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What Are Solfeggio Frequencies, and How Do They Heal the Human Body and Spirit? | Victoria Generao, PhD

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This blog honors the metaphysical use of sacred sound while distinguishing spiritual tradition, emerging frequency research, and established music-therapy evidence.

There are moments when sound seems to do more than simply enter the ears.

A chant heard inside a cathedral can alter the atmosphere of the room. A singing bowl can make the body seem unusually still. A single sustained tone can quiet the mind more quickly than words. A beloved piece of music may release grief that has been carried silently for years.

Human beings have intuitively understood this mysterious relationship between sound, consciousness, emotion, and the body for thousands of years.

Among the modern expressions of sacred sound practice are what have come to be called the Solfeggio frequencies: a group of specific sound frequencies used in meditation, energy work, spiritual practice, relaxation, and contemporary sound healing.

Their advocates sometimes describe them as ancient healing tones capable of restoring the body’s energetic architecture, awakening consciousness, or even repairing DNA.

The reality is both more complicated and, in some respects, more interesting.

Science does provide growing evidence that music and structured sound can influence stress physiology, emotion, autonomic nervous system activity, pain perception, and psychological well-being. What science has not established is that each individual Solfeggio frequency possesses the precise miraculous biological property commonly attributed to it.

Understanding that distinction allows us to explore Solfeggio frequencies without either dismissing their spiritual value or exaggerating what has been scientifically demonstrated.

What Is a Frequency?

Everything we hear as sound begins with vibration.

When something vibrates, it creates pressure waves that travel through a medium such as air. The number of vibrations occurring each second is measured in hertz, abbreviated Hz.

A tone of 528 Hz, for example, vibrates approximately 528 times each second.

Lower frequencies are perceived as deeper sounds. Higher frequencies are perceived as higher pitches.

The human auditory system transforms those vibrations into electrical and chemical signals that travel through the nervous system and are interpreted by the brain. Sound therefore does not merely remain outside the body. Once perceived, it becomes part of a complex neurological experience involving attention, emotion, memory, expectation, movement, and autonomic regulation.

This is one reason sound has such extraordinary power.

We do not merely hear music.

We respond to it.

What Are the Solfeggio Frequencies?

The contemporary Solfeggio system generally contains nine frequencies:

FrequencyCommon Contemporary Spiritual Ass’n
174 HzGrounding, security, physical comfort
285 HzRestoration, energetic renewal
396 HzReleasing fear, guilt, and limitation
417 HzChange, transition, clearing old patterns
528 HzTransformation, love, restoration
639 HzRelationships, compassion, reconciliation
741 HzExpression, purification, intuitive clarity
852 HzSpiritual awareness and inner perception
963 HzUnity consciousness and connection with the Divine

These interpretations are widely used within modern sound-healing communities, but they should be understood primarily as contemporary metaphysical correspondences rather than medically established functions.

The original modern core usually consisted of six frequencies:

396, 417, 528, 639, 741, and 852 Hz.

The additional tones—174, 285, and 963 Hz—became incorporated into the expanded system later.

Are the Solfeggio Frequencies Ancient?

This is where history requires some clarification.

There genuinely is an ancient and medieval history behind the word solfeggio.

In the eleventh century, the Benedictine music theorist Guido of Arezzo developed an influential method for teaching singers musical intervals. The syllables were:

Ut — Re — Mi — Fa — Sol — La

They were derived from the opening syllables of lines from a Latin hymn associated with Saint John the Baptist.

This system eventually developed into the familiar:

Do — Re — Mi — Fa — Sol — La — Ti.

Historical musicology confirms Guido’s importance in the development of Western musical education and solmization. (Library of Congress Blogs)

What historical evidence does not demonstrate is that medieval monks were deliberately singing the modern fixed frequencies of 396, 417, 528, 639, 741, and 852 Hz for healing purposes.

Guido’s syllables represented musical relationships and intervals rather than the modern set of fixed hertz values.

The contemporary healing-frequency system emerged much later and became especially popular through twentieth-century metaphysical and alternative-healing literature.

So there are really two histories that are frequently blended together:

Historical solfeggio is a genuine medieval system of musical education.

Solfeggio healing frequencies are a modern system of spiritual and therapeutic sound correspondences inspired in part by that older tradition.

Recognizing this distinction does not invalidate meditation with these tones. It simply places the practice in its proper historical setting.

Can Sound Actually Affect the Human Body?

Absolutely.

This is where the scientific conversation becomes particularly fascinating.

Sound is processed through neurological systems interconnected with regions involved in emotion, memory, attention, arousal, and autonomic regulation.

Relaxing music can therefore influence the relationship between the two primary branches of the autonomic nervous system:

the sympathetic nervous system, associated with mobilization and the stress response,

and the parasympathetic nervous system, associated with restoration, digestion, relaxation, and recovery.

A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis examined 24 randomized controlled trials involving 1,295 participants and found that music interventions produced measurable changes in heart-rate-variability parameters associated with autonomic regulation. Particularly noticeable effects appeared among people experiencing stress, anxiety, fear, or sleep difficulties. Short interventions of thirty minutes or less were often effective, and personally selected music sometimes performed better than standardized selections. (Frontiers)

Music listening has also been associated with changes in stress-related physiology.

An everyday-life study found that listening to music for relaxation was associated with lower perceived stress and lower cortisol concentrations. (PubMed)

Broader reviews of music-based interventions have similarly reported effects on psychological stress and, in some studies, heart rate, blood pressure, and stress-related hormones. (Frontiers)

The important point is this:

Sound does interact with physiology.

The question still being investigated is whether particular isolated frequencies possess uniquely specific healing effects beyond the wider effects of music, rhythm, expectation, breathing, emotional meaning, and relaxation.

What About 528 Hz—the So-Called “Love Frequency”?

No Solfeggio tone has received more attention than 528 Hz.

Within modern metaphysical literature it has been called the:

Love Frequency

Miracle Tone

Transformation Frequency

and sometimes the DNA Repair Frequency.

The DNA-repair claim is especially important to approach cautiously.

At present, listening to 528 Hz has not been established as a medical technique capable of repairing human DNA.

There is, however, some intriguing emerging research concerning physiological responses to music organized around 528 Hz.

A small 2018 study involving only nine participants compared music associated with 528 Hz with conventionally tuned music. Researchers observed changes including decreased cortisol, increased oxytocin, and reductions in reported tension after the 528-Hz condition. The extremely small sample means the findings should be considered preliminary rather than proof of a unique healing mechanism. (CiNii Research)

More recently, a 2026 randomized controlled trial involving 162 healthy university students compared twenty minutes of 528-Hz music, 432-Hz music, and no music during examination-related stress.

Researchers found differences in several salivary biomarkers. The 528-Hz group demonstrated increases in salivary BDNF and CREB compared with controls. However, there were no significant differences in cognitive performance on the Stroop test. The researchers therefore described biological responses to frequency-based music rather than evidence of miraculous healing. (PubMed)

These studies make 528 Hz scientifically interesting.

They do not yet establish that 528 Hz repairs DNA, cures illness, or possesses a universal biological effect unique to that exact numerical frequency.

Much more controlled replication is necessary.

Then How Might Solfeggio Frequencies Support Healing?

A better way to understand sound healing may be through several interacting layers.

1. Regulation of the Nervous System

Slow, predictable, nonthreatening sound may encourage the nervous system to shift away from states of hyperarousal.

Breathing slows.

Muscular tension may decrease.

Attention becomes less scattered.

The body receives fewer signals requiring immediate action.

Under appropriate conditions, this can support the physiological environment associated with rest and recovery.

Healing frequently begins not because sound directly “fixes” tissue, but because a chronically activated organism finally enters a state in which restoration can occur.

2. Stress Reduction

Chronic stress places extraordinary demands upon the body.

Stress influences sleep, cardiovascular activity, endocrine function, digestion, immune regulation, pain perception, and emotional health.

If music or sound reduces stress, its effects may therefore ripple across several bodily systems.

This is considerably different from claiming that one frequency cures a disease.

Yet reducing physiological stress can itself be therapeutically meaningful.

3. Emotional Release

Music possesses an unusual ability to bypass intellectual defenses.

A person may understand intellectually that grief exists within them while remaining incapable of feeling it.

Then a particular sound appears.

Suddenly the grief moves.

Tears come.

Memories surface.

The emotional body opens.

Sound can become a doorway through which previously inaccessible psychological material enters awareness.

In spiritual healing traditions, this is sometimes described as energetic release.

Psychology might describe aspects of the same experience through emotional processing, memory activation, regulation, and meaning-making.

The vocabulary differs.

The human experience may be remarkably similar.

Sound and the Human Energy Field

Esoteric traditions approach sound from another perspective.

Within many metaphysical systems, creation itself is understood as fundamentally vibratory.

The ancient Indian tradition speaks of Nāda, sacred sound.

The Vedic Om represents primordial vibration.

Hebrew and Qabalistic mysticism places extraordinary importance upon sacred letters, Divine Names, and spoken vibration.

Christian mystical traditions developed chant.

Islamic spirituality cultivated sacred recitation and remembrance.

Tibetan traditions employ mantra, horns, bells, and resonant instruments.

Western ceremonial magic uses the vibration of Divine Names as a fundamental technique.

Across remarkably different cultures appears a recurring intuition:

consciousness can be changed through sacred sound.

From an esoteric perspective, sound may organize consciousness because vibration acts as an intermediary between subtle and material worlds.

Whether one interprets the subtle body literally, symbolically, psychologically, or spiritually, chanting and sustained tones can profoundly alter subjective states.

And subjective states matter.

They influence perception, emotion, behavior, relationship, and spiritual experience.

Do Frequencies “Raise Your Vibration”?

This popular expression can be useful metaphysically, but it should not be confused with the scientific meaning of frequency.

Someone experiencing compassion does not literally begin vibrating at 639 Hz.

Nor does enlightenment mean that the cells suddenly oscillate at 963 Hz.

In spiritual language, raising vibration usually describes a qualitative change in consciousness:

from fear toward trust,

from agitation toward stillness,

from fragmentation toward integration,

from resentment toward compassion,

from unconsciousness toward awareness.

Used that way, frequency becomes both sound and symbol.

The tone becomes a contemplative anchor around which consciousness is organized.

The Spiritual Power May Not Be in the Number Alone

This may ultimately be one of the most important insights regarding Solfeggio work.

A healing session consists of much more than frequency.

It includes:

sound,

rhythm,

breathing,

attention,

intention,

expectation,

environment,

memory,

symbolism,

silence,

and consciousness.

If someone enters a sacred space, lights a candle, breathes deliberately, invokes the Divine, listens deeply to a sustained tone, allows difficult emotions to surface, and remains in meditation for twenty minutes, an altered psychophysiological state may develop.

It would be simplistic to attribute the entire experience solely to the number 528.

But it would be equally simplistic to dismiss the experience because 528 Hz itself has not been proven miraculous.

Ritual works through relationships among many factors.

Sound can become the organizing center of those relationships.

A Simple Solfeggio Meditation Practice

Choose a frequency according to the spiritual quality you wish to contemplate.

For example:

396 Hz — release fear.

417 Hz — welcome change.

528 Hz — cultivate love and restoration.

639 Hz — contemplate relationship and reconciliation.

741 Hz — seek clarity.

852 Hz — enter inner silence.

Sit comfortably and allow the body to settle.

Before beginning the recording, establish an intention—not a demand, but an orientation.

You might inwardly say:

May this period of sound bring my body, mind, and spirit into greater harmony.

Begin breathing slowly.

Rather than concentrating aggressively upon the tone, allow yourself to receive it.

Notice where the sound seems to be felt.

Perhaps it appears in the chest.

Perhaps the head.

Perhaps nowhere physically at all.

Do not force an experience.

After several minutes, gently vocalize a comfortable vowel or hum along with the sound if desired.

The vibration of one’s own voice introduces another dimension because vocalization engages respiration, resonance, attention, and bodily sensation simultaneously.

After approximately fifteen to thirty minutes, turn the sound off.

Then remain in silence.

This final silence is important.

The tone prepares the field.

Silence reveals what has changed.

Notice your breathing, emotional state, bodily sensations, imagery, memories, or intuitive impressions.

A journal can be particularly valuable for recording what repeatedly emerges during work with different frequencies.

Which Frequency Should You Use?

There is no scientific evidence requiring a person to use a specific Solfeggio tone for a particular condition.

The traditional modern correspondences can instead function as meditative keys.

Use them intentionally.

For grounding, experiment with 174 or 396 Hz.

For periods of transition, work with 417 Hz.

For heart-centered meditation, experiment with 528 or 639 Hz.

For contemplation and intuitive work, explore 741 or 852 Hz.

For mystical meditation upon unity or Divine consciousness, some practitioners prefer 963 Hz.

But pay attention to your own response.

A 2026 review of music and autonomic regulation found that personally selected music could sometimes produce stronger responses than standardized selections. In other words, what genuinely speaks to the individual nervous system may be just as important as any prescribed frequency. (Frontiers)

Sound Healing Is Best Understood as Complementary Healing

There is now substantial evidence that music can have meaningful therapeutic effects.

A recent systematic review of music therapy for anxiety found an overall moderate benefit across psychological anxiety outcomes, although physiological effects were smaller and statistically uncertain. (PubMed)

Cochrane evidence examining people with cancer has also found that music interventions may improve outcomes including anxiety, depression, hope, pain, and fatigue, while emphasizing limitations in study quality and the need for further research. (Cochrane Library)

This gives us a sensible middle path.

Sound healing should neither be dismissed as meaningless nor promoted as a substitute for medicine.

It is better understood as a complementary practice capable of supporting relaxation, emotional regulation, contemplative awareness, spiritual practice, and potentially certain aspects of physiological well-being.

Anyone experiencing illness should continue appropriate medical evaluation and treatment rather than attempting to replace necessary healthcare with frequency recordings.

Sound can accompany healing.

It should not be promised as a cure.

The Mystery of Resonance

Perhaps the deepest principle behind sacred sound is not frequency but resonance.

Two instruments tuned sympathetically can respond to one another even when only one is struck.

Something similar happens metaphorically within human beings.

A sound enters us.

Something answers.

A memory.

An emotion.

A prayer.

A forgotten grief.

An image.

A sensation of peace.

A sudden realization.

The sound has not placed something foreign within us.

It has awakened something that was already capable of responding.

This may be one of the most profound ways to understand spiritual sound healing.

The healer is not necessarily the frequency.

The frequency may be the key.

The instrument being tuned is consciousness itself.

Sound as a Bridge Between Body and Spirit

The scientific study of therapeutic sound is still developing, and research specifically concerning Solfeggio frequencies remains much smaller than research concerning music therapy in general.

We should therefore be careful with extraordinary claims.

We cannot presently say that 528 Hz repairs DNA, that 639 Hz biologically heals relationships, or that 963 Hz scientifically activates enlightenment.

But neither must we conclude that sacred sound possesses no value.

We know that music can influence emotion.

We know that sound can affect attention.

We know that music can modify aspects of stress physiology and autonomic regulation.

We know that chanting, prayer, music, and sacred recitation have been used across civilizations to enter contemplative states.

And we know from human experience that certain sounds can reach places within consciousness that ordinary language cannot.

The Solfeggio frequencies may therefore be most fruitfully approached not as magical prescriptions but as contemplative technologies of resonance.

They invite the practitioner to listen.

To breathe.

To become still.

To allow the nervous system to soften.

To observe the interior world.

And perhaps, through sound, to remember a more fundamental harmony.

For beneath all the discussions of hertz, nervous systems, cortisol, chakras, meditation, and consciousness lies a very ancient spiritual intuition:

Before there was music, there was vibration.

Before there was speech, there was sound.

And before the human being could explain the mystery of existence, we were already listening for it.

I can also develop a matching annotated bibliography for this article that separates peer-reviewed sound/music research, historical solfeggio scholarship, and modern metaphysical sources.

Following is an annotated bibliography in a Chicago-style format. The three sections deliberately distinguish scientific evidence from medieval music history and from modern metaphysical literature, so readers can see exactly what kind of authority each source carries.

Annotated Bibliography

Solfeggio Frequencies, Sound Healing, and the Human Body and Spirit

A Note on the Sources

The literature surrounding Solfeggio frequencies belongs to three substantially different categories, and they should not be treated as interchangeable.

The first category consists of peer-reviewed biomedical, psychological, and music-therapy research. This literature provides evidence that music and sound can influence anxiety, stress perception, autonomic regulation, hormonal biomarkers, pain, and other physiological or psychological outcomes. A much smaller subset investigates specific frequencies such as 528 Hz or 432 Hz.

The second category consists of historical and musicological scholarship concerning Guido of Arezzo, medieval solmization, the hexachord, chant, and the syllables ut–re–mi–fa–sol–la. These sources establish the genuine medieval history behind the word solfeggio. They do not, however, document the modern sequence 396–417–528–639–741–852 Hz as an ancient medieval healing scale.

The third category contains modern metaphysical and sound-healing sources. These are important for understanding the development, symbolism, spiritual interpretation, and contemporary practice of the frequencies, but they should be regarded as primary sources for modern Solfeggio doctrine rather than as scientific proof of medical efficacy.

I. Peer-Reviewed Sound, Music, and Physiological Research

Akimoto, Kaho, Ailing Hu, Takuji Yamaguchi, and Hiroyuki Kobayashi. “Effect of 528 Hz Music on the Endocrine System and Autonomic Nervous System.” Health 10, no. 9 (2018): 1159–1170. https://doi.org/10.4236/health.2018.109088.

This exploratory study is one of the most frequently cited scientific investigations specifically involving 528-Hz music. Nine healthy adults listened on separate occasions to music associated with 528-Hz and 440-Hz tuning. The researchers measured cortisol, chromogranin A, oxytocin, autonomic nervous-system activity, and mood.

Following the 528-Hz condition, cortisol decreased, oxytocin increased, and some measures of tension and mood disturbance improved. The sample, however, consisted of only nine people, making the study far too small to demonstrate that 528 Hz possesses a unique universal healing property. It should therefore be presented as preliminary evidence warranting further investigation, not as proof of claims such as DNA repair or disease treatment. (CiNii Research)

Use in the blog: Excellent for demonstrating that 528 Hz has received genuine scientific investigation while simultaneously explaining the limits of the available evidence.

Bozok, Ümmü Gülşen, et al. “Acute Music-Frequency Exposure Modulates Salivary Stress and Neurotrophic Markers in Young Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial.” Brain and Behavior 16 (2026): e71452. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.71452.

This 2026 randomized controlled trial substantially expands the human evidence concerning frequency-based music. A total of 162 university students were randomly assigned to listen to 528-Hz music, 432-Hz music, or no music for twenty minutes during an examination-related stress period.

The investigators measured salivary BDNF, CREB, and GRP78. The 528-Hz group demonstrated significantly higher BDNF and CREB levels than the control group, while 432-Hz music produced a different biomarker pattern. No significant difference appeared between groups in Stroop cognitive-performance scores.

The study is especially valuable because of its larger randomized design. Even so, it demonstrates short-term biomarker differences, not miraculous healing, DNA reconstruction, or long-term medical outcomes. Replication and mechanistic investigation remain necessary. (Wiley Online Library)

Use in the blog: One of the strongest current sources for stating that particular musical tuning conditions may produce measurable biological differences without overstating what those differences mean clinically.

Babayi Daylari, T., G. H. Riazi, Sh. Pooyan, E. Fathi, and F. Hedayati Katouli. “Influence of Various Intensities of 528 Hz Sound-Wave in Production of Testosterone in Rat’s Brain and Analysis of Behavioral Changes.” Genes & Genomics 41, no. 2 (2019): 201–211. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13258-018-0753-6.

This animal study investigated direct exposure to a 528-Hz sound wave rather than simply listening to musical compositions tuned around that frequency. Researchers reported changes involving testosterone production, expression of steroidogenic regulatory pathways, reactive oxygen species, and anxiety-related behavior in rats.

The research is scientifically interesting because it suggests that audible acoustic stimulation can have measurable biological consequences. It cannot, however, be directly extrapolated to human spiritual or clinical healing. The experimental intensity—particularly the reported 100-dB condition—is also quite different from ordinary meditation listening. (PubMed)

Use in the blog: Helpful when discussing the emerging field of sonobiology and the possibility that acoustic vibration can interact with living biological systems.

Aravena, Pedro Christian, Camila Almonacid, and Marcelo Ignacio Mancilla. “Effect of Music at 432 Hz and 440 Hz on Dental Anxiety and Salivary Cortisol Levels in Patients Undergoing Tooth Extraction: A Randomized Clinical Trial.” Journal of Applied Oral Science 28 (2020): e20190601. https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-7757-2019-0601.

Although 432 Hz is not one of the canonical Solfeggio frequencies, this randomized clinical trial is important to the larger question of whether musical tuning frequency itself may influence physiological responses.

Forty-two patients undergoing tooth extraction were assigned to 432-Hz music, 440-Hz music, or no music. Both musical groups demonstrated lower anxiety than controls, while the 432-Hz group demonstrated significantly lower salivary cortisol than either the 440-Hz or control groups.

The study suggests that tuning differences deserve further investigation. It does not demonstrate a universal superiority of 432 Hz or establish that single frequencies independently cause the observed effects. (PubMed)

Use in the blog: Useful for placing Solfeggio research within the broader scientific investigation of tuning, pitch reference, music, stress, and physiology.

Flater, Bettina, Are Brean, and Daniel S. Quintana. “Music Therapy and Vagally Mediated Heart Rate Variability: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis.” International Journal of Psychophysiology 219 (2026): 113288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.113288.

This systematic review examined 28 studies evaluating music therapy and vagally mediated heart-rate variability, an indicator associated with parasympathetic cardiac regulation.

The reviewed literature generally suggested increased cardiac parasympathetic activity during music therapy, but the authors emphasized substantial heterogeneity, methodological differences, small sample sizes, and a high overall risk of bias.

This source is particularly important because it supports a scientifically plausible pathway through which sound practices may affect bodily state: autonomic regulation. At the same time, it demonstrates why broad claims about specific healing frequencies should remain cautious. (ScienceDirect)

Use in the blog: Strong support for explaining how soothing sound may influence the sympathetic–parasympathetic balance without requiring an unproven “energy frequency” mechanism.

Zhang, E., et al. “Effect of Music Intervention on Heart Rate Variability: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.” Frontiers in Psychology 17 (2026). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1750786.

This systematic review and meta-analysis examined randomized clinical trials of music interventions and heart-rate variability. The research addresses whether listening to music can measurably affect autonomic nervous-system regulation.

The analysis supports the broader view that musical interventions can influence HRV parameters, although effects depend upon variables such as tempo, duration, musical selection, participant population, and study design. (Frontiers)

Use in the blog: Particularly useful for explaining why relaxation produced during Solfeggio meditation may involve more than the numerical frequency itself. Tempo, musical structure, preference, breathing, expectation, and emotional state may all contribute.

Wong, Melanie Mitsui, Talha Tahir, Michael Mitsui Wong, Annilee Baron, and Rachael Finnerty. “Biomarkers of Stress in Music Interventions: A Systematic Review.” Journal of Music Therapy 58, no. 3 (2021): 241–277. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmt/thab003.

This systematic review examined biological stress markers in randomized music-intervention research. Fourteen trials investigated eighteen different biomarkers, with cortisol and salivary alpha-amylase among the most frequently measured.

The authors found evidence suggesting that music interventions can reduce both psychological stress and stress-related biomarkers in some acute situations, but the diversity of methods makes it difficult to calculate one universal physiological effect. (PubMed)

Use in the blog: An excellent scientific foundation for the statement that music may affect endocrine and stress physiology even when the exact mechanisms associated with particular Solfeggio frequencies remain uncertain.

de Witte, Martina, Sonja Aalbers, Annemieke Vink, et al. “Music Therapy for the Treatment of Anxiety: A Systematic Review with Multilevel Meta-Analyses.” eClinicalMedicine 84 (2025): 103293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2025.103293.

This major systematic review analyzed 51 studies and 93 effect sizes concerning music therapy and anxiety. The researchers found an overall moderate benefit for anxiety outcomes, particularly self-reported anxiety. Physiological outcomes showed a smaller and statistically uncertain effect.

The study is important because it demonstrates that music-based therapeutic practice has genuine clinical research behind it while also distinguishing psychological improvements from stronger biological claims. (PubMed)

Use in the blog: Supports discussion of sound as a complementary method for emotional regulation, anxiety reduction, and psychological well-being.

Bradt, Joke, Cheryl Dileo, Katherine Myers-Coffman, and Joachim Biondo. “Music Interventions for Improving Psychological and Physical Outcomes in People with Cancer.” Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, no. 10 (2021): CD006911. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD006911.pub4.

This extensive Cochrane review incorporated 81 studies involving 5,576 participants. Music interventions were associated with potential benefits for anxiety, depression, hope, pain, fatigue, heart rate, and blood pressure among adults with cancer.

The authors also emphasized that much of the evidence was of low or very low certainty and that many trials carried a substantial risk of bias.

This review is especially useful for drawing the line between legitimate complementary therapy and claims that sound itself cures disease. Music may support people undergoing treatment; it should not be presented as a replacement for medical care. (Cochrane)

Use in the blog: Strong evidence for describing therapeutic music as complementary healing rather than a substitute for conventional medicine.

II. Historical Solfeggio, Guido of Arezzo, and Medieval Music Scholarship

Guido of Arezzo. Micrologus. In Hucbald, Guido, and John on Music: Three Medieval Treatises. Translated by Warren Babb. Edited by Claude V. Palisca. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.

This is one of the most important primary texts for understanding medieval Western music theory. Guido of Arezzo was among the most influential music theorists of the eleventh century and helped systematize pedagogical methods that made chant easier to learn and transmit.

His musical teaching is directly relevant to the development of solmization, but the historical material concerns interval relationships, chant pedagogy, notation, and singing—not a series of fixed healing frequencies expressed in modern hertz values. (WorldCat)

Use in the blog: A crucial primary source for separating authentic Guidonian music theory from modern legends concerning “ancient Solfeggio frequencies.”

Guido of Arezzo. Guido d’Arezzo’s Regule Rithmice, Prologus in Antiphonarium, and Epistola ad Michahelem: A Critical Text and Translation. Edited and translated by Dolores Pesce. Ottawa: Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1999.

Pesce’s critical edition and translation makes several of Guido’s important writings available with extensive scholarly commentary, manuscript inventories, annotation, and historical apparatus.

These writings help reconstruct what Guido actually taught about music, interval recognition, chant, notation, and musical education. They are particularly useful for testing later claims attributed to him against surviving medieval textual evidence. (WorldCat)

Use in the blog: Among the best scholarly sources for demonstrating that historical claims concerning Guido should be based on his actual surviving writings rather than modern sound-healing lore.

Grier, James. “Guido of Arezzo.” Oxford Bibliographies in Music. Oxford University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199757824-0248.

Grier provides a modern scholarly overview of Guido’s life, writings, historical setting, and enormous contribution to medieval musical pedagogy. He identifies solmization and staff notation with clefs as central developments associated with Guido’s work. (OUP Academic)

The entry is especially valuable as an orientation to the larger scholarly literature on Guidonian music theory.

Use in the blog: Recommended as an authoritative secondary reference for readers wishing to investigate the historical Guido beyond popular internet accounts.

Haines, John. “The Origins of the Musical Staff.” The Musical Quarterly 91, nos. 3–4 (2008): 327–378. https://doi.org/10.1093/musqtl/gdp002.

Haines examines the development of Western staff notation and critically addresses the tendency to reduce complicated historical developments to simplistic stories about individual “inventors,” including Guido of Arezzo.

The study demonstrates why the history of medieval music requires careful contextual scholarship rather than retroactively projecting modern concepts into the Middle Ages. (OUP Academic)

Use in the blog: Useful for correcting overly simplified claims that a single medieval figure suddenly created the complete system of Western notation—or the modern Solfeggio healing-frequency system.

Herissone, Rebecca. Music Theory in Seventeenth-Century England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Herissone’s discussion of pitch structure explains how the medieval hexachordal tradition continued to shape musical education into the early modern period. The system organized notes into six-note collections corresponding to ut, re, mi, fa, sol, and la, with the intervallic structure tone–tone–semitone–tone–tone.

The syllables derive from the hymn associated with Saint John the Baptist and served primarily as a means of teaching singers interval relationships. (OUP Academic)

Use in the blog: Particularly valuable for showing what historical “solmization” actually meant: a movable pedagogical system of intervals rather than six immutable frequencies measured in Hz.

III. Modern Metaphysical and Solfeggio-Frequency Sources

Horowitz, Leonard G., and Joseph Puleo. Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse. Sandpoint, ID: Tetrahedron Publishing Group, 1999.

This book is one of the most important primary sources for the modern Solfeggio-frequency movement. Library records confirm its publication by Tetrahedron Publishing Group in 1999. (WorldCat)

Horowitz and Puleo connect a sequence of numbers derived through numerological treatment of biblical passages with ideas concerning vibration, healing, spirituality, and biology. Their work helped popularize the six-number sequence:

396 — 417 — 528 — 639 — 741 — 852.

The book is historically significant for understanding modern Solfeggio doctrine, but its biomedical and historical claims should not be treated as equivalent to peer-reviewed medical or musicological scholarship.

Use in the blog: Essential for explaining where the recognizable modern six-frequency system actually enters contemporary metaphysical literature.

Goldman, Jonathan. Healing Sounds: The Power of Harmonics. Rev. ed. Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element, 1996.

Goldman is one of the major figures in contemporary sound-healing culture. Healing Sounds explores vocal harmonics, overtone chanting, resonance, intentionality, sacred sound, and the use of the human voice in transformative practice. Library catalog records identify the revised edition as published by Element in 1996, following an earlier edition from 1992. (WorldCat)

Although the work should not be considered clinical evidence for frequency-specific medical treatment, it is highly useful for understanding the philosophical framework of modern sound healing: consciousness, intention, resonance, harmonics, and the experiential effects of vocal vibration.

Use in the blog: Excellent for developing the spiritual concept that healing sound involves more than numerical frequency alone; consciousness and intention form part of the practice.

Goldman, Jonathan. “Healing Codes Sacred Sounds.” Recording and explanatory notes, 2020–2021.

Goldman’s own account is extremely valuable for tracing the evolution of the modern nine-frequency system. He states that he developed tuning forks using the six numbers presented by Horowitz and Puleo and subsequently added three more numbers, producing the extended nine-frequency sequence that became widely associated with contemporary Solfeggio practice. (YouTube)

This testimony is particularly significant because it helps explain why modern lists often include:

174 — 285 — 396 — 417 — 528 — 639 — 741 — 852 — 963 Hz

rather than the earlier six-frequency sequence.

Use in the blog: One of the most useful primary sources for documenting the transition from the original modern six-number system to the now-common nine-frequency system.

“How Were Solfeggio Frequencies Discovered?” SolfeggioFrequencies.org. Accessed August 2026.

This contemporary popular source illustrates how the modern Solfeggio narrative is currently presented within the sound-healing community. It explicitly connects Joseph Puleo’s work to the biblical Book of Numbers and describes the use of numerical reduction in deriving the six-frequency sequence. (Solfeggio Frequencies)

Its value is primarily ethnographic and doctrinal rather than historical or medical: it shows what contemporary practitioners believe and teach.

It should therefore be read alongside primary modern texts such as Horowitz and Puleo and contrasted with medieval musicological scholarship on Guido of Arezzo.

Use in the blog: Helpful for demonstrating the difference between the internal history told by the modern Solfeggio movement and the conclusions supported by academic music history.

IV. What the Combined Bibliography Tells Us

Taken together, these sources reveal a much more nuanced history of Solfeggio frequencies than is usually presented online.

There is indeed an authentic medieval tradition behind the term solfeggio. Guido of Arezzo and later musicians employed syllables such as ut, re, mi, fa, sol, and la as tools for teaching singers interval relationships. Medieval and early-modern scholarship supports this history. (OUP Academic)

There is not, however, equivalent historical evidence demonstrating that medieval monks possessed or intentionally employed the modern fixed sequence:

396 Hz
417 Hz
528 Hz
639 Hz
741 Hz
852 Hz

as a secret healing scale.

That numerical system belongs to a much more recent metaphysical history associated particularly with the work of Joseph Puleo and Leonard Horowitz, with later sound-healing practitioners expanding and popularizing the system. (WorldCat)

Scientific research, meanwhile, supports a third and distinct conclusion.

Music and structured sound can affect human beings.

They can influence anxiety, emotion, stress responses, autonomic nervous-system activity, heart-rate variability, cortisol and other biomarkers, and in some clinical settings pain and quality of life. (PubMed)

There is also a small but growing body of research examining specific tuning frequencies, including 528 Hz. Some studies have reported intriguing biological effects, including changes in salivary biomarkers and autonomic or neuroendocrine measures. (CiNii Research)

What has not been scientifically established is that:

  • 396 Hz specifically removes guilt,
  • 417 Hz clears trauma,
  • 528 Hz repairs human DNA,
  • 639 Hz heals relationships,
  • 741 Hz detoxifies cells,
  • 852 Hz activates intuition, or
  • 963 Hz produces enlightenment.

Those are modern metaphysical correspondences, not established biomedical findings.

This distinction does not require us to abandon spiritual interpretations of sound.

Instead, it gives us a more intellectually responsible model.

The historian can study Guido and medieval solmization.

The scientist can investigate sound, neurobiology, stress, acoustic stimulation, and music therapy.

The metaphysician can work with frequency as symbol, intention, resonance, meditation, and sacred correspondence.

These three approaches can speak to one another without being confused with one another.

That may ultimately be the most productive way to approach the Solfeggio frequencies: not as a lost medical technology whose every modern claim has already been proven, but as a contemporary form of sacred sound practice situated at the intersection of music, physiology, symbolism, contemplative consciousness, and the ancient human intuition that vibration possesses transformative power.

This bibliography makes a clean distinction between what is historically documented, what is experimentally suggestive, and what belongs specifically to modern esoteric interpretation.

Arts and Crafts | Creating Hemp-and-Bead Bracelets

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If you want hemp-and-bead bracelets that last for years instead of weeks, the biggest factors are the cord you choose, the knots you use, and how you finish the ends. Natural hemp is beautiful, but untreated hemp alone will eventually fray. Many professional makers either wax the hemp or use polished hemp cord.

Here are several durable styles, from easiest to most advanced.

1. Simple Spiral Knot Bracelet (Best for Beginners)

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Materials

  • 1 mm polished hemp cord
  • 6–10 mm gemstone or wooden beads
  • Scissors
  • Beeswax
  • Lighter (optional)

Construction

  • Cut four strands about 4 feet long.
  • Tie a loop at one end.
  • Work repeated half-square knots around the center cords.
  • Add a bead every inch or two.
  • Finish with a sliding knot.

Why it’s durable

  • Spiral knots distribute tension evenly.
  • Little stress is placed on the beads.
  • Sliding closures are less likely to fail than metal clasps.

2. Square Knot Macramé Bracelet

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This is probably the strongest traditional hemp bracelet.

The square knot alternates left and right half knots so the bracelet stays flat.

Good bead choices:

  • Jasper
  • Tiger’s Eye
  • Rose Quartz
  • Lava Stone
  • Hematite
  • Wood

This style is excellent for heavier stones.

3. Ladder Bead Bracelet

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Instead of placing beads randomly, each bead is locked between knots.

Pattern:

Square knot
Bead
Square knot
Bead
Square knot

Because every bead is trapped by knots, nothing slides around.

4. Wrapped Stone Bracelet

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Perfect for crystal lovers.

Instead of drilling the stone:

  • Create a tiny macramé net.
  • Capture the stone.
  • Attach the net to the bracelet.

No glue required.

5. Braided Hemp Bracelet

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Use:

  • 4 strands
  • 6 strands
  • 8 strands

Add beads onto one strand before braiding.

This style is extremely resistant to pulling.

6. Cobra Knot Bracelet (Paracord Style in Hemp)

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A cobra weave is thicker than ordinary macramé.

Advantages:

  • Very strong
  • Comfortable
  • Doesn’t stretch much
  • Looks substantial

Making Bracelets That Don’t Break

Use these practices regardless of the design:

  • Choose polished hemp (1 mm or 1.2 mm) instead of rough craft hemp.
  • Wax the cord lightly with beeswax before knotting to reduce fraying and help knots stay tight.
  • Pre-stretch the hemp by pulling firmly before you begin.
  • Tie every knot snugly and consistently.
  • Use beads with smooth, rounded holes; sharp-edged holes can cut natural fibers over time.
  • Secure end knots with a tiny drop of flexible jewelry adhesive (such as G-S Hypo Cement or a flexible fabric adhesive), then trim the tails after it cures.
  • For adjustable bracelets, use a double sliding knot rather than metal clasps, since it has fewer failure points.

Best Beads for Hemp

Natural materials complement hemp beautifully and are generally gentle on the cord:

  • Gemstones (amethyst, labradorite, jasper, agate, quartz)
  • Sandalwood
  • Olive wood
  • Coconut shell
  • Bone or horn (where ethically sourced)
  • Brass or copper accent beads
  • Matte glass beads

Avoid inexpensive metal beads with rough interior edges, as they can wear through hemp over time.

A Rosicrucian or Esoteric Series

Given your interest in the Western Mystery Tradition, you could even create a symbolic bracelet collection where each design corresponds to a spiritual theme:

  • Earth (Malkuth): green hemp with moss agate and wooden beads.
  • Air (Yesod/Mercury): blue-gray hemp with sodalite and silver spacers.
  • Fire (Tiphareth/Solar): golden hemp with tiger’s eye and citrine.
  • Water (Netzach/Venus): burgundy hemp with rose quartz and copper accents.
  • Spirit (Kether): natural hemp with clear quartz and white sandalwood.

Each bracelet could incorporate knot counts, bead numbers, or color correspondences that reflect Qabalistic, planetary, or elemental symbolism while remaining attractive as everyday jewelry.

With good-quality polished hemp, proper waxing, secure knotting, and smooth-hole beads, a handcrafted hemp bracelet can withstand daily wear for years.

26th Anniversary Message to Our School of Reiki Practitioners

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Beloved Practitioners, Teachers, and Keepers of the Current,

Twenty six years ago, a small intention was placed gently into the world, like hands resting over the heart. No spectacle. No urgency. Just trust in the quiet intelligence of healing and the willingness to listen. From that simple beginning, a living lineage has grown.

A school is not walls, syllabi, or certificates. A Reiki school is a field. It is shaped every time one of you pauses, breathes, and allows harmony to move where it is needed most. Over twenty six years, that field has been strengthened by thousands of such moments. Unseen, yet unmistakable.

You have carried Reiki into homes, hospitals, classrooms, offices, and sacred spaces. You have offered it in times of grief, transition, birth, exhaustion, and renewal. Often without recognition. Often without words. Always with presence. This is how real traditions endure.

Twenty six years marks more than longevity. It marks trust. Trust in the practice. Trust in one another. Trust in the quiet power of hands guided by compassion rather than force. In a world that constantly demands speed and certainty, you have chosen attunement and listening.

May this anniversary remind you that your practice matters, even when it feels subtle. Especially when it feels subtle. Healing rarely announces itself loudly. It arrives softly, rearranging things from the inside out.

As we step into the years ahead, may curiosity stay alive in your hands. May humility keep your practice clear. May joy remain part of your discipline. And may the current that first brought us together continue to flow through you, steady and generous.

Thank you for twenty six years of dedication, care, and quiet courage.

The work continues, and so does the blessing of walking it together.

Mahalo Ke ʻĀkūa,

Lanakilaonakupuna
Kumu ‘Akahi
Reiki Grandmaster, 18th dan
Usui Teate System of Natural Healing

Divine Feminine Oracle | Mother Mary, for Juneteenth – June 19, 2025

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Mother Mary’s message for you

You are free to achieve anything you wish to, my beloved one! You can move mountains because you have my power within you. You are not a slave to anything or anyone because you are a divine being. By using your creative choice you can make your mark on the world in little and huge ways. Remember that even the tiniest decision relies on your creative power.

 

Have faith in yourself, dear one. With my help, love and guidance, you have all the resources you need to succeed. You can positively touch so many lives with your creative choices. I will assist you to connect with the passion that lies within your heart so do not ever feel that you need to cast your ambitions aside to put other things first. You can have it all!

What you need to know

Your choices have a far greater impact than you might expect. You are important. Don’t ever forget that, dear one. Today, Our Lady of Creative Choice comes to you with a strong and clear message. No matter what’s going on in your life and how powerless or empowered you feel, you can take control of the situation via your own choices.

 

If something is upsetting you, you have the power within you to move forward from this even though this decision may cause temporary upset. If there is something that you wish to do or to try, you have the innate potential to have a go! What’s the worst that can happen? Remember that Mother Mary is holding your hand always so that you can walk confidently forward!

Prayer for healing

Sit quietly as you see yourself sitting by a beautiful blue lake. The sun is setting as you look at the pebbles dotted around your feet. As you take a closer look, you notice that each one has a word painted on it. Kindness. Courage. Peace. Honesty. Just think of any word you choose, then pick up the corresponding pebble. Hold it in your hands as you feel the energy of your chosen word then say the following.

 

“Our Lady of Creative Choice, my dearest Mother Mary, I revel in your unconditional love! I thank you for reminding me of my divine power of creative choice. I understand that there are many routes ahead of me that I can choose from. I trust myself to go down the ones that serve my highest good. I ask that you bless me as I become more creative with my choices along my personal path.”

Dhamma Verses for October 02, 2024

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Hindū ho yā Bauddha ho,
Musalima ho yā Jaina.
Jaba jaba mana mailā kare,
taba taba ho becaina.

Hindū ho yā Bauddha ho,
Musalima ho yā Jaina.
Jyonhi mana mailā kare,
Tyonhi ho becaina.

Hindu or Buddhist,
Muslim or Jain,
whenever you defile your mind
you become agitated.

Hindu or Buddhist,
Muslim or Jain,
as soon as you defile your mind
you become agitated.

–S.N. Goenka

Meditation Session | Enchanting – Japanese Zen Music (Flute, Koto, Tribal Drums)

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Welcome to Athena IV – your serene escape to the enchanting world of Japanese Zen music. Immerse yourself in enchanting melodies featuring the flute, koto, and tribal drums. This music is designed to transport you to the tranquil and mystical world of traditional Japan.

Japanese Zen music, with its serene and meditative qualities, creates a peaceful environment that promotes mental clarity and emotional balance. The harmonious blend of the flute, koto, and tribal drums provides a unique and enchanting soundscape, perfect for relaxation, meditation, or focused work.

Divine Feeminine Oracle | Mother Mary for August 5, 2024

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Mother Mary’s message for you

You are both my child and also a heavenly regal creation. As you dive deeper into the eternal heavenly heart and see all the love that’s in there, I’m always by your side. Holy ecstasy greets you when the truths unveil themselves to you today. Even as I assist you into euphoric contact with your divine nature, I will keep you anchored and real. You are to be consistently fruitful in a world that requires your light now more than ever!

 

There is always someplace and something greater to explore, despite where we believe we are on our personal journey. I see that you’re ready to embark on a new faith journey. This new realm will be suitable and therapeutic for you, allowing you to evolve spiritually in a comfortable way. What is appropriate for someone else is unlikely to be appropriate for you. So, with all-encompassing affection and ferocious guardianship, I am watching over you. Have faith that what you require will be sent to you!

What you need to know

You’ve been waiting for this moment for a long time, probably without realising it. To be ready for the next stage of spiritual awareness, it may often take many years of hard work. You may need to be tested in a partnership that truly stretches or fractures your heart in order to be ready. Going through this helps you to love more selflessly, to let go or to continue in the relationship, depending on what is best for you.

Remember that everything in life happens for a reason. You may not yet be truly aware of why things have happened as they have as yet, but given time, you will have the answers you seek. Whatever the past problem or obstacle, the way you learnt to react and evolve through it gave you the maturation you needed to advance onto the next degree of heavenly awareness. There are so many good experiences ahead of you!

Prayer for healing

Our universe’s most important power is love. It can be found in all things and manifests itself in an infinite number of ways. It takes a lot of preparation to embrace this love, to be receptive to it, to be able to absorb it. However, you are well on your way!

To help things along, say the following prayer, “Our Lady of the Rose Crown, please bless me now and always. I know and see the power of the divine more and more in every moment. I am a royal heavenly being of light and am spiritually successful beyond my expectations!”

Theosophy | DHYANA MARGA – I

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The Astounding Benefits of 'Atma-Dhyana' | Atmayoga

DHYANA MARGA  – I

 Ere thou canst settle in Dhyana-Marga and call it thine, thy Soul has to become as the ripe mango fruit: as soft and sweet as its bright golden pulp for others’ woes, as hard as that fruit’s stone for thine own throes and sorrows, O Conqueror of Weal and Woe.

Make hard thy Soul against the snares of Self; deserve for it the name of ‘Diamond Soul’. For, as the diamond buried deep within the throbbing heart of earth can never mirror back the earthly lights, so are thy mind and Soul; plunged in Dhyana-Marga, these must mirror nought of Maya’s realm illusive.

The Voice of the Silence

 

 Every authentic system of spiritual discipline indicates different stages upon the path of progressive mastery over the mind. The path of progressive awakening to supreme unconditional universal Truth is an arduous course of intensified practice leading to serene contemplation. Dhyana Marga — the Path of Meditation — is an inward fusion of mentality and morality that releases the mystical energies of enlightenment. Transcending ratiocinative analysis and ethical endeavour, though yielding to the full fruition of both, dhyana is the mysterious catalyst spoken of by Jesus which “leavens the whole”. It is the living presence of the Dhyani energies vital to any lasting nucleus of universal brotherhood formed by sincere aspirants and neophytes on the Path. Like the fabulous wish-fulfilling gem or the pearl of great price, dhyana is one of the priceless treasures of the Path which must, at a certain stage of development, be earned by the disciple before there can be any further advance. If this is true of the cyclic process of individual growth, it is even more true of the evolutionary stream of humanity.

 From the beginning of the 1975 Cycle emphasis has been laid upon reaching beyond discursive reasoning and analytic study. Though skilful analysis can be helpful, it is no more efficacious than one wing of a bird in flight. The other wing is ethical practice, purification of motive and steadfastness in reference to one’s deepest integrity and fidelity of commitment. The balance between these two aspects of development has been stressed from the start, but as in the life of a bird a definite stage comes at which further development of the wings is neither possible nor desirable, so too in the growth of a committed group of sincere individuals, many of whom have bound themselves by commitments to the spirit of the Pledge of Kwan-Yin. Touched by the potent vibration of the Cycle, a strong nucleus of seekers has persisted, despite ups and downs, in creating a distinct current of direction in their lives. In ways known and unknown to themselves, they have resonated to the current Seventh Cycle of the Theosophical Movement, the last of the series initiated by Tsong-Kha-Pa in the fifteenth century in Tibet. It is deeply fitting that all aspirants upon the path of The Voice of the Silence should now seek to become more firm and steadfast with regard to dhyana or meditation.

 True meditation begins with intense concentration or dharana — bringing the mind to a clear focus, which then gives way to the uninterrupted contemplation that is the beginning of dhyana. In its full unfoldment it can lead to true wisdom — prajna — complete absorption in one’s higher consciousness with universal self-consciousness, a state of being marked by the attunement of Atma-Buddhi-Manas to the Cosmic Triad. The actual level of attainment reached by anyone attempting this meditation and the pace of his or her development are relatively unimportant. Whatever doubts, anxieties or ambitions some may bring to such attempts are largely irrelevant. What is significant is that a definite and increasing number of human beings should make an attempt, at whatever pace, to learn the practice of true meditation. The simple fact that a number of human beings recognize this common undertaking and obligation, sensing the common joy in the quest for gaining greater proficiency in dhyana, is propitious and encouraging to the alchemical work of the Theosophical Movement. It is a positive contribution to the profound impact of the 1975 Cycle, to the elevation of human consciousness in the world as a whole, and to the careful preparation of the ground for the Mystery Temples of the future.

 The apprentice on the path of Dhyana Marga must learn that the senses are liars; it is precisely at that moment when one seems outwardly to be most alone and engaged in the difficult task of acquiring mental concentration that one is in fact most directly related to humanity. Once one sees this clearly, it becomes possible to insert one’s honest and humble efforts in the practice of dhyana into a larger effort by a number of people. If they bind themselves together by invisible threads spun through firmness and contemplation and by a continuous current of meditation, they can leaven up the world, in the metaphor of Jesus. This has nothing to do with any individualistic accomplishment. Rather, through their meditation, they can create a magnetic field into which can be focused the wisdom of Avalokiteshvara, the wisdom of the collective Hosts of Dhyani Buddhas, Mahatmas and Bodhisattvas. Metaphysically, it is the totality of actual and invisible wisdom behind the whole of this system of worlds, which is itself a partial emanation of the primal Adi-Buddha. The aggregate sum-total of actual and potential wisdom forming the radiant core of the system of worlds is nothing but a spark of that absolute and infinite ocean of purely transcendental Wisdom from which arises the possibility of all worlds and all periods of manifestation.

 Wisdom is neither created nor destroyed, neither increased nor decreased, but is universal, inexhaustible and vast. It is already self-existent on a primordial plane and is in fact the very ground of the possibility of existence. It may be represented in thought and in collective manifestation as a Host of beings called the Army of the Voice. This is merely a metaphor to intimate something of the virtually inconceivable grandeur and precision of the array of divine elements and beings that constitute the living cosmos. It is possible to focus that light of universal wisdom, continual contemplation and eternal ideation within a matrix created by the love, unity and joint heroic efforts of a nucleus of human beings formed over a period of time. Thus, it is possible to bring down onto the plane of mundane human existence glimpses and rays, sparks and flashes, of that divine light of wisdom that is all-potent on its own plane but is otherwise latent and unavailable. Collectively, a group of human beings can become like a great lens for the drawing down of the light of unmanifest wisdom into our globe to meet the cries of pain, the hungers and the longings of myriads of minds and hearts.

 To begin to become an apprentice of eternal wisdom in time, one must gain some minimal understanding of cycles. There can be no practice of concentration and meditation and dhyana unless one can rise above the sequence of alternating states of consciousness involved in the breath, the pulse, sleeping and waking, the passage of seasons, septenates of years, life and death and rebirth. Whilst it would be a false and self-imposed burden to expect to comprehend complex evolutionary cycles, one may, nonetheless, bring a minimal sense of the marriage of continuity and detachment to one’s understanding of the collective human pilgrimage. The 1975 Cycle of the Theosophical Movement, its Seventh Impulsion, marks its anniversary on November 17, a date that is significant not only in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries of the Christian era, but in relation to human consciousness on this earth in general. According to Clement of Alexandria, it was the true birthday of Jesus. Historically, it was the birthday of Pico della Mirandola, the light of the Renaissance. It is also the anniversary of many extraordinary events in history, both recorded and unrecorded. It is one of a series of occult points in the year that may be thought of as birthdays of the Dhyanis, points of intersection in cyclic time of aspects of Avalokiteshvara with manifested humanity. Thus, whilst the Seventh Impulsion of the Theosophical Movement is directly linked to this particular aspect of the manifestation of Avalokiteshvara, it cannot be separated from the other manifestations of the Logos present at other cyclic intervals.

Raghavan Iyer
The Gupta Vidya II

Divine Feminine Oracle | Mother Mary, for June 30, 2024

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Mother Mary’s message for you

I am so aware of the strenuous efforts you have been making recently. You have been working yourself to exhaustion, so it is not surprising that you have found your way here in search of some peace and quiet today. In addition to this, there is no longer any reason for you to worry about anything at all because you can seek safety in me.

As I always have, I will continue to look after you in this present moment as well as in the future. I am aware of the amount of difficulty that you have been through. Listen to me carefully as I tell you that you do not need to continue feeling this way any longer.I ask that you simply take a moment to unwind so you can clear your head.  Taking care of yourself is not an act of selfishness.

What you need to know

Turn off your thoughts and relax; everything will work out. Mother Mary wants you to unwind. Just go with the flow so you do not impede You are impeding the natural sequence of events by focusing so closely on what you want to happen.

Hand over any issue or problem to Our Lady, and she’ll take care of it. Appreciate your past accomplishments and talents. Instead of worrying about what is to come, why not focus on self-care as well as engaging in things that nourish your spirit? It is crucial for you to just relax and to have more fun.

Prayer for healing

Our Lady of Sweet Rest, hear my prayers as I ponder on your devotion to your children here on earth. Your help relaxes my mind, body and spirit. You soothe me when I am worried. You defend me always with a serene, strong spirit. I have discovered love both inside myself and in you, my Mother,

The most potent energies in our universe are love and compassion for one another. Teach me every day how to be more like you as I embrace humanity in spite of its faults. I feel supported by you to be the change in the world that I wish to see. In the name of everything that is pure and merciful, please make it so that this comes to pass!

Lotus Tarot | Four of Cups – Lost in Thoughts

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The Four of Cups indicates that we are lost in the working of our own mind rather than trusting our connection with the universal heart.

While the universal heart tenderly ensures our protection, we remain self-absorbed in irrelevant contemplation. This contemplation is taking us deeper into the illusion that we are helping ourselves.

We convince ourselves that our being contemplative is helping us solve an emotional problem.

Are you trying to think your way out of a challenge and actually exacerbating it? Take a deep look. Is all this internal philosophizing a way to distract you from feelings? It’s okay to take a break from hardship, but thoughts won’t solve this particular predicament.

Eventually you will need to sit with your emotions which will neutralize, become calmed, from your love. This will bring you back to the universal heart. Guidance will be profound.

Right now you are not receiving the guidance as you are determined to run your own show, use your own mental apparatus to control, feel like you are the one who knows. This need to control has isolated you while the problem continues to fester inside.

The universe compassionately holds you, reminding you that waters of healing and wellness are yours when you are ready to face your own vulnerability.

It is possible that you got in this predicament by saying an imbalanced yes to people too many times. You may need to learn how to hold the loving force of a healthy no when you come out of your mental retreat.

What feeling propelled you into your excessive thinking? What emotion was unbearable? Can you identify where that emotion is in your body? Aim to be so present with this feeling that it takes you to new waters! It is suggested that you work with a healer or therapist to do this process as it can bring up a lot of vulnerability.

When you are ready to experience the emotions that have taken you into your mind, great liberation and freedom awaits. It will feel like drinking and bathing in deeply healing waters. The Lemurian Hawaii waters are yours from within when you are ready. Relief will then come.

When you reject the Four of Cups consciousness, you are cleverly distracting yourself with excessive mental activity that entices others. You are being a funny clown or entertainer who takes yourself far away from your heart and soul. While others are clapping, headed toward distracting rides themselves, your self-imposed sham will vanish or crash. In time, you will be forced to look into the gifts that call you more deeply!

The Four of Cups appears when growth is on hold, an emotion is purposefully blocked and you are taking a time out, looking for false solutions. It’s okay. When you are ready for your bounty, you will do the work-play required!

Contemplation

Which emotions am I running from or fighting?

Meditation

What feeling is in my heart? Go through the layers of what you find in your own heart. It is recommended that you do this with the help of a trustworthy healer or therapist.

May your happiest dreams be actualized and may your life be full of miracles!

Laurie

Divine Feminine Oracle | Mother Mary, for June 23, 2024

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Mother Mary’s message for you

Experience my dazzling kindness as it improves and transforms your current reality as well as your future. Be prepared to be sparked to life in a variety of ways soon, as everything is sure to feel different and original to you. I am here to instil in you a new feeling of freedom and optimism. 

When you place your confidence in me, as my child, you will never be wounded by anybody or anything. Nothing at all can diminish or constrain your lovely spirit. You may soar freely because my love is protecting you always and forever. My love is flowing through you always!

What you need to know

True, you’ve been injured before, but you can and will begin to trust again. Unfortunately, in today’s cultural society, there is an undercurrent that seeks to shatter the soul and stifle the spirit. Mother Mary, on the other hand, gives fresh life to those who obey and adore her. So, rather than being pressured to conform to an image, it’s time to understand that you are perfect just the way you are!

Circumstances may now be seen for what they actually are. You  are now capable of loving, breathing and communicating your own real truth. You are avoiding anxiety and power struggles since they are unrelated to your particular experience. You are being the real you!

Prayer for healing

Trust that your life will improve as a result of realising that you are perfect as you are. You don’t have to alter something about who you are to receive the respect, affection, and approval of others. Live only for you. Be  joyful as you spread your happiness to others you meet!

The following is a beautiful prayer to invoke Mother Mary’s help, “Our Lady of Radiant Grace please live within my heart!  Give me the space I need to flourish and grow on all levels, I beseech thee!  Please provide me  with the opportunity to realise my spiritual purpose because of your honourable grace!”

Lotus Tarot | Ten of Pentacles – You have Wealth and also know the joke!

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With the Ten of Pentacles experience, you know the virtue of wealth but you also know the joke of life. It feels great to have far more than enough. It feels great to laugh. It’s good to seriously thank life for gifts.

It’s good to see how arbitrary and self-propagated all human dramas are. You created the wealth from knowing what it does and doesn’t mean, so now you sit in gleeful enjoyment. You give joyous thank with a wink to the divine!

You have lived too many lifetimes in the cycles to glorify self-imposed poverty in hopes of enlightenment. You know the neutral. You see the whole world is a comical play. You don’t give undeserved power to your thoughts or anyone else’s. Yet you do use your thoughts well.

You construct wealth from air, mental wisdom and proper action. You stay aware of the nothing out of which all something happens. You laugh a lot. And of course, little can perturb you. You have the balance of the inside openness, the awakened consciousness and the duality street wisdom. You pay no heed to others’ dogmas.

The Ten of Pentacles is a very blessed card. You have compassion for people. You give to others. Your wealth is intricately related to all your tithing or service in one form or another! No guilt. No embarrassment,. No shame. You passed on those long ago,

You feel grateful to receive and grateful to give. Natural to you. You don’t take the merry-go-round of life too seriously but you give thanks non-stop. And so you invite richness in as you take it all with a light laugh, forever willing to lend a hand and having the ability to steer clear of other’s dramatically self-created agendas.

Ten of Pentacles consciousness lives in completion with loved ones. Family, animals, nature are all valued. Beauty abounds. Fullness is the norm. Focus is on what is good, genuine contentment. Good for all which includes self is your only care. Light shines straight out of your heart and into your yard. Your family members generate balanced bright auras.

When you reject the energy of this card, you just don’t comprehend how wealth or enlightenment work. You sure think you do. You betray the generosity of wealth with self-aggrandizement for your vows of poverty. You pretend you are enlightened when you are very attached to your ego trip. Give it up already. Who are your pleasing?

The Ten of Pentacles is the love of material wealth used for a foundation of warm, happy environment to support the deep union of love, health, family, community of all species, and contentment. You don’t create problems to solve. You don’t escalate difficulty to be a hero. You don’t intensify difficulty to get sympathy. You don’t escalate challenges to build false philosophies, medical establishments, spiritual paths, or religions. You don’t entertain yourself with trouble.

You let life be deeply good. You maintain an equilibrium of care and non-attachment, empathic love and individual protection, gratitude and laughter in ideal balance. If the rest of the world wants to dance in chaos, so be it. You gave up the heal-the-world routine seven lifetimes back. You lend a hand and generously share your wealth to anyone with a good heart or a genuine need. You fund artists, the hungry, and the garden growers.

You feel very at home being your partially-conservative, partly-quirky and slightly-eccentrically green self.

Good for you!

Contemplation

You are done. Nothing to contemplate. Maintain your observational devotion and subtle sense of humor about it all.

Meditation

Nothing new to mediate upon. Life is your meditation.

May your happiest dreams be actualized and may your life be full of miracles!

Laurie

Divine Feminine Oracle | Mother Mary, for June 16, 2024

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Mother Mary’s message for you

I am so proud of you, my most loved child. Whenever you accomplish something new it gives me such joy to see you develop! Permit me to assist you in breaking free from a karmic cycle so that you will be led into a new way of perceiving the world around you. You are undergoing a rebirth in the most incredible way imaginable! 

You are prepared to begin again on a fresh page that will be expertly written with the most incredible and inspiring tales ever told. My heart is home to the rising sun. As you make your way inside of it, protected by the affection I have for you, you will be able to see that illumination for the first time. You will be able to see the light at the end of any tunnel while you gain insight into the meaning behind your past anguish, allowing you to finally release the past and live peacefully, unburdened by feelings of bewilderment, humiliation or doubt.

What you need to know

My dear child, you are currently going through a meaningful period of change and progression, which will ultimately lead to huge personal development. You, my beloved, have entered a phase of spiritual connection and reawakening, during which you have the chance to work closely with your higher consciousness as well as your guiding principles. 

This is a very exciting time for you!  You will now make preparations to be the ultimate version of yourself that you are capable of being by aligning with the many shifts going on around your life!

Prayer for healing

Our Lady of the Ocean of Rebirth walks with you to help you to understand that your life has a certain amount of karmic burden. You are neither being penalised nor confronted with a “bad” scenario. Because your spirit is developed, it can deal with more than that of a person with a more youthful soul. So, in actuality, the significant troubles you may currently face are an indication of your soul’s personal enlightenment.

A good devotion for wholeness is, “I invoke the heavenly compassion and karmic healing of Mother Mary, who unconditionally adores me. I embrace your heavenly influence in every aspect of my life and praise you for providing me with spiritual gifts that serve my ultimate good. By my own will and union with divine love, let it be so!”

Cymatics | Supergiant Wind Chimes Sound Bath

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Allow yourself to relax into Supergiant Wind Chimes Sound Bath. This recording is intended to give you Maximum Relaxation and Relief from Stress and Tension. Imagine yourself immersed in a Sonic Bath. One that Submerges you in Waves of Pure Sound. One that Cleanses your Soul and Detoxifies Your Body. Close your eyes and imagine you are the best version of you. Listen to the Chimes as your Higher Mind gives you evidence that you are perfect in this moment. Peace, Love and Joy to You. ❤️🙏🏻👍🏻

Lotus Tarot | Cooming To An End – Judgment

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There are times in our lives when we must accept inevitable change and allow things to come to a natural end.

The Judgment card is often referred to as a time of resurrection and awakening, a time when a phase or period of our life comes to an absolute end making way for dynamic new beginnings.

It may be that a long-term relationship or marriage has had its time and whilst it may feel painful to accept this finality, the Judgment card is saying try and accept that this is a time of fast-moving, positive change and action for you.

Whether it’s the end of a career, a time when your children have flown the nest, or a turn of events that make you wish your life was different, this card represents karmic change and it indicates that bigger and better things are yet to come into your life.

Quite often, fantastic events and opportunities follow sad and difficult challenges and this card can represent any events that may feel like ‘Judgment Day’ has come. Changes that may be indicated upon the appearance of this card can be significant, so this would not be a time for regret and fear but a time for courage and rejoicing in what you have achieved and what you are yet to achieve.

Your life may well pick up a pace when this card appears, so whatever future possibilities are indicated in your reading, these events may happen quite quickly.

If the Judgment card comes up in a reading about legal issues, it is a positive sign that any ruling will be in your favor. However, if this card is surrounded by negative cards, it may indicate legal battles ahead and the possibility of having a ruling made against you.

In general readings, if this card is surrounded by negative cards, it could be that the swift conclusions foretold by the positive aspect of this card may be delayed. This can mean that you are fearful of such significant change and may be ignoring opportunities that may well promise a brighter future.

I also feel that when this card comes up, it’s important to use your own judgment wisely and not to judge yourself too harshly. It is a signal for you to open your heart and mind to accept that all things come to an end and nothing lasts forever, yet for each ending there is always a new beginning.

Embrace such significant and inevitable change and a whole new world of opportunity can unfold for you – the Judgment card is a calling for you to be all that you can be.

Best wishes
LT

Divine Feminine Oracle | Mother Mary, for June 9, 2024

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Mother Mary’s message for you

My essence remains constant, despite my various appearances and names. Now and always, I am your adoring mother.  Even during the times you felt isolated, I was always there for you. I am with you in both the good and the bad. Even when life doesn’t appear to be going your way, I’m there for you. Have trust that I’ll always be there for you, no matter what you’re dealing with.

Your happiness and safety are at the heart of my universe as your mother. With my presence in your world, you will have enormous spiritual strength and tranquillity. You, too, are a radiant being. By embracing your divine nature, you will help and assist others in moving from a state of suspicion and anxiety to one of compassion, generosity, and sheer delight. Even in the dead of night, my child, you exude spirituality!

What you need to know

When Mother Mary reveals her light face to us, it is quite simple to recognise her presence. Then, we sense her empathy, calm energy and kindness. However, it’s more difficult to perceive her being there when her face isn’t as bright. When we go through grief, anger, alienation, death, and other bad emotions, we may feel this way. She is always there for us, even while we are fighting our inner demons to keep afloat. 

Her dark face is as warm and beautiful as her bright one. Mother Mary’s dark face, sometimes known as the Black Madonna, gives us all hope. You see, even when you’re sad or depressed, you’re secure in her loving arms. She provides you with unwavering brightness in the present and the future. She has come to answer your prayers because you are in desperate need of her. As you feel and then express your feelings in safety, remember that she is cradling you in her warm embrace

Prayer for healing

Picture a lovely river of sunlight streaming before your eyes while you sit calmly. Slowly, a lovely black face appears, subconsciously encouraging you to let go of your anguish. You sense the world’s pain in her beautiful, black eyes, but you instinctively understand that all will be well.

Permit yourself to offer her unconditional love as you pray, “Our Lady of the Dark Mysteries, I am so very grateful for every single one of your blessings!  My Mother, I beg you to assist me. Work through me so that I may help the world in every manner possible. I pray for your advice and assistance so that I may carry out your desires.”

Lotus Tarot | King of Pentacles, The Lord of Earthly Possessions

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You arrive at the path of achieving and enjoying success…

The King of Pentacles represents someone who is unusually successful in business dealings and acquiring material possessions. I call this Pentacle “The Midas Touch” or “The Husband Card” in my deck. This King could represent you, a friend, family member, father figure, boss, lawyer, businessman, mentor, potential lover, potential marriage partner, or even an open enemy.

The Court Cards represent significant people who will enter your life. The Minor Arcana represents your choices and actions throughout the realization of your destiny. The Tarot card Kings represent authority, sound judgment, control, and strongly influence your current situation. The Pentacles represent your desire for material success, good health, and a happy home life.

Astrologically the King of Pentacles is related to the earth sign of Capricorn, the ambitious hardworking user of people and lover of things whose mind rules the heart and who is serious, traditional, economical, cautious and business-like, or domineering, egotistical, unforgiving, fatalistic, stubborn, inhibited and status-seeking.

The King of Pentacles astrological relatives are the planets Saturn (the structured teacher, lord of karma and lessons to be learned through trial and error), Venus (the morning and evening star that guides you to higher ideals. However, Venus is beauty or the beast. The beauty of a relationship that grows, or the beast of a relationship contract that could not achieve resolution and balance), and Mercury (the speed with how you gather information and think).

Symbolism

The King of Pentacles wears a golden crown decorated with red roses, yellow lilies, and a yellow and blue knotted laurel braid. The red roses represent the King’s passions, desires and actions, and the yellow lilies represent that the archetype is inspired with every step he takes. The tightly-knotted laurel braid indicates the King’s dedication, education, experience, and the status of his business achievements.

The King’s throne is decorated with goats (determination). Goats like to explore high vistas and climb the mountains of success.

The castle in the background represents goals and the solid foundation built to support these goals. The flag (announcement) flying over the blue (thought) roof may indicate that the archetype is thinking about announcing that a new business contract is in the works.

The King’s robe is decorated with grapevine leaves (growth) and red berries (the harvest of wealth). In one hand this archetype holds a globe scepter (indicating a businessperson who works worldwide). In the other hand the King holds one pentacle (new business opportunity).

The King shows only one steel boot, a sign that he would trample his would-be enemies if needed. The other boot is hidden because this King would never reveal all his cards.

My Interpretation of the King of Pentacles

The King of Pentacles has the Midas touch, is wealthy and loves the finer things in life. He embodies the combined royal qualities of the Tarot Kings with the earth-based qualities of the ambitious Capricorn mountain goat. He uses his authority, sound judgment, discipline, and his desire for structure to obtain status, social acceptance, a distinguished position, and financial security.

He is a financial genius, a business-savvy wizard, and a comfort seeking pleasure-lover. He is willing to work hard and may suffer many hardships in order to reach his goals and realize his dreams. Once he has obtained what he was pursuing, he is content to enjoy his well-earned rewards.

The King of Pentacles is a dedicated family man who follows tradition and expects the same from his partner and family members. He is the poster-boy of proper social behavior. He is solid as a rock and a good provider.

However, the King is always in control of his of environment or his castle. He handles conflicts by getting to the root of the problem to find the solution, and will also hold others accountable for their actions.

Positive Position: You may make solid business decisions and wise investments for yourself, a friend, family member, father figure, boss, lawyer, businessman, or mentor. The King may represent a potential lover or potential marriage partner, someone who is trusted, honest and dedicated and may sweep you off your feet. You may deal with an open enemy who has hidden intentions. See Note below.

Negative Position: You might be controlling, inflexible, rigid, nasty, and narrow minded. If you consider people to be unequal or of a lower social status, you may treat them badly. You may have trouble with a love relationship or your marriage may be in trouble. You could receive a bad performance review at work or lose your job. You may meet an open enemy who goes out of the way to ruin your reputation. See Note:

Note: You need to pull a clarifying card and cross the King of Pentacles to see if the energies are positive or negative to understand their intentions. Crossing cards indicate energies that need resolution. Swords = conflicts and challenges, Pentacles = growth and development, Wands = taking action with what you desire to achieve, Cups = love, feelings and emotions.

Timing is unpredictable and unknown.

With Love,
Safina

Divine Feminine Oracle | Mother Mary, for June 2, 2024

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Mother Mary’s message for you

I have a wide range of resources at my disposal, so I can assist you in a number of ways. I will send one of my messengers to help you  when you appeal to me. To help you see your way out of the gloom of your difficulties and into the light of your understanding, I always enlist the help of the angels.

You and those close to you will benefit from the assistance of my angels as they provide light on your road through dark times. Do not be afraid right now because you will be assisted by a heavenly army under my leadership so that your life will drastically improve!

What you need to know

It is time for something to alter in your world since you absolutely know that things can no longer remain as they are. Mother Mary is here to remind you that to receive assistance from the angels you need to simply ask. If you don’t do this, they won’t be able to intervene.

For those who have a problem they don’t know how to cope with, Mother Mary offers a very powerful message. The situation might even apply to someone other than you. Thankfully, as long as you do it with good intentions and aren’t attached to the outcome, it’s permissible to ask the angels for aid on behalf of another individual.

Prayer for healing

Envision that you are bathed in a warm glow that is lovely and therapeutic. As you breathe and calm your mind, take in all of the feelings that you are currently experiencing. You are able to sense that your cares and problems are drifting away, enabling you to feel much lighter.

When you feel ready, say the following prayer, “Our Lady, Who Sends the Angels, I kindly ask you to dispatch your angels to aid myself and others who need you.  I am able to link with the divine kingdom through the joy and love that lives within me thanks to your compassionate force.”

Lotus Tarot | The World (or Universe)

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The World points you towards a path of initial completion as you continue your journey through the seventy-eight passageways of growth. This is the next level up on your continuous cycle of change and is the final Major Arcana path.

Starting with the path of the Fool, you had to attend “The School of Hard Knocks” and learn very hard lessons to gain wisdom from mistakes and to become a stronger person. Today is a graduation.

Congratulations on climbing the last mountain of setbacks and struggles! You are receiving your diploma and standing at the gate of a fresh new start. The past does not hold you back anymore because you tied up all your loose ends and will not wander back in time and repeat old patterns that got you in trouble.

You are at the end of your journey, placing the final touches that allow the forging of new beginnings – the end of a cycle and the time of completion. You closed the doors to the past and are now opening the new doors to the future.

Remember, all endings bring new beginnings and this card reveals that yours will come very soon. When you reach the World on your journey, you will realize that you have finally reached an important point in your life’s education. Having grown, you should be proud of what you have accomplished and acknowledge the distance and time that it exacted.

Numerical Number 21: This number is related to working hard to achieve your goals and having learned the necessary lessons, closing the doors to the past. You will feel inspired and optimistic about the future and the new goals that are waiting for you to explore.

The World, enumerated 21, consists of: 2 (making a choice) + 1 (a new beginning) = 3 (rebirth, creating something new. You will expand, give birth to life and create something beautiful with people who are close to you).

The Element of Earth: The World is associated with the planet Saturn (wisdom received from making mistakes and rolling up your sleeves to do the hard work to complete your education).

Probable Outcome: You are experiencing self-completion and success. You are the commander and chief of your life, no longer ruled by old thoughts because you live in the now. You have tied up loose ends and everything is starting to fall in place.

You might receive recognition from others and feel respected and appreciated.

Possible Outcome: Things from the past rule your mind, or you still have loose ends that need to be tied up. This might be a time of frustration, delayed completion, or a stagnated situation, but not failure. Things are not moving as fast as you wanted.

It’s possible that you are not receiving recognition from others, or do not feel respected and appreciated.

Then again, you might not be able to channel the World’s energies into your life. If this is the case, then you are not willing to make changes because you are too structured.

It’s also possible that you unwilling to end a situation and your resistance to make this change indicates a delayed completion to achieve your dreams. You are still a student in the “School of Hard Knocks” because there is still more work to be done.

Timing: The World predicts that an important event may occur within the next 30 days.

With Love,
Safina

Dhamma Verses for May 27, 2024

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Apanā bhī hove bhalā,
bhalā sabhī kā hoya.
Jisase jaga kā ho bhalā,
śuddha Dharama hai soya.

Apanā bhī hove bhalā,
bhalā jagat kā hoya.
Jismain sabka ho bhalā,
Dharama śuddha hai soya.

Good for oneself,
good for everyone,
good for the world—
this is pure Dhamma.

Good for oneself,
good for the world
good for everyone—
this is pure Dhamma.

–S.N. Goenka

Lotus Tarot | Strength

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The Strength card signifies mental, physical, and emotional power over trying circumstances. It frequently appears as a comforting omen when the querent feels as though they are being buffeted by the vicissitudes of life and need the inner resources to confront the trials set before them.These trials may take the form of an illness, hostility from others, or perhaps even the querent’s idiosyncratic foibles. Whatever difficulty Strength represents in a reading, it is a call to action to fortify one’s personal reserves and meet challenges with courage and integrity.

Strength is numbered 8 in the Major Arcana and, in accordance with Kabbalistic principles, the number 8 is the number of miracles and transcending the limitations of the physical world. The number 8 also bears a striking similarity to the occult symbol of the moebius which represents the interminable flow of the universe and the transmutation of energy from one form to another. From these observations, we can understand that the Strength card signifies that the querent is being urged to loose themselves from the fetters of their present limitations by using the firm knowledge that they have the ability to be more than what they currently are.The Strength card is associated with the sign of Leo which is ruled by the sun in astrology. The sun governs personal vitality, ego, and reputation. The sign of Leo rules the fifth house of the zodiac wheel which encompasses creative talents, romance, children, theatre, and artistic endeavours. These associations cement the principle that the Strength card symbolises transcending current constraints through the astute use of one’s personal resources and ingenuity.In the Rider Waite deck a female figure dressed in white is shown taming a lion. The Lion represents ego, pride, vanity and brute force, while the colour white symbolises moral purity and integrity of character. Through this imagery we can understand that by being upstanding and virtuous, a number of pitfalls can be overcome. The archetypes of the lion and the virtuous individual remaining unharmed by the lion is one that has recurred throughout history in various cultural mythologies. Androcles in Greek mythology and Daniel in the Old Testament are two notable examples, demonstrating that purity of character will protect one from the most savage circumstances. In energetic terms this is also true as it is said that the more morally upright and loving a person is, the less that strife and violence in their outer reality will be able to affect them, or even arise in the first place.In a love reading the Strength card can represent that a person of interest is a difficult creature to tame and that the querent is continually having to “be the bigger person” and use gentle but subversive tactics to entice them. More negatively, the Strength card can be indicative of a person of interest who has a bloated ego and expects the other partner to put all the effort into the relationship. In its most positive aspect, the Strength card can show that the querent will win over the object of their affections because of the purity of their character, and that their moral integrity will induce their love interest to lower their guard and be receptive to love.In a work or career reading Strength signifies persistence and extinguishing one’s inner critic to reach goals. It does not foretell guaranteed success but that the querent will battle any obstacles to the best of their ability and will draw on personal reserves to do so. In a negative context, the Strength card can foretell physical and emotional burnout because of a heavy work load.

Timing: Timing is dependent on card position within a spread but the period governing Leo may be pertinent.

Major Arcana: Card 8

Planetary Influence: Leo, 5th house of astrological wheel

Element: Water

Quality: Cardinal

Positive Aspects: inner resources, taming one’s darker side, persistence, moral purity, integrity, courage, breaking personal limitations

Negative Aspects: manipulation, physical burnout, failing health, one-sided effort in a relationship

Kind Regards
Medusa

Dhamma Verses for May 23, 2024

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Sampradāya nā Dharama hai,
Dharama na bane divāra.
Dharama sikhāe ekatā,
Dharama sikhāe pyāra.

Sampradāya nā Dharama hai,
Dharama na bane divāra.
Dharama sikhāe ekatā,
Manuj manuj main pyāra.

Sectarianism is not Dhamma;
Dhamma raises no walls.
Dhamma teaches oneness,
Dhamma teaches love.

Sectarianism is not Dhamma;
Dhamma raises no walls.
Dhamma teaches oneness,
Love between all humans.

–S.N. Goenka

Divine Feminine Oracle | Mother Mary, for May 19, 2024

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Mother Mary’s message for you

My beloved child, it is within the sacred temple of your heart that the greatest treasures are kept. My initiations are holy. So, with this in mind, no matter what is currently happening in your life, have faith that I am behind it. Feel my loving guidance that helps you to step into who you truly are with faith, courage and trust.

I shower my grace upon you without holding anything back. All I ask of you right now is that you trust in me. I am holding your hand as you go on your journey. I imbue you with the courage you need to look inside yourself and others to see things as they truly are. Your reward will be riches beyond anything and everything you can imagine!

What you need to know

Perhaps it is easier to feel divine presence when times are good. When you’re celebrating or enjoying life and good fortune, you feel uplifted. However, during losses and challenges, it can be difficult to see the path that has been planned out for us. However, Mother Mary needs you to know that she is as much behind you in difficult times as she is when you’re loving life.

In her divine wisdom, she knows exactly what your heart can handle as well as how much upset you can bear in order to grow, learn and to move on in order to inspire and teach others. She is also aware that if you have everything you think you want, it might not always be for your greater good. Something more amazing may well be around the corner!

Prayer for healing

As you sit in quiet contemplation, open your heart up to the Holy Mother. Ask her to be with you and to help you in all that you do. Feel loved, cared for and held as you open your heart. Know that you are always safe with her in your corner. Whatever is going on in your life at present, whether good or not so good is initiating you into your heart power.

When you feel ready, say the following prayer, “I am initiated via the divine light of Mother Mary as the inner gate of my heart opens. Beautiful treasures and multiple blessings are bestowed upon me. From a place of grace, I lovingly share these with the world!”