Wisdom For the 12 Days of Christmas
Lady Wisdom
As
such, she was known to alchemists as Sapientia,
Lady
Wisdom, Lady Nature, Alkimia.
We
celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas as a time between times. It is
the time when the old year dies and everything returns to chaos, so
that new birth is possible.
We
also assign astrological signs to each day, beginning with the
evening and the following day counting as one day. So Christmas
night's dream is an Aries dream and the day after was the Aries day.
Last night's dream (12/26) is Taurus, and so is today etc.
If
you don't remember your dreams, watch what goes on everyday. All is
sacred, especially during this time between times.
We
invoke Wisdom for these 12 days.
Lady
Wisdom is so needed at this time in the world. So She comes to
bestow her wise gifts on us. Please take the time to recognize them
and honor them.
Lady
Wisdom Speaks: A Christmas Blessing (12/25/17)
Let your hearts be at peace.
You are Loved.
So why hold back your Love?
Give it freely to your world.
Shower those shut-down hearts
With the glorious Light of your Love.
IT will Seep into their bones like smoke.
Stretch your Heart Wide Open
Never be ashamed to Love.
The
1st
Day of Christmas: Aries: Who
am I? (12/26/17)
The Wisdom of Aries is that we have to incarnate with a special purpose. Who am I? is the question we have to ask. So let's look first at the cosmic laws that govern our incarnation. This is where we find Wisdom.
The Wisdom of Aries is that we have to incarnate with a special purpose. Who am I? is the question we have to ask. So let's look first at the cosmic laws that govern our incarnation. This is where we find Wisdom.
Who
is Lady Wisdom? She is the Sophia, partner of the Christ – his
equal and balance. She is the Light of Nature, the Cosmic Laws that
create our universe. She is the Code.
“For
in her is the spirit of understanding; . . . loving
that which is good,
quick,
beneficent, gentle, kind, steadfast, assured, secure,
. . . intelligible,
pure, subtle:
for Wisdom is more active than all active things;. . . For she is the
brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted mirror of God’s
majesty, and the image of his goodness. . . . For she is more
beautiful than the Sun, and above all the order of the stars: being
compared with the light, she is found before it. For after this
cometh night, but no evil can overcome Wisdom.” Wisdom
7:22-30
The
2nd
Day of Christmas: Taurus: What are my values? (12/27/17)
The Wisdom of Taurus is that Love and Beauty are gifts that create Life here on Earth.
If Lady Wisdom is the Light of Nature (cosmic laws) in Aries, She manifests here on Earth as Taurus’ most cherished value – Love. Love of the Earth and of Life. She comes to us from the ancient Greeks as Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love (of all kinds), Sexuality (of all kinds), Wisdom (body/soul/spirit), Connection, Independence, Peace, the Arts.
If Lady Wisdom is the Light of Nature (cosmic laws) in Aries, She manifests here on Earth as Taurus’ most cherished value – Love. Love of the Earth and of Life. She comes to us from the ancient Greeks as Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love (of all kinds), Sexuality (of all kinds), Wisdom (body/soul/spirit), Connection, Independence, Peace, the Arts.
Love
is the Water of Life.
And
a Lover is a Soul of Fire.
The
Universe turns differently
When
Fire Loves Water.
Rumi
Driven
by the force of Love the fragments of the world seek
each other that the world may come into Being.
Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin
Do
not be angry with beauty
because
it is beautiful. . .
Every
earthly Venus,
like
the first Venus of Heaven,
Is
a dark birth
which
emerges out of the endless sea.
Friedrich
von Schiller
The
3rd Day of Christmas: Gemini: How Do You Experience the
World?
The Wisdom of Gemini is to understand life we have to experience life.We
experience the world through our Taurus values and beliefs. With
Gemini, anything goes because experience is how we organize our
world, how we gain knowledge. There’s no right or wrong – it’s
just how we experience it. So how do we find Wisdom in those
experiences? Because knowledge and Wisdom are different.
“The
only source of knowledge is experience.”
Albert
Einstein
“By
three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is
noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by
experience, which is the bitterest.”
Confucius
“The
most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
source of all true art and science.”
Albert
Einstein
“Wisdom
preacheth abroad; she uttereth her voice in the streets: At the head
of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the
city she uttereth her words, saying: Oh children, how long will ye
love childishness?”
Proverbs
1:20-22
The Wisdom of Cancer is that our emotional intelligence can tell us what is important to us. Now that we’ve seen the world and experienced its many facets, what do we really want out of life? What is it that will make us thrive? It’s our emotional body that tells us what it is, not our logical mind.
The
4th Day of Christmas: Cancer: What do I need to thrive?
The Wisdom of Cancer is that our emotional intelligence can tell us what is important to us. Now that we’ve seen the world and experienced its many facets, what do we really want out of life? What is it that will make us thrive? It’s our emotional body that tells us what it is, not our logical mind.
We
are looking for the Pearl of Great Price, our soul’s desire.
Again,
the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly
pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and
sold all that he had, and bought it.
— Matthew
13:45-46
The
Pearl of Great Price is found by diligent seeking.
Have
you ever wondered why the Pearl so often symbolizes the very kindling
of light in the darkness of which Jung speaks? Not only does the
Pearl represent the number 30 but it also images the brilliant gem
that can only become so by beginning in grit and darkness, and being
fished from the depths.
The
5th Day of Christmas: Leo: What can I create?
The Wisdom of Leo is that we are here to co-create the world. Once
we get in touch with our emotional intelligence about what we want in
life, we create it in the world. That’s our Leo energy. Leo wants
us to express ourselves through play, through the imagination, through
love, through our children – both literal children and our creative
children. Don’t let fear keep you from doing what you feel,
creating what you envision, and sharing what you make.
Trust
that the Universe knows what it’s doing when it chooses you to
channel its creativity and vision.
Cathy Pagano
Eye of the Unconscious
Lady
Wisdom speaks to us through the Imagination, which is playful and
symbolic. We need to engage the imagination in all of our creative
projects.
Imagination
is needed to shape a theory or a hypothesis, and Whitehead argued a
long time ago that pure induction could never produce a scientific
view of the world. A heap of facts was useless, and neither a
Homeric epic nor a scientific theory of evolution could ever be
produced from mere facts. For people in a pre-scientific culture,
people endowed with acute powers of observation and remarkable
sensitivity, there was no way to imagine the life at one's feet
except through the poetic imagination which made the little creatures
half human. And in a way, this poetic imagination of the ancients is
more sensitive to humanity's embeddedness in the biosphere, for in
seeing "the little people" as half human the ancient Irish
"fairy faith" recognized that there is no "us"
and "them," that we are in them, and they are in us.
The
imagination is, therefore, not a source of deception and delusion,
but a capacity to sense what you do not know, to intuit what you
cannot understand, to be more than you can know.
William
Irwin Thompson
Imagination also plays an
important part in your subjective life, as it gives mobility to your
beliefs. It is one of the motivating agencies that helps transform
your beliefs into physical experience. It is vital therefore that
you understand the interrelationship between ideas and imagination.
In order to dislodge unsuitable beliefs and establish new ones, you
must learn to use your imagination to move concepts in and out of
your mind. The proper use of imagination can then propel ideas in
the directions you desire.
Jane Roberts, Seth
The 6th Day of Christmas is Virgo, the sign of the Virgin Mother. The Wisdom of Virgo is self-knowledge – Know ThySelf! After we create something, we have a better idea of who we are. It’s time now to see ourselves as a unity – Body, Soul & Spirit. Since the ancient royal star Regulus, which sits in the Heart of the Lion, moved into the sign of Virgo by precession, the Queen took the place of the King. It is now time to honor the Divine Feminine and her place in life.
The 6th
Day of Christmas: Virgo: Who we may Become.
The 6th Day of Christmas is Virgo, the sign of the Virgin Mother. The Wisdom of Virgo is self-knowledge – Know ThySelf! After we create something, we have a better idea of who we are. It’s time now to see ourselves as a unity – Body, Soul & Spirit. Since the ancient royal star Regulus, which sits in the Heart of the Lion, moved into the sign of Virgo by precession, the Queen took the place of the King. It is now time to honor the Divine Feminine and her place in life.
A great
portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the
moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; she was
with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for
delivery. And another portent appeared in heaven; behold, a great
red dragon. . . And the dragon stood before the woman who was about
to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she brought it
forth; she brought forth a male child, one who is to rule all the
nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to
his throne, and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a
place prepared by God. . .
Now war
arose in heaven. . .and the great dragon was thrown down. And when
the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued
the woman who had borne the male child. But the woman was given the
two wings of the great eagle that she might fly from the serpent. . .
Revelation
12: 1-6, 7-9, 13-14.
The
Gnostics held this heavenly Feminine Spirit in high regard, naming
her Sophia, or Lady Wisdom. Sophia is the feminine Wisdom of God, a
divine spirit pervading all of life. She partakes of the power of
the Creator, is capable of doing all things and is regarded as the
mother of the gifts of wisdom and prophecy. She is creator, wisdom
and teacher, wise in the ways of humanity, Divinity and nature. In
certain mystical traditions she is the consort of God and the lover
and inspiration of the wise. Solomon, the archetypal Wise man,
declares his love for her: “Her have I loved and have sought her
out from my youth, and have desired to take her for my spouse; and I
became a lover of her beauty.”
Cathy
Pagano, Wisdom’s
Daughters
Sophia,
one of the first-born of the primal parents, Depth and Silence, is
confused by longing and love for her Divine Parent, and falls into
the abyss. Alone and comfortless, Sophia experiences every sort of
psychic experience imaginable – passion, sorrow, fear, despair and
ignorance. These experiences flow out of her and create not only the
four elements of earth, air, fire and water, but also the Beings who
end up creating and controlling our world. Looking at the flawed and
troubled world created by her own ignorant offspring, Sophia is
filled with pity for creation and resolves to assist it in any way
she can. Thus she becomes the spirit of the world, the Anima Mundi,
watching over it like a mother. Feminine wisdom, entrapped in the
material world, must be rescued by the Masculine principle. Yet when
her consort, Christ, comes into the world to rescue her and bring her
back to the heavenly realms, Sophia finds that she cannot totally
abandon this troubled world. And so she splits herself in half, part
of her going to the fullness of heaven and the other part staying in
touch with this lower world to aid in its redemption.
Gnostic Myth of Sophia
The
7th Day of Christmas: Libra: Hold the Other in your Heart
The Wisdom of Libra is that once we become whole, we seek another's wholeness to balance the world. So
how do we take our Wisdom into the world? By holding those others
you know in your heart – walking in their shoes, doing to others
what you would do for yourself. We can call it courtesy or respect,
but in the end, it’s all about our ability to love. Venus, the
Goddess of Love and Wisdom, makes her home here. She helps us
consider others as well as ourselves. That’s the great secret of
Libran balance. You must stay on your side of the scale to make
things work out.
Crowley Lovers
There
is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another. That
it is work, day labor, day labor, God knows there is no other word
for it. And look, added to this is the fact that young people are
not prepared for such difficult loving; for convention has tried to
make this most complicated and ultimate relationship into something
easy and frivolous, has given it the appearance of everyone’s being
able to do it. It is not so. Love is something difficult and it is
more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature
herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly
in hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the
impulse is to give oneself wholly away. But just think, can that be
anything beautiful, to give oneself away not as something whole and
ordered, but haphazard rather, bit by bit, as it comes? Can such
giving away, that looks so like a throwing away and dismemberment, be
anything good, can it be happiness, joy, progress? No, it cannot.
But
young people who love each other fling themselves to each other in
the impatience and haste of their passion, and they don’t notice at
all what a lack of mutual esteem lies in this disordered giving of
themselves; they notice it with astonishment and indignation only
from the dissension that arises between them out of all this
disorder. And once there is disunity between them, the confusion
grows with every day; neither of the two has anything unbroken pure,
and unspoiled about him any longer, and amid the disconsolateness of
a break they try to hold fast to the semblance of their happiness
(for all that was really supposed to be for the sake of happiness).
Also, they are scarcely able to recall any more what they meant by
happiness. In his uncertainty each becomes more and more unjust
toward the other; they who wanted to do each other good are now
handling one another in an imperious and intolerant manner and in the
struggle somehow to get out of their untenable and unbearable state
of confusion, they commit the greatest fault that can happen in human
relationship: they become impatient. . . . They must not forget,
when they love, that they are beginners, bunglers of life,
apprentices in love, - must learn love, and that (like all learning)
wants peace, patience, and composure!
To
take love seriously and to bear and to learn it like a task, this it
is that young people need. – Like so much else, people have also
misunderstood the place of love in life, they have made it into play
and pleasure, because they thought that play and pleasure were more
blissful than work; but there is nothing happier than work, and love,
just because it is the extreme happiness, can be nothing else but
work. So whoever loves must try to act if he had a great work: he
must be much alone and go into himself and collect himself and hold
fast to himself; he must work; he must become something!
For
believe me, the more one is, the richer is all that one experiences.
And whoever wants to have a deep love in his life must collect and
save for it and gather honey.
Rilke:
On Love and Other Difficulties
The
8th Day of Christmas: Scorpio: Do Not Fear Death!
The
Wisdom of Scorpio is that Death is the other side of Life. That it
is not to be feared nor embraced. Death comes in its own time and
place, assigned to our souls at the moment we stepped into a new
incarnation. The best way to connect to our deaths is by taking
‘death as our advisor’ as don Juan says. And
to learn to die to our ego’s rules and certainties which no longer
serve our lives so
we can open up to the new perspectives waiting beyond our sight.
Don
Juan Matus, the Yaqui Indian, taught Carlos Castaneda about facing
his death.
"Death
is our eternal companion," don Juan said with a most serious
air. "It is always to our left, at an arm's length. It was
watching you when you were watching the white falcon; it whispered in
your ear and you felt its chill, as you felt it today. It has always
been watching you. It always will until the day it taps you."
"The
thing to do when you're impatient," he proceeded, "is to
turn to your left and ask advice from your death. An immense amount
of pettiness is dropped if your death makes a gesture to you, or if
you catch a glimpse of it, or if you just have the feeling that your
companion is there watching you."
"Death
is the only wise adviser that we have. Whenever you feel, as you
always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be
annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death
will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside
its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.'"
"Yes,"
he said softly after a long pause. "One of us here has to
change, and fast. One of us here has to learn again that death is
the hunter, and that it is always to one's left. One of us here has
to ask death's advice and drop the cursed pettiness that belongs to
men that live their lives as if death will never tap them."
Carlos
Castaneda, Journey to
Ixtlan
The
9th Day of Christmas: Sagittarius: What is True and Real?
The
Wisdom of Sagittarius is to widen and deepen our perspective and keep
an open attitude toward life. Old social and religious beliefs that
keep us apart and cause antagonism must be left behind in Scorpio’s
dark waters. We are living in an age where we are all
one.
Can we go out into the world and discern truth from falsehood, what
is real from what is fake? Can we hear truth?
The
Native Americans treasured the Wisdom
of the Earth. This is our
task now.
Earth,
Teach Me
Earth teach me quiet ~ as the grasses are still with new light.
Earth teach me suffering ~ as old stones suffer with memory.
Earth teach me humility ~ as blossoms are humble with beginning.
Earth teach me caring ~ as mothers nurture their young.
Earth teach me courage ~ as the tree that stands alone.
Earth teach me limitation ~ as the ant that crawls on the ground.
Earth teach me freedom ~ as the eagle that soars in the sky.
Earth teach me acceptance ~ as the leaves that die each fall.
Earth teach me renewal ~ as the seed that rises in the spring.
Earth teach me to forget myself ~ as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me to remember kindness ~ as dry fields weep with rain.
- An Ute Prayer
Earth teach me quiet ~ as the grasses are still with new light.
Earth teach me suffering ~ as old stones suffer with memory.
Earth teach me humility ~ as blossoms are humble with beginning.
Earth teach me caring ~ as mothers nurture their young.
Earth teach me courage ~ as the tree that stands alone.
Earth teach me limitation ~ as the ant that crawls on the ground.
Earth teach me freedom ~ as the eagle that soars in the sky.
Earth teach me acceptance ~ as the leaves that die each fall.
Earth teach me renewal ~ as the seed that rises in the spring.
Earth teach me to forget myself ~ as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me to remember kindness ~ as dry fields weep with rain.
- An Ute Prayer
“The
Lakota was a true Naturist - a Lover of Nature. He loved the earth
and all things of the earth, the attachment growing with age. The
old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined
on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It
was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to
remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth.
Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of
earth. The birds that flew in the air came to rest upon the earth
and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and grew.
The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.
That
is why the old Indian still sits upon the earth instead of propping
himself up and away from its life-giving forces. For him, to sit or
lie upon the ground is to be able to think more deeply and to feel
more keenly; he can see more clearly into the mysteries of life and
come closer in kinship to other lives about him. . . .
Kinship
with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active
principle. For the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly
feeling that kept the Lakota safe among them and so close did some of
the Lakotas come to their feathered and furred friends that in true
brotherhood they spoke a common tongue.
The
old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature
becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things
soon led to lack of respect for humans too. So he kept his youth
close to its softening influence.”
Luther
Standing Bear, a Lakota/Sioux medicine man
“Will
you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the
earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of
the earth.
This
we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.
All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did
not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he
does to the web, he does to himself."2
Attributed to Chief Seattle
Attributed to Chief Seattle
The
10th Day of Christmas: Capricorn: Transforming Society
The
Wisdom of Capricorn is that society serves the people’s needs.
Since corporations have become ‘people’, western society and now
all the world are serving those corporate entities, not the people.
The Wisdom of Capricorn is with us now that Saturn has returned to
his own home sign. Saturn is ‘the reality principle’, the
essential nature of something. Saturn will follow along Pluto’s
trail of societal
disruption
and collect what is his due. The Wisdom of Capricorn tells us it is
up to each one of us to create our society anew. When we do, we need
to put people at the center, not the economy. We need to put people
and our lives, our hopes and dreams, our health and our communities
at the center. The economy, like
our left-brain rationality,
is a tool for doing that but it can’t be the central pillar of our
society, because when it is, it leads to destruction, inequality and
greed.
Albert
Einstein called the intuitive or metaphoric mind a sacred gift. He
added that the rational mind was a faithful servant. It is
paradoxical that in the context of modern life we have begun to
worship the servant and defile the divine.
Bob
Samples, The
Metaphoric Mind: A Celebration of Creative Consciousness
Whether
we acknowledge it or not, we are held and sustained within the arms
of Mother Earth. Just as surely, the life of the planet Earth is
now in our hands. Earth is the only home we have. How could we
have gotten so separated from our home that we would come close to
destroying it with our poisons and our waste, our wars and our
unsustainable economy and population? We are faced with the stark
truth of climate change, which is disrupting our weather, melting the
glaciers at alarming rates and heating up the gulf stream, which
could bring on another Ice Age. By allowing our governments to
ignore these signs we are taking away our children’s future. If
women can remember our relationship with our mother Earth, we can
become spokeswomen for her Sovereignty. We have a choice, and we are
responsible to our children’s children for seven generations. Each
woman can become the consciousness and the conscience of the Earth.
When we incarnate feminine wisdom, we give the Earth back Her
essential power and mystery, which is based in the spirit of life and
the testing of death.
Cathy Pagano,
Wisdom’s Daughters: How
Women Can Change the World
The
11th
Day of Christmas: Aquarius: Share a Better Vision of the Future
The
Wisdom of Aquarius is that we have to work together to create a
better society. The power of the Group is the power to share
responsibilities and gifts, so we don’t have to go it alone.
What
can our brilliant technology do to help support a healthier, more
creative society? We’ve already seen how technology is used for
greed, violence, falsehoods and manipulation as well as how it has
the potential to connect us with each other. While Internet
technology has created havoc, it has also been a place to find our
tribes. Now we have to go outside those tribes and find where we all
agree. We are all connect in Indra's Net.
“There
is an almost sensual longing for communion with others with a larger
vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those
engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness, has a quality
impossible to describe.”
Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin
"Your
imagination and your initiative and your indignation will determine
whether we build a society where progress is the servant of our
needs, or a society where old values and new visions are buried under
unbridled growth. For in your time we have the opportunity to move
not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward
to the Great Society.
The
Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an
end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally
committed in our time. But that is just the beginning.
The
Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to
enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where
leisure is a welcome chance to build and reflect, not a feared cause
of boredom and restlessness. It is a place where the city of man
serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but
the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place
where man can renew contact with nature. It is a place which honors
creation for its own sake and for what it adds to the understanding
of the race. It is a place where men are more concerned with the
quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.
But
most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place,
a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly
renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives
matches the marvelous products of our labor."
President
Lyndon B. Johnson
The
12th Day of Christmas: Pisces: The Soul of Humanity
The
Wisdom of Pisces is that we’re all ONE. That humans are the same,
regardless of skin color, religion, society, gender and sexuality.
Isn’t it time to stop being afraid of each other, afraid of life
itself? That’s what patriarchy has taught us. But in a
partnership vision of life, we are here on Earth to have a human
experience of the beauty of the material world. Imagine that you’re
from another planet and you’ve chosen to come to Earth to
experience its joys and sorrows. What an adventure! It’s time to
explore, to go ‘where no one has gone before’.
Quantum Universe
Imagination
is more important than knowledge.
Alber
Einstein
Love
is the Water of Life.
And
a Lover is a soul of Fire.
The
Universe turns differently
When
Fire Love Water.
Rumi
I
do not know what bounds may be placed on the power of the
imagination. It can heal the body, reveal the secrets of divine
truth, transform the personality, incarnate God, and open up worlds
of infinite diversity and potential.
Jeffrey
Raff, Jung and the
Alchemical Imagination
"In
this crucial time of our Earth walk, it is essential that we women
reclaim our ability to nurture, create, and renew life. It is our
responsibility to heal ourselves, reclaim the healing power that is
ours, and thus form a solid foundation for transformation on other
levels of life. "
Brooke
Medicine Eagle
"The
world will be saved by the western woman.”
His
Holiness the Dalai Lama, Peace Summit in Vancouver, 2009
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