Shiva's and Metta's Mother's Sutra

Holy Night 12 – 2021 January 4-5 – Sagittarius: GRACE: SEEING THE BEST IN ALL During the 12th night the crowns won are placed at the feet of the divine, because we have struggled against ourselves, but what we have wrung from it is grace, is the law of the spirit. Because grace is a stream from a source that a human being cannot reach with human power. Now is the start and end of a spaceless time – timeless space. Now everything is eternal and holy! Sagittarius’ power striving towards the goal must be directed in this way, so that it can take up the spiritual Good it receives. We must now take on into our lives what we have recognized and received in the twelve holy nights, and spiritualise matter and the soul. ------------------------------------------------ The last three days have indeed been the night of the crown - the struggle has been real. That is all I will say. The rest I want to say is about the doing something even if there is no magic in it. I have to just keep trucking. K...

Holy Night 11 – 2021 January 3-4 – Scorpio: LEAP OF FAITH: DEVELOP INTUITION The eleventh night: the struggle with the Guardian of the Threshold. Mystery: building up the Grail Castle in ourselves. Confessing ourselves more and more in faithfulness to the highest! Rudolf Steiner’s indications for the Holy Nights given to Herbert Hahn Eleventh Contemplation: Kristina Kaine We have work to do. This is our great challenge; what is the work, and how do we do it? Put simply, the work is to experience the presence of Christ within us as we have been considering through these Holy Nights. Rudolf Steiner gives many insights into how this might be achieved. “The Christ Impulse, however, is an impulse of freedom; its true activity does not reveal itself when it takes place outside the human soul. The true working of the Christ Impulse does not appear until it takes place within the individual human soul itself.” 15th May, 1910 Much of what he hear about Christ in the world today is the antithesi...

Holy Night 10 – 2021 January 2-3 – Libra: TRANSFORMATION: CLEAR SEEING/DECIDING The night in which the greatest sacrifice grows from service: learning to listen to the inner voice and the signs of divinity, and to hear them obediently. Mystery: the voice calling in us through our various incarnations. Its clarity grows through sacrifice and decision. Tenth Contemplation: Kristina Kaine As we live on this material earth it is important that we learn to recognize signs of divinity. Divinity is the expression of the Divine Being that underpins all creation, and as humanity has changed over eons, so has the expression of this Divine Being. In his Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts, written towards the end of his life, Rudolf Steiner spoke clearly about this Being. “The Divine Being which will thus shine forth through Humanity will no longer be the same Divine Being which was once the Cosmos. In its passage through Humanity, the Divine-Spiritual will come to a realization of Being which ...

Holy Night 9 – 2021 January 1-2 – Virgo: DEVOTION: SERVICE Now come the three nights of the crown. Release from the only intellectual, or release of the intellect from its earthly bonds and purposefulness. This is the thrice-holy night, in which the lower ego falls away and only the desire to serve, to devote oneself, remains. Rudolf Steiner’s indications for the Holy Nights given to Herbert Hahn Translation from German by Laura Zanutto 2015 and Mark Willan 2016 Heilige Nacht 1./2.  – Jungfrau Nun folgen die drei Nächte der Krone. Loslösung vom Nur-Intellekt oder die Loslösung des Intellektes von der irdischen Gebundenheit und Zweckhaftigkeit. Es ist die dreimal heilige Nacht, in der das niedere Ich abfällt und nur der Wunsch bleibt, zu dienen, sich hinzugeben. Ninth Contemplation: Kristina Kaine The one who wears the greatest crown is Christ. His crown is woven from his intentions which Steiner expresses as “only the desire to serve, to devote oneself,”. As we focus on the presenc...

Holy Night 8 – 2020-21 December 31 – January 1 – Leo: The cross on the sword pommel: the sacrifice. Girded with the sword of the power of Christ, the tongue speaks the truth, without being able to wound. It is the night of re-setting. Mystery: The knight, the fighter with the lance of the will and the sword of knowledge. The dog as symbol of obedience, at his side. Behind him death and the devil! At a certain level of knowledge any false step leads to quicker ruin, and victory is won through fulfilling and being tirelessly true to Leo’s tasks. Rudolf Steiner’s indications for the Holy Nights given to Herbert Hahn Eighth Contemplation: Kristina Kaine As we stand on the border of a new year, and look back over the year just passed, we can experience all the events of the past along side the empty future. It is “the night of resetting”. This is a good time to commit ourselves to be “girded with the sword of the power of Christ” which enables us to “speak the truth without being able to wo...

Holy Night 7 – 2020 December 30-31 – Cancer: SURRENDER: TRUSTING THE HIGHEST SELF The serpent on the sword pommel: wisdom. We should busy ourselves with uplifting readings. It is the night of the great command. The mystery of activity: who exercises command over our soul? Who is the master of our soul, the doer of our deeds? We have the freedom to strengthen the goodwill in ourselves. Rudolf Steiner’s indications for the Holy Nights given to Herbert Hahn Translation from German by Laura Zanutto 2015 adjusted by Mark Willan 2016 Who is the master of our soul? A question we can ask ourselves each day. The answer will depend on what the day presents to us. Our ultimate goal is for Christ to be the master of our soul, Rudolf Steiner says, “We must let his love become a real being in us.” Continuing with the words Rudolf Steiner spoke to his Esoteric Class students on September 24, 1907: “So that we could become aware of our self, our spirit, so that we could become spirit-beings ourself, t...

Holy Night 5 for May December 28-29 – Taurus Consciously purify the body of thought: EQUANIMITY - HAVE FAITH Discipline thinking. Concentrating on the positive. Converting the black doves of thought into white doves, because our thinking is, until it is not consciously conducted with discipline, like a dovecote! Keep this dovecote closed against foreign, negative thoughts. Mystery: The purification of the temple by Jesus Christ. “When we experience symbols it’s the ones that make us suffer that are genuine and from the spiritual world, and not the ones that give us joy. We must carry them around with us until we’ve grasped their meaning. The spiritual from them must be born in us while we suffer.” Rudolf Steiner From the Contents of the Esoteric Classes 5th November, 1910 Yesterday was a day of wonderful peace and rest. The past two days have been. I haven't been idle, but instead have attempted to bring order back to the house. Much cleaning and tidying were done and more writing....

 Holy Night 4 – 2020 December 27-28 – Aries: BE PRESENT - CULTIVATION OF THE WILL Consciously purify the astral body: antipathy and sympathy are converted into universal love. Passions and desires keep silent. The power of Christ penetrates with his light and his strength what is Luciferic in us. Mystery: The work on ourselves serves the best interests of the whole. The Archangel Uriel holds up a mirror in which we see ourselves as we are. Rudolf Steiner’s indications for the Holy Nights given to Herbert Hahn How will my love manifest itself this year? Yesterday I said it was about looking after myself so that I can look after others. It has been a tough year past, there is no doubt. However, time the great healer is doing her magic. I have always wanted to be a better friend. I think this year I tried to do that. Be there more for people. But I could be so much better. So I will do that. My resolution to be there more for people. Over the past few months my need to be angry has al...

Third Holy Night December 26-27 - Pisces: DAILY MIRACLES - CONTENTMENT Now follow the 3 nights of the white lily. The soul recognizes that it cannot stay above but must come down again because in it, it possesses too much earthly weight. The conscious mind begins to purify the earthly body and assumes that each food is as a viaticum (provision for a journey). I am the bread (words of Christ Jesus). We come from the bread, we live in the path of development of the bread and return to the bread. The Mystery: Never forget the accomplishment of the distant objectives of leaving the earthly realm. ------------------------------------------------------ It is strange being so connected to these Western mysteries. I have so little attraction to the Eastern part of myself. It is almost as if it is a shell within which the stories from the rest of the world may inhabit.  Never forget the accomplishment of the distant objectives of leaving the earthly realm... All my life I have been drawn an...

Second Holy Night December 25-26 - Aquarius: SELF CARE - KINDNESS TO ALL, ESPECIALLY THE SELF Night of John. The Eagle of the soul circling high on 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? ------------------------------------------ Is must be the middle path - one cannot do one without sacrificing the other. So I have always done both. Interestingly the most selfish people are the ones who claim to devote their lives to humanity only. How many assholes have I met who just operate from ego. They talk the talk but when it comes to actually putting that into practise in real life, well, it is not great. But I will not dwell on that. Instead of judging them, I will learn from them. It is more ef...

First Holy Night December 24-25 - Capricorn: LIVE IN THE NOW - PLAN Christmas Eve, when Christ is born in the soul. The soul asks: Can I, with all my weaknesses, deficiencies and passions, be heard? Symbol: The stable of Bethlehem, where the Light of the World is born in humility and poverty. The Voice of Silence penetrates the soul and teaches to joyfully affirm the good in us and in others. Capricorn. The Divine Spirit is born in Matter. Spirit and Matter, the Alpha and Omega touch and life comes into being. Mystery: The seeking soul in the darkness of a pathless forest. We celebrated Christmas on the 24th. It was me cooking LOADS, again, and then the boys laughing and opening presents. I went to bed super early. It was a beautiful evening.  The seeking soul in the darkness of a pathless forest.  What is there to be said about this. We all must go on this journey. It is the first step in the Parsifal saga. A dark wood with no experience, or memory of that experience. We step...

On December 24th the 12 holy nights begin. The 12 holy nights are symbols for the 12 forces of the soul that live in us. And so this indication is valid forever, not only for the 12 holy nights. On January 1 at noon we have the Sun as close as possible to the Earth and that is why there are just five and half days before and five and a half days later, which is the time of the 12 holy nights. On these nights, the darkest of the year, we are closest to the Sun's Spirit and this means that the Spiritual Sun shining from inside the Earth makes it translucent and illuminates everything from the inside, not as it is afterwards when the Sun illuminates the Earth from above, from the outside. You have to enter these 12 holy nights wide awake and very conscious. It is important that the first night (Dec. 24th) we only stay awake until one or two in the morning. On the other nights, if possible, try to go to bed regularly at the same time, it is of principal importance to live in a regular ...