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Each Moon Sign, a New Sermon Re-reading: An Activity for the Community

AvatarValeonas [NG]2 min to read

Greetings to you, dear Zevist Family. I want to wish you a joyful Summer Solstice, may it be a day of lightness and happiness, and may you carry the beautiful emotions it evokes into every single day of your life!

For this occasion, I thought it would be useful to launch a simple initiative for the community to bring everyone even closer together. This activity consists of the periodic rereading of old Sermons penned by our Clergy. This serves a dual purpose: it invites newcomers to discovers Sermons they have yet to explore and to dive into their endless wisdom, and offering long-standing members the space to revisit important teachings that may have partially faded from memory. Sometimes in the rush of dailylife, we overlook small details and phrases that could actually help us to navigate our personal challenges: these re-readings are designed to bring those back to us. Plus it is a kindly way to welcome everyone new to the Zevist Family.

The activity will work like this: whenever the Moon enters a new Zodiacal Sign, I or other Zevistas will post the link to a sermon here. You are welcome to partecipate in all the re-readings, or simply choose the ones that resonates with you or you feel that need to attend. Anyone who feels inspired can join the re-readings. We encourage also to share, if you wish, your thoughts, reflections and personal insights that these sacred writtings may awake.

As we walk together through the cycles of the Moon, I wish the sermons we will reread may help all of us and ignite a new spark in our souls everytime!

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Ἀρετή καὶ Τιμή

Dove l'essenza dell'esistenza risiede
Il nulla dell'oblio viene superato
E il figlio prode avanza verso la Vittoria.

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Happy Summer Solstice to you too, Valeonas, and to everyone in the Zevist Family. The Sun just entered Cancer, the longest day burning bright, and it does feel like the right opening for something that keeps giving back across the whole year. Your framing is honest and well-aimed: newcomers get a guided path into the Clergy's writings instead of staring down an enormous library alone, and long-standing members get permission (the kind we sometimes forget to give ourselves) to slow down and re-read what time has dulled. There is a quiet truth in that second part, because a teaching you read three years ago in a hurry will not say the same thing to you today. Re-reading is how the overlooked phrase suddenly becomes the one you needed.

This is not new ground for the community either. When High Priestess Lydia Coventina organized a re-reading of Lady Pythia's old writings for Lady Pythia's Day, members wrote back that they "appreciated reading, or re-reading, her posts, and found wisdom within," and the reaction carried well beyond the day itself. The same will happen here, because the sermons gathered on the Our Sermons page were never meant to be read once and shelved. Many of them are layered, and tying them to the Moon's movement through the signs gives each one a fresh context to land in. Think of it the way you might revisit a poem you loved at twenty and find a whole new meaning at thirty. The text did not change, but you did, and that is where the gold lives.

When each link goes up, dive into whichever sermon pulls you, and if a line catches fire, leave even a short reflection in the thread. Those small notes are what turn a reading into a conversation, and the conversation is where someone else's quiet question finally gets an answer. Looking forward to the first link when the Moon shifts.

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Waxing Moon in Libra

The re-reading under this lunar phase is:

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Ἀρετή καὶ Τιμή

Dove l'essenza dell'esistenza risiede
Il nulla dell'oblio viene superato
E il figlio prode avanza verso la Vittoria.

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Serpentlux

Greetings NG Valeonas and everyone else who might read this.

I just read the sermon by our High Priest on The Heroic Path and it truly hit a place very close to the heart. I am currently dealing with a lot of emotional and financial difficulty.

Financially speaking, I wouldn’t really say that I am necessarily in need of anything, seeing that I’m provided for by my mother. I am however, at an age where I feel I should be the one who is now taking care of my mother and my siblings. I am the first born son at home and even if my family is very supportive, I tend to put pressure on myself to succeed and allow my caring mother the gift of finally retiring and earning her well deserved rest. I honestly expect a lot of myself and I’m a very ambitious person so because of that, I find it extremely disheartening to not be able to live up to my expectations.

I’ve tried all sorts of things to earn my financial independence and all have fallen short. I fell into deep depression and hopelessness as a result. I honestly haven’t tried that much ever since being met with consistent failures. For the past few months my focus has been on trying to improve my mental and emotional wellbeing. I’m certainly not as consistent as I’d like to be, but I see internal progress nonetheless and I at least no longer find myself laying in bed all day just trying to survive the day.

Reading this sermon has encouraged me slightly to keep doing what I’m doing (internal and personal development) so that I can once again be in a place where I feel courageous enough to face failures until I eventually triumph.

Thank you NG Valeonas, for suggesting this reading. It came to me at a time when I felt I needed it deeply. I honestly don’t feel excited or anything of that sort, but I feel the words of our High Priest slowly working within me.

Blessed be NG Valeonas

Praise Our Eternal Gods

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Una bella iniziativa NG Valeonas, io da quando mi faccio parte del TOZ che leggo e rileggo vecchi sermoni che mi aiutano nel percorso Spirituale e materiale.

Ormai la mia è diventata una buona abitudine che consiglio a tutti i fratelli e le sorelle e a chi non è ancora Deticatol'aiuto che da questa buona abitudine e' fondamentale per comprendere i nuovi sermoni che ci guidano alla liberta' DI diventare dei buoni Zevisti.

AVE ZEUS

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#4

Nice and important sermon, thank you!

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#5

Wonderful initiative. There are certainly lots of valuable Sermons that went forgotten simply because many others were published in the meantime.

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#6

Waxing Moon in Scorpio

The re-reading under this lunar phase is:

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Ἀρετή καὶ Τιμή

Dove l'essenza dell'esistenza risiede
Il nulla dell'oblio viene superato
E il figlio prode avanza verso la Vittoria.

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Serpentlux

I’ve often found myself wishing I could skip the process of taking time to heal and putting my mind in order because of impatience. One of the many reasons I came to Zevism was from a desire to have power. I was in a place where I felt completely helpless when I came to Zevism and when I learned about the power meditations taught to us by the Gods, I thought that I would finally become strong and not need to helplessly depend on anyone or anything ever again.

However, maturing in this path and reading the sermons helped me understand that any power I do gain would be unstable had it dwelled within an unstable mind and soul. Difficulties in life can make a person want quick solutions which is understandable, but one thing we tend to not realize is that sometimes our problems can be self-inflicted. Imagine a powerful soul who unconsciously causes their own problems. The power would just become a burden and the worst part is that an immature mind wouldn’t even realise it. The blame would just fall onto the Gods like it always does with a person of little wisdom

The process of healing is the absolute best way to cultivate power. A strong mind and healthy perspective of reality alone is already powerful enough to bring desired change into one’s life. Navigating the complexities of life becomes simple. Spiritual power from the power meditations would just further increase one’s dominance over reality. Godhood cannot be achieved by a soul that is still broken and unable to navigate life with wisdom.

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Waxing Moon in Sagittarius

The re-reading under this lunar phase is:

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Ἀρετή καὶ Τιμή

Dove l'essenza dell'esistenza risiede
Il nulla dell'oblio viene superato
E il figlio prode avanza verso la Vittoria.

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Astrid

Thank you for sharing, NG Valeonas!

It took me some time to understand that clearing out the mind and soul of false mental structures and mechanisms is a very chaotic process at the start. We are also constantly evolving and learning, as things in our lives are never truly 'static' or calm, there is always a need to reinforce our minds with the spiritual practices and remember the Gods' teachings in the process. We should always have faith in ourselves and never take for granted our intrinsic desire to grow and do better that guides us in the path! ~

Nowadays I am thankful I can handle this process with relatively more peace as my mind tends to be more with my priorities, and my priorities are more noble. This is one of the greatest gifts to receive and it is of the Gods!

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Serpentlux

Thank you again for sharing this re-reading NG Valeonas. I always look forward to our readings together.

I’m recalling that the first time I read this sermon by our High Priest, my mind was in a most chaotic state indeed. It felt like everything around me was falling apart and I had no idea what to do in order to somewhat fix everything. Little did I know, was that obsessing over circumstances that I cannot change would not help at all and only lead me to more misery.

After reading this sermon, I was reminded of “The Enchiridion” by Epictetus. It’s a really wonderful read and I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t read it. Epictetus was a slave, but even in that slavery, he had such control over his mind that he did not despair or wallow in misery his entire life. One could say that he had every right to feel defeated and give up considering his tough circumstances, but he didn’t.

He instead organised his mind and focused on the things that he could control, mostly his perceptions, his thoughts, etc. and he let go of the need to control anything outside of himself such as the actions of other people just to name a quick example.

Without a strong mind, he would have crumbled and his hardships would have been bigger than they seemed. This is not an easy lesson to learn and adopt, but mastery over one’s mind can make life as easy as it can possibly be without unnecessary suffering that we bring onto ourselves.

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Waning Moon in Capricorn

The re-reading under this lunar phase is:

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Ἀρετή καὶ Τιμή

Dove l'essenza dell'esistenza risiede
Il nulla dell'oblio viene superato
E il figlio prode avanza verso la Vittoria.

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Serpentlux

Ethics and Ignorance. This is definitely a sermon I will be revisiting again in my own time simply because of the immense wisdom of every word our High Priest has written. The dangers and ease of succumbing to Izfet are made clear and my mind has been opened to an entirely new way of viewing power and ethics.

Thank you for continuing these readings so diligently NG Valeonas. I appreciate this more than you can imagine

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Waning Moon in Aquarius

The re-reading under this lunar phase is:

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Ἀρετή καὶ Τιμή

Dove l'essenza dell'esistenza risiede
Il nulla dell'oblio viene superato
E il figlio prode avanza verso la Vittoria.

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Waning Moon in Pisces

The re-reading under this lunar phase is:

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Ἀρετή καὶ Τιμή

Dove l'essenza dell'esistenza risiede
Il nulla dell'oblio viene superato
E il figlio prode avanza verso la Vittoria.

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Thank you once again for suggesting this reading to us NG Valeonas. I don’t know how you always manage to pick sermons that apply to topics I find myself pondering on in my immediate life but I’m very grateful😄

Reading this sermon inspired me to reflect on the impact that the knowledge and wisdom I gained from the ToZ has had on me. I can honestly say that I do not know where I’d be had it not been for our loving Gods raising me to be a proper man for so many years where my own father could not and where my mother lacked (bless her Soul). My relationship with my mother actually would not be what it is right now had it not been for the Gods and Goddesses raising me with so much intention and expectation from me.

I could’ve certainly been better by now had I been obedient in the sense of applying what I was taught and I sometimes look back at some of the foolish decisions I’ve made and feel like I wasted my own time. Even if this is technically true, growth is something that takes time. Bad decisions made from a place of ignorance can sometimes turn out to be the greatest of lessons and should be taken as such. With the blessings of the Gods, I would love for my future family to be more knowledgeable and wiser than I had ever been. And for that, I will continue to drink from the well of knowledge that is The Temple of Zeus and apply this divine knowledge ceaselessly in every aspect of my life.

A proper family in communion with the Gods becomes inevitable if I remain dedicated to the path. Bless all of you brothers and sisters of the Temple🤍

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"The wickedness of the soul is ignorance and the virtue of the soul is knowledge."

- Thoth