29 September

A modest note on meaningful moments: this website was launched 29 September 2021 and while an entirely new form for me, it came when the time was right. Relentless curiosity, a desire to teach and learn nearly everything, to take in the ‘Big Picture,’ is no surprise when one is born with Mercury in Aquarius, sign of the wide winter sky. But then, when Jupiter comes visiting, as he has now, horizons must expand. And so they have. Here.

And Now. Astrology at its heart looks for patterns of meaning in space and time. This particular Now, at the birth of the website, is Michaelmas, the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels. It is often celebrated in Waldorf Schools with a pageant, complete with Dragon, meteors, villagers, and Archangel; a harvest feast and singing:

Michaelmas time, Michaelmas time   

Time is turning under the plough   

Under the stars, under the signs 

The ploughman toils with deep furrowed brow

Stars, like seeds, scattered over the land

And under the plough by Michael’s hand

It’s a children’s story, but so much more than that. Does it help to know that the Plough is Ursa Major? Or that another line, ‘Time is turning under the Scales’ refers to Libra, the sign initiated at the Autumnal Equinox, when forces of darkness begin to shorten the light of days. Autumn is the season of Michaelmas. Who is this Archangel? Or for that matter, the Dragon? So many mysteries, but they hold a picture of a Heavenly Realm and an Earthly – Human – Realm, mediated by the stars. We live and work and seek meaning between them. It seems a fortuitous moment for courage, initiative and discovery.