OCTOBER
The god Anubis weighs the heart of dead on the scale against the feather of truth.
OCTOBER 2024
Motto:
In just and equal measure all is weighed; one scale contains the sun of human weal and one the Good Man’s Heart! – Shelley, Queen Mab, V 234-237.
Phenomena:
OCTOBER
2 New Moon, Sun’s eclipse
4 Venus trine Saturn
6 Mercury square Mars
8 Mercury trine Jupiter, Venus trine Mars
10 Moon’s first quarter
13 Mercury square Pluto
14 Sun square Mars, Sun trine Jupiter, Venus opposition Uranus
16 Venus trine Neptune
17 Full Moon
22 Sun square Pluto, Mercury trine Saturn
23 Sun enters Scorpio
24 Moon’s last quarter
28 Venus square Saturn, Mars trine Neptune
30 Mercury opposition Uranus
Many years ago:
October 1
- Jimmy Carter: Born this day in 1924, Jimmy Carter served as the 39th U.S. president (1977–81) and he later received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2002 for his humanitarian work.
October 2
- Mahatma Gandhi: Born this day in 1869, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the leader of the Indian nationalism in British-ruled India and is esteemed internationally for his doctrine of nonviolence in pursuit of social and political change.
October 3
- Kardec: Allan Kardec is the pen name of the French teacher and spiritist writer Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (born in October 3, 1804). His interest in mediumistic phenomena contributed greatly to the spread of spiritism in France.
October 4
- Sputnik: On this day in 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, which orbited the Earth.
October 7
- Desmond Tutu: Anglican cleric Desmond Mpilo Tutu, born this day in 1931, won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1984 for his role in opposing apartheid.
- The year of Creation: 3761 BC! The epoch reference date Epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar.
- Niels Bhor: Niels Henrik David Bohr (born in 7 October 1885) was a Danish physicist who contributed to understanding quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobe Prize in physics in 1922.
- Putin: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician who has been the General Secretary of Russia and now the President of Russia (since 7 May 2012).
October 9
Nicholas Roerich: Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh, a Russian painter and philosopher, was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (October 9 1874) Trained as an artist and a lawyer, his interests lay in theosophy, archeolody and philosophy and especially art. The so-called Roerich Pact was signed into law by the United States and most member nations of the Pan-American Union in April 1935.
October 10
Giuseppe Verdi: Born October 10, 1813, Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was the leading Italian composer of the 19th century, noted for operas such as Aida, Nabucco, Rigoletto etc.
Astronomy: English astronomer William Lassell discovered this day in 1846 Triton, the largest satellite of the planet Neptune.
October 12
- Pavarotti: Born on this day in Modena, Italy, in 1935, Luciano Pavarotti, an operatic lyric tenor, is considered one of the finest bel canto singers of recent times.
October 14
- Akbar the Great: Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Akbar (born in October 14, 1542) was the third Mughal Emperor. He is most appreciated for having a liberal outlook on all faiths and beliefs and during his era, culture and art reached a zenith as compared to his predecessors.
October 15
- Nietzsche: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born in Prussia (October 15, 1844). Nietzsche was a classical scholar, philosopher and writer.
- Virgil: Publius Vergilius Maro, a Roman poet best known for his national epic, the Aeneid, was born near Mantua in October 15, 70 BC.
October 16
- This day in 2002 is inaugurated the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt as a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria.
October 18
- Suzuki: Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki, a Japanese philosopher, is born this day in 1870 Suzuki was a author of books and essays on Buddhism and Zen that were instrumental in spreading interest in both Zen to the West.
- Melina: Melina Mercouri a famous Greek actress was bron in 1920. She won the award for Best Actress at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. Melina, she became a member of the Greek Parliament in 1977 and the first female Minister for Culture in 1981.
October 19
- Theophilos Kairis is born in Andrros island in 1784. Kairis studied in the theological school of Smyrna and founded with a few disciples a pietistic revivalist movement, known as Theosebism. This movement was anathematised by the Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Beginning with 1826, Kairis dedicated himself to an institute for orphans of the Greek revolution on Andros. The "Orphantropheio", or orphan school, presented Kairis with the opportunity to introduce to the Greek education system a wide range of subjects ranging from comparative religion, astrology, ship navigation, advanced mathematics, natural science and Theosebism. The philosopher priest, Theophilos Kairis, following his conviction by the Holy Synod in 1839, was confined to the monastery in political exile on the island of Skiathos. He had been located to Syros for trial and execution but died in 1853, 10 days before his judicial hearing, of natural causes.
October 20
- Sydney Opera: Australia's Sydney Opera House, designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on this day in 1973.
October 22
- Franz Liszt: Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, born this day in 1811, was a composer of enormous originality and a principal figure in the Romantic Movement.
- Chopra: Deepak Chopra (born October 22, 1946) is an Indian-born, American physician and writer. Chopra has taught at the medical schools ofTufts University and Harvard University. In 1985, Chopra met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who invited him to study Ayurveda. Chopra left his position at the NEMH and became the founding president of the American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine, and was later named medical director of the Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center.
October 24
- UNO: The charter for the United Nations —the world's premier international organization, established at the end of World War II -entered into force this day in 1945.
- Alexandra David-Néel, born Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David (born in Saint Mande, Val-de-Marne on 24 October 1868) was a Belgian-French explorer, theosophist and writer, most known for her visit to Lhasa, Tibet, in 1924, when it was forbidden to foreigners. David-Néel wrote over 30 books about Eastern religion, philosophy and Buddhism.
October 25
- Picasso: Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, who was born this day in 1881 in Málaga, Spain, but spent most of his life in Paris, was of the greatest and most influential artists in history. Among his most famous works are the Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and Guernica.
October 27
- Theodore Roosevelt, born this day in 1858, was the 26th U.S. president (1901–09). He received the Nobel Prize for Peace fir 1906.
- Paganini: Nicolo Paganini (27 October 1782-27 May 1840) was an Italian violist, guitarist, and composer. He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time and has served as an inspiration for many prominent composers.
October 28
- Harvard University: Harvard University, the oldest institute of higher learning in the United States, was founded this day in 1636 by the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- Bill Gates: William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American Business magnate and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, which he co-founded with Paul Allen.
October 29
- Pierre Berthelot: Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907) was a French chemist He was born in paris, France, the son of a doctor. After doing well at school in history and philosophy, he became a scientist. He also translated various old Greek treatises on alchemy and chemistry.
October 30
- Dostoyevsky: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was born this day in 1821 and raised on the grounds of the Mariinsky hospital in Moscow, Russia.Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer of novels, and essays. His most remembered work is from his last years, including, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov.
October 31
Halloween: Modern name of pagan festival Samhain. It is celebrated the evening of October 31, preceding All Saint's Day. It is the most important holiday on the witches calendar. Some people in the occult believe it is the best time to communicate with the dead.
OCTOBER
1 The glamour of Time conceals from the weak souls of men the dark abysses around them, the terrible and mighty laws which incessantly direct their lives.
2 There is no death without sin, and no affliction without transgression.
3 Man's actions are divided, as regards their object, into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
4 The sun causes day and night, divine and human. Night is for the sleep of beings, day for the performance of their duty.
5 If we were convinced that we could never make our crooked ways straight, we should for ever continue in our errors.
6 Where there are not virtue and discrimination, learning is not to be sown there, no more than good seed in barren soil.
7 A teacher is more venerable than ten sub-teachers; a father, than one hundred teachers; a mother, than a thousand fathers.
8 Let not a man, even though pained, be sour-tempered, nor devise a deed of mischief to another.
9 One is not aged because his head is grey: whoever, although a youth, has wisdom, him the gods consider an elder.
10 A wise man should ever shrink from honor as from poison, and should always be desirous of disrespect as if of ambrosia.
11 Though despised, one sleeps with comfort, with comfort awakes, with comfort lives in this world; but the scorner perisheth.
12 Trust not in business one ever caught asleep by the sun rising or setting, for thereby he incurs great sin.
13 Those who prefer to swim in the waters of their ignorance, and to go down very low, need not exert the body or heart; they need only cease to move, and they will surely sink.
14 As a man digging comes to water, so a zealous student attains unto knowledge.
15 A good man may receive pure knowledge even from an inferior; the highest virtue from the lowest.
16 Ambrosia may be extracted even from poison; elegant speech even from a fool; virtue even from an enemy; and gold from dross.
17 Whoever offers not food to the poor, raiment to the naked, and consolation to the afflicted, is reborn poor, naked, and suffering.
18 As a sower gets not his harvest if he sow seed in salt soil, so the giver gets no fruit by bestowing on the unworthy.
19 There are three things of which one never tires: health, life and wealth.
20 A misfortune that cometh from on high cannot be averted; caution is useless against the decrees of Fate.
21 The worst of maladies is envy; the best of medicines is health.
22 Three things can never be got with three things: wealth, with wishing for it; youth, with cosmetics; health, with medicine.
23 Trifling ruins earnestness, lying is the enemy of truth, and oppression perverts justice.
24 Caution can never incur disgrace; imbecility can never bring honor with it.
25 Whomsoever riches do not exalt, poverty will not abase, nor calamity cast him down.
26 Night and day are the steeds of man; they hurry him on, not he them.
27 Whoso heeds not a plaint, confesses his own meanness; and whoso makes a merit of his charity, incurs reproach.
28 There are four things of which a little goes on a long way: pain, poverty, error, and enmity.
29 He who knows not his own worth, will never appreciate the worth of others.
30 Whosoever is ashamed of his father and mother, is excluded from the ranks of the wise.
31 He who is not lowly in his own sight, will never be exalted in the sight of others.
