Astrology talk withJahn ✨

7th house, loss, maternal home.

OK so, I was gonna respond to this with I’m. Not American but can I walk into the ocean too until I caught myself. My mom lost her oldest sibling to drowning and I couldn’t do that to her. That’s when it hit me- I have saturn in Pisces in the 7th house. My 7th house would be the 4th from my 4th so, my mom’s 4th house. Saturn js restriction and tough lessons. It really is all written in the stars.

Epiphany by Leila Forés

A Ha!

Imagine the moment

of finding diamonds

and rubies in an instance

of time.

Where things are still and only

logic, reason and

recognition seem to

exist.

Reality transformed afterwards

by the revelation of these

jewels, imbuing more

value to one’s insight.

“Only twenty minutes to sleep, but you dream of some epiphany.”

epiphany | Taylor Swift

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HOMILY for the Epiphany

Isaiah 60:1-6; Ps 71; Eph 3:2-3,5-6; Matthew 2:1-12

At evening prayer today, the Church sings this antiphon: “Three mysteries mark this holy day: today the star leads the Magi to the infant Christ; today water is changed into wine for the wedding feast; today Christ wills to be baptized by John in the river Jordan to bring us salvation.”

At first glance this seems puzzling and might even appear to be an odd conflation of three events in the life of Christ. But this only is problematic if we think about the celebration of Christmas and the feasts around it in a chronological way. Likewise with the Holy Rosary, when we think that this devotion is meant to present us with a chronological or sequential newsreel of the life of Christ. In fact, as I said on the 1st of January, the feasts of Christmas, like the Rosary (as I say in my book Mysteries Made Visible) need to be viewed theologically – they tell us about the person of Jesus Christ, about what God is doing for us in Christ, and about the life of grace now, and how we can thus receive from God, “grace upon grace” (Jn 1:14).

As such, today feast of the Epiphany is about the revelation to the nations that God has been born among us, that he is “true God and true Man”, truly God with us, Emmanuel. The cosmic-changing implication of the Incarnation is thus set out for us in the Second Reading today. St Paul says: “it was by a revelation that I was given the knowledge of the mystery. This mystery that has now been revealed through the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets was unknown to any men in past generations; it means that pagans now share the same inheritance, that they are parts of the same body, and that the same promise has been made to them, in Jesus Christ, through the gospel.”

Except that the reading doesn’t make explicit what is meant by “the inheritance” and the “same promise” that has been offered now to all peoples, all nations, both Jew and pagan alike. But if we pay attention to the Preface of the Epiphany, we will hear this: “today you have revealed the mystery of our salvation in Christ as a light for the nations, and when he appeared in our mortal nature, you made us new by the glory of his immortal nature.” We take it for granted, perhaps, that God should offer salvation to all peoples, and yet the fact is that until the coming of Christ, until the Incarnation of God as Man through which he took on our mortal human nature, it had been thought that salvation was only for a particular race, a chosen few.

The coming of God as a human being makes it clear that God has chosen humanity, even though we had fallen into sin and disobeyed him. God has chosen us for himself, and called us into his marvellous light, into intimate friendship with him through the person of Jesus Christ who is both God and Man. Why? So that we might be renewed by the grace of Christ, and so come to share in his immortal and divine nature as the Preface says. This is the theological heart of today’s celebration; this is the wondrous truth that is revealed as an Epiphany to the nations today.

The three mysteries that mark this day, therefore, express this theological truth and they invite us to think about it. Firstly, the Gentile Magi come to adore Christ and they offer their treasures before him. This tells us that salvation from God is now offered to all nations through the person of Jesus Christ. All peoples, therefore, are called to seek him, to journey towards him, and to offer to him, the God-Man, their treasures, their joys, their sorrows, their all. This is the principal sign of this feast that reveals the fact that salvation is now open to humanity, should one desire it, should we seek God out, and open our lives and desires to him.

All that Man can offer to Christ is like the water at Cana. All these, all that is of our human nature, God will transform by his grace and make like unto wine. Just as, in the Mass, Christ takes what we bring to the Altar and transforms it into his Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, so Christ takes all that we offer to him, all that is of our mortal human natures, and he transforms us by his grace and divinises us. The water changed into wine at Cana is hence a sign that Christ comes to make us “new by the glory of his immortal nature” as the Preface says. The fact that this takes place at a wedding feast tells us that in the person of Christ, God and Man is forever united, made one in a love and a bond that is like marriage. This reveals the interior sign of this feast, of the saving effect of Christ’s grace on the human soul and person; it tells us howwe are saved interiorly, through the invisible action of grace.

And thirdly, the sign of Christ’s Baptism shows us the external sign, the Sacrament that causes and effects this grace. Baptism is thus called the “Sacrament of Salvation” because the Lord wills that it is through Baptism that we receive the grace of divine adoption, that we share in Christ’s life and divine nature, and that we are thus saved. The third mystery of this feast day, therefore, affirms that ordinarily we must be Baptised in order to be saved. Yes, salvation has been offered to all peoples, but God does not force himself onto us, so we express our acceptance of salvation by seeking Baptism. Christian parents can and should do this for their infant children, but the assumption of the Church, repeatedly expressed in the Rite of Baptism, is that baptised children must be brought up in the practice of the Faith so that they grow in knowledge and love of Jesus Christ. Hence the Collect today also prays: “Grant in your mercy, that we, who know you already by faith, may be brought to behold the beauty of your sublime glory.”

For our Faith in Christ, and our friendship with God involves a journey: This begins at Baptism, and, as in a Marriage, it is a love that must be deepened and that will need to endure “for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health.” And at the end of the journey, if we are choose to persevere and walk by the light of Faith, a light which shines like a star in the night but which, like the stars, is not always so clearly visible, then we shall finally enter the home of Mary and Joseph, and there, in heaven, behold and adore Christ our God, face to face.

This is the journey of the wise men, the journey of faith that each of us, like them, are invited to make in our lifetime. So, at the start of a new year, let us press on in our journey; let us seek that elusive star in the darkness; and let us remember the words of the Lord: “Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Lk 11:9) Jesus, on this feast day, promises us not worldly or earthly things, not the luxuries and consolations of gold, or incense, or myrrh, but rather, understood theologically, Christ gives us his own self. Therefore, let us give him open our treasures, our whole self before him, and receive from his fullness of divine humanity, “grace upon grace”.

1. If my wishes came true
2. Your favorite
3. Marvellous time ruining everything
4. Homeland
5. Dead to you
6. Shining just for you
7. Sweet tea in the summer
8. Lost in the memory
9. I’m trying
10. A million little times
11. Clues
12. Shame she went mad
13. With you I serve
14. Worst intentions
15. Brittle heart
16. No other sadness
17. My muse

I made a cover for EPIPHANY☆

Gospel Mk 6:45-52

After the five thousand had eaten and were satisfied,
Jesus made his disciples get into the boat
and precede him to the other side toward Bethsaida,
while he dismissed the crowd.
And when he had taken leave of them,
he went off to the mountain to pray.
When it was evening,
the boat was far out on the sea and he was alone on shore.
Then he saw that they were tossed about while rowing,
for the wind was against them.
About the fourth watch of the night,
he came toward them walking on the sea.
He meant to pass by them.  
But when they saw him walking on the sea,
they thought it was a ghost and cried out.
They had all seen him and were terrified.
But at once he spoke with them,
“Take courage, it is I, do not be afraid!”
He got into the boat with them and the wind died down.
They were completely astounded.
They had not understood the incident of the loaves.
On the contrary, their hearts were hardened.