In this year 6.4 we celebrate the Beauty of the Spirit oriented by the heliocentric alignments between the Luminaries and the asteroids of the Nine Muses.
Today, Venus, the Intellect of Love, is heliocentrically in conjunction in Gemini with Polyhymnia (she who has many hymns), Muse of sacred and ritual dance, of choral and solemn singing, of mime as rhythm, of ordered thought, of meditation.
Polyhymnia inspires rhythmic sacredness and solemn intimacy.
“… According to the Teachings of Plato, music should not be understood in the narrow sense of music alone, but as participation in all the harmonious arts. In singing, in poetry, in painting, in sculpture, in architecture, in speech, and, finally, in all manifestations of sound, musicality is expressed. In Hellas a ceremony to all the Muses was performed. Tragedy, dance, and all rhythmic movement served the harmony of Cosmos.
Much is spoken about beauty, but the importance of harmony is little understood. Beauty is an uplifting concept, and each offering to beauty is an offering to the equilibrium of Cosmos. Everyone who expresses music in himself sacrifices, not for himself, but for others, for humanity, for Cosmos.” (Supermundane § 42)
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The Sufi sometimes dances, but while dancing in the centre he remains absolutely still – the centre of the cyclone.
The dance is the cyclone, his whole body is in motion, it is fluid, dynamic, but in the centre the consciousness watches in silence, undisturbed and undistracted.
Outwardly, one can only learn the exercise. Outwardly, one will never know what goes on inside the dancer.
And the real story is all inside.
