October - Contentment becomes composure

September 21 to October 21

Courtesy enlivened to tact of the heart desires nothing for itself. All it seeks is to help others in fulfilling the social-artistic task of enhancing their outer appearance with the light of the archetypal idea living within them. 

Whoever is convinced that in the things and beings themselves lies the disposition to their perfection, is satisfied and views obstacles to their development as necessary conditions for progress and as a spur to action. Discontented is only he who fails to see in world phenomena themselves the hidden plan of their development, and instead expects essential changes to come from external measures. Therefore tact of the heart is inner peace, contentment.

This contentment is always threatened by reflections on the social and political conditions in which we live. And faced with these conditions, never was cause for concern more pressing than in our times. What has become apparent over decades in a most frightening way and which threatens to become even more so can, in the sense of the here characterized contentment, only be understood as sheet lightning heralding a spiritual manifestation, as clouds above which the light is spreading. Only after the breakdown of outdated modes of social and economic life, can they adopt their contemporary form. Out of need, vision is born. But only when the fear and horror of events looming from the future are overcome in the confidence gained by the fulfillment of the daily demands, can the eye be opened for this vision.

Thus contentment becomes composure.

A meditation on such composure is: To live without any existential security, out of pure confidence in the certainty of the ever-present help from the spiritual world, is the demand of our time.