The moon of the maaznyim/scales and the Shofar

TurtleTalkTorah for the moon of the scales, the maaznyim. Great secrets may be discovered when a person studies and truly listens to the teachings of wisdom traditions other their own path. Keys may be revealed that unlock mysteries. This is how it has been set up as a test. Aboriginal peoples have clan systems that involve the animals, plants, celestial bodies and elements. Rivalries in the socio-political arena may be mirrored in ancient animal rivalries as the photo here o...f the wasp laying her eggs in the still living but paralyzed abdomen of the spider. Spiders are great at weaving webs that catch mostly winged insects such as the wasps. Ancient Jewish midrashim/legends explain these rivalries culminating in the epic battle between two great "beasts", Leviathan/water and Behemoth/earth-fire. When their struggle ends Peace will manifest on Earth according to the legends. I have previously offered the possibility that the out of balance shadow animal of water is mirrored in the hatred and intolerance of religious fundamentalism. While the out of balance shadow animal of earth is mirrored in corporate greed. Ancient astrology because it is connected to the totem animal clans and the "elements" of the ancients holds some very good frames of reference in understanding how all this is playing out. We may particularly look at the three essential qualities in astrology called "cardinal", "fixed", and "mutable". For mekubalim/kabbalists these are the "three" causal level of the elements called the three "mothers" and relate to three special letters in the Hebrew. It is these three elemental qualities that the great animal clan rivalry concerns at a root level. "Cardinality" is the fire of beginnings; "Fixicity" is the water that holds and gestates and "Mutability" is the air that changes it all up. In my own understanding the wisdom lineages and their religious branches have been about the joining at the essential levels - the soul realm- of these ancient qualities/totems within the human world. Kind of like a marriage of royals that joins kingdoms and establishes Peace. The moon of the mazaniyim/scales-libra is about walking this balance. The Ram of the ram's horn(aries) holds the quality of cardinality=beginnings from the ocean. The turtle holds the quality of fixicity of the sacred soul lake. Lake and Ocean; wolf and lamb.