Companions along the Way.
Walking with the Magi Kings…on this Mars Ray 6 day.
Standing in the light of Capricorn.
On the golden mountaintop of Capricorn.

Today is Tuesday, January 3 in the new year of 2023. Tuesday is ruled over by Mars, Ray 6 of desire, aspiration, vision, religion, hopes, wishes & dreams. The color of Ray 6 is sky blue. The Kingdom is colorful each & every day.
Today is the 9th day after Christmas, walking with the Magi Astrologer Kings to Bethlehem (House of Bread & sustantial).
Today, the 9th day, the 9th sign – that of Sagittarius.
All the gifts of Sagittarius are gathered today to be given to the holy child on Epiphany, which means to the whole world.

Sagittarius is Rays 4, 5, 6 – a most complex sign.
It is the sign of Silence & the sign of our sojourn with the Sagittarius Lords to be taught in the Temples of Knowledge.
Sagittarius is also the sign of Discipleship (after Scorpio).
The keynote of Sag – I see the goals, I reach that goal & then I see the next goal.”

Sag is the centaur, the horse & the man, the bow & arrow & finally just the arrow of intention.
It is the 9th path, the 9th Labour of Hercules.
Mutable fire.
From the depths into the underworld of Scorpio we emerge into the Light of Sagittarius – on meadows, over hills & dales – our eyes on the mountaintops of Capricorn.

“The Mount of Transfiguration in the New Testament is Venus in Capricorn when love and mind and will meet in the person of the Christ, and “He was transfigured” before all men.” “When Love and Mind and Will meet on the Mount of Transfiguration, they “reveal the secret of the hidden glory”. (EA, 167)

The Cross
Verticals rotate horizontals. Angles awaken the Angels. The wheel rotates. Horizontals do not affect an Adept, a vertical man. Vertical speaks of inner alignment. In the Adept the inner alignment is complete. The Divine flows thru the centers, from above downward, into & thru the horizontals into the world.
There is no agitation anxiety fear suspicion tension. There are no disturbances of the inner energies.
The verticals are stronger than the horizontals.
Verticals are divine. Horizontals are of the earth.
Combined, they give direction to humanity.
The verticals are the divine life rotating the horizontals.
The angles expand within to become right angles.
The innumerable centers of God awaken within & we become the Sons & Daughters of God. And Life moves within the Plan.
Six lotuses unfolding, related light transmitted in all directions. Verticals rotate horizontals.
H meet V. Degrees expand the angles. The Angels are awakened as the wheel rotates. The Adept works quietly in the fields of the world. Om Om Om shanti.

The Kingdom is Colorful.
St. Basil’s Sweet Bread. New Year’s Cake.
Reckoning with the past – South Node in Scorpio.
Gifts we bring into this lifetimes from the past.
Integrating them into the present future.
The Kingdom is Colorful.

Today….
Capricorn Sun & Mercury – Venus enters Aquarius.
Both are Ray 5 (Venus & Aquarius).
Today….
The 2nd day of the new year, 2023.
Today is Monday, January 2, 2023 –
It is the 8th day after Christmas – Scorpio’s (4) day today.
Under the light of Capricorn (1, 3, 7).
Walking with the Magi Astrologer Kings – towards Bethlehem.
Carrying our gifts to the holy child (offering our personality to the Soul). Offering Scorpio’s gifts to the world. Scorpio is the Call of Discipleship. Ray 4 of Harmony emerging from conflicts & chaos.

Scorpio is the sign of the warrior. “Warriors are we & from the battle we emerge triumphant.” Scorpio is the sign of Reorientation, Transformation & Regeneration. It is the Phoenix that bursts into flames, becoming the eagle flying in the wind.

The wheel of colors rotates.
Seven colors emerge from wisdom white. When mind marries wisdom, white shines forth & the seven colors shine. White is like melted gold. God is vegetation, spring up of light. A full bloom of light, the body gains vitality. All parts of the body are revitalized, the blood flows in full vigor, a magnetic field. Then man’s vitality is increased 100 fold.

Blue is the color of man (think blue of Krishna – we used to have blood of copper, we now have blood of iron which is Mars).
Blue is deep white. Blue decorates all colors like a blue sapphire presiding over gold green red. The colorful kingdom observing all minds. The observer is raised into equanimity, tranquility. Angularity is suspended. No more noisy talk. The Om is uttered. The wheel of seven colors rotates into wisdom white. Gold melted, green vetated. Red is blood. Blue is sky. The Kingdom is colorful.

National Celebrations of January 2.
National Science Fiction Day (I continuing reading Ray Bradbury’s Farenheit 451).
National Cream Puff Day.

Saint Basil’s Day – the Father of Communal Monasticism. He traveled thru Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, & Syria, visiting monasteries & later, founded a monastic settlement on his family’s estate (358AD).

St. Basil’s Bread
On St. Basil’s day a St. Basil bread is made – Vasilopita’ or ‘St. Basil’s bread,’ a sweet bread in which a coin is placed. The person who gets the slice of bread with the coin inside will have good luck in the coming year. The head of the household makes a cross sign over the bread, cuts the first one in offering to Christ, and the second and third slices to St. Basil and the Virgin Mary. The next piece is for the head of the household, and the remaining portions are distributed evenly among the remaining members from eldest to youngest. St. Basil’s monastery cared for the poor.

Read more: http://ww1.antiochian.org/node/18684
(note: in the recipe, eliminate mastic & powderd cherry pits)

South Node in Scorpio
The past is over, yet it has an echo effect in our body. The past doesn’t exist anymore, but memory does. There’s a lot of mystery to our memories. As we put the past together each time it changes. All we have is the echo…the pieces of the now thinking about the past. There is no truth in the past anymore. It’s the mystery – if we take the truth & the untruth together – that’s the truth. Memory has to do with the Dweller. Memory isn’t what we think it is. Memory is a creative agent for the future, too. It’s not the memory. It’s the feelings attached to the memories. The feelings are the shadows, the echoes. We try to balance & reorient the feelings. We sift thru the past, it feels like sandpaper. We are attached to the feelings – sadness, fear, etc. that need to be neutralized. Feelings attached to memories. We place them in our Basket of Gratitude & leave the basket in the woods. Eventually they disappear.

With the south node in Scorpio (reorienting the past) – we remember the past. We write our Autobiography of our lives, what we remember from our past. We encounter an alchemical blending of the past, present & future. All things then created new when we review & write down our past experiences. Out of the past, comes the new, reorienting the past into the present/future. “I have created a new life for you, humanity. Having left the old life in the mountains. Now you will live the new life I have created for you.”