Psalm 42

As the deer panteth after the water brooks, so (in the sexual water brooks of Yesod) panteth my soul (Tiphereth) after thee, O God.

My soul (Tiphereth) thirsteth for God (in the sexual act), for the living God (Shaddai-El-Chai): when shall I come and appear before God?

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Taurus

RULES: The Neck, Nape and Ears

METAL: Copper

STONE: Emerald and Agate

PERFUME: Aromatic Herb

PLANT: Birch

FLOWER: Thorned

PLANET: Venus

COLOR: Green

ELEMENT: Earth

KEYWORD: Love

DAY: Friday

RULER: Uriel

Aries

RULES: The Head

METAL: Iron

STONE: Ruby and Diamond

PERFUME: Myrrh

PLANT: Oak

FLOWER: Red Carnation

PLANET: Mars

COLOR: Red

ELEMENT: Fire

KEYWORD: Action

DAY: Tuesday

RULER: Samael

Meditation of Compassion

We then worked with a meditation experiment. In the first part of it, we imagined someone that we feel a very natural and spontaneous love for, in order to evoke that quality, to feel it. The instruction was to not focus on the person, but on the quality that we feel. So, as soon as the image of the person came into our imagination and we started to feel that emotion, that care for them, love for them, that feeling became the object of our concentration, that quality, and how it affects us.

Then, subsequently, in the final phase of practice, we were to imagine having that quality for everyone on the planet, a type of universal love.