First Light
How First Light worksTuesday 27 October·
- Sunrise
- 07:55
- Quiet hour
- 06:19–07:07
- Brahma Muhurta
- Moon
- Waning gibbous
- Next full moon: Tue 24 Nov
Autumn
The quiet hour (Brahma Muhurta) is the traditional time for practice, just before sunrise.
ध्रुवे तद्गतिज्ञानम्
dhruve tad-gati-jñānam
Through saṁyama on the pole star comes knowledge of the stars' movements.
Yoga Sutras 3.29 · verse 135 of 196
Unfolding the thread
The pole star is the one point in the night sky that doesn't move; everything else wheels around it. Fix your attention on the fixed point, and the motion of everything else becomes clear. It's true of the sky, and of a life with one steady centre.
Try today
Name the one steady point in your life right now, a value or a practice, and look at today's changes from there.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“Look round at the courses of the stars, as if thou wert going along with them; and constantly consider the changes of the elements into one another, for such thoughts purge away the filth of the terrene life.”
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