Answer: The North East feast is a ritual of the Muses of beauty and wisdom. In the Saturn Year it asks everybody to delve into the circumstances of their existence. We must make our personal starting point, and our vocation, necessary steps on the way to beauty, on the way to that harmony which next year will enable us to find real participation in the great work of the Earth.

Saturn is the symbol of the Golden Age where all conflicts recede, humanity find its highest expression, and everyone fulfills their potentialities in an open society. Dress for this ritual in such a way that your outer form and gesture correspond with your inner being. For this you have to buy new clothes, clothing which you never previously had the courage to buy. It may also be a jewel, piece of cloth, chain, or a special stone which you will keep in your left hand during the ritual so that through it the revelation will penetrate up to the creative form.

Art means to transform matter into a form which enables you to vibrate in the rhythm of the cosmos. At the fire in the beginning, each should put to them self the questions: “When was my expression in correspondence with my being?” “When did I feel absolutely well?” “Did it depend on circumstances, or friends, or from a personal decision?” As with the beginning of the Aquarian Age (February 4, 1962) at this time all of the lower planets, except for the moon, are in one sign, in Taurus. This means we can make practical, creative decisions for the future. It is like the place of origin of two great rivers, where each flows down from the same mountains in two different directions. Inspiration will takes us over when we listen to it, or when we clarify and articulate it in front of our inner eye.

Make yourself an image of how you would like to be viewed by others. Try to recognize the obstacles which have, until now, opposed the union of your being and form. Ask yourself “Where am I beautiful?” “Where can I discard ugliness from my existence?” For the organizers it may be meaningful to have some pieces or cloth or objects which people can take as a symbol if they have not yet found their signature. Take a word or an image which will transform the symbol into a bridge to the beyond.

Starting from today all sadness, all misfortune, belongs to the past – if you listen sincerely in the invocation to the answers of the North East spirits in the different chakras and steps. After that try to make a poem connecting these images or words, and to form an “essence song” from this (as in the Native American tradition). Then, at the dance and the drums, sing that song. Be glad about the beauty of others, so that they may wake up out of despondency, self pity and identification with bad circumstances. Venus belongs to this day. Perhaps you will find a mask which like in the Greek theater will transform you into a representative of the chosen God or Goddess.

A message from Arnold Keyseling of the School of Wisdom, Vienna.
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