The third lunar node, occurring at 55 years, 10 months and 28 days, almost 56, brings further social leave-takings and new orientations. Work that we have carried out with devotion and engagement for many years suddenly seems stale and empty. The activity does not satisfy us anymore. We can no longer be enthusiastic about our jobs or work. In some longtime marriages and partnerships, emptiness, boredom, and indifference have encroached. All at once, these things, long covered-over by daily activities and routines, suddenly come to the fore of our consciousness and can lead to a crisis in marriage and possibly divorce. Or, anxiety awakens as we feel our waning physical strength that prevents us from fulfilling duties. We take stock of ourselves: Was that all? What of my life’s desires and goals have I realized? What tasks and possibilities do I still have left? The wish and desire to leave something lasting and significant to the world live in us. Since our physical energy becomes less, we must, more than ever, examine what is important to us, what is essential, and ask: What do I still want to do? What do I still want to attain in my life?
At the second lunar node the question was: In what human social connections do I feel comfortable? Now a spiritual element arises: Do we still have common interests and goals? Do we still have anything to say to one another? Or are we just staying together out of habit? Friendships and social relationships are examined and weighed according to their spiritual connectivity and lasting value. Encountering serious illness and death also becomes more frequent. How many people at this time become ill with cancer, have a heart attack, or suffer the threatening climax of a chronic illness? The thought of dying and death comes more strongly into consciousness and serves to sharpen our gaze into the spiritual world. We become contemplative. What comes after death? Where do we come from? Where are we going? What deeper meaning does life have? Spiritual and religious questions become important. If we have, up to now, felt only nominally connected to a religious community, we now sense the need to deepen our religious experience. We truly want to know. We want to experience the reality and truth of the spiritual world.
At the second lunar node the question was: In what human social connections do I feel comfortable? Now a spiritual element arises: Do we still have common interests and goals? Do we still have anything to say to one another? Or are we just staying together out of habit? Friendships and social relationships are examined and weighed according to their spiritual connectivity and lasting value. Encountering serious illness and death also becomes more frequent. How many people at this time become ill with cancer, have a heart attack, or suffer the threatening climax of a chronic illness? The thought of dying and death comes more strongly into consciousness and serves to sharpen our gaze into the spiritual world. We become contemplative. What comes after death? Where do we come from? Where are we going? What deeper meaning does life have? Spiritual and religious questions become important. If we have, up to now, felt only nominally connected to a religious community, we now sense the need to deepen our religious experience. We truly want to know. We want to experience the reality and truth of the spiritual world.
The title or motto over this period of our lives could read: How do we see ourselves being seen in the world?
We experience ourselves as spiritual-creative beings and want to know: Where is my distinctive place in a spiritually everlasting house? It Is the Spiritual Home that is Sought.
Goethe reached his third lunar node in 1805. He became ill in the first months of this year and was plagued by kidney colic. His friend Schiller also became ill during these months. On May 1st, Goethe visited him for the last time, and on May 9th Schiller died. Three weeks later Goethe wrote to Zelter about the loss of his good friend: “I thought I would lose myself, but instead I have lost a friend and at the same time half of my being.”
The time of the third lunar node is likely another rather difficult period in our life as the search for the spiritual home moves into focus. We might find ourselves feeling that we are out at sea and unsure where to land in order to continue connecting with the pre-birth intentions and impulses we carry deep inside. A new awareness sets in that our time is limited and we find meaning in the idea: If not now, when? We live with the realization that needed changes cannot be postponed any longer. This realization can be irritating or inspiring depending on our inner resolve (or lack thereof) to go forward into a new phase with new and different challenges awaiting us.
Please turn to the following exercise in relation to the third lunar node which we encounter at age 55 or 56 (55 years, 10 months and 28 days after birth).
1. Determine your third lunar node regarding your own biography. Which year, month and day did you arrive at 55 years, 10 months and 28 days by finding this date in time. Add 55 years, 10 months and 28 days to your date of birth. For example, say you are born on May 1, 1952, your third moon node (age 55, or 55 years, 10 months and 28 days) will be March 29, 2008.
2. Describe your life at that time. What were the outer circumstances of your life? Where were you? What events do you remember that relate to this time in your life? Please devote extra time and thought to the question of what were your spiritual questions, concerns or religious beliefs that you felt close to at this time in your life? What were the ideas and ideals that you felt drawn to during this phase in your biography?
3. Create a drawing or painting that expresses the mood and perhaps depicts an important event of that time, or expresses symbolically important aspects of that time especially regarding and focusing on your spiritual outlook on life, your beliefs, attitudes and convictions.
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We experience ourselves as spiritual-creative beings and want to know: Where is my distinctive place in a spiritually everlasting house? It Is the Spiritual Home that is Sought.
Goethe reached his third lunar node in 1805. He became ill in the first months of this year and was plagued by kidney colic. His friend Schiller also became ill during these months. On May 1st, Goethe visited him for the last time, and on May 9th Schiller died. Three weeks later Goethe wrote to Zelter about the loss of his good friend: “I thought I would lose myself, but instead I have lost a friend and at the same time half of my being.”
The time of the third lunar node is likely another rather difficult period in our life as the search for the spiritual home moves into focus. We might find ourselves feeling that we are out at sea and unsure where to land in order to continue connecting with the pre-birth intentions and impulses we carry deep inside. A new awareness sets in that our time is limited and we find meaning in the idea: If not now, when? We live with the realization that needed changes cannot be postponed any longer. This realization can be irritating or inspiring depending on our inner resolve (or lack thereof) to go forward into a new phase with new and different challenges awaiting us.
Please turn to the following exercise in relation to the third lunar node which we encounter at age 55 or 56 (55 years, 10 months and 28 days after birth).
1. Determine your third lunar node regarding your own biography. Which year, month and day did you arrive at 55 years, 10 months and 28 days by finding this date in time. Add 55 years, 10 months and 28 days to your date of birth. For example, say you are born on May 1, 1952, your third moon node (age 55, or 55 years, 10 months and 28 days) will be March 29, 2008.
2. Describe your life at that time. What were the outer circumstances of your life? Where were you? What events do you remember that relate to this time in your life? Please devote extra time and thought to the question of what were your spiritual questions, concerns or religious beliefs that you felt close to at this time in your life? What were the ideas and ideals that you felt drawn to during this phase in your biography?
3. Create a drawing or painting that expresses the mood and perhaps depicts an important event of that time, or expresses symbolically important aspects of that time especially regarding and focusing on your spiritual outlook on life, your beliefs, attitudes and convictions.
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