Astrology: Spring Equinox, March 20, 2023, Part 2

Brave New World

The difficult Saturn-Uranus square faded at the end of January 2023.  On March 7, Saturn entered Pisces. On March 24th, Pluto enters Aquarius, so the Spring equinox could see significant developments in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and this period of passage itself could be quite tempestuous. Overall, it can be considered to be the beginning of the more optimistic aspects of the Jovian decade of the Jupiter-Saturn cycle.

Generally the middle ten years of the 20-year Jupiter-Saturn cycle are the most productive (2025-2035) (Now certain optimistic people will attribute the positive upcoming aspects, along with the Saturn in Aquarius energy, to some kind of oncoming hyper-mystical Aquarian theophany, but I will just be giving the traditional astrological interpretations along with observations on the concrete plane).

2020 saw the start of three major cycles with Saturn-Pluto, Jupiter-Pluto, and the Jupiter-Saturn shift into 200 years of air transits.  The new Jupiter-Saturn cycle and a waning Pluto in Capricorn phase coupled with a waning Saturn-Pluto square brought the Covid epidemic, followed by American election protests and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, often causing the sweeping away of non-essential structures in people’s lives , causing to begin this new phase with a more stream-lined perspective.

With Saturn shift to Pisces, the conservative, rigid, authoritarian, energies will ease into more inclusive, open, creative concerns. The big shift of Pluto into Aquarius, signalling an end to a 15-year period that saw the emergence of reform movements such as occupy Wall street, #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, and #FridaysForFuture as well as an increase in right-wing authoritarian government repression, should make way for more progressive outlooks.

We have a very interesting, intense chart (which can also serve as a preview of the whole semester) with a Mercury, Sun, Neptune, Moon conjunction book-ended by Pluto and Uranus sextiles and a Mars square to it. Moreover, it coincides with the New Moon. Besides the Sun, Saturn and Pluto shifts, three more planets will have changed signs within a three-week period (Venus in Taurus, March 16, Mercury in Aries, March 19, Mars in Cancer, March 26) for a total of seven changes between March 7 and March 26. Hang on to your seats folks, we could be in for a bumpy ride!

Around March 16, there was a close Sun, Mercury, Pluto conjunction, to those still active aspects, the full moon joins in for a four-planet conjunction. This will create a strong intuitive, imaginative, spiritual, altruistic mood which can be impractical or disconnected. There is also forceful, eloquent, communicative aspects that bring analytical propensities. To emphasize the powerful passage of Pluto into Aquarius, there is a tight Sun sextile Pluto aspect, that can be considered to summarize the main quality of the chart:

A drive towards realizing your inner self and your life ambitions; cutting through a lot that is unessential; special relationship with an authority figure or teacher, one could get overpowered or “swept away” by another person. Subtle but profound changes within can alter significant relationships; self-respect, personal empowerment, and deeper honesty arises; a time of births and deaths. Group work on conscious awareness, deeper learning, healing; creative change and renewal; motivation to pursue dreams and ideas. (Astrology Café)

So there is a strong impulse to look for deep solutions, deep changes with an altruistic, analytical bent as useful tools. Added to this, Moon (in Pisces) sextile Neptune brings more sensitivity, imagination and a bent for quirkiness and originality. The risk of being overly dreamy, impractical and spacey (conspiracy theories and millennialism predictions can get even more extravagant) is balanced by Mars trine Saturn, that brings some needed focus and concentration.

To this very productive and progressive outlook, two more challenging aspects could bring considerable tension. The Sun, Mercury, Neptune, Moon conjunction is square to Mars, which brings impulsive, high energy, conflictual tendencies that  can make for some feisty Spring Sun in Aries disputes (Jupiter in Aries until May 16 is quite brash, bold and boisterous). Otherwise actions can be productive if channelled productively. Another Pluto aspect, square to Venus (in sensual Taurus), can add passion, jealousy, suspicion and power games in close relationships.

Summary

The Sun sextile Pluto aspect brings a strong impetus for transformation and introspective, 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.

Pluto returns to Capricorn on June 11 and returns to Aquarius, in January 2024. Afterwards, Neptune enters Aries – 2025, Uranus enters Gemini – 2025. Between 2025-2028, the optimistic Jovian phase of the Jupiter-Saturn cycle will reach its height with some positive outer planet sextiles and trines before the more stern Saturn phase ensues around the Jupiter-Saturn opposition in 2030.

For the coming semester

April 20 Total Solar Eclipse in Aries

May 5 Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio

May 16 Jupiter moves into Taurus

May 17 Jupiter square Pluto

June 11 Pluto Retrograde enters Capricorn

June 19 Jupiter in Taurus sextiles Saturn in Pisces

 

Current Planets in Signs 

 

Sun in Aries  March 20-April 20, 2023.

In Aries, the Sun is enthusiastic and spontaneous. We are motivated by the desire to conquer. We are more impulsive and have the urge to initiate.

Moon in Pisces  

With the moon in Pisces, individuals are very sensitive, and they often lose themselves in the problems and feelings of others, towards whom they are extremely receptive. They are imaginative beings, and may seem to get lost in their own fantasy world at times.

Mercury in Aries  March 19-April 3, 2023.

We are less concerned with objective viewpoints and explanations, and more concerned with reaching a decision…quickly! Our thoughts and ideas are pioneering, and we tend to speak more spontaneously and directly

Venus in Taurus March 16-April 11

In Taurus, Venus is naturally very sensual, content, and possessive. We seek security and value those things that are long-lasting. Our appetite for pleasure is strong.

Mars in Gemini Aug. 20-March 25

In Gemini, Mars is versatile and flexible but not especially determined or focused, it’s an excellent period for diversifying our interests. We know how to maneuver things to get our way. We use words to charm and express anger. We’re very talkative, and animatedly so

Jupiter in Aries Dec. 20 - May 16, 2023

In Aries, Jupiter urges us to make our own opportunities, to believe in ourselves, and to take charge of our lives. Faith in our ability to reinvent our lives and to move forward with confidence in spite of any “failures” or other challenges we may be leaving behind is strong during this cycle. We enjoy competition as it pushes us to do better. We live in the “now” and quickly seize opportunities. Negative manifestations include a too narrow focus, a me-first attitude that can be insensitive, failing to consider others’ points of view and leaving opportunities behind as a result, over-confidence, not learning from past mistakes, and a lack of objectivity.

 Saturn in Pisces March 6, 2023 – May 24, 2025

Quietly working hard can be a real strength of this position. We’re learning to allow ourselves to be creative and imaginative. We’re also capable of considerable effort and hard work in support and service. It’s easier for us to put our ego aside in order to get things done.

Uranus in Taurus  March 6th, 2019-June 2025

We approach money and personal possessions in new ways and learn to free ourselves from certain material constraints. Innovative ways to make ourselves comfortable emerge. We’re less inhibited about expressing sensuality. There can be abrupt changes with money, valuables, possessions, and income that lead to a reshuffling of priorities or values. Income might come from non-traditional sources or ventures. In general, we’re bringing progressive ideas to the world of business

Neptune in Pisces  Feb.2, 2012 –March 30, 2025

Your vision of an ideal world may center around compassion, mercy, empathy, service, sacrifice, intuition, artistry, or spirituality. This Neptune sign position is especially sensitive, intuitive, and imaginative. It can also be rather escapist!

Pluto in Aquarius  March 23rd - June 11^th

During this long-term cycle, we will likely confront issues of control and power related to individuality, equality, friendships, and group associations. We can be on a quest to distinguish ourselves for our progressiveness, scientific minds, ideals, humanitarianism, or unique qualities. It’s also a time when we seek to change and overhaul society through science, inventions, and the mind/ideas.  

 

References 

https://cafeastrology.com/thisweekinastrology.html

Astrology: Spring Equinox, March 20, 2023, Part 1, Review

For the Winter Solstice chart, I wrote:

The next semester should be less intense than the previous, but a passionate combative tendency remains. There could a fair amount of strange, surprising events, with a good share of light-hearted moments, possibly leading to creative, positive solutions.

To give a few examples of how that general mood played out, we have Greta Thunberg, who was involved in some curious incidents over the semester. There was a curious Twitter exchange with MMA practioner David Tate. There was also a most curious ‘staged police detention’ theory, and an equally curious exchange with Rebel News reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. Curiouser and curiouser indeed, although I do think the police have improved their Greta removal techniques in a recent Norway protest.

Moreover, the ever-quixotic Peter Gabriel, ended speculation about an oft-announced new album by releasing first new material in over two decades. 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. Additionally, Prince Harry released his autobiography, which could quite possibly be the weirdest book ever written by a royal. In the US, another president has been leaving his files at home.

Although not as numerous and dramatic as the previous semester, there were still a few significant protests, notably in Peru (over deposition of former president Castillo), Israel (over 80,000 Israelis protest against Supreme Court reform), Brazil (Bolsonaro supporters), France (retirement age pension eligibility), and Greece (major train derailment). In Canada, the results of an inquiry into the Ottawa trucker convoy occupation revealed a comedy of errors.

 

Furthermore, a rare 50, 000 year-cycle comet appeared in the skies and a major earthquake rocked Turkey and Syria. As Saturn entered Pisces on March 7, 200 countries agreed to a legally-binding treaty, the UN High Seas Treaty,  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 California and Australia, as well as a major storm, cyclone Freddy, in Malawi.

Astrology: Pluto in Aquarius, March 23, 2023

Abridged version  of an article by Anne Whitaker https://anne-whitaker.com/2022/11/28/march-2023-to-november-2024-plutos-slow-final-grind-from-capricorn-to-aquarius/

March 2023 to November 2024: Pluto’s slow final grind from 

Capricorn to Aquarius…

 

• Pluto enters Aquarius on 23 March 2023
• Retrogrades into Capricorn on 11 June 2023
• Re-enters Aquarius on 21 January 2024

the big shift from an Earth era defined by the 20-year Jupiter/Saturn cycles traversing the Earth element from 1803, to an Air era beginning with the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction at 0 Aquarius on the Winter Solstice of 2020, then running for around two hundred years. (i)

Pluto will emphasise this momentous era shift by first entering Aquarius in the spring of 2023, following on his long sojourn in Capricorn from the spring of 2008 which kicked off with a devastating world banking crisis. Also – in 2025 Neptune enters Aries, for the first time since the onset of the American civil war in the 1850s, ushering in a Fire/Air period for the next number of years.

Aquarius is the sign of the human collective, symbolising an energy driven to pursuing and promoting ideals regarding how we should be moving forward in order to create a fairer, more equal world. It is a highly rational, technology and future-oriented, “Let’s get together to make the world a better place”, kind of energy. 

As such, we should see some major developments at all levels as power (Pluto) shifts towards The People, away from plutocrats, oligarchs, and from politics rooted in gaining material power and control through exploitation of planet Earth’s diminishing resources, towards (in theory!!) more equal world-wide sharing of power derived from an Air-based technologically expedited economic system. Also, the development of wind and solar energy is likely to accelerate with Neptune’s shift into Aries from 2025 onwards. 

Pluto’s last sojourn through Aquarius (1778–1798) brought with it sweeping changes in social order and public rights, including: the ratification of the American constitution following the USA’s breaking away from Britain’s colonial control, the rise and expansion of the Industrial Revolution, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the publishing of ‘The Vindication of the Rights of Women’ by Mary Wollestonecraft. 

From https://cafeastrology.com/pluto-aquarius-transit.html

Background: While Pluto was in Capricorn from 2008 to 2023/2024, we were testing our boundaries. It was an intense period of breaking down, exposing, renovating, and rebuilding structures, governments, traditions, and rules. We sought a life path that reflected our true self or true ambitions. Pluto was/is in Capricorn from January 25, 2008, to June 14, 2008, November 26, 2008, to March 23, 2023, June 11, 2023, to January 20, 2024, and then September 1, 2024, to November 19, 2024.

Pluto demands renovation and a connection with our true ambitions wherever it touches our charts. Pluto will reveal vulnerable areas that need strengthening and fears that need eradicating. During this transit of Pluto in Aquarius, it’s time for a complete overhaul of:

• friendship,
• social structures and networks,
• community,
• group associations,
• humanitarianism and individuality,
• scientific inventions and progress,
• our happiness goals.

While Pluto is in Aquarius, we take social structures and politics especially seriously, and we seek major reform in these areas. Unusual, intense, or dramatic happenings are possible with friends and networks.During this long-term cycle, we are likely to confront issues of control and power related to individuality, equality, friendships, and group associations.

We can be on a quest to distinguish ourselves for our progressiveness, scientific minds, ideals, humanitarianism, or unique qualities. It’s also a time when we seek to change and overhaul society through science, inventions, and the mind/ideas. It can certainly be a time when we are more intense, jealous, or even paranoid in our social lives. New ways of approaching our social needs can be in order. We’re doing things differently because of our new perspective on these matters.

(i) See the P.S Windows to the Future section of my recent collection “Postcards to the Future”(August 2021), including ‘Waning and waxing crescents: windows to the future’ (first published in The Mountain Astrologer Dec 2020/Jan 2021)pp 365-380

(ii)https://jessicadavidson.co.uk/2021/06/07/pluto-in-aquarius-the-evolution-of-society-and-technology/

Astrology: Saturn in Pisces, March 7, 2023

An abridged article by Clarisse Monahan,   Fri, 10 Feb 2023 https://www.russh.com/saturn-in-pisces-march-2023/

until February 2026

For the past six years, Saturn has been relatively happy in the two signs it rules, Capricorn (2017 to 2020) and Aquarius (2020 to 2023). During these jaunts, the Taskmaster has been able to live its best life: controlling and restricting things; disciplining wrongdoing; streamlining and eliminating inefficient processes from the workplace; surveilling our words and world via technological incursion.

Unlike the rigidity of Saturn+Cap+Aquarius, Pisces is a mystical and mutable sign with little interest in rules, schedules, or keeping appointments. It’s about long meditation in search of Samadhi, or losing oneself in the gaze of a soulmate; its politics are communistic; it lives in a commune; and it finds value in the skein of New Age affirmations, which curl like a loose shawl about its shoulders.

In almost all respects, we have in these two energies deep opposition. Saturn is cold and dry, Pisces watery and emotional. Saturn strict, Pisces soft. Saturn indicates subtraction, Pisces addition. The major cause for these differences, of course, has to do with the fact that expansive Jupiter rules over the Fishes. Saturn (lack) and Jupiter (abundance) represent our two cosmic titans at loggerheads.

The eternal jostling of these two planets have played out with particular fever pitch the past few years. In 2021, for example, Jupiter spent nearly 12 cold months in cold Saturn-ruled Aquarius. We all know how that year went: Jupiter debilitated and locked down, like the rest of us.

In 2022, however, Planet Luck moved over to Pisces–where it’s in rulership and has power. Saturn, meanwhile, stayed in the Waterbearer. And we saw, with the liberation of Jupiter in its home sign, a year of expansion, but also excess, as inflation reached madcap levels.

Saturn is going to be debilitated in 2023 and beyond in the emotional waters of Pisces.

We supposedly dislike Saturn but we secretly need and want it in our lives. The problem is that it will be functioning more like a confused step-dad for the next few years–not knowing where its authority lies, while enervated amid a slightly unruly and messy house.

Weaker Boundaries

Too much feeling for a friend turned enemy or lover. We used to long for the days of emotional freedom and connection back when Saturn entered Aquarius, and social distancing became normalised. Now with Saturn playing a weak hand, we could be feeling emotionally suffocated by others–or we ourselves might be coming across as suffocating.

The Rise of Hydropolitics

there could be intensified issues over the next couple years related to hydropolitics–who gets water, who doesn’t; who gets to use waterways and consequent disputes over territories at sea.  A related issue could be water getting more unruly–more flooding, storming.

Fake News Flash

we can expect intensified disputes over what’s real in media and political spaces. When we asked earlier if it was a good thing that the Disciplinarian was going to be debilitated, it’s around questions of what’s real that we are most concerned.

Spiritual Discipline

For those spiritually inclined, Saturn will help add discipline and structure to your yin yoga practices and meditation retreats. Spirituality without structure is just navel-gazing.

Saturn, Editor

Overly bloated ideas for stories, poems, advertising, scripts, screenplays, dissertations, political pamphlets could get winnowed down by Saturnal presence in the Fishes.

10 Great Spiritual Thinkers on Universal Brother and Sisterhood

Perhaps one of the most significant accomplishments of the early theosophical movement was a certain success in popularizing the notion of universal brotherhood. The notion does have roots in esoteric traditions (Masonry, Rosicrucianism, and further back), but it's 20th century influence can be linked to certain Christian schools and socialist movements as well. To what extent theosophy has been a specific influence on the esteemed company presented below would require further research, although it can already be quite apparent in several cases. Suffice to observe that some of the greatest spiritual leaders and social activists of the 20th century have been eloquent and powerful spokespeople of this beautiful ideal.

1- Leo Tolstoy 

 

Theoretically it follows, indeed, having extended the love and interest for the personality to the family, the tribe, and thence to the nation and the state, it would be perfectly logical for men to save themselves the strife and calamities that result from the division of mankind into nations and states by extending their love to the whole of humanity. (The Kingdom of God is Within You, 1894, 45)

 

2- Jane Addams

This paper is an attempt to analyze the motives which underlie a movement based, not only upon conviction, but upon genuine emotion, wherever educated young people are seeking an outlet for that sentiment for universal brotherhood, which the best spirit of our times is forcing from an emotion into a motive. These young people accomplish little toward the solution of this social problem, and bear the brunt of being cultivated into unnourished, oversensitive lives. They have been shut off from the common labor by which they live which is a great source of moral and physical health. They feel a fatal want of harmony between their theory and their lives, a lack of coordination between thought and action. I think it is hard for us to realize how seriously many of them are taking to the notion of human brotherhood, how eagerly they long to give tangible expression to the democratic ideal. (Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes. by Jane Addams. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1912 (c.1910) pp. 116-17)

3- Helen Keller 

 

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. 

 

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. (Optimism: An Essay 1903, pp. 46-47)

4- Mohandas K. Gandhi

My mission is not merely brotherhood of Indian humanity. My mission is not merely freedom of India, though today it undoubtedly engrosses practically the whole of my life and the whole of my time. But through realization of freedom of India I hope to realize and carry on the mission of the brotherhood of man. My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount upon the distress or the exploitation of other nationalities. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large. 

Not only that, but my religion and my patriotism derived from my religion embrace all life. I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth. I want, if I don't give a shock, to realize identity with even the crawling things upon earth, because we claim descent from the same God, and that being so, all life in whatever form it appears must be essentially one. (Young India, 4-4-1929, p.107/The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi, 1945, p. 135 )

5- Martin Luther King Jr.

And if we will only make the right choice, we will be able to transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of peace. If we will make the right choice, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our world into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. If we will but make the right choice, we will be able to speed up the day, all over America and all over the world, when justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream. (“Beyond Vietnam,” 4 April 1967, NNRC)

 

It really boils down to this: all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny… Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly… This is the way our universe is structured. We aren’t going to have peace on earth until we recognize this basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality. (“A Christmas Sermon for Peace”, 1967)

6- Thích Nhất Hạnh 

 

Harmony, however, is impossible if we do not have a global ethic, and the global ethic that the Buddha devised is the Five Mindfulness Trainings. The Five Mindfulness Trainings are the path we should follow in this era of global crisis because they are the practice of sisterhood and brotherhood, understanding and love, the practice of protecting ourselves and protecting the planet. The mindfulness trainings are concrete realizations of mindfulness. They are non-sectarian. They do not bear the mark of any religion, particular race, or ideology; their nature is universal. (The World We have) https://www.lionsroar.com/the-world-we-have/

7- Desmond Tutu 

For this universe has been constructed in such a way that unless we live in accordance with its moral laws we will pay the price. And one such law is that we are bound together in what the bible calls “The bundle of life”. Our humanity is caught up in that of all others. We are human because we belong. We are made for community, for togetherness, for family to exist in a delicate net work of interdependence. Truly, ‘it is not good for man to be alone’. For none can be human alone. We are sisters and brothers of one another whether we like it or not. (Tutu D 1999. No Future Without Forgiveness. Johannesburg: Rider, 154)

8- The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso

Today, the world is interdependent as never before, which is why we need a keen sense of the oneness of all human beings. We have to take the whole of humanity into account. We have to understand what we have in common with everyone else. (Twitter, Oct 2, 2020)

I don’t like formality. There’s no formality when we’re born and none when we die. In between we should treat each other as brothers and sisters because we all want to live a happy life. This is our common purpose and our right. (Twitter, Jan 24, 2020)

9- Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio

This is the true path of peace, not the senseless and myopic strategy of sowing fear and mistrust in the face of outside threats. For a real and lasting peace will only be possible “on the basis of a global ethic of solidarity and cooperation in the service of a future shaped by interdependence and shared responsibility in the whole human family” (Fratelli tutti, 3, 127)

  

10- Helena Blavatsky

We are all brothers—by the laws of Nature, of birth, and death, as also by the laws of our utter helplessness from birth to death in this world of sorrow and deceptive illusions. Let us, then, love, help, and mutually defend each other against this spirit of deception; and while holding to that which each of us accepts as his ideal of truth and reality—i.e., to the religion which suits each of us best—let us unite ourselves to form a practical ‘nucleus of a Universal Brotherhood of Humanity WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF RACE, CREED, OR COLOUR.’ ("What good has Theosophy done in India?" Lucifer, Vol. II, No. 8, April, 1888, p. 91 -(CW 9, 134))

30 quotes about Universal Brother and Sisterhood

This notion of universal brother and sisterhood is an idea that has a rich history and has inspired  many great thinkers from different walks of life, musicians, poets, philosophers, athletes, politicians, novelists, playwrights, actors, social activists and spiritual leaders. It's a notion that may sometimes wane in popularity, but never really grows old, and thus it can be helpful to look at a sample of eloquent reflections on the subject by some distinguished figures of history, which can be even more relevant, timely, and even necessary, in more turbulent times.

 

1- I know that I need a brother who shares this tender, taunting heritage. True friendship. I desire a sister who is not in denial of our mutual past. Together we may be able to plan a less painful future. Separate, we can only anticipate further ruptures and grotesque loneliness.
Maya Angelou, Even the Stars Look Lonesome, 1997, p. 112 

 

Maya Angelou

2- There is the sky, which is all men's together. 

Euripides, Helen, 905

 

3- Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different.

Muhammad Ali, O, The Oprah Magazine, June 2001

 

4- We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.  

Henry Melvill, "Partaking in Other Men's Sins", Melvill’s Golden Lectures for 1855, 1856

Kahlil Gibran

5- I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of the one supreme being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all. 

Kahlil Gibran, A Third Treasury of Kahlil Gibran, 1974, p. 102

 

7-Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

Thomas Carlyle,

Goethe's Works.

Source: https://quotepark.com/quotes/1866895-thomas-carlyle-a-mystic-bond-of-brotherhood-makes-all-men-one/

Goethe's Works.

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Goethe's Works.

Source: https://quotepark.com/quotes/1866895-thomas-carlyle-a-mystic-bond-of-brotherhood-makes-all-men-one/

Goethe's Works, 1832, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished, Vol. 2

 

8- The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. 

Thomas Merton, final address, conference on East-West monastic dialogue, 10 December 1968, Religious Education, Vol. 73 (1978), p. 292

 

9-God, what a world, if men in street and mart,

Felt that same kinship of the human heart,
Which makes them, in the face of fire and flood,
Rise to the meaning of True Brotherhood.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Brotherhood, Picked Poems, 1912

 

10- Let us acknowledge our weaknesses as a prelude to increasingly our strength. Let us use the admission of weakness not to excuse our own self-indulgence, but to help us understand and forgive others, for this is the secret of brotherhood, its pattern and its aim – to create a world of men, each of whom can feel secure in the conviction that all other men are his brothers – not his enemies.

Oscar Hammerstein II, “4 Leaders Honored at Hub Dinner”, Boston Post, 9 May, 1952

 

11- Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; 

and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all. 

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,  Hope, Faith, and Love, "The Words of Strength"(about 1786) , The Common School Journal Vol. IX (1847) ed. Horace Mann, p. 386 

 

12- It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That’s the only thing that can save this country.

Malcolm X,  New York City Speech, February 19, 1965 

 

Louisa May Alcott

13- Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and can be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face. 

St. Francis of Assisi, Admonitions, 25. Of True Love

 

14- The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.

Charlie Chaplin, The Barber's Speech, The Great Dictator, 1940

 
15- The child has talent, loves music, and needs help. I can't give her money, but I can teach her; so I do, and she is the most promising pupil I have. Help one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood.    

Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl, 1870, Ch. 13

 

16- The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man. 

Pablo Casals, Joys and Sorrows : Reflections‎ by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn, 1970, p. 299

 

17-

Helen Keller

What he now calls the law of justice

Will prepare for him the law of sacrifice

A law more holy, where the instinct of fraternity

Will devote man freely to humanity!

Alphonsede Lamartine, The Fall of the Angel, Œuvres complètes de Lamartine, Vol. 16, 1861, p. 251

 

18- 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. 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.

Helen Keller, Optimism, 1903, pp. 46-47

 

19- In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good. 

Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791, Part 2.7 Chapter V 

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

20- I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development.

W. E. B. Du Bois,  Selections from His Writings, 2013, p.61 

 

21-To transform the world, to recreate it afresh, men must turn into another path psychologically. Until you have become really, in actual fact, a brother to every one, brotherhood will not come to pass. 

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880, Ch.2

 

22- A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man. 

Frederick Douglass, Composite Nation  speech in Boston, Speeches and Articles by Douglass, 1894 

 

Frederick Douglass,

23- Come, clear the way, then, clear the way: 

Blind creeds and kings have had their day. 

Break the dead branches from the path; 

Our hope is in the aftermath — 

Our hope is in heroic men, 

Star-led to build the world again. 

To this Event the ages ran: 

Make way for Brotherhood — make way for Man. 

Edwin Markham, Brotherhood,  The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems, 1899

 

24- In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

Booker T. Washington, An Autobiography, The Story of my Life and Work, 1901, p. 140 

 

25-Masonry only sees, in all those religionaries but people, brothers and sisters to which it opens its temple to free them from the prejudices of their countries, of the mistakes of the religions of their ancestors, by bringing them to love and help one another: because Masons deplore and flee error, but neither hate nor persecute it.

Jean-Marie Ragon, Cours philosophique et interprétatif des initiations anciennes et modernes, 1841, p. 37

 

26- If you wish them to be brothers, have them build a tower. 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, 1948, p. 52

 

27- May all these people and all their generations walk together as relatives.

Black Elk, Sacred Pipe, 1953, 37

 

28- Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

John Lennon, Imagine, 1971 

 

29- Well, we have a whole new year ahead of us. And wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, a little more loving, and have a little more empathy, and maybe, next year at this time we'd like each other a little more.

Judy Garland, "The Judy Garland Show.", Sunday, January 5, 1964.

 

30- Only much later will they discover that they have entered into a new community, great but invisible, which encompasses all peoples and all religions. They will be poorer in all dogmatic, national goods, but richer in brotherhood with the souls of all epochs, nations, and languages. Hermann Hesse, Reflections, 1974