Becoming the Warmth

"We have gleaned our strength from the largesse and warmth of summer.  Now as the year wanes, our souls expand.  We are becoming the warmth of the summer for the autumn of Earth."  Patsy Scala

This year I am following Rudolf Steiner's Calendar of the Soul.  I've selected Patsy Scala's edition, with translations from Christopher Bamford.  She has followed each weekly verse with a reflection and intention, and I can't say enough about how much much depth her words bring to each week's verse.  I also like this edition for it's artwork, but the Scala's reflections are incredible and add so much to the experience.

I'm not an anthroposophist, although I read and take inspiration from it as we follow Waldorf education for our family.  Most often I consider myself a "mystic atheist" and yet I am finding such incredible strength and inspiration from Steiner's weekly verses.  Rudolf Steiner wrote these verses as a meditative tool to follow and find connections in the changing seasons of the year.  It is guiding my days at home with the children, not exactly homeschooling (yet), but more an intentional "heart-warming" effort.  Here is a taste;

"Penetrating to the depths of my being,

A yearning filled with prescience

Incites me, beholding myself, to find myself

As the gift of the summer Sun that,

Like a seed, heating up in this autumn mood,

Lives as my soul's powerful impulse."

-Steiner

Comments

[Rose]

This is a stunning piece of poetry quite apart from any deeper teaching it might be offering. I'm impressed that you are able to find time to listen to the 'still small voice' of your soul and tend a little to the garden of its needs all the while homeschooling, mothering, homemaking and more! I'm working on this myself.

with good wishes, Rose

[Kate]

This looks good, I will have to get this book. Thanks for sharing this!

[Dawn]

Oh, looking at your blog and flickr stream make me weepy. I miss Portland. I lived there for two years and always said I would raise my family there. I'm in Austin, now. Another lovely community, but my heart is in Portland. I trust every day that we will return there. For now, I just appreciate the amazing community I have here. I like to follow your blog on occasion as your views are similar to mine. I am an unschooler at heart, with a love for certain Waldorf traditions. I have twin 4.5 year old girls. Perhaps one day we'll be back in Portland and we'll meet at a Shining Star Homeschooler conference :-) Many Blessings. Dawn