--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FWIW, today is the start of Winter in the "Rorian" Taurus-Equinox (T- > E) Calendar, when the Sun enters T-E Capricorn. This is the month of > the Indigo Mason, or Crone: Kali, Cailleach, Loki -- Saturn as Binah > the Sterile Mother -- she is the Critic, the Stonecutter, chipping > away all identification with the unTrue and unReal. She is Death to > all that is impermanent. > > These first 2.5 days of Crystal-Month are especially interesting, > when her mate the Violet Alchemist (Jupiter, ruler of T-E Aquarius) > slays his father, the Golden Solar Creator (Baeli-Braehim), by > blinding his right eye: as the Sun is the right eye of the Cosmic > Person, the death of the sun is the transcendence of the right eye, > or "masculine" pingala-current. This story finds echos in Loki's > instigation of the slaying of Baldur the Beautiful with the spear of > mistletoe, Lug's slaying of Balor of the Baleful Eye, "St." George > (Gae-ourgi, "earth-worker," but more accurately "Molten-metal- > worker") slaying the fiery dragon, and probably Odysseus's blinding > of the Cyclops and Samson (Shamash-On, Sun-God)'s blinding and > captivity in the "mill" of the North (the heavens turning about the > pole star). > > For us personally, it is a commemoration of the slaying of our > radiant Brahmic-ego, or Solar Angel, for its excessive pride. Not > surprising, I guess, that this issue has been lively for us again of > late ... >
Maybe I should have made that clearer -- I am not claiming to have vanquished *my* excessive pride; only that it has been an issue of late, and I didn't even realize I was playing out the drama of my own calendar-system! And anyhow, the Brahmic-Solar-ego descends into the Northern Underworld in a fortnight, and is reborn again around Dec. 24-25, and so on and so on...nothing lasts forever, not even Death :-)
