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The recording of the “Aquarian Salon 2-2 on Art, Astrology & Wisdom Teachings” from 27 July 2024 has now been published on YouTube. The theme was “The Mother”.
It was again an inspiring meeting, 18 persons from 4 countries participated and contributed with their thoughts. Feedback from a participant: “Thank you for this profound Salon and everyone’s contributions. I’ve learned so much and will listen to the recording. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the next Salon!”
The Aquarian Salon is a free and non-commercial initiative and experiment of online group exchange on spiritual topics with the power of the group. The virtual exchange was prepared and presented by a team of 5: Slides (operated by Lauren), participants care (Rosa), musical inputs (guitar, Frank), introduction talk and moderation (Risa), “Images of Synthesis”, explanations (Ludger).
The recording time: 01:35 h. If you would like to see a specific part, go directly to: :: Welcome, explaining the schedule: 0:15 :: Guitar piece: 01:40 :: Prayer for group coherence: 05:26 :: Introduction into the theme… : 07:20 :: Exchange on image: Cancer – Cosmic Musicians and the Moon Principle 23:05 :: Exchange on image: Leo – The Gateway of the Sun Centre 38:45 :: Exchange on image: Virgo – The Sons and Daughters of the Virgin 1:00:55 :: Exchange on image: Aquarius: The Twin Gods and the Downpour of Cosmic Energies 1:15:07 :: Violet Flame Invocation: 1:31:40 Musical Closing: 1:33:25 :: After Hour – a vital exchange, bus as always no recordings. Information / further meetings (PDF) | Exchanges / Updates on Telegram |
To be cheerful is an essential quality for any person to progress in their path of life, and much more so in the path of discipleship.
On 26th July 2021, Master K. Parvathi Kumar gave an inspiring and insightful talk on the Merry Life Day and the energy of Master CVV. As a part of the talk, he laid out aspects relating to Plenty of Prana and how Master CVV has ushered in the Aquarian speed into the process of spiritual evolution of humanity. There is a booklet based on this lecture of Sri Kumar about “Merry Life Day”. Its message is to be cheerful in life.
And there is now a YouTube video lecture by Master Kumar on “The Significance of Merry Life Day” given on July 26, 2020.
On 30th March 1910, Master CVV received the influx of the cosmic Energy Of Synthesis, which the Master distributed to the disciples on 29th May 1910, naming it “The May Call Day”.
On the 26th of July, the Master was able to utilize the energy to link up the pranic principle in all three planes of existence, the cosmic, solar, and planetary energy with the kundalini of the individual aspirants. It is the first of its kind on this planet to speed up the spiritual evolution of the humanity on this planet. It was a grand achievement in relation to the energy that descended.
Master CVV has declared this day, the 26th of July, as the Day of Merry Life. It is considered an important day that should be recollected and remembered to pay homage to the grand Master CVV.
In Barcelona, Spain, there is “Merrylife”, a non-profit association created with the purpose of providing Knowledge, Wisdom and Love to apply in everyday life. (See the website with automatic translation).
Merrylife is the fruit of the commitment of a group of people from different cultural and social backgrounds who build the project, who believe in a better humanity and who work together so that human beings can achieve their full potential. Merrylife is funded through courses and activities, membership fees and donations, as well as contributions from the medical and therapeutic areas.
There is also a “Merry Life Society” based in California with volunteers performing service activities and organizing seminars.
The Circle of Good Will and Night Light News invite you to the second Aquarian Salon of the second cycle on Art, Astrology and Wisdom Teachings, Saturday, July 27, 2024. Theme: The Mother.
The meeting on Zoom will start 7pm, CEST (UTC +2) / 12 pm, CDT (UTC -5), 10 am PDT (UTC – 7). Opening is 15 minutes earlier with guitar music.
Since several years now, we have been meeting for “CVV Sharing” group livings around the two equinoxes of the year. Like in the last years, we met springtime at the Seminarhof Drawehn in Kassau, in the Wendland region of northern Germany, for a four-day group living from Monday, 18 March to Thursday, 21 March, 2024.
The seminar place is situated on the edge of a small village and it has grown out of an old farmstead. Its centre is a beautiful 12-angular building with a spiral roof. Its large windows open a wide view over fields and forests. Meeting there physically for the group living itself is, in a way, just the end of a preparation work we did with a team over the last months.
We came from Denmark, Switzerland and different parts of Germany. We were 23 adult persons and a child and we were brought together in the spirit of the One Master Energy.
We followed a rhythm of prayers / meditation times each 3 hours, exchanges and group activities for tuning in to experience the energies at work and for sharing our impressions. “Experiment – Experience – Expression” is the motto of our meetings. And it was giving joy to all who participated, to meet again, to experience the group interactions and to express.
In the welcome round, members brought something from themselves, and the objects and symbols were arranged on a table as the group altar. We exchanged in smaller and bigger groups about what moves us and how we live with the influences of the present time.
There were little inputs and exchanges about “Where am I being unfaithful to myself / Where do I want to be more at peace with myself? / Which inner truth am I (not) living? What truth am I sure of?” And there was a contemplation/group work on “What has inspired me in the last six months?”
There was a concert and a presentation about “The magic of the voice”, and a talk about the Odyssey and qualities of the present time.
Wednesday early morning we met for an equinox meditation around the precise time of the Sun entering Aries (4:06 am). And in the afternoon we did a group walk through the nearby forest.
Thursday morning after meditation, there was a small fire ritual. And in the closing round, we spoke about the experiences during the group living. All felt this year’s meeting as very harmonious and well-balanced.
The Circle of Good Will and Night Light News invite you to the first Aquarian Salon of the second cycle, Saturday, April 27, 2024. Theme: Beginning a New Astrological Year 2024 – A Triangle, Three Festivals, Goodwill & the Sound of the Divine Word.
The meeting on Zoom will start 7pm 07 pm, CEST (UTC +2) / 12 pm, CDT (UTC -5), 10 am PDT (UTC – 7). Opening is 06:45 pm with guitar music.
Yesterday, we met with the team of supporters of the Aquarian Salon for a rehearsal – exchanging about the experiences with the first Salon, about little changes and the tasks of the different team members.
The program
As already announced, the second Aquarian Salon will be on Saturday, August 19th, 2023. We will meet again at 07 pm, CEST (UTC +2) / 12 pm, CST (UTC -5). See here for more info (PDF).
Discussing the presentation formats
For the warm-up before the meeting, we will open the Zoom channel about 15 minutes before the start. While the participants will slowly come in, Frank will play some guitar pieces and Lauren will show the program and also give a preview of the paintings that we will discuss later during the Salon.
Preview of the paintings for discussion
The structure of the meeting will remain largely the same, as you can see in the program. We will again have an interactive exchange with the participants, moderated by Risa, and she will also give an introduction. The images are a selection from my Images of Synthesis paintings.
Sound-check
Towards the end of the rehearsal, after the content and the technical issues were discussed, we had a very lively exchange about some future initiatives beyond the range of the Aquarian Salon. A group collaboration around a joint task creates possibilities of developing ideas. The group of supporters of the Aquarian Salon is indeed a beautiful vessel for this. And the next Aquarian Salon promises to be again very inspiring.
The Prayer for Group Coherence used at the meetings
The program of this May Call celebration was born over Christmas 2022, while Manfred, Sabine and me were together with a few other members at the Master Mountain Retreat Centre in the Nilagiris of South India. A storm was raging outside for several days hiding the outside world behind clouds and rain. It was just about 6 weeks after the passing of Master Kumar and we pondered on what should be the essence of the 5-days May Call celebration in Neckarelz 6 months later. We wanted to focus on synthesis – the energy of the Aquarian Master – friendliness and friendship, the qualities of Lord Maitreya, the World Teacher.
At the end of this year’s celebration, we mentioned this origin to the group and why we had tried to integrate various proposals and contents – and the May Call was a time of profound inner and outer integration processes.
A very aged elderly lady from Belgium, who could no more come to the May Call celebration herself, gave the inspiration for the Tibetan prayer flags. Over many long e-mails and phone calls, Sabine had had intensive discussions with this lady about the meaning of the flags, about the technique of labelling them and about the need to create coherent sounds. In earlier years, she had travelled for over 30 years with a Tibetan Lama over the world until he sent her away with the words, she should now go to Maitreya. Not knowing what to do, she searched the web. She found the World Teacher Trust and came into contact with me and since then she linked her life to these wisdom teachings. Sabine then ordered the prayer flags online and during the May Call celebration, we wrote messages of the CVV Sharing prayer or little symbols on the flags.
Hung in the wind, the prayer thoughts were spread into the ether and distributed at the end of the seminar to be placed a different locations.
The May Call location was next to a Temple house, a former castle of the Knights of St. John from the 12th/13th century, of the time of the Crusades. At May Call, Chuck, a retired psychology professor from California, spoke about the story of knight orders of the Templars, leading later to the masons who, as free masons, went through Europe to the building lodges of the gothic cathedrals. And he showed how these impulses carried ancient wisdom found new expressions in later centuries and in the teachings of the WTT.
There was a great range of other activities during the May Call celebration – prayers / meditations, water and fire rituals, and guided visualisations.
We saw a video extract from a speech Master Kumar gave about “The importance of the May Call” at the 2022 May Call celebration in Bengaluru. We participated in an intercontinental meditation and listened to Guru Prasad’s inspiring words about working together in the new era.
We exchanged in small groups about how we met Master Kumar and which incidents or exchange with him particularly touched us – a very touching exchange. Nearly the entire group life was bi-lingual, English and German.
Saturday at the beginning, there was the General Assembly of WTT-Germany, and later presentations of current projects, also a presentation about the work of Sintergética – Synthesis in the area of healing, impulses from Latin America. And there was a talk on astrological qualities of the present time.
In the morning of May Call Day, 29 May, there was a fire ritual in the beautiful amphitheatre.
And later, there was the cake ritual and distribution of May Call gifts.
And in the evening of the May Call Day celebration there was a beautiful candle ritual in the garden – a traditional “Pilgrims’ Dance” – two steps forward and one step sidewards, accompanied by live guitar music.
The day after May Call, there were further exchanges and part of the group visited the Raptor Research Centre at Guttenberg Castle. It was very impressive to see the big birds of prey – eagles, vultures and eagle owls from very near and observe them flying. You could understand well why the eagle is such a profound wisdom symbol.
The whole celebration was like a big colourful garden with many different plants and flowers, growing in synthesis – the sprouting seeds of the Aquarian energy will continue to spread in surprising ways.
Benjamin Schiller, a good friend of mine from Munich, has developed astroCloud, a powerful astrological tool. He is offering it now for free. See below his announcement. By the way, the Anima-Channel recently published a video interview with Benjamin on YouTube. I posted here a short presentation.
astroCloud is a free, multilingual astrology platform for calculating and printing horoscopes. Suitable for beginners, professionals and spiritual astrologers. Natal charts, transits, progressions and directions are supported as well as the Seven Rays or Esoteric Triangles, Nakshatras and Padas, Sabian Symbols. Tropical astrology is supported as well as sidereal astrology.
Methods recommended by Master EK, such as birth correction according to the Hermetic Law or Bigger Day progressions, are available. Horoscopes can be shared in groups.
About the creation of the Salon and of our triangle of Ludger (Switzerland), Alexis & Risa (Oklahoma/USA).
Veil Nebula (NGC 6960), in the constellation Cygnus (Swan). Photo by Ken Crawford
I have known Risa D’Angeles from a long time ago. Our interest in the wisdom teachings brought us together and we became friends in the context of the World Teacher Trust. I once even met her; it was in 2019 during a meeting with Master Kumar at Mount Shasta, California. Risa is a writer and teacher, and she is the founder and director of the Esoteric & Astrological Studies & Research Institute & College / Night Light News.
Over 18 years, we mainly had contact through written exchanges in various projects, and during nearly 9 years she silently participated, without camera, in the bi-weekly online study groups on wisdom teachings. At the beginning of February 2023, we met for an exchange via Zoom. I had invited her with the idea to see how our collaboration could further develop. Her partner, Alexis, participated sitting in the background. During the start of our conversation, Risa asked if I was interested in an explanation of my astrology chart which I gratefully accepted.
Listening to Risa and Alexis explore my chart was like a dam breaking within and the start of a totally unexpected level of development. They both commented “in stereo” on various dimensions of my chart. They told me how they had been observing me over years giving profound answers to questions concerning the wisdom teachings. They said there are strong aspects in my chart relating to being a teacher. They proposed that I begin to share, offer and present the knowledge I had gathered over decades and that my “Images of Synthesis” paintings, full of profound symbolism, should be the means.
I hesitated and said that I don’t see myself talking and people just listening. That there are already many other things going on in my life and that, in case, I would prefer a more interactive form. They suggested that we can cooperate as a triangle. They intensely encouraged me to start teaching on a larger scale than I am doing up to now and they would strongly support me. I was touched by their inner presence; they both have a profound astrological and psychological background and experience in working with people. Our discussion went into many depths and the ideas were thrilling. But there were many questions and I needed time to digest the idea.
We began our discussions with weekly exchanges. When Risa proposed to start a salon, I replied that it reminded me of the salons in France about art and culture in the pre-revolutionary times and of the auto-mobile salon of Geneva – but that the term salon sounds a bit old-fashioned. She replied, “No – an Aquarian Salon“. I was thrilled. She said, about “Art, Astrology and Wisdom Teachings” and added “A conversation“.
That’s it. The fire was on. We agreed to open a public virtual salon four times a year on a Saturday during the signs of the fixed cross – Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius, but to start at 0 degree Gemini, on Sunday, 21 May 2023. It will be presented by the “Circle of Good Will” and by “Night Light News“. Details will be shared later.
The idea was warmly welcomed by friends. Some friends are also willing to help, with music and other forms of art. The project started sprouting.
My mother once told me that when I was a child she asked me to pick up something on the floor which I had thrown there. I didn’t want and replied: “I cannot, my arms are too short.”
This became an iconic example for self-excuses. It comes to my mind in cases of my own self-excuses and when coming across others’ expressing their inability to do something. Often it is a self-fooling and trying to hide one’s unwillingness. In such cases, my wife and I use to say, “Yes, the arms are too short.”
Such twisting is not as negligible as it might appear at first sight. It causes inner twists leading to distortions in our perception and to character flaws. And these again, are boulders on the spiritual path.
I recently came across a person having problems with a neighbour for years. The problem was, of course, seen as being with the neighbour, and there was no chance of changing the situation. So she said: “They say it’s all part of the Divine Plan. My view is that the Plan must have flaws.”
We usually project the sources of problems to the outside, to other people or outer situations, neglecting to start with ourselves. So I replied, “Sorry to say so, but it is your view of the Plan where the flaws are.”
