The Esoteric Connection

Holy Night 11 for November

22 Oct 2023

Holy Night 11 January 3-4 – Scorpio The eleventh night: the struggle with the Guardian of the Threshold. Mystery: building up the Grail Castle in ourselves. Confessing ourselves more and more in faithfulness to the highest! Rudolf Steiner’s indications for the Holy Nights given to Herbert Hahn Translation from German... Read More

Michaelmas 2023

29 Sep 2023

The Festival of Archangel Michael is not celebrated much today but the time is coming to revive it once more. How soon this will be we cannot tell, but first there is a condition to be met. We can only revive this Michael Festival if esoteric truth lives in us.... Read More

Holy Night 10 applied to October

22 Sep 2023

January 2-3 – Libra The night in which the greatest sacrifice grows from service: learning to listen to the inner voice and the signs of divinity, and to hear them obediently. Mystery: the voice calling in us through our various incarnations. Its clarity grows through sacrifice and decision. Rudolf Steiner’s... Read More

Holy Night 9 applied to September

21 Aug 2023

January 1-2 – Virgo Now come the three nights of the crown. Release from the only intellectual, or release of the intellect from its earthly bonds and purposefulness. This is the thrice-holy night, in which the lower ego falls away and only the desire to serve, to devote oneself, remains.... Read More

Holy Night 8 for August

21 Jul 2023

December 31 – January 1 – Leo The cross on the sword pommel: the sacrifice. Girded with the sword of the power of Christ, the tongue speaks the truth, without being able to wound. It is the night of re-setting. Mystery: The knight, the fighter with the lance of the... Read More

Holy Night 7 applied to July

21 Jun 2023

December 30-31 – Cancer The serpent on the sword pommel: wisdom. We should busy ourselves with uplifting readings. It is the night of the great command. The mystery of activity: who exercises command over our soul? Who is the master of our soul, the doer of our deeds? We have... Read More

Holy Night 6 applied to June

21 May 2023

December 29-30 – Gemini Now follow the three nights of the sword. Peter’s night. Night of the consecration of the sword. Each of us must forge his or her own sword of discernment. Each of us must unite our spiritual will with the eternal, the immortal, and the perishable, and... Read More

Holy Night 5 applied to May

21 Apr 2023

December 28-29 – Taurus Consciously purify the body of thought. Discipline thinking. Concentrating on the positive. Converting the black doves of thought into white doves, because our thinking is, until it is not consciously conducted with discipline, like a dovecote! Keep this dovecote closed against foreign, negative thoughts. Mystery: The... Read More