We're all familiar with the classic
"dark night of the soul", even if we don't know the terminology: the
last few years, especially these past few weeks, everyone's felt the energies
ramped up to gale force as lunar/solar eclipses, meteor showers and a Cardinal
Grand Cross (the 5th of 7 Uranus/Pluto squares plus) buffet the
planet and liberate us from old beliefs and behaviors. We're being cleaned out
and burnished to roar our "YES!"
May 1st ushers in Beltane, one of eight
Shabbats on the Nature-based Wheel of the Year. [The others are the Solstices
and Equinoxes, Lammas (August 1st), Samhain (October 31st), and Imbolc
(February 2nd).] Beltane breathes renewal into our cells as we acknowledge the
elemental world and the advent of summer. For our Southern Hemisphere allies,
the Wheel of the Year is reversed: they now celebrate Samhain.
As Stargazer Li reminds us, May 1st also
commences the time cycle known as the Night, "to source what is
from our own deep dreaming depths... which carries us the following day
into the Moon of
Liberation, to release the old stories and live at the next level...
As Samhain honors the power of death, so Beltane honors the
cycles of life and rebirth. Beltane takes place in Taurus, the zodiac's
earthiest, sensual sign, and focuses on exuberant sexuality: the pollinating of
flowers, the lush cornucopia of fruit-bearing plants and trees, the
reproductive cycle of the entire natural world, from birds and bees to people
and trees. It's a fire festival of fertility in all its forms — and thus we dance
in homage to Aphrodite, the Goddess Herself.
Are you ready to dive into a Light Night of the Soul, a sacred reUnion of
our masculine and feminine selves? The temperatures are soaring into the
90s this week, welcoming the solar eclipse and activating our solar/cellular
recognition of the Light we are.
Ignite your Light, and let it shine. As Pharrell sings,
clap along if you feel like
a room without a roof…
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