In the northern hemisphere there are five things overhead every night: a king, a queen, two bears, and a dragon. This week, the Full Moon draws attention in the Storyteller’s Night Sky to the king and the dragon.
The first moon of autumn will come full on Sept. 29, which is celebrated as Michaelmas in the Christian calendar, Feast of the Archangel Michael, who defeats the dragon.
As high spiritual beings, the archangels bear specific tasks toward humanity. With Michael, it has to do with awakening “cosmic intelligence,” and way of knowing the divine nature of the human being, as a being of body, soul, and spirit.
What is unique to this knowing is that it cannot be compelled by external dictates, but must arise freely from within the human being, out of one’s inner sense of self, expressed in as a striving for truth, for goodness, and for…
