MOTTO:
The human mind looks at the heart with love.
The heart looks at the mind with hope, for the long journey.
PHENOMENA:
MARCH 2024
3 Venus square Uranus, Moon’s last quarter
8 Mercury conjunction Neptunus
9 Mars square Uranus
10 New Moon
17 Sun conjunction Neptunus, Moon’s first quarter
20 Sun enters Aries
21 Venus conjunction Saturn
25 Full Moon, partial eclipse of Moon
MANY YEARS AGO:
March 1.
- Frederic Chopin: Frédéric François Chopin, born this day in 1810 was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is widely considered one of the greatest Romantic composers.
March 2.
- Gorbachev: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, born 2 March 1931, is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the first (and last) president of the Soviet Union from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991. Since his resignation, Gorbachev has remained involved in world affairs. He founded the Gorbashev Foundation in 1992, headquartered in San Francisco. He later founded Green Cross International.
March 3.
- Alexander Bell, the inventor of the telephone born in Edinburgh in 1847. Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.
- Paris Opera first opened this day in 1671.
March 4.
- Vivaldi: Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, born this day in Venice (4 March 1678), was an Italian composer and virtuoso violinist. Recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe. His best known work is a series of violin known as The Four Seasons.
- Ouspensky: Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky, born this day in 1878, was a Russian esotericist and philosopher. His first book, The Fourth Dimension, appeared in 1909; his second book, Tertium Organum, in 1912; and A New Model of the Universe in 1931. He traveled in Europe and the East — India, Ceylon, and Egypt — in his search for knowledge. After his return to Russia and his introduction to Gurdjieff in 1915, Ouspensky spent the next few years studying with him. Transcripts of certain of his lectures were published under the title of The Fourth Way in 1957.
March 6.
- Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance artist born this day in 1475. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Two of his best-known works, the Pieta and David, were sculpted before he turned thirty. Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
- Gabriel García Márquez: Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was born on March 6, 1927 in the town of Aracataca, Colombia, Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, he was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He started as a journalist, and has written many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude and Autumn of the Patriarch.
March 7.
- Ravel: Joseph-Maurice Ravel was born this day in the Basque town of Ciboure, France, in 1875. Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects.
March 8.
- International woman's day. The first national Women's Day was observed on 28 February 1909 in the United States, following a declaration by the Socialist Party of America. The International Women's Day was first observed as a popular event after 1977 when the United Nations General Assembly invited member states to proclaim March 8 as the UN Day for women’s rights and world peace.
- Karamanlís: Konstantínos G. Karamanlís, born this day in 1907, was a four-time Prime Minister, twice President of the Third Hellenic Republic and a towering figure of Greek politics whose political career spanned much of the latter half of the 20th century.
March 9.
- Parthenon was consecrated in Athens, Greece in 432 B.C.
March 13.
- The planet Uranus discovered this day in 1871 by English astronomer William Herschel.
- Seferis: Giorgos Seferis, born this day in 1900, was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate.
- Mircea Eliade: Eliade was born this day in 1907. He was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer and philosopher. He studied the basics of Indian philosophy and, in parallel, learned Sanskrit, Pali and Bengali under Dasgupta's direction. At the time, he also became interested in the actions of Mahatma Gandhi, whom he met personally; later, Eliade adapted Gandhian ideas in his discourse on "Spirituality and Romania". In his work on the history of religion, Eliade is most highly regarded for his writings on Alchemy, Shamanism and Yoga.
March 14.
- The German physicist Albert Einstein born this day in 1879. He was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity. While best known for his mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2, he received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".
March 16.
- Bertolucci: Bernardo Bertolucci, born 16 March 1940, is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, 1900, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers. In recognition of his work, he was presented with the inaugural Honorary Palme d'Or Award at the opening ceremony of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
March 18.
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Nikolaj Andreevič Rimskij-Korsakov, born this day in 1844, was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as "The Five". He was a master of orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions – Capriccio Espagnol and the symphonic suite Scheherazade —a re staples of the classical music repertoire, along with suites and excerpts from some of his 15 operas.
- Edgar Cayce: Cayce, born this day in 1877, was an American psychic who possessed the ability to answer questions on subjects such as healing and had visions of the world ending. He also gave a reading about Atlantis while in a hypnotic trance. Cayce founded a nonprofit organization, the Association for Research and Enlightenment.
March 20.
- Ovidius: The Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso was born this day in 43 BC. He was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of poetry, the Heroides, Amores and Ars Amatoria, and of the Metamorphoses, a mythological hexameter poem.
- Ibsen: Henrik Johan Ibsen, born this day in 1828, was a major 19th century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt and Hedda Gabler. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare.
March 23.
- Laplace: Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace, Laplace was born in Beaumont-en Auge, Normandy in 1749. He was a French mathematician and astronomer whose work was pivotal to the development of mathematical astronomy.
- Rudhyar: Dane Rudhyar was born in Paris on March 23, 1895. He was an author, modernist composer and astrologer. Most of Rudhyar's more than forty books and hundreds of articles concern astrology and spirituality. In 1969 Rudhyar founded the International Committee for Humanistic Astrology, a small professional society that would work on the development of his perspective. A friend, Theosophist Alice A. Bailey, encouraged the development of his thought and published his book on her press, Lucis Publishing.
March 25.
- The traditional date of the start of the Greek war of Independence.
- The European Economic Community (EEC) was an international organization created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957. The EEC was also known as the Common Market in the English-speaking world and sometimes referred to as the European Community even before it was officially renamed as such in 1993.
March 27.
- Csoma de Kőrös: Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, born this day in 1784, was a Hungarian orientalist, author of the first Tibetan-English dictionary. He was one of the first Europeans to master the Tibetan language and read two great encyclopedias of Buddhist literature the Kangyur and the bsTan-‘gyur.
March 29.
- Vesta: The German astronomer Wilhelm Olbers discovered the brightest asteroid Vesta this day in 1807, and is named after Vesta, the virgin goddess of home and hearth from Roman mythology.
March 30.
- Van Gogh: The Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh was born this day in 1853. He was a post-impressionist painter whose work, notable for its beauty, emotion and color, highly influenced 20th-century art.
March 31.
- Descartes: Rene Descartes, French scientist and philosopher born this day in 1596. His famous phrase was: "I think, therefore I am." He has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy', and much of the subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day.
MARCH
1. Four things increase by use: - Health, wealth, perseverance, and credulity.
2. To enjoy the day of plenty, you must be patient in the day of want.
3. Expel avarice from your heart, so shall you loosen the chains from off your neck.
4. Let a man overcome anger by love, evil by good, greediness by liberality, lie by truth.
5. Do not speak harshly to anybody; those who are so spoken to will answer thee in the same way.
6. This life is in the world of work and retributive justice; the life that follows is in the world of great reward.
7. Excuse is better than disputation; delay is better than rashness; unwillingness of strife is better than eagerness in seeking it.
8. Cut down the whole forest of lust, not the tree. When thou hast cut down every tree and every shrub, then thou wilt be free.
9. The avaricious go not to the world of the gods (Devas), for the fool commands no charity.
10. He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, is called a real driver; other people are but holders of the reins.
11. The fool who is angered, and who thinks to triumph by using abusive language, is always vanquished by him whose words are patient.
12. The best of medicines is death; the worst of diseases is vain anticipation.
13. An easy temper is a good counsellor, and a pleasant tongue is an excellent leader.
14. A good word in time is better than a sweet pie after meals.
15. Foolish pride is an incurable malady; a bad wife is a chronic disease; and a wrathful disposition is a life-long burden.
16. Truth is brighter than the sun; truth is the sunny day of Reason, and falsehood the mind's dark night.
17. All has an end, and will away. Truth alone is immortal, and lives for ever.
18. The light of all flesh is the sun; the light of the soul — truth everlasting.
19. The road to sin is a wide highway; the way out of it, a steep and rugged hill.
20. The fault of others is easily perceived, but that of oneself is difficult to perceive.
21. Good people shine from afar like the snowy mountains; bad people are not seen, like arrows shot at night.
22. Where two women meet, there a market springs; where three congregate, a bazaar is opened; and where seven talk, there begins a fair.
23. Extensive knowledge and science, well-regulated discipline and well-spoken speech, this is the greatest blessing.
24. The subtle self is to be known by thought alone; for every thought of men is interwoven with the senses, and when thought is purified, then the self arises.
25. Lead me from the unreal to the real! Lead me from darkness to light! Lead me from death to immortality!
26. The Sage who knows Brahman moves on; on the small, old path that stretches far away, rests in the heavenly place, and thence moves higher on.
27. Neither by the eyes, nor by spirit, nor by the sensuous organs, nor by austerity, nor by sacrifices, can we see Brahma. Only the pure, by the light of wisdom and meditation, can see the pure Deity.
28. By perfection in study and meditation the Supreme Spirit becomes manifest; study is one eye to behold it, and meditation is the other.
29. Alas! We reap what seed we sow; the hands that smite us are our own.
30. Thoughts alone cause the round of rebirths in this world; let a man strive to purify his thoughts, what a man thinks, that he is: this is the old secret.
31. "My sons are mine; this wealth is mine": with such thoughts is a fool tormented. He himself does not belong to himself, much less sons and wealth.
