“Per Ardua Ad Astra”
Through adversity – to the stars!
October 4, 2010
6pm PDT, 9pm EDT
Adapted by war people, until now, when we now inhale it back.
According to wikipedia: “The question of where this motto had come from can be answered by the fact that Yule (military guy) had read it in a book called The People of the Mist by Sir Henry Rider Haggard. In the first chapter was the passage: “To his right were two stately gates of iron fantastically wrought, supported by stone pillars on whose summit stood griffins of black marble embracing coats of arms and banners inscribed with the device ‘Per Ardua ad Astra'”.
Where Rider Haggard obtained this phrase is still unclear, although it is possible that it originated from the Irish family of Mulvany who had used it as their family motto for hundreds of years and translated it as “Through Struggles to the Stars”.
The authoritative translation of the motto is just as uncertain as the source. Since there can be a number of different meanings to “Ardua” and “Astra“”, scholars have declared it to be untranslatable. To the Royal Air Force and the other Commonwealth air forces, however, it will remain translated as “Through struggles to the Stars”. “
Whoo-weee!…!…!
I am just home from worthy, arduous “Green” Conference journey. With synchronous openings to oases of golden splendour,
radiant moments of happiness and well-being (“astra”), earned by deft (more or less) dancing through “ardua.”
We release the tendency of hitching our star to a wagon.
We remember that when things are in their desirably correct order, “uuughhhh precedes aaaaaaahhhhhhha-ha”
Jupiter-Uranus – I have test-driven the following: every time we release some grumpitudinous insistence on anything being a particular way (“tantrum yoga”) – the path opens to something much better.
So that we no longer need to “leave in a huff,” although we might depart “in a hybrid huff.”
(I have examples….see if we all can magnetize tangible “for instances,” because this will be increasingly useful navigational guidance this dynamic season of spiral dancing with everything.)
Dusting off Gandalf: “The tide has turned. The Great Storm is coming. But the tide as turned.”
We attend to our general maintenance perpetual practice…..
including: dealing with “real goat-getters, aka “chi-suckers.”
The up-to-no-good Dayu Datu’s dark sorcery was comprised of “the small and large things that cause a person to lose faith in life.”
May our goats stare at petty tyranny with their other-worldly ghost marble eyes,
and leap and prance-dance onto the tin roof
at this dark of the Moon
one lunar cycle before election…
We shall avail ourselves of all outer collective theatre:
not only the November 2nd mid-evolution election, but also the October 30th election, disguised as the combo “Restore Sanity-Keep Fear Alive” Rally on the National Mall
honoring in our hearts the art of satire, liberating insult, precise language-irony, the art of compassion with sizzle, ….
simultaneously availing ourselves of the serious fun of Moon in Virgo sharp, spicy, precise critique.
Sun, Mercury squaring Pluto and Saturn all in Libra proclaiming that everything is an art.
Venus-Mars in Scorpio conjoining remind us that the invisible is increasingly potent. There’s more ju-ju going on back-stage simultaneous to the on-stage compelling illusion of image.
Neptune-Chiron in Aquarius…Ongoing convening of the entire community,
with a special “we need everyone” welcome to the return of Amenhotepp III:
‘Expertly crafted’ statue of pharoah is dug up in Luxor
By Lewis Smith
Monday, 4 October 2010
- An ancient statue of Tutankhamun’s grandfather has been unearthed from the west bank of the Nile in Egypt.
The 3,400-year-old limestone statue of Amenhotep III, a pharoah who ruled Egypt from about 1391 to 1351 BC, was found at Kom el-Hetan in the city of Luxor. It portrays the king wearing the double crown of Egypt and seated on a throne next to the god Amun. The statue, which is 4ft tall and is decorated with the image of a serpent, was located at the site of the pharoah’s mortuary temple.
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