </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">4.skin, and</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">5. nose, and </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">6. the mind, and </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">7. understanding-</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">-</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><br />these are called trees, as being producers of the fruits,
namely, the pleasures and pains derived from their several operations;
the guests are the powers of each sense personified--they receive the
fruits above described; the hermitages are the trees above mentioned, in
which the guests take shelter; <span style="color: #990000;">the seven forms of concentration are the
exclusion from the self of the seven functions of the seven senses
&c. already referred to; the seven forms of initiation refer to the
initiation into the higher life, by repudiating as not one's own the
actions of each member out of the group of seven</span>. Cf. as to this <i>Kh</i>ândogya, p. 219, and commentary there.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1376"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1376"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH32DkbB3Ky9AbWLr0bmnP6SO4h453zFBc9z6inQQlXJ_S5_UK8rTk-RiPsbDobKEsujIdsuuJatRIBwEFwSF8xZDYUp3T8LA2W1o2mt06-n8Xg4HFzqEjdsN04XUKeCmMTPdNz2zieW5W00fnFS7UxObFgcGfjQojSikS3mLGJgh_cqHvM2f5UGX1e2o/s696/forest15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="454" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH32DkbB3Ky9AbWLr0bmnP6SO4h453zFBc9z6inQQlXJ_S5_UK8rTk-RiPsbDobKEsujIdsuuJatRIBwEFwSF8xZDYUp3T8LA2W1o2mt06-n8Xg4HFzqEjdsN04XUKeCmMTPdNz2zieW5W00fnFS7UxObFgcGfjQojSikS3mLGJgh_cqHvM2f5UGX1e2o/s320/forest15.jpg" width="209" /></a></div>285:6 Cf. for these different numbers of colours, Yoga-sûtra II, 19, and commentary, p. 105, and <i>S</i>â<u>n</u>khya-sâra,
p. 18. The trees here meant are the Tanmâtras, or subtle elements, and
the theory is that the Gandha-tanmâtra, or subtle element of smell, has
five qualities, its own special one, so to say, and the four special ones of the others;
the next is taste, the next colour, the next touch, and the last sound;
each has one quality less than its predecessor. See Yoga-sûtra, p. 106,
and gloss; <i>S</i>â<u>n</u>khya-sûtra I, 62; and Vedânta Paribhâshâ, p. 45. </span><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Brâhma<i>n</i>a's wife said:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Where is that forest, O very intelligent person! what are the trees
(there), and what the rivers, and the hills and mountains; and at what
distance is that forest? </span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Brâhma<i>n</i>a said:</span></p>
<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXDRuvylec0bEmnyseX6eCMfRLYN1fekg65hR0WPe12awihMDwyIb3DnpiGZYLNLKIzCJOSq_ebPyrXmvxJX6EjWmeHJZbWKTkwpl1ahUehxC4xtKMc3HncLosf1I71tosgUfcrAy7tZrU2L6hgD1jvtr0CRYbcaN2JDt6-34U8qm1u6DkE-2kRZV9r_Q/s700/forest2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="700" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXDRuvylec0bEmnyseX6eCMfRLYN1fekg65hR0WPe12awihMDwyIb3DnpiGZYLNLKIzCJOSq_ebPyrXmvxJX6EjWmeHJZbWKTkwpl1ahUehxC4xtKMc3HncLosf1I71tosgUfcrAy7tZrU2L6hgD1jvtr0CRYbcaN2JDt6-34U8qm1u6DkE-2kRZV9r_Q/w400-h229/forest2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a name="page_286"><span style="color: green;">p. 286 </span></a></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There is nothing else more delightful than that, when there is no
distinction from it. There is nothing more afflicting than that, when
there is a distinction from it <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1366">1</a>. There is nothing smaller than that, there is nothing larger than that <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1367">2</a>.
There is nothing more subtle than that; there is no other happiness
equal to, that. Entering it, the twice-born do not grieve, and do not
exult <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1368">3</a>. They are not afraid of anybody, and nobody is afraid of them. <span style="color: #38761d;">In that forest <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1369">4</a> are seven large trees <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1370">5</a>,
seven fruits, and seven guests; seven hermitages, seven (forms of)
concentration, and seven (forms of) initiation.</span> This is the description
of the forest. That forest is filled with trees producing splendid
flowers and fruits of five colours <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1371">6</a>. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1377"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1377"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaxQyAEdgNaxIStU0z_0P7HaCIUGfYUsBaJPfpL41sPETbixk1_wXS4rvA0Icl82Gz_6dUzHBt8TK7rkjTmYJ7pKPJi_czkXLjJxNnX0nH8XdVSeKFhFkj-Jg_zw5I7qpjTtAK9PbaY1jveTG3UfayRm_lB4lUTcO76hRK9thhVfJ480TuKEelv4PWtKU/s400/forest10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaxQyAEdgNaxIStU0z_0P7HaCIUGfYUsBaJPfpL41sPETbixk1_wXS4rvA0Icl82Gz_6dUzHBt8TK7rkjTmYJ7pKPJi_czkXLjJxNnX0nH8XdVSeKFhFkj-Jg_zw5I7qpjTtAK9PbaY1jveTG3UfayRm_lB4lUTcO76hRK9thhVfJ480TuKEelv4PWtKU/s320/forest10.jpg" width="240" /></a></div></span><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1377">286:1</a>
These are mind and understanding; the fruits and flowers are here of
'undistinguished colours,' as the text expresses it, since they include
the colours of all the fruits of all the other five sets of trees; that
is to say, the subject-matter of their operations is sound, taste,
&c., the subject-matters of all the senses together.
'Undistinguished colours' is, perhaps, more literally 'of colours not
clear.' Ar<i>g</i>una Mi<i>s</i>ra paraphrases it by 'of variegated colours,' which is no doubt the true ultimate sense.
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1378">286:2</a> The self, Nîlaka<i>nth</i>a. See <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0837.htm#page_279">p. 279</a>, note <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0837.htm#fn_1336"><span>7</span></a> supra.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1379">286:3</a> I. e., I presume, devoted to the Brahman.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1380">286:4</a> I. e. true knowledge, Ar<i>g</i>una Mi<i>s</i>ra.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1381">286:5</a> See note <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1370"><span>5</span></a>, <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#page_285">p. 285</a>.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1382">286:6</a> I. e. when the senses having worked, as unconnected with the self, are finally absorbed into it. Cf. <i>S</i>â<u>n</u>khya-kârikâ 49 and Ka<i>th</i>a, p. 151.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a name="page_287"><span style="color: green;"></span></a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: green;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Vn64aFwtRCVU9xB545knjpa7FglpmWN_6kbpU21E2osIw4SuJJknx0szblTv4hROH7nvbG9oyWiV6Pu9ReMoadXGtL26EhjX04aRkrQmaf3upKKkKXmvbNCjcFMt4uY7KTqgnplhjhQC_CctA8Cz3lXV20oKvv-hhT4OXgFS_0g68zeqtJBBwzBD6wk/s1000/forest7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="739" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Vn64aFwtRCVU9xB545knjpa7FglpmWN_6kbpU21E2osIw4SuJJknx0szblTv4hROH7nvbG9oyWiV6Pu9ReMoadXGtL26EhjX04aRkrQmaf3upKKkKXmvbNCjcFMt4uY7KTqgnplhjhQC_CctA8Cz3lXV20oKvv-hhT4OXgFS_0g68zeqtJBBwzBD6wk/s320/forest7.jpg" width="236" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: green;">p. 287 </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That forest is filled with trees producing flowers and fruits of four colours.
That forest is filled with trees producing flowers and fruits of three
colours, and mixed. That forest is filled with trees producing flowers
and fruits of two colours, and of beautiful colours. That forest is
filled with trees producing flowers and fruits of one colour, and
fragrant. That forest is filled with two large trees producing numerous
flowers and fruits of undistinguished colours <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1372">1</a>. There is one fire <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1373">2</a> here, connected with the Brahman <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1374">3</a>, and having a good mind <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1375">4</a>.
And there is fuel here, (namely) the five senses. <span style="color: #990000;">The seven (forms of)
emancipation from them are the seven (forms of) initiation <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1376">5</a>.</span>
The qualities are the fruits, and the guests eat the fruits. There, in
various places, the great sages receive hospitality. And when they have
been worshipped and have disappeared <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1377">6</a>,
another forest shines forth, in which intelligence is the tree, and
emancipation the fruit, and which possesses shade (in the form of)
tranquillity, which depends on knowledge, which has contentment for its water, and which has the Kshetra<i>g</i>ña
within for the sun. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCQoGXEx1xU2zvMi8PJ4H3I2dYx-CDz9p6HfGVSnkNzk7fCyO72qA_qUQSgR74Nl_34Aq6RQRDVmISnDWXQEOLGk_tLHxY58Scx84mUuqYlC7Z5g-VHwUdKbzfOXwUAxMtZqPKw4Brx83z3nWs5uB-94CmQ6Qhoc9gY2TR_nptoltJloAffC3J9wU9adU/s600/forest4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCQoGXEx1xU2zvMi8PJ4H3I2dYx-CDz9p6HfGVSnkNzk7fCyO72qA_qUQSgR74Nl_34Aq6RQRDVmISnDWXQEOLGk_tLHxY58Scx84mUuqYlC7Z5g-VHwUdKbzfOXwUAxMtZqPKw4Brx83z3nWs5uB-94CmQ6Qhoc9gY2TR_nptoltJloAffC3J9wU9adU/s320/forest4.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The good who attain to that, have no fear
afterwards. Its end cannot be perceived upwards or downwards or
horizontally <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1378">1</a>. <span style="color: #38761d;">There always dwell seven females there</span> <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1379">2</a>, with faces (turned) downwards, full of brilliance, and causes of generation. They absorb <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1380">3</a> all the higher delights of people, as inconstancy (absorbs) everything <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1381">4</a>. I<span style="color: #0b5394;">n that same <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1382">5</a> (principle) the seven perfect sages, together with their chiefs, the richest <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1383">6</a>, abide, and again emerge from the same. </span></span><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkySeS5kQd-b4nr7t1ucZnCDKBdAqd2egYYPW9Bfvd7MmYBAnQO2bqXvadq0g1_MIsNmeBsZ24EXxSm39EE5wbFMsk0gWlmjXdGsNoI3jJt918BcV-E8BHZKFUe_rF9J0VGDUzl1WqAc_Zzrxx0rujzCvr1d3gP8Z-Dqtqukwoy5uw81ICelD07YAttZ8/s480/forest13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkySeS5kQd-b4nr7t1ucZnCDKBdAqd2egYYPW9Bfvd7MmYBAnQO2bqXvadq0g1_MIsNmeBsZ24EXxSm39EE5wbFMsk0gWlmjXdGsNoI3jJt918BcV-E8BHZKFUe_rF9J0VGDUzl1WqAc_Zzrxx0rujzCvr1d3gP8Z-Dqtqukwoy5uw81ICelD07YAttZ8/s320/forest13.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>1. Glory; </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">2. brilliance, and </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">3. greatness, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">4. enlightenment, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">5. victory, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">6. perfection, and </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">7. power <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1384">7</a>--</span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">these
seven rays follow after this same sun. Hills and mountains also are
there collected together, and rivers and streams flowing with water
produced from the Brahman <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1385">8</a>. </span>And there is the confluence of the rivers in the secluded place <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fn_1386">9</a> for the sacrifice, </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a name="page_288"><span style="color: green;"> </span></a></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">whence those who are contented in their own selfs repair
to the divine grandsire himself. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1383"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1383"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjjPVU7-y4Z5h4UOGn3dJlVrkVGroaLxHVXt81UdF3Gyjf6eDJqy9ab5GmABNQtChuzwIAHmyFXotDTxqm5rpMcKWar6eWfu63gy0tUcQM8ei4YWMBB12J_zfbIOfvQZDap5cvs3zlp2zmIH5MOCl3sX5UmCCsg6IpLrr4ot-a_0zm4l7iFUNqywX-UhQ/s650/forest9.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="498" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjjPVU7-y4Z5h4UOGn3dJlVrkVGroaLxHVXt81UdF3Gyjf6eDJqy9ab5GmABNQtChuzwIAHmyFXotDTxqm5rpMcKWar6eWfu63gy0tUcQM8ei4YWMBB12J_zfbIOfvQZDap5cvs3zlp2zmIH5MOCl3sX5UmCCsg6IpLrr4ot-a_0zm4l7iFUNqywX-UhQ/s320/forest9.webp" width="245" /></a></div>287:1 It extends on all sides, its end cannot be perceived on any side.
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1384">287:2</a> These are, according to Ar<i>g</i>una Mi<i>s</i>ra, the Mahat, Aha<u>n</u>kâra,
and five Tanmâtras. Their faces are turned downwards, as they are
obstacles in the way upwards, viz. the way of final emancipation; they
are brilliant, as they light up the course of worldly life; and hence,
too, they are 'causes of generation.' They give birth to the universe.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1385">287:3</a> They conceal the higher delight of final emancipation.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1386">287:4</a> I follow Ar<i>g</i>una Mi<i>s</i>ra, but the text is doubtful.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1387">287:5</a> Viz. the Brahman.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1388">287:6</a> Cf. <i>Kh</i>ândogya, pp. 295-300. The word sages here, as before, means the various organs. See B<i>ri</i>hadâra<i>n</i>yaka, p. 415.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1389">287:7</a> Glory = renown; brilliance = Brahmic splendour (Brahmate<i>g</i>as); perfection = obtaining what is desired; power = not being conquered by others, Ar<i>g</i>una Mi<i>s</i>ra. About the sun, see line 3 of text above.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1390">287:8</a> I. e. contentment. See the second line in the text above.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1391">287:9</a> I. e. the space in the heart, the sacrifice being that of 'concentration of mind,' yogaya<i>g</i>ña,--Nîlaka<i>nth</i>a.
A confluence of rivers is very sacred--here the meaning intended seems
to be the absorption of all desires by contentment into the heart.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a name="page_288"><span style="color: green;"></span></a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: green;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYWW5isORyrubWrLnya_ZtcGq9nmKPmNm3nCmcM64yhYPLVibmDFIhXLbDkrYl8dm1JJGVq8fWFfsitkeNtS2-aZuGTN6JSY6Wc484j4TnIUfBGMwPApbm7QKOXmCZ0fb2Ehnx4XY-CIKDIxReTdR5zpFYeNB9o-_eVQ5oNr9tNnkae0WBxFU9hpbFEOE/s1000/forest12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYWW5isORyrubWrLnya_ZtcGq9nmKPmNm3nCmcM64yhYPLVibmDFIhXLbDkrYl8dm1JJGVq8fWFfsitkeNtS2-aZuGTN6JSY6Wc484j4TnIUfBGMwPApbm7QKOXmCZ0fb2Ehnx4XY-CIKDIxReTdR5zpFYeNB9o-_eVQ5oNr9tNnkae0WBxFU9hpbFEOE/s320/forest12.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: green;">p. 288</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Those whose wishes are reduced <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0840.htm#fn_1387">1</a>, whose wishes are (fixed) on good vows, whose sins are burnt up by penance, merging the self in the self <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0840.htm#fn_1388">2</a>, devote themselves to Brahman. Those people who understand the forest of knowledge <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0840.htm#fn_1389">3</a>, praise tranquillity. And aspiring to that forest, they are born so as not to lose courage <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0840.htm#fn_1390">4</a>. Such, indeed, is this holy forest, as understood by Brâhma<i>n</i>as. And understanding it, they act (accordingly), being directed by the Kshetra<i>g</i>ña.</span><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1392">288:1</a> Literally, 'lean.'
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1393">288:2</a> I. e. the body in the soul, Ar<i>g</i>una Mi<i>s</i>ra.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1394">288:3</a> Knowledge is Brahman, which is described as a forest here, Ar<i>g</i>una Mi<i>s</i>ra.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0839.htm#fr_1395">288:4</a> Cf. Gîtâ, <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0808.htm#page_70">p. 70</a>.<span> <br /></span></span></span></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-75918959002081896372023-12-17T14:06:00.000-08:002023-12-20T04:29:22.640-08:00 Astrology: Winter Solstice December 21, 2023, Part 2 Chart<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl8_sfNSYgetLZwWKSyKD0dam7XPvVeTKxeQxH60TJkZ8837OC-YBUKsCEudno9WkoDugfP8NygE784vurA75zaCueHMyMA4elwl35M0trmXy-cCwOpjt6oaJD6PcLzeD36NT4dLN_s8tpriTJ186AEoWEyxHeoyYb7GQpmgt5E0RClU4qjpqMEt6fTAs/s3224/dl1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2205" data-original-width="3224" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl8_sfNSYgetLZwWKSyKD0dam7XPvVeTKxeQxH60TJkZ8837OC-YBUKsCEudno9WkoDugfP8NygE784vurA75zaCueHMyMA4elwl35M0trmXy-cCwOpjt6oaJD6PcLzeD36NT4dLN_s8tpriTJ186AEoWEyxHeoyYb7GQpmgt5E0RClU4qjpqMEt6fTAs/w320-h219/dl1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Dangerous Liaisons</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>As Pluto returns
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Uranus in Taurus (Triangle of Potential)</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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attractions and passions. Freedom versus closeness issues in your
relationships, unexpected changes in your income. This is the main aspect of the chart. It also forms part of Venus, Uranus, Neptune triangle of potential, meaning that the opposition has good support for resolution from: </span><b><span style="color: purple;">Venus
trine Neptune</span></b><span> in Pisces You are more attuned to the world of beauty, the arts, and
the imagination. Compassion, harmony, kindness, and openness; and </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="EN"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">Uranus sextile Neptune:</span> </b>The flamboyant individualism that connects this pattern to a widespread level.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="EN"> </span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBpvUH-noxwisJUDF3go2QolZUzKL_WEi1meVZIwrwFjaLM0DbJHeBoQ5wCLjhOenj-PWHzGGx8KilYNvafL6JxRzHajiC8h0XMw13c2Aw_AzPfuiUpdWnP51jIdtPsRPL980mC7yCw7mTjQOJ95h-9fc89sCbkmQpoNmgqPzJHnjrPphrNoiVdWB4R0M/s1200/dl5.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBpvUH-noxwisJUDF3go2QolZUzKL_WEi1meVZIwrwFjaLM0DbJHeBoQ5wCLjhOenj-PWHzGGx8KilYNvafL6JxRzHajiC8h0XMw13c2Aw_AzPfuiUpdWnP51jIdtPsRPL980mC7yCw7mTjQOJ95h-9fc89sCbkmQpoNmgqPzJHnjrPphrNoiVdWB4R0M/s320/dl5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b>2- Moon in Taurus square Pluto in
Capricorn</b></span></span></span></span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Another passionate, sensual aspect, brings messy,
emotional struggles, financial disagreement. beating a dead
horse, obsessions, trying too hard to find the “truth”, suspicion, jealousy or manipulation. There is intensity in relationships and there could be </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>endings, crises, or transformations in your personal
life. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Moon conjunct Jupiter. Elevated moods, desire for pleasure.</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><br /></p><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>3- </span></span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mars square Neptune</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="EN"><span>On a more positive side, with</span><span style="color: #741b47;"><b> Moon trine Mercury, </b></span><span>h</span></span></span><span>ead and heart are in tune.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Honest and sociable outlook. Mental alertness, perceptive, and memory
retention is strong. Negotiations, trades, and communication is favored. </span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b>Moon sextile Saturn in
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figures are positive.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b> Mercury sextile Saturn is </b></span><span>h</span></span></span><span>elpful for organization, detail work,and planning. Favorizes practical </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>clear and realistic </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>thinking and decisions. </span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b>Sun in Sagittarius
conjunct Mercury in Capricorn </b></span><span>gives extra strength to this pattern and favorizes problem solving and <b><span style="color: #741b47;">Moon conjunct Jupiter</span></b> brings an added </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">lucky,
expansive, happy, and prosperous </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="EN"><span>attitude. The cool, cerebral energy of this triangle can help balance the more intense, passionate aspects.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="EN"><span> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglrdGUsWENH-ESdpU3ElimrA3u1ywRMA4jHt1MtUqYblNUnjqWy0JfRsUfPOQnINsDhF_wiOXF6-TI5TUYhg0ba9LJHUDRby6S7q0fhOBu9H8G77V_RAkwZdd8SwWCAi0yYPfl65kp1F1VA8lJ3R_5HduxAPKqwmpryvebuOxYtgpdBNPWLDBUvyE-XFs/s3500/dl3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2280" data-original-width="3500" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglrdGUsWENH-ESdpU3ElimrA3u1ywRMA4jHt1MtUqYblNUnjqWy0JfRsUfPOQnINsDhF_wiOXF6-TI5TUYhg0ba9LJHUDRby6S7q0fhOBu9H8G77V_RAkwZdd8SwWCAi0yYPfl65kp1F1VA8lJ3R_5HduxAPKqwmpryvebuOxYtgpdBNPWLDBUvyE-XFs/s320/dl3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Summary </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With <span style="color: #990000;">Venus opposite
Uranus</span>, there is a desire to escape routines or tensions via impulsive exotic
passionate relationships or pursuits, often short-lived. By channelling these
impulses into creative, artistic projects and altruistic pursuits can bring
good results. With <span style="color: #0b5394;">Moon square Pluto t</span>here can be psychological tensions with
tendencies for control, deceit, abuse and manipulation, balanced by a sense of assertive
courage. It can be favorable for constructive introspection into past trauma.
Problematic relationships or situations could end. As both the Moon and Pluto are on the cusp of two signs, it is a highly charged aspect, therefore volatile confrontations are possible. With <span style="color: #38761d;">Mars square Neptune</span>, there can be feelings of self-doubt and guilt,
leaving one unfocused and wavering, with unstable health.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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escapism and psychological insecurity, deception and manipulation, things
should still be quite functional with a <span style="color: #38761d;">Moon, Mercury, Saturn minor grand trine</span>, which could make tendencies for deceitful manoeuvres
even more effective or better help to prevent them. The unstable tendencies can
be balanced by a stable mind, a strong sense of practical organization and efficiency
along with a facility for articulate, focused, open communication. With Mercury retrograde
however, it could be difficult to arrived at finalized agreements. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Prognostic</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Overall, passions can run high
with a need for exotic escapism, with psychological insecurities accompanied by
deceit and abuse. Volatile confrontations are possible, with possibilities for
introspection into unresolved past difficulties bringing personal change. Channelling these energies into creative pursuits can bring good results. Despite
the unusual, passionate fascinations and partnerships, there is a general sense
of efficiency, practical organization, with articulate open communication. It is
a good time for laying the groundwork and negotiating for productive solutions,
and resolving personal difficulties, but it can be difficult to finalize lasting
agreements.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/12/astrology-winter-solstice-december-21.html"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Part 1 </b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><br /></b></span></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="EN"><span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
</div></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-32147867634261956092023-12-12T17:23:00.000-08:002024-01-08T10:58:37.509-08:00Astrology: Winter Solstice December 21, 2023, Part 1 Review<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYBimwxMPHK3l2qhwYaGPpDlUgd8Kow8gDINB1QP_QNl0vnj7hY-lVImniQlVRNUwwhdc9mOLSruxBtgMDDuUIsryU6LxBpGoIAX_sIiNIg77FFdSwoxHxatjTKI01v1WzLc_4-QWsWY7ZaxlAbqnKFvAmUdqvmLJlgprmEZTB2CSHbZTYDVmPyO8Pweg/s2400/supernova.webp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="2400" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYBimwxMPHK3l2qhwYaGPpDlUgd8Kow8gDINB1QP_QNl0vnj7hY-lVImniQlVRNUwwhdc9mOLSruxBtgMDDuUIsryU6LxBpGoIAX_sIiNIg77FFdSwoxHxatjTKI01v1WzLc_4-QWsWY7ZaxlAbqnKFvAmUdqvmLJlgprmEZTB2CSHbZTYDVmPyO8Pweg/w400-h225/supernova.webp" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Prognostic for the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Fall
</a>was:</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">There should be less volatile conflict than the
Summer, although conflicts of a more deceptive, illusory, fantastical nature
could occur. Conversely, there may be a tendency to take people for granted and
for failing to give people proper consideration. There is, however, a good
opportunity for transformation by learning discrimination and seeing through
any illusions, smokescreens, halls of mirrors, moon mist and gaslight in your
life. There may also be needs to better balance other people's expectations
into your priorities. But for that, it will require patience, investigation,
introspection and an open mind to solve the mystery... It could open the doors
to distinguishing valid spiritual values from superficial psychic impressions.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi46T7_WFgCcQX7RNucMFkWn_SXXd6dp_6G0r5y6cWK8PHL2f-ORwQKrie-Pj8vYP9Q1zlVWNR3QbcHoNuvwSRC9N8NFpNV9XxJUvCgBVRF_B6dbF1pc5CnMssokSpa0fnPZqR4MPVdF-q18gONvFOjZrjBg6kV53y0AH_jXrT11A9tNTNgAfY_pisuWeg/s1200/supernova2.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="1200" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi46T7_WFgCcQX7RNucMFkWn_SXXd6dp_6G0r5y6cWK8PHL2f-ORwQKrie-Pj8vYP9Q1zlVWNR3QbcHoNuvwSRC9N8NFpNV9XxJUvCgBVRF_B6dbF1pc5CnMssokSpa0fnPZqR4MPVdF-q18gONvFOjZrjBg6kV53y0AH_jXrT11A9tNTNgAfY_pisuWeg/w400-h246/supernova2.webp" width="400" /></a></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The oncoming Russia-Ukraine conflict was easier to predict,
because the buildup was highly mediatized. I think that this is the first time
that I was surprised at what occurred in the semester, as I didn't really see a
Sun opposite Neptune (a T-Square with a Moon square to it) as particularly
volatile (although I do find that difficult Moon aspects can be powerful in
event charts). Although the Hamas attack occurred a day before an exact Mars
square Pluto on October 8, a volatile aspect where pretty much anything can
happen.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqKm2wUdbiZj0OCMkBv7csQc-J8Pl-ymlgwUHA6h1rqAG-_xHbet3zulBnImoKsC5PL1MO8wFy5CM_sPlbviQjJn3VndRxO9C2T3-qkparnphPGdmQqxUl32rHQy6W_2sQ-SbYQmuvnOc9tVbIVqOyGPYpugCkBnJrtcyE4jCO8lUDPydHq2QNdliqbRg/s871/louk.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="871" data-original-width="871" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqKm2wUdbiZj0OCMkBv7csQc-J8Pl-ymlgwUHA6h1rqAG-_xHbet3zulBnImoKsC5PL1MO8wFy5CM_sPlbviQjJn3VndRxO9C2T3-qkparnphPGdmQqxUl32rHQy6W_2sQ-SbYQmuvnOc9tVbIVqOyGPYpugCkBnJrtcyE4jCO8lUDPydHq2QNdliqbRg/w200-h200/louk.png" width="200" /></a></div>Perhaps the meaning of 'conflicts of a more deceptive,
illusory, fantastical nature could occur' could be related to the surprise,
unforeseen nature of the attack (regardless of whether it was really that
unforeseeable). Moreover, a very surreptitious, mobile and swift attack on a <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">rave music festival</a> could be considered to
fit with the Sun opposite Neptune
aspect. It was a strange twist of fate that a German-Israeli woman with
esoteric interests, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Shani Louk</a>, would
become an iconic figure in the Hamas-Israel war, her final IG post had Hermetic
axiom 'As above, so below'. A "convinced pacifist", she refused to
undergo compulsory military service. Moreover, ' seeing through any illusions,
smokescreens, halls of mirrors, moon mist and gaslight' could correspond to the
complicated<a href="https://www.blogger.com/"> history of the Israel-Palestine
conflict</a> in general and the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">massive
Anti-Semitic and Islamophobia sentiments</a> that the outbreak provoked.
There's also the underground tunnel network apparently being used in Palestine.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_jM2wtrnqcvSKG7iLqRmAE7Zr5H-yJatn7W2_UW0w2YautyqtP60TvBkFHaxuG_hsvAofTSTSYkH4ERvy_DGWChbbjHs4IwmvcXdMWMyJXpNk1vXJcAVBXouhBHk4at7Fb9bvcWZ75rzvzdDYWHENUQQxxvCtMOT5kKAwqVGNKxiPW7DN7U68EOIgixA/s355/gabriel3.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="355" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_jM2wtrnqcvSKG7iLqRmAE7Zr5H-yJatn7W2_UW0w2YautyqtP60TvBkFHaxuG_hsvAofTSTSYkH4ERvy_DGWChbbjHs4IwmvcXdMWMyJXpNk1vXJcAVBXouhBHk4at7Fb9bvcWZ75rzvzdDYWHENUQQxxvCtMOT5kKAwqVGNKxiPW7DN7U68EOIgixA/w200-h200/gabriel3.webp" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Another possible effect of the Mars square Pluto aspect was
a <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">major Earthquake in Afghanistan.</a>
Two more events in Canada,
related to problems in discerning identity, with longstanding links to past
events occurred around the same time. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there
were <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">"credible allegations" of
Indian involvement</a> in the murder of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who
was gunned down outside a Sikh temple in Surrey,
B.C.. and a <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">former Nazi was somehow
applauded</a> in Canadian parliament in the presence of Ukraine
president Volodymyr Zelensky. Also in this amazing two-week period, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">elections </a>in Poland,
Switzerland and New Zealand brought in right-wing governments,
with a left-wing candidate coming in in Argentina. These occurred around
the time of a New Moon Solar Eclipse in Libra, Sat Oct 14 (Mars in Scorpio,
water domicile,fully resourced to strive after desires; Venus in Virgo,
scrutinize interactions, pinpoint problems, researching solutions). </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEgZi72IKvf87lFApLMhIEbIQibWTAXIu9uKZQMHRfjL02_I9DUL_WkFPStRfNAAKh3axqYt7WU6GnUl9q_jFrXfkDIDvlBQzhY3gioCcMDbnYl1oFVyHUA1lSIWDysKycMYoOjUxDbhmkWY8vfWnoaxPcn1yqHa0re0wp3lUga_O2QSFDroQN0nwo0nc/s1486/redslippers3.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1076" data-original-width="1486" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEgZi72IKvf87lFApLMhIEbIQibWTAXIu9uKZQMHRfjL02_I9DUL_WkFPStRfNAAKh3axqYt7WU6GnUl9q_jFrXfkDIDvlBQzhY3gioCcMDbnYl1oFVyHUA1lSIWDysKycMYoOjUxDbhmkWY8vfWnoaxPcn1yqHa0re0wp3lUga_O2QSFDroQN0nwo0nc/w320-h232/redslippers3.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the area of artistic fantastical mysteries, on October
14, the long, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">mysterious saga of the theft
of the red slippers</a> from The Wizard of Oz film came to a conclusion as the
accused pleaded guilty, but with many unanswered questions remaining. Moreover,
the litigation that delayed <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Dorothy's dress</a>
has been cleared up (sort of) and now the dress can go to auction (maybe). One
of my astrological questions this year was, after years of announcements of
imminent release, will a<a href="https://www.blogger.com/"> new </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Peter Gabriel</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"> album </a>finally happen? It did. And it hit
no. 1. Coincidentally, a very astrological release scheme, which was punctually
maintained up to December 1. Morevoer, the Vancouver Art
Gallery has declared that
10 oil sketches supposedly done by the Group of Seven’s J.E.H. MacDonald and
donated to the gallery in 2015 are <a href="https://www.gallerieswest.ca/news/j-e-h-macdonald-oil-sketches-declared/">fake.</a> A bombshell <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/buffy-sainte-marie">CBC documentary</a> revealed serious doubts about Canadian cultural icon Buffy Sainte-Marie's claims of indigenous descent. <br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuDbTs62BJXmfhf_Cp-GvSIhCIMMKz4A1jjh7WPfVeH4pTKCO0oxZWN68_H6ynD1AU9-tPgcPz1FcV77pGg3kv1YHijB328E9BbKwf8jmrhyqoS_Dfir35ur35zn-pOK0UIxRJRmtMZsjsfuZ2v7BRNx03PK0jrQyD7jvw3uudWlStCNzHzIsL2ttNko4/s740/wizarddress.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="740" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuDbTs62BJXmfhf_Cp-GvSIhCIMMKz4A1jjh7WPfVeH4pTKCO0oxZWN68_H6ynD1AU9-tPgcPz1FcV77pGg3kv1YHijB328E9BbKwf8jmrhyqoS_Dfir35ur35zn-pOK0UIxRJRmtMZsjsfuZ2v7BRNx03PK0jrQyD7jvw3uudWlStCNzHzIsL2ttNko4/s320/wizarddress.webp" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The COP 28 meeting
was marked by controversy and confusion as, ' many countries walked away from
the talks frustrated at the lack of a clear call for a fossil-fuel “<a href="https://www.blogger.com/">phase-out</a>” this decade – and at a “<a href="https://www.blogger.com/">litany of loopholes</a>” in the text that might
enable the production and consumption of coal, oil and gas to continue.,
although a last-minute <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">breakthrough
agreement was achieved</a>, with "nearly every country in the world has
agreed to “transition away from fossil fuels” – the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">main driver</a> of climate change.'One has to
wonder about the timing of finalizing an agreement on the beginning of a
Mercury retrograde period, December 13. Coincidentally, at the same time, US
Congress voted to launch an <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">impeachment
inquiry</a> against the president.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSnhRLXNIuoqOgtEpZvzixoDR9t3XvJQ39t-FPj87vGcxcHSgILBWw46C1G0yGqfRy6r4d53Mrvqq-z5uws4hR_bd1pMvFh4CxI6SavmJYjc0tnvH59LLYuFg98vT3MoA3kpZhvXURs_omBzly7XQqmBoq74uBweH9ozTNm3DWJvh1WLMLNdnk226ZyWc/s1200/supernova3.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSnhRLXNIuoqOgtEpZvzixoDR9t3XvJQ39t-FPj87vGcxcHSgILBWw46C1G0yGqfRy6r4d53Mrvqq-z5uws4hR_bd1pMvFh4CxI6SavmJYjc0tnvH59LLYuFg98vT3MoA3kpZhvXURs_omBzly7XQqmBoq74uBweH9ozTNm3DWJvh1WLMLNdnk226ZyWc/s320/supernova3.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The main astrological factor that I look to in the
outbreaks of the Russian-Ukraine and Israel-Palestine wars is the culmination of
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Pluto's transit through Capricorn.</a>
Pluto has been hovering on the cusp of Capricorn and Aquarius all year and will
continue to do so for all of next year (although its entrance into Aquarius in
January for most of the year, should help improve things), and this position is
considered to be one of high energy. Moreover, when a planet leaves a sign, it
can be considered a period of squaring of accounts, a kind of final act in the
cause and effects that marked its run through Capricorn since 2008, which saw the
emergence of reform movements such as occupy Wall street, #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter,
and #FridaysForFuture, and on a more extreme side, an increase in right-wing
authoritarian government repression. Indeed, it was around the time of Pluto's
arrival in Capricorn that Hamas came to power in Palestine, and the attack occurred almost
exactly 50 years after the 1973 Israel-Palestine war. The Mars square Pluto
aspect on October 8 and the ongoing US Pluto return could be further
indications of the Pluto nature of these events.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wake up the dawn and ask her why<br />
A dreamer dreams she never dies<br />
Wipe that tear away now from your eye </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Someday you will find me<br />
Caught beneath the landslide<br />
In a champagne supernova in the sky</span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/12/astrology-winter-solstice-december-21_17.html"><b>Part 2 </b></a></span></div>
Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-28669583745337706872023-12-01T15:21:00.000-08:002023-12-07T09:29:41.357-08:00Through the Gates of Gold 2 Mabel Collins Chapters 2-3 <p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0DUsatN-8nMeN1D8_eYNiMp9MpM1UsRltvBeEzJeh7ddXC1Ee1P2OpcPqd4G5oqNHTTcl_MfPE_bV21JGo_PITPGlTeZ6OBO9h3azc20KWmITvglC2iQP4b9obwneawsvMa5zBh9_7YK4bsEFi4ZHyt6UbQllmpy7OuZk64HWABtkNNAxoL7gKq6oTsg/s299/gog6.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0DUsatN-8nMeN1D8_eYNiMp9MpM1UsRltvBeEzJeh7ddXC1Ee1P2OpcPqd4G5oqNHTTcl_MfPE_bV21JGo_PITPGlTeZ6OBO9h3azc20KWmITvglC2iQP4b9obwneawsvMa5zBh9_7YK4bsEFi4ZHyt6UbQllmpy7OuZk64HWABtkNNAxoL7gKq6oTsg/w400-h225/gog6.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Through the Gatesof Gold : A Fragment of Thought<span lang="EN-CA"> is a wonderful, profound, eloquent work, the study of which offers
many insights and valuable seeds of inspiration… Intimately linked with that
well-regarded spiritual classic, <a href="http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/lightpat/lightpat.htm"><span>Light
on the Path</span></a>, and they are often packaged together; indeed, studying this
text in relation to corresponding passages in <span>Light on the Path</span> is recommended, and in general, can be viewed
as a good introduction to that more demanding text. We are also indebted to
<a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/Mabel_Collins">Mabel Collins</a> for a third theosophical classic, <span><a href="http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/books/white-lo/white-1.htm">The Idyll of the White Lotus</a></span>, of which T. Subba Row has written
a remarkable<a href="http://hpb.narod.ru/commentsidyll.htm"> commentary</a>, nigh indispensable for unlocking the profundities of
that fascinating work.<br />
</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Information on Mabel Collins and the possible
original author of this work:<br />
<a href="http://blavatskyarchives.com/sisson1.htm"><span color="windowtext">http://blavatskyarchives.com/sisson1.htm</span></a></span></span></p><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-CA"><span color="windowtext"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/09/through-gates-of-gold-1-mabel-collins.html">Part 1 </a></span></b> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-CA"><span color="windowtext"><br /></span></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Chapter 2 The Mystery of
Threshold</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiuzXLJFPcCKZPTebR29UBoOVzFNEd-GAvivqRStwlOXyglPq7Fw6Lzd25hmbAprcydcRSoB_rlbkMQT3-6-yc_oiDlsgdn9yLzd3T1TkojpOxRbSCIwyMAaYP85pqmmc4otjvT9ZHH0Ur28Ly5YXaegrkkpJwliKoQ4pNNROcujKdQUOvThz9ycfS9sY/s275/gog16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiuzXLJFPcCKZPTebR29UBoOVzFNEd-GAvivqRStwlOXyglPq7Fw6Lzd25hmbAprcydcRSoB_rlbkMQT3-6-yc_oiDlsgdn9yLzd3T1TkojpOxRbSCIwyMAaYP85pqmmc4otjvT9ZHH0Ur28Ly5YXaegrkkpJwliKoQ4pNNROcujKdQUOvThz9ycfS9sY/w400-h266/gog16.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Part 1</span></b><span> With each drop of the divine draught which is put into the cup of
pleasure something is purged away from that cup to make room for the magic
drop. <span style="color: #990000;"><b>For Nature deals with her children generously: man’s cup is always full
to the brim; and if he chooses to taste of the fine and life-giving essence, he
must cast away something of the grosser and less sensitive part of himself.</b></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>This has to be done daily, hourly, momently,
in order that the draught of life may steadily increase. And to do this unflinchingly,
a man must be his own schoolmaster, must recognize that he is always in need of
wisdom, must be ready to practise any austerities, to use the birch-rod
unhesitatingly against himself, in order to gain his end.</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Part 2</span></b><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>There is no doubt that a man
must educate himself to perceive that which is beyond matter, just as he must
educate himself to perceive that which is in matter. </b></span>Every one knows that the
early life of a child is one long process of adjustment, of learning to
understand the use of the senses with regard to their special provinces, and of
practice in the exercise of difficult, complex, yet imperfect organs entirely
in reference to the perception of the world of matter. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Part 3</span></b><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span><span style="color: #990000;"><b>When once one has
considered the meaning of those Gates, it is evident that there is no other way
out of this form of life except through them. </b></span>They only can admit man to the
place where he becomes the fruit of which manhood is the blossom.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>On the mental steps of a million men Buddha
passed through the Gates of Gold; and because a great crowd pressed about the
threshold he was able to leave behind him words which prove that those Gates
will open.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Chapter 3 – The Initial
Effort</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkdGHE-SnlGPUHdwHhGkgDvqaPx5jek6b-9chuhHbCyHtAmcLcGr4h007f7KacTqMk8NLGR_FDsEuRtBczo91zZNLL0ZM5X_KjXQKyObmvYPTHjC5O8D1ADjOKyZcw6CmTt4Dgtv3hc4Sn08m7KIN535d4W5qZyYCv6HrWxX5o09RkszwOPus_CMPPfGQ/s420/gog15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="120" data-original-width="420" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkdGHE-SnlGPUHdwHhGkgDvqaPx5jek6b-9chuhHbCyHtAmcLcGr4h007f7KacTqMk8NLGR_FDsEuRtBczo91zZNLL0ZM5X_KjXQKyObmvYPTHjC5O8D1ADjOKyZcw6CmTt4Dgtv3hc4Sn08m7KIN535d4W5qZyYCv6HrWxX5o09RkszwOPus_CMPPfGQ/w400-h114/gog15.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Part 1</span></b><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Undoubtedly it is the
hardest task we have yet seen set us in life, that which we are now talking of,
— to free a man of all prejudice, of all crystallized thought or feeling, of
all limitations, yet develop within him the positive will. </b></span>It seems too much of
a miracle; for in ordinary life positive will is always associated with crystallized
ideas. But many things which have appeared to be too much of a miracle for
accomplishment have yet been done, even in the narrow experience of life given
to our present humanity. All the past shows us that difficulty is no excuse for
dejection, much less for despair; else the world would have been without the
many wonders of civilization.</span></span><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Part 2</span></b><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span lang="FR">It
is the essential characteristic of the man of genius that he is comparatively
indifferent to that fruit which is just within touch, and hungers for that which
is afar on the hills. In fact he does not need the sense of contact to arouse
longing. He knows that this distant fruit, which he perceives without the aid
of the physical senses, is a subtler and a stronger food than any which appeals
to them. And how is he rewarded! When he tastes that fruit, how strong and
sweet is its flavor, and what a new sense of life rushes upon him! <span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>For in
recognizing that flavor he has recognized the existence of the subtile senses,
those which feed the life of the inner man; and it is by the strength of that
inner man, and by his strength only, that the latch of the Golden Gates can be
lifted.</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Part 3</span></b><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span lang="FR"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>But
before this fountain can be tasted, or any other spring reached, any source
found, a heavy weight has to be lifted from the heart, an iron bar which holds
it down and prevents it from arising in its strength. </b></span>The man who recognizes
the flow of sweetness from its source through Nature, through all forms of
life, he has lifted this, he has raised himself into that state in which there
is no bondage. </span></span></p>
Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-51851141678028770742023-11-11T09:43:00.002-08:002023-11-14T16:23:43.677-08:00 Uddhava Gita (Hamsa) and the Elements (Tattvas) (Bhagavata Purana, 11, 6-29)<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n"><div class="css-901oao css-cens5h r-igjf4l r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__x1kbv6leeyk" lang="en" style="-webkit-line-clamp: 10; text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKQcYwNVYJPmBSPgQxkLnmxa94npYuuqls8DvC28P6l0RLu6klhYR8Y0JeggWCR-LeKixZgaYTEafd8eXshwWjHCdYLAJR8s1sKCQGioQAKdMYYuatS_-E3DgknfXLJX-kTOzZ1sgjDmTMyg2lhyLbrxoovDXGFJDB_vDyOu7AiBZ0rAaG_TURw_5ZUvU/s2216/uddhava-gita-9781569753200_hr.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2216" data-original-width="1400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKQcYwNVYJPmBSPgQxkLnmxa94npYuuqls8DvC28P6l0RLu6klhYR8Y0JeggWCR-LeKixZgaYTEafd8eXshwWjHCdYLAJR8s1sKCQGioQAKdMYYuatS_-E3DgknfXLJX-kTOzZ1sgjDmTMyg2lhyLbrxoovDXGFJDB_vDyOu7AiBZ0rAaG_TURw_5ZUvU/w202-h320/uddhava-gita-9781569753200_hr.jpg" width="202" /></a></div>There are a total of <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/total-number-60-gitas-hinduism-kishore-shintre">60 gitas</a> in Hinduism, such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita">Bhagavad Gita</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anugita">Anu Gita</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtavakra_Gita">Ashtavakra Gita</a> . Why not try the <a href=" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamsa_Gita">Uddhava Gita</a>? All the beautiful eastern poetics of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnyaneshwari">Dnyaneshwari</a>, only not as lengthy, with a full exposition of all the main doctrines of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%C4%81tana_Dharma">Sanātana Dharma </a></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao css-cens5h r-igjf4l r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__x1kbv6leeyk" lang="en" style="-webkit-line-clamp: 10; text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao css-cens5h r-igjf4l r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__x1kbv6leeyk" lang="en" style="-webkit-line-clamp: 10; text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Hamsa Gita</b> (also referred to as <b>Uddhava Gita</b>) consists of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna" title="Krishna">Krishna</a>'s final discourse to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uddhava" title="Uddhava">Uddhava</a> before Krishna draws his worldly 'descent' (Sanskrit: <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar" title="Avatar">avatar</a></i>) and 'pastimes' (Sanskrit: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lila_(Hinduism)" title="Lila (Hinduism)">lila</a>) to completion. Though the <i>Uddhava Gita</i> is often published singularly as a stand-alone work, it is also evident in the Eleventh Canto of the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavata_Purana" title="Bhagavata Purana">Bhagavata Purana</a></i> commencing from verse 40 section 6 through to the end of section 29, comprising more than 1000 'verses' (Sanskrit: <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shloka" title="Shloka">shloka</a></i>) and is considered part of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purana" title="Purana">Purana</a> literature proper. Below are some samples of nature-based eastern poetic imagery based mainly on the elements (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattva">tattvas</a>) of Hindu natural philosophy.<span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"> <br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao css-cens5h r-igjf4l r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__x1kbv6leeyk" lang="en" style="-webkit-line-clamp: 10; text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"><br /></span></span></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"><span><b>Earth, Mountain, Tree<br /></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU-Lg_Owr9oPjDFR3WQqFGvBLKWJdTTVKDwZzXKIcjoJQrPLzg0xCkkuLEDGuA7KQ5ktE5dMT5U3daRV2kzZxa-hEFkGO_K1r5G56HHTzL86-xKcCG6fUJy66qwCNBp2XnNuEG6PUDHdMLygIbGLXmA_fpJY8hAR-gYfHr1UqfFwjX07BzIlRW0205SnU/s700/roerich2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="700" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU-Lg_Owr9oPjDFR3WQqFGvBLKWJdTTVKDwZzXKIcjoJQrPLzg0xCkkuLEDGuA7KQ5ktE5dMT5U3daRV2kzZxa-hEFkGO_K1r5G56HHTzL86-xKcCG6fUJy66qwCNBp2XnNuEG6PUDHdMLygIbGLXmA_fpJY8hAR-gYfHr1UqfFwjX07BzIlRW0205SnU/w320-h240/roerich2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"><span>From the earth I learned the rule that a learned person should not deviate from the path and keep steady, however much he is harassed by his fellow living beings who simply follow what is arranged by fate.
Uddhava (Hamsa) Gita, 2, 37 Anand Aadhar, tr. (Bhagavata Purana, 11, 6-29)</span></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;">From the mountain one must learn to be always there for others, that one must devote all one's actions to the welfare of others.
(2, 38 )</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;">In following the example of a tree, for a pious person to be dedicated to others constitutes the sole reason for his existence. [see also 10.22: 31-35, Śrī Śrī Śikṣāṣṭaka-3 and B.G. 17: 20-22] (Gita, 2, 38)</span></span></p><div data-block="true" data-editor="dqj5" data-offset-key="tvrq-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="tvrq-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="tvrq-0-0"><span data-text="true"><b>Water</b></span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="tvrq-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="tvrq-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikqRW505f5ILpFVoBoe6briPFlwnywb7pvmpLhSuJ01NqWoBniUx5DWMDMEWtLgtLFZqXoPb2IcP9MFANVw2lFL6S9QfWH0ZwfklFBcfyaHJ_kC_ljB1jqts0Yf0kEjzLSRBs94H7TQfKVfUxYe8ndlTmXBc1vmue3usnB_QiAQb_x-99r0YNcymg3qHQ/s600/roerich5.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="357" data-original-width="600" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikqRW505f5ILpFVoBoe6briPFlwnywb7pvmpLhSuJ01NqWoBniUx5DWMDMEWtLgtLFZqXoPb2IcP9MFANVw2lFL6S9QfWH0ZwfklFBcfyaHJ_kC_ljB1jqts0Yf0kEjzLSRBs94H7TQfKVfUxYe8ndlTmXBc1vmue3usnB_QiAQb_x-99r0YNcymg3qHQ/w320-h190/roerich5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>A
sage who by nature is a pure, softhearted, sweet and gentle place of
pilgrimage for human beings, sanctifies, just like water, the souls who
gather [the friends], by being seen by them, touched and honored (2, 44)</span></span></span></div></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="ddgrj-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"><b><br />Air, Wind</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;">A yogi free from selfhood should, just like the wind, never get entangled in relating to the objects of the senses and all their different favorable and unfavorable qualities. (2, 40)</span></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFBaXFLTPYhDvEr9NRAMORH56H7AxaSk4ijFAm4C84_BbyRjIsocL84x9_bOwj_iqvtdS0QHDXRxhCsd8DNx18D_TjySphqXN9CpWj77XfJTZ6qa3JMZYzCrHVQNbbID6MI71mcc9JqNxaVwdAryKr9-63HypU26G18m1OAYh6B1WaROz0t0X9IkWo6TE/s943/roerich35.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="943" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFBaXFLTPYhDvEr9NRAMORH56H7AxaSk4ijFAm4C84_BbyRjIsocL84x9_bOwj_iqvtdS0QHDXRxhCsd8DNx18D_TjySphqXN9CpWj77XfJTZ6qa3JMZYzCrHVQNbbID6MI71mcc9JqNxaVwdAryKr9-63HypU26G18m1OAYh6B1WaROz0t0X9IkWo6TE/s320/roerich35.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;">When a self-realized soul has entered different bodies made of earth [elements] in this world & is endowed with their different qualities, he, well aware of himself, will not connect himself with these qualities, just like the wind does not with different odors
(2,41)</span></span><p></p><div data-contents="true"><div data-block="true" data-editor="dqj5" data-offset-key="ddgrj-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="ddgrj-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="ddgrj-0-0"><span data-text="true"><b>Fire</b></span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="ddgrj-0-0"><div data-contents="true"><div data-block="true" data-editor="79mor" data-offset-key="802sk-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="802sk-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="802sk-0-0"><span data-text="true">The Almighty One assumes the identity of each after, just like fire appearing in firewood, having entered the different types of bodies of the higher and lower life forms He created by His potency ['true' and 'untrue' ones, god or animal]. (2, 47)</span></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="79mor" data-offset-key="dgic4-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="dgic4-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="dgic4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="dgic4-0-0"><div data-block="true" data-editor="aneua" data-offset-key="pmup-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="pmup-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="pmup-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqCdh0oqFeBOhl4Sm0BK0L_tvqY3sUCSJAPMlvmUQUSL2ezWisfPXXY2eG4T3AvCAj2kPGkyEuWyNsCyXxVik8xZvWO5j2t3n70jzbFcJGj5JfJ4Yasq0xP9NBNfu9xiTc8XeAbj2FiPSWl8q2K3sc-A0czBBDYwMAg0bhgzAR5Yo4JlWm2OyURyNAkrU/s750/roerich15.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="750" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqCdh0oqFeBOhl4Sm0BK0L_tvqY3sUCSJAPMlvmUQUSL2ezWisfPXXY2eG4T3AvCAj2kPGkyEuWyNsCyXxVik8xZvWO5j2t3n70jzbFcJGj5JfJ4Yasq0xP9NBNfu9xiTc8XeAbj2FiPSWl8q2K3sc-A0czBBDYwMAg0bhgzAR5Yo4JlWm2OyURyNAkrU/s320/roerich15.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>as
with flames which one cannot see apart from a fire, individual souls
cannot be seen separately from the bodies that constantly die & are
born again, also the absolute of Time itself cannot be seen, despite the
relativity of its speeding, compelling stream</span></span></span></div></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="c60s9-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="c60s9-0-0"><span data-text="true">(2, 49)</span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="c60s9-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="c60s9-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="dgic4-0-0"><span data-text="true"><b>Moon</b></span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="dgic4-0-0"><div data-contents="true"><div data-block="true" data-editor="96l0k" data-offset-key="7nfgg-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7nfgg-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="7nfgg-0-0"><span data-text="true">The state of the body [one undergoes] from one's birth until one's death, changes by the course of Time that itself cannot be seen; it is the body that changes, not the soul, just as the phases of the moon [change, but not the moon itself (see B.G. 2:13) (2, 48)</span></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="96l0k" data-offset-key="5s5b0-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="5s5b0-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="c60s9-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-block="true" data-editor="aneua" data-offset-key="c60s9-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="c60s9-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="ba0a2-0-0"><span data-text="true"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD0Xwtuf1Sqp_0hevfpbxjOItndf9XRW6agzbD0WOq188YwZGAKMBA7l_Cjz4HdQ3K2PSJETwyV7asC7pWUeKxT_Nm0Y9mnMQj_rsqQu-nUyKSvmT7xU9uWDkKLfunX2hFqFP31DJwmLglQNDHbN7vyN-w-Ilb2W2k3ZJJ4lkwT1y_3g5uks68o5r_3Rc/s600/roerich28.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="600" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD0Xwtuf1Sqp_0hevfpbxjOItndf9XRW6agzbD0WOq188YwZGAKMBA7l_Cjz4HdQ3K2PSJETwyV7asC7pWUeKxT_Nm0Y9mnMQj_rsqQu-nUyKSvmT7xU9uWDkKLfunX2hFqFP31DJwmLglQNDHbN7vyN-w-Ilb2W2k3ZJJ4lkwT1y_3g5uks68o5r_3Rc/s320/roerich28.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Sun</b></span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="c60s9-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="ba0a2-0-0"><span data-text="true">When the sun seems to have fallen apart in its reflections one, unless one is dull-witted, does not consider its original form as being different. Similarly the soul, despite of having entered in reflections [of different selves], is not seen as different </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="37pag-0-0"><span data-text="true"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="5s5b0-0-0"><span data-text="true">(2, 51)</span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="c60s9-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="c60s9-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="c60s9-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="37pag-0-0"><span data-text="true">A yogi with his senses accepts and forsakes sense objects depending the moment [according to the cakra order] and does not attach to them, just as the sun, with its rays engaged in [evaporating and returning] bodies of water, is not ruled by them. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="5s5b0-0-0"><span data-text="true">(2, 50)</span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="c60s9-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="37pag-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="c60s9-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXrlRUHOeB5E1PyADDV32dYR5uWS-qn8bfKFJdoA808DuwezZ411YoYl4R8XpNu7PkiTqg79CvPgJWoerFv8ymrcLJNAS5bKLQjN9W0InBbW5uTz7VWsCpIamrIK1KLEI8zzWuoUflyzQkMeQVLcOo46WQK4djc88bOSREV2fWLLRCkISkg8cMO0WygUU/s480/roerich23.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="480" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXrlRUHOeB5E1PyADDV32dYR5uWS-qn8bfKFJdoA808DuwezZ411YoYl4R8XpNu7PkiTqg79CvPgJWoerFv8ymrcLJNAS5bKLQjN9W0InBbW5uTz7VWsCpIamrIK1KLEI8zzWuoUflyzQkMeQVLcOo46WQK4djc88bOSREV2fWLLRCkISkg8cMO0WygUU/s320/roerich23.webp" width="320" /></a></div>Ether, Akasha</b></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="c60s9-0-0"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;">A
sage should meditate on the soul stretched out in all moving and
nonmoving living beings, and thereby, with his different contacts
[embodiments], consider himself a pure spirit, equal to the ether that
expands everywhere [see also B.G. 2: 24, 3:15] (2, 42)</span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;">Just
as the realm of the ether is not touched by the winds that blow the
clouds, a person [in his real self] is not affected by his physical
bodies consisting of fire, water & earth, that are moved by the
basic qualities of nature created by Time
(2, 43)</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="37pag-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-73941502460419883892023-11-03T20:08:00.007-07:002023-11-04T16:50:32.025-07:00Book Review: Youssef Ishaghpour - Orson Welles, cinéaste, une caméra visible I <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPjOqfpOhhOU_QZzDunanwkRLAFMOP9JaYmbKWphQCVf29Tg2ts8jULPFL4bwv06kvPgKBIkCIdsoDF-R47eUuCH7ftluJuCH5lFMvTbSF1xgn2nGl5qNpRHRGcySVB6jRdcwMDS6pGVcLe8QJMqxzxP62eCfin9wRWHUdyBJpK-5-TvvsBPScd5wonBs/s300/welles2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="195" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPjOqfpOhhOU_QZzDunanwkRLAFMOP9JaYmbKWphQCVf29Tg2ts8jULPFL4bwv06kvPgKBIkCIdsoDF-R47eUuCH7ftluJuCH5lFMvTbSF1xgn2nGl5qNpRHRGcySVB6jRdcwMDS6pGVcLe8QJMqxzxP62eCfin9wRWHUdyBJpK-5-TvvsBPScd5wonBs/w260-h400/welles2.jpg" width="260" /></a></div>Popular productions such as cinema can say a lot about society, the collective consciousness of a given place and period, as well as the collective unconscious. Since the U.S. is experiencing it's first Pluto return, I thought that this review of a French book would be a good reminder of the considerable socio-cultural legacy that the country has built over the 20th century, which it seems to be in danger of losing sight of: </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.livres-cinema.info/auteur/youssef-ishaghpour" title="Voir les livres de l'auteur Youssef Ishaghpour">Youssef Ishaghpour</a>, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><i><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a>, cinéaste, une caméra visible I (Mais notre dépendance à l'image est énorme...)</i>, Éditions de la Différence, 2001, a monumental 3-volume work by an erudite and <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youssef_Ishaghpour">prolific </a>Iranian-French film and art historian.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgejWDB2ZS-x43n9eEpWTi3PmmFOYuQHaguApgKYTIFTFnnQwDbTpT3CtY2JG17j0UgKQlwmCdu4Z_j-GNWB7tm_FgixTJI1VHJXqMzuzxDBNPiLkVhImxwLpgHpmj6sB55m3jYPcugQhlKqeC01a_FZlsbu89OF6WF3jNYUgyHg4RWAXstPxKor_Xz_6M/s554/welles3.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="554" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgejWDB2ZS-x43n9eEpWTi3PmmFOYuQHaguApgKYTIFTFnnQwDbTpT3CtY2JG17j0UgKQlwmCdu4Z_j-GNWB7tm_FgixTJI1VHJXqMzuzxDBNPiLkVhImxwLpgHpmj6sB55m3jYPcugQhlKqeC01a_FZlsbu89OF6WF3jNYUgyHg4RWAXstPxKor_Xz_6M/w200-h200/welles3.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Youssef Ishaghpour</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>The book is a massive
compendium of essays examining various aspects of Welles' career - there
are two other large volumes - dealing more specifically with Welles'
career chronologically. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>This post is a brief summary of first two sections of this book - the other
sections deal with Welles and film theory, Welles as public figure,
actor, and director, Welles in theatre and radio, and ends with an
analysis of Welles' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness">Heart of Darkness</a> project. The broad, eclectic, dense erudition can be quite daunting, but I feel that an English translation of the first two sections of this book would make for a useful, viable, interesting tome, of interest well beyond the film theory field.</span> <br /></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>This
impressive tome begins with a 30-page general intro - then a 60-page
general intro on art and history as it relates to the modern world. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Then
he begins a section on Welles and modernity.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>Welles and modernity </b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJxKkJp1y_ZYrSI9Tdu7Xqxh8oKyYUDQRuWpqCDpPT3XpLBcLca_d9zkLCUxsMEAJQOs4YdeI9C7SRZg-JB4I2xPVEZ5chn3ZTsrQfkn3zOqPcQwqv-84wUeLNdhFyhPLEufRb1Fdh2YtjRekk1jZjQUL3tUUUHB57ycz6CTzVYZo5RaaXMYrui2OZmdY/s1163/welles5.gif" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1163" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJxKkJp1y_ZYrSI9Tdu7Xqxh8oKyYUDQRuWpqCDpPT3XpLBcLca_d9zkLCUxsMEAJQOs4YdeI9C7SRZg-JB4I2xPVEZ5chn3ZTsrQfkn3zOqPcQwqv-84wUeLNdhFyhPLEufRb1Fdh2YtjRekk1jZjQUL3tUUUHB57ycz6CTzVYZo5RaaXMYrui2OZmdY/s320/welles5.gif" width="220" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Starting with the the
notion of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualism">individualism </a>as it was in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance">Renaissance</a>, referencing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Cassirer">Ernst Cassirer</a> - <b>Modern individualism</b> begins, he says, when there's a break from the Renaissance notion of individualism, a crisis that can be seen in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe">Marlowe</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Faustus_(play)">Doctor Faustus</a>, the first great theatrical role for Welles...</span><span>
<span>He mentions <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes">Cervantes </a>and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare">Shakespeare </a>in the next section - (and
talks about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol">Warhol </a>in the following section) in a part on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannerism">Mannerism <b>
</b></a>and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque">Baroque<b> </b></a>periods of art. He cites <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Panofsky">Erwin Panosfsky</a> among several
others. </span></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>He makes a case for Welles being an exponent of a Mannerism
perspective. Looking at artists like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio">Caravaggio</a>,
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt">Rembrandt</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Vermeer">Vermeer</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Greco">El Greco</a>, one can see a number of 'cinematic'
effects that they use. (i.e. chiaroscuro lighting, various compositional
elements that emphasize certain dramatic and emotional points, ...)</span>
<span>The rest of the section basically outlines the development of
modernism from the Renaissance to the present. He cites such authors as
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes">Descartes</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant">Kant</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger">Heidegger </a>and touches on such modern notions as
representation, subjectivity, reflexivity, capitalism, the
enlightenment, individualism, the autonomy of art, art and the
marketplace, the commercial promotion of genius as begun in the romantic
period via <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge">Coleridge</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth">Wordsworth</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats">Keats</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley">Shelley</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle">Carlyle</a>, etc.. the
notion of the 'Byronic hero' and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron">Lord Byron </a>are examined... </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>'Welles' in America </b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span></span></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5xm294gXL6J0mRAoWV3JdCyf0Bk0OBSD3WdUrU08w0Xkp-EPhhuNVPbNgrehFNE5rHkq2gMPrPL9-v4sFGTE6qyXlEV68q6FJdTvb1sOVI15W3ZYpXyAL8b3tFx_nYg4mQGK-G2UPEfq0OiTufL6GxckBZR8jpjhS67t-72PlAmOvAZFZJesSx2KZwys/s972/welles6.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="972" data-original-width="620" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5xm294gXL6J0mRAoWV3JdCyf0Bk0OBSD3WdUrU08w0Xkp-EPhhuNVPbNgrehFNE5rHkq2gMPrPL9-v4sFGTE6qyXlEV68q6FJdTvb1sOVI15W3ZYpXyAL8b3tFx_nYg4mQGK-G2UPEfq0OiTufL6GxckBZR8jpjhS67t-72PlAmOvAZFZJesSx2KZwys/w255-h400/welles6.jpg" width="255" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moby Dick, Herman Melville<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>This section is 'a
study of the American zeitgeist during Welles' lifetime.</span> It begins with a comparison of a
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Mailer">Norman Mailer</a> article on JFK, followed by a discussion on the Puritan notion's
of individualism and success in America and a segment on the
Age of enlightenment, mainly citing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Laski">Harold Laski</a>, moving on to the
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentalism">transcendentalist </a>movement with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Emerson</a>. There's a substantial
passage on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville">Melville, </a>with some interesting comparisons between him and
Welles. There's a section on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman">Walt Whitman</a>, all of these brief segments
serve to illustrate the development of the American zeitgeist via it's
literary and cultural exponents. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James">Henry James</a> is used to illustrate a
period that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain">Mark Twain</a> had termed 'the gilded age' , the age of the
robber barons, business moguls, mentioning as an example <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Dreiser">Theodore Dreiser</a>'s novel, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Financier">the Financier</a>. This is followed by a section on the
cinema and the writer's known as the 'lost generation', starting with
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dos_Passos">Dos Passos</a>, comparing the structure of U.S.A. with Kane. Then a section
on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald">Fitzgerald </a>and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway">Hemingway </a>that are more direct comparisons with Welles'
career. Then a section on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner">Faulkner </a>which notes a structural similarity
with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absalom,_Absalom!">Absalom! Absalom!</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane">Kane</a>. Then we arrive at the period where
Welles' career begins with a section on the great depression and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal">New Deal</a> that goes into the efforts of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt">Roosevelt</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_A._Wallace">Henry Wallace</a>, &
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes">Keynes </a>to counter the monopolistic tendencies of capitalism.</span></span><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b><span>Antifascism and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_front">Popular Front</a></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_front">
</a>
<span> </span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLAmqrBX_YMXw5pxdsdfapiL2xkjzqbHhmPdjL86jfP_9AU3o6k3InJbZMLUjaoHd4Y0SlHTwJMPrXfHfMRad4yPjwjaAbTCu3Y1stVTo3CA6Zwz-O3itxOPqB6EQGdUK-7X0_xUaycE_r2I1-6VpGo8vrZ4-Rg2lM2bRQDAZFZDAGjJW38-CefDVSZ_8/s600/welles7.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLAmqrBX_YMXw5pxdsdfapiL2xkjzqbHhmPdjL86jfP_9AU3o6k3InJbZMLUjaoHd4Y0SlHTwJMPrXfHfMRad4yPjwjaAbTCu3Y1stVTo3CA6Zwz-O3itxOPqB6EQGdUK-7X0_xUaycE_r2I1-6VpGo8vrZ4-Rg2lM2bRQDAZFZDAGjJW38-CefDVSZ_8/s320/welles7.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>The next 40 pages or so deals mainly with Welles' theatre period wherein
is discussed the fear of the threat of fascism following the depression
and subsequent growth of the Popular Front movement and Welles'
involvement. </span>
<span>Welles political activism</span> <span>his
status as artist representing political values is touched upon. The
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration">Work Progress Administration </a>and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Theatre_Project">Federal Theatre Project </a>are examined
- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford">Lewis Mumford</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Agee">James Agee </a>are mentioned. Discussion of Welles'
relationship to the communist movement and to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_MacLeish">Archibald McLeish </a>are
dealt with along with an account of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cradle_Will_Rock">The Cradle Will Rock</a> and Welles'
relationship with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Blitzstein">Marc Blitzstein</a> and how the political elements in
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_B%C3%BCchner">Buchner</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danton%27s_Death">Danton's Death</a> served to alienate the various very political
conscious factions of the Mercury Theatre audience. </span>
<span>The
Welles radio episode, 'His Honor, The Mayor' is discussed - The political
strictures of Hollywood and how most of Welles' stories would be
considered too controversial to film. It is noted that Welles arrived at
a very favorable time - i.e. a motivated and attentive public, a
militant press, and state sponsored organization and how his arrival in
Hollywood marked a different period with less favorable conditions and
how the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magnificent_Ambersons_(film)">Magnificant Ambersons</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_All_True_(film)">It's All True</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(1946_film)">The Stranger</a> reflect
that situation. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_from_Shanghai">The Lady of Shanghai </a>is viewed as a commentary of
Welles' alienation from Hollywood and the notion of estrangement i.e.
the alienation of the American intellectual.</span></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><b>Estrangement - the alienation of the American intellectual</b></span><b> </b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span></span></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeB5FZNce5WinAiDt6kNQKvCZYZfo-Np2PCq5k7eLeJHjaWmCG3gybvc-As_fKjGPqgXihD93TdbIVBEVxr78_jSeiEjm6JOYFwTjx5SMxnnpirAn3GE0_WSBFkZ5lSop2nrBJuudVrEWYhyL6qC3qyMMz89nBzpCEKuPoQTyOdRykdvqd3rixKW3N5hI/s1010/welles9.webp" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="815" data-original-width="1010" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeB5FZNce5WinAiDt6kNQKvCZYZfo-Np2PCq5k7eLeJHjaWmCG3gybvc-As_fKjGPqgXihD93TdbIVBEVxr78_jSeiEjm6JOYFwTjx5SMxnnpirAn3GE0_WSBFkZ5lSop2nrBJuudVrEWYhyL6qC3qyMMz89nBzpCEKuPoQTyOdRykdvqd3rixKW3N5hI/s320/welles9.webp" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orson Welles painting<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>In
1947, Welles, who had been called the Emperor of the United States a
decade earlier is now being called America's youngest has-been. Welles'
problem is seen as having tried unsuccessfully to bring intellectual and
artistic content to the the mass market context of Hollywood, which
left him alienated from both Hollywood and American intellectuals.
He cites an interesting book, 'The New radicalism in America 1889-1963',
by <a href="Christopher Lasch">Christopher Lasch</a>. There is much mention of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_School_(art)">New York </a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_School_(art)">School,</a> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>i.e.
the avant garde of American intelligentsia of writers and painters. The
romantic notion of the artist in isolation and rebellion i.e. art for
art's sake, the purity of the artistic vision is discussed. Welles is in
a paradoxical position between art and mass communication. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock">Jackson Pollock </a>is celebrated for the same excentricities that Welles is
reproached for. Welles liberal radicalism partly explains his
estrangement from American intellectuals. </span>
<span> </span></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b><span></span></b></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx_xlB8JZDOGegIFtbyE2vpLl437l9mKw-hLxaz1B-Yx-5GmdCvnKyVA7KuLVwhnmY5_Jfjjag0HrGOqDBGlavyUC11UW2k0mq1VmMnNbPO7baIe8TcnXBfOvLM6plPUgILvMMLrWKl1BFQndmuzi00MCPESmk5Bo43yBFLUKzEeiwB-tkPJmiTOpSzfg/s251/Welles10.PNG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="170" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx_xlB8JZDOGegIFtbyE2vpLl437l9mKw-hLxaz1B-Yx-5GmdCvnKyVA7KuLVwhnmY5_Jfjjag0HrGOqDBGlavyUC11UW2k0mq1VmMnNbPO7baIe8TcnXBfOvLM6plPUgILvMMLrWKl1BFQndmuzi00MCPESmk5Bo43yBFLUKzEeiwB-tkPJmiTOpSzfg/w135-h200/Welles10.PNG" width="135" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joseph Conrad<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b><span>Between popular and elite culture</span>
<span> </span></b></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Prior
to the 20th century, there did not exist the pronounced opposition
between high and low culture, i.e. Shakespeare was still appreciated by
all classes. By embracing elements of high and low culture, Welles was
unable to interest either sides. He is compared to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad">Joseph Conrad </a>in
that respect. The separation of art and the cultural industry is
examined in relation to Welles' career. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth_(1948_film)">MacBeth</a> is seen in terms of
contemporary political and cultural climate. </span>
<span> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><b>Welles political commitment-</b> <b>Wallace
and the defeat of the Liberals </b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwC7FYNnUmuhRwDOWb-ZGueoda5wr_kgZTdNbXYVWvTAecA75c6I-iqsWVR2GJGRC57tgOu6YLt97FAO8SyfqIqNIL4ug7lipNscrJjXuMc6fFDqroRzyQR9QIl1GmK-j-42Kbq2QPtS7BNHEv-0_SUGEMvRzHyy02k5GHoMLgWtY74uMCjUqJbngZ6Zk/s263/Welles11.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="263" data-original-width="192" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwC7FYNnUmuhRwDOWb-ZGueoda5wr_kgZTdNbXYVWvTAecA75c6I-iqsWVR2GJGRC57tgOu6YLt97FAO8SyfqIqNIL4ug7lipNscrJjXuMc6fFDqroRzyQR9QIl1GmK-j-42Kbq2QPtS7BNHEv-0_SUGEMvRzHyy02k5GHoMLgWtY74uMCjUqJbngZ6Zk/w146-h200/Welles11.jpg" width="146" /></a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Welles works are seen as meeting ground
of contradictions that are in opposition (Sovereignist and democratic
tendencies, etc.). The decline in Welles' career is compared with the
political decline of the Liberals and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_A._Wallace">Henry Wallace</a>. Themes in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello_(1951_film)">Othello</a> and
the contemporary socio-political climate are examined. Welles' political
writings are examined, mainly his articles for the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_World_(magazine)"> Free World.</a> The
question of the Liberals relationship with communism and the Soviet
Union and Wallace's founding of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1948%E2%80%931955)">Progressive Party</a> are
discussed. Welles' support of the United Nations and how his political
values are present in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_of_Evil">Touch of Evil</a>, with mention of Welles' 1952 'Dialogue of the XXth
century' article.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSnRjGNOHXLeooN7CW4-u-g75UAoFtfrcOGJdna7-G6K0lV1pnZ0pUndt-5cosmyy5rKmxjjzTJhaWLRIAaR5TxDiNaR9Uf-HK9RUyymJG8BX5oyZCq6dJisMUQdU45M059dAnYpGl7LzBD2LUxWSVSFJxxJm1YtHzMTVLtrAQOUlAl7jTuhT33Geb-UY/s2560/welles12.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1920" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSnRjGNOHXLeooN7CW4-u-g75UAoFtfrcOGJdna7-G6K0lV1pnZ0pUndt-5cosmyy5rKmxjjzTJhaWLRIAaR5TxDiNaR9Uf-HK9RUyymJG8BX5oyZCq6dJisMUQdU45M059dAnYpGl7LzBD2LUxWSVSFJxxJm1YtHzMTVLtrAQOUlAl7jTuhT33Geb-UY/w150-h200/welles12.jpg" width="150" /></a></b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><b>Maccarthysme
</b> </span></span></span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>This section begins with Welles' 1947 departure from the US due to reasons of income
tax problems and suspicions of communism by the FBI and and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee">California committee for Un-American activities</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst">Hearst</a> was a strong
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy">MacCarthy </a>supporter. The communist witch hunt period is examined in some
detail. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_of_Evil">Touch of Evil</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_(1962_film)">The Trial</a> are seen partly as a commentary on
that political climate. </span></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b><span><br />'The age of conformity' and the birth of the counter-culture </span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span></span></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEN24shrLHfxOipVcKQ38mYllD34O0LKuCV01qGwwQGUs_0kZZ15p1TEFWYurBsOCm8XBfgLgN0bkrmEIRankv1NOQ92h9GWFTLmxCFXoOjLy5yGvUt6nCyKYMBVJPwbAeGK1KzoIOpj-w_5h9a7TXX9k7jCLSvmtPrvXuiwmiWh_0x3ITuE63SxKKNQo/s759/welles14.webp" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="759" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEN24shrLHfxOipVcKQ38mYllD34O0LKuCV01qGwwQGUs_0kZZ15p1TEFWYurBsOCm8XBfgLgN0bkrmEIRankv1NOQ92h9GWFTLmxCFXoOjLy5yGvUt6nCyKYMBVJPwbAeGK1KzoIOpj-w_5h9a7TXX9k7jCLSvmtPrvXuiwmiWh_0x3ITuE63SxKKNQo/w320-h211/welles14.webp" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chimes at Midnight<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>This part begins with Welles'
denunciation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Luce">Henry Luce</a>'s Life Magazine manifesto and the decline of
the American intellectual is examined, with a quote from Christopher
Lasch's 'The Agony of the American Left' among others. The rise of the
beat generation and the counter culture movement is touched upon -
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimes_at_Midnight">Chimes at Midnight</a> and the figure of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Falstaff">Falstaff </a>is considered as a
reflection of this period. </span>
<span>Communication and </span>
<span>Welles
' dual image of media personality and artist is discussed. The author
identifies the end of the modern period with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol">Andy Warhol</a>'s Campbell Soup
prints (ironically establishing a link with Welles' Campbell-sponsored
radio series). The problems of the post-modern mass media consumer
society are examined, including the position of art in mass production marketplace
as exemplified by Warhol. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_for_Fake">F for Fake</a> is seen as a reflection of this
period.</span></span></span><p></p>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-14765929367866600282023-10-29T08:25:00.005-07:002023-10-31T16:59:48.549-07:00Helen Keller on Universal Brother/Sisterhood<p style="text-align: left;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwmQh0R43MHw51mJErOwIV7_YjgZhCVJEKDKL5UwSz4iejOhFGJf3-dtuv6SdYO9Sdearx3wCp_u6rQ7T8XGLRg-JIYnyPRQGofATBWmkBUjwrtjzeQ9AZnuc658HYUfXuO3nF1Lq-YRj7JpiXDBkgXLrbtgILTZcI6GinLM_XxCm86GaOxcLs2veXZLQ/s463/Keller_Helen%20square.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="463" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwmQh0R43MHw51mJErOwIV7_YjgZhCVJEKDKL5UwSz4iejOhFGJf3-dtuv6SdYO9Sdearx3wCp_u6rQ7T8XGLRg-JIYnyPRQGofATBWmkBUjwrtjzeQ9AZnuc658HYUfXuO3nF1Lq-YRj7JpiXDBkgXLrbtgILTZcI6GinLM_XxCm86GaOxcLs2veXZLQ/w400-h399/Keller_Helen%20square.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Helen Keller's spiritual perspective was influenced by the writings of<a href="https://swedenborg.com/scholars-helen-kellers-spiritual-sight/"> Emmanuel Swedenborg</a>, she was also influenced by the social and religious movements of her time:<br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>In drawing inspiration for
her politics from elements of Christianity, Keller was far from alone within
the socialist movement of that time. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs">Eugene Debs</a>, for instance, also often
interspersed religious allusions in his writings and campaign speeches. He
equated the “great moral worth” of socialist ideals to the “early days of Christianity,”
and argued that under the classless society that socialism would introduce,
“Human Brotherhood, as taught by Christ nineteen centuries ago, will for the
first time begin to be realized.” </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://isreview.org/person/keith-rosenthal/">Keith Rosenthal</a>, </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The politics of Helen Keller</span></span><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Socialism and disability, ISR, </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://isreview.org/issue/96/">Issue #96</a></span></div></div></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://isreview.org/issue/96/politics-helen-keller/index.html ">https://isreview.org/issue/96/politics-helen-keller/index.html </a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>See also </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: 400;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/helen-keller-as-political-crusader-max-wallace-reveals-what-happened-after-the-miracle-in-new/article_d63a04de-1ec8-5c6b-97a3-d4a32a7f0400.html">After the Miracle, the Political Crusades of Helen Keller</a> (2023)</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by </span><b>Max Wallace</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> draws on groundbreaking research to reframe Helen Keller's
journey after the miracle at the water pump, vividly bringing to light
her rarely discussed, lifelong fight for social justice across gender,
class, race, and ability.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The sun and the air are God’s
free gifts to all, we say; but are they so? In yonder city’s dingy alleys the
sun shines not, and the air is foul. Oh, man, how dost thou forget and obstruct
thy brother man, and say, “Give us this day our daily bread,” when he has none!
Oh, would that men would leave the city, its splendor and its tumult and its
gold, and return to wood and field and simple, honest living! Then would their
children grow stately as these noble trees, and their thoughts sweet and pure
as these wayside flowers.</span><p style="text-align: left;"></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Bishop Brooks taught me no
special creed or dogma; but he impressed upon my mind two great ideas —<span style="color: #990000;"><b> the
fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, and made me feel that these
truths underlie all creeds and forms of worship. </b></span>God is love, God is our
father, we are His children; therefore the darkest clouds will break, and
though right be worsted, wrong shall not triumph. I am too happy in this world
to think much about the future except to remember that I have cherished friends
awaiting me there in God’s beautiful Somewhere. In spite of the lapse of years,
they seem so close to me that I should not think it strange if at any moment
they should clasp my hand and speak words of endearment as they used to before
they went away. Since Bishop Brooks died I have read the Bible through; also
some philosophical works on religion, among them Swedenborg’s “Heaven and Hell”
and Drummond’s “Ascent of Man,” and I have found no creed or system more
soul-satisfying than Bishop Brooks’s creed of love. I knew Mr. Henry Drummond,
too, and the memory of his strong, warm hand-clasp is like a benediction. He
was the most charming and delightful of companions. He knew so much, he had
conquered so much, he had seen life from so many sides that it was impossible
to feel dull or despairing in his presence.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span>“In the story of my life here presented to the
readers of <i>The Ladies’ Home Journal</i>, I have tried to show that
afflictions may be looked at in such a way that they become privileges.” </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Cambridge,
1902</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/keller-helen-story-life-part-6/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/keller-helen-story-life-part-6/</span></a></span></b></span></div>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span> </span></b></span></p>
<h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUqPWNnX018Cb6VYqZlLJMt0Yzu9xvWCtU2Zyl0rCOcFUWO3W-AWJWXIuK6OwbzD7xSsoWqog40tR06TDyvVOmIZhYy3qhN0_K9RChppVIRvyORVN9AXGACt-wnFQ6NAU8ruiCyAL2ZLoWAYaLEBhQtiSpT1otinUqAOT8j5nJ37HfawH2ZXH1otcuUHk/s1536/Keller_circa_1920_-_restored.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUqPWNnX018Cb6VYqZlLJMt0Yzu9xvWCtU2Zyl0rCOcFUWO3W-AWJWXIuK6OwbzD7xSsoWqog40tR06TDyvVOmIZhYy3qhN0_K9RChppVIRvyORVN9AXGACt-wnFQ6NAU8ruiCyAL2ZLoWAYaLEBhQtiSpT1otinUqAOT8j5nJ37HfawH2ZXH1otcuUHk/w313-h400/Keller_circa_1920_-_restored.jpg" width="313" /></a></div></b></span></span></span></h2><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>The idea of brotherhood redawns
upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of
members in a sect or creed, and thinkers of great soul like Lessing challenge
the world to say which is more godlike, the hatred and tooth-and-nail grapple
of conflicting religions, or sweet accord and mutual helpfulness. Ancient prejudice
of man against his brother-man wavers and retreats before the radiance of a
more generous sentiment, which will not sacrifice men to forms, or rob them of
the comfort and strength they find in their own beliefs. </b></span>The heresy of one age
becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a
sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations. The optimist
rejoices in the affectionate sympathy between Catholic heart and Protestant
heart which finds a gratifying expression in the universal respect and warm
admiration for Leo XIII on the part of good men the world over. The centenary
celebrations of the births of Emerson and Charming are beautiful examples of
the tribute which men of all creeds pay to the memory of a pure soul.</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Optimism: An Essay 1903</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><a href="https://www.disabilitymuseum.org/dhm/lib/detail.html?id=2382&page=all"><span style="font-weight: normal;">https://www.disabilitymuseum.org/dhm/lib/detail.html?id=2382&page=all</span></a></span></b></span></div><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></b></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Surely the things that the
workers demand are not unreasonable. It cannot be unreasonable to ask of
society a fair chance for all. It cannot be unreasonable to demand the
protection of women and little children and an honest wage for all who give
their time and energy to industrial occupations. <span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>When indeed shall we learn
that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?
Until the spirit of love for our fellowmen, regardless of race, colour or creed,
shall fill the world, making real in our lives and our deeds the actuality of
human brotherhood -- until the great mass of the people shall be filled with
the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never
be attained.</b></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">The Worker's
Right Out Of The Dark, 1920 *A letter written to the strikers at Little Falls, N.
Y., November, 1912.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><a href="https://www.disabilitymuseum.org/dhm/lib/detail.html?id=2496&print=1"><span style="font-weight: normal;">https://www.disabilitymuseum.org/dhm/lib/detail.html?id=2496&print=1</span></a></span></b></span></div>
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<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>We
shall not see the end of capitalism and the triumph of democracy until men and
women work together in the solving of their political, social, and economic
problems. I realize that the vote is only one of many weapons in our fight for
the freedom of all. <span style="color: #990000;"><b>But every means is precious and, equipped with the vote,
men and women together will hasten the day when the age-long dream of liberty,
equality, and brotherhood shall be realized upon earth.</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span>“Why
Men Need Woman Suffrage,” which was originally published in the Socialist Party
newspaper, </span></i><span>New York Call<i>, on
October 17, 1913. The version of the text that appears here is from the 1967
International Publishers book,</i></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.intpubnyc.com/product/helen-keller-her-socialist-years/">Helen
Keller: Her Socialist Years</a><i>.</i></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><a href="https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/the-woman-peril-is-at-the-door/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/the-woman-peril-is-at-the-door/</span></a></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span></span></span></p>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>When
we inquire why things are as they are, the answer is: The foundation of society is laid upon
a basis of individualism, conquest, and exploitation, with a total disregard of
the good of the whole.</span></span></div><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></p>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The
structure of a society built upon such wrong basic principles is bound to
retard the development of all men, even the most successful ones, because it
tends to divert man’s energies into useless channels and to degrade his
character. . . . </span></span></div>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>This
unmoral state of society will continue as long as we live under a system of
universal competition for the means of existence. . . . It must,
therefore, be changed, it must be destroyed, and a better, saner, kinder social
order established. Competition must give place to co-operation, and class
antagonism to brotherhood.</b></span></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Helen Keller, “Blind
Leaders,” <i>Outlook for the Blind</i> 105 (September 27, 1913) in Nielsen, <i>Helen
Keller: Selected Writings</i>, 63–64.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>I
look upon the world as my Fatherland, and every war has for me the horror of a
family feud. I hold true patriotism to be the brotherhood and mutual service of
all men.</b></span> The preparedness I believe in is right thinking, efficiency,
knowledge, and courage to follow the highest ideals. When true history replaces
the lies and false teachings of the schools, the true call to patriotism will
be a call to brotherhood, and not a call to arms.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Helen Keller Finds Defense Plans Bad December
20, 1915 The New York Times</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><a href="https://www.disabilitymuseum.org/dhm/lib/detail.html?id=2626"><span style="font-weight: normal;">https://www.disabilitymuseum.org/dhm/lib/detail.html?id=2626</span></a></span></b></span></div><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></b></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhColXsubvVsIHj9R7uMhn5-ql7f_RjMUIuPRoU9Z4pWjr33AmMEH6MacTGzR81LUdbGDthH3LTYwUrTYg98dS4hyphenhyphen40ogE6jyWMKcwGqCSk6YoXS9yXKqZlhjqTyVbC62GO-36oK7b2jN78eG_qT94rVyPfjy6dCbVBXls0Ub18dTwYsFAIt7Mc-pb4VoA/s3138/keller3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3138" data-original-width="2500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhColXsubvVsIHj9R7uMhn5-ql7f_RjMUIuPRoU9Z4pWjr33AmMEH6MacTGzR81LUdbGDthH3LTYwUrTYg98dS4hyphenhyphen40ogE6jyWMKcwGqCSk6YoXS9yXKqZlhjqTyVbC62GO-36oK7b2jN78eG_qT94rVyPfjy6dCbVBXls0Ub18dTwYsFAIt7Mc-pb4VoA/w319-h400/keller3.jpg" width="319" /></a></div>I think that every honest
belief should be treated with fairness, yet I cry out against people who uphold
the empire of gold. <span style="color: #990000;"><b>I am aware of moods when the prefect state of peace,
brotherhood and universal love seems so far off that I turn to division,
pugnacity and the pageant of war. I am just like St. Paul when he says, "I delight in the
Law of God after the inward man; but I see another law in my members, warring
against the law of my mind." </b></span>I am perfectly sure that love will bring
everything right in the end, but I cannot help sympathizing with the oppressed
who feel driven to use force to gain the rights that belong to them.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Spirit of Lenin Midstream: My
Later Life, 1929 <br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Helen Keller: Her Socialist Years (International Publishers, 1967) </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span><a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/keller-helen/works/1920s/29_x01.htm"><span style="font-weight: normal;">https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/keller-helen/works/1920s/29_x01.htm</span></a></span></div>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span> </span></b></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>More on universal brother/sisterhood </span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><a href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=wec2LqDoSagC&pg=PA235&lpg=PA235&dq=helen+keller+universal+brotherhood&source=bl&ots=gzpCy9M6Wt&sig=ACfU3U3BxwFerc9CdrpEMXVGSdBbcrw17w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVz67g1OD8AhWPnokEHXOeArI4FBDoAXoECB8QAw#v=onepage&q=%20brotherhood&f=false">Selected Writings</a></span></b></span></div>
Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-88372561455206385982023-10-24T05:19:00.003-07:002023-10-24T05:19:46.868-07:00Rumi on the Secret Doctrine of Spiritual Evolution: Stone, Plant, Animal, Human<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ1phJkM9QNzVqKOmv342Z9d2En6i6ZFG1tWPD72mIiUsbCzUWOmeCmIXIzTlKNTM1R7k9q_olgF996kxNlboCLsq34L0bZdxl1GyeikmDjgpOQqWssBE637zSa8vWbuAOeD6M_t9pqgU-ocemJcmPLJ6CeV43KvbGegMRQiU_Eax0-GP2EmFotyssjLk/s260/Spiral-Compilation.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="260" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ1phJkM9QNzVqKOmv342Z9d2En6i6ZFG1tWPD72mIiUsbCzUWOmeCmIXIzTlKNTM1R7k9q_olgF996kxNlboCLsq34L0bZdxl1GyeikmDjgpOQqWssBE637zSa8vWbuAOeD6M_t9pqgU-ocemJcmPLJ6CeV43KvbGegMRQiU_Eax0-GP2EmFotyssjLk/w400-h298/Spiral-Compilation.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>In describing the process of spiritual evolution, Blavatsky evokes a Kabalist aphorism, axiom, saying, related to mineral, vegetable and animal life:<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The well-known Kabalistic aphorism runs:
-- <span style="color: #990000;">"A stone becomes a plant; a plant, a beast; the beast,
a man; a man a spirit; and the spirit a god." </span>The "spark"
animates all the kingdoms in turn before it enters into and informs
divine man, between whom and his predecessor, animal man, there
is all the difference in the world Secret Doctrine I, I, 7b, p. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">246 </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>This explains also the hidden Kabalistic meaning of the saying:<span style="color: #38761d;"> “The <i>Breath</i>
becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a
man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.” </span>The Mind-born Sons, the
Rishis, the Builders, etc., were all men – of whatever forms and shapes
– in other worlds and the preceding Manvantaras.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Secret Doctrine I, I, 5.1, p. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">107</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That man originates like other animals in a cell and develops
"through stages undistinguishable from those of fish, reptile,
and mammal until the cell attains the highly specialized development
of the quadrumanous and <i>at last the human type,</i>"<i>
</i>is an Occult axiom thousands of years old. The Kabalistic
axiom: <span style="color: #0b5394;">"A stone becomes a plant; a plant a beast; a beast
a man; a man a God," </span>holds good throughout the ages. <span>Secret Doctrine 2 I, 10, 258</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>It's difficult to find a specific reference for this. There is a Hasidic text:<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Holy Sparks that fell when G-d built and destroyed the world should
be purified and lifted up by man: f<span style="color: #990000;">rom stone to plant, from plant to
animal, from animal to the speaking being,</span> he should cleanse the Holy
Spark, which is surrounded by power of the shell. This is the essential
meaning of everyone’s service in Israel. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> (</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer so called Baal Shem Tov, or Master of the Good
Name, instruction on G-d / compiled by Martin Buber, transl. Jan
Doktór, Warsaw 1993, p. 13)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>It can also be found in poetry of Rumi: <br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I died to the inorganic state and became endowed with
growth, and [then] I died to [vegetable] growth and attained to the animal.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d;">I died from animality and became Adam:</span> why, then, should I
fear? When have I become less by dying?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">At the next remove I shall die to man, that I may soar and
lift up my head amongst the angels;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And I must escape even from the angel: <span class="html-italic">everything is perishing except His Face.</span></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">[Q 55, 26–27]</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Rūmī, Ğalāl al-Dīn. 1973. <span class="html-italic">Divani
Shamsi Tabrizi</span>. Translated by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson. San Francisco: Rainbow
Bridge.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The passage below, although included in Nicholson's edition, is not present in the earliest Persian manuscripts, and so is generally considered apocryphal. Whoever the composer may have been, it is quite esoteric and theosophical. <br /></span></p>
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font-size: medium;">A Garden Beyond Paradise</span><p></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Everything you see has its roots</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in the unseen world.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The forms may change,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">yet the essence remains the same.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Every wondrous sight will vanish,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">every sweet word will fade.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But do not be disheartened,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Source they come from is eternal--</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">growing, branching out,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">giving new life and new joy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Why do you weep?--</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That Source is within you,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and this whole world</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">is springing up from it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Source is full,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">its waters are ever-flowing;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Do not grieve,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">drink your fill!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Don't think it will ever run dry--</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This is the endless Ocean!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From the moment you came into this world,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a ladder was placed in front of you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">that you might transcend it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From earth, you became plant,</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">from plant you became animal.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Afterwards you became a human being,</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">endowed with knowledge, intellect and faith.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Behold the body, born of dust--</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">how perfect it has become!</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Why should you fear its end?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When were you ever made less by dying?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When you pass beyond this human form,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">no doubt you will become an angel</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and soar through the heavens!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But don't stop there.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Even heavenly bodies grow old.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Pass again from the heavenly realm</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and plunge into the ocean of Consciousness.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Let the drop of water that is you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">become a hundred mighty seas.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But do not think that the drop alone</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">becomes the Ocean--</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the Ocean, too, becomes the drop!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Divani Shamsi Tabrizi, #12, (Nicholson,1898, pp. 46-49) not
in critical editions</span></div>
Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-46105260971571216222023-10-23T06:36:00.000-07:002023-10-23T06:36:44.409-07:00Rumi on Religious Tolerance<p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Religious tolerance is a significant issue among western thinkers, due
to the widespread immigration and subsequently the subject of
multicultural societies formation. They pay attention to the political,
epistemological, moral and legal foundations of religious tolerance,
especially the approval of equality of religions principle and the need
to observe human ethics and protect the civil rights of all existing
religions’ followers. Raising this issue in the Middle-East -whose
people are currently suffering from terrorism, violence and bloody wars
under the pretext of religious differences- is more necessary than in
any other part of the world. There are valuable experiences in Islamic
mysticism for the realization of multicultural societies free from
violence and a peaceful life for people with different beliefs together,
which can be considered as an effective pattern. Among Muslim mystics,
Rumi has exhibited the highest level of religious tolerance in both
theoretical and practical terms.</span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLpKsKjlp3uIohQijOIL8qzTw12PlkMcoeO0MvqQxu51xaFf2SlXpLuu2qGvNMHCn8ZeU8VmcsQtuOYxgCxxRKcT-DdCRME-0cS3UiTJ2kqB_A52itDob_FG0O8NIRNUB58k6PVhJXriemoTxGtTpXx3a583LW32fIqx-oMEo15Hm1bq7pAtaV88Hl0kQ/s912/rumi1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="912" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLpKsKjlp3uIohQijOIL8qzTw12PlkMcoeO0MvqQxu51xaFf2SlXpLuu2qGvNMHCn8ZeU8VmcsQtuOYxgCxxRKcT-DdCRME-0cS3UiTJ2kqB_A52itDob_FG0O8NIRNUB58k6PVhJXriemoTxGtTpXx3a583LW32fIqx-oMEo15Hm1bq7pAtaV88Hl0kQ/w400-h395/rumi1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In order to reduce the scope of
religious conflict and sectarian strife of his time such as the Crusades
and the sectarian wars of the five Islamic religions that pervaded
their world at the time, Rumi as a great thinker introduced the idea of
tolerance, forbearance and patience. </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">(</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://msil.atu.ac.ir/?_action=article&au=116972&_au=ghodratallah++taheri&lang=en">ghodratallah taheri</a> Rumi's principles of Religious Tolerance, Mysticism in Persian Literature, <span>Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2022, abstract)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Muslim, Christian,
Jew, Zoroastrian:</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>All are welcome here</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>(</span>Everyone is
welcome to This school, Divan Shams-Tabrizi, 23, The Forbidden Rumi, Will
Johnson & Nevit Ergin, p. 157)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHlgeb9JMIhSiUzq80w4elS8swo5C1JfBPDLm2ZVna21LPlVOWGMyG1IcROafuL064g4ldFpd7CTLpgHQblDN3nhMgoY3KYBsZSgjgnW1QIXL9N0UPK5jvCSolC-VMW8hHtnDi5Ymg4iWTmUCtTKH68IQZIFQec-fvFhHu_Gsc5n8sVspc-Qp0tja6YOQ/s599/rumi2.webp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="362" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHlgeb9JMIhSiUzq80w4elS8swo5C1JfBPDLm2ZVna21LPlVOWGMyG1IcROafuL064g4ldFpd7CTLpgHQblDN3nhMgoY3KYBsZSgjgnW1QIXL9N0UPK5jvCSolC-VMW8hHtnDi5Ymg4iWTmUCtTKH68IQZIFQec-fvFhHu_Gsc5n8sVspc-Qp0tja6YOQ/w241-h400/rumi2.webp" width="241" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Islam and other
faiths</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>have all come around so recently</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>yet Love has no beginning or end.</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>You can't call the unbeliever an
infidel</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>if he's been the latest victim of love</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>(</span>A stranger
to myself, Divan Shams-Tabrizi, 23, The Forbidden Rumi, Will Johnson &
Nevit Ergin, p. 159)</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The man of God is
not learned from book.</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The man of God is beyond infidelity
and religion,</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The man of God right and wrong are
alike.</span></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The man of God has
ridden away from Not-being,</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The man of God is gloriously attended.</span><br /></span>
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The man of God is concealed, Shamsi
Din;</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>(RA </span>Nicholson
“Selected poems from “Divan e Shams e Tabrizi”, poem 8, pp. 29-31)</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In
regard to another he may be wrath and a foe; in regard to another he may be
graciousness and a friend. (He has) hundreds of thousands of
names, (but) he is one man: the owner of every quality belonging
to him is blind to (incapable of) giving any (true) description (of
him). </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Whoever
seeks the (mere) name, if he is entrusted (with a confidential
mission) he is hopeless and in distraction, even as you art. Why
do you stick to the name ‘tree,’ so that you art left bitterly
disappointed and ill-fortuned? Pass on from the name and look at the
attributes, in order that the attributes may show you the way to the
essence.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The
disagreement of mankind is caused by names: peace ensues when they advance
to the reality (denoted by the name).</span></p>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">(<i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The search for the Tree of
Life</span>, </i>Masnavi, Book 2, 62, 3675-3680, RA Nicholson)</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I
speak of plural souls in name alone –</span></i><i> <br />
</i><i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">One soul
becomes one hundred in their frames;</span></i><i> <br />
</i><i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Just as
God's single sun in heaven</span></i><i> <br />
</i><i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Shines on
earth and lights a hundred walls</span></i><i>
<br />
</i><i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">But all
these beams of light return to one</span></i><i> <br />
</i><i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">If you remove
the walls that block the sun</span></i><i> <br />
</i><i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The walls of
houses do not stand forever</span></i><i> <br />
</i><i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">And
believers then will be as but one soul</span></i><i> <br />
</i>(Masnavi 4: 415-18, </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a data-link-name="auto tag link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/franklin-lewis" rel="author">Franklin Lewis</a>, transl.</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">)</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The journey of the soul involves
not time and place. </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">
And my body learnt from the soul its mode of journeying, <br />
Now my body has renounced the bodily mode of journeying; <br />
It journeys secretly and without form, though under a form." <br />
He added, "One day I was thus filled with longing <br />
To behold in human form the splendours of 'The Friend,' <br />
To witness the Ocean gathered up into a drop, <br />
The Sun compressed into a single atom; <br />
And when I drew near to the shore of the sea <br />
The day was drawing to a close."</span></div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi67DPJ3dlkTUcVzK_vjvJRCV0iHock9RekKoa6Z6Bwo9252B-1eIt_yhTG8_x46a_0xxwJl39hUSeP5j033leFTLEykKZBJBaWN1nkiPfbXvLrU2fzHs7POw6tf0-SXOSzqYbEgaXwgXxA-fwN4UZXQN660hBNpiEsPsWzAtm3dTFa_rwUWv3JnBY208/s788/rumi4.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi67DPJ3dlkTUcVzK_vjvJRCV0iHock9RekKoa6Z6Bwo9252B-1eIt_yhTG8_x46a_0xxwJl39hUSeP5j033leFTLEykKZBJBaWN1nkiPfbXvLrU2fzHs7POw6tf0-SXOSzqYbEgaXwgXxA-fwN4UZXQN660hBNpiEsPsWzAtm3dTFa_rwUWv3JnBY208/w305-h400/rumi4.webp" width="305" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">
All religions are in substance one and the same.<br />
In the adorations and benedictions of righteous men <br />
The praises of all the prophets are kneaded together. <br />
All their praises are mingled into one stream, <br />
All the vessels are emptied into one ewer. <br />
Because He that is praised is, in fact, only One, <br />
In this respect all religions are only one religion. <br />
Because all praises are directed towards God's light, <br />
Their various forms and figures are borrowed from it. <br />
Men never address praises but to One deemed worthy, <br />
They err only through mistaken opinions of Him. </span><p></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />
So, when a light falls upon a wall, <br />
That wall is a connecting-link between all its beams; <br />
Yet when it casts that reflection back to its source, <br />
It wrongly shows great as small, and halts in its praises. <br />
Or if the moon be reflected in a well, <br />
And one looks down the well, and mistakenly praises it, <br />
In reality he is intending to praise the moon, <br />
Although, through ignorance, he is looking down the well. <br />
The object of his praises is the moon, not its reflection; <br />
His infidelity arises from mistake of the circumstances. <br />
That well-meaning man goes wrong through his mistake; <br />
The moon is in heaven, and he fancies it in the well. <br />
By these false idols mankind are perplexed, <br />
And driven by vain lusts to their sorrow.<br />
The Man in the time of the Prophet David who prayed<br />
to be fed without having to work for his food. <br />
(The Masnavi, tr. by E.H. Whinfield, 1898, 3, Story XII)</span></p>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-37533952707870370832023-10-18T05:17:00.000-07:002024-01-31T06:31:29.877-08:00 Moses Cordovero on the oneness of God, humanity and nature<p></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYnU9_JYqhyphenhyphenvAgMkqmrEc0Ajfzei74fHH9eyNBkRb_mlOFNpX1TQeldpiYqfALm4Fh5pRXkle7jF0VSHjUmiZNPm98zX67Os56uQScvInlPdf9cq4siOdLJDrfCttwvrx8nh_ppWALymB1mA2JBw2zsmg0TqEJPqa29kE6w2WhxtlK7mTAJDoWnqWbJR4/s600/sefirot5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="386" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYnU9_JYqhyphenhyphenvAgMkqmrEc0Ajfzei74fHH9eyNBkRb_mlOFNpX1TQeldpiYqfALm4Fh5pRXkle7jF0VSHjUmiZNPm98zX67Os56uQScvInlPdf9cq4siOdLJDrfCttwvrx8nh_ppWALymB1mA2JBw2zsmg0TqEJPqa29kE6w2WhxtlK7mTAJDoWnqWbJR4/w258-h400/sefirot5.jpg" width="258" /></a></div>In the following passages from the works of </span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_ben_Jacob_Cordovero">Rabbi Moshe Cordovero</a>,
one can see strong sense of Advaita Vedanta monism and an eastern sense
of non-duality, and this outlook is applied to his ethical view of
interpendence of humanity. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d;">According to <a href="https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/253628.58?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en">Matthew Gindin</a>: </span></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">'
(The Ramak, 1522-1570) was a Sefardic Kabbalist from Spain who led a
group of mekubalim (students of Kabbalah) in Tsfat. He is known for
organizing Zoharic and Medieval Kabbalah into an encyclopaedic system,
teaching many famous students, and being a saint (tzaddik) and mystic
himself. He was also known for his stress on the teaching of
panentheism- that all is God, and God is the only reality. His writings
on how God could be found everywhere and in everything would later
influence the Hasidic masters.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Tomer Devorah ("The Palm Tree of Deborah") is a guide to the practice- common to several faith traditions- of <i>imitatio dei</i>,
or "the imitation of the behaviour of the divine." It is a wise,
humble, and often very challenging and countercultural text (probably
then as well as now). The Ramak is unique in the strength of his
emphasis on radical forgiveness, universal love and compassion, and
reverence for all the creatures of nature, even those people often treat
with contempt. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The
Tomer Devorah is also marked by its emphasis on the Kabbalistic
teaching that humans partner with God in the bringing of blessing and
healing into the world. When humans practice the virtues and intentions
outlined in the Tomer Devorah, their behaviour is mirrored above in the
Sefirot (divine energies) and they provoke tikkunim (repairs) which
bring shefa (bounty, blessing) into the world. The study of the Tomer
Devorah became very important in the Mussar (ethical self-discipline)
movement and among Hasidim, and is believed to bring teshuvah (return to
the divine) and protection. It is a custom among some to study the
entire text in the month of Elul leading up to Rosh Hashanah.'</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">And so it is fitting that a person desire the good of their fellow
and their eye be good towards the good of their fellow, and that their honour
should be as beloved as their own - as they are literally oneself! </span></span></p></div>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5a0xdKMpdtCEdF4U_gu-HkIUnU0Hq3OWFycvPbHpwb5CilURO__jGALafF1rZUQfEzFtHbgfzN6U3wIRsdOsBed4Acqqn6fCDoUV4CSQkaIalG2JPmbJnI4lcl38TqFb7DfcZ30YUWBNQsUxP9PG2glI00ZGSVJfvFTvB77e8SZ72KCUdgKsE1RBLzeR6/s741/cordovero2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="741" data-original-width="560" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5a0xdKMpdtCEdF4U_gu-HkIUnU0Hq3OWFycvPbHpwb5CilURO__jGALafF1rZUQfEzFtHbgfzN6U3wIRsdOsBed4Acqqn6fCDoUV4CSQkaIalG2JPmbJnI4lcl38TqFb7DfcZ30YUWBNQsUxP9PG2glI00ZGSVJfvFTvB77e8SZ72KCUdgKsE1RBLzeR6/w303-h400/cordovero2.jpg" width="303" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And from this reason were we commanded (Leviticus 19:18), "you
shall love your neighbor as yourself." And it is fitting that they desire
what is good for each other and not speak about each other's disgrace at all.
And they should not wish ill on each other, in the way that the Holy One of
Being does not want our disgrace nor our pain in relation. So too they should
not want the disgrace of their fellow nor their pain, nor their corruption. And
one should know that we are interdependent with each other and share each
other's good and bad fortunes. (Tomer Devorah 1:5 2, </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 css-1hf3ou5 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Matthew Gindin, transl.)<br /></span></span></span><p></p><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1awozwy r-18u37iz r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1awozwy r-18u37iz r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs"><div class="css-901oao r-jwli3a r-xoduu5 r-18u37iz r-1q142lx r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1awozwy r-xoduu5 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span></div></div></div></div><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-1dbjc4n r-1loqt21 r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l" href="https://twitter.com/GMatanky" role="link" tabindex="-1"><div class="css-901oao css-1hf3ou5 r-115tad6 r-18u37iz r-1qd0xha r-1wvb978 r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span></div></a>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">“God is all reality, but not all reality is God . . . He is
found in all things, and all things are found in Him, and there is nothing
devoid of God’s divinity, God forbid. Everything is in God, and God is in
everything and beyond everything, and there is nothing else beside God.”
(Elimah Rabbati 24d-25a, </span></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 css-1hf3ou5 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Matthew Gindin</span></span></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 css-1hf3ou5 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">, transl.)</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">The essence of divinity is found in every
single thing — nothing but it exists. Since it causes every thing to be, no
thing can live by anything else. It enlivens them; its existence exists in each
existent. (Pardes Rimmonim,</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">4:4, I7d-i8a </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">(Jerusalem: Mordekhai Etyah, 1962) )</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">"And the Holy One—blessed be
He!—shines in the ten sefirot of the world of emanation, in the ten sefirot of
the world of creation, and in the ten heavenly spheres. In investigating this
subject the reader will find: that we all proceed from Him, and are comprised
in Him; that our life is interwoven with His; that He is the existence of all
beings; that the inferior beings, such as vegetables and animals, which serve
us as nourishment, are not outside of Him; in short, he will discover that all
is one revolving wheel, which ascends and descends—all is one, and nothing is
separated from Him." (<i>Shi'ur Ḳomah</i>, chapter xxii)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyRQX0bNYe7bWW79ipOXDnhWSRJ2D6QP1JbB7CBcqyVhFUV3xx2olCBUSez9HP5XFdtyR13-cHWmLnx7yEvC1xU3cskeex97IHqa2od1K5Dgo0ndga9pygdfbjT5s13IwQOsczomx-cdTVlcsV3c5TmZJE8TmEsLqL731ZWiYiLZ1RKd-iAslbGeCsTTco/s517/cordovero.gif" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="479" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyRQX0bNYe7bWW79ipOXDnhWSRJ2D6QP1JbB7CBcqyVhFUV3xx2olCBUSez9HP5XFdtyR13-cHWmLnx7yEvC1xU3cskeex97IHqa2od1K5Dgo0ndga9pygdfbjT5s13IwQOsczomx-cdTVlcsV3c5TmZJE8TmEsLqL731ZWiYiLZ1RKd-iAslbGeCsTTco/s320/cordovero.gif" width="296" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Before anything emanated, there was only
Ein Sof. Ein Sof was all that existed. Similarly, after it brought into being
that which exists, there is nothing but it. You cannot find anything that
exists apart from it. There is nothing that is not pervaded by the power of
divinity. If there were, Ein Sof would be limited, subject to duality, God
forbid! Rather, God is everything that exists, though everything that exists is
not God. It is present in everything, and everything comes into being from it.
Nothing is devoid of its divinity. Everything is within it; it is within
everything and outside of everything. There is nothing but it. (Elimah Rabbati, </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">24d-25a.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">
(Jerusalem: Ahuzat Yisra'el, 1966)) <br /></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">There must be a contraction of God's
presence. For if we believe that Ein Sof emanated the emanation and does not
clothe itself within, then everything that emanated is outside of it, and it is
outside of everything. Then there are two, God forbid. So we must conclude that
nothing is outside of God. This applies not only to the sefirot but to
everything that exists, large and small — they exist solely through the
divine energy that flows to them and clothes itself in them. If God's gaze were
withdrawn for even a moment, all existence would be nullified. This is the
secret meaning of the verse: "You enliven everything." So divinity
flows and inheres in each thing that exists. This is the secret meaning of the
verse: "God's presence fills the entire world." Contemplating this,
you are humbled, your thoughts purified. (Or Yaqar,</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"> 15:203a</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"> (Jerusalem: Ahuzat Yisra'el,
1987) </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFACfIhKkw5J2qdIRZEmWqU-ixX2IL2k9IESs5EilErEYgB2jKMQVpXLJemsdZOqrtOnafdTS4du4tqElAh9iErcwYj6_6pVDljoC6qY-ybSoBcPoc2tBuIw3oGToLbTKXZ0UiM6xwXHeVxvQTBK71ASBIVBsEIQcaDdA9dU3W5F1IR_u_Gz-uCFGGvaJd/s212/cordovero3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="180" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFACfIhKkw5J2qdIRZEmWqU-ixX2IL2k9IESs5EilErEYgB2jKMQVpXLJemsdZOqrtOnafdTS4du4tqElAh9iErcwYj6_6pVDljoC6qY-ybSoBcPoc2tBuIw3oGToLbTKXZ0UiM6xwXHeVxvQTBK71ASBIVBsEIQcaDdA9dU3W5F1IR_u_Gz-uCFGGvaJd/w340-h400/cordovero3.jpg" width="340" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“The essence of God is in every thing, and nothing exists
outside of God. Because God causes everything to be, it is impossible that any
created thing exists except through Him. God is the existence, the life, and
the reality of every existing thing. The central point is that you should never
make a division within God . . . If you say to yourself, “The Ein Sof expands
until a certain point, and from there on is outside of It,” God forbid, you are
making a division. Rather you must say that God is found in every existing
thing. One cannot say, “This is a rock and not God,” God forbid. Rather, all
existence is God, and the rock is a thing filled with God . . . God is found in
everything, and there is nothing besides God.” (Perek Helek, Modena ms. 206b, </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 css-1hf3ou5 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Matthew Gindin</span></span></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 css-1hf3ou5 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">, transl.)</span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">Do not attribute duality to God. Let God be
solely God. If you suppose that Ein Sof emanates until a certain point, and
that from that point on is outside of it, you have dualized. God forbid!
Realize, rather, that Ein Sof exists in each exis- tent. Do not say, "This
is a stone and not God." God forbid! Rather, all existence is God, and the
stone is a thing pervaded by divinity. (Shi'ur Qomah, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">i6d-i7a.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"> (Warsaw, 1883))<br /></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI403OmTAaMjn0o6EiVfVebO0dGZKOZHerGUyDa4kHf03xo0Nk9g87HJWFoZasHt2GOvSvBV7KFCzsn9qOpHZmhl4A_7DnyadNjfYoxBcLtkHmyJ-FFZjY5XjVuNllQV0eIBDDuHmq7atoYvnT9e_LO1Z1KeNzaH2cqSxOs5fKZYuQFEP0TX1oO1M0v5nJ/s259/cordovero4.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="194" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI403OmTAaMjn0o6EiVfVebO0dGZKOZHerGUyDa4kHf03xo0Nk9g87HJWFoZasHt2GOvSvBV7KFCzsn9qOpHZmhl4A_7DnyadNjfYoxBcLtkHmyJ-FFZjY5XjVuNllQV0eIBDDuHmq7atoYvnT9e_LO1Z1KeNzaH2cqSxOs5fKZYuQFEP0TX1oO1M0v5nJ/w300-h400/cordovero4.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ramak's grave in Safed<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">‘God's knowledge is different from
that of the creature, since in the case of the latter knowledge and the thing
known are distinct, thus leading to subjects which are again separate from him.
This is described by the three expressions—cogitation, the cogitator, and the
subject of cogitation. Now, the Creator is Himself Knowledge, the Knower, and
the object known. His knowledge does not consist in the fact that He directs
His thoughts to things without Him, since in comprehending and knowing Himself
He comprehends and knows everything that exists. There is nothing which is not
united to Him, and which He does not find in His own Substance. He is the
archetype of all existing things, and all things are in Him in their purest and
most perfect form; so that the perfection of the creatures consists in the
support whereby they are united to the primary source of His existence, and
they sink down and fall from that perfect and lofty position in proportion to
their separation from Him. (<a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=208&letter=R"><span>Pardes
Rimmonim</span></a>, 55a) </span></span>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-47047963314160378272023-09-28T13:17:00.003-07:002023-12-09T07:09:48.508-08:00Through the Gates of Gold 1 Mabel Collins Chapter 1<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/gategold/gategold.htm"></a></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1KlA8H6aa9QXiVKWcoxSSstMG7_p4Z09sO8L4YVusNWxG31vwgY6keFvWAK1Tg3bLgLr7X13Fq7Nk5OOERP0kUVycZKH4lre3iwUfYqeMpaFmJYbipsrhqo-4z2ST4wsFIVyicKcl19fT70XzK14w7im16au58oCe9BaEI4OIIDYzZGJITOqjpoqVXu4/s275/gog16.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1KlA8H6aa9QXiVKWcoxSSstMG7_p4Z09sO8L4YVusNWxG31vwgY6keFvWAK1Tg3bLgLr7X13Fq7Nk5OOERP0kUVycZKH4lre3iwUfYqeMpaFmJYbipsrhqo-4z2ST4wsFIVyicKcl19fT70XzK14w7im16au58oCe9BaEI4OIIDYzZGJITOqjpoqVXu4/w400-h266/gog16.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Through the Gatesof Gold : A Fragment of Thought</span><span lang="EN-CA"> is a wonderful, profound, eloquent work, the study of which offers
many insights and valuable seeds of inspiration… Intimately linked with that
well-regarded spiritual classic, <a href="http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/lightpat/lightpat.htm"><span>Light
on the Path</span></a>, and they are often packaged together; indeed, studying this
text in relation to corresponding passages in <span>Light on the Path</span> is recommended, and in general, can be viewed
as a good introduction to that more demanding text. We are also indebted to
<a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/Mabel_Collins">Mabel Collins</a> for a third theosophical classic, <span><a href=" http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/books/white-lo/white-1.htm">The Idyll of the White Lotus</a></span>, of which T. Subba Row has written
a remarkable<a href="http://hpb.narod.ru/commentsidyll.htm"> commentary</a>, nigh indispensable for unlocking the profundities of
that fascinating work.<br />
</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Information on Mabel Collins and the possible
original author of this work:<br />
<a href="http://blavatskyarchives.com/sisson1.htm"><span color="windowtext">http://blavatskyarchives.com/sisson1.htm</span></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"></p><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_(Jerusalem)">Golden Gate</a>, is a semi-legendary Jerusalem gate with mystical symbolic import. Taken up by Christian culture, appearing in 19th c. hymns, adopted with full mystical meaning in Theosophy, Mabel Collins,Through the Gates of Gold, and continues to seen in popular culture, for example with a 2015 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gates_of_Gold">Los Lobos album</a>. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">For the world history of this symbol see, Architecture, Mysticism and Myth, by W.R. Lethaby, [1892] Chapter 8, <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/earth/amm/amm11.htm">The Golden Gate of the Sun. </a></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"></span></span></div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Prologue </span></b><span lang="EN-CA">Whether
there is any mode of thought or any effort of the mind which will enable a man
to grasp the great principles that evidently exist as causes in human life, is
a question no ordinary thinker can determine. <span style="color: #990000;"><b>Yet the dim consciousness that
there is cause behind the effects we see, that there is order ruling the chaos and
sublime harmony pervading the discords, haunts the eager souls of the earth,
and makes them long for vision of the unseen and knowledge of the unknowable.</b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivxdrwQqX9Kdcw1UTIY0jP_oXWcxEMdDIMAc0UX9dqXj4EVjUEuWI_ChGXy4RTnFDfJTz7C8akYScrkCfIMTQMTJnmDAcyKrgkqDtXQ44rjAIMsl0Bi49R82hbVVmb3IsnLajaRsE5VB-pBoCLesKmAPwoLrTW6De9gP1UiPWKN2rp-PsWA9PEAbjxBbg/s400/gog14.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="265" data-original-width="400" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivxdrwQqX9Kdcw1UTIY0jP_oXWcxEMdDIMAc0UX9dqXj4EVjUEuWI_ChGXy4RTnFDfJTz7C8akYScrkCfIMTQMTJnmDAcyKrgkqDtXQ44rjAIMsl0Bi49R82hbVVmb3IsnLajaRsE5VB-pBoCLesKmAPwoLrTW6De9gP1UiPWKN2rp-PsWA9PEAbjxBbg/s320/gog14.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Chapter 1 –The Search for
Pleasure</span></b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Part 1</span></b><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span>Would it not be a bolder
policy, a more promising mode of solving the great enigma of existence, to
grasp it, to take hold firmly and to demand of it the mystery of itself? If men
will but pause and consider what lessons they have learned from pleasure and
pain, much might be guessed of that strange thing which causes these effects.
<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>But men are prone to turn away hastily from self-study, or from any close
analysis of human nature.” </b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Part
2</span></b><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Man
returns to physical life as the drunkard returns to the flagon of wine, — he
knows not why, except that he desires the sensation produced by life as the
drunkard desires the sensation produced by wine. </b></span>The true waters of oblivion
lie far behind our consciousness, and can only be reached by ceasing to exist
in that consciousness, — by ceasing to exert the will which makes us full of
senses and sensibilities.”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Part 3</span></b><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-CA">Yet there is now and then one brave enough
to gaze fixedly on this glittering, and to decipher something of the shape
within it. Poets and philosophers, thinkers and teachers, — all those who are
the “elder brothers of the race,” — have beheld this sight from time to time,
and some among them have recognized in the bewildering glitter the outlines of
the Gates of Gold.</span></span></p>
<div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Those
Gates admit us to the sanctuary of man’s own nature, to the place whence his
life-power comes, and where he is priest of the shrine of life. That it is
possible to enter here, to pass through those Gates, some one or two have shown
us. </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoKEJVBaZL1BeYpDDZGKdiCV14nMiD33NuBa4ZzX7kW5dg_7Tu1lxmmKcR5a2j2a2C0e97fowIbfOq-jNB1aWUr7xqXg8knd4tZn_XukZHDiLKQlXhUG1P1rP7UzSPVplF6wwRXsZLiKy0T1MzEOWX08Nuix-mnL136Zcemv30m12jGgvGtG0HAkwsdGI/s400/gog8.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoKEJVBaZL1BeYpDDZGKdiCV14nMiD33NuBa4ZzX7kW5dg_7Tu1lxmmKcR5a2j2a2C0e97fowIbfOq-jNB1aWUr7xqXg8knd4tZn_XukZHDiLKQlXhUG1P1rP7UzSPVplF6wwRXsZLiKy0T1MzEOWX08Nuix-mnL136Zcemv30m12jGgvGtG0HAkwsdGI/s320/gog8.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA"><span><b><span lang="EN-CA">Part 4 </span></b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">If,</span><span lang="FR"> therefore, instead of accepting the unknown as
unknowable, men were with one accord to turn their thoughts towards it, those
Golden Gates would not remain so inexorably shut. It does but need a strong
hand to push them open. The courage to enter them is the courage to search the
recesses of one’s own nature without fear and without shame. In the fine part,
the essence, the flavor of the man, is found the key which unlocks those great
Gates. And when they open, what is it that is found?</span></span></span></span></b></span></div><h2 style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA"></span></b></span></h2>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Part 5</span></b><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span lang="FR">There are certain pleasures which appeal to each
individual; every man knows that in one layer or another of sensation he finds
his chief delight. Naturally he turns to this systematically through life, just
as the sunflower turns to the sun and the water-lily leans on the water. But he
struggles throughout with an awful fact which oppresses him to the soul, — that
no sooner has he obtained his pleasure than he loses it again and has once more
to go in search of it. More than that; he never actually reaches it, for it
eludes him at the final moment. This is because he endeavors to seize that
which is untouchable and satisfy his soul’s hunger for sensation by contact
with external objects.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Part 6</span></b><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span>Indolence is, in fact, the
curse of man. As the Irish peasant and the cosmopolitan gypsy dwell in dirt and
poverty out of sheer idleness, so does the man of the world live contented in
sensuous pleasures for the same reason.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The man suffers the final penalty for his
persistent ignorance of a law of nature as inexorable as that of gravitation, —
a law which forbids a man to stand still. Not twice can the same cup of
pleasure be tasted; the second time it must contain either a grain of poison or
a drop of the elixir of life.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8CctdgPHwy7vWlrf74tVgLGkFDA94Xx1dU3RKZ-Jm3E4Z6ODEJrJNdiy7Iufyq99CP4Hi8M5SNf7KHiEh2MjSrU8mSnJ167FwWsLah2EyFTPaK8H_X2RKdXHcWCJJTzzm2q48N6hVKoFjaT1Y0AEyhpfL7fb4PpXoFIiVrmwh-Il81yh5AWYeDjZ5W2E/s277/gog3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="277" data-original-width="200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8CctdgPHwy7vWlrf74tVgLGkFDA94Xx1dU3RKZ-Jm3E4Z6ODEJrJNdiy7Iufyq99CP4Hi8M5SNf7KHiEh2MjSrU8mSnJ167FwWsLah2EyFTPaK8H_X2RKdXHcWCJJTzzm2q48N6hVKoFjaT1Y0AEyhpfL7fb4PpXoFIiVrmwh-Il81yh5AWYeDjZ5W2E/w289-h400/gog3.jpg" width="289" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Part 7</span></b><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span>The
man who chooses the way of effort, and refuses to allow the sleep of indolence
to dull his soul, finds in his pleasures a new and finer joy each time he
tastes them, — a something subtile and remote which removes them more and more
from the state in which mere sensuousness is all; this subtile essence is that
elixir of life which makes man immortal. He who tastes it and who will not
drink unless it is in the cup finds life enlarge and the world grow great
before his eager eyes.</span><span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The pleasures of art, of
music, of light and loveliness, — within these forms, which men repeat till
they find only the forms, he sees the glory of the Gates of Gold, and passes
through to find the new life beyond which intoxicates and strengthens, as the
keen mountain air intoxicates and strengthens, by its very vigor.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>But if he has been pouring,
drop by drop, more and more of the elixir of life into his cup, he is strong
enough to breathe this intense air and to live upon it. Then if he die or if he
live in physical form, alike he goes on and finds new and finer joys, more
perfect and satisfying experiences, with every breath he draws in and gives
out.</span></span></p>
Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-7393689378832529552023-09-15T13:09:00.016-07:002023-09-17T17:19:40.099-07:00 Astrology: Fall Equinox September 23, 2023 Part 2: Chart<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie_EjHOx2Lk2j5M7ksKOUwQVVmHbV3QnkZ5RyrI9HtvFVxlNGsdvO6o8NNPA_XJfWHcmAJBiASU_XfZoXuwmy-2UUZoXrGecs3W8SCKXjAD64S7QmWmMtlcSv9F5zzNW93iOxvdlkgYcVW7jSXQ_dFVLsduAdvcmeXJKvgtwEIhKhUp3BBCSW7p8t-gIM/s1524/alice1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1154" data-original-width="1524" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie_EjHOx2Lk2j5M7ksKOUwQVVmHbV3QnkZ5RyrI9HtvFVxlNGsdvO6o8NNPA_XJfWHcmAJBiASU_XfZoXuwmy-2UUZoXrGecs3W8SCKXjAD64S7QmWmMtlcSv9F5zzNW93iOxvdlkgYcVW7jSXQ_dFVLsduAdvcmeXJKvgtwEIhKhUp3BBCSW7p8t-gIM/w400-h303/alice1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>March 7 </b><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/03/astrology-saturn-in-pisces-march-7-2023.html">Saturn
enters Pisces</a> brought a lessening of restrictions and more discipline in
holistic views</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>March 24 </b><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/03/astrology-pluto-in-capricorn-march-23.html">Pluto
enters Aquarius</a> brought a foretaste of more socially-conscious power
structures</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>May
16 </b><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/05/astrology-jupiter-in-taurus-may-16-2023.html">Jupiter
enters Taurus</a></span></span></div>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: .4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Brought
a slower, more practical outlook </span></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></h3>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>May
17</b> <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/05/astrology-jupiter-square-pluto-may-17.html">Jupiter
square Pluto</a></span></span></div>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: .4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Increased
ambitious tendencies, with problems of dogmatism and fanaticism </span></span></h3>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>June
11</b> Pluto Retrograde re-enters Capricorn</span></span></div>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: .4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Favours
more conservative, strict, rigid tendencies </span></span></h3>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>June 19</b> <a href="https://astrologyking.com/jupiter-sextile-saturn/">Jupiter in Taurus
sextiles Saturn in Pisces</a></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span>Brings a period of focused, balanced productivity</span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>My full summary for the Summer chart:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #38761d;">The <b>Jupiter-Saturn sextile </b>brings a balanced,
productive, efficiency while <b>Mercury sextile Mars</b> brings clear-minded,
focused, articulate communication. A <b>Moon, Venus, Mars conjunction </b>brings
creative, imaginative, romantic inspirations, but is complicated by an <b>opposition
to Pluto</b>, which is part of a <b>T-square with Jupiter.</b> Hence there
could be confused, deluded, exaggerated postures, with an underlying tendency
for repressed emotional baggage to surface. Moreover, a volatile <b>Mars square
Uranus </b>can bring conflicts based on need for asserting independence.</span></span></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>One interesting example illustrating some aspects of this is a controversial tweet about Judy Garland in blackface on August 16 that went viral, with over 58 million views. There was a strong response in her defence, with underlying racial tensions and some intense debates. Many articles about the incident appeared in various media outlets as well. <a href="https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/judy-garland-blackface-discourse-gen-z/">https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/judy-garland-blackface-discourse-gen-z/</a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span> </span></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHXGtfsCg4mwdKWKYtL68CfSFkzv2gcyqorwbwmF5sdwil1bEObjoDWTFbkPr00pI3r3xhGY-4QlwQSPDnSpj2qXe17h5Avt9pbOGLNkkgEKxP7AwFHNxamCYoY7YV8z8DLHoEIZ4ueXjjBhcAnV1jrYicCH3kmk6dd2Sm6LL9soTGMBURwGQA-qMTHgA/s1102/fall_equinox_2023_hn.70176.126347.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="748" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHXGtfsCg4mwdKWKYtL68CfSFkzv2gcyqorwbwmF5sdwil1bEObjoDWTFbkPr00pI3r3xhGY-4QlwQSPDnSpj2qXe17h5Avt9pbOGLNkkgEKxP7AwFHNxamCYoY7YV8z8DLHoEIZ4ueXjjBhcAnV1jrYicCH3kmk6dd2Sm6LL9soTGMBURwGQA-qMTHgA/w271-h400/fall_equinox_2023_hn.70176.126347.png" width="271" /></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>1-Sun, Neptune, Pluto, Uranus <a href="http://theastrologydictionary.com/k/kite/">Kite</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here the <b>Neptune </b>opposition can be a stimulus for transformation.<b><br /></b></span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Sun in Virgo opposite Neptune in Pisces</span></b><span> – 'Your encounter with others today may be
demoralizing or confusing', also a possibility to 'experience a spirituality and depth of feeling that
is quite magnificent.' (Robert Hand, Planets in Transit, p. 83)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Sun Pluto Uranus trine</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Sun trine Pluto in Capricorn</span></b><span>– Look within yourself to determine what motivates you , what your are
seeking in life and what changes you should make so that your life will rune
smoothly – forceful get things done (85).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Sun trine Uranus in Taurus-</span></b><span> engaging in new activities and making new discoveries about yourself
and the world around you. (80)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Uranus trine Pluto</span></b><span>- deepen your philosophical concerns , enrich your understanding of
life and give you the chance to make constructive changes that will make your
life more worthwhile later on (415).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheFPb4O-ysCKXBWcMPSPXvu8WHNJXZ-qWhCh9r504-WXKWZ0y0O9otLCzaZpv_tUD59RG2qpBOboV0Y-_WOny_e_8GIn7uMWLYqIK5WxJpxCYzXaX6EjyivTP0RS6i6rNRC96MIFmZ3CZ4u--0jM2KML8bzPpacipSvhXWfsh48gmdklLa9sfK1GqA1uw/s250/alice3.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="250" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheFPb4O-ysCKXBWcMPSPXvu8WHNJXZ-qWhCh9r504-WXKWZ0y0O9otLCzaZpv_tUD59RG2qpBOboV0Y-_WOny_e_8GIn7uMWLYqIK5WxJpxCYzXaX6EjyivTP0RS6i6rNRC96MIFmZ3CZ4u--0jM2KML8bzPpacipSvhXWfsh48gmdklLa9sfK1GqA1uw/w400-h304/alice3.webp" width="400" /></a></b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Pluto Neptune Uranus minor grand trine</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Uranus sextile Neptune</span></b><span>-Stimulates interest in spiritual ideas and occult
concerns – sudden insights in your experience of the everyday world (410).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Pluto sextile Neptune</span></b><span> – explore the hidden depths of existence and revue
experiences that are profound and revealing. (515).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>2-Moon Mercury Jupiter trine</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>This brings a friendly, helpful, idealistic feeling. </span><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Moon in Capricorn trine Mercury in Virgo- </span></b><span>in
touch with your feelings to an unusual extent and are more able to express them
to others – you listen most sympathetically to other people’s problems (107).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Moon trine Jupiter- </span></b><span>warm and friendly to the people around you, and your are willing to
offer emotional or physical support to anyone who needs it (114).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Mercury trine Jupiter in Taurus- </span></b><span>enlarges your mental scope. You are eager to be
exposed to much more new information than usual. New ideas don,t bother you. In
fact, you are fascinated by them because they broaden your understanding of the
world around you (157).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7hW8k2XsAJ3MFSbeymhIMniB-wJnOlMl5eOVZKCnmbGocI9jp01WLy0OuyJZXgCrRO6Xp_ELwqXXUfJRusKZ2n6uscM3tLDRpyXrHt0l4JyNGYrEM13VwkzWcikCquomiHfpA4LuRrXHOMeChXjk2zobwkbIA52LbSkCPOeVAKOWZ3WIPGqUr2kNawgM/s1920/alice5.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7hW8k2XsAJ3MFSbeymhIMniB-wJnOlMl5eOVZKCnmbGocI9jp01WLy0OuyJZXgCrRO6Xp_ELwqXXUfJRusKZ2n6uscM3tLDRpyXrHt0l4JyNGYrEM13VwkzWcikCquomiHfpA4LuRrXHOMeChXjk2zobwkbIA52LbSkCPOeVAKOWZ3WIPGqUr2kNawgM/w400-h225/alice5.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>3-Moon aspects</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>These can bring dreamy distractions, but it can be balanced with a sense of responsibility.</span><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Moon square Sun</span></b><span>-
some sort of challenge to the structure of your daily life, that is, your home
life, intimate relations, routine daily contacts (102).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Moon square Neptune</span></b><span>-dreamy state of<span> </span>mind in which
fancies and illusions become more important than reality (121).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Moon sextile Saturn</span></b><span> <b>in Pisces-</b> balance your emotional needs with your sense of duty and obligation
(312).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>4- Venus aspects</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>These can bring some eccentric enthusiasms, but can be balanced with discipline.</span><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Venus in Leo square Uranus</span></b><span>- seek excitement and stimulation through your love relationships, even
to the point of provoking a fight (204).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Venus square Jupiter</span></b><span>- 'good feelings rub off on those around you' with tendencies to 'assume arrogantly that
everything you touch turns to gold' and 'indulge in many ways that are not good for
you' (199).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Venus sextile Mars in Libra</span></b><span>- balance in your life between self-assertion and the need to relate to
others (196).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>5- Jupiter square AC-</span></b><span>(312) 'a desire to grow and advance through contacts
with others' with a tendency for 'a desire for advantages through others without giving anything in
return' (312).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAvgq4hV703D973AX7EHQgigZQs663gpxRLYb3ZkPDz1wkioQpQQkopNG7tkUsX8jXrWGpBC8TT6yIhmOTIzHNIzvLyMFImsr-_nnisNeShYJWNhYwg9264Qbnf-BhTgJTHlGTBbRbIAQY8vLh6RH6Og1moAJ-8VpwwJsD6rLdQw0biTKg5iTDAhwJKzE/s624/alice6.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="624" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAvgq4hV703D973AX7EHQgigZQs663gpxRLYb3ZkPDz1wkioQpQQkopNG7tkUsX8jXrWGpBC8TT6yIhmOTIzHNIzvLyMFImsr-_nnisNeShYJWNhYwg9264Qbnf-BhTgJTHlGTBbRbIAQY8vLh6RH6Og1moAJ-8VpwwJsD6rLdQw0biTKg5iTDAhwJKzE/w400-h304/alice6.webp" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>For the Summer chart, I observed that:</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Ukraine</span><span style="color: #38761d;"> has made progress in pushing back Russian forces, but
the return of <b>Pluto in Capricorn </b>will probably tend to favour the
conservative Russia.
Most of the aspects that signalled the invasion have faded, but I think that
it’s unlikely that peace discussions will progress much until <b>Pluto returns
to Aquarius on January 21, 2024.</b></span></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>This would fit with Russian cancelling the grain agreement with Ukraine at the height of the <b>third consecutive difficult Mars aspect on July 17</b>. The Winter Solstice chart will have some tensions, but overall, it is not as tense as the Summer and Fall charts. Things could improve with Pluto’s upcoming
return to Aquarius in </span><span class="hgkelc"><span lang="EN">January 20, 2024, through September 1, 2024; and
November 19, 2024 through March 8, 2043</span></span><span class="hgkelc"><span lang="EN">. Note that Pluto will once again be in Capricorn for 10 weeks in the fall of 2024, therefore we are not quite done with the lessons of that momentous aspect, which saw the </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="RO">emergence of reform movements such as occupy Wall street, #MeToo,
#BlackLivesMatter, and </span><span class="r-18u37iz">#FridaysForFuture, and on a more extreme side, an increase in right-wing authoritarian government repression.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="r-18u37iz"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="r-18u37iz"> </span></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="r-18u37iz">Summary</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>1-Sun, Neptune, Pluto, Uranus <a href="http://theastrologydictionary.com/k/kite/">Kite</a></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here the <b>Neptune-Sun </b>opposition can be a stimulus for transformation.</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><span class="r-18u37iz">Good tools for cutting through illusions by using discrimination and investigation provided.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>2-Moon Mercury Jupiter trine</span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>This brings a friendly, helpful, idealistic feeling. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="r-18u37iz"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>3-Moon aspects</span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>These can bring dreamy distractions, but it can be balanced with a sense of responsibility.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>4- Venus aspects</span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>These can bring some eccentric enthusiasms, but can be balanced with discipline.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> <br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>5- Jupiter square Midheaven</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>A tendency to take things for granted.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="r-18u37iz"><b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="r-18u37iz"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAqeVszoCQszXXLIQsH-cVpeUnuJfXO-tlIE7WYMFu65cSMc7DncwxTe7ylihUMP5DzMOSaImv60KA-peLzMGqXDGDb4hVosO9C2vIiB4MES9xGs3dqb_bxezk2D8r2moBXlQ4Lj7XvEwQv-8k8nUg14XBC1D6ODDTJRFPq3836OO4EizEX-UdgFttbzI/s276/matrix2.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="276" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAqeVszoCQszXXLIQsH-cVpeUnuJfXO-tlIE7WYMFu65cSMc7DncwxTe7ylihUMP5DzMOSaImv60KA-peLzMGqXDGDb4hVosO9C2vIiB4MES9xGs3dqb_bxezk2D8r2moBXlQ4Lj7XvEwQv-8k8nUg14XBC1D6ODDTJRFPq3836OO4EizEX-UdgFttbzI/w400-h264/matrix2.png" width="400" /></a></div>Fall Prognostic</b></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="color: #0b5394;">There should be less volatile conflict than the Summer, although conflicts of a more deceptive, illusory, fantastical nature could occur. Conversely, there may be a tendency to take people for granted and for failing to give people proper consideration. There is, however, a good opportunity for transformation by learning discrimination and seeing through any illusions, smokescreens, halls of mirrors, moon mist and gaslight in your life. There may also be needs to better balance other people's expectations into your priorities. But for that, it will require patience, investigation, introspection and an open mind to solve the mystery... It could open the doors to distinguishing valid spiritual values from superficial psychic impressions.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="r-18u37iz"> </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="r-18u37iz">PS - Most of the planets in the kite formation are outer planets and usually require tight orbs. In this case, it is the presence of the Sun that makes this reading feasible. It may perhaps however be considered a foretaste of when these planets will be in exact aspect. According to <a href="https://astrologywithandy.com/2021/06/03/2024-2026-the-astrology-of-the-post-covid-era/">Astrology with Andy</a>:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From July of 2025 until February of 2027, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto
will be getting along splendidly. By that I mean that Uranus and Pluto
will be in a trine (120-degree) aspect to each other while
simultaneously sextile (60 degrees away from) Neptune. The three of them
will be speaking the same language and supporting one another.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">While they will bring major global shifts, they will do so like a
well-rehearsed orchestra (as opposed to, say, an out-of-tune electric
guitar). In fact, I think that a lot of the ugliness that will emerge as
Pluto wraps up its transit of Capricorn (and especially in the US,
where this also coincides with the United States’ Pluto return) will
begin to be cleaned up during this 2024 – 2026 period.</span></p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="r-18u37iz"><b> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></div>
Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-38549903321618441492023-09-13T16:38:00.011-07:002023-09-15T13:13:31.090-07:00 Astrology: Fall Equinox September 23, 2023 Part 1: Review<p></p>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5pHhwAnKXjM3blk3-kVcLLyyVT2AMww_uR8Z1Gk-2RUbRSUy41P2dpHgX-s1jyid1tAq4s5C5nD3Zob6-0Xg5X4YoyA_qkwljRG4V1sYILORk0rsFgPsCVsCY9JLoTsL5k2gQFeiriPgWYMli1cDgR-Z2Hi4-_IlGj1OvKZyR2Ax45PjUo3fPHi8aPzs/s700/barbie4.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="700" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5pHhwAnKXjM3blk3-kVcLLyyVT2AMww_uR8Z1Gk-2RUbRSUy41P2dpHgX-s1jyid1tAq4s5C5nD3Zob6-0Xg5X4YoyA_qkwljRG4V1sYILORk0rsFgPsCVsCY9JLoTsL5k2gQFeiriPgWYMli1cDgR-Z2Hi4-_IlGj1OvKZyR2Ax45PjUo3fPHi8aPzs/w400-h200/barbie4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Just prior to the Summer Solstice, we had:</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>June 11</b> Pluto Retrograde
re-enters Capricorn</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Favours more conservative,
strict, rigid tendencies </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>June 19 </b><a href="https://astrologyking.com/jupiter-sextile-saturn/">Jupiter in Taurus
sextiles Saturn in Pisces</a></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span>Brings a period of focused, balanced productivity</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span>The <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/06/astrology-summer-solstice-june-21-2023_20.html">Summer chart</a> prognostic was: </span></span><span></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Overall, the
chart tends to indicate a favourable, productive Summer, with good potential
for imagination and creativity, balanced with practicality. The passions and
enthusiasms could tend to get out of hand and a <b>Pluto opposite Moon</b>
would tend to make things uncomfortable by being too restrictive and bringing
up deeply-repressed emotional issues.</span></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="EN">Some spectacular
water disasters, a <b>Greek migrant boat</b> sinking with 700 casualties on <b>June 14</b>,
and a <b>Sub-Marine </b>exploring the Titanic wreckage had an accident causing five
fatalities, <b>June 18.</b> These could be related to </span></span><span class="r-18u37iz"><span lang="EN"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SaturnInPisces?src=hashtag_click"><span style="color: #00ba7c;">Saturn In Pisces</span></a></span></span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="EN">, also Pluto on cusp of Aquarius
& Capricorn, I would relate it also to <b>Mars square Uranus, June 26</b>, &
fading <b>Mars opposite Pluto-</b>themes: meltdowns, watery depths, unusual, tragic</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="EN"><a href="https://greekreporter.com/2023/06/23/obama-on-the-titanic-sub-and-the-greek-migrant-boat-disaster/">https://greekreporter.com/2023/06/23/obama-on-the-titanic-sub-and-the-greek-migrant-boat-disaster/</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="EN"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="EN">Another <b>Saturn in Pisces</b> related-theme
of water regulation awareness occurred on <b>July 11 </b>when a growing list of
countries have also <b>called for a halt to deep-sea mining</b>, at a key moment for
the fledgling industry as the International Seabed Authority (ISA) meets to
determine rules for mining</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/11/seafood-industry-joins-chorus-of-groups-calling-for-a-halt-to-deep-sea-mining-plans">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/11/seafood-industry-joins-chorus-of-groups-calling-for-a-halt-to-deep-sea-mining-plans</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span>Around <b>June 24</b>, reports began to emerge of <b>major militia
conflicts in Sudan</b>,
which broke out in April.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65962771">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65962771</a></span></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span>A third very volatile month-long Mars aspect in a row occurred with
was <b>Mars opposite Saturn, July 20</b>. Circumstances or people tend to thwart our
will, feelings of resentment or frustration; difficult to assert ourselves;
action & expressing our urges blocked; difficult to complete tasks. There
was also <b>Sun opposite Pluto, July 21</b>, bringing issues of power and competition.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguZZsJHUJb-D103zU3hctlSA--EnpBK7ESwSGQeSYtRAHK9PP2nrq3TMLD7JKwBw3udIhX4Rvhole7S7SC8aCawD6-gAjKwLhU2j3R_myyvf2aBGHd9peO1P8eAGxqSKEX5Wr7KdWNt0bUwe7YTWeqfOy0Emx6jfH0450rqR2yQ6R795LenBa1yC87VI8/s3265/niger-coup-mb-0819-ca74fe.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2222" data-original-width="3265" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguZZsJHUJb-D103zU3hctlSA--EnpBK7ESwSGQeSYtRAHK9PP2nrq3TMLD7JKwBw3udIhX4Rvhole7S7SC8aCawD6-gAjKwLhU2j3R_myyvf2aBGHd9peO1P8eAGxqSKEX5Wr7KdWNt0bUwe7YTWeqfOy0Emx6jfH0450rqR2yQ6R795LenBa1yC87VI8/w400-h272/niger-coup-mb-0819-ca74fe.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Various incidents around that time included: A<b> mass
shooting in Australia</b>, a third <b>indictment for Donald Trump</b>, a big <b>Tornado </b>in
South Carolina, a UPS and <b>Hollywood writer’s strike</b> occurred, as well as <b>major
Russian attacks</b> <b>in Ukraine</b> and a big <b>heat wave </b>in the US.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/us/5-things-to-know-for-july-20-auckland-shooting-trump-tornado-ups-netflix/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/us/5-things-to-know-for-july-20-auckland-shooting-trump-tornado-ups-netflix/index.html</a></span></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/21/us/5-things-to-know-for-july-21-ukraine-extreme-heat-strikes-ai-e-cigarettes/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/21/us/5-things-to-know-for-july-21-ukraine-extreme-heat-strikes-ai-e-cigarettes/index.html</a></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>On July 17, </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Russia suspended its participation in a crucial deal that
allowed the export of Ukrainian grain, once again raising fears over
global food supplies and scuppering a rare diplomatic breakthrough to
emerge from Moscow’s war in Ukraine.</span>
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/17/europe/russia-ukraine-grain-deal-intl/index.html ">https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/17/europe/russia-ukraine-grain-deal-intl/index.html </a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span><b>Record Forest Fire outbreaks in Canada </b>were announced, <b>July 24</b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/graphics/CANADA-WILDFIRE/HISTORIC/znvnzebmavl/"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span>https://www.reuters.com/graphics/CANADA-WILDFIRE/HISTORIC/znvnzebmavl/</span></span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span>There was a <b>military coup in Niger on July
25.</b></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/blindsided-hours-coup-niger-us-diplomats-said-country-was-stable-rcna99708">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/blindsided-hours-coup-niger-us-diplomats-said-country-was-stable-rcna99708</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span>On <b>August 4, Ethiopia declared a state of
emergenc</b>y due to militia conflicts.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/14/africa/ethiopia-explosion-finote-selam-intl/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/14/africa/ethiopia-explosion-finote-selam-intl/index.html</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span><b>We lost several important musicians:</b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqS1jniZ1np97MuGkEPoYKo5rzvPQsksWz7qVvbscd3p8kaaKSahMRYqJ6ri0bbZAkCdgI5rJwe9VNgEYcCE53xi9opbA_Fa9FVeYBEdZ5csStlD1s8tAmUgnajFVrI-I1M4jnqbl3tsfHgikaxTTWB7JWYdO2nTs_zcseUjTxupGSwTVmLvRWNDEDCCY/s680/bennett.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="680" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqS1jniZ1np97MuGkEPoYKo5rzvPQsksWz7qVvbscd3p8kaaKSahMRYqJ6ri0bbZAkCdgI5rJwe9VNgEYcCE53xi9opbA_Fa9FVeYBEdZ5csStlD1s8tAmUgnajFVrI-I1M4jnqbl3tsfHgikaxTTWB7JWYdO2nTs_zcseUjTxupGSwTVmLvRWNDEDCCY/w400-h300/bennett.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />Singer and social rights activist <b>Tony Bennett </b>passed
away on <b>July 21.</b></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/tony-bennett-racism-civil-rights-mlk-rcna95575">https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/tony-bennett-racism-civil-rights-mlk-rcna95575</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span>Singer and social rights activist<b> Sinéad O’Connor </b>passed
away on <b>July 27.</b></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span><a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/sinead-oconnor-death-a-life-in-activism-b1097080.html">https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/sinead-oconnor-death-a-life-in-activism-b1097080.html</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span>Singer/songwriter and social activist <b>Sixto Rodriguez </b>passed
away on <b>August 9</b>.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/music/rodriguez-sugar-man-protest-music-freedom-truth-in-america-1.6931249">https://www.cbc.ca/music/rodriguez-sugar-man-protest-music-freedom-truth-in-america-1.6931249</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span><b>Robbie Robertson</b>, the string-bending guitarist and
principal songwriter of The Band, and indigenous rights supporter passed away
on <b>August 9</b>.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/robbie-robertson-singer-storyteller-influencer-roots-six-nations-1.6934152">https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/robbie-robertson-singer-storyteller-influencer-roots-six-nations-1.6934152</a></span></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span><b>There were a lot of interesting cultural events over
the Summer that had Theosophical connections.</b></span></span></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span><b>OZ: A New Musical freeFall Theatre Company</b> Florida
Musical about<b> L. Frank Baum with Matilda Joslyn Gage</b> good run </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/freefalltheatre/posts/pfbid02iGCyNrh5jb9tMe8DmQHUDA3hKjafsPHCag7wvwuux2pMegXANL6XtxNRqB73ZuoZl">https://www.facebook.com/freefalltheatre/posts/pfbid02iGCyNrh5jb9tMe8DmQHUDA3hKjafsPHCag7wvwuux2pMegXANL6XtxNRqB73ZuoZl</a></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="r-18u37iz"><span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span class="r-18u37iz"><span>Indiana
Jones</span></span></b><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span><b> </b>and the Dial of Destiny was released. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span><a href="http://greydogtales.com/blog/fawcett-saga-1-lovecraft-book-dzyan/">http://greydogtales.com/blog/fawcett-saga-1-lovecraft-book-dzyan/</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg20mXqENJ4fgsdSgsiB7Uy4leE_oYp24tWbx6-xdB53jI7cAq6PIfxjbS692yqYfJa7zFFrZrupAyrA_3zE6vYL90ux2aXqvhGtA_OSLCiPqjssUqgG8JdVnvAl79rLF9DmksXMrEiLANy1XuDPaQnpWSlQKy1FtovLXnQubW-gf2Tqy5P2VyxSl9yXf0/s680/ozbarbie.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="680" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg20mXqENJ4fgsdSgsiB7Uy4leE_oYp24tWbx6-xdB53jI7cAq6PIfxjbS692yqYfJa7zFFrZrupAyrA_3zE6vYL90ux2aXqvhGtA_OSLCiPqjssUqgG8JdVnvAl79rLF9DmksXMrEiLANy1XuDPaQnpWSlQKy1FtovLXnQubW-gf2Tqy5P2VyxSl9yXf0/w400-h225/ozbarbie.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="r-18u37iz"><span><b>Hayao Miyazaki</b></span></span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span><b>'</b>s fantasy epic </span></span><span class="r-18u37iz"><span>The Boy and the Heron.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="r-18u37iz"><span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_and_the_Heron">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_and_the_Heron</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="r-18u37iz"><span> </span></span></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="r-18u37iz"><span><b>Barbie</b>
film has <b>Gnostic Wizard of Oz elements</b></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span><a href="https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/film/barbie-movie-wizard-of-oz-tiktok-theory-935689-20230717">https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/film/barbie-movie-wizard-of-oz-tiktok-theory-935689-20230717</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span> </span></span></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span><b>Oppenheimer film</b>, he was into the Bhagavad Gita.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span><a href="https://religionnews.com/2023/07/12/oppenheimer_gita/">https://religionnews.com/2023/07/12/oppenheimer_gita/</a></span></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span><b>Several major esoteric theosophical painting exhibitions:</b></span></span></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOxMLC_oPOR5JVqK0JpIcWSe1cRNymmrh1t0hh2BFfIUvsSPQpDLWxxKfnnieWUH9MelvxziLjzt61lH7IRGIF4I4zLcS48PpSK_RHkOTAHxwBUKck3arHhyv0BIi3wOZJ1D6Z92t4f3AXc3lFDQoo39RB5luUkD5YJSmfRq9SGDAHrbJVDXVZ844Vb1o/s2832/wiegand.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2832" data-original-width="2068" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOxMLC_oPOR5JVqK0JpIcWSe1cRNymmrh1t0hh2BFfIUvsSPQpDLWxxKfnnieWUH9MelvxziLjzt61lH7IRGIF4I4zLcS48PpSK_RHkOTAHxwBUKck3arHhyv0BIi3wOZJ1D6Z92t4f3AXc3lFDQoo39RB5luUkD5YJSmfRq9SGDAHrbJVDXVZ844Vb1o/w293-h400/wiegand.jpg" width="293" /></a></div>Embracing the Esoteric-</b>Inside Mystical Realm of Occult
Art June 19,2023 Eli Anapur Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Rubens Chagall
Miró Munch Dalí Kandinsky Ernst </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://t.co/hyl44uar9A" target="_blank"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span aria-hidden="true">https://</span></span></span><span style="color: #00ba7c;">widewalls.ch/magazine/occul<span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span aria-hidden="true">t-art</span></span></span></a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span aria-hidden="true"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>In London, another exhibition that brings
together two artists in dialogue opened at the Tate Modern. <a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/hilma-af-klint-piet-mondrian"><b>Hilma
af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life</b></a></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://artreview.com/just-the-two-of-us-the-rise-of-the-blockbuster-dialogue-exhibition/">https://artreview.com/just-the-two-of-us-the-rise-of-the-blockbuster-dialogue-exhibition/</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>“Another World:
Transcendental Painting Group</b>, 1938–1945” opened for the final stop of its
multi-museum tour at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, where it will
remain through June. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/transcendental-painting-group/">https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/transcendental-painting-group/</a></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The current<b> Charmion von
Wiegand </b>show at the Kunstmuseum Basel is her first solo institutional show</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/who-was-charmion-von-wiegand-geometric-abstraction-spiritual-art-1234664456/1920s-and-1930s/">https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/who-was-charmion-von-wiegand-geometric-abstraction-spiritual-art-1234664456/1920s-and-1930s/</a></span></span></div>
Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-50139310589137574142023-07-25T12:23:00.015-07:002023-08-05T06:11:46.703-07:00William Q Judge on Universal Brother/sisterhood<p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh03zUY_NkzZNQFACrMDbz0PBRVM3Ofq9fTwvEh-XhTsGmVI8H-zuZhQ2tluEiYMQ9pRMSl5IBZJlX-0HBQXxAEkk_ItbUQTbuYzxbrHOuhytO9QrNdx6H4nKeGJN0gUMd1UoghCD4Tva0mujrc9RAb48odExFNW-P55uZuf55g6wyrJZgqp4eOZ6bKjBc/s680/ub6.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="680" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh03zUY_NkzZNQFACrMDbz0PBRVM3Ofq9fTwvEh-XhTsGmVI8H-zuZhQ2tluEiYMQ9pRMSl5IBZJlX-0HBQXxAEkk_ItbUQTbuYzxbrHOuhytO9QrNdx6H4nKeGJN0gUMd1UoghCD4Tva0mujrc9RAb48odExFNW-P55uZuf55g6wyrJZgqp4eOZ6bKjBc/w400-h260/ub6.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">With a major war wreaking havoc in Eurasia, record <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/06/1120542">refugee numbers</a>, domestic violence <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/intimate-partner-violence-epidemic-1.6912359">epidemics</a>, and an urban <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/homelessness-affordable-housing-crisis-democrats-causes/672224/">homelessness crisis</a>, we can see how far we have gone from the imperfect, </span></span></i><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">utopic, </span></span></i><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">yet optimistic, idealistic, 1960s baby-boom period. We can see here how many of the problems are based on an inability for peaceful, tolerant and equitable co-existence. It is tempting to use an oft-repeated, dramatic romanticized catch-phrase, 'now the message of theosophy is needed more than ever'. I simply wish to point out how relevant the simple message contained in the article below can be today. Additionally, the theosophical ideal of universal brother/sisterhood need not seem like a naive, dreamy truism when one considers that <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/02/10-great-spiritual-thinkers-on.html">ten of the greatest peace activists</a> of the twentieth century have adopted this ideal. Indeed, many </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/01/20-quotes-about-universal-brother-and.html">great thinkers</a> from different walks of life, musicians, poets,
philosophers, athletes, politicians, novelists, playwrights, actors,
social activists and spiritual leaders,</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> have also eloquently promoted this notion. Why not consider adopting this valuable idea and help keep it alive in the twenty-first century?<br /></span></span></i></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The first object of our Society is the formation
of a nucleus of a Universal Brotherhood. This is a practical object and
at the same time a fact in nature. It has been long regarded by the
greater number of men as an Utopian ideal, one that might be held up,
talked about, desired, but impossible of attainment. And it was no
wonder that people so regarded it, because the ordinary religious view
of God, nature, and man placed everything on a selfish basis, offered
personal distinction in heaven to the saints who might die in the odor
of sanctity, and thus made impossible the realization of this beautiful
dream. But when the Theosophical philosophy shows that there is a unity
among beings not only in their better natures but also on the physical
plane, our first object becomes most practical. <span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>For if all men are
brothers in fact, that is, joined one to another by a tie which no one
can break, then the formation of the nucleus for the future brotherhood
is something that has to do with all the affairs of man, affects
civilizations, and leads to the physical as well as moral betterment of
each member of the great family.</b></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4D-o62-9qSAj5ibMmPoqyXxAl5h8USj5ypB8jVbHw8p9vnJDMqsSj-xJ9l-GQ81uAkqql0NVWuD5Gxh3BN9oU1QOPQw8c4W3piFFeyX43GgJ4YRD4KgoDk7MKI_hZVP_ZsN-bgosFaPpYgRF817MBqYO-AHbLzbrNgKgkI56YK0zggplfvQgonvVEOwI/s250/universal%20brotherhood1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="250" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4D-o62-9qSAj5ibMmPoqyXxAl5h8USj5ypB8jVbHw8p9vnJDMqsSj-xJ9l-GQ81uAkqql0NVWuD5Gxh3BN9oU1QOPQw8c4W3piFFeyX43GgJ4YRD4KgoDk7MKI_hZVP_ZsN-bgosFaPpYgRF817MBqYO-AHbLzbrNgKgkI56YK0zggplfvQgonvVEOwI/w400-h320/universal%20brotherhood1.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><br />This first object means philanthropy. Each Theosophist should
therefore not only continue his private or public acts of charity, but
also strive to so understand Theosophical philosophy as to be able to
expound it in a practical and easily understood manner, so that he may
be a wider philanthropist by ministering to the needs of the inner man.</b></span>
This inner man is a thinking being who feeds upon a right or wrong
philosophy. If he is given one which is wrong, then, becoming warped and
diseased, he leads his instrument, the outer man, into bewilderment and
sorrow.</span><p></p>
<p class="text-justify"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">
<span style="color: #990000;"><b>Now as Theosophical theories were and are still quite strange,
fascinating, and peculiar when contrasted with the usual doctrines of
men and things, very many members have occupied themselves with much
metaphysical speculation or with diving into the occult and the
wonderful, forgetting that the higher philanthropy calls for a spreading
among men of a right basis for ethics, for thought, for action.</b></span> So we
often find Theosophists among themselves debating complicated doctrines
that have no present application to practical life, and at the same time
other members and some enquirers breathing a sigh of relief when anyone
directs the inquiries into such a channel as shall cause all the
doctrines to be extended to daily life and there applied.</span></p>
<p class="text-justify"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>What we most need is such a Theosophical education as will give us
the ability to expound Theosophy in a way to be understood by the
ordinary person. This practical, clear exposition is entirely possible.
That it is of the highest importance there can be no doubt whatever. It
relates to and affects ethics, every day life, every thought, and
consequently every act. </b></span>The most learned, astute, and successful church,
the Roman Catholic, proceeds on this basis. Should we refrain from a
good practise because a bigot takes the same method? The priests of Rome
do not explain, nor attempt to explain or expound, the highly
metaphysical and obscure, though important, basis of their various
doctrines. They touch the people in their daily life, a knowledge of
their own system in all its details enabling them to put deep doctrine
into every man's language, although the learning of the preacher may be
temporarily concealed. With them the appeal is to fear; with us it is to
reason and experience. So we have a natural advantage which ought not
to be overlooked.</span></p>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim2YYbibOXcU4xzxJEuLb2HOBj6LXTIM6F37t31R6jVcBw1LQLYcFmrrL9oeZACqKPTQ4DMxWIokmoqHlCfcrF_-CqXeG7kTZWIWbq6dHEEui9sMpXL-w0ZYuA2cMdj8sRHVFtPpAUL_vChRWhQcruf2UYKjaQ6RGHDH192G6xOKXmUwwn3venNv9yLXs/s680/ub7.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="680" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim2YYbibOXcU4xzxJEuLb2HOBj6LXTIM6F37t31R6jVcBw1LQLYcFmrrL9oeZACqKPTQ4DMxWIokmoqHlCfcrF_-CqXeG7kTZWIWbq6dHEEui9sMpXL-w0ZYuA2cMdj8sRHVFtPpAUL_vChRWhQcruf2UYKjaQ6RGHDH192G6xOKXmUwwn3venNv9yLXs/w400-h266/ub7.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">High scholarship and a knowledge of metaphysics are good things to
have, but the mass of the people are neither scholars nor
metaphysicians. If our doctrines are of any such use as to command the
efforts of sages in helping on to their promulgation, then it must be
that those sages - our Masters - desire the doctrines to be placed
before as many of the mass as we can reach</span>. </b>This our Theosophical
scholars and metaphysicians can do by a little effort. It is indeed a
little difficult, because slightly disagreeable, for a member who is
naturally metaphysical to come down to the ordinary level of human minds
in general, but it can be done. And when one does do this, the reward
is great from the evident relief and satisfaction of the enquirer.</span><p></p>
<p class="text-justify"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">
<span style="color: #990000;"><b>It is pre-eminently our duty to be thus practical in exposition as
often as possible. Intellectual study only of our Theosophy will not
speedily better the world.</b></span> It must, of course, have effect through
immortal ideas once more set in motion, but while we are waiting for
those ideas to bear fruit among men a revolution may break out and sweep
us away.<b> <span style="color: #0b5394;">We should do as Buddha taught his disciples, preach, practise,
promulgate, and illustrate our doctrines. He spoke to the meanest of
men with effect, although having a deeper doctrine for greater and more
learned minds. Let us, then, acquire the art of practical exposition of
ethics based on our theories and enforced by the fact of Universal
Brotherhood.</span></b></span></p>
<p class="text-justify">
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">William Q Judge,<i> </i>What Our Society Needs Most<i>, The Path</i>, September, 1892, pp. 185-87.<br /></span></p>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-67865052824737025612023-07-03T03:59:00.001-07:002023-07-03T03:59:26.839-07:00Esoteric Aspects of War<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBsgRoThsHyiLJmAdp-YZuTNOKCpnpxHh_UkuAHa6UNhKLjzrrmksrvTM-y4rf6zt69Iz7zfWJpFvezAvqrHhB3hYVI7PATaogEkx2SGrtk4z4HAT457r8ra_mD0s_H4g3issVUo4cs7kQ8evObfldw4I17Tmbzyy6GteRFwdiKI9HCjSeCKlkiT8F/s1024/dore4.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="706" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBsgRoThsHyiLJmAdp-YZuTNOKCpnpxHh_UkuAHa6UNhKLjzrrmksrvTM-y4rf6zt69Iz7zfWJpFvezAvqrHhB3hYVI7PATaogEkx2SGrtk4z4HAT457r8ra_mD0s_H4g3issVUo4cs7kQ8evObfldw4I17Tmbzyy6GteRFwdiKI9HCjSeCKlkiT8F/w276-h400/dore4.jpg" width="276" /></a></div>From The Key to Theosophy, chapter 9:</span></span></span></span>
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<span><span style="line-height: 107%;">ENQUIRER. But "M. A. Oxon" (pen-name of William Stainton Moses) is a
Spiritualist?</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="line-height: 107%;">THEOSOPHIST. Quite so, and the only true Spiritualist
I know of, though we may still disagree with him on many a minor question.
Apart from this, no Spiritualist comes nearer to the occult truths than he
does. </span></span></div></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">From </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><a href="http://meilach.com/spiritual/books/st/spteach.htm">Spirit Teachings</a> by <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/William_Stainton_Moses">William Stainton Moses</a>, sections 2 & 3, 1883:</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Your wars and your wholesale murderings are even more
fearful. You settle your differences with your neighbours, who should be your
friends, by arraying against each other masses of spirits--we see not the body;
we care only for the spirit temporarily clothed with those human atoms--and
those spirits you excite to full pitch of rage and fury, and so you launch
them, rudely severed from their earth-bodies, into spirit life. You inflame
their passions, and give them full vent. Vengeful, debased, cruel, earth-bound
spirits throng around your earth- sphere, and incite the debased who are still
in the body to deeds of cruelty and lust and sin. And this for the satisfying
of ambition, for a passing fancy, for an idle princely whim, for lack of
something else to occupy a king.</span></span></div><p style="text-align: left;">
</p><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqz7hXw2KyAfS7sqmup--BSOQVN80q_Iyf0NcHPoDRbHfAXaF-Dg7OnZMHskH8g_zeUR_IjuacY0VdKZIC-SdOysANyCzLDQnsxaz2gHsJSoJndrNs_E08IrQukwPJQXI4SKo9IOUNG4-XlaEFXBjd1CJVey7Rs3My10_ZQdPpFJY3Goj1EIBmt8iL/s1280/goya5.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqz7hXw2KyAfS7sqmup--BSOQVN80q_Iyf0NcHPoDRbHfAXaF-Dg7OnZMHskH8g_zeUR_IjuacY0VdKZIC-SdOysANyCzLDQnsxaz2gHsJSoJndrNs_E08IrQukwPJQXI4SKo9IOUNG4-XlaEFXBjd1CJVey7Rs3My10_ZQdPpFJY3Goj1EIBmt8iL/w400-h225/goya5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Ah! friend, you have much, very much to learn: and you
will learn it by the sad and bitter experience of undoing here-after that which
you have now done. You must learn the golden lesson, that Pity and Love are
truer wisdom than vengeance and vindictive punishment; that were the Great God
to deal with us as you deal with your fellows, and as you have falsely fabled
that He will, you would be justly sent to your own imagined hell. You must know
of God, and of us, and of yourselves, ere you can progress and do our work
instead of our adversaries'.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: green;">Friend, when others seek from you as to
the usefulness of our message, and the benefit which it can confer on those to
whom the Father sends it, tell them that it is a Gospel which will reveal a God
of tenderness and pity and love, instead of a fabled creation of harshness,
cruelty, and passion. Tell them that it will lead them to know of Intelligences
whose whole life is one of love and mercy and pity and helpful aid to man,
combined with adoration of the Supreme. Tell them that it will lead man to see
his own folly, to unlearn his fancied theories, to learn how to cultivate his
intelligence that it may progress, to use his opportunities that they may
profit him, to serve his fellow-men, so that when they and he meet in the
hereafter, they may not be able to reproach him that he has been, so far as he
could, a clog and an injury to them. Tell them that such is our glorious
mission; and if they sneer, as the ignorant will, and boast of their fancied
knowledge, turn to the progressive souls who will receive the teaching of
wisdom: speak to them the message of Divine truth that shall regenerate and
elevate the world: and for the blind ones, pray that when their eyes are
opened, they may not despair at the sight which they shall see. (2)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGNiZKquw8cdpN7hCMHUQzJlVEJycLpyrliRSv7ubPXd2ojwJXRRjho5_6icvtSSULI5gYaZKyqPw26a1DsG3cpjK_wqP9Py4mXSf_MC116FpKYguLg6w8Tu7FgF9fZ9umQenjmseo0OjDZaLetaHnWoFa4j9D49EWkby9VizCyZirfYs691qh0Koc/s1200/goya3.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="859" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGNiZKquw8cdpN7hCMHUQzJlVEJycLpyrliRSv7ubPXd2ojwJXRRjho5_6icvtSSULI5gYaZKyqPw26a1DsG3cpjK_wqP9Py4mXSf_MC116FpKYguLg6w8Tu7FgF9fZ9umQenjmseo0OjDZaLetaHnWoFa4j9D49EWkby9VizCyZirfYs691qh0Koc/w286-h400/goya3.jpg" width="286" /></a></div>Wars are but the product of your lust for gain, your
ambition, your angry, proud, vengeful passions. And what is the product? God's
fair works destroyed and trampled under foot: the lovely and peaceful results
of man's industry destroyed: the holy ties of home and kindred severed:
thousands of families plunged into distress: rivers of blood shed wantonly:
souls unnumbered rent from their earth-body to rush unprepared, uneducated,
unpurified into the life of spirit. Bad, all bad! earthy! evil sprung from
earth, and resulting in misery. Till you know better than this, your race will
progress but slowly; but you are perpetually sowing seeds which produces a crop
of obstacles to our work.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Much there is in social knowledge and in the conduct
of State affairs that you must unlearn: much that is to be added to your
knowledge. (3)</span></span></div>
<p></p>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929979910017005834.post-52489173033646921902023-06-20T13:05:00.011-07:002023-08-15T13:47:33.958-07:00Astrology: Summer Solstice June 21, 2023, Part 2 Chart<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLzvAMlqc5ro_8EeN-bPolUAVweBmkKpADPMpYNUh1BoFw0JIlpKAc4AqRsaqnqw9zdrDzQ3yHoKLGlBAz7AEMJipkW1_BFnOrPKJWFvnVVPr1Qy2Q6XgKMSyMZm1rfklu6kiW3jL_CyqAkvaC4OmaqIWk9LJ5zPG4Ua0u6sSrwoPnfhrtdnKtZiiaUR4/s2048/fod1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1352" data-original-width="2048" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLzvAMlqc5ro_8EeN-bPolUAVweBmkKpADPMpYNUh1BoFw0JIlpKAc4AqRsaqnqw9zdrDzQ3yHoKLGlBAz7AEMJipkW1_BFnOrPKJWFvnVVPr1Qy2Q6XgKMSyMZm1rfklu6kiW3jL_CyqAkvaC4OmaqIWk9LJ5zPG4Ua0u6sSrwoPnfhrtdnKtZiiaUR4/w400-h264/fod1.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Field of Dreams</b></span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">The prognostic for the <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/03/astrology-spring-equinox-march-21-2023_16.html">Spring Equinox </a>was:<br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span lang="FR-CA">The <b>Sun
sextile Pluto </b>aspect brings a strong impetus for transformation and
introspection, to which are added intuitive, and communicative tendencies.
Spiritual inspiration can be quite vivid, but with tendencies for escapism and
delusion. Deep personal transformations affecting close relationships are
favoured. This is accompanied by some volatile energies that could see
conflicts, power struggles, surprise turnarounds, and sudden shifts to the
oncoming tendency for greater collective impetus to better understand social
problems and actively discuss solutions. How this combination of intense,
dreamy, quirky introspection with boisterous, outspoken extraversion plays out
could make for some picturesque moments.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">One of the more
visible manifestations of this prognostic which I have noticed are instances of
resolution to long-standing crime cases, information emerging leading to
re-opening cold cases, surprise breaks in cases, that kind of thing (which seems related to the Mars-Pluto opposition). There are
several cases of more violent crimes, but one example is an <a href="https://ozmapolitan.wordpress.com/2023/05/20/oz-in-the-news-5-20-23/">arrest in the case of theft of Dorothy’s red slippers</a> (The Wizard of Oz). <br /></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJHCLjSuI49YnWkiveyzzXz6fp13dEMGfyVI73Gw7hljl2HyGtAWT4FclguPWnvZ-l82wBtB4bjp74qVgfBxOmQIyzqiMpNfsnK9x7C8u7nIOXQXDkDjfiXuHxi07oPBAT0LR3291nCMFz8i8f21jY-hI9me1imlUHhQKAOzXEGhaSu9B7kmxftex0w74/s2133/fod2.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1204" data-original-width="2133" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJHCLjSuI49YnWkiveyzzXz6fp13dEMGfyVI73Gw7hljl2HyGtAWT4FclguPWnvZ-l82wBtB4bjp74qVgfBxOmQIyzqiMpNfsnK9x7C8u7nIOXQXDkDjfiXuHxi07oPBAT0LR3291nCMFz8i8f21jY-hI9me1imlUHhQKAOzXEGhaSu9B7kmxftex0w74/w400-h226/fod2.webp" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With a close
<b>Jupiter sextile Saturn (June 19)</b> and a tight <b>Mercury sextile Mars </b><b><span>(June 21)</span></b><span lang="FR-CA">, this is a pretty
positive chart </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">overall</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">, which can serve as a forecast of the entire semester, but with a fair bit of complications, various aspects
that can factor in more passionate, creative, imaginative tendencies.</span></span><p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Mercury
sextile Mars </span></b><span>Mental alertness,
enthusiasm, and energetic communications figure now. Quick You are productive
and take “busy-ness” in stride. Your conversations are animated and expressive
now, and spontaneous impulses tend to work for rather than against you.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Mars square
Uranus (June 26)</span></b><span> A volatile transit
that continues the difficulties of Sun opposite Pluto aspect of May 20, in
effect from roughly June 12 to July 10. Passions and anger that you may not
even know you had emerge during this transit. All of that anger “slush” that
has been accumulating inside you surfaces. Need to assert independence. Accidents,
possibly unusually surprising, especially if your activities and your energy
levels are erratic. Conflicts and violence are possible.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Moon, Venus, Mars conjunction</span></b></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>Moon, Venus, Mars conjunction</b> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>brings a more passionate,
imaginative, emotional, intuitive energy that figures in an intense, but wide
Moon, Jupiter, Pluto T-Square that can challenge the more focused Jupiter
sextile Saturn and Mercury sextile Mars aspects.</span></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: purple;">Venus conjunct Mars</span></b><span> You are especially creative now. Cooperating with others is easy. If
an existing relationship needs a boost, now is the time to put the extra effort
forth. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><b><span>Moon
conjunct Venus</span></b></span><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span> </span></span><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Feeling sentimental.</span></i><span> Your mood is especially romantic and sensual. Let it
guide you, and you might just find yourself in a very fortunate situation. This
energy is excellent for any behind-the-scenes or domestic activities. <span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"></span></span></span></div>
<h4 style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Moon conjunct Mars</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Your
emotions intensify and you instinctively desire change and adventure. This is a
time when you are likely to feel irritable if you don’t have something
adventurous, challenging, or physical to do. This is a good time to take a
chance, say what you feel, or do something exciting outside of your normal
routine. </span></span></h4>
<h1 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaeZKm8LQ-hS4Q5CY8BNBwEzzGVKrJvh_QPQpg-VhIca8RloyB30dPDuyVfcE4oL8TNP96kcJj_OCQA2jrefIB0RI9PysXtSr5JcEn6UVno9WoRNgVn4TvVlrT3LaVur_h7HLgNPX2ivjNLVQMA122lYSgzbplXqCzHDdDRxmw2e6xf8zhSk4jChHa2U4/s1102/summersolstice_2023_hn.73159.61431.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="748" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaeZKm8LQ-hS4Q5CY8BNBwEzzGVKrJvh_QPQpg-VhIca8RloyB30dPDuyVfcE4oL8TNP96kcJj_OCQA2jrefIB0RI9PysXtSr5JcEn6UVno9WoRNgVn4TvVlrT3LaVur_h7HLgNPX2ivjNLVQMA122lYSgzbplXqCzHDdDRxmw2e6xf8zhSk4jChHa2U4/w271-h400/summersolstice_2023_hn.73159.61431.png" width="271" /></a></div>Moon, Jupiter, Pluto T-Square</span></span></span></h1>
<h4 style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Moon opposition Pluto</span></span></h4>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>An issue from the past may come up to haunt you now,
or you could lose something. This is a time when that which is hidden has a
tendency to surface. Someone close to you might be dredging up the past.
Intensity in your personal relationships and/or some sort of inner emotional
turmoil is possible. </span></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><b><span>Jupiter
square Pluto</span></b></span><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span> Overly ambitious, self-righteous, competitive tendencies.</span></span></span></div>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Moon square
Jupiter</span></b><span> You may be feeling less
hopeful or optimistic during this brief transit. On the contrary, you could be
feeling over-confident or enthusiastic to the point of over-excitement and
potential letdown. The bottom line is that you are not especially realistic due
to moodiness. You’re not as inclined to consider the consequences of
over-eating, over-drinking, or overdoing in general.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>A few more aspects, of which Sun square Neptune is tight, adding more confusion to the T-square,
tend to balance each other out.</span></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Sun square Neptune</span></b><span> (June 18) can be difficult knowing where or how to
direct your willpower under this influence. It’s also a challenge knowing where
you stand with others. Confusion</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Mercury square Neptune</span></b><span> You are not thinking clearly just now, preferring
perhaps to daydream or inclined towards overly fanciful thinking. Technical
facts can be glossed over at this time. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><b><span>Sun trine
Saturn</span></b></span><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span> </span></span><span>You feel
grounded and stable right now. It’s easy to stick to a specific task and make
headway. Productivity may be slow, but it’s steady. You have common sense at
your disposal. <span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vknj5qynhoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Mercury sextile Venus</span></b><span> This transit favors diplomacy, charm, social graces,
negotiations, presentation of ideas, romantic overtures, teaching, business
deals, publishing, commerce, public relations, and joint ventures or
partnerships. </span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGhB-L_pEjzpQiQsJmQy0N6vqBxjiZ11uJf7AYZlTSlMtAugMl9xS7O_T2lJHCWtNYpfedrI2JCBy5rmFHnTPAm0macSuOM3296ZOA3AJ8lVlJYdo6y-fayynbtKMJHOTYPVdjEhQfonNHP9AIVg_Zm52jlQl_HvzGaaEjARiMhewI4w65BqIMTNpyQNY/s3500/fod3.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2280" data-original-width="3500" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGhB-L_pEjzpQiQsJmQy0N6vqBxjiZ11uJf7AYZlTSlMtAugMl9xS7O_T2lJHCWtNYpfedrI2JCBy5rmFHnTPAm0macSuOM3296ZOA3AJ8lVlJYdo6y-fayynbtKMJHOTYPVdjEhQfonNHP9AIVg_Zm52jlQl_HvzGaaEjARiMhewI4w65BqIMTNpyQNY/w400-h260/fod3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Ukraine<span> has made progress in pushing back Russian forces, but
the return of <b>Pluto in Capricorn </b>will probably tend to favour the conservative Russia. Most of
the aspects that signalled the invasion have faded, but I think that it’s
unlikely that peace discussions will progress much until <b>Pluto returns to
Aquarius on January 21, 2024.</b> After that, the overall conditions will be quite favourable,
but since the conflict has causes that go far back, it is difficult to say if
things will improve in 2024.</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #0b5394;">Overall,
the chart tends to indicate a favourable, productive Summer,with good potential
for imagination and creativity, balanced with practicality. The passions and
enthusiasms could tend to get out of hand and a <b>Pluto opposite Moon</b> would tend
to make things uncomfortable by being too restrictive and bringing up
deeply-repressed emotional issues. <br /></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Summary</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The
<b>Jupiter-Saturn sextile </b>brings a balanced, productive, efficiency while <b>Mercury sextile Mars</b> brings clear-minded, focused, articulate communication. A <b>Moon,
Venus, Mars conjunction </b>brings creative, imaginative, romantic inspirations,
but is complicated by an <b>opposition to Pluto</b>, which is part of a <b>T-square with
Jupiter.</b> Hence there could be confused, deluded, exaggerated postures, with an
underlying tendency for repressed emotional baggage to surface. Moreover, a</span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> volatile <b>Mars square Uranus </b>can bring conflicts </span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>based on need for asserting independence</span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>.</span></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>References </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://cafeastrology.com/thisweekinastrology.html">https://cafeastrology.com/thisweekinastrology.html</a></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></p>
<p></p>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0