The Sabian symbol for Jupiter at 8* Virgo is: A 5 year old child takes a first dancing lesson. With the number 5 symbolizing the potential of human capacities--as in the pentacle which the Venus cycle inscribes in the heavens--we see that this image symbolizes our first steps into the initiation to a larger consciousness. Dance expresses our soul's emotions and in trusting our emotional intelligence and our hearts , we can focus our energies into a deep expression of our life's purpose.
Harvested Pumpkins (Clackamas County, Oregon scenic images) (clacDA0059)
(Image by (From Wikimedia) English: Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives, Author: English: Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives) Details Source DMCA
Autumn is just around the corner. Fall Equinox arrives on September 23 rd at 1:21am PDT/ 4:21am EDT/ 8:21am GMT. This gate on the Wheel of the Year asks us to look at our harvests and save the seeds of the future. Our new life for next year is contained in those seeds. Happy Harvest!
Walk in the Light,
Cathy
To
be of use -- Marge Piercy
To be of use
The
people I love the best
jump into work head first
without
dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost
out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element,
the
black sleek heads of seals
bouncing like half submerged balls.
I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy
cart,
who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,
who
strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
who do
what has to be done, again and again.
I want to be with
people who submerge
in the task, who go into the fields to
harvest
and work in a row and pass the bags along,
who
stand in the line and haul in their places,
who are not parlor
generals and field deserters
but move in a common rhythm
when
the food must come in or the fire be put out.
The work of
the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands,
crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a
shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine
or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but
you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water
to carry
and a person for work that is real.
~ Marge
Piercy ~
(Circles on the Water)
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