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ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY AS NEWSEsoteric Astrology as news for week February 14 – 20, 2024
Valentine’s Day, Ash Wednesday, Lent Begins
We have multiple festivals overlapping this week. After Mardi Gras, the big party before fasting and purification, we have Valentine’s Day, Ash Wednesday and the Lenten Season beginning (all on Wednesday). Overseeing all of this in the heavens is Mars/Pluto (careful, everyone) in Aquarius joining Sun and Mercury. “Have courage, humanity, and prepare for change,” the planets are telling us.
At 2am (PT) on Wednesday, the moon enters Taurus and we seek whatever comforts us. The question is how do we eat our Valentine chocolates on the same day Lent begins? We might put off Lent (fasting, purifying, cleansing, etc.) for a day so we can eat our candy. Meanwhile we ponder upon the e.e.cummings (poet) words perfect for Valentine’s Day – to “be of love a little more careful than of everything.”
About Lent? The word is Latin for forty days; Dutch for spring; In the Christian liturgy, Lent is a season – forty days and nights (‘til Holy Week and Easter) of preparation for Easter (Resurrection Festival). Lent is not completely understood without an esoteric context.
Esoterically understood and explained, Lent is a time in which we purify our bodies (physical, emotional, mental) through prayer, contemplation and fasting. The purpose of these disciplines (Saturn) is to prepare our bodies for the inflowing fire of Ray 1, the Shamballa Force of Spring, at Easter and during the Three Spring Festivals of Aries, Taurus, Gemini.
The Christ, when on Earth, participated in this 40-day Lenten ritual by retreating to the desert in contemplation and prayer. In the desert solitude, His physical, emotional and mental bodies were tested and strengthened. The Christ’s purpose for the desert experience was to prepare, through tests and trials, His Sun body to withstand the trials (Initiations) He would endure – Palm Sunday; the Last Supper, Transfiguration, Crucifixion, Death and finally Resurrection. These are spiritual Initiations that every individual undergoes.
Lent prepares every activity of our nature to be rightly adjusted and divinely harmonized. It takes 40 days to change, end or create a new habit. We use our will with conscious effort, self-initiated discipline and unity of purpose to bring about a change of rhythm in our daily lives. And each day we radiate Goodwill to the world. And we come to understand the words spoken to our personality on Ash Wednesday – “From dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return.”
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