Daily Meditation: Monday, September 22, 1997

Every year on September 22 the Sun enters the sign of …

09/22/1997

Every year on September 22 the Sun enters the sign of Libra. It is the autumn, the season of ripened fruit. The Archangel Michael, who dominates this equinoctial point, is always depicted holding a pair of scales, which he uses to weigh the souls. Just as the fruit separates from the tree, as the seed separates from the fruit, so the soul separates from the body. Autumn is the time of separation to which Hermes Trismegistus refers: ‘You will separate the subtle from the dense with great ingenuity.' You will separate the subtle from the dense, in others words also the spiritual from the material. In the autumn the process of separation, this process of sorting takes place throughout nature to prepare for new life. And just as the Archangel Michael comes to separate the soul from the body by letting the body die, initiates also let some matter die within themselves so as to release true life.