Da Le

Hi Shen! I just tutor (or mentor) as informal opportunities arise. You have a fine goal; I know you'll be of value to many people in your life. You can think of yourself becoming like a word or glyph that's cut into a silk screen; and Spirit will press through that (through your soul) to print itself on your world and the people you meet, for ultimate Good. -- Da Le

Hi! I spent my day...listening to JS Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, called the 'bible of western music' because everyone from Mozart to John Lennon has studied it, since it does so many fantastic things with music. In it Bach composed music for all 12 Keys (Major and Minor scales = 24) [cont.]

[cont.] Then he did it all over again 20 yrs later, so there's Bk I and Bk II. The word 'clavier' means any keyboard instrument; 'well-tempered' means able to change Keys without stopping to re-tune.

SO...I found a correlation of the 12 Keys with the 12 Zodiac Signs, and now I have GREAT music for any Sign, such as my natal Sun in Virgo! - Da Le

Mercy is as mercy does!

to continue a bit more -- the main keyboard instruments in Bach's time were harpsichord and organ. Aside from the metal-stringed harpsichords, there were gut-stringed "lute harpsichords" - like a keyboard guitar! - and harpsichords with foot-pedals. I just ordered the Well-Tempered Clavier played on a pedal-harpsichord! [cont.]

This music pretty much restored my nerves and mental health years ago after a major breakdown (child-PTSD-related). For once thing it's "vertical music"--reaches right up to the "Immortal Realms"; and also it puts Order back into the heart-mind and nervous system. So it's still my Musical Food. - Da Le

Hi Shen! Congratulations on beginning your training! Should you sometimelisten to Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, it may sound strange at first. No one has ever written music quite like it, before or since. But this music does what it does regardless, which is go right into the soul and spirit and "put Humpty-Dumpty back together again"! - Da Le