The Jewish Year of 5784 is almost over! What have we learned?
… Tishrei taught us hard lessons about our communal vulnerability and the importance of unity in the community.
During Cheshvan we learned that the Ancestral Superpower of Yehuda’s Tribe is courage.
During Kislev, the light of Aries shines fortitude from your heart to everyone around you.
Aries’ Tikkun for Tevet’s anger is strengthening your faith.
Chodesh Shevat’s spiritual nourishment feeds your power of speech.
Adar Aleph restores joy to your faith.
Adar Bet’s energy strengthens your faith in yourself.
The Aries Total Solar Eclipse on Erev Rosh Chodesh Nissan, with Mercury/Kochav retrograde in Aries, welcomes you to a new beginning, with the chance to rectify the power of speech, the tikkun of Nissan.
Chodesh Sivan’s tikkun of travel facilitates a change of mind.
Chodesh Tammuz’s tikkun of sight refocuses your attention on home, family, and ancestral heritage.
Chodesh Av’s tikkun of Hearingopened the ears of your heart.
Chodesh Elul’s tikkun of purposeful action directed by discerning thought focuses on your health, via your mind-body connection.
You’ve already discovered that internalized anger makes you sick. Mars/Ma’adim enters emotional Cancer September 4, making you vulnerable to “tummy trouble” if you repress your feelings.
Practice expressing yourself in a healthy and non-toxic way when Mercury/Kochav sextiles Mars/Ma’adim September 11.
Mars trines Saturn/Shabbtai September 29, empowering energetic effort. The New Moon / Annular Solar Eclipse in your solar opposite Libra on October 2 illuminates whether a certain partnership relationship contributes to your well-being, or detracts from it. You already know the answer.
CHODESH ELUL 5784 (September 3 – October 2, 2024)
THE TESHUVA OF ELUL: PURPOSEFUL ACTION DIRECTED BY DISCERNING THOUGHT
Chodesh Elul is a bridge between the old year and the new. Formed by the Hebrew letter Yod ( י ), the first letter of the Divine Name, the shape of the Yod implies action, the Tikkun of Chodesh Elul.
Mercury/Kochav, the planetary ruler of Elul, is associated with the Mazal of Virgo and the intellect. Virgo scrutinizes, analyzes, and separates the useful from the useless. This is Binah: the wisdom of applied discernment. In Hebrew gematria, Binah and Elul have the same numerical value (67). Changing our minds changes our direction and our actions change. That is Teshuva. The tikkun of Chodesh Elul is purposeful action directed by discerning thought.
During Elul, the shofar directs and stimulates our thoughts toward our relationship with the Divine and our relationships with one another. This Chodesh Elul features two eclipses, both serving that purpose. Hearts break open at the Full “Super” Moon/Partial Lunar Eclipse in Pisces on September 17, awakening compassion and empathy. The New Moon/Annular Solar Eclipse in Libra on October 2, Erev Rosh HaShanah, spurs us to reciprocity. There’s no question that our Creator gives goodness to us immeasurably more than we can ever return, proportionally or otherwise. What we can do is give goodness back by giving to others.
As this Jewish Year of 5784 – Tav Shin Pei Dalet – winds down, we see how the “Gimel” Year of 5783 and the “Dalet” Year of 5784 played out. Gimel Daled means "give generously to the poor" (Gemol means to give generously; dalim are poor people). Because we did not give to each other in 5783, our spiritual poverty was exposed during 5784. May this Chodesh Elul be a tikkun for the entire difficult and painful year of 5784, and may our souls awake to purposeful action directed by discerning thought.
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