Year Long Inspiration: 52 weeks of Steiner

Happy Michaelmas!

This season, filled with fiery colours and determination, is one of my favourite. It doesn’t matter if you celebrate, or how you celebrate, Michaelmas, or if you celebrate one of the many other cultural and religious holidays that fall during this time of year. It is the messages sent through these celebrations that is important, the calling of humanity towards our connection to the inner rhythms of the earth.

You can feel the impulse of Earth pushing us towards preparation for the long dark days ahead, encouraging us to look at our lives and stand against what is not serving us while finding balance and harmony in what is. It is less subtle than the impulses during winter and summer, who each quietly whisper for us to follow, into the depths of introspection or the levity of being dreamily outside of ourselves. Autumn and spring impulses feel like a shout, a holler, to stretch our wings and sore in search of the balance that Earth is experiencing at these turning points, parading in the gloriousness of bursts of colour or life reborn.

These last ten days have been transformative for me, where dreams and night echoes have sent startlingly clear messages. The fire embers have been stoked and I’m coming out with a newly forged sword!

I don’t usually wax poetic like this. The excitement of transitions, new beginnings, and city air that we can finally breathe again has me rejuvenated and playing with speech, ha. And within that energy and newly breathable air, I am starting a new project that I would like to share with you all.

In times of great change, I always find myself turning to Steiner’s lectures for grounding. They help me find my footing and guide me toward my own truth in their freedom. These last four years have been filled with so much change that I find myself turning to lectures more often than I have during other times in life. And so I would like to challenge myself to read a lecture a week and share my thoughts here on the blog.

I’m not going to choose lectures in any specific order, just go to the ones that I’m called to read, or that have revealed themselves as needing to be read. I’m not joking when I say books literally FALL of my shelf sometimes for me to find just exactly what I’m needing at that moment, even if I’m not looking for it.

I’ll share a quote that resonates and include thoughts that it stirred up within me. I share with no other intention than to use this blog as a journal of sorts, and to maybe illustrate that while the translations of Steiner’s lectures can sometimes be a slog to get through, with his run on sentences and multitude of sidebars, the overall message is often simple and thought provoking, which I like to think is what he wanted. In true Steiner spirit, he brings us into our heads through his lectures, encourages us to DO and ACT with our hands in the world to try out his suggestions, and implores us toward our heart as we individualize his indications with responsible freedom.

I invite you to come along with me on this journey.

Until next time,
Marina