Feb. 2 Imbolc/ New Moon in Aquarius Tara Greene ceremony LIVE
the MUSE TAROT deck
February starts with a NEW MOON/Chinese Lunar New Year of the Water Tiger which aligns with JUPITER in PISCES transit. THE MOON at 12+ degrees conjunct Saturn squares Uranus in Taurus highlights tension between STATUS Quo and the need for grassroots revolution and freedom. We will see these themes reflected in the new.
ALL PLANETS MOVE DIRECT after Feb. 3 Mercury stations Direct in Capricorn conjunct Pluto.
CERES, the dwarf planet enters GEMINI on 9th and PALLAS ATHENA enters ARIES Feb 13/14
DETAILS
Feb.1 {Jan. 31} NEW MOON at 9:45 pm PST @ 12+ AQUARIUS Feb 1 at 12:45 am EST/ 5:45 am
Feb.2 IMBOLC, Groundhog Day, Candlemas mid-point of winter and spring in Northern Hemisphere– JOIN ME LIVE TONIGHT ON MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL FOR A RITUAL AND GUIDED MEDITATION ON BRIGIT AND THE SPARK OF SPRING, POETRY, ASTROLOGY MAGIC AND NEW INTENTION SETTING. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKiaTzkSadKdI3dj3cHH1Hw
Feb. 3 Mercury turns Stationary direct in Capricorn conjunct PLUTO
Feb 4 MARS AND JUPITER in Pisces sextile
SUN CONJUNCT SATURN IN AQUARIUS AT 15+ DEGREES
Feb. 6 MARS in CAPRICORN square CHIRON IN ARIES at 9+ degrees
Feb. 8 MARS trine URANUS at 11 degrees
Feb.11 MERCURY CONJUNCT PLUTO at 27+ degrees at the US PLUTO RETURN degree
Feb. 14 MERCURY enters AQUARIUS just in time for a virtual valentine’s day
FULL MOON Feb. 16, 11:56 am EST @ 27 LEO square Taurus/Scorpio NODES. Critical karmic lunation, royal elites and guillotines, Taurus rules the neck Saturn in Aquarius rules death + Scorpio S. NODE
Feb. 16 VENUS conjunct MARS in CAPRICORN A HUGE SERIOUS ROMANTIC TIME as VENUS and MARS MEET up at 16+ CAPRICORN. Good for any long-term plans, getting yourself in shape, and balancing your inner polarities. Remember 2022=6 The Lovers.
Feb. 17 JUPITER sextile URANUS
Feb. 18 PISCES SEASON BEGINS at 11:43 am EST
FEB. 20 The US has it’s FIRST of 3 exact PLUTO RETURNS at 27+ degrees CAPRICORN
Feb 22 is great numerology 2.22.2022= 12/3
Feb. 23 MARS in CAPRIOCRN sextiles NEPTUNE and MERCURY SEXTILES CHIRON
Feb 24 A DREAMY ROMANCE & PROJECTION Full day VENUS sextile NEPTUNE in PISCES
February 2nd in modern secular times we have the mash-up of Candlemas/Imbolc and Groundhog day. I know that the last year feels like the same day on re-re-re-re-peat.
What is Candlemas?
Originally an ancient pagan holiday. At the beginning of February, in honoring of the myth of spring, wherein Pluto stole Proserpine/Persephone, and her mother Ceres/ Demeter sought her in the night with lighted candles. The custom was to walk around the city with lighted candles in honor of the Goddess. Because the Christians could not destroy these ancient customs, they called it Candlemas and made it in honor of the Blessed Virgin.
February also takes its name from Februa meaning “religious purification”, and means “the month of purification”, or “the cleansing month”.
Candlemas is celebrated as the 40th day of Jesus’s birth where he was presented in the Temple in Jerusalem for blessing by the Rabbi.. Mothers stayed in their homes with newborns until the 20th day. Simeon then prophesied to Mary: “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against. Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed” it is recorded in the Gospels.
In modern archetypes, Groundhog Day has become an icon for the literal theme of the movie about “seeing your shadow” which the groundhog may or may not do on Feb 2. The Movie, starring Bill Murray from 1993 directed and written by Harold Ramis. has the protagonist in a karmic time loop. He woke up every day experiencing the same things over and over and he cannot die.
The message is: WHAT KARMIC LESSONS are you still stuck on and repeating over and over, like Phil Connors in the film?
Think about this during Mercury’s Retrograde in Aquarius,the sign of liberation.
Make this your Groundhog day mantra.
Where am I stuck in my life? What am I resisting?
Why do I keep repeating the same old same old lessons?
The first week in February is a volatile but restrictive one.Its the beginning of the planets moving into the 11th Sign. There will be an Aquarian traffic jam on the New Moon February 11 at 23+ Aquarius.
The Moon travels from Virgo through to Capricorn during the week.
MAJOR Aspects this week:
SUN MARS square on February 1st
Head butting, Mars in Taurus rules the Bull Market. Sun in Aquarius is the Wallstreet Reddit guys/ cryptocurrencies/ revolution freedom. So you can see there will be many head to heads. The Redditers won’t back down.
ARIES and AQUARIUS, TAURUS SCORPIO and LEO all Fixed signs feel the tension.
VENUS ENTERS AQUARIUS on the 1stuntil February 25
FEBRUARY 1/ or 2 is IMBOLC a pagan Festival of FIRE sacred to St.Brigid. ill post separatelt about that.
we are half way to SpRING can you believe it?
ALso GROUNDHOG DAY watch the great classic movie
VENUS CONUNCTS SATURN on the 5/6 at 5+ AQUARIUS
This is VENUS+ LOVE and money which Venus rules and Saturn = LIMITS, taxes, the old boys of the Headgefunds and Saturn still ruling Aquarius restrictions.
There will be protests against vaccines, enforced government controls and battles heating upeverywhere in the world. Protests around any kind of restrictions. The revolutionary fervor is ramping up.
Things get serious and/or restricted or limited choked up. It also makes the AQUARIAN energy gets real and solid. It has many aspects and applications.
This could be cryptocurrencies getting legit or stopped and legislated. For sure the SEC will apply control. or try to.
It’s Good for a high-tech business meeting or opening up an old organization, network or serious revolts. SERIOUS REVOLTS feels more like it.
I’m just sensing JUPITER in PISCES which starts May 13/14 until July 28 that there will be big underground networks springing up.Then Jupiter will enter PISCES December 28/29 for most of 2022. It will be a very spiritual year coming up.More about that in a bit. Click on the image to see video on Youtube
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February 1/2 is the Pagan celebration of Imbolc St. Brigid’s Day Candlemas Groundhog Day. It’s a Cross-quarter day of the Wheel of the Year signifying that we are half way to Spring in the Northern Hemisphere- Spring is coming.
On a secular level Bill Murray’s famous comedy is a spiritual teaching metaphor which gained wide appeal and is considered a classic fable/comedy 20 years after its initial release. Bill Murray plays a cynical newscaster who keeps waking up on Groundhog Day living a deja vu, being stuck in time and immortal. Eventually, he figures out that being kind and nice and improving himself is the best thing to do. He learns to care and love and wins the love of his colleague and is free to move on from being stuck in his karmic lessons and live his life.
Feb. 1st –2nd Traditional Irish and Pagan Holiday Celebrations
Saint Brigid’s Day,or Bride’s Day, is both a Catholic and Pagan Celebration of an ancient Goddess tradition. Christians overlaid the Ancient Goddess holiday renaming it Candlemas or the fest of the Purification of the Virgin
In the Tarot Brigid would be the Queen of Wands or The Woman on the Strength card.
Triple Goddess/Saint Brigid/Bride
According to scholar Robert Graves, Brigid is the most Ancient Triple Goddess worshipped since time out of mind. The Goddess rules scholars and poets. 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,and new growth.
If you are uncertain of your path imagine yourself at a four-cornered crossroads, or go to an actual one and invoke Brigid to show you which path to take.
Goddess of Augury, prophets and seers. Celtic seers divined by looking into deep water and into flames. This is a great time to do divination with either.Elements- Water and fireBrigid rules the Waters and wells. Many healing springs are dedicated to Brigid. Natural bodies of water also signify Her presence, particularly where three streams joined together. Good time to take a special healing water bath or shower in Brigid’s honor.
She is the Goddess of fire and inspirations, poetry, creativity, smithcraft and healing. 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 flaming spear, an orb of victory, and wears a war crown. She symbolizes protection of the country from invaders and slavery. The name “Britain” is derived from Brigit’s name. Britain’s symbol, the Goddess Brigantia, is still found on their 50 cent coin is Brigid.
Midwives
As Patroness of Midwives, she was invoked at the door of the home where the woman was giving birth, by the midwife. Brigid guards every newborn, their cradles protected with a woven Brigit’s Cross, an equal-armed cross.
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.
RITUAL for Brigid
INCENSE: Rosemary, Frankincense, Myrrh, Cinnamon
Gemstones: Turquoise, Amethyst, Garnet and Onyx
Your house especially the hearth needs to be cleaned and purified to make way for Brigid to bless your house all year-long. Light a candle and carry it into every room to welcome her.
Call her
Bride of the earth, keeper of the Eternal Flame
daughter of the Tuatha de Danaan, sister of faeries,
She comes to waken the earth from its slumber,
to strengthen the Sun’s rays,
She bring warmth and light back once more
and sets seeds slowly stirring below our Mother earth
Her Light is ever eternal, waxing and waning,
Brigid light my heart and my passion afire anew .
Light a Candle and Invoke the Goddess at this time-I kindle this candle in the name of Brighid, Goddess of Smiths,BRIGID is alive and well.
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.)
Maiden, Mother, and Crone – A Triple Goddess.
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.
A day upon which to seek wisdom from inside the Earth.
In the time before Patrick, serpents were sent out because they dwell in both worlds, above ground and below.
IMBOLC song written by Lisa Thiel
Blessed Bridget comest thou in Bless this house and all of our kin Bless this house, and all of our kin Protect this house and all within Blessed Bridget come into thy bed With a gem at thy heart and a crown on thy head Awaken the fire within our souls Awaken the fire that makes us whole Blessed Bridget, queen of the fire Help us to manifest our desire May we bring forth all thats good and fine May we give birth to our dreams in time
Blessed Bridget comest thou in Bless this house and all of our kin From the source of Infinite Light Kindle the flame of our spirits tonight
Blessed Bridget come into thy bed With a gem at thy heart and a crown on thy head Awaken the fire within our souls Awaken the fire that makes us whole
Blessed Bridget, queen of the fire Help us to manifest our desire May we bring forth all thats good and fine May we give birth to our dreams in time
Blessed Bridget comest thou in Bless this house and all of our kin From the source of Infinite Light Kindle the flame of our spirits tonight
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”- George Santayana, in The Life of Reason, 1905 Significant words.
February 2nd in modern secular times is the mash-up of Imbolc,an ancient pagan Fire fertility festival on February 1 dedicated to Brigid keeper of the Sacred Flame which is also bound up with Groundhog day as it is the midpoint between winter and spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Candlemas, celebrated on February 2md is the Christianized version of the Pagan Cross- quarter festival.
Groundhog day is a popular tradition celebrated in Canada and the United States on based on a Pennsylvania Dutch superstition that if a groundhog or woodchuck emerges from its burrow on this day and sees its shadow it means that winter will last for six more weeks, and if it does not see its shadow spring will arrive early.
Groundhog_Day,_Punxsutawney,_2013-1 Anthony Quintano
Groundhog Day 1993, has become an icon for the spiritual and literal theme of the movie about “seeing your shadow” which the groundhog may or may not do on Feb 2. The Movie, starring Bill Murray, directed and written by Harold Ramis, has the protagonist in a karmic time loop. He woke up every day experiencing the same things over and over and he cannot die.
The message is: WHAT KARMIC LESSONS are you still stuck on and repeating over and over, like Phil Connors in the film?
Make this your Groundhog day mantra.
Where am I stuck in my life? What am I resisting?
Why do I keep repeating the same old same old same old lessons?
Why is the collective unconscious so unconscious that we keep repeating these same old boring lessons?
This is very valid considering what’s going on in the world these days.
Just remember the famous song from Groundhog Day.
“I GOT YOU, BABE.”
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Feb. 2 is a very powerful cross-quarter day in the 8 spoked wheel of the year. Goddess Brigid’s Day is celebrated as IMBOLC or CANDLEMASS, an ancient pagan, Wiccan Festival of the quickening of the light. Catholics, who had to add the ancient holidays onto their new Catholic ones, celebrate this as the Feast of the Purification of Mary.
Popularly known as GROUNDHOG DAY, the movie starring Bill Murray is a classic film based on some very spiritual ideas about Karma.
This day marks the Goddesses’ coming out for the first time after giving birth to the SUN at Winter solstice. Visualize this time as the baby sun nursing from the Goddess’s breast. Traditionally all women had a 6 week “lying in” period after giving birth where they stayed in their homes with their newborns to ensure the mother-child bond and to make the infant stronger. Mother and child were tended in all ways with food, and any other needs by family friends the community, or doulas.
This day is a Sabbat of purification after the shut-in life of Winter. A festival of light and fertility, it was once marked in Europe with huge blazes and fires everywhere. Fire symbolizes our own illumination and inspiration as well as light and heat. Also called the Feast of Torches, Oimelc, Lupercalia, Feast of Pan, Snowdrop Festival, and the Feast of the Waxing Light.
The old Scandinavian custom was to wear crowns of lit candles but most practitioners carry candles during their invocations and ceremonies.
This date celebrates the changing of the Goddess from the CHRONE back to the MAIDEN. It celebrates the very earliest signs of Spring and the noticeable lengthening of the days in the Northern hemisphere.
It is also a day of celebrating the Celtic Goddess Brigid. Brigid is the Goddess of Poetry, Healing, Smithcraft, and Midwifery.
She is a triple Goddess, honor her in all her aspects. Her symbols are serpents, representing the sacred fire of sexuality. All ancient Goddesses knew the sacred secrets of Tantric sexuality, healing, and transformation. Brigid governed wells. There is still a holy well in Ireland where she is workshopped. This is both a fire and water celebration, the balance of masculine and feminine energies.
This is a time for communing with Brigid, for tending to and the lighting of your own sacred flame, the KUNDALINI fire of sexual tantric transformation.
This is a good time for initiations, into covens or self-initiations. Initiations of all kinds are the order of the day.
The TAROT card that would accompany this Festival would be the ACE OF WANDS
The planets are well placed to support the fire and the water.
The MOON is in ARIES for most of the day in PST and EST. Mars is strong in ARIES. The Moon trines Saturn in Fiery SAGITTARIUS in the morning. VENUS is at the last critical degree of watery PISCES. JUNO, the feminine form of genius is at the last degree of SAGITTARIUS. CERES is at the last degree of ARIES.
As a Purification Day
Use water and salt to purify yourself. Wash your hands and face in salt water. Sprinkle salt water which you have blessed charging it. Sprinkle it in every corner of your home. Water is the most important element. Water transmutes all hardness, breaks down anything over time. Water also symbolizes the emotions. We need to purify our emotional bodies as well.
The waters of the earth these days needs our help and intentions. The oceans are polluted from Fukushima, from oil spills, fracking and toxins being poured into the rivers and lakes. Send your intention to see theearth’s waters running clear pure, cleansed. Bathing in Himalayan salt water while burning red candles would be appropriate.
Brigid, GODDESS OF CREATIVITY
Do something creative, read poetry, suspend your critical mind and allow your left brain consciousness to take over and allow a pure stream of consciousness to write a poem, sing, or dance. Dedicate a future work to Her.
IMBOLC RITUAL
At sunset or just after a ritual, light every lamp in the house – if only for a few moments. Or, light candles in each room in honor of the Sun’s rebirth. If snow lies on the ground outside, walk in it for a moment, recalling the warmth of summer. With your projective hand, trace an image of the Sun on the snow.
FOODS TO EAT
Imbolc marks the first calving and dairy dishes are traditionally consumed. You could eat yogurt or sour cream. If you are on non-dairy, honor the cows with a statue of a cow, or transmute your non-dairy soya, oat milk, almond milk or coconut milk to honor the cows and sheep. Hot fiery foods definitely match up with the fiery celebratory nature of this feast.All curries and all dishes made with red peppers, chilies, onions, leeks, shallots, garlic or chives are appropriate. It is traditional to consume Spiced red wines and dishes containing raisins, symbols of the sun’s energies.
Hot fiery foods definitely match up with the fiery celebratory nature of this feast.All curries and all dishes made with red peppers, chilies, onions, leeks, shallots, garlic or chives are appropriate. It is traditional to consume Spiced red wines and dishes containing raisins, symbols of the sun’s energies.
Traditional grains were eaten to celebrate the growth of future grains. Serve crepes pancakes, cakes, and breads. Again if you are on a PALEO, no carbs and no grains diet, use spelt, Kamut, almond, rice, corn, amaranth or whatever and transmute it to honor the ancient grains. Put out a loaf of bread on your windowsill like they did in Ireland traditionally on Brigid’s day. An ear of corn was also set out. Wheat stalks are woven into X-shaped crosses to serve as charms to protect the home from fires and lightning. Clean out your fireplace.
IMBOLC RITUAL SUPPLIES Incense: Rosemary, Frankincense, Myrrh, Cinnamon Decorations: Corn Dolly or Spring Flowers Colors: White, Orange, Red
Ritual for Imbolc/Candlemas
A white flower or snow in a crystal or a paper cut out snowflake to symbolize winter. You could safely set this on fire and let it burn as a symbol of the spring coming.
You will need an orange candle anointed with cinnamon, frankincense or rosemary oil (unlit), red candle to represent the elements and your ritual supplies.
HOW TO
Arrange the altar, light the candles and censer, and cast the Circle. Call in the elements.
Invoke the Goddess and God.
Say such words as the following: “This is the time of the feast of FIRE/torches/wands, When every lamp blazes and shines To welcome the rebirth of the Sun God. Celebrate the Goddess, Celebrate the God; All the Earth celebrates, beneath its mantle of sleep.
Light the orange candle from the red candle on the altar. Slowly walk the circle clockwise/sunwise, holding the candle before you. Say these or similar words:
“All the land is wrapped in winter. The air is chilled and frost envelopes the Earth. But Lord of the Sun, Horned One of animals and wild places, Unseen you have been reborn Of the gracious Mother Goddess, Lady of all fertility. Hail Great God! Hail and welcome!”
Stop before the altar, holding up the candle. Gaze at its flame. Scry with the fire. Visualize your life blossoming with creativity, with renewed energy and strength.
If you need to look into the future or the past, now is an ideal time
SET NEW INTENTIONS
Make new commitments on this day.
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February 1/2 is the Pagan celebration of Imbolc St. Brigid’s Day Candlemas Groundhog Day. It’s a Cross-quarter day of the Wheel of the Year signifying that we are half way to Spring in the Northern Hemisphere- Spring is coming.
The Fiery Goddess Awakens
On a secular level Bill Murray’s famous comedy is a spiritual teaching metaphor which gained wide appeal and is considered a classic fable/comedy 20 years after its initial release. Bill Murray plays a cynical newscaster who keeps waking up on Groundhog Day living a deja vu, being stuck in time and immortal. Eventually he figures out that being kind and nice and improving himself is the best thing to do. He learns to care and love and wins the love of his colleague and is free to move on from being stuck in his karmic lessons and live his life.
Feb. 1st –2nd Traditional Irish and Pagan Holiday Celebrations
Saint Brigid’s Day,or Bride’s Day, is both a Catholic and Pagan Celebration of an ancient Goddess tradition. Christians overlaid the Ancient Goddess holiday renaming it Candlemas or the fest of the Purification of the Virgin
In the Tarot Brigid would be the Queen of Wands or The Woman on the Strength card.
Triple Goddess/Saint Brigid/Bride
According to scholar Robert Graves, Brigid is the most Ancient Triple Goddess worshipped since time out of mind. The Goddess rules scholars and poets. 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,and new growth.
If you are uncertain of your path imagine yourself at a four-cornered crossroads, or go to an actual one and invoke Brigid to show you which path to take.
Goddess of Augury, prophets and seers. Celtic seers divined by looking into deep water and into flames. This is a great time to do divination with either.Elements- Water and fire
Brigid rules the Waters and wells. Many healing springs are dedicated to Brigid. Natural bodies of water also signify Her presence, particularly where three streams joined together. Good time to take a special healing water bath or shower in Brigid’s honor.
She is the Goddess of fire and inspirations, poetry, creativity, smithcraft and healing. 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 flaming spear, an orb of victory, and wears a war crown. She symbolizes protection of the country from invaders and slavery. The name “Britain” is derived from Brigit’s name. Britain’s symbol, the Goddess Brigantia, is still found on their 50 cent coin is Brigid.
Midwives
As Patroness of Midwives, she was invoked at the door of the home where the woman was giving birth, by the midwife. Brigid guards every newborn, their cradles protected with a woven Brigit’s Cross, an equal armed cross.
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.
RITUAL for Brigid
INCENSE: Rosemary, Frankincense, Myrrh, Cinnamon
Gemstones: Turquoise, Amethyst, Garnet and Onyx
Your house especially the hearth needs to be cleaned and purified to make way for Brigid to bless your house all year-long. Light a candle and carry it into every room to welcome her.
Call her
Bride of the earth, keeper of the Eternal Flame
daughter of the Tuatha de Danaan, sister of faeries,
She comes to waken the earth from its slumber,
to strengthen the Sun’s rays,
She bring warmth and light back once more
and sets seeds slowly stirring below our Mother earth
Her Light is ever eternal, waxing and waning,
Brigid light my heart and my passion afire anew .
Light a Candle and Invoke the Goddess at this time-I kindle this candle in the name of Brighid, Goddess of Smiths,
BRIGID is alive and well.
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.)
Maiden, Mother, and Crone – A Triple Goddess.
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.
A day upon which to seek wisdom from inside the Earth.
In the time before Patrick, serpents were sent out because they dwell in both worlds, above ground and below.
IMBOLC song written by Lisa Thiel
Blessed Bridget comest thou in Bless this house and all of our kin Bless this house, and all of our kin Protect this house and all within Blessed Bridget come into thy bed With a gem at thy heart and a crown on thy head Awaken the fire within our souls Awaken the fire that makes us whole
Blessed Bridget, queen of the fire Help us to manifest our desire May we bring forth all thats good and fine May we give birth to our dreams in time
Blessed Bridget comest thou in Bless this house and all of our kin From the source of Infinite Light Kindle the flame of our spirits tonight
Blessed Bridget come into thy bed With a gem at thy heart and a crown on thy head Awaken the fire within our souls Awaken the fire that makes us whole
Blessed Bridget, queen of the fire Help us to manifest our desire May we bring forth all thats good and fine May we give birth to our dreams in time
Blessed Bridget comest thou in Bless this house and all of our kin From the source of Infinite Light Kindle the flame of our spirits tonight
Also plant seeds which will sprout at spring equinox.
Jian Ghomeshi gets his day in court February 1st 2016 after over a year since his initial sexual assault charges by three women. It’ll be more like Groundhog Day where Jian will be reliving the same thing over and over.
While the verdict will not be in for a few months. I wanted to quickly update what the stars are saying the outcome will likely be.
Even if you are not familiar with this particular trial case of sexual abuse. Please read what the stars say about the supposed perpetrator and how his outcome fares. I frickin love astrology.
With Uranus at 17 degrees ARIES in his 3rd house of communications,and PLUTO in Capricorn in his first house, of self-image and persona exactly opposite and in square to his Natal Mars at 16 degrees Libra {in detriment} in his 9th house of justice and honesty. This can indicate a very heavy shadowy wild card ride for Jian. He will be trying to appear peaceful and balanced, with his “rough sex consenting womens” alibi showcasing his passive/aggressive Mars side.
PLUTO and Mars both co-rules SCORPIO the sign of sexuality, S & M, shadows, control, secrets, death, power. Jian has SCORPIO on his 10th house CUSP, his highest standing in the world, his shining Career. He will be UNDONE by his sexual appetites, his need to be in control and his ignorance of dealing with his own shadows psychologically and having no respect for women.
Jian is a BORN NARCISSIST with mother issues. He has CERES the Great Mother in late degrees of CANCER, the most smothering of sign conjunct to his powerful EXACT JUPITER VENUS conjunction in LEO in his 7th house of “marriage” or all relationships, business ones as well.
The Jupiter Venus conjunction also squares his Lunar Nodes, indicating that this is a past life issue with all the women he is dealing with, which is no excuse. Jian’s North Node is in Taurus – extremely sensuality, stubborn and earthy which is right on his I.C.the 4th house cusp, of his childhood, home and foundation, also indicating a powerful mother -connection.
Mars is currently in Scorpio passing through his Career house as is the Moon today Highlighting the sexual secrets nature of this trial.
SATURN LORD OF KARMA is at 14 degrees Sagittarius entering Jian ‘s Natal 12th house of incarcerations, prisons, secrets, shooting oneself in the foot, etc. Saturn will be there for the next 2 years and the minimum term is 18 months for Jian.
Saturn is also Squaring his Natal Pluto in VIRGO in his 8th house of sex, power, control, the Scorpio House of birth, death and transformation. Saturn is also opposite his NAtal Gemini Sun now until the third week in March when it goes Retrograde. Saturn will be exactly opposite Jian’s Sun in December of 2016, exactly squaring his natal Pluto and his URANUS in VIRGO.
CHIRON the WOUNDED HEALER at 18 degrees PISCES is exactly opposite his Pluto in VIRGO in his 8th house and square to his Natal SUN in GEMINI in his 6th house of work. His wounds will be writ large all over the public stage.He is finished publically.
LUCKY planet Jupiter is in VIRGO conjunct to Jian’s Natal Uranus and Retrograding back to connect with his PLUTO and square his Gemini SUN now and again in July and August 2016. JUPITER can be beneficial but often too much of a good thing….. All of the planets are interconnected.
The March 8th SOLAR ECLIPSE at 18+ degrees PISCES exactly Squares Jian’s GEMINI SUN and his PLUTO/URANUS in VIRGO from his 2nd house of resources, money, self-image.
These are very tough transits to be going through at this time. MY prediction. Jian will serve jail time and have to pay huge amounts back to each one of the women. He will be made an example of his through his misconduct.
This is a Canadian media sex-scandal. If you don’ know who Jian Gomeshi is, at 47, he was one of the Canadian Broadcast Corporations most popular radio hosts. His show was also broadcast to public radio stations in the U.S. He had been working for the C.B.C. for the last 12 years. He created his popular Q radio interview show , interviewing many famous personalities. Q aired five days a week across Canada on CBC radio and was very popular and acclaimed over the last 7 years. Gomeshi was also a popular Canadian TV Host.
JIAN was a musician playing in a band called Moxy Fruvous before getting into radio. On August 14, 1997, their song “YOU WILL GO TO THE MOON” was used by NASA to wake the crew of STS-85. Note the song title.
Jian was born in London England, and is of Iranian descent. His family moved to Canada…
February 2nd in modern secular times we have the mash up of Candlemas and Groundhog day.
What’s candlemas?
Originally an ancient pagan holiday. At the beginning of February, in honoring of the myth of spring, wherein Pluto stole Proserpine/Persephone, and her mother Ceres/ Demeter sought her in the night with lighted candles. The custom was to walk around the city with lighted candles in honor of the Goddess. Because the Christians could not destroy these ancient customs, they called it Candlemas and made it in honor of the Blessed Virgin.
February also takes its name from Februa meaning “religious purification”, and means “the month of purification”, or “the cleansing month”.
Candlemas is celebrated as the 40th day of Jesus’s birth where he was presented in the Temple in Jerusalem for blessing by the Rabbi.. Mothers stayed in their homes with newborns until the 20th day. Simeon then prophesied to Mary: “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against. Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed” it is recorded in the Gospels.
In modern archetypes, Groundhog Day has become an icon for the literal theme of the movie about “seeing your shadow” which the groundhog may or may not do on Feb 2. The Movie, starring Bill Murray from 1993 directed and written by Harold Ramis. has the protagonist in a karmic time loop. He woke up every day experiencing the same things over and over and he cannot die.
The message is: WHAT KARMIC LESSONS are you still stuck on and repeating over and over, like Phil Connors in the film?
Think about this during Mercury’s Retrograde in Aquarius.the sign of liberation.
Make this your Groundhog day mantra.
Where am I stuck in my life? What am I resisting?
Why do I keep repeating the same old same old lessons?
St. Brigid’s Day THE QUICKENING Candlemas Imbolc Groundhog Day
Feb. 1st –2nd Traditional Irish and Pagan Holiday Celebrations
Feb. 1st is the beginning of the FIRST FIRE of the SUN’s return, the spark, the First sign of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. This Ancient pagan, Celtic ,Wiccan, celebration is also called The QUICKENING.
Known as Saint Brigid’s Day, Birghita or Bride’s Day, it’s both a Catholic and Pagan Celebration of an ancient Goddess tradition. Imbolc is 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 on Feb 2.
This celebration is 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. 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. In non secular terms it become GROUDHOG DAY on Feb 2. Snakes are always sacred Goddess symbols.
SACRED
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.
The Goddess Brigid and Saint Brigid are the same being in two forms, peace makers and bridges. The matronly Goddess Brigid bridged the two warring races of gods of the ancient Tuatha de Danann with her sacred marriage, and Saint Brigid was the bridge between the Druids and the Christians. Brigid was the daughter of a Druid Chieftain and the first woman bishop of Ireland. The nuns of Kildare carry on the sacred work.
Originally the return of the Light was celebrated as Sacred Sexual customs, sacred Tantric Kundalini rising.
She is the Goddess of Augury PROPHETS
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.
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 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. Of course Britany Spears is carrying the modern archetype of Brigid, and strangely enough one of Brigid’s symbols is a flaming spear!
Tara Greene,Tarot Reader, Astrology Psychic 