Shiva's and Metta's Mother's Sutra

The Second Holy Night  Night of John. The Eagle of the soul climbs high with its wings and looking back from a great height, observes its own life. And now the man recognizes the Laws of Karma. The Mystery: Choosing the narrow and difficult path or the path that is wide and easy. For those who are born of flesh it is hard to find the path of the spirit. Bhagavad Gita: A selfish life, or a life devoted to humanity? R. Steiner ================================================= There is mystery associated with the gospel of John. There are many John's in the Bible - the two most prominent ones are the Baptist and the one who penned Revelations. Both had a prophetic take on life - both spoke of the coming of Christ - one the literal messiah and the other the Christ at the end of time, when we are all redeemed. Many religions have this millennarial take on life. If there is a beginning, there must be an end. It has inspired many cults through the years which have attempted to...

It was difficult to know which zodiac to put first. Aries was after all the first sign - what with it being representative of the head and all, but it is firmly placed in April. I will write more about its appropriateness in April. I think I could have made a good case for Virgo, the Empress of the Zodiac, but again, I decided to follow the solar calendar. Which meant that January was Capricorn - although, Capricorn does straddle December as well. But it is mostly in January. And there was something hardly about the goat - the resilience which was needed in a month like January, so we begin with Capricorn. "The Divine Spirit is born in Matter; the Alpha and Omega touches and creates life." - Steiner At the start of the year, it is good to remember that as we slingshot round the sun for another year, wherever we may be, we are divine. In a million ways, every day, we are constantly cut off from this connection with our divine status and our connection to the cosmos...

  For some reason, at a certain stage in our lives, we allow our wonder with the planet to be beaten out of us and succumb to the idea that we are lesser than. Nothing could be further from the truth. The truth that we are truly blessed and chosen to be here, on this planet. This planet, which like an overly indulgent parent, has provided us with more than we could ever need and have, and has also chosen to include us in this very safe and wondrous part of the cosmos.  On this planet we have learnt how to live, not without some effort, of course, through the natural largess and the gift of inventiveness and initiative, and come to appreciate this experience of being Earthlings. From music to art to invention to architecture, we have showcased the best this universe has to offer. But this gift is double edged as we are also capable, through the use of ideology - whether it is neoliberalism or religion - to blind ourselves to each other's humanity.  It is both unfathomable....

Steiner said that Intuition was the highest form of intelligence. That we all had the capacity to have it, but that it had to be nurtured and nourished. In a way pattern behaviour is a kind of intuition. Older people are wise because they have seen it all before. They have been through stuff, they can read the signs, they know that it will be alright once the dust settles. In this way then, they appear to possess some kind of insight into the future - because ironically, the have lived so long and have seen it in the past. Wisdom is one of the attributes of intuition. It is sort of proven intuition. True intuition though is being tapped into not just the cosmos, but yourself own self as well. Intuition is the way in which not just new things come into being, but that you are able to stay true to yourself. It is gut instinct PLUS this gorgeous flower of self actualisation, but it is also what the cosmos want to bring into being. In this way we achieve balance - between the singular and ...

Capricorn I began the Esoteric Zodiac in 2021 because I wanted to incorporate all the elements which I had come to know and love about this starry menagerie.  Like many young girls, I loved reading about the zodiac. It included many hours standing in MPH, a massive bookstore in Stamford Road in Singapore, which was next of my school, pouring over the handbooks about the star signs. I can still see the shelves which contained all the well thumber books about star signs and love signs. It was the 70s after all.  I loved how they attempted to capture people's personalities and did the most superhuman of all things - attempt to tell the future. The zodiac provided the answers to two of the most fundamental human needs - the answered the question Who am I? and What will happen? To a teenage girl this was heady stuff. I could now bifurcate into a million tangents about space and time, talk about the precession of the equinox, talk about coinkidinks, but I think I wo...