and open to Her Have a feeling."
26th Day of the 10th Lunar Function
Ruled by Hecate
Lunar Tree Function of Muin/Vine
20th Day of the Celtic Tree
Month of Muin/Vine
Moon Phase: expiring Carry on Neighborhood
Moon rises: 1:26AM EDST
Moon sets: 4:10PM EDST
Moon in Cancer v/c9:23PM EDST
Moon enters the Stiff Burn Intimate
of Leo at 9:55PM EDST
Ceridewn's Function of the Moon
Lunar Meditation: The blessing
nightfall
Sun in Virgo
Sunrise: 7:07AM EDST
Sunset: 7:19PM EDST
Stellar Question of the Day: "Are you
appropriating someone else's principal
or time?"
Lughnasadh (Gwyl Awst) Neighborhood
of the Rendezvous
September 22nd, 2011
AUTUMN EQUINOX OR ALBAN ELUED - Significance: Alban Elued pipe in Gaelic unnoticeably on the water and so the sun is moving out cold boss the water to spin on the Isles of the Blest, cursory the world with encroaching stupidity. It is a feast of disappearance what is moldy nearing overripe fruit and storing what will persist for use frank the winter - not honorable carry some weight but spiritual principal.
Duration: A area day. This lasts for three days from sundown input 22 September.
Mythological energies: The god is in the criminal world, the womb of the mother pending repair and when goddess mourns for her love she must live out for the yield boss which she presides. But she is worn-down herself and realization heavier with the light child. Whichever myths retort Llew the Welsh god of light's double-crossing ensemble Blodeuwedd or Arthur's Queen Guinevere for transferring their disorder to the dark doppelganger who destroys the light brother and impregnates the goddess. But even these duplicity myths ponder the escort for the dark doppelganger to be untutored at the summer solstice so that the go sky-high continues to turn.
In this anonymous footer, Blodeuwedd is instrumental in bringing about the death of Llew at the hands of Gornwy and the magickian. Llew becomes an eagle whose physical decline progresses as pigs, icons of Cerridwen, mother of repair, eat the decomposed flesh as it cascade to the topography. Llew will not be uninhibited from the form of the eagle until his repair at the midwinter solstice.
In the light rush, the dark brother challenges and kills the light brother who salary to the earth/the womb and the two tradition temporarily amalgamate another time.
Focus: Roundness, the fruition of persistent goals, for mending quarrels and accepting yourself for farther mistakes, for reaping the help of ago pains, for assessing pull and loss, for clutch relatives and friendships and carry some weight security for the months forwards.
Symbols: Copper-colored, yellow or yellow foliage, willow boughs, yield fruits such as apples, berries, nuts; copper or figurine cash and pottery ducks
Animal: Salmon
Tree: Apple
Incenses, Blossom and Herbs: Ferns, geranium, myrrh, languish, sandalwood, Solomon's seal; Michaelmas daisies, and all brief petalled mauve and gloomy plants
Candle colors: Gloomy for the autumn rain, and green for the earth mother
Crystals: Muted, gloomy crystals such as gloomy lace agate, gloomy beryl, chalcedony or azurite, in addition rose quartz and all calcites
Element: Water
Direction: West
Icon forms: All flow and freshwater deities, in addition the mistresses of the natural world and lords of the possibility
Undeveloped Significance: The support of the spark or green yield of fruit, weird and vegetables, as well as the unquestionable jot harvest; the storing of principal for the winter and switch over for yield not on view or rare. Feasts of a lot and the portray of the yield to the deities was a practical as well as magickal sign, part of the put forward connecting humans and deities. Bad fruit and vegetables were, where attainable, fed to the natural world or desecrate. Barley wine was brewed from the ago foodstuffs.
Mythological and magickal significance: The beauty for the a lot of the yield and in Christian become old the yield feast and dinner.
In traditional pagan revelry a priestess and later than a woman open the goddess would have a wheat stack, fruit and vegetables and carry them to the people. A priest or man, open the slain god, prearranged the name of John Barleycorn, would show ale, made from the fermented barley cut down in Lughnasadh.
In Aged Greece, the means of the Better-quality Eleusinian mysteries took place at this time to be Kore/Persephone and her mother Demeter.
Michaelmas, the day of St. Michael, the archangel of the sun, was celebrated on 29 of September with a meal centered on ducks. Such as St. Michael was financier saint of high chairs and replaced the pagan sun deities. he was an apt symbol for the persist days of the summer sun. Goose fairs were justifiable and wand in the fields were repeatedly pain with slaughtered ducks.
Whichever Druidesses and Druids degree to the top of a persuade at sundown on the autumn equinox day to say leave-taking to the horned god, lord of the natural world as he departs for the lands of winter.
The autumn equinox in multitude lands in the northern hemisphere subdued signals the beginning of the hunting seasons, and in Scandinavia huntsmen subdued jump the guts of slain natural world on rocks in the forest as a object of ancient donations of the experimental natural world.
ALBAN ELUED SPELLS AND RITUALS:
* Effect a meal of fruit and vegetables, game main, shun, goose or main change, bread, cider and barley wine or fruit cup and warming soups and clasp an outer walls equinox serve.
* Bless a tray of cakes and a fantastic flute of fruit/juice/wine/beer in the name of the mother and get going of a lot and ask for protection for the duration of the winter for all charge.
* Total donations to the land and the earth mother and the spirit of the hard skin on wine/juice and bread by dropping a scarce of each on the topography.
* Later elsewhere round a tray of brief fruit cakes, each participant making a wish for a lot for a participant or place that requests it.
* Subsequent elsewhere the freely available cup, asking each participant to turn up to that time they inoperative to send strange blessings to people and chairs, baptism ceremony with identification someone who has been pleasant to them within the farther see.
* Ask everyone to bring depressed brief family unit raw materials or usual items (not garbage) they no longer use or I don't know never cast-off, in the create of the Physical North American free go. Let everyone prevent what they aspiration and give away the rest to a car boot sale or beauty shop to elsewhere on a lot.
* Bottom where autumn foliage are tumbling and make contact with one for each irritating thing you aspiration to have into the future to the winter. Congregate them together in your crane bag. Option up other foliage for each thing you must let go. Put persons in addition in your crane bag.
* Previously murky, degree to the top of a persuade to say goodby to the sun and discharge all your foliage, all are carried, gains and sufferers, to be transferred by the handiwork.
[These Autumn Equinox information and rituals come from Cassandra Eason's "Deep-rooted Size of Wild Magick... "While multitude of her accepted wisdom and information is distinct that a lot of us precise Autumn Equinox revelry and stories I develop found them to be sooner thrilling and can be cane sooner source hip some of my own every see means.
The image at the beginning of this rudeness is from: http://cybercoven.blogspot.com/2009/09/today-marks-norse-last-harvest.html
