Waking up by Diving Deep….

Whatever
Be true
Is the most fun…

Dark O Moon-
Ritual preparing
for Chinese New Year…Tiger!

At the Providence Zen Center, once a month in Winter, we practiced
Yoeng Maeng Jong Jin, which is translated as “to leap like a tiger while sitting.”

 

New Moon tonight!
Venus Direct
Mercury stationing,
exact Mid-Winter February 3rd…

When Persephone lights her candle and begins ascending from Underworld and we with her…..

Pluto arrives at degree of US Pluto…and we’re off…..

Let’s talk about, and to, Death….

(also this week’s radio show, with Susan Shannon…)

 

And Jupiter – the protector – blessings, generosity as protection…

and, most heartening, Jupiter is often the signature of Death, who recommends that the first question we ask about a story, be not “is it true?”

but – “can I ride this story?”….

Let’s ride the story we wish to be true, and see where it goes….

In our case now, it goes to the faery world…where we can receive the gifts, so generously proffered, we need to “dree our weird.” (“play our role in Destiny.”) The gifts are bestowed, as a back-stage Coyote wheel and deal  once we “plight our troth.”

 

Especially as the mid-Winter Sun – 15+ Aquarius is exactly conjoining Saturn.

The four cross-quarter holy days, exact mid-season, known as one of the 4 gates of Power, where power is especially available to be invited into world.

and always that Metaphors – Neptune – are the incarnational garment whereby power enters the world…

So let’s choose our metaphors wisely & playfully…

“Get two birds stoned on one scone…” for instance.

Deep Diving,

WAKING UP by Jefferson Parson © 2014

I went to the bottom of the deepest dark lake,
Rode on the sole of a moccasin snake,
Prayed the pressure wouldn’t my poor heart break
‘Til I popped to the top, my eyes wide awake.
He spared me his poison all the way down,
But I shuttered to utter all that I found:
Space heaters, tvs and old tennis shoes,
Even an I-phone that’s never been used.
Huge pieces of plastic, to the earth so unkind,
But the scariest pieces were pieces of mind:
Fear for the future, shame for the past,
Fears that each day would be our last.
Facing my fears didn’t drive them away,
But they’re way less scary in the light of the day.
I say what I feel and I feel what I say,
Which is way better than hiding away.
To bring all this up I had to go down
To the bottom of the lake to find what I found,
Down to the bottom of the deepest dark lake,
‘Til I popped to the top, my eyes wide awake.

 

 

from

Robinette Kennedy, 2014, and in complete resonance with now…

“Tonight is Lunar Imbolc (the new moon that precedes February 2nd, the halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox.)

For anyone familiar with the shamanic poses from prehistoric Crete, this is the time to perform the Holy Fire Pose, the spark of light/Qi upon the dark sacred waters that begins the rebirth process.

Courtney Smith’s Light upon this sacred night:

“Each year at Imbolc, (February 2nd), the old Celtic cross-quarter day of the Wheel of the Year, we get to see what new life is awakening within us.

“Imbolc is a time of vision, when we honor the returning light. Just as the groundhog pops up to see what the light looks like, we can go within to find the new light that was born within each of us at Winter Solstice. Within that spiritual light is the seed of our future.

“Because this New Moon tonight is Lunar Imbolc in the sign of Aquarius, it is the most potent New Moon of 2014 for wishes involving new beginnings in friendships and taking steps to make your larger life goals and dreams come true. Things you may have wanted to happen in your life for a long time can begin easily manifesting through using the boost of this friendly and intelligent New Moon.”

Blessings.

MYTH AND METAMORPHOSIS

A workbook Dr Sharon Blackie www.sharonblackie.net 

“Humans have always lived in close contact with animals; it’s not surprising that they should populate our myths and fairy tales too.

All kinds of creatures, from the fiercest of bears to the most fragile of butterflies, play major roles in our mythologies. And in a fairy tale, you’re just as likely to be spoken to by a wolf or a crow as you are by a human.

Animals might act as the messengers of the gods, guard the gates to the Otherworld, or offer themselves as a guide. Depending on the story, they can be allies or enemies, helpful to humans or harmful, so representing the ambiguous, not-to-be-taken-for-granted power of the natural world.

Even more interesting are the stories which blur the boundaries between human and ‘other’. And they’re everywhere – even the most cursory readings of the old myths and stories of Europe make it clear that our ancestors believed that the borderlines between humans and other animals were much less clearly defined than we imagine them to be today, and more easily bridged.

These tales had their origins in times when there were closer connections between humans and the natural world – and in the days when there was no differentiation between the secular and the sacred, because the sacred existed everywhere, in everything. You didn’t need a special building to find it in, nor a special person to act as your intermediary; it was right there, all around you – in that tree, or that stone, or that fish. “

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