Stars in Their Courses

This photographer has absolutely beautiful shots!

I've remade this picture a few times since its original form back in 2016 -- which feels like forever ago! -- but never come up with anything I *really* liked. But this picture!! Made all the difference. The photographer (linked above) has some really amazing nature photos; do go take a look!

Speaking of stars: we're about to have a big lunar eclipse this Sucridi (Friday). Do you do anything for eclipses? Traditionally, eclipses are viewed as malefic (harmful) and are supposed to be avoided: covering windows so what light there is from an eclipse doesn't come in the house is a basic method, but in different times and cultures there were protective rituals performed over fields and barns and symbols drawn on shutters to keep the influence of the eclipse from harming anything. There's a great video on Eclipses from Essentialist Astrology that I recommend; I particularly love that she points out peoples in past ages were extremely adept at predicting eclipses, and were thus very aware of their cyclical nature -- our ancestors were not stupid.

I've never really avoided eclipses in the past, but I think I will pull all the curtains for this one!

The Crystal Tablet, v30-34:

"Love is the force of harmony by which all existence is made possible. For the perfect existence of the Spirit, its very nature is love. The pure soul is in harmony with Thea, with herself and with all things. And for the existence that has fallen from perfection: truly it is the music of divine harmony which sustains it in the motion of its wholeness. It is love that holds the drop of dew pendant upon a blade of grass, not flowing forth in watery profusion, but swelling within the unseen urn of its brief harmony. It is love that holds the stars within their courses, and all the worlds of the immeasurable cosmos within the harmony of the celestial music."