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 Zevulon’s Tribe is communication.
During Kislev we learn that Gemini’s light must bring meaning to information and probe beyond mere data for significance.
Gemini’s Tikkun for Tevet’s anger is sincerity.
Chodesh Shevat’s spiritual nourishment feeds your flexibility.
Chodesh Adar Aleph returns joy to your career and work life.
If you’re doubting the strength of your interpersonal connections, Adar Bet renews your faith in those strong bonds.
Speech is the tikkun of Chodesh Nissan, and with planetary ruler Mercury/Kochav retrograde in Aries through April 25, your communicative powers are challenged to produce a truth that enlightens and edifies your community.
Chodesh Iyar’s healing power is activated via your dreams.
Chodesh Sivan’s tikkun of travel produces personal transformation.
Chodesh Tammuz’s tikkun of sight focuses on your material world.
Chodesh Av’s tikkun of hearing opened the ears of our hearts.
All that is personal and private comes to the forefront when Mercury/Kochav squares Uranus/Oron September 6, and some of it may be a surprise, even to you.
Serious questions deserve serious answers when Mercury opposes Saturn/Shabbtai September 18.
Find your secure footing in your new relationship to personal power September 24, when Mercury squares Jupiter/Tzedek and the Sun trines Pluto. Mercury opposes Neptune/Rahav and trines Pluto September 25, before entering Libra September 26. You don’t owe anyone details of your internal struggles.
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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