Roses and the script

There is a concept I’ve been working with since the beginning of the year. It is: sensing the characteristics of a period of time, whether it be a week or a day or even just a moment. Part of my year of Embrace.

In How to Know Higher Worlds, Steiner describes an experience called “learning to read the esoteric script.” It’s in this section.

Cultures have developed many different ways of reading the quality of time: Animal signs. Weather signs. Astrological indications. An actual symbolic script that hovers in the air.

My current understanding is that these all are indicators of the same matrix of reality, and one can improve skills in reading it through whatever form is most familiar or accessible.

When we first moved away from the city and suburbia, the animal signs came into the forefront. There was the new-to-me actual abundance of animals to watch and read. A murmation of starlings blessing the land and its new owner, our neighbor-to-be. The skunk under the henhouse when a problematic relationship fractured. It needed to be relocated, gently and without spraying.

The other many things that animals on the boundaries of a farm do, as part of their natural course, but also: Readable. Knowable. Meaningful.

I could expand on this thought into the other aspects of the script available for reading—but I’ll leave it for now. Tell me what you read in the world around you?

And so, this past quality of time, up through Easter, has been very intensely focused on the material world for me: house work, sewing, and organizing real things.

I will be back to posting soon. There are a couple of podcasts I will be finishing and publishing, and Mercury’s Riddles—book 2 of the Apophenia Gold series—by the end of this month. ❤️