Thursday February 29, 2024
– Disseminating Moon Phase – share, demonstrate, teach, learn, feed back, distribution
– Moon in LIBRA – Void of Course 1:22 PM – 2/28 10:09 PM Moving to Scorpio – ANOTHER LONG VOID
– Best Days (from the Farmer’s Almanac) –
February 28 – 29 – Go Hunting, Prune Trees, Mow to Slow Growth, Jar Jams/Jellies, Can Fruits and Vegetables
– Planting Calendar (from the Farmer’s Almanac) – 28th – 29th -Start seedbeds. Good days for transplanting. Plant carrots, turnips, onions, beets, Irish potatoes, and other root crops in the South. Lettuce and other leafy vegetables will do well.
– Aspect of the Aeon Sophia: (Wisdom): – Kali – The Destroyer
– Aspect of the Aeon Thelete: (Will/Desire): Seth , God of the North
– Sabian Symbol for the Solar-Lunar Month – New Moon in Aquarius SUN/MOON – SUN/MOON – 21 AQUARIUS: a woman, disappointed and disillusioned, courageously facing a seemingly empty life (EARTH – 21 LEO: intoxicated chickens dizzily flap their wings tying to fly )
SUN – 11 PISCES: men traveling a narrow path seeking illumination
EARTH – 11 VIRGO: a boy molded in his mother’s aspirations for him
Leap Day
Leap day is a time out of time day. It only happens once every 4 years. And its inclusion in the Gregorian Calendar allows for the basic error in its design. It is the 366th day.
I have always marveled at people born on this day – a leap baby or leapling. I worried for them. It is so technically weird, since they only have a “birth day” every 4 years. I never knew anyone who had this. My mother did and told me they always made it a fun thing – every 4 years.
For this “out of time” day, I am going to look back a few years at an article I wrote about the Hermetic Laws. This was just an introduction. And I had planned on writing more about it later. Well that was 2022 and I guess this is later.
Loosely repeated from Astrogardens.com – Tuesday September 13, 2022
Defense Against the Dark Arts – Class is in Session
Part of fighting the good fight against the unknown is having a firm understanding of the past. And this is not the past taught in History books in government schools. This takes a little bit more. More research. More determination. More guts.
Uncovering this information is an opportunity to learn. But it is also the chance to find out things that may have been hidden. Please understand this. I am not a primary research historian. I have read and watched a lot of historical documentary informtion. And when it interests me, I dig deeper.
My interest today is in science. More specifically what constituted science back before there were “scientists.” Think of the early days where DaVinci was creating brilliant artwork and designing the helicopter at the same time. Galileo and Kepler were researching the Stars. Isaac Newton was “discovering” gravity. All pointing back to a time we call the Renaissance.
But where were they looking for research? It wasn’t Harvard or Yale or Oxford (well Newton was at Cambridge but who is counting).
Anyways, they did not have Basic Chemistry or Basic Biology or Basic Physics books that any kid can find in a library. What they had were the Classicists (Aristotle, Plato, Socrates etc). They are part of the lost history. We know about them. We know of some of their writings. But not a whole lot after that.
And what is it that they believed? What principles did they follow? I would like to uncover some of them and open a discussion about them. So we will start with Hermes.
The 7 Hermetic Principles
Hermeticism is a tradition that dates back to 1st and 2nd centuries AD (you know, just after Jesus where the only real historical accounts we have are religious texts (Bible).
It is one of the oldest non-Christian belief systems that is still known today. The major teachings associated with Hermeticism were preserved. They can be found in Byzantine collections of writings and letters called the Corpus Hermetica, where the key tenets of this world view are explained. Of course they were written in Ancient Greek, but who is stopping you from reading that?
Actually, many of them were translated into Latin during the 15th century (the Renaissance, you know) . They’re widely thought to have inspired and influenced a great many philosophers and artists during this time.
Their modern popularity derives from the Freemasons, who rediscovered the Hermetic Principles and spread their wisdom. One of the main reasons why Hermeticism has endured is that it “explains” the basic fabric of reality in a timeless, elegant way. It speaks to questions that our species has posed since its infancy. It outlines the interconnectedness of every part of our Universe and underlining our unique power to create positive change.
In addition, the doctrines of Hermeticism are compatible with much of modern science. Plus, these laws of the universe can be seamlessly integrated into a wide range of different religions (as well as being compatible with atheistic perspectives).
Now remember, this is based off translations from 500 years ago from Greek to Latin to English or France. There could be no chance things were lost in translation???? Look at 5 different translations of the Christian Bible today and ask yourself that question again.
Well anyways, the 7 principles were written into a book called The Kybalion written by some shadowy people named by Hermes Trismegistus & The Three Initiates. Not much is known past that. I would have my hands on this book right now, except its about $20 and the beginning of school has been brutal on the budget.
The principle of mentalism.
“The All is Mind; the Universe is Mental.” —The Kybalion
The principle of correspondence.
“As above, so below; as below, so above.” —The Kybalion
The principle of vibration.
“Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.” —The Kybalion
The principle of polarity.
“Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.” —The Kybalion
The principle of rhythm.
“Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates.” —The Kybalion
The principle of cause and effect.
“Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause; everything happens according to law; chance is but a name for law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the law.” —The Kybalion
The principle of gender.
“Gender is in everything; everything has its masculine and feminine principles; gender manifests on all planes.” —The Kybalion
As I said, just a taste. These principles made up the basis of scientific thought for about 1,800 years. Or until the Rockafellers decided to create medical schools and medical licenses. And Tesla and Einstein figures out physics.
Despite these 20th century innovations to knowledge, it helps to understand the hermetics as they still apply.
The 7 principles are not the end however. Since the publishing of the book and Movie The Secret, many people became interested in what is called the Law of Attraction. Actually it goes back much further to the 1920’s with Napoleon Hill’s book Think and Grow Rich.
The principles have been added to so that now there are 12 “Universal Laws”
The 12 Universal Laws
1. The Law of Divine Oneness
2. The Law of Vibration
3. The Law of Attraction
4. The Law of Correspondence
5. The Law of Action
6. The Law of Cause and Effect
7. The Law of Compensation
8. The Law of Perpetual Transmutation of Energy
9. The Law of Relativity
10. The Law of Polarity
11. The Law of Rhythm
12. The Law of Gender
And if you have not heard about this, then it’s time to strap in and prepare yourself for a wild ride.