Maiden Moon

The Moon is Full in Pisces, and we are in the season from Imbolc to Beltane when the Goddess shows her lovely Maiden face.

Now is a time for works of beauty, for new beginnings, and for seeking truth and honor in all endeavors.

It is the most auspicious time of all for an initiation.

The Pagan Preacher: Imbolc Sermon

Once the Maiden Goddess has appeared at Imbolc the Season of

Outward Growth begins. Both God and Goddess are on the land. Now

we have an active part to play in the world around us.

The Maiden brings forth Her waters, and dresses Herself with

green leaves and flowers. She will flaunt the potential wealth and

abundunce that She has to offer.

Soon the heat of the God will begin to make itself felt. He

instinctively reaches out to the land and warms the body of the

Maiden for the time to come. Like any boy past the cradle but not

yet full grown, He is headstrong and makes Himself more evident

each day.

Not sure what He is to be, He reaches outward, learning more

and more about Himself and what His Magic truly is.

On the mundane level the time has come for all of us to act.

If we were in an agricultural environment the fields would have to

be prepared for the planting.

In whatever environment we are, figuratively if not

literally, we must do our part without hesitation, so that when the

"planting" time comes the "seeds" will be sown in time to grow to

their fullest.

In the herds and flocks, New Life is born. Calves and lambs

are appearing and We must assist in the birthing so that the herds

can give us all that we will need.

It is up to you to see the application of this metaphor to

your own life and universe.

Now there is work to be done while the Goddess adorns Herself

with finery and the God grows and warms the Lady with His presence.

The climax of this is His puberty celebrated on The Day of the Wild

God, otherwise known as;

OSTARA

from Dyffd ap Tower

Fire Tide

At Candlemas the Fire Tide flows, and this season until the Spring Equinox is called the Time of Change. In this time the God born at Yule grows to manhood, and that mystery of change informs all others. It is a time of great creative power, when all projects of art and making, will and change, are carried forth on their most auspicious tide.

Nightmares

Children dream of monsters in the dark.

Normal, the experts say.

The self fears its new and undiscovered growth,

And so screams out.

In middle years, the anxious dreams of threatened self-importance;

Naked in the street, speechless before a theater,

Assigned to teach a class where you are ignorant,

And the students have no patience.

But in old age, I find, the nightmares are of loss and confusion:

A wrong turn somewhere, a missed connection,

A mistaken off-ramp, and no return on the other side.

You seek the way home, but there is no way.

There are people, but they do not help;

They are mute, or indifferent, or in the worst dreams

Mad with some irrelevant obsession.

When you finally understand that here you must remain

You wake to your accustomed bed,

Relieved and hoping

That you have not foreseen the realm of death.

Christian Morality

I have a very hard time grasping this. Many right-wing Christians, with their "family values," apparently don't care if somebody like Gingrich has a sleazy past. Now, if such a thing as a Pagan candidate were possible, one with Newt's past adventures would, I'd hazard a guess, be too sleazy even for most Witches and Pagans. Cheating on wife #1 with wife #2 while wife #1 was in the hospital dying of cancer. Cheating on wife #2 with wife #3 while pretending moral outrage with Clinton, whose only transgressions were a) accepting a blow job from someone who enthusiastically threw herself an his feet and b) agonizing too much when he had to explain it later. (He could have just said, "She threw herself at me, I didn't handle as well as I should have. Next question?" Or being a Christian, he too could have said "I sinned and Jesus forgives me.")

Because, as it seems, if you are a Christian Jesus forgives you, then everything is OK and you can still be president.

If you are a Pagan, the best you can do is be sorry, hope to do better in your next incarnation, and probably forget about running for president in this one in the unlikely event that it was ever an option to begin with.

At the Dark of the Moon

Introspection, trance work, self-evalution

Dream work

Fast or eat sparingly

Don't overwork

Wrap yourself in a covering or veil of some kind, arranged so you can breathe properly (oxygen deprivation is not an essential part of the experience.)

I especially like some slow and evocative sound for this--Tibetan temple bells, for example.

Close your eyes and go into a cave. As you go deeper in, the light becomes fainter and fainter, and you have to feel your way with your feet and hands.

The passageway becomes narrower, and more difficult to negotiate. You go deeper and deeper into the earth.

Then after a time you will suddenly lose your footing and go floating in free fall, around and around, down the passageway, until you land in a cavern deep inside the earth.

There you may find something, or you may meet someone.

You may be told something you need to know, or you may be given something to take back with you.

Perhaps you will find or be given something that must remain in the cavern, but which you can return to again.

When you are ready to leave the cavern, you will find that you can float up and out the passageway, by the same way you came.

Then you will find your footing, and make you way along the passage, feeling with your feet and hands, until you return to the mouth of the cave.

Wolf Moon

This is the moon that falls in Capricorn. On the Wolf Moon, work for protection and preservation.

Wolves share many attributes with humans, and so provide us with certain lessons about this.

http://www.wisdomofwolves.com/