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The Celtic Wheel ~ Beltaine 2010
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The Celtic Wheel ~ Beltaine 2010
In the Northern Hemisphere, the Earth has awakened from it’s rest and gestation. Trees are budding, flowers blooming, calves are nursing. All is fresh and new. Creativity and sexual drive is in the air.
May Day is the time when we celebrate the coming summer. In our collective consciousness, we seem to fuse historical practices of the Beltaine fire festivals and Maying practices. All of these rituals are concerned with the observance that the wheel turning to a time of fertile abundance and vitality, and the notion that at this time the veil is particularly thin. Faeries abound, witches play, and the Otherworld joins with Everyday world ~ the mystery of easy passage between the worlds.
We can imagine that rituals would vary depending on whether this thin veil brings about joyful play in a community, or fearful searching for protection.
Shakti Rising ~ An Inner Marriage October 1 – 8, 2010 with Eve Bruce
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Shakti Rising ~ An Inner Marriage
October 1 – 8, 2010
with Eve Bruce
These are changing times when we are all – men and women – feeling the rise of the feminine shakti, at times overturning the status quo and leaving us floundering to find our center and balance.
In this workshop we will explore the rising feminine energies, looking inward to define and refine the changes that each of us are experiencing as individuals. We will learn to understand and embrace this energetic evolution, finding our balance and productivity, culminating in a ceremonial sacred marriage of these energies within each of us through a ritualized “hieros gamos”.
In ancient times before the patriarchal systems came into play, the feminine energies were understood to be the most powerful that exist in this earthly plane. It was thought that this is due to the fact that the female being has direct connection and experience with the grand forces of nature through her body’s cycles, and of divine creation through giving birth. In this way her connection with the divine is participatory, and her power source direct. The male does not have this built in direct connection, and must find his power through a less than direct connection with the divine by way of acquisition as he goes forward in the world through the “hero’s journey”.
