Calling for Stories! Copy Deadline March 5 . . .

Easter this year, as cosmically determined from the equinox, full moon, and day of the week, is the latest that is possible for this festival:  April 20.  On April 19, 1924 Rudolf Steiner lectured about the Easter festival in Dornach, Switzerland. This, and the subsequent three lectures, would be the last time he would speak publically on this topic.  This year, in 2025, Easter falls on a date near the one of Steiner's final lectures on the Easter festival that relates to the evolution of the mysteries.  Perhaps we may have a particular resonance with those lectures this year. 

We celebrate Easter in the spring now, which, in temperate zones, is the renewal of plant life after the sleep of winter.  Each time that Easter comes around (and we must be particularly conscious about the time, as it is not a fixed date), we have a chance to renew our awareness of death, coming out of death, and the mystery of the Christ events at the time of Golgotha. And we are also aware that the Resurrected Christ continued to work with the disciples. 

In this time leading up to Easter, please send me your stories and accounts of playing and/or listening to lyre music around the time of Easter.  Music gives us the potential to be aware of the spiritual world and, also, to give something back to the spiritual world, especially in the form of  the freed tone of the lyre. 

Please send your contributions for our Spring Lyre Notes by Wednesday, March 5, which is the beginning of the 40 days before Easter. I look forward to hearing from you!

Catherine Read
Editor, Lyre Notes