The text below was extracted from an article made on 04/30/1974 for the newspaper “Folha da Tarde”, from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

“When at the end of the First World War I was so afflicted with not understanding the inequality between suffering and joy, between destruction and new construction, I started to be interested in Astrology in order to understand life and, today, I understood that there is no good and evil, but the bipolarity of life.

Nature only creates action and rest, day and night. But night doesn’t mean bad; night means acquiring the new energies for a new day. It is the constant transformation of falling and rising, which apparently seems to us to be a separation, but which in the end is an eternal existence of a unity.

On a very sunny day, there is an excess of attraction of the earth’s moisture; in the afternoon, then the storm comes, and what was attracted is returned to Earth. We cannot live on the sun alone, nor can we live on the rain alone.

But we have to understand that both are necessary; we have to understand that there is no renewal without the demolition of what is no longer good; but we must be ready and seek the balance between the joy of what we have and the need to transform and seek progress and renewal. Nature does this by shaking us with its phenomena, and we then try to adapt.”

Emma de Mascheville