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RUDOLF STEINER'S CALENDAR OF THE SOUL

translated (with added titles) by Roy Sadler

AUTUMN PRELUDE III

The Summer's Yield

v23

In autumn haze

the senses' lure fades;

a mist arising veils

the light's revealing.

In widths of space I see

the autumn landscape fall asleep;

the summer's yielded me her being

for me to reap.

This verse, the Soul Calendar's first mention of autumn, comes 2 weeks before the Autumn Equinox and 3 weeks after the square quartet verse that I regard as the transition from summer to autumn, giving v21 the title AUTUMN PRELUDE I. When do you, dear reader, believe autumn begins?

I hope we can reap now the summer's yield that the bees provide. Oh... may their colonies survive

and continue dancing living vibrations of Selfless Love.

WITH SENSE OF BEES

Oh let this sonnet sound with sense of bees

whose dancing learns the music light composes.

They gravitate in darkness and so eas-

ily one waggles, turns exact degrees,

shapes lemniscates and there, where sunspace lives,

it charts 'saliva of the stars', the nectar (a 'nectar expression' by Pliny, 1st century Roman)

found, danced for, gathered and condensed for winter

into fresh summer flower’s highest octave’s

remembrance, every sestet heaven’s droplet

men have prayed, climbed for. But our own light lapses.

Our poison spreads with ease: disease collapses

the colonies we’ve cared for. What last couplet

foretells our bond with nature… left… in silence…

or kept, dark songs’ light, learnt? Our sustenance…

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Thanks Roy

Yes, the waggle dance is a miracle made manifest...

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It has had numerous consequences throughout "his story" from catastrophic to englightening. We are seeing magnetic shift speed up and heading towards fault lines, with increased earthquakes and volcanoes. Perhaps I should do an AI deep dive and see what I can dig up.

Losing bees is bad news for everyone. Maybe this is the reason they are really pushing fake foods???

I will dig hag

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So true, these effects can be high or low & i was thinking the same think about the fake food - with Solent Green in every intestine,,,grrrrr,,,,

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Thank you, this connected more dots for me. In the Spring this year in Southern France we had bees a plenty, the sound in the fields was magnificent. And then Summer. Nothing, not a single one. And you can start to see it's effect already.

The butterflies and the dragonflies have been plenty. But, no bees, and only a few wasps. So sad

May we add pole shift to the many potential reasons?

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Hi ME - So sorry to hear about the bees in your area. Interesting to think how these sensitve creatures may also be responding to the pole shift as well.

Can you share more about what that means? My understanding is that it happens in a cyclical way as part of the yin turning to yang...but i haven't done much research on it

Thanks

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