May Day, fertility, fire wiccan Festival, Celebrate, Tara Greene

May Day Magic, Beltane, Faeries  FIRE and FERTILITY FESTIVAL

Beltane means “fire of Bel” or “bright fire” the “bale-fire”. Known as the bright and shinning one,  Celtic Sun God. Beli is the father, protector, and the husband of the Mother Goddess.  This is a FERTILITY CELEBRATION, The Beltane Fires, the MAY POLE, marking the cross quarter day between SPRING and SUMMER.

MAY DAY is a traditional Fertility and Sacred Marriage Festival of the Sun to the Earth. The Bel fire is a sacred fire with healing and purifying powers. The fires celebrate the return of life, fruitfulness to the earth and the burning away of winter. The ashes of the Beltane fires were smudged on faces and scattered in the fields. Household fires would be extinguished and re-lit with fresh fire from the Bel Fires.

As Beltane marks this handfasting (wedding) of the Goddess and God, it too marks the reawakening of the earth’s fertility. This is the union between the Great Mother and her Young Consort; this coupling brings new life on earth. On a Spiritual level and a  physical, it is the union of the Earth and Sun, man and woman to bring about the fruitfulness of the growing season. 

May Day is alchemy in action, the sacred Marriage.
Mother nature shows Herself alive again, flowers are blooming, sprouting, birds are mating, building nests, bees are buzzing.  Beltane was and is a very auspicious time in Celtic lore.
The PLEIADES
Beltane is marked in the Heavens as the rising of the Pleiades star cluster just before sunrise on the morning horizon, whereas winter (Samhain/Halloween) begins when the Pleiades rises at sunset. The Pleiades were very important to many ancient cultures. Some Native American tribes say that their Ancestors were Star Beings who came from the Pleiades. In Japan, the modern car Subaru means Pleiades and 6 of the stars are shown on its symbol. {We’ve always driven Subaru’s partly for this reason.}

 The Ancients believed that the Wheel of Time would not turn without human intervention.
People did everything in their power to honour and call and beckon the Sun and His light, for the earth would not produce life without the Sun’s warmth, his Love. We usually don’t think of the Sun as a Loving God anymore. It is important to honour these Nature Festivals, or turning of the Wheel of the Year, our ancestors did so for thousands of years.
If we’re not in Right Relationship with other Nature then woe be to those who feel her wrath- As we’ve been trying to fool Mother Nature for many years now and continue to do so in the Industrialized world, balance can be attained by participating in these kind of Ancient Festivals.
Neo-tribalism is a necessity now.

FAERIES
May Day is a magical day so be aware of incidents that may occur.  The Queen of the Faeries is said to ride out on her white hose and trying to entice people away to Faeryland. Legend says that if you sit beneath a  tree on Beltane night, you may see the Faery Queen in all Her Glory or hear the sound of Her horses’s belles as She rides throughout the night. 

FERTILITY
Young men and women wandered into the woods before daybreak of May Day morning with garlands of flowers and/or branches of trees. They would make love in the woods, and dance around the Maypole. Pre-Christian society’s thoughts about human sexuality and fertility were not based on guilt or any such concept as original sin, but seen as a joyous natural expression of human passions. Life was seen as a joyful dance, rich in all beauty to be celebrated not defined ordered, made lawful.
Depicted in Camelot, the Mists of Avalon,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg4YrOlAkds

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I am presiding over a MAY DAY BELTANE ceremony in Toronto at Ashbridge’s Bay on Lake OntarioIf you are in the Toronto area you are most welcome to come
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Mind Blowing Gemini Lunar Eclipse- Astrology advice

A Lunar Eclipse is a FULL BLOWN Full Moon and a GEMINI Lunar Ellipse, ruled by Mercury= thinking, consciousness is a MIND BLOWING event!

The last eclipse of 2012 is a penumbral one, it will be faint and only completely visible in certain areas, see nicely colored map. The eclipse is totally visible in Australia, China, most of Russia, India, and Alaska these will be most affected by the Lunar eclipse.

deep red is area of most intensity on Lunar eclipse

This eclipse completes and balances the June 4 lunar eclipse.

Lunar Eclipses come in 18 years and a few days cycles, called Saros cycles.This one is Saros cycle 145 which began on Aug 11 1832 {the Last Eclipse of the series will be Sept 16 3094.

Something about the Aug 11th date called to me, turns out

Aug 11, 3114 BC is when the MAYAN LONG COUNT used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, begins.

And we all know the day that cycle ends resetting itself back to 0000000. Dec 21 2012

Aug 11 1999 was a solar eclipse which Edgar Cayce had predicted was the apocalypse start date.

Let’s look at the astrology chart

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I set the eclipse location for Beijing China as that is where the impact is most intense. In India, the Lunar eclipse isn’t really visible, it seems to be of no significance to Hindus. In Toronto we will only see it as the moon sets, but still we will FEEL it Emotionally.

Moon at 6 degrees of GEMINI is conjunct LILLITH 2 degrees away. The Dark goddess is being eclipsed, and being the embodiment of the FEMININE DARK SHADOW, ENSHROUDING HERSELF MAKES HER POWER MORE POTENT.

Jupiter is bookending Lillith at 11 degrees Gemini further amplifying and expanding the rejected Feminine. What you resist persists. What you relegate to the shadows controls you. For the last 12,500 years since civilization was taken over by the patriarchy the Divine Goddess Mother earth energy has been raped, trampled,blamed, rejected, used, abused to this very day and worse now than ever in the age of greed and corporate profits, dishonoring the feminine, mothers andchildren.

SO Lillith eclipsed becomes Lillith empowered, she is KALI, the dark Goddess, who destroys the Ego. All cosmic events are symbols and so its red alert for KALI/LILLITH!

The Sun at 6 degrees of Sagittarius is exactly on my sun. It’s my Solar return. the sun returns to the degree on the day I was born, although my Calender birthday is Nov. 29. I can feel the energy right now as I write. I am crying.

Gemini is the split mind, the duality, it is curious, light, youthful, ambiguous.

Eclipsed Lillith/Moon is pointing out the split, the splinter as it is called in The Matrix. The mind gets trapped in its delusions of self and other, this eclipse gives us the opportunity to heal that split and see ourselves in others’ shoes, everywhere in the world.

It’s an emotional eclipse of the heart with Venus conjunct Saturn in Scorpio at 6 & 8 degrees, conjunct to Israel’s South Node, their past Karma.

Very serious, heavy, Scorpio is death rebirth sex, transformation of money, power, secrets.

More heavies – MARS & PLUTO exactly conjunct at 8 degrees of Capricorn. Fire power, danger, red alert ,Radiation, atomic power, explosions, anger, power, abuse, affecting all of us.

BIG YOD energy too. What’s a big yod you ask? a YOD is a finger of GOD aspect.

Sounds rude and blasphemous I know.

Astrologically it is a planet or planets sextile to another or others-60 degrees apart- an easy aspect, all of which are quincunx- 150 apart from another planet or planets, it is a wedge shaped formation. This eclipse has Saturn at 6 degrees Scorpio with Venus at 8 conjunct Saturn they are both sextile to Pluto & Mars conjunct at 8 degrees of Capricorn,and they ALL quincunx the MOON at 6 degrees Gemini the STAR of the Eclipse today. The finger of God is the MOON and more so LILLITH.

Neptune and Chiron the wounded healer also SQUARE the Moon and the Sun

raising our vibration, intuition and spiritual energies higher. Chiron the wounded healer is making us all feel the emotional split so we can recognize it, be vulnerable, be brought to our knees and surrender our egos and wills.. And hence why I am still crying as I write.

Our deepest dreams, our fantasies, our faith- Neptune is being tested.

Even when there is no moonlight. when we are totally in the dark, when it is darkest before the dawn, we will find the faith to carry on, find the still voice inside that whispers to us to keep going, to belive, to believe in fairies, in Tinkerbell, as Peter Pan is the Symbol for Gemini.

I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES!

Uranus the King of chaos is still squaring Pluto and Mars, so the old powder keg can explode any second. If we include Ceres at 1 degree Cancer the great Mother symbol forms a T-square with Uranus Mars Pluto.

Mercury has just gone direct,we are still in the shadow period before Mercury recovers where he left off, Mercury rules this Gemini Lunar Eclipse.

There is a lot of water element in this chart 4 objects in Scorpio, 2 in Pisces and 1 in Cancer. Gemini is detached, and we need to integrate the feelings with the observer.

Meditation Ritual on the Eclipse day

Day of eclipse set aside some time to meditate. – You will need candles incense feathers, things that represent air and wind, Gemini elements.

water fire and earth.

if you have a real Blue Lace Agate like the one pictured here hold it in your hand or visualize this energy.

Always begin in the East moving clock wise, to the South. call in the Archangels -Michael in the East, Gabriel in the South, Ariel in the West, Raphael in the North they will protect you.

Light a candle for each direction, have water in the south, earth in the west, incense and feathers in the north.

sit in your circle, close your eyes and breathe deeply, slowly and relax.

visualise the full moon and the moonlight fading, her reflected light endarkened.

Go into the Moon, her feelings, all of them, the ones most repressed -her sense of rejection, her shame, her fears, her phobias, her illusions,fantasies,depression,anxiety,

and stay very centered watching. Hold that emotional vulnerable utterly feminine side in your left hand,

when you have done that take 3 huge deep cleansing breaths and shake your head and hands to clear the energy, shake it out for a s long as you need.

now breath in positive energy, see the light of the moon fully reflecting the Sun,bright magical, romantic inspiring,

protective nurturing, this is the positive creative,FERTILE moon, it is very sexual, sensual, instinctual, she has no inhibitions,

she is the goddess who is whole unto herself, who answers to her own needs for pleasure, and relationships, she must nurture,

feel this positive mothering lunar influence,she brings safety, security nurturing, nourishment, love, conception,

hold the positive bright energy in your right hand

look at these seeming opposite forces and go into your heart where all feelings originate and ask what do these two parts need?

Automatically the two hands will be drawn magnetically together, bring the opposite sides together so that you open your hands and clasp them together. Now they are one allis one. Allow the full sense of non-duality to be absorbed totally. It is not intellectual it is all feeling.

stay with that. let whatever tears that need to come out pour out so that you can heal.

This is a very big event and soon it will be 12 12 12 numerology and then Dec 21 2012.

a new era is beginning , the more conscious one is the higher the planes go.

we are expanding being duality. it is good

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