The Month of Adar - Pisces

Hallelujah, we're into Adar, the month of Joy, B'H.
Orange is the colour for Joy, but as it happens Adar takes the colour of springish green, for central column.
We made it. :D An awful lot happened during Shevat.
I admit that I didn't do all that well with the energy of Shevat. Or, I think I didn't. I was off the wall for a while there. But, now we are 1 Adar, a new energy, everything moving right along.

Adar is the month of Joy.
That's good.
The Hebrew letter for the month of Adar is the Kuf, or Quph, coming right after the Tzadik of Shevat, the 19th letter of the Aleph Bet, gematria 100.

Adar is the 12th month, central column, air , of the water signs. Even though it is the 12th sign, it is not spiritually the end of the cycle, but rather the intermingling of all which came before. The birth and death anniversary of Moses, Moshe Rabeinu, is 7 Adar. Moses was born and died on the same day. The holiday during the month of Adar is Purim, which is a holiday of Joy. Queen Esther and Haman are the main figures of Purim. Queen Esther saved the Jews of Persia from the evil Haman. Purim is know as the holiday of hidden miracles, and the Scroll of Esther, Megillah Esther, is read. One dresses up in costumes and masks during Purim, and you're supposed to get drunk. :D Purim is on 14th Adar.

During leap years in the Hebrew calendar, which occurr 7 times in 19 years, Adar II is added on at the end. When this happens, 7 Adar, Moses's death anniversary is observed during Adar I, but Purim is celebrated in Adar II. 5766 is not a leap year.

The letter kuf is made up of 2 letters, the reish and the zayin. It is the only Hebrew letter which goes below the line, as Lamed is the only letter which goes above the line. {Note - spelled Qof on this chart}

The letter is about the descent of the soul into the lower planes, and the ability to transmute darkness into light. The greatest joy comes from light revealed.

The letters zayin and reish together spell Zeir, crown, and Zar, foreign. Reish Zayin spells Raz, mystery. The meaning of the name of the letter itself, kuf means kof, which is monkey, the symbol of laughter. Kuf also means the 'eye of the needle'. So Adar is about experiencing the infinite essence of the light of Creation entering into the finite context of physical reality, and being revealed through the touching and connection between souls, and the soul opening up totally to the light of the Divine which encompasses All.

The symbol for Adar is Pisces - Dagim in Hebrew - the fish. The sages teach that because the fish live in water, the fish is a creature of the supernal worlds, the hidden worlds, that became manifest in the physical, because water is life.

Fish, water, pisces, life, connection to the eye of the needle, which is that point of tzim tzum of nothingness - before nothingness becomes everythingness, the vanity and ego of the false reality, and the connection between souls. Cool.

Rabbi G gives some great information on the letter Kuf, so I'm just going to quote and paraphrase, but make sure to give credit where credit is due. Rabbi G is one of my main sources of teaching knowledge now. I took me a long time to be able to understand him.

"The most fundamental significance in Torah of the number 19, the ordinal value of the kuf, is the 19 year cycle of the moon in relation to the sun, the basis of the Hebrew calendar. The moon represents the female figure, the secret of the sefirah of malchut personified by Eve (in Hebrew Chavah = 19). The sun represents the male figure, the bestower of light, whereas the moon is the receiver of light. "

Just as in the 3 column system of kabbalah, the male principal, right column, is represented as the positve + pole, and the female, left column, is the negative pole -.

The gematria of the kuf, 100, is the perfection of 10 x 10, all the sefirot interincluded.

The sense for the month of Adar is laughter - the laughter of joy. I like joy. I can relate to joy, whilst I cannot relate to happiness. Two different energies. Two different concepts.

The organ for Adar is the spleen. "Our sages state explicitly ' the spleen laughs'. At first sight, this appears most paradoxical, for the spleen is considered the seat of the black humour, the source of all states of depression and despair "

In Pranic Healing we learn that the spleen is always dirty and has to be cleaned constantly, because it attracts gunky stuff, and holds it.

"The phenomonon of Adar derives from the unknowable head, which in itself is paradoxical. It represents states of existential transformation and metamorphosis."

Being and Nothingness, John Paul Sartre, the quintessential extentialist philosophy work,

and

Kafka's Metamorphosis, of which I shall never forget the first line 'and Gregor Ivanovich awoke one morning to find himself suddenly transformed into a giant cockroach.'

What's it all about Alfie?

Chodesh Tov Adar

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