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.”