I am gathering myself, like dew, reflecting back the cycle initiated on the lunar eclipse which befell during the Holy Saturday Harrowing of Hell – which was also the deathday of Rudolf Steiner - & which is now coming full circle in the eternal renewal of the Ouroboros on this EarthDay - Eve of the Passover Full Moon – fully realizing that at the center of this lemniscate America was imprinted with the solar eclipse on the New Moon of 8 April 2024.
Reflection #1 Assimilate
But before I shuttle the weft & warp of the interweaving retrospective of our working during the Eclipse Convergence, I stand here now, fresh from the Abattoir of an Anthroposophical Psychology training. Willing the redemption of the blood sacrifice enacted there thru the mythos of Orpheus, as the Lyrid Meteor Showers radiate from his lyre. For I find that my soul is fortified when I can work from the Above to the Below, in the looping infusing of the archetypes pouring in from the godhead into the flesh & bone - giving me the ability to transform the reeking astral meat into a fit food for the gods.
Orpheus was the son of the Thracian King Oeagrus & Calliope, Muse of epic poetry & heroic song - daughter of Zeus & Mnemosyne (goddess of memory) - the Queen of the 9 Muses.
Apollo, Greek god of the Sun, gave Orpheus a golden lyre & taught him to play; & thru his mother he learned to write powerful verses.
Orpheus was known for his ability to charm even the stones with his music, as well as for being the harpist companion of Jason & the Argonauts. Homer was said to be directly inspired by Calliope his mother to write the Iliad & the Odyssey.
The most famous story of Orpheus involved the death of his wife Eurydice, whose name means "true judgement", who in trying to escape a satyr at their wedding, fell into a nest of vipers & was bitten on the heel. Deeply shaken by the death of his bride, Orpheus played songs that made the nymphs weep. The gods were so stimulated by his music that they advised Orpheus to travel to the Underworld, where his songs deeply moved Pluto & Persephone. They agreed to return his beloved to the world of the living on one condition: Orpheus should walk in front of her never looking back until they both reached the upper world. Orpheus & Eurydice started walking, & as much as he wanted to embrace Eurydice, he did not look back. But as soon as he reached the upper world, Orpheus turned to help Eurydice thru to the portal, but since she was not yet fully across the threshold, she had to remain behind. Orpheus spent the rest of his life mournfully strumming his lyre while wandering aimlessly thru the land.
According to the mythos, in his grief Orpheus failed to make a sacrifice to Dionysus, "the liberator", a dying-and-rising god of ecstasy, turning instead to the Sun god Apollo for solace. So, in retribution Dionysus sent his Maenads to try & bring him back to the fertility rites. Instead, they went into frenzy thru the conflicting tones from the lyre of Orpheus, ripping him to pieces.
After his dismemberment the lyre of Orpheus was carried to the heavens by the Muses, who also collected the fragments of his body & buried them below Mount Olympus.
The constellation Lyra was seen by the Arabs as a vulture or an eagle diving with folded wings.
In Wales, Lyra is known as King Arthur's Harp (Talyn Arthur), or King David's harp.
The Persian Hafiz called it the Lyre of Zurvān - the chief Persian deity associated with the axis mundi, or the centre of the world - depicted as a winged, lion-headed deity encircled by a serpent, representing the motion of the Sun. Zurvān was the father of Ormand or Ahura Mazdā (Avestan: “Wise Lord”) & Angra Mainyu, or Ahriman (“Evil Spirit”) in the doctrine of Zoroastrianism, which strongly influenced Mithraism, as well as Manichaeism, & other schools of gnostic belief.
Lyra is also called ‘Praesepe Salvatoris’ - the Manger of the Infant Saviour.
And so dear friends, as the wise serpent bites its own tail, & the cycle in its completion continues to spin in my becoming, I commence the sharing of this provocative experience of Spiritual Activism in the here & now. For we can live into the energies of these meteor showers, which contain a direct working of the very highest spiritual powers of the 1st Hierarchy - the Seraphim & Cherubim. We can tune into their work of purifying the solar system. Meteor showers are the “scavengers of god.” Their mission is to expel impure astral forces from the Cosmos - AND to introduce new impulses.
Stay tuned.
~hag
For now, I leave you with this inspiring quote dedicated to my friend Anock, from Rudolf Steiner in his 9th lecture to the Priests: ‘Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse’:
Those who already took up the Christ principle in the first era of Christianity suffered a great deal in terms of external physical martyrdom. But things are coming to a head in this fifth age. Through the Rosicrucian-Anthroposophical spiritual stream, the Christ impulse will be taken into selves that are increasingly selfless—and taken in with increasing understanding. Its followers will achieve, through spiritual development, ever higher stages of spiritual life.
But another stream sharply opposed to this is working, through a certain cultivation of the I, to drive the I constantly deeper into materialism. Its goal is that materialism should finally conquer the human personality. A result of this impulse is that all external, practical life is detached from the individual, becoming physicalized.
The people who will be put to death for the sake of the Word will have to suffer much. But they will be the most important cultural force after the war of all against all. With the community at Philadelphia the sixth age will begin. (Interestingly I fly into the land of Brotherly Love each time for the AAP seminars)
Except for these spiritual human beings the rest of humankind will be entirely submerged in the materialism that will be constantly growing stronger. People will master the forces of nature to a high degree, as we have seen with wireless telegraphy and aeronautics. It is not without consequences whether the air is filled with spiritual thoughts or with thoughts of material needs. This will engulf our entire planet. We are looking into an age when humanity will intrude in large measure into air and light-filled space. What will be the fruits of this age?
Seen in their true form it can be said that these electromagnetic waves will work back into the forces of the earth. Then, according to good and evil, earthquakes and earth tremors will appear as the effects of human deeds.
(Earthquakes on 8 April 2024. And a few days before, there was a 4.8 earthquake in the New York area (note the number 4=April 8), which interrupted a meeting of the Security Council on the Israel–Hamas war at the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan. A performance at the New York Philharmonic was delayed by cell phones sounding an alert. Gas leaks were reported. Water main breaks. A truck fell into a sinkhole. Up to 550 buildings were damaged residents evacuated. Flights canceled…)
“When he opened the sixth seal I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth ...” (Rev. 6:12) When the feelings of human beings are carried into the air, they change all of nature and something like a meteor shower appears. In this way human beings unleash the forces of nature, but their achievements do not go unpunished. When we see this, it appears at the same time that humanity finds its own destruction within these unleashed forces of nature.
But those who unite themselves with the spirit appear as the sealed human beings. Such people must take into themselves the teachings that concern the spirit and can reach humanity.
What human beings take into themselves as spiritual substance and teaching will be their soul and spiritual life blood in the future. It will be the light that will ray forth from them as spirit.”
Until soon…
Many thanks Hazel for this deeper dive into Lyra and the connection with Orpheus and Eurydice.
This bit really caught my attention: The constellation Lyra was seen by the Arabs as a vulture or an eagle diving with folded wings. ...... (Aquila cadens - seems latin to me, but I digress)
You also helped me gain some clarity on a dream I had. It turns out that on the night/morning of the highest meteorite activity in Lyra, April 21st, I had a particularly vivid dream about eagles crashing into the ground. I certainly had no conscious sense bound knowledge of the events unfolding in the spirit world, but it seems as if my etheric body was certainly aware of these event.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts
Angus
EASTERTIDE IV - BELTANE
The Marriage Gift
v4
I feel the essence of my being,
so speaks perceptive feeling
that in the sunlit world
unites with floods of light;
it warms the clear mind
and marries Man and World.
The Celtic festival of Beltane was originally a marriage festival of God and Goddess at the first full moon after Easter, tomorrow. I have translated as 'marries' what literally would be 'bind firm in unity'. Beltane is a fire festival that celebrates the coming of summer and the fertility of the coming year.
The word means ‘fires of Bel’, a Celtic deity.