Here’s a short guided practice to help you connect with Mama Earth and celebrate spring. This was originally recorded by Nancy Lankston in 2020.
#spring
#grounded
#grateful
#joy
Here’s a short guided practice to help you connect with Mama Earth and celebrate spring. This was originally recorded by Nancy Lankston in 2020.
#spring
#grounded
#grateful
#joy
Samhain Blessings to you and all those you love.
As we enter the dark half of the year, Mother Nature reminds us that death is a sacred part of her endless cycles of life, death and rebirth. We let go and honor what is dead and dying, knowing Spring will return.
May today bring you the blessings of the ancestors. Take time to honor them in some way.
#Samhain
#CelticHolyDay
#wisdomofthedark
#cycles
#seasons
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
~John Donne
Equinox is upon us.
00:50 AM Mountain time Sept 23, 2023
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Gwyl canol Hydref
Harvest Home
Harvest Tide
Mabon
Fall Equinox
Autumn Equinox
Mea’n Fo’mhair
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#dayequalsnight
#harvestseason
#wheeloftheyear
#equinox
#balance
Art by Wendy Andrew
“Bless the earth underfoot
the breeze on my neck
the still dawn the open sky
the feather fall
the beetle climb
the crow call
the swift fly
the cloud drift
the rising sun
the barley field
the river run
the grass seed
the ripe plum.
Bless the toad leap
the thunderclap
the kingfisher and dragonfly
the sunlight dancing on the water
the wildflowers growing in the summer
the meadowsweet
the honey bee
the blackberry moon
the gliding swan
the eyes to see
the ears to hear
are all part of the river’s song.
Bless the seed
on fertile ground
the skylark trill
the morning mist
the hazy heat
the twilight glow
the meteor shower
the midnight kiss
the fields and stones
the Lammas bread
the wheel that turns
that all are fed.
Bless Us,
Grain Mother
Harvest Queen
Demeter and Persephone
Sun God
and John Barleycorn
All that dies shall be reborn
Bless this body
this breath
this Good Earth
this new day
May our dreams of days
and years to come
be blessed by the
radiant golden sun.
May abundance be a constant friend
by our hearths ’til winter’s end.
A Blessed Lammas to all”
~Caroline Mellor
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#grateful
#harvest
#lammas
#lughnasadh
#cyclesandseasons
#wheeloftheyear
Image: Bern@t/Creative
Commons via flickr
Solstice
Sacred Sun Time
Turn your face to the Sun
And let the shadows fall away…
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#summer
#longestday
#cycles
#seasons
#grateful
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Photo by Michael Probst/AP
Beltane Blessings to you on this beautiful spring day.
My Celtic ancestors celebrated Beltane in early May with bonfires, dancing, maypoles and plentiful food and drink. Ritual sex was also part of the celebrations.
The Celts were honoring the sacred union of the masculine and feminine which creates new life. The merging of masculine and feminine energies allows something new to magically be born.
This Beltane, make time to celebrate life.
#mayday
#beltane
#sacredunion
#sacredmasculine
#sacredfeminine
#creation
#life
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Image: Spring Green
by Nancy Lankston
It’s spring equinox!
The lands of the northern hemisphere are now warming and coming back to life after the long dark winter. Light and darkness are coming back into balance now.
The Germanic Goddess Ostara (aka Eostre) is associated with spring and the return of the light. She is said to withdraw to the Underworld throughout the cold, dark winter. The land slumbers quietly awaiting her return. Then at Spring Equinox, Ostara returns to the surface of the Earth and life begins to stir anew.
Take a few moments to pause and celebrate sunlight, new life, rebirth, and growth.
#springequinox
#goddess
#ostara #eostre
#awakening
#mamearth
#rebirth
#returnofthelight
#wheeloftheyear
#happyspring
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shhh, listen
seeds are stirring
in the belly
of the mother.
the sacred wheel
turns toward spring
life is awakening
in the body of her.
~Nancy Lankston
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Can you hear it?? Magic is afoot, running just beneath the surface. The seeds are stirring!
For months, Mama Earth has held the seeds of spring safe within her soil body. Then, as the wheel of the year slowly turns towards spring in early February, the seeds begin to stir and reawaken. Imbolc* has quietly arrived.
Celtic tales speak of the Cailleach — the divine hag Goddess who rules over winter and death. The Cailleach is the anncient Earth Mother Goddess in her bare winter crone form. She is is also known as the Bone Mother who is said to collect the bones of the animals that die in the winter. Bone Mother sings and prays over the bones of the animals all winter long. She does this out of love, so that the animals will cross over and return as new life in the spring.
On Imbolc, the Cailleach gathers firewood for the rest of the winter. If the Cailleach wishes to make winter last a lot longer, she will make sure that the weather on Imbolc is bright and sunny, so she can gather plenty of firewood. But, if Imbolc is a day of foul weather, it means that the Cailleach is asleep and winter is almost over.
Spring is on its way.
Offer up a prayer of gratitude
in honor of
the dance of Earth and Sun.
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*Imbolc is an old Irish word that means “in the belly”. It honors the pregnant ewes carrying new life in their wombs at this time of year. Imbolc is traditionally celebrated at the halfway point between winter solstice and spring equinox.
Image by Nancy Lankston
#longestNight
#WinterSolstice
#returnoftheLight
#grateful
#cycles
#seasons
#WheeloftheYear