Lynda Hill's Sabian Symbols

Seeking Embodiment And Goodwill To All People: December's Capricorn New Moon

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is something valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. e. e. cummings

May I be I is the only prayer - not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong. e.e. cummings

I count life just as stuff to try the soul’s strength on. Robert Browning

God does not ask about our ability, but our availability. Anon

The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy. Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being. Immanuel Kant

Know your human rights. Be what you came here for. Sting

What could be better than e.e. cummings (I've loved him since I first saw a quote of his), or Sting for that matter, to give us food for thought at this time of the year.

December's new Moon falls right on Christmas, on the evening of 24th December in the United States and on the 25th December in Australia.

The Sabian Symbol is a fabulous one and it's wonderful that Elsie Wheeler, the amazing spiritualist medium that gave birth to the Sabian Symbols in 1925, (remembering that she assigned the Sabian Symbols to degrees in a completely double blind 'experiment') gave the Symbol of Capricorn 3: The Human Soul, In Its Eagerness For New Experiences, Seeks Embodiment to the degree that most often falls on Christmas Day. This is so totally the Symbol of the story of Christ, but more importantly, it is a story for all of us that we are seeking our own embodiment. To be who we came here for (to paraphrase Sting). This is a fabulous degree of dropping into one's body, into one's spirit, into one's destiny and it reflects the Jesus story in many ways - he 'sought embodiment'. Quoting from my book The Sabian Oracle: 360 Degrees Of Wisdom: 

The Search For Meaning - Where To Find It? December's Gemini Lunar Eclipse

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, “The medicines of the soul.” Paxton Hood

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn’t. Francis Yeats Brown

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Joseph Brodsky

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. Lord Edward Lytton

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Barbara Tuchman

Occurring on December 10 in the United States and the early hours of the morning on December 11 in Australia, December's full Moon is a total lunar eclipse. Being a south node eclipse, this is an event that will have many examining, and learning from, the past. The Sabian Symbol is Gemini 19: In A Museum, A Large Archaic Volume Reveals A Traditional Wisdom. The following is from my book (how about buying one for yourself or someone for Christmas :) ?) The Sabian Oracle: 360 Degrees Of Wisdom: