# The Twelve Moods

**Aries:**  
Arise, oh shining light,  
Take hold of growth and becoming,  
Lay hold of the weaving of forces,  
Yourself ray forth, life-wakening.  
In face of resistance, gain;  
In stream of time, disperse;  
Oh shine of light, abide!

**Taurus:**  
Brighten, oh glory of being,  
Reach into the power of becoming,  
And weave the thread of life  
Through worlds imbued with being,  
In mindful revelation,  
Into radiant life-awareness.  
Oh glory of being, appear!

**Gemini:**  
Reveal yourself, life of sun,  
Stir up what tends to rest,  
Embrace what desires to strive  
Towards a mighty prevailing of life,  
Towards a blessed knowing of worlds,  
Towards a fruitful maturing of growth.  
Oh life of sun, endure!

**Cancer:**  
You resting, luminous glow,  
Engender warmth of life,  
Enwarm the life of soul  
To meet with vigor each test  
And permeate itself with spirit  
In quiet, light-outstreaming.  
You luminous glow, gain strength!

**Leo:**  
Invigorate with senses' might  
Matured existence of all worlds,  
Perceptive element of beings,  
Toward the firm resolve 'to be'.  
In the surging shine of life,  
In the prevailing pains of growth,  
With senses' might, arise!

**Virgo:**  
Behold the worlds, oh soul!  
Let the soul take hold of worlds,  
Let the spirit lay hold of being,  
Work out of powers of life,  
Upon will-experience, build,  
In blossoming worlds, put trust.  
Oh soul, comprehend the beings!

**Libra:**  
The worlds are sustaining worlds,  
And being perceives itself within being,  
Existence bounds itself with existence.  
And being stirs and causes being  
To pour out deeds that unfold,  
To rest in world-enjoyment.  
Oh worlds, uphold the worlds!

**Scorpio:**  
Existence consumes the being,  
Yet in being, existence is held.  
In activity, growth disappears,  
In becoming activity pauses.  
In worlds that prevail and punish,  
In the chastening that shapes and forms,  
All-being sustains the beings.

**Sagittarius:**  
Becoming achieves the power ‘to be’,  
Into what is, the might of becoming dies.  
Achievement resolves the desire to strive  
Into prevailing will-force of life.  
In dying, there ripens prevailing of worlds,  
Forms disappear within forms.  
What has come to be, may it feel what is!

**Capricorn:**  
May what is coming, rest on what has been.  
May what has been, surmise what is to come,  
For a vigorous present existence.  
Through inward life-withstanding  
May world-beings' guard grow strong,  
May life's working might blossom forth,  
May what has been endure what is to come!

**Aquarius:**  
May what is bounded yield to the boundless.  
What feels the lack of bounds, may it create  
Bounds for itself in its depths;  
May it raise itself in the current,  
As wave, flowing forth, sustaining itself,  
In becoming, shaping itself to existence.  
Set yourself bounds, oh boundless!

**Pisces:**  
In what is lost, may the loss find itself,  
In what is gained, may the gain lose itself,  
In what is comprehended, may comprehending seek itself  
And sustain itself by sustaining.  
Through becoming, uplifted to existence,  
Through existing, interwoven with the becoming.  
May the loss be gain in itself!