Duchess Meghan, 40th Birthday, her year ahead

Meghan’s birthday is today August 4 as she hits the Big 40. you know what they say, life begins at 40. She has accomplished a lot already, especially in the past only 3 years and a bit since she married her Prince, Harry in front of billions of people. We all know her story. Let’s look at what her 40th year looks like in the stars.

Meghan Markle birth chart and 40th birthday astrology predictions

Her solar return the actual birthdate when the sun returns to your actual birth moment by decree was August 3rd.

Her Moon, representing her emotional security, her home, family, children, her mother, is at 21 ° Gemini in her 11th house opposite her natal Neptune in Sagittarius the sign of the teacher, communicating, inspiring, spiritual, imaginative, charitable, Neptune rules film and photography, in her 5th House of creativity, self-expression, fertility, will power, leadership. Meghan will definitely have a big creative year ahead. Non-profits, creative film projects spiritual work, and teaching is all part of this.

Mercury, planet of Comminications is also conjunct her Proud Leo sun. Further underscoring a big hearted, dramatic as always, generous, child centered, joyful year ahead

Venus conjunct her natal Venus in Virgo is also very positive. In her zone of perfectionism, hard work, hands on details and health oriented in her 3rd House of communications, siblings, short journeys, writing, and generating ideas she loves and with those she loves.

Mars is her inner and outer Masculine energy in Virgo at 3 Degrees Conjuncts Ceres the Great Mother in her 2 House of resources, values, assets. This can indicate a passion for motherhood, Firey perfection in mothering, also Prince Harry being a very hands on dad, especially with Archie, now a big brother and going through the Terrible Two’s. He may be angry about being overlooked for a younger baby. This can also be a strong bond with her mother Doria who is helping out more than is known in public. Meghan is a workaholic and she will try to do it all. this symbolizes getting pregnant very easily and my intuition feels that she and Harry will have a third child, She will also want to work on projects for mothers and children.

Jupiter, planet of truth, Justice, expansion, travel, higher learning, freedom, philosophy, humour, fertility, faith and luck is at the last degree of Aquarius In her 8th house of Inheritance, transformation, and death, Retrograde square her Uranus and Lilith in Scorpio and Chiron the Wounded Healer in late Taurus. This can indicate sudden chaotic turns of events in her life. She will still be reviled as a demoness by many. She is vulnerable to this hatred. She may act like it doesn’t bother her but it does. Shocking revelations may come out.

Saturn, planet of karma limitations, obstacles, testing, maturity and her father is at 10 degrees Aquarius in her 7th house of marriage and all others, opposite to her Sun with transiting Mercury there too. She will have a painfully face off with her dad. She may have to force him to stop commenting on the news. This also indicates her father could die. The high side of this could also be a karmic turning point and under unusual maybe outer pressure she will open up communications with her estranged father. This can be pressure in her marriage with Harry too. Restrictions from the outside world.

Uranus at 14 Taurus in her 10 H of worldly fame is square her Leo Sun and square to transiting Saturn. There will be chaos, unexpected drama and restriction. Powerful Leo royals will try to limit her power in the world in some way.

Neptune square Neptune is often a feeling lost year. But also A year Of projecting, creativity, dreamy, spirituality.

Pluto in Capricorn ♑️ is sitting right on her DC. In her 7th house opposite her AC. And square her natal Juno, Goddess of marriage and feminine genius in Libra ♎️ in her 4th House of home, roots, family. Motherhood. Meghan is seen as being a very powerful woman, mother, an 8 armed goddess.

Pluto can really bring immense soul wealth if she doesn’t buy into the corporate powers structure and get seduced by power,and it’s abuses, wealth and the material plane. Pluto usually brings destruction, demotion, and strips away anything that is not on your Soul’s path.

Chiron in Aries is exactly on her MC her point of world fame and recognition exactly square her natal Mars in Cancer in her 12H . This aspect can indicate vulnerability, depression, post-partum issues, and unresolved anger. Meghan can also use this aspect to help mothers, with depression, or those in a passive aggressive position to get help .

The North Node at 5 Gemini will contact Meghan’s natal part of Fortune at 1° Gemini in her 2st house of self identity before the end of the year. It shows great fortune with communications and partnerships.. And working in partnerships. We know Meghan is already working with David Furnish, Elton John’s husband to bring out an animated series empowering women.

Meghans year ahead Looks very powerful and positive but with some key once in a lifetime challenging transits.

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Total Eclipse of the Womb July 2

On July 2, a North Nodal Cancer Total Solar Eclipse occurs at 10 degrees 38 Minutes of the 4th sign of the Zodiac. 

Max eclipse: 12:16 pm PDT/ 3:16 pm EDT 7:16 pm GMT 

The 4th sign of the Zodiac, Cancer is the element of Water. It’s the sign of the Mother, emotions, nurturing, the child, the home, food, emotional safety and security, nursing, the Divine Feminine, the womb, rules the stomach, symbolizes the unconscious, roots, ancestors, and all bodies of water.

The eclipse will strongly impact Canada whose birthday is July 1st and also the U.S. whose birthday is July 4. Both countries will go through major changes affecting the people and homes, women’s issues, safety, health, children and food.

The womb chakra is the most sacred interdimensional portal in existence. Women are magnets who absorb 10 times more energy of all types than men. The 8th holy womb chakra is a place beyond the physical, where the soul is transduced down into the physical manifestation in the womb. Women need to wake up to this fact. It’s what I’m Co-leading a workshop the weekend before.

While we won’t see it in North America, Europe, or Asia it will only be visible in totality from the Southern Pacific Ocean East of New Zealand to the Coquimbo Region in Chile and Argentina at sunset, with the maximum of 4 minutes 32 seconds visible from the Pacific Ocean.

The area in the Totality shadow of eclipses are affected most directly affected. Just because we won’t see it doesn’t mean we won’t feel it especially in our own personal astrology charts.

Another total Solar Eclipse will cross this region again December 14, 2020, just 531 days later. Just before the climactic Jupiter Saturn conjunction on December 21, 2020.                                          

Eclipse reoccur ever 18+ years at the same degree. Think back to where you were on June 21,2001.

This eclipse impacts us very personally in our emotional bodies and our tummies. Do be mindful of what you eat. You are what you eat.  Cancer issues are emotional security and safety, our homes, our families, ancestors, roots, our children, What we want to nurture and what nurtures and sustains us in all dimensions.                

 Check to see where 8-12+ degrees Cancer falls in your astrology chart.

CAPRICORN is affected strongest at those degrees by opposition to the Total eclipse conjunct Saturn and South Node- its time to let go of the past. ARIES and LIBRA, Cardinal signs are squaring off with this eclipse energy. The pressure is on. Caught between the past and future. The eclipse is a North Nodal one that’s the future direction.

ECLIPSE MEANING

The Cancer womb rules eclipse, indicates lots of changes for women, for family issues, children, home and security, and most especially the womb, which Cancer symbolizes. The womb is hugely being contested in the US in stringent restrictive laws. The patriarchy, symbolized by Capricorn and South Node is attempting to regress women’s status.

Major astrology aspects to the Sun and moon

The opposition of the Sun Moon and North Node to Saturn Retrograde and widely to Pluto Retrograde and the South Node. 

This highlights the ongoing tensions, blowback and resistance to evolutionary change which Pluto always brings. 

Uranus the planet of do it radically is sextiling the Sun and Moon at 5+ degrees of earthy resourceful sensuous Taurus. This supports the urge for freedom. We see the Hong Kong protests as one serious manifestation of these energies.

How are you feeling this?

But there’s a grand fire Trine of Ceres, Great Mother to Chiron in Aries and Mars, with Mercury about to turn Retrograde in Leo conjunct Juno, feminine genius.

Jupiter is inconjunct to the Sun MOON and the North Node

it may feel frustrating to not know what your highest direction is.

Jupiter and Neptune are in their square of expansion, deception, freedom, addictions, truth, denial, foreigners and self-sabotage. This can be beautiful magical energy or very self-destructive.

Venus is on the North Star in Gemini opposite Galactic Center

Venus is attracting a lot of attention. She is playing both sides, charming the pants off of everyone and being a stellar pole dancer. Venus can do her thing on that cosmic pole dance connected with the Galactic Black Hole, which is a womb chakra, a place for cosmic birth which women are just learning to access. and just do it, sister. I’m Co-leading a workshop on womb chakra teachings

CHIRON the WOUNDED HEALER SHAMAN in ARIES is squaring the Sun being totally eclipsed by the moon.  Your energy and tummy will be feeling vulnerable.

NOTE: Chiron will be turning Retrograde July 8/9th

Lilith @ 6 Pisces is square Ceres in Sagittarius the mother/white split needs to be spoken about honestly and not denied.

Effects of The eclipse last 6 months by that time it’ll be January 2020. Think about what you want to cleanse in your life using the eclipse charged waters to assist you.

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Leave your Louboutin shoes at the Gates of Hell from Tara Greene

These are intense times folks. 7 days till the showdown at the NOT OK AT ALL Corporate ranch.

what happens on Jan 30? see below-  A RARE BLACK SUPER MOON!

VENUS initially MADE LOVE TO PLUTO, Lord of Death, sex, power and Rebirth on NOVEMBER 15 2013 at around 9 degrees of Capricorn when she was moving straight ahead. DID YOU FEEL IT?

You got planets their kids? Lets hear from you.

VENUS, GODDESS OF LOVE, BEAUTY, WOMEN, LUXURY, $$$$ has been RETROGRADE since WINTER SOLSTICE,

Dec 21 2013,she was at 28 degrees 59 minutes Capricorn..

VENUS in CAPRICORN, in any direction, is all about LOVE OF POWER & CORPORATE SUCCESS, {a BIG lie for women.}

It’s also about mature love, serious mating, cool detached yet earthy sensuality.

Romancing the stone. Capricorn is the earth itself. Goat Love. PAN LOVE. Fetta cheese etc.

As VENUS in her proper business suit is RETROGRADING back to the PLUTONIAN CORPORATE UNDERWORLD

she makes a menage a trois, over the next few weeks to mate in a near opposition with JUPITER, BIG DADDY on January 31 as she turns DIRECT,at 13 degrees 33 minutes Capricorn.

Sounds incestuous? It is. Wreaking with it.

NOTE THAT SPOT on your charts!

JUPITER in CANCER is also Retrograde till early March. So this three’s company is expansive,optimistic.

JUPITER in Cancer is all about returning to TRADITIONAL feminine values, of relationship, nurturing, family, children, home. This is NOT CHRISTIAN fundamentalism. No.

But in an entirely new way for women to have it all and on their terms. NOT the present terms though at all.

But we have to go through the DEATH and rebirth process first.

The FEMININE must REBIRTH HERSELF, return to connecting with the heart of DIVINE FEMININE Energy

with the earth, roots, all things in natural order, nothing artificial, PACHAMAMMA, they call her in PERU.

This is a COSMIC metaphor-the Modern incarnation of the Goddess INANNA voluntarily descending into the underworld of BIG BUSINESS. aka HELL.

EACH women must strip herself – no pole dancing ladies, in an initiation, of all her false values,  nails, boobs, liposuction, Botox, $800 Louboutin shows, Cartier jewelry, fake tans and other Fortune 500 signs of hollow excess/success.

She must get rid herself of Patriarchy’s fear of her power and her misguided insecurity and Masculine false values and embrace her once and always true, honored position as nurterer of all life giving things.

SHE MUST find her TRUE SACRED SELF once again. 

EVERY individual woman must come face to face with her own participation in the wholesale selling of,

her greatest gift, the Selling out of her DIVINE FEMININE SOUL, her true sexuality, her values, her intuition, her body…  in order to pay the high price tag of pseudo- admission to belong to the OLD BOYS CLUB.

It’s a dark, dangerous, shadow laden voyage where we witness and own our own depravity, greed, excess, glamour, false power. Love it and let it go.Then she can rise again as a more real, fulfilled, initiated GODDESS Women.

“EVERYTHING comes from the FEMININE and nothing is ever done to harm the children.” TWO SACRED LAWS.

This is a total spiritual inversion and reimmersion.

SHE/you  don’t have to whore herself out,  don’t have to kow tow and sell out her essence, the FEMININE values wholesale to the corporate world ever again..WITNESS JEFF BROWNS WRITINGS.

MEN this goes for you as well. Your soul, called the ANIMA is always FEMININE.  Look at where you have also sold your self out for false illusions of power, success, greed and divorced yourself from nurturing and being vulnerable.

We must find the TRUE FEMININE SOUL VOICE. For all women world-wide, brought up in 5,000 years of Patriarchal brainwashing in every quarter must now learn to listen to their own bodies, their intuition, their deep selves, their true selves. AND SAY NO NO and NO and YES YES YES to new values. That’s VENUS.

All each one of us has to do is listen within. See the Baloney that we have been sold. IT’s all pervasive. Dump that programme. Have ethics, values, a sense of right and wrong. The 20th Century has been a case of greed, glamour, false values and a disaster. 

It’s a huge struggle, VENUS in CAPRICORN is also LOVING and preserving the wealth of the earth itself with PLUTO it is about the death of corporate ownership of the land, if we are to survive as a species.

Witness NEIL YOUNG’S recent stand against the robber barons and Canad’as PM HArper against the Alberta Tar Sands waste land. Farmers protesting MONSANTO, the occupy movement, the Native rights movement, the deep ecology movement, David Suzuki, OPRAH herself,

Andrew Harvey’s SACRED ACTIVISM, JOANNA MACY, STARHAWK, DEENA METZGER, Marion Williamson, who is now running for Congress in CALIFORNIA. To name a few.

DO YOU GET THIS?  I Am totally impassioned about this.

JUPITER ,VENUS and PLUTO are almost exactly aligned on January 30th the NEW MOON which should properly be called the Dark MOON. We can use this time to create MAGIC, to change everything.

It’s a Super Moon and a rare BLACK MOON. Two NEW MOONS in one month.

Won’t happen again for years. The ancient pagans/wiccans would have called it a BLACK MOON as it was a very sacred time.

The BLACK MOON, not the same as Lilith, but associated by the darkness aspect.

The BLACK MOON is the Moon’s most traditionally FEMININE, most mysterious, magical,time.

Before electricity and when women lived closely in small towns or tribes they all menstruated at the same time,

during the BLACK MOON. This was the time of the RED TENT, moon lodge or menstrual yurt hut or cave usage.

Women would retreat together, to honour their sacred blood and feed and nourish the earth, with their sacred flows.

It was a well known fact that all women were considered SACRED, the origin of the words “taboo” when bleeding,

and at the height of their psychic powers, so men were in fear and awe of their sacredness. 

SACRED PRIESTESS Would make love to men to cleanse them on the time of the Black Moon,

therefore its reputation as being “dark” sinister and associated with later Patriarchal put downs.

THE BLACK MOON TIME is SACRED to the GODDESS HEKATE she of the three crossroads.  

HEKATE is an  ANCIENT chthonic, pre-Olympian Goddess

she rules over the earth, the sea and  the sky. A VIRGIN GODDESS, she belonging to no man.

She has the power to create or hold back storms,

she rules magic, spirits, the dead, sorcery, the DARK MOON,childbirth, often accompanied by dogs, and horses, 

she sits in judgement of Kings, those who worship Her are gifted.

So use this time wisely over the next 7 days, a sacred number to prepare for this auspicious SUPER BLACK MOON.

I will create an instruction Video and have a tele seminar ready hopefully as well.

ANY QUESTIONS about the BLACK MOON< your role? 

PLEASE PLEASE SHARE WIDELY it is so important that women take back their true feminine power,

Blessings, TARA Greene

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ANDREW HARVEY SACRED ACTIVISM http://www.andrewharvey.net/

MARION WILLIAMSON FOR CONGRESS http://www.marianneforcongress.com/

JEFF BROWN SOULSHAPING SOULSHAPING Jeff Brown

DEENA METZGER  DEENA METZGER

MOTHER OF DARKNESS 

I AM THE GODDESS by LISA THIEL 1985 

1:11 Capricorn New Moon, Numerology,scapegoat Astrology Tara Greene

OMG things are getting quite transparent. Things are fluxing like crazy. Clients are coming to me feeling suicidal, awash with all the big major Astrological energies. Most of these clients are born in 1984 or mid 1977 and are getting major Uranus and Pluto hits.

HOw are you doing?

Breathe, everyone is feeling the undulating currants of the snake. Shed shed shedding your old skin.

The first New moon of 2013 is a reality check, a horny one at that. Giving us steadfastness.

CAPRICORN SURE FOOTEDNESS

the first since the Winter Solstice, has Sun Moon Mercury Venus and JUNO all in Capricorn- that’s 5 objects in the sign, called a stellium in Astrologeese language.

Pretty earthy. Capricorn in spite of its being thought of as all corporate these days, structure, hierarchies, the Patriarchy

is  an EARTH SIGN and all earth signs are FEMININE. 

CAPRA means a SHE GOAT.  Capricious derives from this name.A she-goat breast fed  Zeus as an infant.

Traditionally  SATURN was the GREAT MOTHER , Saturn rules matter and matter = mother.

for we are all of woman born and Saturn rules the 3rd dimension, reality, density, the material world.

and my Tarot card teacher taught me its connection with Kabbalah that Saturn is Binah the 3rd Sephiroth on the Tree of Life.

She is the Empress although usually associated with Venus. it’s complicated.

Goats were often used as scapegoats, all the sins of the old year were intentionally placed on to the goat who was taken far from the city and left to wander, taking everyone’s old sins with them. It is a nice ritual, and serves a purpose. but dont scapegoat anyone or thing. stay real.

1:11 is the signification for the 11:11 world wide meditation that occurred in 1992.

it is a significator of new beginnings and memory= 11 is memory, master number. Do you see 11:11 on your clock? wake up time.

Sun and Moon exactly quincunx Ceres at 21 degrees of Gemini- indicating Gemini=-mind and matter need to learn how to integrate, understand and speak the same language, walk the same talk so to speak.

PLUTO MOVES INTO new territory-since april 2012 

Pluto last went Retrograde APRIL 11 2012 at 9 degrees 34 minutes and is NOW just surpassing that point,

what were you doing last April? It’s been a long and winding soul road back up, looking in the rear view mirror in Hades.

Pluto advances only 2 degrees this entire year.

Uranus advances to 12 degrees 31 minutes of ARIES  by year’s end from 4 degrees 46 minutes Jan 1 2013 and ends the year at 8 degrees 40 minutes.

Revolution and Destruction/resurrection  are the names to bet on

THE 2 power planets continue to be in a tight square breaking down society, making new warriors,gun control issues, inventions,revolutions personally and all over  the world.

Chiron squares Saturn from 6 Pisces to 10 Scorpio 

Yes LOVE HURTS,

and old karmic wounds hurt, and your feet should hurt- Pisces, and sexuality, cruelty, S & M, treatment of rape- which is  Scorpio ruled, the INDIA rape case being ousted into world headlines yes women’s rights are front and center where they will be for the next…long time.

and all forms of terrorism, including financial, ruthless, wanton waste, are all being revealed through Saturn’s cold eye.

Neptune advances to 1 degree Pisces now.

Mars is in Aquarius in sighting new technology revolutions & demands for more freedoms.

Jupiter is still Retrograde till January 30 so keep reviewing in your notebooks and journals what territory you gained, lost, neglected, let go of last year.

ERIS the new Goddess dwarf planet on  the block -Goddess of DISCORD is at 21 degrees  ARIES, exactly square to SUN AND MOON

indicating this is the WINTER of our DISCONTENT

the North Node at 24 degrees Scorpio- our highest spiritual goal, is quincunx to ERIS, it is a fight to stay centered and focused on the great transformation at hand

We might well feel like Captain Ahab in the storm bravely fighting to keep his hands on the ships’ wheel, weathering the storm, fate, Moby Dick,

his obsessions, or like Captain Kirk on Starship Enterprise, or battling the Empire’s huge hordes against ghastly odds.,

But remember the FORCE IS WITHIN YOU.

The need to stay grounded is so important –wear or carry black tourmaline and hematite

Protect yourself- breathe, rest, we should be like bears in the cave

eat lots of fetta cheese.

wear your goat horns like a proud VALKYRIE they are horns of heavenly protection.

Blessings TARA

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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

Milk of Human Kindness Cancer Full Moon Jan 19 by Tara Greene

Milk is the Milky way Galaxy “

Cancer Full Moon Jan 19 ,11 Critical Time to Nurture & Be Nurtured and Jan 22 Beginning of beginning cycles of 2011 copyright Tara Greene 2011- infinity 

No the signs have not changed in my world or yours. The attributes of the signs remains the same. This is the 4^th of five full Moons in a row that occur at the LAST DEGREE of a sign. Full moons are a culmination of the monthly lunar cycle, the fullness, and heavy, fertile. The Moon’s gravitational pull on the oceans and on our bodies and emotions is at full tilt!

At 29 degrees of Cancer the sign ruled by La Luna Herself we find ourselves symbolically engorged with emotion, awash with feelings, engorged with the need to nurture and be nurtured. 29 degrees of Cancer represent the ultimate Home coming/coming home. It symbolizes the nourishing unconditional love of the Great Mother, whose cosmic Milk spurts across the heavens always and our very own galaxy is named for her Milk of Human Kindness- the Milky Way.

So Cancer is all about home, Mom, the womb, privacy, safety, emotional security, feelings, the Feminine, the womb, the tomb, real estate, self-sacrificing, the stomach, food. The dark side of Cancer can be eating disorders, selfishness, inability to relate emotionally, smothering others, self-indulgence.

The Sun at 29 degrees of Capricorn tells us this is a final earthy turning point. Capricorn ruled by Saturn is all about discipline, dedication, commitment, maturity, and responsibility.

Capricorn usually reps the patriarchy, corporations, the father, seniors. Capricorn is Ruled by Saturn, which is the planet of Karma, obstacles, and limitations. The shadow side of Capricorn is domination,

Very Powerful Full Moon all about Feelings, Love @ 1:22 pm PST, 4:22 pm EST, 9:22 pm GST  

Balance your need for work, social standing {Capricorn Sun} and your most private space, where you need to retreat to, the emotional space that almost no one sees, your most private space. Sign Cancer is your unconscious, the ocean of imaginal experience and memories, the karmic fluid, the womb, mom both Archetypal and your real mom.

Whether your experience with your mother was/ is positive, unconditionally loving or not in various degrees, spaces, places and time.

Your own birth is the starting place, a description for your life.  How you feel about your inner Feminine, your Intuition and feelings, what you nurture, how you nurture others and yourself is the dichotomy that needs to be balanced at this Cancer Full Moon.

At the full moon reflect, a Cancerian image of the Full Moon on still waters on your birth, your beginnning, the Breast, nurturing, how you were nurtured and how it affects how you nurture.

Read the whole shebang meditation and Jan 22 big new beginning at

http://taratarotweb.tripod.com/id32.html