A shooting star

on a night not spent at Larry’s Bar

Individuals seeking occult knowledge

 read an ancient scroll which illumines their minds

  Integration of one’s individual, personal destiny (Sun position) with activities beyond the personal (Pluto position) is found in the transit of the north node of the Moon (where the Moon’s orbit around the earth intersects the ecliptic plane of the Earth in its orbit around the Sun). In other words, symbols for the Moon’s north node offer a key to this integration, reaching beyond the strictly personal to participate with others as we fulfill our destiny.

  Currently (December, 2015) the north node of the Moon is transiting 28°02 Virgo, 29° Virgo in the Astrological Mandala – Individuals seeking occult knowledge read an ancient scroll which illumines their minds.

  March 23, 1978—opting to return home alone from the Encore movie theatre on Melrose Avenue, choosing not to follow the usual routine slinging down a few (or several) beers at Larry’s Bar across the street to score a hook-up.

  Home is an apartment in a ghoul­ish 1920s building where Valentino once resided (the owner succeeded in getting the street renamed, “Valen­tino Place”). It’s close to Paramount Studio’s main gate through which Norma Desmond/Gloria Swanson makes her grand entrance in “Sunset Boulevard.”

  After kneeling in front of the Mandala (Gohonzon), briefly chanting a few “devotions to the Lotus Sutra,” I head up the winding staircase with its iron-wrought railing leading to a second floor dormer. Time now for some “Moon  viewing.” Knowing the Moon is bright and close to full (a “gibbous Moon”), I gaze at it through a high dormer window.

  The Moon is bright in a clear night sky. Suddenly a shooting star crosses to the right of the Moon!. It’s 10:35:04, calling my attention, in the astrological scheme of things, to the symbol in Rudhyar’s Mandala for the Moon’s position, 29° Virgo:

  Individuals seeking occult knowledge are reading an ancient scroll which illumines their minds. Realigning one’s self. Rudhyar:  In occultism the “Pattern of Humankind” is an arche­typical Power that may be contacted. It must be sought out with undeviat­ing determination to “reach the other shore.”

  So much for beer slinging this night—back to chanting in front of the “ancient scroll”!