November
Ouroboros Dragon.
NOVEMBER 2023
Motto:
As large as in the unbounded Universe, so large that little, hidden Spirit is! The Heavens and Earth are in it; fire and air, and sun and moon and stars; darkness and light it comprehends! Whatever maketh Man, the present of him and the past of him and what shall be of him; - all thoughts and things lie folded in the ethereal vast of It! - Katha Upanishad
Phenomena:
NOVEMBER
1 Mercury trine Neptune, New Moon
2 Mercury trine Mars
3 Venus opposition Jupiter, Mars opposition Pluto
4 Sun trine Saturn
9 Venus square Neptune, Moon’s first quarter
12 Mercury square Saturn
15 Full Moon
17 Sun opposition Uranus
18 Mercury opposition Jupiter
19 Sun trine Neptune
22 Sun enters Sagittarius
23 Moon’s last quarter
27 Sun trine Mars
Many years ago:
November 2
- G. Boole: George Boole, an English mathematician and philosopher, born this day in 1815. His work was in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and he is now best known as the author of The Laws of Thought.
- Aga Khan: This day in 1877 was born sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III. He was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and one of the founders and the first president of the All-India Muslim League. The Aga Khan travelled in distant parts of the world to receive the homage of his followers, and with the object either of settling differences or of advancing their welfare by pecuniary help and personal advice and guidance. Queen Victoria conferred the distinction of a knight commander of the Indian Empire upon him in 1897, and he received like recognition for his public services from the German emperor, the shah of Persia and other potentates.
- Odysseas Elytis: Elytis, a Greek poet and winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature was born in Heraklion on the island of Crete, on November 2, 1911. He was regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. In 1979 the Nobel Prize in Literature was bestowed on him.
November 3
- Cellini: Benvenuto Cellini an an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, painter and musician was born this day in 1500. He is well-known from his famous Autobiography.
November 4
- Anastasios: Archbishop Anastasios of Albania was born in Piraeus, Greece, this day in 1929. Archbishop Anastasios is one of the presidents of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches and Honorary President of the World Conference of Religion for Peace.
November 7
- Marie Curie: Polish-born French physicist Marie Curie, famous for her ground-breaking work on radioactivity and winner of both the Nobel Prize for Physics and the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, was born in Warsaw this day in 1867.
November 8
- Halley: Edmond Halley (1656-1742), was an English astronomer, geophysicist and mathematician who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley’s Comet.
November 9
- Carl Sagan: Carl Edward Sagan, an American astronomer, cosmologist and science popularizer was born this day in 1934. He spent most of his career as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies. He advocated scientifically skeptical inquiry and the scientific method, pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.
November 10
- Schiller: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, a German poet and philosopher was born on 10 November 1759, in Marbach, Wurttemberg. Schiller (1759-1805) ranks as one of the greatest literary figures of Germany. He was a founder of modern German literature.
November 11
- Paracelsus: Paracelsus (born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 11 November 1493) was a German-Swiss Renaissance physician, alchemist, astrologer and occultist. Paracelsus was born and raised in the village of Einsiedeln in Switzerland. His father, Wilhelm Bombast von Hohenheim, was a chemist and physician. He received a profound humanistic and theological education by his father, local clerics and the convent school of St. Paul’s Abbey in the Lananttal. As a physician of the early 16th century, Paracelsus held a natural affinity with the Hermetic, neoplatonic, and Pythagorean philosophies central to the Renaissance, a world-view exemplified by Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola. Paracelsus pioneered the use of chemicals and minerals in medicine. He used experimentation in learning about the Human body. Paracelsus was also responsible for the creation of laudanum, an opium tincture very common until the 19th century.
November 12
- Bahá'u'lláh: Mírzá Ḥusayn-`Alí Núrí Bahá'u'lláh wa born this day in 1817. He was the founder of the Baha’i Faith. He claimed to be a messenger from God referring to the fulfilment of the eschatological expectations of Islam, Christianity and other major religions. Bahá'u'lláh taught that humanity is one single race and that the age has come for its unification in a global society.
November 14
- Boutros-Ghali: Boutros Boutros-Ghali, born this day in 1922, was an Egyptian scholar, who served as secretary-general of the United Nations from January 1, 1992, to December 31, 1996, was the first Arab and first African to lead the UN. Boutros Boutros-Ghali was born in Cairo into a Coptic Christian (Boutros being the Arabic version of the Greek word πέτρος (petros)) family.
- Nehru: Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964), often referred to as Panditji, was an Indian politician and statesman, a leader in the Indian Indepedence Movement, and the first Prime Minister of independent India. The son of moderate nationalist leader and Congressman Motilal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru became a leader of the left wing of the Congress. He became Congress President under the mentorship of Mohandas Gandhi. He was the father of Indira Gandhi and the maternal grandfather of Rajiv Gandhi, who were to later serve as the third and sixth Prime Ministers of India, respectively.
November 15
- Herschel: Sir Frederick William Herschel, a German-born British astronomer and musician, was born this day in 1738. Herschel became famous for his discovery of the planet Uranus, along with two of its major moons, and also discovered two moons of Saturn. In addition, he was the first person to discover the existence of infrared radiation. He is known, as well, for the twenty-four symphonies that he composed.
November 17
- Israel Regardie: Born Francis Israel Regudy (1907–1985) was an English occultist and writer, author of books on the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Israel Regardie was born this day in 1907 in London. Regardie emigrated with his parents to the USA in August 1921 and studied art in Washington, DC and Philadelphia, PA. With easy access to the Library of Congress, he read widely and became interested in Theosophy, Hindu philosophy and yoga. He also joined the Societas Rosicruciana in America at around this time. In 1934 Regardie joined Stella Matituna, a successor organization of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. When the group disbanded, Regardie acquired the bulk of the Order's documents and compiled the book, The Golden Dawn, which earned him the enmity of many of the other former members and the reputation of being an oath-breaker because of the information it revealed. However, the book transformed the work of the Order into an entirely new branch of the Western Occult Tradition.
November 19
- Indira Gandhi: Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was born this day in 1917 She was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms (1966–77) and a fourth term (1980–84). Gandhi was the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India.
November 21
- Voltaire: François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire, a French Enlightenment writer and philosopher was born this day in 1694. Voltaire was a prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day.
November 22
- George Eliot: Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Ada Bede (1859), Silas Marner (1861) and Middlemarch (1871–72), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.
November 23
- Manuel de Falla: Manuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish Andalusian composer. Falla was born this day in 1876 as Manuel María de los Dolores Falla y Matheu in Cadiz. His early teachers in music were his mother and grandfather; at the age of nine he was introduced to his first piano professor, Eloísa Galluzo. In 1889 he continued his piano lessons with Alejandro Odero and learned the techniques of harmony and counterpoint from Enrique Broca. Later in Granada, Falla began work on the large-scale orchestral cantata Atlantida (Atlantis), based on the Catalan text L’ Atlantida by Jacint Verdaguer. Falla considered Atlàntida to be the most important of all his works.
- Sai Baba: Śri Sathya Sai Baba was born this day in 1926. He was an Indian guru, spiritual figure, mystic, philanthropist and educator. He claimed to be the reincarnation of Sai Baa of Sirdi who was considered a spiritual saint and a miracle worker, whose teachings were an eclectic blend of Hindu and Muslim beliefs. Sai Baba had ashrams in 126 countries and also ran a network of hospitals, clinics and schools that were often free.
November 25
- Spencer Lewis: Harvey Spencer Lewis (1883-1939) was born this day in Frenchtown, New Jersey. He was a noted Rosicrucian author, occultist, and mystic, the founder in USA and the first Imperator of Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crusis (AMORC), from 1915 until 1939.
November 27
- Nobel Prizes: Through the will drawn up by Alfred Bernhard Nobel - the Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist who invented dynamite and other, more powerful explosives - the Nobel Prizes were established on this day in 1895.
November 30
- Mark Twain: American writer Mark Twain, born this day in 1835, won worldwide acclaim for his stories of youthful adventures, especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
- Winston Churchill: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874-1965) was a British statesman and author Sir Winston Churchill was a British conservative politician known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the past century, he served as Prine Minister twice (1940-1945 and 1951-1955). He is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States.
NOVEMBER
1 In every blessing think of its end, in every misfortune think of it removal.
2 If justice predominates not over injustice in a man, he will speedily fall into ruin.
3 Vain hopes cut man off from every good; but the renunciation of avarice prevents every ill.
4 Patience leads to power, but lust leads to loss.
5 By wisdom is the gift of knowledge displayed; by knowledge are high things obtained.
6 In calamity are men's virtues proved, and by long absence is their friendship tested.
7 That man who accurately understands the movement and the cause of the revolutions of the wheel of life is never deluded.
8 Days end with sunset, nights with the rising of the sun; the end of pleasure is ever grief, the end of grief ever pleasure.
9 All action ends in destruction; death is certain for whatever is born; everything in this world is transient.
10 In information is shown the wit of man, and in travel is his temper tried.
11 In poverty is benevolence assayed, and in the moment of anger is a man's truthfulness displayed.
12 By truth alone is man's mind purified, and by right discipline it doth become inspired.
13 By shaking hands with deceit, one is tossed on the billows of toil.
14 Fear of judgment will deter from wrong, but trifling with it leads to destruction.
15 An act may seem right, but it is by its results that its purpose is shown.
16 Intelligence is shown by good judgment.
17 Learning clears the mind, and ignorance cobwebs it.
18 Whoso takes good advice is secure from falling; but whoso rejects it, falleth into the pit of his own conceit.
19 By a trusty friend is man supported in life, and by reward are friendships increased.
20 Whoso cannot forgive wrong done to him shall learn to know how his good deeds are undone by himself.
21 He who bestows bounty on mankind, makes of mankind his debtor in a future birth.
22 The envious man is never satisfied, nor can he ever hope to become great.
23 The more a man clothes himself in modesty, the better does he conceal his faults.
24 The best policy for a man is not to boast of his virtues.
25 The kindest policy for a strong man is not to flourish his power in the sight of a weaker man.
26 The contentious man induces antagonism; people cannot often repress anger when contending with fools.
27 Intelligence is not shown by witty words, but by wise actions.
28 Of the eloquence of the pleasant speaker all men are enamored.
29 Craft has the best of men; boldness conquers cities; the first is despised, the last admired.
30 The brave man of whose prowess all men stand in need, will never be distressed by adversaries.
