May 1 May Day Beltane fire sex fertility earthy pagan celebration Astrology from Tara Greene

May Day is the ancient pagan Beltane fire celebration of the Maypole Dance, the phallic dance of  fertility. Beltane fires are lit atop hilltops.

Revelers intertwine ribbons and dance around the MayPole. Traditionally masked young men and women would meet as strangers in the night, to mate,on the earth, in the bonfire shadows, to surrender to the natural desires of Spring,budding life and new passion running in their veins. Children conceived at Beltane were considered sacred and special and born around St. Brigid’s day, also a Fiery Goddess.

 We are moving with the round of the year, May 1st marks the cross-quarter, half- way point between Spring and Summer Solstice now. The days are lengthening in the Northern hemisphere. Conversely, pagans are celebrating Halloween or Samhain down under, the Witches New year. It is the Day of the Dead in the southern Hemisphere and the fire festival of renewed life in the northern half.

Go with the flow, the natural flow or CHI  of earth energy. Celebrate the renewed life force. You don’t have to be pagan to commune with the masculine life force rising.

The waxing Earthy Virgo Moon conjuncts Mars -@ 1:27 am PDT/ 4:27 am EDT to lend a perfect  mirror.

There are more Grand Trines between Virgo Moon and Mars, Pluto in Capricorn and Sun in Taurus.

It’s an excellent time to conceive tonight, literally with the cosmic golden Triangles blessings, if not a physical child then any creative means of self-expression. Explore more soulful { PLuto}  avenues of work and service {VIRGO} , and simply allow your body sense and feelings [ TAURUS}  to walk your silent minded talk. Celebrate being in the BODY! MAke  love, dance with passion around the bonfire!

I see May Day as the first day to a 5 day ceremonial uprising and celebration.

With the upcoming 5 5 5 , also Cinco de Mayo, Wesak, and an incredibly powerful once a year extra sexy Scorpio FULL MOON coming up

use MAY DAY as a synchronic potent fiery spirit initiation to ritually totally transform your life, in balancing  completing and fullfilling YOU with the precious 5th element in your life.

So start May day  DAY 1 – with honouring the FIRE element. It’s prefect! Fire= EAST, RED, passion, MARS, Phallic, beginnings

Asteroid Vesta enters Taurus at 12:48 pm Monday April 30

VESTA is associated with the keeper of the FLAME,of sexuality, passion as a HIGH PRIESTESS

Vesta, one of the first 4 Asteroids,is the hearth watching, focussed Goddess from Roman times whose name is - inVESTment, InVESTiture. You honour VESTA every time you put your money in the bank.

She was a VIRGIN in the original sense of being whole and complete unto Herself, needing to please no man. 

Known as a Vestal Virgin, that is a Cathologized, like Pathologized, sanitized version of Her original highly revered sacred power, as a sex goddess. Vestals were originally Sacred prostitutes, hierodules, highly respected educated, free and property-owning women. All women once served in HER Goddesses temples before they could marry. The Priestesses served as embodiments of the Goddess herself and initiated and cleansed men who had been at war by engaging in sacred Tantric sex with them to purify their spirits and souls from the shedding of human blood before being allowed to reintegrate into normal  cultural life. VEsta is here to hold the torch to light your way.

Watch my video about the NUMERLOGY of 5 5 5 and doing a simple 5 day ELEMENTAL ritual leading up to MAy 5th Scorpio Full Moon

ALWAYS smudge,your self first to cleanse and purify your self before you do any ceremony or sacred ritual using sacred cedar, sweet grass, sage or incense.

Always cast a sacred circle, delineating sacred space from profane space. You can sprinkle it with blessed water, or simply intend it,

Use candles which match the elements: In the  Native American tradition:

Yellow for FIRE, Red for WATER,  BLACK for EARTH, White for AIR, Blue or RED  for spirit.

Different traditions associate different elements to different directions depending on where they live geographically. May seem confusing but it makes sense. If you live on the west coast Water,the ocean is in the west, etc. Puru uses a different system and animal emblems.

Beginning in the south with the coiled serpent {Kundalini energy} Innocence,the past,

 moving to the west the Jaguar, death and rebirth,earth

to the north,air beautiful sweet nectar drinkinghummingbird,

and finally to the East, fire, the Sun and the Condor soaring with spirit.

The 5th element is all our relations, all the peoples, teachers, creatures and the Star nations,

Once in youre sacred space always move clock-wise,

May Day, 1= FIRE,  May 2- WATER, May 3 -EARTH, May 4 – AIR,  May 5 = SPIRIT/SOUL

Use whatever associations you like to the 4 elements, whatever has personal resonance with you, use it. 

to learn more about the elements go to my website: http://taratarotweb.tripod.com/id21.html

I’ll post helpers for each days ceremony.

 MAy 5 2012 = 5  5  5 and is also WESAK  the Full Moon of Buddha’s enlightenment.!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7rpzMY20Kw&feature=g-upl 

Practical {Taurus}  Go with the energetic flow.

Blessings TARA

Need assistance: get a reading: taragreene@sacredartscentre.com

Friday the 13th is a Triple Good Luck Chinese Dragon Day,get yours now by Tara Greene

Friday the 13th may be known for bad luck in the West but not this one. 

 The superstition originated with the Catholic Church declaring anything and everything associated with pagans, nature worshippers to be  turned upside down, like the image in the HANGED MAN  in the Tarot Cards and made evil.  In modern Western parlance we would say that the Catholic church is very PLUTONIC as they created THE DEVIL, they projected their own shadows and ideas of sinfulness. Goddess worshippers did not deny the body, sexual pleasure and everything that existed. The earth was still the Garden of Eden, there never was a fall or split and is still considered so by modern pagans as well as shamans in Peru and other places to this day.

13 is the number of Lunar cycles in a year. 13 is therefore associated with the Moon and all things Female and by extension, from the church’s point of view bad, sinful, dirty, wrong,scary. The Moon is,like the  MOON card in the Tarot, dreams, the dark, intuition, fear.  So thirteen represents a natural cycle and all original ancient religions were based on lunar calendars.

Chinese calendars are Lunar, as are  Jewish and Muslim calendars.

TODAY, Friday the 13th is the LUCKIEST day this year

 it is a DRAGON day, in a DRAGON month in a Golden DRAGON Year.

SUPER  TRIPLE  GOOD FORTUNE TODAY

triple good fortune day Friday th 13th 2012

THE THREE TIMES THE LUCK DAY IN 12 YEARS!

Mars is going Direct today at 8:53 pm PDT/11:53 pm EDT which signifies innovation, success, new doors opening, inspiration, action and change.  Wait till Mars goes direct to do this  ritual.

Meditation for 3 GOLDEN DRAGONS TRIPLE GOOD LUCK- copyright Tara Greene 2012- infinity TM

Use gold, wear it, if you have real gold, 22 k is best, the purer the better; jewellery of any kind, gold bars if you have them.

use golden or yellow candles. Wear gold or bright yellow colours;

get some saffron and infuse it into a tea, it turns into that gorgeous rich golden yellow. 

 get some yellow flowers, daisy’s, dahlia’s, daffodils, yellow roses

and some golden coloured honey, and or mead.

The ritual should consist of a breathing relaxing meditation, so put on your favourite relaxation music,

Firstly imagine a circle of golden light around you, this keeps you safe and protects you.

Begin by imagining 3 Golden dragons, if you can’t  visualize them, feel their hot golden breath, hear them snorting and flapping their golden wings,

then thank you to your ancestors, as is the Ancient tradition, and the intention of whom you want to benefit firstly,

All the riches, wealth, abundance that you wish for must come as a wish to help others first.. not for ego purposes,

Then imagine the three dragons all together breathe out a golden firy breath which appears above your head as a bright clear golden light. This golden light begins to pour into your body from the sky over your head,

 pouring down into your crown chakra, like liquid sweet sensuous honey,

feel that molten, not hot, golden light pour through your body,totally suffizing and permeating your entire physical body. You will feel lighter and lighter, richer and richer, as if you are glowing liek the Sun.

When you feel totally suffused with golden light.  Breathe out into the palm of your hand,and imagine

see and feel golden warm breath emanating from within you; hold that golden breath cloud in your palm,

The golden light will tranform in to a small golden dragon, the dragon will be placed where it wants to be

in your 3rd chakra, two finger widths below your navel, this is your personal place of power of Light.

Do the breathing of the golden breath 3 times in total, each time seeing the small golden dragon appear  in your palm

and each time place it into your 3rd chakra.

For continued help with this meditation, or to have me design a personl meditation ritual for you

please email me: taragreene@sacredartscentre.com

Those born in dragon years get the biggest benefits, but also if you’re a  rat or a  monkey you also benefit.

But it is good luck for all. My superstition says,play all the good luck  you can. It will always help.

INVOKE the triple golden dragon. 

 There will be more boon or beneficial days coming up.

Use DIVINE TIMING to your advantage> get a personal reading   http://www.taratarot.com/id78.html

 

 Drink some Golden Dragon Beer if you can find this, although explosive, will fit nicely into the Golden Dragon scheme

 

SCORPIO MOON weekend, sex,power,death,rebirth. Astrology and ritual Tara Greene

MOON enters SCORPIO APRIL 7 –9  EASTER and PASSOVER

Perfect alignment with DEATH, REBIRTH, TRANSFORMATION, RESURRECTION of these days Entry @ 8:18 am PDT/

moon in scorpio easter soul

Scorpio the 8th sign symbolizes the immortal SOUL. Scorpio the 2^nd water sign is concerned with all the Biggies, major life issues like sex, power, control, the shadow, death, rebirth, so it is totally a fitting emotional alignment for EASTER.

Easter or EOSTRE {  female ovulation} is an ancient PAGAN fertility festival. The egg and rabbits are fertility itself. These symbols have been added to Christs’ ancient Archetypal tale of death and rebirth.  Ancient religions had the Goddess‘ son or consort, mate with her, and then be ritually tortured and sacrificed in order to resurrect the earth’s new crops, the Goddess’s fertility.

During the Passover ritual one eats bitter herbs, to commemorate how bitter life has been for the Jews who were slaves for 300 years.  There is ritual dipping of   fingers into blessed wine and dropping a drop for each plague that God sent on Pharaoh and the Egyptians. One eats hard-boiled eggs as fertility symbols, eats sweet crushed apples and honey with bitter radish to remember that life is the sweet and the bitter. This is a wise way to remember, by ritually making the memories physical, eating the memories digests them.

Allow yourself to be with the lunar tides, on the birth death resurrection themed super moon. Feel the full Moons’ lingering influence as soulful emotions ooze into the ethers.

Whatever cross you have had to bare, has you nailed to, hung up on…Where have you felt you were the sacrificial victim of YOUR OWN making, first? The someone else involved is only a projection, real but a reflection, like the moon, a  mirror of yourself.

By being real, open, coming from DEEP within your soul, this depth allows understanding, compassion and tears, as the golden tickets you need to learn from. You can then, with consciousness and responsibility,  acceptance and surrender, easily let go of those old rusty nails that you wept on while nailed down. Love those hard boiled eggs.

Where is SCORPIO in your Astrology chart? The house and planets in that sign,are where you can do the most laundry now.

SCORPIO BIRTH AND DEATH RITUAL TRANSFORMATION

Allow death to work for you, surrender and compost that which no longer serves your new emerging self and bring rebirth into a new life.

Nothing new can fully enter your life unless you dump the old sewage, baggage, habits, etc first. Only you can really do that.

As in Passover, gather symbols of things that remind you, it can be food, photographs, music, whatever triggers those feelings around power, powerlessness, control, letting go, sex, money, abuses, shadows, revenge, hatred, obsession, competition, all Scorpio themes.

Allow the old karmic traps, soul cages and wounds to be understood, acknowledged and surrendered at this time. Allow yourself to pass over, to pass them on, to be over it.

Time and consciousness are expanding very quickly now. By simply creating a big pile of all the old memories, like crunched up old newspapers, loving them understanding then turning them into bubbles, allow them to float away on a soft spring breeze. Like magic, Presto! You are healed, you are lighter,  free.

In some ways it can be as simple as that. Scorpio is about control of your feelings, your power. Allow the new to call your name, a name you may not recognize yet.

NOTE: I am currently presenting workshops in soulfully re-naming yourself. To schedule a reading. I will help guide you to your real name, your truth, who you stand for.  taragreene@sacredartscentre.com

Copyright Tara Greene 2012-infinity

St. Patrick’s Day,the Luck ‘O the Irish,the pagans by Tara Greene Astrology

by Tara Greene Astrology Psychic  & More Copyright 2011- eternity & beyond.

St. Patrick, Catholic Irish Saint,is known for driving the snakes out of Ireland. That story  is actually a cultural re-visioning. St. Patrick, identified with the shamrock, was no Saint and not lucky at all for the pagans who worshipped the Goddess. Ireland since time out of mind was a pagan, Wiccan, Druid, Nature, Goddess worshipping land. These people were demonized and ripped off by St. Paddy. 

St. Paddy is NOT Irish. Born in Scotland  to Roman parents around 387 AD.  Taken prisoner at 14, he was sent to Ireland as a slave. He studied the language and learned the customs of the people, original Nature loving, pantheistic earth worshippers. 

As the story goes, Patrick prayed to God. He had a dream he was to leave Ireland but the Irish people were calling him back. He studied to be a priest. He became a Bishop and was sent back to Ireland to teach the Gospel. He arrived at Slane on March 25, 433. Patrick converted many thousands of people including Irish Kings who were moved {or threatened} upon hearing Patrick’s message. He himself had many disciples who were all later canonized. He preached for over 40 years, apparently worked many miracles, and wrote of his love for God in his confessions. He lived in poverty, travelled and endured much suffering and died March 17, 461 AD. at Saul, where he had built his first church. It’s 1,550 years since he died. 

THE SHAMROCK

Patrick used the shamrock, as the symbol of the holy Trinity. The SHAMrock or clover {note the sham pun in shamrock, puns are always give a ways} is originally an ancient PAGAN SYMBOL of the GODDESS, the original Holy TRINITY, the TRIPLE GODDESS, whose phases we see as the Moon waxing and waning.  

The Triple Goddess, like the Roman God Janus, who was also an overlay of the original Goddess worshipping religions, represents the past present and future. Christianity like Hinduism, Judaism, Islam always incorporated former religions but then skews the original meaning, usually inferring the opposite.

Catholic pagan symbol Sheila Na Gig

St. Patrick was famous for driving the snakes out of Ireland, meaning he drove the pagans out/converted them. The snake is a euphemism; the snakes symbolize the Goddess, rebirth, sexuality, eternity, and wisdom. Snakes were always her honoured symbol. In the re-writing of the Goddess history, the propaganda popularly known as the Bible, tells how in Genesis, the snake was turned into evil and Eve made to be seen as wicked, the original sinner, forever dooming women to hardship in birth, and never able to repent.

 

Cretan Snake goddess worhsipped for thousands of years

It is the worst most wicked, horrible, most ridiculous LIE,  filled with self-hatred, hatred of life, divorced from nature. It  was of course built on the foundations of Judaism and the old testament which was the historical very violent story of the crushing of the Goddess religion, the defamation of the Feminine.

Everything the Goddess stood for, love of Nature, the Feminine relating principles, honouring life, children, sexuality etc. was made bad, indecent, devil worship by the Catholic Church and the Bible.

Christians thank him the conversion of the ancient Irish pagans. But in the name of Christ who tolerated all peoples, honoured women and preached love of thy neighbour, pagans especially women,who were labelled witches and -worshippers,were tortured to convert, and had their properties and rank stolen from them.

 To some Pagans, wiccans, druids, Goddess worshippers St. Patrick is a despised person who drove the Irish people from their original faith.  Some Wiccans may actually enjoy the celebration because of its “hidden” Pagan meaning, and smile when they see devout Christians wearing the shamrock, the Goddess’symbol proudly.

As in the Mists of Avalon, the re-telling of the Arthurian and Grail legends from the original Pagan Goddess worshipping aspect, the Goddess in any name is still Her energy. Goddess worship is earth honouring, egalitarian, matriarchal. 

Just as the white people carry a collective karmic debt and shame for destroying Indigenous peoples earth worshipping religion and cultures. In Canada,there is now a token giving back, as in the Queen Charlotte Island being renamed in their indigenous tongue and land treaties give native people back the lands and bones or historical relics taken in colonialized plunder, as in Egypt and China that were stolen from them. 

Perhaps we should rethink St. Patrick when we’re out in the pub drinking green beer, wearing shamrocks, and singing When Irish Eyes Are Smilin’ and Oh Danny Boy and at least toast THE GODDESS. Because as She says: “All acts of love and beauty are my worship.” 

And speaking of Ireland. The name Tara, popularly connected to the Hills of Tara, and the Kings of Tara is originally a Goddess name. Tara, whose ancient worship continues today,She is still worshipped daily in India and Tibet.  Green Tara whose name is originally SITARA, means the Stars. Therefore she is just like the Egyptian Goddess of the sky, where all life originated, the goddess Nut, or Nuit, aka the Milky Way Galaxy. Hey we don’t call it a Guyaxy. 

Sitara, her name means the Galaxy, all that is, She is the original creatress, Mother Nature. The Sitar is her heavenly music, the music of the cosmos. Her worship is so ancient and widespread it ran from India all the way to Ireland.

In English Tara =Terra in Latin meaning The EARTH. Eartha or Artha in Sanskrit means the Earth. All the names have an etymological root from Sanskrit considered to be a holy language. So in India and Tibet the mantra, the prayers for Tara invoke her vibration, as chanting OHM is considered to be the original word of God. Tara actually has 21 different manifestations, colours and dances representing her powers.  Green Tara is Mother Nature. 

Chanting her mantra or saying these words brings protection.

Om Tara Tu Tara Tura Swoha. The Tura is pronounced Tooray.

For Japan and all the desecration of Her Planet please chant these words to divine Goddess tara.

Blessings

Nuclear meltdown in Japan,women have the anti-dote, SuperMoon by Tara Greene

March 12-14th 2011 With the 2nd or 3rd Nuclear power plant at the Fukushima plants in meltdown and dangerous types of nuclear fuel used this is  a very dangerous situation and is being covered up in the media. see

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100823a7.html

I meant to write feminine and masculine and my Freudian unconscious slip went  faminine and mesculine as in the famine of the Feminine created by the mess of the masculine. How apropos.

The latest powerful earthquakes and  tsunami’s in Japan is the earth crying out for women to pay attention to her and act in right relationship.  If we are really humanKIND we must act kind, we must be kind, we must reKINDle ourselves in harmony with the heartflame of Grandmother Earth.

We are all Her children. We are but little specs, like ants upon her bosom, see how fragile we truly are when Mother Nature shakes us about, she is showing us who is boss she’s giving us humans a time out for acting badly to her. 

MOTHER EARTH, the Divine Feminine is full of unconditional love for all of us but we, MEN  have raped and abused her for thousands of years now and her womb,the oceans are polluted and the air, her breath and the earth, her body had been so ravaged by greed and masculine dominator models for over 5,000 years. None of her earth should be mined, blasted, no oil pumped out, no radioactive materials used.

Any mistreatment of women and children who are created in her DIVINE IMAGE, Feminine like Her Self is an affront to The Goddess= Our Mother. To further strengthen our commitment to the 100th anniversary of International Womens’ day we need to honour the earth with our bodies and our blood more than ever. Desperate times call for ACTION and commitment.

Women- written by Canadian Singer Nancy Ward  from her album

To the Planters of Trees produced by Jack Lenz. 1989{ ?}

Women, we are strong like the trees,

we can bend in the wind,

we can bend in the wind without breaking

Women, we are patient as mountains,

we endure like the rivers,

 we are waters on the storm,

 we are peacemakers.

Women, Mother Earth is our baby,

 she is sick and in trouble,

 Mother Earth is our baby,

 our own, Mother  Earth is our baby, our own.

People, we must call on our powers,

from the earth sky and waters,

 we must heal Mother EArth with

our Beauty, our Beauty 

 we must heal, Mother Earth, with our Souls.

Holy Grail, Sacred Blood heals the earth

In ancient times Women’s menstrual blood was considered Holy, the Sacred Blood of Life. The Holy Grail is the womb itself the Sang Real is royal blood. Menstrual blood was the first blood used to fertilize crops, the beginning of agriculture. The red carpet which we know to today used by Hollywood stars denoting power, wealth, beauty was originally a special carpet that women  bled upon which gave it its power. 

Women your monthly period is your sacred menstrual blood of Life and will help to heal the earth. As in homeopathic cures, like cures like and in magick intention is everything. We must give back what She has honoured us with, the Gift of Life and to give back .

You know this in the deepest part of your wombs in your unconscious in your cells. All you have to do is get past the programming and remember what your body tells you. Ask your womb if it is holy? Is your monthly bleeding time sacred? Is your monthly flow not the root of and intended to bring forth the miracle of life? How could it be any other way? We need to move out of unconsciousness into empowerment and enlightenment, this is it. Your body hold the magick. You need to free yourself til you can laugh at how ridiculous it is to believe that your sacred body and its natural flow could be anything but sacred and holy.

If you are a woman who still bleeds, save your blessed menstrual blood in a non-toxic pad or cup and pour some onto the earth or in a body of water with a prayer of powerful intention to heal mother earth NOW. This will greatly benefit the earth and all her relations.

Especially at this very powerful u[coming Super Moon on March 19 when the full Moon will be closest to the Earth in 20 years, if you are bleeding then use that time especially. Anytime and always is the best time. Give back to Mother earth that which She has given you. This is ancient pagan wiccan ceremonial magick. It is very powerful menstrual blood,  that is why there was all the taboos about women bleeding. 

I made a vow at a women’s ceremony in 1992 to teach women and young girls about the sacred power of their menstrual blood. I  offer to coach to educate, to lead ceremonies and rituals.

See other women doing the same:

Herbalist, Wise Woman, best-selling author Susun Weed

Susun initiated me as a Green Witch in 1987 at her beautiful magical gardens and goat farm in Woodstock New York. http://www.susunweed.com/

Another lady passionate about spreading the Good word about our monthly wise blood. http://moonwisdom.blogspot.com/2008/02/menstrual-blood-art.html

Imbolc,Candlemas,St. Brigid’s Day,Groundhog Day Feb 1-2 Tara Greene rituals

Feb. 1st –2nd IMBOLC Traditional Irish and Pagan Holiday Celebrations

 

 

 

Traditionally what we modern Westerners know as Groundhog Day was and is, on Feb 1st or 2nd is celebrated in the Modern Irish Calendar as Saint Brigid’s Day,or Bride’s Day. Both a Catholic and an ancient Pagan Celebration,an ancient Goddess tradition, also called Imbolc, still celebrated by Wiccans/Pagan based Earth honouring religions. Christians overlaid the Ancient Goddess worshipers’ holiday renaming it Candlemas or the fest of the Purification of the Virgin. This celebration also relates to the midpoint between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox.

It is a “cross-quarter” day in the 8 rounds of the Wheel of Time in the Solar based year. Since the Celtic Year was based on both lunar and solar cycles, it is most likely the holiday would be celebrated on the Full Moon nearest those 2 midpoints, when early spring flowers would begin to rise up through the snow, and snakes would come out of the ground. This is the precursor of the Groundhog, which the Romans replaced with a Hedgehog, which we… On Feb. 2nd this year there is a NEW MOON IN AQUARIUS at 12:45 am EST.
That Ancient peoples of Ireland kept this day as very sacred. At the Megalithic and Neolithic sites, such as the Loughcrew burial mounds and the Mound of the Hostages in Tara, Ireland, the inner chambers of the passage tombs are perfectly aligned with the rising sun of both Imbolc and Samhain attesting to the value placed on this day.

Triple Goddess/Saint Brigid/Bride

She is according to Robert Graves, the most Ancient Triple Goddess worshipped since time out of mind. The Goddess rules over scholars and poets. She is the Goddess of fire and inspirations in Ireland, the Goddess of poetry, creativity, smithcraft and healing. She also rules healing with water, and divination. She is said to rule over people who work with cows and chickens, brewers, fugitives, midwives, infants, printers, sailors, travelers, New Zealand, & Irish nuns. This day symbolizes a time of transitions, initiations, new beginnings, of planting seeds that will sprout later. Brigid/Birgita represents the light half of the year,Her power brings the people out of the dark season of winter into spring, so, it is a very important time of the year.

She is the Goddess of Augury

In the Druidic tradition, poetry and augury were associated. She is patron of prophets and seers.

Celtic seers divined by looking into deep water and into flames. This is a great time to do divination. STare at a candle, a fireplace with conscious intention. Call upon Brigid to come to you.

Triple Goddess

She has two sisters with the same name. One aspect of her carries a blacksmith tongs and a sword, because she is also patroness of war; another aspect holds 2 healing snakes, from which the modern Doctor’s symbol is derived, the caduceus, the third aspect carries a wand with a crescent moon and a tablet.

Elements

Brigid rules the Waters. Many healing springs are dedicated to Brigid. Natural bodies of water also signify Her presence, particularly where three streams joined together. She also rules Fire, so it is customary to make candles for the coming year and bless them on this day.

Protecting Goddess

In her aspect as Brigantia, she carries a spear, an orb of victory, and wears a war crown. She symbolizes protection of the country from invaders and slavery.

Midwives

As Patroness of Midwives, she was invoked at the door of the home where the woman was giving birth, by the midwife. Who speke:

Bride, Bride, come in! Thy welcome is truly made, Give thou relief to the woman, And give thou the conception to the Trinity.

Brigid is the guardian of every newborn, their cradles protected with a woven Brigit’s Cross, an equal armed cross. Upon a safe delivery, the infant was blessed or “sained” by the midwife, with 3 drops of water on the child’s forehead, dedicating the Child to the Triple Goddess. The “Holy Trinity” in its modernized Christian aspect, was just an overlay of the Goddess Triple Aspect since time out of memory. A candle was carried ‘round the bed sun wise three times. As Brigid is a Solar Goddess. We think of the Sun as masculine but originally all aspects of the Universe were considered Feminine.

Brigid Ruler of the Hearth

Especially in Gaelic Scotland, Brigid’s dolls are placed near the hearth on her Feast Day. The doll is usually dressed in white, decorated. A white wand is placed in her bed as a fertility charm. As she is patroness of agriculture, pastures, livestock, and abundance. An offering is made to her of dairy products. The Brigid doll is kept throughout the year near the hearth hung on a wall, or by a door, as a talisman of protection, then burnt the next year.

Light a Candle and Invoke the Goddess at this time-

I kindle this candle in the name of Brighid, Goddess of Smiths,

I sain this house in the name of Brighid, Goddess of Healers,

I smoor this candle in the name of Brighid, Goddess of Poets.

One folk tradition still continues in both Christian and Pagan homes on St. Brigid’s Day is that of St. Brigid’s Bed. Girls and young unmarried women create corn dollies to represent Brigid, these are adorned with ribbons, baubles shells or stones. A bed is made for the doll to lie in. On St. Brigid’s Eve Jan 31, the girls gather together in one house and stay up all night with the doll, are are later visited by all the young men, who ask permission to enter the home, and then treat the young maidens and the dolly with respect. The next day the girls carry the doll through the neighbourhood from house to house, where she is welcomed with great honour. Adult women stay home to welcome the Brigid procession and offer snacks and coins to the young girls and maidens.

Brigid is said to walk the earth on Imbolc eve. Feb 1st. Before going to bed, each member of the household may leave a piece of clothing or strip of fabric outside for Brigid to bless. The cloth are brought inside the next morning, believed to now have the powers of healing and protection.

BRIGID is alive and well.

The name “Britain” is a derivation of Brigit’s name. Britain was named for an ancient Celtic tribe, the Brigantes, who were the largest Celtic tribe in the country in pre-Roman times who worshipped Her as their Deity. The tribe originated from an area now called Bregenz in Austria near Lake Constance. The word “brigand” comes from this tribe of fierce warriors. Her symbol is a flaming spear. Her worship spread, leaving behind places named in Her honour-Brittany in France, Brechin in Scotland, the name Brent, in England, any name containing Bride. Britain’s symbol, the Goddess Brigantia, still found on their 50 cent coin is Brigid in her aspect as Goddess of the Land. In Old German/Yiddish the word “Fabrent” meaning burnt honours this Ancient Goddess. Of course Britany Spears is carrying the modern archetype of Brigid, and strangely enough one of Brigid’s symbols is a flaming spear!

A Sample of prayers used at St. Bridgid’s Day

Light 1 candle-

We gather together in this time of darkness. We look to the return of the light.

We look to the first light of Spring.

(Light two more candles.)

Goddess Midwife: Healer, Nurturer, and Herbalist.

Goddess Poetess: Bringer of Wisdom, Guidance and Prophesy.

Goddess Smithcraft: Keeper of Fire, Craftswomen, and Transformation.

Maiden, Mother, and Crone – A Triple Goddess.

Her symbols are Brigid’s cross, the flaming arrow, Brigid’s bed.

It was customary to write wishes upon scraps of cloth

and tie them to the bushes near her sacred wells.

This is Her Time of Year, a very special moment.

Her day is the Second of February,

A day upon which to seek wisdom from inside the Earth.

In the time before Patrick, serpents were sent

because they dwell in both worlds, above ground and below.

In Christian Times, the serpent became a Groundhog.

Our lady is a goddess of many aspects: Crone, Matron,

but she is pictured most often as the maiden.

Chant: Welcome Brigid, Welcome Brigid (the burning arrow of the power – Bridgette)

(Candles are lit. Maiden Goddess appears.)

Brigid: Blessings of the season upon you, my People.

I am She, that is the natural mother of all things,

Mistress and governess of all the elements,

The initial progeny of worlds,

Chief of the powers divine,

Queen of all that are in the other world,

the principal of them that dwell above,

Manifested alone and under one form

Of all the Gods and Goddesses.

Festival of coming Spring, Groundhog Day

Astrology Updates by Tara Greene Lets do the time warp again!Love,money magik rituals as Planets energy’s go direct.

Let’s do the Time warp again. Predictions, Ceremony energy meditations by Tara Greene copywrite 2010

Reflecting on these past two weeks:  Energies felt very fast up and busy up till Halloween. Since then the energies have been feeling very odd to me the last 2 weeks. As if it’s too busy yet moving through molasses at the same time. I felt a big high-energy shift last Friday on the 12^th which then sink into feeling incredibly exhausted. My confreres agreed to the same feelings. I said well the planets Jupiter and Venus are almost at a total slowdown for the past few days, we’re feeling that pressure.

Nov. 18 Venus, Goddess of sex, romance, love and Money and Jupiter, doing it big and taking risks both turn direct motion today! Jupiter, aka Yahweh, Zeus, the big windbag and my fave planet, being both Sagittarius and Pisces’ ruler, the planet of optimism humour, largess, truth, justices, travelling, philosophy and religion has been Retrograde since July 23 at 3 degrees 24 minutes of Aries. Now that was one long big winded Jupiterian opening sentence.  If you’re a Sagittarian {and a Piscean} we can call ourselves Jupiterish.

Funny you don’t look Jupiterish.

So think back to those 40 degree Celsius days in late July, where you were at back then has been being reviewed these past almost 4 months.

Planets are always at their most powerful when stationary- at a standstill and reversing gears, turning direct in motion.

Jupe, as he is known to his buddies, turns direct Nov 18 @ precisely 11:41 AM EDT at 23 degrees of Pisces + 30 mins.  Jupiter was last at that degree on April 30 in direct motion.  It’s just like a Time Warp.  Sing it Let’s do the Time warp again! It’s just a jump to the left.

Like the song from The Rocky Horror Picture Show- How fitting that Glee re-did the song recently for Halloween.

Jupiter won’t get back to 3 degrees of Aries + till Feb 9 2011. So we’ve another 3 months to get back to where we once… belonged?

The Sexy Parts

And what about the sexy love money Stuff? Venus is also moving from Stationary to Direct four and a half hours after Jupiter @ 4:10 pm EDT. Venus has only been retrograde since October 8, when she changed direction at 13 degrees of Scorpio 14 mins. Venus backed into her strength in her home sign of Libra since Nov 7^th.

A Retro Venus in Scorpio has created many steamy dramatic, secretive, kinky, S & M, soulful, gut wrenching, transformations, endings, deep shadow stuff coming into the light, power struggles, deep wounds.

Her bit of a breather in Libra is like sitting on the sides of the ring while in round 5 of the Soul Boxing Match of the world, catching our breaths as we get ready to go back into the fray. Venus turns Direct at 27 degrees of Libra and 39 minutes.

VENUS RE-ENTERS EROTIC SCORPIO on Nov 29! My birthday!

 November 29 @ 7:33 pm EDT Venus puts on her Victoria’s Secret lingerie once again. This 2^nd time around she’ll be more sexy and sultry then ever. Venus is considered to be in detriment in Scorpio. Sao she may be sulking a lot not being Happy in Hades dark realm of death and rebirth.  Venus is now ending her once every 18 months or so tour of the Underworld since Nov 4 when she arose as the beautiful Morning Star.

Mars the ruler of Scorpio has moved on, advancing into Sagittarius since October 28. Mars in Sagittarius puts the action {and defenses} into foreigners, travelling, truth, all those Jupiter-ish issues mentioned previously.

We’ll be erotically charged up right through to the New Year! I predict sales of ultra- sexy lingerie, sex-toys, hottie-items as you desire, to go through the roof this Xmas!

 PROSPERITY RITUAL MAGIK Friday Nov 19-20^th

Make good use of the Prosperity Planets change in direction

Change in the fortune planets direction changes your fortunes for the better!

This is an excellent time to change your luck, wealth, health, love life

Do ceremonies to align with Venus and Jupiter

For Venus, Friday Vendredi is Venus’s Day.

Jupiter’s Day s is Thursday, aka Thor’s Day after the Norse God equivalent of Jupiter the Thunder thrower Zeus.

I propose a combo Feng Shui Planetary alignment ceremony

 The Moon is Waxing which is best for doing magical ceremonies as energies are increasing to fullness and completion of the monthly cycle. Magik is done in harmony with the lunar signs, astrology aspects and planetary hours of the day and night. You can look up the planetary hours on the net for your specific location.

Friday Nov 19^th when Moon enters Taurus 5:04 am EDT is the best time.

So that the Moon will be under Venus’s ruler ship. This doubly strengthens Venus’s power over the Moon’s ruling of the feelings and unconscious!

The Moon Trines Pluto at 12:33 pm EDT a very big powerful beneficial aspect,  and stays with this aspect until Nov 20^th @ 6:47 am so one has all afternoon and all night to do the ritual.

JUPITER attributes in magik

We want to gather as many symbols, attributes, similarities to both Planets energies, mainly focussing on Venus here. Jupiter’s colour are purple and his metal is tin; amethyst, topaz, emeralds his jewels. Oregano, nutmeg some oh his spices; olive, ivy, ash his trees; lungwort, balsam, borage his herbs and pomegranates are his fruits.

 In Feng Shui tradition one would get 5 red envelopes, as 5 is Venus’s number and fill them with 5 silver coins, as Silver is Venus’s metal. I would bless and consecrate and empower the envelopes and coins during the ceremony. Have a green candle or candles for attracting money.

 A money oil recipe:

4 pts Frankinsence, 1 pt Heliotrope,½ pt Bay , 1 pt Orange,

½ pt Cinnamon or Cassia,  2 pts Sandalwood {optional}

Use this oil to anoint green candles in any ritual to bring wealth into your home.

Wear green or Blue for Love abundance.

Use a lovely living round leaved green plant.  Some copper coins, silver objects, can be jewellery, gold, amethyst and a $20 bill up to a $100 bill. The largest amount you can get. . Bring into your circle anything, which represents the abundance you want to call in. Not just money, but expansion, travels which Jupiter rules. If for love bring in pictures or things that symbolize the love you wish to receive. But remember to affirm that you already have it!

Get centred. Smudge before doing any ritual to consecrate sacred space. Incense of pure quality will do. Rose, Frankincense are good for Venus.  Breath relaxes, ground.  Put on some nice pleasant relaxing meditation music.

After you’ve anointed yourself and your candles with the oils, Light your green candle.  With a crystal wand or a consecrated knife as a wand, or a magical wand if you have one, create and delineate a sacred space around you into which all your ritual objects are located. From the center Call in the 4 directions starting in the East and moving clock-wise.

Put the amethyst crystal on the money to energize it. Everything is intention. The more power you can bring in, the more the spell works. The planets help focus the energies.

Go slowly. Your intention is to give thanks for the incredible abundance of wealth, health, and love in your life. Say this with happy energy, with fullness in you, even if you’re dirt-poor broke; act as if you have just won a lottery. This attracts that which you desire to you. Always affirm that you already have that which you desire because in truth you already do have all that you desire by sacred law.

Imagine the currents of ethers, the beautiful Goddess Venus or see her as Kwan Yin, Green Tara and Jupiter all together raining down

 Healing raindrops,

Love, rose petals, lotuses, lilies, fragrance, perfumes, see beautiful birds,

Angels, light surround you,

Large sums of money raining down onto you as gold coins,

Open your hands palms up to receive all the abundance into your life.

Open your crown chakra to receive the Light

 Open your heart to receive the love.

After the ceremony: Take time afterwards to ground the energy. Thank the spirits and the elements of all the directions for being with you in ceremony.  Allow them to go back to their worlds and directions with thanks and love.

The Chinese coins in the envelopes should be given away to people you appreciate or leave them surreptitiously placed so strangers find them, so that you give without expectations. It is important to give away, which opens your heart with abundance and as you give away, the more room you have to receive.

I believe that this is a very powerful time to do this type of ritual magic. So do Let me know how this worked for you. Keep track of your dreams.

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