Holy Night #1
What's up with Adam & Eve these days?
Greetings All - on this Christmas Eve 2024 - We are in the Advent Garden still, looking back at ourselves as Adam & Eve, ready now to cultivate a new paradise thru our Inner Festival of Light, in these 12 days & 13 Holy Nights.
2 Festivals stand at opposite ends of the Holy Nights: Christmas & Epiphany. They are the markers of 2 paths & 2 births. Christmas celebrates the birth of the Son of Man – Jesus; & Epiphany celebrates the birth of the Son of God - Christ. The Holy Nights fall between these 2 festivals, exemplifying 2 paths, one of a god towards humanhood, & the other, of a human being toward godhood.
But where did this tradition of the 12 days of Christmas come from?
We have to remember that the Lunar calendar is 12 days shorter than our modern Solar calendar, & that these extra days represent the Holy Nights. The Moon forces remain silent during these 12 Holy Nights, letting us step beyond the gate of necessity, into the realm of freedom. The Moon in slipping back, allowing the Sun forces to be unopposed. Open to the twelvefoldness that connects the Earth with the Spiritual Beings of the Zodiac - the Ones who created the human being.
Each of the 12 days & 13 nights – From the Eve of the Sacred Birth, to the Eve of Epiphany, can be seen as an experience of the macro-cosm, allowing us to approach the sublime gesture of these Divine Spiritual Beings, whose outer vestments are the Constellations of the Zodiac – while simultaneously contemplating the events in our own lives, in order to uncover the golden threads connecting us to each other, as well as to the goals of Earth evolution, & to the divine spiritual nature that comes to birth again & again at this darkest time of year.
The 12 days, with 1 hidden Holy Night on NYE, bring to life the picture of Christ in the center of the 12 disciples. This imagination comes at the heart of Winter, when the visible Sun is at its lowest point, but when the Inner Spiritual Sun at the Center of the Earth, is at its most powerful. At this very time, after the rebirth of the light at Winter Solstice, there comes into alignment a deep interconnection between the Sun, the Earth & the Constellations of the Zodiac.
In this encounter with the 'Midnight Sun', Earth receives beneficial health promoting forces for its new annual course. This encounter became a Cosmic Sacrament. Tonight at Sunset we begin.
1st Holy Night: Christmas Eve, Adam & Eve’s Day
Constellation of Pisces, The 2 Fishes
The Sphere of the Human Being (ruling the feet)
Virtue: Magnanimity Becomes Love
From light into darkness, thru darkness into new light – this is the path of human evolution symbolized by the region of the 2 Fishes. One fish swims down into the dark density of the physical, where we are graced with 2 feet to walk upright upon the earth, until we are ready to swim back up to spirit.
It’s thought-provoking to remember that each epoch is ruled by a prevailing constellation, guided by a particular Time-Spirit. Right now we are in the age of Pisces, guided by Michael.
For our contemplation of the Holy Nights, it is interesting to think back to the last time the forces from this region of the Zodiac were raying down their influence. Rudolf Steiner’s research tells us it was when the Sun separated from the Earth. The Christ-Being left with the Sun. And so the light that was within, began to shine from outside us.
This has been the work of the Mystery schools since Lemurian times, referred to as the ‘Initiation of the Fishes’. We see this reflected in many cultural legends: The great Manu learns of the impending flood from the Fishes.
While in the Gilgamesh epic Enkidu is called ‘Son of the Fish’.
The Guardian of the Grail receives the name the Fisher-King…etc…
John the Baptist had the task of preparing Jesus of Nazareth for the Fish-Initiation which he performed at the Baptism in the Jordan.
And of course the closest disciples of Christ-Jesus were fishermen (Luke 5:10). Later the ancient symbol of the Fishes came to be associated with those that could be called the Bearer of the Christ.
How striking it is to think that at the 1st Christmas, the symbol of the Fishes pointed, not only back, to the epoch when Christ left with the Sun; but also prophetically, to our time now, where humanity has the possibility to experience the ‘Second Coming of Christ in the etheric’; & then to the future time, when Christ will shine fully once again within the free & conscious human soul.
So here on the 1st Holy Night, in the constellation of Pisces, we find the Alpha & Omega of human evolution, expressing the very essence of Anthropos.
On this night what would it be like to hold a picture of our past selves in the Garden of Paradise, as informing our present & future reality?
Blessings & Peace ~hag
TODAY on the The 1st Holy Night – Christmas Eve, I share a series of podcasts on ‘I Think Speech’ to contemplate this sacred Time out of Time. I welcome your participation & insights
Here is a recording of the Holy Nights Flash Cards - a short overview of the Holy Nights
24 December 2024 - “Speaking with the Stars”
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Juleaften (Denmark)/Julaften (Norway)/Julafton (Sweden)
Nittel Nacht (certain Orthodox Jewish denominations)
Nochebuena (Spain and Spanish-speaking countries)
1818 – The first performance of “Silent Night” takes place in the church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria
1851 – The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., burns.
1865 – Jonathan Shank & Barry Ownby form The Ku Klux Klan.
1905 –Birthday of Howard Hughes, American businessman, engineer, & pilot
1914 – Deathday of John Muir, Scottish-American geologist, botanist, & author, founded Sierra Club
1914 – the Wedding of Rudolf Steiner to Maria Von Shivers
Here is the recording of Winter Solstice w/ Mysteria Mystica Americana MA
A Special gift from the Grand Lodge of MA: Richard Cloud, Hazel Archer, Lisa Dalton + guests: Michael Draskovic, Russell Blackstone
These ADVENT recordings are my gift to you
The First Week – Merry-Earth – The ‘Fire Trial‘ to ground our will, as we honor the physical mineral Kingdom.
The 2nd Week fo Advent – The ‘Trial by Water‘, to clarify & enlighten our feeling life, as we acknowledge the etheric realm & the plant world
The 3rd Week of Advent – The ‘Air Trial‘, to focus & free our thinking, as we purify the Astral Realm, which we shared in gratitude with the Animal Kingdom.
The 4th Week of Advent - Honors the human & Angelic realm
~hag.:.
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