8-Fortitude-Tiger Eye
Another repeating stone:
Fortitude was also the stone for the First Day. And now we have Justice and Strength
together, according to the Golden Dawn, the two interchangeable virtues!With great power comes great responsibility. I have a good bit of power in relationships in my life now (and not always for a good reason, but that’s a different story). But that just means I have to use it wisely and humanely. I’m not the kind of person to throw my weight around, but I am probably susceptible to taking advantage of a situation that is going in my favor without wanting to take a closer look at why that is really happening. Fortitude here is a warning not to just assume that everything that goes my way is the best for everyone involved. I DO need to examine causes and conditions, and be wary of doing, or NOT doing, exactly what I want just because I can!
And as far as justice in the world, the same ideas apply. We can never speak up enough times to say:
Might does not make right! and
The Golden Rules is NOT “he who has the gold makes the rules”!
I don’t want to get complacent on world justice issues either!
Tomorrow’s theme, for the last day of Christmas:
Twelfth Day, January 5, Upside-Down Day (Temperance). Twelfth Night marks the end of Christmas and the beginning of Carnival, and its theme is role reversal. Medieval celebrations were an outrageous one-night reign of a peasant Lord of Misrule. Victorian parties featured a cake with a bean and a pea baked inside. Whoever got the bean and pea in their slices were the king and queen of the party. Shakespeare’s gender-bending play of the same name perfectly illustrates the topsy-turvy nature of Twelfth Night. Temperance is the virtue of blending and uniting opposites, recognizing and incorporating the values of both ends of a spectrum. What is the most uncharacteristic thing I can do right now? What extreme in my life is ready to transform into its opposite?
I’ll read on this later.
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