"let there be light"

there is a kabbalistic tradition that relates the three weeks from the fast of Tammuz 17 this week, to the ninth of the month of Av, as holding the importance of the three "upper" depths/sephirot- crown, wisdom and understanding. The seven weeks of consolation from Tisha'B'av to rosh Hashanah hold the importance of the seven "lower" sephirot/depths. Those who study theoretical kabbalah and have read this blog know that the ten omakim or depths are the very directions that hold the "space" of this creation. The priestly people have not all been ready to understand and live the three "upper" sephirot and so great calamities have occurred during these three weeks and hence the two fast days. the tradition states that there is a time reserved for these three weeks to be lived by the people at the stature of the sacred "space" that they hold. Therefore "Yahi awr veYahi awr/let there be light and the light is"(from sepher genesis), is equal in numerical value to Tammuz17. This original light supports the entire ten depths and the created world. This light embodied in the creation is what we may feel and know as the shalom shalem, the pervading great peace that some may feel or understand is now filling the world in a conscious form. All beings on earth are being affected by the changes this era of change is bringing us. People who are feeling and knowing this "light" are being empowered as peacemakers and creative doers. Those people who are not yet at this stage are being hindered in their imbalanced walk on the sacred mother Earth. This hindrance may bring them in the direction that will help their healing. As more folks fully choose to be in synchronicity with the "will", the keter/crown of the "original light", the global tikkun/healing will become more obvious to the many. This "place" from where the global healing comes is called the "ayin ghedi" the fount of the kid, in the Song of Songs. The kid of Capricorn is the cardinal power of earth which holds the will of the divine(let there be light) in the physical. There are three special groups of four astrological signs. Many are familiar with the fixed signs as the faces of the creatures supporting the throne from Ezekiel's vision. The cardinal signs include the goat, the the crab, the ram/lamb and the balance. This month of Tammuz is related especially to these cardinal signs and the Sepher yetzira gives us the crab for this month, when the shemesh is in this sign. So on the little wheel of the year and the greater wheel of change we are in a time where the creative will/keter of the Divine is becoming manifest in Earth. This does flower as great happiness and simcha/joy. Let there be simcha!