AS A PRELUDE
to a Calendar of the Soul

[personal: possible and Unique]

Of Initiation.

    Where the word

    becomes verse.

    inVerse: Toward →

1. Beginning.

    Poetry as an "instrument"

    [through my lived experience]

I acknowledge and recognize myself: the balance of what is possible.

A singular part (like a voice "within the choir") of this

Journey that keeps itself in motion.

Of imagination and meaning

(rediscovered) within my being: Soul.

... thus, as a poet, a painter inspired by the "Muses": musician.

to Rudolf Steiner,

recognizing myself in the soul's mirrored paraphrase.

         This image was generated using artificial intelligence

The Seasons Within Me

Thus, what in nature alternates over time as summer and winter is transformed within [me] into the rhythm of my outer life and my inner life.

                                                                                        Rudolf Steiner

The Calendar of the Soul is not a calendar of time, but a calendar of consciousness. It portrays the recurring gestures through which life unfolds: beginning, becoming, passage, transformation, and the awakening of reason. The circle expresses the unity of experience, where every stage remains alive within the whole. At its center stands the human being—not as the destination of the journey, but as the place where the journey becomes aware of itself.

The Calendar of the Soul is a symbolic map of my own inner journey. Rather than marking chronological events, it traces seven existential thresholds that have shaped my experience of becoming.

Each stage represents a quality of consciousness: Beginning, Being in Becoming, the sensitive awakening of Year One, the decisive turning point "in the midst of the journey", Transition, the movement Toward, and finally the Age of Reason.

Arranged as a circle, these moments do not form a linear timeline but a living rhythm. Every passage remains present within the others, revealing an experience in which past, present, and future continuously illuminate one another.

At the center is my portrait, not as a self-image, but as the witness who learns to recognize unity within the many forms of life. The calendar is therefore not a record of dates, but an invitation to contemplate the path by which human experience gradually becomes conscious of itself.

“... in being able to feel the workings of one's own soul... in an image”

                                                                                 Rudolf Steiner

NOTE: My personal calendar is inspired by a free and personal interpretation of Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy and forms the foundation of my concept of the Unity of Experience, which is at work in my artistic practice and in my life as a human being.