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Step Into Spring: The Wheel of the Year Turns
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With the Cross Quarter Day Imbolc
Celebrated on February 1 or 2
Imbolc is the cross-quarter Wheel of the Year point following Winter Solstice. Also known as Brighid’s day or Candlemas, it marks the starting point of spring. Here you begin to subtly notice that the days are lengthening and, depending on the area you live in, you may actually start to see signs of spring. Here in Georgia where I live, the daffodils consistently open sometime around Imbolc, although this year they may be later because of a colder winter. When they do start the daffodils begin the steady wave of beautiful bloom that lasts through the glorious spring.
For others in colder climates, Imbolc may simply bring the promise of spring as the light of the sun slowly begins to increase. Tune in this year to the subtle shifts you notice in the air and light around and after Imbolc. What does it signal internally for you? What things do you get a renewed urge to do?
Imbolc is the time to call forth the idea seeds that have been germinating in the inner realm and that are now stirring with life, ready to grow during the upcoming cycle. A great opportunity exists during Imbolc to ceremonially create a “treasure map” or a creation journal, a collage of pictures and ideas that represents what you want to manifest in your life this year, a visual reminder of the creations that are ready to sprout, grow, and bear fruit. Or you may want to engage in some other creative project to make use of Imbolc’s powerful creative urges.
Use Imbolc’s energy of renewal for spring-cleaning of both home and body, to purify from the darker energy of winter. This point on the Wheel represents a potent time for creativity, invoking a muse, or starting a new project or initiation cycle.
Imbolc, means “in the belly” and is associated with ewe’s milk, the lactation that begins for the baby lambs at this time of year. The Celtic Fire Goddess Brighid brings healing, purification, renewal, fertility, and creativity at Imbolc. If she interests you, take a few minutes and Google her to find out more information. She is a wonderful Goddess to work with at this time of year, and she will bring you many gifts and blessings. Candlemas was the name given to Imbolc as the old ways gave way to the Christian tradition. The ceremonial candles for the year were customarily created at Imbolc.
Personal/Professional Creation Ideas to Activate Imbolc
Choose one or perhaps two depending on your available time. For more information on calling in Sacred Space, see p. 215-223 of Natural Rhythms ™.
~ Connect with the Goddess Brighid if she interests you and ask her to assist you with inspiration for your creative pursuits.
~ Set aside time for the spring-cleaning of your home/office and releasing what you no longer need.
~ Begin a cleanse for your body if it feels appropriate for you.
~ Do traditional crafts for this time of year by creating your intention candles for the year. Infuse your candles with energies for things such as abundance, fertility, inspiration, clear communication, etc.
~ Initiate projects that need to be taken on during the growing cycle.
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Capricorn New Moon
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Direct: December 24, 2011 1:06 PM EST
Window: December 23- 25
Element: Earth
Capricorn, an Earth sign, creates the tenth astrological gate of awareness, teaching the value of structure and form. This archetype exhibits the characteristics of administrator, mature adult, wise one, disciplined teacher, hard working leader, good provider, and practical businessperson. Ambitious, responsible, effective, efficient, and goal oriented, it brings new structures into earthly form. Capricorn creates structures and systems designed to last and to support the generations to come.
Winter Solstice ~ Sun Moves Into Capricorn
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Winter Solstice exact point Dec 21 9:30pm & Dec 22 12:30am
Winter Solstice window is from Dec 20-23 depending on your time zone.
Elements: Capricorn, Earth
The solstices and equinoxes mark the extreme light, dark, and balanced points of the cycle of the sun. In the Northern Hemisphere we have the shortest day and longest night on winter solstice, and then the days slowly begin to lengthen again. This is important to you for several reasons:
1) After winter solstice the subtle growing light starts a fresh growing cycle for a new year. The more you align your creations with this growing cycle the more it boosts your ability to bring your personal and professional creations into form. You are aligning your creations with the increasing sunlight. Think about what that does for plants. It is the sun that springs the plants and seeds to life and it will do the same for your creations.
2) The days leading up to winter solstice are the darkest of the year and the darker days urge you to sleep and dream more. This is an important time to tune into the guiding messages you hear for your life. Pay attention to your dreams, and spend some time in reflection and journaling about what you want to grow in the year ahead.
Full Moon in Taurus
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Direct: Nov 10 – 3:13 PM Eastern
Window: November 9-11
Element:
Moon Taurus – Earth
Sun Scorpio- Water
Taurus Full Moon
The earthy full moon Taurus, with the sun in watery Scorpio, brings creational magic. This juicy lusty combination of signs brings a connection to pleasure, beauty, and intimacy that expresses physically and emotionally. These two signs can unite in many different ways from tantric lovemaking to joining the power of the water realm to magnetize your desires to fully come into physical form.
Last of the Three Harvest Points in the Wheel of the Year: Samhain
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Window: October 30- November 1
Celebrated: October 31
The four cross-quarter days of the wheel of the year, such as Samhain, were considered very important by the ancient people who worked with the wheel. Many cultures have a sacred time during this cross-quarter point of Samhain (Sah-win, Sah-ween). It is also known as Halloween, All Souls Night, All Hallows Eve, with the Day of the Dead, or All Souls Day on Nov 1 or 2.
The medieval Irish word Samhain, means summer’s end. It is the last of three harvest festivals, as the growing season in North America comes to a close. This cross-quarter day begins the turn toward winter. The cross-quarter days fall between the solstices and equinoxes and signal the turn toward the next season. To understand the cross-quarter days more fully, go to www.naturalrhythms.org and download your free copy of Chapter 2 of Natural Rhythms™ by Lisa Michaels.
Autumnal Equinox & Sun in Libra
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In the Northern Hemisphere, Autumnal Equinox and the Libra sun, bring the second harvest celebration of the year as the growing cycle begins to fade away. Just as things started really heating up at the spring equinox for the active growing cycle to begin, autumn equinox brings a change toward the reflective phase of the cycle as the turn toward the darker days of the year deepens. Now the old cycle begins to fall away as the ground prepares to rest.
Autumnal Equinox, also called Mabon, occurs each year somewhere around September 21st or 22nd. This year the exact point falls on the 23rd. It sits directly across the Wheel of the Year from Spring Equinox and here again you find light and dark perfectly balanced. As the halfway point from Summer Solstice to Winter Solstice, Autumnal Equinox brings the awareness that change is in the air. At this time of year, you are called to let go of the growing phase of the cycle, allowing it to fall away just as the leaves begin to fall from the trees.
Virgo New Moon
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Element: Moon in Virgo, Earth
Virgo, an Earth sign, creates the sixth astrological gate of awareness, teaching the significance of dedicated work. It understands and honors patterns, timings, rhythms, and cycles. It accesses the Priest/ess with to honor the sacred in the natural world through ceremony and ritual. Virgo is organized, practical, dependable, productive, and a hard worker with a tremendous capacity for handling the details of the earthly realm. A sign deeply committed to doing its sacred work by being in service to the world around it.
This new moon provides you with one of the three earthy new moons of the year. It forms a time for solid planning and grounded action. Write your goals down in detail. Make plans for the final months of the year.
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Sun in Virgo
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Window: August 23- September 22
Element: Earth
From the expansive fire sign of Leo, the sun now moves into the hard working and detailed focused earth energy of Virgo. If there is a time each year to take care of the details of getting organized, creating new systems, or getting a routine going, this is it.
Virgo loves order so the more you can handle completions and getting things around you in order the better. The sun will support your actions for those types of activities during this window.
Lughnasad/Lammas Let the Harvest Begin
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Celebrated on August 1 with the exact astrological point between Summer Solstice & Autumnal Equinox occurring this year August 7.
The seasonal cycle called the Wheel of the Year, contains the major points of the solstices and equinoxes and additionally four more points that fall in-between. The additional four days actually begin the turn toward the new season and they are called cross-quarter days.
This week we experience the cross-quarter day that begins the turn toward autumn (in the Northern Hemisphere). Sometimes with the cross-quarter days there was a traditional day they were celebrated on and then the exact point where it fell between the solstice and equinox. In this case the cross-quarter day named Lughnasad or Lammas, (which falls between Summer Solstice and Autumnal Equinox) traditionally celebrated on August 1, is exact this year on August 7.
Lughnasad, originally named after the sun god Lugh, is the cross-quarter Wheel of the Year point following Summer Solstice. Also known as Lammas, it marks the starting point of the turn toward autumn. To understand the cross-quarter days more fully, read Chapter 2 of Natural Rhythms™ by Lisa Michaels. Download your free copy in the starter kit.
