Virgo is an earth sign and is related to matter. In its subtle state, matter is pure, but in its dense or gross state, it loses its purity and virginity and becomes worldly. The first half of the sign of Virgo is filled with subtle, pure nature, while the second half belongs to gross nature. In Eastern tradition, Ganesha is worshipped as the son of the World Mother, and his birthday is celebrated in the fourth waxing moon phase of Virgo. Ganesha, the cosmic Jupiter principle, symbolises wisdom or the subtle nature that can reflect God’s light, love and power. May the cosmic Jupiter principle help us to experience the golden light of the World Mother.
The World Mother is described as the Mother of Light and the Mother of Night. She presides over the interplay of spirit and matter and engages in the activity of creation. The Father stands as her background and provides support in her activities. Experiencing the Father is beyond consciousness.
The Veda says that the Father is reborn as Son through the Mother. The birth can happen in two ways: The descent of the Divine into a human form is called the principle of the avatar. A human being, a “son of man”, can also become a “Son of God” or a “Son of the Virgin” by purifying and transforming themselves through service and sacrifice to an extent that the Divine can express itself through them. This is the path of the initiates and Masters of Wisdom.
Virgo is symbolic of such a transformation of awakening to the subjective world happening in silence and darkness. Disciples enter into the inner cave of the heart to connect to the Divine in themselves. The Divine might descend into them by the grace of the Mother.
The divine Light has its shine; many images and idols of God are therefore made in white or in gold. The Dark of the Divine also has its shine; the shine of the black is profound. Krishna as an avatar is described as dark, meaning he is so imperceptible and deep that we can merge into him and enter into Samadhi. Black Madonnas have the same shine of the Dark.
For designing the painting, I used the photo of a black Madonna with a black child from a basilica in Girona, Spain, adding shining eyes. In the background you see schemes of a painting of Gayatri indicating the various shades of divine Light. They are surrounded by a rainbow circle symbolising the seven colours and planes of creation. They are further surrounded by elements of a dark flower and of stars hinting at the work of time in space.
The recording of the “Aquarian Salon 3-2”, a conversation on Art, Astrology & Wisdom Teachings, from 16 August 2025 has now been published on YouTube. The theme was “The Ascent”.
It was the 10th Aquarian Salon and it was warmly welcomed by the participants. One member wrote: “It radiates trust in the world and in the universe.”
For this salon, the format was slightly changed – a slideshow on the topic of the salon was shown together with the musical intro. And there were in-depth discussions.
Recording time of the meeting was: 01:29: h. If you would like to see a specific part, go directly to: Welcome: 00:09 Introduction: 00:30 Guitar piece and slideshow of images for contemplation on The Ascent: 01:53 Prayer for group coherence: 10:30
Leo -The Path to the Super Soul: 11:45 Musical interlude: 15:50 Exchange on image: 17:43
Musical interlude: 34:40 Exchange on image: Libra – The Ascent of the Soul from the Abyss: 36:32
Musical interlude: 1:07:58 Exchange on image: Taurus – The Paths of Ascent and Descent: 1:09:12
Musical interlude: 1:26:13 Violet Flame Invocation: 1:27:24 Next Dates & Invitation to After Hour: 1:29:08
The Aquarian Salon is a free and non-commercial initiative of open online group exchanges on contemplative art, astrology and wisdom teachings. The next Aquarian Salon will be on 15 November 25.
The fire sign Leo represents the proud, self-confident person who wants to lead and protect others and seeks to be admired by them. This is the first level of Leo, the personality level. The personality has to offer all of itself to the Soul. And this then becomes the hero’s battle with the lion in a cave. It is in the cave of the heart where the personality and the soul can meet. A true hero is someone who defeats the lion of their own pride, i.e. transforms it so that the light of the soul can shine through. We can visualise the golden light of the lion in our hearts. This lion energy helps us to bring the heart lotus to bloom.
My annual visits at the beginning of July to my friends in Heiligenberg in the Lake Constance area are more than just warm visits for me. Spending time together with meditations, exchanges and excursions, relaxing and “bathing” in the beauty of the lush nature of the area and especially in the little “paradise garden” cultivated by Manfred, speaking about spiritual topics and experiences, meeting with other group members of the surrounding – this is for me a time of retreat and kind of a pilgrimage. Meaning – readjusting by being in a different surrounding and on perceiving afresh the subtle worlds and the divine through beauty and in exchanges/encounters.
On the day of my arrival, they took me to a farmhouse transformed into a theatre, the “Hoftheater” for a presentation of cabaret artist Stephan Bauer about “Married couples go to heaven – they’ve already been to hell”… It was very humorous. At the entrance to the farm parking there was a beautiful old statue of Christ blessing:
Statues of sacredness had been part of everyday life in the past but have largely disappeared in today’s outer life, esp. beyond the religious. However, they serve as signposts to orient within and vertically to the Light.
Sunset over the countryside at the farmhouse – rays of light divine showering down in a grand, hardly observed show
I passed some time of the days in the beautiful garden in Heiligenberg, reading, resting, and contemplating.
Friends in the garden in Heiligenberg, picking raspberries
Two friends / group members joined us in evening for meditating and dinner – a group life.
The next day, I went with Victoria to a pilgrimage place of worship of St Mary at a rock wall in a forest near a brook.
The little chapel at a rock wall
People come here for praying to St Mary, some have hung up prayers or votive images with thanks for healing.
A view from Heiligenberg to the Lake Constance area during a morning walk
Wisdom books in the home of Manfred and Sabine
We exchanged about the wisdom teachings and teaching them to co-students and interested persons. Manfred has a website (German) called ‘Yoga of Synthesis‘ where he presents introductions to many facets of the wisdom teachings and talks he had given, and he organises group meetings. To kindle the inner fire of students is mostly a long path, and there are many directions people can turn their focus of life …
A statue of Lord Krishna given to a German couple by Master Kumar 28 years ago, now in the home at Heiligenberg
Manfred has another website on the healing powers of plants, and with a group, they have worked out existing knowledge about herbs to make it available in an understandable way. He has a great knowledge of and dedication to cultivating flowers and plants.
Very near to the place where they are living, there is a big nursery with a plant shop and plenty of statues for sale called Bamboo Forest. It is in a valley along a brook at the place of an old mill. A beautiful place where they have plenty of replicas of Buddha and Ganesha statues and other objects of garden art. Even as decorative garden objects, they bring in a silent, meditative orientation to the place.
Ganesha statue and sphinx at the parking
One of the many exquisite Buddha statues radiating meditative serenity
By chance, we met the owner of the “Bamboo Forest”, a good acquaintance of Manfred who had built up the entire area from bottom up within 20 years. He had radiant eyes and you could feel his enthusiasm. In his youth, he wanted to become an archeologist but now he travels around the world, especially to the East and Far East, to find places where such artworks are created for importing them. It was fascinating to listen to him.
He told us that he also go the rights from museums to reproduce artwork of Leonardo da Vinci and other classics which he displays over the brook, in trees and at little lakes. A masterly visualisation of sublime presence.
Face of Mona Lisa / Leonardo da Vinci in the Bamboo Forest over the brook
Christ as Salvator Mundi, probably by Leonardo, in the trees
We also went to two Peace Forests (FriedWald) in Heiligenberg, where urns can be buried next to trees. (In Germany, you cannot just poor ashes into forests, there are reserved places.) Many people have reserved places at registered trees where they plan to have their urns placed or where urns are already place. It was a beautiful and somehow sacred ambiance, with people sitting near trees, probably to feel close to the remains of loved ones. And for pondering on the eternal Presence beyond the physical, expressed through the “trees of life”.
That evening, they performed Romeo and Juliet on the open-air stage. Due to my hearing impairment, we received places at the first row. The weather was very warm, and while the performance was going on, there was a gorgeous sunset over the lake. The tragic love story by William Shakespeare was a bit modernised and the artists played captivatingly. Shakespeare was teaching people through the play the fatal impact of letting lower emotions (of servants, soldiers and rulers) cause fights which finally bring about the death of the couple in love, but not of love itself. Through the enactments of the plays the love and teaching goes on. I felt it to be a divine blessing to witness all the beauty and wisdom experienced during these days.
The heart centre within us corresponds to the energy of Leo. The Sun rules the sign of Leo. Its symbol is the circle with a central point. Whenever the Sun transits through this sign, it stimulates the leonine qualities in us.
Leo is the sign of self-consciousness, and the Sun in the heart lotus is its symbol. The self-awareness of a personality that is proud of itself is the first level of development in a human and it is different from being aware of the Self or the Soul. The little ‘I am’ of the personality finds the great ‘I AM’ of the Soul through contemplation in the heart centre.
The heart centre is the pulsating space where we can receive love-energy from subtle sources. The heart is the divine ‘micro-space’, while the cosmic space is the ‘macro-space’ or the absolute God. This space is also located in our heart, the lion’s den. We are the heart of space.
Elements of Nasa photos of galaxies were used for the background, in which the petals of a sunflower are integrated. They refer to the petals of the heart lotus.
The water sign Cancer is ruled by the Moon. Moon is the reflective principle and represents the lower reflective mind. When our thinking is affected by the fluctuations of moods, our thinking and impressions become distorted. When our mind is distorted, what we think we have heard from others does not reflect reality. It is important to build the lower mind with real information and to purify and train our lower brain mind. Saturn is the higher dimension of the Moon and rules Cancer on the higher planes. Saturn teaches us patience and tolerance. When we have learned our lessons, Saturn passes us on to Jupiter. Jupiter slowly opens up the higher realms of wisdom to us.
This year, the European Master CVV May Call Day celebration took place in Platja D’Aro, a coastal town in the province of Girona at the Costa Brava, Spain, from 27 – 31 May 2025. I travelled with a small group of friends, flying from Memmingen near Munich to Girona.
We flew one day earlier and stayed a few days afterwards. I share here some impressions from the journey. Note the observations at the end of the blogpost.
Rainy early morning start in Memmingen
Some more members from Germany arrived in Girona around the same time. We rent cars for the group journeys and drove to Platja D’Aro. The huge hotel was located in a shopping area near a little marina. Boats in the harbour sleeping, many houses around nearly empty – pre-season time.
Stairway to Girona Cathedral
Next morning, our little group went to Girona for visiting the Cathedral, the Basilica San Feliu and the old town. Plenty of tourists were already filling the streets and parkings – and we among them. I had visited Girona and the cathedral on a group journey and with family. There is a magic of profound spiritual aspiration crystallised to stones and sacred art of earlier centuries, captured in huge church halls with coloured windows, altars and angels. Nature, the river, and the buildings around reflected a long history.
Golden Angels silently trumpeting in a side aisle
Inside the Basilica of Sant Feliu next to the cathedral
A huge cosmological painting of the biblical creation
Tuesday afternoon, the May Call celebration started. There were over 180 members mainly from Spain but also from different European countries and from North and South America. A travel group of 16 members, together with Guru Prasad and his wife, had come from India, and they had visited several spiritually important places in Europe. The program of the group life had a good rhythm of meditations, lectures, and leisure time for exchanges and rest.
There were videos of Master KPK teaching and series of lectures by Guru Prasad on “The Yoga of Master CVV and its Practice” – all talks were with physical and zoom translation teams of members.
Wednesday evening, we had the meeting of the Executive and Advisory groups of WTT-Global, physical and via zoom – a technical challenge.
There were exchanges of gifts and presentations of books and of the Annual Report 2025 of WTT-Global.
Presenting the Annual Report
There were several speeches by group members (here the text of the talk on “Brotherhood“). And, above all, there were many exchanges with other members during the whole group life, and very intense networking in a spirit of synthesis.
At a little beach in Platja D’Aro
Soon the May Call time was already over and saying good-bye to the friends from the bigger group. Our small travel group stayed together for a few more days in a nice apartment at Calella de Palafrugell at the Costa Brava. It was a beautiful little group life, after the bigger May Call group life, travelling, meditating, cooking, experiencing the surroundings together.
Early morning before sunrise in Calella – the beach being still empty
On 2 June, we made an excursion to the monastery of Montserrat. Many tourists were around. We tried to stay aligned to the sublime energy of the place.
Photo shooting – the entrance to the cathedral as a décor for social media influencers?
Inside the cathedral with the Black Madonna at the centre
The Madonna and the Child
At the bottom of the Black Madonna you see two pine cones – I once read that occultly these are not decorative elements but hint at the highest in the human being, the pineal gland of the head center.
In between in the middle, at the feet of the Madonna, there is a silver sea shell – symbol of the Star of the Sea, the World Mother.
The Child is also holding a pine-cone like ball in his left hand.
Very early morning on the 4th, we returned via Girona back to Germany – jumping back into cold weather and another ambiance. At evening prayer time at the home of friends in the Lake Constance area, we saw a big wall of black clouds approaching. A dangerous thunderstorm was announced. Will it destroy the fruits and flowers in the garden and in the surroundings?
Two of us instinctively asked the Devas during meditation to let their energy come down in a soft way. Torrential rains came but nothing in the garden was destroyed – accidentally? At the end of the meditation a bright ray of sunshine lightened the room – a sharp contrast to the nearby area of dark weather. We felt thankful for the blessing and protection during the journey.
Next day in the news, there was a report about the thunderstorm hitting the Allgäu and an emergency landing at the same airport where we had returned, with several persons hurt.
The watery sign of Cancer is ruled by Moon. On the lower planes it represents the consciousness of the masses tinged by floods of emotions. Moon reflects the rays of all other planets, especially of Neptune. On the lower planes, Neptune causes (self-) delusion and glamour. On the higher planes, Neptune refines us, offering profound experiences of ecstatic joy and absorption into oceanic states of awareness. Its colour is aquamarine.
The painting is an inner and outer contemplation. You see a shape of the earth as floating in the ocean of space, a fragile jewel and our home and basis of physical existence. The sea surf in the lower part of the image forms part of the ocean but is also a latent menace of flooding when the heat of the earth increases. As per prophecies in the scriptures, our present wave of humanity will either learn to master the fire / heat or be destroyed.
In the upper part you see a garland of seven stars representing the cosmic Seven Rays from where energies pour forth. Their planetary counterparts are depicted by seven flame-like drops created with transformed photos of aquamarines – the prevalent colour of the image – and a blue jewel, taken in a shop at Iguaçu Falls in Brazil. The drops and the stars indicate the help coming from higher dimensions if we orient to them.
End of March 2025, Neptune entered Aries for a new cycle of 164 years. Saturn, representing laws and regulations, will follow soon and form a conjunction with Neptune, in sextile with Pluto in Aquarius. The painting has been created during this time. It invites us to ponder on the incoming energies, on what we see and what we don’t see and what we might add by our knowledge and awareness in order to gain a more complex picture of the planetary fusion of all life on the planet being one whole.
In Gemini, the One Existence becomes Two. The entire creation is based on opposites – male and female, spirit and matter, light and darkness. Duality exists through the apparent opposites. If we allow ourselves to be drawn into the multiplicity (one side or the other) without understanding their unity, we end up in the conflict of duality. The higher quality of Gemini is the free relationship – freedom through love. Relationships can exist without binding each other. Even in marriage and other types of relationships, beautiful free associations can exist to connect with each other in kindness and joy.
