SEPTEMBER

The Great Mother, by Nicholas Roerich.

Motto:

Isis –Justice and Wisdom – shows the divine mysteries to «carriers of sacred things» and "wearers of sacred robes». These are they that carry in the soul, as it were in a copper, the sacred story respecting the Gods, that cleanses  the recipient from all superstition and magical follies. – Plutarch, Isis and Osiris, § 6.

Phenomena:

SEPTEMBER 2023

4 Mercury trine Jupiter
6 Sun conjunction Mercury, Moon’s last quarter
8 Sun trine Jupiter
15 New Moon
16 Sun trine Uranus
17 Venus square Jupiter
19 Sun opposition Neptune
21 Sun trine Pluto
22 Moons First quarter
23 Sun enters Libra, Autumn Equinox
25 Mercury trine Jupiter
29 Venus square Uranus, Full Moon
30 Mercury trine Uranus

 

Many years ago:

September 1

- Adi Granth, known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs, was installed this day in 1604 at Harmandir Sahib.

- Juno, one of the lagest main belt asteroids, is discovered in 1804 by German astronomer Karl Harding.

- Bhaktivedanta swami Prabhupada, founder of Hare Krishna Movement is born this day in 1896.

- The famous Italian actor, Vittorio Gasman is born in Genoa (9/1/1922).

September 3

- Irene Papas, a Greek actress born 3 September 1926 in Chiliomodi of Corinth.

September 5

- At a scientific conference in Washington, D.C., this day in 2001, scientists described an observation of energy flares that provided strong evidence of the theorized black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, an Indian philosopher and statesman who was the second President from 1962 to 1967, is born this day in 1888.

September 6

- John Dalton, an English scientist, born this day in 1766. Dalton was a pioneer in the development of modern atomic theory and was considered as the “father” of chemistry.

September 8

- Swami Sivananda Saraswati, a Hindu spiritual teacher and a proponent of Yoga and Vedanta. Sivananda was born in Pattamadai of Tamil Nadu (September 8, 1887).

- Antonín Leopold Dvořák, a Czech composer, is born this day in 1841.

- Peter Sellers is born this day in 1925. Peter Sellers , was a British film actor, comedian and singer.

September 9

- Leo Tolstoy, a famous Russian writer, is born this day in 1828. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time.

September 12

- Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon is this day in 490 BC. The Athenians and their Plataean allies, defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.

- Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, known chiefly for his development of the concept of the conditioned reflex, was born in 1849. Pavlov won the Nobel Prize for physiology in 1904.

September 15

- Cornelius Agrippa: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, a German astrologer, alchemist and writer on occultism is born in 15 September 1486.

- Genghis Khan, founder and great Khan of the Mongol Empire was born this day in 1162.

September 16

- On this day in 1254 was born Marco Polo, a Venetian merchant traveler, whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. Marco Polo travelled through Asia and apparently met Kublai Khan.

September 18

- Foucault: Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, a French physicist best known for the invention of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation, is born in 1819.

- Comet Ikeya-Seki: On September 18, 1965 the Japanese astronomers Ikeya Kaoru and Seki Tsutomu discovered Comet Ikeya-Seki.

September 22

- Michael Faraday, born this day in 1791, was an English scientist whose pioneering work in electromagnetism included producing an electric current from a magnetic field and inventing the first electric motor and dynamo.

September 23

- This day in 1846, astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle became the first person ever to observe the planet Neptune.

- Euripides, one of the three great tragedian of classical Athens, is born this day in 480 BC.

September 25

- Shostakovich: Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich a Russian composer and pianist (born on 25 September 1906) was one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century.

September 26

- T.S. Eliot, born on this day in 1888. T.S. Eliot was a publisher, playwright, literary and social critic.

- 1687: The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed this day by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.

- Martin Heidegger (b. September 26, 1889) was a German philosopher known for his existential and explorations of the "question of being".

September 28

- Confucius, a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher was born this day in 551 BC. The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. 1330

- Nicolas Flamel (born in 1330) was a successful French scrivener and manuscript-seller who developed a posthumous reputation as an alchemist due to his reputed work on the philosopher’s stone.

September 29

- Enrico Fermi: Born in Italy this day in 1901, American physicist Enrico Fermi received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1938,

- This day in 480 BC., the Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.

- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (b. 29 September 1547) was a Spanish novelist and poet His famous work, don Quixote, is a classic of Western literature.1912

- Michelangelo Antonioni, 2007), an Italian film director, and screenwriter is born this day in 1912.

September 30

- Jalāl ad-Dīn Rumi: Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, a 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic, is born this day in 1207.

 

A Thought for a Day

 

1. To him who has subdued self by Self, his self is a friend; but to him who has not subdued senses by mind, that self is an enemy.

2. The eye is a window, which looks into the heart. The brain is a door through which heart escapes.

3. Devotion and clear vision are not his who eats too much, nor his who eats not at all; not his who sleeps too much, nor his who is too awake.

4. At the end of a life of study, the man possessed of knowledge approaches Deity; and at the end of many lives, the wise man becomes one with the All.

5. Grief and wrath, avarice and desire, delusion and laziness, vindictiveness and vanity, envy and hatred, censoriousness and slander — are the twelve sins destructive of man's bliss.

6. The wolf changes his coat, and the serpent his skin, but not their nature.

7. The young of the raven appears to it a nightingale.

8. The dog howls at the moon, but the moon heeds it not; be like the moon.

9. Let your soul work in harmony with the universal intelligence, as your breath does with the air.

10. Let no bitterness find entrance into the heart of a mother.

11. Pervert not the heart of a man who is pure, for he will turn your own first enemy.

12. Do not make a wicked man thy companion, or act on the advice of a fool.

13. Save not thy life at the expense of another's, as he will take two of thy lives in future births.

14. Mock not the deformed; assume not a proud demeanor with thy inferiors; hurt not the feelings of the poor; be kind to those weaker than thyself, and charitable to all beings.

15. Sacrifice not thy weaker child to the stronger, but protect him.

16. Amuse not thyself at the expense of those who depend on thee. Mock not a venerable man, for he is thy superior.

17. Death is a black camel that kneels at everybody's door. Death is a friend and a deliverer.

18. A little hill in a low place thinks itself a great mountain.

19. Men are gnomes condemned to forced toils in the kingdom of darkness (or ignorance).

20. We are the true troglodytes, cave-dwellers, though we call our cavern the world.

21. Living for ages in the night-realm, we dream that our darkness is full day.

22. All life is but a perpetual promise; an engagement renewed, but never fulfilled.

23. Man is a king, dethroned, and cast out from his kingdom; in chains and in a dungeon.

24. The heart of a beggar will not be content with half the universe; he is not born to a part, but to the whole.

25. Our life is the ante-room of the palace where our true treasure lies — immortality.

26. Useless to seek to seize the ocean-echo, by clasping the shell in which it lies hid; as useless to try to seize this essence, by grasping the form in which for a moment it shone.

27. When the leaden clouds clash together, the fair glimpse of heaven is shut out.

28. When the silence falls upon us, we can hear the voices of the gods, pointing out in the quiet light of divine law the true path for us to follow.

29. All the air resounds with the presence of spirit and spiritual laws.

30. The spirit it is, that, under the myriad illusions of life, works steadily towards its goal; silently, imperceptibly, irresistibly, moving on to divinity.